AWAY WITH THE GENERIC INTRODUCTION, WHO CARES WHERE IVE BEEN OR WHY I'M BACK? not you. I'm going to launch straight into it, nine things i have been/am thinking about(two thousand and NINE yeah?)
ONE - the obvious, the new president. Loved the campaign, followed it reasonably closely, obsessively watching speeches and buying into the ideal presented, i can't help it, i really just think he has a chance to actually change things and i believe that he can, if he changes the medical system i will be happy. Whether he will or not remains to be seen and with each passing day i can't help but feel that he will fall the same way as Tony Blair and Bill Clinton, disgraced in public opinion, by the media, whereas in objective opinion it would be hard not to accept them as successful.
I am worried about things. the next three of the NINE (two thousand and NINE yeah?) will outline my immediate worries.
TWO - The Conservative Party being elected to run the United Kingdom. I know there might not be an election until 2010, depending on what Gordon Brown's plan to get elected will be. Personally i would suggest a flat out, i am good at economics, our economy is fucked, please let me keep the keys, other than giving them to a good looking face covering up an ugly party. If the conservatives get into power, obviously there is the immediate moral dilemma - what is their current stance on immigration? are we going to be deporting? but overwhelmingly for me is the public service funding worries, what the hell is going to happen to our funding, have you been to a hospital recently.. ok ok..
THREE - NHS Hospitals. In the past three months i have been to hospitals maybe two or three times, never anything bad but thats neither here nor there. Waiting times are shocking, the buildings are falling apart. This is excerbated for me personally by the fact that in my home town of Hemel Hempstead they are shutting down the hospital in March. This will leave the entire population of Hemel Hempstead and surrounding areas scrambling over to the SMALLER hospital in Watford. It seems unfathomable to me, realistically this will change my confidence in being able to attain healthcare, especially in an emergency, and we want to elect the CONSERVATIVES! and actually REDUCE public spending on the NHS. WHAT?!
FOUR - Identity Cards. Identity Cards Act 2006 - google it. unbelievable. I'm not actually so worried about the actual introduction of it (which will, in fairness, render the last scraps of our privacy and autonomy dead) but more so the seeming ignorance of the public about the scheme; many people that i have spoken to about it are not pleased about of the amount of information proposed to be held. There is a requirement for further legislation to actually roll the cards out on a mandatory basis, but still, things don't generally become less acceptable as time goes on, the principle of function creep will kick in.
Personal things - well this is a blog, lets be honest bloggers; there is self indulgence at hand, even if there is no self reference in your blog. I choose to embrace it.
FIVE - Stages of life - i feel like i'm moving to the next stage of my life as i am leaving University in May, or actually June because i will stay here for a month hanging out and drinking. This is fairly exciting as i am interested as to what the next stage of my life will hold for me. The economy is bad and i dont know what work will be available, and anyhow i quite fancy messing about for a couple of years whilst working, music is in store i think.
SIX - Leading on; Music. I have been utterly obsessed with instrumental Hip Hop, its a phaze that i haven't been through before and im enjoying it. If you are interested - Flying Lotus, Samiyam, Harmonic 313 and Bullion have been on my stereo so much, so much so that i forgot to play guitar for three weeks.
SEVEN - I feel i'm losing my format a little here as things seem to be leading on still... never mind. RECORDING! Reason has been my main outlet probably due to the aforementioned, slightly embarassing/uncharacteristic Hip Hop obsession. I think im getting better, i hope so anyway. i really want to buy one physical hardware synth, maybe like an old mini korg or an old ASR 10 or something, i also want to get sampling hmm. I'm hoping to break out of this phase and try some other styles too though, maybe big beat pop records.... i could sell them....
EIGHT - customary rant - why don't you want to do anything with your life? This thought was sparked off by someone i heard about who i don't particularly want to name as i don't know who will read this, but needless to say, broad opportunities. There are so many things that you can do with your life, you could go travelling, constantly, see the world, move to a different city, become an artist/ an author/ a musician. Work in an area of your choice even if theres no money in it, but don't do nothing! why would you do that? this guy sits in his house at the age of nineteen, holding out for "something good". why not even get a job at where the hell ever and go and get trashed at the weekend, wouldnt be my personal choice but i could at least comprehend the idea. bleeding hell.
NINE - Endings - appropriate for the last part of this entry; things ending. I know i'm not old or anything, but things seem to be ending and as i write this im realising that maybe this links into my previous point about the next stage of my life. University is ending and soon i will have to find work and i wont see many of the people that i see regularly here as much. In addition, at home peoples plans seem to be differing, faltering from original promises and expectations. I guess this is the way things go, i've often wondered why older people don't seem to have the wide friendship groups that exist at my age and i guess this gradual breaking down and branching off takes its toll. My hope for Two Thousand and Nine is not to Sloo shit up as it was in 2002 or to stay alive as it was in 2005 (dangerous times) but simply to try to protect and keep up the things that are important to me as everything changes around me, namely friends, family and also to try to give effect to my hopes for the future, even though the balancing act between the three may prove to be difficult, this is my hope even though, no, this does not rhyme with the number Nine.
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