the relaunch of the good ship week (isis and osiris day)

good morning! good morning!

and better than that it's a monday morning. the relaunch of the good ship week. 

to quote a previous blog 'it's another beautiful day outside (and not too hot)'. 

the start of the week is normally marked by a wander round the marshes with TG. 

as horsemouth has remarked he does enjoy writing these blogs (and worse than that he goes to bed happy knowing that he will be getting up in the morning and blogging). that said if he misses a day or because of a commitment is unable to blog in the morning it does not disrupt his good mood - the other activity will be adventure enough. he once took a two week holiday to the basque country and cantabria (bilbao, santander) and while there he did not visit an internet cafe (when there were such things) to check up on his digital empire. until the13th day of his visit (he cracked on the last day). 

he would, however, find it hard not to go online if there were no distracting activity. (when this happens he is forced to write things down in a physical diary). 

farting about online (as he refers to it) has only one serious competitor, ok no two - reading and going for walks. (of course horsemouth should really get on with the music more and make a more consistent effort on the writing). 

on the reading front  horsemouth has not returned to the marco polo or the paolo virno but has started reading alan garner's the owl service. it crackles with summer heat, the tensions of the british class system (and, to be frank, racism against the welsh).  there is, of course, something here of deja vu in the repeating of a legend, something folk horror in the power of the landscape. 

he also read indiscriminately in the FT weekend sections (mostly the colour magazines this time) and watched some outlaw bookseller and bookpilled. 

elsewhere peter brook has died (all hail peter brook). stick in the wheel turn out to be jah shaka fans (there's interesting). boris has got problems (but will probably try and stretch it out until the next election)

hawkbinge are back and they've even posted a link to a scan of the lyric book for church of hawkwind. the album's review has not benefited from them having a long time to examine the album in detail - horsemouth prefers it to many of the 'proper' albums from round this period (neither sonic attack  nor choose your masques  do it for him) but still it's thin gruel after the golden age and the silver age (and even the bronze age). but it does begin to mark that DIY electronica era.  live it was a good time to see them (and of course they were off round the festivals - not that horsemouth succeeded in seeing them at this time). 

it's the anniversary of the recording of isis and osiris by alice coltrane and her band. alice coltrane (harp), pharoah sanders (s sax), vishnu wood (oud), charlie haden (b) and rashied ali (d) live at the village gate this day in 1970.