Category: Blog

  • Re-emergence — PT.1

    Fall has finally descended upon an old and familiar set; a place I’ve spent many years acting on — and then re-enacting — creative impulses… which have often ‘arrived’ via meridians of (sometimes painful) introspection. The ‘set’ to which I refer is my parent’s home — the house I grew up in. The house I…

  • A Day in the Life…

    (Journaling while in transit) Breezy day — coolish; some sun — I’m sitting on a bench in the makeshift GO station at York Mills and Yonge, once again waiting for the ‘Oshawa 94’ to roll in and whisk me away, back to Ajax, and what might possibly be the last recording session with Daniel L.…

  • On Memory…

    (Journaling on public transit) Earlier today, I had a quick ‘fizzle’ of a memory that I would never have imagined experiencing again. The irony is, I’ve since forgotten the specifics, but am left with the emotional impression. I was trying to liken this phenomenon to something visceral, and came up with this: The memory resides…

  • Halcyon Reflections

    (partial Journal excerpt) 8pm-ish. I just found a seat in a place that — while it makes all the sense in the world — I have yet to journal from this location even once in the 6 years or so that I’ve owned this book! “Rocket Ship Park“. Indeed, from earliest childhood memories, through some rather…

  • Tonight…

    Tonight – once again — there’s a remembrance of your essence; ‘February Stars’ in July – this time 2010… No sympathetic female audience, however, so perhaps it’s more vital…? (An aside: My dear RO — the word that was missing is ‘ATAVAN’… strange how I forgot it, as – coupled with white rum – it…