There was a Winnipeg restaurant where I was a dishwasher as a teenager, Ruggi’s, and we had a juke box with an interesting cross section of tunes. There were a […]

Dear Bob, Thank you for your beautiful book, which I really enjoyed. First off let me say I am very impressed with whoever designed the cover and back cover, beautiful. […]

Buckminster Fuller was kicked out of Harvard (twice). R. Murray Schafer was kicked out of the University of Toronto school of music. Amy Winehouse kicked out of performance school. Einstein […]

One student is a hip hop producer, I like his work because I can’t figure out the order of things he does when he composes his pieces. The more I […]

I was in the car with my father driving in winter. It was nighttime we were on Wellington Crescent and turned left on Dorchetster when Psycho Killer came over the […]

I didn’t understand the lyrics to the song the young woman in the songwriting class submitted and so I asked. She said it was about the fact that everyone is […]

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 […]