'Enjoy the little things in life because one day you’ll look back and realise they were the big things' - Robert Brault
June Day, Isaak Levitan, 1890s.
“We’re living in a dreary age, obsessed with measuring, when you can’t measure loads of things…
It’s joie de vivre that keeps you going and it’s lack of joie de vivre that’ll kill you.”
- David Hockney
What an example of living.
RIP
1968, Pimlico, London. Diana Rigg at home with her Braun hi-fi set up. One of the neighbouring flats was shared by Steve, Ronnie & Ian from The Small Faces. Ms Rigg was, apparently, 'lovely', & the only neighbour who didn't call the police about the noise the trio made
On the day David Hockney died: I cooked a prawn gumbo with loads of fresh herbs, supped wine, played music....then had a cry when in 'Rhapsody In Blue' entirely without warning Gershwin drops *that* huge, sweeping melody at us, the bastard #Art #Artists #Moments
If you can get to London you must go and see Hockney’s extraordinary ‘A Year In Normandie’ at the Serpentine Gallery: it’s very moving and a fitting epitaph to a life well-lived in art #RIPDavidHockney
Good enough for Diana, good enough for me #NowPlaying #Jobim
I like temporally specific lyrics. I'm listening to my 90s playlist whilst cooking, and Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine (also temporally specific) have just sung 'Put the Binatone on Snooze' and generations before (obvs) but at least two/three since would have no idea what that meant
