sisyphus in baggy pants
musician: You mean when I signed this contract I gave them the right to use any of the music I wrote for any future project without paying me anything? […]
teaching
whatever you think you know
When I first heard about click tracks I immediately thought it was a contest between people and machines and just as quickly I chose people – any drummer I admired […]
the good teacher
Sometimes, when I cook rice, I heat the pot first before adding any water. I like that small moment when the first drops hit the metal and vanish into […]
loops
More so they hide the electricity lines underground in Europe, neat little veins beneath the cobblestones, invisible arteries of light. I forget to notice it in Toronto until I look […]
that other piano lesson
Boris said to his piano teacher, Mrs. Schneider Why is it you never say anything nice about my playing? Mrs. Schneider replied, because the part of you that […]
bias
I have a friend at the open stage who complained about a Warren Zevon song called Keep Me In Your Heart. She said it sounded so sappy. I told her […]
The Polite Smile
Marx professor goes on and on about how many amazing insights and topics Marx wrote about, says it’s endless. Feel like that about Logic music software even though we’ve been […]