David Crawshaw mourns the accessible creative internet

What I miss is that I could “go on the internet” and be in a creative corner of the human experience. Today if you “go on the internet”, that means you pulled your phone out of your pocket, dismissed some notification spam and start reading click-bait shared by people you have met on social media.

BBC Radio 6 Music - Mary Anne Hobbs, Ólafur Arnalds in session

Excellent Ólafur Arnalds session on Mary Anne Hobbs show last weekend. His re:member album is probably my fave of 2018. 🎵

Seeing if I can get spaghetti alla trapanesi past the kids

I’m used to my daughter’s casual barbs about my appearance, but this morning’s “You look like Jeremy Johnson, whoever he is” did sting a bit.

Spare a thought for the hard-working translator.

Ciao Palermo!