UK Watercooler XIV: L'Etat, C'est Moi

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If you don't what it's about by now, you never will.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

i knew at first, i don't anymore.

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Monday, 31 July 2006 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

Welcome to our new home:

http://p.vtourist.com/852587-Versaille-Versailles.jpg

I quite like the idea of being an absolute monarch.

I still don't have anything to do at work. :-(

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

Is it about... you?

― Not Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 31 July 2006 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

Didn't Tompaulin do a song called The Boy Hairdresser?

I am angry. My mother (who is a moron who deserves to be shot) has managed to lose the cat, miles from home.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 31 July 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

I have no idea. It was the name of Joe Orton's first novel. (I think? Or was it a play?)

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

(At one point I was going to call it The Boy Eraser, but then I put the vox and guitars on, and it stopped sounding so much like TY.)

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

What were she and the cat doing miles from home?

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 31 July 2006 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

Cats (and mothers) are like homing pidgeons. They have special extra senses which allow them to navigate home, even after several miles.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

the boy hairdressers were a band on 53rd and 3rd. scottish. twee. bmx-bandits / teenage fanclub related. named after Joe Orton book, probably.

http://www.twee.net/bands/boyhairdress.html

oh, that bloke who did the tape on the floor stuff for the last turner prize is ex-boy hairdressers...

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A02E1DE1E38F937A2575AC0A9679C8B63

great picture, very dazzleships:
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/turnerprize/2005/images/mentaloyster2.jpg

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Monday, 31 July 2006 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, he was the cute one, wasn't he? Awww.

mmmm, I got Paneer from Tooting instead of Sainsburys for this curry and num num, yes, it's actually better.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

Going to the vet. She had just got off the bus, and apparently the cat box lid (to which its handle is attached) "fell off".

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 31 July 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

Is it me, or is, like, everyone on ILX pregnant at the moment?

(Except, of course, for the boys.)

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

So no love for the free cd offer, I defy anyone not to find something to like across the two discs.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 31 July 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

Some of the ILX boys are expecting, if not actually carrying.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 31 July 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

I said I wanted a CD, Ed! Or is this different from the Mushroom thing you were talking about? If you're making compilations CDs of course I wants one.

x-post... ::throws self off bridge::

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

Er I only know of one other pg person! And one expecting man.

Oh FP, how awful :(

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 31 July 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

I hope you know at least one expecting man Archel!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 31 July 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

i need a new name, this one is way old and liek, totally not topical anymore.

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Monday, 31 July 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

Ok two men!

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 31 July 2006 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

-- teh_kit has expensive hair

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 31 July 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

I'm trying to fill in my OKCupid profile. Why the heck do they ask such stupid essay questions? How do you distill your personality into these things?

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

roflofl@expensive hair

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Monday, 31 July 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

I have an ex-catwalk hair guy who works at a barber and cuts a load of ILX blerks/chixors' hair for £10 including the tip. Best part is he will do neck shaves for the price of ONE beer betwixt proper haircuts.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 31 July 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

ok, haircut thing;
since i go so long without having haircut, it's always totally awkward for me when they ask "what you want done then, lol?"
because i have no idea what i want, let alone how to describe it. and i don't want to say "whatever will look good" in case i get some kinda myspace haircut by accident.
so this time i came very close to becoming everything i despise and saying "i want my hair like (person from TV)", because that would have been easiest. but i really didn't want to go there, because i would've felt hella silly. is there shame in that? i kinda ended up with it not looking quite how i would've liked, but it's ok.
is it a personal hang-up of mine, or is asking for hair like (person on TV) an arrestable offence in everyone's eyes?

(on a side note, big prize on offer if you guess whose hair i wanted, obv)

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Monday, 31 July 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

FP: You are hereby empowered to disown your mother now. Losing the cat is an unforgivable offense. My parents are watching mine now and they have enough problems taking care of themselves. I try not to even think about it.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 31 July 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno. It must be devastating to be the one who did the losing and it could happen to anyone.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 31 July 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

throw me bone plz

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Monday, 31 July 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

kit, i don't go that long between haircuts, but i am at an age where I really should know how to explain what i want and still about all i can get out is "shorter." then they ask all kinds of questions like "how much," as if i measure how long my hair is after i get it cut well, or have collected the clippings from the floor and therefore know that i'd like 2.5 cm taken off please thank you.

i don't see how requesting person on tv's haircut is any worse than when they give you one of those magazines and ask you to point out the haircut you want. i'd think the only danger is that you pick someone your stylist thinks looks ridiculous. plus didn't thousands of girls go into salons 10 years ago and ask to look like rachel on "friends"?

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 31 July 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, that's what brought on THE FEAR. i've never done a magazine pointing thing, either! i've never been shown any. how odd.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Monday, 31 July 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

surely it's worse for boys, though? boys are weird.
i just imagined the 'stylist' (barber, ffs) would roffle at me.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Monday, 31 July 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

it's happened to me only on those couple of times when i've said "i want something 'different'," and actually been willing to let them try something. apparently hairdressers are only interested in demonstrating their artistic talents in a contrarian context -- when you actually request something specific -- and not on demand.

and a 'barber' seems more likely to laugh than a 'stylist,' i think.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

i have been ready to go home for an hour and a half, but the stupid receptionist won't leave and therefore i have to hang around until she's gone so i can print a bunch of documents from her computer.

(the mac refuses to fully integrate into the windows network, for some reason)

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

I learned, a long time ago, to take a picture with you, and say "do this!" when you go to get your haircut, or you will end up with an abomination.

The best haircut I ever had, I took a picture of Alex James and said "put this fringe on my head!" and, admirably, they did! Maybe I should do that again.

OK, I've just spend the past hour taking tests on OKC, and my top matches are THE SAME PEOPLE as I matched with last year when I did it. WTF? That's faintly depressing.

I did, however, message a floppy-haired posh boy who lists Peter Ackroyd as one of his favourite authors but I can't imagine he'll respond.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

I have only once gone into a hairdresser with a photo from a magazine. I was practically laughed out of the place because of not having the same hair type as the girl in the picture.

Nowadays my sister cuts my hair. She works at Av3da and all the hair products that she can't test on her own hair (straight and shiny) she tests on mine (thick and frizzy).

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

The solution is obvious -- never cut your hair. (This might not be practical.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

hm, i do have same hair type as (TV person). maybe i should give it a go. i think i'd find it EXTEMELY embarrassing, nonetheless.

Ned, if i could get away with it...

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

I can't remember the last time I actually got my hair cut, though. September? I hacked at my fringe a few weeks ago and trimmed the really ragged stuff at the back. But I can't afford to go to a salon. Got a £10 off thing, but their regular haircuts are £45! Sod that!

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

last had mine cut the weekend the Elephant was in london. needs doing again. but i have the usual fear.

if i go to proper hairdressers and they ask me how i want it and i say shorter at back, not so much off the front they say it's impossible. i don't know why.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

g-kit, is it Brad Pitt?

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.fantascienza.com/magazine/imgbank/NEWS/david-tennant_1.jpg

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha ha, yes, I think that's it.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

Archel, fuck no.
Onimo, i kill you.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

i like hair by fairy in covent garden. i have only been there twice (i don't get my hair cut much, the last time was march, and the time before that was summer 2004) but i always come out of there feeling and looking a load better than i'd expected and it only costs £12.50 and that makes it really easy to tip £2.50 if you're happy with your haircut.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

hair by fairy = tabby cat hair. i remember this. i never went through with it.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

Hair by fairy did my dreads originally, however subsequent maintenance has been done by hair by christmas in sheffield.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

Hair by Fairy have ruined my hair twice. Never going back there again.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Hair by fairy did my dreads originally

You mean you didn't just let them mat (matt?)? How nouveau!

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

THAT'S expensive hair.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

Straight white hair doesn't do that very well.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

g_kit, are you going to tell us who off the telly you've come as?

http://www.daire.org/fanlistings/dougray/dougraybg.gif

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

lolol ffs

http://www.lost-axn.com/images/personajes/sawyer.jpg

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

I have no idea who that is.

Much prefer David Tennant's hair. :-P

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

you can have it

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

There's a new sheriff in town, Freckles!

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a110/xgirl30/Sawyerbanner.jpg

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

Dere's a nu sherrif in town, roffle!

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

Do you really want Sawyer's hair? Streaky and greasy and full of sand and sea and all?

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

Freckles:

http://animalcrossing.planets.gamespy.com/images/ecard/j4-216.jpg

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

no hair by fairy is lush, for me at least - for the first 16 years of my life no fucker knew what to do with my hair, which is perhaps why i then didn't set foot inside a hairdresser for about 5 years, and only recently ventured back.

also - cool wooden street furniture in london, guys! have you seen it? on queen street just north of southwark bridge. it looks like loads of bits of meccano only massive and made from wood, different shapes, some used as deckchairs, some like bendy high-low-high-seat-table-seat-table things. i can't find any pictures. i like it though. and people use it a lot.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Streaky and greasy and full of sand and sea and all?

Errrr... hang on, what's this? Sounds like Captain Anderson to me!

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

I miss Lost :(
It really has to be extra pathetic to obsess over a tv programme when you don't even have a tv.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Mmmmm, Josh Holloway (if threads get derailed by pics of him, I thoroughly approve, though if they were accompanied by quotes too...oh hold on, we have threads for that already. As you were)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

AH SCREWED HER, DOC.
I kind of don't like Josh Holloway, he has weird sloping shoulders.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

I still have four eps to go on Lost so no spoilerifficness plz (he's just shagged someone, yes, but nothing has yet been said, unless you are talking about something else entirely)

He brings the roffles to Lost, therefore he is great. Commie sharefest in cavetown!

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

I just shot a bear!

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

Eep! Sorry. He is funny yes, I love his nicknames for people.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

Careful or you'll get telly in general barred here.

Hey Kate, there's music in your inbox!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

Thank you for the music!

I'm just confused right now.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

S'alright, should be finished them tonight, I hope.

(xpost - thought the consensus was nothing was barred but BB and football)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Consensus? What is this consensus you are speaking of. Le Watercooler, C'est Moi!

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Yes but we are the loyal opposition. (I think.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry. I thought the ~~consensus~~ command from Her Royal Kateness, Mistress of All She Surveys and Dictator-General of General Chit-Chat was nothing was barred but BB and football.

Is that better?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

Worse

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

Doctor playin' golf? Whoo! Boy howdy, now I've heard everything. What's next? Cop eatin' a doughnut?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, I needed a new screen name!

I mean... blinkin' 'eck... someone just emailed me to talk about music "because talking about music is banned on the watercooler" - ?!?!??!

Why do we need to reiterate the rules every time there's a new thread?

― Her Royal Kateness (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

Because Andrew thinks we'll not be allowed to talk about things off the telly.

Here is a picture of Josh looking like a sort of sea captain. This should allow some leeway...

http://www.lematin.ch/nwmatinhome/nwmatinheadpeople/sawyer_meurt-il_dans.body.Image.1.gif

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

Did I miss the memo when talking about music was banned? Because it looks like everyone else did too...

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

He's fairly attractive... but Archel is right, he has weird slopey shoulders.

I want more Captain Anderson and I want it now. Maybe I will watch TTEOTE again when I go home tonight.

― Her Royal Kateness (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

Jared Harris, looking more than slightly piratical:

http://www.almeida.co.uk/images/JaredHarris.jpg

― Her Royal Kateness (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

Pyratical, surely.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

Awww, I just found the cuuuutest pictures of Jared Harris and Emilia Fox, but you have to register and I think pay for them. Bah.

― Her Royal Kateness (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

I have not noticed his weird slopey shoulders because he is funny and he looks cute in his glasses. I'm a bit worried I'm going to miss some crucial plot development through paying more attention ti his shoulders.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

He could be attractive, but it's such a shame about his weird slopey shoulders, I can't take mine eyes off them.

http://files.myopera.com/seteventos/albums/34334/thumbs/JoshHolloway.jpg_thumb.jpg

And he has a habit of developping a bad Fabio beard, but if he's supposed to be on a desert island with no razors, I suppose that's unavoidable. I'd still rather have Jared Harris, though.

― Her Royal Kateness (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

No, he does have razors. And he gets his hair cut too. It's an island with plentiful supplies of everything.

"Put your mangoes where your mouth is"

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

bah, just don't feel like work today and have spent the last hour reading (and enjoying) graphics programming message boards (provided by a certain hairy welsh guy).

i fear ed's cds but will happily swap him a couple for, say, the peel box cds or my 'best of year' thing for last year. or anything else he cares to suggest that i have.

(me and ailsa (and a.n.other, can't remember) railed at the music talk the other weekend, that'll be why)

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

Ha-ha!

I had to go down about 80 people before I found an ILX0r on OKC! Guess who my highest ILX match is?

― Her Royal Kateness (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

dave Q

― Ed (dali), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

a.n.other = teh kit. I think Markelby was involved too.

Making suggestions to maybe stop posting lists of what you are listening to all the time is not the same as banning any music chat, as any fule (should) know. Anyway, me and you and teh kit and Mark and anyone else that isn't Kate can't dictate teh rules! That is the first rule of Watercooler, correct?

(xxpost - Kerr? teh kit?)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

less naval gazing, there's enough of that on the sexual positions thread.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

Mmmm, naval gazing... Captain Anderson, rowr!

Shit! I'm supposed to be meeting Emsk. Off I go.

― Her Royal Kateness (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

No! You haven't told us who OKC wants to mate you with!

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

80th highest match = clearly fated to be together

― Ed (dali), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

(xxpost - Kerr? teh kit?)
I am not on okcupid. I don't even know what it is. I don't even have a myspace.

I bet its tissp though.
x-posts

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

okcupid = myspace for nookie

― Ed (dali), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.rogerdecourcey.co.uk/img_roger_and_nookie.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

no pizza delivery for 1h40?! wtf! i am hungry!

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

Don't fear the mix CD.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 31 July 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

ailsa, if you have four eps to go, my advice is PACE YOURSELF. you do NOT want to be in my position right now. i want new lost episodes like charlie wants a fix. for reals, no more til october, and for someone as obsessed as me, every day is long (blub blub etc.)

try to watch one episode every two weeks or something, if you watch them all now, you will be a cliffhanger victim like teh_kit.

Dun say i didun warn ya.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Monday, 31 July 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I've just spend the past hour taking tests on OKC, and my top matches are THE SAME PEOPLE as I matched with last year when I did it. WTF? That's faintly depressing.

There's a slight difference. Your old profile was my #1 "within 250 miles" match. Now, you're #2.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 31 July 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

The mystery is solved.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 31 July 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

Oh noes! I didn't read this wise advice in time and have just watched the last four episodes and now I have a gaping Lost-shaped hole in my life. What can I do?

It does, however, save me sticking my fingers in my ears and going lalalala when people do annoying things like saying "have you got to the one where Hurley does x and Sawyer does y" and so on (OK, two people have done this once each to me, and it wasn't that annoying, but still...)

xxpost to teh kit

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 31 July 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

I have never seen Lost.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 31 July 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

I have.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 31 July 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

It all depends on search radius.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 31 July 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder what music Kate got in her email from Andrew. An extremely rare spacemen 3 unreleased track that they want to keep exclusive?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 31 July 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

Which I therefore need.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 31 July 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

CDs for ned?

― Ed (dali), Monday, 31 July 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

I don't often sit around wondering what other people get in their emails. Is this what happens when you don't have Lost in your life?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 31 July 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

It happens when there might be a rare shoegazing track Ned doesn't have thats being kept from him. The world just stops.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 31 July 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

Lost got so bad, it was pretty much unwatchable. Britain's Next Top Model pwns Lost.

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Monday, 31 July 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

I usually end up watching UK Gold or UkTV Drama. Catching up on progs that I missed or old comedy faves that I love to watch.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 31 July 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

UKTV Drama is currently showing Last of The Summer Wine. Are you my dad? UK Gold is showing Prison Break which was utterly rubbish.

The last few episodes of Lost were a bit rubbish, but it's still pretty good.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 31 July 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

CDs for ned?

Hmmm!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 31 July 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

Don't watch either of them Ailsa.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 31 July 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

I wasn't going to.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 31 July 2006 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

Hoho

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 31 July 2006 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

UKTV Drama is currently showing Last of The Summer Wine.

I have no problem watching this. What the hell is wrong with me?

Good morning all. I am off to meetings (finally) this morning, but will probably be back in the office before many of you have even reached for first 'cooler break.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 02:55 (nineteen years ago)

oh, ailsapaws :(

i've had to buy all the DVDs over the last couple of weeks in an attempt to get a fix. it kinda worked, for a while.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 06:30 (nineteen years ago)

Today isn't going to be fun at the office. Don't expect to see me around here much.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 06:46 (nineteen years ago)

http://image.com.com/tv/images/processed/photo_viewer/f4/66/5061.jpg

Josh Holloway has very cute dimples :)

Why is today not going to be fun in yr office, FP? What's occurring??

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 07:02 (nineteen years ago)

When are we doing the GBBF?

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 07:28 (nineteen years ago)

Stress!

I will rant at great detail later, I'm sure.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 07:33 (nineteen years ago)

I assume teh kit hasn't been buying Last Of The Summer Wine dvds.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 07:43 (nineteen years ago)

Oh noes! I didn't read this wise advice in time and have just watched the last four episodes and now I have a gaping Lost-shaped hole in my life. What can I do?

I have a TARDIS shaped Doctor Who Series "One" box you wanted to borrow. I'll bring it with me when I get your ticket for The Glasgow meeting with the Paisley Cathedrals (cunning code there donchathink?)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 07:52 (nineteen years ago)

Lost of the Summer Wine

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 07:58 (nineteen years ago)

three men in a bath crash on a yorkshire desert island

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 08:00 (nineteen years ago)

"hilarity" ensues.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 08:06 (nineteen years ago)

Wrinkled stockings wash up on the beach...

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 08:15 (nineteen years ago)

Glenda and her Barry are "Others"

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 08:20 (nineteen years ago)

people start seeing the ghost of Compo...?

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.area5.co.uk/summer-wine/compcafe.gif

DON'T PUDDING SPAZ.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 08:52 (nineteen years ago)

People think they see a huge white fluffy polar bear in the trees, but it turns out to be Marina.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 08:58 (nineteen years ago)

Aargh just spent an hour panicking about functionality we should have realised was a problem months ago (today is Switch-Over Day, incidentally) - before finding out that it *wasn't* a problem all along, but noone here knows enough about the systems we use to have known that.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 08:58 (nineteen years ago)

It's good when things turn out better than expected though! Hurrah!

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 09:06 (nineteen years ago)

Yikes, hope you survive today FP!

My boss is an idiot. That is all.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 09:08 (nineteen years ago)

On the other hand, a new tutor just told me that my induction talk/demo was the best one he's ever been to.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 09:12 (nineteen years ago)

Archel is Smaht!

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 09:19 (nineteen years ago)

Got a couple of cheap cds in today(cost $10 each) Hurrah new music.
For those who may be interested(ok, Kate) it's 2 Bardo Pond spin offs
http://importantrecords.com/images/content/release_pages/imprec101.htm
http://importantrecords.com/images/content/release_pages/imprec102.htm

I can Why Ess Aye them if anyones interested.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

Which reminds me about the music that my mail to Kate was related to: the first two (or last two) singles by Marit Larsen, one of which she heard in unfavourable conditions (Poptimism) and still seemed interested in.

Which reminds me that we haven't heard from Kate yet. Hey Kate!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

Hi, I only just got in. I was mistaken and thought today was the day I was due to work late, when it turns out it was tomorrow.

What on earth is going on on this thread? I FEEL SO CONFUSED WITH ALL THE TELEVISION TALK!!! Speaking of which, I got another nasty note from the TV License people going "yes, we know you told us that you don't have a telly, but lots of people lie. Are you SURE you don't have a telly? We might send someone round to check that you are not a FILTHY LIAR anyway." Grrrrrrr.

My search radius is 10 miles (though why does it keep bringing up people in NORF London, then? That said, I got an indie record boy in Streatham. (No, it is not M*rc*ll*.)) which probably explains my lack of ILX matches.

What on earth is this paisley cathedrals thing of which you speak? I'm not going to Glasgow any time soon. Am I?

― Her Royal Kateness (kate), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 10:06 (nineteen years ago)

plz don't ban telly, kaet

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 10:08 (nineteen years ago)

I think OKC counts all of Greater London as London.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

Well, not one of the blokes I wrote to yesterday wrote back, so clearly I'm utterly useless and horrible. Bah.

What is the GBBF? Great British Beer Fest? (just guessing)

Last night Emsk and I decided we needed to do more rolling London rolling walking in London walking. Maybe Richmond Park next.

― Her Royal Kateness (kate), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 10:14 (nineteen years ago)

What on earth is this paisley cathedrals thing of which you speak? I'm not going to Glasgow any time soon. Am I?

Its about another Saint. Except this saint is barred on this thread.
I'll give you a clue, they will be visiting this saint in paisley at the traditional time of 3pm on a saturday. ( unless its moved for TV).

Are you blasting the spacerock today kate?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 10:17 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I woke up with a backache and a headache, neither of which will seem to go away (despite ibuprofen) and had strange dreams about shagging hott indie boys in bands we were supporting. I hate dreaming about sex, it's so rubbish to wake up afterwards.

I guess I'm kind of in a bad mood today. :-(

AND I forgot to bring headphones so I can't listen to music. Bah. Where can I get a cheap pair for under £10 in the vicinity of Holborn? I'm so bored today.

― Her Royal Kateness (kate), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

Well, don't I feel like the red-headed stepchild now? I get online and conversation stops.

:-(

― Her Royal Kateness (kate), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

Kaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate!

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

Is there an argos? or even a small computer shop?
A woolies? Theres woolies everywhere!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

You can get a pair of those in-the-ear headphones for 99p from tescos.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

Where can I get a cheap pair for under £10 in the vicinity of Holborn?

http://www.maplin.co.uk/StoreLocator.aspx?cmd=viewstore&storeid=56&doy=1m8

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

HI DE HI!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/images/220/hidehi_1.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 10:36 (nineteen years ago)

HI DERE HI!

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks guys, sorry I'm in such a pissy mood. I got kinda balled out last night for some things I've said on the Watercooler and now feel really funny about posting here. Which utterly sucks.

Thanks for the Maplins directions, that's only 2 blocks again, I'll go there at lunch.

― Her Royal Kateness (kate), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

Hehe Maplins. Sorry I just can't get the image of Hi De Hi out of my head now.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure you will feel much better kate once you can blast some spacerock and post pics of capes and benjamin.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 10:47 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not so sure about that. :-(

― Her Royal Kateness (kate), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 10:50 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.eilands.com/vjon/

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

Virtual Jon - Yessongs Big Generator
Going home
Dedicated to Masonic Boom, from Jason Pierce.

Mercury is going to be clear
Happily hoping Hen Fap
Brightly woman colourfully
Ocean will never be towards ILX
Whale hearing up heaven
Feeling under ILX
Rome always was happy
Inside joyful ocean
To feel opposite paradise
Happily making Hen Fap
To live easily about the inside
Happily ascending edge
To enjoy hopefully for Jupiter
White one
Them often was arriving lightly
Pete kember will not be slowly slow
Arriving hopefully at slow harp
Cherished moon
To enjoy beautifully up ILX
One trying in ILX
Colourfully colourfully happily
Warmly softly warmly
Cherished cherished stage
Above warm planet
On utopia meaning lightly

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, that's great.

Shining lightly at wonderful cape

About friendly Lancashire
Benjamin was being hopefully
Man often was close to edge
Under graceful Hades
God is going to be happily easy
Loving at heart
Looking wonderously between white cape
To rearrange wonderously about Streatham
Near open cape
Saying happily between white gate

― Her Royal Kateness (kate), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

You went for a short song????

25 lines of lyrics at least!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

This one could be quite scary http://www.eilands.com/vadam/

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

Virtual Adam - Counting Crows Lyrics Machine
Darkly Kevin Shields hopelessly
Dedicated to Ned, from Robert Smith.

Feeling down
Feeling down painfully needing Ned's Hair
Fairground quietly Kevin Shields noisily
Darkly noisily fading Ned's Hair
Darkly touching nightmare
Damp sad enemy
To the desert in cool crow
Song to descend at Orange County
Coldly driving inside alone shadow
Lost love to lose far from anywhere
Speaker ought to be under gloom
Cloud noisily going Ned's Hair
Kevin Shields often was black
Around bad Ned's Hair
Storm driving slowly
To drift noisily at basement
Complaining at Orange County
At black car
To say noisily in Orange County
The lake noisily avoiding after sad tightrope
Uncertain lost Cadillac
Missing sadly near faded Ned's Hair
Drink noisily praying between lost Ned's Hair
Crow painfully Kevin Shields painfully
It is so sad
It is so sad coldly painfully coldly
Room drowning hopelessly above the lake
Above slow my loss
Up cool Ned's Hair
Slowly Kevin Shields hopelessly

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

Apologies to Ned for that one. Now I know why he hates Counting Crows so much.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

And on a completely different subject... does anyone know when Dr. Who DVDs of the latest series are coming out? Or, indeed, if they are out already.

― Her Royal Kateness (kate), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

I would've thought they would be out by now.
Check http://www.play.com

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 11:22 (nineteen years ago)

The complete set comes out in November. You can get the individual volumes already except maybe the most recent?

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

But The best ever story "Inferno" has just come out and I fancy picking that one up.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

I got an indie record boy in Streatham.

In your cellar, like?

Hooray for London Walking!

