Today's entry for the Happiness Experiment - Clarence gets his wings

Watching 'It's a Wonderful Life' with U & the Enfants Terribles at the Phoenix - bumped into Dan and Steff from Embarrassing Bodies

Wrapping the presents whilst listening to Kermode & Mayo

The quiet time when everyone else has frapped le sac

Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Starting work on the Big Fish Fight campaign

Talking art with N

Reading comic book with D

Christy Moore - 6 Nov 2010 Festival Hall

1 Sweet Thames
2 Missing You
3 North and South of the river
4 Smoke and strong whiskey
5 DTs
6 City of Chicago (Hills of Donegal)
7 Beeswing
8 Jimmy MacCarthy's Jack Doyle
9 No Work
10 John Spillane's Gortatagort
11 Don’t Forget Your Shovel
12
13 Declan Sinnott: Corina Corina
14 Hattie Carroll
15 R
16 Ride On
17 Lisdoonvarna (abandoned) -> Cliffs of Doneen medley incl. Sonny
18 Victor (hands)
19 Encore: Before The Deluge (Moving Hearts)
20 Encore:


Stitch in Time (Mike Waterstone)
Natives?
Nancy Spain?

Molly Parkin quote

Be kind and have fun.

— Molly Parkin

Source: BBC London radio Robert Elms podcast 01 Nov 2010

Today's entry for the Happiness Experiment

Coffee with Dan Jones in Muswell Hill

Reading Jonathan Franzen's Freedom in the hammock chair

Doing English-French translation with N

Songwriters' Circle #4

David Gray
KT Tunstall
Ray Lamontagne

DG
1 Shine
2 Ain't no love
3 Babylon
4 Forgetting
5 Breathe
6 This Year's Love

KT
Other Side Of The World (Long distance love affair)
(Still A) Weirdo
Oi?? (Climate change)
Black Horse & The Cherry Tree
White Bird
The Entertainer

RL
(Winter of love)
Trouble

ALL
Morning of My Life

Bush Hall
with Neil B

Clips here

Starspot #222

Liam Gallagher (launch of Jim Jones Review album at Madame JoJo's 1.ix.10)
Mark Lamarr (ditto)

Creative Accounting #107

Inception = The Sting + Reservoir Dogs + Ocean's 11 + The Getaway? + video games

Brighton beach memoirs - yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Underwater handstands on Saltdean beach, marvellously empty for a Sunday

Graffiti hunting around the North Laines

East Breakwater run with D - watching fish being hunted by gulls at the end

Mayorships

Present:

Victoria Station Train Crew Messroom
Scotland Yard
Department of Business, Innovation and Skills
15:31 to Horsham
East Finchley Library
Waterlow Park
Hainanese
Home Sweet Home Creative House
Maddens
The Old White Lion
Post Office N2
Royal Mail Delivery Office N2
East Finchley Smiles
Cash machine East Finchley
Boobas
Edgware Library
Hertford Road Bus Stop
Shippy Residence
Gertie Browns pub
East breakwater, Brighton Marina
Phoenix Cinema, East Finchley
Wingate FC
La Rugoletta, East Finchley
Home Sweet Home (N2)
Just behind my desk, being useful
Westminster City Council Town Hall
Julie and Miguel's home, East Finchley
The Stage Door, Apollo Theatre, Victoria
Pembridge Partners
Home Sweet Home Creative House
London "pied-à-terre"
Slutton Ground
Arts Depot
Westminster Cathedral
Lycee Saint Therese, Quimper
Place de la Resistance, Quimper
Port de Guilvinec
Chateau de Lanniron
River Odet
Portsmouth Pest Control
RHS Lawrence Hall
Artillery Mansions
Cherry Tree Wood Park
Hampstead Garden Suburb Institute
Finchley RFC
Leonie's Awesome Party! Woop!
St Anne's Church Courtyard, Wardour Street
Tommy Bring the Noise
Post Office, East Finchley
MacDonalds UK HQ
AGC Equity Partners
EasyJet repair yard, Luton
Poseidon Fish Restaurant, East Finchley
umbrella(s) outside channel 4
UOE
East Finchley Constitutional Club
Nicki's house
The Royal Oak, Muswell Hill
Parkway Walk (North)
East Finchley French Market
Kung's Chinese Takeaway
Our Lady of Muswell
The Bishops Avenue
Tosa
Finchley Spiritualist Church
Amici
Central House
Chorak
East Finchley tube - Platform 1
Eva's Polish Deli
Hughes Design
I Knit Weekender
Martin Primary School
Muff, Co. Donegal
The Bald Faced Stag + The Baldfaced Stag

Past:
Marina Square, Brighton
Looney Bin! Home

Fictitious creations:
Portsmouth Pest Control
Skynet (Europe)
Skynet GCHQ
The Slaughtered Lamb

Historic - Tuesday's Happiness Experiment entry

Seeing a Spitfire (at the Imperial War Museum) silhouetted against the sun

Chatting about forthcoming historical drama with Robert WC

Incredible Holland goal to get through to World Cup final (reaching back to the Goldsmids)

Back in business - yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Chat with Graham Linehan (co-writer of Father Ted & The IT Crowd) about Quotables

Lunch in Exmouth Market at Moro with Zam

Viewing of CCTV Symphony taster in edit suite in Anglers Lane

Colemanball

"They [North Korea] collapsed like a pack of cards - and they did this in spades."
Vasos Alexander, BBC Radio 5 22/6/10

Punk

The day the Sex Pistols ceased to exist was the day they became important and relevant. That's always the case.

John Lydon

Japanese TV interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQxhbLPZVpI&NR=1

(sex pistols, punk, important, relevant)

Quotable

"the basic difference being that a novel is about interior life and a film about exterior life"
Martin Amis in The Guardian 26/5/10

Istanbul - Today's Happiness Experiment entry

The illuminated water of the Basilica Cistern

Drinking tea in the rain with U whilst watching the shipping in Gulhane Park on Seraglio Point

Watching a bird flying around the minarets of the Blue Mosque at night

Talking Turkey - yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Flying over moored shipping off the coast of Istanbul

Hooking up by chance with Utku and his cousins for an evening of Turkish coffee, backgammon and hookah smoking

The piles of spices in the Spice Market

Boys and Men in Black - yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Watching N being chased and tackled by Saracens hooker Schalk Britts - and still making the try line

England rugby captain Steve Borthwick's generosity with a bunch of enthusiastic kids doing a training evening at Saracens

Watching French-like Israeli film Broken Wings

Starspot #221

Sam Taylor Wood, Aaron Johnson and black dog (Primrose Hill today)

Punk spirit

Punk was an idea. I try to make ideas happen. It was an idea that could change lives.

Malcolm McLaren (Edwards) RIP