If you are strong enough, there are no precedents.

F.Scott Fitzgerald. 1945.

Loud and clear…….

If you can show me any two other women who have danced with a member of Metallica to “Girls just wanna have fun” By Cindi Lauper,speak now or forever hold your peace!!!!.[ I am not gonna tell you who it was!…oh ok! If ya bust my balls at a show……] Yes, I am still flying high! Have you checked out “Uprooted?” Only a bass player could document a mega festival by way of its catering. Bless. But I gotta admit…I was eating everything that was not tied down and checking out what everyone else was stuffing their faces with.[ “Hmmm? Is Mars Volta having the chicken?”] Pathetic admitted,but you get the picture…Like you wouldnt? Britt was mega impressed with the free ice cream and Peaches decided that the oysters were a no go.Dinner with ‘Duster was cool! Boys! you gotta put Will on a leash!

I cant wait to play the Metro this weekend.CANT WAIT!!! For me it is a real thank you show to all the sikfuks and assorted freaks that have put us at the top of our game.Well, That and a chance to cut sik all over a big stage yet again.Ya’ll get a chance to kiss Rossco goodbye too!

Saw the greatest grafitti the other day.I am gonna skate down and get a photo.[ I will send ya a copy MFR.] Well, I am gonna get someone to take a photo of me pulling some spack face standing next to it throwing the goats.

“PLAY SOME FUCKING STOOGES!”

That? That, dear readers, is pure fucking class.

HA! I got a heap of photos back on a jaunt to Newtown! Me and B* sat in Cafe C sighing over our fruitplatter like a couple of missguided catholic schoolgirls. Yes! ARGHHHHH!!!!! Me and Burton look like killer fan boys! Had the coolest time with those guys. Byron is amazing on Bass and I got to see him play twice in 6 months. I am so lucky! I dunno when ya’ll get to see em’ as the computer I am on at the moment is pedal operated and without a scanner and when ever I ask Rossco to scan stuff he gives me a flinty look and turns on his heel.

With the ammount of people screaming “TOURETTES!!!!!” at my myopic ass on the street I am mighty glad that I did not call the band “Motherfucker”.

Thanx to everyone who bailed me up at the BDO for photos,signage action and just talk. You all really made my day. If you have e-mailed me and I have not got back to ya I am sorry! I will get there! You have no idea how long it is taking me to write this.I am spacing out to “Rated R” by QOTSA. Well that mixed with the fact that it is 4 somthing god awlful antisocial in the morning.Still waiting on the word from Melbourne to see if I am gonna head to the Globe skate mecca on the 14th of this month [A valentine to myself!] to marvel at all those deck dwelling daredevils. I will,with the help of the Brittstar, scare the crap outta most of em’. Bet on it. The thing that will make our skate fueled jaunt down south complete would be a gig from Bloodduster and The Shine. I will stop be a cranky fuck for at least a week if that is the case!

Oh man! The best comedown after BDO was seeing the coolest band at the Vic on the park on the Sunday after the fact.Nothing like finding a new band to dig! We ran into them at the BDO and I ran up to the drummer screaming “Tee-shirt of the day man!!!!” Due to that fact that he was poured into an original “Too fast for love” number! We returned the favour the next nite at their show with me in my JD T and red bandanna/baseball cap combo ala Axl and the B* in my “Girls,Girls,Girls” Tank,an excuse of a skirt and some dangerous boots.Hell City Glamours rock my world. Go see em’ if you dig your rock sleazy and Sunset strip flavored.

Speaking of rock gods that I adore,I gotta send a get well out to one of my fave Axe-meisters.”Big Daddy” Julian James from The Shine who has broken his hand. Beating off Chicks I am guessing. Get well soon man or “Heads are gonna roll”!

The other T-shirt that I bowed down to at BDO…. “Bitches and sluts? A Jedi needs not of these things.”

Fucking Stellar that!

I gotta get my rox off while Delux is OS cause once he gets back we are back on the road.Cant wait for that!!! Ash has got my balls in a vice while our bassgod swans round the continent . Way heavy pre-pro but I am getting better with it all.The sick tale on this next one is called “Hitch” written through the eyes of the Green river killer.Me and Jeff Hannerman eh? My stand out moment is when he is cutting a girl apart and he asks her as she is dying… “Where is your god now?” Serial killer gold.

This is one of the reasons that I cannot get a date, isnt it?

I really want this one mapped out so I will be annoying Ash with heaps of stupid ideas. You know those albums that you listen to really loud on your headphones in the dark looking out into the nothing flat on your back? Feeling your eyelids click in the inky nothing?… Well that is what I wanna deliver this round.

Anyway I swore to to Ross that we would be ready to go by the time he got back so I have really put my foot in it this time and as always I was wearing thongs…eugh.