Is the OKCupid match me?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

Yup, you were my highest ILX match, Andrew.

No, I found him on OKC but it's not like he's written back to me because I'm clearly repulsive and horrible and not even worth taking the time to click on a profile. :-(

― Her Royal Kateness (kate), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5233996.stm

So who thinks this new post office stuff is gonna be a logistical nightmare?
No more birthday cards with badges for sure.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

How thick is a cd jewel case? Looks like cd-wow and the like will take a hit on this.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder what it will mean for sending records? It seems magazines will be cheaper.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

I'm confused. But I've always been confused by stamps and mail and the like.

― Her Royal Kateness (kate), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

The watercooler is much more fun now that I am working, folks.

So I'm doing this market research (corporate word for 'spying') project. Getting absolutely weird reactions when trying to meet with people. To pick another industry, it would be like doing a survey on software to handle inventory and logistics - what businesses use, how it works, what they're happy with and what they're not, etc - and having companies like Amazon refuse to speak to me, but Oracle et al. happily sitting down with me. This in a situation when the only people interested in such a survey would be Oracle's competitors.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

A cd is too thick to count as a letter - I tested one yesterday. Even a CD single case is marginal, if you put it in an envelope.

I just had a visit from our managing director.

We've been doing a big project, implementing new company-wide accounts and stock control software, which has been going from bad to worse, largely because the salesman lied heavily about its functionality. People have been working late. I haven't. I haven't been *asked* to work late.

So, just now, the MD comes in, when noone else is about. "I'm not happy with you," he says, "you were nowhere to be seen last night. Things are looking very bad for you."

"Well, nobody asked me to stay late."

"When the shit hits the fan, I expect all hands to the pumps. I thought I should share my disappointment with you rather than keep it to myself". And with that, he stalked out of the room.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

That is ridiculous. 'All hands to pumps' is all very well but why should you do things you haven't been asked?

My boss came in at 8.45 and left at 4.50 yesterday, on a day when most of her underlings were here for 11 or 12 hours. When she left she forwarded a pile of email to one of said underlings saying that she was 'too busy' to deal with it.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

fp: escape.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

If the shit has hit the fan, there's no way I'm going anywhere near the pumps.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

Do you actually have work to be doing if you stay late? I mean, directly related to this project? Or are you just supposed to be putting in an appearance to keep up appearances?

― Her Royal Kateness (kate), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

Kate did you listen to "The Red Veil" or anything last night?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't get home until 10.30 last night. I went straight to bed.

― Her Royal Kateness (kate), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

Given that you've already said that you're planning on quitting, you might as well walk into his office at the end of the day and quit.

The thing about it is, FP - and no criticism intended, if for other reason that I don't know anything about your company or position - that as a manager, you totally want people who step up when necessary, without being told to. In some companies and for some positions, that is perhaps unrealistic to expect, but as a manager I would have a similar reaction. You'd at least want someone to pop in and say something like "I notice that the presentations for tomorrow's board of directors meeting still haven't been printed yet. Can I help, or may I leave now?" Horrible managers aside, the past colleague of mine who I disliked the most was the one who said "That's not my job."

That said, "Things are looking very bad for you" and "I thought I should share my disappointment with you rather than keep it to myself" sounds a lot like someone who is having problems and looking where to offload them.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

I ordered a couple of folding bikes for a customer, total value just under £1000. They quoted me the 24th July as delivery date. Last week, the bikes aren't here yet, so I phone the supplier, the ship has just docked, we'll have the bikes for definite next week. The customer phones today, and not unreasonably asks "where are my bikes". I phone the supplier - they have not cleared customs yet, expect them sometime in - get this - the next two weeks. What is worse is that the people at the supplier are giving me a load of attitude when I complain about it. WTF is this shit? Probably going to lose the sale, out £1000, lose a customer too. I hate shit like this.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

I went to visit my own manager at 5pm yesterday, to discuss the state my parts of the project were at. He didn't exactly say "you can go home now then if that's the position you're at", so I said, "I'll see you in the morning, then?" and he didn't object at all. So, as far as I was concerned, I had clearance to go home on time as usual.

looking where to offload [blame] is the standard management technique in this company. There are managers here who seem to spend more time working out how to stop bad news getting to the managing director's ears than working out how to stop bad news from being generated in the first place.

It doesn't help that morale is such that practically everyone is open about their desire to leave and find a better place to work. And, of course, the whole culture originates from the top in the first place.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

Do you actually have work to be doing if you stay late? I mean, directly related to this project? Or are you just supposed to be putting in an appearance to keep up appearances?

Yes, but yes - the parts I am working on aren't on the project's critical path, so if I *had* been working late it wouldn't have helped us get back onto schedule.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

i'm playing frisbee after work, huzzah!

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

Ooooh, Maplins. There's no such thing as a flying visit to Maplins. What a great shop. I can't come out of there without wanting to come home with millions of odd connector wires and diodes and gadgets and the like.

But I have headphones now.

― Her Royal Kateness (kate), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

i bought new headphones at the weekend, first time i ever bought a decent pair. they was like 30 quids. more expensive than haircut! madness.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

Headphones = Haircut x 2

Is a fair ratio. your problem is scale. I'm happy with £7.50 hair and £15 phones.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

I wish a haircut was half a pair of headphones! This pair were £7.99! My last haircut was something on the scale of £70!

― Her Royal Kateness (kate), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

If you buy big chunky headphones, surely you don't need to bother with a haircut?

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

I went to visit my own manager at 5pm yesterday

Yeah, definitely quit ASAP. The line to take is that you checked in with your supervisor at the end of the day and he said you could leave (silence = consent). He had the perfect opportunity to ask you to stay and didn't.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

(Please note, I once quit ASAP and haven't been able to find a normal job for two years, so please ignore everything I say around these topics.)

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

i used to have Maplin HIGH QUALITY headphones that cost £6.
god, they were crap.

next haircut will be < £10, now i realise it's still possible.

xpost inspiration:
please ignore everything i say about anything, tbh

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

Last night Emsk and I decided we needed to do more rolling London rolling walking in London walking.

This is yet another idea that makes me want to get back to London! Just to spend a day walking around.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

seaside >>>>>>> london, kids

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno about the haircut/headphones ratio: my last haircut was £5, and last pair of headphones £33.
xpost

― Greig (treefell), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

tis a myth.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't had a haircut in years, last headphones $199.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

see, he's more out of whack than me.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

I break lots of headphones, so I don't usually buy expensive ones (though I'm thinking about these).

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

Which would put me at: 1 x phones = 4 x haircuts

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

"OMGWTF NO WAI!!! TERRORISTS WIN??? I SHOT HIS FACE, YOU SAW IT, GOD DAMN LAG!!!! BS BS BS!" *smashes headphones*

like that, Onimo, yah?

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

last haircut £12.50, last headphones £40 i think?

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

PC headphones are worse as there's crappy flip down mics to break off too.

xpost

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

Haircut free (unless you'd like me to work out depreciation and amortization on my clippers); headphones £17.

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe I should just shave my head. It might be cheaper and easier in the long run.

Wait, no, my uneven ears. Must keep them coverd. Bah.

― Her Royal Kateness (kate), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

shave head, wear wig

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

i need to do some DIY with my new headphones, need to attach the mic from my old headset. Hmmmm....

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

Now you non scots can see what my town looks like *
http://www.lifein.co.uk/hamilton/events/default.aspx

and my shitey local paper http://iclanarkshire.icnetwork.co.uk/hamiltonadvertiser/news/

* Hamilton does not in any way in reality resemble the town thats being advertised here.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

Wow! Lichens have a secret life! They live here, apparently:

http://www.lifein.co.uk/images/events/60.jpg

― Her Royal Kateness (kate), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

Music pages haha http://iclanarkshire.icnetwork.co.uk/whatson/ml3player/

And no the hip hop guy is not me.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

You can see a lot goes on here..

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

Chatelherault Country Park that kate mentioned... i've never actually been there.
I've never been to the mausoleum either despite driving by it many a time.
http://www.sorbie.net/hamilton_mausoleum.htm

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

Actually that last link is worth a look by everyone.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

er.. even me?

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

We've just received the memo about this year's Christmas party - if you want to go, deposits have to be in in the next two weeks! I don't think I'll bother booking a ticket this year, but I was slightly confused when I saw the title of the memo - it's being held at popular local hotel and event venue Forest Pines.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

Christmas Party In Forest Pines!

They must have seen your picture :-P

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

x-post but yes, even you g-kit.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

My husband works in Hamilton. I used to go out with someone from there and spent a fair amount of time there several years ago. It seems no worse than any other town in the Central Belt.

Chatelherault Country Park is lovely.

I had a very boring day at work. Worst thing about starting a new project from scratch = nothing to do when it's all set up and ready to go but you don't have any clients/a desk/a phone, let alone your own office. Never mind, my time will soon come, and I'm getting really good at Minesweeper in the meantime. And at emailing other people who also don't appear to have an awful lot to do at work...

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

i understand it not, but it's nice to be included, nonetheless.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, Andrew, this Marit Larsen track sends shivers down my spine. Perfect pop. Utterly perfect.

― Her Royal Kateness (kate), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

i understand it not, but it's nice to be included, nonetheless.

I suppose Kate's the most likely person to be interested but theres some good pics and history stuff there that most people don't think of when/if they ever think of Hamilton.
Usually people think of the Hamilton Palace nightclubs.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

I've no idea what a Hamilton Palace nightclub even is!

― Her Royal Kateness (kate), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

maybe i'll taek you there?

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

The local meat market.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

or maybe not.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.knowhere.co.uk/3547_goingout.html

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

It used to be called Gloss when I moved to Hamilton. A video for no1 song was actually filmed there - KWS "Please Don't Go". If anyone remembers that.

It's the kind of place The Hitman & Her would visit.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

I've been to the Hamilton Palace on many an occasion. It's fun in moderation. When you're drunk, and with the right people. It's like any other nightclub in any other provincial town anywhere in the UK. Cheesy music, cheap drinks, folks who think they're all that but aren't at all. It's nothing special.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

Theres really heavy rain here now and I heard thunder in the distance.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

Morning there. Dull and rainy today, and still no sign of the missing cat. I still haven't resigned my job, either.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 06:19 (nineteen years ago)

Hello. Sun is shining here. I have to leave and go into Glasgow soon. The M8 has roadworks and is really busy this time of morning. I can't be bothered.

I'll give you a clue, they will be visiting this saint in paisley at the traditional time of 3pm on a saturday.

No we won't. They'll be Trying Glasgow More. And I'm not going anyway. (Kate, to explain, the town of Paisley's top sporting outfit has the same name as the RC Cathedral in the town of Paisley. I think Onimo was trying to avoid mentioning the F-word on your thread.)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 06:24 (nineteen years ago)

i want summer back.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 07:06 (nineteen years ago)

The sun has actually re-appeared here finally, so you should have it in a couple of days, kit.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 07:12 (nineteen years ago)

huzzah! thanks for swift delivery! @@@@@ TOP SUNSPOTTER!!! @@@@@ A++++

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 07:18 (nineteen years ago)

The weather today is perfect for me. Unfortunately my sleep patterns are all to shit so I feel like an exhausted limp lettuce anyway.

I kind of wish I could rewind the day a few minutes to before I opened my big mouth and accidentally told a colleague that another colleague had a midwife appointment, then remembered that her pregnancy is still highly secret. Argh. I pretended I'd meant to say 'doctor' and I just had midwives on the mind but I don't know if she bought it...

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 07:20 (nineteen years ago)

The secretary in the office has some CD-R full of boshy/trancey 80s songs. I have been listening to George Benson's "Turn Your Love Around" for at least 15 minutes already. Argh!

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 07:25 (nineteen years ago)

eek

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 07:29 (nineteen years ago)

Scary.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 08:51 (nineteen years ago)

Bloody MS Access, I add a new field to the dongle registrations table, fine. I add a new checkbox to the create new entry form, fine. I add a new check box to the delivery note form and for no apparent reason I can't set the Control to be the new field.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds ideal, mitya! Hey, I've just remembered that I have a CD in my bag..

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 09:16 (nineteen years ago)

which one did you get?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 09:17 (nineteen years ago)

Tracks range from 3:08 to 7:56 is all I can tell you at the moment.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 09:26 (nineteen years ago)

I think that means you got disc 2 as disc 1 had a sub one minute track on it.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

begone, clouds!
hush ye, wind!
else there shall be no frisbee this eve.
which would render my day somewhat disappointing. forsooth, yo.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, Andrew, this Marit Larsen track sends shivers down my spine. Perfect pop. Utterly perfect.

Hurrah for ML! Is it "Don't Save Me"?

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

I actually didn't mind it at first, it was just the fact that it seemed to never end that got to me. Eventually it mutated into some kind of Michael Jackson megamix of the same kind, which went on even longer but threw in samples from many different songs. It was also just annoying to have control over the music taken out of my hands.

The day started out quite good and the became very frustrating. I am glad it's essentially over, except for a networking dinner to try and angle for another job.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

That and "Under The Surface", I'm curious about which of the two Kate's talking about.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

It was Don't Save Me that I was listening to at the time.

Blimey, work would be lovely if I could roll up at 3pm all the time. But unfortunately it means working until 11pm tonight. Bah.

The weather was lovely this morning but now it's too sunny.

I have fallen in love with a pair of boots at Jones. They are like a cross between Desert Boots and Chelsea Boots. I wants them. But they are £95. Bah.

― Her Royal Kateness (kate), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

WTF is up with ILX this afternoon? Poxy Fuling all day long.

― Her Royal Kateness (kate), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

Ah Jones, forever tormenting us with unaffordable boots :(

What a day. Only my jar of pickled onions is getting me through this afternoon.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

Look at them, they are GORGEOUS:

http://www.jonesbootmaker.com/ebusiness1/images/product/large/Stockade_Brown_L.jpg

I wuv them. I really do.

― Her Royal Kateness (kate), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

I'd still like some cavalry boots. someone have a very exuberant wedding so I can by some, and some britches.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

Reactions to Ed's CD:

1 Mr Blue Sky - pretty good version
2 Alt Country
3 prog minimal drone - I can play the Star Spangled Banner by switching between bits of it in iTunes.
4 eastern european folk rock
5 Accordian & clarinet based ballad - the sort of stuff Tom Waits was taking the piss out of in The Black Rider
6 roots reggae
7 Minimal bobbins - bangeth a bit by the end.
8 Minimal bobbins - bangeth not at all.
9 Folky whining with soldiers and ladies
10 Genius if this if Brooce, still great otherwise
11 Country-jazz! Is it Willie Nelson?
12 Half-Man Half-Biscuitesque nonsense - is it Fractured?
13 Newly-electrified Folk!
14 ??? Analysis inconclusive, please provide further sample.
15 I've actually never heard this before, was it always to the tune of "The Turkish Song Of The Damned"? One of the singers is, bless him, obvious before the song starts - who's the other one?
16 - hooray closure!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Oh my goodness, why did I have to google "cavalry boots"?!?!? Oh my lord, luuuuussssttt.

― Her Royal Kateness (kate), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

oh yeah kate.. I think I heard Huw Stephens play a song by you last night. Can't remember which thread you were moaning about him playing the other track off the EP instead.

― jellybean (jellybean), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

Eh, what?!?!?

― Her Royal Kateness (kate), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

that list looks a lot like ed's scrobbler listening from a few days ago...

he did indeed play SC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/onemusic/huw/

you can die now kate 8)

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

AAAAAHHHHH!!!! AAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!

How did I not hear this? Oh that's right, I don't own a radio.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/onemusic/huw/

::BOUNCE::

― Her Royal Kateness (kate), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

OMIGODOMIGODOMIGOD!!!!!!111!!!!!1111ONEHUNDREDANDELEVEN!!!INBINARY!!!!!!!!!!!

― Her Royal Kateness (kate), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

1) yes
2) technically bluegrass
3) kate will love that
4) hip hop and not eastern european
5) OK I'll give you that
6) yes
7) its not that minimal
8) yes
9) wouldn't say whining
10) Brooce
11) yes
12) Nope, much less fashionable than that
13) Oldly electrified folk, before evn you were born
14) even less fashionable than 12, further samples can be arranged
15) 'Oh, Christmas tree' surely? I don't know who the other signer is though,
16) Guilty pleasures according to the BBC

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

Also, WOOOOOO!

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

Yay Shimura Curves on teh radio!!!!!!!!!!!

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

how to release record

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

I shall audio hijack that when I get home

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

SORRY CANNOT SPEAK, TOO OVERWHELMED WITH HAPPINESS TRY ASKING ME AGAIN IN A FEW DAYS WHEN I HAVE COME DOWN FROM CLOUD 9, OHMIGOD, I MAY JUST GO AND BUY THOSE BOOTS IN CELEBRATION!!!!!!!

― Her Royal Kateness (kate), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

sounds like you're still kicking yourself for having that record put out, eh?

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

OMG

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Explain me Huw Stephens.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

Scottish, yes?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

Is John peel without Gabba/Thrash metal?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

NOW it is worth it.

I have actually publicly thanked Bumlove, that's how filled with goodwill and OMGOMGOMGOMG!!!!11 I am.

― Her Royal Kateness (kate), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

::BOUNCE::

(I don't think I'll be capable of much else for the rest of the day)

― Her Royal Kateness (kate), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

If you're in till late I shall zap you the clip.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I'm gonna be here until 10 or 11 o'clock. :-(

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

> Scottish, yes?

welsh! http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/onemusic/huw/biog.shtml

he's one of the three who still can't get anywhere close to peel's depth (but who are a bazillion times better than colin murphy who takes over in a month or so). he's good, maybe a bit too indie though.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

ARRRRGGGHHH, SO THIS WAS THE MEANING OF THE WELSH DREAM ALL ALONG!!!

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

Right, everyone's gone home. Me have to work now. Bah.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

(The Red Veil on the headphones now, you will be happy to hear, Kerr.)

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

Well theres still the daily constant poxy fuling that always happens between 6-8pm to come(Ask Norman)so you will have no choice but to work.

I couldn't get on ILX earlier as it was poxy fuled constantly.

Congrats on the airplay.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

The Red Veil rocks.
Also remember Major Stars! and Tivol! and Residual Echoes! and Mammatus!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

I have heard the news! This is great and groovy! I am happy! Drinks for all!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

Hold up... it turns out that Radio 1 played the wrong version of the song. Sounds, from descriptions, like they played the original demo, with just me singing on it. WTF?!?!?

Typical...

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

Click "Listen Again" at the top and find out.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

Doesn't work on my 'puter. :-(

Typical, my first (and possibly only) time on the radio and I can't listen to it.

Oh well, nothing is going to detract from the sweetness of this moment. It's just funny.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

i am listening again right now but although it says you can forward the programme in 15 minute chunks, for some reason i do not have that option. it's driving me a bit nuts. i do not want to listen to 90 minutes of huw stephens but... but... i'm halfway through and if i stop now i will have to listen to the first 45 minutes again.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

am listening to it now in fact. sounds like multiple voices to me but that may be kate's split personality 8) (um, does sound like different voices to me but i have cloth ears. that said, given that the other bloke played the a-side from the vinyl wouldn't this have to be the b-side from the vinyl?) he didn't say much in terms of introduction, just 'out in september'. 'more than a tinge of mellow electro pop to it' and then 'tourdates starting with water rats on the 6th'

emsk, direct url is: http://bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/shows/rpms/radio1/onemusic_huw.rpm
which you can play in real player and rewind / ffwd to your heart's content. SC is about 1:38 in.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

more like 1:36

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

I am 40 minutes in I'll have it chopped up and online as soon as I get to the right bit.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

I multiple tracked mine own voice on the demo. The real test would be the guitar solo at the end - like, whether it sounds like a wimpy little indie guitar solo or whether it sounds like GIANT MASSIVE PEDALS AT THE GATES OF TIME SPACEROCK GUITAR SOLO.

Oh, it's a shame if they don't play the finished track after all the little touches I spent so much effort on, but still. It's just nice to be on ver radio so I ain't complaining about nuttin!

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

ed, the rtsp stream thing can have a start argument on the end, ie:

rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio1/onemusic_huw.ra?start=5760

time seems to be seconds...

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

the vinyl didn't exist at the time they played the a side. i think.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

damn, I wish I'd know that an hour ago. i backed it up a little to build some suspense.

t -5 minutes

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

God, I hope the vinyl has the correct version on it... bah...

Wait, no, I know it does, they would have printed it off the white label we heard at the listening party, right?

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.zerointegrity.co.uk/sc/Stronger.m4a (320Kbps AAC)
http://www.zerointegrity.co.uk/sc/Stronger.mp3 (192Kbps MP3)

Archival aiff to follow.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

Aw! Rock. Will listen to it NOW NOW NOW.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

hmm m4a not being served correctly, use the mp3 link till I fix

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, no, I know it does, they would have printed it off the white label we heard at the listening party, right?

yip.

i am THREE TRACKS off it.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

Ohmigod, WTF, yeah, it totally is the wrong version. Where on earth did they dig that relic up from? Ha ha ha.

But still. Wow. He plugged the gig, too. :-)

"Shimura" sounds really funny in a Welsh accent.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

Shim-OOOOO-Rah

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

Shim-OOOOOO-rah Coooooorves.

I like it. :-)

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

Soooo sleepy but can't go to bed now cos then I'll never sleep tonight...

Had a cat-sighting report earlier; went out hunting but he was nowhere to be seen.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

Bah, can't seem to fiddle with the webserver for the m4a to work, but if you download it and knock off the .txt it works.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, I can't read M4As anyway, but thanks so much for the MP3! We sat around the office and listened to it, and everybody was well impressed. :-)))))

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

Congrats Kaet! That's wonderful news! (he says after an afternoon of pxyflng) Maybe he actually decided to play the demo (i.e., maybe he preferred it's barer-boneness, or something).

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe he read this thread and thought he'd better play it for the good of the band and realised playing the non-single version would be better because then it proves he likes it rather than just giving props to a record company?

(congrats, btw)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

:-)))))))))))))))

Ha ha, I like the way you think, Ailsa.

(though god, I hope not.)

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

Next stop Knebworth!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

What did you think of "the red veil", Kate? Did you play anything else apart from your mp3 on the radio?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, I liked the Red Veil. Their later stuff is better than the earlier - it's very much TISSP! music. But then I put on The Heads again and am determined to listen to all of their albums in order tonight becuase they are the best thing ever.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah I think SubArachnoid Space and Paik are both bands that have got better. Kinski vary it out a bit. Major Stars completely changed their sound by adding a female singer and a 3rd guitarist(seems to have put off some older fans sadly). Kate Biggar used to some vocals and they were sonic youth-like vocals. Wayne Rogers did some too, but now its a full time singer allowing the guitarists to unleash those pedals!
I loved their instrumental stuff though.

I think you will also like Residual Echoes and Mammatus.
If you like the more metally Subarachnoid Space stuff try Pelican, Isis, the new Don Caballero album, Dysrhythmia (on the same label as Subarachnoid Space, Mastodon,High On Fire, Don Caballero, Zombi).

The Heads are great but very rarely play live. Usually just Bristol or London. They did however go to Holland for the Roadburn festival this year. Apparently they were great according to people I know who went.

Roadburn is a psych festival btw run by the e-zine people of the same name http://www.roadburn.com/

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

Are you still at work, Kate?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Yes. Concentration going.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

Wait wait wait, I missed Kate asking for more good droney stuff? I feel like I have been lax. :-/

Paik are indeed very fantastic, and I wear a Paik shirt as I type.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

You need your elevenses an hour early then.
x-post

I am listening to some great drone stuff just now. The band "Nadja". The work of the excellent Aidan Baker.(who I have a new solo cd by to play) You a fan, Ned?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds familiar...I must have a disc around somewhere. Just ordered a slew of stuff from Brad at Digitalis.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

I wouldn't mind getting some stuff from http://www.utechrecords.com/
But I can't afford anything right now.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

I hope Kate took lots of cookies into work with her.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

Mmmm... cookies. I had one of those deep fried pies from McDonald's yesterday and it was sooooo good.

Good morning, all. I spent an hour this morning chatting with one of my internet crushes. I really need some real life relationships, I think, instead of all these cute women who live thousands of miles away. Sigh.

Now I need to work. Deadlines are approaching!

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 3 August 2006 06:00 (nineteen years ago)

Morning all.

Absolutely crazy week. New job offer that, if taken, will turn my life on its head (for a bit, at least); relationship crisis that appeared out of nowhere and disappeared almost as fast 24 hours later; a gig coming up that I haven't given two thoughts to, let alone practiced or prepared for. Weirdness making my head spin, fucking up my sleep.

Today I'm heading to East Sussex to check out/probably assent to new job. When I get back, everything better be back to normal (mostly!).

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 3 August 2006 06:49 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, that all sounds so exciting.

My life just mooches along in a terribly predictable fashion.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 3 August 2006 07:00 (nineteen years ago)

i'm hungedover, i dun like it!
went out for dinner for a friend's birthday, and i got drunked. i haven't got proper drunked for ages.
feel pap. bah.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Thursday, 3 August 2006 07:41 (nineteen years ago)

big congrats 2 kaet, btw

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Thursday, 3 August 2006 07:42 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning! Back at work after holiday. Shetland and Orkney are very very cool. Well, Shetland is. Orkney's pretty good but has more cruddy bits and doesn't feel as different from the rest of Scotland as the Shetlands are. Been into neolithic burial chambers 'defaced' by Viking runic graffiti, been dived bombed by bonxies, smelt the pee of 100,000 sea birds on massive cliff-faces, walked for hours, met seals, took too many photos of puffins, ate at the UK's most northerly curry house. All good. Would rather not see a fried breakfast or fish & chips for a while though.

