two dreams. or a dream in two parts

it's a rainy grey day out (horsemouth has left the front doormat out, he does hope it's ok).

just now two dreams. or a dream in two parts. 

in the one horsemouth was working (he was with two interpreters). they were wandering round a 1950ies institution for the technical education of young boys. horsemouth accidentally blundered into one of the master's rooms (through a glass door). he emerged not best pleased. horsemouth took charge of managing him (it was not clear whether horsemouth and the people he was with had any right to be there). sadly the best french he could manage was a rather feeble parlez vous anglais? when the answer was no (unlikely in horsemouth's experience) horsemouth thinks he managed not a problem (but he can't remember how he did it) and then I speak a little french. soon and suddenly the lecturer was off (and horsemouth was noting stuff down) then the lecturer was literally off he was by a building on the other side of a field lecturing away and horsemouth and one of the 'terps hurried after him (the other had a more leisurely approach). there seemed to be cactus and such things about.

they then wandered back along the path towards the more leisurely turp both moaning about his attitude. 

(did horsemouth mention access to this school seemed to be a via a narrow tunnel through a hole in the wall?)

in the other part of the dream horsemouth was out and about in a part of hackney/ the east end that he never visits. it is located between the bits of east london that people know but its still unknown and so has not been gentrified. (there are lots of semi-derelict old buildings) in fact it has remained in the 50ies. routemasters came out of the bus garage near the junction (on which was built a pub with way too much natural light - the glassy junction - this is actually a pub in southall that tim and darsavini discovered and denise showed him. you could see right into it, it looed like a great boozer.) 

this is a recurrent location in horsemouth's dreams. there's also a similar east european town and a  spanish/ portuguese town.

in many ways these are nostalgia/ farewell dreams. ostalgie (nostalgia for the east - nostalgia for life in the former east (germany) - strangely when horsemouth looed this up online to check the spelling he found a link for a movie called do communists have better sex - apparently in east germany women did have better sex. 

mindful of eleonora's comments about writing down dreams as soon as you have them horsemouth made an effort to remember it (and that presumably is what woke him up). 

a small (and not very blue) tit has just come visiting (looking for spiders for breakfast horsemouth guesses). 

horsemouth is up early. in a bit he'll go and recover the doormat (no sense rushing it. plenty of time) .

yesterday horsemouth did some cleaning (he must be bored). he put the brush and the mop about on the two floors of the house that he uses (kitchen, corridors, stairs, some of the more accessible bits of horsemouth's own room), he beat out the rugs from his room and even put one through the washing machine. the living room and indeed much of the front corridor are still full of sten's kipple and so uncleanable. 

horsemouth was late to bed having bumped into sten (himself returning late) with a particularly stinky french cheese (a neuchatel) and a loaf of bread. horsemouth hasn't had any stinky cheese in a long time. sten had been dragged out on a family errand that he described as utterly pointless and unnecessary (nonetheless he seemed much more cheerful for having done it). earlier horsemouth had tapped sten up for a small can of modern beer (flavoured with rhubarb) but at that point the family crisis had intervened. 

horsemouth has been having a fine old time going through the music he plans to use for his next golden glow mix (and then he succumbed to the happy fantasy that he was DJing out and people were liking it).

steve hillage - garden of paradise, tudor lodge - willow tree, robbie basho -mehera, jackson c. frank - tumble in the wind, the heath brothers - smiling billy suite (part II), fred neil - just a little bit of rain (live), alice coltrane - sita ram, john handy & ali akbar khan - the soul and the atma, miles davis - feio, richard twice - if I knew you were the one, donald byrd - christo redentor, chiwoniso  - zvichapera, nico - abschied (minus the screamy bit), fontella bass - this would make me happy...

... and so on down through his blogspot account. horsemouth tried playing the miles and the donald byrd at the same time (an old trick of graham's, miles goes well with most everything). 

horsemouth has a gig coming up (virus permitting). he's been envisioning playing. trying to pick songs. he has over a month to get a set together (so he can afford to cast his net widely). at the moment he plans to take the banjolin so he can play highrise strutter's ball (he wonders if sten still has his bear eared fleece hoodie).