First let me say that this has got to be the best CD I've listened to over and over again for weeks in a long time. Shit dog it's good. I keep waiting to get tired of it, but it just doesn't seem to happen. And on the subject of music, I will gladly pay bank to anyone who can locate for me a copy of the Jan Garbarek-Bobo Stenson Quartet's Wichi-tai-to. Easily the best music I've heard in six months. After Radiohead, I mean.

At a gallery opening the other day a friend says to me: I just found out I have heart disease. The doc says to him, "You have to stop drinking and smoking (which this person did with a vengeance, mind you) or you're going to die. Or you can take these prescription pills, keep drinking and smoking, and things will okay for now."

Welcome to Japan.

Anyway, faced with the grim spectre of Death, he opted to drop both, but has held fast on having sex with two women at the same time. I really think you've gotta respect him for that.