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Happiness is a new computer, so they say, well Steve Cowell does for one and I’m most grateful for his support. I just watched a beginners guide to recording video which was, to my amazement, most illuminating. I now have the technology to orchestrate my home recordings and enough guitar sounds to woo a entire music shop. Despite the wine and the quiet fan and the Easter Egg nog and the fading light it’s been a decent weekend in blank burn moving into the final third of recording. The Irish dates that I spoke about have been suspended for now so I can get on with the vocals and be around for the mixing. I expect we will reschedule at some point. Today I went to TK Max looking for the definitive gay bag…I have several in my collection but am convinced I need more. I like the idea of handbags for men. I feel sort of underdressed without a bag strapped about my person. I’m just looking around the room here at sketch Nick Robinson did [Nick is a former VP bass player currently consumed by the world of fashion], now framed and adorning some wall space. It’s a cartoon of me in a tent at Glastonbury in 1999 and the gay bag is a prominent feature…I am also clutching a copy of the Auteurs Greatest Hit…which is Nicks way of saying you’re the only person we know who likes them, I think…he was the same about my Wonderstuff affection. I’ve also made great proclamations in the past [as you do] as to the merit and credibility of various bands I’ve perchanced upon over the years. Oh so many moons ago I saw U2 at Kidderminster Town Hall and was convinced they were heading for obscurity…they were so incredibly average and the singer had crappy hair. Over the years I have come to accept that I am usually wrong about any given bands commercial potential. That’s just the way it is. I was right about the hair though. Talking of which I have recently been snipped and dyed and reminded by my dearest that I am no longer 26, which is of course absolutely true. I’m just trying to make the best of myself in the name of light entertainment was my rather dubious reply, Vinny x