Bartop Laureate
@bartoplaureate.bsky.social
Writes songs worthy of your mind. Winnipeg is home. 🇨🇦
My top three Eurovision songs: Italy (Lucio), Portugal (NADA), and Switzerland (Zoe Me). Tip of the hat to the writers as well! #Eurovision #Eurovision2025
May 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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
May 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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
April 26, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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
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RIP Kurt Vonnegut. Gone 18 yrs. Dang.
April 11, 2025 at 11:49 AM
RIP Kurt Vonnegut. Gone 18 yrs. Dang.
Okay Kitty, I’ll count you in on four… You got this! #WhiskersWednesday #Songwriting
March 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Okay Kitty, I’ll count you in on four… You got this! #WhiskersWednesday #Songwriting
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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
Man goes beyond his own decision
Gets caught up in the mechanism
Of swindlers who act like kings
And brokers who break everything
March 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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
Man goes beyond his own decision
Gets caught up in the mechanism
Of swindlers who act like kings
And brokers who break everything
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Music fans what’s your favourite note? I’d have to say mine is Middle C. You just can’t beat the classics!
March 8, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Music fans what’s your favourite note? I’d have to say mine is Middle C. You just can’t beat the classics!
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"Have you said thank you even once?"
March 1, 2025 at 1:32 PM
"Have you said thank you even once?"
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Coffee is life. Coffee is the fourth good group. Coffee is the straw that stirs the coffee. Coffee. ❤️
February 27, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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.
February 25, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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.
February 25, 2025 at 12:36 AM
@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.
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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.
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.
February 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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.
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.
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Canada-Russia hockey final tonight, just like old times.
February 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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
February 18, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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
Happy Saturday to artists and creators everywhere. Now get on it!! 🤟
February 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Happy Saturday to artists and creators everywhere. Now get on it!! 🤟
Growing more fond of major seventh chords everyday. #songwriting
February 7, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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.
February 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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. 🇨🇦 👍
February 4, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Very proud to be Canadian this week. 🇨🇦 👍
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“Poetry is pressure on the page, on space, on time.”-
Dionne Brand
Dionne Brand
February 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
“Poetry is pressure on the page, on space, on time.”-
Dionne Brand
Dionne Brand
“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
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.
faroutmagazine.co.uk
January 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“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
January 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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
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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.
January 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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.