horsemouth (returned to health allegedly) considers loading on the tasks

horsemouth is up. he's had half of his necessary cup of coffee. he's got his diary out (to assist with his failing memory).

'can a supernatural presence miss its aim?' 

so asks william hope hodgson's carnacki the ghost detective in the episode the horse of the invisible.  he asks this in the form of donald pleasance (so there are echoes of dr.loomis). there is also an electrical pentacle (kind of a heath-robinsonian devil rides out kind of moment involving salt still but improved with electricity). even the new technology of photography becomes haunted. 

now this is an important question for the followers of the spectres of marx - the mystical kernel cannot be expunged and marxism remains haunted, in a curiously doubled vision, by the world to come. 

horsemouth had earlier used the name the horses of the invisible for his duo gig with peter holmgren. two years later peter and horsemouth would form part of the trio peter, paul and enza  with enza. they would play johnny's farewell gig - and play a version of johnny leyton's johnny remember me (where the ghost of the beloved calls on johnny to remember her). 

in their version (the lyrics re-written by CATASTRO/fille and enza) it became a hymn to the working organisation. 

RIP delbert mckay (ngoni). one of the singers with misty in roots. their 1979 live at the counter eurovision was for many of horsemouth's friends a key record. horsemouth finds it almost perfect. early on they were involved (like punk band the ruts) in the southall people unite music collective. later they would go to live and work in zimbabwe and zambia.  

there's an element of josipovici's goldberg. variations that's about insomnia. now horsemouth has recent experience of this and this is rare (he normally sleeps like a log). he felt thoroughly wacked out, unable to be fully awake and unable to be fully asleep unable to get comfortable. there again (in variations) there is an echo to written language (a doubling). 

enough of this uncanny maundering. this hauntology. 

later still horsemouth watched a little of scarlet bat - this time a blind female swordswoman  makes her way around japan. 

today horsemouth should hand something in so it can go out and be rewritten. as usual he has written something that addresses a different question to the one actually raised (isn't this always so). he's supposed to get in a walk with TG. thursday a gas safety check. at the weekend the anniversary of the release of on of horsemouth and howard's the golden glows and of the recording of the first side of marion brown's porto novo.