so goes the master and margarita (in what appears to be an early satire on the notion that the company that sings together makes better profits). interestingly the mass singing was the event the other musician of bremen remembered from his reading of the book (wheras horsemouth had completely forgotten it).
bookpilled / life in thrift has hit the wall - he's had to take a couple of weeks off and admit to himself that days off are necessary. his strategy is the quick flip price low for a quick sale and get that capital back in the service of the business as soon as possible. he's accelerated it to auctions. this, and the necessity to get enough material to service this strategy have finally burnt him out.
his other (more interesting) advice is to ignore the sensuous properties of whatever it is you are selling, it's just a doo-dad, look at the sell-through statistics and price it accordingly, ignore the fact that it's armani etc. ignore what you think you know. what you know is useful for getting the keywords right - so that people can find it. still horsemouth is receiving an education in what the various fabrics and collars are called.
horsemouth is up. he's having his coffee and he's had some paracetamol. he got a little torched when he was up at the allotment watering at midday (not his best idea) and then later in the afternoon walking back. he tested yesterday (and he doesn't seem to have covid) but this is the nasal swab only test and so he's not convinced by it as much as he should be.
TG is back later on today so horsemouth will blog and then tidy up and relocate. TG has a nice beat up old accordeon horsemouth will try and get a recording of it at some point.
jacken elswyth is doing well, the other musician of bremen is listening to her new album 'sat on a veranda just by the appalachian trail... surrounded by trees, a distant highway and the sound of an occasional vehicle. this is definitely the place to hear it.'
meanwhile (back in time) horsemouth was recommending bob calvert's solo work. he only really knows the first album captain lockheed then there's lucky leif and the longships. on the first two albums bob was trying to be humorous in a 70ies comedy kind of way (so it depends on your tolerance for that). eno is on them and various hawkwinders, it doesn't fall too far from the tree. after getting fired/ leaving hawkwind his stuff gets more interesting - hype, test tube conceived, the machines are silent.
horsemouth re-listened to hawkbinge's appreciation of hawklords - 25 years on which is another great silver age bob calvert album (possibly the best). horsemouth can't comment on bob's work as poetry (he doesn't know enough to do this) but as a lyricist and a songwriter it is all excellent (ok no - there's two absolute stinkers but horsemouth blames dave brock for these). the young guy in hawkbinge knows this, he can hear it. steve swindells knew it
and of course then there's bob's poetry and his plays (about which horsemouth knows very little). soon he will be a movie.
it is nearly the end of the month. nearly time for horsemouth's read, watched, listened to list.
tomorrow the anniversary of horsemouth's ending work (there was a meet up but horsemouth was still being cautious and so did not go). monday the anniversary of the release of volume four. sometime in the week max's birthday.
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