UK Watercooler Fifteen: Men On A Dead Man's Chest

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It is time.

No f**tb*ll, no B*g Br*th*r, Kate is Queen, and spacerock for all, to infinity and beyond!

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, poo, spelling error in the title, there.

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

You killed that because I was whoring myself, didn't you?

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 11 August 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

No, because it was over 1100 posts long, and I read Andrew's description of how much it killed the server to repeatedly have to load 1000-post theads.

Were you whoring yourself, my dear? Carry on!

(And any Mod who would care to change that from Men's to Man's, we would be eternally obliged.)

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

I would just like to say that I've had a great thread title idea for the *next* thread, when we get around to it in a couple of weeks or so.

Just checking today's website traffic, I spotted incoming links from a site I didn't recognise: a message board for paganism in East Yorkshire. Looking, at it, someone who apparently knows me has started a thread to advertise my blog! "Made a new friend on another circuit," it says - hmm, I wonder what circuit they mean *cough* - "and just discovered he's pagan too. Some good insights on our philosophy mixed in" [on his blog]. It's all very nice, but I did wonder if they'd cut and pasted the wrong address.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 11 August 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

OK, FP, you can start 16. There were just such great things for 13, 14 and 15 that I couldnt' not use them.

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

Were you whoring yourself, my dear? Carry on!

No, once was bad enough I think (actually I've done it twice today already--terrible form).

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 11 August 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh yeah I like this title.

*Are* you a pagan FP?

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 11 August 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

i haven't had a cookie for months.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Friday, 11 August 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

Well, not exactly. I mean, I've never been to any moots or anything. Paganism is the religion I would probably belong to if I belonged to a religion.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 11 August 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

Thank you, kind sir Pash.

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

I was speaking of AECOMI2, of course, whose ending sounds like Free Bird re-recorded in the 24th century... :-D

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Friday, 11 August 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

I'd actually love to hear TSM do a cover of Freebird - for the precise reason that it would probably sound like AECOMI. Heh. Except much, muuuuuch, muuuuuuuuuuuch longer and heavier and wilder.

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

A quickly loading thread! A joy!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 August 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

They have that ability (like Medicine used to have on songs like "Candy Candy") to start a song so conventionally that you're not entirely sure why you're listening to such college rock - and then slowly pile on the psychedelia until it's the most mind-blowing thing you've ever heard, and you're not sure how you ever lived without it.

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

Or, in the case of The Road Leads Where It's Lead, start the song like a bizarre avant-garde noise experiment then magically transform it into a brilliant college rock single. :P

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Friday, 11 August 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Bugger, the last.fm importer is broken.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 11 August 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

reverse the polarity, that'll fix it.

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Friday, 11 August 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

Try the Sonic Screwdriver, TISSP!

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

I read that as 'the last fm importer is broken'.

The last action hero is dead...

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Friday, 11 August 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

HYDROSPANNERS

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Friday, 11 August 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

Ahh hello everyone. I'm just home. I replied to your email Kate.

I'll reply to arhcel here then

So can you still sort of use last.fm if you don't have any mp3s? Would there be any point?

You can listen to radio. IF you actually subscribe £1.50 a month you can choose what stations you want. The more tracks played you have(radio plays count) will then give you a created profile(used to be 300 tracks but might be less now) Once you have that done you have enough tracks to play the personal radio suited to your tastes. Or you can listen to tag radio. ie drone rock radio, metal radio, twee radio, forest pines radio if he tags stuff that in other words. ANYTHING.

If you don't want to subscribe you can simply listen to neighbours or friends radio (mine is awesome naturally) .

Read up on the site about it http://www.last.fm/listen/

more massive xposts. and the post is probably useless now but what the hell.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

> They were better when they had nuts instead of raisins - then there was only one rubbish one.

they had nuts AND raisins back when i was in school. (although peanuts not technically nuts don'tcha know...). and coconut.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Friday, 11 August 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmm half my post vanished. Heres the rest.

Read up on the site about it http://www.last.fm/listen/ tag radio or http://www.last.fm/explore/

To listen to someones radio go to their homepage
for example http://www.last.fm/user/trailofgybe/ and click the listen to trailofgybes radio.

Or on your own page you will have i think neighbours radio(if you have radio) if you dont have neighbours yet go to that tag radio OR do a search for a band
ie Spacemen 3 and on their page click the listen to bands similar to spacemen 3.
(beware some people tag badly or for a laugh ie Britney spears - metal) but you can skip or ban tracks you don't like.
If you don't want to subscribe

As I said if you subscribe you get more benefits. And also when subscribing you can see who visits your page (FP would love that) and loads of others explained here - http://www.last.fm/subscribe/

also as ever read
http://www.last.fm/help/faq/

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

Kate could find LOADS of stations but unfortunately she can't download the player.
But theres something for everyone.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

Damn poxy fule!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone around today then?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Saturday, 12 August 2006 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

yes, me!

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 12 August 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

Hello!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Saturday, 12 August 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

Hello! I was wondering earlier about your real identity actually, Brigadier!

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 12 August 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

My name is my log in name.

btw everyone 2 more members needed in the last fm watercooler group to get group charts!
Onimo joined!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Saturday, 12 August 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

Make that one. Norman hasn't joined yet.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Saturday, 12 August 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

and now he has.

1 more needed guys!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Saturday, 12 August 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

I need a new ILX name. I don't know how Kate can change hers so often.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Sunday, 13 August 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

This one is a bit of an in-joke so it's not suitable.

― Pfunkboy Doesn't Wear Capes (Kerr), Sunday, 13 August 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm. dunno. Before you change your name for real, I should tell you that I have an acquaintance who just told me she is taking a teaching job for a university in Lethbridge, Alberta.

― g00blar (gooblar), Sunday, 13 August 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

Lethbridge

― g00blar (gooblar), Sunday, 13 August 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart is a character from the old Dr Who.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Sunday, 13 August 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.relocate-canada.com/images/lethbridge.jpg

Ah. I'm American and thus have no Dr Who knowledge.

― g00blar (gooblar), Sunday, 13 August 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

Ahh i thought as much.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Sunday, 13 August 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

Hi there, sah. Watery sun and the inky remnants of morning rainfall here in London, not much else to report, although I would be out and about if the young lady I had planned to enjoy a mild tipple with hadn't been cruelly struck down with illness overnight. At least, that's what she said (not that I'm suspicious, or anything). ILX it is...

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Sunday, 13 August 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

You're addicted to ILX already.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Sunday, 13 August 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

Well, good afternoon to you too...

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Sunday, 13 August 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

hmm is this thing on? or is ilx dying already..

― jellybean (jellybean), Monday, 14 August 2006 09:06 (nineteen years ago)

Theres now 3 UK watercoolers on the interweb.
This One kept us occupied on monday and most of tuesday until nu-ilx appeared.

It's remaining open for all music related chats and Kates Benjamin pic thread.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

We have UK WATERCOOLER CHARTS!

I am off to bed now. Glad to see you all back (in advance)!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah!

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

Morning there, people. Can I go back to bed yet please?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 07:18 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, we're back then. Cool.

Unfortunately no ILX just meant that I fed my other addiction even more - looking at pram porn on ebay. Not actual pram porn, just... nice prams. It's like buying a car or something, I imagine, quite a minefield.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 07:31 (nineteen years ago)

*refuses to see what's on the other side of a google search for "pram porn," even for a joke's sake*

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 07:49 (nineteen years ago)

I actually spent my time working, which is good. I'm moving pretty quick--having skipped sonnets, I did some Spencer and some Marlowe (Dr. Faustus). Today I think I have to go back to the Faerie Queen, as I sort of didn't finish reading it and went and bought new jeans instead.

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 07:56 (nineteen years ago)

Good lord, we're back! Hurrah!

Especially after the awful stress dreams I had last night.

::kisses ILX::

Never go away again!

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 08:06 (nineteen years ago)

Morning all. The first of the Secret Machines shipment arrived this morning.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 08:11 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah, which one came first? Hope it wasn't Benjamin, he'll eat you out of house and home and burritos.

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

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 08:20 (nineteen years ago)

"Now Here Is Nowhere" came today.

I like that picture--the caption is blatently the guy on the right saying, "Oh christ, not again"

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 08:23 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, Baby Silvertooth is clearly "oh no.... lay off the burritos, bro..."

(Yes, we have finally discovered why the sun shines out of Benjamin's behind. It is Methane production. It's a bad wind that blows nobody some good! No wonder Josh won't set up his drum kit in the usual place behind the guitarist.)

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 08:26 (nineteen years ago)

The Faerie Queen was the bane of my first year, first semester even, at uni. Immediately afterward I decided straight lit was too much for me and shifted to hist and lit.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 08:29 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and yes, welcome back ILX.

(to Aerosmith): "We're back, back in the saddle again..."

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

After dipping my toe in the faerie queen, I can see why--and I have to teach it!

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 08:33 (nineteen years ago)

I wish that Secret Machines had foregone trying to be a commercial success, writing pithy little three minute pop songs, when they are clearly at their best doing the 9-minute sacrifice to the UFO gods (i.e. "First Wave Intact").

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 08:33 (nineteen years ago)

Ive never read the Faerie Queen. Why is it such heavy going?

Just the archaic language, or does it have a ponderous structure, or what?

x-post, when have they ever written three minute pop songs? I don't htink they have a song under five minutes.

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 08:36 (nineteen years ago)

As has been noted elsewhere, I am a popster. I far and away prefer 'Lightning Blue Eyes' to everything else they've done. Yes, it's 5.30 long, but I think that's what tissp means.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 08:43 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't mean literally three-minute pop songs--what I meant was that their shorter, more straightforward songs pale in comparison to the huge space jams they go into on their longer songs (which is natural, a case of space within the song).

(Don't get me wrong, they are still great songs)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 08:45 (nineteen years ago)

The problem is, TSM might have made ~~better~~ more TISSP! oriented spacerock had they signed to a tiny dronerock label and never recorded any singles, ever, and done nothing but nine minute epics about UFOs and angels fighting at the gates of dawn.

But then they'd never have had the money to have their Close Encounters of the Third Kind light show, couldn't afford to go make art films in the Texan desert, and any of the other wonderful things that that freedom allows them to do.

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

The language is a big part of it--not only is it an epic poem from the sixteenth century, but Spencer deliberately used archaic language for that age, harkening back to Chaucer's time, which he thought was a golden age for england, or something. Also, it's got tons and tons of layered meanings; he meant it to be like eight allegories at once, so one character can stand for St. George AND Christ AND the Queen's servant AND the protestant church, etc. Sort of easy to ignore, I guess, but not if you have to teach the bugger.

The 9-line stanzas are pretty cool though, as is the rhyme scheme: ababbcbcc.

xpost, obvs

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 08:48 (nineteen years ago)

I like eight allegories going at once, I love that kind of thing.

However, Sixteenth Century writing is hard enough to decipher - I can't imagine reading a 16th C writer imitating Chaucer. That's practically another language.

(Though the trick with both Old and Middle English is actually to read it out loud - it makes a lot more sense then.)

Ryght, Geoffreye?

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 09:00 (nineteen years ago)

That's awesome!

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 09:32 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah back! back!! back!!!

My guess is that TFQ would be just the kind of thing you might enjoy, Kate. Although maybe more in a dip-into-now-and-then than in a read-from-start-to-end kinda way.

Also the language isn't that difficult -- syntax seems pretty "modern"; the difference is mostly in orthography and the occasional unfamiliar word, I'd say:

A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine,
Y cladd in mightie armes and siluer shielde,
Wherein old dints of deepe wounds did remaine,
The cruell markes of many a bloudy fielde;
Yet armes till that time did he neuer wield:
His angry steede did chide his foming bitt,
As much disdayning to the curbe to yield:
Full iolly knight he seemd, and faire did sitt,
As one for knightly giusts and fierce encounters fitt.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and the whole thing appears to be here.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

I like it already:

TO
THE MOST HIGH,
MIGHTIE
and
MAGNIFICENT
EMPRESSE RENOVV-
MED FOR PIETIE, VER-
TVE, AND ALL GRATIOVS
GOVERNMENT KATHARINE BY
THE GRACE OF GOD QVEENE
OF ENGLAND FRAVNCE AND
IRELAND AND OF VIRGI-
NIA, DEFENDOVR OF THE
FAITH, &. HER MOST
HVMBLE SERVANT
EDMVND SPENSER
DOTH IN ALL HV-
MILITIE DEDI-
CATE, PRE-
SENT
AND CONSECRATE THESE
HIS LABOVRS TO LIVE
VVITH THE ETERNI-
TIE OF HER
FAME.

― Negative Spaceman (kate), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

Haha! I saw what you did there!

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

Hello. ILX wouldn't load for me I thought it was down again. It wasn't even a poxy fule.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 10:06 (nineteen years ago)

Is it worth opening an account with one of our partners in order to get an iPod nano?

I think I hate Citibank for some LIC-related reason I can't remember.

― Negative Spaceman (kate), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 10:14 (nineteen years ago)

Kate did you see the Watercooler charts?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

No Secret Machines, no credibility.

― Negative Spaceman (kate), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.last.fm/group/UK%2BWatercooler/charts

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

Awww, they look so... twee!

http://www.rock.com.mx/images/secret_machines1.jpg

― Negative Spaceman (kate), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

D'ya think they meant to both tilt their heads for the picture?

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

I am sure they used their brotherly telepathy to arrange it just so.

― Negative Spaceman (kate), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 10:49 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, they both tend to rock their heads as they play. But Ben rocks his head like he's riding a horse, and Brandon rocks his head like he's committing unnatural acts with his keyboard.

(especially considering Ben isn't playing at all, in that pic.)

― Negative Spaceman (kate), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, this picture makes so much more sense in context:

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

Josh: Are you gonna eat that?
Brandon: (stares longingly) I'm so hungry I could eat a horse burrito...

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

Brandon: BASTARD LITTLE BROTHER!!! I can't believe you ate the last burrito again!

― Negative Spaceman (kate), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

I'm interested that somebody is reading the Faerie Queen; it's a text I shunned in my first year at university, choosing instead the slightly more straightforward ramblings of Wyatt and Surrey. Although that said, my current project is Chaucer's Troilus And Criseyde, which is going as slowly and agonisingly as can be expected...

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 11:07 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, read aloud in a slightly camp French-Italian accent, the whole meaning becomes crystal clear. ;-)

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

I cannot concentate on work today. I'm just a big ball of bouncing pre-gig tension. Plus, I'm terrified that the report I'm working on is going to crash the server every time I even look at it...

― Negative Spaceman (kate), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

Have you found a way to play the m4a files yet, incidentally?

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

No. :-(

And my Sys Admin is never going to give me any kind of system rights now I've been crashing the DB left right and centre.

I'm listening to Can Delays today. After that, I think I fancy some Mastodon.

― Negative Spaceman (kate), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

Wooo Mastodon!

The 1st album "Remission"is sludgey and brilliant.
"Leviathan" is a lot more proggy influenced and is a concept album about "Moby Dick" It has cleaner vocals too.
New album "Blood Mountain" is more like Leviathan and has guest appearances from Cedric from Mars Volta, Josh Homme and I forget who else. Its pretty great.

My fave is Remission.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

Are they hard-rock effects-prog then? If so, I propose a compunctionless mention of Oceansize (at last! at long, long last!) in an ILX conversation.

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

Mastodon are metal.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

Kate likes the metal at heart.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

Secretly, I am part of the Heavy Metal Kids. ;-)

Yes! Everett has bitten my TSM pitch. Now I have the joy of attempting to track down their PR. Someone told me it was P@m, but I'm not sure. You'd think their record company would put that kind of info on their site, but noooo...

― Negative Spaceman (kate), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

At least they can't see you drooling if its an interview by email.
Otherwise its another Paula Yates/Michael Hutchence on The Tube interview.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

Surely m4a's will play in iTunes? Or am I missing part something?

xpost

― treefell (treefell), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

ha ha, I put in the DVD and it just started playing Lift to Experience, now I'm going to have to listen to this before I can get to Mastodon.

I don't actually want to interview them (that would be ridiculous) - what I want is more info about the film (maybe a review copy?).

I DO NOT HAVE ITUNES, I have only Windows Media Player. This is a work 'puter and it's rubbish for media files.

― Negative Spaceman (kate), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

And I don't suppose you're allowed to download the codecs?

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

Itunes can do both m4a and mp3, though. Which is why I'm able to listen to 'AECOMI' again. :-)

*scrolls down music list to 'S'*

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

Louis, I hope you like one of the following
Metal, Stoner Rock, Sludge, Doom, Hipster Metal as george smith calls it(which is drone/instrumental/Isis/Pelican/Boris/Sunn o))) etc,
Nu-Metal is banned except for dEFTONES and SOAD(unless you're tissp)

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

Oi! I'm the only person allowed to ban things!

― Negative Spaceman (kate), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

Earth (especially the remix album) check, Sunn 0))), erm, sorta check (the one with the Cope monologue (My Wall?) is pretty good), Isis CHECK (they're one of the bands I tried to send to Kate, who probably has their complete works), erm, do The Dillinger Escape Plan count?, er, Opeth, check, Tool, check...

So yeah, I do. :)

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

I thought you already banned Nu-Metal, Kate?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

I like Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine.
Kate has all Isis.
Ned & I are the ILM Tool fans

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

Like Mastodon isn't nu-metal?

― Negative Spaceman (kate), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

Kate> This weeks NME Cover
http://www.nme.com/images/84_NMEcover_radiohead_L190806.jpg

x-post
MASTODON ARE NOT NU-METAL!!!!!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

Come on, they have cookie monster vocals and everything.

― Negative Spaceman (kate), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

Miss Machine is the one I have as well. It's pretty good. I only have Aenima and Lateralus of Tool, of which Aenima I've listened to (much) more (Lateralus will require a whole day's devotion whenever I do get round to it). And Isis' Panopticon is flat-out incredible. I've found that metal generally works best when combined with an element of p**g, myself.

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

Dude, that is the wrong way around. On this thread, we talk of PROG with loving devotion, and have to star out the m*t*l.

― Negative Spaceman (kate), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

O RLY? Wow, prog is loved? I've honestly never felt such a spike of delight on the entire board! A place where I can talk about buying my first Genesis album without being spat upon! Bliss!

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

Are you kidding? Did you not see Pash's YouTube link on the last thread?

We love prog here. In fact, I'm going to go and listen to Aphrodite's Child again right now.

― Negative Spaceman (kate), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

I wasn't around for that.

BTW, the two tracks I sent you that you MIGHT not have already owned were teh ESP's 'The American Adventure' and Hood's 'The Lost You'. Put me outta my misery now, please. :p

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

What misery? Do you want Aphrodite's Child, too?

I'm trying to import the Red Sparrow now. What should I expect, Kerr?

(We have driven everyone off with our prog talk again. Maybe we should bitch about work some more.)

― Negative Spaceman (kate), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

No, my misery of knowing I've clearly sent you songs you've heard before in exchange for wonderful SM goodies. I can't bitch about work because my job doesn't begin for another two weeks.

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

Well, considering I can't actually listen to them, it doesn't matter, as I'm imagining them to the best thing ever as it is.

Oh, the Red Sparrowes is more TISSP-rock. Excellent. (poor TISSP, I've named an entire genre after the music he likes.)

― Negative Spaceman (kate), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

ARGH, I CANNOT CONCENTRATE, I AM DOING NO WORK, WHY AM I STILL HERE?!?!?

Honestly, if I'm going to be spazzy and nervous somewhere it should be at home and not at work. When will this day end, so I can go and get this damned gig over with?

― Negative Spaceman (kate), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

I think I like having a genre named after me.

It makes it very easy to explain to people what kind of music I like.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

(I know what I have to tag EP2 with in the iTunes database now, too)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

Kate> Didnt i send you the 1st red sparowes on the dvds? Its my album of 2005.
It features a member of Isis.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Did you? God, you sent me SO MUCH STUFF. You send me stuff I am not even aware that you sent me. It's too bad there is not an index!

I am even forgetting bands that I listened to before that I liked!

― Negative Spaceman (kate), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

I have just had a double espresso mochaccino. Now I am CAFFEINATED and bored. Great.

And I cannot find this field that the developer swears exists in the table she says it exists in. I just bet you it's linked to another table somewhere...

― Negative Spaceman (kate), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

Orange juice is really the only way to get through the day in my book.

Have you heard any Electric Soft Parade then?

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

We played with them at a festival a few weeks ago. Nice lads, but not really my cup of tea. Far prefer their supergroup, Brakes.

― Negative Spaceman (kate), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm. In the words of (the talented one) Tom White, Brakes 'pays the bills', but the real musical exploration and depth is found in ESP. I've got the Brakes album, and it's pretty groovy, but it doesn't have a lasting effect on me and I don't want to listen to it over and over again.

The Electric Soft Parade are on the other hand going to release some absolute stormers. They've already done it once, with the cruelly underrated American Adventure, and if their latest EP is anything to go by then you'd better watch out.

Appreciated if they're not your cup of tea, but they do have an impressive array of guitar effects...

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

I've overdosed on the post-rock this month. I need to listen to something else.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

Louis do you have Last FM?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

I've overdosed on the post-rock this month. I need to listen to something else.

Pussy

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

;)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

I don't have an account, no. Should I get one ASAP?

Which post-rock have you been shootin' up?

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

The new ESP stuff is great

I didn't like the olds songs, but that EP they put out last year really surprised me..

But then I would say that wouldn't i?

― jellybean (jellybean), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

I'll admit that Holes In The Wall doesn't do that much for me now, a couple of tracks (Start Again, STTD) aside, but you really should go back to The American Adventure, which is brilliant and awesome and better than its 70's equivalent Dark Side Of The Moon. Yes, I just said that.

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

Hehe an email from Everett True

Hi.

Could I trouble you for a moment?
We're running our first letters page in the next issue of Plan B - jeez, is it
that time already? - and we need you, dear gentle folk and scary metal fans and
scuzzy grime-mongers and sensitive Plan B readers to send us in your comments on
the latest issue (you know the one: it has a photograph of David Berman from
Silver Jews on the front), or indeed anything Plan B-related.

Please send through all suggestions, praise, nitpicking typo corrections, plea
bargains and other such material to me, Everett True - everett@planbmag.com.
There will be a prize for Letter of the Month.

