yesterday horsemouth mostly sat in the sun (in the living room) and read

horsemouth is up early (well, for these days, about 8am). the binmen have been. storm rain rain go-away is either coming (10am ish) or it has been. he is writing this in 'real time' on a friday morning.

meanwhile howard has been busy and there's an ambient mix. 

once upon a time, when working with rust, horsemouth used rain rain go-away as a chorus on an instrumental of rust's. he can't remember any of the other lyrics on it. he had a lead guitar part for it. 

last night horsemouth child-minded. he travelled there. he read a few stories and then went to sleep in a corner. he then woke up. came back and farted about online a little.

yesterday horsemouth mostly sat in the sun (in the living room) and read. edward parnell's ghostland (m.r.james, algernon blackwood, robert aickman etc. but alan garner, susan cooper also) goes along nicely. he goes out and visits whatever sites remain extant. there's some personal tragedy, there's some tv (bbc ghost story at christmas  etc.), there's some birdwatching. 

the birdwatching horsemouth doesn't do (he doesn't do much botanising either really). 

he's about 90 pages off finishing it. 

horsemouth is still waiting for the return of hawkbinge season 2: the eighties - this time it's not as good as it used to be. fortunately they can hide this knowledge from themselves at least for the first episode because they will be reviewing levitation which is a corker of an album. 

for once (for hawkwind)  it benefits from having real musicians - ginger baker shows up and does his drum parts in two days flat, huw lloyd-langton emerges from a decade of session work to play his little heart out, tim blake has the  analogue synth and sequencer chops, harvey bainbridge is solid and on the money (whatever ginger baker says) and dave brock has been woodshedding and has a stash of demoed up tunes. doug smith (their old manager) is around to get them a deal, bronze records their new label aren't enthusiastic about them and so treat them mean to keep them keen. 

and almost immediately dave brock will fall out with tim blake. ginger baker will fall out with harvey bainbridge. this line up is dead in the water there will be no album two. 

fortunately dave brock and harvey will get a synth duo going round the farmhouse table. drum machines are available. michael moorcock will be enticed back to write the lyrics and huw is on hand to retro-fit dozens of old songs with shiny new lead guitar lines.