One time, thirty years ago at Karen’s house, after the twins went to bed, Mani told us about returning from a trip in the states and the border guard who […]

Two album presentations in one class. Sail Away by Randy Newman and Exile in Guyville by Liz Phair. My evil plan is working. I decided not to try and find […]

I am amazed. I never knew Get Back started as a song to confront the anti-immigrant rumblings happening at that time in London. I’m amazed when John mouths the lyrics […]

In Lloyd Price’s book Sumdumhonky, another thing that stuck with me from his reflections, was that life itself might be the ocean and all the waves coming to the shore […]

In PhD-land, lots of talk about power and how to disrupt it. I have my doubts, even if there are instances of it seeming disrupted, it seems momentary and power […]

The bad song assignment went pretty well. the next one was take a popular song and vary it so as not to be recognizable and see if anyone catches on. […]

There is a student whose songs I don’t tend to like, and she played another one the other day. Once again, I wasn’t sure what to say. I don’t want […]

There was an old weird guy that played the open stage, his name was Citron and his English was very difficult to understand though I think it was his first […]

My friend asked about the Art Tatum stuff I was studying. I told him it’s surprising that some of those fast passages are based on very simple feats of the […]

I’m working on four note chords in my right hand which I first heard explained in Youtube videos analyzing Errol Garner techniques. They didn’t get under my skin at first, […]