PLEASE NOTE! - This email is sent from an automated list, please DO NOT REPLY to
this email.

If you want to get in touch with anyone at Plan B please visit
http://www.planbmag.com/contact

So everyone is to write in saying more secret machines and kate?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

I don't have an account, no. Should I get one ASAP?
If you're into the idea, yes.

Which post-rock have you been shootin' up?

Look here and here for recently played

Kate are you finishing work early tonight?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

Don't you dare!

(Though I don't write as "kate" for that magazine so it doesn't matter anyway.)

― Negative Spaceman (kate), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah Kate's right. No one should ask for more coverage of The Secret Machines.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

Grrrrrrrr.

Unless of course, you mean that they need less coverage, in that they should be naked. That I support whole-heartedly.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/EveSP/TOPLESSwithbeans.jpg

I should go home already...

― Negative Spaceman (kate), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

Rodan? Shipping News? Karma To Burn? Not really heard of that lot. On the upside, you can tell me whether Tweez is any good. Go on, break it gently...

Which Sonic Youth album would you instantly recommend if I asked you (as I am doing) to recommend just one, straight out?

Oh, and Moya is GYBE's worst song. :P

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

EVOL!!!!

Or maybe Sister.

― Negative Spaceman (kate), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

Daydream Nation or Dirty are good to start out with.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

Moya is the BEST.

Evol, Sister or Daydream nation. I couldn't choose between them.
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Dirty and Washing Machine are great too.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

Well, the two I own are Confusion Is Sex and Daydream Nation, and I was thinking that of all of the others Bad Moon Rising might be my favourite, purely on description. All the early ones seem like good shouts, though.

Moya is SO NOT the best. Motherfucker=Redeemer is SO the best.

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

You need Evol and Sister.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

Rise Above Records Newsletter August 2006. www.riseaboverecords.com

NEWSFLASH. CIRCULUS GIG TONIGHT – CHANGE OF VENUE!
Folks

The gig has now moved to the PlayLouder HQ at the top of Brick Lane.
The address is State 51, 8-10 Rhoda St, London E2 7EF
Circulus / Voxtrot / Sleeping State

SO! To get in to the gig you'll need to be a Play Louder member, but they'll sort that out for you on the door for a fiver which includes admission. Proceedings kick off at 20.00, cheap drinks.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmm.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

Time for more goofing off around the 'cooler. Good morning! I have some news to share...

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 17 August 2006 06:34 (nineteen years ago)

Morning. The world is crap. I am definitely single (as usual).

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 17 August 2006 06:49 (nineteen years ago)

"Available" is the word you wanted, FP.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 17 August 2006 07:02 (nineteen years ago)

What's the news, Mitya?

(Morning everyone)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 17 August 2006 07:52 (nineteen years ago)

"Doomed" is more like it. I'm in one of those "why don't I just kill myself and be done with it?" moods

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 17 August 2006 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

The reason I love the 'cooler is that both FP and Kaet seem as chronically morose as me. Why am I always surrounded by happy people!

That said, I am one of those people today, despite a lot of doubts and second guessing on my part. I got a job offer yesterday. Which is good because I haven't really had a real job for two years. The pay is not great, especially considering how expensive Moscow is, and the offer is to essentially to do exactly what I was doing, um, nine years ago, during graduate school (editing). And I think they said I'd have to start at 7am every day. But it would get me out of the US and inside a reasonably well-known company in the private sector. Not quite sure what to do, but everyone is telling me to take it. Maybe I'm just putting on airs, I don't know.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 17 August 2006 08:57 (nineteen years ago)

That's great news!

I'm not going to make an attempt to tell you whether to take it or not, though. 7am would kill me.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 17 August 2006 09:00 (nineteen years ago)

I start at 8am, and that's bad enough.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 17 August 2006 09:03 (nineteen years ago)

Urgh, 8am woud also kill me!

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 17 August 2006 09:05 (nineteen years ago)

(would)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 17 August 2006 09:05 (nineteen years ago)

I start at 9.30 and it's killing me.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 17 August 2006 09:07 (nineteen years ago)

It's not the start time that's killing me - it's the time I have to get up at to commute.

― treefell (treefell), Thursday, 17 August 2006 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

The HR director thought it was excessive, too, when I mentioned it. That's fairly normal for the industry, I think, except that our audience would mostly be in western europe and therefore nowhere near awake at that point. (But I guess I shouldn't be second-guessing my boss before I even accept the job, should I?)

I would be quite happy to start officially at 10, so that I could sleep in if necessary, and roll in well early when things are quiet if I wanted.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 17 August 2006 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

Congrats Mitya! (Morning all)

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 17 August 2006 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

We have a new little friend, who visits us every night:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/16804034@N00/217577340/

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 17 August 2006 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

Awww. But, you're not supposed to feed them bread and milk, it can be quite bad for them.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 17 August 2006 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

yeah Pash, you absolute bastard.

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Thursday, 17 August 2006 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

We had a pheasant in our garden this morning, but I didn't get a ~~clear shot at it~~ picture.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 17 August 2006 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

How do you know what and what not to feed hedgehogs?

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 17 August 2006 09:54 (nineteen years ago)

I thought everyone knew that! It's common knowledge, isn't it?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 17 August 2006 09:55 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.thehedgehog.co.uk/diet.htm

You should put out additional food for a hedgehog. Do not put out bread and milk, however. Although the hedgehog will eat it, the swelling of bread in the stomach and the fact that cows milk gives hedgehogs diarrhoea, means that it is not the best thing to give a hungry hedgehog. Many hedgehogs die of malnutrition caused by this wrong diet.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 17 August 2006 09:55 (nineteen years ago)

Still, if he dies in the garden you can have a

http://eil.com/newGallery/Not-The-Nine-OClock-News-Hedgehog-Sandwich-317233.jpg

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 17 August 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

you don't sleep with a deagle under your pillow, O?

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Thursday, 17 August 2006 09:58 (nineteen years ago)

x-post that's hilarious! So is it a common instinct to feed a hedgehog bread and milk? I had no idea this was a common problem. Not sure I've actually seen a hedgehog in the flesh.

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 17 August 2006 09:59 (nineteen years ago)

Aye, but the bastard kept camping behind a fencepost.

xpost

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 17 August 2006 09:59 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, we only fed it that once, we bought some cans of dog food, which is what yr supposed to feed them, apparently. We put a little bowl out for it each evening, which it obviously loves, as it scoffs the lot every time. I was surprised at how fast they can move! They are the most adorable little things, so cute.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 17 August 2006 10:03 (nineteen years ago)

..although that one isn't that little!

Here's me squinting into the sun on the beach at alnmouth, northumberland, yesterday.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 17 August 2006 10:14 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/16804034@N00/217590486/

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 17 August 2006 10:15 (nineteen years ago)

DLT!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 17 August 2006 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

LOL (I am so proud that I got that reference).

If there are any synth owners here, I posted a question over on IMM.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 17 August 2006 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

How is everyone today? Everyone having a great time at work and nothing to complain about?

Wheres Kate?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 17 August 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

I've had a bit of a bizarre week.

On Tuesday went to see my pal's band play, where they were supported by Tony Benn...

Today I get an email from him saying they've had a review of their album published in a German magazine and the accompanying photo is one I took. (I got a photo credit in German magazine - bizarre)

― treefell (treefell), Thursday, 17 August 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

At home, actually, a member of Britain's great unemployed (although we often masquerade as 'students').

― Scourage (Haberdager), Thursday, 17 August 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

Grrr, will someone please remind me why I haven't resigned yet.

My manager had asked me to hunt for some paperwork for him, so I went to rummage through our department's safe. There was someone else in the room whilst I was there - from our division too - so we were chatting away as I was rooting through for this paperwork. As we're searching, Manager B - who is from a different division entirely - walks past the door.

Two minutes later, I get a phone call, from Manager B. "What are you doing? How are you getting on with Project X?"

"Well, my manager has taken that over to do himself..."

"And we've got all these other problems that you know about, that haven't been fixed yet. You don't have time to just stand chatting to people, you know."

I felt like saying "excuse me - you're not my boss", but I managed to restrain myself and point out that I was actually doing exactly what my own manager had just told me to. But I'm just a tad pissed off that, based on what she saw from walking past an open door, she decided to tell off someone she doesn't actually have any authority over.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 17 August 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Awful. I am all for resigning, its my last day tomorrow after handing in my notice 4 weeks ago, Having spent the last 2 weeks briefing the 2 people they have had to draft in to replace me, I intend on going down the pub at lunchtie tomorrow and not coming back :)

― Merrini (Mezza), Thursday, 17 August 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

Yikes. Have you got a job lined up anywhere else FP?

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 17 August 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

You haven't told *us* why you haven't quit yet, FP. I thought most people seemed to think you should go, if you are already planning on it a few weeks from now. (Although the fact that you're sticking with your plans in the face of idiots bodes well for your character.)

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 17 August 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

My current plans involve me quitting at the start of next month, as soon as I know I will have a flat to move into right after I have quit.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 17 August 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

Secret Machines mentioned here along with Rick Wakemen
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,1841206,00.html

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 17 August 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

And a bar review for circulus
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,1841411,00.html

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 17 August 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

That should of course say BAD review

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 17 August 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

I'm glad you kept your last.fm forum for all this music chat leaving room for hedgehogs and crappy co-workers for the rest of us.

Today someone from our other office, whose job is in no way whatsoever related to mine, had a go at me for doing something that is actually part of my job description. Shit happens. FP, if you quit your job, you will more than likely just find yourself working somewhere else with different, but equally irritating, co-workers. Them's the pitfalls of working with other people, I'm afraid. I'm sort of a one-woman department, answerable to one bloke who doesn't really care what I do, when I do it or how I do it, as long as it gets done, and done properly, and we make enough money to keep going. This is obviously how it should be, but I still have irritating co-workers who don't even bloody work with me.

I went to Edinburgh last night and saw Alan Rickman in a bar. I saw Carsmile Steve as well, but that wasn't as exciting. Mind you, Alan Rickman didn't buy me a pint, so maybe Steve wins after all.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

i am still on the fence. neither steve nor alan rickman have bought me a pint!

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 18 August 2006 06:17 (nineteen years ago)

Morning there

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 18 August 2006 07:21 (nineteen years ago)

Morning. Edinburgh has regained it's slate grey skies today.

― treefell (treefell), Friday, 18 August 2006 07:28 (nineteen years ago)

We have here, too - in fact, it was raining heavily most of the night. This morning, I saw a family of ducks scooting across the road in-between lorries. We're in the middle of an industrial estate, so I think they're a bit off-course.

(well, not too much - the sea wall is a few hundred yards one way, and there's a duck-friendly river a few hundred yards in the other direction)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 18 August 2006 07:31 (nineteen years ago)

I have a feeling that this is going to be a long day. I suppose it's because I'm off on holiday next week and really can't wait for it to start.

Oh, talking of seeing people in Edinburgh, I saw (grizzled looking) Arthur Smith outside the Festival theatre getting his picture taken with 3 bunny girls.

― treefell (treefell), Friday, 18 August 2006 07:52 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, I used to live across the road from there - on the same stair as the brothel, just to the right of Surgeons Hall

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 18 August 2006 07:58 (nineteen years ago)

So i negotiated a bit more money out of them and took the job. I start... um, i guess we didn't agree on that. probably (hopefully) in mid-september, because Delta won't take pets before September 15.

― mitya in moskva (mitya), Friday, 18 August 2006 08:22 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm and no monastery at the arctic circle. Back to the dacha (well, a different one) this weekend! Quite nice to hear that the girls only want to go if I go. (Although it would be even better if one of them would demonstrate this, ahem, through her actions. Dream on.)

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 18 August 2006 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

i am tempting to start posting pictures of Secret Machines in a vain attempt to revive this thread...

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 18 August 2006 09:12 (nineteen years ago)

Haha
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1852426,00.html

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 18 August 2006 09:26 (nineteen years ago)

I'm glad you kept your last.fm forum for all this music chat leaving room for hedgehogs and crappy co-workers for the rest of us.

They stopped posting there. I was all for it.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 18 August 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

Mitya, just don't :)

I'm glad you kept your last.fm forum for all this music chat leaving room for hedgehogs and crappy co-workers for the rest of us.

Ailsa OTMFM.

They stopped posting there. I was all for it.

Kerr, make them start again, please.

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Friday, 18 August 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

Hello. I've got too much work on :( In common with everyone else on the planet, though, so I should pipe down.

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 18 August 2006 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

Screen on the Green this morning:

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/1955/dsc00093iw1.jpg

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/5130/dsc00094ys7.jpg

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 18 August 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

What "them"? Kerr is the only one talking about spacerock!

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― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 18 August 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

yes, but he counts as 10 people.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Friday, 18 August 2006 10:02 (nineteen years ago)

So I am getting into this Flickr thing and I want to take more photos. Problem is, I'm not one of these people who can spot a wonderful potential pic - I tend to take ultra-conservative pics of sunsets and impressive buildings etc. So what can I do to adjust my mindset so that I can pick up on the images all around me?

xpost - I bloody wish Kerr was the only one talking about spacerock.

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Friday, 18 August 2006 10:03 (nineteen years ago)

Take photos of absolutely everything, then delete the 99% that are crap.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 18 August 2006 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

You know what, Mark? I've said it before, I'll say it again.

Instead of just bitching about other people's behaviour, or choice of topics, why don't you go and start your own thread where you can talk about whatever the fuck you want.

Because I can't remember the last time you posted an interesting pithy new topic for discussion. All I ever see you doing is bitching about what the others (namely me and Kerr) choose to talk about.

If the topics in this thread are not to your liking, then go and find another one or shut the fuck up.

― Negative Spaceman (kate), Friday, 18 August 2006 10:08 (nineteen years ago)

They stopped posting there. I was all for it.

LIES!

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 18 August 2006 10:09 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, fair enough. I'll do that. P.s. please see the interesting topic I did just post and if there are any replies I'll come back and read them.

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Friday, 18 August 2006 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

I would much prefer Mark to post here about what interests him than start his own thread.
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Mark please stay.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 18 August 2006 10:16 (nineteen years ago)

So what can I do to adjust my mindset so that I can pick up on the images all around me?

FP OTM.

Another idea that may help is to come up with a project or a theme, and then make a concentrated effort at it. A banal example, to illustrate: take pictures of all different kinds of windows. Over time, the effort of looking for windows, watching for different ones, trying to come up with interesting angles, perspectives, lighting, etc. helps train your eye to look for and see different things.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 18 August 2006 10:17 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, well, if I stay I promise not to bitch at anyone for the topics they discuss. Sorry Kate, sorry Kerr, sorry everyone for being a grumpy old twat.

xpost - thanks Mitya and FP, wise words. I really wanna take pictures of snakes but they're in short supply in London :)

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Friday, 18 August 2006 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

mark, maybe you need a project, like a sequence of photos about the same thing taken at different times or something. just to get into the habit of taking pictures (my camera is always with me but hardly ever gets used so i'm the same)

maybe a monthly themed picture thread? fire hydrants, lamp posts, dogs ~~space rock bands~~. dunno.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Friday, 18 August 2006 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

pissing xpost. sorry.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Friday, 18 August 2006 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

koogs I accused you of being an indie band yesterday! Someone asked me who was playing on the radio and I said it was The Koogs instead of The Kooks.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 18 August 2006 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

Onimo, I accused you of being a traditional pub game featuring ivory tiles covered with dots yesterday! Small world eh.

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Friday, 18 August 2006 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

I'm in the attic last night, farting about w/korg digital legacy edition, when Jill pops up to tell me the hedgehog's back again. I go and take a look at the little thing, tucking into it's dogfood. It's a completely different animal, about 2/3 the size of the other one and with a stubbier, shorter nose. I think we must be turning into a wildlife sanctuary or something.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 18 August 2006 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

I've been accused of worse :)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 18 August 2006 11:07 (nineteen years ago)

xpost
I think it's cool when that happens. My garden has been full of wildlife this year - mostly insects and birds.
I actually did some gardening this year and I've been rewarded with constant bee activity, loads of moths and butterflies. I also put out some bird feeders and they've been a big hit with the neighbourhood birds. A family of blue tits have been feeding constantly at them. I've also seen the occasional squirrel trying to get at the peanuts.

― treefell (treefell), Friday, 18 August 2006 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

Your garden is hot news on the hedgehog gossip grapevine.

(xpost)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 18 August 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

i want a garden!

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 18 August 2006 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

there's a big fat toad who lives in my garden, i'm going to charge him ground rent

NB i am not talking about fatnick

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Friday, 18 August 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I got toads and hedgehogs. I get only slugs and aphids intent on eating mine plants.

Ha ha, I'm not sure how, but I've seemed to have volunteered to transcribe a fan-based TSM interview (all questions that their messageboard have come up with) for their official site. They are going to rewards me with vinyl. I would prefer if they rewarded me with Benjamin, but I will have to make do.

(However, after volunteering, I have realised that they have such thick Texan accents I can't actually tell them apart.)

― Negative Spaceman (kate), Friday, 18 August 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

I don't usually post on the Watercooler thread but just want to say 'Wow! Hi DG"'

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 18 August 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

HOSTILITIES @ WATERCOOLER

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Friday, 18 August 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

Afternoon, cooler.

Today, I ask you to say with me: "Fuck Sir Philip Sidney; today we read King Lear! YEAH!"

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 18 August 2006 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

Aw, I like Philip Sidney.

He was from Penshurst Place - feature of a recent Watercooler country walk.

― Negative Spaceman (kate), Friday, 18 August 2006 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

Ay, there will be Sidney, in time, in time. But today I needs me some drama.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 18 August 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

see, i don't really join in on watercooler topics.
but i also don't start topics of my own.

such balance! it's like nature itself! like that little bird what cleans crocodiles' teeth for them. EQUALIBRIUM and stuff. however you spell it.

i don't even know what i mean.

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Friday, 18 August 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

DRAMA indeed. let's have a little bit of theatre!

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Friday, 18 August 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

We haven't got a garden, we/ve got a yard! (grim up north, blah blah.) Some place came up for sale in the next village along last week, though, a smaller house than ours, also terraced like ours, but with 8 acres! 175,000 quid, which just a few years ago would have been pffff silly money, but our house is so ridiculously over-valued since we bought it (like most of the ones in our village) that we could actually afford to move there! If we didn't have the little feller, I'd be pretty tempted.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 18 August 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

KING LEAR What, have his daughters brought him to this pass?
Couldst thou save nothing? Didst thou give them all?

FOOL Nay, he reserved a blanket, else we had been all shamed.

KING LEAR Now, all the plagues that in the pendulous air
Hang fated o’er men’s faults light on thy daughters!

KENT He hath no daughters, sir.

KING LEAR Death, traitor! nothing could have subdued nature
To such a lowness but his unkind daughters.
Is it the fashion, that discarded fathers
Should have thus little mercy on their flesh?
Judicious punishment! ’twas this flesh begot
Those pelican daughters.

(erm, xpost)

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 18 August 2006 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

I want to spend my holiday here:

http://www.allairestudios.com/images/neve_studios.jpg

― Negative Spaceman (kate), Friday, 18 August 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

Just got Zaireeka on sale for £20! Rock!

― The Girl On Sunn0))hill Road (kate), Friday, 18 August 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Now you need 3 friends with portable stereos.

― Scourage (Haberdager), Friday, 18 August 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

Or you could just commandeer the local Dixon's.

― Scourage (Haberdager), Friday, 18 August 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, we're back. Sleepy morning and so much bad music. But it's been good for the bile.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 August 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

Bad music? Couldja name any o'the offenders?

― Scourage (Haberdager), Friday, 18 August 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

See the thread on his stylus column on ILM

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 18 August 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

I have, now. Not really heard any of those acts myself, but they're probably tit-awful.

― Scourage (Haberdager), Friday, 18 August 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

does ilx0r hate me or does it call everybody a poxy fule?

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Friday, 18 August 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

everybody. usually between the hours of 5-8pm

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 18 August 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

i thought i was special :(

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Friday, 18 August 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

yesss 2 hours till i can say i didn't watch a single fucking minute of big brother this year

i'm so awesome

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Friday, 18 August 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

Well done. Except you mentioned B** B*****r so Kate is BANNING YOU!!! It's THE LAW!

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 18 August 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

she won't ban me. i am the alpha and omega of ILX*

*or at least i would be if i hadn't locked myself out of my superuser account

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Friday, 18 August 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

i win i win take that endemol

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Friday, 18 August 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

Whats everyone doing for the weekend then?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 18 August 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

Not hanging round watercoolers. that's what people do at work. it's the fucking weekend!

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 18 August 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

MOTFD, and maybe some cricket-listening as well if I find the heart.

― Scourage (Haberdager), Friday, 18 August 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

(i'm pissed. you need water when you are pissed. hence watercooler hangage. or something)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 18 August 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

k8 where zaireeka 20 pls? i have joined 21st c and got mp3 playa!

― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 19 August 2006 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

I *am* spending my holiday here:

http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~cckhrb/romania/buppal.jpg

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 19 August 2006 07:07 (nineteen years ago)

Hey Mitya how are you coping?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/5262824.stm

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Sunday, 20 August 2006 00:24 (nineteen years ago)

Morning there.

So, I had a rather nice weekend, despite a spot of illness caused by dodgy leftover chinese food with prawns in. Spent most of it in bed.

;-)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 21 August 2006 07:35 (nineteen years ago)

Morning. Feeling better then? The last time I got ill from Chinese food, it knocked me out of commission for almost a week.

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 21 August 2006 08:27 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, yes, I threw up, slept it off, and was fine the next morning. And had a very nice day.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 21 August 2006 08:59 (nineteen years ago)

Morning. I mostly painted this weekend, finally finished painting the mural in my bedroom (with UFO and everything) and rearranged the furniture so it looks more like a bedroom and less like a store room.

And then spent most of yesterday flat on my back because I'd sprained my back. Ach. My shoulders/neck are still quite stiff and unpleasant.

Hey, DG! It's OK, he mentioned the unmentionable in the context of saying he WAS NOT PARTICIPATING which is good. And besides, he's DG. He run tings.

