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― The Curve of Binding Energy (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:08 (nineteen years ago)

Today I am mainly obsessed with the "HORRID MURDER" boards about the City.

The one outside Farringdon station stopped a couple of people before we realised it was a promo or something.

― The Curve Of Binding Energy (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:10 (nineteen years ago)

But the other one had pics of capes.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:10 (nineteen years ago)

I don't care. This one has DOOMED MOON MISSIONS on it.

I've found the thing it's a promo for:

http://www.lastdaysofnewgate.com/

― The Curve Of Binding Energy (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:12 (nineteen years ago)

:-(

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:13 (nineteen years ago)

New look for the shimura curves!
http://www.elfinmagicalcapes.com/images/product/410000242315_big.jpg
http://costumeexpo.com/2005_products/underwraps/28553.jpg
http://costumeexpo.com/2005_products/charades/01005.jpg
http://costumeexpo.com/2004_products/disguise/costumes/3812.jpg

Which is your face? Celtic Curve? Goth Curve? Ginger Curve? Sunn o))) Curve?

and lets not leave out Forest Pines
http://costumeexpo.com/2005_products/funworld/9159r.jpg

Mwahahahaha!

Actually, I was thinking the other day, I really really want to make a tshirt that says "Some of my best friends are goths" on it.

-- Forest Pines

(Ok that was the best I could find for capes. Damn goths)
x-post.

I bet they all used to be goths anyway.

-- Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy

Maybe we should just let Kate choose which capes they wear.
http://www.monstermarketplace.com/googlesearch.asp?q=capes

-- Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy

Now this made me laugh
Capes For Less
Compare prices & find the cheapest price with easyValue from Stelios.
easyValyue.com

Can you imagine them all wearing capes saying EASY on them?
hahahaha

-- Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:16 (nineteen years ago)

Those are not prog capes, they are Goff capes.

There has never been a Goff element to our music.

Sorry, FP, I'm pulling rank on this one. I've wanted to call it this forever. You can get the next one. At this rate, it should only be a few weeks.

― The Curve Of Binding Energy (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:17 (nineteen years ago)

face? damn that should say FAVE. NORMAN?!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:17 (nineteen years ago)

Kate help me find prog capes then.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:18 (nineteen years ago)

Those are not prog capes, they are Geoff Capes.

There has never been a Geoff element to our music.

Shame.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:19 (nineteen years ago)

Funnily enough, image googling "prog capes" brings up:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/gloucestershire/focus/2005/08/prog_rock_name.shtml

Hurrah! My Prog Rock Name is: Tangerine Machine

― The Curve Of Binding Energy (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:20 (nineteen years ago)

Damn, that might just have been my shortest screen name ever.

― Tangerine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:21 (nineteen years ago)

This is a PROG CAPE:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/id/thumb/7/79/Rick_wakeman_on_stage_with_cape.jpg/435px-Rick_wakeman_on_stage_with_cape.jpg

― Tangerine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:22 (nineteen years ago)

Sword of Time

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:23 (nineteen years ago)

pfunk boy is : Galactic at the End of Time

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:25 (nineteen years ago)

hehe
Forest Pines : Planet of the Replicants
Masonic Boom : River of the Replicants

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:26 (nineteen years ago)

I did TSM and they got:

Ancient of the Replicants, Dawn Destiny and Alien Dimension!!!!

(OK, I cheated for Brandon because he originally got the same name as Ben so I put his names in backwards.)

― Tangerine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

Shimura Curves (the band name not the members names):
Weather of the Replicants

Which unlucky bastard is going to get Dawn Of The Replicants? Remember them?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:33 (nineteen years ago)

Every name I put in came back as something Wormhole.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

It goes on your surname, as showed by the Curtis/Curtis dilemma.

Speaking of which, German sounds hillarious sung in a Texan accent.

― Tangerine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:35 (nineteen years ago)

"weather of the replicants"?

That prog rock name generator is rubbish.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:36 (nineteen years ago)

My old band name came back as "Rainbow of the Replicants"

It is, isn't it?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:36 (nineteen years ago)

Every name I put in came back as something Wormhole.
Cue Red Dwarf joke..

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:36 (nineteen years ago)

Norman yours is an excellent prog rock name.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:36 (nineteen years ago)

Tangerine Dream : Rhapsody Moon

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:37 (nineteen years ago)

No, Rhapsody Moon is g-kit's new crush.

Heh heh, fancy a burrito, Ben?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v89/Celitae/12.jpg

I don't think burritos are very prog. Or ARE they?

― Tangerine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

Pete Doherty gets the same name as pfunk boy.
Bah i'm finished with this now after that!

Wheres the pics of other prog capes then?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:39 (nineteen years ago)

I fancy a burrito but you can't get good ones in London.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:39 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I really have a hankering for a burrito now. Trying to think where the non-shit ones are in London. Certainly not Cafe El Paso, though I seem to go there often enough.

Cafe Pacifico used to be OK, but it's not as good as it used to be. Though they still have the best salsas in London. mmmm, peach salsa.

We're going to try and round up The Texan to eat Messican food in London and see how she laughs.

Oh, BTW, did you speak to her and sort out where Pentonville Road was?

― Tangerine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

http://homepage.mac.com/alimar/.Pictures/Yes-78-5.jpg

done all that with chrissie.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:43 (nineteen years ago)

Cool!

Actually, how about the Texan Embassy?

I've only had margaritas there (after the album release party - at the actual Canadian Embassy) but they might be OK?

― Tangerine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:43 (nineteen years ago)

He looks like singer blokey from Embrace in that pic above.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:43 (nineteen years ago)

There is a burrito stall on Leather Lane now that appears to be staffed by people who know what they're doing (for gringos), with burro/burrito/fajitas options in the £4-5 range but that's no good to you NOW. Also the Red and Green bar in Bethnal Green got a decent review, but it's too expensive. But it's probably the same price as Pacifico/Texas Embassy (yuck).

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:45 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

There's red and green on the bethnal green road but I've only heard about the quality of the drinks.

Lauren claims to have fond a good mexican but I never found out where it was.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:45 (nineteen years ago)

Who looks like Embrace singer? If you're insulting Ben, why I'll...::shakes fist:: but if you're insulting Rick Wakeman or Chris Squire, carry right on ahead.

http://home.maine.rr.com/abajoran/img2/abrick1a.jpg

Now that's a cape.

― Tangerine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

I want to find a picture of keith emerson play a wall of moog in a cape, but I can't

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

Red and Green is a HOORIBLE place. Went there with AMP and Anna the other night and it was just awful.

Not just cape, but wizard hat, too:

http://home.maine.rr.com/abajoran/img2/abrick8a.jpg

― Tangerine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:47 (nineteen years ago)

x-post Emerson wasn't really a cape-wearer, he was more about the silver jumpsuits:

http://www.kingkoncert.com/Portals/7ecbf8d1-c7e0-4596-974c-cd348ddfe15f/Emerson.jpg

― Tangerine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:48 (nineteen years ago)

Prog-Boys examine the burrito before consuming:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v89/Celitae/11.jpg

― Tangerine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

The only progressive rock keyboard player who wore a cape was rick wakeman.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:56 (nineteen years ago)

...the silly old fart.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:56 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.fly.co.uk/fly/archives/sun_ra.jpg

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:58 (nineteen years ago)

And lego Brandon:

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b132/mel_face/legos.jpg

― Tangerine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 09:00 (nineteen years ago)

Kate's prog rock name is Kate St. Claire :)

I was reading the URL of that first celtic picture wrong, see I thought it said Elf In Magical Capes then I realised it was Elfin Magical Capes. Not that it's much of an improvement, to be honest.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 09:01 (nineteen years ago)

Don't ask why this came up in a cape search, but I never realised just how badly Thom Yorke has been trying to be Peter Murphy!

http://static.last.fm/coverart/300x300/1428608.jpg

― Tangerine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, I used to have this poster:

http://www.rhondaar.com/Home/SoulStealing/images/peter.jpg

(Except I swear that's been photoshopped, as he was wearing different pants. More thongy)

Goddamit, I KNOW that Peter Murphy wears capes, why can't I find a picture of one?

― Tangerine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 09:06 (nineteen years ago)

I tried a few names in the prog generator until my mother's hit comedy GOLD.

I give you "Alien Dimension".

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 09:13 (nineteen years ago)

Sun Ra is kind of more Jazz than prog rock? (actually, sun ra is kind of sun ra, really isn't he)

I tried using GIS to back up the probably dubious proposition that rick wakeman was actually quite a good-looking guy when he was younger, pre-beard, but I'm not doing very well, most of the pics are of the older, fucked-up version. I did find this pic of him playing a keytar:

http://news.harmony-central.com/Newp/2002/GMEDIA-Rick-Wakeman.jpg

...which is awesome in its own right, obviously, and also this page where someone has made a scale model of his early seventies keyboard rig:

http://homepage1.nifty.com/tajioku/rick_e.htm

...which has to rock, really albeit in a sort of 1/48 scale way.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 09:13 (nineteen years ago)

Awww, those are so wee! So cute!

Actually, Rick Wakeman *was* hella cute in the early days. We've had this discussion before on ILX.

― Tangerine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 09:15 (nineteen years ago)

So... speaking of Prog, what should I listen to now? The Thom Yorke Not-A-Solo-Album-Solo-Album (which actually sounds exactly like Radiohead but without the rock band), the Secret Machines covers mini-album, or Hawkwind?

Let me think about that.

Oh yeah, Hawkwind. Duh.

― Tangerine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 09:25 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, I was going to say!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, it's a stupid copy protected disc, and so it wanted to install some crap software protect thing I didn't have the rights to do in order to listen to it.

But then I just opened Media Player and there it was. Fantastische!

Ah, I had forgotten how good this album was...

― Tangerine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 09:32 (nineteen years ago)

Morning everyone! I am curiously bouncy today, fuelled by a good breakfast, lots of coffee, and the arrival of some records. Whee!

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

Morning, TISSP! What records are they?

Every time I listen to Hawkwind, I just start thinking "Why do people BOTHER listening to music that *isn't* Hawkwind?"

― Tangerine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

"The Eraser"
"You Forgot It In People"

And, best of all...

"Toxicity"

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

As in SoaD? errrr...

― Tangerine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

YES!

It's amazing! Fantastic rock-operatics that go further than even Queen would have dared... arbitarily shifting time signatures... nu-metal with a sense of humour.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 09:59 (nineteen years ago)

Frankly I'm disappointed myself and Chris didn't follow through on our drunken attempt to break into a record store to buy it when it had first been released.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

(We were going to leave the money on the counter)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

If you are listening to music that isn't Hawkwind, you are STUPID. Do not speak to me of this again.

― Tangerine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

SILENCE or I shall withhold your FolkFest ticket.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

Mutter mutter mutter, OK, I take it back.

(though Hawkwind still are the best band in the entire history of spacerock, you can't take that away from me.)

((Wait, this just reminds me of that hilarious conversation where I tried to explain Spacerock to the Pinefox.))

― Tangerine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 10:06 (nineteen years ago)

I never suggested Hawkwind weren't good!

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 10:09 (nineteen years ago)

xxxpost- The only two decent Mexican restaurants I've eaten at here are both (relatively) recent openings. Mestizo, on Hampstead Rd, up from Euston, and Taqueria, on Westbourne Grove--the latter, though pricey, has lots of really tasty snacks, and homemade tortillas!

― gooblar (gooblar), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

Anti-spacerock coalition formed:

http://static.flickr.com/29/96438447_3a34b5cefa_d.jpg

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 10:39 (nineteen years ago)

Well, under the rules I was explaining to the Pinefox, this thread fully qualifies as spacerock, as it contains overt references to Space, even in the title.

― Tangerine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, I got new spices at the weekend - with different "very hot" chilli powder and my god, yes. This curry makes my lips tingle. Lovely.

― Margarine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 11:11 (nineteen years ago)

what do you put in curries kate? mine are usually very orange (onions, carrots, sweet potatoes, chickpeas in varying amounts) and am looking for alternatives (ok, last week i used mushrooms but i'm always disappointed in how much they shrink). i always cheat and get Uncle Ben to do the sauce for me (he's not even my real uncle!)

can't remember meeting ailsa for the first time but, yes, i concluded last night that it must've been the clusterfap that was bowlie. ned was almost a year ago today as well - Trig Brother saturday last year, 9th July and cancelled for obvious reasons.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

What I put in curries - paneer, kale, spinach, carrots, parsnips (surprising how nicely they curry), and leeks (also curry extremely well). Sometimes apple, as well.

Uncle Ben? You should at least go for Lloyd Grossman. He does my Satay sauces.

― Margarine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

pah, make your own sauce!

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

I do for curries. I'd grind mine own spices if I had a mortar and pestle.

But I can't be bothered for Satay.

― Margarine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

Hello! Day of meetings so far today.

Who was complaining about java chip the other day? A friend of mine emailed them to ask what had happened.

Thank you for taking the time to contact Starbucks Coffee Company.

The java chip frappuccino has been removed from sale due to quality issues. We are in the process of replacing menu boards in our stores which should be completed in the next week.

We appreciate you getting in touch and look forward to welcoming you back soon to your local Starbucks.

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

Quality issues?!?!?

WTF is that?!??!

I bet they had contaminated chocolate crumb.

Mmmmm, salmonella.

― Margarine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

making my own sauce just looks as though it'd add more time to both the purchasing and the cooking stages without adding much to the actual eating stages (may actually detract from the eating stage depending on the result). but i'll look into it. (and it's usually sainsbury's organic balti these days i think, as that's always on special offer, suspiciously so in fact).

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

welcome to the monosodium glutamate stages

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

You could be right!
xxpost

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

I really hope the Syd Barrett thing is a hoax. :-(

― Margarine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

There were two "recent" pics, one around the time of Live-8, where he looked healthy, and one more recently where he looked terrible.

But I'm not convinced the latter pic was the same person.

Which leads me to say "I don't know which one was really him"

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

That's a shame about the java chip. The one I had was nice enough (though not as good as the banana caramel frap... MUST REMEMBER AM ON DIET sigh).

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

OOH BARRETT CONSPIRACY

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/obituary/0,,1817952,00.html

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man... :-(

― Margarine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

Mark your diet seems to consist of having a pint instead of food for lunch, innit?

oh fuck

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

I don't get that.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

Mark C that is... or did you mean you don't get having a pint for lunch?
[oh fuck = Syd]

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

Ah right. So many Marks...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

Wish I'd had a pint for lunch. Or a curry. Instead I had plastic noodles from wagamama. Why do my colleagues like it there so much?

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

I was listening to Syd Barrett at the weekend. :(

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

as i said on the RIP thread

I have a huge Syd Barrett poster above my computer. Its quite upsetting to see his pic as a young healthy man just staring down at me.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

Lauren claims to have fond a good mexican but I never found out where it was.

mestizo, as mentioned above. good tacos, but i swear they put mayo in the guac which was a huge disappointment.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

Poor old syd.

The leather lane burrito was probably the best burrito I've had in London but this does not say much.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

I forgot to say, my iPod died the other day.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

Hello all. And shame about Syd indeed.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

Poor Syd.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.ingsoc.com/waters/buy/posters/pics/1439t.jpg thats the poster i have.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think that listening to Thom Yorke is very good for me. Only seems to exacerbate the OCD.

― Margarine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

...but then I think about the Red Bus Story and I start to laugh.

― Margarine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

I'm listening to The Madcap Laughs.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

red bus story?

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

It is an ILX legend. I will have to dig for it. Or just tell you the next time I see you.

Involving the Radioheads and the Big Red Bus to Oxford.

― Margarine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

souf park gig?

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

No, no, no, it was from their early days. An Random ILX0r (sorry can't remember whom) saw them terribly mistreating poor Thom on the big red bus home after one of their early gigs in London.

― Margarine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

No wonder he always looks so sad.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

The poor thing was just trying to get some sleep while his bandmates were BLAB BLAB BLABBING about random crap at the back of the bus. And in order to wake him up and get him off the bus they WHACKED HIM UPSIDE THE HEAD or somesuch horribleness.

I wish I could remember the whole story.

― Margarine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

then they threw bread rolls at him?

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

Rad, who Emsk has met, used to menace thom at school (he was a few years above).

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

Ah hang on, I have worked out that it was Pete who told me this story, ergo, it is probably a DIRTY LIE.

(Though I still cannot find the original story. Ugh, found horrible ex boyfriends, though.)

― Margarine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

It was Pete B:

Christ, I've never been requested for on a thread before. And yes, in the poster for Bounce, Gwyneth Paltrow looks like Thom Yorke. She is cocking her head slightly and the focus is all wrong so she looks like she has a wonky eye. So therefore Gywnie = Yorke and both are ugly.

The Thom-on-a-bus story. This is summer of 1994. I had just been to a crusty kind of techno club at Heaven and was getting the Oxford Tube because - whilst I did not live in Oxford at the time - it was cheaper than getting a cab back to zone seven Borehamwood before the transport kicked back in. We get on at Victoria and have the bus to ourselves (it is 3 in the morning on a Wednesday night).

Unfortunately this did not continue to be the case as some rowdy blokes got on at Marble Arch. They were the highly rock and roll bus getting combo of Radiohead. As any bunch of pissed up mates would do they immediately colonized the back seat - except for their mutant wonky eyed mate who sat on his own in the middle of the bus. The Greenwood's and the ones with lumpy heads continued to talk about the kind of thing people talk about on buses (kids TV, whether Salma Hayek is a hottie) whilst Yorke continued to mope and try to sleep. They got off at Headington, not beofre Johnny Greenwood gacve Thom a big slaphead style wake up call to the forehead.

Turns out that they had been playing at the LA2 for a "bit bored" gig whilst recording The Bends. It was that night they recorded My Iron Lung live - which was subsequently cleaned up but released from that session. Thom Yorke is a very ugly man with a wonky eye and you should stop fancying him.

Me. Julie Christie in her prime. I have a celeb stalking friend (last flat lived above Eddie Grant) who now lives next door to Ms Christie. She is still a sublimely beautiful creature.

And oddly Natasha Lyonne really turns me on too.

-- Pete (pb14@****.**.**), June 15th, 2001.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

(from the "alright who do you fancy" thread)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

(Yeah, I jsut found it, too.)

That thread is hilarious. Mainly because of Ally's perverse insistence that Thom is ugly in the face of Mel's and my increasing ire (and lust).

― Margarine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

I also found this old post of mine when searching on ILM:

SCOTLAND, 86--01: Search and Destroy

If you destroy Bobby G, who am I going to lust after?

That's an easy one. Transfer bbby's lust-quotient to thom yorke.

xoxo

-- N*rm*n F*y (k-rad@********.demon.co.uk), July 9th, 2001.

Without looking at the thread, I wonder who I was responding to ;)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

Sigh. Well, I can still listen to Thom Yorke's recent records while you'd be hard pressed to get me to give the new PRML SCRM record the time of day.

― Margarine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

There was an interview with with Bobby G, and when questioned about the return to more basic rock and roll, started the answer with "Well I was talking to Liam Gallagher..."

Oh God.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

LA LA LA LA, I CAN'T HEAR YOU

::STICKS FINGER IN EARS::

http://www.blender.com/gallery_photos/335/september_2003/radiohead_l5.jpg

― Margarine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sorry, I just found the infamous belly picture. I'd not seen it in years. I had forgotten the effect it has on me.

Oh my.

I'm going to go and value some variances or something.

::fans self::

― Margarine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

Kate poxy fuled us all with her electric fan.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

Eh? Naught to do with me. The only thing that makes it do that is moderation of the stoopid kind.

What on earth shall I do for the last hour of the day? I'm quite bored and don't have anything short and easy left to do.

― Margarine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I am starting to itch terribly again.

I looked at my calamine lotion coating and it's got loads of tiny holes where all my sweat glands are, like a weird salt formation in a dryed up lake.

― Margarine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

You can always listen to Thom Yorke again.
*Hears Norman shouting Hawkwind from his shop*

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

I am trying to blog about Hawkwind, but I keep getting distracted by Thom's loveliness.

― Margarine Machine (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

There's a big purple booze selling spaceship in clerkenwell green an a project to build a lost rivers water clock.

My last.fm weeklies:

Creedence Clearwater Revival
Boards of Canada
Stan Tracey
Folklore Siciliano
Spiers & Boden
Roy Ayers
The Kinks
Marvin Gaye
Sun Ra
Hawkwind

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

Huzzah, our office internet is working again - yesterday it was up and down like a broken yoyo.

Apparently it affected our branch office 50 miles away too, so clearly BT were majorly fucking about yesterday.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 06:27 (nineteen years ago)

This is also the weekend for the silly Italian Church parade in Clerkenwell where old people with cotton-wool wigs stand on floats and play God. But amazing food...

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 07:09 (nineteen years ago)

Have I mentioned how much i hate active directory?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 07:45 (nineteen years ago)

Morning! I can't concentrate on work, I'm thinking about my holiday. I also want to work from home so I can use last.fm all day.

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 07:53 (nineteen years ago)

Feel free to rant, Ed.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 07:54 (nineteen years ago)

What does active directory do then?

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 07:56 (nineteen years ago)

At the moment, not what it's supposed to. I still can't find all of the references to the old primary domain controller. There is something somewhere that is causing the Exchange server to refuse to use the new PDC and look for the old one which isn't there. When this happens mail services drop off at random.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 08:02 (nineteen years ago)

There's a big purple booze selling spaceship in clerkenwell green an a project to build a lost rivers water clock.

Uuhhhh... WHAT?!?!?

I think I need to wander over there after work today.

(I should find who is responsible for all this lost rivers stuff and see if they will publish my graphic poem thing that goes with the song.)

Today I am mostly obsessed with vapour trails. There were some spectacular ones as I was climbing Streatham Hill. Some of them fan out and make little fluffy clouds. Others stay narrow and thin. Some are attached to airplanes, and are split in two like a needle and thread sewing the sky. I like vapour trails, they are pretty.

But then I got to the top of Brixton Hill and saw the horrible grey-brown haze hanging over London and thought "ugh, I'm not going there."

― Margarine Machine (kate), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 08:37 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I saw them setting up for the Lambeth County Fair in Brockwell Park from the train last night. Who is up for going on Saturday afternoon?

― Margarine Machine (kate), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

Oh! I just looked at APOD and discovered that today is the Manhattan Equinox!

Happy Equinox, New Yorkishes.

― Margarine Machine (kate), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 08:44 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, Brandon TSM in saying some not entire unintelligent things about modern art shockah!

http://www.thesecretmachines.com/ModernPainters.pdf

Articulate rock stars, who knew?

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 09:20 (nineteen years ago)

Morning all. My left eye is hurting. Just the left one. Which is a shame because I do all my best work from that one.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 09:39 (nineteen years ago)

(Interesting article, too)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 09:40 (nineteen years ago)

Hrrrrmmm. I'm interested in the idea of eye-handedness.

I first found out it was a real thing when I took archery lessons as a teenager. That everyone had an eye they were better at aiming with. I found it true for drawing, too, that I often squinted one eye to look at things properly.

I wonder if it's more related to handedness (right handed people perfer their left eye for balance?) or to brain-handedness (right brain people or left brain people prefer their appropriate eye?)

Though I suppose if that were the case, I'd prefer different eyes for different work.

My left eye is definitely better, but that could be because I need new glasses.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

Well in my case it's simply that my right eye doesn't work as it's supposed to, rather than a case of eye-handedness (unless of course this is eye-handedness...).

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 09:44 (nineteen years ago)

(FWIW, I am left handed)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 09:44 (nineteen years ago)

OK, so that's left/right handedness out. It must have to do with brainhandedness.

Had a long, very interesting converstion with Pete about eye-handedness, about which eye he uses for different things.

So does your other eye just not work, or not work as well as the other?

Both my eyes function properly, I just prefer using my left eye for anything that has to do with judging distance, depth, colouration (especially deciding which parts of a drawing should be light or dark - which helps create depth) - I'll focus my left eye, close or squint my right eye, then bring them back together.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

My right eye does work, just not properly. Rather than looking straight out, it looks about 5 degrees across my nose, which is fine for using it in tandem with my left eye (my brain fills in the details), but I can't really use it on it's own.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

Urgh, apostrophe catastrophe, sorry. Need more coffee.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

I can't make my eyes work independently at all - ie. I can't wink, or squint or narrow one eye without the other. omg is this why I am crap at drawing?

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

I discovered my eyes could move/see independently after learning how to go cross-eyed. It was something I taught myself, not something that came naturally.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 10:02 (nineteen years ago)

Just moving my eyes at all today is suprisingly painful. I have taken a remedy of some coffee and some painkillers.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 10:03 (nineteen years ago)

surprisingly, even.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 10:03 (nineteen years ago)

My eyes don't focus together on stuff properly, and my left eye is horribly short-sighted too; so usually when i don't have my glasses on I have to close my left eye to focus on anything at a distance.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 10:08 (nineteen years ago)

So what am I going to listen to today? Hawkwind or Thom Yorke? Daddy or chips?

OK, I think I'd prefer to listen to Hawkwind, but the problem is, they don't make me want to work, they make me want to bounce around the office shouting about space. While Thom Yorke makes me want to curl up in a ball and do the same thing, over and over and over again repeatedly and obsessively while rocking in my chair and talking to myself.

Which is a lot more like my job than the former.

Sigh.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

While I'm gone, please talk among yourselves about the indie combover as the response to male pattern balding.

From this:

http://www.nme.com/images/84_thomyorke_radiohead_L210306.jpg

Is it an indie combover to hide his bald patch? Or was his hair loss caused by OK Computer era stress? (he seems like a pretty stressed little guy. In fact, he might just be poster child for the pretty stressed little guy.) You decide!

