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February 12, 2008

The Penguin Cafe

When you start going through old notebooks you dig up all sorts of lost treasure:

“I am the proprietor of the Penguin Cafe, I will tell you things at random, the quality of randomness, spontaneity, surprise, unexpectedness and irrationality in our lives is a very precious thing, if you suppress it to have a nice orderly life, you kill off what's most important.”

Simon Jeffes [1949-1997]

I don't know when I first heard the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, but I remember the extraordinary coincidence when, sitting next to Tim the Vision Mixer of Maidstone, I happened to mention I really liked them, Tim said “Oh, Simon, yes, he's my brother.”



Posted by john at February 12, 2008 08:43 PM

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