elvis costello granddad
My daughter’s counsellor at camp is 18 and from Scotland. I made some smalltalk with her about one time when I played in Edinborough and Nick Lowe was in the […]
General Happening
something about the water in hagersville
Someone told me about a location where musicians were very creative. It might be true that someone does more work somewhere beautiful but that’s never quite made sense to me […]
either or
Zen story about a monk in the 9th century that came upon a piano in the forest and wrote a song about the fact that everything is actually either physical […]
the course this fall
There are poor people who voted for Trump and who have done worse under him but they are ok to repeat the soundbites and reassure themselves. Like showing injured lungs […]
yes we’re going to a party party
On the track for the UP at Bloor I listened to the song of the train arriving with loud low frequencies and a single treble bell note floating in the […]
terminator
The flaw in the Terminator films is the premise that someone is returning to now from the future, altering the present in order to alter the future. If that is […]
poetry critic
Early days in Toronto wishing there was a way to be a performing musician, prior to finding open stages which nurtured all that, I would drool over the places where […]
usually
there was a kid who loved a certain artist, they cut pictures from magazines, taped them on the door to their room. knew the lyrics off by heart, even a […]
and the crickets
There was a guy maybe in California who recorded cricket sounds and slowed them down significantly. It sounded like human choral music. I heard it 2 or 3 years ago […]
12 tones
Man walks into emergency asked for help because aliens are trying to control his thinking. Doctor asks what they’re saying. He says they’re telling him to use 12 […]