I can't read all ilx over the past 2 weeks :( so have I missed anything?
Kate - radio play, yay
FP - I hope your cat shows up soon
mitya - try asking out a random stranger per day?
gooblar - good luck, hope it all works out
CJ - what would you like to change?
kit - do you love it really? I revel in my hangovers

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 3 August 2006 07:53 (nineteen years ago)

Can I interest you in some mix CDs that have put fear into the hearts of some?

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 3 August 2006 07:54 (nineteen years ago)

i don't love it at all, i want to go to bed.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Thursday, 3 August 2006 07:58 (nineteen years ago)

Hangovers can be lovely. I walked around in the sunshine listening to sparkly techno on sunday revelling in the muddiness of the the hangover.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 3 August 2006 08:03 (nineteen years ago)

it's not sunny, i don't have an mp3 player, and i'm 6 miles from bed. i dun like it.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Thursday, 3 August 2006 08:05 (nineteen years ago)

Grrr stressed morning. Trying to do a quick-and-dirty problem workaround using Perl and Win32::ODBC - and none of my SELECT queries return any rows, even though they do when connecting to the database in other ways.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 3 August 2006 08:06 (nineteen years ago)

Oh I wasn't moaning about it, beanz. There's a certain comfort and charm in things just slopping along without any drama or upheaval.

I'm not hungover this morning (though I did have a few glasses of wine last night), but I'm tired because I stayed up until the wee small hours of the morning watching owls. A friend/neighbour of mine discovered that he has a family of owls had nesting in his roof, and since he's a natural history cameraman ny profession who gets excited about such things, he set up a camera to watch the owl chicks as they grow. Mum and Dad owl were to-ing and fro-ing all last night (every few minutes, it seemed!) bringing mice to their noisy, hungry offspring. It was a fascinating show.

Now I need coffee to stay awake.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 3 August 2006 08:15 (nineteen years ago)

Ed, sounds good thanks! Unlikely to be able to reciprocate with CDs in the near future but perhaps I can interest you in pints instead?

FP that doesn't sound great, but then again I have no idea what that means :)

CJ that seems like a great way to miss sleep

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 3 August 2006 08:18 (nineteen years ago)

Analogy time: it's like if you walk into a room through one door it's full of furniture, but if you walk in through the other door it looks empty.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 3 August 2006 08:21 (nineteen years ago)

(but, of course, for the job you want to do you can only get in through the door that makes all the furniture magically go invisible. Grrr)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 3 August 2006 08:22 (nineteen years ago)

Invisible furniture would be rubbish. You'd just keep banging your knee on it.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 3 August 2006 08:24 (nineteen years ago)

but you could pretend you were flying! whee!

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Thursday, 3 August 2006 08:26 (nineteen years ago)

Beanz, mail me address off list and I will post.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 3 August 2006 08:29 (nineteen years ago)

I don't like hangovers. They are just evil. And they get worse as I get older. They used to focus me, now they just make me feel diffuse.

I have a work hangover. I feel like I live at this desk.

I went and looked at the shoes, and they were lovely. But not as lovely as an external hard drive, a vaccuum cleaner or some shelves would be.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Thursday, 3 August 2006 09:00 (nineteen years ago)

specification document to write = dullest thing on earth. am currently doing anything but. am running out of web pages to check though.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Thursday, 3 August 2006 09:23 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, I liked the Red Veil. Their later stuff is better than the earlier - it's very much TISSP! music.

What, what?

I tried to listen to them but neither last.fm nor their website is cooperating... anyone care to help me out (sorry for the cheek)?

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 3 August 2006 09:28 (nineteen years ago)

OK, the phone just rang, and when I picked it up, this recorded voice said "here is your saved text message" or something like that, then there was a beep, then another recorded voice started reading total gibberish. Exactly like those blocks of random text in spam emails. There was no actual content, no email address or phone # or whatever, just a string of random surreal words. WTF is the point of that?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 3 August 2006 09:30 (nineteen years ago)

Utterly bizare!

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Thursday, 3 August 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

(You should have sampled it and built a song around it.)

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Thursday, 3 August 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

there is NO NEED to have fear of ed's cds, or at least the one of them that i have. ed it is WICKED, thank you. i've only played it once yesterday while i was at work, meant to bring it home to do a track-by-track like andrew did but then i got stuck there til ten and was grumpy and just wanted to get home to make some tea and forgot.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 3 August 2006 09:38 (nineteen years ago)

I shall send you a track listing when I get home also both of you can have the other CD in the set.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 3 August 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

ARGH SOMEONE PLEASE RECOMMEND ME A GOOD AND CHEAPISH TRAVEL INSURANCE CO. i swear usually when i do this it takes me like 5 minutes. everything i find under £35 doesn't cover loss of baggage but has all sorts of ski cover which i don't need, everything that does cover loss of baggage costs a million pounds. no one is gonna *nick* my luggage, it looks like shit (and is full of what to anyone else probably *is* just shit), but you know...

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 3 August 2006 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

Its more for if the airline looses it, misdirects it or explodes it. Emergency lost baggage insurance is a must. (Bought me a whole wardrobe after 9/11)

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 3 August 2006 09:45 (nineteen years ago)

I've never taken out travel insurance in my life!

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Thursday, 3 August 2006 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

Me either!

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 3 August 2006 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

me threeither.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Thursday, 3 August 2006 09:51 (nineteen years ago)

It comes free when I book tickets on my CC.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 3 August 2006 09:51 (nineteen years ago)

Its more for if the airline looses it, misdirects it or explodes it. Emergency lost baggage insurance is a must.

yeah i know. friends' miserable stories of prized possessions lost mean i can't afford not to. i don't have a cc, is booked on my dc (doesn't sound half so flash).

is there anything important missing from/wrong with this - the second figure in each line? i will have to be careful not to miss my flights, but unless london/hk transport is all fucked up that won't happen.

SUMMARY OF COVER
Cancellation £1,000 £1,000 £3,000 £5,000
Curtailment £1,000 £1,000 £3,000 £5,000
Medical Expenses £3,000,000 £3,000,000 £5,000,000 £10,000,000
Repatriation £3,000,000 £3,000,000 £5,000,000 £10,000,000
Hospital Benefit £100 £100 £1,000 £1,500
Delayed Baggage £50 £50 £100 £200
Travel Delay £100 £100 £300 £400
Holiday Abandonment £1,000 £1,000 £3,000 £5,000
Hijack N/A N/A £500 £500
Missed Departure N/A N/A £500 £1,000
Personal Accident £10,000 £10,000 £20,000 £50,000
Personal Liability £1,000,000 £1,000,000 £2,000,000 £2,000,000
Catastrophe Cover £250 £250 £1,000 £1,000
Legal Expenses £10,000 £10,000 £15,000 £50,000
Pet Care N/A N/A £200 £500
Max days per trip N/A N/A N/A N/A

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 3 August 2006 09:56 (nineteen years ago)

No, £100 delayed baggage will buy you a few pairs of pants.

What's the excess?

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 3 August 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

I found sainsbury's online travel insurance pretty good and inexpensive. 10 days in Europe with plenty of cover for personal possessions, delayed or cancelled flights, legal fees and public liability (!) was only about £15 (I bought some the other week).

http://www.sainsburysbank.co.uk/insuring/ins_apply_trv_skip.shtml

― C J (C J), Thursday, 3 August 2006 09:58 (nineteen years ago)

I've found this lot quite reasonable in the past: http://www.travelinsurers.com/

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 3 August 2006 09:59 (nineteen years ago)

Incidentally, and a propos of nothing really, I am currently eating a packet of Walkers Lamb & Mint flavoured crisps and they are truly the most revolting things I have ever tried in my life. I don't know what possessed me to buy them. They taste like a cross between evil chemicals and crunchy toothpaste.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 3 August 2006 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

I've no recommendation but travel insurance is so handy. I've had to use it more than once, most usefully when my grandmother died while I was abroad. They flew me home for free on the next flight out. If you get hit by a meteor you're screwed though.

xpost they probably are just that

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 3 August 2006 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

You should stop eating them.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 3 August 2006 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

I'm hungry!

If I hold my breath and pinch my nose while chomping on them, it's not so bad.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 3 August 2006 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

oops yeah, i missed the end off. excess is £100. £1500 for baggage and personal effects. i'll only get £50, not £100, for delayed baggage, but £50 is fine.

ADDITIONAL COVER
Personal Effects And Baggage £1,500 £1,500 £2,000
Winter Sports Cover
Business Cover N/A N/A
Golf Cover N/A N/A
Personal Money £200 £200 £500 £500

POLICY EXCESS
Excess Double - (£200) Standard - (£100) Standard - (£60) Standard - (£50)

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 3 August 2006 10:08 (nineteen years ago)

Check how the excess applies to delayed baggage as often it is different.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 3 August 2006 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

it just says this:

Delayed Baggage
We will pay you if your baggage or personal effects are temporarily lost in transit on the outward or damaged (up to the amount shown below, based on the policy you choose).

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 3 August 2006 10:18 (nineteen years ago)

Thankyou, mysterious donor.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah! Hah! Stupid EDF.

Gas bill before meter reading: £61
Gas bill after meter reading: £11

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:14 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, speaking of edf, I got a letter from them in their London Energy guise telling me they were now edf and as I was a new customer they were still processing my details. Only thing is... I haven't communicated with them in any way either as edf OR London Energy. Our account was with Seeboard under Matt's name and we now get billed by edf in Matt's name as well. Have they signed me up without my knowledge or what?

Oh and they sacked a bloke in Brighton for wearing shorts on the hottest day of the year so are clearly evil idiots.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

That happened to me whilst I was a student. It doesn't take many details for an unscrupulous sales agent to switch your account.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:22 (nineteen years ago)

they overestimated my gas usage by a factor of 2 again this quarter. but i think i might pay it anyway given that it's set to rise - that way i get those extra units at the current price and not the higher.

(xpost) i was recently sent a letter by them saying they were sorry i was leaving when i had asked for no such thing. could've been a genuine mistake or one of the other gas companies trying to pull a fast one.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

well I answered some questions for a market research agency the other day - at the end they asked me if I'd ever be interested in switching my energy supplier and I said 'possibly'. Could that be enough? Stupid though as I'm already with bloody edf (though probably not for much longer).

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

FFS after all the hassle we already get from edf I don't want to be dealing with them TWICE. The phone number they gave me doesn't work, either.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

'market research agency'. um, dubious. was a big hoohah about it all a few years or so ago when they deregulated it, dodgy salesmen posing as, ahem, market research people etc... i had someone at the door once claiming to be from the people who supplied the gas to my gas supplier. 'you're with british gas, right?'. 'no'. 'london gas then?'. v unconvincing. thought it was generally the smaller companies but... http://www.energywatch.org.uk/media/news/show_release.asp?article_id=204&display_type=archive

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

Fuckers!

That's so weird though, there were loads of random questions about what charities I supported, whether I wore glasses or contacts, did I have pets etc etc. All that to scam me into changing electricity supplier?

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

They'll sell all that other contact lens/pet info on to other companies though. Your details will have been sold to a million mailing lists by now!

― C J (C J), Thursday, 3 August 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

Subarachnoid Space have my seal of approval.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 3 August 2006 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

You should see them live. (And you should.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 August 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm, looking at their shows page they don't look as if they do a lot of UK touring...

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 3 August 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

I'm contemplating going to Bristol to see The Heads. Except it's right at monthend which means I'll never get time off. Even if it is a Saturday. Bah.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Thursday, 3 August 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

Hello all. You should organise a minibus or something and take all your fellow london ilxors with you.
And you can all buy me merchandise as a thankyou for introducing you all to a great band :)

Ps The Heads very rarely play live. So better make the most of this I think.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 3 August 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

It appears my anonymous benefactor has struck again. I'm guessing with some certainty that it's Kerr, in which case, thankyou Kerr. If not, thankyou anonymous benefactor. I shall listen to this new material.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 3 August 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

I wish an anonymous benefactor would send me some glorious spacerock.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

I wish an anonymous benefactor would come and do my job for me so I have a sleep.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

Last time I did, you whinged and called them "NME Carling Rock" so I'm not sending you anything else!

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

lol

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

That doesn't sound like something i'd say at all. I think I did say something along the lines of whiny emo vocals...

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

...yet I like Bright Eyes.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

well not the last 2 albums.

btw feel free to copy and send those dvdrs to anyone Kate/Ed. Or do the Why Ess Aye thing if thats what people would prefer. Spread the goodness. (its not all spacerock honest)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

So I CAN have a sleep. grr.

My boss has just been for a nap. Our staff at the moment is: two pregnant women, one diabetic man, and an absent about-to-be-a-father-at-any-minute. And it's our busiest time of the year.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

Whiny emo...?!?!??! ::shakes fist:: Don't you dare say such things about my beloved Curtis Brothers or I'll come all the way up to Scotland to whump your arse!

Man, Archel, sounds like the pregnancy germs are all over that place, and there's not enough sleep to go around. are you all going to have to nap in shifts?

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't had any naps so far! It's much harder for me to hide away for a bit because I don't have an office, I'm just out on display at reception all day :(

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

Now I want pictures of Curtis Brothers.

And I'm feeling cranky because I heard we got a bad review.

And someone is hassling me for some stupid other thing even though I'm knee deep in month end right now and can barely see straight.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Yay, now the spacerock fairy has visited me... thank you spacerock fairy! This is better than anything I ever got for my lousy milk teeth.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Why do people keep feeling the need to tell me how late they stayed at work yesterday? I KNOW YOU ARE ALL WORKING HARD, I GET IT, SO AM I. But frankly I don't give a shit how dedicated you are and how stressful it all is, why are you telling me? Am I supposed to do something about it? Do I look like I care? Do I even look awake? Because if I do it's a miracle.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 3 August 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

Kate> What Heads albums have you played and liked then?

I hear the spacerock wizard takes requests...

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 3 August 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Would a visit from the spacerock fairy or wizard help archels mood?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 3 August 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha ha, the Spacerock Fairy seems to have sent me an Emerson Lake and Palmer record by mistake this time!

Awww, poor Archel.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Thursday, 3 August 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

I am enjoying this Paik record; it reminds me of our rehearsals (!)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 3 August 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

It is thoughtful of the fairy/wizard but I am too tired and cross even to listen to music.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 3 August 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

The fairy is clearly an imposter then. Only trust the wizard!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 3 August 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

Now it's become Vangelis. Excellent!

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Thursday, 3 August 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, I thought Archel was getting cranky with people on this thread, not in her actual real life.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 3 August 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

Kate> Most people say its (mid 70s) Tangerine Dream or Goblin.

Have you ever heard Aphrodites Child? It's Vangelis and Demi's Roussous prog band. Who sounded like Can before can did!!!!
I'm sure you know "the four horseman" which is the greatest song ever.

And if you know that band/song chances are you know how I came about it.

x-post.

Hello Ailsa!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 3 August 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

Hello. I hate Thursdays. It's just not quite near enough the end of the week :-(

Still, early finish tomorrow then PUB. Hurrah!

Neil is going to the pub in Hamilton tomorrow night. If he ends up in the Palace I'll get some reporting back for you.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 3 August 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

I just got back from my excursion/interview/look-around, and I took/got the job! (It turns out it wasn't actually 'offered' to me before today, hee hee) I was feeling all stressed and topsy-turvy all week because of the OH NOES TOUGH DECISION OUT OF THE BLUE but now I can actually see that it's GOOD NEWS, SO BE HAPPY, GODAMMIT!

I've got so much work to do to prepare (hi chaucer!), but I will be teaching a university English course IN A CASTLE. A FIFTEENTH CENTURY CASTLE. How cool is that?

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 3 August 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa! Excellent! Especially the 15th Century Castle bit.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Thursday, 3 August 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah! I know!

http://www.herstmonceux-castle.com/images/castle.jpg

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 3 August 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

Poxyfuling in preventing people from ooohing and aaahing at my castle shocker!

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 3 August 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

Ooohhh AHHHHHH.

(congrats)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 3 August 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, I like the Spacerock Fairy's choice in music, partly cos it's not the sort of thing I normally listen to. I bet this stuff (Subarachnoid Space) would go down well in some of the "specialist" clubs I go to, actually.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 3 August 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

Dare I ask?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 3 August 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

DRONEDOOMDEATH (a cuddlecore club)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 August 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

The spacerock wizard has sent some Aphrodites Child. If everyone would at least listen to the whole of "the four horsemen" , apart from the fact it's one of my favourite songs EVER, it will definitely be of interest to some of you , i think you will have heard a bit of it somewhere else... (Kate I assume you know what i'm talking about anyway)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 3 August 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

what about rain and tears?

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 3 August 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

Dare I ask?

I don't know, do you?

A lot of my goth friends would probably like it; and it wouldn't go down too badly in a lot of BDSM clubs.

I think the Spacerock Fairy might have got my package slightly wrong - he sent Subarachnoid Space, Paik, and Subarachnoid Space again.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 3 August 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

Which paik did you get? There should be two sent by the wizard.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 3 August 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

Monster Of The Absolute

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 3 August 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

I got a gas bill with "Our Reference: BD/SM" on it today. Are Scottish Power trying to tell me something?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 3 August 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

I've always wondered what the "D" stands for. Discipline?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 3 August 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

Discipline, and Domination. BDSM isn't a straightforward abbreviation; it's short for "B&D, D&S, S&M" - bondage and discipline, domination and submission, sadism and masochism.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 3 August 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

Demonstrative

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 August 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

I believe the spacerock fairy has gone home but the spacerock wizard sent the other one. (ps Subarachnoid space and paik have loads of albums, as do Kinski and The Heads and other bands mentioned on this thread, apart from Zombi who have 3 and and 2 eps)

x-post. I am now enlightened.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 3 August 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

Arthur Lee has died :(

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 4 August 2006 06:12 (nineteen years ago)

Aw no :-(

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 4 August 2006 07:02 (nineteen years ago)

the sun is out! Wheee!

(xpost who is this person btw?)

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Friday, 4 August 2006 07:03 (nineteen years ago)

From Love? That is sad.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 4 August 2006 07:04 (nineteen years ago)

I came onto this thread to write an upbeat "woo it's nearly the weekend" post, but I can't really now!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 4 August 2006 07:04 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.kittenrecords.co.uk/slypics/waterloller.jpg

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Friday, 4 August 2006 07:11 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, *I* have to traipse upstairs to get to our watercooler!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 4 August 2006 07:12 (nineteen years ago)

did anyone ever set up the last.fm watercooler group? (that sounds like a locomotive component). I've run out of recommendations radio.

Shall I create one?

― Ed (dali), Friday, 4 August 2006 07:14 (nineteen years ago)

I know you can have intercooler groups on internal-combustion engines. They're between the turbochargers and the engine, to maximize the density of the inlet air - turbochargers compress the air, but compression heats it; cooling it after the turbocharger increases its density further. Deltics have turbochargers and intercoolers, I'm sure.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 4 August 2006 07:17 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.last.fm/group/UK%20Watercooler

― Ed (dali), Friday, 4 August 2006 07:18 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.kittenrecords.co.uk/slypics/waterloller2.jpg

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Friday, 4 August 2006 07:19 (nineteen years ago)

Morning!
Much lolling @ kit
Much envy @ gooblar
Much sadness @ Arthur Lee

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 4 August 2006 07:25 (nineteen years ago)

plz someone tell me who Arthur Lee is?

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Friday, 4 August 2006 07:26 (nineteen years ago)

He was in a band called Love, 60s psychadelic rock sorta thing, he had a bit of a resurgence in recent years, went to prison for a while for threatening someone with a gun iirc

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 4 August 2006 07:32 (nineteen years ago)

And according to Pitchfork he was only 61
He was good! Not sure I'd have liked to live in his head though, if you see what i mean

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 4 August 2006 07:34 (nineteen years ago)

a space in the watercooler lastfm group name? i am appalled.

> plz someone tell me who Arthur Lee is?

Whither Google?

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Friday, 4 August 2006 07:34 (nineteen years ago)

I heard on the radio this morning that soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf died and that famously when she appeared on Desert Island Discs, all but one of her choices were her own recordings. So the obvious question is, what was the other one? But the internets are no help :(

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 4 August 2006 07:36 (nineteen years ago)

i thought i might recognise him or something, but nope.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Friday, 4 August 2006 07:38 (nineteen years ago)

Its not my fault if last.fm doesn't do something sensible with white space.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 4 August 2006 07:39 (nineteen years ago)

Not sure I'd have liked to live in his head though, if you see what i mean

I have a friend, whose best friend's husband was, I'm told, in the "new" Love line-up. According to them, he was pretty much incoherent most of the time they knew him.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 4 August 2006 07:55 (nineteen years ago)

Afternoon, kids.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 4 August 2006 07:58 (nineteen years ago)

morning, commie.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Friday, 4 August 2006 07:58 (nineteen years ago)

There seems to be some debate as to whether Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf chose all eight of her own performances, or just seven. If it was seven then yeah, no clue what the other one was. (Moura Lympany (concert pianist) definitely picked a full eight of her own.)

RIP Arthur Lee.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:00 (nineteen years ago)

Oh no, Arthur Lee. :-(

What a beautiful castle, gooblar! Hurstmonceauaux or however it's spelled? (I think it's a sham castle built in the latter half of the middle ages, rather than an actual FITEing castle, but still lovely.)

teh kit, that is the BEST THING EVAH!!! We should have Watercooler t-shirts made with that on it.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:13 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning, good morning.

The Arthur Lee news is making me sad. I feel like I should cover a Love song tonight, but also feel like making a mockery out of one of those wonderful songs would be no tribute at all.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:14 (nineteen years ago)

1. Congrats, Kate! Just listened to Ed's excerpts.
2. Congrats, gooblar! You will be living all of our Harry Potter fantasies for us.
3. Kit, we are still building socialism. The stage of a communist society has not yet been reached. "Comrade Mitya" would be more appropriate.
4. End of communication.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:17 (nineteen years ago)

Yes that is v cool gkit :)

And that sounds like a pretty nice job gooblar, teaching in Herstmonceux castle! Do you get to live in the castle too? Hopefully you have learned the correct pronunciation already so you don't offend the locals. (I remember on Challenge Anneka - of all things - once they pronounced it wrong and the phones were ringing off the hook.)

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:18 (nineteen years ago)

How is it pronounced? I've not a clue!

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:19 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't Herstmonceaux Castle where the Greenwich Observatory was for many years? I remember going there once when I was a kid.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:21 (nineteen years ago)

it's pronounced with a mouthfull of bees.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:21 (nineteen years ago)

Herst-mon-soo

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:21 (nineteen years ago)

That's what I would have thought. How on earth did they pronounce it on Challenge Anneka?

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:23 (nineteen years ago)

There's still an observatory there:
http://www.the-observatory.org/graphics/Makevisit1.jpg

It's a shame because it's not that far from me really but an absolute bugger to get to on public transport.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:24 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks all! The head of the college pronounced it herst-mon-soo, which may be correct 'round here, but surely it's a French name which should be herst-mon-so, no? There's a 'modern residence' about five minutes walk from the castle where I'll be staying, but only one night a week, I think. (I'll teach two days a week). Only a select few senior staff get flats within the castle, with octagonal(?) kitchens 'cause it's part of a tower.

I've got to take a train to Polegate, then a 15-minute cab ride to the castle.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:25 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, the students take astronomy classes at one of the still-working telescopes!

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:26 (nineteen years ago)

Herst-mon-serr or something I think.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:26 (nineteen years ago)

Hurst Monster! Damien?!??!?

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:27 (nineteen years ago)

So is it part of the new University Centre based in Hastings?

It's one of those things like 'Belvoir' I guess where pronouncing it in the apparently correct French way marks you out as an outsider.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:29 (nineteen years ago)

Nope. It's the ISC a part of Queens University Canada, for their students who want to spend a year studying abroad, IN A CASTLE.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

Do you have to be Canadian to spend a year studying in a castle, dammit?!?!?

Especially if you can study astronomy.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:33 (nineteen years ago)

Ah. Have they got any other jobs going? :)

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:33 (nineteen years ago)

My main memories are a) having to go down lots of little country lanes to get there b) being scared because the castle is allegedly haunted. I was only young.

Belvoir = "Beever", surely?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

It's like when the Hertfordshire locals insisted on pronouncing "Theobalds" as "tibbles" or something like that. Bah.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:35 (nineteen years ago)

How do you pronounce Holborn?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:37 (nineteen years ago)

Yes Belvoir is pronounced Beaver.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:37 (nineteen years ago)

I find that very odd how north American universities, when then send students abroad send them to their own outposts rather than to universities abroad. Inferior foreign teaching, dangerous foreign students a suppose? Congrats nonetheless, especially as you are clearly a superior teacher to be allowed to teach precious Canadian students.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:39 (nineteen years ago)

Holborn pronounced xavier

― Ed (dali), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:39 (nineteen years ago)

Hoe-burn.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:39 (nineteen years ago)

Holborn = o-bun

― C J (C J), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:40 (nineteen years ago)

But there are all kinds of London places that I was utterly astonished when I saw them on the map, as I could not believe that they could be spelled that way.

(Never mind the curious South London practice of not pronouncing the H in neighbourhood names, especially not pronouncing it as a dipthong. I mean, honestly, can you see anyone pronouncing it "Claffam Junction" even though that's clearly how it's written?)

