Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp's Diary

Wednesday 15 February 2012

Motel Modesto Cambridge The Minx

10.42

Motel Modesto. Cambridge.

The Minx was up at 06.00 and out the door at 06.40 for her business meeting.

Here, a reading breakfast I…

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… and pre-loading the car, parked in The Wasteland I…

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February is the cruelest month.

A call to the Minx, now computing underway.

11.08    E-flurrying. Director Nunez has had a request to use GC music gratis in an artistic project. The problem is that the person making the request has no idea of how to navigate the formal procedures involved in granting licenses of copyrighted material. For that, my sympathy. We are happy that our requester use the musical material, providing he can take care of the bureaucracy. And, as if often the case with requests such as these, non-professionals can’t. So, we end up instructing in how, which takes longer than doing, and usually do as well. No more. To Hernan…

i'm copying this to Declan Panegyric. dec gets this on a regular basis.

our approach: fine provided the man on the other end can take care of business. if he can't, we can't do it for him.

so, in principle, yes. in practice, if it takes us the time and energy to do his job for him, no.

E-flurrying done. Computing done. Into the wasteland and off to meet the Minx.

21.34    MinxLoft, Chiswick.

Collecting T from her meeting, with a whole new mass of incoming arisings which re-directed our own plans. Stuck unmoving on the M11 for 45 minutes on the way to Canterbury and T’s next business meeting I…

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Instead of a leisurely night at the Pilgrims Hotel, with business in the morning, it was business-this-evening and straight-to-London. Well, actually after a visit to a patisserie and the acquisition of tasty cakes. T has an important meeting tomorrow morning, so here we are…

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Arriving, unloading, online with a dongle and e-flurrying. There is an outbreak of new things with major transitions continuing.
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