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Robert Fripp's Diary for Thursday, 1st July 2010:

...our 11.00 meeting with three UMG persons. They seemed quite decent. None of them has a sufficient paygrade to agree to any agreement, but one has enough clout that their recommendations are likely to be accepted. This is a company person, seemingly a straightforward company person, beginning their contribution with an apology for the delay. This did not translate into an immediate readiness to pay interest on the late period.

Even basically decent people, they do not see, and/or choose not to see, the music that is not composed, the students whose concerns are not addressed, the filing & organizing that is not, the time the Wife does not see her husband, the sheer distress & distraction caused, once again, through seeking to be paid for work discharged years ago.

The concern of the musician is music. The first aim: to be available when Music flies by, to clothe it in sound, bring this Impulse within auditory range & place an ongoing creative moment within the time stream. The second aim: to be Silent. The first is doing something; the second is Doing Nothing.

the truth behind the "chicken came first" report from the UK

Chickens, eggs, this is no way to report on science : Pharyngula:

You simply can't make the conclusion the reporter was making here. The species ancestral to Gallus gallus laid eggs, the last common ancestor of all birds laid eggs, the reptiles that preceded the birds laid eggs…the appearance of egg laying was not coincident with the evolution of ovocleidin. The first chicken that acquired the protein we call ovocleidin now by mutation of a prior protein also hatched from an egg.

What were the people involved in this story thinking?