blah blah paper versus digital/ blah blah records versus CDs/ blah blah CDs versus downloads

here's a torygraph article on journals. youngster versus oldster. you can probably winkle it out for free fit for a while but you know roughly what it will say. blah blah paper versus digital/ blah blah records versus CDs/ blah blah CDs versus downloads. 

horsemouth sides with the oldster (physical paper diaries) but he realises it's rubbish (he hardly writes anything in his physical paper diary. 

and of course that's not where he is typing this... (first facebook then blogger).

on this day

boswell has departed london (he'll be back). kilvert is saying goodbye to cornwall 'the last pleasant excursion. the last happy day.' kafka battles the landlord. 

thirteen quarto notebooks make up kafka's diaries. there are three travel diaries also and there are also the 'blue octavo notebooks' for working up literary ideas (though these sometimes occur in the diary proper also). 

the battle to retrieve boswell's papers from oblivion we have described before. kilvert's diaries were 'a collection of 22 old notebooks, variously shaped and bound' so plommer (his literary executor) tells us. 

some friends are releasing a book and a cassette. horsemouth has purchased it (he has no idea what he will do with the cassette).  the book will join the shelf of books published/ self-published by horsemouth's friends (minty's comics, max's photography, dave social control and robert lawson's poetry etc.).  another friend has purchased a sproatley smith CD - horsemouth is pleased to have been able to facilitate the connection. 

so endeth bandcamp friday for august. here it is rainy and grey in texas however books are spontaneously combusting (hence horsemouth's playing fahrenheit 451 a posthumous bob calvert/ hawkwind collaboration). 

today (judging by what he can see out of the window) horsemouth will not be up to a lot. (reading the torygraph and farting about on the internet horsemouth suspects).  in about half an hour breakfast, in the afternoon a beer with his mum and then a beer over zoom with howard. howard has bought a dulcimer (it sounds great). howard is currently engaged in recording more music and musicians themselves will reconvene at some point soon.  

over on the world at one yesterday about 22 minutes of the best discussion horsemouth has heard yet about net zero and decarbonisation. it is (as one respondent puts it) 'not all upside'. a lot of infrastructure (and infrastructure of fairly epic proportions) has to be built - all that new generating capacity has to be linked to the grid and the grid itself has to be vastly upgraded to handle the extra juice if people are going to switch from burning fossil fuels to using air-source heat pumps to heat their homes. these are not problems for horsemouth fortunately, all he has to do is get some insulation slapped in or on the houses and flats of the communal endeavour.