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Starbucks, Uni district, Seattle.
Rising at 05.00, although it felt like a lie-in…
… and looking down to the right…
… a cinema & hoarding. Yes! The Good News for today: Casino Royale opens with a new Bond. Daniel Craig has impressed me as an actor for some years, and he’s in the cinema directly opposite Hotel Acceptable-But-Better-With-The-Right-Room. Not sure whether I’ll be dribbling too pitifully to lie back & watch a psychopathic agent of the state climb out of the sea in tight trunks, kill people on the instructions of his superiors, interrupt violence & loud explosions with outbreaks of helpless rutting in the company of those he barely knows but is about to know them better very soon; but how much energy can it take to sit back in a movie seat & eat salted nuts?
Now wi-fied up & gently equilibrating the disorienting shift of time zone, with the inbox at 233.
08.51 A detailed report on the latest stage in an astonishing saga of sharp practice, incompetence & buck passing has arrived. I have been asked not to comment publicly on this, so readers will have to wait for more installments of daily life in the music industry.
09.16 A new example of piracy & theft has come to my attention, forwarded by a pal.
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15.15 A morning of various adventures: a search for new spectacles, a bibliophiliacal tumescense of modest proportions, moving room, and – the first house of the new Bond!
There are some stunning views from the new room, and this is not one of them…
20.22 Looking up from the parking lots…
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Practising & now retiring. The body clock says it’s very late.
"Listening changes what we are listening to."
