autumnal (pale horses)

there will be good days after this (but horsemouth isn't seeing them in the forecast). here's mike oldfield's hergest ridge (released the day before yesterday 1974). hergest ridge (the place) is in herefordshire  but horsemouth has never been (it's up in the north west, nearish to leominster, it would require a special journey).  

yesterday evening TV -  len deighton's funeral in berlin followed by agatha christie's the pale horse.  

the pale horse (at least in this production) had appreciable folk horror elements (witches, corn dollies, lammas processions, cursings,  hair loss) and a 20s/30s setting and (of course) modern casting and concerns  (which horsemouth thinks is good - there's a myth being made that the social progress  of recent years has always been in existence - horsemouth likes this). 

len deighton's funeral in berlin on the contrary shows us the berlin wall and the cold war, things definitively stuck in the past  (well maybe the cold war is back). 

other than that horsemouth read (the LRB from june and may this year). there was a review of hunter biden's memoir (the errant son) and review of some books on edo (the city of the shogun).  this fits in with horsemouth's other readings/ watchings. 

really horsemouth should be getting on with things (how often have you heard him say that). he likes to pretend that he is loading up his brain with a feeling for the territory and that soon it will start to vomit forth considered and intelligent text (but that may not be the case). he has found a small single-serving vodka bottle he has been using that as a slide (with the laramie tuned open G). 

for various reasons horsemouth will not be away to the cloud forests again this year (he will have to make do with his domicile in the marshes).