Politics

Quillette magazine keeps making the most amusing music stories to me: HIS SATANIC MAJESTY RETIRES. “Ozzy Osbourne really was popular culture’s Prince of fucking Darkness. His songs have scored so many black-laced […]

At one point, an older man in the audience, clearly moved by the music, got up and began to dance. The venue was packed, but he found a small pocket […]

I talked to a musician friend who confided his anxiety about social media. The fear of speaking his mind. He freezes when he thinks about sharing them. “What if I […]

At the computer repair store they play instrumental soft jazz. Sounding very California mid 70s or boring parts of Steely Dan. Do the two young guys who work here actually […]

Getting very close to the deadline for the article I started writing for a German journal about improvisation. The subject was supposedly the relationship between improvisation and the times we […]

Fun to sit next to Bruce Moffet at Maja Bannerman’s show yesterday. I incorrectly recalled Mark Miller’s book about Claude Ranger and asked Doug Wilde about him who told me […]

Everything about life tells you, you exist which makes realizing you don’t so unlikely to see. The body appears to exist, but once dead, dead. Forever is incomprehensibly long compared […]

Read about the Beach Boys song “Never Learn Not to Love”, though the band never openly acknowledged it was written by Charles Manson. Dennis Wilson took Manson in for a […]

I like the show Triggernometry, and how hosts Konstatin Kisin and Francis Foster give time to more than one view. Current show about Iran, Israel, America and war of nuclear […]

It took me a long time to admit my utopia had flaws. Everything cannot be equal. That does not mean I advocate for inequality but I notice more that all […]