'last night the waning moon shone bright and cold in the east and I had a horrible dream that I was married to mrs. danzey and living as a curate in gwythian. I woke up in a cold sweat...' - kilvert's diary, 16th november 1870.
last night beaver's moon (in the farmer's almanac moon classification allegedly lifted from native american sources). the last of four consecutive super moons for the year.
today (with about one hour's notice) the delivery of the washing machine.
'the relation between what we see and what we know is never settled... the way we see things is affected by what we know or what we believe... every image embodies a way of seeing. even a photograph... our perception or appreciation of an image depends also upon our own way of seeing...'
thus is john berger's ways of seeing paraphrased in olivia laing's documentary. it's the end of the third lockdown, she gets the 55 bus into to go to the national gallery to see a giovanni di paolo. her intro is reminiscent of la jetée the1962 french science fiction feature directed by chris marker. (horsemouth has berger and marker slightly confused in his head too).
horsemouth has been touring back between the blog entries of his decembers and his januaries. he's been looking for inspiration to write the great summary of the year but before that there's the golden glow christmas carol with the three mixes by horsemouth and howard each released 6 days apart in december.
the problem for horsemouth is how to collect and celebrate the other 3 mixes done by himself and howard in the other months of the year - normally he just reposts them on the day they were released (similar to his alice coltrane celebrations).
horsemouth often enjoys reading his old blogs. sometimes he has an enthusiasm (a research project) and you can see it in the text. between enthusiasms he is just drifting,
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