08.04
Hotel Modesto, Rosario.
An early-to-breakfasting experience…
Barbarism is the natural harvest of humanity, if left untended.
09.51 A grey day for building sites I…
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There are now 8 committed to tithing.
From an industry-insider…
Last FM was bought by CBS (the US news/TV organisation) yesterday for a figure of $280 million...
DGM recently took action to have KC/RF tracks removed from Last FM. Their business model did not include us in their advertising revenue, nor in profits from the high-yield sale of a company predicated on the work of others. Last FM were not able to persuade me, in extensive correspondence, that equitable payment of music-generators was a priority in the company’s raison d’etre, nor that it was in our interest to allow them to continue using it. Music is free & for the people! It is also virtually free for some business-persons.
18.25 Lobby call at 10.00 for a drive from Rosario to Buenos Aires National airport…
… through wide country with mucho grazing beef…
Argentina is a long country, North to South…
An uneventful drive, with short break for our driver, then onto the River Plate…
… and National…
Checked in, we had a 4-hour wait. Marcello left Hernan & myself, is going into town & returning for the flight…
Opening flying-reading, an FT Weekend, and coincidentally…
… a travellers’ guide to Mendoza. It’s a sign! A small delay at the gate…
… so further reading choice I…
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Wessex (Batsford 1950) by Ralph Dutton, 8th. & last Lord Sherborne, well-known in England for his work on creating Hinton Ampner, which he left to the National Trust on his flying-away. Inheriting the title in 1970, he remained at Hinton Ampner in Hampshire. Sherborne House in Gloucestershire, the family pile, had been a public school for some years (If was partly based on it), was then empty & sold to become the IACE.
The landscape indicated is the place of my youthful arising & adventures.
01.06 Hotel El Fabbo, Mendoza.
An uneventful flight I…
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Strict quarantine procedures on arrival, in case incoming baggage carries devil bugs that attack Mendoza vineyards…
Mendoza pals met us, and accompanied us into town I…
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… past our venue…
… to our Quite Acceptable hotel 3 blocks away. Mr. Geezer, of Geezer Wine Selections, recommends this Malbec…
Mr. Geezer’s recommendations I have found to be reliable.
Suitcases in rooms, to rehearsals at the venue. Director Nunez gives notes…
The press…
After rehearsals, to a nearby restaurant for supper…
Nowadays, we tend to go into an eating-space & organise it ourselves. The tables were swiftly reconfigured I…
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Two toasts were offered:
A common aim is closer than blood. May we wish for each other what we wish for ourselves.
The Guitar Craft Institute of Research & Practice, and it’s House in Bredonborough.
A few words on Five Ways of Making Money; the current position; and future plans under discussion for The LCG. Then to serious business…
Walking back to the hotel, and a room so large I have not yet worked out how to use the space…
View…
"We also learn by osmosis."
