Track of the Day - Echoes

Echoes by Pink Floyd (post-Syd) from Meddle

Gilmour was a handsome hippy

Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air
And deep beneath the rolling waves
In labyrinths of coral caves
The echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand
And everything is green and submarine.

Oxford bags - Today's Happiness Experiment entry

A bell striking four in the afternoon sun

A stroll by the canal to Isis lock and back

A good chat with Guy Avshalom of Liongate (formerly Redbus) in the dining hall of Keeble College

Heart on Sleeve - Today's Happiness Experiment entry

A walking tour of the radical Jewish East End

An invite to see The Stones at the Millennium Dome

Wearing the t-shirt and short sleeve combo I saw at The Carman at Sadler's Wells on the weekend

Yesterday's Track of the Day

Theme from Schindler's List composed by John Williams - as chosen by writer Thomas Keneally for his Desert Island Discs - featuring Itzhak Perlman on fiddle - the saddest tune I've ever heard

Cheeky - yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Meeting my Facebookfriend Hermione Way cheek to cheek at the Germ awards - also cool to see Jonny Stopford after a good while

Getting a tour of Somethin' Else's new pad from Paul Bennun - Jez Nelson behind his control panel like Colonel White

Great meeting at the Tate with Will Gompertz with a free tour of their photography show How We Are(?)

Swinging - Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Wearing my Ben Sherman Beatles shirt and Lonsdale sneakers - very Brighton, very 60s, very English

Enjoying my iPod Shuffle - My Generation (to carry on the mod theme), Teen Spirit (to carry on the anthem theme), Rock the Nation

Lunch with Benedict Phillips (artist with a focus on dyslexia) and Lucy Littlesausage of Melt (new media R+D fund)

Track of the day

Rock the Nation - Michael Franti + Spearhead

Star Spot #566 - Big Macs

Kevin McCloud of Grand Designs (at Channel 4)

Gus McDonald of Right to Reply (at Channel 4)

All Greek to me - yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Lower Soho - Greek Street - shades of Francis Bacon and Absolute Beginners



Smoke and chat with Annie - showing her Picture This



Night flowers

Many are one

"In death the many become one; in life the one become many."

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Doing a petcha kutcha at the ICA as part of the Cultural Leadership Programme

Getting Picture This launched (albeit at the thirteenth hour and in a flakey state)

Playing Facebook with Chris Bisson, Pat Kane et al

A river runs through it - yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Listening to a marching band with D in the Trafalgar, Greenwich - Cutlers Company 400th anniversary of charter renewal

A river trip from Blackfriars to Greenwich - especially the stretch after Tower Bridge

The empty streets around the Embankment at Blackfriars anticipating the Tour de France

Track of the Day

Rock the Nation - Michael Franti & Spearhead


Bam-Bam, rock the nation
take over television and radio station


Bam-Bam the truth shall come
give the corporation some complication

Today's Happiness Experiment entry

The post-party chill-out at Simone's in Wiltshire



A snatch of Bruce from the Seeger Sessions (which I haven't yet heard)



A warm welcome home from Tommy Boy in the tranquility of our evening garden

Bonus track of the day (yesterday)

Going Up Country [correction: Goin' Up the Country] performed live by The Johnsons (including on double bass my oldest friend Amon who I met when we were four) - as used on the Woodstock movie soundtrack, performed by Country Joe and the Fish [correction: Canned Heat]

I'm goin' up the country, baby don't you wanna go?
I'm goin' up the country, baby don't you wanna go?
I'm goin' to some place where I've never been before.