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

bah! Now why doesn't the bald patch picture want to show up? Here's another bald patch picture:

http://www.bluejean.com.tr/nevarneyok/02153/imperiaflex_0_14_0.jpg

It's so a combover, as you can see in other photos:

http://www.notodo.com/secciones/blog/imagen/1338_1.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/CitizenErased18/1196_771674751_thom_yorke8_H181701_.jpg

Dammit, I'm supposed to be working on this stupid How Am I Driving report, not lusting over Thom Yorke's bald patch.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

I have listened to The Eraser once this morning. Now I am listening to System of a Down again. I'm going to hell.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 11:07 (nineteen years ago)

God, I hate this report. Can you tell I'm procrasturbating? This is how much I hate the HAID report:

http://www.ualberta.ca/~dcarney/Pictures/thomyorke.jpg

Though the conslutants think it's the best thing since sliced bread. Sigh.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/drd500/d544/d5444424o63.jpg

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

I still can't find my copy of that. I think it's been long enough now to consider buying another copy.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

Where do you think I got the title of the report from, Mark? ;-)

It's one of the small joys of my job to sneak in random references like that.

You don't even want to know what the GiantJonny report does...

Though d'oh! I should be working, not posting this. I just can't think how to get around my nested subreports problem. I might have to build two subreports and pull out the values separately, or else I might have to tabulate one through the supporting report and pull the other in as a subreport... argh. My head hurts, this is too complicated.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

I would use C. But then that's just me.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

I'd use Perl myself ;-)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

I have to use Crystal, guys. So FERME LA BOUCHE!!!

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

You are a masochist, though

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― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

I am not a masochist. I just have to use the tools that work with this system. We've been through this a hundred times before.

Besides, my reports are pretty and multi-coloured.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

And they have PIE CHARTS!!!

Though not on How Am I Driving, though. I'm surprised they haven't asked for them.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

Perl is less masochistic than C. So there.

(and anyway I'm not actually a masochist. Pain hurts!)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

Perl is less masochistic than C. So there.

I contest this with every fibre of my being.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

Is this punnishment for my obsessing over Thom Yorke's bald patch?

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

Bah, it's true. Perl gives you lots of ways to shoot yourself in the foot, but it's much easier to write most stuff in than C.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

Python >>>>> Perl

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

try php if you like c but need a scripting language. you'll wonder how you got to be (insert age here) without a decent hash table function.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

Understand this. I am not averse to air conditioning. I am not a paid-up member of the ultra influential anti-air-conditioning lobby. I like ac, actually. It's quite warm outside today, and so I expected (nay, wanted) the british library's air conditioning to be on. But must it be on full blast? Must I shiver and feel the little hairs on my arms wiggle up towards me? Must I take too many cigarette breaks just to stand for a few blessed minutes in the warming sun? Urgh.

― gooblar (gooblar), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

I don't like PHP much to be honest. Python I played with a few years ago but I've never done anything serious with.

Our cooling unit has vanished. Well, we temporarily vanished it ourselves, because it started smelling of stagnant water, and is impossible to empty. Our boss then found out, and started panicking that we were going to get Legionnaires Disease; so it disappeared for good.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

Talking of computergeek stuff: can anyone recommend good London-based IT recruitment people?

(or recommend *me* to *them*, even)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

> I don't like PHP much to be honest.

well, phooey then! 8) actually, that was more for the benefit of tissp due to his like of c. you don't really need to know php if you know perl but if you know neither and have a c background then php is the obvious (to me) choice as it shares (some) syntax.

tried a touch of python as it has a very shallow opengl library. the

if condition:

and the use of indenting for structure scared me though, even though i am work's resident whitespace nazi.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

I think php and C share about the same amount of syntax as perl and C do - or indeed perl and php do! the things that one took from C tend to be the things the other did too.

I think whitespace nazis are *less* likely to like python cos they are forced to use the language's whitespace ideas rather than their own. I'm a bit of one myself, who has been using VB a lot this week, and I *hate* not being able to split statements over lines easily. I can't remember if you can do that in Python or not though.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

meowskas

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

Perl/Python are nice toy languages, but there is only one C.

Perl's main strength (that there are lots of ways to do things) is also it's main weakness: you can find a half-dozen Perl programmers who will be able to solve the same problem efficiently and elegantly, but are unable to read each other's code.

The perils of buying stuff in ~~Selectadisc~~ Sister Ray when it's in one of those tiny vinyl sleeves: it turns out that the Placebo album I bought is a CD + DVD + 20-page 'art' 'booklet' in a DVDcase that looks like a book. Now I do like me some Placebo, but a 20-page booklet with boy/girl bits in it? I suspect I've been put on a register somewhere.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

I can see I'm needed here to try change the subject to drone.
I want this. I have the original vinyl but i want the extra tracks. And I have 2 stereos so i can play the 2 discs at the same time as intended!

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/37209/Boris_Dronevil_Final

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, and recruitment people = shower of cunts, of course.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

Hello btw.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

comparing interpreted Perl / Python / PHP with compiled C is like comparing screwdrivers and hammers*. am (was?) a big fan of c but i get fed up of reinventing the wheel everytime i need a hashtable or linked list (say).

*our ex-resident lisp bore would usually around now point out that lisp could do both. right about now we'd walk away shaking our heads.

that pitchfork media site is dreadful, too many flashing things. one of the flashing things is an advert for flashing things of your own. argh. more grist to my adblock mill...

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

recruitment people = shower of cunts, of course

I know that - I work with some! That doesn't stop me needing some, though.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

Is gmail down for everyone else?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

I can't believe this!

I leave you lot alone for a few hours, go off and fix How Am I Driving, update my blog, get in an insulting discussion of Matthew Collings with someone who turns out to know him (not Suzy, btw) and come back here and you're still talking about programming!

I want theories about Thom Yorke's disappearing bald patch and I want them NOW!

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

Gmail's up and down for me - I've sent two emails this afternoon, and both times sending has failed on the first go.

We've hardly been talking about programming *that* much, Kate! I have been trying to get people to recommend good IT recruitment places Dahn Sarf, but there probably aren't any.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

Oh god, I don't even know about recruitment places any more. I had a good one, but they're not IT specialists (they only got my job by accident), but now they've changed and become something different.

Maybe we could refer you to Mr. DC?

Oh, and whoever Why Ess Aiyed me, thank you, even though you forgot to put your name on the message!

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

Can't blame me for programming chat.
x-post
I gave up trying to use gmail and Why Ess Aiyed a few tracks to people instead.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

I need to get me some more KLF. I had several of their albums - on cassette no less - and I've no idea what happened to them.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

I can't believe this!

DEMOCRACY HAS SPOKEN

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

No democracy here, bud. I am KING and I will have you UP AGAINST THE WALL!!!

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

You were queen the other day.

Faltering leadership, people, faltering leadership.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

Kate is Queen and Kate is King and Kate is Mother and Kate is Father and Kate is Life and Kate is Death and you must all bow before me.

NOW HUSH WITH THE CRITICISM AND MAKE WITH THE BOWING, NOW!

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Blimey, she doesn't even know who she is! How can you bow before this person etc etc

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

And she wants you up against the wall..

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

I have 2 KLF cds. Chill Out and The White Room.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

And she wants you up against the wall..

Oh Kate, you tease.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

Are you accusing me of flirting with TISSP... oh wait.

::hangs head in shame::

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, ILX runs on the sexual tension between myself and Kate. Possibly.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

I could run ILX on the sexual tension between myself.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

Well, if I'm not needed...

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

No, no, come back! Sit right down... no, wait, sit at an angle where I can admire your hair... That's better.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

My hair is dirty today. And messy. And generally needs cutting. Which is weird because I only had it cut a few weeks ago.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

Now you just have to tell me that you've been keeping up the red rinse. ;-)

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

Funny you should mention that, actually

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

WAR IS KATE IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS KATE IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS KATE IS STRENGTH

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

See, Citizen Farrell has the right idea.

Actually, I'm going to put in a red rinse in mine own hair this weekend. Since Anna isnt' going to be at the Windmill gig, I've got to up the Ginger Quotient.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

Anna's hair is less ginger and more magenta now.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Well, my rinse is called "mahogany" or something like that. It is a dark flamey red.

However, on my hair, it probably won't do a thing. Sigh.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, this is the best thing ever:

http://www.thepeoplescube.com/spread/thumbs/Thumbs_laika.gif

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

Hooray I had forgotten the Sign Language for "I Love You" (or convinced myself that it couldn't be real):

http://z.about.com/d/deafness/1/0/4/2/iloveyoustamps_smaller.jpg

I particularly love the expressiveness of it. Left: "I don't know who you are, but I love you anyway, like Spiderman would". Right: "You mean the world to me, and I love you like a devotee of The True Metal loves our lord Satan".

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

It's only the sign of the devil if you fold the thumb in to touch the middle fingers. Then it is The Horns, which is older than sign language.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

I see no thumb in the second picture :)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

Soon it will be the blue rinse in her hair.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Stanley Donwood hurts my head.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, what am I going to do tonight?

I've been so crazy busy for so long that I'm not sure what to do with a night off.

Sit around and read Stories and relax, I suppose.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

tissp and Kate in 10 years time
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/images/400/areyoubeingserved_3.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think I understand.

I suppose I'd have to get the reference to be insulted?

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

Soon it will be the blue rinse in her hair.

-- Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

I hope noone makes Mrs Slocombe's pussy jokes then if you don't understand the reference.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, baby, yeah! Houston, we have a webcam!

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0607/shuttlego_nasa.gif

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Thursday, 13 July 2006 08:08 (nineteen years ago)

That is only Merkin sign language for 'I love you' though. BSL is something much more sensible but not as funny.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 13 July 2006 08:10 (nineteen years ago)

I saw that on the ground a very few weeks ago.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 13 July 2006 08:18 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/45/155919917_ad8e3e1346.jpg?v=0

― Its wrong to wish on space hardware (dali), Thursday, 13 July 2006 08:22 (nineteen years ago)

Bloody hell I'm tired this morning. I woke up late because I managed to turn my alarm clock off in my sleep. I think my subconscious is trying to tell me I need to rest.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 13 July 2006 08:22 (nineteen years ago)

yes, Ed, but you didn't see it in SPACE, which you were telling me at the weekend is, apparently The Place.

God, I love NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day. It's so random.

FP, sounds like what you need is a nice, quiet, resting and relaxing weekend in.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Thursday, 13 July 2006 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

Mmmm, probably. I'm going to Hull on Saturday, but I will resist the temptation of a night out if at all possible.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 13 July 2006 08:31 (nineteen years ago)

i have a +1 for this http://www.tricycle.co.uk/htmlnew/whatson/show.php3?id=92 tonight. my friend who was coming can't make it. anyone wants?

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 13 July 2006 08:48 (nineteen years ago)

Can't, going out for dinner with Catty and The Texan.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Thursday, 13 July 2006 08:51 (nineteen years ago)

rats, I'm going with YMOF to se ARRGH pirates of the carribean 2

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 13 July 2006 08:52 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to get very hungry listening to Bill Buford talk about his new book at the London Review Bookshop.

― gooblar (gooblar), Thursday, 13 July 2006 08:56 (nineteen years ago)

And now it's time for Kate's daily dose of lust:

http://ccn1.net/POTD6/damien-hirst-shark-wrath-of-god.jpg
http://ccn1.net/POTD6/damien-hirst-mors-dei-death-of-god.jpg

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Thursday, 13 July 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

so, programming languages then...

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Thursday, 13 July 2006 09:44 (nineteen years ago)

I love when he has long hair. He looks so much cuter like that.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Thursday, 13 July 2006 09:45 (nineteen years ago)

Ed, the space shuttle in your photo looks like it's strapped to the world's largest turd. Was not aware US Gov't has developed dung fuel technology - running on bullshit would totally fit the current climate, hein?

Also the Thingbringer delivered two packages, one of which looks bikey.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 13 July 2006 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

other one bookey?

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 13 July 2006 10:05 (nineteen years ago)

I'm also expecting a package of what look like small disposable rocket launchers from Minnesota.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 13 July 2006 10:05 (nineteen years ago)

I worry about you sometimes.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Thursday, 13 July 2006 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

They are spare water filter cartridges for camp's aquasun solar powered water purifier.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 13 July 2006 10:08 (nineteen years ago)

Sure they are. Tell that to the Terrist Fiting League when they kick at your front door.

Mmmmm, In Search Of Space today. Psycheeeedelic.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Thursday, 13 July 2006 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

So Forest Pines is going to hull and back?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 13 July 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

I've spent all day so far on hold to help desks, or being baffled by instructions that don't make sense from people far away and on dodgy phone lines. Too many computer problems all at once... :(

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 13 July 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

We had a very funny email go round from our tech support Service Centre, saying "Birmingham is currently unavailable as of 11:30"

What, the whole city? How inconvenient!

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Thursday, 13 July 2006 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

Kate have you tried www.8daysinapril.blogspot.com/ ? Full of prog/spacerock/krautrock/psych etc albums to download. You will love it.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 13 July 2006 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

It goes back over a year. Early on it was full of fantastic stuff, i assume its all still there you just need to look through archives. Plus the guy says he's reuploading everything hes ever posted thats expired.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 13 July 2006 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, blimey, I'm a bit scared by that blog but it looks like it might be good.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Thursday, 13 July 2006 10:36 (nineteen years ago)

Theres links there for the archives goes back to August 2005. Theres lotsa great stuff there.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 13 July 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

I'm feeling bouncy today. For one thing, I found that our local Boots stocks a tasty ginger drink. For another, most of the people who last weekend said "i'll get in touch" suddenly HAVE got in touch all at once. Huzzah!

New "aargh she doesn't really fancy me she only sent me a message to be polite" angst on the way, of course.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 13 July 2006 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

A lot of that stuff is well dodgy! I sold a copy of that sweet slag album for neatly £100 in the '90's, it's terrible!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 13 July 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

Afternoon, Watercoolants! I arrived in rather late today. Stupid technology with its stupid letting me turn the alarm off and go back to sleep.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 13 July 2006 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I haven't been able to get the Hawkwind albums off the media player long enough to find out.

Afternoon, TISSP.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Thursday, 13 July 2006 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

Hello, TISSP. I did the same thing myself - or, at least, I must have done, but I have no memory of it at all.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 13 July 2006 11:22 (nineteen years ago)

I am desperately trying to resist listening to Toxicity again today.

Apparently there may be a small chance that we get to soundtrack a B-movie horror film. I'm stupidly excited by this.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 13 July 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

I've forgotten to set my alarm in a fog. And I've hit OFF instead of SNOOZE. But I've never woken up in the middle of the night and just turned it off. I don't think.

That would be awesome, TISSP! What's it for? And do you know what film?

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Thursday, 13 July 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not sure of any details, it was just something Jon mentioned to me this morning, that he knew of someone who had asked his previous band to provide a soundtrack to his horror film, but nothing ever came of it, so perhaps we can pick up where they left off.

I shouldn't get too excited because apparently the guy is taking absolutely ages to get the script done, so it'll probably never happen. On a more optmistic note, however, perhaps having us biting at his heels to provide us with material to score will encourage him to complete it.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 13 July 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

Kate/Norm are you a fan of very early Kraftwerk? When they used real instruments?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 13 July 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know WHAT I actually did. I went to bed at 12.30. I definitely remember setting the alarm as I did. I remember getting up at 4am to let the cat out. Then, the next thing I know, it's ten to seven and the alarm's been switched off.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 13 July 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

Or the "KraftNeu!" stuff?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 13 July 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

Errr... I've got to stop looking at Hawkwind sites with early pictures of them. I'm starting to find some of them attractive.

Oh a new b-movie! Even cooler! I thought you were going to do one of those Rock N Roll cinema type events.

Yes, Pash, I do liek that stuff. There was quite a bit on Kerr's encyclopaedia of drone. All I knew was RuckZuck (or however it's spelled) before but I like it all.

Now here's something shocking - I don't actually own a single classic-era electro Kraftwerk album!

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Thursday, 13 July 2006 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, sorry, that was Kerr I was responding to! Duh! Of course I like it! You know what I've got.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Thursday, 13 July 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

Kate's groupies have arrived for the Truck Festival...

http://www.starfarer.net/galleryb/hwfarmcr.jpg

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Thursday, 13 July 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

I bet you still haven't played half the stuff i sent.
You REALLY need to listen to The Heads, SubArachnoid Space, Zombi,Paik, Mammatus.
All spacerock goodness.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 13 July 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

many xposts Rockety-launcher things from Minnesota? From the same people who sent two camping tools when you'd only ordered one? HUZZAH. It is refreshing not to be the only strange thing from Minnesota.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 13 July 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, no, but I did go and see what's his face from Cocteau Twins the other week, doing a live soundtrack to his own film, which was quite good.

(xposts)

I have been toying with the idea of working with the local amateur theatre to perform a live musical, that we could improv the soundtrack to. That would be exciting, I imagine.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 13 July 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

I am really liking The Aphid by circulus, Kate

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 13 July 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

Thing is, I lent discs 1 to 8 to Ed a few weeks back and he's NEVER GIVEN THEM BACK!!! And I told you it would take me months to listen to it all, considering how much of it there was!

Right, now to see what's inside the zip, hrrrmmmm...

x-post Glad you like it. It's on sale at the Covent Garden HMV. now buy it and give me mine back. Humph! ;-)

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Thursday, 13 July 2006 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry. I only managed to get the first things off it the other night.

I will copy everything off the other ones and hand back. Is tomorrow a good idea or a bad idea?

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 13 July 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

Tomorrow is fine, Ed. I will have a cheque for you, too. Or should that wait until you get back?

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Thursday, 13 July 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

Tissp, that is very Soft Machine of you.

Phone just rang with editor offering weekend press jolly to Estonia which I cannot take because:

1. Damn fool is ALREADY having me write a thinkpiece about caring capitalism, due Monday, and I should be doing that for him first. Plus another thousand words on photographic memories, due tomorrow.

2. I am needed in West London as a feeder of fishes.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 13 July 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

Could you not write the thinkpiece on the plane to Estonia? And get a surrogate fishfeeder?

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 13 July 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, actually, Suzy, the Pinefox was asking about you last week, and he was wondering what kind of things you write. And I found myself utterly flummoxed by trying to describe ESM and the kinds of pieces you write in Pinefoxian Terms. "thinkpieces on caring capitalism" would have been a perfect example.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Thursday, 13 July 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

Take the fish to Estonia, that's what I say.

So can anyone remind me how this whole "work" thing works? I seem to have forgotten. Does it involve posting to ILX at all?

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Thursday, 13 July 2006 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

What is this work thing of which you speak? You know I just listen to spacerock and post to ILX all day.

Right, I should get back to work. I want coffee, though. Do I deserve coffee? I kinda think I do.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Thursday, 13 July 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

Everyone deserves coffee.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 13 July 2006 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

I definitely remember coffee being an important part of work. Somewhere I have pictures of me at "work" and there is always coffee present.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Thursday, 13 July 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y161/MarkGrout/ACrop.jpg

Wayy xpost: So, our Alice is saying "I love you all, whoever you are" here?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 13 July 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

ROCK.

Totally wound up today, so much so I'm feeling a bit light-headed. I hate work.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 13 July 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

Ohmigod, that is the best picture ever!

Can we nick it sometime for a Shimuras record cover or would she be, like, totally embarrassed by that?

I have coffee now. I feel a bit ashamed of myself, but it is my colleague's fault.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Thursday, 13 July 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

So I got my bike bits, except what they shipped was wrong. They sent me two tufo tyres instead of 1 tufo tyre, some valve extensions and some valve cores. Should I own up to their costly mistake and get the cheaper bits I wanted or keep the second tyre?

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 13 July 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

I imagine if you were to ring them they would probably just tell you to keep the tyre--that's generally my experiences when companies send the wrong thing.

Amazon shipped my friend two MiniDV cameras instead of one, and when he tried to report it, he received an email saying, "We are sorry you have still not recieved you camera".

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 13 July 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

This is the second time this has happened in as many weeks. I got two leathermen from Minnesota the other week and was told to keep the second.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 13 July 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

::falls off chair laughing::

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Thursday, 13 July 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

Just call them and tell them that DOCKET SAYS BITS ARE WITHIN, YET NO BITS. No sig was required for the package.

Trip hassles: it's also week before payday, my own computer is at Queer Repair, and I hate being forced to 'bond' with PRs who then attempt to press this advantage while I'm cornered in Foreign by asking me, now they know me so well, if they can 'see the piece before it runs' (fuck off) or asking me to promise paginations (share the joy: refer to editor so editor can say fuck off too). It's also for some tenuous partay-culture thingy, not the kind of thing I normally do (which is proper long interviews and culture essays). And all the inexpensive high-quality vodka in Estonia will not change this one bit.

Also last press trip PR got right on my tits (and by the look of me is still sitting on them) by grumbling about the English skills of members of the service economy (in here and California) but only when the people were brown or darker, on the basis that her Spanish parents learnt it JUST FINE. Me, with extreme glare/eyebrow combo: "Running away from Fascism, were they?"

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 13 July 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

Kate, I'm sure she would be very proud.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 13 July 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

estonians go in for overproof vodka, if that helps.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 13 July 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

argh, omigod, ice cream headache!

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Thursday, 13 July 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

there wasn't, by any chance, sugar in this coffee was there?

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 13 July 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

Of course there was, It was a frapuccino.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Thursday, 13 July 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

Overproof vodka is the last thing I need. Was looking forward to sobriety and steam rooms this weekend as I FEEL SHITE.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 13 July 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh coffee.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 13 July 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

The coffee only seems to have made me crankier. I'm sick of being asked STOOOPID questions.

I told the bloke, when I did end of month, that it was wrong the first time around, so I had to redo it. When I redid it, I was not able to create a backdated system report. Now he's asking me why the first set of figures don't match the second. BECAUSE I ALREADY TOLD YOU THE FIRST SET WERE WRONG!!!

Gah.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Thursday, 13 July 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

the Loop is a bit loud but has 2001 samples so... that second guitar doesn't appear to have anything to do with the other guitar (bass?) or the vocals.

krautrockarchive3.zip also managed to download on the second attempt. woot.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Thursday, 13 July 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

Oh right been meaning to ask (though I'm sure it's on these threads somewhere): TISSP and Kate, how does one buy your records when quite a few hundred miles away?

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Thursday, 13 July 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

Hrrmmm. That's something we'll have to figure out when we actually have a record to sell.

(Don't know if our (soon to be ex) record company will ship to Norway but you'd have to ask them, as I don't have a clue! Sorry!)

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Thursday, 13 July 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

Ah right I didn't know it didn't actually exist yet. Link to the rec cpny website again pls?

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Thursday, 13 July 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

Did anyone beside me think the picture of the little groutlet was actually Kaet?

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Thursday, 13 July 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

Haha yes that was my first thought!

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Thursday, 13 July 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

That pic is about 6 months old now, I think.

Amber and Alice are currently rehearsing a dance routine for the end-of-term talent show, to "Rockaway Beach"

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 13 July 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

Aw, that sounds so great!

Ha ha ha, I'm having the most annoying argument with the electricity company at the moment. I have to laugh, because if I weren't, I'd be screaming my head off. I actually laughed at the poor bloke on the phone, but I was laughing at his company's complete incompetence.

Ok, basically. I got an electricity bill for £80 in late May - I thought it seemed a bit high, so I had to run around and get a measurement. By a month later, I had the key to the meter, and called in with my reading. "Oh, says the bloke. That is very high. For that reading, your bill should be £40." Which I paid on the spot, tra la la, very happy.

Yesterday, I get a new bill for £60. Now - how can I have run up a £60 bill in A WEEK?!?!? I look at the thing, and basically, what he's done is taken the old bill of £80, written off half of it, put a payment against the other half of it - then REBILLED ME FOR THE SAME ELECTRICITY. "Go jump in the dry lake" I thought.

Except, today I get this bloke ringing up going "You now owe us £90." Oh no I don't, I tell him, and tell him the entire story. He just can't get his head around it. He puts me on hold for ages, and finally comes back going "I don't understand this at all. Can you please ring this number to sort it out..."

I just laughed at him and told him OH NO. It's not my job to sort out your accounting system. As far as I'm concerned, I've paid you. Your records show that I've paid you. Even the new bill I have shows I've paid you. Unless you can prove that I've used £60 worth of electricity in the past week, it's YOUR PROBLEM.

I am just so glad I never set up a direct debit payment with these idiots.

I mean, it should have been a sign when they just "forgot" to bill me for six months. Sigh.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Thursday, 13 July 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Kate/Norm did you get anything in your emails today?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 13 July 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

I only got the YSI from you, Kerr. Which I have been listening to in between arguing with the electricity company.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Thursday, 13 July 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds very familiar...

We just paid an £80 electric bill in June (already probably too much as it was estimated) and then got another one for *£160* this week. Since we don't have a washing machine, a TV, a video, electric heating, or even an electric kettle, I find it quite unlikely that we have used this much electricity in ONE MONTH. Sent them a meter reading online yesterday so we'll see...

Meanwhile they have spent god knows how much changing all their stationery etc to say 'edf' instead of 'Seeboard'.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 13 July 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

EDF?!?!? Those are the same idiots who have messed up my billing! Except their rebranding for us was from London Energy.

While bitching about it, I have discovered that they have also fucked up the billing of one of my colleagues.

I bet you they've double billed you, like they did me.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Thursday, 13 July 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe the bill was in euros seeing as you are now buying electricité de france rather than boring old southern electricity.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 13 July 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

is alice ready to sell me teh mustang yet?

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Thursday, 13 July 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

I buy wind power from some hippies who don't seem to have billed me in 6 months.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 13 July 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

Woohoo.
x-post

btw theres video footage of them playing ruckzuck. Ralf isn't on it though. Just Florian ,Klaus and Michael fron Neu!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 13 July 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

Unless I'm attempting cold fusion in my kitchen, I really don't see myself spending E60 in one week, either!

Like Archel, I've not got a telly, washing machine, dryer, electric oven, microwave, video - or anything, really that eats electricity except my Mac which has a very low running standby.

(My pedals haven't even been plugged in for the past week, so don't blame them, either.)

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Thursday, 13 July 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

I thought it might be the same lot, kate. Grr!

I have nothing against privatisation (actually, that's a lie) but you can't get away with fucking up when Other Suppliers Are Available. Consider yourselves warned, Messieurs...

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 13 July 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

Tell me about these windpower hippies, Ed. I might be shopping for a new electricity company soon...