― The Girl On Sunn0))hill Road (kate), Monday, 21 August 2006 09:01 (nineteen years ago)

Slow today, huh?

Or does everyone just hate me.

― No Mistakes, Only Happy Accidents (kate), Monday, 21 August 2006 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

No hate; maybe everyone else just got caught in a downpour with full bags of groceries like I did.

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 21 August 2006 10:50 (nineteen years ago)

i just not got anything to say.

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Monday, 21 August 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

I'm tired, and I can't be arsed with work. The weekend was so much more fun than: sitting in a windowless office trying to program a computer.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 21 August 2006 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

I like the rain. It feels clean. (Some day a real rain will come and wash all the trash off the sidewalk etc. etc.) But I was just walking to work when it struck.

I feel very alone right now. I need time to make some big decisions and it feels like no one understands or even listens to what I need at all. Least of all me. Sigh.

It's going to be a bad down this week, I think. Someone think of something trivial to discuss to take my mind off it all, please.

― No Mistakes, Only Happy Accidents (kate), Monday, 21 August 2006 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

skunk pussy?

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Monday, 21 August 2006 11:02 (nineteen years ago)

Huh? Drugs? I'm considering taking drugs for the first time in a long time. If I thought it would help...

― No Mistakes, Only Happy Accidents (kate), Monday, 21 August 2006 11:04 (nineteen years ago)

Any of you ever taken a HUGE walk right across a city? A few weeks ago I walked right the way across London and it was incredible. Now officially at one with our lovely capital. :-)

― Scourage (Haberdager), Monday, 21 August 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

I used to do that on a regular basis. It is good for giving one a sense of perspective.

Another thing that's fallen by the wayside...

― No Mistakes, Only Happy Accidents (kate), Monday, 21 August 2006 11:07 (nineteen years ago)

noes, "skunk pussy" was part of that Taxi Driver speech you quoted. i was just joining in.

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Monday, 21 August 2006 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

Where from and to? Mine was an epic North Kensington (nr. Wormwood Scrubs) to Lee Green (in Lewisham) special, lasting 4 hrs. 57 minutes, incorporating several wrong turns and a Big Issue salesman on Vauxhall Bridge...

― Scourage (Haberdager), Monday, 21 August 2006 11:11 (nineteen years ago)

a 5 hour walk across London and just one Big Issue salesman?

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 21 August 2006 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, that's a long way. The longest London walk I can remember taking was Holborn-South Kensington.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 21 August 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

Longest I've done is Hammersmith to err... Clerkenwell? Hoxton? Where was I living at the time? It was all the way along Oxford Street (well, various things that aren't called the same thing, too) and was amazing. I think it was Boxing Day and no public transport was running.

― No Mistakes, Only Happy Accidents (kate), Monday, 21 August 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

xxpost: Just one, but I made a point of avoiding as many main roads as possible, experiencing our capital through its side-streets, nooks and crannies. I've got a comprehensive write-up of my journey somewhere if yr interested. Bloody second-hottest day of the year it was, too.

By the time I crossed the river, I was too fagged to do the whole 'sidestreets' thing so I spent over an hour and a half on the Old and New Kent Roads. That was the most gruelling stretch of the whole journey.

― Scourage (Haberdager), Monday, 21 August 2006 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

Afternoon! I have broccoli and stilton soup! I missed the rain but I also love it. I can't remember doing an epic walk in London, but I did Canal St - 89th Street in NYC whihc was wonderful.

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Monday, 21 August 2006 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, but on which side? I've walked from the Metropolitan Museum of Art down to 6th Street - let me tell you, I was so grateful for my curry when I got there. But it was beautiful, seeing the way that various neighbourhoods fitted together.

That was one of the great things we did at the Cooper Union - field walking about various neighbourhoods in NYC, talking about how the city grew.

― No Mistakes, Only Happy Accidents (kate), Monday, 21 August 2006 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

But it was beautiful, seeing the way that various neighbourhoods fitted together.

That's what I like about walking about London - or, more lazily, taking the bus.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 21 August 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

I like the bus, too, but it's a different perspective (from above, rather than street level) - and also you don't get the same human sense of scale that you do, walking.

Walking around the City of London, you realise how tiny it was! In a bus, you'd zoom through it in a few minutes.

― No Mistakes, Only Happy Accidents (kate), Monday, 21 August 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

Hardly, given London traffic speeds! When I was down there in June I took a bus from Angel to Waterloo - and the stretch though the city, from the Barbican to Strand, took *ages*.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 21 August 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

My next project should be north-east to south-west. Walthamstow to the Heathrow check-in desk? Followed by a flight out of the country? It's all about leaving in style...

― Scourage (Haberdager), Monday, 21 August 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

Hello all.

More eating and drinking at the dacha (different one) this weekend, this time four hours outside the city instead of one. Nothing like sitting down to eat at 2am on Friday and polishing off a bottle to throw your body off balance for the whole weekend. Then spent the bulk of Saturday hunting for mushrooms in the forest.

The BBC was, like most foreign media usually are, behind the news on that story, Kerr. The liquor crisis ended before I arrived in July. But that waqs a very typical Chloe Arnold story.

The UK is great for walks of all kinds, e.g., from Salisbury to Stonehenge. I have pictures somewhere, I think.

Back to the US tomorrow for a couple of weeks to pack, etc., before returning in September. (It's a little strange straddling the 'cooler from both sides in different timezones.)

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 21 August 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

Blimey, Mitya, that sounds like jet lag hell. Your body won't know what time zone it's in.

The crappest of the crap... just had a report dumped on my desk that needs to be done TODAY TODAY TODAY. It's compliance stuff, so they've known about it for ages. And yet it's given to me, at 3pm on the day it's due.

It took every ounce of control not to shout FUCK OFF FUCK OFF, I'M NOT DOING IT at the bloke. Fortunately my boss shouted at him for me, in front of me. That felt great.

― No Mistakes, Only Happy Accidents (kate), Monday, 21 August 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

i turned on the telly this morning and big brother was on it even though it is now MONDAY, fortunately my SAS training* has given me sufficient reflexes to switch over to car booty before any lasting damage was done

i walked from holborn to oxford street once :)

*this might be a lie

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Monday, 21 August 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

kk, it's this weekend, so i'll ask again, cos it's easy to miss stuff sometimes: anybody going to Reading festival, like?

k thx

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Monday, 21 August 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

No.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 21 August 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

Nope. Anyone going to see Quasi tonight at the lumi? I'm thinking I don't want to spend the money.

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 21 August 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

*this might be a lie

No, you make more sense as a trained killer. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 August 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

k sorry 2 ask

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Monday, 21 August 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

Go see Secret Machines if you're at Reading, g-kit. And take a big SACK to capture their guitarist and stick him in to bring him home to me.

― No Mistakes, Only Happy Accidents (kate), Monday, 21 August 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

(I always ask, but no one ever does.)

― No Mistakes, Only Happy Accidents (kate), Monday, 21 August 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

i just wanted to FAP with some peoples, that's all.

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Monday, 21 August 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

Fancy Abducting a Piannist?

(OK, I wouldn't mind if you grabbed Baby Silvertooth by mistake and put him in the bag...)

― No Mistakes, Only Happy Accidents (kate), Monday, 21 August 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

Kate, when's the DJ set that SM are doing that you are going to?

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 21 August 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

i got no idea what you're saying right now!

so why is nobody going? am i really the only ilx0r that's attending? is Reading purely for SAD CUNTS or something? confuzzled.

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Monday, 21 August 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

Thursday.

(But if I kidnap them then, they will not get to play Reading.)

I am also getting teh ph34r about going to that at all. :-(

x-post

― No Mistakes, Only Happy Accidents (kate), Monday, 21 August 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

i went to an ATP a couple of years back and i refuse to do the camping thing ever again after getting a bed and a roof and a shower and stuff at a festival...i also got pneumonia too though

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Monday, 21 August 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

kit maybe you should ask on ilm

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 21 August 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

yah, i should. but i feel even more out of place on ILM.

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Monday, 21 August 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

Ah bugger. A friend I was with over the weekend said he might go, but I won't be able to make it on Thursday.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 21 August 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

Tell him to give me a call, because right now I'm looking at going on my lonesome and sitting by mine own self like a fule trying hard not to look like either 1) one stalker or 2) one Johnny no mates.

― No Mistakes, Only Happy Accidents (kate), Monday, 21 August 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

kit i might be going, but only if i can get a pair of liggers' tix.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 21 August 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

I've just emailed him now.

xpost

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 21 August 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

YAY!
i have liggers' tix.
let me know if you get some and wanna FAP it up! the email address below is totally 100% real. whee!

ACES FACES!
xpost

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Monday, 21 August 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

ainsley harriott irritates me

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Monday, 21 August 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

o rly?

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Monday, 21 August 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

http://my.opera.com/drlaunch/homes/albums/37656/yarly.jpg

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Monday, 21 August 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

did he get a new show or something?

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Monday, 21 August 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

no ready steady cook is still going :(

brian conley has a new show :( :( :( :( :( :(

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Monday, 21 August 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

Well, that was weird. My own computer decided not to know me for some time. I had to go and log onto the computer next to where my boss sits. No interweb surfing for me!

― No Mistakes, Only Happy Accidents (kate), Monday, 21 August 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

O RLY?

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0608/smokeangel_usaf.jpg

YA RLY.

― No Mistakes, Only Happy Accidents (kate), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 08:10 (nineteen years ago)

Somebody with any photoshop skills at all, please photoshop a giant cookie for Baby Silvertooth to eat in this photo:

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

― No Mistakes, Only Happy Accidents (kate), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 08:20 (nineteen years ago)

Do Bloc Party know they nicked their kick drum?

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

Well, they were touring with them at the time, so I assume so. Though they haven't nicked it to play - clearly, just to *eat*.

― No Mistakes, Only Happy Accidents (kate), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

Not even Pete Townshend could end a gig in such a spectacular manner! Wholesale consumption of instruments is clearly the way forwards.

How's everyone? Me, I've got a date in London today, very chuffed about that. Shall detail my progress upon return (if I return, that is) ;-)

― Scourage (Haberdager), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 08:51 (nineteen years ago)

A Date date? Don't be foolish. No one on the watercooler goes on Date dates. We just sit and whinge about our lack of social skills/lack of attractivness/the cute person of the appropriate gender that we will never be able to quite get it together with.

I mean, errr... yeah, good luck.

― No Mistakes, Only Happy Accidents (kate), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 08:54 (nineteen years ago)

We just sit and whinge about our lack of social skills/lack of attractivness/the cute person of the appropriate gender that we will never be able to quite get it together with.

I can manage two out of three at the moment ;-)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 09:16 (nineteen years ago)

FOR GODS SAKE, IS SOMEONE, ANYONE AROUND HERE, STILL SINGLE AND MISERABLE?!?!?

I've been reading about cytoskeletons. After several hundred pages of twaddle about Godel's theorem and Quantum theory, finally he's got to the good bits. The sub-cellular structure of brain cells.

Even cooler than mitochondria... he cytoskeletons might also be things that evolved separately and somehow (possibly parasitically or oh god, hole in my brain, what is that word for mutally beneficial parasitism? ack, brainfart) got joined together. And he reckons they have quantum entangled states in the microtubules. Excellent!

― No Mistakes, Only Happy Accidents (kate), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 09:28 (nineteen years ago)

Symbiotic. There it is.

― No Mistakes, Only Happy Accidents (kate), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 09:30 (nineteen years ago)

Hold that thought, won'cha!

― Scourage (Haberdager), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

How are you doing with understanding Godel's Theorem? Any better than when you mentioned it on my blog?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

Well, it was interesting how John D Barrow managed to completely demolish Penrose's conclusions based on Godel's theorem in a footnote in his book I'm currently reading.

Trying to remember how it went... that Godel's theorem was based on the concept of infalibility. And human consciousness is *anything* but infalible.

― No Mistakes, Only Happy Accidents (kate), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

Am I going to do *any* actual work today? I'm not sure. Sigh.

I feel scrappy, and I should just keep out of arguments. :-(

Communication is a one way street when you feel like this.

― No Mistakes, Only Happy Accidents (kate), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 10:02 (nineteen years ago)

What is it that makes you get a few sentences into a post, and then just give up, in exasperation, or disgust, or whatever?

Or is that normal, and carrying on shouting when no one is still listening is the weird, compulsive thing?

― No Mistakes, Only Happy Accidents (kate), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

I have been known to get a few sentences into a post, realise it's bollocks, and then post it anyway with an apology at the end. Which I appreciate isn't the right way to go about it.

Scream therapy works, y'know. :-)

― Scourage (Haberdager), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

It doesn't, really. I think if you're prone to anger, then expressing that anger sometimes makes you be more angry. It increases your anger reponse trigger.

It's a completely different process to come to the realisation "I don't actually give a fuck about this, nor do I give a fuck what that other person thinks, I'm never going to change their mind, in fact, I'm never going to be able to get them to see my point of view because they've already made up their mind, so I'm not going to bother."

I should get on with booking my holiday or something.

― No Mistakes, Only Happy Accidents (kate), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 10:36 (nineteen years ago)

What is it that makes you get a few sentences into a post, and then just give up, in exasperation, or disgust, or whatever?

I do that. Maybe about 20% of the posts I start writing here never get posted.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, this is fantastic, I forgot about this speech (or, this is one way to express your anger):

O, reason not the need: our basest beggars
Are in the poorest thing superfluous:
Allow not nature more than nature needs,
Man’s life’s as cheap as beast’s: thou art a lady;
If only to go warm were gorgeous,
Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear’st,
Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But, for true need,—
You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need!
You see me here, you gods, a poor old man,
As full of grief as age; wretched in both!
If it be you that stir these daughters’ hearts
Against their father, fool me not so much
To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger,
And let not women’s weapons, water-drops,
Stain my man’s cheeks! No, you unnatural hags,
I will have such revenges on you both,
That all the world shall—I will do such things,—
What they are, yet I know not: but they shall be
The terrors of the earth. You think I’ll weep
No, I’ll not weep:
I have full cause of weeping; but this heart
Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws,
Or ere I’ll weep. O fool, I shall go mad!

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 10:57 (nineteen years ago)

Woo, that's my favourite part of King Lear, definitely.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

I think I might have my students take this passage apart; it could take up a good hour!

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

I've never read King Lear. Confound all these bloody English students...

― No Mistakes, Only Happy Accidents (kate), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

It's pretty great, tons and tons of hot-headed emotion and OTT monologues. It's also got this wicked catalogue of insults that Kent hurls at Oswald (and stop me if I'm annoying the hell out of everyone):

A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition.

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 11:15 (nineteen years ago)

He has an even better rant about women later on when the word 'sulfurous' is deliciously used and reference is made to 'yon simpering dame'. That's MY favourite sexist Shakespeare speech. ;-)

xpost

Dost thou bandy looks with me?

― Scourage (Haberdager), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

I know that Shakespeare was great for rants and flames, though.

Barrow was analysing the fractal qualities of Jackson Pollock's last night. It was great. The next chapter is on the 17 kinds of symmetry, tra la la!

― No Mistakes, Only Happy Accidents (kate), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

Jackson Pollock's PAINTINGS, that would be.

― No Mistakes, Only Happy Accidents (kate), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

So bored this afternoon.

Even our network is poxy fuling on a regular basis. Sigh.

― No Mistakes, Only Happy Accidents (kate), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

ha i get to watch diagnosis murder

one of us is pwn3d and it's probably me

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone still around?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

i wish someone would change the poxy fule message, it's not amusing after the 21483468th time

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

hello from ny.

kate, have you read the article about the controversy surrounding the poincare theorem in the new yorker this month? quite interesting.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, every time I turn around you're on a different continent, Mitya.

No, I haven't read the New Yorker in years.

― No Mistakes, Only Happy Accidents (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 08:19 (nineteen years ago)

Morning everyone! I have been in work all of ten minutes and I am now very, very bored.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 08:21 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning. I have been in this life for 30-odd years and I am now very, very bored.

― No Mistakes, Only Happy Accidents (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 08:23 (nineteen years ago)

That cookie gets around:

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

― No Mistakes, Only Happy Accidents (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 08:24 (nineteen years ago)

Folk fest soon though!

xpost

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 08:24 (nineteen years ago)

Aren't you a math geek or something?

Argh. It's not online... There's a brief description here. If it sounds interesting (to you) I'll try and figure out a way to get you a copy. The story has been

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

Well!

Remember last week when I was asking if I should sign up for a new bank account in order to get an iPod?

As it turns out, this is actually excellent, as I'm able to open an international bank account, good in both the US and the UK, and I can pay in and out both cash and cheques in both pounds and dollars, without being charged for the priviledge of transferring funds! So my mum and I can shuttle money back and forth to one another with NO FUSS.

It's just too bad I didn't do this a year ago when I was trying to accumulate funds for my mortgage deposit.

Plus, they're willing to give me an overdraft and a credit card (heh heh, goodbye, debt free existence - though, knowing me, I'll be too scared to use either) without pretending I don't exist like my current bank do. Ha ha!

― No Mistakes, Only Happy Accidents (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 08:58 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and I got a free USB coffeeport, as well. This just means I'm going to have to start drinking coffee again, natch. :-)

― No Mistakes, Only Happy Accidents (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 09:00 (nineteen years ago)

an international bank account, good in both the US and the UK, and I can pay in and out both cash and cheques in both pounds and dollars, without being charged for the priviledge of transferring funds!

This is, you know, fucking amazing, rare, and ultra-useful.

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 09:03 (nineteen years ago)

Tell me about it! I've been searching for such a thing for eight years now!

I'm still not holding my breath, as I don't believe that it will actually happen, and I've been sold a load of old cobblers.

― No Mistakes, Only Happy Accidents (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 09:06 (nineteen years ago)

(However, this may be a special corporate deal because my company and their company are trying to make nice-nice with each other to score some mega-broking deal, no doubt.)

((I will be so glad to say goodbye to my old bank, I cannot tell you.))

― No Mistakes, Only Happy Accidents (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 09:07 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I hope, no matter what happens, that you'll be able to keep the USB coffeeport.

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 09:07 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, yes I will.

In fact, I'm going to make a cup of coffee now. (Though I doubt it will last long enough to use the coffeeport. That's more for cups of tea I drink while recording at home - assuming this thing is Macompatible.)

― No Mistakes, Only Happy Accidents (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 09:11 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm, interesting. I too, may have a banking question later this week. My new employer says they will be happy to pay me anywhere I want, as long as it's not in Russia, until the end of the year when all my work papers will be processed.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 09:16 (nineteen years ago)

Yup, this is the baby:

http://img.alibaba.com/photo/50460424/USB_Hub_Mug_Warmer.jpg

― No Mistakes, Only Happy Accidents (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 09:17 (nineteen years ago)

I would have that coffee all over my keyboard before you could say 'wait don't give her one of those usb coffeeport things, she's a clumsy arse'.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 09:32 (nineteen years ago)

bank accounts? ipods? where?

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

I have been programming for YEARS. I am extremely skilled at coffee/keyboard management.

― USB Coffeehub (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

I am not extremely skilled at anything involving my laptop. So far in its lifetime I have kicked a glass of red wine over it and spat water at it while having a choking fit. Not classy.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

I just get cookie crumbs down the keyboard.

OK, I've once been involved in a terrible accident involving an iBook and a glass of vodka, but that was Momus's fault. Not mine.

(Watch me completely short out my powerbook at home now by pouring a mug of hot tea all down its insides.)

― USB Coffeehub (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 09:40 (nineteen years ago)

Has anyone seen Louis? Has he reported back on how his date went?

― USB Coffeehub (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

Argh the last.fm importer is still down :(

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

I read that as "last fm imposter" - OH NO, YOU ARE REALLY AM!!! UNMASKED!!! HAHA!!!

God, I'm so bored. I might even catalogue my reports or something.

― USB Coffeehub (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 09:55 (nineteen years ago)

I have reached the stage of being so bored that I can't even be bothered to find something to do to alleviate the boredom.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 09:56 (nineteen years ago)

I suppose I could always book my holiday. But it makes me feel tired just thinking about it. What does it mean when you're too tired to even go on holiday?

Maybe I'll wait until Autumn and go to Vermont and look at the leaves. And see TSM in the round. Oh yeah, and see mine mum.

― USB Coffeehub (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

One is never too tired to go on holiday. The bad sign is when you come back from holiday and do not feel at all refreshed (although it is fairly normal, I think, to feel tired).

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 10:06 (nineteen years ago)

I'm too tired to book a holiday.

Though it looks like I could hire a cottage on Skye for a week for about £300. But not until the end of September. And that doesn't include getting there. (Why are package holidays always fly/drive? I don't drive! Can't I have a fly/boat package holiday?)

― USB Coffeehub (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 10:09 (nineteen years ago)

i haven't had a holiday for 10 years!

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 10:16 (nineteen years ago)

I'm too bored to eat, which is totally weird for me.

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

God, I'm so confused. Why are all the cottages so BIG?!?!? Can't I get one for just one person?

Can't I hire someone to arrange it for me?

I WANT A COTTAGE. ON AN ISLAND. WITH SOME NICE CLIFFS AND SOME SEA AND LOTS OF RAIN AND WIND AND VIEWS OF CLIFFS AND SEA AND RAIN AND WIND. JUST BIG ENOUGH FOR ME. AND MY COMPUTER. (Nice to see you can get broadband on the Shetlands.) I DO NOT WANT TO DRIVE. I DO NOT NEED TO BE FED. (I'll be bringing cheese and hummus by the ton as I'm sure there's nothing but fish to eat on islands.) I DO NOT NEED TO LOOK AT OTTERS. I JUST WANT A FLIGHT, A FERRY, AND A COTTAGE WITH SOME SEA.

I suppose, ideally I want a recording studio with a sea view.

― USB Coffeehub (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, otters might be nice.

― USB Coffeehub (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

THIS ONE, THIS ONE, THIS ONE, PLEASE!!!

http://photos.cottages4you.co.uk/Photos/Full_Images/UTG-W01.jpg

£400. But not available until October. Oh, wait, it's in Skye. Skye is pretty, isn't it? It's an island after all.

― USB Coffeehub (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

watch out. runrig's donnie munro has a recording studio on skye. please do not ask why i know this, even the part about knowing one of runrig's name.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

I've changed my mind. I want This One.

