José: I am depressed about me.Marcia: How can that be?José: What do you mean how can that be? I failed at being a certain way. It brings me down plus […]

It is a thing of beauty to turn on Youtube the day after Willie Nelson turned 90 and watch Neil Young and Stephen Stills play For What It’s Worth at […]

There was a woman who attended Fat Albert’s open stage who was usually an audience member though at least one time she tried to play. I wasn’t there that night […]

I was asked to teach a course in the fall at Western in a department with the word creative in its name. Surprisingly they asked me what I would imagine […]

The thing I love about watching Youtube, anything riveting or compelling, is being interrupted by gormless commercials. Could there be more convincing evidence that, “as above so below” should actually […]

Writing everyday about anything under the sun, is the directive for the student journals in the song writing course. One offered this pensive piece “over and over I experience the […]

At the conference I asked an acquaintance from Iran how things were going. He told me he trained a group of Canadians to play music he composed for the revolution. […]

Favourite part of the Youtube interview with the ex North Korean spy was when they discussed how broke he is in his current life based in South Korea. The interviewer […]

The other night I raced downtown to catch the last set of Mark Hundevad’s Cecil Taylor tribute. Very intense. Mark wouldn’t do anything less. Who better to honour the supreme […]

Jennifer Haigh.I read a book of her short stories and her latest novel Mercy Street. She is pretty amazing. I interviewed her for the Improv Notes journal. Bob:Have you any […]