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Thursday, 13 July 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

My friend made me this! It is the BEST! THING! EVER!!!

http://myspace-597.vo.llnwd.net/00929/79/59/929849597_l.jpg

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Thursday, 13 July 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

He looks so happy somehow. In a way.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 July 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

Oh right been meaning to ask (though I'm sure it's on these threads somewhere): TISSP and Kate, how does one buy your records when quite a few hundred miles away?

Sorry, didn't notice this the first time round!

http://www.iff-transponder.co.uk/city_seventeen/ and follow the link to the shop!

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 13 July 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

Shipping internationally shouldn't be a problem, I also meant to say.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 13 July 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

God, I need a holiday.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Thursday, 13 July 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

Argh BUGS. Earwigs smashed in total: 10.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 13 July 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

I want to go to Stockholm, I think.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Thursday, 13 July 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah! I'm reviewing The Eraser for Plan B now.

By tomorrow.

Yikes.

I think I'm going to write a mad, raving, typical RH fan THOM HAVE MY BABIES review and a sensible review and see which one they publish. Heh.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Thursday, 13 July 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

Today, I have brought in a packet of mint chocolate digestives. Of such small pleasures, office harmony is restored. And hopefully they'll cheer Big Dave up a bit too - he's very gloomy due to mysterious and unspecified Bad News. Huzzah for biscuits!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 14 July 2006 07:55 (nineteen years ago)

Morning!

I am feeling nervous and kinda speedy. Had great Messican food and a whole loada rants last night with Catty (the Texan had food poisoning and stayed home). Then went home and listened to The Eraser over and over and over again. It's not a good place for me to be going at the moment, when I should be psyching myself up. But that review is staring me in the face and I'm trying to get my thoughts organised.

Forgot my power supply cable for hte Mac coz I'm an idjot. FOrgot my chequebook, too, sorry Ed. Argh.

I hate having to carry so much stuff. Next band, i swear to god I'm playing the piccolo.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Friday, 14 July 2006 08:15 (nineteen years ago)

Grr, phpwiki is giving me problems. I keep getting the error that it can't find or open a specific php page (in this case BogoLogin); permissions all seem correct, I've tried setting an absolute path rather than a relative one and still nothing.

I'm going to blame the plesk vhosts system and the auto install of phpWiki but if anyone has any ideas?

Might have an appropriate mac powersupply if suzy can get it back from queer reapir.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 14 July 2006 08:16 (nineteen years ago)

FP, I may have to hurt you for posting that nice arse pic to WDYLL. I'm not sure that's what I need to have seen this early in the morning.

Ed, I've asked AMP if I can borrow hers, but who knows if she's checking her email, argh.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Friday, 14 July 2006 08:17 (nineteen years ago)

You didn't HAVE to click on the link!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 14 July 2006 08:23 (nineteen years ago)

Relax kids, I am now holding the power supply from the Nickputer in my hand and Kate is welcome to borrow this. K, BTW Nick listened to Curves whilst visiting and his verdict was 'nice...sounds like Stereolab'.

Queer Repair has my new machine and won't be repairing it until Monday when I get the relevant part.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 14 July 2006 08:29 (nineteen years ago)

Of course I did.

OK, I've got it in my head that "Atoms For Peace" is about make-up sex and has overt references to cunnilingus in it, and now I can't stop giggling every time I hear it.

OK, it's Thom. It could be about anything. It's got references to Flying Saucers and Wormholes - it could be about theoretical physics. But I'm convinced that "artichoke heart" = clitoris. Call me insane.

x-post. I want "sounds like Stereolab" on my tombstone. Heh.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Friday, 14 July 2006 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

Morning. In early today, to make up for being in late yesterday. Yin and yang.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 14 July 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

The Flowerpot Men.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Friday, 14 July 2006 08:50 (nineteen years ago)

Haha

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 14 July 2006 08:51 (nineteen years ago)

God, the Watercooler boys are looking hottttt on the WDYLL thread today.

::fans self::

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Friday, 14 July 2006 08:52 (nineteen years ago)

Right, I can't hold it back anymore, it's Toxicity time.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 14 July 2006 08:52 (nineteen years ago)

NOOOOOOO, TISSP!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Friday, 14 July 2006 08:58 (nineteen years ago)

Honestly, I think you should listen to it Kate. JOIN US

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 14 July 2006 09:00 (nineteen years ago)

God, the Watercooler boys are looking hottttt on the WDYLL thread today.

My pic will be getting deleted before too long, I think - probably some time over the weekend.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 14 July 2006 09:01 (nineteen years ago)

I'm really not interested in Toxicity. I'm too busy namedropping Guy Debord on my blog. :-P

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Friday, 14 July 2006 09:04 (nineteen years ago)

It has a song about SCIENCE! It's even called SCIENCE! And it has the word SCIENCE shouted a lot!

How near to theoretical physics do you want to get?

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 14 July 2006 09:07 (nineteen years ago)

Did you learn nothing from Jon Spencer? Shouting "I got the BLUES!!!" does not make your music blues.

Shouting SCIENCE!!! does not make your song about science.

Besides, he isn't singing about theoretical physics. He's singing about SEXXXXX!!! SEEXXXXY SEXXXXXXYYYY SSSSEEEEXXXXXXX!!!

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Friday, 14 July 2006 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone got any views of Wikis, which is the best one etc.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 14 July 2006 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

But calling it SCIENCE does!

And how dare you suggest Jon Spencer isn't BLUES!

(Okay, I'm having a hard time keeping a straight face already)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 14 July 2006 09:11 (nineteen years ago)

Twiki, DokuWiki, PhpWiki and MediaWiki I've all worked with. I've noticed with wikis that generally there is no overall winner--they all have their own foibles which you need to work with.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 14 July 2006 09:12 (nineteen years ago)

Thom Yorke, that is. I have no idea what SoaD look like, or indeed, if I would want them anywhere near my Artichoke Heart.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Friday, 14 July 2006 09:15 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh, no, they are ugly as dogs. And they have BEARDS. Not even good, spacerock beards like Hawkwind in their younger, cuter days. Horrible Nu Metal beards. No, no, no. This will never do.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Friday, 14 July 2006 09:17 (nineteen years ago)

Perhaps I will become nu-metal now it seems to not really be fashionable anymore. Beard and everything.

On second thoughts, too much beard-care required.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 14 July 2006 09:18 (nineteen years ago)

I won't flirt with you any more if you grow a beard.

Unless it is a Hawkwind style spacerock beard. Or a pirate beard like Captain Jack Sparrow.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Friday, 14 July 2006 09:20 (nineteen years ago)

I already have a Hawkwind-esque beard.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 14 July 2006 09:20 (nineteen years ago)

(Not a full-on one, admittedly though)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 14 July 2006 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

perhaps i should just persevere at fixing phpWiki on plesk. I'm sure its a problem with the virtual hosting system rather than the software itself. I'm wondering about setting up a home server again. There are two G5 Xserves sitting around doing nothing at work right now.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 14 July 2006 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

Or a "look, look, I am really a MANG, I can grow A BEARD, I am not a little boy throwing my legos out of the crib, honest, look at mine FACIAL HAIR!!!" beard like Thom here:

http://www.nme.com/images/84_thomyorke_radiohead_L210306.jpg

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Friday, 14 July 2006 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

(Or maybe he is just trying to distract attention from his indie combover.)

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Friday, 14 July 2006 09:22 (nineteen years ago)

I'm a fan of Thom's hair, but that one is a bit dodgy.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 14 July 2006 09:22 (nineteen years ago)

TISSP, your EP cover is Very Nice! I'm thinking 1980 bleak postpunk crossed with ECM house style, or something. I'm wondering whether it reminds me of something specific, but drawing a blank so far. Have ordered now!

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Friday, 14 July 2006 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

Thankyou! I believe it's a shot of the Humber Bridge supports, which was taken by a friend of ours (he did all the photography work on the EP and website) and then bludgeoned into looking right be me.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 14 July 2006 09:55 (nineteen years ago)

It is? Wow, I didn't recognise it.

*has another look*

Oooh yes, it's one of the anchorages - the southern one, probably. Inside there is a big void where one of the suspension cables is untwisted into individual loops of wire, and each one bolted down to the bridge foundations.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 14 July 2006 10:06 (nineteen years ago)

The interior: http://en.structurae.de/photos/index.cfm?JS=672

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 14 July 2006 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

That's pretty impressive.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 14 July 2006 10:10 (nineteen years ago)

South-western one, I should have said - I think that's the only one you can photograph from that angle without trees in the way.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 14 July 2006 10:14 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, I love bridge anchorages. That makes your EP even cooler!

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Friday, 14 July 2006 10:17 (nineteen years ago)

Hooray!

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 14 July 2006 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, I love bridge anchorages.

The structurae website linked to by FP has lots of bridge pr0n! Oh look, Structure of the Month = Simone de Beauvoir Footbridge!

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Friday, 14 July 2006 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.miac.org.uk/images/47484.jpg

This locomotive is name checked (by number 47484) in a Blythe Power song that Circulus made me listen to. I am pleased to note that it carried the 'Isambard Kingdom Brunel' name plate.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 14 July 2006 10:36 (nineteen years ago)

Oh god, FP's site is total pr0n. I'm looking for the Dolly Parton span in Upstate NY but can't remember which exact town it was in. Not Schenectady, apparently. Lansingburg? can't remember.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Friday, 14 July 2006 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

I'm slightly disappointed that some of my favourite bridges are missing.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 14 July 2006 10:48 (nineteen years ago)

does FP realise how many copies have probably been made of his picture? this is ILX.

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Friday, 14 July 2006 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

None, because everyone will be too busy shuddering in horror to click on "save as..."

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 14 July 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

probably true, i haven't been brave enough to even click it.

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Friday, 14 July 2006 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, I like stressed ribbon bridges.

I'd save it to my 'puter, but it's a work puter and I don't want that being found on my hard drive! 46 bazillion photos of Dylan Moran, Benjamin Curtis and Thom Yorke, fine. FP's butt? Uh-uh.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Friday, 14 July 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

so when do we get to see kaet's bum?

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Friday, 14 July 2006 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

Never.

Argh, I've finally stopped itching, but now I've started PEELING like a bloody lizard. Trust me, my bum is not an appealing sight.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Friday, 14 July 2006 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

NO PUN INTENDED?

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Friday, 14 July 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

NO BUM INTENDED

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 14 July 2006 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

Fortunately, my bum is not peeling. Just my shoulders.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Friday, 14 July 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

bah, I hate writing album reviews. How am I supposed to get 230 words down to 150?

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Friday, 14 July 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

My shoulders are peeling too (well, just the left one). We have so much in common!

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 14 July 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

Contract, with apostrophies

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 14 July 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

Today is about Klezmer. I want the shimura curves to come out with Kate on fiddle, Anna on Tuba (or posibly souzaphone), amp on Accordion and yana on clarinet; possibly dressed as male hassidim, I think this would be a good direction.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 14 July 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

Or at least sing noy friend in yiddish

― Ed (dali), Friday, 14 July 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

Stop that, Ed!

Argh, I've already contracted. I'm just trying to say too much. I could take out some of the "Errs" and "come off it!"s but that's what gives it its Voice.

Sigh. Guess Voice has no place in 150 word reviews. I'm down to 200 now. It's the editor's job to take the other 150 out.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Friday, 14 July 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, other 50 out. Hah! This is Plan B, not the NME.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Friday, 14 July 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

Send it to me Kate, and I will use my Word Scalpel (tm)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 14 July 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

No, coz any Word Scalpel would take out the bits which make it sound like a conversation. It's supposed to be me talking to myself and getting slowly more mentalist.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Friday, 14 July 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

190.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Friday, 14 July 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

In need a better rip of orgone acumulator, it sounds too muddy through the demo rooom speakers.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 14 July 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.aural-innovations.com/robertcalvert/calvart/orgoneaccumulator.htm

The reissue of Space Ritual is next on my list... ::drools::

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Friday, 14 July 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

Coffee frapuccino, yum!

Need to get myself good and hepped up for the gig tonight.

― I Am Not An Addict (kate), Friday, 14 July 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.barynya.com/bd/images/Bottle_Dancers_USA.jpg

― Ed (dali), Friday, 14 July 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

Yikes.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 14 July 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

Er, blimey. Those are not spacerock beards at all.

(Though Joe often used to get mistaken for Jewish with his beard.)

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Friday, 14 July 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

...though if we could do that with bottles of pink wine, I'd be well impressed.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Friday, 14 July 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

perhaps that could be an idea for the next record sleeve.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 14 July 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, Friday. That took long enough.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 July 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

No, Groutling Alice is going to be on the next record sleeve. She's totally our new cover star. (Though damn, the photo has dropped off the top of this thread.)

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Friday, 14 July 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

My external HD that messed up(lost 40gb of funk but was able to transfer some of what was left to other drives and burn the rest before reformatting it) now decided today not to even work. Took it down the shop and they couldnt get it to work either. But the guy put a new part on it and huzzah its working and what files were transferred back on it are now safe.

btw massive xxxxxpost but SOAD are good. Them and the Deftones arent really nu-metal because theyre good!! SOAD just have a lot of nu metal fans because when they came out thats what most metal kids were into.
If they had come out earlier you can bet they wouldve been classified as grunge.

Anyway now i can listen to some more krautrock like i was doing yesterday.

http://www.last.fm/user/trailofgybe is down it seems because the new site is going live this afternoon.
Of course us subscribers already know what it looks like. And it rocks!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 14 July 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, I've just been listening to The Eraser all day, because of this darn review. Mainly the song about cunilingus. I don't care if it's not really about cunnilingus, it is now. I will never be able to eat an artichoke again without giggling. Kind of like "area" has been totally gigglified. Damn - are there any RH songs with repeated use of the term "area?"

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Friday, 14 July 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, I've just been listening to The Eraser all day, because of this darn review. Mainly the song about cunilingus.

Is there going to be a reference in your review in Plan B of Mrs Slocombe's pussy?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 14 July 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

yea for fixed HDs

i am talking a friend through how to back up all her e-mail so she can delete everything. today is her last day. i wish there were no such thing as absolute tech idiots.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Friday, 14 July 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

We bought a 1TB external HD this week. It won't format any partition that extends right to the end of the disk, and any partition that you do format regularly brings up scary errors like "Could not write to E:\$Mft, data was lost" even if you don't try writing anything to it. So it's going back to where it came from on Monday.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 14 July 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

New site is up and running. http://www.last.fm/user/trailofgybe/

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 14 July 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

Despite your best efforts Kate, Thom Yorke's album only charted at No3. Behind the week befores 2 highest new entries - The Kooks and Muse.

Muse are the new Coldplay?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Sunday, 16 July 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

Morning there.

I drove across the Humber Bridge at the weekend. I would have stopped and taken photographs, but the whole place was packed out for the bridge's Silver Jubilee celebrations. In fact, the northbound side of the bridge was closed completely so that many crates of very, very big fireworks could be set up on it.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 17 July 2006 06:19 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/48/191511026_4b0fac2dd8.jpg?v=0

― Ed (dali), Monday, 17 July 2006 07:50 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, nice picture - where's that?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 17 July 2006 07:52 (nineteen years ago)

Paddington on friday night. First Great(er) Western are using Joe Stummer for ECS moves on the sleeper.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 17 July 2006 07:56 (nineteen years ago)

Joe Strummer lead John Peel to his naming ceremony. i think peel's 47813? yes. in fact here he is:

http://uk.railways.fotopic.net/p27762702.html

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Monday, 17 July 2006 08:39 (nineteen years ago)

went to Lambeth COunty Show at weekend. vegetables made to look like Parsley the Lion. and birds of prey called naff things like Del and Rodney and Pepsi (didn't see a Shirley). and Harry Potter themed owls looked after by two kids from deliverance. not good. were also fairground rides there decorated with the 3 girls and the one guy from Charmed and vini reilly from Lock Stock... nice and sunny though.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Monday, 17 July 2006 09:16 (nineteen years ago)

Morning. Afternoon, whatever it is. God, I'm so hungover. Two gigs in a weekend is too much. I'm dead.

How was Cornwall, Ed? Did you enjoy the sleepers?

I am now a ginger. Properly. I'm considering making it permanent before Truck.

Awww, I missed the entire Lambeth County show. AMP's sister was working there. She got a pepper plant. We brought it onstage with us and called it Anna.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 09:19 (nineteen years ago)

*bounce bounce bounce*

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 17 July 2006 09:22 (nineteen years ago)

Morning! What a good weekend. I'm now poor and bruised.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 17 July 2006 09:22 (nineteen years ago)

The Joe Strummer sleeper? BWAHAHAHA. When it needs to be cancelled do they put TRAIN IN VAIN on the departures board? Obviously when it's late: Mystery Train.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 17 July 2006 09:23 (nineteen years ago)

Stop bouncing, Emsk, my poor head.

(I am very much looking forward to Truck now.)

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 09:27 (nineteen years ago)

We had a great weekend, très 25-35. we stayed near where prince harry got busted for dope smoking so as a result the place was full of listless rich teenagers, called miranda and isabell, with expensive haircuts vomiting everywhere. It also meant that when we went for our night walk we were sooed off the beach by security guards who then followed us round a golf course to make sure we didn't get up to mischief.

We went on the padstow ferry, ate rick steins fish and chips, gooseberry ice-cream, swam in the sea.

I, rather uncharacteristically, spent a day and a half of the beach, and have a very sunburnt nose.

Fabulous time with people I haven't seen in ages.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dotcommunist/sets/72157594201937932/

― Ed (dali), Monday, 17 July 2006 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

It looks like great fun, from the photos.

(was that really Dr. Who or just a lookylike?)

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 10:09 (nineteen years ago)

That's Tom who looks a lot like DT.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 17 July 2006 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

Tom and Lindsay, Tom? OMG, I didn't even recognise him!

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 10:12 (nineteen years ago)

no stop bouncing

lots of work

hard to type

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 17 July 2006 10:14 (nineteen years ago)

Heavens no, he is another of the hordes of Global Tomination.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 17 July 2006 10:15 (nineteen years ago)

Why bouncing, Emsk?

― Ed (dali), Monday, 17 July 2006 10:15 (nineteen years ago)

Whats on your headphones today, Kate?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 17 July 2006 10:18 (nineteen years ago)

Too many Toms. They all need extraneous letters added to their names to differentiate them.

x-post what's on my headphones in the ominous bloodpounding gurgling spinning sound of my hangover.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

He is 'middle sized' Tom

― Ed (dali), Monday, 17 July 2006 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

bouncing bc i have lots of energy and spent saturday on the beach and in the sea (sea a bit dull as no waves, but we had a 3-year old to play with which sort of made up for it) then had lotsa fun yesterday @ windmill and next weekend is TRUCK and if it stays this sunny everything will be perfect and i have a LOT of work on

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 17 July 2006 10:22 (nineteen years ago)

I've heard there are projections of thunderstorms, oh my!!!

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

I had a krautrock weekend
as you can see here http://www.last.fm/user/trailofgybe/

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 17 July 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, yes, you have been hitting the Krautrock. Hurrah.

This weekend I was mainly listening to Radiohead. I alphabetised my CD collection on Saturday afternoon because I thought I'd lost some CDs but it turned out they were in my bedroom. I listened to almost all the RH albums. I had forgotten how much I like Idioteque. OK Computer actually made me cry, but in a good way.

But then I had to listen to Girls Aloud to get me in the mood for a gig. And I discovered that the riff from Airbag fits almost perfectly into Wake Me Up. Which gives me evil, evil cover ideas.

Ah, Ed! Do not forget about our excellent idea that we had on Friday night. A night at the Foundry playing nothing but Spacerock, Prog and Psych-Folk. Lots of Hawkwind. And capes are optional. I should ask FMM if she wants to DJ, too because she has loads of that sort of stuff.

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

yes absolutely. I will go and ask next time I am in the area, although I doubt it will be this week as I am very busy.

Last.Fm has not done my new chart for last week, it's still a week behind.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 17 July 2006 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

and you are calling it PROG AS FUCK.

weather.co.uk says sunny/cloudy saturday, mostly sunny sunday
bbc.co.uk only goes to friday but it's sunny and a bit cloudy
metoffice.com is as bbc
weather.com says scattered showers friday, partly cloudy saturday, mostly sunny sunday

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 17 July 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

Haha I got 3 visitors to my page after I posted that, including a visit from Koogy and Ed. Dunno who the 3rd was. Presumably not an ilxor but a random visitor.

I think weekly charts are behind due to the new site. Should appear today or tomorrow at the latest. I suspect Can will be my top artist.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 17 July 2006 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

Kate your prog rock stagename should be Kape instead of Kate I think.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 17 July 2006 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not expecting Credence to have moved, I blame James, I don't think I should be let near a mixing desk until this fad has faded.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 17 July 2006 10:44 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, the third was me!

― Thom Yorke Is My Spirit Guide (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 10:44 (nineteen years ago)

I'm bored and can't think of a new screen name.

― Kaet (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

Temperatures in parts of England and Wales are set to top those in Spanish resorts as hot UK weather continues.
Unbroken sunshine and temperatures of 33C (91F) were forecast in London, above resorts in Ibiza, at 31C (88F), and the Canary Islands, on 27C (81).
The Met Office issued its second health heatwave warning of the summer, and reminded people to stay hydrated.

Northern Scotland was to see some cloud and rain while elsewhere hot weather was likely to last until Wednesday.

Its not bad here in west central scotland. A bit of cloud but fairly warm.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 17 July 2006 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

They should prescribe gooseberry ice-cream on the NHS.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 17 July 2006 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

Woo. I have just signed up for last.fm, as it has now piqued my interest enough.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 17 July 2006 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

Everyone is on last.fm but me. Wah wah waaaahhh all the way home, etc.

― Kaet (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, but you're on MySpace. I am currently part of NO social networking sites. That, of course, has ended now. Ah well.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 17 July 2006 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

Why is Benjamin dressed as a priest?

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b132/mel_face/ss.jpg

― Kaet (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

Because he didn't want to look lika a plain-clothes police officer?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 17 July 2006 11:07 (nineteen years ago)

We should start a Watercooler & Capes group on last fm.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 17 July 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe he is the crooked priest that they are arresting for ~~katie~~kiddiefiddling.

― Kaet (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I cannot believe that no one in my office has even NOTICED let alone commented on my newly ginger hair. It will be gone before anyone knows it was there.

Except I'm going to do it permanently on Thursday. Yeah. I like being ginger. I think it suits me.

― Kaet (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

Can we see a picture?

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 17 July 2006 11:15 (nineteen years ago)

I don't have any pictures. Don't think anyone took any at the gig, either. So it will be like it never happened.

― Kaet (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

Boo :(

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 17 July 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

I was dressed as a cowgirl, too. So I thought I looked quite cute from the shoulders up.

― Kaet (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

Now you are teasing me!

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 17 July 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

Turnaround is fair play. You tormented me by showing you pictures of belly, so I'm tormenting you by NOT showing you pictures of pigtails and cowboy hat.

― Kaet (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 17 July 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

Aww Kate you big tease!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 17 July 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

Wait a minute, so I have to run this last.fm software all the time? What? WHY?

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 17 July 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

So it can spy on you and tell us what you're really listening to when you claim to be listening to postrock all day.

― Kaet (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

"Currently Most Played: Toxicity"

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 17 July 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

Toxicity rocks.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 17 July 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

Sigh.

Right, I'm going out to brave the heat and go to the post office. If I'm not back, send reinforcements with ice cream.

― Kaet (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

Tissp> if you subscribe £1.50 a month you get access to your own personal radio done completely to your tastes. (you only get neighbours radio i think when you dont) plus you also get to see who visits your page which is fun fun fun.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 17 July 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

Oh I just got the "Houston" reference. 13. Of course.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 17 July 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

I would pay £1.50 a month for someone to develop an iTunes plugin.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 17 July 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

There is one.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 17 July 2006 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

Or there used to be one. My pfunkboy account uses it(all my funk and jazz is on itunes etc)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 17 July 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

Whats your email and i'll send the plug in to you.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 17 July 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, wonderful. impossibleshortestspecialpath at gmail dot com will see it arrives to me safe.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 17 July 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

Back from the post office. Package sent. Off to the wilds of post land never to be seen again, my poor little plea to Radio 1. God, it's hot out there. I want a nap. I think more coffee is in order.

― Kaet (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5187256.stm
Bobby Gillespie beaten up!!!

x-post tissp its on its way

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 17 July 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

oh it wont send. Says the zip contains and executable file. I'll change the file to .mp3 andthen you change it to .exe yourself

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 17 July 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

I never thought I'd see the day that I said Bobby G has started to bore me.

― Kaet (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

SAD EYES | TEARS HERE | SAD MOUTH

― teh_kit haev been evicted lol (g-kit), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

problem doesn't rhyme with thirteen does it?

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

Nothing in the teens is going to have to rhyme because it would get pretty boring pretty quickly if it did.

Watercooler 14: Such things we have seen
Watercooler 15: I've no self esteem
Watercooler 16: Everything's gone green
Watercooler 17: Ideal and spleen
Watercooler 18: Pussycat, pussycat, where have you been?
Watercooler 19: I've been to London to look at the Queen

and so on...

― Kaet (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

the bigger boys were mean to me on the BB thread. they will surely get more respect in the playground now. boo hoo.

― teh_kit haev been evicted lol (g-kit), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

Tee hee hee. Apparently How Am I Driving does things that I had forgotten it did. And my colleague was all "does it do this? Does it do that?" and I didn't have a clue. But we figured that it did, indeed, slice and dice and process ~~food~~ data. She's all "that's very clever". And I can't remember for the life of me how I did it. Heh.

― Kaet (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

Google ads is getting scary:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v222/biondino/baldhead.jpg

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

They know you, sir. They track you in your sleep.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha ha ha ha ha, oh dear.

― Kaet (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

at least i can rely on you guys.

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

kit, you know you're not allowed to talk about that stuff here.

― Kaet (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

kate there is a pic of you and lecoq!

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

oh oh. Lets get back to a kate friendly subject then...

