horsemouth no longer on the horns of his dilemma

ok horsemouth is no longer on the horns of his dilemma. (he thinks). there may never have been a dilemma. time will tell. back to life sing soul2soul, back to reality back to the here and now. 

sometimes it looks (briefly) to horsemouth that the universe is cutting him a break (as if his prayers to ganesha have been answered). but then no and the energy goes. 

yesterday he mostly spent cleaning his room. horsemouth lives in the basement. he has a lot of books and a lot of CDs and records jammed (with great efficiency if he does say so himself) into a comparatively small volume. to clean the floor (laminate on top of god knows what) may seem like no big thing but it requires a lot of moving things out of the way and mopping up.

the dust is deposits on any flat or mildly sloping surface. it is an illusion that it only sits on the surface. it in fact seems to combine with the surface to produce and entirely new texture, a gritty and unpleasant one. 

that at least was the morning's work. before that he called in on TG to discuss the cat-sitting arrangements. 

horsemouth has not finished cleaning his room. to do that he would have to (incrementally) take all his books and belonging off the shelves  (and out of their various hiding places), wipe them down with a damp rag and wipe down the shelves on which they sit. it is a job for another day. 

when horsemouth moved here (6 years ago) he had reduced the number of books/ clothes/ records/ CDs  that he owned. he has allowed it to creep back up. should he wish to get mobile he will have to reduce it all back down once again.  

to make the cleaning of his room truly effective horsemouth would have to clean the rest of the house and front and back gardens (to stop him tracking in dust and other particulates from his use of the kitchen, the living room, the corridors). but this is a mammoth task, one horsemouth may not love humanity sufficiently to do.  

today the handover of the twelve string and possibly a visit back to docklands to see sona jobarteh (3.15-4.15)

later the phonecall from his mum. monday a last walk with TG before the cat-sitting. wednesday the anniversary of the release of the harder they come back in 72. at the end of the week the one year anniversary of the evapouration of horsemouth's job of 25 years. monday is the anniversary of the release of musicians of bremen volume four (two years ago), and the week after the anniversary of the release of volume two (seven years ago)

noma, the former singer in a band horsemouth was once in many years ago, has gone on to great success as an actor. today horsemouth got to hear her inheritance tracks on the radio (about one hour in). it was good to catch up with her, to find out how she has been doing (horsemouth never hears from her. the last he saw her he bumped into her on teh tube about 5 years ago). sad to say it is only now that horsemouth finds out what noma's musical taste was. all she mentioned at the time was show tunes (on broadway, stars fading etc.) and nina simone (she'd make a great nina simone).