Was trying to dream up more ways of students imitating writing. Decided next class we will inspect excerpts of Hunter S. Thompson and Bernadine Evaristo and take them apart. Query […]

At the jam session two guitarists battled it out playing faster and faster during a marathon Caledonia! Caledonia! What Makes Your Big Head So Hard! Eventually, to up the ante […]

When my manager, Don Christensen, went to Midem in 1993, he met a German label and they liked my record, City Of Wood,  and signed me. This resulted in an […]

Watched an interview with Martin Amis where he said as he ages he has less future and more past. Realized it is a very good way to put it. We […]

I saw the documentary about Richter in the 90s. Never forgot it and previously I knew nothing about him. Tonight, I found it again among the online collections in the […]

I started reading the Bell Jar. I always assumed it was poetry but it is a novel, a great one. I did not expect to read first person accounts of […]

I wrote to Danny Goldberg for advice about a course I plan on teaching one day. He has owned record companies and management companies. A significant mover and shaker. He […]

Been playing so much piano this year and transposing many old songs from guitar to piano. I once read Bob Dylan recorded both Highway 61 Revisited and Bringing it Back […]

Another very cool thing about Tina Turner, and I know there are many, she and her crew share vocals with Frank Zappa on Overnight Sensation. Only last year did I […]

I sat for Joe seven times. Recently Karen sent me copies from those sittings, of each image. I have no memory of some of them, like the first or second […]