California - Today's Happiness Experiment entry

• Anaheim
• Newport Beach

1. Reading To Kill a Mockingbird on Newport Beach at sundown after an evening swim
2. Watching John Green's Paper Towns in the week of watching John and Hank Green at VidCon 2015
3. Women of YouTube including Felicia Day's contribution to the Creators Keynotes session at Vidcon and catching up with Rosie & Lex

Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

* Anaheim

Watching AntMan at IMAX cinema

Dozing to Kind of Blue

Listening to interesting stuff at VidCon including Hank Green interviewing Jason Kilar of Vessel

Wednesday's & Thursday's Happiness Experiment entry

22/7/15

• Hidden Hills
• LA
• Anaheim

1. Meeting the intriguing Olivia (new porn performer)
2. Reading Simple Twist of Fate in the California sun (in a porn star's home)
3. Conducting interviews for LA Hardcore

23/7/15

• Anaheim - VidCon

1. Dinner with Jody at a par-for-the-course US burger restaurant
2. Listening to Ze Frank (Buzzfeed Motion Pictures) and a couple of other industry experts at VidCon 2015
3. Watching all the young folk (some with their parents) having fun around Short Form Video

Yesterday's HEE - LA 2

21/7/15
Sunset Strip, Beverly Hills - Hidden Hills - House of Blues (shortly to close)

• A surreal afternoon spent with a porn star
• Finding good vinyl in a Sunset Strip bookstore - Back in Black and Fine Leaves Left
• People watching in Beverly Hills culminating with a paparazzi ambush (of Hilary Duff)

Yesterday's & Today's Happiness Experiment entry - LA 1

19/7/15 LHR-LAX, Sunset Marquis

20/7/15 Sunset-Hollywood&Vine, Culver City (YouTube Space), Marina del Rey beach

19/7/15

• Watching You're The One That I Want from Grease with D aka Sonny Lattiere
• Watching plane movies - Ex Machina & Kingsman
• Arriving to find the Sunset Marquis steeped in music, in the footsteps of Joe Strummer

20/7/15

• smoking on Marina del Rey beach at sunset
• iced tea at Mel's Diner, off Hollywood Blvd
• seeing CBGB's bar at YouTube Space

Barbara Hepworth (Tate)

Tate Britain 17/7/15

Infant *

1929 Burmese wood

Khmer style

Captures baby's arms up

Eyeless face powerful
 

Ben Nicholson 1933 oil 1933

Picasso Classical

Surgery drawings like Moore's bomb shelters 

Two Forms 1933 alabaster - sensual , truly erotic 

Self-Photogram

1933

Moholy-Nagy (London)

Surreal

Epstein - Doves 1914-15

Engraved lines for feet

All-time best gigs

The Clash / Mikey Dread / Joe Ely
The Electric Ballroom, Camden Town
1978

Van Morrison
Nell's, West Kensington
2014

Michael Franti
Bush Hall, Shepherd's Bush
c.2009

Bruce Springsteen
RTS Showgrounds, Dublin
2002

Siouxsie & The Banshees / The Cure / Marc Almond
Hammersmith Odeon
1979

THE entry

An unplanned Mr Holmes at The Phoenix

Being told she loves me by U

Gentle summer night rain

Creative Accounting #412

Ian McKellen = John Gielgud + Simon Schama / Mr Holmes

Today's Happiness Experiment entry - La Rochelle

Running along bank of estuary in evening sun - La Rochelle - past monument to the Free French & Resistance

Leisurely dinner in French restaurant, including fish soup

Listening to the evening sounds of the harbour square filtering up into my hotel room (Hotel St Jean d'Acre)

Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry - Father's Day

Rolling Stones lips Father's Day card with accompanying playlist of classics of mainly 60s and 70s called The Enlightenment. Card included request to continue to educate the Enfants Terribles musically. Set up a 3-way playlist in response.

Breakfast made by D and dinner en famille in Highgate

Discovering the identity of the mysterious signature on the copy of Born To Run I bought yesterday - Stu knew of course, took him 9 minutes to figure it - Eric Meola, the photographer - turned out the LP came from the collection of Paul Young

Yesterday's Happiness Experiment - farewell Barcelona

D enjoying all the people on our epic journey home - from The Inbetweeners actor to Brighton woman

Reading on the balcony overlooking Sagrada Familia, the sea and all of Barcelona in the afternoon light

Picasso-Dali Dali-Picasso exhibition at Picasso Museum, Barcelona (bumping into Siobhan Sinnerton along the way)

Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry - Barcelona

Thanks yous from D

Vestiges of Barcelona Olympics 1992 around the stadium (in the aftermath of AC/DC)

Stumbling across 3 Gaudi buildings

Recent Happiness Experiment entries - Barcelona: from colours to black

Fri 29 May / Maig - Music day

Hearing Back in Black (AC/DC) drifting across the night-time city

Listening to sitar music at sunset near Arc de Triomf

A perfect lunch (with backgammon) in a hidden square dappled with sunlight accompanied by two real mccoy flamenco singers

Thurs 28

An old-school games shop where D bought Civil War playing cards and I bought a wooden mini backgammon set

Discovering atmospheric back streets of Barcelona near the cathedral

Photographing together with D and passing on tips

Wed 27

Pulling off a good talk (Docs Barcelona)

Afternoon coffee with D on a palm-lined avenue, rounding off initial explorations

Catalonian custard - Crema Catalana

Starspot #390

Andrew Neil

6.V.15 Great Peter St

Today's Happiness Experiment entry - Barcelona with D

Campari & soda on ice (on arrival at Docs Barcelona)

Being in D's dreams

Travelling with a son

Creative Accounting #409

Alan Ladd = Edward Norton

Starspots #389

4/5.15

Hugh Fernley-Whittingstall (HFR)
Alastair Campbell (Horseferry Road)
Ed Miliband (Broadway)
Trevor McDonald (New Scotland Yard)

Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Late afternoon walk around Kenwood with Adam Z

Lunch at Amicis with NG

Playing late-nite backgammon with DG

Creative Accounting #755

The 39 Steps / The Riddle of the Sands x opening = Boredom

More Boredom:
Marlowe (Chandler)
Holmes (Conan Doyle)
Willard (Coppola)