horsemouth returns to the guidance of his usual diaries (death valley nights)

CAN are interviewed on a white stairwell by german tv. they affect a disdain for tv seeing music as more revolutionary but perhaps musicians are not the best people to explain the revolution, perhaps their music explains the revolution better than they can. 

as werner herzog's journey in of walking in ice has ended horsemouth will have to return to the guidance of his usual diaries and journals. this means digging them out of the book-piles. 

first out of the stacks is kilvert. (nothing from pessoa today)

'the mountain was veiled in a tender gauze of green mist and a sudden burst lit the country with a strange violent glare.' a quiet day for kilvert (this day in 1871). the day before he had walked over to glasbury to say goodbye to the vicar there, getting lost a number of times. people are very concerned about the health of the prince of wales and strangely (to horsemouth) they seem genuinely concerned. 

horsemouth has just been mucking out the chicken shed with his mother. (three times the number of chickens  three times the amount of shit, maybe more). in a bit horsemouth will  have a chat with his brother about travel arrangements. 

horsemouth has checked over the travel arrangements. his mum seems very concerned by what shoes he will be wearing. 

he has been reading lafcadio hearn's oriental ghost stories 

he has been watching 1979's the omega factor. 

in the omega factor they drink rather a lot - single malts, wine, the show seems keen to keep the audience well lubricated and relaxed (the better to shock and horrify them later). they listen to a lot of classical music on the hi-fi, they go out to a disco (don't bring me down by ELO plays from 1979's discovery and another track horsemouth does not recognise), relaxing at home on his own our hero plays dark side of the moon by pink floyd (1973). 

in the last episode of omega factor our star crossed lovers part with a film reference, leaving it all up in the air, but the follow on series does not get made. years later an audio drama sequel is made but by that time (in drama time) one of them is dead. 

ancient lake reappears in death valley

'in 2016, a series of storms with heavy rainfall brought a rare superbloom of millions of wildflowers to death valley...'

he's up. rainy morning.