an al fresco meeting of the communal endeavour

horsemouth is back from an al fresco meeting of the communal endeavour. it went well horsemouth thinks, he was able to pitch the idea of planning ahead largely without interruption and recruit people to help write it. he has a workbook and apparently there is a website (now it's just a matter of sitting down and doing the work). he thinks most of it can be handled by email. 

earlier horsemouth had been for a wander with tim goldie by the riverside. nudists frolic  in the polluted waters like middle aged, saggy, water spirits, later when out two heroes returned they had been replaced by youth in bikinis and swimming trunks playing reggaeton. 

humanity you are beautiful (but a bit disorganised), that's probably why we are doomed. 

tim and horsemouth discussed uk hip-hop, horsemouth as an aficionado of  leytonstone crew gunshot, tim of hijack (who horsemouth thinks were south london - but he could be wrong). they discussed how fortunate they were to live next to such a wonderful reclamation by nature and the urban planners of former brownfield sites. 

today has been cancelled. horsemouth is therefore free. in the evening he goes to feed the cats (and water the allotment)  up in the cloud forest. today dry and sunny at the weekend. hereafter the weather takes a dip down to a more bearable 23C (but only after a weekend of tropical storms). 

this morning there was a discussion with sten of the movies of charlie kaufman; 

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004)

Synecdoche, New York (2008)

Being John Malkovich (1999)

Adaptation (2002)

all show a distinct interest in doubles, copies. so do the works of another collaborator of his, michael gondry,  notably be kind rewind and the science of sleep.