Now online!

You've probably seen my English and German blogs about my music. Here you finally get to see a blog about me.

As you can see from the large number of links, I've got a rather eclectic, globe-spanning set of tastes--much too much to include in a mere profile.

Why English and German? Well, when I was a kid I read Peanuts. As a keyboard player, naturally I identified with Schroeder, and I soon noticed his interest in Beethoven. Naturally I became interested in Beethoven too, and when I learned he was German, I picked up some books on the language, learning it in bits and pieces over the rest of my life. When Disney released Herbie Rides Again I naturally fell in love with Herbie the Love Bug, a German-made car. In one of my schools we had a girl named Miriam who was German. I have an old friend named Margie whose mother, if I recall correctly, has German in her ancestry. I have a German friend in Toronto by the name of Adolf. I once knew a psychologist trainee named Anke, who was an exchange student from Germany. I used to have a girlfriend in Connecticut whose mother was German, and when my ex visited her relatives in Germany, she always visited the record stores there, thus leading to my initial exposure to German pop music. And one of my bands used to have a German-born bass player who moved to Venezuela before coming to Canada. So when you factor all this together, there's got to be something there. Besides, when I write here I get to practice my German. You've heard the saying: if you don't use it, you lose it.