on the last day of september/ the first day of october (the tail of the scorpion has a sting in it)

the equinox has been and gone, horsemouth, and half the world, move into winter. 

the air is colder and thus can only support smaller droplets of moisture from human breath that may carry the virus. thus the droplets travel further with a cough or a sneeze. it is winter when people are more generally inside in confined spaces staying warm and breathing on each other. when people are more likely to take public transport. when people are more likely to have other respiratory diseases causing them to cough and sneeze and distribute the new virus more widely. 

 coughs and sneezes (spread diseases) 

but  we have survived this far. (huzzah) 

a friend quipped of a difficult/ unprofitable piece of reading that he’d read it in the next lockdown, maybe. 

horsemouth laughed and then realised that it is on its way (imminently) 

stay (the fuck) home mutters horsemouth. knowing that this is truly effective messaging. knowing that his plan for the day and the weekend is not this.

at the start of the crisis there was a brief (socially distanced) visit from mike T, asked of his opinion of the crisis he remarked that by the end of it we will all be better people. which is as dry a summation of the situation as can be managed

so what is in horsemouth’s diary for january; 

1, coronavirus second spike accelerates post the students coming home for christmas 

 2. brexit food shortages 

 3. fall of the USA 

horsemouth found another giallo the case of the scorpion’s tail by the same guy who made all the colours of the dark. both of them begin in 70ies london but the scorpion’s tail rapidly decamps to 70ies athens. once again the soundtrack has it’s moments. 

interestingly the plot resolution that is offered to us does not seem to match the footage used earlier (hence the sting in the tail), the camera has been lying to us. 

horsemouth could only find a version in italian so he’s guessing about the plot really. it’s not as heavily art directed as the argento films (they are the top of the line for this sort of thing) but there are some satisfying moments. 

this weekend horsemouth goes to shoot his/ suke/ enza’s dancing about architecture film. the shooting script arrived via facebook messenger last night. rather than film the sequences in the order they will eventually appear in the film it often makes sense to film them in an order that saves work.