all the colours of the dark

the painter pietro perugino crops up in torso (1973) an italian giallo film directed by sergio martino (all the colours of the dark). there you go an artist, so you aren't just watching a sleazy slasher film with loads of naked bodies. not exactly a recommendation for the university of perugia, the student body loo good but the faculty has issues. (as usual a great soundtrack). 

yesterday the 50th anniversary of the recording of three of the tracks from universal consciousness by alice coltrane - of the three horsemouth chose sita ram. the sleeve notes list three recording dates. tulsi on tanpura (following on from the great journey in satchidananda), clifford jarvis on drums, jimmy garrison on bass. harp and organ on this one. probably the last album recorded in new york before the move to the west coast but after alice's visit to india and ceylon (as was). 

horsemouth shared a call for urgent action in response to the new variants of covid from members of the Lancet Covid-19 Commission Taskforce on Public Health. the vaccine will not be enough (because we cannot currently vaccinate the world fast enough to stop new vaccine resistant variants popping out. we are living in the moment of delusion that this is possible and in the rush of gratitude to the vaccine). society will open up again (and then it will all kick off again). third wave in summer (or third wave in winter). the government are promising no more lockdowns horsemouth thinks this is foolish. he thinks the vaccinations program will stall in any event because of dust ups with the EU over the limited supply. 

he is a cheerful monkey isn't he.  

yesterday a trip across the fields and up the road to aldi (cheap piazza, fakemeat, 2 bottles of beer, onions, pesto). he would have bought more but he didn't realise he'd brought a spare bag with him. he abandoned sten at toolstation and returned to sit in the garden and read. 

it's another bright sunshine-y morning. today the first anniversary of the death of john prine. next week the anniversary of the 1000 incarnations of the rose american primitive guitar festival in takoma park in 2018 (the height of human civilisation), the week after the mancom (of the communal endeavour), the week after the pink supermoon and the AGM for the same. 

he will continue with his reports from edmond de goncourt our correspondent at the paris commune 1871.