The Moment It Could End
Was it 2008? Harper prorogued parliament (the first time) and everyone was freaking out. Jack Layton and Stephan Dion talked about a coalition and a rally happened at Nathan Phillips […]
Me and Sydney Poitier
It’s fun to teach, fun to rewind the tapes of your mind to a place before you knew whatever you think you now know and from there to try and […]
10 Years Old
Even though he died at 59 Billy Preston starting playing pro way earlier than anyone else.
The Sideman
I found Nicky Hopkins playing piano on so many records in my record collection and when he died young in the 90s, I thought someone likely would make a film about […]
Believe In Sanity Clause?
Many contracts are made up of language that is harder to understand than an announcement on a TTC subway platform. Bob Snider once told me his manager, Shelly, was his shark […]
Grasshopper, not.
I had a meeting once when I was twenty something with a composer named Robert Mundinger and we spoke about scoring films which he did and which I wanted to […]
Aligning The Anger Chakras
I was in a yoga class in Hamilton in the 1990s. I lived nearby in the country and doing yoga with Phil meant the word to me but at […]
God Finds Cats
Been looking for a logo for my record label called – God FInds Cats. Probably start with the release of Sam Larkin’s posthumously completed collection of 12 songs entitled The Secret […]
Attention Shoppers
Why bother writing a song about this when the photo says it all.
Crack Is No Worse Than The Fascist Threat
Carmaig disappeared into fatherhood a few years ago. I look forward to him reappearing with more of his important messages I don’t have a doubt that crack’s destructive But I also know […]