summertime - and the living is easy (digital homesteading in the plague years)

RIP kenny rogers. outside the sun was shining (it seems to be hiding right now).

we are a long way off summertime (horsemouth’s favourite season - he hates being cold).

a friend was (briefly) doing bar work (during the apocalypse? that’s his job out the window). as they sprayed every available surface with disinfectant summertime played. summertime - and the living is easy, this is he genius of these songs, they are joyful songs written in misery (later written as if from misery). it’s that mixture of happiness and sadness, of joy and rage.

there is, of course, a division between those who must go out into the streets and labour and those who can afford to stay home/ work from home..

horsemouth has to admit that his is the kind of apocalypse he would have chosen - the apocalypse of staying in and reading books - because it suits his already existing lifestyle, it suits his (mild) agoraphobia.
actually the travel to work does suit him - because it gets him out of the house and structures his time, he will have to learn how to live without that.

does this apocalypse suit his desires and aspirations? - to be feted as a culture hero and rewarded accordingly? horsemouth’s motivations are unfailingly low, so no. but that’s basically just a dream.

yesterday zali played (a streamed performance live from graz) and very good it was too. horsemouth is honoured to know a class act. otherwise horsemouth made some efforts to tidy up and put the vacuum cleaner round (you can tell he’s getting bored). sunday is agnes martin day.  the world will change (it will stay the same). less transport. less travel. more working from home.

digital homesteading in the plague years. the world will change (for some).