maybe what the world needs is more of his writing

 a 'partially written the day before' blogpost

horsemouth is back from over howard's. they have completed the third and final (in this tranche) of rehearsals for the upcoming musicians of bremen gig on august 24th. 

where is this magical gig you may ask? horsemouth will tell you closer to the date. 

they rehearsed the songs they have been rehearsing of late but in a more efficient 'this is the set... let's play it' fashion. amárach  finally started sounding decent. horsemouth had taken over the resonator guitar and this enabled it to cut through - that and the fact that he was playing it better, and that howard had remembered how to play his bits etc.

of course they still need to do things like copy out and learn the lyrics to all the various songs. horsemouth needs to walk through the guitar part on amárach  again and again and again to try and get it smooth. 

after the practice (and after howard had fed him) horsemouth did not feel like going up the pub so he came home. at stratford the overground was delayed so horsemouth decided to walk back (about two and a half miles across clays lane park and the playing fields). 

it was a bright sunny day. by monday it will be 31C (when horsemouth is struggling back with his book-boxes in a wheely carry-on bag). horsemouth will try and go early. 

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so it's the morning. horsemouth has his coffee and it's a bit grey and cool out there (cool if not technically cold). 

there's a music festival in canada water but horsemouth can't find out who's playing. there's on down in greenwich peninsula but the line up looks dull. he's got a birthday party to go to. 

cinemas are funny places. horsemouth no longer goes (he can no longer afford it). mostly  he watches films on youtube/ daily motion (and before that DVDs from the library) this is how he watched the bela tarr movies. a friend was complaining that they are dull it's not eraserhead or stalker or tetsuo iron man granted but they are pleasant enough.  tarr does that black and white and a seedy post-industrial, eastern european vibe very well. horsemouth is not sure there's anything very deep going on but he has enjoyed watching tarr's films.

ok horsemouth will post this, go out to check the powerscroft road book-box (he's going up to drop off the last of his book-haul from the sociology of education stash, excellent it all seems to have gone). he tried to post something up on substack but it seems to have vanished into the stacks - he will try again later. (maybe what the world needs is more of his writing). 

ok he's up some nasturtium fruit (to take back to weirdshire and plant), a book about nina simone's gum, and a small black notebook with some kids scrawls in it.