at the opening of utopia (and bandcamp friday)

 'and if you look back,

try to forget all the bad times,

lonely blue and sad times

and just a little bit of rain...'

horsemouth hadn't realised quite how good fred neil's voice is (he thought he was a better writer than a singer), but this tune really shows it off well (almost tim buckley levels of beauty). dolphins as well, largely because it has a great turn at the end. 

horsemouth is reading valis by philip k. dick. at some point he writes a giant exegesis on his experience (the one where god or the soviets fire pink laser beams full of information at his head). in the novel PKD is not above playing his own mental illness for laughs but the exegesis is real.  

similarly in alberto toscano's article on the documentaries of adam curtis horsemouth finds the tale of abu zubaydah who has been detained without charge and tortured by US authorities for almost two decades. he tries to recover from a shrapnel wound to the brain by writing a diary, a ‘vast collage of memories and feelings’ (amounting to some 10,000 pages). 

finally there is ubuweb a vast collection of dada and surrealism where we can run and play. 

indeed a friend has just opened such a utopia  - haretopia - all rendered in cartoons. horsemouth is gingerly exploring. 

meanwhile (back in the meat world) it is bandcamp friday when the few remaining citizens of planet earth who have not yet done so can purchase a copy of musicians of bremen's fine albums. (or howard's solo electronica or rob lawson's zither music).  

today vast purchasing of musicians of bremen's entire oeuvre/ horsemouth and howard will probably go for a walk. thereafter horsemouth will probably go back to being careful again (until the boredom drives him out of doors).