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 […]

At last, somebody from Kelowna called me back. It took long enough. These things are always strange, who’s actually holding the wheel. Sometimes you get the right person in the […]

Hey Chat GPT, does man have free will? 1. Determinism (no free will) Everything that happens—including your choices—was set in motion by causes before you were born: genes, upbringing, culture, […]

I can easily explain what leaves me cold about a musician like Elton John, why his songs don’t hold me musically or lyrically. And yet, there he is in Spinal […]

The telephone has several options, each however leads to an answering machine suggesting I leave a general message. I do, but also sense it probably not different than what physics […]

First came the laughter. Not from joy, but disbelief. The promoter’s promises evaporated, money was “on its way,” “stuck in the system,” “coming tomorrow.” Then silence. The bassist swore up […]

EXT. HIGHWAY – NIGHT A motorcycle ROARS across the asphalt, headlights cutting a thin blade through the dark. The rider leans low, the ENGINE THRUM vibrating through his bones. CLOSE […]

I wrote a song years ago, or perhaps it was yesterday, time has that dissolving quality when you look back too long, of the Conservative Party taking their majority in […]