Wednesday, June 11th we're in london today. had a great start to our european trip with a bunch of really good television, radio and press interviews in madrid and paris the past few days. we're still adjusting to the time change and trying to catch up on our sleep, but things are going very well ("calling all angels" is the #1 most requested song at spain's biggest radio station this week!). there was a major strike going on in paris yesterday with people rioting and blocking the streets. we barely made it to our train to london in time, but we did and all is good. we're looking forward to this week as we'll be playing the first three full-length shows of the tour in london on friday night, manchester on saturday night and amsterdam on monday night. we'll also get to see our friends michelle branch and the lovely miss bonnie raitt when we tape a performance on "top of the pops" tomorrow afternoon. so, when we arrived at our hotel in london we heard the good news that our album did very well in the U.S. this week and will debut on the billboard charts at #6! very excited about that. thanks to everybody who went out and bought a copy this week. we'd really like to be #5 next week, so if you could tell all of your friends to pick up a copy this week that would be great. while we were checking into the hotel here in london we ran into the guy/kid who plays "Malcolm in the Middle" down in the lobby. we were like, "Malcolm! how's it going dude? we love your tv show!" and he was like, "thanks. i'm doing really good, but Malcolm is not my real name. it's just a character i play on television. hey, aren't you guys Train?" and we were like, "yeah. our new album, "My Private Nation" just entered the billboard charts at #6 and we're going to celebrate. wanna come?" and he was like, "i'm not old ! enough to drink yet, but thanks anyway. i LOVE you guys! Train is my favorite band in the whole world and your new CD is the best ever!" and we were like, "cool dude. thanks. we'll see you later, Malcolm". he seemed like a very nice guy/kid. you know last week when we were in new york we ran into the guy who played in that movie "La Bamba" in the hotel bar and we were like, "hey La Bamba! what are you doing here?!" and he was like, "La Bamba is a movie i made a long time ago. my real name is Lou Diamond something or other." and we were like, "cool. we thought you died in a tragic plane crash with Buddy Holly! this is incredible! hey, have you heard our new CD yet?" and he was like, "no." so we split. he wasn't very nice. it's pretty cool doing what we do and getting to meet famous people and all. pat said he'd most like to meet Ace Ventura someday. scott would love to meet ! Tommy Boy. charlie would like to meet Braveheart and jimmy would like to meet Daphne from Scooby-Doo. we'd be like, "hey Mr. Ventura, Tommy Boy, Braveheart and Daphne from Scooby-Doo! our new album, "My Private Nation" just entered the billboard charts at #6...wanna party?!" that'd be cool. later, pat, jimmy, scott and charlie