UK Fnordcooler 23: Immanentizing The Eschaton - When The Pyramid Meets The Eye!

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
Jazz	18
Belle and fnording Sebastian	18
Funk	16

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

I don't like the choices

― tissp, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

So does it tell you how your poll is going, like, before it closes?

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think so

― tissp, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

The whole point is, you have to choose the *least* offensive one!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

No, it only tells you the result when the poll closes.

I don't fancy any of the choices.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

hey do any of you guys play any instruments?

― onimo, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

No one is going to vote except the Sinister kids, and then that will be awful! Please, I'd rather Jazz won than them!

Anyway, yesterday's conversation has re-ignited my lust for a 12-string Rickenbacker.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

Kate do you want to do Electric Comet Theory for the ILX comp???

― tissp, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

I thought you didn't have time for another project!

I'm game if you are.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

Well it might be easier if I have someone to work with, who can kick me up the arse to get it done

― tissp, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

Blood moon on saturday.

― Ed, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

Do I get to spank you again? ;-)

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

WOW!

― Mark G, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

i don't understand this poll. i'm beginning to realise i don't understand a lot of ilx these dayz

― Ste, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

Only if we can mic it up and put it through some mad delay lines

― tissp, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

So wait, is this the new watercooler? I mean, I s'ppose there's nothing stopping anyone from making a poll just a regular thread..

― G00blar, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

I don't understand the poll, but I am sure not voting for the wretchedness that is Belle and Sebastian.

Funk it is. Actually I had a good hour listening to the Meters last night, so yes....Funk.

― Dr.C, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

I think yr supposed to vote for the worst

― tissp, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

yes, this is the new Watercooler. On the last thread, Kerr and I were joking about having a poll - and "pick the less of three evils" it is. Because lots of people HATE Jazz or Funk or B&S, but just as many people around here really like them - just usually not the same one. So pick the least bad one.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

Here's my poll :

Hobnobs
Gina McKee
Vox Teardrop

― Dr.C, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

ah, i stand corrected

― tissp, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

Oh the worst. Shit I want to vote again. Can I?

― Dr.C, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

LEAST BAD ONE, GUYS!!! LEAST BAD!!!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

I too was listening to the meters on the way to the folk. However I voted Jazz.

― Ed, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

No, it's the LEAST worst.

― G00blar, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

yes, don't listen to tissp, he's an idiot

― tissp, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

OK I was right.

FUNK is GREBT.
Jazz, I like. (the missus likes it more and has educated me somewhat)
B&S are my worst nightmare.

― Dr.C, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:00 (eighteen years ago)

Will be funny to see if theres more votes than people posting.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

There will be, the cooler is heavily lurked.

― Ed, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:03 (eighteen years ago)

Lurkers, WTF? Why the hell would anyone read this?

Anyway, we were talking about guitar amplification. Maybe I should start paying more attention to ampage again, but that has kind of gone by the wayside since becoming a laptop head. I end up just using whatever is lying around for gigs. Mainly because I cannot be bothered dragging the AC-30 across town on top of everything else. And, err, the Marshall has become my bedside table.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:05 (eighteen years ago)

I just keep coming back here to look at the giant purple pyramid eye thing. I'd love to get a tattoo of that. But I said my next tat would be a Spacemen 3 logo. Which is almost the same, actually.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

What type of Marshall is it?

― Dr.C, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:17 (eighteen years ago)

Oh blimey, I stare at it every morning,I should remember. Lead 400 or something?

Gazrg, I want coffee. I've got another 6 hours to go and I'm exhausted already.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

OK, that stupid poll announcement in the title is starting to irritate me already. Why did I pick such a date so far in the future? I guess I thought it would lock the thread when the poll was closed.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

I hate musoes therefore I hate funk and jazz, but I like Dear Catastrophe Waitress, as all good, honest, true people should.

― Dielo, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

So are campaigning to be nuked or to be saved?

― Ed, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

Save the 'Cooler!

― G00blar, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

I'm for a post apocalyptic 'cooler where we all have mutant powers.

― Ed, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.thomasmichaelcorcoran.com/no%20nukes%20plate%2001.jpg

― tissp, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

Ooooh, I'd like to post just by blinking my eyes. Or something with laser beams.

― G00blar, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

Mutant powers would be awesome! Nuke us, in that case.

Also, I just wanted to say thank you. I was in an awful, awful mood this morning, and all the chatter on the 'Cooler has very much cheered me up. :-)

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

whoops, I could've sworn this was the other thread then

― tissp, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

Damn, I would have voted for Glasgow, had it been up there. So I had to pick "other".

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

for the record, i picked funk!

I am freaking out a bit today as we are probably moving on the 19th March. And that's now officially THIS MONTH argh. So much to do... and so difficult to do any of it with a grouchy baby around.

― Archel, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

Good luck with the move.

Now - I'm off to play DAAAARRRRTTTS. (And drink ale). I will be hungover tomorrow so go easy on me.

― Dr.C, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

I don't seem to have persuaded anyone to come dancing tonight so I may just do signing in the three kings.

― Ed, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

oh god and had a run-in with THE most miserable woman in the world today. She's my friend's downstairs neighbour and I was visiting this friend, attempting to fold up the buggy in their shared hallway when she came through the front door and immediately launched into this TIRADE. Saying how this was her front door and she needed to get in, and she couldn't have these buggies here, and she was going to call the police. The police! Because I had a buggy in her hallway! I wasn't even going to leave it there - the only reason I was trying to fold it up was so I could take it up into the flat and thus AVOID getting in her way. I hope she DID call the police, I'm sure they would have been highly entertained.

― Archel, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

Oh god, demon neighbours, argh. Yes, phone the buggy removing police department, I'm sure the council will send someone round. In a WHITE SUIT to TAKE YOU AWAY!!!

Signing what, Ed? Have you released a solo album already? I'd love to go dancing but i've got these reports to run. Have just had a GREAT WHACK of coffee, hurrah. Waiting for people to piss off so I can start the downloading.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

Singing, with campers.

― Ed, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:09 (eighteen years ago)

They are not having a meeting tonight, therefore I will go.

― Ed, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:09 (eighteen years ago)

I may try and recruit some of them for dancing but some of them have beef with CaS

― Ed, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:10 (eighteen years ago)

Oh god, the politics of the folkie scene! Everyone has beef with everyone!

Oh, hott banjo player, why do you have a girl? there are no crushes left for me anywhere. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:14 (eighteen years ago)

This is camp rather than folk politics.

― Ed, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:25 (eighteen years ago)

hey do any of you guys play any instruments?

onimo

Ahh the unanswered question was actually an attempted joke.

Hence the non answer.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, the CaS people are rather camp... ;-)

Oh hyuck. When should I start downloading? I guess I should finish my email, then start setting them up and download starting at 7pm. That seems like long enough to get all the conslutants off the system.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

I have played through the set, and I am excited. My Angel is going to make my arm drop off I think.

― Ed, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

Then you will sprout wings, like an angel!

I just have to remember to sing the right words to My Angel, and not burst into "I thought that they were angels, but to my surprise... I climbed aboard their starship and HEADED FOR THE SKIES!!!"

I've given up trying to keep verses 2 and 3 of OPC straight, though.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

This (shown to me on I make music), is blowing my mind.

― Ed, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

Holy shit! - Available soon, priced at Available soon, priced at $14949

― G00blar, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

Um, why did it do that? Should read:
"Available soon, priced at $149."

― G00blar, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I'd be all "holy shit!" if it cost $15k, too!

The Luminaire have just asked us for a spec sheet and I'm kinda perplexed because, uh, I have no idea who will be playing at that show yet!

I suppose it's better to ask for too much rather than too little. I can cross out things like "cello" and put in "mandolin" instead (coz cello is actually on their example tech sheet) but I've no idea how many vocalists!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

Your sheet should just read:

~~cello~~

― G00blar, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

OK, I was about to post the tech sheet so we could laugh at it and realised, OK, maybe this is the point that we should take it to IMM with the limits of technical music geekery.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:12 (eighteen years ago)

IMM Thread On Spec Sheets

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

Jazz is the least bad. My dad likes jazz.

― jel --, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

Feh! A skeeve to jazz!

Man, OK, I've finished Business Written. Which means I'm about a third of the way through, but the easy third. Accounts In... aaahhh... and Risk and Fee is just as bad as Account In now that I've changed all the reports to be net. I'm going to be here all night. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:19 (eighteen years ago)

My future father-in-law (an esteemed maths professor): So, what are you up to?
Me: We're working. K's working on her thesis, I'm working on my students' papers.
F-i-L: Do you work for pleasure? For history?
Me: I work for money.
F-i-L: (BIG laugh) That's good. It's better to survive than . . .
Me: It's better to survive than to not survive.
F-i-L: (more laughter)

Look at me bantering!

― G00blar, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

Banter banter banter, ha ha. Oh the joys of in-laws.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

You should put that on your "things what are great about being on yr own" = no in-laws.

― ailsa, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

Is that thread still going? I haven't read it since yesterday morning.

Back when I was in a LTR, I actually really liked my in-laws. I may even have liked my ex-partner's mum better than I liked him. We got on really well. I still miss her. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

kate, i don't get how you can't be OBSESSED with this arcade fire album. i cannot stop playing it. you forget about the brooce after a bit.

― emsk, Friday, 2 March 2007 01:19 (eighteen years ago)

(also here is 1xthing i will not FITE with you about it being LOADED with religious mentions and symbolism and shit)

― emsk, Friday, 2 March 2007 01:40 (eighteen years ago)

I think it's great.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 2 March 2007 02:08 (eighteen years ago)

i am besotted. it's like the first one all over again but totally different. it is bloody short though. ok i am going to sleep now.

― emsk, Friday, 2 March 2007 02:10 (eighteen years ago)

Morning!

― Forest Pines, Friday, 2 March 2007 09:17 (eighteen years ago)

I can't stop looking at that eye! If I move from side to side in front of my monitor THE EYE FOLLOWS ME.

― C J, Friday, 2 March 2007 09:31 (eighteen years ago)

WAKE UP G00BLAR!

― G00blar, Friday, 2 March 2007 09:43 (eighteen years ago)

it's a beautiful morning!

― emsk, Friday, 2 March 2007 09:44 (eighteen years ago)

It's jolly chilly-willy though.

― C J, Friday, 2 March 2007 09:46 (eighteen years ago)

chilly-willy lol! heh i am in a ridiculous good mood. my flatmate is back today hurrah! i prob won't see her until tomorrow unless she is still up when i get home from work around 1am (possible, brazil is, what, 6 hours behind us? 7?) but i have got up early and cleaned the house for her. now i am going to work to Learn More Stuff and listen to clever people bait each other, then go work on the door at a gig (or cloakroom? i forgot) which will be FUNS too.

― emsk, Friday, 2 March 2007 09:50 (eighteen years ago)

Singing in the pub last night was pretty great. I drank all the beers (no hangover though as it was all young's ordinary). I haven't been to the three kings in ages and this seems like a stupid omission.

Not sure about sunday opening but shall we meet post treasure hunt there?

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 09:53 (eighteen years ago)

i suspect the treasure hunt will end in a pub and people will not want to leave it. want to join us wherever that is? i can text you and let you know where we're at.

― emsk, Friday, 2 March 2007 09:55 (eighteen years ago)

also tomorrow countryside bikeride rah rah pls weather to stay EXACTLY like this.

― emsk, Friday, 2 March 2007 09:55 (eighteen years ago)

you know what, Emsk, one of these days I am sure I am going to turn up at a random gig and find you operating the cloakroom or door. And I won't be the least bit surprised.

I have just discovered that Apples in Stereo are playing Primavera Sound. Yay!

Oh and Kate, Asia was asking me to play her some Shimura Curves, I couldn't find my cd at that particular moment but found a solo one I got off you years ago which had Lost Rivers of Clerkenwell, Wash and Unfinished Business on it.

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 2 March 2007 09:56 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.lookandread.myby.co.uk/images/downloads/song_chad.jpg
wot no mushroom cloud?

― onimo, Friday, 2 March 2007 10:14 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.paloverde.org/hales/Chem_1_H/mushroom_cloud.jpg

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 10:16 (eighteen years ago)

From the ashes of the watercooler arose...

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/b/be/180px-Inhumans.PNG

― onimo, Friday, 2 March 2007 10:19 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry, I'm just not obsessed with the new Arcade Fire album. I supposed I got too many other good albums around the same time. I *am* obsessed with the Flowers of Hell album, though. Maybe the sheer bloody OBVIOUSNESS of the AF's religious symbolism bothers me. A bit ramming it down the throat.

That said, I am REALLY enjoying your book on the Reformation, Ed.

I love the eye, I think it's great. I really want a tattoo of it.

Did we win one nuke? Yay us! We are the RADIOACTIVEST!!! I hope I'm still glowing by next week when I have to go back to the haaaahnd doctor. I will tell the injector guy that I am supplying mine own radioactivity. Hurrah!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 10:56 (eighteen years ago)

I stopped going to singing in the pub with the campers years ago because it got boring, too much trying to learn new songs and do complicated harmonies, not enough actual singing. Last night was all about the singing. The acoustic in the room was poor, very hard to hear individual voices, let alone one's own. Made call and response songs hard work. Umkonto we sizwe still makes me uneasy, but it is really pretty and that did work well.

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 10:59 (eighteen years ago)

Also, I was able to nobble the person I whose camp I want to go on this summer.

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:01 (eighteen years ago)

Errr... what does nobble mean? Do I want to know?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:02 (eighteen years ago)

There is a procedure for getting on camps, and there are ways of going round it to get on the camp you want to go on which are very naughty.

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:05 (eighteen years ago)

Man, I so cannot get motivated to do any work today. It is just too damn sunny outside.

And I still feel too burned from my late night last night. I didn't leave this place until 10.45 and got in this morning, less than 12 hours later, to find my glass of water still undrunked on my desk.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:38 (eighteen years ago)

'Dja drink it?

I'm sleepteaching today and so far that seems to be getting the job done.

― G00blar, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:39 (eighteen years ago)

This sunshine is glorious.

― C J, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:41 (eighteen years ago)

No, I emptied it out and got another one. I feel bad when I leave after the cleaner, like I'll mess up all her cleaning.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:46 (eighteen years ago)

Emsk, do you fancy a country bike rid on the 17th or 18th of March?

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:48 (eighteen years ago)

this place is shut at weekends and at 9pm I think, so no opportunities for working oneself into t'ground silliness.

I have never stayed later than 7.00 or so.

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:48 (eighteen years ago)

This place is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. They really promote the overwork culture.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:53 (eighteen years ago)

this is one important reason why I don't think I'd ever want to move back to London -- a fear of being sucked into the overwork culture. I like being here in the slack provinces!

