a tribute to john fahey (explicador)

horsemouth has spent some time watching footage of leo kottke cursing tuners (the politics of tuning), praising john fahey (tribute to john fahey) and bemoaning the 12 string guitar.

‘I owe my whole adult life to john fahey... a good friend, and he’s the guy that synthesized all these strains, from parlour guitar to charles ives and came up with a place that everybody already knew but john had the... to put it together. this is a tune that he wrote, he denied that he wrote it, that’s the kind of guy he was...’

(meanwhile...)

bunuel adjourns to his favourite bar in a converted monastery (the paular hotel in northern madrid) and has a martini. he sits there and dreams and thinks (free associating without the supervision of a psychoanalyst).

bunuel’s drink of choice is martini.

bunuel’s drinking companion is, wait for it wait for it, jean-claude carriere (the adapter of robinson crusoe and ghostwriter of bunuel’s autobiography).

after 45 minutes exactly carriere appears and asks him what he is thinking about.


for instance - bunuel remembers the early days of film in Saragossa, films would not only have a musician to accompany them but an explicador, someone there to explain to the audience what was going on.

bunuel and carriere didn’t write it all of the autobiography- bunuel’s sister conchita wrote some of it. she remembers bunuel being bought a toy theatre (isn’t this in bergman also?)



soon, marjorie cameron,the music is by leona wood