Brian Eno's Diary
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Posting random fragments from Brian Eno's 1995 diary "A Year with Swollen Appendices" IN NO WAY ASSOCIATED WITH THE ACTUAL BRIAN ENO. Made with blue bots done quick. OCR imperfect: Honour thy error as a hidden intention.
The closer you get to real instruments including physical devices such as tape cads tape loudspeaker cones old echo units analogue synths the more molecules arc involved and the closer you get to a probabilistic condition. Georgie called while I was dense in chicken oil in a cooking trance. #eno
February 17, 2026 at 10:40 AM
The closer you get to real instruments including physical devices such as tape cads tape loudspeaker cones old echo units analogue synths the more molecules arc involved and the closer you get to a probabilistic condition. Georgie called while I was dense in chicken oil in a cooking trance. #eno
Jamie Lee Byars’s exhibition a shopfront gallery large window on to street completely covered internally with gold leaf applied so as to leave little corners shimmering in the air currents. Judge Tumin is such a genuinely sweet man music prose and other kind eccentric sharpwitted. #eno
February 16, 2026 at 10:41 AM
Jamie Lee Byars’s exhibition a shopfront gallery large window on to street completely covered internally with gold leaf applied so as to leave little corners shimmering in the air currents. Judge Tumin is such a genuinely sweet man music prose and other kind eccentric sharpwitted. #eno
Crappy Chinese meal in huge restaurant completely empty. My feeling of glory is all to do with a certain colour of light lateafternoon peach falling on my eyelids. #eno
February 14, 2026 at 10:41 AM
Crappy Chinese meal in huge restaurant completely empty. My feeling of glory is all to do with a certain colour of light lateafternoon peach falling on my eyelids. #eno
What singers like arc shifts of harmonic gravity which they can cither float above or succumb to. Judge Tumin is such a genuinely sweet man music prose and other kind eccentric sharpwitted. #eno
February 13, 2026 at 10:41 PM
What singers like arc shifts of harmonic gravity which they can cither float above or succumb to. Judge Tumin is such a genuinely sweet man music prose and other kind eccentric sharpwitted. #eno
Within half an hour he’d substantially finished what may be the most infectious song we’ve ever written together currently called Toll the Bell’. It’s really pathetic that my mind makes such a fuss about this bloody Turner Prize speech. #eno
February 12, 2026 at 10:41 AM
Within half an hour he’d substantially finished what may be the most infectious song we’ve ever written together currently called Toll the Bell’. It’s really pathetic that my mind makes such a fuss about this bloody Turner Prize speech. #eno
Downstairs with girls full of life and laughter and singing. But it turned out to be Helen from Winchester Dave Hallows’s girlfriend. #eno
February 10, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Downstairs with girls full of life and laughter and singing. But it turned out to be Helen from Winchester Dave Hallows’s girlfriend. #eno
And immediately my mind is away on dreadful subjects how old I am how little I’ve done what am I looking forward to. My father’s age in 1963 when I was buying my first Beatles and Stones records. #eno
February 9, 2026 at 10:40 PM
And immediately my mind is away on dreadful subjects how old I am how little I’ve done what am I looking forward to. My father’s age in 1963 when I was buying my first Beatles and Stones records. #eno
Having said this I don`t mean that there was a big conspiracy just 174 good old Realpolitik of the Kissinger variety. She tells me that sometimes her job is nice as when she found the 70yearold sweetheart of a 73yearold man. #eno
February 8, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Having said this I don`t mean that there was a big conspiracy just 174 good old Realpolitik of the Kissinger variety. She tells me that sometimes her job is nice as when she found the 70yearold sweetheart of a 73yearold man. #eno
Pizza for dinner set off unbearably loud fire alarm with the smoke from it and unable to find out how to switch it off sat eating the bloody pizza with huge kitchen paper plugs jammed into my ears until dear Hugh called to see what was up. Good piece started. #eno
February 8, 2026 at 10:41 AM
Pizza for dinner set off unbearably loud fire alarm with the smoke from it and unable to find out how to switch it off sat eating the bloody pizza with huge kitchen paper plugs jammed into my ears until dear Hugh called to see what was up. Good piece started. #eno
It’s so hard to remember a day after it’s passed. When the various troops hit northern France did they not think Why on earth are we fighting over this? In Popper’s World 3he includes art and literature etc. #eno
February 7, 2026 at 10:41 PM
It’s so hard to remember a day after it’s passed. When the various troops hit northern France did they not think Why on earth are we fighting over this? In Popper’s World 3he includes art and literature etc. #eno
It was delightfully calm and Protectorateeraish. Caught thumb in lethal studio door but otherwise a very good day working on Tenterhook’. #eno
February 7, 2026 at 10:41 AM
It was delightfully calm and Protectorateeraish. Caught thumb in lethal studio door but otherwise a very good day working on Tenterhook’. #eno
Closely related to reliquary but without the metaphysical overtones of contained value. On the programme 1 played Velvet Underground’s Jesus and Donna Summer’s State of Independence which latter had me holding back tears. #eno
February 6, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Closely related to reliquary but without the metaphysical overtones of contained value. On the programme 1 played Velvet Underground’s Jesus and Donna Summer’s State of Independence which latter had me holding back tears. #eno
For sure this hotel is going to make him serious if he’s not careful. In fact I enjoyed it more in the taxi home especially thinking about that Mimmo Paladino style piece the Christian door with two figures carved from it. #eno
February 5, 2026 at 10:41 PM
For sure this hotel is going to make him serious if he’s not careful. In fact I enjoyed it more in the taxi home especially thinking about that Mimmo Paladino style piece the Christian door with two figures carved from it. #eno