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

But most -ham place names are pronounced that way, because -ham was added as a suffix. My own village - Waltham - is an unusual exception, being pronounced Wal-tham rather than Walt-ham.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:44 (nineteen years ago)

Featherstonehaugh
Milngavie
Cholmondeley
ad nauseam

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:45 (nineteen years ago)

Morning, everyone. In surprisingly early today, as I'm bailing out earlydoors to meet with a friend I've not seen for some time. Very exciting.

Took stock of a new studio toy, too, last night, and not a minute too soon: lots of mixing to be done this weekend.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, coz you are in The Norf. Waltham Cross, near where I grew up, was pronounced the same way. If it were in South London, it would be Walt'um.

x-post

Featherstonehuff?
Not a clue.
Chumley.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

Absolutely agreed, Ed. But it's surely a selling point for anxious parents (who are paying the fees): It's a totally different university experience! (don't worry, it's not that different, your child still has a chance to get a mark higher than 80).

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:47 (nineteen years ago)

Fanshaw, M'l-guy xpost

Ok on a bit of a tangent - there are two London place names with six consecutive consonants. Which are...?

If you already know, don't say yet cos it's good to work them out

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:48 (nineteen years ago)

my dad went to school in a castle:

http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=tbn:7CYEiDidecmq-

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:48 (nineteen years ago)

oh, i thought that might not work.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:48 (nineteen years ago)

Featherstonehough = Fanshaw.

xpost

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

ooh!

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

ah.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:50 (nineteen years ago)

I'm usually pretty good at vowel compression, but..

Featherstonehough = Fanshaw.

The HELL?!?!? How?

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:51 (nineteen years ago)

in Animal Crossing, my town has one of those names that's pronounced differently to how it's spelt! my town is called PWNAGE.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:52 (nineteen years ago)

one more try and then i will give up.

http://www.architecturecentre.co.uk/exhibitions/images/atlantic_college.jpg

how d'you pronounce milngavie?

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:53 (nineteen years ago)

oooh! aaaah!

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:55 (nineteen years ago)

If it were in South London, it would be Walt'um.

There is one in Kent, and that's pronounced -tham too.

I don't know the London places with six consecutive consonants, but I've worked one of them out already.

The puzzle it makes me think of is: how could you have travelled on a single underground train that makes 10 stops in a row at stations beginning with the same letter, without reversing?

xpost: milngavie = mull-guy

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:56 (nineteen years ago)

By the time it came to do my study abroad my parents didn't really have much input into the decision.

Different cultures though. I had a girlfriend in one of these programmes when I was studying in Italy so they are not that good at protecting people from suspicious characters. My conversational and life skills Italian was way better than hers, Her written and literary Italian kicked my arse.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:56 (nineteen years ago)

Worked out the second place with 6 consonants now :-)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 4 August 2006 08:59 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh where is that emsk?

I dunno about the consonants (someone want to reveal?), but I think there's only one London Underground stop without an 'e' in it.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:00 (nineteen years ago)

You can do the ten stops one at the moment.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:00 (nineteen years ago)

boston manor
bank
farringdon

― Ed (dali), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:01 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh just got the tube journey one

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, clearly I was misinformed.
St Johns Wood.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

Can you? I didn't think you could.

There is, I've just realised, a common link between the ten stops puzzle and the six consonants puzzle.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

Archel: Oval ;-)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:04 (nineteen years ago)

FP you got the 6 consonants one much faster than I did

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:05 (nineteen years ago)

how could you have travelled on a single underground train that makes 10 stops in a row at stations beginning with the same letter, without reversing?

is this a trick question, because I've been looking at the underground map for ten minutes and I'm not seeing it.

:-(

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:05 (nineteen years ago)

no but 'without reversing' is a bit of a clue

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:06 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe it wasn't an 'e' then, something else and I got mixed up? I dunno.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:06 (nineteen years ago)

I'm clearly estupido coz I'm rubbish at these kinds of puzzles. :-(

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:08 (nineteen years ago)

And my wording was a careful clue too, Kate. Don't look at the current map.

Archel, I thought St John's Wood was the answer to "which tube station contains no letters from the word 'mackerel".

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

It's a trick question, because no tube line makes 10 stops 'in a row,' that is without delays, signal failures, passengers taken ill, etc.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:11 (nineteen years ago)

Hah.

(shall I reveal the answers?)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:15 (nineteen years ago)

Bah, ah, I've found it - was confused because you can't do that trip at the moment when Ed said you can.

DO NOT POXY FULE ME AGANE, YOU BASTARD. I did figure this out about 10 seconds after saying I couldn't do it.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:16 (nineteen years ago)

I've got one of the 6 consonants places.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:16 (nineteen years ago)

I said you can't, or at least I meant to

― Ed (dali), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:17 (nineteen years ago)

Beer Festival, tonight?

― Ed (dali), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:19 (nineteen years ago)

I was going to eat Thai Cult food then go to the Betsey to see Gooblar's band tonight. Though it looks more and more like I'll be dragged out on a work doo. :-(

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:20 (nineteen years ago)

I was a bit confused by what you said, Ed, because I didn't think you can, but I know you should be able to in a few months' time.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

Mackerel! That must have been it, brain not in gear today.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:25 (nineteen years ago)

The Betsey, the betsey!

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:28 (nineteen years ago)

Also, Gooblar's band tonight is just Gooblar and an iPod.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

here, archel: http://www.atlanticcollege.org

g00blar i am coming tonight too. is 8.30 real time or pr time? after that i am going to see the victorian english gentlemens club at the buffalo bar.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:35 (nineteen years ago)

I'm on at 8:30, AFAIK. VEGC, is that a band? It'd be better it was actually a Victorian club.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:38 (nineteen years ago)

tis a band. they rule. www.thevictorianenglishgentlemensclub.co.uk www.myspace.com/thevictorianenglishgentlemensclub

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

Oh! The Victorians are playing? Can we do both? Do you fancy Thai Cult food on Leather Lane first, Emsk?

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

i went to school in a SPACESHIP:
http://www.lpcuwc.edu.hk/media/gallery/albums/album19/LPCUWC_Early_Aerial.sized.jpg

yep kate it is possible to do both, betsey to buffalo is a chilled out 15 minutes by bike and prob about the same by bus. mmm thai cult food. i like the sound of that. is it reasonably inexpensive?

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:52 (nineteen years ago)

No wonder you are an alien, Emsk...

Thai Cult Food is £5, all you can eat, all veggie.

Friday night bus traffic may be mental through Islington, but I suppose I can but try.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

I'd come to listen to your ipod if I weren't going to see my parents for dinner xpost

Apparently Adam from Victorian-etcetera looks like 'a punk rock Boris Johnson' according to the artrocker website. No wonder Kate likes. (I might turn up to that, but later obv)

Emsk that pic looks like the future, or possibly the YuGiOh-GX Duel Academy

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:54 (nineteen years ago)

There is a bigger thai cult on theobald's road now, it might eve have replaced the leather lane one.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:55 (nineteen years ago)

Featherstonehaugh
Milngavie
Cholmondeley

I knew all of them!!

Now heres 2 for you all non scots.

Strathaven
Lesmahagow.

x-post My old secondary school doesn't even have a website. So I doubt theres any photos.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:55 (nineteen years ago)

So my Big Date (I am exaggerating for effect and sympathy of course) has turned into a group event after a couple of our friends found out we had plans and invited themselves along. (This assuming Datee did not loop them in as a way of taking the pot out of the fire. Possible but uncharacteristic for her, I'd say.)

Meanwhile I am being pursued doggedly but clumsily by woman from office next door.

All this nonsense reminds me why I usually stay holed up at home all the time.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:56 (nineteen years ago)

My school

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Westminster_school_arch_view.jpg

In the old days we used to create threads for things like this, damned balkanisation.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:58 (nineteen years ago)

Who is treefell in that watercooler last fm group I just joined?
Ed open up the forums in the group.
Oh and you can make us all mods there too :)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:58 (nineteen years ago)

The Leather Lane one was there a few weeks ago...

Of my million schools, these are the two I went to the longest:

Grammar School:
http://www.countryschool.net/nccs/nccs_tour/tour_assets/mainbldg_1.jpg

High School:
http://www.buntingandlyon.com/img/ny-doanestuart1.gif

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Friday, 4 August 2006 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

forums open, I'll do permissions later I have a conference call.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 4 August 2006 10:02 (nineteen years ago)

thai cult food yr on. where to meet?

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 4 August 2006 10:02 (nineteen years ago)

(Yes, I went to school in the convent from Suspiria.)

x-post We can meet there, surely? Don't know what time. About 7-ish I'd have thought. It's at the top end of Leather Lane. Or we can meet outside Ed's pub if your bicycle gets lonely.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Friday, 4 August 2006 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

I'm half-Scots so I shouldn't tell. But Balluchillish and Wemyss anyone?

Mitya that sounds annoying. But hey at least you're being pursued!

lots of xpost

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 4 August 2006 10:05 (nineteen years ago)

Bah, I missed the original post. Yes, at least you are being persued, Mitya. As annoying as it might be. Though mutual friends tagging along on dates = mega-annoying.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Friday, 4 August 2006 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

I'm treefell.

― Greig (treefell), Friday, 4 August 2006 10:09 (nineteen years ago)

My secondary school Queen Margaret Academy , Ayr. Doesn't come up with any pics in a google search. It does however have a shitty wikipedia entry.

I can't be bothered looking for pics of my various (4) primary schools (we moved a few times I wasn't expelled) as they probably wont exist either.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 4 August 2006 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

Wemyss = weems

Kirkcudbright is another good'n.

This cat just got whyessayed from the spacerock fairy

http://b3ta.hnldesign.nl/beta152.gif

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 4 August 2006 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

I'm Paronomasiac.

I'll fill out my profile and stuff when I get a free moment (prob not today though, grr)

How exactly does last.fm work? It just recommends things it figures you might like? Can you hear full length tracks or are they just 30 second clips?

I am such a technology klutz, I really am.

― C J (C J), Friday, 4 August 2006 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

Why we are posting pictures of our grammar schools and not dirty dronerock girls, I don't understand. Especially as my grammar school cannot compare:

http://cdn-87.cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users8/mitya/default/the_stuff_of_childhood--gallery-msg-1122877516-2.jpg

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 4 August 2006 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

I just want it to be lunchtime already. The last of the nummy curry until I make more tomorrow.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Friday, 4 August 2006 10:22 (nineteen years ago)

My prep school looked like this :

http://www.isc.co.uk/images/schools/107.jpg

and then at age 11, I went here:

http://www.conferenceguideuk.com/uploads/venues/5941b.jpg

― C J (C J), Friday, 4 August 2006 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

OK, this is how bored the accounts department (OK, mainly me) is...

We were trying to figure out what the first number that didn't get its own entry in the dictionary was.

Turns out, in my dictionary, it's sixteen. Everything else before that has its own entry with "Eight: one more than seven" or "Fifteen: ten and five".

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Friday, 4 August 2006 10:44 (nineteen years ago)

God, still only 4 o'clock. I am not going to get anything else done today.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 4 August 2006 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

My school, which has a brilliant Wikipedia entry and confirms what my mom said about Al Franken being kicked out to private school, unlike his brother:

ihttp://www.slpschools.org/sh/Mainpagepics/school72.jpg

My university/college/whatever:

http://images.43things.com/place/00/03/58/219246lr.jpg

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 4 August 2006 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

My school when aged 15-18:

http://www.oslo-katedral.vgs.no/images/fasade_ori.jpg

Founded by the Pope of England before he was. (Though not in this building obv.)

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Friday, 4 August 2006 11:02 (nineteen years ago)

Ha I went to school in an old golf pavilion, of which I can't post a photo as it was burned to the ground in 1992.

I don't know how to pronounce any of these Scottish places!

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 4 August 2006 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

Errr... England doesn't have a Pope!

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Friday, 4 August 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

Oh my LORD... OK, I was complaining that I wasn't getting any randoms on OKC, but today I've had mail from:

1) someone self identified as "polyamourous" - that does mean what I think it means, doesn't it? Errr... no thanks.

2) A NAKED person. A naked mathematician, in fact.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Friday, 4 August 2006 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

There was one English Pope, though, back in the days before Protestantism had been invented.

When people on online dating sites say they're poly (and there seems to be an awful lot on OKC), I always wonder if they've told their partners.

(FWIW, I do know of a couple of poly 'families' for whom it all seems to work very well, but they all admit that it is a lot harder to deal with than your standard two-person relationship)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 4 August 2006 11:15 (nineteen years ago)

At least it doesn't involve parrots.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 4 August 2006 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

Here he is:

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/0/02/150px-B_Hadrian_IV.jpg

Nick Breakspear aka Hadrian IV (c1100-1159)

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Friday, 4 August 2006 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

He says he "converted" his wife to PA, which just makes the shivers go down my spine. I'd steer clear of anyone who felt the need to "convert" their partners to anything. It's just very clearly Not For Kates, which is a shame, as he sent a really interesting and well thought out introductory letter.

I'm trying to work up the courage to go back and look at the profile of the naked mathematician.

Pope of England! Well, I never! I must ask if my mum knows about this.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Friday, 4 August 2006 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

2) A NAKED person. A naked mathematician, in fact.

I would like the rest of the Watercooler to know that while I am a mathematician, and on certain occasions naked, this is not me.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Friday, 4 August 2006 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

Polyamory sounds like a recipe for a social disease in the Officer Krupke sense.

Pope of everyone, but English, yeah? Please to remember that all were under the yoke of yer Holy Romans until the Reformation. Yes please ask your mum, I bet there's baby-eating stories about this guy.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 4 August 2006 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

ACtually, no. He was an English Pope, i.e. Pope of the entire Catholic world. Not quite the same thing as being Pope of England.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Friday, 4 August 2006 11:21 (nineteen years ago)

It's statto, isn't it?
x-posts

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 4 August 2006 11:22 (nineteen years ago)

OK, this gets weirder. The Naked Mathematician claims to be a virgin and is looking for a woman to "help him change this". Either he's joking or... Why would you post something like that on a dating site?

Is it just a law of nature that every man over the age of 35 on a dating site is going to be an utter weirdo?

Sod it, I'm going to a bookshop to try and find that Henrietta Leavitt book.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Friday, 4 August 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe you just just look for 21 year old dirty dronerock boys.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 4 August 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

Hadrian IV was the Pope who 'gave' Ireland to England.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 4 August 2006 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

NIce work, Hadrian. Gah.

Kate, either this guy's been in unrequited love with Seven of Nine for years or...(shudders to think)

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 4 August 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

"Polyamorous" = either "swinger" or "open relationship", I believe. Unless it's just a fancy way of saying "cheating on wife"

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 4 August 2006 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

In my experience, it's either a fancy way of saying "cheating on wife", or "open relationship", but often means "committed relationship with more than one person" - I know of one polyamorous threesome who share a house, all share the same bed, and are just as committed to each other as a non-cheating monogamous couple are.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 4 August 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

Not quite the same thing as being Pope of England.

I am aware of that, you know? ;)

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Friday, 4 August 2006 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

Who is the Pope of ILX?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 4 August 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

HI DERE

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Friday, 4 August 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

I have just set up a label account with last.fm. Apparently someone might phone me or something. Crikey.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 4 August 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

release my record.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Friday, 4 August 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I didn't set up IFF as the label, someone had already nicked it for this: http://iff.galactique.net/ (which doesn't seem to be an actual label either). Ah well.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 4 August 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

Sigh. I went to lovely, lovely Foyles. What a dangerous place for someone trying to conserve money. They did not have it. But I asked the man rearranging the Popular Science shelves to help me find it and he looked for it, then ordered it. And as I was ordering it, I became entranced by his beard. And then his long, dark blond hair. And then the pointiness of his nose as he came back from the printer with my order form and wrote the phone number on it and told me when to call back. And oh no, I HAVE A CRUSH ON THE BOOK SHOP GUY!!! Argh.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Friday, 4 August 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

Having crushes on bookshop guys is just... argh. He sits in the science department and reads books about maths all day, I know it.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Friday, 4 August 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

Oh god foyles could be the worst shop in the world if you're trying to avoid buying stuff you don't want. I've never left the place without at least 3 books, even the time I promised myself I'd just use the loo and leave

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 4 August 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I had picked up at least 2 (and well on my way to 3) books but then the fire alarm went off and I had to leave the shop without buying ANYTHING!!! I feel so cheated.

I hope all the books do not get burned up. and the pointy nosed beardy information man with them.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Friday, 4 August 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

God, and now I am CRAVING strawberries and clotted cream with scones.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Friday, 4 August 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

, I HAVE A CRUSH ON THE BOOK SHOP GUY!!! Argh.
-- I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1!
Having crushes on bookshop guys is just... argh. He sits in the science department and reads books about maths all day, I know it.

-- I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1

http://z.about.com/d/animatedtv/1/0/l/cbg.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 4 August 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

Well, your typical Book Shop Guy is more like...

http://www.dylanmoranrules.com/gallery_BB/images/BB1_jpg.jpg

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Friday, 4 August 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

permissions granted

I have been visited by the spacerock fairy. Thank-you

― Ed (dali), Friday, 4 August 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

"Failed to authenticate"

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 4 August 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

― Ed (dali), Friday, 4 August 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

Ed(and FP/Tissp) check your last fm for more visits from the spacerock wizard.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 4 August 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

I tried to add City Seventeen as an artist connection, and that's what I get back...

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 4 August 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

Oooh, thank you Mr Wizard!

(I assume those YSI links will still work on Monday night? That's the next time I'm going to be sat at my own PC, I think)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 4 August 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

Shimuras stage times for Sunday, please?

Ed, the thingbringer has brought you some tickets. They are with the other post on the speaker.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 4 August 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

I shall investigate that later on. My computer is tied up rendering 1080i H.264 clips.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 4 August 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

Tommy Sheridan won his defamation case. Hmm.

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 4 August 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

(I assume those YSI links will still work on Monday night? That's the next time I'm going to be sat at my own PC, I think)

I think they last 7 days or 25 downloads. Whichever is 1st.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 4 August 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Regarding TS, it looked like some members of the party tried to stitch him up to gain control.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 4 August 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

There is now the prospect of a criminal investigation into the testimony of witnesses at the 23-day trial.
During the case, Lord Turnbull said: "It seems to me pretty much inevitable there will have to be a criminal investigation at the conclusion of this case into the question of whether witnesses have committed perjury.
"The witnesses who have committed perjury would be liable to be sentenced to imprisonment for a lengthy period."

Scottish Socialist Party Leader Colin Fox, who gave evidence against his comrade, is due to make a statement.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 4 August 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know stage times. Emsk? We're the middle band of three.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Friday, 4 August 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

dunno. just asked.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 4 August 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

So who listened to Aphrodites Child - The Four Horsemen and identified who "borrowed" some of it?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 4 August 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't been able to listen to *any* music today. :-(

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Friday, 4 August 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Kate Emsk, might be joining you.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 4 August 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

Right, it's 5pm (almost), and I'm zooming off to the Midlands for the weekend. See you lot back here again Monday.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 4 August 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Kate, I just got the announcement from Stu about the Marfa film and have asked for tickets for tomorrow. You in?

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 4 August 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Good lord, I've missed a lot of conversation. (Am zoning out here on the West Coast, slow day.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 4 August 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

Have fun, FP!

Does anyone have flyers or should I print some off?

x-post I've bought tickets already for tomorrow!

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Friday, 4 August 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

OK but still, maybe C. also wants to come?

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 4 August 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

FP's bound to have fun I should think.
(ahem)
(sorry)

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 4 August 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

C. ...? Who is C.? Mysterious!

I'm taking Emsk.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Friday, 4 August 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

C. ...? Who is C.? Mysterious!

I'm taking Emsk.

Oh wait, you mean Catty? TSM are Not For Cats, I don't think. :-(

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Friday, 4 August 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

flyers for what? i have a posh music industry get-you-in-cheap card for plum promotions (gooblar's gig). i also have me +1 on the list for victorians and an artrocker card that will get a gurl in free.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 4 August 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I was going to print flyers for Gooblar's gig. Will wait to see how energetic I feel about Victorians, as I am starting to flag.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Friday, 4 August 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

um which thai place are we going to? when do i have to be there? tell me what to do and i will do it.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 4 August 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

The one at the top of Leather Lane. I'm going to aim to be there by 7pm. I will try to sit in teh window.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Friday, 4 August 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

coolio. do i have anything of yours that i should bring?

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 4 August 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.riseaboverecords.com/images/catalog/148.jpg

Filled with visions of feckless scarecrows, errant knights and the quiet joys of candlelight, the debut full-length album (The Lick On The Tip Of An Envelope Yet To Be Sent) by these medieval minstrels, Circulus , gave those brief hot summer months of 2005 a soundtrack of ancient wind instruments, 70s Moog synthesisers and ghostly harmonies.
Now they are back and have moved five centuries into the future, creating a Baroque-Rock album of the highest caliber. Clocks are like people should see Circulus jump forward in terms of success as well as era’s.
The much improved and accomplished songwriting/production on ‘Clocks Are Like People’ shows Circulus in a more laid back and comfortable light. Key tracks ‘Song Of Our Despair’ and ‘Wherever She Goes’ have radio written all over them, whilst the Elizebithan harpsichord workout of ‘To The Fields’ or the Moog soaked wonders of ‘Bouree’ prove that the have lost none of their creative appeal

TRACKLIST

1. Dragon's Dance 3:20
2. Song Of Our Despair 4:58
3. Willow Tree 4:55
4. Wherever She Goes 4:19
5. Velocity Races 4:04
6. To The Fields 3:24
7. Bouree 3:17
8. This Is The Way 5:33
9. Reality's A Fantasy 8:19

Circulus-Clocks Are Like People Out Monday August 7th!!!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 4 August 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

ahahaha because i want to be like all of you i have signed up with one of these dating sites. hmm.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 4 August 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

we will find your profile

― Ed (dali), Friday, 4 August 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

I am not on those sites.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 4 August 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

If I am lost for a day
Try to find me
But if I don't come back
Then I won't look behind me
All of the things that I thought were so easy
Just got harder and harder each day...

December is darkest, In June there's the light
But this empty bedroom won't make anything right
While out on the landing, a friend I forgot to send home
Waits up for me all through the night...

I dreamed I was dying
As I so often do
And when I awoke, I was sure it was true
I went to the window
Threw my head to the sky
And said, whoever is up there, please don't let me die
But I can't live forever, I can't always be
One day I'll be sand on a beach by a sea
The pages keep turning, I'll mark off each day with a cross
And I'll laugh about all that we've lost...

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Saturday, 5 August 2006 01:57 (nineteen years ago)

I am currently putting Reduced Price stickers on hundreds of books. Some of them are being reduced from over £50 to £1. Come to Oxford and buy cheap books, y'all! Or get me to buy them with my St*ff D*sc**nt C*rd and get them even cheaper (30% off)!

Huh??? This one has an OUP sticker and is priced in rupees! How on earth did it come to be in Oxford????

I agree about Richmond Park. Shall I bump up the London Walking thread?

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 5 August 2006 08:18 (nineteen years ago)

yes!

― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 5 August 2006 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

also i got 2 replies from that site and one of them sounds good.

― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 5 August 2006 08:50 (nineteen years ago)

From an ilxor?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Saturday, 5 August 2006 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

haha, I've just been told to make a slush pile of books which are never going to sell in a million years. Like The Family Guide to the Internet, with a happily smiling airbrushed family on the cover nowhere near a computer, which has already been reduced from 9.99 to a quid.

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 5 August 2006 10:08 (nineteen years ago)

Really, they should just promote Russell Brand.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 5 August 2006 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

Fit Pregnancy for Dummies, anyone???

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 5 August 2006 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - sorry Kate! That was meant for the Thread About The Reality Show We Aren't Allowed To Talk About.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 5 August 2006 10:12 (nineteen years ago)

the cover of which - woman in lotus position, staring down with a look of concern at her distended belly.

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 5 August 2006 10:12 (nineteen years ago)

She clearly hasn't read the book, is a dummy and requires instructing as to the nature of the stomach pustule.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 5 August 2006 10:13 (nineteen years ago)

are you gonna do this rebellion thing every saturday, ailsa?

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Saturday, 5 August 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

That really actually was a genuine mistake!

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 5 August 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

Morning, all.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 7 August 2006 05:51 (nineteen years ago)

FP's bound to have fun I should think.

Oi, there was none of that going on! I'm getting stereotyped here! ;-)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 7 August 2006 06:28 (nineteen years ago)

That really actually was a genuine mistake!

my google image search for "chinny beard" was rubbish ;(

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Monday, 7 August 2006 07:12 (nineteen years ago)

Morning! How were weekends?

I went to a terrifying club in Clapham called Inferno. Hadn't been somewhere like that since I was a student. It was fun! And awful.

I also signed up to last.fm and of course joined the watercooler group.

Mark what else is on the list?

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 7 August 2006 07:32 (nineteen years ago)

Incidentally, I noticed someone from this place looking at one of the other last.fm groups I've joined recently - the group for another message board site I use.

My weekend was tiring but interesting. In parts.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 7 August 2006 07:35 (nineteen years ago)

I had a great Friday night - something that happens to me about once every three months - despite it being not what I was planning on for most of the week (i.e., a date). Then I spent pretty much all of Saturday recovering. And didn't get much more active on Sunday, although I did manage to finish a book and take some pictures.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 7 August 2006 08:16 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds like a pretty good date if you have to spend the next day recovering.

FP I don't know if it was me, but I spent a good couple of hours exploring so I wouldn't be surprised. There are some interesting groups out there!

