The tour is here, we're playing with Kubichek! And I think I'm losing my voice! Man alive, I can be very unfortunate sometimes – warring with friends and family is one thing, but constantly being at war with your own throat strikes me as carelessness. I'm in peace talks at the moment //// appeasing it with honey and lemon and if nothing improves then I'll teach it a bloody good lesson and just sing through it. See how the bastard likes that. Like running through a stitch >>> Don't know if that's good or bad…?

Ian Miller's left us after a few days of on-the-road documenting and snapping. The van door doesn't close properly so periodically Tim does the 'door-shutting' routine which never stops being funny. JT's  FutureSex/LoveSounds is playing on the stereo and I wonder if pop talent of this sort will ever be born in this country. Them Americans sure do rhythms well. Incidentally, did they ever find that boy born who could swim faster than a shark? I hope so.

The album is out this Monday so we've received some ritual bashings from the usual suspects. I think certain people get us SO so wrong by assuming we're out to save the world or something. Nah, I'm just trying to save myself. Surely relationships and human contact make the world revolve? Well, they keep my world turning and stop insanity creeping in through the bathroom window.

Coasting, coasting, forever most things are just coasting, waiting to get to that indeterminate stage where everything crystallises, snaps into focus. I don't think the future is written so we'll have to find a way to break out of these presently limiting circles. It's all out there to be had, isn't it? Jokes to be had; food to be had; songs to be had. Boy, there's not enough hours in the day.

Jason

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