Balmy Late Summer Day

Well summer sems to be back with a slight return. Humid and warm again. Now i could get on my hobby horse and say certain things but i will not. Too warm for it. Anyway a good day again and met nice lovely people.

Ian Helliwell is back after a sojourn in Sao Paulo,Brazil at some electronic and avant-garde film festival which he curated. He said he felt embarrassed to be English but i didn't quiz him further on it. He doesn't look any sunnier skinwise either,but that is perhaps his pale skin doesn't brown as well as some people.

He had a catalogue of the event but it was all Spanish to me. Hasta la vista baby! It looked quite an interesting event by the sound of it,and lucky for him for curating it. Nice fellow too. He once curated those great Cinematique film events in Brighton which i miss.It really needs a new venue.

In Brighton all day and keeping to the shade as much as possible.Phew! Had a break midday at home with a nice cup of tea and a quick shower.

Brighton Books has a lovely Tom Phillips hardback book,an artist i really love,but at £40 is a little bit pricey. C'est la vie.

Here's something funny. Lorna said to me just now "Are you doing me tea? Where? I said "Yes,in Timbuktu".Okay well i thought it was funny.

Nabokov Time

Started reading the Vladimir Nabokov autobiography called "Speak Memory" which i bought four months ago. I read "Lolita" and a few others of his many years ago but don't know much about the author and this Penguin paperback will fil the void.

It is often the case that when i buy a batch of books for myself one i read straight away and the others tend to get forgotten until something prompts me to read it.It may have something that Stephen siad to me today whom i saw at the bookshop that got me thinking about that Nabokov autobiography.Or was it something i said to him , well one or the other, and i don't remember which. Did that make sense?

I found a paperback in the street as well,totally gratis, which will go straight to the stall,"Bleachers" by John Grisham.

Picked up more under £1 books for the stall, Roy Plumley "Desert Island Discs" (Fontana),"The New Military Humanism" by Noam Chomsky (Common Courage Press) - these two will be read first though ,Elmore Leonard "The Hunted" (Penguin) and "The Cheeky Guide To Student Life" (Cheekyguides),the latter one i might dip into for a laugh.

Well off to bed.Suppose that furry alarm clock (Tiggy the cat) will wake up in the morning for her food.