Watching some lectures by Herbie Hancock. Superb understanding of music making and music explaining. He tells a great story about fucking up on tour with Miles Davis. In a certain […]

Blows my mind everytime Biden speaks, so lame and meaningless. But some say this is how it works. The great machine wants lame and meaningless, keeping tension in place. The […]

Some excerpts of class journals: i) The body has a language, sans words. It is about sleep and food and movement. We live as though it is ours to use […]

“If you know at the beginning, then you’re in a lot of trouble”. My favourite part of the David Mamet lectures so far, “it’s like saying I know the perfect […]

The first time I played Robert’s Creek was amazing thanks to Jamie Elder. He set it all up and even had a restaurant where he named different juices after people, […]

I didn’t know what to expect from Levon Helm’s book. I met him once but no real conversation, just a handshake. He seemed frail. If I had read this book […]

When I was a little kid and my parents left my grandparents to babysit, sometimes I might have toothache. My grandfather would give a little whiskey on kleenex to place […]

My brothers and I were all in the same place at the same time recently. The distribution of genes never ceases to amaze. I stand alone but in the mirror […]

I almost threw my back out which is weird considering I stretch almost every day. Must have been that wrong turn after Albuquerque. We are so vulnerable, so easy to […]

Had to endure the painful prerecorded music and messages when I called the credit card company. In French they do not alter words using “er” like I do as an […]