mixing memory and desire ('here is the man with three staves, and here the wheel')

this is another 'completely written in the morning blogpost'. as usual it was a beautiful dawn but now the sun has ascended up into the clouds it becomes another greyish day. interesting, changeable weather this afternoon possibly heavy rain tonight. 

horsemouth posted the opening of the wasteland  

'april is the cruellest month' etc. - 

previously he has used only the london bridge scene (he would take people to london bridge and intone 'I could not believe death had undone so many'  and then take them up king william street to st.mary woolnoth (a hawksmoor no less). 

'here is the man with three staves, and here the wheel'

is it wrong of horsemouth to hear the motto of the sirius cybernetics corporation in his head everytime  he comes to share and embed a youtube video in one of his pages? everytime now he hears share and enjoy, share and enjoy... 

RIP drummer albert "tootie" heath of the heath brothers. he died at 88 a few days ago. he played on this (as sampled by q-tip for a push-button mixtape and used as a backing track by nas for one love).

elsewhere hawkwind are off on tour, releasing a new album.  the chemistry is never where you think it is, it's a funny thing with bands. 

robin greenfield - who once walked around in a suit made of all the rubbish he generated in his existence - is making a film on school dinners in the US. this is a great idea (horsemouth knows food, and in particular institutional food, is a big bugbear for his friend seven sisters spices). he has been enjoying reading her substacks, sometimes about food, sometimes about the mechanics of social media marketing, sometimes about the struggles of surviving and thriving in this deeply unjust world. 

hmmn. horsemouth  once saw ian saville (was it?) the marxist magician who explained the labour theory of value with some kind of black box rabbit out of a hat trick ((the rabbit is not a worker - but he is a factor of production horsemouth believes) but horsemouth is not sure even this was a complete enough description of the process). 

in many ways horsemouth thinks the days of productive capital and even production are coming to an end (at least in the west) and we are (re)turning to an era of 'do as you're told peasant (and kick up the rent)!' capitalism may be over and is being replaced by rapacious rent seeking.

example: your kids have to go to school by law and there the only food available is  eat  cheap to produce but strangely expensive to provide lunches from a global logistics company (blackwater for example).  it is (as yannis varoufakis argues) something worse than capitalism we are moving from being workers to being merely farmed. 

what is it that horsemouth will remember most from 15 years (nearly) of tory rule? he thinks he will remember the most recent thing (recency effect) - so probably the dick pics, yes dick pics and blackmail. now there's a legacy for you.