danger: horsemouth

so horsemouth watched danger: diabolik last night - a kind of fantomas/ swinging sixties spy caper movie - part of the fumetti negri school of italian comics. mario bava directing, ennio morricone soundtrack (mostly twanging sixties guitar, a sitar interlude, but once again some great sub-miles trumpet playing). diabolical bank robberies, an underground lair, jaguar sports cars, a beautiful accomplice, the anti-hero in black latex bondage gear (when he’s driving it kind of looks like death race 2000). they do a robbery (and then roll around in the money).

yesterday horsemouth mostly read and farted about (magris mentions robert graves and his belief that lussino was the original island of circe). horsemouth needs a beach (it was sunny in the morning),

later towards dusk he went for a wander in the salt marshes in search of new vistas - today he goes to work then he goes to meet an old friend.

horsemouth was listening to musicians of bremen volume one - but an earlier mix with a different track order - two tracks that didn't make the cut - first a slightly-rearranged version of bright phoebus as a sixties pop song, second a song about a couple having an argument in the car (as a kind of gypsy jazz thing) that howard wrote. funnily enough both feature horsemouth playing bass. for the first horsemouth’s voice isn’t strong enough for (it’s too high and in the wrong key for him really), the second is a great lost pop song.

yesterday horsemouth also got back in touch with shaun (horsemouth thought for a minute he’d lost his number) who has been ill. fuck it, everybody seems to have been getting ill lately. it’s summer - horsemouth’s lungs have cleared up and his anxiety is shifting objects.

today he works (a little) and visits mick (who he hasn’t seen in a while) to drop off musicians of bremen CDs and catch up.

as a point of comparison a friend suggested charlie parr - an american fingerstyle player and singer - he’s a better player and a singer than horsemouth (and of course has no problem sounding american). horsemouth posted a link to the new CD to an american primitive guitar page - three likes (by people in a similar situation to horsemouth - of punting out their take on ‘american primitive’).