floating
There is so much madness in the world. Why shouldn’t there be, we are after all floating on a ball that is floating in a universe that is floating in […]
sebbo
Sebastian died. He was cranky. Acted as though he knew everything and nobody could tell him something he didn’t know. I think he felt betrayed when Bazil had good fortune. […]
which side is the pledge of allegiance?
I started a song trying to not do things the way I usually do. Stemming from all the situations I put students in to write stream of consciously. I worked […]
stand up, let’s strike the band up, who’s lifting this land up, yes Nixon’s the one to go with….
For the music history course I’m teaching in the fall, I decided to look at how songs can have political influence. One section will be devoted to propaganda songs and […]
art tatum
Watching an interview between Andre Previn and Oscar Peterson. Oscar says when he was a late teen he had become arrogant about his piano capabilities and his father, a man […]
knife
I saw a trailer for a new film about Lutheran Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was tortured and hung by Hitler for not behaving like a Nazi. Trailer looks very Hollywood […]
morley
My cousin is 96 years old. If my father was alive he would have turned 100 this year. They were friends since childhood. I called him recently recalling how Gershwin […]
gad saad
Finished Gad Saad’s Parasitic Mind. The part about Batesian mimicry stands out a lot. Creatures that imitate the look of other creatures but do not actually have the particular talent. […]
student
a student writes in their journal that they are trying to quit smoking and that they keep failing then realized they also keep practicing new scales on piano and do […]
Roadkill
I noticed an advertisement outside the Revue Cinema on Roncesvalles that they were playing Roadkill tonight, so I went. Don McKellar and Valerie Buhagiar did Q&A afterwards. I saw it […]