I mean, look at it:

http://photos.cottages4you.co.uk/Photos/Full_Images/S82-W06.jpg

Look at its view:

http://photos.cottages4you.co.uk/Photos/Full_Images/S82-W05.jpg

I've no idea how I'd get there, seeing as I don't drive, but there's a shop and a pub half a mile from it.

― USB Coffeehub (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 11:14 (nineteen years ago)

Kate, you may wish to take an ocean bound type toy to play with in your cottage. I think this fits the bill:

http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/rc-pirate-ship/index.html?CMP=EMC-MINIAUG1

― Guilty Boksen (Bro_Danielson), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

Does it come with Captain Anderson included?

― USB Coffeehub (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

Hello. I've been in a deathly-dull training session all morning.

If you want remote cottages, go to the Outer Hebrides! They're lovely.

What is the point of the USB-ness of the coffeeport? What does it actually do when attached to a computer?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

Aargh, I sure could use one of those international accounts today. For some reason, every atm within a 20-minute radius of my flat has decided not to cooperate with my american debit card. And the fucking bank's site is down, so I can't even check if this is due to lack of funds (not very likely), or just international financial chicanery (more likely, methinks).

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds double argh.

The problem with these lovely, remote cottages is that there's no way to get there without a car.

Please can I hire a boyfriend for the week, too, a self drive boyfriend with own car, who will also chop wood and light the stove. Bed-warming duties a must, too.

― USB Coffeehub (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

Mmmm. There are buses in the outer hebrides, but not many.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

i live by the seaside.

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, but a holiday cottage in Southend? I don't think so.

Found an utter chocolate box in Wiltshire, but no sea.

― USB Coffeehub (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

Are you right by the shore, g-kit? You must be practically neighbours of a couple of friends of mine.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

DAMMIT, I WANT ISOLATION, AND I WANT IT NEAR A TRAIN STATION!!!

Effing car driving bastards.

― USB Coffeehub (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

Steady

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

Well, at least the Texan has resurfaced so I'm not going to the Shoegazer Club totally by myself like a dork tomorrow.

― USB Coffeehub (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

There are a couple of Scottish stations that don't have road access - you could camp out on the platform!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

I don't camp. I want a luxury cottage. Fuck it, that cottage I want is on the coast. Maybe I will hire a boat and sail there.

― USB Coffeehub (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

Kate, I love that cottage! In fact one of my hobbies is checking real estate agents' website (or pamphlets they put out). This has been an obsession for me since I was a teenager. I'd browse to their catalogue and try to guess how the house looked like (if it didn't have pics) and how much the asking price was.

One website I WUV: vladi.de ! Wanna buy a bridge ISLAND? He's the man to contact!

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

Me, too... but I used to pretend it was for my family whenever we moved! Even better than real estate agents catalogues were books of architectural plans.

― USB Coffeehub (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

I would have that coffee all over my keyboard before you could say 'wait don't give her one of those usb coffeeport things, she's a clumsy arse'.

Archel I love you :)

Does anyone else have dreams about planes crashing? I'd like to discuss said dreams with people.

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I have done. They're awful awful awful.

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

Usually I'm not in said crashing plane, I'm in a city, outside, seeing it come down, getting closer and bigger and bigger until I wake up.

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

No, I never dream of planes or planecrashes. My disaster dreams are usually nature getting pissed off, volcanoes and tidal waves and stuff.

Look at their new logo. It's positively masonic. Are they *trying* to recreate the Great Seal with its freaky pyramid meets the eye secret masonic symbolism?

http://myspace-794.vo.llnwd.net/01080/49/74/1080414794_l.jpg
http://watch.pair.com/eye.jpg

Either that or an old skool NYC subway token.

They are Secret Masons, I think. I need more coffee.

― USB Coffeehub (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

I used to live 1 street from the sea when I lived in Prestwick. Since then cold windy days have never bothered me.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/seal2.gif

― USB Coffeehub (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

I used to live within sight of the sea, in Edinburgh. Mind you, the village I live in now, you can see the sea from the upper deck of a bus.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/images/SquareandCompassesEmbroideredGraphic1.gif

― USB Coffeehub (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

The only sea I can see is the sea I've painted in my mural. :-(

― USB Coffeehub (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

Oh come on, I'm bored and overcaffeinated. Someone discuss the secret Masonic symbolism of Secret Machines' new logo with me. Please?

― USB Coffeehub (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

I was in a Masonic Lodge this weekend.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

Doing what? Secret Masonic Rituals?!?!? Tell! Tell!

― USB Coffeehub (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

Was it like this?

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, Benjamin's got one of THOSE symbols on this here shirt:

http://www.dagmarsieglinde.com/mesecretmachines.jpg

― USB Coffeehub (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

He's a Stonecutter!

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

(He's a Pink Floyd fan, same difference.)

― USB Coffeehub (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

It drives me crazy that they tuck their t-shirts in. This is so wrong.

― USB Coffeehub (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

It makes them look for too CLEAN to be Dronerock Boys, despite the sweatyness.

― USB Coffeehub (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

who's the lucky lady?

― Scourage (Haberdager), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

Journalist, I think? Don't know.

Brandon looks so smarmy. Art fag.

― USB Coffeehub (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

It was a wedding reception, actually. Which happened to be in a Masonic Lodge. In Derby.

(xposts)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

Damn, you could have lied to us, TISSP!

Help me. I am becoming mildly obsessed with Baby Silvertooth's belly.

― USB Coffeehub (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

Hello all, back in toen tomorrow. Went to bed at four last night after freestyle blues jamming and being an irish pirate. Up again at 6am. A little discombobulated but I would like to drink beer on friday if othersa would.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

ED!!!!!

I got your postcard. Sorry I was lame and did not send you one.

I will be in Cambridge on Friday evening. But we're out shoegazing tomorrow night, though I imagine you will be in no shape to join us.

― USB Coffeehub (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

and being an irish pirate

This is something I would like to say, of myself, someday.

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and welcome back, Ed!

(I've just returned from a new Mexican restaurant in Stoke Newie. Meh. Everything on the menu came with mole sauce. It may have been good mole sauce, I don't know, I'm just now that down with the Oaxacans, I guess. The company made up for it though.)

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

Morning people. Have I ever mentioned that my ancestors were allegedly Spanish pirates? Some of them, at ay rate.

Hello, Ed!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 24 August 2006 07:30 (nineteen years ago)

That "london subbies" thread title is greatly confusing me. Terminology clash!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 24 August 2006 08:19 (nineteen years ago)

Argh. It is tonight. I'm kinda scared.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Thursday, 24 August 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

ARRRGGGHHH, I am suffering from ILX deja vu today really badly.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Thursday, 24 August 2006 08:40 (nineteen years ago)

G'morning.

What's tonight?

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 24 August 2006 09:11 (nineteen years ago)

Sonic Cathedrals, the shoegazing club!!!

And TSM boys are DJ-ing, so it's going to be loads of krautrocky goodness. (And trying to stare at TSM boys' dirty dronerock arselessness without them noticing.)

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Thursday, 24 August 2006 09:17 (nineteen years ago)

O RLY?

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 24 August 2006 09:18 (nineteen years ago)

iLiKETRAiNS and Fields are playing, so it should be good all around. I love the shoegazing club. It's like a schmorgazboard of Katey goodness, lovely music and dirty dronerock boys to die for.

Though, dammit, Ed, did you ever find my army jacket with the "SHOEGAZER" badges on it?

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Thursday, 24 August 2006 09:24 (nineteen years ago)

If I'd known the article didn't have to be in until tomorrow, though, I'd have waited and tried to talk to them about the film at the club. But I imagine they'll be quite busy and mobbed anyway, so it's probably best not to.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Thursday, 24 August 2006 09:27 (nineteen years ago)

That does sound good. Hmm. xpost.

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 24 August 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

Catch is, you have to turn up at 7pm and queue to get in as they've sold out of advance tickets. You're welcome to join us, though, Gooblar.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Thursday, 24 August 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I was just checking it out on the website, and that is a sticking point. That means leaving my flat at 6 when the hot 'gazing action doesn't really get going until, what, midnight?

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 24 August 2006 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

TSM are DJ-ing at 11.30 but the bands usually start between 9 and 10.

Man, I'm a wimp that I think that's late now.

I think me and the Texan might pay our way in, and then go get burritos next door at Cafe El Paso, depending on the talent.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Thursday, 24 August 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

I'm guessing that laziness and poorness are going to keep me home tonight, but I'll pipe up if I have one of my trademark changes of heart.

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 24 August 2006 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

Eeeeeeeep!

There are currently 4 member(s) and 9 guest(s) on the forums.
Benjamin, James, Masonic Boom

GO AWAY!!!

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Thursday, 24 August 2006 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

lol

Morning folks and welcome back Ed. It is very strange to be logging in to the cooler five hours after everyone else, after spending the last month doing it three hours early.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 24 August 2006 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

I hate when he pops up on his own forum. It really unnerves me. Especially when me and James (17 year old pedal fanatic) are having some total fanboy moment.

Morning, Mitya!

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Thursday, 24 August 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

If I was famous, I'd pop up on my own forums.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 24 August 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

I'd totally pop up on my own forums! All the time! And read the Fanboy threads especially (even though we've officially banned them from the fangirl thread.)

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Thursday, 24 August 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

::bounce::

I just cannot concentrate on work today.

All I can think of is beautiful, beautiful shoegaze.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Thursday, 24 August 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

ihttp://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/content/images/2004_3977.JPG

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Thursday, 24 August 2006 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

Those are good shoes.

Also, we want secret burritos at El Paso. Mmmm, El Paso. I'm always taking homesick Americans there, it seems.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Thursday, 24 August 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

I've not been able to concentrate on work all week!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 24 August 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

Kate do you know anything about this?
http://www.musicremedy.com/articles/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowMessage&Id=1075

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 24 August 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

Errr... BLIMEY! No, I don't.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Thursday, 24 August 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

I have wondered if the Brigadier in Doctor Who was named after T C Lethbridge. I can't remember what Lethbridge's army rank was, though.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 24 August 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

No shoegaze. If I'm up to it I'm at a cealidh tonight. Currently on the way back at a gbg recommended pub at broadway in worcestershire with lovely veggie food.

Kate I have the jacket I may be at home at a good time.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

Ok a traffic jam in chipping norton was the first place I got enough signal. Blimey the cotswolds are twee.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, but the Cotswalds are the GOOD kind of twee. Bring me back an eggstone cottage, eh?

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

Yes. Better than the m42 m40 at any rate.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

hello ed!

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

Will you drive me to Skye, Ed?

Actually, hang on, don't you have access to a cottage in Norfolk? Would you (and/or your family) mind if I went and recorded there for a week?

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

OK... is the problem that I've had too much coffee, or that I've not had enough coffee?

Only one way to find out, huh.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

I want to go back to Skye. :-/

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

Meantime -- look! Rock!

UK guitar sales at £100m high

(But for male musicians only, it implicitly alleges.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

No it doesn't. It just says 50% of male musicians play guitar.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

The other 50% play kazoo.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

ILM in trying to find a way to slag off guitars shocker.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

I'm perfectly fine with slagging off *bad* guitar playing. But I am a bigot.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

Nothing wrong with guitars. I'll beat you up (with a Benjamin) if you disagree.

There are no inherently bad guitars. Only bad guitar players.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

and plenty of those!

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

There are plenty of bad sequence programmers and keyboardists in the world, too.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

hello ned!

people, i have a pleasant problem. on sunday 2nd i am going to a pirates of the caribbean-themed birthday party. what shall i dress up as? it mustn't be too difficult to transport as the party is in oxford.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

hello ned!

Heya! :-)

Dress up as whoever duels with the most panache.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

guybrush threepwood

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

xposts
Yes, but less guitarists would mean (maybe) more drummers, which the world badly needs.

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

DG OTM :D

― Scourage (Haberdager), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

my problem is... for shame... i haven't actually seen either of the potc films. i resemble neither ornaldo bloomps nor johnny depp, and i have no idea who else is in them.

parrot?

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

pwn3d again!

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

Go as Cthulhu. Or the Voodoo Queen chick. They were definitely the coolest.

Drummers are overrated. What do I need one for when I've got my Reason?

OK, actually I've been thinking about taking drum lessons, just because I want to increase my physicallity and I think drumming is really physical. But when would I find the time?

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

NO PARROTS - ONLY UNDEAD MONKEYS!!!

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

Or go as a kebab.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

Go as Cthulhu. Or the Voodoo Queen chick. They were definitely the coolest.

Agreed. (And with the undead monkeys part too.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

heh

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0002F717S.01-A34VCPZVL7E6XQ._AA280_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

the pearl rhythm traveller - never disturb yr neighbours again

drums are teh best, i like drum programming but it's not as satisfying

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

I want both drums AND drum programming. And a smoked meat sandwich from Shwartz's

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

I've got a small multi-pad electronic kit at home. It works fine but I haven't got the co-ordination to be able to play it at all satisfactorily. Does that just come with practice?

― Scourage (Haberdager), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

kebab??

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

ed, have you got tracklistings of those 2 cds anywhere please? i have been playing with My First MP3 Player http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=tbn:i0itCck83wUzeM:http://www.ubergizmo.com/photos (i do feel like a kid with a new piece of fisher price kit) and want to put them on it but dunno what half - more than half - the stuff is...

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

yeah coordination = practice

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

SEE THE MOVIE AND YOU WILL UNDERSTAND WHY KEEBAB FUNNY!!!

Oh and x-post, my CD1 was blank. Liked CD2, though.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

The Roadburn 2007 festival looks quite good.

Roadburn 2007
Along with Neurosis are Circle, Pharaoh Overlord, Sun Dial, Causa Sui, Orange Sunshine, Orthodox, The Hidden Hand, Rotor, Volt, Siena Root, Stinking Lizaveta & Colour Haze.

Kate needs to form a heavy psychedelic band and get on that bill. Just stay away from the coffee houses in Holland before you play.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 24 August 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

They've also asked OM to play.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 24 August 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

Emsk, do either of those computers in your house play DVDs? Because I might be able to help you, then.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 24 August 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

i've just checked, and yes. the speakers have gone awol though. but i can watch with headphones.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 24 August 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

Bah my mobile's dead. I'll ring you when I get home and we'll sort something out.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 24 August 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Morning there. My last day at work until Tuesday week. Hurrah!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 25 August 2006 07:24 (nineteen years ago)

urrrgh

― Ed (dali), Friday, 25 August 2006 08:12 (nineteen years ago)

what a beautiful day

i am going to go and work in the PARK

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 25 August 2006 08:20 (nineteen years ago)

which park? I may drop by once chores are done

― Ed (dali), Friday, 25 August 2006 08:21 (nineteen years ago)

camp photos going up you have to be my flickr friend to see most of them, mail me if you need to be friended.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 25 August 2006 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

Morning! Another press day, nearly all done. Sorry about my absence over the past few days. All good with everyone I hope?

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 25 August 2006 08:55 (nineteen years ago)

london fields probably. i am not dressed yet though so i may be some time

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 25 August 2006 09:06 (nineteen years ago)

My head is quite a mess, I managed the cealidh till the end and drank too much so I am a zombie now. I'm going to avoid laundry by going to borough for a bit then going to get the car I borrowed clean so I may be some time too, keep in radio contact.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 25 August 2006 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

Where did this nice weather come from? I'm sure I've been checking the forecasts and this was not among them.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 25 August 2006 09:15 (nineteen years ago)

BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!

OK, I am very, very broken.

But my god... Benjamin. What a lovely man. What an utter sweetie.

We chatted for quite some time after their DJ set, and he's just such a lovely person. We swapped CDs and he's totally fine with me sampling me, and we talked for ages about guitar pedals (he wrote down the ones to get in my diary!)

He was actually quite shocked when I asked him about pedals. When we met, I was quite drunk, so I apologised for being such a fangirl, but told him I really was amazed by his pedals. And he's all "My *pedals*?!?!?" a bit confused, but when I gave him the CD, he exclaimed "Oh, you play guitar?" and then started going into great details about Blue Boxes and Moogerfoogers and my god, can that boy talk about pedals. I've met my match. :-)

His CD is *gorgeous*. I feel like I'm being totally disloyal but I think I like his solo stuff better than TSM. But that could be because I'm a total sexist and prefer female singers.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Friday, 25 August 2006 11:21 (nineteen years ago)

"My *pedals*?!?!? I thought you were going to ask me about my beautiful eyes!"

That sounds like quite a successful night! What cd with female singer?

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 25 August 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

you should've jumped him, kate. you'll never get that close again.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 25 August 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

His solo project - School of Seven Bells. It's really amazing. Kind of like a cross between Medicine, Cocteau Twins and maybe a bit of Mazzy Star in there too, but more electronic.

Argh, me sampling HIM, not me sampling me.

I would never jump him, don't be absurd. I went a bit weak in the knees just when he shook my hand and grinned at me. Are you kidding?

It was quite cute, we talked for like 15, 20 minutes, and then he was apologising for having to leave, saying he had just got back from a week in South China, eating bugs and chicken feet and stuff, and he was dying of jet lag. And I can't remember his exact words, but he was all oh, I'll talk to you again - are you coming tommorrow? And actually seemed genuinely disappointed when I said I wasn't, that I was going to (possibly review) a folk festival in Cambridge. He got a bit indignant and was like "Phone it in! Come see us instead!" but Rhys, I hope you'll be honoured to hear I picked flirting with you over flirting with Benjamin's pedals.

I honestly don't think he gets women talking to him about guitar geek stuff. He seemed a bit surprised.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Friday, 25 August 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

Frankly, I bet he's surprised when anyone approaches him to talk guitar geek stuff. It's a weirdly mature approach.

You should've convinced him to phone it in and go jam with TISSP. He needs a bit more guitar freakout.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 25 August 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, dude, that would have been EVER BETTER!!! Why didn't I think of that?

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Friday, 25 August 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

WTF is up with blogspot, argh? Wrote out a post about last night (thank god I copied it before trying to post or I would have lost it) and it just died when I tried to post.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Friday, 25 August 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

i've lent my pedals to someone, but i've forgotten who it was...have i had my dinner yet?

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, I've never been more honoured in my life. Though really, bad call on not telling him to phone it in.

That said, I'm sure the complete pedal mania that would take place could get pretty ugly...

(More freakout? I already spend most of my production time editing half of the freakouts out of the songs!)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Kate, Ned, Rhys check email.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 25 August 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Oh and Kate. People have spent three years calling you to this thread boces

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 25 August 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

Yay! We went to the folk extravaganza and admired the beards and the klezmer. TISSP! was quite upset that he had shaved his beard beforehand and could not compete. Ed, you would have loved it.

Today we went to the Cambridge Museum of (obsolete) Technology and looked at the huffing machines and handcranked pumpshafts. (that sounds FILTHY, doesn't it?) It was GRATE. They live next door and have never actually been. Crazy talk!

(Kerr, I cannot check email properly/be able to download until Tuesday so I hope that the it will keep until then!)

― steal laptop, drive to Cambridge, drink (tissp), Sunday, 27 August 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

There's a museum of technology?

My dad once played at the folk festival as a replacement violinist, many years ago. I forget the name of the band he played with, however. Who is teh TISSP? and he lives in Cambridge?

― Scourage (Haberdager), Sunday, 27 August 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds good. The young persons dancing was good in places (andy wetherall, dancing with a cute blonde) but descended into dull lumpy tech house across 7 stages. I should have come to cambridge.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 27 August 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

Glad you all had a good time.
I think Louis should start a thread on "what are the best uk heavy rock/metal bands" so A) he stops going on about Oceansize in other threads ;) and B) *We can all shout "THE HEADS"

* Ok me.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Sunday, 27 August 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

Funny, that, because this Jesu EP is pushing Oceansize very very hard on that front. Roll on second album...

Comparing 'Silver' to 'Streetcleaner' has been the greatest of pleasures over the past coupla days. 'Streetcleaner''s only real forebear, I'd say, is The Cure's 'Pornography' (same vibe IMO), but it's not the unlistenable doom-fest people often accuse it of being. Some of the guitar work and feedback effects are years ahead of their time!

― Scourage (Haberdager), Sunday, 27 August 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

yes but is it punk?

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Sunday, 27 August 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

Start that thread Louis so we don't get people complaining about lots of music chat on here.
(keep it as current bands so it doesn't degenerate into the usual 1970s bands please, theres enough threads on that about!)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Sunday, 27 August 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah!

I just had steak and mushrooms for my dinner. Double hurrah!

well i did before the poxy fule

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Sunday, 27 August 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

Found a new thing if you're bored at home or at work. Or to do when ILX is poxy fuled.
http://www.hobowars.com/481844/

(check email junk folder for activation code) then when signed up read
http://www.hobowarstips.com/beginners-guide.html

My hobo is Pete_Doherty

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Sunday, 27 August 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

The Cambridge Museum of Technology sounds like the sort of place I should visit some time.

Hurrah for Bank Holidays. I'm relaxing at a friend's house in Selby, watching Knight Rider on the telly. And posting to ILX, obv. I *was* intending to have a quiet weekend in (cos next weekend I'm hopefully going to be in York helping someone move house), but it didn't quite turn out that way.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 28 August 2006 07:40 (nineteen years ago)

steak and mushrooms always sounds good, even though i don't eat mushrooms.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 28 August 2006 10:08 (nineteen years ago)

It was nice.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 28 August 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm. No one in yet in the office and I lent my keys to someone who is in hamburg today before I went away. Grr. I'm going to leave a note and go home. I think someone can call when they get in.

Also the job I'm being interviewed for on thursday is for a lot less money, I have just learnt. I'm hoping for good benefits.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 07:41 (nineteen years ago)

Back @ work after a week off :( :( :( :(

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 07:55 (nineteen years ago)

I'm now back at home 'working from home' as no one will be in the office till at least 12.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 08:02 (nineteen years ago)

Morning! Wow I'm in a grump. Still feeling like I should be on holiday nearly a month after I got back. Pashmina I empathise. And I lost a cufflink on the way to work, which is a bit upsetting cos it was a present from my parents. Fuck the world for making me wear a suit to work, and fuck the world for taking my favourite cufflink away.

