Heroes and Idiots

Looks like I'm going to be quite busy over the next few days, so here's a quick, unrefined breeze through my thoughts, to be going on with:

On the one hand, The Abu Graib torture/detention camp (set up by Iraq's last government and taken over by the latest one) has reportedly been closed down, exposés of the situation in Iraq (like the "Road to Guantanamo" documentary on Channel 4 tonight) are a common media sight, and it's hard to find real people (as opposed to newspaper columnists or Radio 4 pannelists) who retain any illusions about the Iraq war.

On the other hand, it's getting to look like America (and the UK, of course) really is preparing to bomb Iran - after a period of sanctions, most likely. And the "anomaly" or Guantanamo remains.

It's a remarkable situation - an unpopular government with domestic trobles fighting two wars in permanant stalemate with "easy targets" wants to start a third against an enemy with real teeth.

Who was it said, "Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts."?
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I've got myself a CD of David Bowie's "Heroes" album - I'm surrounded by musos who rate and recommend him highly, but I barely know his work, so it seemed a good idea to get aquainted.

Three of these musos are Strict Machines, who would like a "meetup and meal with music and merriment" to run their latest songs and variations past their sound engineer and critic-in-residence (me), before playing a major gig on Saturday.

So with the forum that's the next three evenings and nights fully booked. The rest of the time will be mostly forum research.

And then I'll record vocals and do mixing for the EP. Which should be a quick process, provided my voice behaves - well in time for the deadline near the end of the month.

And then there's another, much delayed musical collaborative project which I really want to get back into.