Halina - yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Being at Halina Sand's memorial service at art nouveau Golder's Green crematorium with all the usual suspects from Katherine's life

Supper in an alleyway off Newburgh St with Oliver Dudley, chewing the rag

A short nostalgic walk through Edgware

Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Getting my 1st iPhone from a cute French chick

Watching latest rushes from Ed Wardle alone in the wild

Kicking off 3 Arts Council projects

Today's Happiness Experiment entry

A contemplative Campari and soda in a cool evening breeze at the upstairs window of Thomas Cubitt

Getting Oliver Dudley on board for Alone in the Wild - he's about to row round Britain

Working on Arts projects for ACE

Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Becoming a Liveryman of the City of London (complete with natty engraved medal) (and port) (and claret) (and armagnac)

Being chaired by Minister Kevin Brennan in an unusually efficient and to time meeting

My mum's email just after midnight about Pop aka Ian Harris (who died on this day - like Aaron)

Malapropism of the week

UFM: "That Livery thing you're doing is completely anarchic" (archaic)

on me becoming a Liveryman of the City tomorrow

Bat for Lashes - Glass

By night my bed I sought him whom my soul
loveth; I sought him, but I found him not.
I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and
in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth:
I sought him, but I found him not.
The watchmen that go about the city found me: to
whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?
It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found
him whom my soul loveth; I held him, and would not
let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's
house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

[Song of Solomon, Chapter 3]

Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Reading loads of Around the World in 80 Days on the rug (flying carpet) in the back garden

Watching Thunderbolt & Lightfoot with U - 1974 cinematic golden age

Celebrating discovery of missing accounts ;-)

Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Tennis with N at Waterlow Park

Dinner with Fobes, JRT and Tony M at House of Fobes

Making a playlist about Girls

Starspots #46

Bill Nighy (Tate Britain) 29.vi.09 + Mark Titchner + Grayson Perry + Alan Yentob

Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Jog in St Pancras cemetery - back on track



Dinner at Kew accompanied by Jools Holland



CCTV project meeting with Roger & Eve

Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Chat with Jason Isaacs in a green pagoda



Pulling off Us Now screening in Houses of Parliament with David Puttnam, Helena Kennedy et al



Landing an iPhone

Patti Smith at Ornette Coleman's Meltdown

at Festival Hall (with Seth B)

Piss Factory
Wild Leaves Are Falling
Nine (new song)
In my Blakian years
***
Pissing in the River **
Ghost Dance ***

Adrian Utley and Geoff Barrow of Portishead
Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Jesse Smith (daughter)
group of North African musicians in emerald garb
The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra
Ornette Coleman

Previous Patti Smith gigs I've been to:
* Union Chapel (with Sue M) ***
* Brixton Academy (with Una)
* Festival Hall [Kevin Shields - The Coral Sea] (with Una)
* Roundhouse [Twelve] (with Roddy G) ***
* St Luke's [Phillip Glass] (with Seth B) - when I met Patti and talked to her about Rimbaud

Starspot #106

Stephen Berkoff (at Bafta, Piccadilly) [I love Decadence]

Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

A good haircut (by Chris)



Taking N to see Picassos (at the National Gallery)



Watching 24 Hour Party People with N & D

Top 4: Cities

(Not including London)



N:

1 LA

2 Jerusalem

3 Barcelona

4 Amsterdam



Adam:

1 New York

2 San Francisco

3 Amsterdam

4 Paris

Top 4: Countries to visit

N:
1 USA
2 Spain
3 Israel
4 Brazil

Adam:
1 Ireland
2 Israel
3 Spain
4 Italy

Flower power - yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

My first visit to the Chelsea Flower Show with U in bright evening sun

Starting my 1970s Folio edition of Brave New World

Working on Arts ideas for networked public service media

Big Art - Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Talking to Grayson Perry about creativity, names and Rachel Whiteread

A meeting at Cutler's Hall - and walking back in the late afternoon sunshine from the City via the Aldwych (with outdoor supper in Somerset House courtyard)

Sitting alongside Jan Younghusband and John Newbigin at a knock-about debate about Public Art at the RSA chaired by Jon Snow

Creative Accounting #54

Citizen Cope = shaolin monk + IT contractor + Ray Lamontagne + Jack Johnson

Tranquility - yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Reading Richard Price's Samaritan

Swimming - in parallel with D

Saturday afternoon snooze