Apparently there is a 10th planet out there in our solar system, hiding behind the Sun. And once it comes clear from it's 3000-year orbit, we'll *know what we've *known all along… "What's that?" you ask. "That we're not alone?" But of course if you've listened to SP through the years one can be certain of solitude; i.e. guilt by association. For I've never been more alone than when I've been in an unhappy band. So I welcome whoever's on that rock, assuming they are friend; no

A few days work has passed. And what can be said of it other than one starts to feel an eerie sense of having been somewhere before. With that comes the inevitable questions: 'How did I get here?'; 'Do I want to stay?'; 'What matters anymore?'; questions made harder to answer because Album #1 is on the runway. Sure, we feel confident about it. And I can tell you that the state of the record business is such that any success is both fantastic and just as capable of eliciting a