you'll never see me again

good morning! good morning!

well it's another beautiful day. 

well the recycling seems to be gone from out the front (but horsemouth does not remember hearing the bin lorries). 

'when I was very, very young, about four years old, my mother and my father took me to see a play, shakespeare’s hamlet. and when the ghost of the father appeared, I was so scared that they had to take me away...' 

so says dario argento - (and 'swear!' says the ghost and jacques derrida, and with him and a crowd of marxist apparitions). horsemouth should probably make use of his leisure to reread all this stuff and try and understand it properly this time.

later he listened to the webb david show (most excellent) - it's a kind of techno dub horsemouth opines. he found a copy of the FT weekend from last weekend, he has been reading this.

he watched cornell woolrich's you'll never see me again (1972) done as a TV movie - a new south couple  argue, the wife stomps off to her mum's, realises she's left her purse behind, hitchhikes... and vanishes. 

horsemouth is a bit deaf at the moment (he has a recurrent problem with wax in his ears). he enjoys listening to the tinnitus (cheaper than synthesizers). at some point it will clear up. now that he thinks about it it goes all the way back to childhood.  

peter oborne on boris (his former employer) as the billionaire's bitch. 

nadine dorries (culture secretary/ sharpest tool in the box) goes on tv and warns any rebel tories that the donors won't like it if they don't support boris,  in doing so she twitches back the curtain of patronage and the way the ruling class actually operates (ok ok it's more like she turns on the light in kitchen and we watch the cockroaches scatter). it's already interesting that she thinks this can be said in front of the children without doing any harm.

let us repeat the message in case you missed it - the party you elect takes its orders from elsewhere. 

peter oborne thinks there is an earlier form of conservatism that wasn't so bent (but he's deluding himself), he says that journalist boris was ethnically diverse and blah blah and that he doesn't recognise this rapacious power-grabbing panderer to bigotry we now have. which is a nice move rhetorically but doesn't say much for his judgement. the reality is that both the labour and the conservative parties have shown themselves porous to power and undemocratic influence. in fact that is the point of the conservative party. 

yesterday horsemouth was a little bored. he will try and entertain himself better today. he should be working on repertoire/ preparing for the next gig. as of today horsemouth is down to one gig a year (from the heady state of two gigs a year - weirdshire and waterintobeer). it is of course true that you can play endlessly and be seen by the same people over and over who, in a derridean twitch, aren't your audience (the people who need to be hearing you).  summoning the people who need to hear you, and who would like what you do if only they could hear it, is a difficult trick. ultimately horsemouth supposes it is down to luck and hard work - horsemouth does not have the recipe.  

musicians of bremen are stuck for time. faced with a choice between recording and playing gigs they opt to record. the action (as far as it is) is on their soundcloud pages. they hope to get somethings out to mark their two year hiatus.