2018

Directors give you clues but you have to constantly try to decode what they mean. Also they don’t necessarily know what they mean. Isn’t that great.   The hardest part […]

At an open stage on Monday, I heard a musician play some adventurous and nicely designed music he created on his iPad. He utilized portamento and glissando features which distinguished […]

Yesterday I counted 5 entitled morons blasting music at arena volume from slow moving oversized cars. 4 hip hop 1 metal. Maybe it is the aggressive thing in the music […]

On random, up popped Dizzy Miss Lizzy which was a pretty important piece of music when I was 7. I think this is the first time I ever listened to […]

When you think about the fact that nobody can say when time started nor when it ends, when you consider how long a line that is, an incomprehensibly long line, […]

A few years ago I had a problem with one of my hands and the sequence of Doctors I saw inspecting this led to a 3am appointment at a hospital […]

Some Polaris Prize judges were overheard arguing  Gord Downie’s last record. One said it was unfair to nominate him because he wasn’t living, one said it was just another white […]

There was a musician who had a dream that he was in a foreign country and his car was loaded with gear for a gig but it would not drive. […]

There was a Toronto pianist who hated G# so much that she decided never again to ever play it. This made it awkward for other musicians to play with her, […]