Splendid! Splendid news, well done!!

Blogging to you live from Boston from the gait biomechanics seminar!! This just in from NME, the Cure for what ails me...

The Cure head into the studio

Robert Smith the band will begin new album in 2006

The Cure are to begin work on a new album early next year.

The group with enter the studio in January to start work on the follow-up to last year's 'The Cure', according to a post from singer Robert Smith.

"We are still on course for a summer release, as it's all in the preparation," Smith wrote on the band's website Cure.com

This album will be the first since keyboardist Roger O'Donnell and guitarist Perry Bamonte left The Cure earlier this year and will feature former guitarist Porl Thompson, who recently rejoined the band, Billboard reports.

Smith added that he has been working on a live DVD and "writing some film music".

In the meantime The Cure are expected to release expanded reissues of albums 'The Top', 'The Head on the Door' and 'Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me', plus Glove's 'The Blue Sunshine' - a 1983 band featuring of Smith, Siouxsie and Banshees bassist Steve Severin - next year.

Porl is back! if they could get Boris and maybe in Lol (ok, that may be stretching it)...i'll be very sad (which is happy in Cure-speak)

In happier news, Belle and Sebastian will release their new album, The Life Pursuit, w/ tracklisting, release date and everything...now just release the US tour to me already!!

to show how deprived we are, they are also releasing a download via iTunes for charity of one of the their Scottish shows where they played the entire "If You're Feeling Sinister" album...and for the uninitiated and are curious...it's their best album in the opinion of this bloggy.

so that's some exciting news from the music front...

now anyone see that Goblet of Fire yet? any good???

i feel funky...

there's nothing like having bodily fluids coming out of every orafice of the body. so yesterday was a landmark in me and the sexy one's relationship. we are sharing our first stomach virus!!! her whole family has it and she had to go home yesterday b/c of it and i thought i could tough it out...having much experience in the vomiting department from the imbibing of spirits...but alas, the big D and V took hold and i just had to go.

all of this comes just in time as i'm leaving for boston today for a seminar...there is a lab portion where i'll have to wear shorts...this could get very interesting. but seriously, i feel a lot better, no incidence of numero tres or praying to the porcelin(sp) god...but my stomach feels funny as does my anus.

happy birthday to Purple Monkey, the blog just turned two! i think we here at the bloggy is rolling up on 4 years, methinks, w/ regular posts at 3 years??? woo hoo!!

last weekend was the beginning of poker season...i hosted the first of the 2006 season w/ 8 other folks, 2 hustlers, a sexy one, the tall one and the drunk one, the quiet one and the 2 friends to which i have no names for--the ones that live down the block from me...there. came in 3 both times, which would be good except that we only set 1st and 2nd place payouts. the trifecta was complete when i came in third the next nite at hot monkey's really sweet place near work but then lost on a semi bluff the 2nd game. the winners were 2 folks, who "never played before"---beginner's luck? i smell conspiracy afoot!!!

anyway, next poker nite is the big time game at big J's for his birthday. and then don't know if we'll have another one until after the new year, as i am quite the busy beaver! but we'll see.

And The Cutest Baby In The World Is...

ME!!!!!!