Bob Wiseman

Mendelson Joe loved the Sisters of Euclid, led by Kevin Breit. If Mendelson Joe loved your work you would be inundated with regular colourful handwritten letters and in some cases […]

Maybe that was what Stevie Wonder meant by calling that record music of my mind. A spider seems to float in a basement window. Been there three days but my […]

Watching some lectures by Herbie Hancock. Superb understanding of music making and music explaining. He tells a great story about fucking up on tour with Miles Davis. In a certain […]

Blows my mind everytime Biden speaks, so lame and meaningless. But some say this is how it works. The great machine wants lame and meaningless, keeping tension in place. The […]

Some excerpts of class journals: i) The body has a language, sans words. It is about sleep and food and movement. We live as though it is ours to use […]

“If you know at the beginning, then you’re in a lot of trouble”. My favourite part of the David Mamet lectures so far, “it’s like saying I know the perfect […]

The first time I played Robert’s Creek was amazing thanks to Jamie Elder. He set it all up and even had a restaurant where he named different juices after people, […]

I didn’t know what to expect from Levon Helm’s book. I met him once but no real conversation, just a handshake. He seemed frail. If I had read this book […]

When I was a little kid and my parents left my grandparents to babysit, sometimes I might have toothache. My grandfather would give a little whiskey on kleenex to place […]

My brothers and I were all in the same place at the same time recently. The distribution of genes never ceases to amaze. I stand alone but in the mirror […]