Anyone listened to the progressive rock , prog rock or space rock radio on last fm?

Kate here some groups you could join
http://www.last.fm/group/Progressive%2BRock
http://www.last.fm/group/Prog%2BRock
http://www.last.fm/group/ProgArchives
http://www.last.fm/group/Progressive%2BRock%2Bfor%2Ball%2Btypes%2Band%2Bages
http://www.last.fm/group/Progressive%2BMusic

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

thanks, i feel better now.

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

kate there is a pic of you and lecoq!

:-D Why, that can be a nice matching of the one I had with LeCoq. Though mine *is* a bit creepier.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, but that picture of me and LeCoq I am so drunk like slags I'm not sure I want to share it with anyone!

Kerr, thanks, but I can't install last.fm at work - I do not have the network privileges to put new software on my work puter. And I don't have the interweb at home.

― Kaet (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

you can sign up and join groups, just not actually install anything.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

i can't see enough in the ned/lecoq one for it to be creepy; it's just red, and red is safe. kate the first pic of you two i took was rubbeesh, but the last one was really good! um i think. i would like to see that one pic of me too. but not on the internets, perhaps.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

it's just red, and red is safe

I like this approach!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

Kerr! I have got the plugin, but I have a Mac :(

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Ahhh. Well there used to be an itunes plug in. Maybe theres a general one fits all plug in now?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Aha! Found one!

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

The problem, of course, with this last.fm thing is that I am impatient, and eager to see lots of vital statistics about my music. Yet, obviously the best way to use it is to fire and forget. I NEED RESULTS NOW DAMMIT

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

where is this pic? if it is not on flickr it does not exist.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

I think you need to play 300 tracks before it calculates neighbours.
And you will find you refresh it every 5 mins watching eagerly for an update as its addictive.

http://www.last.fm/user/trailofgybe/

x-post

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

I am peeling again. :-(

I managed to get all the sunburned skin off my shoulders and chest with a potscrubber but now my back has started.

I truly am a lizard today. bah. I should be running the world or something.

― Kaet (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, I am expectantly pressing refresh every few seconds (it doesn't help that I'm really bored), just to see the same screen.

My shoulder is a bit better today, but still peeling too.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 17 July 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know how I'm going to last another two hours here. My mind is going already and I so don't understand the next task on my list. ARgh.

Need more pictures of Thom Yorke, STAT.

― Kaet (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

My network connection is too unstable to actually do any work at the moment, and I'm off for the rest of the week so I can't actually be bothered to sort it out.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 17 July 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

that picture, allegedly of ned and lecoq, could be anybody!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 17 July 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

Since no one is obliging...

http://image.blog.livedoor.jp/tokiolondon/imgs/6/5/6510b7b6.jpg
http://www.pastemagazine.org/rob_images/thomyorke.gif

― Kaet (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

God, it's that time of the day when no one else is left on the cooler. I might actually have to.. WORK or something. Argh!

― Kaet (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

I'm still here.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 17 July 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

I'm around. The work day is still early for me. :-/

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 July 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

I have iTunes on random, so my last.fm page is going to start showing the real me.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 17 July 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

Good. Now what can we talk about?

Not bicycles, comedy or artichokes.

― Kaet (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

But but but comedy artichokes ON bicycles.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 July 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

That someone has just left a comment on a post I made about a record last year, on a journal that I had completely forgotten about?

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 17 July 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

I thought you didn't have a blog, TISSP.

An artichoke needs a bicycle like a woman needs a fish. Or, errmm...

― Kaet (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

So did I

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 17 July 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

ACtually, I was thinking about comedy because I finally got to see the Dylan Moran Monster thing. And I didn't really enjoy it that much. OK, it was fun watching his hair flop around for the first half hour or so, but then I felt my attention distinctly wandering.

It's nothing wrong with Moran - he is a very funny individual, and his jokes were good. I just found it too difficult to sit and watch someone tell jokes for an hour and a half. I kept thinking there should be a plot or something, and there wasn't. I just got bored and wandered off and before I knew it, I was reading bits of the Guardian instead and not really paying attention.

I must truly have no sense of humour. Sorry, JOhnney B (even though you don't seem to post much around here any more).

― Kaet (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

Hi kids. Can I interject, apropos of nothing as usual, how amazing Roxy Music's "All I Want Is You" is? Nice little pop song and then about half way through Paul Thompson goes fucking tribal on his drums and summons the god of guitar solos down from the sky (admittedly only for a few seconds, but still).

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Monday, 17 July 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

There is no love for this picture. The only way to travel:

http://static.flickr.com/54/191513978_b4efad6a76.jpg?v=0

― Ed (dali), Monday, 17 July 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

I do like train sleepers. I love how compact and space saving they are.

― Kaet (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, overnight trains rule. I concur.

Tissp, now that you're on last.fm, are you going to stream some of your own music there?

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Monday, 17 July 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

Possibly. It'll probably end up on there automatically won't it?

If you want to listen, you can download (and keep!) a couple of songs from our website.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 17 July 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

I do like train sleepers. I love how compact and space saving they are.

Now if they weren't so expensive. (Going coach on my vacation cut the price by 2/3rds.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 July 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

Oh, last.fm virgin! Labels can also sign up with last.fm and upload mp3s. Then random last.fm users can also hear your songs (but not d/l from last.fm pages), click on a little picture of your EP and be taken to your web store, etc.

Presumably Kate knows something about this as a couple of Shimuras tracks are up. Or go to this page: http://www.last.fm/labels/

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Monday, 17 July 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

I know nothing about last.fm! AMP set it up. (Hence why we have such a crappy description that says we are "casiopop" or whatever when there is NO casios involved, and I'm actually kind of sensitive about my quite sonically complex laptop programming being dismissed as "casio" with all its inherent implied cheapness, but like, whatever.)

― Kaet (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmm, interesting. I will look into that. Cheers Mitya!

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 17 July 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

I forgot to mention that too.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 17 July 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

Morning everyone.
My weekly charts for last week are up. I was wrong about what would be no 1.
http://www.last.fm/user/trailofgybe/charts/?charttype=weekly&subtype=artist

Koogs and Ed will have to wait until next week for the weekly joy of this....

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 07:48 (nineteen years ago)

Morning everyone. I am in the worst mood ever.

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 08:47 (nineteen years ago)

So I am not the only one. ARGH morning deadline to get through and JACKHAMMERS OUTSIDE. FUCK OFF JACKHAMMERS.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 08:48 (nineteen years ago)

My day is pretty shitty so far - am threatening to be overwhelmed at work, not by a vast amount of stuff but my own bad organisation and lackadaisical attitude. Sigh.

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 08:50 (nineteen years ago)

I've had three bills this morning, NOT ONE of which was actually right. :-( And I can't seem to get my meds refilled. I feel like kicking things.

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 08:57 (nineteen years ago)

JACKHAMMERS CEASED.

I hate wrong bills. Am always tempted to send form letter from own 'credit department' levying administrative surcharges against companies who cannot follow simple things like METER READINGS.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 09:19 (nineteen years ago)

Morning everyone! I have just got into work--meeting in 15 minutes then a stupid conference in Loughborough until Friday. Yay.

Hopefully there will be some form of internet access available, so I can while away the time on ILX.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

I just went for a haircut.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 09:59 (nineteen years ago)

i went to the university in loughborough. home of Ladybird Books. and Brush Traction.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 10:05 (nineteen years ago)

Kate did you get that rare OM track i sent you from the OM/Current 93 Split 10"?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

The awards formerly known as the Mercury Music Awards shortlist is up now.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5188692.stm

Go Mark Lanegan!!!(and Isobel Campbell)
(2nd american in a row to win an award? I wish)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

Now that you have a haircut, pfunkboy, I think it's time you showed your face on the WDYLL thread. Or here, if you've got some kind of cute shoegazey fringe hanging over your eyes that will cheer Kaet up ;)

Also, sorry I missed your PM last night on last.fm.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 10:47 (nineteen years ago)

No pics on that there interweb ever.
Post your weekly charts!! Make koogs and ed jealous!!

Does Forest Pines or Mark C have last fm yet?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

tissp, cd received, the cover is EVEN BETTER than what it looked like on the website! I was a bit afraid it would be on glossy paper in a jewel case or something, but NO, lovely matt elaborate cutty-foldy black thing! And a map of the vicinities of Smolensk to boot!

Just listened once, though rather inattentively; the Loud Bit of the last track is quite insistent (in a good way) and got stuck in my head for some time.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 11:04 (nineteen years ago)

FUCKTARDASSWIPEMOTHERPUSSBUCKETASSBANDONLIERS...

God, the fuckwits at Lambeth Council actually have a live person who answers your call and tells you, in person, to call back later. WTF? Either put me in a goddammuthafucking queue, or deal with my problem.

EDFuckers put me in a queue, got me through all the way til my call was answered, then that person just hung up on me. When I rang back, it told me the circuits were too busy.

I'm not surprised that they have a high volume of calls seeing as badly they've fucked up EVERYONE'S bills lately. No, I will not just give my new meter reading and pay by direct debit. That's what I did last time, and you FUCKED IT UP. I want to speak to a human being, and get the old charges taken off my account. Then I will give you my new reading and you will send me a new bill. If it's not right, I'm not paying it.

FUCKWITS EVERYONE CAN FUCK OFF AND DIE.

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 11:22 (nineteen years ago)

My charts this week reveal my rather catholic tastes, what with Fripp snuggling up next to the Pipettes:

http://imagegen.last.fm/dalek/artists/Mitya.gif

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

Time Out are totally ripping us off left right and centre. This week they've got a krautrock article. However, it does feature DDBenjamin listing his top 5 favourite Krautrock records:

1. Harmonia - De Luxe (1975)
2. Can - Soundtracks (1970)
3. Michael Rother - Fernwarme (1982)
4. Ashra - Blackouts (1977)
5. Gomorrah - Trauma (1970)

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

1st Ash Ra Tempel album is best.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

Complain to Ben, not me.

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

Urgh. Remind me to stop eating big lunches on hot days like this. My food coma has already begun.

― gooblar (gooblar), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

Whats everyones fave pic here?
http://www.ruthlessreviews.com/reviews.cfm/id/1054/page/top____most_ridiculous_black_metal_pics_of_all_time.html

http://www.ruthlessreviews.com/reviews.cfm/id/1055/page/the_other_top____most_ridiculous_black_metal_pics_of_all_time.html

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

Mine is
http://ruthlessreviews.com/pics5/bm2/bm3.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

Those bands all look great, except for dani filth.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

OK, a couple of the ones in the 2nd top 10 look pretty bad as well.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

more bands should rock the corpsepaint, though!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

black lips only make you look like a faggoth

LOL

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

downloaded some more Loop. unfortunately it was a rar file. unfortunately the rar file contained a) m4a files and b) m4a files with spaces and 's in the filenames. makes me angry. an hour later an i'm still no closer to converting them to something i can use (ubuntu not helping, just had to install libc and g++...)

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

Grrr. My employer is nickel-and-diming me on expenses and I can't find a reasonable place to stay in Moscow next week.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

What Loop?

x-post feel free to reply to my last fm pm lol

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

RECCOMEND ME A NEW UK ENERGY COMPANY, PLEASE!!!

God, I do not even want to go INTO how incompetent these twats are.

Finally, I just said (to the third layer I got to - manager) send me a statement of everything i've used, since the electricity was turned on, to the reading I am giving you today. Then put in another column, the two payments I have already sent you. THEN I will think about paying the difference.

I mean, they were trying to get me to believe that this new bill - at a much lower reading than they estimated even at the end of May - with all their futzing and getting things wrong and not giving me credit for things I've paid - should somehow be MORE, total, than the old overestimated bill. Go figure.

And now I've got the pleasure of dealing with their gas service. Argh.

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

I am in Doncaster this afternoon.

I don't have Last FM - is it compatible with xmms?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

hai u guyz

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

I think http://www.last.fm is compatible with most.
Just sign up and download the software.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

No, it's not. Apparently I have to use something unsupported called Audioscrobbler if I want to sign up. It's making me think of The Box Of Delights.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

the other one you recommended the other day. got the heaven's end at the time and went back for world in your eyes this morning. have also remembered the cd full of kraftwerk that i had in my bag so am listening to that whilst waiting for mpeg4ip to compile...

i use london energy (now EDF) and haven't had any real trouble with them. they always overestimate gas reading but i always give them a new one and get them to recalculate it there and then whilst paying over phone (lecky is also well estimated). worst trouble i have is being on hold (at their expense) for 30 minutes maybe every 3 months. oh, and the way that lecky and gas parts of the same company have a slightly different (and both wrong) address for me.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

I still use audioscrobbler(thats the old prog that everyone used until last week). It will work just fine.
Last fm used to be called Audioscrobbler.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

EDF are the people who are dicking me about so much right now!

I gave them the reading and they apparently recalculated it WRONG hence why my bills are permanently messed up. Argh! Idiots!

However, Lambeth Council Tax were an AMAZEMENT of competence and helpfulness by comparison. "Oh, yeah, you've not got a single persons discount. You need to fill out a form to get that." How do I get the form? "Oh, I can send that right out to you. Same address as the property?"

!!!!!

So helpful! She also told me that I had to have the money in by the 28th, which means I've got another paycheque before it's due. Phew. Will pop a cheque in the post in time for it to get there and process after I get paid.

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

Yes, I'm still using the 'scrobbler, too, FP. Don't worry about it. They are specifying "unsupported" because the site has been growing exponentially for the last couple of years and people like to complain. They're just trying to keep the number of moving pieces they have to manage down to a minimum.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

I hope thats it all sorted for you now, Kate. And you can get back to drooling over benjamins pics.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

Well, at least there was no queue at Boots this time, so I got my meds and some more hair dye. Even though no one at work has even noticed the colour change.

Don't know if I got the same brand, because the one I have in right now lasts really well.

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

kate it is quite a delicate difference, though!

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

IT IS NOT A DELICATE DIFFERENCE.

Last week my hair was blond. Now it is red. Everyone just ignores me here. Just like in the rest of my life. :-(

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

Kaet, get photos!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

With what? My ass?

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

Photos of your ass too, if you want!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

Grrrrrr.

Maybe I should just take one of my pills now. It'll make me funny for the rest of the afternoon, but that's better than this cranky.

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

no honestly, it is quite a delicate difference. of course it looks drastic to you, you see your hair more often than everyone else does. it's not like it was platinum blonde before and now it's pillarbox red - that would be a really noticeable change and you'd be justified in being hacked off that no one noticed - it was dark blonde with lighter bits, and now it's like coppery honey. maybe they did notice but aren't the types to comment? i dunno.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

They comment about the slightest change in other people's hair or appearance. Maybe this just means I was GINGER ALL ALONG, ARRRGGGH.

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

Ben Curtis and an atom:

http://jcoglan.com/weightless/photos/mic-stand-ben-curtis.jpg

Ben Curtis's guitar being attacked by subatomic particle trails:

http://jcoglan.com/weightless/photos/secret-machines-ben-04.jpg

When neon attacks:

http://jcoglan.com/weightless/photos/secret-machines-ben-02.jpg

These pictures were taken in Oxford. I think that's some kind of sign as I'm freaking out about having to go to Oxford later this week.

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

we aren't going IN oxford! we are going NEAR oxford. well, i will go in oxford, on the way.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, we haven't DECIDED yet how you are going. There's one vote for Friday and one vote for Saturday and two "Oh, I don't know... argh, this is too hard, someone else make the decision" votes. And two missing Shimuras.

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

Oh wait, and one Shimura who doesn't care because she has fucked off totally and gone with someone else because we smell or something. :-(

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

This is too confusing. I don't want to go.

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

er, that's not quite how it is.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know how it is any more. After all this discussion, looks like plans are going to end up staying exactly as they were before.

Which is OK, as it's probably cooler in the countryside anyway.

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

i can promise it's 4765765 less stressful and rushed-feeling arriving on friday than saturday. getting there on saturday at the same time as everyone else and probably the bands have started and stuff is going on makes *me* panicky and stressed anyway. getting there friday and waking up saturday morning, wandering around the empty site, watching it slowly fill up on the other hand, is lush.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

That's it, you've sold me. We're leaving Friday.

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, have just heard that they're closing some university buildings due to noise pollution from the building works. PLEASE GOD let ours be one of them. A few days off would be just the ticket.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

NOIZE POLLUTION. Can we all go home please?

Need ... well, actually I need some bloody work to do, actually. Every single thing on my list is relying on someone else now.

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

noise pollution, tell me about it - hippy boss is listening to Yes which means we all have to (he is the only one with an actual office, which was done for a reason, but he keeps the door open)

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Awww, I quite like Yes. Though it depends on the album, really.

I have now found something very difficult to do, which is badly briefed of course, and I think I shall do it for the rest of the week.

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

I want ice cream. There's no ice cream I can buy in Central London for £1.35, is there?

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

you can get a calippo.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

What is that? Does it involve chocolate?

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

callipo. calipo. no, i was right the first time. it is sugar, water and food colouring frozen and in a cardboard tube/flat cone thing.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, been caught up in Little Man threads. What's this about hair color?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

1.35 is probably enough for an ice cream, even in central london (although i do wish people would put prices on things, ice cream and crisps are worst offenders).

um, klingklang. not heard it before. it's dreamy.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

I had something called a "FEAST" bar. It was basically a solid lump of frozen chocolate. For £1.09. Rock!

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

Glad you liked the record, Ole.

I am now in the conference centre in Loughborough, waiting for "Pre dinner drinks" at 6.00. Yay.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Feast bars are fab. But not Fab bars.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Enjoy your drinks tissp! Do you have to like, do work, at this conference or is it basically a jolly?

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

It's less "work" and more "hanging around talking to people whom you would never deign to talk to anywhere else, enjoying both the Agonising Silences and the more agonising Pretending To Be Interested In What The Other Party Is Saying, All The While Contemplating Whether This Is Really How It Should Have Been".

I'm sure I will enjoy it really.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

At least it's a free bar.

I blame myself more than anything really--I'm no good at smalltalk at all, and just get nervous about having to make conversation, especially Work conversation.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

You will enjoy it or else. We're bitter that way.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh, the only thing worse than small talk is work small talk.

But still... the two most beautiful words in the English language... FREE BAR.

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Brilliantly, the bar is only free at Set Times set by work HIGH COMMAND

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

I hate Networking. But I do like free bars.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think I even know how to network.

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

I had to borrow the shortest network cable in the world from reception. I fear that I am actually going to just hide in my room for as long as possible. That or I will get hammered and talk utter shit to everyone.

More of a worry, actually, is that there are sessions where people can just get up and talk about anything they want (presumably work-related) for five minutes, and I will get up in a drink-fuelled rage and spend the time explaining at length about how Post-Rock cannot possibly be dead and it was a stupid name for a genre in the first place and how ILM is wrong for pouring scorn upon it, to a room of blank-faced engineers.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

That would be great!

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I'd totally pay money to see that.

Ok, wait...

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Shit, now I've got the idea in my head.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

My boss just came over and whinged at me "it's too hot to think, can I go home?"

I was all "dude, you are the boss. You tell ME when I can go home."

But then she was sad because there was no one to tell her to go.

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

You should've made a power grab.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

Huh? I thought power grab was something to do with male urination.

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

Does it? I meant that she was obviously offering her seniority to you, you should have taken it!

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think it works like that.

OK, finally, someone has actually noticed the giant DUCTS that has come down from the ceiling. I think it has something to do with the air con not working.

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

You told her to go home, right? I would have.

I hate networking until I've had three rapid glasses of wine, and then I embrace it rather too enthusiastically. It hasn't got me in trouble yet (I don't think) but one day...

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

Of course I told her to go home, but she said "it's not that simple".

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

I just went to Somerfield and bought 10 orange ice lollies ofr £1.89 and 2 bottles of diet cherry coke. What the hell is this Coke Zero and Caffeine free Coke that they're selling now? I can't keep up with all these flavours.

tissp> post rock will never die!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.bigozine2.com/archive/ARrarities06/ARkwbremen.html

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

Ice lollies... ::drools::

And I don't even like ice lollies. I just want something cold.

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

Benjamin shaped ice lollies?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

Stay away from all that "zero" stuff - tastes very chemically and goes flat quickly. i am convinced the genetic mutations it causes are far worse than the few calories you avoid.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

Rocket Pops.

OMIGOD, I miss rocket pops. The weird taste of the blue. Mmmmm.

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

OK, my colleagues have finally left, so I've aimed the fan at me. And it's just blowing hot air around. Bah.

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

Unfun. :-/

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

UK soda pop is so rubbish. Zero and the like invariably have not just Aspertame (which gives me wicked headaches) but also total muck like saccharine. And it's not even just the diet sodas! I was trying to find Aspertame-free lemonade the other day for Pimms making, and I ended up having to use 7up because it just didn't seem to be made.

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

Are diet coke and zero coke different, then? Is zero the equiv of pepsi max? How are they different?

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

> What the hell is this Coke Zero and Caffeine free Coke

Caffeine Free Coke, er, the clue is in the name. (has been around for years btw, nice gold cans.)

Coke Zero is new. it's diet coke for men (the thinking being that men relate anything with 'Diet' in the name with girls)(but wouldn't the logical conclusion there be that anything with 'Zero' in the name is for Zeroes?)

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

and america also has Coke Blaq as of recently which is coffee flavoured coke, or something. sounds dreadful.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

Doesn't it have some kind of umlaut and so is actually pronounced "coke bleck"?

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

have listened to loop, as a quick scrobble will reveal. knew one of the tracks from a cover by a band that shall not be named. rest was pleasant enough, probably better than the other.

sorry, is BlaK with a K, a big K.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

ewwwww coffee flavour

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

Eh? Who had the guts to cover Loop? Come on, tell.

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

apparently it "fuses Coke effervesence with coffee essence. Every sip is an experience... to enliven your senses and welcome new possibilities. So find your muse. Find higher ground."

and there was me thinking it was sugary water.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

Caffeinated coffee? SO WRONG.

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

HA HA HA HA HA FREUDIAN SLIP!!!

I meant CARBONATED coffee, so wrong.

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

Heh, I'm getting text messages from TISSP who says that one of the HAWKLORDS is at the party, but he daren't talk to Him because he doesn't have a cape.

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

Whats koogs last fm page again?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe he means the Can cover Loop did? (Mother Sky)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

Right, I've given into peer pressure from you lot and signed up to last.fm. The user name is forestpines

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

I'm into Pandora now, last.fm is so 2005.

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

Sellout.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

Kate, energy company comparison site:

http://www.ukgreenpower.co.uk/

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 05:20 (nineteen years ago)

Just try listening to krautrock radio on pandora, earwig. Total effing nonsense.

But do listen through PandoraFM, so that last.fm will keep track of you for us. "Heard on Pandora" was somewhere in the top 30 tags at last.fm, last time I checked.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 06:03 (nineteen years ago)

Sellout.

Fine, I'll delete the account again then!

I'm not in a good mood today. I've just rewritten my profile on another specialist message board to essentially say "most of you are bastards, you hate me and I hate you"

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 06:22 (nineteen years ago)

I believe "Sellout" was referring to Earwig's use of Pandora! Don't delete!

and good morning..

― gooblar (gooblar), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 07:23 (nineteen years ago)

Why are they bastards FP?

Phew, it is rather hot again this morning.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 07:27 (nineteen years ago)

sorry scratch using that site I thought it was the one I used to switch but it wasn't because clearly no-one can use it to do anything because it is shit.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 07:27 (nineteen years ago)

They just *are* Archel. Some of them seem to take some things far too seriously, and some of them, in real life, just seem to me like nasty people.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 07:30 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.uswitch.com/Energy/

This is the one. I have either ecotricity or Good energy.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 07:33 (nineteen years ago)

i like to think that Good energy is run by felicity kendall and richard briars.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 07:33 (nineteen years ago)

My life clearly isn't that bad - you have to feel sorry for this chap.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 07:51 (nineteen years ago)

> Maybe he means the Can cover Loop did? (Mother Sky)

no.

http://www.bubbyworld.com/waaah/bull4-0.htm

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 08:09 (nineteen years ago)

No way! The Field Mice did a Loop cover? ::boggle::

OK, after Truck is over I'm so switching to GoodEnergy because I can hear that theme tune now doo doo doo, doo doo doo... "Oh, Tom...!"

― Kaet (kate), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 08:14 (nineteen years ago)

i very much like that you are Kaet, kaet.

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 08:45 (nineteen years ago)

It is in honour of you, kit.

― Kaet (kate), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

brings a tear to my eye, it does.

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 08:56 (nineteen years ago)

Why can't I get nice boots on stupid Meez? It's like all dumb girly shoes, or else goff platform boots and I'm so not going there. Why can't I raid the boys' closets?

― Kaet (kate), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 09:26 (nineteen years ago)

I believe "Sellout" was referring to Earwig's use of Pandora! Don't delete!

Indeed.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 09:28 (nineteen years ago)

Oooh, goff platform boots. Yum.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

Plus when you say pandora fm i keep thinking that Pandora from Kerrang has her own radio. http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=tbn:HUGCM3-CZiCF8M:http://twiglet.polygonized.com/versions/automatedsuicide/v1.0/images/general/pandora.png

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

WOOO wednesday is overall top artists update day. And I got mine.
Everyone post your homepage links so we can see your top artists!

http://www.last.fm/user/trailofgybe/

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 09:32 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.last.fm/user/gsdali

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

i want to call my daughter pandora so blokes can make rude references to her box

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.last.fm/user/forestpines

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I could participate in this last.fm business; maybe I should suck it up and shell out for the unlimited wireless connection here at the library. I totally shouldn't, of course. I'm running here to the internet computers too much as it is.

It isn't right that taking one lousy nurophen last night gives me waves of stomach pain today, is it?

― gooblar (gooblar), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

My last.fm page, incidentally, is the result of leaving my player on random. It is pure coincidence that there is currently lots of Belle and Sebastian, and an ILXor, showing.

