just gone 7am and horsemouth is up and about. his vision is still a little blurry (which is a little strange).
yesterday. progress on the set and on the singing. he got a walk in on the marshes and picked some wild flowers. to this he added the one nasturtium from the back garden, on the basis that there will be others later.
yesterday bandcamp were donating 100% of their share of sales to the NAACP legal defense fund until midnight PST. well done bandcamp.
edwin poots has quit as head of the DUP (as horsemouth predicted). the judderman (now abandoned and homeless after he was fired by alcopop company metz) can be witnessed in the background of the photo attempting to photobomb the press conference. the newspapers have blurred him out.
online there's an interview with george henderson about his brand new book on john fahey (blind joe death's america) . horsemouth hasn't watched all of it yet, he has read a little of it (online also). henderson focuses on fahey's writing and he is right that (unfashionable as they currently are) the existentialists were a major influence at the time and thus likely to have informed fahey's thinking and writing. that said the 'talk' format is fiercely dull, the interlocutor is stuck there onscreen having to try to look reliably interested for an hour and a half, there are no changes of scenery, or archive footage...
last night horsemouth watched part of a documentary about the cartoonist robert crumb. he thinks he watched it once with his granny (1987 is that possible?). like fahey crumb is an east coast(er) heading out to california, confronted by the hippies and not really fitting in etc.
the tories have taken an electoral beating in chesham and amersham - the vaccine bounce cannot save them from having abandoned their base in the prosperous south by inflicting brexit, HS2 and proposed house building on them. now brexit is done and HS2 is on its way, only the house building can be abandoned to placate the hobbits in the shires.
elsewhere (but up north also) a tory MP is on trial for a sexual assault on a young man. should he be convicted he will have to resign and there will be another by-election. the tories only won it by 3000 or so votes out of 45000 or so votes cast out of a possible electorate of 70000. of course this is all symbolic, the tories have a thumping great majority to get whatever evil shit they like through parliament.
the tories calculation must be that there is nowhere for their disgruntled voters to go (other than back to labour or to the lib dems who they successfully tarred with shit where they were in the coalition with them) but that may be a disadvantage in that there is no longer an alternative to split and neutralise that defecting vote (oh the joys of first past the post).
elsewhere in the news cycle it's two weeks to the batley and spen by-election where, despite fielding jo cox's sister, labour could still do badly.
horsemouth has no great belief in electoral politics. it is a mechanism designed to be stable and to reproduce existing injustices not to produce the kind of radical change that horsemouth would like to see. nonetheless it remains the only game on the same scale as the people.
reading wise horsemouth will finish off virgin soil and probably start on freya stark's autobiography.
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