starmerville

horsemouth was wrong. they won't be called jenrickvilles after all. 

this concerns the conversion of now un-needed office buildings in cities into sub-standard accommodation. now this will substantially happen under a labour government (rather than a conservative one). 

horsemouth proposed the name jenrickvilles by analogy with the hoovervilles or squatter camps of the american depression (horsemouth guesses we would now say the first american depression). apparently there was a later reaganville. but of course now there is just the normalisation of homeless encampments and people sleeping in their cars. 

raynervilles anyone? healeyvilles? starmervilles? 

horsemouth thinks they will be called starmervilles. 

two dialogues from alan plater's the land of green ginger (1973)

- 'why? why shouldn't people do decent jobs and have decent lives... and live where they want to live. why mike?'

- 'cos we're all alike. we don't know any better. we let them get away with it because we don't know any better.' 

defeated by circumstances and conditions (by the conjuncture) a couple split. she goes back to london and on to a job abroad, he goes off onto the fishing boats (even though it's a dying industry). 

- 'did you find the land of green ginger?'

- 'no. we didn't look hard enough.' 

there's a clip where plater discusses it. he discusses the fact that not much happens in it. he discusses the outreach to the people of hull about it  and that, only a few years later, now that couldn't happen because of the centralised control of  tv and radio production. 

and yet there is a hope, a demand, for change. and it is there in a 1973 bbc play for today. 

‘all the movies put together make one movie of a life’ -  robert kramer film-maker. there's a piece on him in the new new left review.  they see him as a film-maker of the end of radical dreams. 

horsemouth is recovering from the anxiety he gets after drinking (the hangxiety). the anxieties are restoring themselves to their proper tasks and times. silly old mule.

it's the monday morning. tomorrow the trip to tescos. 

yesterday afternoon joe moocha was on the radio. an old school hip-hop set (stetsasonic, eric b and rakim, just-ice and krs one 'going way back') cut with moocha's own programmed cell death and east africa records  mixes.