Content?…Hmmmmm……

Well, My usual “If you dont love me I am gonna write veiled songs that only you will get” numbers that the people that they are about never get anyway which makes me feel like even more of a fucking desperado and my patent “Fuck-you-sleep-with-one-eye-open-you-CUNT” epics… but we are GRINDING here sports fans! “Small Enemy” is only a taste. It is a really fat sound. Blackie is gonna be guesting on a mega track which I cant WAIT for! We are gonna live out all our Brian Wilson fantisies on this one so I dunno if we will ever be able to deliver it live.It will have 10 pianos and an ass flute or some such crap on it.Who gives a fuck! It is gonna be wicked! The one that I wanna do this Friday is gonna drive Ash batshit.You have my word. All it is is a dying heart beat.It is so sad.I love it! I have been messing with it all week and it tears my heart out when I belt it in the shower so I really wanna do it.Manning is gonna hate it.Not only is he gonna hate it he is gonna let me do it and then when I come back next week he would have stuck bleepy spazzed out keyboards all over it which, by the way,he KNOWS I despise, and when I start yelling at him and I WILL start yelling,he will make a sniggering break for the kitchen where it will take him 45 minutes to make me a cup of tea while I calm down.

Unrequitted crushes?…Pft!…I am gonna be 15 for-fucking -ever!

I was flattered beyond belief to be the 1st interview of the year with Craig Hickey on the Minstry of Metal on 94.7 The Pulse down south.As always I got verbal diahroea and made a complete pratt of myself.I made Lars Ulrich look like fucking Marcel Marceu! Craig really knew his stuff which is insanely flattering and we raved on for almost and hour! Best thing? NO FOUR SECOND DELAY!!!! I could swear to my dirty little hearts content! Bonus!!!

If you want your mind blown head to www.sikfuks.com ,No lie! Its amazing and I now know what everyone looks like! It is a great place to throw your input into the ring. I gotta thank Miss Shelia sikfuk ,Miss Karen and Big Mike V. Totally killer shit and if any of you SF’s have not got your damage up there snap to it. I dont wanna hear about anymore of this interstate feuding. It is a load of butt. We are all in this together. There is NO king of the hill on this one! I am the Bad Lt. and that is all ya gotta remember!

Ahhh Valentines day!.[Gack!] The object of my missguided affection is allergic to me.No shit.I think that I make said foxy break out in hives or somthing. Woe. Fucking great .Back to interfering with myself in the shower.

I wanna record a song with Nick O! [babybaby your soooooo sweet!]

I am spending alot of time out on our balcony watching the kids from the top of the street avoid getting wiped out on their crappy scooters by a pubic hair [ Belive me,I am rooting for the cars,not the kids.] and doodling on my shorts like the 8th grade reject that I am with a sharpie. Navel gazing for world peace while Brittstar blasts Cat Stevens and Pines for her island in the South China sea [it is a long and complex fable involving palm trees and scooters that gets her rather misty eyed and longing for a joint] while the two greek kids across the street beat 7 shades of shit out of each other with their schoolbags and their mother bawls em’ out.

Ahhh domestic life! I am such a bum! I should be out there man! A contender! [choke!] contributing [cough!] to socity[OH!HAHaheheh…hic!…my SIDES!] yeah… whatever..It is killer having her back.The B* that is. Our room is a hellhole filled with matresses, stolen hotel towels,[erm..that would be me….] impractial boots [ My manga queen roomate,natch.] and noise. It is like rock and roll boot camp.All Very novel for all involved trust me.Nanda drops in from her Nirvana themed enclave down the hall for gossip sessions that must have muso ears burning all over town! bliss! My life has morphed into a heavily tattooed slumber party.Whoot! I live with 2 women that would make a bishop kick in a stained glass window and The coolest drummer in the world [ TM ] Garbage bags have been nailed over all the windows. A rogues gallery of incriminating rockstar pix blue tacked over my seedy mattress? Check! Heaven.

There is talk of doing a few shows with the amazing Pod People in March when Mr Globetrotter gets back [ Moi? Green? Envy?…. ? FUCK YEAH! I wanted to be in NOLA with Gooch hanging off a lamp post in The French Quater at 3 in the morning after seeing Superjoint!…sigh…album comes first and then swamp follies…]…where was I?…Yeah! Pod People! I have said it before…”Doom Saloon” Is one of the best albums of the last 10 years and you are a tool if you dont check it out.

To tell you the truth it will be an honour and a dream run to get to play with them. Slowly I am getting to play with all my dream bands. The last 18 months has been a dream.I DONT WANNA WAKE UP!

Swoon! BC Bell wrote about us in his tour journel and Muse talked about us on Fbi…love it!.Cheers to Skulker for the props and Andrew on Chanel V for showing off my short-art! [Still up for that scrabble game?]..Not that ole’ clueless here had any idea that any of this was going on! [Suprised? I think not!] so thanx to all the sikfuks who keep me informed! You rule! Ya’ll is hell cooler than my winged monkeys even! Ok! Thats it! I gotta sleep!

The fucking sun is comming up! How Rude!
See Ya’ll at The Metro.
And remember………..
“There are no small enemies”
SF4L.
Michele.