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 7 August 2006 08:22 (nineteen years ago)

No, it wasn't you.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 7 August 2006 08:25 (nineteen years ago)

I've been away for a few days, so this is in response to something ^^^^^^^^^^ but if Kaet is coming to Bristle for The Heads then FAP?

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 7 August 2006 08:41 (nineteen years ago)

A Monday drawing for Kate:
ihttp://www.marriedtothesea.com/080206/fop.gif

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 7 August 2006 08:52 (nineteen years ago)

Incidentally, I noticed someone from this place looking at one of the other last.fm groups I've joined recently - the group for another message board site I use.

And i'm still none the wiser.

Morning spacerockers, how are you all today? I think the wizard is taking sometime off for today.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:01 (nineteen years ago)

Of course now everyone is going to forestpines page and going to the group page that isnt the watercooler.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:01 (nineteen years ago)

There are two others! One is obvious, though. What are you none the wiser about?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:04 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I could listen to music at work :(

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:05 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning!

Aaaaaahhh, this has made my day:

http://www.marriedtothesea.com/080206/fop.gif

What a weekend. My head is still psinning. Lovely gooblar music. Lovely Marfa Mystery Lights (though not ~~enough~~ ANY UFOs in that film). Lovely gig at the Water Rats.

Books in rupees? Blimey.

Beanz, tell me more about the Shetlands because I want to go there on my holiday.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:06 (nineteen years ago)

Foppish!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

Morning everyone! What a good weekend I have had, too. There must be something in the air.

I am now trying to write a short description of City Seventeen for the last.fm site, but am having extraordinary trouble coming up with anything other than "hit instruments, make noise". Come to think of it, though...

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone buying the new Circulus album today so they can send me some mp3s? My Vinyl I pre-ordered won't be sent until end of August :( I can't afford to buy it twice. Esp as the LP was expensive.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:11 (nineteen years ago)

Did you all get the gifts from the spacerock wizard sent friday night?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:12 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, I did - I think. Not listened to them yet though.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:14 (nineteen years ago)

Shetland's great! Remote from UK but also outward looking cos it's a sort of crossroads, historically a comparatively big trading centre. But towns are small and there's a lot of agriculture so it's a rural kinda place even in town. I only went to Mainland (the biggest island) and a couple of tiny outlying islands but there's loads there - incl tons of old stuff like neolithic tombs and dwellings, iron age brochs (forts) – one's 40ft high and you can climb to the top – and more recent castles, and almost everywhere seems like a nature reserve. The place is overrun with seabirds. Go on the Noss boat tour for seals and birds – they take you to huge cliffs just covered in puffins and gannets and guillemots and terns and skua and other things whose names I can't remember. And the food's good, fresh fish obviously plus very good Bangladeshi restaurant and there's a Chinese too that's supposed to be good though I didn't go there. Everyone we met was really friendly. Nice pubs, often with live music. They have a folk festival some time. And little museums everywhere, piled with bits and pieces like household objects from 150 yrs ago and wedding dresses and stone age tools. And of course you can walk for hours and hours.

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe Tissp the Metal Wizard will start sending you all tissp music like SOAD , Deftones and other metal rarities.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:23 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, Shetlands sound perfect! Though oh dear, is there food that isn't fish? Or I may die of starvation or allergy attacks.

I forgot the new Circulus is out today. I shall rush out at lunch and buy it, of course.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:25 (nineteen years ago)

My hard drive is full, dammit! I am trying to figure out how to burn things in sensible 700 Mb chunks to make space. I can't believe I've suddenly got a whole CDR full of The Heads, who I'd never heard of a week ago. I mean, they will be taking up exactly the same space on my shelf as Led Zeppelin!

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:26 (nineteen years ago)

I am suspicious of my reputation around here now...

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:26 (nineteen years ago)

It's only right that we should all have slightly suspicious reputations, I think ;-)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

I forgot the new Circulus is out today. I shall rush out at lunch and buy it, of course.

HURRAH!!!!!! I can't wait for my visit from the Psychedelic Minstrel Baroque N Roll Fairy!!!
http://www.riseaboverecords.com/index.asp (check that kate)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

If noone had suspicious reputations then mitya wouldn't have anything to report back to his spymasters in Moscow.

Tissp> At least you're not twee like the others. You are the macho man round here ;)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

Hah, Tissp, I saw you looking at that other last.fm group too ;-)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

+++FLEE ALL IS KNOWN+++

― Ed (dali), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:32 (nineteen years ago)

finally getting round to what the spacerock fairy has sent. Liking Kinski a lot. Does the spacerock fairy know of David Hykes and the harmonic choir. If not, he should.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

Hah, Tissp, I saw you looking at that other last.fm group too ;-)

Ha, the real reason I looked at it is because I am a bit ill this morning, and feeling a bit spaced out, which also makes me very pliable and cooperative, because the majority of my critical faculties are not working properly--hence, when someone upthread mentioned everyone looking at the group, I actually found myself looking without really realising!

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:38 (nineteen years ago)

(n.b. I have enough critical faculties remaining to avoid distributing free money, so don't bother)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:39 (nineteen years ago)

As did everyone else I bet. FP is going to be checking every 5 mins paranoid that everyone is spying on him ;)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:40 (nineteen years ago)

I still owe you that fiver at any rate!

(xpost)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:40 (nineteen years ago)

Do you? I had completely forgotten (I am good at doing things like that)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

Pandora.com gave me a Kinski track on a Mogwai channel and it was enough to make me go buy an album (Be Gentle With the Warm Turtle). Excellent stuff, but needs to be SERIOUSLY LOUD to be enjoyed to the fullest.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

I am looking forward to playing it very loud in the car on my long drive tomorrow. Which reminds me I need to make Young team go from Vinyl->AAC at some point.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

Kinski cover a Spacemen 3 track. Kate would know that if she looked at the dvds!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

Ed your CD1 is v good and I haven't listened to CD2 yet but now I'm expecting great things.

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

Morning, morning. A warning: do not fall asleep while watching The Pianist (or any Holocaust drama, I would guess), as it makes for very bad sleeping. Awful, awful night's sleep.

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:55 (nineteen years ago)

It's the vindaloo that always gets me.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:58 (nineteen years ago)

I fell asleep on the sofa last night watching some cancelled show on YouTube starring Adam West out of Batman as a delusional washed up actor... marginally less nightmare-inducing than the holocaust though.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:59 (nineteen years ago)

I went to sleep last night after watching a full three episodes of "House", the new best program ever.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 7 August 2006 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

(It wasn't disturbing)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 7 August 2006 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't sleep because I was still coursing on adrenaline from the gig. I've already slipped back into my bad, bad, double espresso with mocha ways and can't get focused.

All I want to think about is freckles. The other night, I even dreamed that *I* had freckles. And was devastated to wake and find them gone. Then last night I dreamed about my sisX0r and R0n A$shet0n making funny videos of them in silver spacesuits, and cleaning all these rotten bananas out of my fridge.

I prefer the freckles.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Monday, 7 August 2006 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

xpost: I would imagine "House" would be ideal to fall asleep too, or at least drift in and out of consciousness while watching a number of episodes. Because it's the same formula for every episode, you could conceivably drift off in the middle of one ep, then wake up half way through the next and not miss a beat.

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 7 August 2006 10:03 (nineteen years ago)

It's the vindaloo that always gets me.

You go to bed with that song in your head? ;)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 7 August 2006 10:10 (nineteen years ago)

You will all have that song in your heads today ALL DAY.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 7 August 2006 10:10 (nineteen years ago)

I actually listened to Vindaloo on Saturday, for the first time in years. Mainly because I was trying to look through Alex's Weird And Wonderful Blur Radio to try and find the heavy, spacerock version of "Far Out". (I swear to GOD, this exists, and I've heard it, but I have no idea where. Why would I make up a chorus that goes "ten million light years wide..."?)

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Monday, 7 August 2006 10:12 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I was rich, so I could afford one of these :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsavSH89euU

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 7 August 2006 10:13 (nineteen years ago)

I would imagine "House" would be ideal to fall asleep too, or at least drift in and out of consciousness while watching a number of episodes. Because it's the same formula for every episode, you could conceivably drift off in the middle of one ep, then wake up half way through the next and not miss a beat.

So true. In fact, we also invented a drinking game for House last night.

I am still addicted to it though, possibly because I can't get enough of Hugh Laurie's performance in it.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 7 August 2006 10:17 (nineteen years ago)

Why do they use those harsh stage lights that flatten out all the freckles? Though you can still see a couple of them hiding up under his eyes:

http://www.peripheralanomaly.co.uk/Photos/Photobands/SecretMachines190106/photos/MancAcad190106_Secret_Machines_056.JPG

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Monday, 7 August 2006 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

My enthusiasm for Hugh Laurie is perhaps exceeded only by kaet's lust for Benjamin C.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 7 August 2006 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

I imagine that House would be another object of Kate's fancy, given the dry, sarcastic, pained character (see also: Bernard Black). Of course, that's assuming she has no prior knowledge of him. Kate?

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 7 August 2006 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

No, I don't fancy Hugh Laurie. Stephen Fry, sometimes, yes, but Hugh Laurie, no.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Monday, 7 August 2006 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/5251952.stm

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 7 August 2006 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Monday, 7 August 2006 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, I'm not sure if that's great or rather worrying. But still.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Monday, 7 August 2006 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

Who would visit that after a bad day?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 7 August 2006 10:34 (nineteen years ago)

Haha classic.

xpost: but do you fancy HOUSE?

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 7 August 2006 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

No, it is Hugh Laurie, ergo, I do not fancy him.

Freckles, freckles, freckles.

I need to stop mucking about and do some actual work today. Bah.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Monday, 7 August 2006 10:37 (nineteen years ago)

In Benjamin's self portrait, he has an INFINITY SYMBOL for a head!!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v327/breeweasley/Drumhead/drumhead006.jpg

THE INFINITE FRECKLE!!!! Oh yes.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Monday, 7 August 2006 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

What age is Benjamin?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 7 August 2006 10:44 (nineteen years ago)

Errr... 27? 28?

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Monday, 7 August 2006 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

That's not his head, that's one of those poofy Elizabethan collars, whatever they're called.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 7 August 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

It is NOT a ruff. Though actually, he's so into dressing like a pirate, I wouldn't put it past him to wear a ruff.

It is an INFINITY SYMBOL. Because he has an infinite head.

(Wait, isn't that a Flaming Lips album? I think one of them went to school with the Flaming Lips, though.)

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Monday, 7 August 2006 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

Oh god, I've been drooling over the Shure stite. I'm still a big fan of the SM58, but I might just be tempted into this:

http://www.shure.com/ProAudio/Products/WiredMicrophones/us_pro_KSM27-SL_content

(I'm not even looking at the top of the line £600 one because at that price you might as well get a Neumann.)

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Monday, 7 August 2006 11:14 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I'm not sure what The Four Horsemen is supposed to sound like. A bit like Sympathy For The Devil, but that's probably not what you meant. Hurrah for rock operas.

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Monday, 7 August 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

Bah. Go listen to Urban Hymns.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 7 August 2006 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

Bleurgh. Why would I want to do a thing like that?

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Monday, 7 August 2006 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

Hi all. I haven't read the whole thing to cathc up, but a few comments:

Sometimes I fancy Stephen Fry, so it's not TOO uncommon.

I dunno how all freckles are removed by TV etc, but they always are. Is it that weird anti-shine foundation? Which is a shame: I have spoken of my love for all things freckly before.

I was at WOMAD weekend before last. Who wants to see me dressed as a tiger?

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 7 August 2006 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

Yes! I want to see you dressed as a tiger!

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Monday, 7 August 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.joemeek.com/jm47.html

http://www.coleselectroacoustics.com/images/4038studioribbon.jpg

― Ed (dali), Monday, 7 August 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

Bah, photos must be at home, I'll post them tonight or tomorrow.

Going up to random cute hippy chixors and going "grrrrr!" at them is more fun than I imagined. Then they'd stroke my tail - mmmmm!

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 7 August 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

$300... that's not bad, actually. Lord knows what that would be in Hong Kong currency.

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Monday, 7 August 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

hk dollars are TINY, it takes nearly fifteen of them to make a single pound!

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 7 August 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

Check http://www.xe.com/ucc/

Kate i'm playing that mp3.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 7 August 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, let me know what you think of the Dronerock Fairy's latest delivery, Kerr.

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Monday, 7 August 2006 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

I should set myself up as the basic channel fairy.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 7 August 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, Kerr likes Benjamin's music when his whiny emo brother isn't singing!

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Monday, 7 August 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

I liked it, Kate. No whiny vocals there at all.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 7 August 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I had the new Circulus album. Why can't labels release the vinyl same time as the cd!!!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 7 August 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

I effing hate all of these different IM clients. I have a friend whose IT boffins not only prevent her from adding various little helper programs (like IM clients), but also have locked her out of yahoo mail! (Is that typical?)

They use some kind of MSN IM client internally, but despite the fact that they're now supposed to be interoperable with yahoo, we can't figure out how to connect. Grr. I've already caved by added yahoo messenger, I REALLY don't want to put Microsoft Messenger on as well...

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 7 August 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

You can get multi-IM clients (Gaim on PC, Adium on Mac for example)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 7 August 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

Well, that I guess that helps marginally, i.e., running only 1. Adium and not 1. Yahoo Messenger and 2. Microsoft Messenger. But I still had to sign up with MSN to do it. Next I'll have to sign up for AIM, I guess...

Thanks!

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

All these mysterious files in my mail. SO STRANGE. ;-)

Hello all. Mmm, sleepy.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, blimey! I went out to get the Circulus album and ended up getting a gold brocade skirt for £15 as well! Took me long enough to wait in the queue, though. Gah.

I will see if I can figure out how to be the Baroque Prog Fairy.

I couldn't make up my mind whether to buy Trans Europe Express or Autobahn, though, so in the end I bought neither. And hope that the Krautrock Fairy might take pity on me.

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

Brocade skirts should come free with Circulus albums.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

Baroque Brocade Skirts, indeed.

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

I can only be the minimalist krauk fairy.

i have also ordered the circulus album, the vinyl version as I won't be able to listen to it until I get back from camp anyway.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

Mitya you on a mac? Try fire?

Tomorrow I have to go to foyles.... and it's near new fopp... I'm going to spend money I don't have :(

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

Foyles... mmmmmm... OH GOD, I JUST SPENT £30!!! How did that happen?!?!?

And I was trying not to spend money this week. Bah.

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

OOOOHHH I can't wait for the baroque fairy. 192 bitrate pwease!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

You get what you get. I haven't been able to figure out how to change any of the settings on this thing.

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

I REALLY don't want to put Microsoft Messenger on as well.

Thats because you don't wanna chat to me on MSN :( I'm on AIM too. I have yahoo but I never ever use it. Signed up for it years ago lord knows why. Same with ICQ , had that 6 years and Haven't used it in like 5.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

I find chatting on AIM ony marginally less embarrassing than chatting in real life. Unless I'm drunk.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

I have AIM, Yahoo and MSN, but rarely use any of them.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

Send him 320 Kate -- one of those Heads albums was HUGE. 7 songs and over 100 Mb! Urgh!

If your MSN is different from your address here, pm me on last.fm. You probably signed up for the same reason everyone else does, i.e., it seems neat until you realize that these things are only useful if you know other people "in network".

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

I already did ,mitya

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

I've always had msn and have loads of contacts. But then suddenly people were using AIM and i had to give in a couple of years ago and get it.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, peoples on TSM are teasing me about dentists. Brandon's teeth have put the fear of god into me, and I've got to find a dentist before I end up with a mouth like that.

I know I need at least one tooth just replaced outright. If I do, though, I want a gold tooth so I look like a pirate.

Should I even bother with the NHS or should I just take out a loan and go private?

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

No gold teeth, Kate, pleeeeeeeeese!!!

See you tomorrow people.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

Have a good one, Mitya.

Argh, who sampled this Aphrodite's Child song? "Seven Bowls". I want to say Enigma sampled it on Sadeness, but I'm not sure.

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

Did you listen to that mp3 I sent you so you could see what ripped off "The Four Horsemen"?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

This is almost like a YSI fest in here. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

No, but I've not finished listening to the album yet!

I don't actually want to have to listen to it. I'll feel ... dirty. I mean, The Verve in ripping off someone other than the Rolling Stones shockah?!?!

DON'T SAY THAT WORD, NED!!! x-post

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

New boots:

http://www.pbase.com/tmeyer/image/64644089.jpg

Please tell me those are cowboy boots, and not brown suede chelsea boots like I have been lusting after all week. Eep.

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

He meantYES fest. He's been listening to Yes.
(urgh-post)

no not to kates pic

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

hurrah I got a visit from the psychedelic baroque n roll prog fairy.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

OK, cool, it worked.

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

He meantYES fest. He's been listening to Yes.

Precisely.

ANYWAY, speaking of music, various Mysterious Tunes arrived in the regular mail the other day. Now I wonder who sent them. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

Perhaps you are being stalked by music.

― C J (C J), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

It pursues me and never gives me rest. :-/

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, that was quick if they are the Mysterious Tunes I think they are...

Was there a picture of berries and/or pink wine on the cover?

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

Was it a CD of Cliff Richard singing Mistletoe and Wine??

― C J (C J), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

They are the ones you think they are, Kate. CJ, you main me to my heart and I cry.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

Is that like 'maim'?

― C J (C J), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

No, he means like Robert (From Loop).

Who is in my heart, definitely.

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

― C J (C J), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

When I say "I have AIM, MSN and Yahoo", I mean "I have three accounts but one program to handle them all". Having three different messenger programs open at once is the path to madness! Madness, I tell you! Especially as they're all awful and seem to insist on taking over half your screen.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

Bonjour! How are things for you all on this cool cloudy Tuesday morning?

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 06:57 (nineteen years ago)

Tiring.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 07:02 (nineteen years ago)

Mentally or physically tiring? Are things any better for you at work yet, FP? How's your boss treating you?

I've just made some super-strong coffee to try and kick-start my brain. I am so in need of a holiday.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 07:15 (nineteen years ago)

Pissed off. My White Box set(Sunno))) ) arrived, which is good. But the postie says theres another parcel at the post office and theres a bloody customs charge for £8. Dunno what it is. But this box was the only expensive thing I ordered.
If its that lp i ordered from neurot months and months ago that everyones had hassle with i will be REALLY pissed off.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 07:24 (nineteen years ago)

Are things any better for you at work yet, FP? How's your boss treating you?

Not really. The boss hasn;t been sighted lately, though, touch wood.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 07:28 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going away today, woo!

Also Kinski->woo!

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 08:13 (nineteen years ago)

Morning! Wish we could have duvet days. I'm constantly surprised at the fact I get up for work on time every day without someone to shout at me.

Ed where you off to?

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 08:18 (nineteen years ago)

Woo Ed!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 08:19 (nineteen years ago)

Back. It was a Jesu pic disk i pre ordered 3 months ago and had forgotten about. Bloody customs.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 08:22 (nineteen years ago)

Woo for going away!

I'm feeling a bit... meh today. Which is nothing new. But the weather is nice, which is a relief.

And I dreamed about TSM, but I ended up making out with the wrong brother! And I was all "eh, no, this isnt' right at all. I thought we were having a good time, and now you're going all rapey? Quit it!"

Which probably says something but I'm not sure what.

Though we were on the paisley rocks in Central Park. There's a picture of me, tripping my face off, wearing a sparkly paisley dress, having drawn chalk paisleys all over the rocks, and someone went "ohmigod, the psychedelic chameleon, you turned the rocks paisley!"

But that's neither here nor there. I need a holiday, too. My mum has invited herself on my Shetland holiday. I'm kinda ambivalent about that. We've been getting along really well lately, so it might be good. Especially as she's good at organising things when I'm not. But if we fight, it could be hell...

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 08:24 (nineteen years ago)

Could you have a with-mum bit and a without-mum bit?

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 08:25 (nineteen years ago)

My project seems intent on flowing into my vacation, so I may try to head up to the Arctic Circle next week, if I can ever make any progress. Hmm... Should start planning, actually.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 08:29 (nineteen years ago)

I think I want another holiday now pls

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 08:29 (nineteen years ago)

Artic Circle? That sounds amazing! I want to go there. I bet it's really cold and there are no people for miles and miles.

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

I really want a holiday too. But staff will be down to two tomorrow and by the end of next week probably just one - me :(

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 08:35 (nineteen years ago)

I had a look in Smiths while I was down the town. Circulus album got 9/10 in terrorizer and 3/5 in Mojo.
It was last weeks NME Oasis Knebworth special that was there and no review of Circulus.
What do you think of it, Kate? (the Circulus that is, not the NME)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 08:36 (nineteen years ago)

Fed up. I ordered a couple of bikes for a couple, and they keep trying to beat me down on price. the supplier delivered a week late, and the guy phoned up, "this is not acceptable" etc, which is fair enough, but then he starts on "I think we should have some kind of consideration from the supplier" IE he wants them even cheaper. Also, he proposed that he bring in a cheque that his partner had filled in and signed elsewhere (she's abroad) to pay for them. He's got to be fucking kidding, obv! I'm going to let 1000 worth of goods out of the shop on receipt of a piece of paper that's potentially worthless? I think I'm going to refund their deposit, I'm getting a really, really bad feeling about these people.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

Mitya what will you get up to in the Arctic?

Ugh run away Pashmina, I reckon you should trust your instincts. Hold the bikes for them till his partner comes back maybe?

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 08:40 (nineteen years ago)

I'm planning to refund their deposit, and put the bikes into stock. They're good bikes, I shopuld be able to sell them reasonably quickly.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

Off to wales to take kids camping, it's going to be lovely, the weather looks set mild as well for the foreseeable.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 08:50 (nineteen years ago)

I love holidaying in Wales :)

I was watching that "Coast" programme on UKTV History again the other day, and it was the bit where they went around the coast of Wales. They showed the inside of Paviland Cave on the Gower Peninsula, where the red-painted bones of a human (they thought it was a woman, turned out it was a man) dating back 26,000 years had been found. Amazing.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 08:56 (nineteen years ago)

There was an article about costal walks in Country Life this week.

ILM is depressing me at the moment. (Yes, I know, what do you mean, at the moment?) The rampant sexism has finally driven me over the edge, and I don't think I'm going to go on it any more.

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 08:59 (nineteen years ago)

Arrrgh I miss my Welsh summer holidays :(

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 09:03 (nineteen years ago)

Which particular rampant sexism?

I must admit, it's been like a background noise that's got louder and louder over the last few years. C*l*m was a harbinger of the future, perhaps.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 09:13 (nineteen years ago)

I think "rampant" is inaccurate.

(hello)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 09:14 (nineteen years ago)

It just really winds me up, whenever there's a thread about female bands (the Pipettes, Puppini Sisters, etc.) people feel justified to be so much NASTIER on a personal level that has nothing to do with the music than they ever seem to be about male bands.

I dunno, maybe they are and I don't notice when it's aimed at men - people wishing death on Pete Doherty, etc.

There's one or two posters that they moment I see them start to post on a thread, I just know I have to leave.

Anyway... whatever. Nothing's really changed in a while. I've just got more sensitive to it, I think.

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 09:22 (nineteen years ago)

...I'm starting to notice a trend in Shimuras press, where they always have to mention that we are "all female" when they never mention of other bands that they are "all male". Like, what is the point?

Don't answer that. I'm still puzzling over my dream about that well known all male band, TSM.

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 09:23 (nineteen years ago)

Have anyone else's last.fm neighbours and radio things inexplicably fucked off?

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 09:25 (nineteen years ago)

My neighbours have gone, dunno about the radio stations.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 09:26 (nineteen years ago)

Phew. I thought I was all alone for a minute.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 09:28 (nineteen years ago)

Look at those teeth.

http://thesecretmachines.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/brandonsal2.jpg

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://thesecretmachines.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/normal_12%7E1.jpg

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

Haha I just sussed who secret maschinen pouty boi reminds me of:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEq8S-WjSdE

Young PG was so hott.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 09:52 (nineteen years ago)

'kinell... YouTube never wants to work for me. I got a few seconds of Phil Collins with HAIR (?!?!?) then Peter Gabriel looking like a Secret Machine, and then it froze. Bah.

But yeah, you're kinda right. Shameful. Do you think we can get Benjamin to prance about with a flower on his head?

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

I am drinking coffee. It is the only way to stay sharp. I am going to end up addicted again. Bah.

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

ONE OF US! ONE OF US!

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 10:02 (nineteen years ago)

I think the trick with youtube is to hit pause as soon as it starts loading, otherwise it runs with the sound out of sync, freezes etc.

That clip is from a performance they did for belgian tv, it used to be on the telly here a bit as part of a series called "rock of the seventies". I love that version of the band (circa "nursery cryme") so much, more than anything else, really. They got a bit slick after that, lost a bit of their gnarliness. (drones on and on abt "nursery cryme" for hours and hours)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 10:06 (nineteen years ago)

I don't have interweb sound at all, so that's not what bothers me. Frames start moving out of synch with each other, then the screen freezes and my browser crashes.

Anyway, I've put on Kraftwerk because I've finished my coffee and it's time to get to work.

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 10:09 (nineteen years ago)

This is for all you last.fm suckahs.

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 10:50 (nineteen years ago)

ILM is depressing me at the moment. (Yes, I know, what do you mean, at the moment?) The rampant sexism has finally driven me over the edge, and I don't think I'm going to go on it any more.

Hey I started the puppini sisters thread, and theres nothing sexist about it. It wouldn't have been any different had it been the puppini brothers!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

I read missamps article on last fm in Plan B.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

My internet went away for a while but now it's back.

