north korea
Favourite part of the Youtube interview with the ex North Korean spy was when they discussed how broke he is in his current life based in South Korea. The interviewer […]
monkey business
The other night I raced downtown to catch the last set of Mark Hundevad’s Cecil Taylor tribute. Very intense. Mark wouldn’t do anything less. Who better to honour the supreme […]
jennifer haigh
Jennifer Haigh.I read a book of her short stories and her latest novel Mercy Street. She is pretty amazing. I interviewed her for the Improv Notes journal. Bob:Have you any […]
on the bus
Afternoon, streetcar in Toronto. Man gets on carrying a guitar case. Finds a seat next to a woman who has too many bags on the ground and on her lap. […]
last class
Last class yesterday. Students got me a card and a chocolate bar. They even bought some candy for my daughter. Nice people. There was nothing due for the last class […]
the weird dream
Last night’s dream. I was heading North in Ontario to meet a couple friends and their daughter who is a good friend of my daughter. They had not yet left […]
jamie sunshine coast
There are people you meet when you tour, sometimes they reach out to you first, Jamie was like that. He wrote me from the Sunshine Coast wondering if I would […]
some of what I recall from the graduate student conference
oppressors/ non binary/ music industry/ cis men/ police checks/ opportunity/ leadership roles/ youth/ agency/ pedagogy lab/ safe environment/ they talk about john coltrane but not alice/ a lot of voices […]
the big joke
While visiting my mother, I heard someone playing gayly on the grand piano in the dining room. I walked over it was an older woman good at stride piano. I […]
technique
I wrote a song years ago called Purple City. It started off as a type of letter to an old friend and soon became sentimental and then I became annoyed. […]