'they came from the evil stars'

'you get to a certain time in your life where you realise you're not going to read it again.' - the outlaw bookseller (slightly misquoted). (from whence 'the evil stars' tagline).

here we confront literature (the eternal) with mortality (the distinctly finite).

it has to be admitted that horsemouth has looked up at his stacks and realised that even with a lot of good health he's not going to make it round again. and that would be him just dealing with what he has, he knows he will want to go out and buy (or acquire) more. indeed it's a rainy grey day that was probably his plan for today. 

it is chungking express month (from whence gregory isaac's the things in life). the central character's girlfriend (may) breaks up with him. he keeps on buying tins of her favourite pineapple chunks for the month of april in an effort to deny that she's gone (but on the 1st of may he has to admit she's gone). of course there are actually two central male characters - here we are talking about the policeman. 

horsemouth is up in the cloud forest for his annual holiday. back at the homestead he has put some effort into tidying up the back garden (lamentably at the expense of the front garden which is now full of scrap metal he hopes the scrap metal dealers will take away). the cats have been fed. horsemouth has slept soundly. the house seems to have central heating (and space heaters) which, unlike horsemouth's gaff, have been set to come on at particular times/ temperatures and to actually warm up the house. 

(horsemouth was a little shocked - he had assumed that this sort of behaviour was over).   

horsemouth supposes that he is on the move from his energy company (now that they've dropped him onto some punitively awful tariff and there's more shit to come in october).

hrsemouth is up  in the forest. looks like the train is out mon 4th to thursday 7th. there's rain (pretty much) every day this week.

the advantage of the rain is it means horsemouth will not have to water the outside areas of the allotment. he will take a look inside the polytunnel today. a skinny robin redbreast is at the birdfeeder (located just outside the living room window) looking more like a humming bird. 

horsemouth was having a play through the songs he's thinking of covering when he's up at howard's - jai guru, something's on your mind, hear us o lord, katie cruel, highrise strutters' ball, wondrous love.  

only jai guru is new(ish) and as yet unfinished (he imagines rather a lot of clapping and chanting), the others he's been playing for a while. he still likes the idea of doing a fake live album. something's on your mind he thinks there's something to do with harmonics at the start and he's extended out the ending a little. hear us o lord was an experiment in singing harmonies (he learnt it from the book of the same name by malcolm lowry) there are more lyrics should he get it together to sing them. katie cruel you know.  highrise strutters' ball comes from the movie he was involved with making over last summer the fall of the house of fitzgerald (remind him to take the banjolele). he's just given it another watch (most enjoyable). he recommends you do too. wondrous love is a possibility. 

he should also take the melodica (it can be used as a solo instrument and as a fake harmonium also), the kids' glockenspiel, the thumb piano, a tambourine, the guitar slide, the e-bow (just in case). he should take the time he has up here to do some preparation (there's lots of guitars). 

last night he watched a bit of the giallo the forbidden photos of a lady above suspicion (le foto proibite di una signora per bene (1970) - there's lots of that 60ies/70ies fashion and home decor).