how’d it go today? Archive
You Need It When? Courier Service
I worked on a project recently that had very tight deadlines. Very tight deadlines. Tight deadlines. Here’s how it unfolded (abbreviated version): All ducks were corralled and set in a straight line – studio, producer, engineer, musicians, manufacturer, and all the other details required to record and manufacture a CD. Photos – done. Artwork, design [...]
Appliances, then and now.
Yesterday – and today, too – I washed and waxed the floors. I remember my mother doing this. I remember her answering the telephone and saying to a friend who, presumably, was asking what she did that day. “Oh, not too much,” she would say. “I washed and waxed the floors”. How long can it [...]
let me in
I had occasion today to talk to a lovely and patient man in another part of the world. I reached him in a circuitous way, by means of several 1-800 numbers and many, many touch-tones. Why? I forgot a password. One of 60 passwords, it turns out. I know the exact number because I opened [...]
Shiny toys
In a time long gone and almost slipped from memory, I owned a cassette tape recorder that served the purpose of catching bits of melody that were in danger of fading from consciousness. It ran on an AC adaptor or two AA batteries. It was cheap. Tapes were cheap. Short of a reel-to-reel recorder, this [...]
Long day ended
It’s been a day of endless small details, dropped server connections, lost tax numbers and a numb backside from sitting at the computer. Uploads, downloads, emails, answered and unanswered phone calls. Not a musical day. Not even a thoughtful day. There are guitars hanging on the wall of my small studio. I walk by it [...]
Stunned. No, really
Well, yes. I won on Saturday night. Canadian Folk Music Awards – English Songwriter of the Year. Lots of good wishes afterward, in addition to lots of this: You didn’t know? Really? Well, no, I didn’t. Turns out there was a leak the night before and the names of winners had been released to the [...]
The Big Smoke
My dear friend has a new apartment since last I visited her. It’s a treehouse, so I’m over looking the neighbourhood which is drenched with sun. Fellow birds chirp. …that was yesterday – today it’s a very different story with the rain pelting down on this treehouse. I thank the gods it has a roof [...]
Crosswalks IDs
My morning agenda included errands, and lots of them. Post office, bank, shoe store, drug store, grocery store, and liquor store (every afternoon should feature Prosecco or some equally satisfying apertif). In addition to these run of the mill tasks, I threw in having a key cut. I drove to do my errands. I would [...]
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Often described as a "writer's writer", Susan Crowe is one of Canada's most respected singer songwriters in the folk genre. At once complex, challenging and accessible, Susan's intelligent and moving songs have captivated audiences and reviewers from coast to coast, continent to continent. She possesses, in the words of Britain's Folk Roots magazine, "that rare ability of crafting a lyric that bears scrutiny on its own terms." That rare ability has earned her two Juno nominations, and nominations from both the West Coast and East Coast Music Awards.
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