Was asked if I could do a workshop in Vancouver in March. Came up with this. THE GREAT CANADIAN MUSIC SURVIVAL WORKSHOP Songwriting accidents, film-score sorcery, video-making on a budget, […]

I don’t believe in reincarnation, but then the brown sugar dies and turns into a rock, and I add a fruit peel, an orange, most days, and hours later it’s […]

A dark shape moved between trunks. Then another. He slowed his breath. Another rustle. A twig breaking. He played the last line of the melody. Then a deer stepped out. […]

There was a musician who woke every morning with a committee of ghosts shouting in his skull,You missed the chord, you foolyou dragged the tempoyou’re aging, you’re slipping, you’re fraying […]

Arlo ran his mind like a strict place of business. No loitering. No wandering thoughts. Creativity was something you squeezed out like the last inch of toothpaste, or so he […]

After the show, the bar looked like a crime scene where no one bothered to move the bodies. Cables everywhere, glasses smudged, PA emitting a low hum as if it […]

Matthias spent most of his life believing musicians were born with two talents: playing their instrument and getting ripped off. He didn’t mind the small stuff. The promoter forgetting drink […]

A pair of tiny black eyes rose from the compost. The raccoon stared. He stared back. The raccoon made a small gesture with its paw, as if about to count […]

Most people know John Coltrane for the sound that could open a doorway in the night sky. Only a handful knew about the other thing that made him close his […]

My friend’s sisters, Lainie and Aviva, held a marathon reading of Paradise Lost today. It started at ten in the morning and rolled straight through until two the next morning. […]