good morning! good morning! horsemouth is up early (why he's not so sure).
howard is stuck at home so he's been getting on with some tasks. first off he has done a new ambient mix (these normally go down well) - about an hour in oumou sangare appears singing mogoya (which fuses lots of things very well).
and yet howard was still bored so horsemouth has sent him over a list of tracks with instructions to forge it into a new golden glow mix. horsemouth doesn't have enough tracks for a full mix yet so he suspects they will be doing a combined mix (back-to-back he believes the term is). it will be the first time where they have both chosen tracks for the mix. either that or a shorter than usual mix.
last night quatermass (1978), the one with the old people hiding underground and a mass rapture at wembley stadium. this featured irene handl - who interestingly enough was president of the lewisham branch of the elvis presley fan club.
there were other films after but horsemouth couldn't be bothered.
horsemouth is issuing howard with songwriting advice - howard has a very promising song but horsemouth doesn't think it is fulfilling its potential. this is because it is a song of rejection (not a getting-it-together/ love the one you're with song) and this is (to horsemouth) inherently unpromising material. ok there's a nice juicy contradiction there but how to deal with it is the problem.
it may be that horsemouth (as a self-described sleazy opportunist) is just not the right person to be asking about this material. but it is not about the sexual politics of the situation but about the needs of the song.
later mike T comes over to visit.
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so what did horsemouth get up to in 2021? how much does he remember of the year?
well it is, now he remembers, the year of his redundancy, the year when the wheels finally came off his earner. he was paid out until the end of july and since then he has been living on his redundancy cheque (and an advance on the first 10 years of his works pension - which he can take early). all this took considerably more time to organise than horsemouth thought it would.
in the first half of the year he lived on a mixture of furlough and work pay. excepting the odd lab work was online and did not involve travel.
jim bermingham died, a friend was evicted, horsemouth presented (or rather he didn't but he had been planning to and that planning took rather a long time). the communal endeavour continues to be a pain the arse.
as far as horsemouth can remember right now he only went to one gig (triple negative) and only played one gig (at midsummer with haress in weirdshire). it was a hard year at work for howard so there was little progress on the musicians of bremen front - howard will probably release a solo album next year.
meanwhile horsemouth voiced over george lansbury for catastro/fille, he collected together some tracks for a golden glow mix, some songs he worked on with catastro/fille and enza failed to come out (so maybe that's something for next year). an attempt to relaunch peter, paul and enza failed (which is a pity).
he celebrated the anniversary of the paris commune and of the festival of britain exhibit at chrisp street market. he read some of hannah arendt's the origins of totalitarianism (this was probably his only theoretical project in the year).
he hid out at his parents in the countryside til mid-march (the better to dodge the plague) and then returned there for a few weeks in june. he will be returning there as soon as is possible. he hid out a couple of weeks up in the forest.
he read less than he thought he might (of late he has been attempting to get back into more serious reading), he played less guitar and listened to less music. he spent more time farting about online and watching bad horror movies. he has diarised entirely on blogger. he has written nothing of an extended nature.
he went for lots of walks (even if he no longer has to do it for work). he didn't buy many new books or CDs.
as usual with the year some people have died and left the party and more people have been born and joined in. horsemouth did some babysitting/ childminding. monday he goes to get jabbed, then he's away to the countryside.
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