who's election was this anyways?

LONDON -- The political price that Tony Blair pays at home for his enthusiastic partnership with President Bush in Iraq is made clear to a visitor who asks a London cabbie about the impending national election. "Oh, Vice President Blair will get back in," comes the sardonic reply. -- the Washington Post

hah...sorry, but that's just funny...

stuff to think about...

When considering an undertaking…

look at your motivation, clearly & dispassionately & impartially, as if towards your closest friend or brother. why does he want this? what necessity does it hold for him?

if this is necessary for him, it will be possible. if this is to get him something he wants for himself, it will be very hard.

-- Robert Fripp

more of fripp on copyrights...

Fripp:

From the Guitar Craft diary of William Frederick for Tuesday 15th. February… W

< Last autumn, ____ Records re-released CDs on which I have performance and writing credits. On the 6th of Feb, I was told that the publishing rights of these CDs has been stolen, including what is assumed to be advance money. Efforts by my legitimate publisher to discover the details of these goings-on have been met with stalling and stonewalling. Litigation isn't far behind… One would think that something so profoundly illegal and criminally intended couldn't actually get this far…

The music industry is fundamentally corrupt. Whether other industries are as corrupt, I'm not able to say. Probably, where the service-suppliers are vulnerable & unlikely/unwilling to take action against transgressors, then abuse & exploitation are just as likely. In my own affairs, undertaking legal action over a six-year period (1991-97) is a clear declaration of willingness to resort to litigation to obtain what is owed, when the shortfall is intentional and/or unintentionally-intentional. This clear willingness-to-act is most likely the reason why Virgin Records & BMG Publishing settled huge amounts of underpayment 2 years ago.

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In 2005, any manager who asks for their artist's copyrights triggers a large neon sign declaring I am a fuck-face bastard! The onus, today, is on the manager to explain why that are not what the neon sign proclaims them to be.

to counter my classic cheese-puff catching moment of last month...

catching a pringles chip you just dropped between your legs is the most utterly pointless thing you can attempt with a potato chip.