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Maxim Peter Griffin

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Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · 19h

12/10/25 - nocturn

small hours
big time

Sunday into Monday
cooler - local stars

4am to 0430 - a series of paper lanterns going up
is the signal for fresh drug arrivals

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Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · 22h

I thought so too - it's a nice, happy, productive spot

Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · 22h

Meanwhile - found a nice picture of Syd Barrett while I was tidying up the book shelves, so I framed it and hung it between the plants and the bread bin - good

In the kitchen of the artist Maxim Peter Griffin - a photo of a young ( early 67 ) Syd Barrett - curly hair, dark eyes, pre breakdown - in a dark green frame, between the plants by the sink and the bread bin - white walls, sunny beyond - a green sack of dog biscuits on the bread bin - the music in the room is Revolution 9 by The Beatles

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Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · 1d

Cheers ! Day off today so got out at back to the drawing desk nice and early

Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · 1d

12/10/25

morning walk - out with stars
Venus / Orion / Moon etc

flights to Europe broadcasting the light
from 32000 feet

a gear change in bird song as the rotation of Earth
reveals the first half of the sun

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Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · 1d

11/10/25 - nocturn

small hours
big time

geese are up - 200 plus roof low
and there's a chopper over town

step out to listen to commotion
check out the local bats

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Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · 3d

cheers!

Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · 3d

9/10/25 - nocturn

small hours
big time

murk and drizzle
cancels night shift astronomy club

so we get our kicks from Mr Palomar
and consider brighter stars elsewhere

footnote - in the interests of accessibility
tonight's drawing contains some text
though this is mostly obscured

Get Yourself A Telescope is struck through with a black line
stars hangs low, off centre, lifted from a 90's paperback of Italo Calvino's Mr Palomar

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Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · 4d

Small town orbits crossing one another - mate of mine was her neighbour, her granddaughter went to school with my wife, the family had a pet shop in town... she mentions a couple of other local names we know in the lincolnshire chapter of Haunted East Anglia ...

Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · 4d

Joan Foreman lived down the road from us - I made her headstone when I was mason

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Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · 4d

8/10/25 - nocturn

small hours
big time

clear night for Draconids meteor shower
look up at Ursa Minor then left to Hercules

turn all the lights off
do not sleep

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Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · 5d

Cheers!

Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · 5d

7/10/25 - nocturn

small hours
big time

moving shapes - parallelogram / moon
a black banner - 11th century style - on stellar field

pigeons in the chestnut tree - asleep
bare branches - conkerless - redacted

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Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · 6d

I go back to this one a lot - he was very eloquent about the creative process www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T4-...

David Thomas Special Lola da Musica VPRO 2001- Pere Ubu live 1981

YouTube video by Vortexeyes

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Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · 6d

St Arkansas is a favourite of mine - very cinematic record, very landscape - somewhere between Waffle House and Breaking Bad

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Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · 6d

Cool video too - the song reminds me of Waiting for Mary period Pere Ubu

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Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · 6d

Five Miles of You is huge in our house www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjsp...

Tom Verlaine - Five Miles of You (Music Video)

YouTube video by Frozen Time

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Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · 6d

I'm enjoying the late Mr Verlaine's solo records a lot this week - and am working my way through 6 hours of live recordings of the second solo on Marquee Moon - best of all is his book collecting - www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/ma...