'everything under the sky...'

'in this little book of travel is included everything under the sky...' 

- soryu (1694) postscript to the copy he made of the narrow road to the deep north.

today no kilvert. 

instead some mail art from rob lawson in far off riogordo

courtesy of the correos, the royal mail, and the tabac in rob's village.

a) a fantastic CD from rob  in a card sleeve. completed with;

b) press release and b-side handwritten note.

c) chapbook with text in the riddley walker style including a photo of rob and one of his homemade instruments

d) an invitation to join a mail art network

post-apocalyptic folk of the riddley walker (russell hoban) variety. a review to follow soon.

and soon a follow up CD including collaborations between rob and horsemouth's french cousin mâchoire d'âne.

horsemouth was intrigued by rob's list of influences for this project.

books

riddley walker (russell hoban) horsemouth has read. probably back in the squats of hackney in about 1985. when it was curiously on message. 

horsemouth would probably put in michael jefferies after london/ wild england as well. 

the 17 (bill drummond) horsemouth has not read. 

the death of grass/ the disaffection (john christopher/ james kelman) horsemouth has not read. but he's read a book by kelman. there's a thing with demotic and the recording of spoken language in non-standard forms as written text here that bears thinking about. that standardisation of language by print is very much  part of the national(ist)  project generating a national language (or so benedict anderson's imagined communities would argue). 

there's that tension between written and spoken language that you  find in claude lévi-strauss also. 

films/ tv

threads/ survivors - survivors was very important to horsemouth. to this he would probably add the changes and the good life, that whole GB75/ back to the land thing. the times themselves were apocalyptic and people looked to a kind of post-apocalyptic utopia/ dystopia of a folk horror-ish back to the land. 

music

only michael o'shea on this list means anything to horsemouth really.  

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yesterday morning an egg delivery (including nearly being runover by martin on the way there).  after that horsemouth collected some ashes from the great burning to put on the garden (good as fertiliser and good against slugs). 

yesterday afternoon. an egg delivery. 

today even warmer (apparently). horsemouth is up (he has his coffee). he has been out to feed the chickens (who seem to be off their food). he had the windows of his room open over night and has now closed them the better to try and keep the coolness in. in a bit he will close the curtains to keep out the sunlight. 

about a week of hot dry weather to come. should horsemouth add ballard's the drought to that list?