the homeless birds circle overhead

well it finally had to happen hawkbinge is back after three months off (maybe more?).no actually just a few days shy of  four months.

horsemouth had assumed the youngster had done a runner. they review chronicle of the black sword and  the earth ritual preview EP. 

there's stuff to like (if not love) in late era hawkwind. 

anything guitarist huw lloyd-langton touches shines (especially the songs he has written), and there's the kitchen table sequencer duo of harvey bainbridge and dave brock. later they will go all ravey davey gravey (but for now it is under manners). the getting in michael moorcock to write the lyrics just reveals the uncomfortable  truth that bob calvert was a better lyricist than moorcock (and a better songwriter than brock). it's not without its moments but basically horsemouth is listening to other music by this point and the fantasy novel tie-in is a throwback. 

black blade by the blue oyster cult covers the ground more effectively.

today horsemouth goes to sign something. (AM)

after that he doesn't know. 

last night he watched a documentary on film noir - the child of german expressionism and the american gangster movie. is fritz lang's  M the first noir? or citizen kane? horsemouth watched all this stuff - he notes the influence of the cabinet of dr. caligari on dario argento's suspiria. 

the mobile phone alarm sequence (bells) has just gone off on his little stupidphone - it would be not out of place on chronicle of the black sword (somewhere on shade gate or the pulsing cavern). so quickly did the future come in the 80ies - by the time the decade was over all of life was changed. horsemouth's stupidphone is just an attempt (canute-like) to halt the passage of time.