Head midi keyboard bad back (titchy MAudio Oxygen 8 ) techno interaction in mp3 format.  Used a mouse for soft-synths/appegiators, drumline (drum midi track + a panning break), a dual delay on a wah wah loop (randomly adjusting the timing on the second with keyboard dial), and quantization for the headbutt input (looped and shuffled):

Headbutting a keyboard (fuck my back) pt 1 by jpt.

It could be awful.   It is, after all, essentially headbutting a keyboard with a drumline, and some mixing.   I don’t feel so bad uploading it with disclaimers. Plus the painkillers are kicking in.

Spacer 101.

Spacer100.

As I sit, on my arse, eating a sausage sandwich, the semi-rhetorical question occurs: Why do we have to have nutmeg in everything? It’s everywhere. Sausages. Cake. Fucking nutmeg. I hate nutmeg. I know it’s in a lot of Italian food. Yeah, I know it has traditionally been in some sausages. What do I mean WE? I include everyone who dislikes nutmeg and those unwilling to tolerate it elsewhere. It’d be unfair to include those who don’t like, or are not keen, on nutmeg but tolerate it anyway. And people who like nutmeg. Fuck it.

I’m typing this on a radio keyboard and I’m cynical as hell because my back’s on fire, and somewhat (read: quite a bit, lol) off my tits on painkillers. With that caveat in mind:

No confidential service should ever provide information publicly that could lead to the identification of its users. Regardless of intentions. I’m sure there are reasonable exceptions and that’s a whole other debate, which is beyond the scope of my current pained keyboard jizz. The recent National Bullying Helpline media ruckus, via its head, Christine Pratt, was started by, essentially, a breach of confidentiality. I won’t recap the affair, I’m sure, unless you’ve given up news, you’re aware of the background.

I don’t think Christine Pratt should be subject to vilification beyond a breach of confidentiality. I don’t think there is much of a story. It was reported, initially, with very few journalists even attempting The Five Ws. The headline should have been “Charity head relates anecdote which may or may not relate to Gordon Brown”.

Gordon Brown could be a massive toss pot, and I’m really not a fan, and wouldn’t vote for him, but in this internets age are anecdotes enough? Is that what constitutes news?

I really can’t attribute any specific blame to journalists, politicians, or people who consume news, but there’s bigger things to address. Like the economy, particularly, the thing that will constrain whichever government is elected. Or minor distractions (at least to me, I’m really not interested in photographing towns and cities, or people – they’re annoying) like photographers being subject to hassle from police under anti-terrorism powers (link via @glinner). Or retarded UK libel laws.

I could segue into some kind of righteous list of stuff that’s more important than anecdotes, but, I don’t know about a lot of things, and, as I have done in the past, would be falling into the trap of talking about complicated things in a simplistic, and somewhat biased way. As is the internets wont.

It could be argued that anecdotes about one of the people in charge of our country are important, that the character of a politician is something we are right to want to know about. Given their personality informs their decisions. My problem with that is that there are a minority of people who are both talented, and arseholes, so judging on personality alone isn’t enough, and can distract from real issues, like the economy, or the police wasting their time with photographers and the like, or other complicated things.

Nick Clegg, and David Cameron did themselves no favours by joining in.

We need a grown up nuanced debate, and what we’ve got is a circus. Professional trolling. Roll on the election. I’m sure it will be very depressing, and I do hope Jeremy Vine gets out his cowboy suit again. Yee har!