In the last years, anytime I showed up to Fat Alberts he would surely be there and every time he asked if I would sit in with him. Always politely, […]

student: i think i’m losing my mind teacher: because? student: because i’m scared of myself and i think everyone’s crazy. teacher: might be right. student: think so? teacher: music helps? […]

mez taps his maple trees in the country, gave us a bucket of sap to boil. result was the greatest maple syrup ever tasted. like a greek myth, flavour had […]

It’s a Darlene Snell world. Trump is Darlene Snell so is COVID19 and so is the person loudly eating chips when the good songwriter debuts their lengthy emotional tale at […]

After a show at the West End Cultural Centre in the 2000s, one of the people in charge told me a young guy wanted to meet and discuss putting out […]

just before the push said look over that ledge boy consciousness  itself  one day the birch tree asked the mud to tell the truth am i me or you?

bass player told the lead guitarist he wanted to quit the band because there were too many conflicts. the lead singer pesters him to play more quietly, manager wants him […]

Many musicians (and athletes) have experienced the problem of thought interfering with execution. To think about it is to lose it, especially if the work requires speed, but pretty impossible […]

Kozmo said do you see that birch tree? Yes answered Thelma. It might seem like a single tree, you could think of it like that, we could call that tree […]

student: i want to write a song that doesn’t rhyme.instructor: fine.student: it’s just a journal entry.instructor: let’s hear.student: in a way all of us are crazy. navigating life with a […]