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:57 (eighteen years ago)

Kate, thoughts on ILX comp: We should change all the 'c's in everything to 'k's because it's more Krautrock

― tissp, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:59 (eighteen years ago)

No, I had to make a conscious decision not to buy into the overwork culture. Only at monthend will I do it. And if I find myself working late, I come in late the next day.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:00 (eighteen years ago)

Elektrik Komet Theory?

"Meine Pferd schön"

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:07 (eighteen years ago)

Ah, it should be Theorie, too, more German!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:08 (eighteen years ago)

Yes!

― tissp, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:10 (eighteen years ago)

That fruit & nut bar was gross, but now I get rice pudding! Yay for treats.

― G00blar, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:25 (eighteen years ago)

I had carrot cake yesterday so I don't get it as a treat today. :-(

Must remember to get carrot cake for the gig tomorrow! Apparently F also gets the same "ohmigod, I'm on drugs weeeeeeee" extreme reaction to it that I do, which is really a good state for playing dronerock.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:33 (eighteen years ago)

Kate, thoughts on ILX comp: We should change all the 'c's in everything to 'k's because it's more Krautrock

Funnily enough, I'm thinking of contributing an acoustic Krautrock medley to the comp.

― Tom D., Friday, 2 March 2007 12:33 (eighteen years ago)

Srsly tho: no one has a tambourine?

― G00blar, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:38 (eighteen years ago)

£4.50 in hobgobblin

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry, no, no tambourine. All of mine are sampled!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

I might pop in there tomorrow, want me to pick you one up?

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

what's hobgobblin?

― G00blar, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:41 (eighteen years ago)

Ah, I see it. I'm actually not far from there. Could go myself today.

― G00blar, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:42 (eighteen years ago)

hobgoblin

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:42 (eighteen years ago)

Oooh, please pick me up a tambourine, Ed! I would actually like one. (Though does it have a drum skin on it, or just jingle-jangles.)

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:42 (eighteen years ago)

In fact, I've bought strings+picks from there; had forgotten the name.

― G00blar, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:42 (eighteen years ago)

Which would you like? (look at the site pick one)

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:43 (eighteen years ago)

They have lots! All cheap!

― G00blar, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:45 (eighteen years ago)

6" is too small, though - I want at least the 8" Tambourine.

Oh, and jingle sticks! I love jingle sticks... and a cabeza... man, we need a percussionist.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:45 (eighteen years ago)

8 or 10?

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:49 (eighteen years ago)

Does anyone have an old altoids or tobacco tin they could let me have?

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:50 (eighteen years ago)

I think 10" might be too big, but then again, the drum skin might have a better tone. Big enough to have a good hit on the skin, small enough to be stuck in the back of an amp or a gig bag!

Ohmigod, that's a shop now I remember why I stay out of it.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:51 (eighteen years ago)

Oh noes, we're talking about music making again, how terrible! Non musicians will be alienated!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:51 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, Ed, I have something like that.

― G00blar, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:55 (eighteen years ago)

today naked canadians want to be my friend.

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

Oh dear lord, naked canadians with 20,000 friends. I just wonder if it actually does any good at all, randomly adding that many people. Or maybe they're big in Canada, and I don't know.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 13:51 (eighteen years ago)

Um

(What on earth is a Hawkwind passport, and how do I get one?)

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

I have printed the form.

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

We have been joking... OK, this is going to be convoluted. We have these money laundering protocols in place which mean that people cannot buy houses or pay our fees in cash. Someone paid in £5000 in cash the other day, and we were trying to authenticate where the cash came from to process it or reject it. Turns out, it was withdrawn from this bank in Streatham that I happen to know has been the focus of some pretty dodgy dealings in recent years. (Skimming off the ATM as a scam run by some bank employees! that kind of stuff.) So we were trying to establish whether the bank had asked for any ID, passport or anything.

So I was suggesting that I get the HAWKWIND passport and try to take out cash, I'm sure they'd let me.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

Hey best of luck with the gig, Kate! I KNOW it will be fantastique!

― Dr.C, Friday, 2 March 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

Murfle mumble. BIRTHDAY. Hmmm. Can I go home early today?

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 March 2007 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks, Dr. C!

Are you at work on your birthday, Ned? WTF? Everybody is supposed to get their birthday off work. It is the way of things!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

Emsk, do you fancy a country bike rid on the 17th or 18th of March?

yeah, why not. maybe i will finally do BOX HILL the other day that weekend too.

― emsk, Friday, 2 March 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

i got sent home early boo sucks. i am obviously too fast at working! (er this is not true, bc i am learning it takes me 2x as long to do everything as it will in a couple of weeks.) so i came home thinking YAY FLATMATE but she is not back yet.

― emsk, Friday, 2 March 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

Aw, I've been really cheeky and asked to support another band that I love.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

hawkfest2007?

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 17:54 (eighteen years ago)

Erm, no.

i am losing the will to shoegaze. Quick, restore me. Or I may go home and practise the guitar all night.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 18:07 (eighteen years ago)

I'm going on holidays. Enjoy your nuclear winter.

― ailsa, Friday, 2 March 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

Have fun.

30minute epic. you don't have to stay for all the bands 30 minute epic

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 18:10 (eighteen years ago)

Kate have you seen this young Boris Johnson picture (or rather painting of a photograph)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/07/uk_politics_enl_1172779106/img/1.jpg

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 18:14 (eighteen years ago)

Aw, I've been really cheeky and asked to support another band that I love.

DENIED. :-(

I think I should probably go home and get lots of rest.

And maybe a pizza.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 18:31 (eighteen years ago)

Sometimes you win by being cheeky, sometimes you loose. You can't expect to win by being cheeky.

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 18:43 (eighteen years ago)

http://home.comcast.net/~nicholsw/mando/images2/OM_images/IMGP4543.jpg

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

Kate, practice some gtr for Elektrik Komet Theorie!

(I'm such a taskmaster...when it comes to other people)

― tissp, Friday, 2 March 2007 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

FAO Forest Pines: Check this...

It's him, isn't it!

― Keith, Saturday, 3 March 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

It's who?

I did know him in passing - he was a friend of a flatmate - and he worked for the same people as me, although not at the same time. Keith knows his family.

― Forest Pines, Sunday, 4 March 2007 17:03 (eighteen years ago)

Oh bollocks I didn't notice it was *you* posting. Duh.

Yes, it's him!

― Forest Pines, Sunday, 4 March 2007 17:04 (eighteen years ago)

Who sent me this? Skeletons & The Kings Of All Cities. I've never heard of them, what type of music is it?

btw here's the note attached

Fed up with drone & crap being sent by you know who? Well try this instead and ignore his other crap

So it must be one of you lot.

FP denies it's him.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 4 March 2007 23:15 (eighteen years ago)

It definitely weren't me. Have you asked Mitya?

― Forest Pines, Sunday, 4 March 2007 23:31 (eighteen years ago)

The man you called Metal Mitya? hmmmm. Maybe.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 4 March 2007 23:40 (eighteen years ago)

Morning all,

that, my friends, was a pretty tremendous weekend.

― Ed, Monday, 5 March 2007 09:34 (eighteen years ago)

Morning!

I am alone in the house for the first time in WEEKS! (Matt has taken Alice for a hearing appointment.) What shall I do with this unaccustomed freedom? (Apparently the answer so far is 'post to ILE'.)

― Archel, Monday, 5 March 2007 09:44 (eighteen years ago)

G'morning! It's sunny again, and I feel really well-rested for once.

― G00blar, Monday, 5 March 2007 09:49 (eighteen years ago)

I am in the arms of alkyhell and am wondering if starbucks will mix me a bloody mary.

― Ed, Monday, 5 March 2007 09:50 (eighteen years ago)

Oh geez. How late in the favela last night?

― G00blar, Monday, 5 March 2007 09:53 (eighteen years ago)

Archel: Sleeeeeeppp...

You'll regret it later!

― Mark G, Monday, 5 March 2007 09:54 (eighteen years ago)

We moved on to prague to get food (And better cheaper beers), 'bout 10:45 I think.

― Ed, Monday, 5 March 2007 09:55 (eighteen years ago)

Oh my lord, what did you people do yesterday? Is this the treasure hunt?

I spent most of Sunday in the arms of alkyhell until I made myself a huge fry-up. Then spent the evening watching Spinal Tap and giggling mightily and wondering which one of us will explode in a bizarre gardening accident.

What a freaking GREAT gig!!! That was fun, wasn't it? And I didn't lie about the chatting up quotient.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 5 March 2007 10:49 (eighteen years ago)

SECOND PLACE IN TREASURE HUNT RAH!

― G00blar, Monday, 5 March 2007 10:51 (eighteen years ago)

What a freaking GREAT gig!!! That was fun, wasn't it? And I didn't lie about the chatting up quotient.

No you didn't, I has a date.

― Ed, Monday, 5 March 2007 10:58 (eighteen years ago)

WE R AWSUM A WINNER IS US

excellent weekend.

― emsk, Monday, 5 March 2007 10:59 (eighteen years ago)

We would not be stopped by rain, wind, "rules", or me.

That is a good gig, Ed.

― G00blar, Monday, 5 March 2007 11:00 (eighteen years ago)

SECOND PLACE?!?! AGAIN??!?

You wuz robbed. They hate us.

Yay for date! Even *I* got chatted up, though, err, I was a bit dubious as the bloke had attempted to chat up every girl in the venue before. I blame Groovy Bob. ;-) No, it was fun.

Metal Joe has decided he is on a quest to find me a boyfriend. I'm kinda scared, butat the same time, if anyone can do it... hrmmm. I told him "prefer long hair, non-smoker, pointy nose, likes Hawkwind and science fiction" and he's like... "That's everyone I know! You've just described half the staff at Terrorizer!!!" Frances is banned from ever introducing me to boys ever again.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 5 March 2007 11:04 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, my boss is back. I don't want to have to work today.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 5 March 2007 11:17 (eighteen years ago)

For once I'm posting on everyone's schedule and for once I'm not at work when I do post! HI DERE. Now if I could only find out where Andrew has placed the tickets for the Brett A. show tonight.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 5 March 2007 11:19 (eighteen years ago)

AAAAARRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

No, no, no, bad news, argh!!!

Benjamin has left Secret Machines!

Just ... ::boggles::

I mean, the good news is, he is concentrating on School of Seven Bells, who I absolutely love. But still. I can't get my head around this.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 5 March 2007 11:24 (eighteen years ago)

Recruit him.

― Ed, Monday, 5 March 2007 11:24 (eighteen years ago)

kate:

Dear all

I would be very grateful if you could let your groups know about our AGM
at which local resident & cyclist Boris Johnson MP will be
speaking. The details are below & if anyone
would like to come along I'd be grateful if they could let me know so we can
get an idea about numbers for catering.

Many thanks

Alison

Alison Dines
Co-ordinator, Islington Cyclists' Action Group (ICAG)

*********************
Boris Johnson MP, local resident & cyclist, will be discussing the joys &
frustrations of being a cyclist - and no doubt branch out into other issues!
All welcome to hear him speak at the Islington Cyclists' Action Group AGM.

When: Wednesday 14th March 2007 at 8.30 - 9.30pm (AGM starts at 7.30pm).
Refreshments to be served.

Where: Islington Town Hall, Upper Street, Islington N1 2UD

For more details & to reserve a place please contact Alison Dines on 020
7226 7012 or alisondines@clara.co.uk

― emsk, Monday, 5 March 2007 11:25 (eighteen years ago)

aargh [/i]

― emsk, Monday, 5 March 2007 11:25 (eighteen years ago)

Um. I don't cycle, but can I come anyway?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 5 March 2007 11:26 (eighteen years ago)

Hmmm... Is this working now?

― mitya, Monday, 5 March 2007 11:28 (eighteen years ago)

Mitya! Can you post now? Obviously.

Jesus, I'm still in shock over the Benjamin thing. I never saw the classic lineup - mainly due to mine own fuckwittage, as I had the chance several times - and now I NEVER WILL.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 5 March 2007 11:31 (eighteen years ago)

it says "all welcome"!

― emsk, Monday, 5 March 2007 11:33 (eighteen years ago)

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

Even the lovely blond fringe of Boris will not distract me from my grief over Benjamin.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 5 March 2007 11:42 (eighteen years ago)

I dropped by record and tape exchange on sunday and got a great Waterson:Carty CD from last year, called 'Holy Heathens and the Old Green Man', lots of wassail songs and carols, including a really sinister may carol. I feel a little guilty about buy folk ex-promo stuff from second hand stores, but I shall make karmic good by buying lauren from the devil's interval a drink at the next magpie's nest (they are also on the record).

― Ed, Monday, 5 March 2007 11:47 (eighteen years ago)

ed, thanks for the mails!

― emsk, Monday, 5 March 2007 11:51 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

How can Benjamin quit Secret Machines? That last album was so good! He didn't like the direction they were going? His brother was writing all the songs? Ack. A bummer.

― mitya, Monday, 5 March 2007 11:59 (eighteen years ago)

He's left to concentrate on his solo project (with his girlfriend and her sister) - the School of Seven Bells.

Who I really really like. But still.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 5 March 2007 12:03 (eighteen years ago)

I am bouncing around the room today! SQUEEEEEEEE!

― G00blar, Monday, 5 March 2007 12:25 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha, watch him bounce!

Maybe we should start planning that long-threatened ILX0rpollooza again, since there is going to be a comp.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 5 March 2007 12:30 (eighteen years ago)

Could ILXORpalooza be a windmill sunday barbecue when it gets warm?

― Ed, Monday, 5 March 2007 12:49 (eighteen years ago)

That would actually be AWESOME!!!! In fact, perfect. Will ask Tim when we get some idea of when the comp will be finished.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 5 March 2007 12:50 (eighteen years ago)

I'm guessing May time.

― Ed, Monday, 5 March 2007 12:51 (eighteen years ago)

Put my name down for it if you do organise it!

― Pashmina, Monday, 5 March 2007 12:54 (eighteen years ago)

AWESOME!!!! I would be so excited if you would come down and play! You and Frances could do a 30 minute analogue synth jam.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 5 March 2007 12:56 (eighteen years ago)

When will the comp be finished?

It's entirely up to when the tracks be finished!

― Mark G, Monday, 5 March 2007 12:56 (eighteen years ago)

We're trying to give people a deadline, otherwise it will be the pissup/brewery typical ILX indecision by committee thing. Besides, we've been talking about ILX0rpollooza for ages!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 5 March 2007 13:04 (eighteen years ago)

I just freaked out all the squares at sainsbury's, bopping up and down to sloan in my headphones. Where in the WORLD? [picks up prosciutto] IT'S LIKE YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW ME! [gets mozzarellla, now doing air guitar]

― G00blar, Monday, 5 March 2007 13:04 (eighteen years ago)

haha i LOVE doing that! at bus stops too.

