The Great Seitan
I was as surprised as everyone else when I read in the Globe and Mail that he sold hash in high school and that his company currently makes over 100 million in sales but […]
Bob Wiseman
Bestcast Songpod
My favourite theme is by Ben Allison for the podcast On The Media, which is among the best I compulsively listen to each week. Listen to it here, it’s called Disposable […]
Erratic Assassin
Interesting using the Wu Tang Clan Name Generator on some special people Stephen Harper = F-Reek Tony Clement = Tha Visible Choirboy Rona Ambrose = Curly-Haired Slacker Doug Ford = Erratic Assassin and […]
Not Worthy
There’s songs and then there’s songs. One of the students in my class is a guy who is into classical music and I understand his pleasure in finding pieces that […]
Logic Pro X
It’s the norm for software companies to reinvent their products with new releases but shit it means you have to lose hours or weeks and months solving basic problems because […]
The Moment It Could End
Was it 2008? Harper prorogued parliament (the first time) and everyone was freaking out. Jack Layton and Stephan Dion talked about a coalition and a rally happened at Nathan Phillips […]
Me and Sydney Poitier
It’s fun to teach, fun to rewind the tapes of your mind to a place before you knew whatever you think you now know and from there to try and […]
10 Years Old
Even though he died at 59 Billy Preston starting playing pro way earlier than anyone else.
The Sideman
I found Nicky Hopkins playing piano on so many records in my record collection and when he died young in the 90s, I thought someone likely would make a film about […]
Believe In Sanity Clause?
Many contracts are made up of language that is harder to understand than an announcement on a TTC subway platform. Bob Snider once told me his manager, Shelly, was his shark […]