'good morning. I see the assassins have failed'

horsemouth is up. he has had his coffee. outside it is frosty and white. inside horsemouth the light-fingered can't lift the derek jarman movie he wants so here's an arena documentary. you will probably have to click through to watch it on youtube. the soundtrack is good (horsemouth thinks it's eno). 

soon breakfast. then a walk probably. 

last night the zoom beers with howard. the week before they had got very keen on playing around with zoom backgrounds, this week they dived again into the giant smorgasbord that is their respective photo collections. howard dug out some photos from a party up at their shared flat in the roof of the nags head. maria, and  rusty and martin and laura and paul mazon and a whole raft of maria's spanish and latin american friends that horsemouth did not know. 

horsemouth and howard drank and reminisced about the kind of world where this was possible. horsemouth went off in search of early photos of himself (vain thing that he is). 

last night horsemouth watched a scandi-noir based on a true story of murder and submarines. then he watched the ITV news which was truly horrifying. we have not reached top in the UK and even when we do the numbers in intensive care will not decline for a long while. of the new variants of covid some are more infectious some (seem to be) more lethal. that great story where science comes to save humanity - there's a disease, there's a cure, we vaccinate and then live happily ever after  (clever little monkeys) seems to be more articulated. the way is longer and the night is even darker than horsemouth imagined. 

ok more later. 

it is later (once again already). horsemouth has just had breakfast a boiled egg, tea and toast (sorry vegans).

the interview with horsemouth and enza has been published (thanks emma). it came out well horsemouth thinks. it was mostly about the fall of the house of fitzgerald but horsemouth, crazed maoist that he is, managed to sneak in a little of the wider politics of the communal endeavour. 

he should go for a walk and start reading the david goodhart (head hand heart). tonight spirals. next week more work and a zoom meeting of the communal endeavour, thursday a wolf moon. and then the week after that a new month, a celtic quarter day, the six month anniversary of the release of musicians of bremen volume four (how has it been for you gentle readers?).