already surreal
In the Music Business course, a student last week did a presentation where she listed all the sales records which were broken by the Weeknd in his latest tour. I […]
pinky
I take the morning train twice a week to London for my UWO teaching job. I am early because I can’t handle not being early. Screwing up happens and being […]
tracking
Attended a lecture about privacy and how many apps record and sell your info. It annoys me, leaves me feeling dumb going with the flow, letting the apps know so […]
Hannah Arendt’s letter
A know a musician who sees the world very differently than I. We are on different sides of political issues. He is offended by my views as I am by […]
Julie Bindel loves Snoop Dog
Reading Julie Bindel’s latest dispatch about reconciling her feminist views and loving Snoop Dog’s music, was exactly the type of assignment I was looking for. Planning now to have students […]
songsters
X. What do you like to write about in your songs?Y. I sing about politics, injustice, the looming industrial environmental apocalypse.X. Some baby I love you, as well?Y. I got […]
leonard’s message on terror
I was relistening to First We Take Manhattan, enjoying the way Leonard Cohen lays bare the mind that believes to terrorize is a solving problem method, “thank you for those […]
feelings, nothing more than feelings
While reading the biography of Thomas Sowell I noted he and other economists are critical of minimum wage laws. I have heard this before and do not understand it. It […]
smoke eyes
I was listening to Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by the Platters and marveling at the brilliant lyric explaining how smoke gets in your eyes because your heart is on […]
the bugs bunny man
I am working on a comedy with Rob Stefaniuk. We have shot two times and will once more this weekend. It is about an older musician who eaks out a […]