Sometimes one finds an alternative universe in another country where strangers sing the same song to the same 5 people in the audience  

Six years ago I was asked to play at a benefit for Japan following the earthquake and tsunami and later asked if I would accompany Margaret Atwood reading a poem. […]

Student: I’m going to see Star Wars tomorrow, #8 return of the Jedi, I haven’t seen this but I know everything about Star Wars.   Teacher: You know Akira Kurosawa? […]

Sometimes I’m totally distracted by someone in the audience. Sometimes it’s tempting to do certain flourishes that audiences like even if I don’t. Sometimes I thought it was great but […]

Want to trade cds?   No its ok.   What do you mean?   I heard you play earlier, not my thing.   That’s so mean.   Isn’t it mean […]

My evil plan is working. Returning to school finishing my Masters, nose to the grindstone, show up, do the work POOF, first semester done. No degree, just a bunch of […]

The thing about music is, it isn’t real. It isn’t something you hold and inspect, like an object, like a painting. It is sound waves. What are sound waves? Doesn’t […]

Amazing how wrong I can be about the future, but perhaps it is a hopeful thing, when you usually think we just a lost ship in the universe, fowling the […]

Spoiler alert. In the movie American Beauty, homophobic army guy makes a pass at straight neighbour, is rebuffed. Then filled with shame he murders the man who was the object […]