'I have written nothing...' (failure to blow up parliament and the king)

'because I had slept very little during the night, did not work anymore, partly too because I was afraid to spoil a fair passage I had written yesterday. since august, the fourth day on which I have written nothing...' - franz kafka, diary, 3rd november 1914. 

'only one regret. I hate to leave while there is so much going on.' - luis bunuel, my last breath, final paragraph. 

horsemouth types this on the afternoon/ evening of the 2nd november (but it will be the 3rd when you read it). 

horsemouth may have to find something to read. he is finding listening to the covid inquiry and the news (mostly israel/ palestine) depressing.  the xavier de maistre (a journey around my room) has very small text - this makes the slim volume very stylish, but also difficult to read late at night. 

horsemouth has made the mistake of not going out for a walk in the break between the rains (or a slip-slide in the mud more like) this would have lifted his mood. he noticed a 2024 dore abbey calendar for sale  in the abbey (he may have to go out and buy one). 

the triple negative book will not be arriving until mid-november say his sources. horsemouth is looking forward to it. 

one advantage of being out of london at the minute is that he will be missing bonfire night (and the month of firework detonations before and after). bigot that he is horsemouth will gladly have fireworks for diwali but not to celebrate the failure to blow up parliament and the king (which as an added bonus would also have prevented/ delayed the union of england and scotland). 

he listened to  '... an hourlong manipulation of sounds, noises and voices taken albums originally released by the cook and folkways record labels...' by matmos from the NTS/ folkways day. it's enjoyable but sound is just sound beyond a certain level of  digital reconfiguring. this he finds more impressive because it involves a turntablist remanipulation of  locked groove samples. 

nice footage of john coltrane at the house up in dix hills in the clip at the top of the page (horsemouth went on to listen to a love supreme after this). there's some nice footage of alice coltrane (appearing here as 'mrs. coltrane'), michelle coltrane and john junior. 

last night horsemouth read a little of explorer erling kagge's silence - in the age of noise. (like werner herzog he is a great walker). 

it's the morning of the 3rd. horsemouth is up and golden sunshine is blasting in the window. last night there was a facebook outage (lots of running around and swearing). 

at some point (ok midday) there will be a post-bid consortium meeting. there may be new stuff on the table (or there may not). remind horsemouth to remind his mother (in case she wants to cart him off shopping or something). today decent weather (mostly).