I really like where the flow has taken you. Lots of drafts of ‘jrr stuff started at the mic, responding to the music. Not with the intention of writing The Thing. Stuff just comes out of you - usually better than the conscious stuff. The conscious mind is a good editor, but often a bit of a copyist.

…by which I mean that it leans into repetition and that becomes a tool.

It isn’t objectively awful. Just lose the shoes. Then it becomes like a line from Lou Reed’s New York.

My grandmother was once showing me old family pictures - the kind where only one picture exists of someone, along with perhaps one anecdote. When I spotted a resemblance to someone she would say ‘There’s only one set of faces’. Gnomic. Possibly meaningless. But it stayed with me!

Some quality ‘attitude’ being shown there!

The shafts of lighting are quite something on the photo, too.

Good crowd…

Great album.

Also, the “lukewarm tureen” sentence made me laugh out loud. Brilliant piece.

I really like this. I really like the clarity of this point you make: “Without the hecklers, they have to fall back on actually saying their material and trying to defend it under patient questioning, which is much harder work, and they are no good at it.”

Love the exchange sticker with its archaeological detail of the record’s progress/ownership.