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Played basketball yesterday, one on one with Simon who is fifteen years younger than me and bigger. Sure was quick how spent I was and how much my feet later […]

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I’m suppose to speak upcoming, about this PhD, about what my research will be about, but I don’t know what it will be about. How could I know in advance […]

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Telling the truth is a problem, can’t control who tells it and who doesn’t. We raise children and tell them to do it or we try forcing them or threatening […]

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Trying to go to sleep but made the mistake of looking at Netflix just to double check the Nina Simone film which is an upcoming assignment to the students to […]

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I wrote to Nina Hagen tonight to ask if she would Zoom into our classroom and do Q&A. You never know. Last year I got Drake’s manager, Kevin Drew and […]

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Received a letter from Bob Snider today, typed on an old typewriter which is not his usual way of corresponding. The sneaky fingers of modernity eventually get into every cookie […]

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Finally the students started to play our open stage, one after the other after the other. Awesome, as I had hoped. Some are more primitive, some are more sophisticated … […]

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I ask the students to keep a journal. I tell them it’s valuable for songwriting and it’s just for them and nobody is expected to show it. The down side […]

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when starting my masters, a friend told me not to bother reading theodor adorno or the frankfurt school. but recently i did and it was impressive. i wonder what about […]

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Heard about two students discussing Thelonious Monk’s compositions. One said those tunes integrate dissonant melodic gestures and through their repetition, position the brain to accept sequences that aren’t necessarily sweet […]