In the first meeting of the faculty, today, they said next semester you must put together a panel and someone else said for now just blue sky it. I do […]

Was thinking about next week’s class and how I want to address how music can affect change. Then I thought about asking the students for examples of images that do […]

There was a woman who was a fan of my songs, who out of the blue asked me if she could paint my acoustic guitar, she said she was an […]

It isn’t his primordial relationship to percussion or the salacious lyrics. It isn’t the brilliant simple three inversions in the upper piano register (that pepper the whole song) making every […]

billy joel’s we didn’t start the fire reminds me of people who say all lives matter which reminds me of sam larkin’s stick around and play with you which reminds […]

The idea would be to take a hit song, from years ago or right now, and take apart the elements. Like if it was Let It Be, it would be […]

His twin brother, Dracula, attended the jam sessions and didn’t share any of his brother’s fears of change. He thought it was a good thing, nothing to be afraid of. […]

As David started to play more with his older friend Kunle, who challenged his sense of inside and outside, and as he ventured more and more into outness, which wasn’t […]

a friend of mine is ill and asked me what songs i thought could heal her. i don’t know what could heal her, i just know songs can heal me […]

there are two states of consciousness. in one you refuse to stand on stage because you’re scared of looking foolish. in the other, to be on stage is no different […]