I've just remembered a bizarre dream I had last night - Ken told me that he had buried a box of treasure on the beach near here, and showed me where it was on a map. Then, I had to run a marathon.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 09:39 (nineteen years ago)

And what would you call your son, ken?
x-post

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 09:40 (nineteen years ago)

Meet mine new boyfriend:

http://snapshot.meez.com/user01/09/09/08/090908_10000237988.gif

― Kaet (kate), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 09:44 (nineteen years ago)

Is he part ginger?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

Kate here is a list of your top fans. I have to say the 3rd one made me laugh
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Lollies/+fans

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

haha that is a bizarre dream. maybe the treasure is a 7" single of Heatwave.

I'm going to call my son ryu i think. or maybe zangief

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 09:52 (nineteen years ago)

He's supposed to be all ginger. Ha ha, I just found a Velvet Underground t-shirt! Excellent!

The Lollies still have *fans*?!?!? Oh, Catwank = Catty Kissing Time who sometimes posts here.

― Kaet (kate), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 09:54 (nineteen years ago)

haha i'm my own biggest fan!

http://www.last.fm/music/red+bull+dozers/+fans

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 09:54 (nineteen years ago)

CHECK OUT MY VELVET UNDERGROUND T-SHIRT!!!

http://snapshot.meez.com/user01/02/02_10000237769.gif

― Kaet (kate), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 09:54 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.last.fm/music/Shimura+Curves/+fans

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.last.fm/music/Shimura+Curves/+similar

a gig review! http://www.last.fm/user/anorakhighst/journal/2006/04/25/123010/

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 10:02 (nineteen years ago)

Bah, last.fm banned from new work.

My quite old page here:

http://www.last.fm/user/afarrell/

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

Aw, in the animations on the site, I actually bounce around and do windmills and Busted jumps and stuff. My Festival Boyfriend... aw, shucks, let's just call him "Benjamin" ...bounces around and pulls all kinds of cowboy moves.

His jeans are exceptionally... TIGHT. I might just take his guitar off for a bit so you can see his area.

― Kaet (kate), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

Well, *that* lunchbreak was fucking worthwhile. I get into town only to realise that I've left my bank cards back at the office, so can't buy anything for dinner; and now I'm back I don't have time to go and get cash to buy anything nearby. Fuck.

No breakfast either, because I overslept. Fuck.

Gah why do I bother. It's a shame the cliffs here aren't high enough to jump off.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

You're going to kill yourself because you didn't get lunch?

Man, and I thought *I* was melodramatic. Take some extra time. The world will not end. I promise.

― Kaet (kate), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

I was already late in this morning; I don't want to risk it.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

Bah. Isn't there a canteen or at least a vending machine or something? Or can you ask someone else to go out and get you something?

I'm quite pleased because Benjamin there is totally playing dronerock, he's just strumming G over and over again. I'm sliding back and forth between F and G with a little glide up to A, so I'm clearly playing Noyfriend! Excellent!

― Kaet (kate), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 10:36 (nineteen years ago)

Big Dave is going to buy me something when he's on his lunch, fortunately.

It's just one of those little things that adds up with everything else that's crap in my life at the moment.

(no canteen, no vending machine, nothing like that. and I don;t have any cash on me anyway)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

Who was it I was arguing with about Bjork having done a duet with Thom Yorke? I knew they had!

It might have been Anna, actually, in which case, oh well, I'll tell her when she gets back.

― Kaet (kate), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

Its a warm day and i'm listening to radiohead. http://www.last.fm/user/trailofgybe/

Why?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:07 (nineteen years ago)

Because I won't shut up about them.

― Kaet (kate), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

Post number 666, yay me.

Yes, I am very bored today, and easily amused.

― Kaet (kate), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

Did you flash the devil sign at your screen?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

facciamo le corne

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

I am so bored and this day is dragging. I have nothing doable on my to-do list. Took my headphones and music home last night because I didn't want to have to carry it around tonight. Do you think anyone would object if I just sat at my desk reading a book?

― Kaet (kate), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

At least I've had food now - a cheese and ham sandwich, and a bag of Quavers.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

Argh. I've just been turned down for life insurance YET AGAIN. Basically, because of the manic depression. Is this even legal? I mean, suicide (the only major death risk associated with manic depression) isn't covered under insurance anyway.

God, this is depressing. :-(

― Kaet (kate), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

Why do you want life insurance, Kate? You want to leave your sister a bundle when you go?

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, no, it's more to cover the mortgage on my flat if I become incapacitated through serious injury.

It's actually against FSA regulations to have a mortgage without some kind of insurance, I think. I should check with compliance who are behind me.

(Though I heard a great joke about the FSA the other day - though it's probably only funny if you work in banking.)

― Kaet (kate), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

> Actually, no, it's more to cover the mortgage on my flat if I become incapacitated through serious injury.

er, that's not LIFE insurance though, is it? that's injury insurance (or whatever the phrase is). (manic depression probably a valid reason for refusing injury insurance, mind)

whenever anyone mentions uses the abbreviation FSA i think of Flying Saucer Attack.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

Life and Critical Illness is the full term.

And it's not a reason to refuse - a reason to jack the premiums up, perhaps, but FFS, it's probably THE most easily controlled mental illness there is.

― Kaet (kate), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

but you don't need 'life' insurance unless you have dependants. ('Mortgage Payment Protection Insurance' is what i meant. am not sure that would be enough.)

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

No, I didn't even apply for Mortage Payment Protection Insurance because I read in the application that it does not cover mental illness of any kind.

What I applied for was, where if you get hit by a bus and die, or else lose an arm or a leg or an eye or something, they pay off your mortgage in a lump sum.

I don't see how manic depression makes me more likely to be hit by a bus than anyone else?

― Kaet (kate), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

ah, ok.

have accepted that i've missed the whole housebuying boat and that savings are now 'pension' rather than 'deposit'.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

Not true, especially if you've got a reasonable "pension" saved up. (Oh god, my work has infected me!)

Am having a coffee in commisseration.

― Kaet (kate), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

kate what time am i coming to yr work, like 6?

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

Anything an insurer defines as risk is a risk, even if there is nothing intrinsically risky about it. I HATE INSURANCE COMPANIES. Bloody protection racket. Also, if you do get it and don't tell them the first thing they'll do is say you're not covered. Another thing you might want to watch out for is the whole musician thing. Journalists and actors/entertainers, even part-timers have to worry about running afoul of insurance companies - one more reason to hate them.

Kate, in happier incidents I just got back from Portobello errands and bumped into initials JF! She is about to move to Colorado to study art.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, Emsk, come round 6-ish, 6.30 - the dept. boss isn't here so I suspect everyone will take off quite early and we'll have the place to ourselves.

Suzy, I didn't even mention the musician thing - I have a pretty durned impressive title here so I might as well use it.

― Kaet (kate), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

suzy, t's uncle is coming to stay

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

kaet, can i come round too?

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

Sure, kit. Though it's a bit far from Essex I would have thought.

― Kaet (kate), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

nah, it's fine. i just want to feel welcome. i won't actually turn up.

and like, central london is like 35 miles from my house. it ain't so far.

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone want to parse this review? I think it's positive, but I don't really understand most of it:

Gooblar “I Twist The Twentieth Century” (Demo)
If it didn’t say so on the info sheet you could still tell that Gooblar is an American. Who else would stroll in on a mix of clearly identified John Fogerty riffs and Flaming Lips bounce n breeze. This demo tells us a few things; Creedence Clearwater can be mixed, easily with cool, that someone else was listening to World Party, that Gooblar needs to take some mates and go play a few shows on the toilet circuit and that Gooblar’s girlfriend should maybe lose that McDonalds application form for now.

Huh?

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

I think that means they liked it?

I take that last bit to mean that if you go and play some live shows, you will make money and your girlfriend will not have to support you. (I think?)

That is, however, one of the worst written reviews I have seen in a long time.

― Kaet (kate), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, um, I'm sure this is common, but I can't really see how that review has any reference to music, let alone mine (except for the fact that he/she thinks it sounds like CCR, Flaming Lips, and World Party.

If someone else has been listening to World Party, it hasn't been me.

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

Ed, T called at about nine and we're ready for Uncle here!

K, impressive title or not you have to disclose that you are a working musician, because heaven forfend etc. that you have a RAWK incident, they ask why, you say you're a musician and they slap you with a failure to disclose. Happens a lot with people who are part-time actresses who have full-time jobs normally, just take the right advice.

Also re. mental illness there are estimates out there that one in six will suffer an episode in adult life - that's a lot of policies to turn down. Just tell the next querent what meds you take and if they know what they are doing they will ascertain meds = condition and might actually insure!

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

Just remember, reviews show more about the reviewer's taste in music, than about your music.

I always find it funny when I read things that say "Shimura Cuves sound like..." and go on to list bands I've never heard of. But I take it as more of a guideline, i.e. "If you like Band X, you may also like SC" rather than suggesting I actually ripped off music I've never heard.

Though from the rest of the poorly written and poorly punctuated review, I think it's safe to assume that the reviewer is actually on crack, and may be hallucinating.

x-post, do you think I didn't fill out a form that asked me exactly what meds I was on, and how often I experience symptoms?

― Kaet (kate), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Just remember, reviews show more about the reviewer's taste in music, than about your music.

Though from the rest of the poorly written and poorly punctuated review, I think it's safe to assume that the reviewer is actually on crack, and may be hallucinating.

― Kaet (kate), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

WTF, ILX server? Is that giant thread with all the question marks slowing things down and posting things multiple times? Eh?

― Kaet (kate), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

That thread is pissing me off something fierce (either that or the poxy fuling. Or the FUCKING HEAT.)

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

where's the review from?

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

Unpeeled.

(whew. exclamation points gone.)

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

what did i miss?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

O no, you just made my boyfriend fall off the top of the page. And I'd given him a new background of sunflowers, as well. :-(

― Kaet (kate), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

disappointing, unpeeled are usually better than that!

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

Morning there.

The plan for today: go out at lunchtime *with cash* and go and buy food - and also hayfever pills from the chemists that has a cute administrator I know.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 20 July 2006 07:30 (nineteen years ago)

I applied for 5 more network rail jobs before breakfast this morning.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 20 July 2006 07:47 (nineteen years ago)

network rail have jobs going?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 20 July 2006 07:53 (nineteen years ago)

Loads in project planning and time-tabling London based.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 20 July 2006 10:18 (nineteen years ago)

Nice one Ed. Also Uncle T turned out to be a dude and a half.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 20 July 2006 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

Afternoon.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 20 July 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

I might have to try and apply myself.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 20 July 2006 10:57 (nineteen years ago)

I'm still in shock at this Thee Plague Of Gentleman Singer Arrested In Belgium On Child Rape Charges

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 20 July 2006 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

I am going to Moscow on Monday, and none of the people I'm going to interview have agreed to see me, only my poxy friends! Aigh!!

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 20 July 2006 11:36 (nineteen years ago)

Are you Russian, mitya?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 20 July 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

You want me to reveal all my secrets? Here, in public?

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 20 July 2006 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

Haha. Well everyone knows i'm Scottish.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 20 July 2006 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

if you don't, i will. xpost

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Thursday, 20 July 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

haha, kit. i don't even know you.

no, not russian, just lived there a long time.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 20 July 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

A spy!!!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 20 July 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

is that me spying on the russians, or kit spying on me?

or BOTH?!?!

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 20 July 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

look after any sheep?

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 20 July 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe Mitya is a double agent!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 20 July 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

You're the one who won't show his face!

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 20 July 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

So you weren't a Shepherd Spy then?

thank-you, I'm here all week.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 20 July 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

Kind of quiet around here when Kate isn't around, eh?

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 20 July 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

No one else seems to be around either.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 20 July 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

Lets talk about drone rock ,space rock, progrock while Kates not here.

And post rock and tissp might appear.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't posted my last fm url today http://www.last.fm/user/trailofgybe/

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

It's not my day.

Went to the print shop next door, and although they had nice, black copies, they kept cutting off various bits of the image. So I told the guy "forget it" and I fear I may have been rude. Argh! So I went to the web cafe to get copies made, and not only did it turn out that the actual image itself is cut off, but the copies I ended up making are horrible and grey on one side, and streaky black on the other. Bah! I feel like an idiot. Hopefully something usable will come out of it.

I'm so sick of burning CDs. And now the cover looks rubbish I'm afraid no one will buy them after all.

― Kaet (kate), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

I was kind of busy elsewhere most of the afternoon.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

What happened to all the sunny weather we've been having? it's all gone :( been cloudy all day and even rained a bit.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I feel like a berk because we've booked a 7-seater van in which now only 4 people are riding. Could have got something much cheaper. Or a camper van. Bah.

I am a big ball of negativity today, eh?

― Kaet (kate), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

I just have to convince myself that the CD covers are, like, deliberately lo-fi or something. Even though that's the exact opposite of what we are about.

Teach me not to storm out but my god, the guy was taking YEARS to do anything, and he was on the third printer.

― Kaet (kate), Thursday, 20 July 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

This will all be forgotten when you're headlining Glastonbury.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

I think tissp and I are having a fight on last fm to see who is the most post rock.
While everyone else is being twee.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 20 July 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

Lets talk about drone rock ,space rock, progrock while Kates not here.

And post rock and tissp might appear.

While I will most assuredly leave. I don't suppose you could start a prog thread on ILM instead, could you?

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Thursday, 20 July 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

another one? 8)

new office is halfway between hammersmith and chiswick and you can't really walk to either and back (and do things whilst you're there) in a reasonable lunchtime. as a result i keep forgetting to do anything for lunch, just sit here and read the interwebs. makes for very long days. staying here until 7 every night doesn't help.

(that i'm fighting with brain dead oracle things also makes the time drag. CTXCAT text search index things limited to 30 characters? rubbish!)

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Thursday, 20 July 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

You don't like any of those genres mark or just prog?
I would get eaten alive on a prog thread on ILM.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 20 July 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

Check out the new Sunn o))) box set
http://www.southernlord.com/lord1.htm

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 20 July 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

I'm with Mark, I'm afraid.

I only get half an hour for my lunch. We have a very nice canteen at work, staffed by some of the service users (I work for a mental health charity), and whilst it is nice to re-invest some of my wages in a cheap and healthy meal and benefit the charity at the same time*, I get really fed up of not having enough time to go out and do anything/go anywhere else.

*actually, no it isn't. I'm not that charitable when it comes to my wages.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 20 July 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

I think tissp and I are having a fight on last fm to see who is the most post rock.
While everyone else is being twee.

I was thinking, earlier, last.fm is going to give me a reputation for being some kind of twee indiekid.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 20 July 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

'going to'? 8)

have taken to sitting in the park and reading for half an hour when i remember. um, maybe if i set up an outlook reminder...

canteen food likely to be cheaper than buying it elsewhere.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Friday, 21 July 2006 07:44 (nineteen years ago)

I should have expected a comment along those lines ;-)

I would go and sit on the beach for my lunch more, but it's so crowded this time of year. Admittedly, crowded with good-looking undressed people, but still crowded.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 21 July 2006 08:09 (nineteen years ago)

my lastfm thing is never that reflective given that i listen to streaming radio most of the time at work, or the mp3 player, and because i don't let it report stuff i've downloaded. anyway:

http://imagegen.last.fm/basic10/artists/koogy.gif

what always puzzles me is the neighbours thing. i get tons of eastern europeans somehow. my top 4 are currently

19 female estonia
24 male finland
26 male netherlands
20 male belarus

all of which seem to be related only by the drum and bassy side of things (must be big in estonia). top one has a match of '5', whatever that means, the rest are 4s. is that bands in common? tracks?

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Friday, 21 July 2006 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

Work is hell today. I really fucking need a better job.

I am sooo twee:

http://imagegen.last.fm/basic10/artists/forestpines.gif

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 21 July 2006 09:20 (nineteen years ago)

(those numbers should not be 1s)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 21 July 2006 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

I was thinking, earlier, last.fm is going to give me a reputation for being some kind of twee indiekid.
And you aren't?

huge xpost thanks to damn poxy fule.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 21 July 2006 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

How do you post that charts thing on here?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 21 July 2006 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

i'll try this

[url=http://www.last.fm/user/trailofgybe/?chartstyle=basicrt10]

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 21 July 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

No, you need to post the contents of the other box.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 21 July 2006 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

(the one labelled "myspace/html")

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 21 July 2006 11:36 (nineteen years ago)

I like droney stuff (Spacemen 3, MBV, Neu, early Stereolab) and I have an occasional soft spot for post-rock, but space-rock and prog just set my teeth on edge. I think my main problem is that lists of other people's taste in music, repeated several times a day, aren't what I find entertaining in a thread ;)

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Friday, 21 July 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

http://imagegen.last.fm/basicrt10/recenttracks/trailofgybe.gif

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 21 July 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

Mark it seems odd you like droney stuff like that but not spacey stuff.
Prog I can understand since you obviously grew up reading NME :P

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 21 July 2006 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

Ok I worked out how to get the top artists one. Cheers guys.

http://imagegen.last.fm/red/oartists/trailofgybe.gif

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 21 July 2006 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

Do you think Kate and Co have arrived at that festival yet?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 21 July 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

> I think my main problem is that lists of other people's taste in music, repeated several times a day, aren't what I find entertaining in a thread ;)

yes, this is key. and what ilm's for, not to mentioned the 'what are you listening to' thread. but things have been quiet around here lately... i won't do it again 8)

(those gifs actually update in real time so there's no need anyway!)

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Friday, 21 July 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

i don't need to spy on you people, i know you're all deviants of some kind or other. xpost x 100

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Friday, 21 July 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

I think my main problem is that lists of other people's taste in music, repeated several times a day, aren't what I find entertaining in a thread ;)

Indeed. List threads on ilm are a bit of a bugbear of mine.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 21 July 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

strangely enough, threads on ilm are a bugbear of mine.

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Friday, 21 July 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

I rarely look at those list threads or those what on " " ipod threads.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 21 July 2006 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

you're breaking ilm hearts

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Friday, 21 July 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

I still read ILM threads a lot more than ILE ones.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 21 July 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

Apart from those that get deleted before I get the chance to read!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 21 July 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

kate and co haven't arrived here (festival site) yet.

it's very hot and sunny and smelly (i'm in an office next to the cow shed)

― jellybean (jellybean), Friday, 21 July 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

Probably because they're fighting over what goes in the cd player.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 21 July 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

Someone was offering a free ticket to Truck on Freecycle. Regretfully I decided I couldn't go :(

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 21 July 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

I hope they remembered lots of sun tan lotion.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 21 July 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

Hi kids! I'm in New York for the weekend. Wish you were here!

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 21 July 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

(Just in time for the rain :(((

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 21 July 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

Hi mitya in NYC!

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

You need to change your name to Alex.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

Mark OTM, as are those who agree with him. ILM is thataway *points*

but things have been quiet around here lately...

Perhaps things have been quiet around here because people don't want to participate in "my MP3 collection is bigger, better and cooler than yours" circle-jerkery. I used to like the silliness and mundanity of these threads, but now it just sets my teeth on edge because I basically don't give a fuck how cool people think they are because they like some band or other. If my watercooler at work was like this, I'd die of dehydration.

More talk about cookies and work-based mundanity please.

:-)

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 22 July 2006 08:53 (nineteen years ago)

my mp3 collection is bullshit

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Saturday, 22 July 2006 08:59 (nineteen years ago)

now playing: super mario bros theme

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Saturday, 22 July 2006 09:00 (nineteen years ago)

cookie update: the lady that used to sell me cookies every morning has moved to spain. i no longer eat cookies each day. i have lost 7lbs. lol tbh?

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Saturday, 22 July 2006 09:01 (nineteen years ago)

if we had a watercooler i'd have been sacked by now for standing next to it and jabbering away to myself like a complete twat.

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Saturday, 22 July 2006 09:04 (nineteen years ago)

Surely you'd get some sort of props for being in on a Saturday though?

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 22 July 2006 09:06 (nineteen years ago)

I AM IN ON A SATRUDAY. every week.

if we had a watercooler, it wouldn't have a list of rules sellotaped to it.

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Saturday, 22 July 2006 09:08 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah! I talk about football and Big Brother at work! Shall we break the rules since no-one's watching?

That Spiral's a bit of a twat, huh? And what about Wayne Rooney, eh? Cor.

Did I mention I bought some ultra-obscure post-space-prog-goth-rock album that you've never heard of because you're not as cool as me?

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 22 July 2006 09:18 (nineteen years ago)

i'm not brave enough to join in, cos I'LL be the one that gets told off.

you bought my band's album? SUCKAH.

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Saturday, 22 July 2006 09:23 (nineteen years ago)

i'll miss jayne's boobies, though.

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Saturday, 22 July 2006 09:23 (nineteen years ago)

"100 Ways Watercooler is Nothing Like A Real Watercooler" thread?

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Saturday, 22 July 2006 09:26 (nineteen years ago)

or would that get me into even MORE trouble?

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Saturday, 22 July 2006 09:26 (nineteen years ago)

Nah, if you start the thread, you can dictate how it goes, amirite?

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 22 July 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

now is the time the angel pops up on the other shouler and says "NO WAI KIT, U WLD BE DAFT TO DO THAT!"

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Saturday, 22 July 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

Daft = good, mostly. I'm not helping, am I?

(I also have teh fear, so shan't be pursuing this pathetic attempt at rebellion any further)

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 22 July 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

we r doomed tbh

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Saturday, 22 July 2006 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry Kate!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38085000/jpg/_38085818_thom_yorke150.jpg

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 22 July 2006 09:40 (nineteen years ago)

we r saeved

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Saturday, 22 July 2006 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

it's good that people share suggestions, helps widen everybody's knowledge. but yes, can become a pissing contest so easily. (odd these days because rare things have no real reason to be rare anymore, everything's just a download away, seemingly)

(i'm still uneasy at stuff being 'freely' available - stuff's better when it's earned or passed on personally rather than by a.n.other internet dude but maybe that's just me.)

i get the feeling with pfunkboy that it's youthful exuberance, so i'll cut him some slack. some 8) (sorry pfunkboy, talking like you aren't here)

all of ilx seems like silliness and mundanity these days though. all the threads i read anyway.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Saturday, 22 July 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

Can you really excuse youthful exuberance from a man in his 30s though? Also, as has been pointed out, there are whole "what are you listening to" threads, not to mention A WHOLE SODDING BOARD for discussing bands. Sorry, Kerr, this isn't just a dig at you, btw.

In my ideal world, this thread would be for silliness and mundanity that doesn't fit on other threads. But I didn't start this thread, so I don't get to say what goes on it, apparently. So I'll just shut up again.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 22 July 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

> Can you really excuse youthful exuberance from a man in his 30s though?

i had no idea of his age, was giving him the benefit of the doubt.

> In my ideal world, this thread would be for silliness and mundanity that doesn't fit on other threads.

roger, wilco. i never understood these ghetto threads before these started but this one seemed to be naturally populated with all the same people (including yourself) who'd usually end up on my other favoured threads so...

so, what about them Bears... 8)

(um, someone just shut the hallway window that i'd opened to increase airflow about 20 minutes ago. kinda curious why they did but realise they have as much right to as i had to open it originally. also realise the same applies to this thread, that i can't dictate. so I'LL also shut up 8) (and log off because it's been an hour i'm on dialup at weekends)

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Saturday, 22 July 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

hello

― Hairy Asshurt (Toaster), Sunday, 23 July 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

Welcome Hari ,Devons dirty dronerockboy supermodel!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Sunday, 23 July 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

damn straight

im gonna go back to doing some work and stop leaning on the watercooler though.

I think it's sprung a leak.

― Hairy Asshurt (Toaster), Sunday, 23 July 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

Hari now has a wet t-shirt.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Sunday, 23 July 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

Morning there.

I learned, yesterday, that one of the first symptoms of hypoxia - lowered blood oxygen levels - is aggression and irritability. Given the paltry ventilation here, this may partly explain why I get so pissed off when I'm at work.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 24 July 2006 08:04 (nineteen years ago)

Morning.
I have ankle, knee, wrist, hip and shoulder ache today. One of the lesser known pregnancy symptoms and not very fun. I don't know why the hormones can't be a bit more precise and instruct only the relevant pelvic joints and ligaments to stretch and soften or whatever they do, instead of all of them.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 24 July 2006 08:13 (nineteen years ago)

you get a prize at the end of it all, i hear.

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Monday, 24 July 2006 08:28 (nineteen years ago)

A booby prize?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 24 July 2006 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

hush

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Monday, 24 July 2006 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, I have got the booby prize already. My tits are suddenly massive! (Sorry TMI.)

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 24 July 2006 08:41 (nineteen years ago)

YSI

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Monday, 24 July 2006 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning.

I ate lots of fruit yesterday in the hopes that I would feel all healthy and energetic today. Not working yet. I think I should eat some more. No pregnancy aches, though.

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 24 July 2006 09:44 (nineteen years ago)

When do the Truckers return?

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 24 July 2006 10:37 (nineteen years ago)

Not yet, it seems..

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 24 July 2006 11:11 (nineteen years ago)

yogurt! yogurt is the key! (xpost - doesn't help pregnancy, i think)

yes, i too, await the festival crew and photos of the shimuras rampant.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 24 July 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, yes, I should start eating yogurt regularly again. AND fruit. And maybe stop smoking.

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 24 July 2006 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

yes, i too, await the festival crew and photos of the shimuras rampant.

bbbbbut they banned music chat!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 24 July 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

Yoghurt is good in pregnancy but probably not for the aches and pains. I have tried the lemon drizzle cake route today which is effective psychologically if not physically.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 24 July 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

Cake is always a good answer.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 24 July 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

Anna has returned, elsewhere. Well, not that far elsewhere, on the Shimuras thread.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 24 July 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

bbbbbut they banned music chat!

Talking about what you did at the weekend is not the same thing as listing what you have been listening to ad nauseam. Anyway, who banned anything? Only things banned are That Channel Four Reality TV Show and That Game What Hooligans Watch, innit? 'Twas merely an observation as to maybe why it's a bit quiet round here.

