Composing

While the kid sat slowly playing white keys, realized my mother sat in the same position 4 years earlier  also improvising slowly.  The difference 80 years between the gene pools […]

at the tranzac auction to raise money to soundproof the place i offered an item – a horrible string arrangement of your song. Bids started at $25 and it sold […]

Currently scoring a short film with interesting actors and a story line that isn’t quite clear or rather one of the main characters isn’t clear about who he is and […]

While driving back from Stratford, Eye of The Tiger came on the radio and it occurred to me I never before heard the entire song. It was as unredeemable as […]

Bad dream last night, best part is waking up and knowing none of it is true. Tempting to linger on hidden meanings behind imagination. Is there any difference between imaginary […]

Once upon a time, Amnesty International had a songwriting contest, I sent in a song with a metaphor about pirates, I lost to Bryan Adams. A few years ago Dan […]

The Drawer Boy won last night at the Canadian Film Fest and I scored it. Fun to revise my CV this morning and add 2018 Best Feature Film. Best part […]

Any meeting with Geordie, contained equal parts consciousness and gossip. So glad I saw him last fall, after not seeing him for many years and gabbed about Paul Bley, Escalator […]

I like how my own sense of hearing has a built in filter while I sit on the subway or in a noisey café, I can by virtue of observing, […]

(to the drummer) How do you do that?   I can’t tell you.   Why not?   Because you wouldn’t believe me.   Try me.   Better to stay silent […]