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last night we played in vienna to a "potential" world wide radio audience of 600 million - luckily no one played any wrong notes - it was very good and everyone was very happy - now we're in zurich. in vienna I read "pictures from brueghel" by william carlos williams - bought in the duesseldorf rain - and i found it to be just like a song i wrote at whithurst called "i've been pruning the vine". i had never read wcw before - these are poems from his last decade - what a good place to start. the hotel in vienna was on rilke platz but i think rilke hung out at the imperial which was up the road. today we said goodbye to fatima who has driven van 3 in every other city - in the other other cities like here we have jurg. we get in van three we three and jaeki fatima drives or jurg drives what curious lives yesterday was the half way point in the tour - after the uk we have south america shanghai india the far east and australia - i wonder what van 3 will be like in mumbai - all is vanity - the rest is anarchy x |
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| vienna - zurich | ||
| sorry i haven't posted - i've been writing long hand which isn't very communicative with you lot - will write some up soon - tales of van 3 - all is going on in photos - so check there - bye x | ||
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| short message from duesseldorf | ||
| longer message to come - i've been writing long hand - but i just wanted to mention www.duffypedia.com which is amazing. thank you. also lilac time t-shirts here www.decorfilms.co.uk thank you again x | ||
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| oh where are you now pussy willow that smiled on this leaf | ||
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and after san siro - berlin - three days off in a heatwave on potsdamer platz - berlin is always wings of desire to me - i love wim wenders films - i love his commentary tracks that accompany his digital video disc (is that what dvd stands for - i've never asked?) - berlin is also low and heroes - eno bowie & iggy - although we now know a lot of the berlin period was recorded at the funky chateau - birgit came and filmed for an arte tv show on melancholy - sitting on the train lines singing i wont die for you & an open book - i'll tell you when it's going to be on - we drove passed bowies old flat where iggy lived in the garden and then we came to munich and saw david gilmour at the konigsplatz - he sang dark globe in the rain - it was a very beautiful evening x oh where are you now pussy willow that smiled on this leaf? when I was alone you promised the stone from your heart my head kissed the ground i was half the way down, treading the sand please, please, lift a hand i'm only a person whose arm bands beats on his hands, hang tall won't you miss me? wouldn't you miss me at all? |
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| the themes | ||
| milan san siro - an amazing roar from the crowd that never abated - an experience. milan though was a mixture of stultifying heat and commerce. so i didn't do anything. from wondering where i would be most inspired i now wonder how much more lethargic - apart from the two hours on stage - i can become. i've written six lines so far on this tour and i can't find three of them. i presume they were of love, lack of it, death and it's occasional temporary avoidance which we describe as life, the immortality or lack of immortality of the soul, money, honour and politics. and i suppose you can guess from the punctuation i was quoting hemingway and blaming the heat. now in berlin. "in berlin by the wall you were five foot ten inches tall it was very nice candlelight and dubonnet on ice." i listened to berlin by lou reed a lot. at first in the 70's & then the 90's. it sent us out into the night in toronto in search of dubonnet. heady days. now then melancholy, reading conversations with ernest hemingway and watching the new war x | ||
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