“it’s like a goddamned conspiracy” (the birth of alice coltrane)

as you can see there has been a horsemouthfolk  blog since 2013. before that even he was on the redoubtable myspace,  serving up a similar mixture of disguised commentary on his existence and oblique fantasy (all allegedly in support of his music 'career'). for much of it blogs were either advertised on facebook or written on facebook using the notes tool and selectively copied over to blogger (as required).

so here horsemouth is. he is sitting up in bed (well slouched back). in his brother's old bedroom in the wilds of herefordshire. it is on the side of the house that gets the light in the morning so he tends to wake up early. he goes downstairs, opens the curtains, makes himself a pot of coffee, perhaps goes out and waters the plants in the green house. (in a while he will water the flowers round the house and over by the garage). 

there is a second greenhouse but it has become shaded out by the trees round it. (restoring it to light would be a major operation).

ok he's got a second cup of coffee (now he's sat up, semi-lotus). 

last night horsemouth was confusing mary shelley with sylvia pankhurst (imagining mary shelley a defender of ethiopia against italian fascism). he had been reading brian aldiss on mary shelley's frankenstein. this aldiss acclaims as the first modern science fiction novel (asimov claims something similar at some point).  aldiss also recommends mary shelley's the last man (horsemouth may have it somewhere). 

later he read a little of jad adams' madder music, stronger wine  about victorian decadent poet ernest dowson (apparently there's a dowson's wharf, or at least a wharf owned by the dowson family, somewhere on the thames but horsemouth cannot find it). 

this morning horsemouth wishes to compare mary shelley and alice coltrane - both the widows of famous men who went on to make their  the own amazing things. it is alice coltrane's birthday. 

yesterday horsemouth failed to make it out to the various weirdshire events at the hereford riverside carnival. (for this he feels guilty). 

today (hopefully) the fellers at the house will send him the electricity and gas meter readings and he can record them on the company website. 

ok breakfast. the weather today? clearish but not particularly sunny or warm.