As we get older, we move the goal posts of what we think we can accomplish. When I heard that Toronto writer/humourist Malena Arpe had died this week, I was gutted. “But she was so young! Only 50!” I said to friends.
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Roxanne Tellier: Moving The Goal Posts
Posted in Opinion with tags 2001, A&R, aging, Bob Segarini, Canada, child labour, Craig Kielburger, David Suzuki, DBAWIS, Delta Tango, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Earth Summit, ECO, England, Environmental Children's Organization, eOne Music Canada, Eric Alper, Free the Children, Genetically Modified Organism, GMOs, Hannah Alper, Kevin O'Leary, MalalaYousafzai, MalenaArpe, March Against Monsanto, New York Times, Nobel Peace Prize, Pakistan, Rachel Parent, Rio de Janeiro, Roxanne Tellier, Severn Cullis-Suzuki, Siamese, Taliban, TEDx, The Huffington Post, The Lang and O’Leary Exchange, the Order of Canada, United Nations on May 24, 2015 by segariniJAIMIE VERNON – THE ORIGIN OF SONG
Posted in Opinion with tags Antônio Carlos Jobim, Astrud Gilberto, Bacharach & David, Bernie Taupin, Bob Segarini, Brazil, Brill Building, Bryan Adams, Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft, Canadian Music, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Closing Time, Dan Wilson, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Elton John, fatherhood, Flying Saucer Reader, Goffin & King, Helo Penheiro, inspiration, Jaimie Vernon, Jim Vallance, John Woloschuk, Klaatu, Leiber & Stoller, Mann & Weil, Muse, Playboy, Rio de Janeiro, robin thicke, Semisonic, songwriters, Stan Getz, Star Wars, Terry Draper, The Carpenters, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Girl From Ipanema, Tin Pan Alley, Vinícius de Moraes, World Contact Day on February 21, 2015 by segarini
Songwriters are a gifted breed. They’re poets that think in three dimensions. It isn’t enough to be able to put pen to paper and Chaucer their ideas onto papyrus. They have to lift those words from this black and white template and insert them into music from which a melody rises and falls.
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 