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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 9h

Bono up till 8. Enormous breakfast! fruit meat muesli two pots of tea papaya juice. #eno

Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 21h

For lunch with the ever smoking duo those Etnas of modern theatre Andre Wilms and Elizabeth Schweeger about doing music for the play in Munich. Then on to Jimmy’s disco possibly one of the most hateful places I’ve ever been. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Creepy Crawly room is the worst display I’ve ever seen in a museum a meaningless confusion of scales and materials and interactive things that don’t work or even worse do. Nice visit. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tried to write music for Marstall Lied but words very clunky. She apparently dislikes everyone in turn. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

She calls Titi Mummy’. Phoned Ariel Bruce the detective who’s tracing Anthca’s schoolfriend her birthday present from me. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

No need to spend time on the stragglers but as usual it’s the stragglers that get all the time!. So I introduced myself as a patron of War Child and we had supper together. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

He didn’t call. Later cooked dinner braised onion potato fennel pecan nuts garlic chopped tomatoes carrots with chickenstock rice. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And it seems obvious to me that governments have been giving every help to these two groups of crypto fascists Croats and Serbs about how to achieve that end. Alice likes me and she’s a really sweet and individual little person. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Camille Paglia says that government and socialization are what civilizes us not what robs us of pure instinct as Rousseau supposed and I find myself wanting government to take more seriously its civilizing function to establish and defend a set of international behavioural standards. To 10. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Put a more obvious barrier up. Talking business tonight Anthea reminded me that Virgin have never paid me any royalties on Devo which I produced at my risk and with my money not theirs. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I bet Belgians have very complicated affairs and tortuous heartsearching marriage breakups. Also a request from Laurie I`eirstein of the Celebration of Female Muscleevent 156 who’d read my Wired piece and wants me to be involvedwith them. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And there is a third very deep level. The mujahidin in Bosnia are a threat though because they provide Serbs and Croats with an easy ideological target: You see we told you these Bosnians were fundamentalists. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Noticing what you notice. Is it remotely possible that both these kinds of value exist? To Stewart: Reading the fantastic Negroponte book I like very much the bit about the wink worth 100000 bits’. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This opens the door for other people to talk. Such stillness. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In that sense it has a funny relationship with Rambo and Terminator. Finished Oblique Strategies for Peter Norton. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Some of the work was interesting some was poor and I wonder if he knows the difference. The Setrs night lady cut her to ribbons. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Julian talking at length to me about David’s record great heart but lack of space. But I have faith in it somehow it needs some other energy source: something to undermine its glib pastorality. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My email conversation about death with Patty continues. Then I sat in the shop of Fayez of the six languages and he told me how he liked the bodies of Nubian girls and got me some Malven tea and plied me with cigarettes. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It turned 138 out that some youngsters who worked for one of the record companies had got drunk and run amok. Then I thought about all the evenings that evaporate in the long haze of preparing eating drinking smoking. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Isn’t this tantra? After we went this was just Bono Scorch Lian me to the enclosed courtyard pool and Lian and I swam naked well her with tiny white panties under the rather bewildered gaze of several guests. Interesting he lists call and responses an African idea. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

These big shows all now have to have a curatorial conceit as though all the work is unified by some important issues’. At the photo session the makeup girl quite inadvertently gave me a weird allday horn. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Her voice reminds me of Joan which makes me realize a lot about the origins of Joan’s voice: I shall never be able to separate them from now on. How does Anthea stay so cool through things like this? Will be glad when it’s over. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I just set up some likely pound for a pound. I felt unusually doctrinaire and demolished nearly every newtechnology daydream in less than halfaa hour. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Wrote Bono Rolf and Holger Czukay. Snow falling as I left for a delightful walk to the studio. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So full of life makes the Turner Prize seem even more recherché. Angus Deayton in hotel breakfast room at next table and then on same plane next to me in the passport queue then directly opposite in the departure lounge. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’m very interested to hear that you paid for interviews at Whole Earth Review. Then what would the relationship be between me and those pieces? There is as far as I know no copyright in the rules by which something is made which is what I specify in making these seed programs. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In studio at 8. I *This idea recurs in various forms. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

There’s such a lot of traffic through our little office. To dinner with Jenny Todd at L’Altro. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

He talked me out of the Always Forever Now bull’s eye cover and explained that Island were nervous about the record confusing U2’s public profile. The waitress there has fabulous eyes very unlikely. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If they want to show violence at all they are required to show it in detail: closeups of wounds accurate recordings of people dying effects on homes and spouses and parents and children etc. Came back at about 4. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And then went to bed with both girls one each side of me at 7. Diana was wearing a dress with a huge bustle. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Nightmare about falling off a cliff screaming into the wind clinging on to a tiny ledge with elbows and fingertips knowing no one above including Anton Corbijn would hear me knowing 1 must soon fall and crash on the rocks below. At dinner tonight I wanted to say Will you please get married. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I To Brighton for War Child presentation re Help release. Must be a deep tribal gene manifesting. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Letter to Dominic re Wob’s Glitterbug remixes. Anyway it trundled on for the rest of the day. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Coffee with Dan Fern and Joan Ashworth then watched Quay Bros film. But you didn’t apparently: so to envy and bitterness one must add cowardice. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Brownlow Julian and Adrian two passing gynaecologists arrived fresh from a medical conference and we moved on to Blue Room which is really heavenly and they really liked it which helped. Not too many people turned up but the conference was good. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Andrew Logan and Anthea loved it too. Backing vocals. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My new criterion for choice of work: do only those things that allow me to listen to talking books at the same time. It’s not such a pig. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Nick 86 Lacey with beautiful wife. It’s hard working when Sundayafternoon light is streaming in through the windows. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Of course what this means is that the information contentof something is not intrinsic to it: the wink to the wife triggers not contains information. Dave Stewart is a completely alluring man full of stamina and enthusiasm. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

What is the status of a monthly is tied to it so that when for example piece of its output? Recently I sold a couple of pieces as film you put on a pound it costs music compositions a minor triumph and an indication of how you an extra £1 a day. Watched Simpson trial in evening. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New form of story: the good guy wins but is on the wrong side. Afternoon walk round Portobello sort of wishing mysteriously that I was in an altered state and trying to imagine myself into it. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

So you have to enriched given value? By make a calculation. No pyramid yet. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Much too static. Petra’s birthday Wembley opening. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Collecting interestingstones till my pockets are bursting and I start discreetly returning them to the beach. Bono prowling, The Edge DJing: Placiilo Domingo Paul Simon. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Walked across Hyde Park to Queensway and then to Kilburn by cab. I felt a lack of verve among them. #eno

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Brian Eno's Diary @brianenosdiary.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Dave gets frustrated because no one locks with him so he’s trying to make all the rhythm in the drums. An old rabbi standing in a cart drawn by eight others #eno

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