2015 - horsemouth's year

in blog posts since april

all performances should be free improv (... all folk music should be performed by drunken yokels while engaged in getting the year gone. pensioning off clapped out old donkeys psalm for a revival mojo working, the weekend offered debauch thereafter his memory is blurred.

a man out of time (reactivate the sediments)nine whole years of horsemouth’s willful self-exposure on various platforms the hero raised by the half-man half beast rises again the greenwich foot tunnel appeared first as a submarine then as video game.

horsemouth wishes to be left out to feed the animals after his death, like the four evangelists there were four sons of horus and like them also three were animals. the tabernacle of the sun. (the sufis danced and scattered rose petals in a circle) 'are you her grandfather?' youth power, the oldies out and euthensasia campaigns.

 more MPs should be reduced to tears on a regular basis.

 'when the sun shines london becomes a kind of paradise’


gigs

shakti sings (and various druidical goings on) - sunrise at the winter solstice stonehenge, totally tidy tours’s christmas party - the windmill, brixton hill, the unthanks - union chapel islington, dave webb and justin patton - vinyl deptford, sharron kraus, directorsound - the betsy trotwood, thomas mccarthy, gemma khawaja, fran foote - bermondsey folk festival, grandmaster flash, levi roots - er. grillfest, walthamstow, orchestre baobab. blick bassy - rfh and simo lagnawi in the qeh foyer, laura cannell, angharad davies, oliver coates (and another violinist) individually then all together - cafe otto, stick in the wheel, the gentle people, jack sharp - album launch party underneath holborn viaduct, magic science quartet (marshall allen, henry grimes and various guildhall music schoolers) - the barbican foyer, sons of kemet - in the rain, wharf of canaries, stick in the wheel, vincent cross and gemma khawaja - leytonstone folk club, charlemagne palestine - barbican, felice brothers - islington t&c2 (?), dzamba aquilevi orchestra, kasai allstars, nazinja, la-33 - walthamstow garden party, the coal porters (nice version of heroes dudes), kadialy kouyate , august list, the thameside mummers , piers haslam, laura cannell, lost harbours and many others - leigh on sea folk festival, opium lord, wiremother, damn teeth, tropical nightmare - stoner/ sludge gig the unicorn camden, electric wizard, the cosmic dead - the roundhouse camden, magma - somewhere posh west london, mis-shappen pearls - down south somewhere, fritz welch, olivier di placedo, and yoni silver trio - limehouse town hall, the owl service, gentlefolk, long pike hollow (piers haslam), nancy wallace, lost harbours with the poet justin hopper on the first song, you are wolf , sharron kraus, plinth (michael tanner) - all at a disused mental asylum in south london am i born to die mini-festival, the seen - at limehouse town hall, richard youngs and tom james scott - balfrom community hut.

films:

psychomania, night of the demon, it follows, tideland, the jacket, don't look now, groundhog day, the house that dripped blood, whatever happened to jack and jill? russian ark, zatoichi the outlaw, deconstructing harry, percy jackson and the lightning thief, the man who knew too much (uk version), robbie basho: voice of the eagle, sweeney todd, the big sleep (michael winner version), pranzo di ferragosto, generation kill -7 episodes, hammer house of horror - 3 episodes. the curse of the werewolf, the twilight samurai, valhalla rising, assault on precinct 13, quatermass and the pit, bonnie and clyde.


(auto)biographies:

homicide: a year on the killing streets, the goncourt journals, two stories and a memory, a death in the family, the air-conditioned nightmare, the literature of labour, anais nin, joan didion, documentary and educational films of the 1930ies - rachael low, words - jean paul sartre, wartime notebooks, english eccentrics - edith sitwell memoirs of remarkable misers , sun and steel - yukio mishima, mary wollstonecraft (and godwin’s biography of her), patrick leigh fermor and lord eccles, walter benjamin (a berlin childhood 1900), karl kraus, george steiner ,sergei aksakov (childhood), cabeza de vaca - the shipwrecked men, bowles.

