watching you (without me)

what did horsemouth do yesterday?

he's already told you.

he went for a walk on the common. there were windchimes and crows. but there were people also (and dogs). horsemouth generally tries to stay out of their way. he made a determined effort to remember these occurrences and when he returned he fashioned them into a little poem/ list. 

he will go out today and see if the muses are similarly kind

later that night spirals. the last series. 

before that horsemouth has been working on practical invisibility. 

stage 1 - horsemouth meditates on being invisible and passing unnoticed.

stage 2 - after about half an hour of meditation horsemouth has become transparent and people entering the room will no longer say hi to him or appear to notice that he is there.

stage 3 - horsemouth has completely disappeared!

howard has been working on playing things with his (newly received) valencia cg-160 classical guitar. here's watching you without me by kate bush.

horsemouth continued to have a look at playing astronomy by the blue oyster cult, well the blue oyster cult and sandy pearlman who wrote the lyrics, they tended to farm out the lyric writing, especially on secret treaties where they wrote none of the lyrics. horsemouth plays it on his palma c-103. joe bouchard manages it (so horsemouth should be able to do it). he's shifted it to Am rather than Em (so key of c he suspects rather than g). 

horsemouth may have been unduly pessimistic about the time taken to hit top. new cases are down about a third which means that in 2 weeks death rates will be down about a third (er. back down to a 1000 a day). and we will be over the peak. 

the isolation/ the alienation  takes a psychic toll. horsemouth is back with his folks (and he would have in any event been in a shared house) but still.