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)

Common Ground: Robert Elms

Irish/Jewish background
Birthday 12th June

Richard Flanagan - The Narrow Road to the Deep North

How people who perceive of themselves as good have that goodness hijacked by larger ideas like national spirit and politics and broader communal purpose

More people died on the death railway than there are words in this novel
More people died on the death railway than died at Hiroshima

He wrote the Baz Luhrman movie Australia