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I can`t wait for my new album to be released, it`s in the style of hot house disco. It will bring other elements to my sound, but keeping in the groove that I found with Neon Nights. I`ve been inspired by the pumping tunes of DJs working in Ibiza, Miama and Hot House destinations. I have worked with some of the same producers as Neon Nights, and some new ones. My main aim is heavy-fat-bass-lines, I love that thumping feeling. Hopefully I have topped Neon Nights, which was made with lots of love.

Then there was school. I wasn`t a great success: I was shy, not particularly clever, and dyslexic. But thanks to an English master called Quibble-Smith, who gave me a part in a Greek tragedy, I realised that I enjoyed getting into character - I could express myself better through a character than I could as myself. The part was Athena, and I had three pages of speech to deliver, which was quite a daunting prospect. It was an open-air performance, and the speech was to be given from the top of the cloisters. I wore a ghastly Roman helmet, a shield and a spear and was bedecked in blue silk skirts topped off with a long, blond, curly wig. As I stood up to speak, the wind caught my skirts and raised them above my eyebrows. I spent the entire speech battling with billowing silk and revealing everything underneath. It didn`t dampen the desire to perform, though.

And as Americans, we must ask ourselves: Are we really so different? Must we stereotype those who disagree with us? Do we truly believe that ALL red-state residents are ignorant racist fascist knuckle-dragging NASCAR-obsessed cousin-marrying road-kill-eating tobacco-juice-dribbling gun-fondling religious fanatic rednecks; or that ALL blue-state residents are godless unpatriotic pierced-nose Volvo-driving France-loving left-wing Communist latte-sucking tofu-chomping holistic-wacko neurotic vegan weenie perverts? Yes. This is called "diversity," and it is why we are such a great nation - a nation that has given the world both nuclear weapons AND SpongeBob SquarePants. And so today I am calling upon both sides in the red-blue rift to reach out. Maybe we could have a cultural-exchange program between red and blue states. For example, a delegation from Texas could go to California and show the Californians how to do some traditional Texas thing such as castrate a bull using only your teeth, and then the Californians could show the Texans how to rearrange their football stadiums in accordance with the principles of "feng shui" (for openers, both goalposts should be at the west end of the field). Or maybe New York and Kentucky could have a college-style "mixer," featuring special "crossover" hors d`oeuvres, such as bagels topped with squirrel parts.

(Xiu Xiu have a taste for discord '” atonal arrangements filled with foghorns, tape hisses, and violent beats and topped off by Stewart's whispery vocals and the melodrama of his confessional lyrics. The latter have inspired open-mouthed fandom from sensitive scenesters who find solace in his pain, and attacks from critics as being cloying and histrionic.) People have thrown lit cigarettes at me and audiences have yelled all kinds of nasty shit, ... Then there are also people who drive 800 miles to come see us play and ask if they can come sit in our van for three days because they don't have a bus ride home.

(Zoom: Dr. Sanjay Gupta was Wally Dallenbach`s passenger Sunday as the TNT analyst took his usual high-speed drive to preview NASCAR `s race track. Gupta, a CNN medical reporter, was queasy as Dallenbach topped 130 mph and asked him if he could) name a disease after me. ... I have Wally Dallenbach disease.

(Zoom: Dr. Sanjay Gupta was Wally Dallenbach`s passenger Sunday as the TNT analyst took his usual high-speed drive to preview NASCAR`s race track. Gupta, a CNN medical reporter, was queasy as Dallenbach topped 130 mph and asked him if he could) name a disease after me. ... I have Wally Dallenbach disease.