Things blew all over the place on the day that I was born. It was windy. Dried leaves crashed against the walls of the homeopathic hospital. I was alive. I was alive in the horror.

The givers huddled over me like a football team. They started to give me things and then to take them away. The things that didn’t fit they chucked back into the funnel of the void. The gifts were many and many were the warnings that went with them.

We are giving you great heart but if you drink wine you will begin to hate the world. The moon is your sister but if you take sleeping pills you will find yourself in the company of unhappy women. Every time you grab at love you will lose a snowflake of your memory.

My mother was lying not far away and I heard her cry “He isn’t mine!” My noble parent cried to my ears alone from her bed of blood and water. I heard her say it and I thanked her for the truth with a shriek of joy. I was not born into a family. I was fully protected.

The hammers fell on the infants everywhere but i was saved on a river in the beautiful autumn land of egypt.

I’ve seen this passage attributed to Leonard Cohen, but I have no idea where it comes from. Does anyone know? It’s been haunting me for a week …

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Last Summer, UK’s Channel Four ran a documentary about Tony Blair’s failed attempts at rock stardom whilst at University. The band were named Ugly Rumours and tallied an impressive six gigs before implosion. Unfortunately, that streak of destruction never left our smiling leader, and decades later he waged an illegal war in Iraq.

Stop the War Coalition organised the march of close to two million people in London just before the invasion of Iraq. You may recall a post on the charismatic and egotistical George Galloway. As head of the Respect Party, he is a key player in the Stop the War Coalition. George Galloway makes a cameo appearance as the arresting officer at the end of the video.

Stop the War Coalition has formed a band under the same moniker, Ugly Rumours, and fronted it with a Tony Blair lookalike. (The physical similarities are pretty poor). The single, released in January only as a download version is now tipped to top the UK charts this Sunday.

View the punchy, low budget version of Edwin Starr’s classic song War.

This proves to me one thing – Despite the ongoing denial in mainstream media about the heinous crimes and lies of Blair, Bush and their governments, the opposition still has humour, invention and truth on their side. They also have a voice … and some great lip sinking to boot!

Blair’s Dream of rock stardom has arrived, and I am sure Tony appreciates the the cooing street-level pedestrians, ala Beatles.

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