back in brussels having completed liege, a club called the video, in gent - where they treated us wonderfully (incredible dressing room spread, five kinds of incense), brussels. wonderful beautiful people here in belgium. tonight's show at the botanique was really special, it's a great room. the soundman, hassan, was terrific. he's coming to hasselt, too, sunday -our last show in belgium. on that afternoon, we're intending to visit one of the guys we know from here. his pet donkey just had a baby yesterday, and oren is desperate to play with it.
our good friend alicia surprised us by appearing on the street in front of the club! she took the train from koln, germany. we went to the archiduc, an art deco bar with original fixtures from the 1920s. speaking of period pieces, we were staying at the plaza, very old and refined european luxury hotel, but frighteningly quiet and deserted when we were there, and we found an ancient black and white photo of jennifer hosting a huge party there, in evening clothes, also from the same era.

Well it's late at night, and Oren and I are in one of these internet cafes. We're in Brussels. The Damned were on our flight over here, coming back from playing Joey Ramone's birthday party, which was the biggest ever as it was also a memorial. Captain Sensible is really nice. You always see musicians in airports. Hope the airline has found George's snare drum. First gig tomorrow. Pretty darn tired.