look on the brightside - the front garden/ building waste repository is looking very beautiful and green

horsemouth has risen, 

he has dismantled the 'barricade' that is his curtains (they do a moderate job of keeping out the streetlights at night). he has gone into the kitchen, found the coffee jar, refilled it, filled the stovetop pot and made the coffee (which he is currently drinking). 

he has contemplated the bin (well a carrier bag attached to the handles of one of the kitchen units). it is perhaps, at the moment, overly full of other people's kack. he has decided not to empty it - he is feeling resentful of the division of tasks within the house, frankly he thinks some denizens are taking the fucking piss. 

whilst it was boiling he turned on his computer entered various passwords, opened up facebook and entered various passwords, opened up blogger ditto ditto and...

here we are typing away. we have escaped the 'meat' world and have access to the world of language. 

the front garden/ building waste repository is looking very beautiful and green - this is largely down to the composter horsemouth planted there, with the compost from it feeding the extravagant growth of a tree (this helps hide the worst of the building waste). these are very successful facts on the ground that horsemouth planted in his efforts to ensure a pleasant view out of his window first thing in the morning. 

horsemouth removed yet another surplus bin from the front garden (they have many bins that in fact cause their own waste problem as they are never used for the kind of waste that the binmen will take) and hid it in the back but its place (in the opposite of a stockpile) has been taken by some rather fetching pre-drilled shelving. 

a somewhat scraggy black and white tomcat has just passed horsemouth's window (it is one of the cat motorways). 

the habit of things being stored on the corridor floor seems to be re-asserting itself. 

horsemouth has cursed and eff'd and blinded (like he said frankly he thinks some denizens are taking the fucking piss). when he feels of a sunnier disposition he will try reason and negotiation.

maybe. or maybe he'll just try reframing it as not his problem and look upon the brightside or maybe he'll just kick it upstairs. 

look on the brightside horsemouth. your room is very pleasant and very comfortable. you have re-instated the stairs down to the downstairs front door (and so have an alternative method of access, egress available to you). the kitchen, bathroom, living room and back garden function (within certain parameters). 

yesterday horsemouth and howard met up in stratford  (kind of equidistant from their respective gaffs and a safe low transport hassle choice).  horsemouth walked over. howard arrived by bus. howard arrived  wanting to eat so they tried some indifferent mexican food (and a bottle of estrella each) before wandering off through the olympic park. eventually they settled in an entertainment zone opposite grow and drank pale  ale (there are photos). horsemouth is still mindful of covid and so wanted quiet (underutilised) restaurants and open air drinking. 

it has been suggested that there is no howard (that he is a figment of horsemouth's imagination). you can tell this isn't true by the carefully positioned pint of beer on howard's side of the table.

they discussed some communal endeavour things. things are going well, so well for example that horsemouth is contemplating the skies looking for hostile aircraft. 

and now it is time to do some expectation management. 

howard is knackered. in five weeks he flies off on his summer holidays. there is not enough time (and energy) to get the recordings for the next musicians of bremen project completed before he goes.  

so people we will have to wait to get the next instalment. 

musicians of bremen · Something On Your Mind

horsemouth has been proposing the incorporation of the material from the humming  on the CD version of it. the rest of it (and the download version) would be composed of the kind of tracks you can find demoed up on musicians of bremen's soundcloud page.  the incorporation of material from the humming  would enable horsemouth to have something similar to a volume three part two (effectively a horsemouth solo album with howard producing and guesting on it with a similar mix of the material horsemouth wants to cover with semi improvised material). 

obviously not all the tracks horsemouth has demoed up in three or so afternoons will make it onto the CD or the download. incorporating material from the humming (in particular malkin tower) and a remake of high rise strutter's ball will allow horsemouth to tie-in with the fall of the house of fitzgerald movie. 

at some stage horsemouth is going to have to re-learn how to record himself and get set up to do this. otherwise he's going to have to find someone else to record him. horsemouth has more straight ahead american primitive goals and he thinks howard will want to try a solo fingerpicked guitar singer-songwriter thing (his fingerpicking is getting very good and the songs are strong) as demoed up at the gig at waterintobeer. 

ok it's a beautiful morning out there and the house is (for now) nice and quiet. horsemouth has finished snowcrash and is enjoying reading the FT weekend (from last weekend).