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 08:03 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning. My new job starts in less than two weeks now. I wonder when the reality will set in and I'll start to actually prepare...

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b132/mel_face/pants-1.jpg

nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg

::bites fist::

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 08:35 (nineteen years ago)

I've had 4 days off, and I almost feel worse for coming back to work. I actually got the dizzies while I was making breakfast, which is not a good sign.

I was so tired yesterday, I planned on doing some recording and stuff, but ended up just lying in bed most of the day. Oh wait, I've just looked at AMP's flickr and this might be why I'm so not well!

http://static.flickr.com/70/226397060_9d9cd7d863.jpg

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 08:47 (nineteen years ago)

that's the cutest strangling picture i've seen in a long time

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 08:54 (nineteen years ago)

That guy looks exactly, almost disturbingly like my old flatmate. Who is he?

During the week, I got the 2 replacement pickups for my daisy 12-string! One of them had to be ordered in. They are Seymour Duncan "seymourised" (I have no idea) mini-humbuckers. I got the "seymourised" ones b/c they can be coil-split. I soldered them in, along with a pair of pots with built-in switches the other day, fiendishly complicated wiring, but now I can coil-split each pickup individually. It now sounds awesome. Better than my Rickenbacker! Eh...

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 08:55 (nineteen years ago)

The man with the ass is obviously Benjamin.

The man strangling me is the watercooler's own TISSP!

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 08:57 (nineteen years ago)

I meant strangulator man!

For some reason I thought you already knew Ben TSM?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 09:00 (nineteen years ago)

No...

OK, that's a bit weird, and now I'm paranoid. I left a message on the SSB MySpace just saying it was good to meet him, and thanks for the CD etc. - totally restrained and not mentalist at all.

And it appears to have been deleted. Or, rather, not approved, as they approve all their comments. And a couple of other comments from after when I left mine have been approved and gone up.

Which clearly means they HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE me and think I'm a mentalist.

OK, I am a mentalist, but I'm not a dangerous one.

Now I feel a bit weird and horrible.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 09:07 (nineteen years ago)

gooblar what's your new job?

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 09:16 (nineteen years ago)

Teaching English to Canadian university students at this castle:

http://www.ecastles.co.uk/herstmonceaux.jpg

(Note to self: don't overdo 'it's in a CASTLE!!!' thing)

xpost must be some sort of myspace mix-up, surely.

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 09:28 (nineteen years ago)

Well, other things I found out from MySpace today - apparently our single came out today. I had no idea.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

Some strange things, indeed, happenned on your holiday, Ed!

I'm not sure I want to know.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah of course, I remember. Nothing like a picture of a big fuck-off castle to jog the memory. I don't think you can overdo the 'it's a castle' thing can you?

Kate how do I buy your single?

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

Rough Trade or Sister Ray should have it.

Please don't ask me for any because guess what, we didn't get any.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

Congratulations anyway! You're out in the world!

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 09:52 (nineteen years ago)

I guess... Right now everything about that band just produces an instant "argh, stress!!!" reaction.

Guess I need House, M.D. to sort me out.

Or maybe I should just drink some coffee.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

I still think you should give yourself the pleasure of seeing your single in Rough Trade. Don't deny yourself such simple and powerful I-did-that moments of pride.

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

Guess I'll go at lunchtime.

The first time I saw one of my records for sale in a proper shop, that was special. The second time and the third time, too.

This time... well, we'll see. Maybe I'll be able to find the new TSM single, too.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 10:47 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone want to drink on thursday?

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 10:57 (nineteen years ago)

Could do, looks like I'm free then now.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

Or maybe Scritti Politti at Bloomsbury Lanes on Friday?

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 11:04 (nineteen years ago)

My Friday has been f*cked.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

Some of your Fridays may already be this f*cked.

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

Been pricing the pedals that Benjamin reccomended. £190 for the low-pass filter and another £30 for the expression pedal. JAY-sus.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

Is that the moogerfooger filter?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 11:22 (nineteen years ago)

Yup.

Actually, TISSP! and I were looking at one on Denmark Street the other week.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

Buying one would mean dealing with turnkey :( Learn from my misfortune and don't buy a "b"-stock one.

I bought the phaser from the same series. It is unbelievably rich-sounding, but it cost about the same as the filter, IE best part of 200 quid.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

But, it was actually worth it!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

Aren't they available anywhere else? I was going to try and order one through Gig Sounds since they are lovely people. (Turnkey have that usual "women are invisible so we cannot serve them" problem.)

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

Guess I need House, M.D. to sort me out.

http://www.woolworthsfresh.com.au/images/exclusive/gr_051010a.jpg

You rang?

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

(Dr. House is in da house)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

They did used to have the U.K. lock on moog products (as well as Waldorf, Access & others) - ridiculous since they only had the one store nationally - I don't know if that's still the case? SoS' music tech board has loads of threads on the horrors of dealing w/them, and my experience was pretty terrible, I must admit. I posted about it on some list, I'll see if I can find the story.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

Could do, looks like I'm free then now.

I do so love the English language.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, no wonder - have been searching for UK dealers on the web and having no luck except for one I think in Ireland (as prices are all in euros.)

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

Norman Fay
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Well I mean I wouldn't buy one either, mainly b/c I haven't got space
for one. Stuff like this is always the worst of AH, though (ymmv) it
was the same (iirc) when the buchla 200e got announced, when the
Voyager got announced, when the A6 got released. A bunch of posts,
the majority of which seem to be negative, made by people who have
neither tried the actual instrument or even seen it. One of the
funniest things I've ever read on AH (probably second only to the guy
who once posted "I'm not here to talk about music, I'm here to talk
about analog synthesizers") was when some guy was running down the A6
in this manner, and he got into it with FAST, and fast hit him with
"well the difference between you and me is I've actually played one of
these instruments and you haven't" and the guy's response to this was
something like "yeah ok, fair enough". LOL PWN3D.
People outside of the UK won't get the _Turnkey_ reference, will they?
A large music store, with one branch located in London, hundreds of
miles away from the majority of musicians in the united kingdom,
seeming staffed by incompetents, and worst of all, the only place in
the UK where you could try out a bunch of products, because they had
the lock on them in
the UK. Moog, Waldorf (as was) Studio Electronics and Access among
them. Live in Newcastle, Manchester, Birmingham etc? Want to try out
a Virus or a Voyager or a Q? Get yerself on the fucking train to
London, then, that's the only way you're ever going to get your
fingers on one of these instruments. Plus, you'll have to deal with
their staff. Here is my Turnkey experience:
I bought a Moog phaser pedal from them when I was in London. They had
it advertised in the window at 179 uk pounds. I tried it out in the
shop, wow, I've got to have one of these (I also thought this about
the Voyager, but I can't afford one) I queue up at the counter, it's
not 179 pounds, it's 229. WTF? They can sell me a "b-stock" item for
189, though ("b-stock" = return/ex demo w/full warranty) does it
work? of course it does, we test them all. I should have tried it,
though because of course it was fucked, it made this weird sweeping
distortion noise, which was interesting in its own right, but not what
I wanted. I phoned them up, and they gave me a returns number "we'll
fix it in a week". Six weeks later, I call them to see what has
happened. They have no idea, and tell me they'll call back. They
don't, so I call them again the next day, get the runaround from this
NZ chix0r w/a hot-sounding voice, and eventually wind up speaking to
one of their higher-ups, this after sitting on hold listening to the
fucking Orb, who I hate, for 20 minutes. At least he's honest with me
- sorry, we've lost it. I can't be arsed with this anymore, so I fork
out the extra thirty quid and get a new one. Fortunately the moog
phaser pedal is so gr8, that I forget all of this grief when I play my
Chroma or my Lambda through it.
Go to sound-on-sound's forum, do a search of the main sub-forum for
"turnkey" and gauge for yourself how unusual my experience was.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

^ read & weep, or, read & laugh, as you wish.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

I am loving this jacket I'm wearing in this photo. I got so much attention for it on saturday.

http://static.flickr.com/65/224309041_cb1561c836.jpg?v=0

I'm thinking of buying a car again, do I really want to fork out £120 an month on a loan though, plus all the other expenses vs being able to get further at weekends.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

so jealous of people who only worry about the loan and don't immediately see the insurance and petrol and parking fees on top of all that. owning a car just seems like a nightmare to me.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone near the fire in the west end (London)? All I can see, smell and taste at the moment is smoke.

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

I'm in W2 and see, smell, and taste nothing.

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

having done it before I know the pain, the worst being random malicious towing on the part of camden council, and the trips to kentish town and the arguments to get the money back. I want to climb more mountains and this is painfully difficult without a car.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's near St James's, or off Piccadilly maybe.
xpost

It's a tough one. Could you car-share?

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

Couldn't you just hire a car for the weekends you want to go and do stuff?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

I've been doing that for the past year and it works out ok, but only if you book ages in advance. I want to try and get my summer mountain leader certificate over the next 18 months to 2 years and that means logging 60 days in the mountains and there's only a limited number of places that make a practical weekend by public transport (Crianlarich by sleeper is a very good one), trouble is, with train prices what they are once you get two of you on a train on a friday night you might as well go by car but if you hire you it's harder to reschedule a weekend due to crap weather. Cancelling hire cars is fine (if you don't prepay) but rebooking them is very expensive.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

If you can afford it – and find a resident's parking space near where you live – you might as well.

The fire is round the back of the Royal Academy. Lots of smoke, so they closed the gallery.

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

BBLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

OK, he wasn't ignoring me, he waited to send me a private message.

BLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

I was totally lame and just went and bought mine own single at Rough Trade. Trying really hard not to be recognised doing such a lame thing.

And come back to email from Benjamin. He reckons Shimura Curves sound like Stereolab. I want "sounds like Stereolab" on my tombstone.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

Yay!

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

hoorah,

I shall pop by rough trade and by your single and the napoleon III if they still have it.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

I'm too scared to reply.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

Wow. Congratulations. (@ "stereolab")

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I managed to reply. Phew. He reccomended one of these babies:

http://www.lovetone.com/meatball.html

::drools::

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

get thee a wobulator

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

I already have too many tremolo pedals.

(Yes, I know that sounds like a contradiction.)

The Meatball is the "blue box" thing he was talking about the Kevin Shields uses.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

This is a good alternative:

http://www.frostwave.com/funkaduck/index.html

The guy who makes these is an absolute star.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

!!!

http://www.lovetone.com/ringstinger.html

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

(last.fm appears to have poxy fuled! The irony!)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

someone should make a guitar that can control parameters of pedals via the tremolo bar.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

Ohmigod, it's just suddenly hit me.

WE'VE GOT A RECORD COMING OUT TODAY.

Fuck me.

Nah there should be a pedal which is, like, a combination with a theremin so you can control it by waving your guitar near it.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

frostwave have a thing called a spacebeam which has a CV out for controlling things

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

Kate, where can I buy your record please? I'm not coming all the way to London just to buy a single!

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

Also, zvex have a pedal which is kind of foot-theremin operated, IE, you waggle your foot in the air, wah-wah style, but without the pedal, and it changes the sound!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

Ailsa-

Bangor - Spillers
Bath - Replay
Birmingham - Tempest / Swordfish
Brighton - Rounder Records
Bristol - Replay / Imperial
Glasgow - Melody Bar
Leeds - Jumbo
Liverpool - Probe Records
London - Sister Ray / City 16 / Lik+Neon / Beats Workin' / Rough Trade / Puregroove
Manchester - Piccadilly Records
Nottingham - Selectadisc
Oxford - Fopp / Polar Bear

Ooh, that sounds amazing, Pash! I love Zvex, they look so pretty but I can never afford them.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Where the hell is that? I need to get out more!

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

I don't have a clue! I'm not from Glasgow! I'm just copying the press release!

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, it's a mail-order thingie. Not an actual bar.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

Bristol - Replay / Imperial

Imperial has been shut for over a year, Replay for a couple of months.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

What part of I JUST COPIED THE PRESS RELEASE do you not understand?

:-P

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

We're providing useful public service here for anyone who wants to buy your single in Glasgow or Bristol. You should be thanking us! Perhaps with the gift of a single, ha.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

What part of I JUST COPIED THE PRESS RELEASE do you not understand?

What part of SACK YR INCOMPETENT PRESS PERSON do you not understand?

;-)

Srsly, if it's at least a year out of date, what else is incorrect? Hopefully you're not paying for such shoddy work.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

This bodes well for your management (or more likely label).

xpost

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

Dudes, even *I* had to go out and buy a copy of the single - not like I even have one of my own, let alone any to give away.

And don't even get me started on the incompetence of the record label... not surprised that they've sent a completely outdated list of stockists.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

YOU CANNOT BRING ME DOWN, ANYWAY. PAH!!!

I HAVE A SINGLE OUT AND SECRET MESSAGES FROM A SECRET MACHINE!!!!

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

secret....until you relayed the contents onto this thread, at any rate. ;-)

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

i saw them secret machines at fabric a while back, though the grrlie work colleague i was with was perving over the drummer's arms more than the pedals

wot label is it kate?

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

I am happy to report that Rounder records is still extant, at least. Although is this on 7" only, or can us non vinyl-enabled types get it too?

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't quote the whole message, don't be daft.

Yeah, Josh (drummer dude) is hott. He does have amazing arms. But for me, it's all about the guitar pedals. Swoon.

Sorry, DG, I honestly can't talk any more about the label and the problems, I'm been verboten.

Jeez, I'm having one of those "argh, foetuses!" moments. I've been chatting with this other pedalfreak on TSM board (the 17 year old kid we were trying to smuggle into Sonic Cathedrals) and he just emailed me an MP3 of a track he's just recorded. And it's just like... "HOLY SH*T, you're this good, when you've just turned SEVENTEEN?!?!?"

I was recording crap folk/goth wibble when I was that age. Not prog epics. I'm totally jealous. And feeling my age a bit.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

Artist Biog:

Shimura Curves are two game lads from Brighton, who met initially at boarding school then again as part of the embryonic gay scene in the mid-70s while working as barmen. After 4 years, and 6 self-released singles, they abandoned music and took up gainful employment - Andy in a bank (where he is currently Assistant Manager) and George at a local tyre specialist. Spurred on by recent name-dropping by Sir Paul McCartney (who, in drunken contemplation following his divorce from Heather Mills, had recently dug out their second single "Come Here (I Know What I'd Like To Do To You)" and finding he still enjoyed it admitted in an exclusive interview with Family Circle magazine that he'd almost asked George to join Wings instead of Denny Laine) they played a handful of shows over the summer and enjoyed them so much they have rush-released this reissue of their debut single "Twice In A Night (Brings A Flush To My Cheeks)" to cash in on the free publicity.

It is available on 7", cassingle and 8 track tape from all branches of Woolworths in the Brighton area.

Luv, Kaet's Record Label
x

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

x-post no... only vinyl. I don't even have a record player, either.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

Al, I kiss you.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

Now Kaet needs to write those songs to order, I think.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

heh ok, taboo it is!

is the single online anywhere or would i have to "go to a shop" and "take a copy to the counter" and other bizarre anachronisms?

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

I think you can order it direct from Bumlove:

Available from Bumlove direct - £3.99 + £1 p+p to [ brainlove7club @ gmail.com ]

Oh, don't make me have to go on their site to dig up other information...

ugh, ugh, ugh, go here:

http://www.myspace.com/brainloverecords

All will be explained.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

I DO NOT WANT TO GOOGLE 'BUMLOVE'.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

Any London people still around or has everyone gone home or down the pub or whatever?

I want to go and see a shoegazer band tonight (The Early Years, met them at Truck) but have no one to go with, and I don't want to go to Madame Jo Jos by myself as I'm kinda scared of it. Anyone fancy it?

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

The early years set on zane lowe's show last year was great! (about the only good thing I've ever heard on ZL's show, but still...) I'd go, but it's a bit far off.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

Well, they're touring next month, with iLiKETRAiNS, who are also well worth seeing. Funnily enough, they were stood next to us at Sonic Cathedrals.

There was an extra band added on first, who I didn't really care for, and then iLT came on, and I just tapped the people next to me on the shoulder and said "do you know who this is?" and they said "Oh, they're iLT, we're touring with them next month" and gave me a flyer, and I was all "you're The Early Years! We played with you at Truck, you were my favourite band at Truck!" and it was quite a cute reunion. So I'd like to see them play.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmm, tempting, but v. doubtful as I'm trying REAL hard not to spend this week.

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

Bumlove, indeed.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

I've got to stop calling him that in public. Hah.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

bah i am offended their poor man's option is teh MP3. is vinyl seriously cheaper to produce than CD? or is this an indie thing :(

i would go but i am stuck indoors for stupid reasons, hence my ability to post all day and night

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

the yellow of teh myspace page has hurt my eyes also

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

For stooopid indie reasons. And yeah, very poor page design. We begged pleaded and threatened for him not to use that yellow on our record but it was like, his "concept" or something.

Whatever. I'm not allowed to talk about this anyway.

But I do have to say, jaded or whatever, it was still a thrill to go into Rough Trade and see a single I'm on. Again.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

wow, starts off pleasant ska-ish pop, knobs are twiddled, and we have techno-Stone Roses multi-part female harmony heaven!

nice.

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

Is Sunn O))) on tour/planning a tour any time soon?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

Nooooo! I'm playing on the 13th! I have to compete with Sunno)))? Shit. I'm gonna have to start working on my flyers now!

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.seetickets.com/see/event.asp?e%7Cartist=SUNN+O%29%29%29&resultsperpage=20&filler1=see

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

i saw sunn 0)))) at an ATP a couple of years back. they're shit!

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

FITE

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

I saw them in April with EARTH, and they were GREAT!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

they are boring

and hurt my ears

and would probably scare kittens :(

but i was impressed by their berlin wall of amps

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

The Hippodrome? What the fuck is the Hippodrome? I hope they don't mean that lame place on Picadilly Circus with all the videogames and crap.

Oh, it's Upset The Rhythm. Cool.

"Ska-ish pop"? Errr. What are you talking about?

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I bought a ticket. I better invest in some good earplugs, though. I don't need to lose the rest of my hearing.

Official proof my band is famous. Someone has squatted our goddamn web address. :-(

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 08:45 (nineteen years ago)

unfucking believable. Just grab dot-org or dot-net or something.

i bet people troll myspace now looking for addresses to squat.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 08:57 (nineteen years ago)

that sounds brilliant. i will take some kittens.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

Hi all!

Leeds festrival was good, and the tiger outfit went well (I saw no kittens). I was working during the Secret Machines set, but I managed to watch them on the screen outside the tent. The pedals are far more impressive IRL than on crooked old watercooler

I am stressed since coming back to work, since everyone's DB has died in the interim, and it's muggins job to fix it all. Bah!

Yay for Kate and her single! Although being on vinyl only means I am scared of buying it (I too don't have a gram-o-phone). When do you get told chart positions?

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

Aaaaahhhh, I'm glad that you approved of TSM's pedals, Benjamin he is a pedal genius.

Bah humbug for being the muggins taht has to fix everything. Rubbish.

Chart positions? Hah! Actually, we might make the Rough Trade weekly charts if everyone buys through them. The L0ll13s certainly did.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 09:12 (nineteen years ago)

When do the charts stop then? Do the chart company record the top 500 singles? Top 1000? Surely you only need to sell a couple of hundred copies to get in the top 1000?

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 09:14 (nineteen years ago)

Well, for a start I don't think we're eligible for the Charts because it's a split single. And it has to be sold through certain outlets with The Tick (I think? No idea these days, with downloads and all) - i.e. not Rough Trade. Actually, I don't have a clue.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 09:16 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmm . . .

http://www.theofficialcharts.com/docs/OCC_Chart_Rules_Edition9.pdf

I can't SEE anything about excluding split singles, but I may be being thick.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 09:22 (nineteen years ago)

Tee hee hee, we're under Secret Machines' Seven Inches on this site:

Pure Groove

(I am too easily amused.)

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 09:35 (nineteen years ago)

That's gone all wrong... bah.

http://www.puregroove.co.uk/genre.asp?Genre=11

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

Who's this T1m Y3n T3n dude? What does he sound like? (apologies if this has already been discussed and everyone knows except me)

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

He is good. He does sort of castiopop with luxury karaoke stylings.

(Sorry, I am still sniggering over being under TSM's 7 inches.)

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 09:44 (nineteen years ago)

"All at Once" - ha ha ha

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

yes, indeed. I am Stronger, I can take it.

fnnnaarrrrrr....

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

i went to Reading. i came home, and now i have a cold.

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

Oh no! Did you get Trenchfoot, too?

and did you get to see TSM? If not, who did you see?

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

Reading wasn't damp at all. Leeds, however, properly rained on Thursday when people were setting up, dry for the rest of the weekend, then rained REALLY hard on Sunday night, which may have stopped the riots, but also put a dampner on the last night. Fortunatly I was in the Carlign tent so didn't notice that everybody looked like a drowned rat.

Kit, did you see the Oxfam people? Were they nice to you?

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

Hari went to Reading. Maybe he will post his pics where he looks like one of Adam & The Ants.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 10:57 (nineteen years ago)

oxfam people? eh? why would i see them and why would they be nice to me? plz explain.

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

i didn't see TSM

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

The nice oxfam stall and the nice oxfam campaigners! You didn't see them? Bah!

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

Did you go to the silent disco?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

i may have seen them, i wasn't paying much attention to stalls. were you on the stall or something?

no silent disco for me.

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:21 (nineteen years ago)

i was too busy dancing around the guest bar like a complete TWAT, on my own, because my friends were too daft to understand the sentence "i'll meet you back here then". they all went back to the tent. i danced to MADONNA ffs. and the lightning seeds. 4 SHAEM.

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:22 (nineteen years ago)

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

I just got back a quote for life insurance. £800 a month.

My consultant rang them back and asked if that was a typo. Errr... No.

That's the same as my freaking mortgage!

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

Tell you what, give me £800 a month and I'll assume your debt if you die.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

I was at Leeds, but we did have a massive stall at Reading as well.

I went to the silent disco at Wychwood. It's fun and frustrating in equal measures.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

Er, £800 is my whole monthly salary at the moment! Are you deemed to have a particularly high risk lifestyle then Kate? I mean I know you live in Sarf London but even so...

