first person: My song is about my mind, about the fact that the mind tries to be in charge and fights all the time to try doing it but, really, […]

Interesting that they selected to be in a songwriting class and each week I’m dreaming up songwriting exercises yet often find myself trying to persuade them to behave like songwriters. […]

My favourite part about the Lou Pearlman story is that he created his own challengers. If there’s Coke then there has to be Pepsi he said and so ‘N sync […]

Played basketball yesterday, one on one with Simon who is fifteen years younger than me and bigger. Sure was quick how spent I was and how much my feet later […]

I’m suppose to speak upcoming, about this PhD, about what my research will be about, but I don’t know what it will be about. How could I know in advance […]

Telling the truth is a problem, can’t control who tells it and who doesn’t. We raise children and tell them to do it or we try forcing them or threatening […]

Trying to go to sleep but made the mistake of looking at Netflix just to double check the Nina Simone film which is an upcoming assignment to the students to […]

I wrote to Nina Hagen tonight to ask if she would Zoom into our classroom and do Q&A. You never know. Last year I got Drake’s manager, Kevin Drew and […]

Received a letter from Bob Snider today, typed on an old typewriter which is not his usual way of corresponding. The sneaky fingers of modernity eventually get into every cookie […]

Finally the students started to play our open stage, one after the other after the other. Awesome, as I had hoped. Some are more primitive, some are more sophisticated … […]