Silent Cacophony
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Every Idea Can Be A Good One
Every Idea is a Good Idea: Be Creative Anytime, Anywhere – How Songwriters and Other Working Artists Get It Done by Tom Sturges “Creativity is a limitless function of your intelligence that allows you to see, hear, and imagine empty spaces filled with sounds or images that are no there, at least not yet, whether…
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Come On, Write One Song!
How to Write One Song by Jeff Tweedy “Have you ever have an heard a song and responded to it?” I am sure for most of us, the answer is yes. So that means you can write a song. I know that you are probably thinking something like, “But I can’t sing”, “I don’t play…
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Renovation Complete
Welcome to the newly renovated website of Chase March. I spent quite a lot of time trying to get the site looking the way I wanted. There was no question about staying with WordPress because it truly is the best blogging platform that I have ever used. The only problem was finding a theme that…
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A Homeschooling Handbook
The Homeschooling Handbook how to make homeschooling simple, affordable, fun, and effective by Lorilee Lippincott I have decided that I will be homeschooling my son. As an educator with 18 years of experience in the classroom, I think I have a good foundation for that. I don’t want my homeschool to be like the public…
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The Return of Rap City (On Our Screens)
Rap City was such an important part of music television back in the day. It was great to see a block of television devoted to rap music. We were able to discover new tunes, and see some of our favourite emcees who we’d only ever seen in magazines or on album covers. Well, the show…
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Super Posts from Last July
It’s time to take a leap through the archive in a single bound. This will bring us back one year to explore some of the cool things that we happening then. You can read all of the posts from last July or just these super ones . . . My New Favourite Show – Stargirl…
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Celebrate Differently – First Nations Hip-Hop on Canada Day
It’s Canada Day today and while I normally like to celebrate it by playing nothing but Canadian hip-hop on Word is Bond Rap Radio, I knew I needed to do something different this year. I’m familiar with few First Nations emcees but not enough, so I took to Facebook and asked for suggestions. I was…
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Having a Blast at the First Nations Video Shoot
I had a lot of fun this weekend providing the music for a special day on the Chippewas of the Thames First Nations Reserve. They were shooting a music video there to help call attention to the horrors of Residential Schools. Dave from NYC Stylz was on hand providing orange shirts to people and I…
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First Nations Video Shoot
The horrors of Canada’s Residential School system are just starting to come to light. I am surprised that people were unaware of this terrible part of our history until the terrible news broke a few weeks ago. Members of the Chippewas of the Thames First Nation are getting together Saturday to shoot a video to…
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The Surprisingly Simple Skill of Listening
I Hear You: The Surprisingly Simple Skill Behind Extraordinary Relationships by Michael S. Sorensen Do you ever read a book that just drags on and on. This one doesn’t do that. “As you’ve no doubt noticed, this book is pretty short. I was tempted to add additional (read: unnecessary) chapters, stories, and other fluff in…