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If you're in Tokyo (lucky you!) and you happen to be in or near Roppongi, do stop by the art museum to witness their very creative and thoughtful exhibition on catastrophe. If you've read my stuff you'll know I think catastrophe is better than disaster (they're different!) and at the very least we should turn global warming into a catastrophe (there are witnesses) not a disaster (no witnesses). Anyway, the exhibition closes with a chance to write your thoughts about refugees, asylum seekers, trauma and everything, courtesy of Yoko Ono, then you can obtain a shirt that says WAR IS OVER which is the best t shirt since FRANKIE SAY WAR in 1984...

Jenny is a student of Tony Conrad and you should totally start listening to her music, it's genius. About two years ago she wrote the definitive piece on hyperobjects, Everything Is Important , which if you haven't heard, is really...important (haha). So I'm beyond honored to have been asked by her to write the libretto for an opera about time. I believe the world premiere will be in Berlin in spring 2019...watch this space.

Righteous. I saw the latest version in Denmark a few weeks ago. Good name too: "This Is Not This Heat."

After a lifetime of listening to every Floyd album pretty much all the time--they're etched-- Animals is the one I can listen to again and again. I mean out of both Syd ones and non-Syd ones, even. It doesn't hurt that they gigged what turned into "Dogs" and "Sheep" for years before they put them down on vinyl. For me,  Animals is paired with Meddle , which is all about inner space (this one is about social space). Both predate one of the canonical "best" ones ( Dark Side and The Wall respectively). Yet both are somehow really amazing, especially in how they show the band as a tight unit that can rock out. "Dogs" is the "Echoes" of this one while "Sheep" is an obvious rhythmical successor to "One of These Days." Both covers feature One Thing and both are greenish. Meddle has dogs and crows and simulated whales. On Animals we hear Gilmour entering his majestic phase with a widescreen coldness that is also f...