far from the madding crowd (a vagabond)

above a mix by dave webb from his most recent new river studios show.

'he who practices art is a vagabond, a nomadic survivor who will never find a home among people who have become settled.'  — adorno and horkheimer.

at least that's what art forum claims in its article on mario merz. 

horsemouth listened to a podcast about crowds with novara media and dan hancox largely based on the work of premier crowd theorist gustav le bon. horsemouth had not realised that le bon was an eyewitness to the paris commune of 1871 - this may mean re-reading him soon.  dan seems to be more of an elias canetti man (crowds are good, well if not good at least very human) but he doesn't seem to say so (which horsemouth finds strange). 

a package has arrived 

(but not the package you understand). 

if it arrives horsemouth will let you know. 

the bid for the warm homes social housing fund wave 3 has gone in (woop woop). 

soon (well, march if it's anything like last time) the communal endeavour should hear if it has been successful. win or lose horsemouth thanks 'the team' for putting the bid together. he will now cross his fingers and keep them crossed. if there have been any fuck ups it is too late to correct them now.

if it is successful it will enable the communal endeavour to insulate its houses (and flats in houses) up  to an energy performance certificate C standard (for this is the level that the government's measures are targeted at rather than 90 kwh/m2/year heating requirement target that wave 2 was aimed at). of course lowering this target will enable the government to use its money more effectively to produce more EPC Cs but it does mean that when completed and the measures are fitted the houses won't be as warm as they were initially planned to be (but hey ho). 

horsemouth himself is far from the madding crowd (but that doesn't mean they don't still drive him mad).