― emsk, Monday, 5 March 2007 13:06 (eighteen years ago)

I always catch myself lip syncing (most often lip-shouting actually) because people look at me funny.

― G00blar, Monday, 5 March 2007 13:06 (eighteen years ago)

Ohmigod, I almost forgot until I made lunch (leftover curry - AUBERGINE PICKLE!!! Like lime pickle but made from aubergines. It is nummy hotttt goodness.

Ha ha, I once got caught out doing GOTH DANCES in the parking lot of the Woolworths where I worked to the Bauhaus on my headphones and have never done this again. Honest.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 5 March 2007 13:29 (eighteen years ago)

Aww - if Norman comes down for the gig it will be tremendous!!

― Dr.C, Monday, 5 March 2007 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

OMG WILL DAVE HAFTA GO FOR A RUN JUST TO BURN OFF ALL THIS NERVOUS ENERGY????

HOW WILL I GET THROUGH THIS DAY?

(This is weird.)

― G00blar, Monday, 5 March 2007 13:33 (eighteen years ago)

What?

― Dr.C, Monday, 5 March 2007 13:34 (eighteen years ago)

Pre-gig jitters/excitement/notwantingtowork.

― G00blar, Monday, 5 March 2007 13:37 (eighteen years ago)

Trying to work on the day of a gig is ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE.

That said, I'm still flying on energy from Saturday. But at least I'm directing it in a good place.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 5 March 2007 13:38 (eighteen years ago)

David K at troubadour is really nice and helpful. He's offered a pile of alternative pickup solutions, none of which seem to make him any money.

― Ed, Monday, 5 March 2007 13:40 (eighteen years ago)

I'm usually not this bad. I think it's mostly to do with our last gig being a total disaster (and thus me trying to block it out of my memory), so it feels like we haven't played in AGES.

― G00blar, Monday, 5 March 2007 13:40 (eighteen years ago)

Well, I was suffering from the same problem - not playing for MONTHS after a really really awful terrible gig. And ours went GRATE so I'm sure you will, too.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 5 March 2007 13:41 (eighteen years ago)

undeniable proof that nasa faked the moon landings, this is the smoking gun, people.

― Pashmina, Monday, 5 March 2007 13:42 (eighteen years ago)

*hugglez* THX

― G00blar, Monday, 5 March 2007 13:42 (eighteen years ago)

This strip is tickling me
http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ft/2007/ft070304.gif

― Ed, Monday, 5 March 2007 13:42 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha, my sisX0r taught her iguana how to download, and now he's in the Guardian Weekend talking about the Ocelot Shop. (Which we spent ages giggling over in the Dorchester last year or was it the year before.)

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 5 March 2007 13:46 (eighteen years ago)

Aww sorry Goob, I forgot you were gigging. It will be great!

― Dr.C, Monday, 5 March 2007 13:48 (eighteen years ago)

17th &24th good for me.

― Dr.C, Monday, 5 March 2007 13:57 (eighteen years ago)

RONG thread!

― Dr.C, Monday, 5 March 2007 13:58 (eighteen years ago)

Oh help, Future Days has put me in the JAZZ TRANCE. Help!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 5 March 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

*slaps face*

SNAP OUT OF IT!!!

*tosses bucket of cold water*

― G00blar, Monday, 5 March 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

New folk record has an interesting song called 'christ made a trance'. Perhaps it is him.

― Ed, Monday, 5 March 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

I can't stop! I've been twitching and playing air drums on the desk!

Future Days has finished and I'm on Ege Bamyasi now and I'm shaking like a moose on the loose.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 5 March 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks, flowerfaerie of hell.

― Ed, Monday, 5 March 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

So anyone gonna admit to sending me this?

Name: Skeletons & The Kings Of All Cities - Lucas.zip
Size: 84MB
Description: Fed up with drone & crap being sent by you know who? Well try this instead and ignore his other crap

did anyone else get it?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 5 March 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

No, I didn't get that! (Trust me, it wasn't me waht sent it, either. I like the drone!)

I had to take a break from the CAN TRANCE as I've actually been walking about going BOOM BOOM bah bu bee buh diddle diddle bah

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 5 March 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

I'll pass it on.
btw check out the BAIKAL

BAIKAL - Baikal - cd
imprec119 - CD - $11.99

Baikal is a new burner from Bardo Pond brothers John & Michael Gibbons along with fellow Bardo Pond members Clint Takeda and Jason Kourkonis. This time they ventured down the route of heavy free-improvisation and a Last Exit style hard rock approach coupled with a hard psych bend. With two tracks each weighing in at over 30 minutes in length it's clear that Baikal is a deep voyage underseas with yet another mindblowing Bardo Pond sideproject featuring Bardo brothers John & Michael Gibbons as your tour guide – and it's a heavy trip indeed. Dive in.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 5 March 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't get it either.

― Pashmina, Monday, 5 March 2007 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!

Sonic Cathedrals are doing a Nico tribute night on 1st April.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 5 March 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

I have just remembered that Nikki said we can come and play hawkwind and fresh maggots in her club.

― Ed, Monday, 5 March 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

Anyone up for the Resonance FM comedy benefit gig?

― Ed, Monday, 5 March 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

Kate, I'm likely going to be clearing a few FX pedals out in the "big clear out" - moogerfooger phaser, wyllie fuzzbox, prunes & custard - I'm going to be playing w/them a bit over the next week or so to make up my mind finally. The moogerfooger is almost def going up for sale, the other 2, very probably - let me know if yr interested?

― Pashmina, Monday, 5 March 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

Interested, yes! I'd love that Prunes and Custard if it's for sale!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 5 March 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

What's the Wyllie like Norm? I'm kinda interested, depending on price.

― Dr.C, Monday, 5 March 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

The Wyllie is likely to be expensive. I've got to see what the "going rate" is, also, I need to find out how much the P&C goes out for as well. The Moogerfooger is 175 (new price is 225, and it's near mint)

― Pashmina, Monday, 5 March 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

I'm getting that tickley "ohmigod, this is scary..." sensation like I get before gigs, just over trying to book this festival! I think that's good.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 5 March 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

That BBC dramadoc "end day" is on google video, it's really scary!

― Pashmina, Monday, 5 March 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

Trying to get 5 people in a band to agree on a friggin' date to do something is torture! I have just had to play the fascist dictator to get things going. I guess it's the tradeoff for having artistic control or whatever you call it. Sometimes wonder if it's worth it.

― Dr.C, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:04 (eighteen years ago)

It depends. Problem is, when you have to play the fascist dictator to get things done, people end up hating you and resenting you and thinking you're "a bitch" or "a nightmare to work with" and all that name calling crap. When it's like... if I didn't do this, there wouldn't be a band. Trade off? Sigh.

I've decided that I do it for fun, and being the fascist dictator makes it not fun. But you've seen all the horrors I've been through before hitting on the current arrangement. (and wondering, like an open marriage, how long it's going to be good for.)

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

Problem is that sometimes being in a band isn't fun and you just have to do the unfun stuff to make the rest of it work. I don't always feel like lugging a car full of gear round the M25 to a rehearsal and getting back at midnight when I'm knackered. But if you sit at home on your arse all the time, then NO BAND.

I'm overstating it a bit, but really....

― Dr.C, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, but the trick is to make sure the unfun stuff is equally distributed. (Everyone has to haul crap.)

Or make sure the fun stuff (getting to write the songs) balances out the unfun stuff (having to book the shows and arrange everything).

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

Fucking monthly pipeline recc, I hate this thing. I'm out by £378.06 which is so small it's got to be just one fee on one case but I'm fucked if I can find it.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

Hi dere all. Seems that finally my car has come out of limbo and I can actually have it this weekend (for reference: I should have taken delivery of it last December). Hooray.

― tissp, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

(Everyone has to haul crap.)

Don't get me started!

But yeah the fun stuff does balance out the unfun stuff in the long run.

― Dr.C, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry, I didn't read yr post, Dr C. The Wyllie is a hotrodded version of the old "superfuzz" pedal. Is sounds huge, so much so that really it's only suitable for lead, I think - if I play that e5 chord, the one you can play all of hawkwind's songs with through it, with it just being root and fifths, it should sound good through any fuzz/distortion box. Through the rising sun, it sounds kind of like a nuclear holocaust? It sounds great, but I've never been able to fit it in with anything, it's just too much. I nearly always play clean anyway.

I'll have a blast of the P&C and the Wyllie over the next 2 weeks, try and fit them in w/something, but realistically they've got to go.

― Pashmina, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, I don't know where I'm going really but I'm off to the wilds of Whitechapel and then Gooblar. See some of you laters!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

Mmm, morning.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 10:02 (eighteen years ago)

This is my last post on this subject, but I give you all notice that trying to co-ordinate recording for band #2 looks like resulting in KITTENS BEING HARMED! Reasons for not being able to make a date because "I'll have a hangover" , "or I'm not sure where my drums will be" SO don't cut any ice with mr.fascist dictator here. DON'T have a hangover and KNOW where your drums will be! Think about the kittens!

― Dr.C, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 10:11 (eighteen years ago)

Morning, Ned.

― Dr.C, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 10:11 (eighteen years ago)

Poor kittens.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 10:15 (eighteen years ago)

I have no sympathy for the kittens.

Actually, recording with a hangover can be quite good because it really focuses you.

Man, I am tired this morning.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 10:49 (eighteen years ago)

Wind/Hail/Rain?

― Mark G, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 10:50 (eighteen years ago)

Errr, there was some rainish sort of stuff happening but I lay down after taking a shower (that was how tired I was) and when I got up, it was clear.

God, I am so tired. I may have to have coffee this morning. So much for Lent. I bought an avocado at the weekend, too. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 10:56 (eighteen years ago)

Why nobody talking today? Don't make me actually... WORK. I'm scared of my recc at this point. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 11:15 (eighteen years ago)

Train strike starting tomorrow, so I'm working from home for the rest of the week.
That saves me two and a half hours a day travelling. Which means I don't have to get up at 6.30 for a change.
This makes me happy.

― treefell, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 11:51 (eighteen years ago)

Er, train strike? Where?

― tissp, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 11:53 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, in Scotland. Phew!

― tissp, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 11:55 (eighteen years ago)

I wish we would get a train strike... oh wait, no, that would mean I'd have to take the bus which is twice as long and twice as hellish.

My stomach does not like me this morning on account of the coffee. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 11:56 (eighteen years ago)

Why nobody talking today?

My presence is clearly draining. (As it is I'm loving being a lazeabout.)

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 11:57 (eighteen years ago)

Why nobody talking today?

Need a shower. Can't talk well without a shower.

― tissp, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 11:58 (eighteen years ago)

I could take a bus to work but that would be a nightmare, what with all displaced train commuters jamming them full, and the fact that the journey takes twice as long.
So I opted for working from home instead.

xposts

― treefell, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 11:59 (eighteen years ago)

Apologies, I have been in a meeting since 10.

― Ed, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:11 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, no, I'm feeling kinda had tempered today. Don't know if it's the coffee or the lack of sleep or the intractability of this recc problem. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:17 (eighteen years ago)

Current DIY work nears completion:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/16804034@N00/412497837/in/photostream/

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:19 (eighteen years ago)

I just saw those pop up on flickr, I had to wipe away drool.

― Ed, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:19 (eighteen years ago)

Ohmigod, synthpr0n, lovely, Pash!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:19 (eighteen years ago)

FMM must be told.

― Ed, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:20 (eighteen years ago)

Dinner options nearish the British Museum, plz. Also plz list all pubs and places to eat talked about last night.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:33 (eighteen years ago)

La Porcetta on, err, Boswell St - it's just across the EEZOHAD from the BM, but the pizza is worth the five minute walk.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:34 (eighteen years ago)

Hi everyone. I'm back from my saucy weekend to find a pile of shouty work in my inbox, hurumph. And SO MUCH MONTHEND!

Big debate in our office about parking spaces. They've just sent round an email asking if people take more than an hour to drive in, and if it's any less they won't get a parking space and have to either park elsewhere or find another way to get into work. It'll cause an awful caffufle with the dumbasses on my team who only live 10 minutes walk away and drive in "because it's easier".

― The Wayward Johnny B, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:34 (eighteen years ago)

There's a really good okonomi yaki place on a street which I will look up shortly.

The Norfolk Arms on Leigh St.

Brasil by Kilo on the start of oxford st.

Polo, a Korean just by centrepoint, ask for yukecha.

― Ed, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:35 (eighteen years ago)

Museum st or Coptic St.

― Ed, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:37 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, JB, I hear you on the monthend. Bah.

Fuckers who live 10 minutes away but drive when they could walk should be shot. then they can roll to work in a wheelchair.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:39 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks for responses. Any of these places nearer to the Tottenham Court Road station in particular? Am looking at a map now.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:42 (eighteen years ago)

Man, I am a crankster today.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:42 (eighteen years ago)

Ooh, the Norfolk Arms is now super-awesome.

I'm not posting much because I'm trying to be good and productive today (not working yet).

― G00blar, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:43 (eighteen years ago)

Polo, is almost on top of TCR station and has a good lunch deals (nicely vegetarian friendly). The Okonomiyaki place is next closest.

― Ed, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:48 (eighteen years ago)

Polo's just by Tottenham Ct Rd. Brazil by Kilo's right there too.

― G00blar, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:48 (eighteen years ago)

xpost.

― G00blar, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:49 (eighteen years ago)

G00blar is more right than me. Brasil by Kilo is not terribly vegetarian friendly.

― Ed, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:49 (eighteen years ago)

Kate, when I get a pickup can I borrow one of your amps/bed side table to practice on?

― Ed, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:52 (eighteen years ago)

Also, the flowers of hell album is awesome.

― Ed, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:52 (eighteen years ago)

Great! Thanks to all, will report back on goodness later on.

Right now today = lazy day. Which we're fine with. Tomorrow I will catch Children of Men at last, and Thursday or Friday will be some combinations of the British Museum and the Tate Modern. Must get to Gilbert and George exhibition...

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:56 (eighteen years ago)

(And is Yukecha one of the Polo servers, then? If I'm asking, I just need to know what/who I'm asking for! This will probably be for dinner at 6ish, if anyone wants in.)

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:58 (eighteen years ago)

Guys, I have an tech question. I have an Excel pivot table linked to an access mdb, not created by myself. How do I find out what database and query the pivot table is linked to? There seems to be nothing anywhere on the context menus, and google for once turns up a blank.

― The Wayward Johnny B, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:00 (eighteen years ago)

Errr, I suppose you can borrow one of the amps - it might be useful to have an amp in town. Though you will have to transport it yourself!

(That said, I brought home the AC-30 on the bus when I bought it, but I'd never like to repeat that stunt. That said, it's rather prone to misbehaving, so you might be better with one of the more reliable ones. One of the baby voxes or the Marshall LEAD amp (pronounced as in lead the metal, coz that's what it's made of.))