I don't like cake. What is *wrong* with me? I mean, if someone puts a piece of cake in front of me and says "there is a piece of cake for you" I don't go all "urgh, cake", but I have never actively sought a piece of cake. Same with chocolate. I don't even like shopping for shoes. I am a failure at girliehood :-(

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 24 July 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

I don't like shopping for shoes either! Well, to be honest I do like LOOKING at shoes. A lot. But actually purchasing them or trying them on or anything, no.

I don't normally seek out cake (but only because eg. with chocolate cake the flour and eggs just seem like needless distractions from the CHOCOLATE.)

So I am quite a girl after all maybe.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 24 July 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

I used to like the silliness and mundanity of these threads, but now it just sets my teeth on edge because I basically don't give a fuck how cool people think they are because they like some band or other.

But I am cool! Oh wait.

Hullo all. *restful*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 July 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

See, I don't like even *looking* at shoes. I realise it's one of life's necessary evils, and I have to do it some time, and I do have some nice shoes now as a result, but I don't get the need to have a pair of shoes for every outfit and a bag to match and all that shit, possibly because all my clothes are horrible too.

You're pregnant, you're allowed to go seeking out cake. And lumps of coal, and banana pizzas, and garlic ice cream, and whatever.

(xpost, since Ned's not pregnant, AFAIK)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 24 July 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

Damn, banana pizza sounds nice! and I thought I wasn't getting weird cravings.

None of my shoes match my outfits, or only accidentally. I like looking at shoes the way I like looking at paintings, but I would never wear most of them.

Hi Ned!

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 24 July 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

Actually what I really want is pineapple and sweetcorn pizza, come to think of it.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 24 July 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, banana pizza *does* sound nice, and I'm not pregnant. It's not really a craving thing, then. I was just thinking of that old (Yellow Pages?) ad where the pregnant girl calls the pizza delivery for a tuna'n'banana pizza. I bet, if it was Yellow Pages, it pre-dated the "not just there for the nasty things in life" campaign, as tuna'n'banana pizza definitely qualifies as one of the nasty things in life.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 24 July 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Hello, Hari, btw, where the hell have you been? (xpost x 1000 or something)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 24 July 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

speaking of telephone directories (kinda). i saw that someone had donated their Bath 01-02 telephone directory to the Amnesty Charity Book Shop in Hammersmith this morning. er, thanks for that.

everytime i find another pair of shoes i like they stop making them. damn you, Converse.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Monday, 24 July 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

There's actually a market for old telephone directories! Who knew?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 24 July 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

There is a very diverse marketplace

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 24 July 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Koogs, you should go back and buy it! Phone books with famous people in it are worth money. Someone famous must be from Bath, surely.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 24 July 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't Peter Gabriel from around Bath somewhere?

So I am quite a girl after all maybe.

It was being pregnant that gave you the first hint, wasn't it? ;)

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 24 July 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

Hello there. I have a gripe.

Why does breakfast make me hungrier? When I don't have breakfast (just coffee), I don't get hungry until 11 or 11.30. When I do (at my mother's insistance), I'm starving again by 9am.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 07:24 (nineteen years ago)

Woo, urgh, woo, urgh

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 07:28 (nineteen years ago)

This Is The Thread Where We Guess What Ed Is Doing Impressions Of

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 07:30 (nineteen years ago)

oh, odd thing: went out on friday night to a gig put on by AC30. girl spinning the cds was wearing a necklace with a gold record middle on it. looked great and i thought it'd make a good t-shirt. anyway, on way to work yesterday, 2 days later, saw a bloke wearing a t-shirt with a big black record middle on it... (as opposed to a Big Black record middle. that joke going out to Ned...)

(http://i19.ebayimg.com/04/i/05/7b/d3/d2_1_b.JPG)

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 07:34 (nineteen years ago)

is ed opening his a-level results? interview requests?

does he have sunburn?

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 07:34 (nineteen years ago)

How do you become a fan of someone in last.fm?

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 07:59 (nineteen years ago)

My favourite arrabiata maker in the world no longer makes arrabiata. He now does this "pasta with tomato and herb" which is no substitute.

Today I am experimenting with making my own arrabiata and taking it to work in a food flask. I'm not optimistic. I'll report back at lunchtime. Cooking before going to work felt a bit weird.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 08:16 (nineteen years ago)

> How do you become a fan of someone in last.fm?

just listen to them a lot. for instance, i did nothing and am listed here:

http://www.last.fm/music/BBC+Radiophonic+Workshop/+fans

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 08:22 (nineteen years ago)

Kate, Jon and John have a myspace now:

http://www.myspace.com/spiersandboden

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

I'm already one of their friends. :-)

Hello everyone! I'm back. Stop fighting, please. There is watercooler for everyone. (Except BB contestants and footballers) I don't want progtalk to go away entirely, but maybe a bit less of the lastFM posting might be in order - we can all bookmark and check back what everyone else has been listening to.

Anyway! Hurrah! I'm brown! Well, as brown as I get. I've got loads and loads of baby freckles. Truck was awesome and I've already put my reports on teh Truck thread.

Mainly I just liked being out in the country with the fresh air and fields and nature and strange spiders and mod bugs and I have now added another White Horse to my White Horses I Have Seen collection. (Uffington) though I might revive my White Horses thread and talk about it there.

I am sad because apparently Dreamspace went mental in the rains and killed some people. :-(

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 09:40 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and there were no fights over music! We listened to lots of Hawkwind with occasional breaks for 60s girl groups and Kenickie and krautrock. But mainly Hawkwind. Especially when the Silver Machine became the South London Express.

― Kaet (kate), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 09:45 (nineteen years ago)

We had The Hackensaw Boys, Led Zeppelin (No stairway), dEUS, the Rev Hammer Prog folk Epic - Freeborn John and the grey album in the North London Express.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 09:51 (nineteen years ago)

Yay freckles and yay Truck! Matt came home with some Hawkwind CDs the other day, it must be catching...

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 09:52 (nineteen years ago)

was that dreamspace that ate those people? i'd heard 'big inflatable' but just thought it was a rogue bouncy castle.

just been told that i shouldn't be using 'catalog' indexes but 'context' indexes for the oracle search thing i'm investigating (despite catalog searches being better suited according to docs). um, telling me that you'd already decided that 3 days ago when i started it would've meant not having to throw away 3 days worth of work. thanks. grrr.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah for Hawkwind! Which ones did he get?

Yes, apparently it was Dreamspace that went insane and ate people.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 10:03 (nineteen years ago)

video footage of Dreamscape thing on bbc website is disturbing and visually very similar to the hindenburg. all it needs is an announcer saying 'Oh, the humanity'.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 10:12 (nineteen years ago)

I know this is probably a horrible thing to say, considering that people died and all, but I would love to see film of it floating away on the wind because it would probably strangely beautiful.

I am an evil person for saying that, I know.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41922000/jpg/_41922028_castlepicgallery1.jpg

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

Beers for everyone?
http://www.virtualbartender.beer.com/VB1
http://www.virtualbartender.beer.com/VB2

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 10:34 (nineteen years ago)

Too many breasts on that site.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

Type "Star wars" in as a command. Or "Guns" or "fight".

*wonders how long it will take for the guys to type rude stuff to see what happens*

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 10:37 (nineteen years ago)

hahahahaha "clean the floor" and they put on french maid outfits and they dust.
Ok im bored with that now.

How is everyone today?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

Hot; though a cold-ish shower has helped. I've decided to stay away from the library and its air conditioning due to some misguided notion that I'll be able to write more at home. We'll see.

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

I managed to go 5 days without a shower. And Marianna wouldn't even touch my hair on about day 3.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

Urgh, so overwhelmed with work this week. Most of which will probably end up being done on Friday because other people won't have given me the stuff I need. Again.

Also I am very pissed off with people asking for jobs to be done 'today please' when in fact they don't need them until Monday and probably won't pick them up anyway.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

We were thinking about taking the kid to that dreamspace thing, it's not too far away. I'm not even going to watch the clip, and I'm glad I haven't got TV, urgh.

Got given blatant ott come-hither look by ridiculously hott a hepburnish asian woman in g'head tesco last night. Blimey.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

audrey or katherine?

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

audrey.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

"a hepburn" although KH was the one to play Chinese, not AH.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

This flask thing seems to keep stuff "not quite completely cold" rather than warm :(

I might need to smuggle in a microwave.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

Yay! Got a gig! Good news makes me feel all funny.

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

Tell us more?

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

August 4, Betsey Trotwood. Opening for "Just" and "Hyena."

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

...and Tobias Froberg?

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

Coo. It's in my diary.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

Nice. Also (btw), I got the new Reason up and running on my mac if you want it.

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

new Reason... as in Reason 3? Excellent!

(glad you decided to go the Reason Route.)

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, and yes. It's amazing! At first I was absolutely mystified (what with no experience whatsoever with synthesizers and things). But the learning curve is really quick, and the way it's set up makes things sooo easy. I've been wasting tons of time with it. Most recently playing around with gate triggers (or whatever you call them).

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

Oooh, I've never used gate triggers.

But yeah, I told you it was really easy to learn! And it's just so versatile!

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

It is true. And ReCycle (which I just got too) is pretty great as well. How does it know where the beats are?

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

My favourite arrabiata maker in the world no longer makes arrabiata. He now does this "pasta with tomato and herb" which is no substitute.
Today I am experimenting with making my own arrabiata and taking it to work in a food flask. I'm not optimistic. I'll report back at lunchtime. Cooking before going to work felt a bit weird.

Italmania, right? Are there no other Italian places near you? Don't you eat anything else? You realise you can go to the PUB and get a burger AND A PINT for less than what you pay for a meal in Italmania? (if it's not Italmania, well, problem solved, go to Italmania)

Why don't you take a little tub of chilli flakes/bottle of tabasco sauce with you to work and stir some into your tomato and herb pasta?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

Spiky bits in the waveform.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

Ed, I will stop off at yours tomorrow on the way to Shoegazing to pay you. Would you prefer cash or cheque?

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

cheque is fine. I might not be in, but you can stick it in an envelope and post through the letter box.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, the White Horses:

http://wiltshirewhitehorses.org.uk/uffington.html

I've now seen Uffington, Broadtown, Hackpen, Cherhill and possibly some of the others but my memory is dim.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, Italmania. I can get burgers and pints for less, yes, but sometimes I want nice tasty pasta and it's worth a couple of quid extra to treat myself. It's not like Italmania is an expensive exclusive Italian restaurant, it's only £3.80 or thereabouts for a takeaway pasta.

Why don't you take a little tub of chilli flakes/bottle of tabasco sauce with you to work and stir some into your tomato and herb pasta?

It's not the same!

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Oh wow, I thought you meant a pub..
xpost

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

No, I mean, proper White Horses! I have kind of a thing for them. My ex boyfriend's mother's house was directly underneath the Broadtown horse. There's a whole mess of them in that part of the country and I kind of got obsessed with them.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

You got obsessed with something, Kate? :)

(Hello from Moscow, all!)

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

Hi Mitya! I've been to Moscow!!
(the one in Ayrshire)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

as long as it's not the one in Idaho...

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

Is that private?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning, folks. Please keep me entertained today as I've got next to no work.

I did the bills last night and it was so depressing. I can't believe I found myself moaning "I have to live on £100 a week!!!" because I can remember when I had to live on £100 a month. Bah. But these days £100 a month is just travel expenses. The more money you earn, the more there is to spend it on.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 08:20 (nineteen years ago)

Office is empty and I am doing the last.fm thing it is interspersing autechre with joni mitchell. £18 well spent I think. I think I've recovered from the weekend and I'm ready for the next one. I even made a dent in the mess in the flat and I'm going home at lunchtime to rotate laundry and see if the seth lakeman cd has arrived (probably won't have).

One of my coleagues has informed me that Mars will be the closest to earth that it will be in any of our lifetimes (or children's' lifetimes for that matter) during august and it will be like The Earth has two moons.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 08:27 (nineteen years ago)

Bah, I'm starting to have serious doubts about this weekend. Because I'm skint, because I'm stressed about transport, because I'm PMT-ing, and I've got the fear that I'll end up spending the whole weekend on bizarre rural busses for rural people, argh.

Maybe that was Mars I kept seeing at Truck, and not Venus after all!

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 08:35 (nineteen years ago)

I am very receptive to new music at the moment, pump me full of it. (Not to japanese rock balladeering though)

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

Does this mean I'm never getting my DVDs back? :-)

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 08:51 (nineteen years ago)

You will, tonight maybe, I'm not sure when I have to meet people.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 08:53 (nineteen years ago)

FUCK. It's nearly 11 o clock and I have been trying to place a stationery order since NINE THIRTY. How is that possible??? I hate this stupid system, I hate my boss for not being around when I need him to authorise an order, I hate my supplier for giving me product codes that don't work, I hate the accountant for juggling budgets so I don't have any money to spend. So much HATE!

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 08:55 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, that's annoying. Boo for hassle.

I wonder if I should go ask my boss for something to do.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 09:12 (nineteen years ago)

G'morning all. I made this Lebanese chicken and garlic sauce last night--and it was really really good--but I still feel like I have garlic fumes coming out of my pores. It's a weird feeling.

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 09:12 (nineteen years ago)

That looks tasty. I haven't properly cooked at home in ages, I am unburying the kitchen though.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 09:18 (nineteen years ago)

Why the massive cleaning frenzy, Ed?

I'm feeling a bit "Grrrrr!" coz sodding Lou Liverlust is leaving notes all over photos of my band on Flickr saying "representing Liverlust" and crap like that.

Errr... NO! Liverlust had NOTHING to do with our getting the gig. It was Emsk who got us the gig, not him, so if anything we're representing EMSK. He just CAN'T not stick his sodding brand in everything we do, can he?

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 09:24 (nineteen years ago)

Morning all. Unable to sleep properly in this muggy heat, I stayed up really late last night and read The Kite Runner. It was excellent (and made me cry).

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 09:24 (nineteen years ago)

That's obnoxious.
xpost
And staying up really late to read is a wonderful thing, heat or no.

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 09:25 (nineteen years ago)

if ny of that is on the group I should be able to sort that.

I won't talk about the reasons for the cleaning frenzy on a public forum, other than it needs doing.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 09:26 (nineteen years ago)

Morning, CJ, how's the intelligent commenting thing going? Late night reading is a good thing - well, not as good as sleep, natch, but still better than lying there tossing. I finished the Making Of The English Landscape last night, and my only complaint was that it was too short. I could have done with another few hundred pages of detail!

I'm just really touchy about this. Like we're going to be saddled with his name forever after, just because we did one single which I'm already regretting.

We either have to find a better name label or start our own SHARPISH.

I think I should spend the weekend recording, that will stop me from getting too wound up.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

zerointegrity.co.uk was meant to be a record label. I seem to have 5 minutes spare every day between 0007 and 0012 shall I start a record label?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

Definitely! Actually...

::cogs start turning in head::

Start a label and a festival! this is clearly the way forward!

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

All the best of indie, pop, electronica, psychedelic, folk, techno and jazz

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

All at the same time!

(Well, except the jazz, clearly.)

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

(Did you get a chance to ask the Foundry if they would let us play some prog/psych/freakfolk records?)

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

or you should "sign up" with tissp, since he's already got his label up and running. make it an ILX massive.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

can we have only weirdass discordant fuckedup jazz with none of that incessant t-t-tshh t-t-tshh t-t-tshh going on, no scrribbledy-dap stuff, nothing smooth? can we have some metalbands too? just, like, dfa1979 or electric eel shock or something, not necessarily hurrrrgh-hurrrrgh metal.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

No, not even Free Jazz. The Committee To Keep Jazz Caged has spoken.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, that would make a great screen name.

― The Committee To Keep Jazz Caged (kate), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

Only quality jazz, no dinner stuff , hard, boppy, free . We can be wide ranging, anything goes as long we like it.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

To be fair there is very little jazz worth recording nowadays, the scene seems to be dominated with noodly wankers who studied a berkeley or whatever its called. there are a fe oldies my mum hasn't offed yet as well, hanging on (my mum seeing an aging jazzer live usually spells death within 6 months)

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 09:52 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not a "jazz douchebag" as I believe the term on ILM is, Ed, but is that statement really any more true for jazz than it is other musics nowadays?

It is three o'clock and all I have done today is write down the names of people I should be calling and print a long document that I should have already read. And eat cheesecake and chat with girls in the office.

Can someone do my work for me, please? ty.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 09:55 (nineteen years ago)

who was it was saying they had an uncle or sth with a farm near cardigan?

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 09:58 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, overly cynical I know. this has been my experience of the last few Jazz festivals I've been to. There seems to be to much focus on technical ability (which is important) and not enough heart and soul going into the music which is sad as it is the music I grew up with. i would love to have the foolishness of my opinion demonstrated to me.

Steven's gf no?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 09:58 (nineteen years ago)

No, no, it was Gaz with the uncle with the farm near Cardigan!

― The Committee To Keep Jazz Caged (kate), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

Ed, no Seth Lakeman from the Thingbringer.

Watercooler pals, I was in a freaky bus accident on my way to the gym this morning and am almost divested of itty bitty silica pieces which got EVERYWHERE.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 10:06 (nineteen years ago)

Bus accident? Oh no! What happened?

― The Committee To Keep Jazz Caged (kate), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 10:10 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I spoke too soon and have been given a horrible job. :-(

― The Committee To Keep Jazz Caged (kate), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

Grrr I am pissed off. With work, with people Elsewhere Online, with everything.

Work is the worst. Should I:

a) resign now
b) kill myself
c) just sit and stew and put up with all this shit

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

I'm thinking d) write a resignation letter, giving whatever the appropriate amount of time is, and then spend that amount of time not giving a f*ck about where you are (trust me, it's very freeing) and looking for a job elsewhere.

― The Committee To Keep Jazz Caged (kate), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 10:37 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds like good advice to me.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

e) have a wank?

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

Ew, at the office?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

Listen to teh kit, he knows about these things.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 10:47 (nineteen years ago)

Bus accident was not all that exept for The Enemy was tattooed Chelski supporter with misspelled tattoos an' all. He was very big and was giving it this 'Seventeen years in this job and that's never happened' to this Polish driver who begged me to stay and help him with this moron because his English wasn't comprehensive enough, the foreman was out to dazzle driver with 'knowledge' of all sorts of road shit but was intimidating him. Told Mr Chelski after 17 years maybe they should kick him upstairs where he couldn't be in charge of a road hazard, but perhaps they thought he'd fuck that up, too. They were doing some tar-based shite in the road but there were no warnings or hazards on this very bendy road to warn anyone. They were also stationary in the midst of a road that was comprehensively double-yellowed, and a bus is down that road every 10 minutes. GET ONE BRANE.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 10:49 (nineteen years ago)

t/s: posting yr ass on the internet vs having a wank at the office

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 10:50 (nineteen years ago)

C/D: Having a wank over a picture of yr ass on the internet?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

I don't post my ass on the internet *at the office* though

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

Don't quit without something else unless you're really sure you'll find something quickly (which seems to be the case with all you useful techie folk). Then take a picture of your ass at the office and include it in your resignation letter. :)

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

Sigh. Lunch today is some kind of storebought curry because I didn't have time to make mine own. Definitely not as good. However, it involves lentils. I should learn to curry lentils.

― The Committee To Keep Jazz Caged (kate), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

To be honest, my Big Secret Career Plan includes quitting some time in August. So doing it now would just mean doing it slightly early - but it might mean a gap of a week or two during which I wouldn't be getting paid, and wouldn't be able to look for jobs very easily.

(due to other, secret parts of the Big Secret Career Plan)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

Can't be very secret if you're talking about it on ILX!

― The Committee To Keep Jazz Caged (kate), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

or you should "sign up" with tissp, since he's already got his label up and running.

"label"

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure you probably realise why I'm planning to quit, Kate!

(I mean, apart from hating my job - what I'm planning to quit in order to do)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

If you've already got the next big thing lined up, and you're not terribly illiquid, why NOT quit?

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

Um, August is less than a week away, and I assume you need to give notice of your resignation, so writing the letter now might be a plan, if not a Big Secret Tell The Whole Internets Plan.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

My god, I just walked to the post office and back, and no matter how hot this office is, sans air con, it ain't nothing compared to the nubbin that is outside!

― The Committee To Keep Jazz Caged (kate), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

"next big thing" != "next job"

The idea was to give my notice some time in August, so that I would be free to do the next steps in September - *if* certain other stuff, that's outside my control, fits together in the meantime.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

Career plans usually entail jobs.

― The Committee To Keep Jazz Caged (kate), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

The next job is Stage 3. Then there's Stage 4, which is another secret bit.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

Hello all.
Massive x-post but the jazz i listen to tends to be from 1949-1975.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

80s has some good value. Ornette Coleman, dudu pukwana, some hugh masakela, Andy shepherd, Courtney Pine, although the last two can veer off into the self satisfied and noodly.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

DON'T MAKE ME BAN JAZZ ON THIS THREAD!!!

― The Committee To Keep Jazz Caged (kate), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

Well, if Stage 2 involves not being paid, then I would stick with this job. It can't be that bad when you already know there are only a few weeks left. Extra "savings" will always handy as you work toward Stage 3.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

;-{(

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

I feel sorry for that jazz-loving f00tball player who signed up for last.fm and wanted to hang out here. Poor guy ;)

(joke joke joke. Kaet rules OK!)

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

Kate, I suspect you'd be MORE annoyed if people who use this thread set up their own thread where they could talk about BB/football/jazz (AMONG everything else) than just by letting them talk about them occasionally if they want to. Why not try relaxing the rules for now? I doubt you'd find anyone abusing the situation with 50-post arguments about indirect free kicks or whatever.

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

but there's no point - both the footy and bb things have well-defined threads, ones where you'll get a more sensible response. and anybody on here who'd understand the finer points of this week's evictions, say, are reading the BB thread anyway.

we could do with a thread for pictures of thom yorke though, just to make them easier to ignore 8)

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

Careful now, we don't want an outbreak of reasonableness.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

As long as moaning about work is never banned from this thread I don't care. Next week is shaping up to be completely disastrous chez centre des langues...

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

I am amazed there has never been a pregnant female superhero (that I know of). If Archel could channel her anger, discomfort and resentment into hardcore vigilantism the world would be a far safer place :)

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

How am I going to get to Herne Hill by 7 without melting?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

Haha maybe I will!

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

What is happening in Herne Hill?

Thameslink is not so bad, actually, as it's aboveground and the windows open - so long as it's going (fast) and not stuck at that logjam by Blackfriars.

― The Committee To Keep Jazz Caged (kate), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, Herne Hill is, like... civilised Sarf London!

― The Committee To Keep Jazz Caged (kate), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

Meeting Hand and Emma B, getting my gangsta shit on, or something.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

I am going all the way to Croydon on Saturday. Hopefully there will be a nice air-conditioned Southern train though.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

Croydon is not so civilised Sarf London, but still. :-)

― The Committee To Keep Jazz Caged (kate), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

Cycling is fine as long as I don't stop moving once I get there.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

Take it to the bikes vs. cars FITE thread! :-P

― The Committee To Keep Jazz Caged (kate), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

This is more bikes vs my sweaty body

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

Ick, they call him Sweaty Dreadlocks...

― The Committee To Keep Jazz Caged (kate), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

No, I think a flat on the Sydenham Road definitely doesn't count as civilised...

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

I do wonder about locks wisdom in this heat. I fear I wouldn't be me without them.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

I can't imagine what you'd look like without them. I mean, I know I've seen pictures of you without them, but still can't imagine coz you were like, 12 in said photo. You've got to get one of those giant sock hats that holds them of your head like the men in Brixton wear.

I, too, hope you get an aircon train, Arch, so you can be as civilised as possible, even in said environs.

― The Committee To Keep Jazz Caged (kate), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

on a bicycle, innit. i have just come by bicycle from homerton to brixton, it was lush.

oh, xpost. anyway.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

you are much less affected by the heat emsk, you glow rather than drip.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

Ed> Give Kate back those dvdrs. So I wont keep bugging her to listen to Heads, Subarachnoid Space, Paik and Zombi. She's missing out on psych/spacerock goodness.
Ps do you like anything on the dvdrs?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

I have been slack and only listened to circulus.

Kate I shall drop by your office after work tomorrow and give you the DVDs, you can leave off giving me the cheque till then if you like.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

OK, that's fine. I might not go to the shoegazer club tonight anyway as it is TOO DARN HOT.

Yes, I cannot believe I just said that. But it's too hot for shoegazing.

― The Committee To Keep Jazz Caged (kate), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I had a bathtub so I could fill it with ice water.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

ice => iced

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

Hrrrmmmm. Should I go and see The Prophet Jason Pierce?

He's performing some old Spacemen 3 songs! But the downside is, he's performing "acousticaly". Errr... what is the point? Acoustic Spacemen 3? Does not compute.

― The Committee To Keep Jazz Caged (kate), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

Hrrrrrmmmmm

accompanied on all dates by a string quartet, gospel singers and Doggen on Fender Rhodes

Could be great... more likely to be utter wank. What should I doooooo?

― The Committee To Keep Jazz Caged (kate), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

I could've sworn I just posted a post here saying that you should go and then report back to let me know whether I want to spend my hard-earned cash going through to Edinburgh to witness this later on in the year. But it isn't here. Hmmm.

Anyway, yes, that's what you should do. Please.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not sure *I* want to spend my hard-earned cash on it! Especially if it turns out to be totally lame and annoying and destroys any faith I had left in him!

It just sounds to me like "let's take Kate's favourite band and strip off everything she ever liked about them, turn up the suck and make them really pretentious!"

Spz are best live when they are a RAWK band with some wibble added on. This just sounds like all wibble, no rawk.

― The Committee To Keep Jazz Caged (kate), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

I apologise for the random moment of boo-hoo oh woe is me I'm about to have, but it's been a while...

WWWAAAAAHHHHHH... just re-reading the "who do you fancy" thread and was suddenly swept with a wave of "damn, I need someone to fancy" and then it turned into an even bigger wave of "damn, why does no one ever fancy MEEEEEEEE??!?!??!" and I guess it's just post-festival comedown and PMT and all, but wah. Case of the blue mizzies.