russians, frogs, utopians, transcendentalists:

history of the church in the middle ages, selected writings of the transcendentalists, alternative communities in 19th century england

new writers to me: bunin, erofeev, leskov,

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chronological order to date (roughly);
captain swing -e.j. hobsbawm, george rude (started),
a history of the chinese cultural revolution - jean daubier (introduction),
letters written during a short residence in sweden - mary wollstonecraft (and godwin’s biography of her),
a time of gifts - patrick leigh fermor,
on collecting - lord eccles (all),
mimesis: the representation of reality in western literature-erich auerbach (started),
a berlin childhood 1900 - walter benjamin (started),
the enchanted wanderer - nikolai leskov (all),
thoughts on machiavelli - leo strauss (started),
origin of rhymes, songs and sayings - jean harrowven,
the idiom of the people - james reeves,
our faces, my heart, brief as photos - john berger (part)
man and his symbols - ed. c.g. jung (first few chapters),
fools, frauds and firebrands - roger scruton (all),
cultural capital - robert hewson (part),
chamberlain and the beautiful llama - stefan lorant,
the pageant of summer - richard jefferies (part),
performance theory -,
middlemarch - george eliot (half, still reading),
a history of the worthies of england - dd thomas fuller,
men of ideas - bryan magee (the sections on/ with isiah berlin, charles taylor, herbert marcuse, heidegger, wittgenstein, ernest gellner)
george steiner - after babel,
 edward timms - karl kraus: the apocalyptic satirist,
 derek raymond - the crust on its uppers,
lucian - trip to the moon (intro and part),
 sergei aksakov - a russian schoolboy (intro and part),
 cabeza de vaca - the shipwrecked men
 art history and its methods: a critical anthology - ed. eric fernie (introduction only),
lifelong learning: concepts and contexts - ed. sutherland and crowther (start),
 a country doctor - franz kafka (illus. karel hruska),
 the gods - alain (started and first few chapters),
hodge and his masters - richard jefferies (all),
aubrey beardsley - stephen calloway (dipped),
'I liked it, didn't love it' - rona edwards & monika skerbelis
the three arched bridge - ismail kadare,
 the hawkline monster: a gothic western - richard brautigan, 
ends and beginnings - alexander herzen (part),
 from rousseau to lenin - lucio colletti (introduction and a few essays),
 a fortunate man - john berger and jean mohr,
 two years beside the strait - paul bowles, 
we the cosmopolitans - ed. lisette josephides and alexandra hall,
 affective relations: transnational politics of empathy - carolyn pedwell (introduction only),
 literary theory - terry eagleton (introduction only)
a hovel in the hills - elizabeth west
ghost of chance - william s. burroughs
the eve of fluxus - billie maciunas
the philosophy of history - voltaire (started),
think of the self speaking -harry smith continuing with
western marxism - j.g. merquior, for which horsemouth needs to
read history and class consciousness - g. lukacs (started)
 the law of white spaces - giorgio pressburger
 war with the newts - karel capek
 making the world legible - ed. julian evans (dubravka ugresic etc.)
 english eccentrics - edith sitwell
 managing in turbulent times - drucker
 memoirs of remarkable misers (online)
 william blake's holy thursday from the songs of experience
20th century russian reader - mandelstams, platonov, pasternak, akhmatova and others new to horsemouth, mary deare - hammond innes,
beyond good and evil - nietzsche (part),
sun and steel - yukio mishima (part),
yellow back radio broke down - ishmael read
the marvellous adventure of cabeza de vaca - haniel long.
miami - joan didion
documentary and educational films of the 1930ies - rachael low
words - jean paul sartre
wartime notebooks - marguerite duras
shoenberg's 'moses and aaron' - worner (some)
 hangover square - patrick hamilton
fear and trembling - kierkegaard - introduction
 the literature of labour - h. gustav klaus (most)
anais nin - journals vol.2 (all)
goldberg: variations - gabriel josipovici (all)
althusser: a critical reader - gregory elliot (introduction)
 the record as artwork (1977 fort worth art museum) - germano celant
 the democracy project - david graeber
chronicles of consensual times - jacques ranciere (several articles)
modernist radicalism - stephen crook - (dips)
a death in the family - karl ove knausgaard
julius winsome - gerard donovan (all)
the air-conditioned nightmare - henry miller - (dips)
the elaghin affair and other stories - ivan bunin
moscow circles - benedict erofeev
two stories and a memory - guiseppe di lampedusa
a history of the church in the middle ages - f.donald logan - most
selected writings of the transcendentalists -
some alternative communities in 19th century england - dennis hardy - dips
renee mauperin - goncourt brothers
the melancholy science - gillian rose - some
homicide: a year on the killing streets - david simon (all)
the goncourt journals