A gift to the people

Blessing be upon you dear reader,

I have had a small moment to contemplate the meaning of generosity following the return of 15 Marines after their kidnap by Iran.

It seems to me that the West has been comprehensively out- P.R'd by our Islamic bretheren this time and whilst there has been a huge amount of speculation about power struggles and factional infighting in Iran the truth is that they just got really pissed off with being made out to be the bad guys all the time.

The US kidnapped 5 of their guys in January and pretended that they knew nothing about it. They have lost 2 generals to "special forces" snatch squads and just like us they were pretty hacked off about it. So they grabbed some of our blokes and then made a big show of giving them back after 2 weeks of stalling and making Blair look like a pussy. I guess that sometimes what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

In otherwords - the politicians deserved a good slap from Mr Ahmadinajad this time.

I am glad that no one got killed for once.

The generous gesture is a pretty fair analogy for what should happen in the music world right now.

There are major powers out ther who are happily fucking with our lives and really egging on the reactionary forces by claiming that the cyber world is real and that we should all aspire to become Avatars living our lives by proxy.

I say - Bollocks!

Real life is far more important and if you want to spend your lives in the pointless pursuit of virtual thrills you should istead try to learn something.

Like for example, the gift that is music itself.

Don't fool yourself that the only way to go is down the Western music road.

Did you know for example that Arabic music has a whole different set of scales with 24 notes in an octave? Or that they sing in quarter tones which we don't even acknowledge in the West?

If you did - Great.
If you didn't you need to find these things out. That way you might just be the guy who invents a whole new way of making music just like those old Blues guys became the basis for all the stuff we play today.

ADVOCATE CHANGE

ADVOCATE KNOWLEDGE

ADVOCATE GENEROSITY

Happy Easter