"We sat around the pile. We sat & laughed. We sat & laughed & waved it into the air!"

25 December

(From Been Caught Stealing)

"I keep the surface ultra cooled."

19 December

(From Hypersonic)

"I came back to pay respect to another fallen angel at the old canteen..."

"...someone had to float the cash to pay for the wake & so we all agreed....

We're all hustlers..."

16 December

(From Underground)

"We stars are even brighter contrasted by the night."

8 December

(From Irresistible Force)

"Everybody has their own opinion - holding it back hurts so bad..."

I have toyed with the choices for band of the final month of the year.

In the end, I settled on Jane's Addiction.

Yet "settling" seems like the wrong verb.

"Settling" isn't what I'd associate with them. "Unsettling" might be closer.

Because there was always something a little bit off about them.............a little bit European.

Even their most commercial song was about shoplifting. & getting away with it.

That was & is their ultimate genius - in the sheer & utter joy in the seamier side of life, the fun of bad behaviour, in lack of consequence, bad habits & decidedly dodgy activities.

In addition, they have simply made some of the best music ever recorded.

(In fairness & on World Aids Day, a wider social conscience certainly exists in their political lives but where's the entertainment in that?)

1 December

(From Mountain Song)

"Is there anybody here who feels this low?"

19 October

(From Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow)

Merry Christmas!

25 December

Global Partners.

15 December

"...When men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely..."

14 December

(Quote: Charles Dickens)