Today I woke up and realised who it was who did finish reading Hofstadter's book, but we've not kept in touch for more than a year. On impulse, I sms'd this friend and asked if he would like to join the old gang for tea today and he was luckily available. What ensued was a long lively conversation which lasted from tea to dinner, and then tea again after dinner.

So I can remember, these are the words which peppered our conversations today:
Kikiton. Stikfas. Bearbricks series 9. Casinos. Positively 5th Street. Star Wars. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Kraftwerk. Neil Young. Harvest. Mirrorball. Patti Smith looking like a man on the album cover of Horses. Resolution in classical music. Uncomfortable bourgeois. BitTorrent. Hitlerjunge. Freemason. Bobos. Queen and their bicycle song. Bob Dylan being more rock star than poetic on DVD. Sight & Sound. Mojo and its long info-overloading bios on musicians. Very short introduction to Empires. The two John Williams, one of whom is the composer for the Star Wars soundtrack. Japanese composers doing movie soundtracks. Japanese writers. Glenn Gould. Arvo Pärt.

Thank you everyone. Today was lovely.