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:03 (eighteen years ago)

Yukecha is a big stone bowl of really spicy noodle soup.

― Ed, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:03 (eighteen years ago)

Isn't yukecha a soup?

― G00blar, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:03 (eighteen years ago)

Geez, Ed, yr my xpost pal today!

― G00blar, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:04 (eighteen years ago)

I should stop stepping on your toes.

― G00blar, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:04 (eighteen years ago)

Err, this is so obviously simple that I'm sure you've tried it, but right click on the pivot in Excel, then bring up the Pivot Wizard and click back through the options until you get to the define source page or whatever it is?

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:04 (eighteen years ago)

Though because it's Excel, it's called something stupid like "get data" or something. You then connect via ODBC or something IIRC. But it's done through the Pivot Wizard.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:06 (eighteen years ago)

Yay spicy soup. :-)

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:06 (eighteen years ago)

You should keep both the voxes, as the stereo tremolo sounds really good. This is only a temporary solution.

I am made of man flesh and should be able to manhandle the LEAD home.

― Ed, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:06 (eighteen years ago)

I mean, Wizard, WTF? Like we're all D&D geeks or something, throwing saving spells against data integrity malfunctions.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:06 (eighteen years ago)

Although hmm...I might need to look into something else tonight, since someone I'm meeting I think isn't fond of Asian food. (Pity.) Brasil might actually be the best option after all! Will check, though.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:10 (eighteen years ago)

But that's my table! And Johnny B is taking my other table when he picks up the food processor! I will have no tables left.

Also, that Marshall has HISTORY. It has been used on tour by indie rock stars from Slumber Party to The Gossip. (though I suppose they're not exactly indie any more, now I'm seeing them namechecked in, like, the Metro and stuff, like WTF?) I wonder if I could eBay it.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:12 (eighteen years ago)

morning! busy! argh! (is ace obv)

― emsk, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:24 (eighteen years ago)

Emsk with the full schedule.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:27 (eighteen years ago)

Busy = good.

I wish I could chase down my missing money. Got it down from £368.05 to £44.89 but that's still no good when you're dealing with ValVar of about £30k either way. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:27 (eighteen years ago)

God, I am soooo tired. It's really warm in here and I just want to go sleepy. One of my colleagues suggested I go down to one of the consultation rooms, put the "engaged" sign on the door, put all the blinds down and just sleep. I'm verry verrrrrry tempted.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:36 (eighteen years ago)

I just took a walk in the sunshine with the flowers of hell album, things don't get much better.

― Ed, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:40 (eighteen years ago)

It must be spring, I am eating salad for lunch for the second day running.

I want to apply the wizzard preset

― Ed, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:45 (eighteen years ago)

I just went for a walk in Lincolns Inn Fields. It was really lovely, there were dogs playing and flowers blooming.

But now I *really* don't want to be in the office.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

Kate, that was so obvious that I didn't do it . . . . thank you! Well, I didn't see the name of the mdb in lights, just a list of queries, but I recognised the query names so I could go find it anyway. Cheers!

And go to sleep. Sleeping at lunchtime is not a luxury, it is a right.

― The Wayward Johnny B, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

I used to do that "five mins shuteye" in t'bog, around 15:30, when I used to commute London. It revived you just enough for the rest of the day.

Don't really need that thesedays.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

I am so out of shape I got out of breath walking around LIF. But then again, I have just eaten themost massive lunch - not just the normal curry, but half a cheese sandwich and a donut too. (The latter two were free, how could I turn them down?)

But my out of shapeness is starting to scare me.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

Okay, never mind, plan A is a go for Polo -- said friend has apparently enjoyed Korean food before, so rock. Just reconfirming that there are plenty of veg options there, though!

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

Yes there are lots, Loads of great tofu and kimchi based dishes.

― Ed, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

MMMM TOFU AND KIMCHI ROWR

i just had a dolcelatte sandwich from the lovely little italian place across the road.

― emsk, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

GOD'S FOOD.

― G00blar, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

Good indeed. Okay, so I'm meeting up with my friend Angus at 6 pm under the shadow of Freddie Mercury's statue (or the marquee thereof) -- Polo is across the street?

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

Grrrr, arrrggghhh, this isn't working. You know that whole "if you pretend not to care about something, then you will eventually not care" thing you all have promoted? At what point does the inside internal voice going "DIE! DIE! I HOPE THAT YOU CHOKE!!!" actually stop? Because that makes it really difficult to pretend that you don't care about something.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

Polo is behind that big tall building (centre point) across the street that is to Freddie Mercury's left. Cross that Street (new oxford), walk through where there are BUSSES, and you'll find Polo on yr right.

― G00blar, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

Easy, killer..

― G00blar, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

I'm actually serious. :-(

I've been in such a good mood for a while, I know that I'm starting to get cranky, but and I don't want to let this upset me. But that internal reaction trips me up. And it does still genuinely upset me. Pretending that it doesn't only makes me feel worse about not being able to control it.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

That's ok, though. It's ok to be upset by someone/something. Just don't let it throw yr whole everything off. Or something.

― G00blar, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

G00blar, yer a star. And Kate, his advice is sound.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

Don't let that voice rule, listen to it but rationalise it as part of the internal and external cacophony.

― Ed, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

Well, in a little bit of good news, I found my VV - stuff written in February but NTU in March, so it didn't turn up on BZW - but did still turn up in deads. (I know this makes no sense to anyone not in my office.)

And it wasn't actually £44, it was about £1000 each direction, so I'm glad that I investigated.

I am queen of maths. I can recconcile anything numerical, no matter how involved. I wish I could do the same thing with emotions, but those are not as tidy.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

Yay for finding your VV! I'm always misplacing it--looking in the BZW, under the BZW,around the BZW, checking the NTU, but for some reason I never think to look in deads.

― G00blar, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

They're *always* lurking in the deads. I should just write that in my notebook. If in doubt, check the deads.

Wait, that is written in my notebook. It's because I assigned some deads to the wrong group of deads, because of the BZW date not being in the period.

I know this sounds like gobbledegook, heck, it sounds like gobbledegook to half the people I work with, but that's why I get the big bucks. Because I understand the gobbledegook and turn it into maths. OK, my recc is done - can I just go home now?

Should I eat my pear? No, I'm still too full. One of these days I should try Polo - it's quite near where I work.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

'always look in the deads' - twee goth band

― Ed, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, technically they are NTU, not deads. Argh! Even accounting wizards get confused. Always look in the NTU; FP is a bitch. (Financial Products, not Forest Pines, honest!)

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

eat yr pear, Kate!

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

What the hell is going on at the hotel across the road? There's all these weird men lined up outside. I saw this dude dressed like a member of Spinal Tap crossing the road to join them. Colleagues reckon it's auditions for something, but no idea what.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

Big Brother Auditions?

"Hey, I'll dress as Donny!!"

― Mark G, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

Is this fooking ILX gig likely to be on June 17th then, Kate?

― Dr.C, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

I have no idea. Still not heard back from Tim.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

Oh phew, I've just asked if I can go home since I finished my recc. Since we're not meeting to discuss new work until tommorrow afternoon (my boss was on holiday for a week) yes, I can go home! Hurrah!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

hurrah, take time for a walk in the sunshine, if there still is some.

― Ed, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

I hope you can get this guy to join Shimura Curves

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOyEw9bT8yQ

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 02:11 (eighteen years ago)

FP is a bitch. (Financial Products, not Forest Pines, honest!)

Oh, I can be a bitch too ;-)

Morning, by the way.

― Forest Pines, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 08:35 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.nrri.umn.edu/lynx/images/kittens/roar.jpg

Morning FP, I like your GCR pictures.

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 08:40 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks, Ed! They're all from December - I posted a couple on the Sandbox - but I've decided I should use Flickr more, so I uploaded all the decent ones.

Next step: deciding which of the 400-odd Devon photos from January are worth uploading.

― Forest Pines, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 08:54 (eighteen years ago)

Morning morning. Since I'll be at the Prince Charles Cinema in the early afternoon, what are recommendations for lunch in Leicester Square?

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 09:23 (eighteen years ago)

Cafe de Hong Kong does a reliable plate of rice an roast duck on little newport st.
Across the rd the is an organic korean noodle place which I haven't tried yet.
Reliable vietnamese on the bottom of greek st
Several chinese bun shops on gerrard st.
There's really OTM dim sum alla round there, I can't remember the name of the one went to for CNYPig, but it is through an arch on lisle st.
Further afield on Carnaby st, there is a great organic cafe, Leon, (a chain but a good one) (try their superfood salad and rhubarb smoothie), opposite where kate and I buy our shirts.
There's brazillian./portugese on Newport st, Canella I haven't tried it yet but it looks good
Good pub food at the enterprise on Berwick St (also record stores)

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 09:45 (eighteen years ago)

Prince Charles Cinema? Do they still do the "rocky horror picture show" Fridays?

― Mark G, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 09:49 (eighteen years ago)

Also: E Capital on Gerrard--one of London's few Shanghainese restaurants.
And Abeno Too (okonomiyaki) is s'pposed to be good on Grt Newport.

(Morning!)

― G00blar, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 09:51 (eighteen years ago)

Abeno is the name of the okonomiyaki place I was thinking of near the BM. G00blar, it is totally OTM.

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 09:52 (eighteen years ago)

That's what I've heard. We rehearse just across the street, BUT I'VE NEVER TAKEN THE PLUNGE.

― G00blar, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 09:59 (eighteen years ago)

As always, thanks v. much!

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 10:00 (eighteen years ago)

You should go before it gets too warm outside.

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 10:02 (eighteen years ago)

also maoz falafel. and yep, they still do rocky horror/sound of music...

― emsk, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 10:17 (eighteen years ago)

Morning. I've had a lot of sleep and feel slightly less exhausted than yesterday. But I had terrible, terrible dreams, and I'm still all shooken up by them. :-(

I mean, I took a long nap, then M came round and we made burritos and watched Dr. Who so I had a good evening.

Mood has just crashed and everything looks rub from here. Back in the land of "everybody haaaaates me" and feeling very insecure. Not fun.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 10:24 (eighteen years ago)

I know that's the way to pretty much bring this thread to a crashing halt, which only fuels my paranoia. Maybe I should stay off the interweb today. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 10:27 (eighteen years ago)

No halt here. Look! Sunshine! Wet ground! Springtime's comin!

― G00blar, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 10:28 (eighteen years ago)

I am liking this new spring weather.

― Forest Pines, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 10:32 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah - hang in there Kate! All is not rub - you are a sonic warrior, cool guitars and synths exist to be your playthings, and the world is full of pointy-nosed dronerock hottness - ALL FOR YOU!

Meanwhile - my fecking i-pod has died horribly. It's terminal this time, I have been nursing it along since the hard disk semi-crapped out last summer, but now it is whirring uncontrollably and won't talk to the PC or anything else, not even as a dumb disk. Ah well - I guess a new one will be fun.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 10:34 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, but apparently the all-day rain is coming on Friday. (for your parade, obvs.)

― G00blar, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 10:34 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

― G00blar, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 10:34 (eighteen years ago)

It's going to be less rainy in Newcastle! (on Friday, that is)

― Mark G, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 10:35 (eighteen years ago)

You can replace the disk Dr C. and then restore it. What make and model is it?

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 10:36 (eighteen years ago)

D'uh, what model and disk size.

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 10:36 (eighteen years ago)

If any one wants to help me decide how to resolve my pickup problem today, there's a fun game we can play.

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 10:40 (eighteen years ago)

Is the game called "Can you hear me now?"

― G00blar, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 10:43 (eighteen years ago)

There are days when I get really sick of feeling like an object of fun/strawman for a whole bunch of strangers on the interweb who don't even know me, have never met me, and don't even have any online interactions with me except for rubbernecking on my bad moods. Most of the time I can ignore it, sometimes it just feels like "what the fuck do you know?" and just drains the fun out of things I was previously enjoying.

But everything just kind of feels rubbish at the moment. It is my brain climate at the moment.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 10:44 (eighteen years ago)

Option 1) Buy my instrument again with built in pickup and EQ for £185, selling on the existing one to recoup the cost.

Advantages: Going to work
Disadvantages: heavier, differently balanced instrument, might not be so good for taking camping

Option 2) PUTW Octave Mandolin under-bridge pickup. One piece pickup that covers the whole under-bridge area, jack clips on like a violin chin rest. Hi-Z output, needs preamping, but not sure if it needs preamping to reach e-guitar impedance or not. $160 + VAT and import taxes.

Advantages: Highly recommended by David K and loads of others. Simple, requires no luthier work.
Disadvantages: Cost

More options to come.

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 10:51 (eighteen years ago)

Will pointy nosed, kentucky bluegrassers cheer you up

Or maybe something with rhubarb in?

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 10:56 (eighteen years ago)

Ed - I'd go with Option 1 so far.

The pod is a 40GB 3rd Gen ipod. I have not been able to find someone who would sell me a hard disk, nor do I know how to change it. Any ideas?

Who's been having a go at you Kate? I will go and kick them.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 11:02 (eighteen years ago)

also maoz falafel

Perfect! I've been to one before in Amsterdam and that'll be just fine for lunch. Not that the other spots don't sound great.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 11:02 (eighteen years ago)

try

I'm sure that will be illegal http://www.span.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=23_504_1802&osCsid=b40d8ad20c23b3e7b5065000b78d093e

I'm trying to find a supplier of the seagate ones which I prefer.

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 11:10 (eighteen years ago)

Me, I would get an acoustic one AND one with a built in pickup, just in case.

Actually, no, not true. I'd probably go for the external pickup, because, say if I obtained any other acoustic folkie instruments like fiddles or hurdy gurdies, then I could use the pickup to amplify all of them.

But it depends really on when your next acoustic instrument purchase will be.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 11:24 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks, Ed. Will have a look at those hard drives.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 11:31 (eighteen years ago)

Sometimes it's good to go back and read something you have every right to be bitter about and realise that you really aren't bitter at all any more. And that time and perspective really does heal 90% of all things.

Sometimes I just wish you could fast forward the 5 or 6 years in the meantime.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 12:25 (eighteen years ago)

But also, even that awful experience had so many repercussions down the line that turned out to be bloody good in the long run, in totally unexpected ways. That Ladyfest tour was where I met ET, and ended up writing for CTCL/Plan B through that. And CTCL was where I met Miss AMP and FMM, and through them, I met, well, half the people I'm friends with today. And that is really rather awesome. Something utterly awful leading to something really great that ends up totally changing your life for the better. Those friendships formed have been way more important and long-lasting than transitory B-list celeb fame. And I'm really grateful for that.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 12:32 (eighteen years ago)

Option 3) Single or dual soundboard transducer from ashworth, schaller or shadow. Stick on soundboard transducers, these should go near the bridge, and ideally inside the body, however with the really small sound hole this will be difficult. Only £30-50 but it's a bit of a frankenstein solution, with wires tailing out the sound hole or bugs stuck to the surface, sticky tape etc. unless a luthier gets involved, which puts the cost up.

