A meme culled from megiloth.

An entry in megiloth's blog had this meme that he yanked from athena007  whom I do not know.

Simple really: ten things you could tell your self ten years ago, knowing what you know now.



1. The music business is about to go tits up. Get your act together properly, while there's still time.

2. Buy that pre-CBS Strat for £2,500. Buy that Les Paul Custom 'fretless wonder' for £5,000. Borrow the money from the parents.

3. Keep personal hold of the name 'Urban Delta' for the record company you owned with Steve, Steve, and Chris. And when Branson wants to buy the name for seven figures, sell it with no reference to the other partners; but divide the money up equally.

4. Do not have an affair with a certain ex-chum's wife. It will destroy your social life, make you miserable for years, and contribute to you fucking up your last chance of serious money and recognition in the industry; as you hold out for a deal that would enable you to set up home with her. All of which will compromise that particular band's management's negotiations with the majors. "He wants too much money: sack him." 

5. Don't try too hard to be gay after aforementioned affair. If you can't get it up when there's a bloke around, you can't get it up. Live with it. Experimenting is fine, and will add to your repertoire, but accept the fact that men are ugly, hairy, nasty, smelly things: and you are one of them.

6. Try to keep in touch with Louis and his dad.

7. Get Dad checked out regularly by the quacks. Do not let him put aside visits to the doc because he's too busy. Try to make him proud of you in an ordinary day-to-day fashion, rather than just the last year or so of his life when helping out was all you could do. Take him to the Edinburgh Festival to relive his times in the fifties. Encourage him to have fun as well as do his duty.

8. Visit America regularly and keep in touch with the contacts you made there.

9. Even if act is together and comfort is dealt with, deputise for function band in 2000, become a full member by 2002, and make damn sure you are at the Cannes gig in 2008. Do everything exactly the same as happened there. Meet the woman who will become your wife and don't forget to marry her.

10. Remember to be as cheerful and happy as possible. Unhappiness ain't worth your time: life's too short as is. Have fun, you stupid miserable bastard: and spread as much joy as you can.

A more significant post.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/oct/22/keir-starmer-tories-human-rights

Now we come to the nub of it.

The Tories want to rescind and repudiate the Human Rights Act which is descended from the 1950 convention of human rights which we helped draft. True, they want to replace it with some amorphous new 'British' act, but what that means in actuality is moot.

More and more, as the Tories come closer to power, they are proving themselves to be incompetent and unworthy of office. Isn't it about time that folk started asking searching questions about their policies? These idiocies should be skewered as and when they come out of the mouths of these politicians. If they believe that folk are innocent until proven guilty, as is traditionally the case in British law, just how will they redraft human rights legislation to be more 'British'?

And no-one in the Media is questioning their attacks on these fundamental principles. First they get into bed with a bunch of Waffen-SS apologists, then they try to change the basis of human rights legislation in this country.

Fit for office or not, they will be installed after the next election unless something miraculous happens.

Unless they start behaving like a responsible political party, I'm going to start praying for a miracle.