'between the powers of darkness and the powers of the mind'

Tourneur, précurseur du giallo. Analyse par Jean-François Rauger from La Cinémathèque française on Vimeo.

looks like a nice morning out. horsemouth spent some time reading about the careers of maurice  and jacques tourneur (father and son directors - whence 'between the powers of darkness and the powers of the mind' ). 

above we see similar scenes from jacques tourneur's the leopard man and dario argento's four flies on grey velvet - locked in the park/ or cemetery after dark. 

yesterday a meeting with the bank for the communal endeavour and thereafter some shuffling about. 

this included  an episode of the rivals of sherlock holmes featuring professor van dusen the thinking machine in the problem of the superfluous finger first published in  associated sunday magazines, 25th november 1906. earlier in the series they'd featured his cell 13. 

and later an episode of alexei sayle's podcast on the spycops, 'what kind of a fucking psychopath does that?' said alexei seemingly genuinely outraged (possibly not outraged enough to avoid trying to broaden the issue out or get in a few gags but still).

one of horsemouth's friends sent him a documentary on independent record shops (or such ones as still survive) again (like the one on NY booksellers) horsemouth loves it (despite the fact that he no longer has a record player set up and hasn't purchased a record since he doesn't know when). 

ok today food and beer shopping. 

horsemouth looks towards the weekend, jeremy bentham's birthday and to going over to howard's to listen to the live recording from the water into beer gig. he is adjusting his expectations. he expects that his own stuff (while fun on the night) will contain too many errors to be saveable. he expects that there will be difficulty in overdubbing to hide any errors given the ambient qualities of the room on the existing recording which will have to be matched for any overdubbing not to stick out like a sore thumb.