please save this (all is digital)

 

horsemouth was looking for photos of the current gaff but he couldn't find them - so he found these instead. what a wonderful exciting life he leads. 

as you can see if you squint there are a number of photos of horsemouth playing guitar - from his first ever solo guitar gig and while recording guitar for musicians of bremen volume one and volume three. firstly you see horsemouth drunk and happy at an afterparty, finally his guitar hero john fahey appears to give him encouragement (at last), . 

here you see more photos of his flat down in pop(u)lar, his laramie (hummingbird copy) guitar, his guild resonator, playing with minty, morven, siobhan and lisa, playing bass with the snatch foster band. 

horsemouth shares with you a selection of the photos from horsemouth folk archive because the archive is now a source of anxiety.  see he even documents the snipping tool he is using. 

he documents his last gig for one of max's book launches, rehearsals for musicians of bremen's most recent gig and them getting drunk in the big empty pub (now deceased again). 

there. and you're all caught up - the process reaches its natural exhaustion. horsemouth shows you boxes containing paper diaries (his own and thoreau's), he shows you maps and mountains, chats and zoom sessions, book annotations and book covers, book shelves. 

'these are a few of his favourite things'

our lives are much more photographed than ever they were. 

debí tirar más fotos ‘I should have taken more photos’ people no longer say.

horsemouth thanks enza, howard, john clarkson, jonny and denise, gertrude, sally, max 'crow' reeves, TG, and of course himself (because many of these photos are in fact artfully composed selfies).  no physical photographic film was harmed in the making of these photographs, no chemical changes were undergone, all is digital. 

 

the guy who wrote this  book on reading (peter szendy) and who has written extensively on listening and music, has also written on cameras and photographs. 

horsemouth is enjoying the grid while at the same time speculating on the algorithm that produced it. he's done the chickens. in a bit he'll go and do the abbey. he has his coffee. there's a possibility of zoom beers with howard later (but he may be too knackered).

he continues to read fernando pessoa's the book of disquiet. some of the entries are dated and so will be able to appear here in horsemouth's diaristic fashion.