Watched The Mothman Prophecies again. Doh. Though I think I might sleep with the light off tonight.

Helping my sleep will be the turgid written-in-Araldite mibbling of latest Rennes-le-Chateau dumb-fest The Arcadian Cipher. The authors have obviously read everything they could find about the whole sorry tale and decided to write a book even worse than the existing bumf. The hand of Baigent can be detected as early as page 3 of the introduction (But why Arcadian? And what code?). A cursory glance through the index reveals the usual suspects as well as Saddam Hussein and a - no doubt shadowy and enigmatic - bloke by the name of 'Mr Lawrence'. Of Poussin's Et in Arcadia Ego they ask; And why is one of them wearing no footwear at all but is unshod on the harsh earthen surface? Eh?. Although if Baigent had been there he'd have written 'Why indeed?' after it. Silly people.

L and I have become convinced that freak neighbour upstairs is a witch (She looks like one!) because we've had such a run of bad luck since we argued with her about the garden that we think she's put a spell on us. We keep losing things and things keep breaking and we're a bit paranoid or maybe it's cos of The Mothman Prophecies but who knows?

Anyway.

Jack Straw - "There's no list, and Syria isn't on it"

Mr Bush has declared victory over the Iraqis and the war is over. Luckily Ari Fleischer was on hand to clarify that the war wasn't over 'in a legal sense', because obviously that would mean that all the POWs would have to go home and not get deported to no-rights Guantanamo Bay or exported to US-friendly countries where torture is legal. Also, if the war is 'legally' over, it would require the US to stop looking for Saddam (clue: he's in the index of The Arcadian Cipher) and they don't want to do that, because they need him alive as a pretext to invade Syria/Iran/Saudi Arabia/anyone who might be sheltering him. Actually they probably don't care if they're sheltering him. The Israeli Ambassador to Washington has already called for 'regime change' in Syria and Iran. That should be pretext enough for the Bush Administration.

Meanwhile, back in music land, I have attempted to create some sort of consistency in my tunes (other than them being consistently mediocre) by trying to fit them all together so that they flow nicely. When they're all done (I'm aiming for 25) you might get them all for free.