words of advice for young people (man with a metal detector)

kenneth anger and distorted guitars (but not really the rolling stones)

'probably the best thing I've ever found is a bronze statue of a roman dog, which is in ipswich museum. it got me 3000 pounds. I found it on one of the fields just up the road... it was probably six or seven inches down. it's bronze. lovely. second-century roman. one of the men working on the farm saw me jumping up and down when I found it... but I only found one metal dog in thirteen years. the roman dogs don't turn up too often.'  - darren clarke, man with a metal detector, in return to akenfield, craig taylor. 

here we have him a real life detectorist heading up the private passions section of a portrait of an english village in the 21st century. by this point (2006) they have the internet. and indeed horsemouth types this from the countryside (it's raining out there incidentally). 

'in roman cult worship, dogs were seen as agents of healing (through the licking of wounds) and as protectors of the dead. such animal statuettes would be kept with those of the lares or household gods.'

there was some discussion of the role of dogs in a review of under the silver lake (a film by the it moves director). there dogs were held to be intrinsically socialistic (unlike coyotes and chimpanzees). 

spain speaks was wandering around madrid and the central and most chi-chi barrios. earlier he had been discussing the upcoming spanish election - the wheels have come off the PSOE and podemos (we can) thing, podemos's candidates have compromised themselves in working with the PSOE (some more than others), the remaining left parties have formed a block called sumar (to unite or add up) with podemos joining with four hours to spare and not being able to bring over all their candidates.

the election will be held 23rd july in the middle of the holiday season which is likely to discourage people from voting/ piss people off and encourage them to vote. the way it looks at the moment is that it will bring the right-wing PP and vox parties into power in a coalition. so not a good thing. 

last night was the  kind of hot sticky night when tempers flare easily.

it can wait until the morning is good advice. (though not too early in the morning, many people are not good in the morning). 

howard has posted over a link to a horsemouth/ howard improv track that they recorded (way back when) on the 8-track zoom recorder itself. howard does the kind of circular picking he does on serpent(S) and adds some swooshy synth noises (made on an iPad). horsemouth adds some slide guitar. there are some street-sounds also. it's kind of like one of those middle era pink floyd soundtracks, such ad the one for barbet shroeder's la vallée, (a.k.a. obscured by clouds). 

ok it's a nice cool morning. horsemouth is about to go and get another cup of coffee.