Advantages: Cheap
Disadvantages, ugly, things to knock off or fall off, glue to fail etc.

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 12:37 (eighteen years ago)

That sounds very, very non-ideal. Remember in a gigging situation, anything that can fall off or get knocked off will do so. Also sticking things all over an acoustic instrument, or putting in holes where they shouldn't be, or fucking with the soundhole may change the sound of said instrument.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 12:39 (eighteen years ago)

I find it really hard to regret/be bitter about things because there are always bonuses like that that can go outweigh whatever the downer was.

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 12:39 (eighteen years ago)

Option 1 and 2 will probably come out the same. Option 2 seems neatest, especiallay as they tailor make the pickup to bridge size and it is totally non-permanent.

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

that's a good spelling mistake

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

You just don't necessarily find out what the hidden bonus is until years later sometimes.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

this is true, but there almost always seems to be one.

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 12:41 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, we've got all the windows open, and the pub downstairs is making PIZZA the smell of which is making me SO BLOODY HUNGRY. Argh.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 12:48 (eighteen years ago)

You said pizza, now I am!

Later!

― Mark G, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 12:48 (eighteen years ago)

I am just about to go for my third salad this week. I can hear the cottage cheese calling.

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 12:49 (eighteen years ago)

I've got curry, as usual. I should eat something else for a change maybe. But curry is so easy. And also cheap since I make it en masse and bring it from home.

God, shoot me, I am turning into the kind of person that I despise, taking advice from the Guardian Weekend psychology pages. This week on how to be happy, they were saying that people who regularly feel or express a sense of gratitude tend to be happier, and it has a lasting effect. So here's me thinking this might actually be a good thing to try and counteract all the bitterness. It's very easy to get on a bitterness tear, and get thoughtwormed out. So trying to distract myself with things or people I'm grateful for.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 13:05 (eighteen years ago)

Kate, Norman and Dada check your emails.
Pass it on if anyone wants it.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 13:49 (eighteen years ago)

One Spagbol later!

― Mark G, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

Oh no, I may end up in the CAN TRANCE for the rest of the day and I need to be having a meeting!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 13:53 (eighteen years ago)

Pass it on to Mr Grout if he wants it.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 13:55 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, thanks for this! I love the early years best of all!!

― Tom D., Wednesday, 7 March 2007 13:57 (eighteen years ago)

Esteemed colleagues of the British Library,

Pls stop hanging yr sweaty gym clothes on the hangers meant for coats in the locker room. It's gross.

kthxbye

― G00blar, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 13:58 (eighteen years ago)

My god, it feels like summer outside

― Forest Pines, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

Ooh, sounds good (not to imply I can hear it)

what is it?

― Mark G, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

My god, it feels like summer outside

Yeah, same, it's pissing down here.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 14:05 (eighteen years ago)

I'm waiting to find out what it is when I finish uploading it.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

Lol Kerr - I meant, it's sunny with little fluffy clouds* in the sky. I'll have to start having lunch on the beach again.

* (c) J Joplin / The Orb

― Forest Pines, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 14:08 (eighteen years ago)

Rickie Lee Jones, que non?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 14:08 (eighteen years ago)

I think the PUTW solution will be the the one to go for. I'm quite attached to my first mandolin and I think options 1 and 2 will come out the same price more or less.

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

OK, that was a nice, short meeting. I heart my boss.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

If Mark wants it then I need his email. Or Kate can pass it on to anyone she likes.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

Like I have everybody's email!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

Did you get those other albums I sent you? Odawas is great! Different to the 1st album.(which was great too)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

There's only so much I can d/l and listen to in one day!

What do Odawas actually sound like?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

I can't stop looking at things with knobs

http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/shop_image/product/72c146305cba148fcc48fd48ecab5dba.jpg
http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/shop_image/product/f81b88a034334cbbe0450187155059cd.jpg
http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/shop_image/product/6dead5e55436359a8dd1ff42d4aa88a4.jpg

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

I'm really going to resist that one.

I'm so glad that I saved my pear from yesterday, ohmigod melty lush yum.

And now back into the CAN TRANCE.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

CAn anyone geive me, or point me to a good explanation of impedance from a musical perspective, I understand it from a theoretical basis and as an analogue for for dampers in mechanical systems but I want to know more.

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

I am going to listen to the Salaryman album that came out last year that I somehow managed to miss. I have their 2 cd's so I need to pick this one up somewhere if I can find it.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/f/1/8/f186dab0d3df7124f7b100eccdf8635a.png

(sorry, I could not resist. I do not understand impedance.)

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

OK, I found this

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

Now I understand, ish.

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

Why do these people keep insisting that I WORK today?!?!? Can't they see I'm trying to listen to Can Bootlegs?!?!??!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

How is the Can bootleg? My iPod is dying so I won't get to hear it until i get home.

― Tom D., Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

Eees very good, very nice, very clear sound (makes me wonder if it's even live) and good jams. I have been enjoying it. (When not being pestered for reports.)

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

Well, all of their early stuff is live, live in the Schloss Schtudios, on to two-track

― Tom D., Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

I am back in the world of the confused again.

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think I've ever heard a live (as in at a gig) Can bootleg from 68/69 - apart from that "Prehistoric Future" thing, and that is ropey

― Tom D., Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

OK, a quick google reveals that it's not live, it's rough mixes or demos or something - alternate versions in very good sound quality.

Ah yes, Ed, I still owe you a Krautrock Basic Sampler, don't I?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

yes, although recombobulating my mind re:preamps would be helpful

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:01 (eighteen years ago)

My i-pod is dead, dead, dead. I have no idea what hard-drive to get and I'm not sure that I can be arsed anyway. I wonder if there's any repairers who would fit a new drive for me?

Can - I am really enjoying Soundtracks recently and also disco-period stuff.

Currently listening to The Cure 'Pornigraphy' era demos - heavy duty.

Looks like we will record a track for the ILX thing in about 4 weeks. I avoided blowing my top with the band yesterday and they somehow came up with a date that everyone can do. I did give notice that conditions like 'well I can do that date unless the missus tells me otherwise' are bollocks and not acceptable. If there's nothing on, tell her you're doing it!

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:01 (eighteen years ago)

I still like Neu! much more than Can, probably one of my top 5 bands evah. My God, Neu 75 is totally wonderful. As are the others.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:03 (eighteen years ago)

The battery on my iPod is dying, which means I'll no doubt have to pay Apple an arm and a leg to replace it

― Tom D., Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:04 (eighteen years ago)

SOMEONE SEND IT ME!!!

― Mark G, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

It depends what I'm in the mood for. Sometimes I like the straight ahead drivingness of Neu! but I generally can't take too much of it in one go or I start to get... well, bored. Although I *love* the sheer *sound* of Neu! you really only need one of their records. Can has a more interesting depth and breadth to their body of work, there's a lot more going on in there. They have a lot of hit and miss stuff, but when they are absolutely ON (Pinch, Mother Sky, Mushroom) they get in this groove that I could stay in for hours. Neu! Are kind of a one trick pony. It's a *GREAT* trick, but still.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

x-post email me yer address and I will pass it on.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

I dig Neu & Can, but Popol Vuh, Ash Ra Tempel & Amon Duul2 up to "Wolf City" are my krautrock favourites.

I've been listening to this CD of Liszt recordings over the last few days - "Sacred Choral Music" Naxos 8.553786. Several of the tracks have piano & choir moments that are bizarrely & very enjoyably proto-popol vuh-ish. It's lovely.

― Pashmina, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

OTM. Can could well be my favourite band of all time but I don't think any of their albums are good all the way through - apart from "Monster Movie"

― Tom D., Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

That was OTM to Kate

― Tom D., Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

See, I am the worst person to be making this comp because I have no Popul Vuh, no Kluster.

Ah, I had to go and put on Halleluwah and the guitar (?) is just making this buzzing stereo tremolo sound which is totally FUCKING WITH MY HEAD in a delightful way.

Actually, maybe I think I will just make a "Can Best Of" comp mainly for my own use which cuts out all the annoying bits that you always skip over (like fuckign Soup or whatever) and be a solid hour of krautyjoy.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:13 (eighteen years ago)

You couldn't really put Kluster on a comp, none of their tracks are under 25 minutes or so

― Tom D., Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

Kluster are pretty much exclusively for late night listening for me.

― Pashmina, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

I can't really listen to them, with all that talking over the top - I prefer that Konrad Schnitzler "Eruption" album, which is Kluster anyway

― Tom D., Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

It's going to be an MP3 mix, not an actual comp as there's no way that you can get more than about 5 or 6 Krautrock songs on a 74 min CD. ;-)

See, I think the reason that J wanted to get a copy of the one I was making for Ed, even though he lives with pretty much one of London's foremost Krautrock experts is that I will be all "oh, fuck it, just put on RuckZuck and Mother Sky and Hallogallo and Immer Weider and Krautrock..." while FMM would be all "no, no, you have to hear this really obscure 40 minute jam recorded in Michael Rother's mum's basement in 1970..."

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry, Conrad Schnitzler! I've actually spent the past few months investigating just about every Krautrock album + act that I hadn't heard yet and which, as a Krautrock fan, I'm supposed to have heard and my conclusion, there's really not that much that's any good - outwith the famous albums/bands.

― Tom D., Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

The real hardcore krautrock experts are nearly always a complete pain in the ass! Not fun company. ("what do you mean you don't like {insert totem here}")

― Pashmina, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha, I've actually solved the discrepency problem, and Halleluwah isn't even over!

(this is the track that Kosmische DJs would put on when they need to go to the loo and maybe hit the bar on the way back.)

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

If I hear one more creaky jazz rock band with a fucking flute I'll SCREAM! In fact, if I hear one more FLUTE!!! I blame Steven Stapleton, personally...

― Tom D., Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha, my boss has FUDGE on her desk. Yum.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

**(Neu)Are kind of a one trick pony.**

Oh I can't agree with that. I mean they're associated with *that* motorik beat most of all, but Neu 75 has a bit of that, some beautiful piano-led stuff and a really stately slow-pulse piece - all on side 1. Then you've got Klaus Dinger's mad pre-punk thrashes on side 2. And there's plenty of more sound collagey stuff on Neu 1, with road drills and jet engines et al.

When you said Kluster do you mean Cluster? Are we talking about the same band here?

I like Harmonia. Need to hear more Faust.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

Kluster became Cluster. But Cluster were still a bit like Kluster on their first two albums (esp. 1st).

Kluster = Schnitzler, Roedelius, Moebius.

Cluster = Roedelius, Moebius

― Tom D., Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

Kluster

The first side of Neu!75 is just like Harmonia - which is essentially Neu! slowed down with a bit more wank over the top. ;-)

::ducks::

Also, I know Cha Cha 2000 is cheesey as fuck but I still love it.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

I love Harmonia. Esp. "Deluxe".

― Tom D., Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

Have you heard Secret Machines' version of that?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:41 (eighteen years ago)

Ooooh, I don't like when bands do Krautrock covers

― Tom D., Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

... what I mean is, I've never heard a good one yet

― Tom D., Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

It's not that bad, actually!

OK, Brandon's annoying emo voice is kind of annoying. But you know what? I never have to hear that again if I don't want!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

I thought I had it here but I don't.

Obviously theirs is more "RAWK" and less drum maschine but they get the textural element dead right.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

OK, so I definitely need a preamp. An all PUTW solution now weighs in at $285

At the other end of the spectrum is a behringer stomp box which has EQ and some tube modelling guff (which can be turned off). at £25

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:58 (eighteen years ago)

Kate how did you get on with the Krautrocksampler pdf I sent you?

On that krautrock website http://www.midsuffolk.unisonplus.net/Top%2050.htm I have on cd or mp3 all of the top 50
and also most of the added albums that shrimp guy made on the end of the list. see http://pages.unisonfree.net/midsuffolk/Top%2051-150.htm

Some is just dodgy german hard rock that even Chuck & George might struggle to like, some of the (non-hardrock)albums are ok

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 18:15 (eighteen years ago)

[Removed Illegal Link]

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.phinnweb.org/krautrock/

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

Can we have a favourite krautrock album poll next time?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

No, because there's no way I could possibly choose just *one* Krautrock album.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 18:23 (eighteen years ago)

band?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe, although that changes from week to week.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

Emsk, miracle worker. :-) (Translation = NIN was the roxor.)

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 March 2007 00:01 (eighteen years ago)

yay :) i look forward to sunday then... the low lows were ace too, slightly different vibe i suspect.

― emsk, Thursday, 8 March 2007 00:45 (eighteen years ago)

Hello. I've never been on one of these threads before and I will probably disappear again straight away, but I'd just like to say LA DUSSELDORF LA DUSSELDORF LA DUSSELDORF. *ahem* Thank you for your time.

― emil.y, Thursday, 8 March 2007 00:50 (eighteen years ago)

is she having a competition, between la and dusseldorf?

― emsk, Thursday, 8 March 2007 00:54 (eighteen years ago)

VIVA!

(oh and welcome to the cooler, please hang around)

That Can bootleg - some info.
http://www.wasistdas.co.uk/Zhengzheng.htm

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 8 March 2007 01:11 (eighteen years ago)

my sister has been modelling

― Ed, Thursday, 8 March 2007 08:39 (eighteen years ago)

Most stupid thing ever http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=1212121906

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 8 March 2007 08:52 (eighteen years ago)

Hello, good morning everyone. I am recovering from a flu type thing. cough cough splutter :(

― C J, Thursday, 8 March 2007 09:15 (eighteen years ago)

Hello CJ - welocme back, hope you're feeling better!

Watercooler people - I have a grevious hangover, please don't make too any loud noises near me. It was darts last night and we WON!

― Dr.C, Thursday, 8 March 2007 09:19 (eighteen years ago)

I have yet another Red Stripe induced hangover.

― Ed, Thursday, 8 March 2007 09:23 (eighteen years ago)

Drunken darts nights remind me of that Alas Smith And Jones sketch. What was the Mel Smith dart player called? Evenfatterbelly Gutbucket or something.

― C J, Thursday, 8 March 2007 09:28 (eighteen years ago)

Ugh - Red Stripe hangovers are brutal. I haven't had one for around 20 years thank god. Mine is a Youngs 'Ram and Special' hangover. I was late to the darts and had to drink fast to get in the zone, as I need at least 2 pints to steady the arm.

― Dr.C, Thursday, 8 March 2007 09:31 (eighteen years ago)

I haven't played darts for years. Mr C J used to play for a pub team, and back in the days before we had the kids I would often go along and play a few warm up matches with him. I wasn't too bad, either.

