Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Spring has sprung - Recent Happiness Experiment entries

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Unpacking my books in the new room with the balcony open



A haircut Saturday with N - including the usual picnic on the steps of the masonic temple at the end of long acre, playing Guess the (Passerby's) Name



Playing the Top Three game with N in the tube



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Ghaly's goal for Spurs against Chelsea in the FA Cup - football at the Bridge with Stu



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Chat with James Bradburne, Steve Moore and Janey Walker in posh caff in Green Park - above all, the spring sunshine (first no coat day of the year)



Listening to Doug Miller's Desert Island Discs - especially Starless and Bible Black by Stan Tracey Quartet (what a title - Dylan Thomas's?)



Meeting Rebecca Wilson from the Saatchi site/Your Gallery (10 million hits a day!) - Dylan playing in the empty caff (Tupelo Honey, Camden Town - the old Van-Bob axis)

2 comments:

Douglas Miller said...

Re - starless. Yes, it comes from the album Under Milk Wood - 1964. I just knew you would like this track. The 'breathy' saxophone of Bobby Wellins (Glasweigan - still playing the circuit now) is perfect and the piano feels like soft drizzle on a very warm evening.

ArkAngel said...

It's the most astonishing musical revelation I've had in a long time (thanks!) and it makes me want to go and read Under Milk Wood, or better still find a tape of Richard Burton reading it (i've only ever read/heard snatches of it)