looking out at the greyskies horsemouth finds it hard to believe that soon in will be summer, and yet it is so, we are entering the bright half of the year, soon it will be the solstice. horsemouth has celebrated by putting up a link to orbital's version of the equinox theme music (which if he remembers correctly had commentary by 'the voice of dr. who' tom baker, from whence comes the meat beat manifesto sample burning with ecstasy (he believes). he listened to chime (orbital's best track) and lush 3-1 (which features a young horsemouth in african guitar mode - he comes in about half way through under the double time hi-hats). this is horsemouth's 15 seconds of fame.
ok horsemouth should get on with some spring cleaning (or perhaps a snooze) - later
horsemouth has been having a nostalgia binge - first the stooges, then the 12 dreams of dr. sardonicus by spirit, then hawkwind - in particular a shot of dancer stacia from the start of the video for silver machine. the first time horsemouth ever saw hawkwind as part of a documentary on science fiction writer michael moorcock, m.john harrison cropped up, climbing a rock face somewhere the bubble machine creates bubbles, the audio generators burble to themselves and then assume an upward trajectory, the ascending guitar riff kicks in, stacia salutes, lemmy starts to sing.
later horsemouth will probably listen to the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy which horsemouth heard when it was first transmitted 36 years ago (when he was about 13/14), as improbable as it seemed the rumour that the theme music was by the (unfashionable) eagles turned out to be true. horsemouth pretty much knows it word for word and sound by sound.
horsemouth was a nerd avant la lettre, studying science, playing dungeons and dragons, reading science fiction, listening to hawkwind and the friday night rock show, computers hadn't quite happenend yet, space travel was over (but nobody knew it yet).
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