Mitya what will you get up to in the Arctic?

Oh, I don't know. There's a monastery on an island up there. Walk around, take pictures, be cold, eat fish. (Drink vodka?)

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

It wouldn't have been any different had it been the puppini brothers!

Really? You *really* believe that the responses wouldn't have been any different? Would you even have started the thread has it been the Puppini Brothers? Would it have had more than 3 responses going "meh, don't care"?

Oh, forget it. Like I said, I give up on ILM.

Monastary in the arctic sounds nice.

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

Of course I would've started it had it been the Puppini Brothers.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

That video norman posted. Phil Collins with long hair haha.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

Morning!

Arctic sounds good. Monastery + vodka sounds good too. I think I'd make a rubbish monk...

Missamp's last.fm piece is interesting. I'm jealous of my privacy to a large extent when it comes to The Authorities but I have a blind spot with things like last.fm.

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 07:59 (nineteen years ago)

Bleeedin' eck... what happened with ILX yesterday? Couldn't get on it at all.

What are you talking about, monastaries and vodka don't mix? Many of the best vices were invented by monks - from cappuccino (Cappucine Monks) to Frangelico (Fra Angelico = Brother Angel)! Loads of liquors were made by monks. You think the clergy don't DRINK?!?!? Meet some! Jay-sus!

New pictures of Los Bros Curtis posted on the TSM board. Benjamin has done something tragic to his hair.

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

Eh, who said monasteries and vodka don't mix?

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 08:37 (nineteen years ago)

Gah, I've just read Andrew's thread and now I'm really depressed.

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

http://thesecretmachines.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/brandonsal2.jpg

wait, this isn't Grant Hart?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/55/Huskerdu_pub_SST.jpg

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 08:40 (nineteen years ago)

Wow! Good day for lookalikes, this! (just saw the Ed the Chef one over at wdyll as well)

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

Errrr... blimey.

Bah, I was in a good mood this morning, and now I'm all freaked out about ILX going bye-bye.

Sat up all last night writing music (got the guitar out just for pleasure for the first time in ages, and came up with a riff that had to be arranged, so out came the keyboard etc.) but then went to bed with an attack of the raging existential angsts.

I hate those. It's not like a thoughtworm you can CBT through, it's actual "what is the purpose of life, why are we here, I cannot see a reason for my existence" type crap (I suspect caused by and answered by equally all the science books I read) which fills me with the worst dread. :-(

Do reading science books to find out what it is all about make the existential dread better or worse?

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 08:50 (nineteen years ago)

Makes no difference I think. If you're a person who gets ext/angst then it doesn't matter what the trigger is.

There's no big purpose. I find that liberating.

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 08:53 (nineteen years ago)

If there's no purpose, then why should I bother staying alive, continuing to pay the mortgage, writing songs, doing anything? I am an isolated little leaf floating in a giant river and why does my continued existence make a difference?

But then there's chaos theory, and the idea that one little leaf could have huge, unforeseeable consequences...

But most science books come down to the basic biological fact that the purpose of life is to propegate one's genes. And if that isn't going to happen, why keep... bothering?

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 08:57 (nineteen years ago)

Consequences, yes. Not the same as purpose. If one were inconsequential, then 'why bother' would make sense. But nobody is inconsequential. A side effect of the conscious self is the concept of legacy, which is one driver for maintaining existence. You've added to the sum of human experience through creative output. The human brain has evolved to see that often as a similar achievement to having children.

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

Today on watercooler: the meaning of life. Tune in tomorrow for gardening tips. :)

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 09:04 (nineteen years ago)

That's a myth invented by men to compensate for the fact that they biologically do not bear children, putting creative work on a par with the propegation of the species.

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 09:04 (nineteen years ago)

[citation needed]

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 09:08 (nineteen years ago)

ie, do you really think so, Kate? Do you not feel a drive towards expressing yourself?

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

I feel like crying.

The drive to make music is as real as the drive to eat or sleep, maybe even more real than the desire to have sex. But I still think it's bollocks diversion technique.

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

I think making babies is something of a red herring here - well done, there's more pointless beings on this pointless planet than before, here's a badge.

I always thought that my life's pointlessness was kinda cool, liberating. Postmodern nihilism, or something. If nothing I do really matters, than nothing I do has any real nasty consequences, which means I can do ANYTHING. If I was a bad person this would be thinking gone wrong, but it's all okay because I'm a nice guy.

Of course, you can FEEL different, like why am I bothering slugging my guts out when it doesn't matter, if there' no point why stop, and so on, but that's not really helpful. A body in motion stays in motion, after all.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

I hate gardening.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 09:12 (nineteen years ago)

doing stuff is fun!

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 09:12 (nineteen years ago)

Exactly, doing stuff is fun. I don';t know about you guys, but I tend to get existantial angst and question the way my life's going when I'm NOT doing stuff; it's the LACK of doing stuff that triggers my darkdays.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 09:17 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't say making babies, I said propegating one's DNA. Get one Selfish Gene.

Trust me, if this were just a stupid clicking biological clock ticking I know how to deal with that like the stupid woman I am.

Oh, forget I even brought it up. Why won't YouTube ever work for me? I've got sound today and I want to watch TSM live in Japan, but the sound is OK, and the image just flickers all over the place.

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 09:18 (nineteen years ago)

That's a myth invented by men to compensate for the fact that they biologically do not bear children, putting creative work on a par with the propegation of the species.

Up to a point. It's true that it isn't a good comparison - they aren't equivalent cos you can't measure that sort of difference. But I don't think propagating the species is all there is to life. And it's not because I can't give birth, it's because there's room for improvement in the living conditions of everybody on the planet. Some need greater and more urgent improvement than others. Life without ambition (I don't mean simply personal advancement) is a frustration. There'd be no point if nobody had children, of course, but there still needs to be activity beyond baby-making. I don't think acknowledging fact that devalues childbirth.

Trust me, if this were just a stupid clicking biological clock ticking I know how to deal with that like the stupid woman I am.

Nobody was that patronising! It's an interesting topic and worth discussing I think.

Anyway, re youtube - what browser are you using?

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 09:24 (nineteen years ago)

It's not the browser, it's the stupid bloody citrixed server/firewall proxy thing or whatevs. Never mind. I'm listening to Krautrock instead now because I'm trying to get Immer Wieder out of mine head.

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 09:35 (nineteen years ago)

I think maybe I should start taking drugs again. Then everything will make sense. Or at least, I won't care.

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

POXYFULING KILLED THE BABY JESUS

Hello all.

*changes subject to avoid staring into the void*

I think the 'cooler's collective tastes are getting to me--today on the tube I listened to a Boris song all the way through without skipping. Just rolling, surrounding, noise for six minutes; no verse, chorus, melody, understandable lyrics--i.e., all the things I most love about pop!

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 10:14 (nineteen years ago)

Cooler's Collective Tastes? Argh, are we like the dronerock borg?

I think it's only a couple of particularly outspoken Coolers who have those particular tastes.

I don't seem to want to listen to anything that isn't Kraftwerk at the moment. I must be going through my "electronic" phase or something.

― The Cooler Collective's Tastes (kate), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 10:44 (nineteen years ago)

Man, my curry has been rubbish this week. It's like someone picked out all the cheese leaving me with nothing but parsnip and carrot.

― The Cooler Collective's Tastes (kate), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

hur hur "phase" hur hur.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

This may come as a surprise, but I've never been much of a Kraftwerk fan before.

Unless you are suggesting that phase is a pun on the effect that they use a lot of...

― The Cooler Collective's Tastes (kate), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

where do i fit in, taking into consideration the fact that i have NO TASTE?

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

It was that, and the meta-joke that I was laughing at "flange" again but I'd got it wrong.

(somewhat trite) words on pointlessness: http://dir.salon.com/story/books/col/void/2002/07/19/hopeless/index.html

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 11:11 (nineteen years ago)

hopelessness != pointlessness

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

No, hopelessness does not equal pointlessness, but can the first can derive from the second, and tends to, for me at least. Of course, an argument can be made that the latter could just as well be a product of the former.

I wasn't trying to imply some sort of watercooler hivemind (I did say tastes), just the majority of the music talked about here that I don't often listen to tends to be droney, noisy, spacy. My statement was a positive one, albeit somewhat facetious. The point (for me) is that I've always liked drone and noise much more in theory than in actual listening practice, and that I may be changing in that respect. Maybe.

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

I don't feel hopeless... I have a lot of little things that I am hoping for, and looking forward to. But the pointlessness of it all sometimes rises up like it's going to choke me.

Especially in times of stress. And the idea that the teat of ILX is going to be taken away from me - I find that incredibly stressful. I mean, it is the single longest continuous thing in my life. I've been on ILX for 6 years - that's longer than any job I've ever had, any school I ever attended, any band I've ever been in, any house I've lived in as an adult, any relationship I've ever been in - indeed, longer than most friendships in my life have lasted.

So, when I see that bit of stability being threatened...

And all the people going "just let go..." etc. It's like... why are you saying that when it obviously means so much to so many people? Just because you're addicted and you can't leave is no reason to kill off something that means so much to other people. Pardon me for being attached to the longest-running community I've ever been a part of.

:-(

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

I want to listen to Immer Wieder but I don't have it at work.

:-(

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

It seems I'm going to see Madonna tonight. That was unexpected.

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, I'm kinda jealous.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

I'm excited! (Sorry, not trying to gloat)

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

How did this happen? Did you just win tickets in a contest, or did someone give/buy them for you?

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

kaet otm about ilx possible death. of course it'd be a shame.

the "let go" brigade remind me of the CS kids on the Steam Forums that MOAN and MOAN about the game they despise, yet, for some strange reason, can't stop playing.

internet hardmen, SO MACHO.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

The Harmonia song? Great to see a pic of the Huskers upthread!!!!
x-posts

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

Well, yeah, I've been listening to Der Sekretmaschines version for days.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, that would be Das Geheimmaschines. My German is apalling.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

I've been given a ticket, along with my sister and a few others. (Can't go into too much detail but I'll tell you when I next see you.) They're quite good seats apparently. I haven't willingly listened to Madonna since Papa Don't Preach so this should be interesting.

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, she puts on a good show, though! (apparently - I've never seen her live.)

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

To actually download from Why Ess Aye now do you need to register? You don't to send, I know that.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

Nah, I was downloading for ages before I sent anything. I just registered because I thought you had to.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

So I've heard - just had lunch with someone who saw her in Cardiff. I've nicked her mp3 player so I can listen to the new album as I go home.

xxpost

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

Dankeschön, Krautrock Zauberkünstler!

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

OK, this PWNS Das Geheimmaschines.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

No, I mean when i try to go to the links i bookmarked when sending stuff its now asking me to register and sign in before i can download.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, yeah, it asked me to sign in, which it's never done before, but I thought that was because I registered yesterday.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

No, its now saying you must log in to download.

Time to create an email just for that purpose then.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm... what is this death of ILX talk? Must scroll back...

Summing up today:

"Dear Idiot,
If you don't want to participate in my research, please advise me of that fact initially, rather than agreeing to meet, but only in eight days, then keeping me waiting 30 minutes in reception, and then hustling me in and out of your office in under 10 minutes.
Yours sincerely,"

"Dear 'Friend,'
I'm glad you're rich and important now. If I had known that I would have to chase you for three weeks and then still not get the three lousy referrals that only you could provide me with, then I never would have intervened on your behalf with the embassy - contrary to all rules - so you and your wife could GO ON VACATION in my country. May the tax police raid your bank while you're away.
Yours sincerely,"

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

Bah, that sounds rubbish.

Has anyone bought the NME today? I know that's asking for a torrent of abuse, but I just want to know if we're in it before I shell out the money to buy it myself.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

the world's gone pretty mad today. or is it just me?

no nme here, sorry.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

...trying to think where the nearest newsagent is.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

no kit, the world has indeed gone mad today

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

I wasn't out today to even read it in smiths.
x-post

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

world is goen mad, oh noes!

the sun came back! i wanna play frisbee!

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

Just across Kingsway? Oh no - right next to your work!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

...no, of course not. Bah. Actually, I should be relieved because the reviewer followed the usual "are there girls in? compare them to the Pipettes!" formula WRT the Schla La Las.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

in Kerrang, i was compared to Patsy Palmer.
feel better?

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha!

Gah, I hate when ILX goes all meta and implosive like this.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

I want to talk about the relationship between mathematical ability and musical ability... and also the fundamental basis of much of music in maths.

I was trying to explain my job to one of the spacerock kiddies on TSM board, and it was almost like... "well, I look for the harmonics of our data, by using numbers."

Is it more than pattern recognition?

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

My spy has ascertained why 'Friend,' noted above, did not want to meet with me. I await the news eagerly. The first thing that jumps to mind is that he's being fired, although it will probably be something more prosaic. Or absurd. ("He was afraid you really wanted to go out to dinner with him and weren't just saying that to be polite.")

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

Who put that pic up on the watercooler last fm group page?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

Autechre to thread (xposts)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

My Maths Granny was very into music, and was a fantastic musician. She was the first person that taught me how to play piano. I can't help but think I've inherited both abilities from her.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

I have no maths or musical skills.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

I did. They are probably still in there somewhere, but criminally underused these days.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

Just seen the lineup for Reading/Leeds. Exactly two women on the Main Stage, all weekend. Her out of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and I think there's a girl that plays bass in the Subways.

Why do I notice these things? Why do I care?

It's not like I'm keeping count or anything. But it just seems to me to be such a glaring omission I can't not notice it. :-(

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

Need more women to form bands? or are there plenty but they get ignored because theyre women? (serious question, I don't know the answer)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

The latter.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

Need more people to buy records by bands with women in them to push them up the bill at festivals, surely - i.e. they need to make music that people want to listen to en masse.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

It's not that simple. It takes more than making listenable music to get people to buy records - it takes a certain amount of exposure and promotion and media attention - which just isn't given to female musicians any more. :-(

But I'm going to get depressed if I start talking about this.

I'd rather translate Geheimmaschinen lyrics into German and back for giggles.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

Boris, and Major Stars should be on the bill then. Theres females in them. So Kates right, there probably is plenty of good bands out there.
Half of the bands I have stuff by I have no idea who is in them as i've never seen them live and theres no pics in the cds/albums.
I'm sure Ned will know more about who is in the bands that are mentioned on watercooler.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

I always thought there was a link between music and maths. When I was in school, and in the school orchestra, most of us who were musical were also good at things like maths and the sciences.

― jellybean (jellybean), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 23:54 (nineteen years ago)

um: 5:38. woke up and started worrying about stuff. gave up trying to go back to sleep after an hour and thought ile would take my mind off things. not sure it has worked (had emails to send anyway so...). am now just posting for the novelty of it. first time in two days there's been a lull in the spacerock talk for the rest of us to get a word in edgeways as well... 8)

btw, cheese in curry. wtf?

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Thursday, 10 August 2006 03:40 (nineteen years ago)

Re: girls in bands (I said I wouldn't get into this, but...) Blaming "sexism" is too simple, unless you describe supposed sexism in a more complex way. That is:
1. Are we counting all women or just all female bands? Surely there are fewer all female "bands" (ie., rock). Perhaps if you expanded to include all musical groups (ie., pop/singing only groups) then the proportion might be closer to even.
2. If we are simply counting individual women, then the question are there a "disproportionate" number of all male groups out there? (Yes, probably.) Does the sexism lie in male musicians not letting women into their club (ie., band)? Why?

It's that last bit that I am most inclined to blame, rather than people (and promoters) not liking bands with women in them. That said, I also think you simply have to take into account taste. Nothing you can tell me at this point in my life will convince me that - generalizing!! - women's taste doesn't lean towards music that is more pop/dance oriented. And we all know how well fans of Girls Aloud and Mastodon are going to get along together. While most of your individual points may be valid, Kate, blaming the Reading lineup on lack of exposure and media attention given to women is just bollocks. (Nothing personal.)

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 10 August 2006 04:03 (nineteen years ago)

I should stick to quips on these boards. My attempts to sound sensible never work out, for some reason.

Cheese in curry seems no stranger, IMO, than fruit curries, which an ex of mine use to love to fix. Saag paneer is one of my favorite indian dishes.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 10 August 2006 04:06 (nineteen years ago)

Just seen the lineup for Reading/Leeds. Exactly two women on the Main Stage, all weekend. Her out of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and I think there's a girl that plays bass in the Subways

There's a girl in Belle and Sebastian too.

Cheese in curries is brilliant. Really. Try some!

I'm off to work now, may pop back in later on.

there's been a lull in the spacerock talk for the rest of us to get a word in edgeways as well... 8)

Haha. Indeed. That "this is dull as fuck for the rest of us" worked, didn't it :-)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 10 August 2006 05:51 (nineteen years ago)

Does the sexism lie in male musicians not letting women into their club (ie., band)?

Considering that you're talking to a member of an all-girl band, this is a pretty staggeringly stupid statement.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 10 August 2006 06:52 (nineteen years ago)

Not really Andrew, unless you choose to ignore the entire history of gender relations and the power balance between men and women, from which pop music is hardly exempt.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 10 August 2006 07:11 (nineteen years ago)

has just taken me 20 minutes to realise i couldn't hear anything because i had the wrong earphones in. is going to be one of those days...

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Thursday, 10 August 2006 08:13 (nineteen years ago)

Cheese in curries! Sag paneer! God's gift to the curry world!

2. If we are simply counting individual women, then the question are there a "disproportionate" number of all male groups out there? (Yes, probably.) Does the sexism lie in male musicians not letting women into their club (ie., band)? Why?

Yes, it's simplistic to blame it on lack of exposure. But it's even more simplistic to blame it on "girls just need to make better music." But it's not just the male musicians not letting women into their club. It's the musicians, the music jouralists, record companies, magazines (an ex bandmate did a thesis on counting the number of women's faces in photos in various magazines from the NME to Mojo to Smash Hits), boys club mentalities of fan communities - like ILM.

There are a HUGELY disproportionate number of all male bands out there. Yet no one ever seems to mention or even notice this - it's only ever pointed out if there is an all female group.

It's not even about ALL FEMALE bands (treated as an aberration in an of themselves, because people notice the gender split there.)

Most of my favourite bands ever - from the Velvet Underground to Stereolab, My Bloody Valentine, Lush, classic era Spiritualized (yes, even Kate Radley gets a lookin) etc. etc. - have been mixed gender, balanced between male and female, with vastly positive results for the music. (I like the idea of a mix of Mastodon and Sugababes, that sounds a lot more intriguing than either on its own.)

Maybe this is because I idealise the music of a certain era - when I was college-aged. We all do. But why does it seem like music as a whole (society as a whole?) has stepped BACK from a more gender aligned approach to music, to the old segregation again.

Maybe I'm part of this, I play in an all girl band now when I've always been in gender mixed bands.

I'm just venting, I guess, or noticing a divide that is getting sharper after lovely blurring for so long.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 08:15 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, that was long. I didn't intend it to be.

This made my day, though:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b356/olem/shimuracurves.jpg

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 08:21 (nineteen years ago)

Everything very sad and subdued at work today - we found out last night that our colleague's baby which was due last week has died. Don't know if it was stillborn or died during the birth or what yet, he was understandably not very coherent with the details.

The pain of this is obviously quite real to the two of us who are pregnant. But mainly I just feel horrified for him that he's going to (eventually) come back to work and be surrounded by happy pregnant people.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 10 August 2006 08:22 (nineteen years ago)

Morning!

Maybe the situation has got a little better in recent years but as a society we're more aware of it. Lack of data undermines this suggestion though.

Archel: Oh no! That's horrible.

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 10 August 2006 08:24 (nineteen years ago)

Ohmigod, Archel, I'm so sorry to hear that. That's awful. :-(

Beanz, the situation improved for a period during the late 80s and 90s, but seems to have worsened again.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 08:27 (nineteen years ago)

> There are a HUGELY disproportionate number of all male bands out there. Yet no one ever seems to mention or even notice this - it's only ever pointed out if there is an all female group.

there are also a lot of monkeys out there in the world but they only get on the news when they start stealing mobile phones - the exceptions get remarked upon, not the norm. lumping all the phone-stealing monkeys in together is lazy though.

(got fed up of all male guitary bands some time ago and shifted towards more electronic / techno side of things. oh wait...)

xpost.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Thursday, 10 August 2006 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

Considering that you're talking to a member of an all-girl band, this is a pretty staggeringly stupid statement.

Call me slow (or agitated by the idiots I am dealing with today) but I don't understand what's even vaguely stupid in that statement. Unless the Shimuras exist because all four of them wanted to be in bands, but no guys would let them in, so they had to form their own. I find it hard to believe that that is actually "The Shimura Curves Story."

I agree with you about the "girls just need to make better music" argument being stupid, but I think it's so because it only makes any sense if there are lots of all-female bands out there that can't the support you talk about. Otherwise we're just talking about the unformed mass of bands out there that have both men and women in them. Then things get messy, both because a meritocratic argument WOULD make sense, but also because we all know that different scenes come and go in fashion. Who remembers the wave of female singer-songwriters from the early 90s (around Tracy Chapman's time).

I am certainly not disagreeing with your observation, just trying to think harder about why it may be so. Again, suggestions for discussion:
1. Sexism in men who don't want girls in their band;
2. Speaking in broad generalizations, differences in "average" taste in music between men and women combined with changing styles of music over time. For example, there was emo all over that Reading lineup. Are there any girls in emo bands?

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 10 August 2006 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

Only 3 days to go, ebayers

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 10 August 2006 08:35 (nineteen years ago)

Eh, if I have to pick it up myself, I'm not interested.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 10 August 2006 08:40 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, but you could fly her home...

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

If it comes without weaponry, I'm not interested.

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 10 August 2006 08:48 (nineteen years ago)

Not without any engines you can't. xpost

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 10 August 2006 08:50 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm I am 500 posts behind on this thread and I shouldn't really spend an hour of company time catching up. Would anyone give me the highlights?

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Thursday, 10 August 2006 08:50 (nineteen years ago)

Also, time for a new nickname. This one is crap. Help?

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Thursday, 10 August 2006 08:50 (nineteen years ago)

This is kind of an encapsulation of what's happened:

http://www.kittenrecords.co.uk/slypics/waterloller2.jpg

Also, errr... Emsk went to Hong Kong, Ed went camping, FP had a fite with his nasty boss, Kerr sent everyone a lot of dronerock, we all posted pictures of where we went to school and err... I bitched about dating sites and decided that I'd rather just lust over Curtis Brothers than be bothered with any of it.

And some other stuffs.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 08:55 (nineteen years ago)

Hi Mark! Maybe you should spend an hour of lunch time in a pub with me though? (Can't do this week though)

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 10 August 2006 09:04 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, you're too busy hobnobbing with Madonna, you lucky sod.

It is taking every ounce of self control not to make remarks about "Benjamin's infinite head" on TSM board.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 09:05 (nineteen years ago)

The symmetry between this symbol:

http://home.aol.com/MartinM377/gif/cancer69.jpg

and this one:

http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byorg/abbey/ap/img/infinity.gif

God, I need to get laid. :-(

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 09:16 (nineteen years ago)

It was fun! Her voice is a bit wobbly, and I didn't know any of the tunes from the last album or two, and I agree with the reviewer who said it was all symbolism and no meaning. Wait, no I don't. It was pop art and she's dead good at it.

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 10 August 2006 09:17 (nineteen years ago)

I ain't never gonna get no work done if people don't stop sending me links like this: http://tinyurl.com/8y9xr

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 10 August 2006 09:20 (nineteen years ago)

six... nine... sixty nine. huhuhuhu.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Thursday, 10 August 2006 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

Don't worry Kate, I was accused of base intentions with the cover of my book:
http://www.haynes.34sp.com/Frogmore/titles/images/three_voices.gif
Not that I designed it, so I can hardly be blamed.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 10 August 2006 09:24 (nineteen years ago)

6... 9... 69... INFINITE HEAD!!! GIMMEE INFINITE HEAD, BENJAMIN!!!!!

Ha-HEM. Glad I've got that out of my system.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

Better out than in.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 10 August 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

It is so not out of your system

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 10 August 2006 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

better out then in... out... in... out... in... out...

ARRGGGHHHHHH, (lack of) SEX HAS EATEN MY BRANE!!!

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

More work fun: for the past couple of weeks I've been working on one particular componant of the new system, which I was told was Urgent and Key, etc. It's a horrible piece of glue between the new system and one of our old systems, written in VB. Now, it's nearly done - it has rough edges, but it's suitable for *me* to use in production, at least, and we've been using it in production, with me doing handholding and nursing, for a couple of days. Just now, I was essentially told: "abandon working on it - the bugs you still have are caused by underlying bugs in the new system, so we've decided to pay one of their consultants to write that componant for us built into the new system." Grrrrrrrr.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 10 August 2006 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh.

http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/6344/infinityiq7.gif

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 10 August 2006 09:40 (nineteen years ago)

Oh god, I laughed so hard at that, that my colleagues actually asked me if I was alright.

"Mathematical humour" I had to tell them, which put them wanting to know.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

This one's more accessible then:

http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/9694/findxlolkl4.jpg

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 10 August 2006 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, the first one has made me ROFFLE heartily, and others too

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 10 August 2006 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

I've seen that before, but it still makes me laugh like a drain every time.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

xpost fp. that happens to me more than i like. i now just just shrug and figure it's another n weeks of pay.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Thursday, 10 August 2006 09:44 (nineteen years ago)

(x = 5 btw)

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Thursday, 10 August 2006 09:45 (nineteen years ago)

Another golden oldie. Say when you've had enough.

