teaching

student: you ever take drugs? teacher: I have student: did it change your playing? teacher: yes student: so you recommend it? which ones? teacher: salads, maybe pineapple too. student: but […]

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 […]

Planning the new course, how to “teach” music business and how it can be entrepreneurial. I’m organizing their subscription to Bob Lefsetz, Billboard, Exclaim, Earshot! and Amplifyhervoice. Also organizing sections […]

for the course I’m organizing about entrepreneurship i decided to try positioning the students to reach out to campus radio and get a song played or acquire an interview for […]

When Harper won, Mendelson Joe lost his mind. He was so freaked out. He said nothing will ever be the same. He gave me shit one time for waiting for […]

Finished Gad Saad’s Parasitic Mind. The part about Batesian mimicry stands out a lot. Creatures that imitate the look of other creatures but do not actually have the particular talent. […]

a student writes in their journal that they are trying to quit smoking and that they keep failing then realized they also keep practicing new scales on piano and do […]

I was trying to find somewhere to write. My house was too noisy with renovations happening next door. Library closed. Tim Horton’s seemed the only place but can I really […]

I am hired again to teach two classes this September at Seneca and one at Western in London. I also had a recent interview to work at Ryerson. I was […]