horsemouth and fashion trends ('raisins and peanuts')

well it's beautiful sunshine in the morning on the hill outside horsemouth's window (bbc weather says grey all day and rain wednesday and by sod's law bright and sunny thursday). so it won't last. horsemouth was just the first up (marginally ahead of his dad). 

last night horsemouth watched a video of thrift-a-life wearing his bookpilled hat (a carhatt) and a laibach t-shirt opus dei ). in the video he shows us his recent SF. fantasy, weird fiction purchases - the ones that have got to go as part of one of his auctions. he's a believer in the quick sale. next he watched him discuss clothing fashion trends - he is a big believer in brand  being the major factor in sales, that and getting the description right (treat it like a doo-dad he says) but even he has to admit there are are fashion trends that cut across this.

gorpcore is big apparently (outdoor clothing - something something raisins and peanuts), super-baggy is big also, 90ies/ 70ies retro. 

none of this information is useful to horsemouth. 

he has the clothing he has. he hasn't bought any 'new' (read 'new bought but second hand') clothing in about two years (indeed he has too much of it - he has chucked some out and he will soon chuck out some more). he often wears the same clothes round and round for months on end (particularly in the summer - he has just done the best part of two months in shorts and a t-shirt with the rucksack over his shoulder). he has a north face rucksack and a little orange north face  fleece somewhere  - that's your lot horsemouth thinks. the fleece he is trying to wear less so it gets washed less (because of microplastic shedding). 

here we see him. shirt his mum bought. t-shirt (gweniver raymond). puma shorts (from a cwmbran charity shop). hiking boots. north face rucksack.

ok it has gone grey outside less need to rush. 

above horsemouth finally finds out where that public enemy horn chant and drum loop comes from for show'em what you got  (previously horsemouth had believed a story about it coming from the wattstax soundtrack). 

horsemouth has started on the trial of socrates. much hinges on zoon politikon, the fact that  man is a political animal  as it is usually rendered (that he is a political form of life more accurately), he does not live in a herd but by association with his fellow humans in a polis. this is the distinction i.f.stone is interested in, others (agamben and alike) tend to be more interested in the distinction between zoon and bios which are different types of life (here horsemouth will have to go back and give these sections a read when he gets back to the wen). 

horsemouth is of course a zoon politikon and he has a polis (and very annoying dealing with it it is too) plus he lives in a shared house and this provides another set of annoyances. 

elsewhere someone has started an american primitive podcast six strings of tension and interviewed gwenifer raymond. indeed horsemouth is wearing the gweniver raymond t-shirt he bought at her gig slightly over two years ago. she hedges when asked to describe the valleys but points out that newport was once referred to as the new seattle. 

ok horsemouth will probably go for a quick wander before breakfast and to do that requires horsemouth to finish off blogging sharpish. later horsemouth may return with some more integrative thoughts. 

he has returned (any minute now breakfast).  the daily torygraph is predicting interest rates at six percent or higher (this is not good news). this set horsemouth off rambling again.