13.40
Three interviews down, two to go. All with photo sessions. And one photo session without interview.
20.21
At the end of the afternoon Masa arrived with the boys from Fernandes, who are making me a new guitar. Then a walk & grocery shopping in the nearby Akasaka lanes, and a wern of practicing. Now, a blurt of diarism.
A present from Tuesday: Mr. Hara & Ms. Kawai of the Robert Fripp Fan Club in Japan delivered via Masa a large box of fabbo tasty individual round cheesecakes, of which I have eaten two this evening.
When the Fan Club was being formed in the early 1980s they wrote to me. I remember sitting in World HQ at the desk of the Edwardian secretaire, acquired from my father's furniture saleroom not long before, and writing back asking them to disband. I had no wish to be the nominal focus of fan attention then, and am today even less enthusiastic. But, let's accept, the Club has nothing to do with Fripp (that most ungrateful of artistes) - he is only an excuse for a number of good people to meet socially. And what a lesson there is here: we so often place ourselves at the centre of events and believe ourselves to be the cause. The RFFC in Japan has nothing to do with Fripp: it has everything to do with the people who use it to meet each other.
"We have three rights: the right to work, the right to pay to work, and the right to suffer the consequences of our work.
We have three obligations: the obligation to work, the obligation to pay to work, and the obligation to suffer the consequences o"