I used to play Aunt Sally and bar billiards, too. and Shut The Box.

― C J, Thursday, 8 March 2007 09:33 (eighteen years ago)

x-post I think the sketch was on Not The Nine O Clock News. I tried to find a picture of Mel Smith as the darts player, but this will have to do instead :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/sportscotland/asportingnation/images/id/0039/gallery/img01.jpg

http://www.darts-import.nl/l_nl/darts/pix/darts_wilson.jpg

― Dr.C, Thursday, 8 March 2007 09:37 (eighteen years ago)

Isn't Jocky cuddly.

Bar billiards! As I am fond of mentioning (sorry) I am the reigning ILX bar billiards champion, after defeating post-tournament favourite Martin "The Hustler" Skidmore in a thrilling final a couple of years ago.

Shut The Box - I should know what that is but I don't.

― Dr.C, Thursday, 8 March 2007 09:41 (eighteen years ago)

Is that where you throw left-handed, get a number and then have to hit it five times before you can 'knock down' everyone else by rhe number of times they've hit their own? and all that?

― Mark G, Thursday, 8 March 2007 09:52 (eighteen years ago)

Shut The Box is a dice game:

http://www.mindgamesdirect.co.uk/images/shut%20the%20box.jpg

― C J, Thursday, 8 March 2007 10:05 (eighteen years ago)

xpost : yes, you're right, it was Not The Nine o'Clock News.

"Dai Fatbelly Gutbucket vs Alan Evenfatterbelly Belcher!"

"Double Vodka, Single Pint and another Double Vodka!"

"140 milligrams!"

― C J, Thursday, 8 March 2007 10:06 (eighteen years ago)

Ah-ha. Of course.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1180000/images/_1184020_bristow_trumps_150.jpg

The Crafty Cockney.

― Dr.C, Thursday, 8 March 2007 10:14 (eighteen years ago)

Morning all!

While looking at guitar p0rn on ebay I saw this and thought of Kate:

http://i18.ebayimg.com/07/i/000/8e/75/f16b_1.JPG

Paisley 68 Telecaster!

― The Wayward Johnny B, Thursday, 8 March 2007 10:17 (eighteen years ago)

http://i18.ebayimg.com/07/i/000/8e/75/f16b_1.JPG

― The Wayward Johnny B, Thursday, 8 March 2007 10:18 (eighteen years ago)

x-post The real Dai Fatbelly Gutbucket : Ynsybwls finest, Mr.Leighton Rees

http://lifeinlegacy.com/2003/0621/ReesLeighton.jpg

― Dr.C, Thursday, 8 March 2007 10:19 (eighteen years ago)

x-post Hang on - I posted a Paisley Tele on the last watercooler! No harm in seeing another though. (want it, want it, want it....)

― Dr.C, Thursday, 8 March 2007 10:21 (eighteen years ago)

I have made a resolution that today I will not look at pickups and preamps.

― Ed, Thursday, 8 March 2007 10:21 (eighteen years ago)

Jocky Wilson's from my hometown. Lived about 10 minutes away from the house I grew up in.
xposts

― treefell, Thursday, 8 March 2007 10:21 (eighteen years ago)

however I will say that this morning absolutely sparkled. I was foolish not to get my sunglasses out.

― Ed, Thursday, 8 March 2007 10:22 (eighteen years ago)

No Dr C, you are wrong. Ynysybwl's finest was my father :)

― C J, Thursday, 8 March 2007 10:25 (eighteen years ago)

I can't remember who was a doubter, but scroll down to the penultimate page for [Removed Illegal Link] (warning PDF)

― Ed, Thursday, 8 March 2007 10:27 (eighteen years ago)

I stand corrected!

― Dr.C, Thursday, 8 March 2007 10:30 (eighteen years ago)

I thought they'd fixed that

― Ed, Thursday, 8 March 2007 10:31 (eighteen years ago)

What are you trying to tell us, Ed?

― Dr.C, Thursday, 8 March 2007 10:31 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not sure, my head is mush and I'm trying to find royalty free music videos for a workflow example.

― Ed, Thursday, 8 March 2007 10:32 (eighteen years ago)

My head is now a lot better - a bacon sandwich and a cup of sugary tea is working it's magic as usual.

― Dr.C, Thursday, 8 March 2007 10:34 (eighteen years ago)

I so want a bacon buttie right now.

― C J, Thursday, 8 March 2007 10:48 (eighteen years ago)

I content that a good bacon buttie cannot be had in London, it really needs a breadcake or a barm to contain it all.

― Ed, Thursday, 8 March 2007 10:56 (eighteen years ago)

Either it's a mother's pride special or you get something like the exchange I once had whilst similarly hung over, in Konstam, a great but now sadly defunct cafe:

Ed: Can I have a bacon sandwich please.
K worker: we have a bacon avocado and tomato sandwich, which break would you like it on?
Ed: sourdough, but just bacon.
K worker: we don't have just bacon on the menu, I don't know what to charge you
Ed: Just make me a bacon avocado and tomato sandwich without avocado and tomato
K worker: are you sure
Ed: oh well, I'll have some tomato

― Ed, Thursday, 8 March 2007 11:00 (eighteen years ago)

why did you capitulate on the tomato? Wuss.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 8 March 2007 11:02 (eighteen years ago)

It was a sunny day, I was late for a meeting, I really needed that sandwich.

― Ed, Thursday, 8 March 2007 11:02 (eighteen years ago)

The Great Bacon Buttie Debate : tomato ketchup or brown sauce??

― C J, Thursday, 8 March 2007 11:03 (eighteen years ago)

I have always meant to mix brown sauce and tomato sauce together to see if the resultant mixture is nice.

after all, it could be; such experimentation led to Thousand Island dressing.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 8 March 2007 11:04 (eighteen years ago)

Brown Sauce is the correct answer. Just so you know. HP obviously.

― Dr.C, Thursday, 8 March 2007 11:12 (eighteen years ago)

There is no debate, brown sauce, or possible a really good chutney, but it must be brown

― Ed, Thursday, 8 March 2007 11:12 (eighteen years ago)

Who wants to start a waterballoon fight with the sinister picnic?

― Ed, Thursday, 8 March 2007 11:14 (eighteen years ago)

Don't start bringing chutney into the debate.

― Dr.C, Thursday, 8 March 2007 11:15 (eighteen years ago)

You blessed people.

ATTENTION: somebody e-mail me the details of when and where this evening if they're not to be posted here for public consumption. Also, Ed, if I bring stuff over to prep up there, would that be a problem?

The good Emsk mentions that the cafe in the Tate Modern is good if pricey. Any other places to eat near it or opposite it via the Thames?

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 March 2007 11:44 (eighteen years ago)

sent you a mail by the little linky.

Come anytime after 6, prep facilities are available.

around tate modern, the market is on to day so I would wonder round and get some sausage or pie, or cider or whatever takes your fancy. A Mrs King Port Pie and a pint o new forest cider goes down a treat, and there should be plenty of veggy tasties for H.

― Ed, Thursday, 8 March 2007 11:48 (eighteen years ago)

Brindisa barbecued chorizo are good too.

― Ed, Thursday, 8 March 2007 11:48 (eighteen years ago)

If they have it at new forest cider, get the kingsdown black.

― Ed, Thursday, 8 March 2007 11:49 (eighteen years ago)

Good good. At this rate we're only going to get there at 1:30 to 2 pm or so, will the markets still be on? (Are they just around the front entrance or...?)

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 March 2007 11:51 (eighteen years ago)

Is the slide installation still there at the Tate Modern? You have to do the big slide if so, Ned. AND POST PHOTOS!

― Dr.C, Thursday, 8 March 2007 11:52 (eighteen years ago)

Also, if the sellers there don't have what I need, what's the nearest good market of any sort to where you are at?

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 March 2007 11:52 (eighteen years ago)

Oh don't you worry about the photos. My big thing to check out is the Gilbert and George exhibition since I've seen the collection before in general, but that was some years ago and doubtless much has changed.

Also, keeping in mind finally seeing Children of Men yesterday, I have to walk across the footbridge whistling "In the Court of the Crimson King"

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 March 2007 11:53 (eighteen years ago)

Markets are to the east of the the tate, well sign-posted and will be on when you get there. I refuse to believe you can't get everything you need there.

― Ed, Thursday, 8 March 2007 11:56 (eighteen years ago)

Sweet. It's going to be v. basic but v. tasty and if I'm missing anything I'll ask upon arrival. It's more of a summer dish -- cool temp, no cooking -- but it should go over well.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 March 2007 11:57 (eighteen years ago)

I'm definitely liking these little teaser-tastes of summer we've been getting mornings. Sunshine's bound to be good for my health, I feel.

Today, I must: finish The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 'cause I'm teaching it Monday; read at least 3 papers for my tutorials tomorrow; go to stupid staff meeting to show that, yes, I'm a valuable member of teh department and ohbytheway give me a job for next year.

― G00blar, Thursday, 8 March 2007 12:07 (eighteen years ago)

lol graduate tutor trying to make small talk with me at the urinals. Dude knows one thing about me (I work on Phi1ip Roth), and seems to work up variations on the same question each time we see each other (so, "Does Roth ever come to London?", "What does Roth have to say about academia?", "How does Roth feel about wine with a screw-top?", etc.)

― G00blar, Thursday, 8 March 2007 12:12 (eighteen years ago)

Tell him you only know about Roth's behavior around urinals, then leave.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 March 2007 12:37 (eighteen years ago)

Also, Ed, I get three *widely* varying results for that address you sent when using Mapquest.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 March 2007 12:45 (eighteen years ago)

...though wait, never mind, crosschecking with just the post code confirms it. Off Clerkenwell (I hope).

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 March 2007 12:48 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, to be safe, use just the postcode here.

― G00blar, Thursday, 8 March 2007 12:56 (eighteen years ago)

Indeed, always use the postcode. there are generally no more that 8 addresses in each one.

― Ed, Thursday, 8 March 2007 12:56 (eighteen years ago)

Clarity. Thanks and see you and everyone else in a few hours!

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 March 2007 13:00 (eighteen years ago)

Is there a NedFAP on for this week or what?

― Tom D., Thursday, 8 March 2007 13:17 (eighteen years ago)

Tomorrow, Teh Harrison.

― G00blar, Thursday, 8 March 2007 13:18 (eighteen years ago)

I hope there's a good turn out for the FAP.

― Dr.C, Thursday, 8 March 2007 13:25 (eighteen years ago)

Oh good! There's not been an old-fashioned non-dancing FAP for ages!!

― Tom D., Thursday, 8 March 2007 13:27 (eighteen years ago)

We're in town w/kids to see Mary Poppins tonite.

I'll wave at miscellaneous pubs on the way, just in case...

― Mark G, Thursday, 8 March 2007 13:34 (eighteen years ago)

I haven't been to a proper FAP for about 3 years! I have seen a few people at gigs since, I guess.

― Dr.C, Thursday, 8 March 2007 13:34 (eighteen years ago)

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm DOSA LUNCH.

(am now fighting off post-lunch hangover but still)

― G00blar, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

Num. Had quail and lentils and aoili for lunch courtesy of some St John catering at the thing I was at. Haven't had quail before - nice but doesn't really repay the effort put in regarding tackling loads of bones. Chocolate fudge brownie thing wonderful though. Cycling back up the hill home far from wonderful. Am going to have to have strong cup of tea to fight off my own post-lunch hangover. We need to fix a time to eat fifty Giraffes treasure hunt ppl btw...

― Nobodysprawn, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

Hello there!

― Forest Pines, Thursday, 8 March 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

Hello FP!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 8 March 2007 17:37 (eighteen years ago)

Good evening! My lump and I have still not been parted. Another 4 month wait for an operation. Thank god for the NHS, etc. blah blah.

Aaaaahhh, paisley telecaster... the hott hott boy from FoH had one of those, but I have never struck out so quickly in the first conversation in my life. Ah well, as Ed pointed out, if he's not going to take a Hawkwind comparison as a compliment, then he's clearly never going to be my friend.

Have spent the day doing laundry and making nummy curry. I have now soaked my aubergines in water for 20 minutes which seemed to get rid of the bitterness. And got here half an hour before Ed. Sigh. Looking forward to the eating.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 8 March 2007 18:06 (eighteen years ago)

And the aubergines and the curry was GRATE.

See everyone at the FAP tomorrow!

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 March 2007 01:35 (eighteen years ago)

num nummmmmmmmmm *zzzzzzz*

― emsk, Friday, 9 March 2007 01:38 (eighteen years ago)

I am looking forward to belgium next week. I get to rest.

― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 10:27 (eighteen years ago)

Morning all! I have just seen pictures of yr potluck and I am teh jealous.

One tutorial down, three to go!

― G00blar, Friday, 9 March 2007 10:54 (eighteen years ago)

Kate, I have searched these things up and it is friday the 13th of April. Are HDIF going to be in for a shock?

― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 10:56 (eighteen years ago)

Are butcher Boy's army of loyal fans going to make tickets difficult to come by on the night?

― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 10:57 (eighteen years ago)

Are butcher Boy's ~~army of loyal fans~~ axis of tweevil going to make tickets difficult to come by on the night?

― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 10:58 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not at all surprised that Cats on Fire are Finnish.
"so how do you cope with it being dark 24-7 in winter?"
"We sit around. We drink vodka. And we set cats on fire".

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:05 (eighteen years ago)

I'm sorry that was mean, I will go away and beat myself with bunnies.

― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:13 (eighteen years ago)

Oh dear. I don't know how people are going to react to SCIV. We still sound like Stereolab, though, so it is not a lie! You just really have to be more of a girl at the next gig. We may make you wear a dress.

Yes, sleeeeepy me. Mmmm, curry and ricey pilaffy thing and summer salad and PIIIIEEEEEE!!!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:19 (eighteen years ago)

PIE = PAH (but a good PAH) based on last night.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:20 (eighteen years ago)

We may make you wear a dress

a kilt?

Asia refers to Johnney B as 'the man who dresses like a Scottish man'.

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:21 (eighteen years ago)

I could go for this look

― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:22 (eighteen years ago)

That is not a dress, those are the robes of a psychedelic monk!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:40 (eighteen years ago)

It's not even that is isactually bifurcated in a trousorial way. They are japanese sword fighting trousers, designed to conceal the movements of the legs from your enemies.

― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:42 (eighteen years ago)

'bifurcated in a trousorial way' - roffle to the max!

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:43 (eighteen years ago)

"bifurcated in a trousorial way" will clearly be the next Shimura Curves album.

SHOES OF THE FUTURE - Trousers of the Past!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:44 (eighteen years ago)

prolly not a good idea for Ed to wear a kilt onstage as then reviewers would start saying 'early Spandau Ballet' rather than 'Stereolab'.

