tricks are for kids
There are baking tricks, driving tricks, tax tricks, surgery tricks, fishing tricks, covering the presidential debate tricks. No end to the tricks in life for those who see it. Life […]
Bob Wiseman
A blinking biped in the age old tradition of song and dance.
improvising melodicism
I played the Jazz festival Colloquium in Guelph under the title improvising melodicism. The more I thought about what I got myself into, the more I realized I couldn’t explain […]
politics
I have an assignment in class after the students view Pussy Riot and Fela Kuti to consider what songs they could write about here and now in Canada that would […]
something in common with peter falk
In the group homes where I worked once upon a time, there were many people with unusual flairs for describing the world. A tough young woman named Janice stood out […]
kagemusha
I started watching Kagemusha which I originally saw in my other life as a Winnipeg teenager at Cinema 3, often. Wow, the music and way of using music. Not what […]
reconciliation
My phone has died, it won’t charge. One thinks about this every so often, how vulnerable everything is centralized on the little gizmo. How much information and recorded memories might […]
tricks
In the class survey, one of the queries presented to me from the 80 students in this online course was they wanted songwriting tricks. I didn’t expect that. I love […]
make the song you want to hear
There is an interview with Quentin Tarantino I want to play the class because he tells the interviewer a person should make the film they want to see. That sums […]
who’s on first
Currently I have a student, I believe from China, and their whole name is very very close to the title of a Mary Margaret O’Hara song from her masterpiece Miss […]
Gadzooks
I read Chicago has a billion dollar deficit. It’s crazy all the news I read about Chicago. I love that city but everything about their mayors does not appeal. Does […]