Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp's Diary

Sunday 03 November 2013

Bredonborough Rising from a NightWorld

11.23

Bredonborough.

Rising from a NightWorld adventure with Bowie and Eno: manipulating sophisticated programmes on very large iPad screens, more like cinema-display computer screens with IOS. Quite a whizzy idea, with perhaps a dozen different visual/sound displays triggered by touching different parts of the screen.

Into DayWorld, and onto the bright, cold Autumnal street I…

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… to acquire MinxReading. Returning, carrying breakfast and papers up to both the Minx and WillyFred. WillyFred reads the papers by sitting on them.

Morning reading…

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The property section features a house in Wilton…

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…  just around the corner from Romain’s Emporium Of Ageing Wonders. The house is on the market again, after six years.

Before the current vendors moved in, Mr. Romain acquired several items from the outgoing family, some of which are now in our home. One of these is the bombe on the landing, beneath which WillyFred often slumbers. This former rectory was the family home of Edith Olivier, some Mayor of Wilton, who authored several books in the Cellar library. This was the rectory to the Italianate church where RF & The League Of Crafty Guitarists performed for three nights in 1987. There were more players than audients, and on one night Elizabeth Bennett came to support us.

15.23    Checking through the MS recently returned by Mariana from Spain, where she has been scanning I…

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16.55    And a little practising, developing and variating an idea that flew by on the first day of the recent GC course in Lunlunta.

Now, a hot date with my Wife: off to the cinema in Worcester.

21.05    A fab date with Minxie Willcox. A novelty: viewing a cinema screen without spectacles.

To gentle.


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