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

You're supposed to answer no to all the "will you ever die?" questions.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

Did you put "Pop Star" as your profession?

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

The only high risk aspect of my lifestyle is that I suffer from Manic Depression. Despite the fact it's nearly totally controlled by meds, this still makes me uninsurable. And "drugs, alcohol or SUICIDE related deaths" are excluded anyway, so WTF?

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and I picked up MusicMart magazine because, apparently, we're in it. Yes we are. And it's a nice little music mag for musicians by the publishers of SoundOnSound. I think I like it. I'm going to read the whole thing (especially Guitars For Girls: Are They Any Good? about Daisy Rock) and then maybe pitch to see if I can write for them.

Yes, I'll do your pedal reviews. Please?

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

Did anyone sign up for Hobo Wars

Congrats on getting a single out Kate. If I come across it somewhere i'll be sure to buy one.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

Kate, Ed is gouging you. I'll assume your debt for only £750/month!

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

Don't you need life assurance for a mortgage? (I know fa about this sort of thing)

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, you need life assurance for a mortgage. I'm totally at risk and exposed and in all kinds of trouble. But no one will insure me!

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

Ahh. FuXors. You can't be the only one in this position, surely they get this all the time

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

I think you do because if you die you need to be able to pay off the mortgage - presumably your heirs get saddled with it otherwise (or it gets paid from your estate, also disadvatgaing your heirs).

I *think* I have some but in all honesty I don't know what the dilly is!

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

'ska' because of the rhythm, even if the synthy instrumentation's a far cry away from what you'd normally expect of such music. That bit only lasts about a minute, anyway. and the second half's beat is like totally the same as TSR's 'I Am The Resurrection' IMO...which is a good thing. :-)

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

ARGH, DON'T SEND ME BAD REVIEWS!!!

They just wind me the fuck up. Stupid, idiot, incompetent boys who think they're Lester Bangs or something because they can shout and swear. And can't be bothered to tell the difference between a CASIO and a GUITAR. And think that anything that dares to have girls on it or - GOD FORBID - actually be *listenable* is motherfucking "twee".

Fuck right off. And don't come back until you've learned an actual journalistic voice of your own, you web-bound twat.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, that was an x-post! I wasn't shouting at Louis.

Dude, I don't really understand how you get "ska" out of the beginning of Stronger. Are you sure you've got the right song? Ska uses a synchopated rhythm that accentuates the off beat. Like "one-and-TWO-and-three-and-FOUR-and" - Stronger isn't synchopated at all, and the only accentuation is on the first beat "ONE-and-two-and-three-and-four-and" etc.

Good call on IATR, though, hah. Yeah, it's just kind of a standard four-square blues beat (with added motorik goodness) but yeah, it's used on IATR. (Also Primal Scream's Rocks, but we'll just not mention that.)

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

Eh? What NOW...

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

hmm it appears that the new answers table or query has gone screwy, use history to post answers to old threads.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I've been going MAD without it, so I'm glad it's back.

Can't go on TSM board because Benjamin's online and I'm hiding from him becuase I'm scared. MySpace is boring. And no one will reccomend me anything to wear on the BBC tomorrow.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

i saw the ile code at the weekend - oh my eyes!

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, so I've heard. It gave Rhys the shakes. Or maybe that was just the coffee.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

If we all hold hands and sing hymns, maybe we can get through this together.

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

This is starting to freak me out...

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

It's already been established that I don't know what I'm talking about when it comes to punk, and ska is but a leap away! ;-)

Nah, I could just see Madness singing over that beat, even if it didn't map to a 'proper' ska beat. 'Uptempo' pop would be a far less misleading description.

I DO like what y've done with that fade-out thingy halfway through, though. Changing a pop song halfway through is VERY Electric Soft Parade, incidentally; have you heard any? And have I already asked that question?

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

What fade-out thing?

What version are you listening to? Ska? Fade-out? Changing the song halfway through? Are you sure you're listening to us?

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

When it comes to music you are proving to be multi-talentless Mr. Ninja

― dud Hab 'C' dEva (Dada), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

WERE YOU EVEN AT THE GIG?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

"Naw, Mr. Sanderson, ah couldne make it..."

― dud Hab 'C' dEva (Dada), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

xxxpost:[Oh, on re-listening I know why I thought it sounded ska-ey. The guitar chords during the first section are being played on the off-beat, and I was almost taking THEM as my reference point for the entire beat. OOH lovely electronics, ooh, Stone Roses, yeah!

Great harmonies, btw. I would mention The Pipettes but I'm sure you've heard that one oh too many times before... ;-)]

Right, I'm listening to the song that pops up on that myspace page mentioned above. The first section fades out mid-song, with the man's voice, and some eerie electro keyboards take over replete with femal harmony. I'm saying it as I'm hearing it.

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha ha, no, wait, I've figured it out! That's hilarious!

Have you been listening to the "sample" on the Bumlove MySpace?

Because the first half of that is Tim Ten Yen, which is indeed a sort of a ska-pop casiotoned thing. And then halfway through it fades out and our song fades in.

No, no, we're only the second half of that. Go listen to the full thing on our MySpace if you want to hear it:

http://www.myspace.com/shimuracurves

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

Yay vindicated! :-)

Now, dadaismus, y'can take yr 'multi-talentless' and put it someplace else! :p I'll check it out now...

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

Aye, well, anyone can recognise a ska tune!

― dud Hab 'C' dEva (Dada), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

That was funny.

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

"Naw, Mr. Sanderson, ah couldne make it..."

dadaismus is showing his age now. You must be the wrong side of 30.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

More like the wrong side of 50

― dud Hab 'C' dEva (Dada), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

What's wrong with being either side of 30? I didn't find either side of it wrong. Perhaps I should be more sensitive. Also, Kate, they're talking about football! (well, football phone-ins). Ban the bastards!

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

come back, 'cooler, come back

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

We're back! (I think) And the cooler shall rejoin new answers!

― g00blar (gooblar), Saturday, 2 September 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

hoorah

I have been shopping for clothes, oy vey that was hard work, but new suit another flowery shirt, crochet tie and shoes.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 2 September 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

Morning all.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 4 September 2006 07:03 (nineteen years ago)

Morning, Ed.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 4 September 2006 07:26 (nineteen years ago)

Morning!

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 4 September 2006 07:50 (nineteen years ago)

Hello. I am going for a haircut.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 4 September 2006 07:51 (nineteen years ago)

Hi everyone!

Here's a pic of me dressed as a tiger with the rest of the Oxfam crew at V:

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/generationwhy/music/festivals/2006/v_stafford/19.jpg

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 4 September 2006 08:09 (nineteen years ago)

so about this suit then:

grey herringbone tweed with a really broad cut to the legs

― Ed (dali), Monday, 4 September 2006 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

johnny b is a furry? :O

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Monday, 4 September 2006 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

Ah man, I hope I'm not a furry. I think that would be too kinky even for this thread. Although having a tail was one of the coolest things ever.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 4 September 2006 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, in other words...

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 4 September 2006 09:52 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, that's not good. Does it matter that I no longer have the tiger costume? Or is that just denial?

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 4 September 2006 09:55 (nineteen years ago)

I've also had a look at some websites - some people look pretty damn cool in their outfits! Look at him!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Fursuit_TaniDaReal_top.jpg/419px-Fursuit_TaniDaReal_top.jpg

But I have a nasty feeling this is uncovering something about me which I would rather left covered, thank you very much.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 4 September 2006 10:03 (nineteen years ago)

Do you think the furry scene was accurately portrayed in that CSI episode, Johnny? Or is your experience somewhat different?

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Monday, 4 September 2006 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

Morning (or afternoon), all!

Suit sounds cool, Ed, where from?

What's a furry?

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 4 September 2006 10:05 (nineteen years ago)

Nichole Fahri

― Ed (dali), Monday, 4 September 2006 10:05 (nineteen years ago)

Get Yer Hipflasks Of Brandy: It's The New Rolling London Walking Thread

― Ed (dali), Monday, 4 September 2006 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

Honestly guys, I don't know ANYTHING about any furries. I wear one tiger costume (however cool I looked) and everyone's jumping to conclusions! And I don't watch CSI.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 4 September 2006 10:13 (nineteen years ago)

kk, when greg kitten calls you a furry, you gotta start worrying.

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Monday, 4 September 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

We're just jealous cos strangers come up to you and ask to rub your belly

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 4 September 2006 10:37 (nineteen years ago)

or stroke your tail

― Ed (dali), Monday, 4 September 2006 10:37 (nineteen years ago)

that doesn't happen.

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Monday, 4 September 2006 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

Oh. Guess I'll cancel my order for a grizzly bear outfit, then

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 4 September 2006 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

au contraire; it probably doesn't happen cos i don't have a suit.
GET ORDERING!

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Monday, 4 September 2006 10:50 (nineteen years ago)

People were coming up and rubbing my back and front and stroking my tail every time I put that suit on. It was a most enjoyable experience. I can't imagine the same thing happening on the Cowley Road though.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 4 September 2006 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

Grrrrrr! (in best Betty Boo voice)

Morn... afternoon. Today is month end so I've got a long night ahead of me. Went down to the Apple shop and bought loads of memory - I now have a 250gig external drive and a 1gig memory stick. Mmmm, big stick.

I'm feeling a bit blargh. Weekend was blargh. Does anyone fancy going to Sonic Cathedral's Arthur Lee tribute tomorrow night? I've mutated and have no friends.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

might be tempted, but need to get house ready for the french

― Ed (dali), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

Edmund! The French!!!

Ohmigod, walking up Regent Street, I saw the most beautiful Edmund Talbot style hunting boots in a shop. But they are for boys and would never fit me.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

in Church's

they have some lovely brown knee high boots which I covet, I got some great boots in Kurt Geiger, lace ups, well above the ankle

― Ed (dali), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

yes, that was the place! Church's. And those were the boots. But they were £300 or something.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

£352

over the weekend, i flicked over one of those ghastly clip shows to see Richard Harris on Parkinson in 1974 clearly out of his gourd but looking very kate friendly

― Ed (dali), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, for those of you who care about this sort of thing, the BBC Breakfast clip with the Shimuras in should be on the week of 11th September.

Though, from the photos posted, it's not like you're going to be able to see me at all in it. Just as well, given how disgustingly ugly I am. So this is how it happens, as you get closer to 40, you get more and more invisble, until on your 40th birthday, POOF!!! you disappear.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

Hello there. I'm home, bah.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 4 September 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

Where have you been?

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Monday, 4 September 2006 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

York, helping someone move house.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 4 September 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

what is this BBC Breakfast stuff you speak of? you're going to be on the television?

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Monday, 4 September 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ampnet/

― Ed (dali), Monday, 4 September 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

very good, you are truly the RJG of the image-posting world. can anyone explain a little better, maybe even using words?

is this gonna be on at a time that i'm likely to see it? or does "breakfast" mean "way before teh_kit is awake"? obv, this doesn't actually matter, since, 4 kaet, i'd SET MY VIDEO.

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Monday, 4 September 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

One of Kate's bandmates was being filmed for BBC Breakfast, on the subject of blogging and the internet and how she has made it work for her and her writing career and the band she's in. By an astonishing coincidence, the rest of the band was passing by and offered to play their new single THERE AND THEN! :)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 4 September 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

cool! did they jump out the back of a Mystery-Machine style tour van to do so?

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Monday, 4 September 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

I guess Andrew can answer that, too, since he's ordained himself to speak for everybody else in my band/the world.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Monday, 4 September 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

oh my, plz not 2 haev argument around teh_kit.

kaet, feel free to tell your version of story.

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Monday, 4 September 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

New Watercooler charts are up Look who topped again.
Personal charts are up on homepages too. Circle topped mine.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 4 September 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

currently trying to fathom how anyone can be mad at Andrew for anything ever, since he's like totally fluffy.

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Monday, 4 September 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sorry Kate, I wasn't trying to start anything, I made a joke and it went wrong.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 4 September 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

I thought it was quite a good joke. Kate, we're all friends hon.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Monday, 4 September 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

I have just discovered that the lift in ur building is made by 'Porn & Dunwoody' which is making me giggle.

I have no idea why this building has a lift, its only 4 floors, and there is a disgusting amount of single floor lift travel.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 4 September 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

'Porn & Gotwoody' would've been funnier.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 4 September 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

we have 2 floors and a lift, it's used for wheelchair users and heavy haulage i think

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 4 September 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

the only other time | used the lift was last week to bring a new (dismantled) rack down to our office this guy waited for me to do three trips in the lift before getting the lift from the ground to the second floor.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 4 September 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

people are always getting stuck in ours, there's no way I'd ever use it.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 4 September 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, I'm terrified of lifts, I bloody hate the things. I can't imagine how much I'd freak out if I got stuck in one.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Monday, 4 September 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

I got stuck in a lift once. It was OK. I had a book, so I sat on the floor and read it until someone came to get me (about forty-five minutes later). My colleagues all took turns to come and shout hello to me, I just wanted them to piss off so I could have peace to read my book and not have had to go back to work. I think they were all more freaked than I was.

This may have been somewhat different if I hadn't been on my own. If I'd been stuck with someone freaking, that would have annoyed the hell out of me.

(note: I suffer from panic attacks and claustrophobia on public transport a lot. I have no idea why being stuck in a lift didn't freak me. It just didn't).

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 4 September 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not that claustrophobic - well, for small spaces, that is. Being crowded in with too many people is a guaranteed panic attack in any situation. It's just something about lifts that I genuinely hate. Most small, enclosed spaces actually make me feel quite safe. I think with lifts it's more the fear of heights/fear of falling thing coming into play.

Ugh, I'm getting the heebie jeebies just thinking about that, Ailsa.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Monday, 4 September 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

Was it because the worst actually happened so you could deal with it?
Whereas the panic attacks is about what might happen?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 4 September 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

Really, it was OK. I wasn't that high up, if I'd been way high up, it might have been different. I think being on my own helped. I have previously freaked out when driving along busy roads, being a passenger in a car, flying, buses, trains, undergrounds, in busy shops. But in each occasion, other people have been around, if not directly involved in my panic. Mechanical device, on yr own, what can you do?

(xpost, no because the worst hadn't happened, I wasn't mangled in a heap of wire and metal on the basement, and there's nothing that said that wasn't going to happen)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 4 September 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

If you're in a falling lift, jump up just as the lift passes the bottom floor. It'll take about 10 mph off your impact!

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Monday, 4 September 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

could one of you Plan B types arrange an 'unfortunate' fatal accident for k13r0n g1ll3n pls, kthx

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Monday, 4 September 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

That's hardly going to help. Unless you counteract gravity by jumping, which, er, you don't.

(xpost to ninja since I have no idea what DG is on about)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 4 September 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - Did you always hate fun, DG?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 4 September 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

Don't bother jumping, proven by science for dumbos.

xpost again

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 4 September 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

hate = fun

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Monday, 4 September 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

:( fair enough. Not having my greatest day what with the ray/flatfish confusion, but in my defence I did give up all sciences after GCSE...

I still think you'd take 10 mph off your fall-speed. :p

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Monday, 4 September 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

This is freaking me the f*ck out and I really don't want to think about it any more, gah gah gah, think nice thoughts, Benjamin Curtis, guitar pedals, pointy nosed ginger dronerock boys with Moogerfoogers, don't think about lifts and crashing and safety ropes and ARRGGGHH!!!

Why do you want him keeled, DG?

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Monday, 4 September 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

i've just seen his comic

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Monday, 4 September 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

Blargh.

I think I may be losing my ability to eat curry and drink coffee. My stomach feels awful.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Monday, 4 September 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

Did you always hate fun, DG?

ha last time i was an ilx regular this 'meme' didn't exist! it was all 'proven by science' round 'ere

i can't drink coffee, it makes me feel like someone's let a mosquito loose in my empty head

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Monday, 4 September 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I just resurrected proven by science about four posts? Does that make me old-skool?

I'm about to go and have a curry right now (well, in about ten minutes when it's cooked).

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 4 September 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know how the word "ago" got mutated into a question mark there.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 4 September 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

I ordered Plan B last week, when is it actually out? I didn't even know it had gone monthly. I prefer loose lips sinks ships myself.
I have all the CTCL issues but I dunno where they all are.

x-posts I don't like curry,alcohol coffee oh and cheese as well while i'm at it. I'm always the odd one out. I don't know anyone who hates all 4.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 4 September 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

It's not my head, it's my stomach. Bah.

Also... a horrible side effect of actually starting to practise proper dental hygeine (OK, stop reading if you don't want to hear be grossed out) is that now I've started to actually be able to feel when my teeth are dirty, which I never felt or even cared about before. But now it really bugs me, and I've got the urge to go and floss and mouthwash when I never used to notice at all. A whole new range of things to feel self conscious about. Bah. I wish I could return to my furry mouthed state of ignorance.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Monday, 4 September 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

I don't like curry,alcohol coffee oh and cheese as well while i'm at it.

Kerr, you are a freak. Proven by SCIENCE. Do you hate FUN too?

(ha, IR teh meme-user queen)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 4 September 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

That's hardly gross-out, especially compared to the 'Why does that dude Momus wear an eyepatch?' thread!

S: Curry, alcohol, cheese, coffee
D: Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy

;-)

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Monday, 4 September 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

OK, maybe it's just me that my teeth disgust.

The one thing all of us said after seeing the BBC rushes was "my god, I need to get my teeth fixed..."

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Monday, 4 September 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

BRITISHES!

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Monday, 4 September 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

And I've even had that gap-tooth thing fixed. I wasn't allowed to emigrate to the states unless I got my gap compressed. I just have awful teeth. I want silver ones like Baby Silvertooth.

And then maybe I can pick up radio signals.

OK, I'm now officially obsessesed with this Sons of T.C. Lethbridge record.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Monday, 4 September 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

D: Oceansize.

x-posts

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 4 September 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

kate can you eye sigh it to me. I will redo your sevens, I need to find a better tool than garage band

― Ed (dali), Monday, 4 September 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

ARgh!!!! Some FUX0R moved the data!!!

dON'T THEY UNDERSTQAND WHAT THIS DOES TO ME?!??!?!

I have to download all over again becuase some cnut decided to complete a case at this time of night. Bah.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Monday, 4 September 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

xpost: I need to find a better garage band than Tool?

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Monday, 4 September 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

No need, Ed. Check email.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 4 September 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

Damn, I'm in the process of whyessaying it to Ed right now!

HALANGY DOWNER.... HALANGY DOWNER...

What should I do? Start over from scratch? Argh. Or try to piece it back together.

Going to have to redo it from scratch, I think. Bah.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Monday, 4 September 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

"OK, maybe it's just me that my teeth disgust.
The one thing all of us said after seeing the BBC rushes was "my god, I need to get my teeth fixed..." "

I did NOT say this! x

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Monday, 4 September 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

OK, three out of four Shimuras have teeth angst. Sorry for the misrepresentation. :-(

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Monday, 4 September 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

I can't even joke about my sodding teeth without someone picking on me.

Oh sod it, I think my downloads are done.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Monday, 4 September 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

Aw Kate, I'm not picking on you!

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Monday, 4 September 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone else gettin' those seasonal stirrings?

Last night, sitting on a bench at Lee station waiting for a train to London Bridge, I got the first feelings of summer truly being gone. It was about 8:45 pm, the sky was still, dark blue with a pale horizon, and the CCTV monitors were brighter than usual, jiggling around in time to the drumming of my teeth, with the result that, aided by a slight cold (in certain conditions this is one of my favourite states, actually), it seemed to me that the night had enclosed the landscape in the way that it only can during the winter months. Walking down the street later on, The Cocteau Twins' 'Pearly Dewdrops' Drops' entered my head, and all of a sudden it was CHRISTMAS! Bliss!

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Monday, 4 September 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

Sitting at home this evening, I got that depressing autumn evening feeling.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 4 September 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

I love autumn. I saw coloured leaves up at the Rookery.

I freaking hate Christmas, though. Don't besmirch my good, pure, lovely autumnal feeling with Christmas.

Shit. This means I'll be getting the mating season urge again soon, though. Ugh. Make it stop.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Monday, 4 September 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

Quick guys, let's get rutting before our antlers fall off!

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Monday, 4 September 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

Autumn evenings are lovely, when it doesn't rain. I'm just worried we aren't going to get our Indian summer.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 4 September 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

It always happens in autumn. I get a sex drive again. It's horrible. Causes all sorts of trouble. Goes away again by winter.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Monday, 4 September 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/96/215120003_fe34e0090f.jpg

::cries::

4 down, 22 to go.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Monday, 4 September 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

part one of fluidage sent kate. let me know what you think.
part to upping now.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 4 September 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

erm two

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 4 September 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

D: speling

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Monday, 4 September 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

Downloading now.

Freaking bored of everything else in my media file, so I'll listen to it now.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Monday, 4 September 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/76/201537587_aced6a073e.jpg

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Monday, 4 September 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

why didn't you just ask him for a bonk?

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Monday, 4 September 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

lol

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 4 September 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

Only in two tracks but this is some good shit.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 4 September 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

Is that the T.C. Lethbridge, Ed? Oh yeah...

The stuff you've just sent me, Kerr, starts out a bit wanky, but soon hits a quite nice, spacey groove. Not sure about fretless bass, but some nice textures in there.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Monday, 4 September 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

I think I've been looking for this for a while, ties a lot of threads together.

September compilation coming soon, possibly featuring the crumhorn. Place orders now.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 4 September 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

You know, if only it were so simple as to just wander up to Dirty Dronerock Boys, and say "pardon me, do you fancy a bonk?" my life would be so much less complicated.

Sigh.

x-post what on earth is a crumhorn? Do I dare ask?

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Monday, 4 September 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

teehee!

http://www.trouvere.co.uk/Crumhorn.jpg

(what's it sound like?)

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 4 September 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

Oh my lord, do you have to wear a robe to play it?

(Speaking of which, where the heck are my sunn0))) tickets!??!?)

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Monday, 4 September 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

MAN SWALLOWS OPEN UMBRELLA

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Monday, 4 September 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

It's like a recorder left to warp in the sun.

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 4 September 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and I'm so happy because now I'm waiting for my GHOSTFACE TICKETS!!

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 4 September 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

...a playable walking stick for small children... or dwarves and hobbits!

