I have been reading Robert Fripp’s online diary for a few years now. It is a fascinating source of information about touring, making music, running a music business. Oh, and the obsessions that Fripp has developed over the years – not being photographed, having been ripped off a few years ago by his management. He … Read more
I first wrote about the Global Ideas Bank on my old blog called ‘Things I found’ back in 2004. It’s great to revisit some of these things and still find the energy there. This blog, not a high frequency one, has great links to places like NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) … Read more
I have written hardly any poetry in such a long time now – March was the last time I put anything together which might be called a poem. I’m inspired by the daily posts on Greg Perry’s blog at the moment. He is writing a canto series. Each day sees at least one new poem, … Read more
Robin’s Blog: Blog Archive: “Robin, the most important thing in life is to run your own race.” Never forgotten that one. Run your own race. Don’t worry about what others are doing. Stick to your values and cling to your dreams. This is a quote from the latest post on Robin Sharma’s weblog. It is … Read more
Sid Smith’s Postcards From The Yellow Room: Climate Of Hunter by Scott Walker The latest post on Sid Smith’s marvellous blog is a review of Scott Walker’s album ‘Climate of Hunter’. When Sid likes something he has a way of writing about it which draws you into it, and makes you want to go out … Read more
Best Tool For the Job This is a site that I found for the first time today. It has a great post called “Ten Things You Can Do Today to Jump-start Success”. It is well worth a visit to read the detail, but the headlines are: 1. Read or listen to something that motivates you … Read more
Largehearted Boy: Bittorrent Brunch: More about the demise of Easytree. A great weblog, Largehearted Boy, suggests some alternatives. It’s amazing that the legal community don’t realise that as fast as they track and close down these sites, others open up to replace them. Better surely to think about ways to create authorised environments for sharing … Read more
Advice from Dave Pollard’s weblog (How to save the world): – Do one or two things really well!! That focuses right in on one of the things I have real challenge with. Even at the best of times, it is a real effort to sustain focus on one thing for very long. I always have … Read more
Follow the link for a review by Norman Geras of the Jan Garbarek Group’s concert in Manchester, England. Norman was less impressed than I was. Same songs, same musicians, different reaction!