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There was a gal who played the same song over and over all her life. She hated that song but she played it just the same, it was what her […]

Of the submissions from the “write a bad song” assignment, most did creative interesting things. Some even said they learned something. One woman transformed an old curse from an exboyfriend […]

at some point in high school they showed us behaviour modification. about animals receiving shocks or restricted food, some sort of pain and then their behaviour changed. this was presented […]

I had a day off one time in the 90s touring Germany, I was alone on the Reeperbahn, outside Grosse Freiheit, on the marquee: tonight Fela Kuti. I didn’t know […]

Sometimes you can listen to the sounds of everything all around you as if it is a song. Sometimes you could also hear yourself, the speaking to yourself about yourself, […]

Another day another apple, carrot, ginger juice. I recommend. I found my old copy of Jackie Lomax’s Speak To Me which is an awesome piece of 60s artistry. He was […]

“They said you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tape, but if I talk about God my record won’t get played”. I like […]

When you work at something on your instrument with your hands, a scale or a sequence or a gesture, you repeat it and repeat it and repeat it. At a […]

not too many years ago, teaching an ensemble but the college had over enrolment problems, at the last minute moved classes to a rehearsal space business. It was the first […]

one time, at a wedding in chicago, the groom’s mother came over to welcome me for having traveled all the way from canada. At the same moment there was dancing […]