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Monday, 4 September 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

It's like an oboe on Viagra.

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Monday, 4 September 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

Pardon me, Benjamin, would you fancy a toot on my crumhorn?

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Monday, 4 September 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

YOUR crumhorn, eh? ;-)

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Monday, 4 September 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

I got my Glasgow Sunn o))) ticket today. This time I won't forget my earplugs. Mind you it wasn't the ears that was so much a problem, it was the fact it was like an earthquake with all the vibrations. The whole place shook and everyone was still shaking when they left.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 4 September 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

Pardon me, Benjamin, may I have a toot on YOUR crumhorn? I'll let you fiddle my Big Muff.

I hate buying tickets online, I always get the fear that they won't actually turn up. Or that I'll lose them before the event.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Monday, 4 September 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

Shoot me now.

I am overtired and not thinking straight. I used the word "sweetiepants" without even thinking about it.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Monday, 4 September 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

i have that effect on people.

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Monday, 4 September 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

xpost: Awwww..."Sweetieplums" is more embarrassing anyway!

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Monday, 4 September 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

Part 2 of Fluidage was sent,Kate. Upping the other band now.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 4 September 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

Better than "sweetiehorn".

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Monday, 4 September 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

x-post, cool, Kerr! I'm enjoying the first album more and more as I listen to it.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Monday, 4 September 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

why is teh_watercooler open so late today?

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Monday, 4 September 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

BECAUSE I AM STILL AT SODDING WORK. Yes, at 10 o'clock at night. This is what happens when these fuX0rs decide to move the data while I am trying to analyse it. Bah.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Monday, 4 September 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

"Sweetiehorn" is definitely a keeper! Watch as I reintroduce it to the cooler at a later date, at the most calculatedly inappropriate juncture... :-D

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Monday, 4 September 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

kerr seems to be sending wanks, grooves and fluids kaet's way

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 4 September 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

I like the late cooler action--I'm much more witty and charming at this hour than during the day.

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 4 September 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

that really sucks, my sympathies 2 u

(xxpost, but it's funnier without it.)

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Monday, 4 September 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

This is what happens when these fuX0rs decide to move the data while I am trying to analyse it. Bah.

Surely this is what happens when you webmong instead of working?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 4 September 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

i predict a riot.

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Monday, 4 September 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

Most people do like Fluidage when they hear them. I have other stuff by Tobbe. I can send them tomorrow. I'm amazed he only does Fluidage as a hobby. This stuff should get a vinyl release at least, but he just does it for fun.

x-posts

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 4 September 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

I have only been webmonging while waiting for downloads to complete. And between batches of hard work to clear my BRANE for the next batch.

Trust me, it is the fault of the conslutant. There was about two minutes between downloading the reports and the data, but it was enough for them to f*ck it up. Sigh.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Monday, 4 September 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

I like the late cooler action--I'm much more witty and charming at this hour than during the day.

tragically, i'm even more incoherent in the evenings.

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Monday, 4 September 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

'Conslutant' = also a keeper.

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Monday, 4 September 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

conslutant

Oh, do tell me this wasn't a typo. xpost, obvs.

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 4 September 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

It's not a typo. It's what we call them down here. Conslutants.

It's very hard not to type it in proper emails and reports and stuffs around here!

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Monday, 4 September 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

When does work finish for you tonight?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 4 September 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

I have no idea...

HA HA, IT'S THE DEBBIL!!!!

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b132/mel_face/2smile.jpg

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Monday, 4 September 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

Wow. I can't take my eye off of that tooth. STOPIT! LEAVEMEALONE!!

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 4 September 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

What's with the black tooth?

xpost, obvs (touche, gooblar!)

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Monday, 4 September 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

It isn't black, it's silver, but the light isn't on it, in that photo.

That is the tooth that gave me the PH34R OF DENTISTS and made me start getting into flossing and mouthwashing and all that.

He's a scary looking man. That's not what I want to be looking at when I'm in the office, late, by myself.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Monday, 4 September 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

Btw kate, all the music on the Fluidage is performed by one guy.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 4 September 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

Krummhorns totally REUEL. Blaaaattt!

As do Serpents

ihttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ef/Serpent_groves.jpg

While Ophicleides only spit crosses instead of dronable goodyness

http://www.laymusic.org/pictures/ophicleide.jpg

Fun fact: saxophone = woodwind made of brass, serpent = brass made of wood!

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Monday, 4 September 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to go home now. I just wanted to leave marked proof of what time I was here until tonight. Bbbttthhhhhttttthhh, I want a photoshop of Benjamin, Julian Cope, the other sons of TC Lethbridge and possibly even SUNNO))) in a stone circle fighting off zombies - when I come in tomrrow. Oh yes.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Monday, 4 September 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

Except you didn't mark the time! 23:24 it is, then... :-)

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Monday, 4 September 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

Morning there. Back in the office, and my head hurts. At least so far the most urgent job I've been given is a dull-but-brainless one, so I don't have to spend much effort on thought.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 07:24 (nineteen years ago)

welcome to planet kitten tbh

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 07:27 (nineteen years ago)

I have ordered the cd

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 07:31 (nineteen years ago)

Planet Kitten CD?

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 07:33 (nineteen years ago)

no, the tc lethbridge one, it has essays

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 07:33 (nineteen years ago)

rock & roll

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 07:44 (nineteen years ago)

Morning all. Today's gonna be a (relatively) warm one, I think.

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 07:45 (nineteen years ago)

Not up here it's not.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 07:50 (nineteen years ago)

Ah. Fair enough. I must be careful not to assume a london-centric tone.

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 07:52 (nineteen years ago)

that should be some kind of ilx motto.

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 08:03 (nineteen years ago)

Hi kids. All of this poxyfulousness has gotten me out of the watercooler habit, 'cause I never know where anyone is.

Has anyone watched an episode of the X-Files recently. I can't believe how much I loved that show at the time. Now it just seems so stilted.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 08:16 (nineteen years ago)

In these post CSI/24/Office/nu-Who times, a lot of old TV seems really slow and stilted. We're used to thigns moving a little faster now.

Oh, and morning all!

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 08:33 (nineteen years ago)

is CSI a good show or something?

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

it always appears to me to be the TV equiv of those REAL LIEF MURDAH!!1 week by week binder things.

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 08:43 (nineteen years ago)

i like the way that in CSI they're all so judgemental and prudish, like HELLO you work in Las Vegas, get one new job kthx

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 09:04 (nineteen years ago)

it says right there what time I left: September 4th, 2006 11:21 PM.

It is unpleasantly warm and sticky and not nice in London. Bah.

No email this morning. NONE. No body loves me. I'm going to eat some worms.

Ah! I need to get the Lethbridge CD, Ed. Where did you order it from? My problem with ordering stuff is that my mailbox is tiny and cannot take parcels and I never have time to go to the post office and pick stuff up. I wonder if I could have things sent to work.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 09:06 (nineteen years ago)

on the site it says to send a paypal payment of £19.99 to sons@tc-lethbridge.com

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

gee, you should see my inbox. nothing but yummy worms. in fact, i have HAD IT with these motherfucking worms in my motherfucking inbox.

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

It's raining buckets, and cold up here. I have a runny nose :(

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 09:14 (nineteen years ago)

my old (physical, obv) mailbox couldn't even handle a 7" record mailer. that really sucked.

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 09:15 (nineteen years ago)

Bah, I cannot do paypal, stupid interweb.

HOWEVER!!!

I made the same photoshop request on TSM board and the lovely Texan Mel made me the BEST!!! THING!!! EVAH!!!

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

It is Benjamin, sunno))) and Julian Cope fighting off the zombie hoards of his bandmates! I love it!

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 09:16 (nineteen years ago)

they list the addresses of a couple of record stores in Lincoln. Conceivably phone and card or letter and cheque postal order would suffice.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 09:18 (nineteen years ago)

I had a good night walk down throgmorton street last night. I should do more walking through The City in darkness.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 09:20 (nineteen years ago)

You need to get a long cape and a hat and scare passing tourists. Especially in dark alleys!

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

they list the addresses of a couple of record stores in Lincoln.

Where? I could possibly pop by if I get chance one day - although to be honest my social life is fairly busy at the moment.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

Or, you could all come up to Lincolnshire and FAP, of course!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 09:35 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.tc-lethbridge.com/a_giant/

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

Oh wait, I'm stupid, it has an address where you can send a cheque. Easy.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 09:38 (nineteen years ago)

christ, i'm bored. why is ILX so rubbish today?

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

RUBBISH?!?!?!

How can anything be rubbish that has pictures of Benjamin, Julian Cope and sunno))) fighting ZOMBIES ever be rubbish?

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

i meant the whole of ILX.

but since i don't know benjamin, julian cope or sunno))), i am indeed lumping them in with the rest of the rubbish. sorry.

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

Today is going so slowly. It's barely lunchtime (in 5 minutes) and it feels like it should be time to go home already.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 09:51 (nineteen years ago)

God, this data stick is the best thing ever. I'm totally in love with it.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

Excellent! I need never write a song again!

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

OMG that's virtually identical to my GCSE English creative-writing piece, about a dystopian future where all the hit singles are created by a computer called 'MC Rastaman' (it was an acronym) to certain pre-programmed rules, are incredibly dull and one-dimensional, and appeal to the desensitised masses. A world where only a few enlightened individuals still listen to CDs.

It seems incredibly naive now, but my prediction of sorts seems to be bearing fruit...

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 10:14 (nineteen years ago)

Hello

Strange day, not much to do but I'm really busy.

I got harangued by an OAP on the bus last night. He thought my dry cleaning had somehow made his jacket damp and accused me of 'severely provoking' him. I wasn't doing anything at all! And neither were my trousers! I said so. He stopped after a couple of minutes. Odd. Serve me right for taking the bus.

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

Today is my daughter's first day at school. She was very excited. I have been waiting for a phone call asking me to come and rescue the teacher.

― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

Coincidentally, I think tomorrow is my mother's first day as a Reception teacher, so the experience will be shared by both she and her pupils.

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

HaberMater sonned by Tiny Noodle inna fingerpainting beef!

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

Jim I bet you were the one crying when you left the school not your daughter.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

My stomach totally clenched at the thought of a first day at school. Even though the first day is probably the best

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

Plan B arrived today.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

Mine still hasn't. :-(

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

Are you in it?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

I wrote an article for it. I think. Though who knows if it fell between the cracks or what since they've changed all the editors around.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

Kerr I was fucking tapdancing, mate.

― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

First day of anything is always the worst. I hate the fetishisation of primacy. First day of school (lord know I had enough of them in so many different schools), first day of work, first date, all RUBBITCH!

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

It's good when yer kid goes to school, b/c suddenly you have HOURS OF YOUR LIFE BACK.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

First tab of acid was pretty cool.

― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

I akshully only get an extra hour cos she was already at nursery full time, but once Naomi returns to work tomorrow I will be able to settle back into my heavy Katamari/Eye of the Beholder schedule.

― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

I was scared out of my mind, then borderline disappointed becuase I took it in the wrong company. The third and fourth were way better.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

I don't remember my 1st day at my 1st primary school but I remember the 1st days of the other 3 and my secondary school.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

i've never done it!

who believes me?

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

I do. It's really hard to get nowadays.

― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

i'm not 12.

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

Kate did you get both cds of Fluidage, and do you want the others?
Also did you get the MSK ep too?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

Argh @ alex j0nes-ist 9/11 conspiracy theorist on SoS forum. Why do I always end up arguing w/these ppl? They're like the e-moonies.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

and I only just worked out that all Su Dokus are rotationally symmetrical. my fault for never doing them i guess. :(

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

haha the plan b forum has been derailed by a 9/11 twat as well

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

Rather than argue with them, why not hit them with an even more deranged conspiracy of your own? Up the ante.

― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Plan B in Borders in York yesterday - not sure if it was the new one though.

(I didn't buy it - I wanted something to read on the train home, but I bought Fortean Times and 2600 instead.)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

Every fucking forum seems to have one. Jones himself supposedly does not have his own forum for this very reason, so that his acolytes can wander the web, explaining to ppl that they are stupid and unelightened in a verbose and passive-aggressive manner. The Analog Heaven off-topic list used to be really good, and it basically got terminated by one of these guys.

(x-post you can't! There is no conspiracy too deranged for them. SoS guy is a moon-land1ng-was-a-h0ax-er as well, ffs)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

Pervo Monthly wasn't out then? ;)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

A classic:

...I am sorry to say you are yet another poster who comes here, quite obviously hasn't done any research whatsoever (inexcusable at a time of Googlemania), and makes a value judgement(blahblahblah)

like looking stuff up on Google is "research"!!??

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

Ask him if it was a Pred ship that hit the WTC.

― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

Haha. What I think I will do is put him on "ignore".

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone on AIM for a watercooler uk chat?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

wikipedia = research

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck wikipedia! When I search for stuff on google now, I've got into the habit of adding "-wikipedia" to any term I enter.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

d00d, i wasn't exactly 100% serious.

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

I might have found my second bike on eBay, cautiously optimistic about winning the bidding.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

(I know, greg k)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

How many bikes do you need?

New TSM video on their site. Of course it doesn't work on my 'puter. But I've seen enough to see the cutest brotherly love bit at the end. They know we love it when they hug.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

Incest?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

Now we know why Murdoch bought myspace.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5316000.stm

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

And dammit, I knew they were doing a show in Vermont, and my mum was bugging me to go and visit her for my holiday - and I thought it would be great to combine the two. But of course the East Coast shows are all RIGHT AROUND MONTH END. So I can't go anywhere. October 3/4 I can't even go to mine own show. Bah. Unless I could get out of here by the 6th...

But I don't want to waste another holiday in Vermont! I love my mum, but Vermont is boring as fuck with NO SEA so what is the point of going on holiday there?

Oh yeah, the leaves.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

x-post, ugh, that's a horrible idea. (Selling music on MySpace, not Curtis Incest) The whole point of MySpace is that you can sample music for free. I wouldn't sell music through it. What would be the point?

OK, now I'm going to think about Curtis Incest some more.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

Curtis Incest = unbelievably GREAT name for a music project.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

Don't give me terrible ideas.

― Curtis Incest (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

Curtis Incest With CAPES! is the new watercooler band project.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, ugh, it's icky. Incest, yuck! But at the same time, like, slash... hrmmmm.

But apparently people ask AMPy and her sister all the time if they ever get it on, in really pervy hopeful sort of way and she and her sis are like "eeeuuuwww, gross, she's my sister, ugh! ugh!"

But then I think about TSM all hugging each other and stuff and start to feel warm and tingly. Oh dear.

― Curtis Incest (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

Kate you never answered my question earlier re: downloads.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

I hope they read this. :p

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

"A band in Iowa can now reach out to fans in Los Angeles," said Mr DeWolfe. [MySpace cofounder]

Uh is it just me, or does this seem way more underwhelming than it was probably intended? (Why not mention something more global like Helsinki, or Senegal, or Seoul, rather than one of those two places?)

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

I got the first two albums, Kerr, but whyessai hasn't been working for me so I haven't been able to get the third. I'll try again later and see if it's up.

I had to be good for a while on TSM board after discovering that they do read it! But now the fear has worn off and me and Texan Mel are back to being silly, as evidenced by the Zombies picture up there.

― Curtis Incest (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

No, it's not just you. (x-post)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe its US only for buying like itunes was at 1st. Or at least just aimed at Americans.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

Kate let me know if its working and I can send you the other Fluidage stuff if you want.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

Pervo Monthly wasn't out then? ;)

Hah. If it was, I didn't see it in Borders!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

I remember when I used to go to the Barras (in Glasgow) looking for bootleg tapes to buy,and a couple of stalls down from one of the music bits was 2 old men selling pervy rubber fetish and spanking magazines and other stuff. And they were right next to a toilet. I wonder if they charged extra for use of it.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

I'm still holding out for DDB Monthly - a selection of your loveliest dronerock guitarists pose naked with their favourite pedals.

― Curtis Incest (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

Covering their bits?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

Depends on the guitarist, if you want them to cover their pickups or what. ;-)

― Curtis Incest (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

Your 1st issue would be an incest with capes special?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder if anyone wishes the chat would return to music and last fm instead of curtis brothers incest.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think I'd want to see Curtis Major naked, come to think of it. And he isn't a guitarist anyway. He is an organist. Fnar.

OK, I've got to change my screen name.

― Curtis Incest (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

Killjoy.

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder if anyone wishes the chat would return to music and last fm instead of curtis brothers incest.

No :)

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

(x-posts) a nude DDB calendar, a la nude fireman calendar would be better, each month a star of shoegaze, nude. w/a guitar pedal covering his bits. Some might get away w/needing a standard boss pedal, others might need something bigger, like an electro-harmonix memory man. January could be young mark gardener, february jason pierce etc up 'till december, which could be sonic boom, who needs an entire serge modular panel, of course.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

^i'm ashamed of myself for thinking of that.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

You should be.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, I laughed so hard I actually had to go in the ladies' room and splash water on my face.

Though are we photographing them as they were in their heyday, or as they are now? Kevin Sheilds could hide his entire arse behind a Memory Man in 1992 but would require an entire speaker stack now, alas.

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

What month is Curtis Minor? :-)

(I was looking for the photo in which he appeared to be wearing no trousers but alas could not find a good copy.)

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

It's good when yer kid goes to school, b/c suddenly you have HOURS OF YOUR LIFE BACK.

Unless you're stupid enough to have a 3rd child 4 weeks after your 2nd child goes to school!

― I am stupid, and so is my wife (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

I wouldn't mind a hetero equivalent with Rachael Goswell, Bilinda Butcher etc... :p

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

i have decided, just now, that i am going to make a massive effort to be taken seriously from now on.

wish me luck?

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

But that would be sexist!
x-post

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

It wouldn't be sexist if it were in exchange for me getting to see Curtis Minor's naked arse. That would be treating men and women the same, which is just fine.

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

i've gone off the idea already.

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

http://youarehear.co.uk/

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

Wise move, kit.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

All it took was Curtis Minor's naked arse?

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

Is that gonna be your new sign in name?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

I would excelsior that but I've only just posted there. :-)

GUYZ, btw, is Raggett actually being serious in his OTT hatred? He's clearly a dude to everyone else here, just a bit astonished at the ongoing 'special treatment'...

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

I have no idea. Ned? Are you kidding around, or is Louis seriously getting your goat?

(Sorry, dude, I don't hang around on ILM much any more, so I've no idea why you've been winding people up there. You've been perfectly polite here, and as reasonable as anyone else.)

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

what's/who're OTT?

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

(I mean, not at the risk of stirring up unpleasantness or anything... I'm just curious.)

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

I think I'm still being judged on my first two or three days on ILX, when I acted like a prat (and a teenaged prat into the bargain). Which is sad. Aside from a couple of dodgy moments on a punk thread (about which I've retracted every poxy word I uttered) it's been going pretty well of late.

Hmmm.

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

kit, BE SERIOUS!

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

I think he recognises his younger self in Louis.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

Louis, you crossed the Voice Of ILM, you will PERISH.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Well, first impressions count for quite a lot, especially around here. (and some people will never change their opinions of you, no matter how long you try to be more reasonable.)

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

i am being serious!

i get TSM, but OTT?

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

I have noticed remarkable similarities in our music tastes/hates/political opinions. Is that a valid psychological theory, BL-P (can I call you Kerr like everyone else btw?), or just speculation?

OTT = over the top

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

OTT = over the top, ok... so... what does Ned hate?

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Me, apparently.

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.movieprop.com/tvandmovie/reviews/overthetop.jpg

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

Do you have particularly prominent sideburns, maybe, Louis?

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

and why would he haet you?

(ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! I've HAD IT with pulling motherfucking teeth out of this motherfucking head!)

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

What!?!? Kit, when did you become a dentist?

(And you can fix my bad tooth while you're at it, and make it look more like Curtis Senior's silvertooth?)

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, in terms of hates? Just some bands I find extremely tiresome against the general critical flow, he seems to dislike them as well.

My sideburns are quite prominent, actually, and I am growing my hair at the moment...

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

pfunkboy, Kerr, Sir. You choose.

G-Kit, Ned made a comment about dying or something on Louis's 1st day.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe someone can find it for you.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

No, Kerr, I believe it was the second day.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

It must be the sideburns, methinks.

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

ARGH, so who the fuck is Louis? Obvious Ninja?

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

wow kit really is confused today.

Hey Ned!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

Ned, saev me tbh.

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

It must be the sideburns, methinks.

Oh, hardly.

ARGH, so who the fuck is Louis? Obvious Ninja?

Indeed.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

Louis = "obvious ninja", yes.

I think Louis was maybe a little bit over-over-prolific when he first showed up? Ned is a super-nice guy, but people do rub each other up the wrong way sometimes, it can't be helped.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I'm with Kit, I don't know what's going on here. I'm just going to sit here and listen to Harmonia and eat mine popcorn and dream of dirty dronerock boys with no keks on.

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

i have to try to stay on Ned's good side, he's the only other person on the planet that likes Placebo (amirite?)

xpost confusion contamination, alright!

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

"Obvious Ninja" was Ned's own invention (sort of). He should take it as a homage (of sorts)!

I don't know what's going on either, unless it's some sort of ILX aptitude test. I'm waiting for the day when Ned finally says 'Welcome in, you've passed' and I'm an ILXor at long last... :-)

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

ned is the nicest person on ilx. What happened was out of character totally and should be forgotten about.

Ned and Louis do like a hell of a lot of the same stuff.
Start over again chaps and forget about the past.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

Did you not get the form in the email when you registered? Oh, the admins were most remiss then. It must have been all the poxy fuling.

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know what's going on either, unless it's some sort of ILX aptitude test. I'm waiting for the day when Ned finally says 'Welcome in, you've passed' and I'm an ILXor at long last... :-

that's rofflicious, i've been waiting 4 years. i still don't really feel 'welcome' here.

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

I like Placebo! A bit.

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

FUCK YOU, BANDWAGON BOY

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

How can we make you feel more welcome, Kit? Put up giant banners saying "THE WATERCOOLER WELCOMES TEH KIT OH YEAH PWNAGE!!!!!11!!!!" or something?

