January 2025

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It is a crazy coincidence when certain artists are added to radio stations across the country. Crazy coincidence that they happen to have management, agents and record companies supporting them. […]

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I am amazed watching the Senate Committee Hearings interviewing proposed candidates like Robert Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel. Some interviewers become hysterical trying to limit the exploration of […]

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Now that I have been teaching at colleges off and on for ten years it’s a fact that not everyone shows up on time and there higher ups have no […]

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I had not listened to Dynamo Hum since I was a teenager. Listening to it yesterday while driving back from Guelph was incredible. Lyrically, I always found much of Zappa’s […]

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A lot of my students are in their early twenties. I bet in forty years, as they notice the deaths of various artists who will then be in their 70s […]

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The persimmons are turning, took long enough. The bananas are still green but organic and taste better. The tofu mixed w tamari, chick pea flour and garlic turned out nice. […]

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A student asked me what I thought of the 1980s. I didn’t know how to answer her. I said when you are in your twenties, and wherever one is in […]

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I had a dream recently where a guy offered me a show at a club and I asked if there was a piano. He said no but there was a […]

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Watched a startling documentary about cellist Jacqueline du Pré. Favourite part when Zubin Mehta says in very wise tone that people play from one of three parts, the head, the […]

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The new songs. One about a long ago drug misadventure, one about a Jan Cox expression, “there’s one brain and two of us”, one about Don Juan’s allegory in the […]