Our first attempt at a new sound, vis-a-vis electrified tin can drums, synthsizers, and a tambourine. Is it mid-life crisis, or is it art? I don't care, as long as we can play out soon for an appreciative crowd. As a wise man once said, other people's ecstasy habits are good for our self esteem!

I shouldn't have put him on the spot like this - right in the middle of a fund-raiser; I just couldn't maintain the expected level of repression. I saw him and I had to rush up and tell the world about "us". He was pissed off at my incompetent bungling, but he backed off when I brought up Iraq, Alberto G., illegal surveillance, and all stuff like that.

'nuff said

Desert grit is not too compatible with expensive electronics.