horsemouth is hiding out at his parents in the green (moses moon)

horsemouth is hiding out at his parents in the green. yesterday he went for a walk with his mother over by the abbey and along up the river dore (and then home in time for tea).

in the evening horsemouth watched the first 3 episodes of survivors, a 1975 middle-classes in the apocalypse/ the good life mash-up. we are in the early episodes - society collapses, our heroes escape the city and meet up, the villains are delineated - slightly rough fellows, former trade unionists, people who are overly fond of guns, with non-u accents (very GB75, fairly secret army etc.)

faced with the historic task of rebuilding feudalism and growing potatoes the viewers got bored - replacement greg does what engineer greg should have done and gets the lights on again. it can all begin again (but with far fewer people).

extinction rebellion are doing a very interesting thing - they are refusing to go home (occupy style) - their calculation must be that they will draw more people in. the state would probably welcome a distraction (refocusing) away from brexit - the thing it can’t deliver - onto some kind of green new deal. anyway horsemouth hopes he can time it so they won’t disrupt his travel plans.

in the day horsemouth tried to find out more about robbie basho’s collaborators - is paramusic enthusiast allain ribback (in stefan basho-jungens spelling) the same as alan ribback (aka. moses moon documentary sound recorder of the civil rights movement, owner of the gate of horn chicago folk club and co-defendant of lenny bruce)? his recordings were eventually released on esp-disk. today in the seaside towns horsemouth will miss 20 degree weather, a gig by triple negative, tomorrow he will miss a presentation on the thought of brexit-guru dominic cummings.

horsemouth is reading francis steegmuller’s flaubert in egypt (attributed to flaubert)- drawn from the travel writings of flaubert and maxime du camp with judicious editorialising comments, introductions, appendices and epilogues by steegmuller. it is an enjoyable read (even if they are little more than sex tourists).