the pill
student: How do you get the left hand to do something repetitive and fast and then play something altogether different with your right? teacher: You take independence pills. […]
Most of The Time
most of the time, my head is on straight most of the time, I’m strong enough not to hate I don’t build up illusion ’till it makes me […]
of mice & men
Watched a father guilt trip his son in a music store. Wanted the kid to believe they can only become a musician if they follow their father’s ideas of what’s […]
at the hop
it isn’t like they lean to left foot or right foot. each hop dual intention, one command. feels familiar maybe from improvisations. watching a starling hopping on the ground.
poetry critic
Early days in Toronto wishing there was a way to be a performing musician, prior to finding open stages which nurtured all that, I would drool over the places where […]
usually
there was a kid who loved a certain artist, they cut pictures from magazines, taped them on the door to their room. knew the lyrics off by heart, even a […]
booze and pills and powders
There is a little strip mall near where I live it has a 7-11, Pizza Nova, haircut place, Chiropractor and a Japanese restaurant. We ate sushi tonight and when my […]
in this course we will study songwriting
Years ago my then lawyer, Chris, took all the usual language when you are hired to score something, all the points that make no sense and require a translator for […]
fear of bouncers
At the conference there was a panel discussion about music & spiritual experiences. Someone raised their hand and relayed an experience about a certain piece of music in 1993, they […]
and the crickets
There was a guy maybe in California who recorded cricket sounds and slowed them down significantly. It sounded like human choral music. I heard it 2 or 3 years ago […]