the bird with the crystal plumage and butter wouldn't melt

ok nothing is leaping out of the stacks at him suggesting that october 25th has any magical particularity about it.

next week horsemouth and his mum are on abbey duty. remind him to go down and unlock it in the morning (and to lock it back up at night). in the week the weather gradually goes from bad to worse and worse still in the next week (but anyway by that point we are into november). 

horsemouth has already prepared some of his read,  listened to, watched list for october 2025. 

horsemouth is about 2/3rds of the way through black mass by john gray (currently we are with the disinformation that led up to the gulf war).  leo strauss has made an appearance (horsemouth has gone and got his book on machiavelli (thoughts on machiavelli) out of the garage, maybe he should go and get his books by machiavelli (the prince, the discourses on livy) out of the garage also).  

he has been watching the bird with the crystal plumage (dario argento's first movie as director) and bloody great it is. it has one of those super creepy butter wouldn't melt morricone theme tunes and slightly more atonal cue music than usual (at argento's request).