I didn’t think I’d like Northern Ireland. It’s probably because of my Irish grandmother’s disdain for the British. What could the North possibly have to offer that’s worth leaving the Republic? Kinbane, that’s what. I took my family to Ireland for three weeks in 2024. I’d been twice before — […]
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Last week, while watching WandaVision (no spoilers here), there was a scene in which one of the characters was describing another in a very reductionist way. I paused the show, and asked my kids abruptly, “What would JPII say?” My seven-year-old daughter responded, “That this is bad” (and the look […]
When I first heard the song Light while working one day in the Ryerson SLC Amphitheatre, I instantly became a San Holo fan. I started working on a rock cover back in Spring 2019, but the project sat on the shelf for a while. After the launch of NMG Studios […]
This Spring during the lockdown, I took the opportunity to take some Recording Revolution courses, like Mixing University and Total Home Recording. I’m shifting my musical focus to my home studio for thie next phase of life, and hope to work through the backlog of original songs I’ve written but […]
One of the sources that has forever shaped my view on songwriting – on lyric writing in particular – is the introduction to the lyric poem in this lecture from University of Toronto English professor, Nick Mount, on Sylvia Plath’s Ariel, published by TVO: While studying English at the University […]
I’m constantly frustrated by the way we approach education and youth, as though we’ve forgotten our grade school experience. Our culture looks at the immaturity of adolescent romantic drama, or social groups, and sees either an interesting social science experiment, or kids just being kids, etc. We dismiss it. We […]
I fell in love with this song 10 years ago in Ireland (a different but similar recording): Amhrán Mhuínse (The Song of Muínis) I fell in love with the music — I never understood the lyrics. By chance, I scrolled past it in a playlist today, and it spoke to […]
Some big news: I’m a dad! We won’t be meeting our son face to face until November, but in the meantime we got a glimpse of him last week with a 3D Ultrasound. I’ve uploaded some photos and the video. Here goes nothing…
A week before my first wedding anniversary, Facebook started to remind me and suggested I celebrate by… sending my wife a Facebook message. Thanks for the reminder, I guess, but I wasn’t exactly planning to spend my anniversary on Facebook. This brought up some similar stories from friends: When I […]