Bob Wiseman

I watched the footage of the Grammys. The Brian Wilson, Joe Cocker and Warren Zevon tributes did me in.

Sometimes the parents of my daughter’s friends know my background and are excited I am who I am (did I just Popeye?) and suddenly I’m a bigger deal in her […]

A swarm of ideas breeding in those songs I started in Sweden. Like trying to assemble a jigsaw puzzle while the pieces are melting, somehow still sounds beautiful once you […]

While driving back I started listening on random to Spotify and Hot Chocolate’s I Believe in Miracles came on. I never noticed the string machine but this time I realized […]

Rachel — Melas to society — lent me The Necrofiles II by Donna Lypchuk. I didn’t really know Donna, even though we were Facebook friends. Then again, that probably describes […]

The Swedish mixes keep floating along like little boats on a pond that forgot which way the wind blows. I sit there, paddling. Bass lines bump into echoes, harmonies bump […]

Almost finished my Framing Document. The strangest part is attributing importance to what I wrote. The project was important to me but whether or not others find meaning in it.. […]

Funny how I’ve spent these recent years qualifying for a PhD to get a full time teaching job, (a job I could have taught just as easily 7 years ago […]

On the subway a guy across from me, big white hair pompadour,exactly like Jim Jarmusch, film-ghost of a downtown dream,and I liked believing it was him,this artist of smoke and […]