This evening: dinner with Ian Wallace - hooray! The Crim production rehearsals this week make dinner plans difficult.
The sun is not shining on Mount Juliet this morning, although the eruption of colours in the Paradise Garden of Chateau Belew prevents this being a grey day. Joe the Prolific & Eddie the Elgar have accompanied my new reading of the morning: "Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits" by John D. Barrow (Oxford 1998). Professor Barrow & Dr. Javad Nurbaksh have directed my beginning mind for today.
I notice that my thinking has been forward looking, into my middle period future. Also, that it has been touching on Englishness.
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A most enjoyable dinner with Ian Wallace & M. la Pomersley with the Rhythm Buddies at Granite Falls. Conversation points began Ian's invited view on the importance of "Birth Of The Cool", "Kind Of Blue" & "Bitches Brew". We then moved onto really important cultural issues - B movies, English tv comedies and Spinal Tap. Lotsa fun.
A good day's rehearsal: Nuovo Metal moved forwards with King Crimson as rock group beginning to lock in. Pat is wondering why the 3 guitars are playing the same riff when, presumably, we could be playing all manner of variegated and seemingly unrelated figures. The answer is, this is Nuovo Metal dude! And we do play all manner of utterly unrelated figures as well, although that is mostly unintentional.
