up early. cooling rain. morning final

'... having had some second thoughts about the title...' - a. callinicos.

horsemouth is up early (well he went to bed early). 

already he has gotten embroiled in two discussions.

the one concerns the influence of aaron copeland on john fahey (or maybe vice versa). horsemouth would have to go and listen to both the copeland and fahey back to back to be sure. thinking about the gustav holst (another suggestion for an influence on fahey) for a while there was a fad for british classical composers to use folk themes and to re-set hymns (to be honest it was happening all over europe) . if horsemouth remembers correctly fahey has mentioned ralph vaughn williams. he knows fahey has mentioned charles ives. 

the second concerns 'prepping'. horsemouth tends to think of prepping as a temporary measure just to get you through the collapse of western civilisation. once you are through that you are into some feudal hell world of subsistence agriculture (and god help us all). 

there's been some discussion of howard's old acoustic guitar (a hohner arbor LW400N). researching the make online horsemouth found a guitar shop claiming it's an 'extremely rare hohner acoustic guitar from the 1980s which produces a rich warm sound.' it does have a nice sound - howard plays it a lot on musicians of bremen volume two.

horsemouth is not entirely convinced it's a jumbo (or a dreadnaught or a leylandia) - it seems a bit small for that. but it does have a sweet tone. 

yesterday a shopping mission (books):

1) memoirs of an egotist  by stendahl, forward by doris lessing. written in 13 days, 'ramblings from my private life'. rose road bookswap box. free. written about stendahl's 10 year sojourn in paris and london (starting  almost 200 years ago). stendahl was on the run from a broken heart he got in milan, in september he will be visiting england, searching through the pubs near the tower for a sailor who insulted him, going up to richmond to the park and travelling back by boat. 

2) bonfire of illusions by alex callinicos. post fukuyama, post the financial crash of 2008, where were we? 50p walthamstow salvation army (just opposite the william morris museum). they do 4 books for a quid but horsemouth has to be careful with the books. 

the oxfam near st. james street was shut (horsemouth will hit it later on in the week). 

fortunately for horsemouth the work today and tomorrow has cancelled. this gave him the jitters because he'd written it down in his diary as tomorrow and the day after. still, phew.