Robert Fripp's Diary

Chez Sistery San Francisco Rising

09.55

Chez Sistery, San Francisco.

Rising at 05.30. Tart To Tart just after 07.00 I…

II…

… because The Crepevine doesn’t open until 07.30

When it did I…

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III...

Returning to the back office of Chez Sistery & looking at the photographs of us taken by our Father I…

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… on my first waking day on the West Coast, I look & I see that the Brother was in charge. Looking at how we are today, I can see that the Sister is in charge.

I found myself wondering: how did that come to be? What happened to bring my Sister forward, and her Brother to step backwards?

Prepping F&F.

11.25  E-fury.

14.54  Lunch at the Gratitude Café…

This is Patricia’s favourite local eatery, and I had instructions to come here for lunch, instructions accompanied by a Gratitude Café giftcard to pay for arising eating’s. The waitress asked the question of the day…

Q.        What inspires you about the time we are living in?

A:        That we might participate in a future that is not yet written.

Superb food. I would not have been surprised to find a restaurant such as this in San Francisco in 1969, when I first visited; nor in several places in the US during 1973. But not during the 1980s or 1990s or the Noughties. I will be returning here.

15.07  Dribbling pitifully while engaging in e-fury.

16.25  On the cancelled Crimson Celebrating, to Martha Belewbeloid…

i've let go of this, the wheel has turned & i can't get back into it. perhaps for ade & tony & pat & gavin, all good constant players, Crimson is another version of what they do everyday. it's not like that at all for me. i have to be psyched, or in the Crimson story, f...ing p-syched. to get into a Crimson mindset is a huge undertaking for me, difficult to explain to anyone, including Toyah. it's like, everything else stops for the period. even to get ready for april-may, my focus remains engaged. so, i hadn't switched off from last august. then, for all the reasons we know below, i switched off & a different set of life-parameters come into play. not sure what the future holds, and that works well for me. but, the switch is off. 

i'd love to come & visit the Basement again, and ade & your goodself are invited to visit bredonborough - once the new roof is on & the builders have moved out! 

18.53  Sister arrived home from travelling c. 17.50. Immediately our legs snapped like whipcords propelling us towards the Gratitude café.

DGM Factoids:

The new No.1 is KC King Crimson on August 7th. 2008, knocking Asbury Park (June 28th.1974) into second place. There are now 12 recouped downloads & 791 loyal customers.

Dribble.