my favourite part of the Judee Sill movie
“But it hurt so much to play stand up bass. I’ve got real thin fingers. Stand up bass is really hard. I used to shoot heroin and be able to […]
stagefright kabbalah
There was a musician named David Klein. He could play melodies that felt older than his hands. When he played alone, it was a little supernatural. Candles trembled. The cat […]
heist of the century
I just finished watching Stolen: Heist of the Century on Netflix, after reading about it in the Bob Lefsetz blog. From the opening minutes, I was hooked. The twists, improbable […]
singature
I’ve decided that for every PDF requiring a signature, instead of struggling to fake my actual handwriting with a jittery stylus, I’ll make an unapologetic digital scribble. A Rorschach “BW” […]
wait just a major second
The major second, the sly cat in the alley. Everybody walks past it but it is not some polite little wrong interval. It’s waiting. It’s the raindrop quivering on the […]
AI
Been reading a steady stream of laments on AI warnings, disappointments, prophecies of ruin. It leaves me hesitant to say aloud that I love it, at least sometimes. The love […]
les enfants de personne
Neil, who played a Djembe (with brushes). Lenny, sang in English but dreamed in French. And Mira, played an accordion drone like a kettle whistling musically. There were three of […]
leon russell
In a cedar-scented cabin tucked into the misty forests of British Columbia, Bill Kozinski, wanted to do some good in the world. Kozinski was a drop-out from Simon Fraser’s Beedie […]
deviating from the program
The concert was scheduled at the Bram Taylor Green, a granite box with velvet seats and good acoustics but bad parking. Julian Wong, the pianist, was known only to a […]
they can’t hear it
One afternoon, while the orchestra violins tuned, Chad the oboist turned to Berta, who was polishing her flute with a cloth that had once been a scarf. “It’s all over,” […]