Soon after his recording studio was raided by cops and through a kangaroo court he was sentenced to six months in jail. Gives me a different impression of Zappa’s formation […]

I asked them to listen to four songs before the next class. Songs with surprises that turn the song inside out. Not sure it is teachable but hoping it is […]

I heard the Siegal Schwall bluesband as a kid they slayed me {to quote Ted Triebner}. There was a bass line I particularly loved with rolling movement on one piece […]

Before she died Lianne Fournier recorded a last song and it accommodates dying from that space known specifically to people positioned in last times, a pose eventually each of us […]

1/ Reviewing the film The Boy Band Con 2/ Impressions from a couple chapters of Lloyd Price’s Memoir 3/ Creating a plan for performing two nights in a row in […]

Still wondering how to fan the flames of music agents. It’s like a chess move I can’t yet solve. What would Hikaru do? There’s a memorable interview, maybe it was […]

When Magali was pregnant we went to a new parents thing at the midwives offices and the woman leading it said have you noticed since becoming pregnant that now you […]

My daughter wants a lie detector. She brings it up regularly. Last night I said they don’t work. Yes they do she insisted, they can tell your blood pressure and […]

Almost completed the online course in Chinese Philosophy. It started off as a test, to take an online course from an ivy league university to add to my CV to […]

Started to read a famous book by a famous academic and disliked it. Reads like propaganda. Disagreed with the main assumption she often restates. Thought about saying so but she’s […]