�I WANT A TRIO AND I WANT ONE NOW!� I had a good day today. I booked tickets for Alkaline Trio and once again I am gig-happy and will be going with a trio of good-looking girlies. Lucky Mike. I just read Duncan�s updated blog which is always a joy: �Anu buys the cassingle (still a valid vehicle for chart success here) of some song that is getting huge rotation here and haunts every coffeeshop, bar and bus. The guy says �yeaheaheay� with real heartache before a fantastic Yamaha bagpipe sound wails in. Deshu frighteningly and inexplicably has a passion for Michael Bolton who he compares it to.� If you are reading this mate, drop me a line and let me know if you got my last email. Reading through the pages of my other friend�s lives I find this photograph of Doc: He�s the King of the World. Well, Leeds anyway. (Notice the AT-AT in the window? Awesome). He also had the following to say: �Mike ate 46 of those Wrigley's Thin Ice breath fresheners in one go and threw up sticky Thin-Ice goo (although he'll probably never have to brush his teeth again); we rode people in the shopping trolley and smashed them into bins; we called some wierd black magic medicine guy we found an advert for in the paper and James (not our James, a different one) left answer phone messages saying that his legs had been cursed and were now the size of rabbits' legs...� I love this guy. Read more here. I have been getting to know Jen better which has been a blast. She just did an interview with another of my friends for the next issue of Punk Planet which she let me take a peek at. Again I�m in the happy position of being surrounded by creative and talented people. I finally spoke to Lawrence about getting his comic book into Foyles and dropped a bunch of emails to other comic book artists and writers and asked them to get their stuff to me. If anyone reading this has a comic book that needs a home drop me a line. I had a bunch of cool emails from all sorts of people from all over the world. So a big firm handshake to David (rabid Twin Peaks fan) and Steve (from Tokyo Pop). And a peck on the cheek for the ladies: Kathryn (and all four of her blogs), Charlotte (just back from Oz), S�nje (on her way to Germany), Mandy (who asked me to write for her magazine) and Ju (the French comic book goddess). Also a big �Hey-do� to Sandra who I know is lurking around here somewhere... Yesterday I wandered around town with Jess and took a pile of pics which I�ll try and get up somewhere here later. I also stole a brick from a church. Met up with Daisy, which was cool and had fun laughing at a mad barber but our search for mummified priests ended in failure... I also managed to kill the beloved PSION revo PLUS. Fuck. Now all my portable writing bits and bobs are in a state of death. I did fix a laptop which is handy but like other items of my equipment it's not the kind of thing you want to pull out on the tube. I may have to go shopping for a new gadget... Also debating new tattoos... As I write this I have another window open which is streaming me a live feed from one of the BBC�s cameras in Baghdad. It�s quiet now. Every now and again I see a car slowly move down the road and hang a left off the screen. The lights flicker every now and again. Damn, this war is dumb. Jess has a nice link on her blog which runs a tally of dead people so far... ahh the delights of the interweb. Mike is blogging to: The Donnas