I was listening to a recording released last month of the 21 year old Janis Joplin, called the Legendary Typewriter tapes. I didn’t realize until the first song kicked in, […]

In meditation directives, one considers paying attention to each breath or the flicker of a candle or letting thoughts come and go etc. Being in the present, being not in […]

2023 will be 100 years since Hitler was arrested and sentenced to a five year jail term. I thought a hundred years was a long time until I passed fifty, […]

Had my last classes for the term. A real love-in. Sudip, who works the all night shift at McDonalds by the 401, said he didn’t want to leave, wanted the […]

When I get Jesus Christ Superstar stuck my head I know it is because of the 3 notes they play each time the subway closes its doors, fair enough. But […]

Part of my draw to improvisational music is the space between uncontrolled ideas and will. Most of my first impressions about a person’s character, have hardly anything to do with […]

I heard a woman sing at the open stage a few months ago. It was very very amazing. She had the kind of controlled vibrato that make everyone’s eyes go […]

I was listening to a Spotify 50s mix when a very odd reverb and delay version of Blue Moon came on it sounded like Elvis Presley but then he went […]

In our last open stage, Melanie, a student from Windsor, said it’s so unfair who gets to have a hit song and a career and who doesn’t. She said it’s […]