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I watched The Third Man. Over the years I have seen it twice before but this time I realized that crazy amazing signature song is the only score used. That’s […]

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Sometimes I am in an audience and I think I could accompany the person I’m watching/ listening to. Like I could get up and join them unannounced and start playing […]

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I was asked to be interviewed for a documentary about Blue Rodeo. I said ok. Then just before I was supposed to show up they asked for a signature on […]

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My current guilty pleasure are i) border patrol videos, ii) playing the thing in G, iii) avoiding prep time for my next class, iv) Sam Kinison memes. Not sure how […]

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It is very useful in writing to suspend judgement and pour out content even if you suspect it is horrible content and not up to scratch. It is just filling […]

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Often since I returned to school I have seen slogans implying a goal to decolonize. It is a strange word to me. I don’t see how one could believe decolonizing […]

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Considering the students I teach constantly privilege hip hop over everything else, I start thinking naturally about the structures and the creativity of these forms. One thing I especially enjoy […]

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I watched a young woman on X explain her views on Israel and Gaza. She reminded me of myself and the wild bronco of political thought I have tried straddling […]

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The poetry reading was interesting. I read from my book. Charlie remembers our first conversation from 35 years ago about W.P. Kinsella. Impressive memory. He even remembers we were not […]

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Reading Glenn Loury’s memoir. Blows me away. I half hoped when I entered graduate school to encounter people in this music space that would challenge my ideas but more often […]