Thursday, 29 September 2016

11 September

Arvo Pärt/Born
Image result for Arvo Pärt born
September 11, 1935

Monday, 26 September 2016

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)

Thursday, 26 May 2016

Newark


Allen Ginsberg
Amiri Baraka
Thomas Chatterton Williams

First two born
Third grew up
in Newark

Saturday, 30 January 2016

Isokon Building, Lawn Road, Hampstead

Residents included:

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

Saturday, 8 August 2015

Quote on Optimism

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

Misquote - Roger Graef, Desert Island Discs

Sunday, 14 June 2015

Best Short Form Video

A Brief History of John Baldessari

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

Thursday, 21 May 2015

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)