The open stage in my song writing class has never worked as well as it does this year. It’s because Magali had the answer for my questioning of why not […]

I have funny shirts. One is a picture of Karl Marx, sort of cartoon drawing of his face and a caption under it – not Santa. The guy who owns […]

They did a presentation in class on Graduation Day Kanye West’s 2cnd album. I tried to reach Jon Brion to see if he would Zoom online with the class because […]

There was a song someone wrote in class that surprised me – about both being in the now and at the same time remembering everybody thinks their experience is unique. […]

Made a playlist with Lil Peep, Birdy, Shakey Graves, Jon Bellion. There will be others as more students tell me what they love. So far I don’t have the same […]

Planning the next class. I want them to find lyrics through eavesdropping. In the cafeteria or other places of activity Retrieve 25 random words or 4 phrases. Write it on […]

A student in the class was from a religious community and left. He explains to people he lost his faith. There is something about putting it like that doesn’t sit […]

The presentation went well, good thing I rehearsed it. When I got to Fat Alberts open stage eons ago, the funniest thing to me was people who would rehearse for […]

I needed feedback on my proposal. I asked a few different people. One is a particularly unfriendly professor and he just wrote me back the meanest reply which is also […]

kid: papa how do I play this? papa: like this. kid: that’s too hard. papa: yeah you’re right, forget it. kid: papa you’re doing that pscho something again. papa: reverse […]