sex-ophone
A film released in 2018, now on Youtube. Two middle aged guys talk to Ornette Coleman in his apartment. They are visiting a master musician near the end of his […]
day in the park
A flock of birds is overhead. A piano teacher who looks like Meryl Streep and three students who look like the Thompson Twins sit in High Park having a picnic […]
A&R motto
There was this one record company whose A&R department’s motto was “cacophony forever”. Supposedly this was closer to perfection than live off the floor.
on the elevator
Last interview for my final project. Will transcribe it and then stare at all my data and hope magically it transforms itself into something worth a Masters. From behind, the man […]
Watching The River Flow
I came upon a lecture that discussed how people think the same thoughts perpetually. All day, all week, maybe in different orders but still the same thoughts, whole lifetimes like […]
how much is that kitty on the snow plough?
Sometimes he felt panicky about all the attention that followed his song “Does Kitty Want to Play?” because he didn’t really know his own instrument very well. So he bought […]
whats in your head
Probably there will not be another frost now, put the plants outside. News reports about the crazy weather but they always omit illuminating the relationship between pollution and capitalism, or […]
battle of the bands
There was a draw at the battle of the bands so they issued a skill testing question to both teenage groups. “what comes first when you write a song, the […]
her new direction
After releasing her 4th record, many critics noticed the same thing that Mona wrote the same songs, about her ex-boyfriends who didn’t appreciate her, over and over on each record. […]
Doing time
There was a church at Major and Bloor where myself and other pianists practised in one of two beautiful rooms for $1 an hour many years ago (hence price). One […]