In the Thomas Sowell biography I’m currently reading it is a bit amazing when in the 1960s he realizes it is pointless to try and fight with faculties or Universities. […]

I listened to a young woman sing Wichita Lineman and couldn’t get it out of my head for hours. Jimmy Webb came to Hugh’s Room many times during these last […]

There was a presentation in the course on Berry Gordy. They mostly talked about the acts on Motown which was understandable but I wanted to steer the research towards exploring […]

A couple years ago, as part of my PhD I had to work as an assistant to a teacher instructing students about the music business. The students memorized various methods […]

Recently, the album presentation in class was To Pimp a Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar. It is a big record, a substantial record to a lot of young people I meet […]

“I saw this horror movie, and it’s not good for the brother” was my second favourite part watching the doc about making of We Are The World. Lionel Richie’s reflections […]

The Uber driver told me he spoke Punjabi, Urdu and some Arabic. Later, when he asked what I was doing at the University I answered I teach music and it […]

Traveling between many jobs these days I also take many Ubers. When I got into the recent trip driven by Seyed, I was on the telephone and sort of heard […]

I watched the Tucker Carlson interview of Vladimir Putin. Super interesting. I really thought I understood the world prior to Trump becoming America’s president but ever since 2017 everything is […]