it probably didn't make the news (because no one died)

NICO reading part of the poem ULALUME by EDGAR ALLAN POE.

Music is by spanish band NEUROMIUM. the video by kenneth anger.

check it out - first as tragedy then as farce (though grenfell wasn't actually the first time). 

a fire in a block that still hasn't had the inflammable cladding removed a full four years after grenfell. and on a more serious note this is a residential block, the fire was on floors 8 or 9 with 10 more floors above it. the fire broke out in the morning on a friday (so I guess there were a fair few people home). 140 people were evacuated. fortunately it looks like it didn't spread. 

and fortunately it was in one of the lower rise high rise blocks. a resident from a nearby block makes it onto radio 5 (the waking watch did nothing) at 11.05am. the fire started on the 8th and she claims spread to the 18th. 

and meanwhile former housing minister  gavin barwell (the man who really should have sorted out the problems with the building regulations) was on the radio while it burned. apparently the current housing minister robert jenrick visited it last night but declined to meet the residents. 

and it probably didn't make the news  (because no one died). two residents were taken to hospital with smoke inhalation. 

horsemouth continues his investigations into robert walser. 

'canetti shared kafka's admiration for robert walser. he read walser's 'short pieces, the most beautiful things in modern german literature' again and again. he was one of his favourite writers... he writes that 'he (walser) is becoming more and more important to me. I am convinced that without him kafka would not have come into existence, and in any way I hope one day to explain he means as much to me as kafka.' 

horsemouth remembered correctly that canetti was into walser, but he cannot find him in the autobiography (it has no index). possibly this is something to read once he has read the walser (certainly he hasn't read it in a long time).  canetti was knocking around vienna and berlin at the right time - karl krauss is the big influence.  canetti is a crowd theorist and this can be traced from hobbes  and into arendt or agamben.

of course the meaning of the crowd these days is very strange. 

today it's a rainy and grey day out. 

horsemouth isn't back on the music making until sunday the 16th. he has allowed himself to realise he was robbing some led zeppelin for his second riff on the tune with suke and enza so he'll have to knock that on the head and come up with something else. 

next week

er. payday. ascension day. probably the last bit of work before the summer holiday.