I blame taking that stupid Maslow test that said all of my needs are well met except my need for love/acceptance. :-(

― The Committee To Keep Jazz Caged (kate), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

There have been female superheroes who've gotten pregnant, but it's not exactly a permanent schtick, for obvious reasons. And they tend to get a lot less superheroey during their Confinement.

Oh jesus I saw this appaling stoner in the local shop on Monday, who'd clearly tied his dreads into a knot so he'd stop setting fire to them accidentally, then three days later he couldn't untangle them.

LOL at Kate and her idea of 'ever'. Then OLO at me.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, I know, shut up and buck up and stop whinging. Bah.

Are you back, Farrell? Did you survive and not get eaten by Davy Jones Locker, or is this your spirit emmissary posting?

― The Committee To Keep Jazz Caged (kate), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

Oh no! Is more flirting in order?

(I have my uses)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

I did do a GIS for pregnant superhero earlier but all it came up with was this:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477478/

All my Maslow needs are quite well-met apart from the one that's about being a specialist in one particular field. I never actually experienced that as a need until I took the test... :(

Don't worry Kate, the fancying will return. I bet loads of people fancied you at Truck anyway (and yes I know you don't really count groupies.)

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone recommend a good record player? I want to start listening to my vast vinyl collection again.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

I noticed in the sunday mail that Jason Pierce was doing an acoustic gig.

x-posts

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, it's probably just me. Looked at the ingredients list of my meds and it's full of bromides so no wonder.

Ed, they advertise a hilarious looking victrola style record player in the back of Country Life, but that's probably not what you're looking for.

Yeah, that specialist thing was weird. But then I thought about it, and thought about how much joy I get out of being a specialist in guitar pedals and soundgeekery and thought "yeah, actually, if by specialist, you mean, obsessive, that's kinda fulfilling."

― The Committee To Keep Jazz Caged (kate), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

I am returned for ages, I jsut didn't post because of poxy fuling etc.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

one of the project debut models is the obvious turntable choice. well regarded and cheap enough. about Â£120 for bottom of range (manual) turntable.

googling for pregnant superheroes will cause premature blindness (i found about 2 'real' ones (Fury, Rocket) and pages and pages of pr0n)

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

You read Country Life?
x-posts

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

you didn't know this?!

Yes the project debut seems to be the way to go but it will have to be one of the one with electronic speed controls as I can't be having with fiddling with belts to change speed. This eliminates the cheapest option.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

Of course I read Country Life! Every week!

There's even a photo somewhere of me, reading Country Life, in the country. (But I'm not going to post it becuase I look really hideous.)

― The Committee To Keep Jazz Caged (kate), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

Could be worse. Could be a pic of someone reading it on the toilet.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

TWAT!!!!!

Argh, more Liverlust shite. Cnut.

― The Committee To Keep Jazz Caged (kate), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

Who is a twat?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

morning all.
just thought i'd share the best headline ever!
http://static.flickr.com/57/199400220_12ee7dd6e6.jpg
was outside bargain booze in chorlton.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Thursday, 27 July 2006 06:37 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm... People were working late last night -- lots of posts after I went home.

What is this Maslow test that people are talking about? I need more ways to make myself feel inadequate.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 27 July 2006 06:57 (nineteen years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 518,000 for maslow test. (0.31 seconds)...

ed, another more geeky alternative to the project debut: http://www.djstore.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.pl?item=ionittusb
(a usb-enable turntable. i think there are two or three others that do something similar as well. um, could've done with one of these for the last 6 months...)

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Thursday, 27 July 2006 07:57 (nineteen years ago)

I've got a reasonable usb sound box for my laptop. The Debut seems to be the thing especially with the Speedbox as I am currently rocking a T-Amp as my amplifier. I plan to turn two T-Amps into two mono-blocks with high end caps, my old boss just recently did this and the sound quality is astounding and he spent maybe $200 on components.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 27 July 2006 08:01 (nineteen years ago)

Liverlust is a twat, nothing new.

And now all my bandmates are on his side. Great. :-(

I was in kind of a good mood this morning and that's gone and wrecked it.

I found the Maslow test here:

― The Committee To Keep Jazz Caged (kate), Thursday, 27 July 2006 08:19 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, thanks, just took it. Not that interesting/insightful somehow.

As I recall, J Spaceman has fired his entire band on more than one occasion and carried on to great success. Not that I'm suggesting anything, mind you...

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 27 July 2006 08:21 (nineteen years ago)

Spz have never actually been the same since he sacked the first band (well, on record anyway).

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Thursday, 27 July 2006 08:23 (nineteen years ago)

Hello there. Work is still awful. People are trying to persuade me to go to a perv event near London Bridge on Saturday. In a way I'd love to go, but I'm worried in my current stressed state it'll lead to me feeling paranoid, claustrophobic, scared and depressed.

So, um, that's what's happening in my life today!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 27 July 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, I agree totally. Never heard anyone else say it, though.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 27 July 2006 08:50 (nineteen years ago)

You never heard anyone else say that? Damn... you ain't been on any SPZ boards!

Now Bumlove has had a pram-throwing hissyfit and made the photo he took of us unavailable. What fantastic behaviour from someone who publically claims to be "representing" us!

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Thursday, 27 July 2006 08:54 (nineteen years ago)

Clearly I would be a much better impresario/label exec, I foresee fun for September.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 27 July 2006 08:58 (nineteen years ago)

Are you serious, Ed?

I can't deal with this twat any more. I hate him, I do NOT want to be associated with him, and I'm about 2 heartbeats away from sacking the member of the band who had such a hardon for him that she dragged us into this mess in the first place.

Grrrrrrrr, PMT is making this blow up into a much bigger deal than it should be and I really shouldn't even be talking about it right now.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Thursday, 27 July 2006 09:03 (nineteen years ago)

I am going to meditate on this over the course of camp. I had a really successful chat with Emma B yesterday and the times they are a changing.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 27 July 2006 09:07 (nineteen years ago)

guardian cartoon has again broken my brain:

"I wrote a parse command that links the overflow code to the data point!"

does not compute.

when did SPZ lineup change? i'm sure a lot of people can see the decline (er, change) of quality after Electric Mainline but i've a feeling there was a lineup change before then.

my hi-fi's a bit of a mish-mash. have a old Â£80 technics cd player going into Â£250 nad amp which is the obvious bottleneck. i realise this is nothing that Â£180 spent on a nice matching cd player won't fix but i can't justify replacing a perfectly working cd player no matter how old it is. and especially as the big plan is some kind of pc-based media server.

back to Oracle Text indexing... snore...

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Thursday, 27 July 2006 09:08 (nineteen years ago)

does not compute.

It's unparseable! Maybe that's the irony, but I don't think he actually meant it like that.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 27 July 2006 09:14 (nineteen years ago)

I can't even respond to email right now I'm so angry.

I understand that my bandmate has never actually put out a record of any kind before, so she doesn't know what the experience is SUPPOSED to be like, and she doesn't understand how out of order this cnut has been on so many levels. But right now it's apparently all *MY* fault for developping a hate-on for this guy, and screwing everything up. Yeah, me. Only the fucker the wrote the songs and put together the band in the first place, I'm screwing everything up. Uh-huh.

Aaarerrrgggggghhhhhghgghghghghghghghghgh!!!!

Quick, someone post a picture of Thom Yorke or Benjamin Curtis before I start kicking things.

Ed, are we still meeting after work? Do you want to grab a pizza and talk about happy plans?

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Thursday, 27 July 2006 09:17 (nineteen years ago)

We're meeting later but I need to go and talk to my dad this evening I need to think about crazy plans a bit. To a certain extent I'm going a bit mental right now and I need to work out just how mental I am.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 27 July 2006 09:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/images/14_03b29d4e573f34da120ab1ccb4ac49cf_small_1.jpg

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 27 July 2006 09:24 (nineteen years ago)

Ben sez: take a breath, cool out, things will be better and easier to deal with in one hot minute.

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 27 July 2006 09:25 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, OK. Yeah, you're kind of in the middle of some big changes right now. Big changes are good, but you do need to think them through carefully and sensibly.

Phew, thanks Gooblar, I needed that.

In other news, OH NOES!!! WE'VE BEEN TOTALLY PWNED BY BUMLOVE, HE'S DROPPED US FROM HIS MYSPACE TOP 8, HOW WILL I EVER LIVE WITH MYSELX0R NOW?!?!? For gods sake, grow the fuck up. This is so ridiculous I have actually started laughing out loud. It's too stupid and childish to be uspet about. What a joke!

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Thursday, 27 July 2006 09:27 (nineteen years ago)

He has got lovely eyebrows, Ben does.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Thursday, 27 July 2006 09:28 (nineteen years ago)

Go listen to jarvspace and be entertained some more.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 27 July 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

when did SPZ lineup change? i'm sure a lot of people can see the decline (er, change) of quality after Electric Mainline but i've a feeling there was a lineup change before then.

yeah a decline in Quality with "ladies and gentlemen"

Sheesh. I wish more bands had a drop in quality like that!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 27 July 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to write a song about this, actually. I should keep Bumlove around if for no other reason that his twattish behaviour is just so endlessly inpsiring on a ridiculous level.

"You're out of my top 8, baby!"

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Thursday, 27 July 2006 09:35 (nineteen years ago)

...and yes, sorry. LAG... is good and all, but it's not as good as Laser Guided Melodies, no way.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Thursday, 27 July 2006 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

ah, my mistake. i meant oh, the next one. can't think of the name... knew i should've looked it up... ah, Let It All Come Down was the dodgy one. seems to have been a change in personnel after Lazer Guided Melodies (only Jason and Kate remained) and another just before LIACD. (xpost to kerr)

nice aerial archeology photos in guardian today.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Thursday, 27 July 2006 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

What was the name of that woman who wrote the guide to Victorian Etiquette? Mrs. Beaton? Mrs. Danvers? I'm drawing a blank here...

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Thursday, 27 July 2006 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

Mrs. Beeton. I was spelling it wrong.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Thursday, 27 July 2006 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

Household management rather than etiquette surely.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 27 July 2006 09:54 (nineteen years ago)

Well, yes. But still, the guide to what anti-macassare is appropriate for what time of year. That level of pettiness and silly detail.

except damn, in a modern twist, blogger crashed and ate my funny post about it. Hoist on my own petard!

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Thursday, 27 July 2006 09:55 (nineteen years ago)

Emily Post = famous etiquette woman

http://www.bartleby.com/95/

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Thursday, 27 July 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

Are you using a barbed petard, you really ought to at this time of year as rapid decomposition would cause you to fall off far to soon after hoisting in the summer heat? Unbarbed for winter naturally.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 27 July 2006 09:58 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, it appears to have gone through now.

I'm sorry, I'm still giggling over this.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Thursday, 27 July 2006 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

I liked Let It All Come Down actually.
x-posts

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 27 July 2006 10:02 (nineteen years ago)

Wasn't Mrs Beaton a cook?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 27 July 2006 10:02 (nineteen years ago)

Mrs. Beeton wrote a guide to household management. It wasn't just cooking - it was everything to do with the daily running of a household. Emily Post is great, I've been reading bits of it and it's like stepping into another world.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Thursday, 27 July 2006 10:03 (nineteen years ago)

I just realized I forgot to put on a belt this morning. *hilarity ensues*

I guess I'll have to eat a big lunch.

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 27 July 2006 10:10 (nineteen years ago)

Yr not thinking "Mrs Manners" then?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 27 July 2006 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

I"m finally listening to some of these DVDs, and copying them to my work machine. i am liking Third Troll.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 27 July 2006 10:12 (nineteen years ago)

Picked entirely because of a track called Llap Goch; Monty Python's welsh Martial Art.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 27 July 2006 10:13 (nineteen years ago)

Thats a Bardo Pond spin off.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 27 July 2006 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

I just ordered this magazine http://www.rock-a-rolla.com/

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 27 July 2006 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

Haha - Llap Goch's instructions boiled down to basically "beat everyone you see up, on the off-chance that they may be thinking of beating you up, GET THEM FIRST". We were all well into it at school, it caused many punch ups.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 27 July 2006 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I'm going to do something like that - I'm just going to delete any further emails on the subject without even reading them.

Or maybe that's more like Zaphod Beeblebrox's anti-alarmist sunglasses.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Thursday, 27 July 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

Three billion pounds.

Wow.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Thursday, 27 July 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

Work stuff, never mind.

I've just had another awful, sickening thought...

Someone who saw us at Truck asked on my blog about how they can get our single without having to sign up for the entire Liverlust Singles Club.

You know, it occured to me that they wouldn't be onsale individually. If that's true, that's totally and completely fuX0red.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's a 10 album deal for Shimura Curves!

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

xpost :(

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

is there anything to stop you just sending the guy an mp3?

i think i'd like any kate solo project output more than the Shimura's stuff (good though that is). i think you writing for the band is you making compromises (albeit ones you're quite happy with). i imagine solo stuff being a bigger mix of your non-pop influences. or something. hey, if thom yorke can do it...

i'm listening to 78s on my mp3 player. is very odd.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

There's a difference between having an MP3 and actually having a CD or record you can hold in your hot sweaty little record collection, though.

Awww, thanks Koogsy. (Though honestly, Shimura Curves *were* my solo project - though although they started that way, I'm not sure this is strictly true any more.)

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

Too hot to work effectively, my fucking head is banging.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

pure pain behind my left eyeball, it feels like a bad hangover, argh.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, that sounds awful. Are you hydrated enough? Drink some more water!

I'm doing my best to ignore the heat. Which is easier with a massive fuckoff fan directly behind your desk.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

> There's a difference between having an MP3 and actually having a CD or record you can hold in your hot sweaty little record collection, though.

increasingly less so. (i'm happier buying mp3s than vinyl but still prefer cds to mp3 when available, for albums especially.)

cdrw? those things you sold (gave away?) at truck, how were they done? just burnt to cdr? photocopied cover? picture of stretham cut out of the guardian? 8)

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

(actually, i was more curious about the contractual side of things than the physical)

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

Nothing contractual at all. I still hold full rights to the song.

The Play Truck things were CDR's - cover xeroxed artwork but hand-coloured and hand numbered. Sold them at a fiver for 7 songs.

(Not to bring it all up again, but TBH, I've no idea why we're putting out a 7" when none of us own turntables. But the more that is revealed about it, the more it's turning into one guy's vanity project, and naught to do with us.)

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

(I've still, to this day, never actualy bought an MP3! Does that make me a luddite?)

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe he has shares in a record player shop.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

I have to say, this was my thought from the very beginning. I have to think people buy singles more for fetish value than anything (except perhaps, indie cooler than thou ness - those people with the Manics single on Heavenly).

By the way, if tissp is lurking, I quite liked your stuff, assuming City Seventeen is you.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, bloke comes up to me when I'm in the middle of a massive fuckoff equation, all "I've got the answer to this question you emailed me about four hours ago..." and I'm all "please can you email me because I'm in the middle of this complicated equation..."

And he proceeds to start spouting about stuff which was not what I asked in the first place, totally losing my train of thought. Grrrr.

I had to stop my equation, explain, no, that's not what I asked you, I just want to know THIS. And then go back and write my equation from scratch. ARGH!

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

The You Love Us and Motown Junk Singles?

I buy vinyl now because its just better. Sounds good, the whole package looks good. And i'm also a sucker for colour vinyl. But it's all just a personal preference really. I do buy cd's though when cheap enough. I certainly have way more cds than albums. But I dont own thousands of cds like lost of people on ILM do. I probably don't own any more than anyone on this thread. I suspect Kate has lots and lots mind you.

If I had a decent turntable instead of an old hifi system with a record player i'd probably buy less cds.

Hari bought several hundred albums/12"s and 7"s from a friend of his recently and he got lots of stuff I don't have but would like.

Which reminds me has anyone seen him lately? I've not seen him since he posted on this thread that time. I suspect he's down the beach again or maybe recording with his band.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I hate it when people interrupt your train of thought like that. And the worst thing is, they don't understand why you're pissed off - thye think they're being helpful!

(xpost)

I have about 250 CDs, maybe 10 7"s, and no LPs at all.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

If I had a stereo at all I might play more records.

I'm just finding it ironic, that's all.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

My head is ticking.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

It staggers me when some on ILM say they have 10,000 cds or lps.
x-posts

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

Woohoo! New Waitrose open in Russell Square!

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

Really? Isn't there one only a few yards away in the Brunswick Centre?

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

(Not that I can go to either Russell Square or the Brunswick Centre as they are both in the EEZOHAD.)

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

In the brunswick centre, I mean. Just opened last week.

Strategically located close to every library I use, convenient for getting dinner on the way home! (sorry, I've been beaten down for too long--our local supermarket is the paddington station sainsbury's)

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

EEZOHAD?

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

This is where I scream and cry and stamp my feet because the BBC and Steve Lamaq and the READING FESTIVAL are all over the bloke on the B-side of our single, and we're just getting left behind in the dirt.

Conversely, I don't see Liverlust getting all LOOK!!! A LIVERLUST ARTIST!!! all over *his* internet presence for some reason.

I'm going to go and cry now.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

that cock steve lamacq not liking you is a kind of compliment, in an inverse way, though.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

No, this is just the problem with being on a split single - when they get LOADS AND LOADS AND LOADS of attention and you get none, you just feel ever more like the red headed stepchild... or not even that, since Anna says that was alright.

I don't care if he's a cock or not, loads of people listen to him.

I just want to cry. Nothing I do is ever good enough, everybody hates me.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to go to my GRAVE never having been on UK radio and I'm a hopeless failure. :-(

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― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, I'm not jealous at all about Reading/Leeds. That festival sucks and Truck is waaaaaaayyy cooler.

But I'd like to see Bumlove try to blag his way backstage there, hah!

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, argh, argh, I hate feeling like this. Why can't I just be happy for someone else's success? I always have to compare my own to it, and invariably feel like shit by comparison. :-(

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

you have a record out, that's an achievement. yeesh.

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.nme.com/news/the-strokes/23734

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

The whole reason we even went along with this freaking thing - despite all my reservations, despite the total lack of control over every aspect of it, despite everything horrible that has happened, despite having this total ASSCNUT in my life - was because we thought we were going to get radio play out of it.

And now, in the supreme twist of irony, the record is getting tons of radio play - for the B-side.

I feel like throwing myself off a bridge.

Quite frankly, g-kit, when all is said and done, I'd rather just NOT be putting this record out. At all. If it were within my power to take it back, erase it, and have it never have happened, I'd go back to that night at the Champion, kick myself and say "stick to your guns, don't do it."

x-post, OK, that's it. I'm off to Blackfriars to chuck myself off.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Thursday, 27 July 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

Aw, that's really sweet. I left Tim a message saying congrats, even though I was totally filthy jealous and he wrote back a lovely note saying that he'd name-dropped us.

(Though in all this pram-chucking I would like to make it clear that I do think Tim is super-talented and totally deserves the success he's getting. I just wish we had some, too!)

((And I need to stop and remember that we have met some great people through all this - like Tim, Matthew, Napoleon, even if Liverlust is a total prick.))

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Thursday, 27 July 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

kate, please stop doing this in public.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 27 July 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

Hi ailsa, and all!

I took a hiatus from ILX while my life became more busy and my patience for message boarding wore thin. I will check back in now and then though. You're good people!

― Hairy Asshurt (Toaster), Thursday, 27 July 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

How is the band going?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 27 July 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

Pretty good. I just realised the brother of our guitarist is supporting Junior Boys in London next month so I might get to go to it after all.

I've been corresponding via email with a record company about my solo stuff too.

― Hairy Asshurt (Toaster), Thursday, 27 July 2006 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

The Robotville/Shimura Curves world tour is on then, eh?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 27 July 2006 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

Do you know any Devon Dirty Dronerock boys for Kates rider?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 27 July 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

Not really actually. Only surfer Muse-types.

― Hairy Asshurt (Toaster), Thursday, 27 July 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

i'd very much like to have a record out, but i'm not that lucky.

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Friday, 28 July 2006 06:39 (nineteen years ago)

Work is still stressful, but there is a light on the horizon - it might actually be going so badly that we have to officially abandon the impending deadline!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 28 July 2006 07:20 (nineteen years ago)

Yay for failure!!

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 28 July 2006 07:27 (nineteen years ago)

Seth Lakeman album is very disappointing. Not enough double bass. Someone has told him to sing like david grey and it appears to be produced by Jame Blunt and Craig David's bastard love child. Good songs though and some aren't recorded with electronic twattery (including the cher singing in a bucket effect).

― Ed (dali), Friday, 28 July 2006 07:32 (nineteen years ago)

Its so good when his own voice breaks through and he is a really good singer.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 28 July 2006 07:33 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway... hi, Hari! Good to hear from you!

Ugh, that sounds disappointing, Ed. Too bad when people who have a decent sound of their own get told by some producer to be someone else because that's what's hip right now.

At least the heat seems to have somewhat broken, and the Red Dragon has finally put in her scowling, fire-breathing appearance.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Friday, 28 July 2006 08:27 (nineteen years ago)

Urgh. I am all fine with goody two-shoes employees at work, but I have now been dragged into their unholy clusterfuck of team playing.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 28 July 2006 08:29 (nineteen years ago)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 28 July 2006 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

Shall I go a drop £225 on a turntable this weekend. Heart says yes, head says no. Project Debut SB, I can't be having with changing belts for switching speeds and having a built in phono stage suits me fine I guess. There's something futzed in my cyrus and besides, the T-Amp sounds better.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 28 July 2006 08:33 (nineteen years ago)

Can you afford it?

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 28 July 2006 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

(Without dropping yrself in the financial shit?)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 28 July 2006 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

By raiding savings, yes. However for the first time in years my huge pile of vinyl is calling out to me and and I feel I need to ride this right now.

(How does one scrobble vinyl?)

― Ed (dali), Friday, 28 July 2006 08:36 (nineteen years ago)

Then I say go for it.

Manually, I think. Old-skool.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 28 July 2006 08:39 (nineteen years ago)

I say go for the record player. You deserve to make a really extravagent purchase every now and then.

I've only just got paid and my money's already gone on council tax and bills or I'd be getting an external hard drive and a new microphone.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Friday, 28 July 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

by converting to mp3 and using that in your pc... (um, you could make up properly tagged fake mp3s and feed those to the scrobbler i guess, just to reflect what you've listened to)

last twice i've been rendered unemployed the redundancy money has been good and has allowed me to treat myself. but i fear this isn't the case here...

am having real trouble here getting Oracle to recognise that 'One' is a word. is most odd, just refuses to index.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Friday, 28 July 2006 08:43 (nineteen years ago)

I'm still employed. Company perpetually 2 weeks away from bankruptcy.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 28 July 2006 08:44 (nineteen years ago)

Kerr, has vinyl technology changed? Because in my glory days the coloured vinyl I bought always sounded far fuzzier and lo-fi than black vinyl - and I'm totally not a perfect sound snob.

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Friday, 28 July 2006 08:47 (nineteen years ago)

massively let down by parts supplier FUCK'S SAKES I phone the guy on tuesday, I need a wheel rim in an unusual size, he sez he'll send it out that day, so figuring I'll get it thursday @ the latest I tell the guy the bike will be ready on Friday. Friday comes, no rim, so I phone the supplier, he says "oh, I'm just looking for it now" JESUS CHRIST.

Also, ridiculous thing, typical of the bike industry, for 30-40 years, cotterless cranks come w/the square hole that attaches to the bottom bracket aligned in a certain way. in the last 8 years or so, 2 big manufacturers start supplying chainsets w/the square hole rotated through 45 degrees WHY???!! so now I have to keep 2 x as much stock of spare cranks FOR WHAT REASON EXACTLY? I hate this business sometimes.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 28 July 2006 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

Pash, I need BIKE ADVICE (bikevice?)...

I inadvertedly left my bike out in the rain. For a few, er, weeks.

Unsurprisingly it's now a little rusty on the old chain and gears. The bike is a pretty decent one (I think, at least for my purposes), so I was wondering how much I would be looking at to replace the whole gear and chain system?

I'm aware this question may well be like asking how long a piece of string is.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 28 July 2006 08:52 (nineteen years ago)

Best thing to do @ first would be to buy a can of WD40, and soak all the moving parts, to see if you can free them up. Most likely it'll just be a chain and a block if you need to replace stuff - assuming it's 7sp decent chain (sram - avoid shimano chains, they stretch) 7.99, block 8.95 - 12.95, it's dearer if it's 8- or 9sp.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 28 July 2006 08:55 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, I was expecting more--much more!

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 28 July 2006 08:56 (nineteen years ago)

Grrrr, why is MySpace down again? Bah!

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Friday, 28 July 2006 09:07 (nineteen years ago)

I have located turntable on Holloway rd, I could go after work. What are my chances of getting £25 off because that's what superfi sell it for online, should I haggle or suk it up for the sake of instant gratification (I think I know what Pash's response would be).

― Ed (dali), Friday, 28 July 2006 09:11 (nineteen years ago)

I'm usually amenable to haggling a/ if the person's waving cash and b/if they don't get all attitudinous, like they're doing me a favour by trying to beat me down (which I'm sure you wouldn't do anyway, Ed)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 28 July 2006 09:13 (nineteen years ago)

I'm prepared to buy it at the higher price, but 25 quid is 25 quid.I can get some notes as well I have to go to the bank at lunchtime anyway.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 28 July 2006 09:15 (nineteen years ago)

Is anything on the interweb working today?

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Friday, 28 July 2006 09:27 (nineteen years ago)

last.fm is hanging in there but the latest mac version of the player is driving me nuts. What else is down? Are there more powercuts in soho?

― Ed (dali), Friday, 28 July 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

We have no lifts this morning because of the power cuts. :-(

Not that I used them much anyway, but when I'm hot and sweaty from walking over from Farringdon, the last thing I want to do is walk up another two flights of stairs.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Friday, 28 July 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

The People's Socialist Republic of Good and Interesting Music is throwing up some cracking tunes.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 28 July 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

OK, Coolers, I'm contemplating doing something really stupid like signing up for OKC again. Because I've decided that the only thing that will take my mind off how irritated I am by band stuff all the time is having something even MORE irritating, like a boyfriend or something to be winding me up all the time.