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/2572/expandzf4.jpg

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 10 August 2006 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

No points for that solution? None at all?!

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 10 August 2006 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

Whenever I see these I always wish I'd had the sense to make jokes in my maths exams instead of just, well, failing them.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 10 August 2006 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

Well, that's what I did in my history exams*.

I just wrote in joke answers like "George Washington's Farewell Address: Club Whoopee, Rio de Janeiro" and stuff like that. Apparently, after I left the room, my teacher started reading my exam and literally started shaking and turning red - with amusement or rage I'm not entirely sure.

*American history, that is, which I refused point blank to study, claiming that you could hardly call 200 year a "history"

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 09:51 (nineteen years ago)

Archel just made coffee come out of my nose.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 10 August 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

More math jokes! They're making me giggle and distracting me from OH NOES terrorist plot and OW!!! wisdom tooth coming in (wtf?).

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 10 August 2006 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

I have one, but it's OH NOES SEXIST OH NOES.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 10 August 2006 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

Ow, let us talk of tooth woes. I need to find a dentist. Actually, I should research how much an emergency tooth replacement costs. Since I started flossing, my lone remainder baby tooth just hurts ALL THE TIME. I think it was only the plaque holding it in my mouth.

x-post NO SEXIST MATHS JOKES. THEY WILL DEFINITELY OFFEND ME.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 10:02 (nineteen years ago)

THAT'S WHY I DIDN'T POST IT

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 10 August 2006 10:03 (nineteen years ago)

All math is inherently sexist. Why are they the X and Y axes and not the X and X?

Is it right that I am essentially teething at age 26? Is my girlfriend right that there's nothing, really, to worry about (or go to the dentist for) unless it comes in crooked/pushes against another tooth? OW!!!

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 10 August 2006 10:05 (nineteen years ago)

BLIMEY!!! it's like a thousand quid to get a tooth replaced!

Unless you take a dental holiday in Hungary, then you can get it done for about £600.

You're supposed to get your wisdom teeth in your late 20s/early 30s. That's why they're called WISDOM teeth. You're supposed to be wise by that point.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 10:06 (nineteen years ago)

Take Ibuprofen for the pain, and stop worrying.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 10 August 2006 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

"Dental Holiday" surely a song waiting to be written.

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 10 August 2006 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, and there's all these pictures and diagrammes of them screwing metal rods into your gums, arrrggghhhhh.

Plus, the teeth are white, and I do not want white ones - I want METAL ones. Is that cheaper or more expensive?

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 10:09 (nineteen years ago)

I had all my wisdom teeth whipped out at 17.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 10 August 2006 10:12 (nineteen years ago)

My teeth hurt just thinking about it. :-(

Maybe I should just get the baby tooth removed now and worry about replacing it later. But I'm afraid that my bone will deteriorate if I get the tooth removed. Though is that any better or worse than what it's currently doing to my mouth?

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 10:14 (nineteen years ago)

Ok since gooblar asked - and yes, it's unneccesarily blondist but I didn't write the caption.

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/1333/sineequationuh5.jpg

http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/1931/sqrtto9.gif

And yes, they've been made up probably.

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 10 August 2006 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

See, those actually show great lateral thinking - I think part of the perceived problem with maths is that so muhc of it is based on symbols that have to be remembered. I mean, honestly - what is there to diferentiate (s)(i)(n) from a symbol meaning "sine", out of context?

It's the leap from (s)(i)(x) to 6 which is funny.

I mean, they're perfectly rational, according to the logic of maths - they're just wrong becuase the symbols are misunderstood.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

Whenever I go to the dentist he tells me I need to have my wisdom teeth out 'in case' something happens. It hasn't yet. I suspect it will eventually.

This is like that game where you have to respond to the thing said the time before last.

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 10 August 2006 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

Someone please e-mail me when the discussion about dentists is over, and I will return to thread. Enjoy!

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 10 August 2006 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

OK, Ok, sorry, I'll stop.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry mitya; I feel the same way and was not trying to focus on dentistry (I try to avoid all thoughts of the dentist at all times). It's just: ow!

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 10 August 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

believe it or not(!), i never got any wisdom teeth. I KNOW! I KNOW! I WAS AS SHOCKED AS YOU.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Thursday, 10 August 2006 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

Mitya: it's not a boy's club in the first place. Local factors in time and space can make some genres particularly gender-biased, but music belongs to both sexes.

Actually a similar topic came up on The Other Place, where someone pointed out "although emo is one of the most masculine genres in terms of band membership for a very long time (since nu-metal, at least), it also has probably the highest female listenership of any genre (Kerrang is the only music magazine with more female readers than male). So perhaps we're looking at the same correlation as we did with boybands in the mid to late 90s. Teenage girls don't want to listen to slightly older girls."

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 10 August 2006 10:44 (nineteen years ago)

(See, you knew I wouldn't stay away.)

No, no, feel free. That way no one will be able to complain when Kerr starts going on and on about a new Isis album or something ;)

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 10 August 2006 10:44 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, I haven't been to one in 20 years! That's how much I hate them, despite my Big Book Of British Smiles Smile.

I just started thinking... I never show my teeth when I smile, because I'm ashamed, so I always look really tight-lipped in Shimuras pictures. But then after seeing that TSM film with Brandon's silver teeth, I just thought "wow, his silver teeth are so cool looking, if I had silver teeth, I'd smile all the time, to show them off."

I am so easily influenced by pop stars, it isn't even funny.

If a DDB jumped off the Empire State Building, yes, I would too, cause I bet you'd get some interesting phase effects on the way down.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

Teenage girls don't want to listen to slightly older girls.

Hrmrrrmmmmm... speaking as someone who has been in a couple of female bands who actually appealed to (and comprised a large percentage of our fanbase) teenage girls, I don't think it's that simple.

Teenage girls (with music tastes, at least) WILL listen to slightly older girls if they can actually identify with them. They do not want to listen to the polished plastic perfection which has nothing to do with their lives.

They'll take polished plastic perfection in their lust objects (boybands) but seem to be more willing to listen if the female musicians on offer are less like Heat Magazine and more like themselves.

But that could be just an opinion based on the somewhat limited sample size of teenage girls who have been into music I make and/or are into things like Ladyfest, Riot Grrl, etc.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 10:50 (nineteen years ago)

...maybe in this way, "teenage girls" are exactly the same as the kind of ILM poster that I hate. i.e. they only want the opposite sex in plastic perfection that they can fantastise about fucking, and only want the same gender in forms that they can identify with in a way that doesn't involve overt sexuality or physical perfection.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

Can I just point out in my defence that I didn't say women had to make *better* music? I said if they want to get on the bill at places like Reading they should make big-crowd-friendly populist music. You really want there to be a female Snow Patrol in order to prove a point?

(I'm off back to work. I fully expect to be shot down in flames and have my female credentials revoked for being some sort of gender-traitor by the time I check back in later)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 10 August 2006 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not even going to dignify that with a response. Mainly because of that second paragraph there.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

I'm thinking more about things in terms of partnerships, equality, that sort of thing. Thinking about back to my Golden Age of Music, many of the bands that I loved revolved around partnerships - both musical and relationship. Sonic Youth, Stereolab, My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Spiritualized - all of these bands had a male/female partnership at the core.

You know, maybe that's my taste - that I like that kind of woozy boy/girl harmonies that couples tend to produce. (And here I'm going to commit utter heresy and say maybe that's why I slightly prefer School of Seven Bells' music to TSM - because I like the way Ally Dejeza's voice better than Brandon Curtis's - it blends better with Benjamin's.)

But, you know, where is that kind of thing today? OK, The Arcade Fire. The early days of Belle and Sebastian. (before they started to suck, IMHO.) A couple of dronerock bands like Charalambridalamaemides or whoever?

To me, that's still the ideal. And not one I see much of any more.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

From my point of view, there is something to be said for playing with girls in the same band. It diffuses the testosterone.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 10 August 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

(Also, B&S still have a female member)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 10 August 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, but it's not the original couple that was central to the original lineup.

I think there is something to be said for mixing the genders in a band. i.e. not a token girl, but to have an actual partnership - songwriting or other. Because that way it seems to be easier to blend or meld the stereotypical trends (boys and their RAWK! girls and their P!O!P!) into music that is more interesting and transcends or invents genres.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, I spent some time a short while ago working with a girl I knew, she would write the lyrics, at the same time I would piss about with melodies, and we'd hammer things out sat in her front room.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 10 August 2006 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

(I'm not sure what my exact point is here, other than nostalgia for a Good Time)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 10 August 2006 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

It's easier to work with people of your own gender Hence, perhaps the repolarisation of girlbands and boybands.

But it is better for the music, I think, to meld, as hard as that process of compromise might be, it makes for more interesting results.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

It's easier to work with people of your own gender Hence, perhaps the repolarisation of girlbands and boybands.

Is this true? I have always found working with girls to be a much easier and ultimately more creative process, as more ideas (or a wider range of ideas) are brought to the table.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 10 August 2006 11:36 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe girls are just easier then :)

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 10 August 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, of course

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 10 August 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno. I've often had a problem with male musicians being unwilling to take creative input from mere females.

Of course, these bad experiences have led to me being a control freak in and of myself, but still... I've had a couple of interesting solo projects working with male musicians who were willing to collaborate, but we usually ended up in bed. :-O

So, errr... about that rehearsal before the Palimpsest fest... ;-)

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway, I'm off to pick up that copy of Miss Leavitt's Stars which has come in - and see if the hott boy in bookshop is working today.

:-)

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, that reminds me, I think that rehearsal is cancelled because Jon's on holiday. I meant to mention this earlier. Which leaves us with two options: 1) drink until we fall over 2) drink until we are sick

(I am willing to consider other options)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 10 August 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

I've been trying to do a search but so far it's taken >16 mins :(

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 10 August 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

I wasn't going to join in the music chat incase I got the blame for it but re: the guys don't like girl singers point- I hadn't thought of that before (maybe because I like some female rock singers?) but when some people I know heard the new Major Stars album they didn't like it as much because of the new "woman singer" they didn't like her voice. They preferred the instrumental stuff or when Wayne sang ,although no one complained about Kates vocals on the other albums. But they actually admitted when I asked them that they "didnt like female singers".
I know we all have our preferences (I dislike the female divas like Whitney ,Mariah and co,then again I don't like that style of music anyway) but I found it strange that rock fans didnt like female rock singers, yet they like female vocals in other music (portishead for one).
Of course this was just a few people I know on slsk and doesn't mean anything in general.

I bet they don't like Isabels vocals on Bardo Pond either(I love her vocals very MBV like)

A lot of the "new Weird America/freak folk/psych folk/call it whatever you like folk" has females in it and they are really really great. It's a healthy scene and I wouldn't say male dominated compared to say Metal or current NME indie.
Again Ned can probably tell you more about it.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 10 August 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, Foyle's... I went in there with a £20 note, determined to buy nothing but the book I ordered... and escaped with 4 books costing a total of £50. ARGH!

I got John Barrow's Book of Nothing, as well as two books about the mathematical origins of aesthetics, music, the golden ratio, etc. And of course, Miss Leavitt's Stars.

Dammit, I just cannot stick to a budget. It's bloody books. I can be strong with regard to shoes... but books? Forget it. I splurge.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, also two other amusing points of interest:

1) Alex James' former flat is for rent. How much would I love to live there? And not just because of its location.

2) pink Hello Kitty Strats are on sale on Denmark St. for £169. It was hard to resist buying one, but I did.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

Foyles did that to me too the other day. I congratulated myself on not spending anything in shiny new Fopp, but this was after I went on a spree in Foyles. And TBH the reason I didn't spend anything in Fopp was because my mum called me while I was there, and when I said where I was she told me not to buy anything cos she'd been there a few days before to buy my birthday present and she didn't want me to get a double.

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 10 August 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

So it looks like I will be in London this Saturday--anyone want to meet up for a picnic in the park?

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 10 August 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

Why is it that I can always justify spending money on books, no matter what? I just think "oh no... I NEED to know this..." and hand over my card without thinking whether I can afford it or not.

I'd never be that irresponsible with clothes or food or even CDs.

x-post Ah! What are you in London for? Fancy seeing the Secret Machines movie at 3pm? (can't do much else as I have rehearsal afterwards.)

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

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They cover bands I like that don't exactly get much coverage elsewhere(like Zombi and Boris).

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― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 10 August 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

Don't ask me. I just dropped £50 on books I couldn't afford.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

If Kate was to come into a lot of money I can imagine her building a mansion with a huge library and a secret room to which you enter via a fake bookcase. And inside there will be a stage & studio for Benjamin to play songs just for Kate (if he's not to exhausted from other things).

A secret passage leading to DDB's. Am I correct?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 10 August 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

(xposts, stupid poxy fule)

Just coming into London for some shopping. Tell me more of this Secret Machines film.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 10 August 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

Well, now it looks like I'm free all day Saturday. :-( However, it means we can hang out, TISSP! TSM film is at the Tate Modern - £4 to get in. They go to Marfa with a French filmmaker, sit around smoking pot and talking about art, then write some spacerock songs for the UFOs, and perform them in the middle of a really cool looking desert.

Don't be silly, Kerr, I wouldn't build mine own - I'd buy one of the castles in COuntry Life. But the rest of it is pretty OTM. Though it wouldn't be a fake bookcase, it would be a real bookcase full of real books that swung back to reveal my secret staircase. With books about Quantum Theory, mwah hah hah, that seems appropriate.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

I've tried to listen to the Major Stars album twice, and I'm just not feeling it. Can't get more than a few songs in before I have the desire to listen to something else - I think it just slides off my ears or something.

But i'm not sure what I really want to listen today. I think I just want to be cranky and cross.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds very interesting! I will need to check this out with my gf though, who will also be in London with me.

xpost

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 10 August 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

I am finding Port Royal to be going down silky-smooth today, even if they did nick one of our riffs.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 10 August 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

Morning. I am tired, achy and somewhat bleah, so I sympathize with The Good Kate right about now.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 August 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

Bring her! She will like it, too! Or if not, there's plenty at the Tate to distract her that she will like.

x-post morning, Ned. Why are you tired and achey?

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

I had such a full weekend that my sleep schedule got thrown off just enough to make each morning bleah. Mind you, having an attack of Digestive Problems at 3 am did not help. :-/

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 August 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

So of course I'm listening to the Cure to take the edge off things. Oh and everyone should get the Glove reissue.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 August 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Well, at least you had a good weekend, Ned, even if digestive troubles are teh suX0r.

I'm listening to Espers and feeling very goff. And waiting for my sisX0r to wake up and tell me if she's joking or serious about having an affair with a certain Rock Star, coz I never can tell with her. ;-)

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

Yay Espers and gothiness! Yay scandalous affairs you'll tell us all about!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 August 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

If it's true, there's no way in hell I'm telling you about it.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Oh and guys who don't like female singers are morons, feebs and goofballs. There.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 August 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Word.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 10 August 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

I am still cranky. Only Benjamin's arse can save me now.

http://image54.webshots.com/154/2/23/91/2621223910086905220LJJRKq_ph.jpg

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

hey everyone, 'tis the place for us Brits (and other assorted Anglophiles), is it not? Any love for Lewisham out there?

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Thursday, 10 August 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

Louis and Ned in the watercooler ...theres no escape!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

Please check your ILM feuds at the door.

I'll have none of that in here. >:-(

In fact, right now, I'll have none of anything that isn't red-headed guitarists from Texan spacerock bands, thank you kindly.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

Kate, how long does that SM film go on for? Do you know?

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

What about Texan spacerock genui from Lift To Experience like Josh Pearson?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

Will the SM members actually be there in person?

xxpost: they're not feuds, they're tussles.

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

About an hour, TISSP!

Oh my!

http://www.benjamincurtis.co.uk/

(not what I was hoping for, but still.)

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

Errrr...

http://drownedinsound.com/images/11623.jpeg

He is Texan, he plays in a spacerock band, and he appears to be ginger. But still, not quite what I had in mind, either.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

Oh and hello there Louis, welcome to kates watercooler. 2 rules as mentioned at the top. No F***B**l or B** B******.

http://www.conservativesintouch.com/uploaded/files/haydonwickintouch_com/NoBallGamesSign.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

No, there will be no TSM members there in person. They're ~~tied up in my basement with several cases of beer~~, oops I mean, touring Japan right now.

http://www.nuvo.net/archive/images/12.29.04/mus_BenjaminCurtis_dj.jpg

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

Bud Light, ick. I suppose that's how he keeps his svelte spacerock figure, though. Sigh.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

About an hour, TISSP!

Sounds good then, Kate.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

haha check the url for where I got that pic from.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

Big Balloons?
Big Bollocks?

Enlighten me...

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

I can think of a Conservative I would like to touch...

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

x-post I'm serious. No B*g Br*th*r, no F**tb*all. Those are the rules.

You break the rules, you get thrown out. Simple as.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

...but sadly, Alan Clark is now deceased.

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It's OK, neither are really on my mind atm. The Secret Machines I will HAPPILY chew the fat about, though.

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

Dammit, every time I post a picture of Ben and Michael Rother, it turns up for five minutes, then disappears again. Bah. He must have magical properties. :-(

What's your favourite TSM album, then, Louis? And your favourite solo/embryo/spin-off project? And which of Benjamin's pedals is the coolest sounding? Oh, and which of them has the coolest boots?

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

Erm, if you'd asked me that question four or five weeks ago it would have been Now Here Is Nowhere, easily. It's tougher now, what with Ten Silver Drops turning out to be the best-of-year stunna that we all secretly (ahem) hoped for. I haven't heard any of their spin-off projects and I haven't yet bought September 000 (my next purchase, I promise!), but my favourite 5 songs of theirs in order are 1) Alone, Jealous And Stoned 2) First Wave Intact 3) All At Once (It's Not Important) 4) The Road Leads Where It's Lead 5) 1000 Seconds. The coolest guitar effect is the one which pops up 7:13 into 'Now Here Is Nowhere', and boots are not within my jurisdiction. :P

TSM = best current American band, though.

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

You break the rules, you get thrown out. Simple as.

Silly question time. Can posters be banned from one specific thread? Would the mods even waste their time doing it, really?

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, and probably not, though it's been done before.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

Yes they can, and yes they have been from this very thread.

Wow, Louis, I'm glad you like TSD because a lot of TSM fans I know keep sniffing that it's "not as good as NHIN because, like, they started writing about emotions and relationships and stuffs, instead of all that cool stuffs about robots and seraphim battling at the gates of dawn, maaaan..."

Aaah, I'm going to have to go home and listen for which effect that is. He's got this weird stereo delay on AJ&S which I've fallen in love with - but he's also got this astonishing guitar synth thing - I think it's a vintage Moogerfooger though knowing him, it's probably some totally rare boutique pedal - which just sounds like a stargate opening or something. (Only other people I've really heard use it are Mogwai, and once, Graham Coxon.)

The extended Krautjam at the end of September 000 is one of my favourite things ever. It's kind of an overrated album (by the ILM hivemind) compared with what came after, but it's still an interesting document.

School of Seven Bells is my favourite of the related bands:

http://www.myspace.com/schoolofsevenbells

And it's clearly Ben with the coolest boots. LIke, duh.

http://static.flickr.com/44/135929277_15bd0fb9af.jpg

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

Yes they can, and yes they have been from this very thread.

Though not actually for talking about football, or big brother.

(Unless I'm wrong)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, I see it now re: the comparative virtues of TSM footwear. Yes, they are immensely awesome. :-)

OMG yes, in AJ&S when he gets his guitar to sound like 80's Cure taken into the 23rd century (around the 1:35-1:40 mark), that's one of the most beautiful moments in contemporary rock! He does it even better at 2:30.

Which Mogwai? Kids Will Be Skeletons, I take it? (one of their best, naturally)

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― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

These tedious nitpicking details are distracting us from the topic at hand - which is HOW GREAT BENJAMIN CURTIS IS.

Discuss the spacerock, the boots and the pedals or go away. Humph! Or I will revoke your flirtation rights.

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― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

Or I will revoke your flirtation rights.

You know you can't live without it any more than I can.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, that 2.30 guitar solo is the one that gives me the shivers - especially in stereo. (I think that's the one - but I don't have it with me.) It just floats up, and up, echoed back in the other channel, like it's just going to grow wings and float through the top of the stereo... lovely.

And then it shifts gears and goes off into krautrock overdrive for the "I waited for you..." bits. That song is such an epic. Ben's description of writing it is my .sig on my email.

Can't remember the Mogwai track's name, but the Coxon use of that pedal is on 13 somewhere... probably on Battle? Or Bugman?

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

What is his description, then? As my favourite TSM song such things have to be divulged. Moreover, it's the one they've admitted wanting to go in the direction of, isn't it? TSM III may well be the greatest thing ever :-D

The Mogwai track is almost certainly KWBS, and the 13 track is almost certainly either the opening of Coffee And TV, the breakdown of Caramel, the entirety of Battle or the odd bit in Mellow Song. ;-) Although to be fair the whole album is an effextravaganza, 1992 being my favourite example (and track).

Actually, do you much like 13? It's one of my favorite 90's albums.

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

*points towards ILM, again*

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

"We kind of think of these first songs like your thesis. You kind of
put it out there, and then the rest of the record you spend your time
proving it." - Benjamin Curtis

(referring to the decision to use AJ&S as the opening track)

Does that hotmail address work? You might have to be visited by the spacerock fairy.

13 is probably my favourite Blur album - or, really, pretty much the only one I can really still listen to these days. That and Leisure seem to be the ones where Graham was given the most free reign. (Damon mixed DOWN, Graham and Alex mixed UP, as it should be.) It's either in Battle or in Caramel, as those were my two favourites from the album.

Which Mogwai album KWBS on, because I don't have them all? I spent ages chasing down remixes and rarities trying to find the exact noise from the first song I heard, in a bookshop off St. Marks Place. I think it turned out to be something off Ten Rapid.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

Kids Will Be Skeletons is on Happy Songs For Happy People.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I don't have that. (!)

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

Pretty underrated, as far as Mogwai's records go. Worth it just for Ratts Of The Capital, mind.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

(and Hunted By A Freak)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

That hotmail address is in full working order, ma'am! The more I think about it, the more I realise that you must be talking about the outro to the main part of Caramel, just after the song explodes and Damon starts singing 'Low, low, low low', and KWBS is on Happy Songs For Happy People, contains that guitar effect, and generally rules.

That Curtis quote seems to figure, although in that regard TSM are failures; their opening tracks have so far been by far the best songs on their respective albums ;-)

Not that the remainder are bad; they're also brilliant. But name me three 00's songs better than those two openers and I'll be bloody impressed...

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Yeah, it's one of the big four, indistinguishable in (their awesome) quality, before the dungheap they dropped earlier this year...

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

He's just started doing it again, around the 2:45 mark of An Epic Case Of Mistaken Identity, Part 1.

There's this... eeoo-eeeoo-eeeooo-eeooo crazy noise as Brandon starts singing about measuring space eclipses.... GODILOVETHEMSOMUCHILOVETHEMSOMUCH!!!

Should I answer my OKC mail (calabai-yau space boy finally got back to me) or go home and read about Cepheid stars and eat pizza?

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

Go home, that's what I'm about to do.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

Morning all! TGI-bloody-F.

Who's got exciting weekend plans, then? Anyone?

― C J (C J), Friday, 11 August 2006 07:14 (nineteen years ago)

Morning CJ!

Weekend plans: window shopping for prams, lunch with friends, mopping the floor, doing laundry. Thrills!

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 11 August 2006 07:25 (nineteen years ago)

Morning, you lot.

Weekend plans for me: tomorrow, going to Lincoln for a meal with Like-Minded Friends (I would use the m-word, but Kate thinks it is rude). Sunday: maybe popping down to London for a day-trip, if not then going to Chesterfield, for similar reasons to Lincoln tomorrow.

Kate, how long does that SM film go on for? Do you know?

I got *entirely* the wrong impression reading this, as you probably guessed.

The last time I went to Lewisham was for a slightly geeky reason - it was to travel on the Mudchute-Lewisham section of the DLR, which I'd never done before.

(from then until the opening of King George V I'd travelled on every section of route of the DLR, including to the original elevated Island Gardens station. The King George V branch will have to be done soon, I think, and before the Woolwich extension is finished too)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 11 August 2006 07:31 (nineteen years ago)

Prams are so expensive! The trick is to choose one, and then get the grandparents-to-be to pay for it for you :)

The only advice I'd give (and you've prolly thought about this already) is that it's worth checking how easy/quick it is to fold a pram up before you buy one. Some of them are a bit fiddly and cumbersome, esp if you're using any clip-on bits such as rain covers, sun shades or fleecy sleeping-bag tootsie warmers for the baby - it's bad enough having to fold a pram to put it in the back of your car, but it's even worse if you are going to be using public transport. Grappling to fold down a difficult buggy on your own at a bus stop in the rain whilst simultaneously carrying a small baby and an armful of shopping (and not miss the bus) is a really good game.

How's the pregnancy coming along? Are you feeling great? :)

― C J (C J), Friday, 11 August 2006 07:43 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah the folding thing seems urgent and key, hence me getting bored of looking at prams on the internet all day and deciding to go and fiddle with some in real shops. Luckily Brighton buses and trains (we don't have a car) are getting much much better with dedicated buggy spaces so you don't have to fold, but even so...

The one I quite fancy at the moment is possibly beyond the budget even of the doting grandparents, alas.

