on the last day of november

phew horsemouth has made it to the last day of november (and as a bonus wednesday's face-to-face booking has popped). on the downside he still has a sore throat. 

last night he watched about half of the passion of anna  a late bergman, a movie essentially made to keep the house from shame from being demolished by the local authorities on faro island. max von sydow is back at the house but his wife has left him, two neighbours circle. this morning sten mentioned the manic pixie dreamgirl stereotype. despite the age of the age of the characters and the excellence of the actors there is still an element of wish fulfilment to them.  

horsemouth 'researched' it further (via wikipedia or 'the general intelligence') to the japanese  magical girlfriend  and yellow cab stereotypes. 

he still has half of it to watch. (horsemouth will have to see if bergman mentions it in either of the two books he's got). 

horsemouth also posted (over on facebook) some photos of himself playing a gig at max 'crow' reeves publishing event and exhibition for the launch of his book 'mirkwood' held  st. leonard's church in shoreditch on friday 13th october 2017. you can buy it here. 

there are photos by darsavini and by max. it is nice to remember a time when such things were possible. maybe, one day, they will be possible again. it was the anniversary of a number of other gigs recently that made him think of it.

earlier in the evening he had watched an acoustic routes documentary about bert jansch, 

horsemouth tends to say this bert yansch and then corrects himself (still). presented by billy connolly with a box of records and a truly terrible dansette record player. as billy notes, if people had a record player (in their bare boards apartment) it would be one of those dansettes and then they'd have a stack of records next to it (with the bert jansch blue first album on top). 

bert sold his first album for £100 to transatlantic records, they recorded it in the owner's kitchen. today is brownie mcgee's birthday. there's a clip of him (and sonny terry) playing key to the highway (one of the key songs on bert jansch's first album). in the jansch documentary they get to meet each other. jansch goes to sit by the ocean a little shell shocked. 

horsemouth's week is considerably improved by a cancellation.  (were horsemouth's prayers answered? well at least in part). now ideally next week would be travel free also...

today an IT irritation but otherwise it seems to be working (except nothing seems to be happening yet, ah he was in the wrong room together with a dozen students).  eventually he gets to where he needs to be. that's the day. daylight is falling and he's tempted by a beer. tomorrow a journey by train.