The Joy of Discovery
My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy - William Shakespeare
One of the great things about having kids is that you can pass on to them things that will enrich them culturally. This is mutually rewarding because it re-evokes those things in you and opens a whole new world to them. These are things that, in no particular order, have given me exactly that pleasure:
She’s Lost Control - Joy Division
The Art Of War - Sun Tzu
The National Gallery, London
The observation deck on the 86th floor of the Empire State Building, New York City
Tamla Motown
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
The Beatles
Widdecombe Fair
The Royal Shakespeare Company
Monumental Architecture
Monty Python’s Flying Circus
The Getty Museum, Los Angeles
The Buzzcocks
Substitute - The Who
Kraftwerk
Vermeer
Penny loafers and smooth dancing to hard soul music
Leonardo Da Vinci
The Advantages of bespoke tailoring
Film Noir
The Life of Brian
Pogle’s Wood
Western and Eastern Philosophy
The Trace of the Esoteric in World History
Dickens
The Pre Raphaelites
The Jagger, Richards, Jones triangle
REM
David Hume, John Locke, Ben Franklin
Abbess Hildegaard of Bingen
Greenwich Village, Covent Garden and Santa Monica
The certain and absolute knowledge that we all have an immaculate potential for genius stored within that it is possible to uninhibit