June 8ths
6/8/1886 Trial day 35. Defense lawyers pressed Bonfield on police provocation. Did the raid on workers create the very violence it sought to prevent? Defendants sit in jail while the conditions that created them persist unchanged. Declined invitation to German singing society—too risky given current atmosphere. 6/8/1995 (Eno Diary) Eno in Munich working with Andre Wilms on an “incomprehensible play” . It was twenty years ago on this day he and Fripp played at the London Palladium, the only performance that his parents attended. 6/8/1998 Interesting that Greeks in Alexandria created an amalgam of Greek, Roman, and Egyptian. This is similar to what musicians do today; what we're creating is more “curating”. [In his recent book (2020), The Decadent Society , Ross Douthat posited that repetition through Remix was a symptom of decadence—a continuo...
