be who you want to be (sometimes)

a great track from the late great john hassell. less effects than usual. from something of a vanity project (but don't let that put you off).

fernando pessoa (and the heteronyms) is in the news (well the reviews) a biography has been published and it is reviewed in the grauniad, by boyd tonkin in the FT, by alberto manguel. 

'pessoa died as discreetly as he lived, leaving only bills and a trunk stuffed with papers that editors are still toiling to decipher and assemble.'

over 25,000 manuscript sheets were in that wooden trunk.

horsemouth realises he is preaching to the converted. there's a video on facebook of a russian woman yelling 'buy my stuff' at a cat. she's kind of right, the people who have bought your stuff cannot buy your stuff again (just because they like you). more people have got to hear your stuff (and then maybe then one of them will buy some).  but conversely the people who really like your stuff (and buy it) would probably buy more stuff if they could. horsemouth has no financial goals relating to his music or his writing. once upon a time he wanted to get paid to make music (now he thinks that despite the technology coming into existence to ostensibly facilitate this it's actually an impossibility). he just wants people to hear it. (if they like it good. if they don't MEH.) 

really he makes music because he enjoys making music. 

horsemouth is not sure what he is up to today (being grumpy probably - going for a walk before the skies open and the deluge comes). 

a little later.

interesting horsemouth has rowed with two people today. the one row he thinks is necessary (but probably pointless), the other he thinks is unnecessary and pointless (and probably harmful tbh). ah well. let the dice fall where they may. 

rows are often necessary 'to clear the air'. horsemouth hopes his rows for today will have that effect. but if they don't they don't. 

curiously horsemouth managed to get something done while he was waiting (he hopes).