I just started a Stefan Zweig novel, The Post Office Girl; I'll probably take that with me out of town alongside some comics next week.

This evening, from what I can remember:

Morrissey - Vauxhall and I
Alt-J - An Awesome Wave**
The Fugs - It Crawled into My Hand, Honest
The Righteous Brothers - Just Once in My Life …
The Beatles - Abbey Road
George Winston - Piano Solos**
Von Karajan - Wagner Overtures

**not my selection

Those are the embossed Certificates of Authentication. A Super fucking cool thing. Absolutely! A lot of love and care went into these certificates and the packaging. And I didn't expect my record to arrive so quickly. I really appreciate having this piece of Steve's collection. Bittersweet, obvious...

Saw Rushdie speak at a Martin Amis tribute this evening. I meant to keep an eye on security when he was on stage but it slipped my mind.

Yeah, something like the John Peel archive site would have been cool, but even a .txt file at the end would be interesting for posterity.

Bought Arkansaw Man.

Seems pretty decent; I'd never heard of them …

In my bag I've got a collection of X-Men comics from the 80s and some poetry by Rupert Brooke.

Inners

Just had a very nice Montreal-style bagel. The place I used to go to in Woodstock just moved to the LES.

Oh, the FT Weekly Politics show. At the same time incredibly informative and absolutely horrifying. A couple of the commentators are solid but it can get into Luvvy* territory real fast. Yes, this captures it. They are informative but ghouls, yet honest ghouls? At least you know who you're dealing ...