Keith Knight

Quite brilliant. A joy to read.

It’s 25 years since Jeffrey Lewis first played in London and I’ve been with him for most of the way. This wonderful gig with the Voltage at the QEH starts with the History of the Development of Punk on the New York Lower East Side 1950-1975 and doesn’t let up. Many great new songs. A joy.

What a great interview with Richard Sinclair for anyone interested in the Canterbury scene.

Remembering when John Malkovich once shot a film only half a mile from here - Colour Me Kubrick - in which he walked across the road into the chemists.

Apparently Ben Affleck says he's never even seen Kurosawa's HIGH AND LOW, which somehow makes the fact that he remade it even worse. www.vulture.com/article/revi...

Fantastic night out at Wilton’s Music Hall in the East End - Incendiary: Samuel Pepys in Words and Music. Extracts from the Diary and accompanying music, superbly delivered. The best night I’ve had at the theatre this year.

Saddened to learn of the death of my dear friend Malcolm Edwards, my first British editor, who in my opinion had no equal in the language. Not only brilliant and deeply kind, but superbly comical as well.

I’m an aging white man who lives in Luton and walks and drives around it all the time. This js complete bollocks.

Our Ultion front door lock cylinder fell out as I was opening it this morning and locked us in. The man from the local firm who fitted the door last year has been around - had never seen the problem before but did a bit of professional jiggling and he was able to open the door. New lock fitted.

Morning all. Schoolboy in his living room posing for the photographer, Pepys Estate, Deptford. Photographer Tony Ray-Jones, 1966. Note the Subbuteo game under the couch and Parsley the lion on the TV.

And now I’ve rewatched KANAL and am pleased to report it’s as great as I remembered - and among the bleakest of WW2 films, perhaps only outstripped by COME AND SEE? Teresa Izewska in one of the great debut performances - but tragically thereafter banned from foreign travel, leading to her suicide.

Visited the Warsaw Uprising Museum this morning and it reminded me how much I really need to rewatch Wajda’s KANAL.

Peter Hammill - Klub Krakow 26/9/26 My Room Curtains Easy to slip away Just Good Friends The Siren Song Comet Shingle Song Last Frame Driven Ophelia Patient A Better Time For a Rainy Day (world premiere) The Mercy A Way Out Traintime Refugees

The splendid Fuzz Kitchen (formerly Hatfield and the Health) bringing the Canterbury Sound back at the Lexington in London.

The new wild cat species is about the size of a domestic kitten and lives in Bolivia.

Booking form for a Laibach gig at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in 1987 found in a book. Send it in with a Stamped Addressed Envelope and a cheque or credit card details (no security code then). £6.

Turned up in Bath again on the weekend of the Jane Austen parade.

! Wow!

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

Accompanied our daughter and two week old grandson to the town centre today and literally dozens of people stopped and cooed. The fascinating impact of the new born.

Gulp…

What if post-Trump America is even *worse*? 1/

I went back to watching Ski Sunday a few years ago after a long break. Now it’s been axed. Farewell to Wengen, Val d’Isere and the Mausefalle on the Hahnenkamm.

The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.

Love how in the last episode of Beef s2 (Netflix) a character in Seoul shouts out of a car to a woman on the street named Hae-mi to distract attention - a clear reference to the woman who goes missing in Lee Chang-dong’s Burning.

The take-over of Bath City FC has been approved. As a friend said, he has supported this team for 60 years and this is the most exciting development in all those years. At the very least, our future is assured but more is now within our grasp.

Watching the video of Bath City FC’s Supporters Society SGM about the proposed takeover and supporter Ken Loach stands up to make some points, just like he was in one of his own films.

Natural Information Society with Evan Parker at Café Oto. Magnificent.

Home, to my John Crowley shelf, wondering how best to honour him.

John Crowley has died, a much-loved friend & perhaps the most brilliant writer of our time. I recall the sense of immanence I felt upon reading Aegypt nearly 40 years ago, doors opening endlessly in front of me. We are blessed to have lived in his world & to have his work now that's he's left it.

The meare at Thorpeness in Suffolk with the House in the Clouds poking up.

The best way to honor John Crowley, take a couple minutes and read aloud the last paragraph of Little, Big.

I’ve just fired up the Kindle and re-read John Crowley’s great short story about death and memory, ‘Snow’. What a loss.

Terrible news. John Crowley has been one of the great writers of my life. Such beautiful prose and storytelling.

Ahem.

RIP Kjell Nilsson, the Humungus in Mad Max 2.