several wrong decisions (in a row)

'in schramberg, things seemed to be still in order: fried goose at the tavern, card players playing skat... a climb up to the fortress instead of down, then along the chain of hills to the lauterbach valley. black forest farms come into view without warning, and a completely different dialect, also without warning. I’ve probably made several wrong decisions in a row concerning my route...'

- werner herzog, of walking in ice,  december 3rd 1974. 

horsemouth's life often looks to him like several wrong decisions in a row. (he thinks there's a song in this).  horsemouth's hyper-critical brain cannot see it any other way, and yet the resulting pattern is his life which is what it is. 

today a rainy day (but not yet the heavy rain which was promised). probably some reading, some listening to the radio etc. (horsemouth doesn't see that anything can be done outside). 

horsemouth has effectively engaged in NO cultural production for the year 2025

at the most he has continued with his substack postings (his goodreads ones have fallen into abeyance). even there (with a few minor exceptions) he has only posted reworked versions of pieces he has posted before. 

he has continued with his blogging here (that much is true). a perpetual sorting and resorting of the material to see if there is anything in it. he has passed the 19th anniversary of his starting blogging. 

he has made no new music himself and has been out to see very little in the year

the bermondsey folk festival, the hackney peace mural celebration, jazz jamaica at the showing of babylon,  soft white underbelly (aka. the blue oyster cult). 

he has kept up the bell-ringing and is beginning to see progress with it. 

he has finally moved out of the wen and into the wilds

by the end of the year he will have been out here (in his entirety) for 90plus days. he is slowly, slowly sneaking up on the state pension age. sadly, it being the wilds, he will have to wait until then to get his bus pass (how unfair is that?). 

here decentish weather today and tomorrow. friday back to the rain.