horsemouth is very much enjoying david mitchell’s cloud atlas - in particular he likes the second story about a ne’er-do-well rake who basically takes the eric fenby amanuensis role to a frederick delius type composer - knows elgar and beecham check, lives in a house in france check, nietzsche fan check, incapacitated with syphillis check. delius, indeed, gets a mention at one point.
(the next story is loosely lifted from the china crisis or silkwood - or any of a raft of post three mile island nuclear powerplant goes bang/ whistleblowers murdered by evil capitalists stories).
eric fenby was not a rake but a well brought up christian young man from scarborough who found his mentor’s nietzsche fixation a bit gruelling - there’s a ken russell film largely based on fenby’s delius as I knew him.
kate bush is clearly familiar with it.
horsemouth has some time to doss about in the library (now that he has abandoned his colleagues to burn) living at the top of his very own maslow pyramid.
he’s been asked to participate in a ten great movies thing (or ten movies that influenced him) - he probably will (but not in any sort of order). there are a number of threads - the music thing, the french thing, the russian/ east european thing, it feels strange not to be writing about them (the thing horsemouth does with most material that presents itself to him).
so there’s no telling you why they are so great - first up perry henzel’s the harder they come, for horsemouth one of the four key reggae movies - it’s no surprise that babylon makes the list, rockers also (countryman horsemouth is less keen on - so it doesn’t appear in his lists).
over on the american primitive guitarists page there’s debate about whether you can learn a self-taught style, one dude studied with robbie basho (wow). horsemouth is a bodger and faker... now he just has to work out a set that will hide his deficiencies.
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