how many singers does it take to screw in a light bulb
In middle of voice lesson, 8 yr. old girl, red hair, blue framed glasses, very animated singing along to music videos showing her chops then the solo started, “there’s […]
General Happening
random repetitions
windshield wipers in the rain soon i start to subdivide it into 3s or 4s or 5s, like most other musicians do.
stats
Between everything else each week I make room to teach 5 people. Three adults who are probable pop stars (just wait you can say you read it here), and two […]
rating surrealism
When I lived in the middle of nowhere in the 1990s about 40 minutes from Hamilton I came into Danny Lanois’s orbit and asked if he would play on my […]
sometimes when I can’t sleep late at night I see ghosts
I knew more than one player that could not keep going, couldn’t juggle the conditions of selling labour some dumb job whatever it might have been, washing dishes or being […]
a few favourite music moments
When June Tyson took the stage at the Sun Ra concert in 1984. The concert was underway for about 15 minutes, slowly different members emerged and joined the improvisation which […]
new question on mensa application
A/ city licenses buskers B/ penitentiary uses prisoner labour C/ bands allow 1 member to profit from publishing money D/ ticketmaster employing scalpers How many on […]
outside sauna
Outside the sauna at the Y last night heard two men try to outdo each other over who sold more records The Eagles or The Pink Floyd. English wasn’t their […]
the woman with the ramones t-shirt
Earlier in the morning the professor for the class on Marx’s ideas asked us to say our name, what year we are in, what we want to get out of […]
where you are standing
Compassion struck me in my 40s because when I met people who were 15 or 20 years younger than me, some felt awkward or unrelaxed that I was so much […]