Kablouie

Brad Warner has left the building.  And even after nine days of being our house guest, Brad is missed. He set the bar for visitors.  For one thing, he was loads of fun to have around. He has a sock monkey and so he gets my teddy bear. No names please.  Since I'm a big kid, I always enjoy people who are childlike. This doesn't mean that I don't have my childish moments when I think the world revolves around me, 'cause I do (I'm ashamed to say). But there is a difference between childlike and childish. Childish is the aforementioned definition of being a center of the universe. It's being mean and hurtful even in play. Childlike is looking at

Brad Warner is staying at my house while he is in Montreal for two talks and lots of interviews.  Montreal is part of his tour for his latest book, ZEN WRAPPED IN KARMA DIPPED IN CHOCOLATE. Back in Jan/Feb, I started making the rounds at Dawson College to see whether anyone would be interested in hosting a Brad Warner talk about Hardcore Zen, Punk Rock and Monster Movies. The Dawson Student Union came through. Brad is speaking there at Conrod's (noon) on Monday, April, 27, 2009. Sometimes you just have to it and not think about it too much.  Most of the time, I don't do a lot of things because I spend so much time looking at all the pros and

A music teacher told me that once I could play the guitar I would have to forget everything I had learned.  I remember being quite perplexed by this advice. But this is how I managed to work it out. What he meant was that I had to make the music without thinking about the lessons and rules. At this level of playing, one does not think about how to form the chords or which chords comes next [notes/etc]. The movement from one to the other is as natural as breathing. Rules are not an obstacle because one knows them well enough to break them. In other words, the guitar had to be an extension of my body, connected as though it was jacked into my