March 2018

There is a great moment in John Lennon’s song Revolution, the slower version, where he sings “but when you talk about destruction, don’t you know that you can count me […]

Leonard Cohen said one of the best things I ever heard a dying man say. “I hope it isn’t too painful”. That’s about right. Dan died, Dan who’s surname as […]

I met an older guy on the subway platform last fall, I thought he looked like a professor I heard of at York. I asked him but he wasn’t. We […]

Once upon a time, Amnesty International had a songwriting contest, I sent in a song with a metaphor about pirates, I lost to Bryan Adams. A few years ago Dan […]

Watched music videos of artists I never saw as young people which led to viewing Lowell George who I never got into, which led to discovering he played on Harry […]

It is warming up. Only so many weeks before there will be out of control grape vine growth, now is the annual time to wonder if I can get it […]

The Drawer Boy won last night at the Canadian Film Fest and I scored it. Fun to revise my CV this morning and add 2018 Best Feature Film. Best part […]

I didn’t understand the piece where he is smashing an ancient vase. Felt offended until I saw what the cultural revolution destroyed in the name of being modern, plus the […]

There is a movie I like so much, seen it 5 times. Made in the mid 60s called La Decima Vittima. About us, in the 21rst century, and the state […]