A student sung a new song about refusing to face the nature of things. The chorus was about refusing to face our own nature. In the Q & A after […]

Went down a rabbit hole of being tickled by online t-shirts. If I get the professor position I will buy them, if I don’t I probably will also buy them, […]

Was trying to dream up more ways of students imitating writing. Decided next class we will inspect excerpts of Hunter S. Thompson and Bernadine Evaristo and take them apart. Query […]

When my manager, Don Christensen, went to Midem in 1993, he met a German label and they liked my record, City Of Wood,  and signed me. This resulted in an […]

Watched an interview with Martin Amis where he said as he ages he has less future and more past. Realized it is a very good way to put it. We […]

I saw the documentary about Richter in the 90s. Never forgot it and previously I knew nothing about him. Tonight, I found it again among the online collections in the […]

I started reading the Bell Jar. I always assumed it was poetry but it is a novel, a great one. I did not expect to read first person accounts of […]

I wrote to Danny Goldberg for advice about a course I plan on teaching one day. He has owned record companies and management companies. A significant mover and shaker. He […]

Been playing so much piano this year and transposing many old songs from guitar to piano. I once read Bob Dylan recorded both Highway 61 Revisited and Bringing it Back […]