Creative Accounting #453

John Cusack (in High Fidelity) / nose + chin = Meryl Streep / chin + nose

Creative Accounting #452

Robin Wright (in House of Cards) = Angie Dickinson

Star Spots #255

W/e 18/7/14

David Morrissey
Northern Line from Highgate

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Keo

Star Spot #411

Mackenzie Crook - reading on the tube at East Finchley

Starspots #378

Tim Westwood - outside Millennium Dome - with NG

Starspot #337

Alan Davies - at the wheel
by Hampstead Heath tube
5/14

Recording Britain - Sheffield Art Gallery

Kenneth Clark
Pilgrim Trust
39-43


John Piper - Tithe barn, gt coxwell
Brooding style - De Chirico
c40

Deller and Alan Kane - Protest House, Cardiff 2001
From Folk Archive project
Size gives it the grandeur of art

What's the enemy? Hitler, change, progress, modernisation, development

Paul Nash
Woods on the Avon shore
c39
Fluid, quick watercolour with his abstract sense

Alan Reynolds
Dorset LS
58
Klee inspired
Try this style

Ravilous
Sutherland
Turner

Richard seddon
Cottages at norton, Derbyshire
41
Brown and green and pencil

Ditto
Porter valley Derbyshire *
40
A good artist
A touch of Nash

Michael Rothenstein
Old cottages Norby
40
Very accomplished

Photography can do much, but it cannot give us the colour and atmosphere of a scene, the intangible genius loci
Herbert Read 1941

Richard Long
A 6 hour run
75
Essential

A green and pleasant land whose features have been moulded in liberty, whose every winding lane and irregular building is an expression of our national character

H Read 41


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Today's Happiness Experiment entry - West & East

Watching House of Cards (2013) episode 1 and House of Cards (1990) episode 1 back to back

Walking&talking with U around Red Lion Square/Lamb's Conduit St/Bloomsbury

Graffiti safari around Brick Lane

Creative Accounting #178

House of Cards = Macbeth + Othello

You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.

Starspot #366

Michael Portillo (Short's Gardens WC2) in a candy stripe summer jacket

The weekend's Happiness Experiment entries

SAT

Coffee with Ciara at Lisboa

Record shopping at Honest Jon's

Picking up a 60s copy of a Hemingway novel Across the River in Kensington on 8 mile Canal to River walk

SUN

Cross-Isle of Dogs walk with D to a beach overlooking the North Greenwich peninsula

Reading What Was Promised in the garden at dusk

Playing Urban Lion Hunt

Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Celebration post-exam lunch with N in garden of Cote, Highgate

Deep illness/cold sleep in the morning

Evening jog and garden read

Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Celebration dinner for end of N's exams with N & D discussing N's work experience day at Ogilvy

Listening to dub reggae in the dark, in particular Ranking Dread

Meeting with Alex A and Tim Lovejoy about State

Starspot #549

20/5/14

Paul O'Grady (TRSE)
Barbara Windsor
Gary Kemp

Yesterday's HEE

Watching a dog catch a frisbee on our evening walk around Kenwood en famille

Writing up Power to the People in conjunction with Mark Stevenson

A solid day's writing and reading work at home

Martha Reeves and the Vandellas & John Newman - Proud Camden

Proud Camden

1 heatwave **
2 many rivers to cross
3 jimmy b * come back jimmy b
4 something
5 dancing in the street

Today's Happiness Experiment entry

D dancing with Michael Franti

Talk about/in front of Seurat's Baigneurs a Asnieres

Reading while listening to LSO rehearsal in Trafalgar Square

Michael Franti & Spearhead - Islington Assembly Hall - with Dylan

1 11:59 and 59 seconds**
2 Closer to You
3 Never Let You Go
4 Forever there for you * (new song - about 15 year old son)
5 All the Freaky People
6 I Love You
7 first song from new album (out in June)
Hey World
bits of It's A Family Affair, Bomb the World

I'm Alive
Life is Better with You
On and on?
Say goodbye?

Starspot #387

Antony Worrall Thompson (Gatwick 28.4.14)

Nick Lowe at Union Chapel, Islington

1 Cruel to Be Kind
2 House for Sale
3 Without Love
Check Out Time
4 I Knew The Bride when she used to rock'n'roll
Encore:
5 Only a Rose * - with Geraint Watkins (vocals & keyboards)
6 What's so funny about peace love and understanding

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