horsemouth (reaction video)

it's the evening of the day before and horsemouth has had toothache most of the afternoon. he has had some coffee, he has had some paracetamol, he has had a beer, he has tried sleeping through it. what he really should do is get back into the habit of going to a dentist and get it sorted out like he was planning to do march of last year. 

toothache in his teeth, arthritis in his fingers, baldness, pity the poor old mule.

here we have a track by  wadada leo smith featuring pianist anthony davis, bassist malachi favors and drummer jack dejohnette.  and here we have sonny and linda sharrock (definitely) with bernard "beb" guérin  (bass) and famoudou don moye (drums) (probably). october 3rd, 1970. 

today (when it happens) is the take the eggs round, take the bin down to the bottom of the drive, day. horsemouth's books have been scattered to the four winds round the house by his mum, he has gone and retrieved the kafka diary (not that there is now an entry until 7th april). the stuff that will be published by him in his life has already been written (mostly), the stuff he wanted burned has yet to be written. his life is an endless tortured round of not being able to write (so he tells us - in his diary that he wanted max brod to burn). 

the comparison can be made with antonia white where she did burn two of her diaries. we arrive on the scene and start reading after the major events of her life (and her subsequent life is now inexplicable). 

the m.john harrison is going well - before and between the early fantasy fictions (the pastel city, a storm of wings) are interleaved the later more literary fictions viriconium knights, lords of misrule, strange great sins... while there are good lines in the earlier fictions his project is still in the shadow of michael moorcock. but he is becoming himself. 

horsemouth has been watching a fair few reaction videos of late. videos where people claim to be listening to and reacting to pieces of music for the first time. sometimes they claim to be singing coaches or guitarists, but mostly they just claim to be ordinary schmoes and to know nothing about the bands they are reviewing. like karaoke, or MCing, they have inserted themselves into the music, made their playing of the recording a performance in and of itself.  

in baltimore the key bridge is destroyed by an out of control container ship. in portugal  30% of portugal’s 15-39 year-olds have left the country because they can't afford to live there.