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:44 (eighteen years ago)

Maaan, I've kind of got the fear about the twee kids' reaction to SCIV. I mean, even the last time we played HDIF we were clearly a little bit too ... out there from some of the regulars. Half of me thinks we should reign in the Hawkwindisms and the Delia Derbyshireisms, but the other half of me thinks we should REALLY PLAY UP ON IT AND BLOW THEIR MINDS!!!

We'll never be invited back, mind you. And I like the Luminaire.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:47 (eighteen years ago)

Is that a dress?
I'm in distress
It's uncanny, so unmanly
This band is not my band
And I am failing to understand

No, fear not, don't leave us yet
We'll perform, you won't forget
These are the garments of the shogun
If you can understand this notion

Bifurcated in a trousorial way
For this is a mysterious day
They're wholly bifurcated in a trousorial way
Looking so smart, not in disarray

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:49 (eighteen years ago)

There are other promoters at the Luminaire.

― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:51 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, that's really good. Do you want to join the band? ;-)

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:51 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think I have the capacity to look twee.

― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:53 (eighteen years ago)

Asia refers to Johnney B as 'the man who dresses like a Scottish man'.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/images/400/rabcnesbitt_2.jpg

― Tom D., Friday, 9 March 2007 11:53 (eighteen years ago)

I can visualise the song as starting with a bit of vocoder or maybe (perhaps better) ppl singing as if using a vocoder!

Bi-bi-bi bifurcated
Bi-bi-bi bifurcated
Bi-bi-bi bifurcated
Bi-bi-bi bifurcated

Occasionally I have written humorous songs (or rather, songs I've thought humorous). I even went as far as buying a microphone with the aim of recording them on tape so I didn't forget them, but didn't get round to it.

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:55 (eighteen years ago)

Rein in, not Reign in, ha ha ha.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:55 (eighteen years ago)

The last verse could definitely be done wizard blew his horn style

― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:56 (eighteen years ago)

I can report that Johnney's hair is looking a bit like that these days!

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:57 (eighteen years ago)

It's going to be a long Friday, isn't it?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 12:14 (eighteen years ago)

I really want chocolate. And coffee and all sorts of bad things. But after seeing that photo on Ed's flickr I'm convinced I should never eat again. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 12:16 (eighteen years ago)

feels like it. I am knackered and we have the big servers on in the corners so it sounds like the inside of an airliner in here, which is very wearing.

― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 12:16 (eighteen years ago)

I really want chocolate. And coffee and all sorts of bad things. But after seeing that photo on Ed's flickr I'm convinced I should never eat again. :-(

Nah, you should sit up straight and not slouch, which not possible on my sofa.

― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 12:17 (eighteen years ago)

No, it's the size of my thunder thighs which struck chords of doom in mine heart.

We've got the windows open in the office which is making it impossible to concentrate. One day off, and I've forgotten everything that I was working on. I should just put on some Krautrock and get my head down.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 12:24 (eighteen years ago)

If you are playing in front of the axis of tweevil
Then play a full on white noise set that will make them deaf and unable to listen to twee so they can't annoy Ed anymore.

I USED TO LOVE BELLE & SEBASTIAN , PIPETTES ,TALULAH GOSH AND BUNNYGRUNT UNTIL SHIMURA CURVES MADE ME DEAF

That would make an ace t-shirt slogan. Albeit a long one. You could have multiple shirts though with one of each band.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 9 March 2007 12:33 (eighteen years ago)

Oh and car stickers too

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 9 March 2007 12:33 (eighteen years ago)

ROFL

They won't annoy me and there will be a higher proportion of girls and I can steal all the boys' lunch money.

― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 12:34 (eighteen years ago)

FMM and I should go onstage wearing CAPES. Doom Metal Capes. No, actually, more like KLF capes.

Or just go onstage with a machine gun and blow the tweekids away:

http://www.bibleofpop.com/images/klf.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 12:37 (eighteen years ago)

And pick holes in their cardigans?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 9 March 2007 12:37 (eighteen years ago)

Frances "Doom Metal Cape" Morgan?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 9 March 2007 12:38 (eighteen years ago)

We should probably update our MySpace. Ed, who are your favourite mandolin players?

I'm gonna take out all the bands I never heard of that AMP put in.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 12:39 (eighteen years ago)

Favourite mandolin players:

Dave Swarbrick
Chris Hillman
Andy Irvine

― Tom D., Friday, 9 March 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

Jon Boden
Spiers and Boden
Bellowhead
Hackensaw Boys
Waterson:Carthy
Eliza Carthy

should all be friendable

― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 12:41 (eighteen years ago)

Make sure Gareth comes to this one so he can perve over the indie girls.

Sorry, I've been perving over Bill Drummond again...

http://users.computerweekly.net/mindwarp/zmisc/zmembers/billd.gif

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 12:41 (eighteen years ago)

Can we have her in our band?

http://www.music.iastate.edu/antiqua/krum2.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 12:44 (eighteen years ago)

Better put Atilla the stiockbroker in there, I think him and Jon Boden are more responsible than anyone for the mandolin

Inflences/Listen to a lot:

Hawkwind
Creedence
Gong
ELO
Aphex Twin
SND
Kepa Junkera
Circulus
iLIKEtRAINS
Corb Lund
Charles Mingus
Atilla the Stockbroker
Blythe Power
Rev Hammer
Fairport Convention
Maddy Prior

― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 12:45 (eighteen years ago)

Hey - I'll chase Atilla about Glastonwick. Sorry, I forgot that we'd asked about whether the bill was full. Will chase him via Jeff.

― Dr.C, Friday, 9 March 2007 12:46 (eighteen years ago)

Forgot Joe Dolce in the favourite mandolin player list

― Tom D., Friday, 9 March 2007 12:47 (eighteen years ago)

OK, I'll put some of those bands up. Not Atilla the Stockbroker, though. Sorry.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 12:50 (eighteen years ago)

I'm really debating putting "Yes" up there to wind up Frances. ;-)

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 12:54 (eighteen years ago)

I like the fact Kate is outting Mingus up with no complaints. I KNEW SHE LIKED THAT ALBUM REALLY!

ps kate did you get any albums in your email this morning? I get the feeling sendspace notification isnt working.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 9 March 2007 12:55 (eighteen years ago)

I did not even think Mingus worth a mention. So clearly NO.

No, I didn't get any albums this morning. I don't think.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 12:56 (eighteen years ago)

Kate Check this

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 9 March 2007 12:58 (eighteen years ago)

I was talking about that Mingus album the other night, it speeds up in places, and that NEVER happens in jazz!

― Tom D., Friday, 9 March 2007 12:59 (eighteen years ago)

For many women Jane Austen's appeal is encapsulated in two words: Mr Darcy.

Dismissive bullshit. The appeal of Austen goes way beyond perving over any specific one of her heroes.

In fact, it's far more often the identification with the female characters, so perfectly and wittily drawn that makes readers love Austen.

There is no poverty in her novels, no corruption, ambition, wickedness or war.

Are you kidding? Have you ever actually read an Austen novel? Just because she doesn't rub it in blatantly does not mean that these things are not simmering below the surface. Hello, Mansfield Park? The cautionary tale of what happened to Colonel Brandon's former lover?

Ugh, I can't even finish reading the article.

Though the coming glut of modern Austen adaptations is a bit much.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 13:05 (eighteen years ago)

OK, I am officially sick to the back teeth of curry now. I've had it for lunch every day this week, plus for supper as well two days this week. And I want no more.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 13:19 (eighteen years ago)

Enjoy those albums everyone that received them. Pass em on to anyone.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 9 March 2007 13:20 (eighteen years ago)

OK, I listened to that Can bootleg and, reporting back, this what it appears to consist of:

1. Father Cannot Yell - different (but not much) mix of the opening track on "Monster Movie"

2. Pnoom(h) 1 - same as "Pnoom" on "Delay 1968"

3. Little Star of Bethlehem - full length version of the track on "Delay 1968" (also apparently Holger Czukay's favourite Can track!)

4. Melting Away - this was released as a bonus track on the CD reissue of the "Cannibalism" compilation, don't know if this is the same version

5. (My) Connection - same as "Connection" on "Unlimited Edition"

6. She Brings the Rain - different (sparser) version of the track on "Soundtracks"

7. Outside My Door - different (slower) version of the track on "Monster Movie"

8. Pnoom(h) 2 - different mix (maybe?) of one of the "E.F.S." tracks on "Unlimited Edition"

9. Greyhounds Greyhound - different mix (with inaudible guitar) of "Uphill" from "Delay 1968". The 4 minutes of speeded-up/backwards tape stuff at the end is definitely not Can! There's a bit that sounds like Quicksilver Messenger Service or something like that and another bit that is "I Want You Right Now" by MC5! Maybe that's what the Can guys were listening to in 1969! Or maybe not...

So... good to have the "Little Star of Bethlehem", "She Brings the Rain", "Outside My Door"...

― Tom D., Friday, 9 March 2007 13:22 (eighteen years ago)

I just sent you some crumhorn infused stuff.

― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 13:23 (eighteen years ago)

Outside My Door was awesome.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 9 March 2007 13:25 (eighteen years ago)

Malcolm Mooney is God

― Tom D., Friday, 9 March 2007 13:26 (eighteen years ago)

I like Drummond - have you read '45'? I can really recommend it.

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 9 March 2007 13:28 (eighteen years ago)

Hi all. Got my captain jack coat through the post today, it's awesome. Also makes me look 10ft tall and feel bullet-proof.

― The Wayward Johnny B, Friday, 9 March 2007 13:29 (eighteen years ago)

...and a lot better than looking like Rab C Nesbitt, no doubt ;)

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 9 March 2007 13:34 (eighteen years ago)

The things Ed sends are always so mysterious! No title on the file. Could be anything. BETTER NOT BE JAZZ.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 13:41 (eighteen years ago)

"I think she betrays her time and I'm always gob smacked by what she ignored," says Celia Brayfield, author and lecturer at Brunel University. "She focused on such a narrow strain of human reality. Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't the Napoleonic War going on at the time when she was writing, she doesn't mention it."

I think Celia Brayfield betrays her time and I'm always gob smacked by what she ignores. She focuses on such a narrow strain on human reality, only talking about Jane Austen! Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the war in Iraq going on at the time when she was writing? She doesn't mention it.

― G00blar, Friday, 9 March 2007 13:45 (eighteen years ago)

Also, lol at "ex-editor of Nuts magazine" being the only sane commentator on JANE BLOODY AUSTEN.

― G00blar, Friday, 9 March 2007 13:46 (eighteen years ago)

Also, Austen certainly mentions the war, but the way that a civilian would have experienced it - massing of soldiers (and officers!!!) along the South Coast. The knowledge of it certainly informs and affects many of the actions.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

hellos! it r lunchtime! what did i miss?

― emsk, Friday, 9 March 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

Nothing. Everything R boring today. :-(

Where are you working today? Any pop stars ring up yet?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

we just had someone shout "FREE CRISPS!" coz, lo, and (probably) behold, there is a big cardboard fuck-off box chock-full of bags of Walkers Salt & Vinegar in the kitchen!

Stampede!

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 9 March 2007 14:04 (eighteen years ago)

i am workin at The Lovely Place

am gonna be on my oooooown all afternoon cos they're all off to some industry schmoozefest an an hour or so

― emsk, Friday, 9 March 2007 14:05 (eighteen years ago)

You missed some sendspaces. I don't have your email but Kate can pass em along if you're interested.
Or if anyone else wants them then tell me your email addys.

Maybe we could have a sendspace tree. And everyone who wants in on it can be and we just send it all to one another (though sendspace notification seems to be buggered, but it can just be sent by email once album is uploaded)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 9 March 2007 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

Now you know that's getting very close to board-wide why ess aye banned discussion!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

I thought it was only actual links that were banned?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 9 March 2007 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

I don't want to risk it, people already hate the 'Cooler, don't want to give them any excuse to shut it down.

If everyone else is away schmoozing, does that mean you can play on THE INTERWEB all afternoon, Emsk?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

Probably best to try and keep mp3 trading out of sight if possible, Kerr. Don't want the riaa landing on ptw.

― Pashmina, Friday, 9 March 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

I understood you up to the point when you said 'Kerr'.

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 9 March 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

Well then people can leave their emails to sign up for cookie trading then...

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 9 March 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

Now you've lost me

― Tom D., Friday, 9 March 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

Mmmm, cookies. ::droools::

Argh, I want giant chocolate double chocolate chip cookies. And a cup of coffee. God good, I'm pre-menstral, no wonder. Maybe I should just go and get the cookies. I need to get cash for tonight anyway, might as well get it at Sainsburys.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

I have your cookie trading email

btw who would've thought that the Britpop thread would turn out so good.
kate, are Flowers Of Hell british?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 9 March 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, British. Though their guitarist has a non-English accent, not sure where from, tho, possibly Canadian? Emsk would know where they were from. Emsk?

No, I want real cookies. I will probably end up in a coma if I eat that much sugar but I don't care.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

people already hate the 'Cooler

It's been great lately. No fighting at all this week!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 9 March 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

you'd like it in this office. always plenty of free food of various kinds, inc cookies. It is said that an employee could live off free food here quite easily.

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 9 March 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

We just got brought doughnuts,

― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

Krispy Kreme?

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 9 March 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

My mum got me a bag of 5 jam doughnuts from Asda for 58p. Lots of jam in them too.
YUM

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 9 March 2007 14:40 (eighteen years ago)

I bought TRULY INDULGENT COOKIES (like the ones we had a rehearsal last week) and it turns out that everyone in the office has has such a big lunch that no one wants them!

If I eat all four, I'm going to die. Probably from exploding.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.dragons.cc/

Touring band lineup includes david francolini, christian hayes and laurence o'keefe. holy shit!

― Pashmina, Friday, 9 March 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

No, not very good ones at all, but still, free doughnuts

― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

But you will die happy.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 9 March 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

HOOOOOOORAY I AM DONE TEACHING FOR THE DAY.

Woot!

― G00blar, Friday, 9 March 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

That Dragons site just totally fucked with my browswer, argh. :-(

Ohmigod now coffee. I have just read in the Reformation book that one of the Protestant revolutions was inspired by a group of Protestants eating sausages during Lent, so I'm having coffee. Next, 95 theses nailed to the Moderator Request Board.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha ha, my mother just sent me this email that was totally imcomprehensible until I realised she was replying to my PS about the NHS, no the email about the Church of England.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

And I second the recommendation for '45', it's awesome squared. Best bits are the chapter on the M25 and the one with him wandering around a shopping centre. And Ba Ba Ga, which still breaks my heart.

― The Wayward Johnny B, Friday, 9 March 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

Huh, I've read the bit about him wandering around the M25 with Ian Sinclaire for London Orbital.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

I feel like I'm on drugs now, this is great. If I eat another cookie, will I die?

