'vanity. oh vanity'

 

more philosophy queen has surfaced on the internet together with lots of antifamily. 

horsemouth dreamed he was in porto. he was happy to be in sunshine. ze was off at some family do. horsemouth met a woman by the escalators(! - they don't have giant exterior escalators in porto - that's barcelona out near parc guell) at the bottom he had difficulty in paying because the ticket machine was somewhere in an ordinary office. that's where he met her. she was welsh (horsemouth noticed he was upping his welsh accent to keep up). she had the ticket machine (it was some kind of a card reader) though horsemouth had got on the escalator with some kind of a paper ticket. he thinks they went to a bar or restaurant. 

what triggered this dream? probably beer and tremocos with sten. 

he watched pasolini's edipo re with silvana mangano. he liked the sets and the costumes and frankly the whole thing. 

and the sunlight. 

today a bright sunshine-y morning. later off to howard's  new gaff (probably). 

yesterday was 8 years since the death of thatcher. still horsemouth remembers being stopped and searched by the police on the day of the thatcher abdication...  and that was a  glorious day because at the time it seemed as if the thatcher reign would go on forever. 

''cos when they finally put you in the ground

they'll stand there laughing and tramp the dirt down...'

there is an argument that by focusing on thatcher and reagan and the personalities (the cult of the personality) we miss the deeper structural changes that were happening (an argument adam curtis makes in his interview with david runciman) and horsemouth thinks this is true. for curtis individualism has unleashed a horde of directionless squealing piglets upon the world who now cannot be coraled and represented. 

curtis is right that brexit and maga represent a rejection of what the liberal lefts offer to manage everything in the best possible way. quite where it leaves us all is moot. 

next week the 1000 incarnations of the rose festival of american primitive guitar live from takoma park.