three things about horsemouth and the answers to five questions

three things about horsemouth

1. horsemouth(folk) is a pseudonym and anthropomorphic and a piece of identity theft, perhaps even cultural appropriation...                                                                                              horsemouth(folk) is a pseudonym, he robbed the name from leroy 'horsemouth' wallace, a legendary reggae drummer (our horsemouth is not a drummer). in the movie rockers leroy 'horsemouth' wallace gives a great speech about how he knows that 'all of the youth shall witness the day that babylon shall fall' . our horsemouth  no longer experiences this amount of revolutionary certainty. it is thus a piece of identity theft, maybe even cultural appropriation. horsemouth(folk) feels a bit bad about this (but it was largely an accident).

            horsemouth (we will revert to calling him that) is  anthropomorphic. he claims to be a mule                    who walks on his hind legs. he does this because while horses may be noble beasts, mules and                donkeys are metonymic workers and peasants. 

2. horsemouth normally claims to be welsh (he was born in birmingham).  he does this on the basis of his welsh granny (on his mother's side, from gorseinon) and having grown up there as a kid (llansamlet and then caerphilly). when he was 16 his parents moved to south herefordshire near the border with wales (his mum's family are from up near leominster). conversely his father's family are from sheffield, his yorkshire granny (on his dad's side) was scottish, and so on. 

when horsemouth is not claiming to be welsh (and side-by-side with it) he claims  to be a proletarian internationalist ('the workers of the world have no country') - what matters is to side with the producers of the world against the vampiric idle rich. 

in recent years horsemouth has re-embraced his welshness (now that it's considerably more fashionable). the accent though (to the extent he ever had it), is gone. his accent (such as it is) is a bit indeterminate. horsemouth would assert he is from the middle class (that's what you'd think if you heard him speak), nonetheless he would assert he was a proletarian (someone with no capital and thus nothing to sell but their labour) but the facts might be against him here. 

certainly horsemouth would work but if he can get by with doing less he will. he's just trying to work out how this would be possible.  

3. horsemouth likes to pretend to be a nice rational, kind beast. (but the facts might be against him). he has been helped in this opinion of himself be his former work (which was of the socially useful and thus poorly remunerated kind). really he suspects he has been mostly harmless and a little selfish.  he is rapidly ageing 

and the answers to five questions

1. who would play you in the movie of your life? probably an age inappropriate 'me' or an animatronic mule. maybe john hurt. not mississippi john hurt but the british actor (is he still alive?). horsemouth's life does not need a movie, he suspects it wouldn't make a very good movie, instead it needs movies that horsemouth himself will star in. there will be films of horsemouth doing various things. 
2. where would you go if you had a two week, all expense-paid vacation to anywhere in the world? porto. go visit ze and john probably in autumn or spring when it is hot (but not so hot one would be tempted to hide indoors). get the bus to the beach and swim. wander round a bit. 
3. what do you love on your pizza? what do you absolutely loathe on your pizza? pizza is nice. a nice posh sourdough pizza with more tomato sauce on it than cheese but to be frank horsemouth would  probably prefer a curry with some naan bread. (vegetarian of course). the advantage of going for a posh pizza is we could probably get in a few glasses of pale ale to go with it and sit around and talk shit (he's guessing it's him and howard who would be going for this food). of course later they would end up in the pub (horsemouth is vastly over fond of drinking beer). 
4. what would your dream job be if money wasn’t an issue? pretty much what horsemouth is doing now (but more of it and more of it paid). to make more films, more music and do more writing and have more people see, listen or read them. horsemouth may not yet be in the position where money is not an issue but he would certainly like to be in the position where it is even less of an issue. this is possible because horsemouth has no problems being poor. 
5. who is the person who has shaped your life significantly? that's a difficult question to answer. other people could point to wives, husbands etc. but the different eras and regions of horsemouth's life have different presiding figures. horsemouth's life is marked in its depth by the interventions of a few friends and of a few lovers and, to a lesser extent, by all the people he has read and listened to. horsemouth does not feel his life has a significant shape, he does not think it would make a good movie (not enough happens and there's no consistent plot development), he hopes the few songs he has been involved with making will be strong enough to survive.  he feels a number of recordings, films, writings, will have to stand in for him in people's memory of him and also the songs that he has listened to, that made him. (fuck it he'll probably end up as a playlist). 

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a pleasant looking morning out. the cough seems to be dying off but his throat is still sore as fuck. a found quiz online (that horsemouth has decided to volunteer himself for). he filled it in yesterday afternoon (mostly) and then revisited it this morning. he wonders if it will be enough to satisfy his addiction to autobiography.