Bartop Laureate

I was also thinking Beatles. Quite enjoyed.

My top three Eurovision songs: Italy (Lucio), Portugal (NADA), and Switzerland (Zoe Me). Tip of the hat to the writers as well! #Eurovision #Eurovision2025

Kudos to the excellent songwriting and ensemble performance of the NAPA song Deslocado, representing Portugal in the Grand Final today. Great work. Good luck gents! #Eurovision2025 #NAPA

It’s a great experience transposing an original song to better fit my vocal range and along the way finding new hooks in the new key! #songwriting

"No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful. If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music."

RIP Kurt Vonnegut. Gone 18 yrs. Dang.

Okay Kitty, I’ll count you in on four… You got this! #WhiskersWednesday #Songwriting

❤️ 🇨🇦

This Elvis Costello lyric hits hard these days:

Man goes beyond his own decision
Gets caught up in the mechanism
Of swindlers who act like kings
And brokers who break everything

Music fans what’s your favourite note? I’d have to say mine is Middle C. You just can’t beat the classics!

YouTube video by Jeff Douglas We Are Canadian

Canada is united. And we’ll never bow to Putin. #ElbowsUp

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"Have you said thank you even once?"

Pass it on.
#StandWithUkraine

Coffee is life. Coffee is the fourth good group. Coffee is the straw that stirs the coffee. Coffee. ❤️

Happy Twin Peaks Day!!⛰️⛰️🥧☕️👍. #TwinPeaks Having some cherry pie and coffee tonight, though no log to hold while I re-watch the pilot episode. Gotta up my game.

@totesambular.bsky.social Happy Twin Peaks day from 🇨🇦 👍. You are my token Twin Peaks social media acquaintance from that other awful site, good to see you here.

Every artist I know is really struggling right now. Financially, emotionally, their confidence, in general.

If you like an artist's work, support them any way you can. Buying their stuff or subscribing to their Patreon is great, but words of encouragement are also incredibly helpful.

Canada-Russia hockey final tonight, just like old times.

Played a 100 year old grand piano for the first time this weekend. What a marvel of engineering. An amazing life experience hearing the sound from it. Glad I chose piano as my writing instrument. That was quite something! #songwriting

Love it!

Happy Saturday to artists and creators everywhere. Now get on it!! 🤟

Growing more fond of major seventh chords everyday. #songwriting

Needed a sunrise this morning and I got one!! Those blue and violet gradients blending with pink and grey clouds were great. Next show happens tomorrow, they say.

Very proud to be Canadian this week. 🇨🇦 👍

Ordered mine too! Looking forward to it. 👍☕️

Björk believes Spotify is the "worst thing" to happen to music Icelandic singer Björk has claimed Spotify is the "worst thing" to happen to music as artists are no longer paid for their art which dampens their creativity.

“It is only in darkness can you plant a new seed”. Bjorn on songwriting makes perfect sense to me, as a songwriter sequestered to plant these seeds! #songwriting

Free verse poetry and song lyrics are siblings. They just act differently at parties. Song lyrics know how to have fun, while free verse is the crazy one who never behaves. #songwriting #poetry #lyrics

We’re watching Twin Peaks in the evenings, and I busted out my Blu rays rather than relying on streaming, and one thing I HIGHLY recommend, especially if you aren’t familiar with them (I hadn’t been) are the “log lady intros” for the original series episodes on syndication. Just lovely moody stuff.

Happy to see so many discovering Twin Peaks right now. It’s so worth it!! #TwinPeaks

In remembering and appreciating David Lynch, I took some comfort and delight in watching “What Did Jack Do”. Glad his short from 2016 was available on Netflix in Canada. #RIPDavidLynch