my wild love
Never thought to ask who his wild love was or where she was going, never cared about what time she’d be home or even if they were in love. All […]
record connection
Watched an interview last winter with American record company executive with horrible stories of abuse from her boss, other stories about discovering talent. I tried to find an email address […]
all the president’s men
My father would watch the news when he got home from work. I heard about Watergate over and over but I remember music in the 70s much more clearly than […]
cheering the crash
I was blindsided when my daughter found motivation. I thought I could present her with compelling reasons to learn piano by playing little snapshots of peppa pig or yellow submarine […]
narrative
I wasn’t planning to check Beatles White album remixes but then somebody posted an alt take of Revolution and for anyone who knows their Beatles, it was like being in […]
the rejection of Sam Larkin’s grant application
Using your own definitions of your art form, your community and your artistic career, how will this project impact each? This project will impact my art form (composing/performing) by […]
next year
from time to time i return to a project – making commercial sounding demos for some of my songs. my sense is that the michael bublé’s of the world (or […]
jared kushner joke
On the airplane home from Winnipeg there was a woman sitting next to me who had a violin and placed it under the seat in front of her. It is […]
sick
sick and shivering, respiratory pain and phlegm. boiled garlic, ginger and cayenne. i stink but it feels soothing and healing. when i was little i ate whole bottle of some […]
the part that says “me”
The experience of music is just like thought. Everything can be reduced to cellular transmissions. You get cut or poisoned or a headache – cells to the rescue. We have […]