Composing

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In the Bflat piece I’m writing I stumbled into a way to execute a passage with greater velocity than I usually can. It is exciting like learning a magic trick. […]

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Had some success w thing in Bb and put it on Insta right away to not forget how it goes. The other thing is if sometimes I can pull something […]

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In the car my daughter wants to blare mindless pop stations. Especially the ones with torturous thirty minute long sections listening only to commercials. Then that horrible message from Justin […]

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“I want you to go in that bag and find my wallet”“which one is it?”“it’s the one that says bad motherfucker”Someone asked me a fave piece of dialogue in a […]

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Today is the last day of taking care of my friend’s old arthritic greyhound who lives to sniff every trace of urine on every bush or telephone pole. This carries […]

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Seeing Seven Samurai at the Revue was awesome on a big screen and 200 people. I want that more. Music was also more interesting than I recall. Each time I […]

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I want to include the Shirley Eikhard song Something To Talk About in the entrepreneurial course because she wrote it more than ten years before it became a hit for […]

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In the book by Daniel Kahneman, he addresses many psychological studies. I see parallels between these and states of piano improvisation. One doozie by Richard Nisbett and Eugene Borgida on […]

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There is this objective or direction in meditation practices. Look at a candle, observe thoughts without attachment, recite a mantra…all variations of controlling thought, of trying to position consciousness away […]

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I started an incredible book by Daniel Kehlerman who died this year. Thinking Fast Thinking Slow. I never previously heard of him but I like Sarah Haider’s X and Youtube […]