A couple years ago, as part of my PhD I had to work as an assistant to a teacher instructing students about the music business. The students memorized various methods […]

Recently, the album presentation in class was To Pimp a Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar. It is a big record, a substantial record to a lot of young people I meet […]

“I saw this horror movie, and it’s not good for the brother” was my second favourite part watching the doc about making of We Are The World. Lionel Richie’s reflections […]

The Uber driver told me he spoke Punjabi, Urdu and some Arabic. Later, when he asked what I was doing at the University I answered I teach music and it […]

Facebook sent me an invitation from a friend who died two years ago to accept her as a friend. Damn the bastards who phish. I sat on the subway and […]

Traveling between many jobs these days I also take many Ubers. When I got into the recent trip driven by Seyed, I was on the telephone and sort of heard […]

I watched the Tucker Carlson interview of Vladimir Putin. Super interesting. I really thought I understood the world prior to Trump becoming America’s president but ever since 2017 everything is […]

The Robert Fripp interview with Bob Lefsetz is wonderful. I was surprised to hear him say his life changed after hearing the Beatles A Day In The Life. Otherwise he […]

Went to Kikawa for a $30 massage for my three aches and pains. This is the second time I heard the same horrible new age music played in the background. […]

student journal: i am not in control of anything, i hear voices, they tell me go right or left, they are never right, the outcomes i seek materialize not, i […]