Back ache has appeared � not usually an issue with me. More about the Smiths.

�The Velvets flirted with the effects of distortion and feedback, but the MC5 based their entire sound on them. They had consciously assimilated the precepts of free-jazz pioneers like Albert Ayler and John Coltrane and now sought to place their innovations in a "rock" setting....�

This is Lenny Kaye description of one of Fred and Patti�s performance at a June 1980 benefit for Detroit's symphony orchestra at the Masonic Temple in Detroit:

�The first part was Patti reading poems from her book....Fred "Sonic" [Smith] and Patti came out and they lowered a screen, and on the screen they showed a film of a Jackson Pollock painting. They turned a guitar on to feedback, leaned it up against the amp, and they played -- Fred on saxophone and Patti on clarinet ... it was real, actual improvisatory jamming, and as the soundtrack to this Jackson Pollock film was very, very heavy...�

I did some more maths on the Dream Chord � if 12 is the fundamental then 16 17 18 and 19 are ratios which give a pretty good chromatic scale from F through to Ab. All of these notes are much closer to equal temperament than the ratio of five over six which Gilbert and I use in the piece �One Point Two� � one of the longer stories. Lamont says in the interview that he doesn�t like any of the �third� intervals � in his world these are ratios using the number 5 � like one point two or 6 over 5. Nineteen over 12 is third related � it�s a minor sixth.. An alternative would be 19/16 which is 1.1875 � quite a gap between that and 1.2

Its Women�s Art Festival here in GFD � there�s an installation on the hill behind the house � thirty red wigwam like structures illuminated in the dark � quite close to the Saxon coppice. They look pretty good to me, especially in late twilight.

I have just played the first few tracks on the Doors � Break on Through � what an opening.

Vita has gone to Freiburg for a week � a German exchange. She left at 5.00am this morning, understandably nervous.

I put a worrying item up on www.kwase-kwaza.news where Claire Short explained why the UK is holding back from the Global Fund � they have obviously all gone quite mad.

This current week on kwase-kwasa looks like its going to be the second highest this year. You can�t beat having new content. About 60% of the traffic is from general Ids and of the countries the UK takes over half the remainder � leaving around 15% for other nationally specified users.Within that a third comes from the following � Canada, Belgium, Italy and South Africa. I think there is quite a big ND following in Italy which brings in the business. This page is about ninth in the ranking of referring sites.

There is a really interesting article which I have just posted from the Guardian by Jonathan Friedland on national sovereignty and intervention in Iraq. Have a look at it and boost the stats.