stuck for something to read? here's georges rodenbach and his novel bruges -la - morte (well some of it anyway).
georges rodenbach was a belgian symbolist poet, novelist and friend of edmond de goncourt (matter of fact the whole family - georges, his wife, his son constantin - make it into goncourt's journals).
'rodenbach today denied that maupassant had had any talent declaring that he had never written a single quotable phrase in any of his books...'
in any event horsemouth has too much on his literary plate to be reading the rodenbach now.
stuck for something to listen to? howard has been busy over on mixcloud. there's an ambient and a chill-out mix for your delectation.
strange changes in the world of work (brought on by the ability to work-from-home). it seems in the in-demand (but possibly under utilised) technical youth are now working two jobs at the same time (rather than one job after another), they are thus getting paid twice for the same time. horsemouth is reminded of the french term perruque (eng.'wig') for a piece of work done on an employer's time and destined to be sold elsewhere.
nice work if you can get it (remarks horsemouth). horsemouth wonders how it fits into the time for revolution negri schema (that the working day has broken its banks and the capitalists are now dependent upon the time (and human qualities) of their workers to turn a profit - thus putting political power back in the hands of the workers).
it affects the kind of workers you have to have on staff (in case something goes wrong) but most of the time are being underutilised. it's all great until both jobs go bad at the same time.
it is (of course) a phenomena that disproportionately affects guardian type workers (and this it is reported there), the vast majority of workers in the world are still being dragged into a physical workplace and supervised. it is of a piece with loose talk of the great resignation where unemployed workers have decided to delay their return to the workforce in the light of the low pay on offer (or gone to work in different sectors of the economy). one problem with the return of inflationary pressures is that it is likely to make the wages even lower in real terms. it is the usual chaos of the capitalist markets (is this any way to run a planet?).
horsemouth was having a think about what recorded but unreleased recordings of horsemouth exist. (he's a lazy sod, he doesn't want to get in to re-recording things).
from the early horsemouthfolk recordings gnossiennes (sic.) no.1, je te veux (both by erik satie) and indian dream (lyrics by percy byssche shelley) exist, as do recordings of horsemouth and denise playing black is the colour (of my truelove's hair) and ride on. highrise strutter's ball exists from the soundtrack of the fall of the house of fitzgerald, katie cruel, japan and a (poorly sung) version of bright phoebus exist (or could be brought into being with a little work). horsemouth has already taken funeral music from a longer instrumental recorded by nick lacey and could go back and get a version of partie de camapagne (kosma, monteiro).
more may exist (hiding on a dusty CD-r somewhere or as an attachment on an email) - horsemouth will be having a hunt. similarly it might be possible to sneak on versions of his recent work with CATASTRO/fille and enza. the disadvantage (now that horsemouth comes to think about it) will be that these files are in the form MP3 (or similar).
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