Sherlock
Went camping this week. Away from city lights the stars change everything. All of us are ants on the toenail of Lurch from the Adams family wondering who is Lurch […]
Quality Writing
Was listening to Mary Wells song You Beat Me To The Punch, thought I knew it very well, always liked the insinuation that it was about a flirtation. That the […]
play that funky music euroboy
If the mainstream radio stations played the same piece by Stockhausen or Scriabin twice every hour all day and all night, soon there would be all sorts familiar with the […]
war and before
My favourite rhyme this week surprised me as do all favourite rhymes. I made a playlist for my seventeen year old niece, for her birthday after discussing her musical tastes. […]
views from the fence
They say the estate of Leonard Cohen is pissed off Trump used Hallelujah at the Republican convention when they specifically said no you cannot use it. I’m on the fence […]
pretending
In the early 90s I was asked by a theatre group to play the role of Kurt Weil in a play and I agreed but that experience left me realizing […]
sweet music
Throughout their life, Bb believed they needed to change themselves. They believed they could be a better note and not always flat. They tried many methods of working on oneself, […]
coyote
Noticed posters in High Park all year informing people about coyotes but after months of daily walks, concluded it’s a myth. Never saw anything close to it but one time […]
the imaginary little house on gerrard street
Darwyn told me that when you are reading notation sometimes you think you are playing music but what you really are doing is playing a relay race. Playing symbols for […]
the W word
The rush hour car in front while heading home through Bloor was blasting music with windows rolled down. The lyrics densely used the N word and the father with two […]