in this remote country

Subject : the french canadian appalachias
 Posted Date: : 26 Jan 2007, 09:03

Washington Irving proposed renaming the United States  Appalachia - I read somewhere, I think,  that it was the native american name for the entire continent (this seems a bit unlikely).

I am Currently Reading;  (and for once I'm actually doing it!)
In This Remote Country: French Colonial Culture in the Anglo-American Imagination, 1780-1860 By Edward Watts - about the extent to which the French were already there in detroit, in michigan, in wisconsin, down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to their mouths (upper and lower Louisiana) before the anglos got there and the rhetorical use that was made of their presence. If we were to take this book as a work of art a whole other world is called into view. Of course what horsemouth is engaged in (like can) is a kind of ethnomusicological forgery of the music of this lost world - a world of faded parisian parlour piano music crossed with 'american primitive' guitar... horsemouth imagines the mountain range extending up across the canadian border to an acadia that is simultaneously nova scotia. shortly before the happiest time of his life (though this was only happy with  particular retrospection) horsemouth had a dream he was swimming with killer whales through the sea at amazing speeds. Eventally one of the killer whales took horsemouths hand in his (velvety soft) mouth and led him back to where the humans were (why the humans horsemouth thought)  horsemouth hardly ever dreams

Subject : clothes make the horse! (PLUS the last record made by smart people)
Posted Date: : 23 Jan 2007, 20:58

 horsemouth has just found a fine early photo of himself in the studio when he was young and good looking ( image 41 or so) - as you can judge by comparing them with the ones from the recent photoshoot - that was obviously a long time ago - you can compare this with the photo of him with the singer of humpty dumpty also in the slideshow (when horsemouth had hair and before he grew a goatee) It may take a while for it to show up in the slide show though  (horsemouth has been waiting 3 days and may have to admit a technical error) horsemouth is reading 'in this remote country' by edward watts (but he'll do this product endorsement/ viral advertisement later) instead he's endorsing the fugs first album that he bought on cd from the marylebone library sale for £1.50- possibly the last record ever made by smart people - horsemouth is not worthy!!! this morning horsemouth found himself consumed by rage - one of the donkey fat controller minions doesn't appear to understand that horsemouth doesn't want to to re-type the entire previous text into the 'confirmed' text message. If they send horsemouth a 'fat child pick up pier 10' text then 'confirmed- horsemouth' should do it. Using a text phone given the size of his hooves is not easy for horsemouth but no theres no release... horsemouth is in the power of morons being tortured by text message in the pissing wind and rain unless you the consumer save him. horsemouth is making progress with the web 2.0 article and has enlisted the help of someone who knows about art to help him with it - the problem is he's been dragged away from music (his first love) and onto the perilous terrain of relational aesthetics plus worse he doesn't recall agreeing a price for this one... OK - later muchachos

Subject : ASK HORSEMOUTH; the 3 vital issues of the day
Posted Date: : 15 Jan 2007, 19:24

the three vital issues of our times zombies  - Dontcha just love'em! apparently there was some zombie shopping walk (on international buy nothing day) down ste. catherine street in montreal- at the moment their ability to hang around shopping malls and buy nothing impresses horsemouth the most - their imperviousness to advertising that and their universal enthusiasm to eat brains - thus producing more zombies - its the only thing zombies do and they're serious about it - they don't even need to hurryweb 2.0 on the other hand, horsemouth says, -hmmn- it's a. 'a big shopping mall' (has no one seen dawn of the dead) and b. a popularity contest (has nobody seen carrie)  and c. an outbreak of vanity publishing of epic proportions (has no one read foucault's pendulum) d. a south sea bubble of australian proportions (does no one remember the racks of 2nd hand copies of 'frampton comes alive'!!!) and e. an excuse to inflict a lot of feeble music on the world (and here horsemouth knows whereof he speaks www.myspace.com/horsemouthfolk - but really horsemouth that's d, again, have a sense of proportion) and e. the end of getting paid to make music (so all-in-all its win-win)

on the proposition that part 2 of your life is better than part 1 - in general things get easier (but that's not necessarily good - horsemouth thinks he had the best time when things were difficult and he was stupid (but admitted;y better looking) e.g. - horsemouth can't think of a recent girlfriend who's attempted to organise 3 in a bed sex for him) and while his life did get better (briefly) in his 30s (human equivalent years) - by and large his 40s have sucked - I suppose I should embrace his inner zombie and stagger off in search of difficulty...

altogether now--- MORE BRAINSS!!!!! apparently zombie maestro george romero is off in ontario filming a hand held dv camera straight to dvd - blair witch meets the zombies flick called 'diary of the dead' ... and yessss! there is  a myspace page. www.myspace.com/diaryofthedead