May 3rd 2005
Timmy Smith
Entry 1. What a bloody week that was! Fucking budgie! We couldn’t go indoors all week because of it. Jim was too scared, Kavus just refused and Babba’s gone AWOL again (hell will be paid to him from the ‘you know who’ concern) I couldn’t go in because I had the wrong apparatus and everything is wrong! We got in this morning about 5am soaking wet, cold and hungry and fed up. And there’s budgie mess all over and all Jim’s seeds have been eaten by it’s beak. Why do we have to have a budgie on the cover anyway? Am I the only one to question this? The others don’t seem to care!
Kavus Torabi
Entry 1. The studio is all covered in white bird ‘doings’. I’m going to put some dry clothes on and come back and tell our loyal fans, what happened in the week…
Entry 2. I might not be able to write for very long as there is a lot of shouting going on and it’s giving me a stressful headache. I might have caught a cold as well. They say feed a cold, but once again we haven’t been sent any lumps of food and all that’s left is one lump and it’s Babba’s… but Babba’s not here still. I might eat his lump later. I’ve got to! We’d been in the outside area for days with nothing to eat and wet clothes on which I am sure is quite unhealthy. I didn’t get involved, but it was all to do with that budgie. I’m not going to talk about that. I will talk about this though, my boys ‘Johnny 4’ are coming in tomorrow to do mixing again but it’s all white with toilet in there. All over the equipment and everything. I’m not going to clean it up!
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May 4th 2005
Timmy Smith
Entry 1. I didn’t get hardly any sleep last night. Felt very ill. Dreamed I was the inside of a trumpet or something. Can’t really remember. Found one lump of food and ate it before I went to bed (if you can call it a bed). Kavus was busy scrubbing away at all the white lumps left behind by the budgie. The budgie has gone now. A man came with a camera and took a photo of it and left. The man was horrible. Jim posted the budgie back to Alphabet. I put holes in it’s little box and put some string in there for it to play with on it’s long journey home. We didn’t have any stamps so Jim drew one on. (quite well).
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May 6th 2005
Kavus Torabi
Entry 1. Parcel with lumps of food in has turned up!
Jim Smith
Entry 1. A gift received chases away the shadows that can be left by a weary day. A gift given banishes darkness from the heart for weeks.
There are youngsters here today.
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May 8th 2005
Timmy Smith
Entry 1. Been mixing Jonny four with Kavus past few days. They’re all in a strange mood. All just sitting there as good as gold! Hardly saying a word. So is Kavus, he’s not strutting about like he does. He’s got his fluffy white coat on though. They seem like they’re up to something. There is mischief in their eyes.
Kavus Torabi
Entry 1. I had a good thought this afternoon while Tim was attempting to get on the roof. I thought that if I were to stand up all the time I’d be offered a seat at some point by someone but I didn’t have to stand up in the end because there was a seat.
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May 9th 2005
Timmy Smith
Entry 1. The budgie’s back! We used the same box it was sent to us in and forgot to change the address. And we had to pay for it. I squeezed a small bit from a lump of food through one of the holes and went to find a pen so I could correct the address and when I got back the box had gone.
Entry 2. Jim’s only gone and fucking posted the budgie again. I just found this out and I hadn’t changed the address! I suppose it will be back here again in a week or so. Jim can pay this time but he hasn’t got any money so he’ll have to earn it somehow.
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May 10th 2005
Timmy Smith
Entry 1. I didn’t eat today. We must do some more recording but none of us can be bothered. It’s one of those days. Everyone is fed up with life.
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May 20th 2005
Timmy Smith
Entry 1. I have nothing to say. Nothing from this diary has appeared on the inter-web thing anyway apparently. I’m beginning to wonder if it’s all a cruel joke. Or a way of Alphabet keeping an eye on us again.
Kavus Torabi
Entry 1. The horrible look that Tim just gave me is worth making a note of in this diary. It was so horrible.
Entry 2. guess what? I was dragged down the pub again with the others and guess what? We were all turned away immediately and guess what? No one said a word. We all just got back in the taxi who hadn’t even turned around yet and came back here. It always happens so why do they bother? Jim has drawn all over the walls again. There will be hell to pay.
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May 21st 2005
Timmy Smith
Entry 1. Kavus has got into an irritating habit of holding up his middle finger at you when you speak to him.
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May 22nd 2005
Timmy Smith
Entry 1. I don’t understand this middle finger thing. I know I am not keen. If he keeps this up he’ll get another visit from Blake Shakey I am sure. I am suspicious because I have heard nothing from Alphabet in a long time. The last time this happened we got complacent. And then look what happened. Things are getting done bit by bit. Jim made the strangest noise by accident. That’s going on the album. If you can call it an album.