the one where horsemouth refuses to have friends

Subject : explaining the disclaimer
Posted Date: : 26 Nov 2006, 19:05

 horsemouth has just spent ages putting up one of those slide shows of his photos (see bottom of the page). I hope you like it. Battling thee no doubt log jammed bottle necked myspace server. This is probably time he should have put in to recording more music... horesmouth thinks you deserve an explanation as to why he will have no friends (as a matter of policy), except that he doesn't really have one yet. He refers people to the 'first cut is the deepest' article on www.metamute.org  - somewhere in the midst of this reference is made to the panglossian enthusiasm that artists now posses for the social, courtesy of Bourriaud's relational aesthetics. As art has been recreated in the image of the commodity this enthusiasm for the social has become the motor for much of modern capitalism - and web2.0 is the prime example of this. It is no suprise to find that myspace is a direct response to peer-to-peer computing and the changes this brought about in the music industry - for music in its irrationality is the perfect commodity. Horsemouth is suspicious of the resources being put in place to enable this sociability. (horsemouth's main source of inspiration for this frankly ludicrous theory is theodor adorno's aesthetic theory which he read on the beach in valencia in august, so no again he's not actually reading the book he recommends below at this very minute...)

Subject : invalid subject line
Posted Date: : 25 Nov 2006, 11:56

What horsemouth forgot to say was that he has been watching lots of skip james and son house clips on you tube. Skip James was reputedly the most evil man John Fahey ever met - try his 'how bluegrass music destroyed my life' whilst we're on the subject of commercial endorsements, as good as charles Mingus ' beneath the underdog' which it in fact ressembles in loads of ways.  My favourite bit is where upset at the shabby treatment blue blues pianist Roosevelt Sykes has recieved by a promoter Fahey goes over to commiserate only to recieve a casebook cognitive-behavioural psychology lecture in how to avoid making bad attributions and thus upset himself more. Imagine you're breaking off a big piece of honey and giving it to them says Sykes, because everybody likes honey - there's at least a page of this great self-hypnosis script. Horsemouth isn't curently reading it, he's leant it out to someone and can't remmember who...