the triumph of hope over experience (dark equinox)

Eclipse carrek loes Jonathan Polkest

in the grauniad weekend magazine 31.01.15 horsemouth discovers more about dylan evans' utopia experiment - at the end dylan just lets it go, the volunteers make it clear they have no intention of leaving and rename it the phoenix experiment. he thinks he is not afraid of the collapse of civilisation (because he's 'looked that possibility squarely in the face'). the guardian clearly is and plays it for laughs.

when survivors recount tales of communal endeavours horsemouth is always reminded of chris cutler's (brief) description of his time in the maoist groupuscles (he's forgotten it though and needs to reread it).

today is a grey morning, horsemouth sits with his back to the radiator, he's wearing a jumper. he's having his morning cup of coffee - he has 2.5kgs of coffee and 3kgs of museli stored up against the apocalypse. in the meantime he goes to work - well he says work...

'the greatest men in the world have passed away unknown'. 

in his the air-conditioned nightmare henry miller introduces us to varese (anais nin probably did the introductions), he hails him in terms remarkably similar terms to anais (voices in the sky/ edgar varese in the gobi desert - horsemouth hears voices in the sky as sung by the moody blues). miller curses america - really he only liked romain rolland's translations in the life of vivekananda (from whence the quote above)..

horsemouth has also been reading worner's book  on schonberg's moses and aaron (forgive him - he was raised by atheists, he doesn't even have the basic myths down). somewhere he has adorno's account of moses and aaron - it was a success! worner is less sure. this appeals to horsemouth, it opens up more possibilities. years ago (at the time of occupy) horsemouth was interested in all of this. he spoke about it with darsavini/ eve. moses speaks like a sky-technology bureaucrat, his language post-human, aaron can speak to the people (and even perform miracles to convince them) but on his own he lets them slide back into worshiping the golden calf. moses returns from isolation in the mountains with god with the (written) tablets of the law... aaron function like the satanic verses (but spoken) - a what if of communications breakdown with god. again tensions between the written text and the spoken word but curiously elaborated.

today is the equinox - we have survived winter and will move into the light half of the year - horsemouth will go out to a gig. his plan was to play gigs in tune with the skies - but it only worked retroactively.