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

as i am the alpha and omega of ILE you can be an official ILEor if you like louis

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

I bought Mesmerised, Streetcleaner, Nowhere AND Going Blank Again, Yerself Is Steam and probably Pygmalion more or less on the strength of his reviews. You see why I feel a bit crushed?

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

Louis, you are not funny. In fact, you are showing yourself to be painfully unfunny, patently unfunny, a grotesque heap of overreaching humor-impaired desperation. It makes us wish you were dead, which is a sad state of affairs. Now either shut up and calm down or get used to the fact that your presence on a thread will be met with despair. (Doubtless others have said similar about me, but this is part of why I can tell YOU this.)

-- The Nicest Person On ILX (ne...), July 30th, 2006.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

not watercooler, you silly bear. ILX in general. i do feel somewhat more welcome "in here" than "out there". (xposts, yo)

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

but at least nobody has said anything like that to me. i feel better already! thanks, Nedimo!

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe you tried too hard to impress him. The gods don't like to be pandered to.

(Though in my case, you can certain try. I want to come into the 'Cooler every morning and find lugubrious pictures of Curtis Minor or Sonic Boom or Mark Gardener and their pedals, please.)

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

ONLY A BIT OF THE BANDWAGON
XPOSTS

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

yknow, i don't use any pedals. maybe this is the key to everything.

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

Get some pedals, KitX0r, then you can be in our calendar.

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

Onimo, he actually had a point once he got over the deathwish ranting.

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

Ned, check your email. I'm sending some Fluidage your way. (scroll up to see what Kate thought) I sent it to Elvis T last year and he liked it a lot.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

DG, is Kate the watercooler "Rassilon"?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

(oops we better not get her excited by mentioning the Rod Of Rassilon)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

ned is the nicest person on ilx.

Matter of opinion, of course, much as Ned's death wish to Louis was. Nice people don't presume to speak for everyone and wish unfortunate things on irritating people. (This is not a comment on Ned's overall personality, I've met him briefly and he seems a decent enough chap)

(Louis, for what it's worth I think you're still pissing some people off, but nicer people aren't pointing it out in quite such vehement terms - though I did roffle at whoever said "come back when you start shitting solids" on that thread when you completely failed to get the point of the Pogues, sorry but it was funny, if a little mean)

xpost.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.leslieculton.com/rassilon.jpg

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

I wasn't being enTIREly serious about the Pogues. Probably didn't make that clear enough, although I found Major Alfonso's subsequent ire quite amusingly expressed; I don't mind that sort of insult!

I have the best excuse of all, anyway: youth.

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

ihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Rassilon.jpg

are you implying kate has a facial hair problem Brigadier?

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

(notice how much it looks like an infinity symbol turned on its head! Hrrrm, is Curtis Minor's Infinite Head at work here?)

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

Kerr's spraying his fluid all over the world!

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

something you wouldn't mind giving eh kate eh eh eh? ;-)

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

i'm very happy not to have any pedals. back in the day, when i had a few, it was always annoying to remember them, remember batteries, not lose them, etc. plus, i always felt like i was relying on them - ie, if i didn't have my pedals, WE COULDN'T PLAY. seems a bit silly.

so now i'm like, toally NATURAL and stuff. i turn up with jaggy, and people go "where's yr shit?" and i'm like "THIS IS IT".

btw, now i'm kinda worried that people read what i write and want me dead. fucks sake, if it ain't one thing, it's another.

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

after all, if Ned is the NICEST PERSON EVAH, there's a million squillion people less nice than him, which means there are tens of thousands that're thinking "OMFG KIT JUST DIE". amirite?

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

You know, TISSP! texted me earlier to whinge that it was National Flirting Week and he couldn't be on the 'Cooler. I think we're managing just fine.

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

I wasn't being enTIREly serious about the Pogues. Probably didn't make that clear enough,

You've mentioned it fucking loads on the thread since. It's OK, we get it. You were being "provocative". Well done. It's better than admitting you were wrong.

ANyway, this isn't for this thread. My mind's still boggling at what sort of format a Watercooler AIM chat would take that isn't this.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

watercooler AIM chat has more smilies and less kit. probably.

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

x-post, sigh, such a filthy mind, young Louis.

It was from a self portrait that Curtis Minor drew, where he had an infinity symbol where his head should be. Ergo, he hath the Infinite Head.

Mein Gott, what is wrong with Joanna Newsom's voice? Someone get her off the helium.

Wait, I've got the worst idea ever. Have her do a duet with Alison from Cranes.

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I was wrong as well.

;-)

Who said something about smileys?

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe they want to talk about how much they don't like you! They're probably going "OMFG KIT JUST DIE"

:-)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

this is why i don't haev AIM.

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe you tried too hard to impress him. The gods don't like to be pandered to.

Thank you, Kate, you put it better than I could.

Louis, for what it's worth I think you're still pissing some people off, but nicer people aren't pointing it out in quite such vehement terms

And again Ailsa.

I could spend more time on this but that would be a waste of everyone's energy. Just this, Louis -- the less you angst about whether or not I like you, in a public forum at that, then the less embarrassed -- for you, that is -- I will be in turn. Also, pace the Excelsior exchange that apparently prompted your venting here, if you deliver something that sounds like an insult, whether or not it was intended to be, then don't be surprised at getting a response in kind.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

I often shout "OMFG KIT JUST DIE" - I think his rates are fucked.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

oh noes, lol@the_office!

i'd better go home. bastard!

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

(it wasn't (it was a comment on the fact you'd been notably absent, like the tide), but hey-ho. how is 'high tide' offensive?)

I'm honoured that you share my embarrassment though. ;-)

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, look at all I missed! The cooler is on fire!

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

me want 1000th post

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

ENOUGH WITH THE FEUDING AND MORE WITH THE DIRTY DRONEROCK BOYS!!!

Rassilon has spoken.

Let it be so.

http://static.flickr.com/76/201537587_aced6a073e.jpg

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

at least louis hasn't poured a bottle of wine over someone at a wake or anything

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

fussin'

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

xpost: You've already posted that one, Kate!

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

FWIW, again, I think the reason Louis is angsting more about Ned's reaction that anyone else's (and some other people have been pretty nasty too) is that Ned's opinion is perceived to be more important to and by a large portion of ILX. Therefore it's deemed, by some, to be more important to be liked by Ned than by others.

Sorry if I'm overthinking this.

Louis, stop trying so bloody hard. As Kate said, you get on alright here. Not everyone dislikes you, hang onto that and stop being so "please like me". And learn to accept criticism of your opinions, and that saying something over and over won't make people agree with you. Also, y'know, as long as you hold a grudge, you'll be "that bloke that holds a grudge" and you won't get much respect for that, I wouldn't have thought.

(xpost, maybe I should have said that offline, but, what the hell. Also, I'm finished now with this now, get back to talking pish about stuff again plz)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

Ailsa said it so I didn't have to. And for that and for her good sense in general, I thank her greatly.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

Right, Louis, then, your task is to find me a new picture of Ben Curtis that I've not posted yet. Don't come back until you've found one! You shall be forgiven upon your return, with Curtis-shaped goodies.

You, too, Ned, except you have to find me a picture of Sonic Boom.

Now go!

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sorry, but that HAS to be commented on; I've done nothing BUT accept criticism of my opinions of my opinions on ILM! All the bollies I was spouting about punk I held my hand up for and pledged to give a rethink to!

But the main reason I'm commenting is for the following fact: I NEVER hold grudges. EVER. I have no grudge with ANYONE. More hard-nosed customers would've, for instance, given up on trying to get on the right side of someone as soon as they said 'We wish that you were dead'.

http://graphics.jsonline.com/graphics/sports/gen/img/jul03/ben720.jpg

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

(i win, btw) :-D

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

Kate may throw you out now for making sporting references!

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

::FOLDS ARMS AND GLARES AT LOUIS::

That is not a Dirty Dronerock Boy.

Now get me a REAL Curtis Brother. From TSM. And don't come back until you have one.

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

A-ha!

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

And not this Ben Curtis, either:

http://www.bilerico.com/2005/09/joy07.jpg

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

*sits back, eats popcorn*

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

seriously though i've only seen ned get cross about twice on ILX, and one of those occasions is this one, so STFUing may be in order louis

meanwhile

http://www.ready-steady-go.org.uk/sterling.JPG

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

(though that picture is making me think of Curtis Incest again, which cannot be a good thing.)

x-post NNNNNNRRRGGGGHHHHLLLLLLLL... oh yes, that's more like it. Thanks, Deeg.

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

This one been done yet?

http://jcoglan.com/weightless/photos/mic-stand-ben-curtis.jpg

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

Noooo.... mmmmmm, OK, you are forgiven. Carry on.

Uuuunnnnngghhhh... is that a microphone or are you just glad to see me?

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

Though that's an odd one, in that the sun isn't shining out of his arse, it's shining out of his hipbones.

God, he's got lovely hipbones.

Uuuuuuuhhhhh...

(God, I need to go home.)

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

speaking of ned never losing his rag, it just occured to me: whatever happened to doomie?

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

He still pops up every now and then. Turned out to be quite a decent fellow in the end.

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

I HAVE FOUND AN INTERNETS, YIPEE

Maybe you tried too hard to impress him. The gods don't like to be pandered to.

(Though in my case, you can certain try. I want to come into the 'Cooler every morning and find lugubrious pictures of Curtis Minor or Sonic Boom or Mark Gardener and their pedals, please.)

People who want to be "outsider" and "indie" (oh gosh the forbidden word) can pander to me, unofficial KING of the watercooler.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

He still pops up every now and then. Turned out to be quite a decent fellow in the end.

Also, bless his heart, he admitted later he was in a bad way when he first showed up and apologized for it. And I did appreciate that v. much.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

DG (and with the greatest of respect to Ned), why should Louis shut up just because Ned doesn't like him? Or is Ned the barometer of public taste and opinion to which we all much measure up? Because, y'know, count me the fuck out of here if he is. If ANYONE is.

(I do think Louis needs to cool it with the "love me love me and my opinions" and the "why does everyone keep picking on me, I'm nice really" schtick, and I've offered it as friendly advice before other people keep telling him to go and die, shut up, get a personality transplant, whatever. But I'm not dictating what he must do, I just hate seeing someone being picked on like this and I can see how it could easily go away if he stopped drawing attention to it. There are plenty of other posters who annoy the fuck out of me, I'm only pointing stuff out to Louis because everyone else seems to be and I think they're being fucking ridiculous about the way they are doing it)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

TISSP! did you learn nothing from Princes Albert and Philip?

You can flirt with me all you like, you'll never be more than Prince Consort. :-P

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

(sorry, I said I wasn't going to contribute to this argument any more, but I'm annoying like that. So shoot me. also much = must, obviously. I'm stupid too)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

heh nah ailsa i view it like if the apparently unshakeable man is shaken, there's something serious going on which is probably destructive and futile and best left alone

despite it now being a bigger issue than it was originally, natch

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

Gah, trying to upload a piece of music, but Audacity has mysteriously vanished from the work computer.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, it was big before, DG. There were death threats and everything!

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

teh_kit ftw!

that is all i have to say.

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

You can flirt with me all you like, you'll never be more than Prince Consort. :-P

Silence, or I shall make you drink a bottle of tequila again.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm, I seem to be still waiting for Doomie's apology.

Anyone know why my cursor is a small circle with a dot in the midle when it's resting over this dialogue box?

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

NO NO, NOT THE TEQUILA!!! Hang on, where's that Benjamin quote about tequila and NASA astronauts...

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm, I seem to be still waiting for Doomie's apology.

Aw, making you angry doesn't seem to matter so much :-)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

Yes! The remainder of the bottle is waiting in Cambridge for the Next Time

(xpost)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

Dude, there was like half an inch left!

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

We topped it up.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

With household cleaner.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

Between soundcheck and showtime at Toronto's Mod Club, New York-based psych-rockers the Secret Machines enter their dressing room to find a bottle of their favourite libation. What are they drinking, you ask? To quote Atlanta hip-hop duo Youngbloodz: "Dat Patron, dat Patron/Keep the bottle poppin' all night long."
"We always bring some out on stage," says drummer Josh Garza.

"It's just like how NASA gives astronauts those cyanide capsules," group guitarist and vocalist Ben Curtis adds. "Just in case they get lost in space."

Nat at Sonic Cathedrals was talking about how much tequila they drank at the club. Wonder if it was as much as the Plan B ladies put away that night. heh.

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

x-post BLARGH I'm never drinking at your house again.

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

TOO LATE

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

YR OURS NOW

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

YOUR MY WIFE NOW!!!!

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

YES! THAT TOO!

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

That's fine, actually, so long as the basement room you lock me in is the one with all the pedals and the piano and the blue box of beatz, not the one with all the laundry in it.

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

Hahaha, as if we'd be so cruel. Unless you weren't to drink the tequila. Then we would have to punish you.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

(This is bad. It's got to the stage where I can't remember what the last thing I posted was.)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

Are you *actually* drunk? I thought you were kidding in the text!

ha ha, I have this image of you force-feeding me tequila and then locking me in the basement studio, and making me record dronerock. And only letting me out once a month when the Cambridge Museum of Obsolete Technology is in steam.

Sounds like heaven, actually...

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

Yes! I have been drinking and digging a pond!

Cambridge Basement Studio: Where all your perverse dreams come true!

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

Watercooler Aim chat? hahahaha. Not one person replied to it or came on AIM. So obviously everyone thought like ailsa that it was pointless and didn't bother.
I don't think i've spoken to any ilxors on AIM for months apart from Mickey and Norman. They're the only ones thats ever on. And I don't like starting chats with people at work like Mark C(or anybody) for instance as they're busy and I prefer people to chat with me 1st.

massive xposts.

hey tissp!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

Drinking and digging a pond? Has Ed kidnapped you?

Aw, the cutest interview ever:

http://www.thenitmustbetrue.com/sm/sm16.jpg

http://www.thenitmustbetrue.com/sm/sm1.html

They're talking about the Cheddar Gorge! Aw, man, The L011i3s went there on tour, it was GRATE. Maybe I should go there for my holiday. A holiday resort all about cheese.

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds like HELL!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

Cheese-hating freak!

I should go home, really. Funny how I went from having two sets of plans to having no plans. Can't find anyone to go to Sonic Cathedrals with, and J&S cancelled for curry. :-(

Interesting thing is, Ben says in that interview that he can't read press about his band. I'm glad I'm not the only one that feels that way.

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

Blimey it got all introspective after I left.

Hannah didn't shiv anybody at school today so that is A Good Start.

― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

A proud daddy?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

He's too busy on the Mercury Music Prize thread ,as his fave new group won it, to answer me.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

Ha I didn't see that post before.

They are not my new fave group, I just think that rekkid's really well produced.

― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

Who are your fave new group then? Everytime we chat you mention that the arctic monkeys record grew on you and that you liked it.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

I don't really have fave groups any more. Just fave bits of music.

― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

I mean there's still artists I really like but I can't think of any that are "new".

― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

Theres me thinking you subscribed to the NME as well.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

Koogy, are you the koogy of the Sarah records discography?

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 05:53 (nineteen years ago)

You know, TISSP! texted me earlier to whinge that it was National Flirting Week

It's National Flirting Wekk?!? Why did nobody tell me this? As if I need an excuse, but still . . .

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 07:04 (nineteen years ago)

TISSP! did you learn nothing from Princes Albert and Philip?

I am resisting the temptation to speculate about piercings.

I haven't talked to any ILXors on AIM for ... well, a long long time, at any rate. And I don't have AIM at work; I assumed that a Watercooler AIM chat would be a bit quiet in the evening.

They're talking about the Cheddar Gorge! Aw, man, The L011i3s went there on tour, it was GRATE.

I don't know if this was a deliberate pun, but it made *me* laugh.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 07:22 (nineteen years ago)

might be...

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 07:29 (nineteen years ago)

Who was I talking to about the history of the reformation and the book they were going to recommend to me? Was it Beanz?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 07:34 (nineteen years ago)

I seem to have stopped posting.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 07:54 (nineteen years ago)

I will AIM chat sometime if anyone likes, but I don't have anything interesting to contribute on the subject of music. But for bitching and moaning about work and pregnancy, or maybe discussing TV (OH THE IRONING) I'm your girl.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 07:57 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning all and sundry.

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 08:03 (nineteen years ago)

Morning.

Who won? Or do I not want to know?

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 08:15 (nineteen years ago)

Pakistan

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 08:20 (nineteen years ago)

That's just not cricket, Ed.

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh, ugh, ugh, I had to look at nme.com to find out. Now there's a surprise. Bleh.

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 08:47 (nineteen years ago)

I have only heard the R1chard Hawl3y album, which is great Scott Walker-lite. Are any of the other shortlist nominations any good, or are they all cack (as is usual for this award?) I guess I need to hear the Th0m Y0rke album, tho.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 08:50 (nineteen years ago)

I kinda wanted Muse to win. I don't know why. I suspect I should investigate them or something. They're one of those bands I really don't want to like, but I suspect I would develop a soft spot for because you know how I feel about pompous prog epics.

Anyway. I'm feeling kind of flat today, which is weird because I slept well. I barely remembered to blow my candles out before slipping into sleep. In the end, I didn't get a proper supper because I didn't buy any supper food this week because I thought I'd be out every night but plans keep getting cancelled. I tried to buy something, but all the takeaways on my street decided to shut the moment I got home. So I had a pot noodle and some grapes and now there is NOTHING in my fridge but booze and lunch curries. Oh no.

I installed my new external backup drive, though. Wow, the space. I was all "oh no, is 250 gig enough..." then realised my entire Powerbook only has 40 gig or something. So I've cleaned out my hard drive. What a lot of crap there was on there!

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 08:55 (nineteen years ago)

I'm really not keen on muse. It's all too much shouting for my liking. You'd like them Kate. You'd probably like a guy as well if it wasn't for his silly hair.

Yay to more HD space! I bought a 400gb HD last year, and it's been a friend indeed. I need to clean it out though - it's cluttered up with old episodes of R3d Dw@rf. And 60gb of p0rn.

My new motherboad/CPU/SDRAM arrived today, yay me! 3.6ghz P4, 1gb DDR SDRAM. That'll keep me going for a while.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 09:05 (nineteen years ago)

I need to slim down my amazon shopping basket. I was going to buy one (1) book about the reformation and now it is bursting.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

This is why I stay off Amazon.

Go to Foyle's, it much easier... oh wait...

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I don't like shouting, though, so I probably won't like Muse, then.

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 09:11 (nineteen years ago)

I have to pick up my suit today so a trip by foyles may be in order for instant gratification, this does however mean that Thoreau gets demoted again.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 09:14 (nineteen years ago)

Mark Lanegan wuz robbed.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 09:17 (nineteen years ago)

RAM that you can only use for playing DDR? Fantastic!

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 09:20 (nineteen years ago)

muse? shouting? rofl?

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 09:26 (nineteen years ago)

kit, BE SERIOUS!

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 09:27 (nineteen years ago)

I'd have given the award to Scritti Politti just for the wtfness.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 09:28 (nineteen years ago)

Can I get some DDB RAM, please?

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

I have sampled the music of pop band 'Muse', and i did not enjoy it. For my tastes, it was too pompous, and lacked the passion/aggression that I felt it was intended to contain. That said, they certainly wrote the best Radiohead songs that Radiohead didn't write.

fs, my seriousness slipped at the end there. fuckadoodlepwnage.

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 09:30 (nineteen years ago)

oh, my friend is the guitar player in this Scritti Politti lot. like, he was on TV! last night! wtfness indeed. i've never heard of them tbh.

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think I like passion and agression in music.

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

I thought they'd give it to Scritti in one of those twists where people couldn't back down from Arctic Monkeys/Sway arguments and so had to go with someone everyone wanted to win. I really love that record, though.

In other news, My Sister The Barmaid is getting married in April.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 09:38 (nineteen years ago)

kate i don't think you'd like muse. they're just irritating.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 09:45 (nineteen years ago)

What should I listen to today? I think I'm going to have some coffee. I need something absorbing and relentless but without any distractions.

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

Blimey, this is getting long. FP, what title did you have in mind for our next thread?

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 09:55 (nineteen years ago)

how about "THE WATERCOOLER WELCOMES TEH KIT OH YEAH PWNAGE!!!!!11!!!!" ?

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 09:58 (nineteen years ago)

ok, ok, Onimo. i'll be serious.

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 09:59 (nineteen years ago)

The Watercooler Thread: 2^4

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

suzy, did magz get you?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

I promised FP he could name the next one, as special dispensation. Don't the rest of you get ideas or anything.

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 10:02 (nineteen years ago)

To be honest I've forgotten exactly. It was something along the lines of "finally we're legal!"

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

please be aware that anybody can start any thread at any time.

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

Sixteen!

"And life.. Goes on.. You know it aint easy. You just gotta be strong..!"

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 10:08 (nineteen years ago)

Is 16 the age of consent in the UK? Blimey!

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 10:12 (nineteen years ago)

Whoot! last.fm recommendations seem to have come through and don't feature Oasis and meatloaf this week. I may actually listen.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

JAYSUS, is it really 14 in Canada?!?!?

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

Age of consent is pretty arbitary anyway, no matter WHAT it's set to. On p0rn, they make a point of saying "All the models are at least 18 years of age." and I think "Well, that's not really VERY old for some of the nasty shit you're doing." Hey ho, but still . . . I always took it as being a guideline anyway. Most people lose their virginity under the age of consent anyway.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

UK Watercooler 16: Barely Legal

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

Spain is 13.

14-16 is the norm for most of Europe.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

Guten morgen!

How's tricks today, people?

― C J (C J), Thursday, 7 September 2006 06:39 (nineteen years ago)

Bah, my throat is sore. Pack of Strepsils beside me all day today, I think.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 7 September 2006 06:44 (nineteen years ago)

Get some Disprin (or other soluble aspirin), dissolve a couple of tablets in a small glass of water and use it to gargle with. I really helps.

Hope you feel better soon anyway though - sore throats are miserable :(

― C J (C J), Thursday, 7 September 2006 06:51 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, hang on, don't we have another thread? Oops.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 7 September 2006 07:07 (nineteen years ago)

UK Watercooler 16: Barely Legal

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 7 September 2006 07:26 (nineteen years ago)

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