when we pretend that we're dead (does goatboy really exist?)

Subject : nlp and the treatment of alcoholics - a fantasy
Posted Date: : 01 Apr 2007, 09:57

horsemouth hopes you like the 'new' photo horsemouth is currently on his easter break (strange when you consider when peak time is at the seaside) horsemouth never knows what to say to people - that's why he is always recommending products and services - he's currently battling derrida's 'specters of marx' - but he's not getting it - he just doesn't know enough... he also worries about offending people - disappointing people- which seeing as he would like to make more of his money as a musician/ theoretician is a bit of a handicap.

Although, truth be told, the money isn't the real motivation, it's the kudos, the status.... For a while horsemouth has been engaged in conflict with a fellow co-op member - within the co-op, horsemouth is often treated as the spawn of satan because he can add up and understands some accountancy - he feels that if he isn't careful an accusation of witchcraft will soon be made against him, an escalation from the mumbled innuendoes of financial malfeasance made by steptoe and son. He is reminded of the sayings of his former NLP counsellor who (inbetween trying to hypnotise horsemouth into making fraudulent housing benefit claims) remarked that peole love their misery and will do anything rather than change. ....and horsemouth knows this is really about him.

 A fantasy; The committee members of the far off monkey-on-a-stick co-op play (as any transactional analysis veteran will tell you) a hard game of 'I'm only trying to help you' - trying being the operative word - the intention isn't really to help - to discharge their duty professionaly and to the best of their ability but simply to moan on about lack of participation whilst doubling the number of committees etc. Anybody actually wishing to participate is clapped in chains and led of to work in their overgrown gardens of the wicked witch of the west (there that will discourage them) . Once the suggestion was made that the christmas party be on a boat - it could sink chipped in one of them - and how they all laughed! The only thing that will actually help the co-op is creating more permanent property - something none of these boobs has managed in about 15 years.... fuck em says horsemouth, stick a fork in their ass and turn'em over, they're done!

transactional analysis has also guided horsemouth in his dealings with goatboy - who (you may have guessed) is an alcoholic - or is he? - the doctor who treated him for his broken leg (horsemouth exaggerated - it was one leg broken in two places) said that because he didn't have the d.t.'s while in hospital goatboy is NOT an alcoholic!!! horsemouth follows the transactional analysis model of alcoholism that it is a game payed by the 'alcoholic' to extort maximum attention out of friends and family by a never ending cycle wagon falling off, hideous outrage, contrition...and then there is the pleasurable effect of the alcohol itself.

Once horsemouth was privileged to sit in on a lecture by an art therapist who worked at the priory and had worked in prisons with offenders - he said that when asked to paint a picture of what sobriety means the trainee alcoholics (from the transactional analysis point of view AA. is just a continuation of the game) always paint the same picture - them on the beach, in the sunshine... (like horsemouth's new picture' the problem says the therapist is that this is drunkeness not sobriety - sobriety is getting out of bed at 7am to carry fat children around that beach in the pissing wind and rain - of dealing with emotions and conflict and responsibilities and not just climbing inside a bottle where the sun always shines... but who is horsemouth to lecture - he wants a beer when working with goatboy, horsemouth always tried not to play 'i'm only trying to help you' or indeed to play the part of 2nd whip in a contrition scene but instead to help goatboy realise his obvious musical talent because horsemouth wanted some of it (and to be honest about that motivation) - in the end gaotboy outplayed your humble narrator - realising that the realisation of his musical potential would obviate the fantasy of being a misunderstood artist goatboy contrived shenanigan after shenanigan until horsemouth was exhausted - thus ensuring that this music will be lost to posterity (now there's a victory).

the key problem is that the motivation to make music is not a selfless gift but an imposture aimed at realising the same kind of unconditional affection and esteem that we all long for but are never going to get - it is drunkeness not sobriety.

Subject : lost in the land of the machines
Posted Date: : 24 Mar 2007, 00:35

horsemouth has just been watching 'the getaway' by sam pekinpah featuring steve mcqueen and ali mcgraw lost in the land of the machines. horsemouth also recommends the jim thompson novel from which it's taken for its almost unfilmable ending - though tarrantino and rodrigues suggest it at the end of 'from dusk til dawn' . horsemouth bought it from the fleamarket near vallencia footbal stadium. So 'the getaway' is 'la huida' in spanish. ok - time for bed.

Subject : when we pretend that we're dead
Posted Date: : 22 Mar 2007, 18:59

 That which determines subjects as means of production and not as living purposes, increases with the proportion of machines to variable capital (Adorno)

that's us folks - the workers!! … its consummate organisation demands the coordination of people that are dead.(and that's us too)

This is of course all a taster for horsemouth's soon to be realised and much heralded web2.0 article that you will soon be sick to death of hearing about - but the quote goes on '...Compared to this all the achievements of adaptation, all the acts of conformity described by social psychology and cultural anthropology, are mere epiphenomena.' to survive we must do more than be mechanised - become part of the machine - the change is much more profound . Actually horsemouth is reading the more usual black,white and red edition of minima moralia by theodor adorno that he bought second hand from dillons (as was) -£9.50 (bastards - role on the digitisation of text). He also watched marcel carne's hotel du nord with arletty (borrowed bethnal green library -£2), a while ago he realised that a friends band 'ruby throat' was named after the bar in les enfants du paradis (duh.)- he is struck by the sheer badly behaved life of it all - but as jean cocteau argued they are all too old - they are by the end of the war already not young enough looking to draw us all in to the story. horsemouth is a big fan of the villain (lacenaire?) - a very moral character and a true lover of art.


Subject : A textual and musicological analysis of the repertoire of Charley Patton
Posted Date: : 16 Mar 2007, 17:34

of course horsemouth is not reading this book now but he did read it once in Croydon library he thinks alan ' blind owl' wilson was involved in this shenanigan.


Subject : what does goatboy really look like - and does he really exist?
Posted Date: : 13 Mar 2007, 09:58

it has been suggested to horsemouth that goatboy is a figment of his imagination - merely a means to double the number of tracks available to the general public on myspace - a marketing ploy aimed at evoking sympathy.

The evidence is as follows:

firstly - that the 'folk' club poster is in fact a modification of the fight club poster with the characters reversed;

secondly - that there is no true picture of goatboy on either site that has not been manipulated with photoshop ( the ones on this site are clearly cardboard cut outs) ;

thirdly that goatboys work is too similar in content to horsemouth's for it to be mere accident or influence;

fourthly - horsemouth is way too interested in ethnomethodological fraud to be a reliable informant; fifthly - having been created by a filing of error of killer whales in a dream horsemouth is clearly confused -his sense of self is underdeveloped.

All this is nonsense asserts horsemouth. Anybody wanting to know what goatboy looks like should place a photo of father jack (from father ted) side by side by one of jude law and squint until a composite image is achieved. on the subject of imposters 'goin' up the country' by canned heat and al wilson is clearly sung kermit the frog - this fine album features a fahey/ wlson collaboration based on a jaw harp, delay and a fragment of 'we would be building' a piece of sibelius repurposed as a hymn and played on a guitar retuned to c. This is similar to fahey's doctoral thesis - a musicological and linguistic analysis of the output of a well known blues artist conclusively proving that what he recorded was not the blues.