Convince me what a stupid idea this is.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Friday, 28 July 2006 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

Will you be my fwend

― Ed (dali), Friday, 28 July 2006 10:06 (nineteen years ago)

> Is anything on the interweb working today?

maybe all the sysadmins have taken the day off 8)

people who do the price comparison thing don't normally accept internet prices because of the reduced costs involved. might be worth a go though given that superfi have actually bricks and mortar stores in camden (or maybe you could just go there?)

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Friday, 28 July 2006 10:06 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, if you rejoin OKC you might be my top match in Britain again

I am slightly addicted to OKC Quickmatch at the moment, actually. It should be renamed OKCrack.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 28 July 2006 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, that is ego reinforcing crack. I'm slowly writing to some of mine as well, most of them are thousands of miles away and clearly insane but it's good that someone has taken 5 seconds out of their lives to click yes to you.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 28 July 2006 10:14 (nineteen years ago)

Actually I better not do it today. I'm feeling distinctly crap and incredibly down on myself and everything else. In fact, the Red Dragon, she be making feel ill. May have to cancel my lunchtime pub. :-(

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Friday, 28 July 2006 10:14 (nineteen years ago)

I'm slowly writing to some of mine as well, most of them are thousands of miles away and clearly insane but it's good that someone has taken 5 seconds out of their lives to click yes to you.

Yes, completely! It's very rare to find anyone in Europe through it.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 28 July 2006 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

I think I scared off the two british based ones i got by ranting.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 28 July 2006 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

God, MySpace still completely down. Bah. Don't tell me they're going to fuck up the mail by making it Flash 9 only like they've fucked up the ability to change your top friends.

Sorry, I CAN'T upgrade because I don't have those privildges on the system. Grrrr.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Friday, 28 July 2006 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

Kerr, has vinyl technology changed? Because in my glory days the coloured vinyl I bought always sounded far fuzzier and lo-fi than black vinyl - and I'm totally not a perfect sound snob.

Well I'm not a sound snob either and it sounds fine to me. But the actual sound snobs disagree. I should actually get a friend of mine,who sometimes posts on ilm, who knows about this stuff to post here(he prefers black vinyl) but hes doing his last travelling around Japan before he returns home to Canada.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 28 July 2006 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

x-post, see this is the difference between the genders, I guess. The last time I did it, a couple of boys found my rants "engaging" or something.

Or maybe they were just pleased that someone had replied, so they didn't notice that I was ranting. Sigh.

I just need to approach this as "I'm looking for someone fun to go on a couple of dates with" rather than "I am looking for the perfect man, the love of my life, to exactly the specifications I require."

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Friday, 28 July 2006 10:22 (nineteen years ago)

One of the British ones I got was very nice actually - it turned out, when we got chatting, that we have similar tastes in ... well, *certain* things, but she had never been public about them.

(xpost)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 28 July 2006 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

oddly enough i signed up for this a few weeks ago because i was abstractly crushing on an ILXor and wanted to see how compatible we were (apparently about as compatible with anyone else).

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 28 July 2006 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

I think I terrified someone by calling them a traitor to the left by self identifying themselves as a liberal, I was in a funny mood that day.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 28 July 2006 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

OK, that's a bit much, Ed. That's not the kind of joke you can make with someone until you know them a bit better!

(Especially if they were American, where the L-word means something a bit different than it means here.)

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Friday, 28 July 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

I did give a detailed explanation of why, and I didn't use the word traitor, I was quite mild mannered about it.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 28 July 2006 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

Besides it means the same thing as it does in the Us as it does here, the Victory of Liberalism is the great disaster of the 80s and 90s. We're back to the 19th century of progressivism through philanthropy all of the gains of the social era are being wound back. So if you are going to go around identifying yourself as of the left, as progressive, then you should not identify yourself with an ideology that was dead and buried in the 30s only to be revived by neo-cons, neo-libs and third wayers.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 28 July 2006 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

I'll get off my hobby horse now.

So, early seventies Black Sabbath, what should I listen to, I like War Pigs.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 28 July 2006 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

Does anyone know what I should be doing at work today. My weekly activity report for this week is looking shockingly bare. I can't put in Rampant scrobbling and posting on ILX..

― Ed (dali), Friday, 28 July 2006 10:36 (nineteen years ago)

Just pretend that ILX is some next generation development that they don't know about YET. HTML, SQL, PHP, but now... ILX. I'm sure that will work.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 28 July 2006 10:39 (nineteen years ago)

Sabotage, Masters of Reality, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Vol4 are pretty great throughout.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 28 July 2006 10:39 (nineteen years ago)

So this week has been almost a complete loss for me, although today someone bought me a $70 lunch and gave me two coffee mugs. Erk.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 28 July 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

Mmmm, early 70s Black Sabbath.

You have to fill out activity reports? FFS! "Research" always looks good. As does "Admin".

I mean, not to get you going or anything, Ed, but usually when someone tells me they're "a liberal" I take that to mean with a little l, rather than a member of some now-defunct party from the 1930s - just like if someone says they're a Tory, I tend not to think they're an Irish horsethief or whatever the original meaning of that word was, either.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Friday, 28 July 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

Bah, I need to eat some food before I can take some ibuprofen to make my cramps go away, even though it's too early technically.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Friday, 28 July 2006 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

It's more of a political awareness thing. I was really exercised about it that day. People who hold socialist views seem afraid to use that word and identify with people who are chipping away as the successes that socialism has wrought.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 28 July 2006 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

See, to me (and maybe this is my US half speaking) Socialism is a far more tainted word and concept that Liberalism.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Friday, 28 July 2006 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

It got us he national health service, universal education, 20 days paid leave, public services for the public good. Sounds pretty good to me. It pick up where high tide of progressive liberalism reached and took if further.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 28 July 2006 10:48 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, but Socialism as a word has been stained with visions of Stalinism (yes, I know it's not the same) and National Socialism and erm, the Welfare State.

While Liberal as a word has had its cache being increased by being used as a dirty word by American right wing cnuts.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Friday, 28 July 2006 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

(I know you're talking politics and I'm talking semantics, but these things are important with regards self identification.)

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Friday, 28 July 2006 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's more that you're interested in talking to people, and Ed's interested in talking at them.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:04 (nineteen years ago)

See, to me (and maybe this is my US half speaking) Socialism is a far more tainted word and concept that Liberalism.

Interestingly enough Kate, I almost think that "liberalism" is a worse word nowadays (except among liberals). Saying you're a socialist in the US would be a joke, hardly taken seriously, whereas liberal conjures up baby-killing, immoral traitors who are fans of taxation.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

YMOF! Bad man! Ed, maybe your problem with the political rants is that you are a much better and more confident speaker than writer on the subject?

Also yeah Kate's right about the semantics - my mother goes batshit insane when the word liberal is used in the American sense, which is interchangeable with 'politically correct' - and usually when someone is describing another as a liberal in the US, it isn't because they want to sleep with them.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:14 (nineteen years ago)

Well, if Liberal = "the enemy of Red State America" then that dirty word becomes a compliment, reclaimation stylee. As Mitya points out, Socialist would just be seen as a joke.

Grrrrr. Katie G has suggested via YMOF's phone that what I need for my cramps is a good stiff dose of GIN. Which might not be a bad idea. Heh.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, it was a bit harsh, but Kate is OTM, saying the archaic definition of Liberalism is part of political awareness is no better than asking people if they know what Tory really means, or that Prime Minister used to be an insult. It's derailing a discussion away from what people want to say into historical facts about the language they're using.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:21 (nineteen years ago)

In Australia the world 'liberal' seems to be totally confused between the political party, the American concept, and the conventional meaning. I just try to steer clear of using it at all.

I want to share with you guys the view from my kitchen window this morning:

http://static.flickr.com/67/200229509_d59a61c240.jpg

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

yes yes your life is good and we are in dull drab offices.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa! Andrew on the Waterfront on the Watercooler! Hello, dude!

I am totally jealous of that view.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

I am totally jealous of that view.

Phew, mission accomplished. Bare in mind, though, that I too have to work in a dull, drab office (like I did all day today) to pay the rent on that view.

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

A person surrounded by conservatives in the US who is pretty MOR in views says "I'm not a liberal or anything but..." (ie my sister, for ex) and as long as that goes on then the antis will make headway. Reclamation is good.

What's excersising me at the moment is the idiot Sylhetis in Brick Lane objecting to the film of the Monica Ali book, threatening to burn the book and saying they have the right to do so. I think not: you have the right, bucko, to complain but WRITE YOUR OWN DAMN BOOK instead of burning someone else's. Note the only reason I am calling them idiots is that they advocate the burning of books because they don't like what is in them.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

You, liberal, you!

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

Our present government is going to "re-examine" the literiature classification laws to make it "easier to ban material", meanwhile the same cocknose has claimed that they're "not trying to obstruct freedom of speech". The mind boggles.

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

Well, it is pretty easy to figure where the blade falls with me on this one: I'm a writer, worked for PEN, *rigidly* anti-censorship, to the point where we must be exposed to distasteful points of view in order to know they exist and to give us the tools to confront them on the grounds of stupidity etc.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

"Material which urges or advocates terrorist acts should not be available for sale," he said. "We are not about curtailing freedom of speech."
Mr Ruddock asked the states to ban material "counselling, urging, providing instruction or praising" terrorist acts.
He also wants reality television checked by classification rules less tolerant of sex and nudity. Critics have likened this to Big Brother suppressing Big Brother, a reference to government irritability at the reality TV show, particularly following an internet broadcast of alleged sexual harassment.
On books of hate, Mr Ruddock pointed to the South Australian Attorney-General, Michael Atkinson, proposing restrictions - which did not proceed - on computer games which Mr Atkinson claimed incited graffiti.
"And yet when it comes to

something that goes to people's … very safety and security [state attorneys-general] step back and say, 'Oh, we wouldn't want to interfere with somebody's freedom of speech,"' Mr Ruddock said before yesterday's meeting.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/states-cave-in-on-ruddocks-book-curbs/2006/07/27/1153816321006.html

*sigh*

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

It is almost five pm and no one has invited me to go drinking with them tonight! Boo!

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

I have two different things I could be drinking at tonight and don't actually feel like drinking at either of them. I'm going to go home, eat a pizza and break things.

Though, really, I desperately want to go to the Apple Shop and buy an external hard drive. I just know I can't afford it!

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

I know I've already had lunch, but 1) it wasn't very filling and 2) it wasn't very good (lumpy pasta with giant unchopped hunks of garlic in the sauce, ugh) so I'm having another.

Egg sandwich and carrot cake. Watchout!

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

The third lunch is the charm, Kate.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

A student just gave me a muffin! I like leaving day.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

The watercooler is gonna be a bit windy today..
x-posts

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

And it's blueberry which is like a superfood or whatever so I don't even feel guilty.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

My ideal day would be like:

8am Breakfast
11am Elevenses/Second Breakfast
1pm Lunch
3pm Second Lunch
6pm Supper
9pm Dinner

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

No midnight snack?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

plus snacks on the even numbered hours, yes.

and coffee.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

12am Midnight FEAST

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

D'oh! Of course.

12am - Midnight Snack

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

I read that as midnight smack, at first.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

That's the dirty dronerock mealplan.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

God, I'm still hungry! I knew I should have got chocolate.

Stupid Red Dragon. She wants to eat all of Bloomsbury.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

Did you get your dvds back, Kate?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

All except number 6. What were the bands you wanted me to listen to? Sub-Arachnoid Space, Paik, Zombie and who else?

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

You shall have that tomorrow.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

Heads

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

Is MySpace still down for anyone else? I can't log onto either of my accounts all day. :-(

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

Thats a band from Bristol. Not the talking heads spin off.
They're on Invada http://www.invadashop.co.uk/

Have a look at this site. http://theheadsrock.com/ I think there may be something of interest for you on the front page.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

i seem to be able to login to myspace.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, now it's back. D'oh.

Didn't know you had a MySpace, Ed!

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

I must be the only person left who doesn't have a myspace. And I will remain firm on this too. Last FM is enough.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

(Kate did you check that http://theheadsrock.com/ link?)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

I was the first person round here to have a myspace (or at least I started the myspace is the new friendster thread). I haven't exactly done anything with it it's not like I have anything to promote and I haven't done the blog thing since I lived in Italy, my blog writing make me politically engaging with random young women look relative tame.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, Kerr, it's very psychedelic looking. I like the illustrations.

I was just wondering if you were our friend, Ed, because I don't recall seeing you, but now I can't get back into it again. Bah.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

I think I've friended you, there's no photo or anything so you may have missed it.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder who the members of Spiritualized are. I guess its not Jason since he's doing his solo acoustic thing.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

"Member of Spz" could be anyone from Will Carruthers to the dude who played spoons on the last tour.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

giant unchopped hunks of garlic in the sauce, ugh

but this is teh YUM!

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 28 July 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

For Kate on Monday:

http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/28/music-thing-boutique-effects-pedals/

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 29 July 2006 05:26 (nineteen years ago)

Why I "hate" women: Female of some interest says she will busy with work utnil big project is finished on Friday. I say I will get in touch later, which I do, on Friday. She answers by saying that she is going out with work friends, and asks what I am doing. I smack myself, thinking I should've tried to book Friday at the beginning of the week. Perennial fuck-up me. Oh well. I say I will probably wander about and do this or that. She gets angry: "I ask what you're doing, fully expecting you to ask me out, and instead you say you're going to wander about. Have fun by yourself!"

I, of course, am offended (as I'm sure was the intention). Amazing how we fall into old behavior patterns. I'd like to think that if we just resolved our outstanding sexual tension, communication would improve, but in all likelihood, we are probably just two people hopelessly on different wavelengths.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Saturday, 29 July 2006 10:06 (nineteen years ago)

urgh. That's rough. Such painful experiences make me very glad to be in a relationship.

― g00blar (gooblar), Saturday, 29 July 2006 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

um, saturday afternoon. have already watched 8 hours of tv today and am now bored. (colonel blimp was good though). lots of things i could do, no will to do any of them though. bah.

> She gets angry: "I ask what you're doing, fully expecting you to ask me out, and instead you say you're going to wander about..."

but she'd already said she was busy. were you meant to guess she meant 'nothing i can't cancel'? i dunno.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Saturday, 29 July 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder if Ed bought his turntable?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Saturday, 29 July 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

I did, it's great but no scrobbling. Forgot to buy a vinyl cleaning cloth though.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 29 July 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

Just download the mp3s and play simultaneously?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Saturday, 29 July 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

Now THAT's a little obsessive.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Saturday, 29 July 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

besides, the world would know of my big beat shame

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 29 July 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

The world knows now anyway.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Saturday, 29 July 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

My name is Ed, I am 26 and I have big beat records

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 29 July 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

Are you taking the 12 vinyl steps program?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Saturday, 29 July 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

Certainly not, I might have another beer, as long as you accept that Better living through Chemistry was the last great big beat album and it finished after that everything is OK.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 29 July 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

^ LAGER LAGER LAGER MEGA MEGA WHITE THING ^

(i am so very sorry but goal very open indeed)

― suzy (suzy), Sunday, 30 July 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

Morning there. I'm back in the office, and tired, having spent Saturday somewhere in the bowels of the London And Greenwich Railway's viaduct. The drive home Saturday night took an hour longer than the drive down, because Hatfield Tunnel on the A1 was closed for maintenance. Grr.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 31 July 2006 06:31 (nineteen years ago)

Popping up from the deluge of database moves, new Linux machines, and trying to console people that yes, their new laser printer is better than their old ink-jet to say hello!

Slightly down this morning, as the death of TOTP means that in the past six months, two of the pillars of my childhood (that and Smash Hits) have been wiped away. I feel old! And not well-dressed, as per that other thread.

I do have a new toy though - Opera on the Nintendo DS. I got it on Saturday, and have been sitting outside poking on the Internet. Oh sure, I have a laptop (although it's currently at Apple, as it's a shiny new Macbook that has broken horribly), but it's fun to poke around on the little screen keyboard, and then play Mario when you get bored.

― carson dial (carson dial), Monday, 31 July 2006 06:46 (nineteen years ago)

A fright-filled day at work today, as the "golden key" to my project here has proven almost useless, leaving me up the proverbial creek. He did, however, try to get me to invest $50,000 in a project to import automatic, coin-operated massage chairs to Moscow. Seriously. Chinese ones that cost 1/10 as much as the ones they make in Germany and give a much better massage.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 31 July 2006 06:50 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone want a CD, I did two for a friend yesterday and will do dubs for anyone that's interested, mail me.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 31 July 2006 06:52 (nineteen years ago)

Database moves? Don't talk to me about database moves? Are yours between two obscure proprietory databases? Has anyone ever heard of either of them? Do either of them even have any big customers they can quote as references?

You can tell how happy *I* am about work at the moment! Just wait until I get onto a rant about the new database's import/export functionality (the *only* API is for *VBA*, for fuck's sake)

xpost: a CD of what?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 31 July 2006 06:56 (nineteen years ago)

Music

― Ed (dali), Monday, 31 July 2006 06:59 (nineteen years ago)

*xpost*

It's not *too* bad. The old one is a custom-built Ingres setup that has been running for fifteen years but no-one understands, and the new one is a proprietory system for schools with a horrendous interface, but at least it runs on SQL server.

VBA only? My goodness. That strays into the realms of torture, and not in a good way!

― carson dial (carson dial), Monday, 31 July 2006 06:59 (nineteen years ago)

Definitely not in a good way!

I am in the process of replacing all our old inter-systems interfaces - application A spits out CSV file, database X imports it directly in - with new, terror-filled ones - application A spits out CSV file, user opens an Excel spreadsheet (written by me) and pushes a button to load the CSV file into the spreadsheet, generate a heap of formulas, and do all the necessary VBA function calls to do the import. The code is *horrible*.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 31 July 2006 07:13 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh. It makes me appreciate my ODBC interface all the more, even if the Ingres implementation is stupidly dumb!

― carson dial (carson dial), Monday, 31 July 2006 07:59 (nineteen years ago)

I feel exactly the same *mind boggles*

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 31 July 2006 08:01 (nineteen years ago)

I'm thinking: why the hell are we paying so much for something that's so awkward to extend? Fucking salesdroids.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 31 July 2006 08:05 (nineteen years ago)

BOSH BOSH BOSH BOSH BOSH BOSH BOSH!!

Actually, I'm happy. I spent most of the weekend recording and now have 2 new songs - one of which is the silliest thing I've ever recorded and the other one is my attempt at happy hardcore but it still sounds like shoegazing. Rah!

Must try and rip them and upload them.

Mitya, it sounds like she's been reading The Rules, which is bad for both boys and gurls. Sigh.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 08:15 (nineteen years ago)

Baby is kicking me! omg so fucking weird.

Stupid Rules.
My only rule is: neither men nor women are psychic, you have to say what you mean and what you want or you can't complain when you don't get it. I haven't always followed this mind you, because it's always nice to think that your needs might be anticipated and if they were really your soulmate they WOULD know what you meant and what you felt and blah blah.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 31 July 2006 08:41 (nineteen years ago)

so, what's on the agenda today?

i had a haircut, it cost like £17. wtf tbh.

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Monday, 31 July 2006 08:48 (nineteen years ago)

£17 is cheap for a haircut! You can double that for womens haircuts. :-(

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 08:50 (nineteen years ago)

i'm not in london or anything.

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Monday, 31 July 2006 08:51 (nineteen years ago)

this is why i have my hair cut every 3 months or so, i guess.

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Monday, 31 July 2006 08:52 (nineteen years ago)

Mine costs a fiver, and it's at a proper salon and everything.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 31 July 2006 08:57 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't had my hair cut in 3 yrs.

Got some recording done over the weekend, though not as much as I would have liked. Mark's fancy acoustic guitar has a preamp that is very nice except it picks up a buzz from somewhere, so I have all these nicely-plyed acoustic parts, but there's a constant tizzzzzz which is just too loud. Likely I'll track in a string machine part, and filter it so it covers the frequency of the buzz. Annoying.

I also took delivery of this thing called a "Zeit", an amazing analogue-style step-sequencer, with memories, a mighty UI, lots of extra features and so on. I'm beta-testing it for the designer, who lives 20 miles away. I spent hours sounding like t-dream, dep mode & some weird hybrid of the 2.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 31 July 2006 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

Mister Topper's, £6

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 31 July 2006 09:03 (nineteen years ago)

I've uploaded my new songs to mine own personal MySpace:

http://www.myspace.com/masonicboomk8

Zeit sounds like fun!

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 09:18 (nineteen years ago)

It is, seriously, amazing. It's midi-only at the moment, the designer is working on a CV/gate interface for it as well. The thought of interfacing this thing with my analogue modular = omg.

a pic of four of them

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 31 July 2006 09:22 (nineteen years ago)

Glowing purple banks of 'puter?

Looks like something that would be controlling the world in the Hitchhiker's Guide!

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 09:25 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and Kerr! I did some more listening this weekend.

The Heads are AMAZING, I totally love them. Most psychedelic thing I've heard in ages.

Paik were pretty good in a Loop stylee, I enjoyed them. Subarachnoid Space were slightly disappointing - though maybe I uploaded the wrong album. I'll give them another try.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 09:38 (nineteen years ago)

see, 17 quid is a total rip off.

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Monday, 31 July 2006 09:45 (nineteen years ago)

True

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 31 July 2006 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

Great weekend, There were some fantastic folk programmes on BBC 4 on friday night, a programme of gaelic music and first part of two documentaries on English Folk.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 31 July 2006 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

New record player is working out nicely too. My setup (Project MkIII, OM-10, T-AMP, Rogers LS-6) is a little too clean I think I need to find a tube pre-amp, possibly with tone control for a little Bass reinforcement, especially for jazz and I need to do the T-Amp upgrade project.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 31 July 2006 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

that reminds me, i need a decent radiophonic workshop photo for sleeve art...

kate's new stuff sounds good. couldn't grasp the lyrics to The Boy Haridresser over the office noise. out of your blog just sounds vindictive though. and isn't writing a song bitching about people bitching on their blogs er, the same thing? 8)

got fed up of the piles of cds littering the flat so went out on sunday lunchtime and bought another Argos cd rack like the two i already had (only not black as they don't do them in black anymore). got home, put all the unfiled cds into new rack and filled it up and i still have piles (albeit fewer smaller piles). curses.

wasn't that the second of a three part Folk thing on bbc4? (oh, could be a repeat) i watched it last time around. and it was great, even though i don't normally like that kind of thing.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/music/features/folk-britannia.shtml

i got goats...

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Monday, 31 July 2006 09:54 (nineteen years ago)

I found a great folk comp called Gather in the mushrooms, I must burn a copy for Kate.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 31 July 2006 09:56 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, stacks of todd rundgren clips on youtube all of a sudden.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 31 July 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

Also for Kate, for your vocal recordings:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/DBX-MINI-PRE-AMP-VACUUM-TUBE-MIC-BOXED-BRAND-NEW_W0QQitemZ270011172986QQihZ017QQcategoryZ47075QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

― Ed (dali), Monday, 31 July 2006 09:58 (nineteen years ago)

What's wrong with vindictive? Anger is an energy. Better to take it and write a song out of it than let it bottle up and destroy things.

Better out than in, as I usually tell people when they want to bitch about whatever I'm bitching about. Yes, I know it's self referential. What's wrong with that? I like the endless recursiveness.

Mushrooms, mmmmmm. Sounds good, Ed.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 09:58 (nineteen years ago)

Also, this morning I was devastated to read in the Metro that Bombhead from Hollyoaks is currently on Celebrity Love Island or something. Argh! Why?

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 10:14 (nineteen years ago)

the fact that he's called Bombhead is SO MUCH MORE HILARIOUS when you see it written down (first time for me, obv)

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Monday, 31 July 2006 10:16 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and Kerr! I did some more listening this weekend.
The Heads are AMAZING, I totally love them. Most psychedelic thing I've heard in ages.

Paik were pretty good in a Loop stylee, I enjoyed them. Subarachnoid Space were slightly disappointing - though maybe I uploaded the wrong album. I'll give them another try.

I knew you would like The Heads. A buncg of their old singles and 12"s just sold for a fortune on ebay and I wish i had them all.

Best SubArachnoid Space albums to start with is "The Red Veil"

What did you think of Zombi?

Btw did i do Surface Of Eceon albums for you?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 31 July 2006 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

Zombi must be on Volume 6 which Ed still hasn't returned...

I will try The Red Veil tonight. (I started with Sleeping Sickness or whatever it was called, which was kinda samey.) And look for Surface of Eceon (blimey, these names just get better and better.)

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

Better than the name Holy McGrail(his real name is McGrail btw)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 31 July 2006 10:36 (nineteen years ago)

I like Out of Your Blog! The rubbish speakers on this computer didn't do much for the effects on The Boy Hairdresser sadly.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 31 July 2006 10:36 (nineteen years ago)

Glowing purple banks of 'puter?

I can't decide if that would inspire me to Eno-esque feather boas and platforms, or Numanesque black and white.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 31 July 2006 10:37 (nineteen years ago)

Pharoah Overlord is not only a great name for a band but they are actually a great band. Check out their 1st album er 1st.
Its a spin off from Circle. Another Circle spin off is Tivol. Who are like a finnish heavy psych Ash Ra Tempel (new album has a metal kinda singer like on the most recent Pharoah Overlord and Circle albums)

All these things are on your dvds so I hope its ok to talk about them!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 31 July 2006 10:39 (nineteen years ago)

Hows Russia, mitya?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 31 July 2006 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, Bombhead, what have they done to you?

http://www.hecklerspray.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/54.jpg

Though, uh, what's going on here is anyone's guess...

http://www.insanityartists.co.uk/images/general/leeotwayroster.jpg

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

Oooh, blimey...

http://www.itv.com/uploads/images/1136391965718_0.8945137111537331.jpg

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

Would've been funnier if he was called bumhead.
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― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 31 July 2006 10:49 (nineteen years ago)

It is time:

UK Watercooler XIV: L'Etat, C'est Moi

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

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