11 September

Arvo Pärt/Born

September 11, 1935

Jellyroll Morton

Storyville = jazz-related section of New Orleans
Red Hot Peppers were his band > Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Leadbelly did time (Lomax recorded him in jail)

Newark

Allen Ginsberg
Amiri Baraka
Thomas Chatterton Williams

First two born
Third grew up
in Newark

Isokon Building, Lawn Road, Hampstead

Residents included:

•  Walter Gropius
• Marcel Breuer
• László Moholy-Nagy
• Agatha Christie
• Henry Moore

Quote on Optimism

I’m a pessimist of the head and an optimist of the heart.

Antonio Gramsci

Misquote - Roger Graef, Desert Island Discs

Best Short Form Video

A Brief History of John Baldessari

https://vimeo.com/50493471
How to do VO

The Bone Clocks

David Mitchell Guardian Book podcast

• Examination of mortality/attitude to death as you hit middle age
• Faustian pact - what would you give to have eternal youth? eg would you give your conscience?
• Establishes characters by writing a 1-page letter from them to him

Collaborated with Kate Bush

considers the novella his optimum form (a late realisation in his career)