'catch a boat to england baby (maybe to spain)...'

it's the start of the jackson c. frank days (march2nd he is born, march 3rd he dies). (kind of like poor old solomon grundy).

'catch a boat to england baby (maybe to spain)...'

that's a voice. he has the tunes. he plays well. people liked him.

and there's hardly anything of him. an album recorded by paul simon in england. a few live things, a radio show, a handful of songs recorded later when he's back in the states and his voice is wheezy and fucked. 

it was a suprise to see my name is carnival  crop up recently in a soundtrack for a big hollywood production of joker (2019). ‘here there is no law but the arcade’s penny claw hanging empty’. it  is the other big tune horsemouth supposes. 

I'll Be Here In The Morning (Townes Van Zandt) from Westway Visuals - Rich Martin on Vimeo.

but this blues run the game isn't the song the film-makers wanted for this sequence at the top of this page. they wanted townes van zandt's I'll be here in the morning but they couldn't get copyright clearance in time. horsemouth thinks the substitution works well enough. 

the film it's from (araby, in portuguese arábia, directed by affonso uchoa, joão dumans, brazil, 2017) looks interesting. semi-professional cast, documentarian, the lives of workers in the inland states of brazil, their writings (it is a story of the type found journal), what they have to say about their lives. 

'I'm like anybody else. It's just my life that was a little bit different. It's not easy to chose something to tell. because in the end the only thing we have is the memory of the things we went through.'

there are influences here, the directors say, bogdanovich's the last picture show, hal ashby’s bound for glory, john dos passos. they've gone on to do other films working with a semi-professional cast. 

it's a grey morning. a friend has some photos in an exhibition. saturday horsemouth has a plan to go see them.