the good, the bad and the ugly

horsemouth has finished for the week. (phew and thank fuck for that). he got a bottle of beer and started making dinner. later he watched some of the good the bad and the ugly. and had the pleasure of watching it almost as if it were a new movie because it is so long since he'd last seen it that he had forgotten most of it. a few soundbites lifted by big audio dynamite stuck out.

earlier (to celebrate his liberation from unremitting toil) horsemouth had listened to musiciians of bremen volume three on shuffle (to get the same kind of defamiliarisation effect).

let all mortal flesh (keep silence), serpent(S), when the faun met alice, on the banks of the susquehanna, worldes blisse, all flowed together like a new album, sliabh na mban, satan, then the one horsemouth had been expecting next her hair like some glittering gold. horsemouth was then surprised to hear funeral song (which he heard as if it was a bonus track) and surprised again to hear the devil.

this would usually be a busy time for horsemouth, the christmas gig season.

in this week (in past years) last year he played the farewell to johnny gig (with peter, paul and enza) - wow was that a year ago it feels much further away. many years back the snatch foster band (with nick, rusty and clive) down in the basement of the hope and anchor and a few weeks later they played with iona, ayesha, zoe and dawn as the santa belles down in dalston. this they did as a trio (clive was unavailable) nick said never again but horsemouth enjoyed himself. they sang a version of in the bleak midwinter.  

tonight (a few years ago) a gig round minty's house with minty, morven, siobhan, lisa etc. etc.

horsemouth has enjoyed the second wave (post 2001) of his music making. it is (excepting all this blogguery) the thing he has done that he can point to and be proud of. the work may have been more socially useful, or the co-op stuff, or the odd rounds of babysitting but it is the music he is proud of.

no gigs this year. but he released an album (musicians of bremen volume four with howard) and a film (the fall of the house of fitzgerald with enza and suke). he didn't go to many gigs himself this year (for obvious reasons - possibly only the gwenifer raymond perhaps, lankum were cancelled) he watched a few things online (but it doesn't do it for him). 

similarly we have just passed the 14th anniversary of horsemouth starting blogging (on the now mothballed space station myspace). these blogs (and this last year's from facebook) sit on his old netbook in a corner of his room (and as attachments on an email).  in theory he could download his back catalogue of posts from facebook (now that they have become practically inaccessible there) but he's in no hurry. 

fuck the christmas decorations it is not even december and horsemouth is already constructing his end of year lists.