I am not an anarchist: I admit the need for state power.

Nice one, Volgadon. Actually I've been reading my old Bakunin and Malatesta pamphlets recently. I think at heart I'll always be an Anarchist, both in the faith that one day humanity will get there, and that in the meantime our moral duty must be the equality of corporeal objective other even as we seek to improve subjective self. One thing's for sure, we won't get anywhere miring ourselves in the rancid feudal past where the only reason people sang unaccompanied was because they were subjugated in ignorance and poverty, indentured in servile drudgery to a heartless aristocracy who no doubt thought it was all such jolly good traditional fun.

And talking of fun, do have a listen to my new recording of Wife of Usher's Well made this just morning and currently playing at http://www.myspace.com/sedayne. Traditional balladry? Oh yes, given that the vocabularies of free-improv are just as traditional to me as anything else! Of course I'd be flayed alive if I tried this down at The Steamer, but it's nice to dream...

Why do Anarchists drink herbal tea?