the first day of the new year (and we are now on to a different round of the game)

it was the warmest new years eve on record. over the hill (either up on the common or down in ewyas harold) they let off fireworks.

but that was last year and we are now on to a different round of the game. (horsemouth is of the opinion that the day starts in the morning and so does the new year). 

traditionally this would be the part of the year when horsemouth would feel the absence of structuring tasks upon his time. there would be not much to do but to listen to music, read and go for walks. and indeed it is so. 

today is the day when additional problems will start at the border with the EU (additional documentation will be required for import or export). once again british politicians will feign outrage that having left a club they are not allowed the benefits of membership. they will pose as defenders of the will of the british people against a sell-out in westminster and evil authoritarian EUrocrats.

sadly we are still not out from under that particular game.

and in another continuing game the coronavirus pandemic is now in sync with itself - daily cases, hospitalisations and deaths are all now increasing by a third. this is the trend on the up buoyed by christmas and then new years eve celebrations which will take about a month to work through (and then it is just a matter of waiting for it to hit top again). 

it's a grey morning. last night horsemouth watched a bit of pupi avato's la strelle nel fosso (the stars in the ditch)  as part of a season with his  the house with the laughing windows (la casa delle finestre che redondo) and tutti defunti... tranne i morti (all dead...  even the dead?). all feature the same cast and are filmed in the same marshy cold region of northern italy (near bologna) but they are respectively a semi-improvised art movie, a giallo (slasher) thriller, and a pink panther style slapstick comedy of the who is going to get murdered next variety. the giallo had subtitles.  

so horsemouth has to get on with difficult second album (aka. volume three part two) now that he has announced it.  but he has no material for it yet. well he has a number of parts for a song called jai guru grown from elements within across the universe and he has a list back in london of other songs he has written or attempted to learn once upon a time some of which may make it.