on the last day (climbing difficult second album mountain)

'I suddenly realised that if I didn't do a second album it wouldn't get done.' 

horsemouth is up. well actually he's sitting up in bed. he may have to open a window (his parents tend to run the heating high in the morning). 

linda perhacs has a realisation. she did the first album (but it didn't take off) so she went back to her job as a dental hygienist. decades later she got emailed about how the album was an underground hit. it's another rose simpson, vashti bunyan type moment. her first album was sampled (by prefuse 73 for example) but the results were underwhelming. 

the clock is (of course) always ticking. it's just that sometimes we can't hear it. 

it's the last day  of the year  and horsemouth will be attempting to be reflective 

that's the function of this bit of the year 

(that and eating as much food you can before it rots). 

the winter solstice has passed, the sun is creeping up the horizon and getting higher in the skies but overall this side of the planet is cooling down (so we still have the bones of winter january, february, much of march to endure). given the rise in gas prices horsemouth hopes for a mild winter that does not test the heating system and his wallet unduly.

meanwhile horsemouth needs to have a number of realisations, about his music, about where he is going to live, and, more widely, what he is going to do if he is not going to be working. 

for the music horsemouth needs to climb difficult second album mountain. 

there is musicians of bremen stuff that is a duo, or howard's stuff, or horsemouth playing on howard's stuff, volumes one, two and four would be good examples. horsemouth thinks that howard will release a solo album next year (in 2022 maybe 2023) in line with volume two. 

and then there is the stuff that is horsemouth's stuff (with howard playing or singing on it) volume three would be a good example.

horsemouth needs to do another volume three. 

now horsemouth could revisit his pre-musicians of bremen  recordings and put those out (and they are decent and characterful and they are him). but more he needs to get together the repertoire for for volume three part two. 

really this is what he should have been doing over the pandemic. (and indeed before his first gig on the new season in february). 

and meanwhile horsemouth needs to have a number of realisations, not just about his music, but about where he is going to live, and, more widely, what he is going to do if he is not going to be working.