of course there should be another film by now, 'Tiredness' -- if it has been made

This is good. I was reminded, reading it, of the Zak Ové film Pressure (1975) www.bfi.org.uk/bfi-film-rel...

that's a good find. I only see it one place that I have not got to this season

Kolibal's concrete is now painted over with grey paint, alas. More about the Brutalist embassy (since divided into Czech and Slovak sections) here. It was built with input from Robert Matthew. www.greyscape.com/londons-czec...

I have only found out about it on this platform -- had not realised how long it has continued. Onward!

Thanks, very glad to read this and to learn about the last book.

and the poems of Amy Levy from the 1880s, since reading about her archive being donated to Cambridge

after reading what Maya Angelou and Alex La Guma said about Maxim Gorky, I have lined up his autobiographical trilogy.

The afternoon set by Tortoise was really great. Drums up front, and replacement guitarist (name?) got the hang of it all. . . Was trying to think of it as a 'daytimer' but maybe it really was a matinée.

brief intros to four of the chapters -- on Black Phoenix, Shrew, Spare Rib, very early Artscribe -- and a bit of broader discussion of infrastructure, then and now. & party after with more chat. There is going to be a paperback at human price.

Surface treatments: Boultings building, Ridinghouse Street, Fitzrovia, H. Fuller Clarke 1903. One of the most original commercial buildings of its date. Nearby in Langham St, 1901, Howard de Walden Nurses Home. Odd: use of glazed brick but otherwise not modern. #Edwardian #ArchitecturalHistory

there was a mention by Victoria Horne of Derek Boshier last night at the Courtauld -- she selected one of his drawings for the cover of the book courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/boo...