the further adventures of the greased piglet

here we see the similarity of the projects (but the differences also) in jacken elswyth's latest mix -pharoah sanders' japan and john fahey's red cross, disciple of christ today you know the mule appreciates (for he has anthologised them himself before). but there are the differences also, more modern stuff. a better (deeper) appreciation of the acapella english folk tradition. for example horsemouth appreciates derek bailey (but he's unlikely to pick a track by him for you). 

the mix seems to have garnered some likes from horsemouth's friends (which is good). 

jacken's experimantal band sullow play water into beer thursday night and then there's the gig with musicians of bremen on saturday february the 5th.  

'in 1980, a third of people lived in socially rented homes, at genuinely affordable below-market rents. that’s now fallen to 17%. over the past 30 years...'

this evening a meeting of the communal endeavour (whose central project is housing lest we forget). at this horsemouth will be continuing his campaign to get the communal endeavour to create a miniscule amount of social housing. 

in other political news the greased piglet continues his extraordinary political career. not one tory MP can find the bottle to stand up and challenge him so they were holding out for the gray report to come out before going in for the kill. but now the gray report is to be delayed and redacted to allow for the police investigation. how wonderful, horsemouth hears you say, the  police having been convinced to do their duty so conveniently (and how wonderful to live in times where a police investigation of the prime minister is good news). 

if the prime minister (the greased piglet) can make it to may (oh the irony) and the local elections he stands a chance. wouldn't he be happier on the after dinner speaker circuit anyway? probably but he needs to be a glorious success of a piglet (and crucially to achieve it all without doing his homework). 

horsemouth is doing his homework honest. (god he's such an egregious swot). horsemouth's cough means he is having difficulty hitting the top notes in hear us o lord (he's been thinking of dropping it to c) and the arthritis in the little finger of his left hand makes playing it a little difficult. he is starting to think he should farm the singing of the top line off on howard. 

it's a grey morning. horsemouth has had his coffee. next it's the museli and the news. 6 years ago horsemouth was off with john clarkson to the isle of grain. all the current evil was but a twinkle in the eye of the universe residing in some batcave somewhere. 

last night's gialli? 

shadow of illusion (ombre roventi 1970) egypt set ancient gods/ woman in peril thriller (beware the evil hippies babe (cos they're gonna get you yeah)),  then something is creeping in the dark (1971) dark and stormy night marooned travellers haunted house sort of thing.