This afternoon, just before all that rain came down in High Park, two older women passed me and I heard them say something about Fellini and Truffaut and I wanted […]

with these university gigs, i would like to pitch teaching improvisation in addition to teaching songwriting. the funny part is i don’t actually believe you can teach anybody other than […]

heard margaret atwood on cbc last night discussing her new book of poetry. at one point she asked the interviewer how old he was, 32 he answered. she said when […]

Favourite part of the conversation on CIUT this morning between two musicians talking politics was when the guest told the host he mostly listens to MSNBC and even though he […]

I wish Wagner wrote The Year of The Cat or The Lady In Red, but truth is, musically he wrote some unique awesome pieces. He was also a big Jew […]

Django Reinhardt made 60 records in 4 years. That’s all I’m saying.

Yesterday’s class included an album presentation on K-Pop band EXO. I listened to the students convey a narrative about how hard it is for these young wannabe stars. They seemed […]

There’s this piece I started some weeks ago. It goes off often inside my head and I can’t recall how it got there. Happens throughout the day, this is a […]

Am almost finished the R. Murray Schafer autobiography though there are four other books being read simultaneously for school. I prefer one at a time but am not in a […]

a musician friend of mine died years ago, he was around forty years old. it shocked many people at the time, as death of a before-their-time person always will. you […]