Woody Allen

Awareness of mortality

Complete control

Sid Caesar - Mel Brooks

Louise Lasser
Diane Keaton

Office exercise machine (product testing) - Bananas : Feeding machine - Modern Times

Creative Accounting #448

Blue Jasmine = Streetcar named desire + View from the bridge

Creative Accounting #643 - Under Milk Wood

Under Milk Wood = Ulysses + The Wasteland + The Goons + Monty Python + Joe Orton

Love of words - Love of language

Creative Accounting #642 - The Big Chill

The Return of the Secaucus Seven => the Big Chill

JT (character)  => JT Lancer (character played by character)
running dog (dialogue reference)  => running dog shoes (prop)

Cucumber interview => Video camera interviews
"Karen & Dick" => Karen & Richard
"If it happens, it happens" => same
Earns "obscene" amounts => same

Starspots #644

Portland Place
Quintessentially

Simon Schama
Rachel Johnson
Helena Kennedy
Peter Yorke

YHEE

Exploding Content speaking session at IBC focusing on Top of the Pops - watching John Landis' Thriller video for Michael Jackson

Seeing Mirjam Winkelman for lunch after 30 years of friendship - having our photo taken in the rain

Leisurely dinner on 17th floor of Apollo hotel with wine and cheese

THEE Amsterdam to Zaandam

Long bike ride with Adam Dorrell from Lauriergracht to Zaandam crazy hotel

Adam's flattering assessment of me over birthday lunch at YCanteen at NDSB (that I could change the world in some way for the better)

Run in Rembrandtpark in autumn sunshine