SAT 11th OCT: JACKSON 5: JAMES, JOHNNIE, JIM, JACK and JASON or JOSE!

Soccer - not much to report. Queued (again) for 45 minutes to get in the Red Lion - one of three pubs showing it in New York City. Paid twenty dollars to stand in the Turkey supporters corner. Lots of xenophobic shouting done by the English naturally. Met some good British lads - gave me angle on getting an artist visa.

Did see the Irish lad Jason Fobs on Saturday night in Solas in the East Village - was a good laugh and he has a good group of Irish level headed guys and girls who like to put away a few drinks. What makes me laugh is that when I turn round and say I have some British guys in New York all of The Lady's clean-ish living single friends aren't interested in meeting them (I assume there's a debauched reputation) - now, I say I know some Irish lads they all ask to meet them!!!!!!! I feel they may be a little disappointed - not so much in their looks but the Irish attention to the small details of drinking.

Why does everyone go home at 1?

Talking of detail. The one other thing that came out of the night was a new drink called the Jackson 5. Someone should market this. It's actually 5 seperate shots and sounds like a killer: Jameson, Johnnie Walker, Jack Daniels, Jim Bean and damn I can't remember - what other whiskey begins with J? (Suggest in Comments please) The variation on the theme is to change one whiskey for a Jose Cuervo!