horsemouth is at home (domestic interiors)

here we see horsemouth at home. as you can judge he is a  big fan of wooden furniture and of books (books, CDs, guitars, records). it is quite reminiscent of the early work of tom hunter you might say - photos of the domestic interiors of squats, traveller vans and narrow boats - except not as well lit.  it is almost literally a man-cave. 

horsemouth himself is looking a bit dowdy in these photos (not to mention fat). the day had turned cold(ish) and horsemouth and howard had just retreated indoors from the front steps as it started to rain.  horsemouth likes to imagine that he is fashionably lean (but this is no longer the case). 

they are still on the estrella damm beers (that howard had brought) before they sank to drinking horsemouth's collection of supermarket beers. horsemouth had eaten earlier but, in his role as host,  rustled up a fakemeat sausage and pasta thing for howard (which, to be fair, howard pronounced most tasty). 

howard is frankly knackered - they are still working him to death and he has 5 weeks to go to the end of term.  in the morning he was in painting the corridors of his bit of school to enable the students to put on an exhibition of their artwork (horsemouth has to admit they're a talented bunch over at howard's school).

here's a near panorma (distorting the actual shape of horsemouth's room but giving you an idea of the book dispersal problem he faces).  horsemouth's room is square-ish with a window bay at the far end, you have to imagine you are standing in the far rHS corner and then bend the photo into a circle. 

from the homemade and assembled interiors of the doomed romantics of hackney it is but a short step to the conspicuous consumption of the interiors of giallo movies.

after horsemouth had wandered down with howard to the tube he watched part of the giallo e tanta paura (plot of fear) a giallo that plays with the conventions of the genre (while still being within the genre). this is the kind of thing the fragments of fear podcast gets enthusiastic about. 

today the weather is cooler (after the shortest of possible heatwaves).  it's the anniversary of the recording of the ankh of amon ra and the excellently titled battle at armageddon by alice coltrane. 

these posts tend to be too long. this is because horsemouth derives great pleasure from writing them (and doesn't want the often less enjoyable business of the day (or lack of it) to begin). but begin it must.