And yes thanks, I'm feeling pretty good physically. Completely and utterly terrified, mind you!

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 11 August 2006 08:05 (nineteen years ago)

SM = SECRET MACHINES. Nothing kinky about it. Except, erm, those boots. Yeah. That's why we usually call them TSM.

The sound I was after was indeed at the breakdown of "Caramel" - just after Dave and Alex go all motorik, about 3:30 to 3:45, the guitar just warps out in this THE SPACESHIP HAS LANDED noise.

I've brought NHIS along to try and find when Benjamin makes the same noise. Oh yeah. Spacerock.

I am glad that I checked my OKC mail before I went home and ate pizza because, like, every boy in the world decided to message me last night. What gives? The prettiest pointy-nosed Hawkwind fan, mmmm, but he lives in Edinburgh. That's a bit far. :-(

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 08:19 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning!

Completely and utterly terrified sounds about right to me. xpost

Staying home to 'work' today, tomorrow playing in an all-day softball tournament!

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 11 August 2006 08:20 (nineteen years ago)

I got *entirely* the wrong impression reading this, as you probably guessed.

Yes, interestingly that was the first thing I thought of when I wrote the sentence.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 11 August 2006 08:21 (nineteen years ago)

I thought you were talking about spacerock but you were just flirting with me again. :-(

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 08:23 (nineteen years ago)

And FP wonders why he's been stereotyped!
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― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 08:23 (nineteen years ago)

I do! I'm an innocent, honest. My life is far quieter than you lot think.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 11 August 2006 08:25 (nineteen years ago)

I thought you were talking about spacerock but you were just flirting with me again. :-(

Haha.. I thought they were one and the same?

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 11 August 2006 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

I do! I'm an innocent, honest. My life is far quieter than you lot think.

-- Forest Pines

http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=tbn:cWQ_Gcq15PxjNM:http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/8137/newslh.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

God DAMN, you mean you've ALL been flirting with me all along?

Excellent! Hubba hubba!

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 08:40 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.antique-antiques-uk.com/images/1118-Thonet-Bentwood-Rocking-Chair.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 08:41 (nineteen years ago)

So, plans for the weekend (to answer the question): rehearsal tonight, London tomorrow, salvaging a mix of a new song I so spectacularly buggered up last night, christening in Loughborough on Sunday, more mixing (no doubt).

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 11 August 2006 08:41 (nineteen years ago)

No, just me

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― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 11 August 2006 08:41 (nineteen years ago)

(hands off, people)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 11 August 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning! Is summer over?

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 11 August 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

I couldn't find a better rocking chair for FP.
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― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 08:45 (nineteen years ago)

Hello. I'm on day off. I'm going up north later to go and visit my parents - my husband is off down south being drunk with his friends for the weekend. I should think about packing some clothes.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 11 August 2006 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

I wore my cardigan today. That makes me happy. (Though every time I wear my cardigan I feel like reading the Guardian.)

My my, posessive, aren't we, TISSP! ?

Tonight I am going to New Cross to see The Texan and maybe catch a band. TOmorrow I am going to look at some art and a spacerock film and possibly go drinking with TISSP! and Sunday I think I shall do the laundry and make a curry. And maybe record some spacerock.

I like rocking chairs. I always have. Well, since I was 12 and we obtained a house with a front porch, and put a rocking chair on it. I used to sit out there with my dad and play guitar and drink strawberry wine.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 08:48 (nineteen years ago)

Just like The Waltons!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 08:51 (nineteen years ago)

Dammit, my friend saw the Betty Page film WITHOUT ME and now I've got no one to go with, so I'll never get to see how hilarious and hotttt Jared Harris is in it. Bah.

OK, now too many boys are messaging me on OKC. One at a time, please. Why couldn't you have been messaging me all week when I was bored and lonely, instead of saving up and all messaging me when I have to go to a boring meeting about the Giant Jonny report.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 08:52 (nineteen years ago)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 08:52 (nineteen years ago)

I have a nice black chenille cardigan (with holes in) which I nicked off the mad ex-gf. I should wear it more often (when it's cold, obv)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 11 August 2006 08:52 (nineteen years ago)

All you'd need to complete the picture in my head is a shotgun, for some reason
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― beanz (beanz), Friday, 11 August 2006 08:53 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, why won't last.fm let me add another artist to the label?

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 11 August 2006 08:53 (nineteen years ago)

Nah, I had bows and arrows becuase we weren't allowed to play with shotguns.

(though I did discover one behind the boiler in our first house in Connecticut - I screamed so loud I unintentionally ended our game of hide and seek. I was screaming "A GUN A GUN A GUN!!!" because I'd never seen one before. And my brother and dad thought it would just be a little revolver or something, but no, it was a giant, 7 foot long double barrelled shotgun.)

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 09:00 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha that's the second best excuse for being rubbish at hide and seek I've ever heard. (The first best was having tourette's.)

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 11 August 2006 09:04 (nineteen years ago)

Was it used to shoot hippies?

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― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 09:04 (nineteen years ago)

i was rubbish at hide & seek because as soon as i hid, i'd start to need a wee.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Friday, 11 August 2006 09:06 (nineteen years ago)

Is FP still checking on whether we're visiting that last fm group he's in?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

Well I am now you've mentioned it!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 11 August 2006 09:14 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha. Has anyone visited you then?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 09:16 (nineteen years ago)

Mmm I love rocking chairs. Here's a picture of mine in the old house, I can't remember why I took it:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/slightlyfoxed/At%20Home/Frontroom.jpg

Mmm I also love REVELS!, a huge bag of which a tutor has just given me. Maybe it pays to be nice to them after all.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 11 August 2006 09:17 (nineteen years ago)

Noone who I recognise.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 11 August 2006 09:18 (nineteen years ago)

We appear to have lost a member of the last fm watercooler (koogy)

we need 15 members so we get group charts calculated.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 09:19 (nineteen years ago)

i wouldn't want to make you all look bad by signing up.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Friday, 11 August 2006 09:22 (nineteen years ago)

Everyone join!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 09:23 (nineteen years ago)

I don't care enough to join. Sorry. Though I could just listen to loads of stuff that would be deemed uncool by people who care about that sort of shit, just to skew your charts for a laugh.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 11 August 2006 09:26 (nineteen years ago)

Last fm's data on me are turning out to be pretty unrepresentative of what I listen to. I mostly have itunes on random. But I put CDs in my stereo (which isn't connected to the computer until I get a new airport) as well as records of course.

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 11 August 2006 09:27 (nineteen years ago)

Ailsa> sorry i didn't mean join last fm I just meant those who are on last fm to join the watercooler group.
Enjoy your trip up north!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

I'M SADDER THAN YOU, AILSA! FITE?

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Friday, 11 August 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

I don't care enough to join. Sorry. Though I could just listen to loads of stuff that would be deemed uncool by people who care about that sort of shit, just to skew your charts for a laugh.

I think you might be a bit sore about this; I can't remember a time when anyone on this thread actually made disparaging comments about anyone else's taste...

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 11 August 2006 09:30 (nineteen years ago)

I hope Kate is staying away from book shops this lunchtime.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

Shoot hippies? have you SEEN my dad? (Of course you haven't, there is not "what do your parents look like" thread.) My dad is a hippie with hair down to his ASS. I mean, seriously. HIs pony tail is longer than mine.

Anyway... that meeting was fun. I got told "What do you MEAN, you don't have ESP? Didn't you see it on the job description? Oh wait, that's right, we beamed it to you TELEPATHICALLY and you didn't object." Tee hee hee.

I told them, yes, I have a secret telepathic connection to my server, but my ESP does not work with mere humans, only my maschine (maschine, maschine, maschinemaschinemaschine oh god, I've got to go and listen to some more Kraftwerk now.)

Can one join last.fm without scrobbling? I can't install anything on this work 'puter. Bah.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 09:35 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, you can.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 11 August 2006 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

I think you have to tell it to "skip this step" when it asks you to install the software.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 11 August 2006 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

I am waiting for the day that I come into work and there is a giant neural net connection thing sitting by my workstation (like in that episode of Dr. Who last season) and the sys admin explains "we thought you would want to merge physically with your server..."

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 09:38 (nineteen years ago)

"I don't mix business and pleasure"

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 11 August 2006 09:39 (nineteen years ago)

::licks the monitor::

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 09:40 (nineteen years ago)

robble

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 11 August 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

Kate> I was meaning the person who owned the gun before your family moved in.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

teh-kit, no fite-ing here! Dickwaving about record collections (even sad ones) is BORING!

(xxxpost to tissp)

No, but lastfm is a bit of a collective dickwave, as far as I can see. And what's the point of it if it's not to go "wow, you're listening to [insert spaceprog-bollocks here] - cool". I, believe it or not, don't actually give a shit what other people listen to. I don't judge them on it (I'm married to someone whose favourite band ever is INXS!), and I don't like people judging me on it. That's all.

And, yes, I'd just stick all my husband's INXS/Beautiful South/"best of Top Gear driving anthems" etc on, to see if you treated me any differently. Just because I could. Because I'm an arse.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 11 August 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

My powerbook, though... I'd totally f*ck my powerbook if it had the right USB hub.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

x-x-x-post aw, people, don't fite.

I originally thought the purpose of last.fm was dickwaving, but it seems more like... it will find people will similar tastes to you, and create your own personal radio station based on stuff they are listening to that you might not have heard before.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

"wow, you're listening to [insert spaceprog-bollocks here] - cool"

I don't see how this is dick-waving though, necessarily. I can see where you are coming from, but I certainly don't feel it that way at all; I enjoy viewing what other people are listening to so I can listen to new things myself.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 11 August 2006 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

(Kate OTM re: powerbook)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 11 August 2006 09:44 (nineteen years ago)

There definitely are usb-connected sex toys on the market you know.

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 11 August 2006 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

Oh. My. God.

http://www.glossynews.com/artman/uploads/mac-apple-dildo.jpg

I'm ... scared and aroused in equal measure.

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

OK, maybe when i come back I'll join in for educational non-dickwavey purposes.

(xpost, erk!)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 11 August 2006 09:52 (nineteen years ago)

I want to buy one, and then wave my mac's dick around!

― We Collectively Dream In German (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

but it seems more like... it will find people will similar tastes to you, and create your own personal radio station based on stuff they are listening to that you might not have heard before.

Exactly. It's nice to see likeminded people on there. It's great to hear new stuff. Its not dick waving at all for most people im sure.
But each to their own. And I can see how it bores people so I try to mention it as little as possible on here. Honest!
I think thats why Ed set up the forum on the uk watercooler last fm group so stuff would be chatted about there leaving this thread alone. But Kate can't get last fm and its just not fun without kate and others talking about music.

But I promise you none of us are boasting about mp3 collections and cd collections.

x-posts

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 09:56 (nineteen years ago)

The last Last FM link I post I promise. The ILX group charts
http://www.last.fm/group/ilXor/charts

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

Btw all the money needed to raise for ILX was done in 11 hours. Very impressive!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 09:58 (nineteen years ago)

OK, maybe when i come back I'll join in for educational non-dickwavey purposes.

It would be the only way to truly realise that no dick-wavery actually happens. If it annoys you, then there's no need to hang around. Problem solved either way!

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

Does it mean we can keep it off here then?

(this isn't just my problem, btw, note absence of Markelby except to point out that this isn't ILM, for one)

Right, I have to go and buy headphones and a big book of sudoku puzzles and go and sit on a bus for a few hours. Have a nice weekend, kids.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

Have a good weekend.

(TBH, I am simply ignoring the irony of Barry pointing out "this isn't ILM" when we talk about music, considering that he is always telling me to calm down and STFU when I tell people not to talk about things that don't interest me. Turnabout is fair play.)

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:06 (nineteen years ago)

Have fun!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:06 (nineteen years ago)

Barry? I thought his name was Mark C?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

His name is Barry Lasagna. I thought everyone knew that.

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

I thought I would share this with you since most of you probably won't read that Kerrang Awards 2006 thread.

Morning threads. All morning threads before 6am will be locked/deleted (no matter what time a mod/admin finds them or how many pages they've gone on for), and persistant offenders will be banned. (24 hours, then 2 weeks, then permanent). If a poster starts a morning thread and clearly states they have yet to sleep, there's a good chance it'll be locked. It's not a competition to start it earlier than anyone else, so staying up all night so you can start the thread then flaunting the fact could get it locked.

Is this anti aussie or what?
Imagine this was imposed on ILX?

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

For Kerr - I'm properly off this time.

Internet Hardman requires new moniker

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:08 (nineteen years ago)

Haha thanks.

Bye! Enjoy your weekend.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:13 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I've just had an email flyer from the most spacerock named band in the world - "FROM THE SHARDS OF COMETS!" - I mean, not just the extraneous exclamation point, but honestly, how many spacerock bands are there already with the word "comet" in the name?

Comet, Comets on Fire, After The Comet, Ace Frehley Frehley's Comet...

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:14 (nineteen years ago)

Black Comet, Blue Comets, Comet Gain, Comet Sun, Bill Hailey and the motherfucking Comets...

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:17 (nineteen years ago)

Comet : The Spacerock Friendly Electrical Appliances Store™

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

what can i do tonight? all my friends are either working or going up to london for a friend's birthday. i wanna have fun, but i gop nobody to have fun with. i can't go along with the london crew as i have work tomorrow. oh meow.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

Now I want to start a spacerock band called Electrical Superstore.

(bah xpost)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

It's the TALKING ABOUT IT that's the dickwaving, guys. Just accept that your addiction to statistics is a personal fetish and we'll all get along :)

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

Well, there's already been a spacerock band called Bowery Electric...

Don't even get started on the number of spacerock bands with "electric" in their names... The Electric Comets, the most SPACEROCK BAND EVAH!!!!!

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I have got to get Kraftwerk off the CD player or I'm going to go menko.

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

It's the TALKING ABOUT IT that's the dickwaving, guys. Just accept that your addiction to statistics is a personal fetish and we'll all get along :)

He's no DJ Martian.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

AAAWWWWW YEEEAAAAHHHH... ELECTRIC COMETS...

http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2004/arch/041229predictions-comets.htm

TISSP! can we start a spacerock side project called The Electric Comets! ?

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

I haf seen the image of the iDildo and am bemused.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

Morning, Ned! You're up early.

In fact, to be even more spacerock, we should be called "Electric Comet! Theory"

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:32 (nineteen years ago)

It's the TALKING ABOUT IT that's the dickwaving, guys. Just accept that your addiction to statistics is a personal fetish and we'll all get along :)

No, dick-waving is the dick-waving. Talking about it is talking about it. Discussing, if you want to be flowery.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

I have named a song in honour of you, Kate.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

Or we could be Electric! Comet! Theory! but then people would think we were ripping off On! Air! Library! - so perhaps we could be just "Electric! Comet! Theory..."

Only a song? OK, I'm flattered, but i want a full on solo project. Especially because it seems like my sisX0r is too busy having a platonic affair with aforementioned Rock Star.

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

Whoops, didn't see the offer of starting a band. I am interested in this idea!

I demand we are called "Godspeed You! Electric! Comet! Theory!".

The song is some solo work I've been doing, kind of abrasive schizo math-noise.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:36 (nineteen years ago)

No, we've got to get "..." in there somewhere as well. And possibly an infinity symbol.

I'm supposed to be doing freakfolk with my sisX0r but all I've been writing lately is electroshoegaze. Maybe I'll send her some of that and see what she makes of it.

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

Song title is?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:39 (nineteen years ago)

Morning, Ned! You're up early.

It is distressing! I can only hope tomorrow I sleep in until noon.

Technoshoegaze, yes. Barcelona-based band One Second Bridge has a promising debut out.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:39 (nineteen years ago)

Haha tissp, there's nothing of a discussion about listing songs and how many times they've been played.

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

"Godspeed... You! Electric! Comet! Theory! oo"

(Note poorly drawn infinity, since ILX doesn't like Apple's extended character set)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, I've never actually done the listing thing.

xpost

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

The song title is "Lévy Flight I".

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

That Kerrang Messageboard Morning thread ban I mentioned upthread - Heres what its really about

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

(Note poorly drawn infinity, since ILX doesn't like Apple's extended character set)

Does typing ∞ work? It should do.

∞

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

Yay!

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

Right, the band name is officially "Godspeed... You! Electric! Comet! Theory! ∞".

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:47 (nineteen years ago)

And the first album will be titled:

http://www.astropa.unipa.it/stage_OAPA/equation.jpg

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:48 (nineteen years ago)

Well, in my mind, it's going to be "Electic! Comet! Theory... ?‡" because there's nothing like a bit of lack of continuity to be a REAL spacerock band.

Maybe my sisX0r can sing for us. If we can get her to stop in Cambridge on her way to or back from Amsterdam next week...

x-post YES! YES! YES!!!

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:49 (nineteen years ago)

Bah, that didn't work. ∞

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:49 (nineteen years ago)

i dunno what you're all on about, but surely a better title for whatever album you mean would be "six = 6"

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:50 (nineteen years ago)

Can I join your last.fm group, your weekly chart seems to include about 90% of my favourite artists, and the other 10% sound like they are worth a listen. You would have to consider me as the quiet person who sits by the watercooler who doesn't talk much, but thats because he is too busy, not because he is unfriendly

― Merrini (Mezza), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:50 (nineteen years ago)

"Godspeed... You Tissp! Electric! Comet! Kate Theory! - In CAPES ∞"

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

No singing! We will synthesize vocals via complex equations describing the sound!

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

:-(

OK, maybe my sisX0r can play Moog or something. Dressed in a cape, of course.

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

Why is Norman being left out?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

The acoustic demos will be unusual.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

Re: capes:
Obviously.

I don't have a proper cape, so I would have to wear my dressing gown and hoodie combination (the ceremonial robes of a cult me and chris formed).

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

Capes In SPACE! could be your side projects side project. With the only vocals being Ned reading PI.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

This is getting complex... ah, we can be like one plus the square root of negative two! Complex and Imaginary!

― das Fräuleinmaschine ∞ (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:57 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, we have a new symbol indicating membership to our theoretical math music project.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear ∞ (tissp), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

(It's like getting tatoos, but more transient)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear ∞ (tissp), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

Louis could be the Cape Roadie. Running onstage with one anytime someone feels like a ~~costume~~ cape change.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I could save my name that way so I don't have to keep adding it manually, but the settings page won't take HTML in the user name. :-(

― das Fräuleinmaschine ∞ (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

Hah! Like Shimura Curves have a guitar tech and a wine tech.

― das Fräuleinmaschine ∞ (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

What about wizards hats?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

I was at a place the other night where a friend of mine, who is a corset-maker, was showing off her wares. As well as the corsets, she also had examples of her other dressmaking, including a *lovely* black satin cape. It would be ideal.

(but it was quite expensive - her cost estimate was £150)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

HI DERE

― g00blar ∞ (gooblar), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, a corset-maker!

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:04 (nineteen years ago)

My sisX0r is wearing a corset in her MySpace profile. She is an Ex Goth. (Actually, I'm not so sure about the ex part.)

― das Fräuleinmaschine ∞ (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone here from Norfolk?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

is anybody going to give Merrini the blessing he's asking for to join the Watercoolant Scrobbler group?

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

I've posted about that on my blog, Kerr. My psychotic aunt is from Norfolk - Cromer, in fact.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

I can't! I'm not a member. And the real Admin, Ed, is in a tent somewhere in Wales.

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:14 (nineteen years ago)

The last fm group is open to all as far as I know. Plus i'm sure he made us all mods anyway.

p.s. did you know you can have group revolutions? You can challenge the leader to a vote and anyone can stand in the election. Even writing a manifesto.

Kate could sign up and stuff without even installing the plug in and launch a coup and have a manifesto about spacerock, capes and maths.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

i think he was just asking to be poilite, like.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

I'd be more likely to start a coup to listen to nothing but The Archies.

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

we need 15 members so we can get charts. I should get my other last fm account to join. The one I play all my funk,jazz and soul on.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

I was just trying to be polite, I guess, I figured that you needed one more member and I have a last.fm account I could help you get your charts.

― Merrini (Mezza), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

So how many more people do we need? 6 or 7, roughly?

join us, Merrini, join us!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

polite = good!
can i keep him?

i joined, btw. sorry in advance.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.mediaevalbaebes.com/tour.htm

NB where they are playing on the 6th December. Tickets are 15 quid. The venue is a cathedral, and one w/fantastic acoustics which holds organ recitals all the time, not some renaissance fair or jousting festival or witches meeting. I've got to go, really, haven't I.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yes, you HAVE to go. Though ha ha, that's probably what Shimura Curves would look like onstage didn't keep my more prog tendencies in check.

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

What music are the other shimuras into?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, it did occur to me when I bought their album, here's another female vocal ensemble with a music director called kate I know of. Not too similar otherwise, unless you fancy buying a cittern and dressing up like a klimpt painting.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, you know I secretly do. But I'm not allowed.

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

no, nobody has any suggestions for stuff for me to do, tonight? i wanna socialise, but i cannae! how to meet randoms?

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

You're asking *us*? the most antisocial bunch of geeks on the interweb?

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

I'm eating a bag of quavers, you fucks.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

i have nobody else to ask :(

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Friday, 11 August 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

I've signed up, though I most often listen to music on my ipod, rather than itunes. You may cast me out if someone better comes along.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 11 August 2006 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

plus, i want a new "teh_kit blah blah something stuff" name, but can't think of one. help plz?

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Friday, 11 August 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

I've joined, though my profile is suffering somewhat from when I tested it by playing random songs off my laptop which only has a few songs on it, hopefully i'll get it all set up on my main pc at the weekend which has my mp3 collection on it.

― Merrini (Mezza), Friday, 11 August 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

Woo-hoo true believers! I have a job interview on Monday! Admittedly for a job I could've done in my sleep 10 years ago, and I have no idea whether the money is at all reasonable. But at least it's a job and it would get me out of That Fucking Country.

Off to the dacha for a weekend of kebabs and vodka! Cheers!

(Sorry to be absent today, been having problems with wi-fi for some reason, as Kerr can attest to.)

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 11 August 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah for a job interview! Will keep fingers crossed for you.

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

If you don't have many mp3s you can listen to last fm streaming radio.

x-posts.
Yes I can.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

I can't stop laughing at this:

On ebay someone is selling a Sunn o))) white box set. Which cost $80 if you live in the USA. Has been selling for $200-$300 on ebay.

The seller had a Buy It Now for $280 and one of those best offer options too.

Someone bid $12 LOL.
What sort of tight arse would do that?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

Congrats mitya! Hooray new possibilities!

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 11 August 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

Thom Yorke interview at Pitchfork

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 11 August 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

I'm currently struggling with the concept of m4a and MP3. Is there anyone out there who knows how to convert one to the other, in order that our hostess may receive her rightful pay?

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Friday, 11 August 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

Hm, the trouble with Revels is that it's alarmingly easy to get through a whole bag because you keep thinking 'maybe the NEXT one won't be coffee flavour'.

So can you still sort of use last.fm if you don't have any mp3s? Would there be any point?

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 11 August 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

Good luck mitya!
G-kit any gigs you could go to?

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 11 August 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, Thom and Pitchfork? ILM's worst nightmare! Off to read that now.

Aw, I really like the coffee revels. I hate the raisins and the orange ones.

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

Archel, you can listen to other people's music through the radio stuff.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 11 August 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

I hate the orange ones too. There's like... a 1 in 3 chance of getting a Revel I don't like! Why do I eat them? It's worse than russian roulette.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 11 August 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

Ah. Can you still choose the kind of music you want to hear or is it random?

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 11 August 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

They were better when they had nuts instead of raisins - then there was only one rubbish one.

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

Pitchfork: Well, with Hail to the Chief you scaled things back on record and went back to more typical touring and marketing patterns.

Whoops

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 11 August 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

Oh DEAR the end of that track you just sent is big. OH DEAR. Sounds like Spiritualized avec several extra effects pedals and bigger amps...

Are you SURE you've got no way of playing m4a? No Realplayer or something which still utilises that format?

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Friday, 11 August 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

I like this bit:

Pitchfork: And of course most of the bands that've taken cues from you have done so from things like "High and Dry". Was it ever disappointing that when your peers looked to you guys they ignored Kid A and Amnesiac and took the simpler, more well-traveled road?

TY: But that's the majors all over. "Oh, uh, shit, we need to find something else that looks like it." They spent loads of money and crap and they were right, so I can't argue with them I guess. It's business.

But it upset me a lot, yes. I was really, really upset about it, and I tried my absolute best not to be, but yeah, it was kind of like-- that sort of thing of missing the point completely. When we put Kid A out, I specifically remember saying, "Copy that, you fucking..."

Whatever. We've ripped off R.E.M. blind for years, you know-- amongst other people. Everybody does. It's how you rip them off, as John Lennon said.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 11 August 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

Which track, Louis? Part 2 of An Epic Case, or Funky Doldrums? Funky Doldrums gets SO BIG THAT THE GALAXY CANNOT CONTAIN IT AND SPACEROCK GOES SPILLING OUT IN GIANT SOLAR FLARES THAT REACH ALL THE WAY TO ANDROMEDA!!!! and then the bloody file cuts off.

Just becuase those bastards want me to start buying singles again. Not unless Benjmain delivers them personally, bucko.

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

Ah. Can you still choose the kind of music you want to hear or is it random?

A bit of both, I think.

You can however stream our entire EP for zero money, which should be a draw enough for anyone. Oh yes.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 11 August 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

It is time:

UK Watercooler Fifteen: Men On A Dead Men's Chest

Yo ho ho.

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

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