A ha ha ha, it is not Jazz, it is Atilla the Stockbroker, alright.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

for me the best things are
when he's in the library, commenting on the ppl he sees and reading all the signs out like a kid

when he's using his kids as slave labour and putting the records in their sleeves in Scandanavia

when he's handing out the Tennents Super to the homeless ppl on New Year's Eve and getting into an argument with the homeless charity ppl

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

I've not read 45, but has anyone here read Bad Wisdom, the one he did with Zodiac Mindwarp about travelling to the North Pole with a cardboard cut-out of Elvis trying to find the lost chord, and lesbian pirates with chainsaws and... er... stuff?

― emil.y, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:04 (eighteen years ago)

It looks like francolini has uploaded a shitload of dark star and levitation footage to youtube very recently. Happy day for me, eh.

― Pashmina, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

the one he did with Zodiac Mindwarp about travelling to the North Pole with a cardboard cut-out of Elvis trying to find the lost chord, and lesbian pirates with chainsaws and... er... stuff?

No, I haven't read it yet, but errr... Bill Drummond, be mine? Please? I love you.

Damn, why are all the good folksongs all written by the WRONG SIDE. I'm sick of Diggers and Levellers and the like. I want me some nice Cavalier ballads.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

If everyone else is away schmoozing, does that mean you can play on THE INTERWEB all afternoon, Emsk?

sadly no, i have some ticket stuff to do as am doing 2x ppl's jobs... i can drop in and out tho

Emsk would know where they were from. Emsk?

london afaik. gregg is from SPACE.

it turns out that everyone in the office has has such a big lunch that no one wants them!

If I eat all four, I'm going to die. Probably from exploding.

oh, i will be able to help you with that...

― emsk, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

but has anyone here read Bad Wisdom, the one he did with Zodiac Mindwarp about travelling to the North Pole with a cardboard cut-out of Elvis trying to find the lost chord, and lesbian pirates with chainsaws and... er... stuff?

Nope. Good?

Pirates for kate!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

Please send excess non-jelly donuts to:

Mitya
Poorly ventilated office near espresso machine
Unremarkable office building
Moscow, Russia

― mitya, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

I haven't read Bad Wisdom, but I might have to. Lost chords and lesbian pirates with chainsaws, you can't go wrong.

― The Wayward Johnny B, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

I'm trying to stuff the excess cookies down the interweb for Emsk and Mitya but they keep crumbling when I try to put them in the CD-drive to rip them.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

Mitya, I was looking at the Pravda website earlier today. Pravda appears to have changed from a dour Communist mouthpiece to something approaching the National Enquirer.

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, it is good. It swaps between BD & Mark Manning, and their styles are very different - basically, after a chapter of Bill pontificating on some random theory of music, ZW comes in with "AAAAAGH, and then the leather-clad wenches attacked! Zombies! Nooo!". I recommend.

― emil.y, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

basically, after a chapter of Bill pontificating on some random theory of music, ZW comes in with "AAAAAGH, and then the leather-clad wenches attacked! Zombies! Nooo!". I recommend

STAY OUT OF MINE BRANE!!!!!

...and then the Marnie Stern just came on and I went YYYYEEEEARRRRRRHHHHHHH!!!!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

one of my mates' (or mate's, both work) sisters used to run the publishing company that published Mark Manning's books. Don't know what it was called; it was based in Brighton and I think it has closed down now.

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

I can send Marnie Stern cookies people ;)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

MARNIE STERN, MARNIE STERN, WHY DOES EVERYONE IN THE WORLD NOT BOW DOWN BEFORE YOU AND WORSHIP AT YOUR FEET?!?!?!? You wanna talk Shangri-Las fronting Hawkwind? Fuck YEAH!!!!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

I thought I had got that into my iPod at lunch, but it does not apear to be after marky and XRS where it should be.

― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

Marnie Stern = what Shimura Curves would probably sound like if Emsk started playing drums for us. After we ate the carrot cake. I haven't heard this since the last time I was round FMM's and I had forgotten how YES!!! YES!!! YES!!!! it was.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

Gosh, I've hardly been on ILX at all lately. I just keep popping onto the 'cooler to say "hello! I'm FP!" and vanishing again.

Hello! Afternoon! It's one of those lazy nothing-much-happening Friday afternoons here. I am supposed to be sending an All Staff Email about the stupid legal disclaimers we're adding to our emails from Monday - I installed the infrastructure for that, MimeDefang on top of sendmail, and I'm not proud - but my boss hasn't signed it off yet.

― Forest Pines, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

Can we return to this slogan.

[quote]I USED TO LOVE THE PIPETTES UNTIL SHIMURA CURVES MADE ME DEAF[/quotes]

― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

verdompt

― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, oh noes, iLiKETRAiNS are shaving their beards off! noes!!!!

Before:

http://myspace-223.vo.llnwd.net/00849/32/27/849087223_l.jpg

After:

http://a684.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/44/l_cdb6586ee1a07ead5738854ad8b20ddb.jpg

I hope it's for charity or something.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

Anyway, let's do a Hawkwind cover at the HDIF gig. I just want to see the jaws drop.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

OPKALOPKA

― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

Can I turn that slogan into a badge?

― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

Gahhh, I'm trying to d/l some Marnie Stern now, but it's being stupidly slow. You should definitely do Hawkwind - back before we had a drummer & flautist we used to swap instruments & dick around in the practice rooms playing 'Silver Machine'.

― emil.y, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

Where are you based, emil.y?

― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

I once played bass on a soundcheck of "Silver Machine" at the Barrowlands - not with Hawkwind unfortunately!

― Tom D., Friday, 9 March 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

I'm in Nottingham (UK, obviously).

― emil.y, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

do you have myspace, emil.y?

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

Aye

― emil.y, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

I am formulating a plan. I need to talk to some lynchpins but I think I can work out a good weekend for all of those who want to space rock out like it's 1972.

― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, I thought we were MySpace friends already, emil.y but I have just friended you.

Ed, I kinda don't want to reinforce any kind of associations with the P1p3tt3e$, even just joking ones.

I did actually block out the backing sequence for a cover of Silver Machine, but was never allowed to play it, except once before soundcheck at the Spiral Scratch gig. Thing is, I don't actually think that most tweekids would get a Hawkwind cover, even if it was something obvious.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

So no polkadot dress for me then?

― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

Friends! Oh, I feel so popular. I love you all!

― emil.y, Friday, 9 March 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

ACtually, Ed in a polkadot dress would be SOOO funny that it might just be OK. Alright, maybe we can come out dressed all in matching twee polkadot dresses and come out and do some fingersnaps and some handclaps and dancing in unison, then suddenly launch into MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE and rip off our polkadot dresses to reveal silver spacesuits!

Or, erm, something.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

What you need are some trousers like these:

http://l.yimg.com/www.flickr.com/images/spaceball.gif

― Tom D., Friday, 9 March 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

That images seems not to work.

― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

Those are very small trousers.

Now we have to play Nottingham, so that we can get emil.y onstage on rockenspiel and welding goggles. ;-)

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

Try again:

http:///www.flickr.com/images/spaceball.gif

― Tom D., Friday, 9 March 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

Bah!

― Tom D., Friday, 9 March 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

emil.y youre on last fm arent you? I can send you some marnie stern "cookies" there if you want

and ed, those badges would rule.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

Dada, that's non-linkable, just post the link for the whole page the photo is on.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

You could come play at my mum's house, so I could get my cat to play synthesizer...

― emil.y, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, but will your cat play THE SYMPHONY OF SPACE?!?!? ;-)

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/162/415615204_6bae368661.jpg?v=0

― Tom D., Friday, 9 March 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

Ta-dah!

― Tom D., Friday, 9 March 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

YESSSSSS....

― emil.y, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

Erm, that was to the Symphony of Space thing... but it'll do in answer to those trousers too.

― emil.y, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

Ohmigod, those are the best trousers ever! We should all wear them! And beards like that.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

i basically have those in all black (see above).

― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

emil.y check your last fm messages.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

The other possiblity is the trousers Gene Clark's wearing on the back of "No Other"... they're startling

― Tom D., Friday, 9 March 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, wonderful, thank you. I'd better be off as I have to go meet the mister at the pub in a bit. After never really having looked in the watercooler threads before, they do strike me as a nice place to be. I'll be back...

― emil.y, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

Kate> did you get the new young gods album? Salaryman? Baikal?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

Excellent, I hope you hang around, emil.y!

Kerr, dude, I can only listen to one album at a time! I am still on Marnie Stern, and will get to Salaryman later.

It really helps if you give me a little description of what they sound like.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

Then it's not a surprise!!! (you liked Trans Am , yeah? That's a clue)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

They are actually in a better known full time band. They once recorded with Albini and I believe they did have an album out in the late 80s on Creation.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

The new Young Gods and Holy McGrail albums are excellent.

Holy McGrail Website

Holy McGrail Myspace

Julian Cope Is A Fan

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

http://myspace-539.vo.llnwd.net/00833/93/51/833531539_m.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

Holy McGrail was in T.C. Lethbridge, right?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't get any of that. :-(

We forgot to play Ned T.C. Lethbridge last night - unless you played it after I left? Or did you just get sucked in the Mighty Boosh?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

Probably. He has collaborated with Soma (stephen o'malley, julian cope and loads more)
He's also part of Slomo.
Check those dvdrs for Holy McGrail and Slomo. I'm sure I put them on.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

He never heard it, I have to do the thing we don't talk about with some other cookies so I will add that as well.

We did paly some more tunes between episode, but I can't remember what, I fell asleep during the spirit of Jazz.

― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

ok! now i can ponce around on the interweb! the ticketperson came back...

― emsk, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't put them on the dvdrs? Damn I thought I did

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

God, I wish you'd made me an index for the DVDs... finding anything is nearly impossible. Shall look under H and Mc.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:00 (eighteen years ago)

and Slomo

they could be on any of them though

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:01 (eighteen years ago)

I KNOW!!!

Actually, the first 3 or 4 are in alphabetical order. Yes, Holy McGrail is on disc 3. Phew.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:03 (eighteen years ago)

Not too bad then. Slomo probably won't be beside it though.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:05 (eighteen years ago)

Curses, I am stuck in the office for a while.

― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

Marnie Stern gets described as Deerhoof meets Hella. I love Hella, but I never liked deerhoof.
Hella meets Melt Banana sounds more like it1

Kate on those dvdrs did i send you Crime In Choir? I hope I did. You wold love that.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

Deerhoof? eh? Do you know what it sounds like to me? Like "Crunching Down On The Skull Of A Newt" by Chrome Hoof played at 45.

Anyway, I like Holy McGrail, quite predictably.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

Saved by a SATA RAID controller.

― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

I thought you would like Holy McGrail. And If it's there, I'm sure you will like Crime In Choir.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

He = teh cuet, as well. Aaaah, dirty dronerock boys. Does Copey just keep a collection of them?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

[Removed Illegal Link] You can see what music you have in common.

Your musical compatibility rating with McGrailia is:
Super

You share many artists in common, including Melvins, Boris, Six Organs of Admittance, Funkadelic, and EARTH.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

What's the real link?

Unless it's some kind of last.fm thing in which case I can't do it. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:34 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.last.fm/user/McGrailia/

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:34 (eighteen years ago)

you can browse his charts top artists and have a look though and see

http://www.last.fm/user/McGrailia/charts/?charttype=overall&subtype=artist

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha, see that's the thing, any musicians' top chart is going to be themselves, because you spend so much time listening to yr rough mixes and stuff in iTunes.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:37 (eighteen years ago)

Whoa, one of the weirdest things about last.fm is being able to see that people still listen to bands you used to be in years and years ago. Wargh!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:41 (eighteen years ago)

Is anyone at all going to see the Lee Shores at Night of the Long Swords tomorrow? It's on Old Street, under El Paso. I tend to get teh ph34r about going all that way on mine own on a Saturday night. I'll go to the Windmill by myself, but going all the way to Old Street by myself, ooh, I might stay home and make drones in my living room.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:56 (eighteen years ago)

Would come if I were here.

Kick me about photocopying the camp calendar for you.

― Ed, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:58 (eighteen years ago)

How many bands on his list did you like then, Kate?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 9 March 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)

Quite a few.

OK, this weekend I am setting myself the task of making basic Krautrock compilations for Ed and Joe.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 18:24 (eighteen years ago)

Soap Shop Rock, Mother Sky, Hero, Viva?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 9 March 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

Also, I've got to figure out something to eat for lunch next week which is NOT curry.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 18:37 (eighteen years ago)

Anyway, I'm off. Have a good weekend.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 9 March 2007 18:40 (eighteen years ago)

Awesome shirt
http://www.stonerrock.com/store/images/covers2/ATH-4187_t.jpg

Long sleeve black T-shirt with glow in the dark prints.
Right sleeve print "Drop Out of Life With Bong in Hand".
Left sleeve print "Follow the Smoke Toward the Riff Filled Land".
Back print "Dopesmoker".
Front print as pictured.

Only thing is, i'm a non-smoker.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 10 March 2007 01:22 (eighteen years ago)

YEAH YEAH we do not have to move out of our house hurrah! the lovely landlady is gonna rent a room in her flat upstairs to the brazilian's friend so we can still all live together. i am ridicuously happy about this and have spent the past 3 hours starting to (yesh... starting to... i am v messy) tidy my room as a result. yeeha!

― emsk, Saturday, 10 March 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

and Lovely Work want me all week next week and half of the next one yay...

― emsk, Saturday, 10 March 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

Eating oranges, an exchange:

Me: It'd be great if all fruits were named after their color, like oranges. A banana would just be called a yellow.
K: What would pears be called?
Me: Um....goldens
K: What about yellow apples?
Me: Yellows, of course.
K: But what about bananas?
Me: Dammit.

― G00blar, Saturday, 10 March 2007 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

obviously the colours should be named after the fruits. you got the orange the wrong way around!

― emsk, Sunday, 11 March 2007 00:31 (eighteen years ago)

Hullo all. Am back in California.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 11 March 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

That was quick.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 11 March 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

Actually longer than a straight flight would have been (had to go through Dallas), but I'm not home home, just in SF at my sister's place.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 11 March 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

Getting looked after with meals and drinks I hope!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 11 March 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

K: You know, when I eat bagels I kind of think that you are the chosen people.

― G00blar, Monday, 12 March 2007 00:03 (eighteen years ago)

morning! GOD, dhl are a bunch of USELESS FUCKWITS.

― emsk, Monday, 12 March 2007 09:03 (eighteen years ago)

Morning. Last week the watercooler was well behaved and no arguments, let's hope it lasts!

What's DHL done now?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 12 March 2007 09:16 (eighteen years ago)

This weekend was awesome, again.

Drinking with Ned etc. was great, great to meet you Dr C. Colonel Poo, etc. etc. Only saw TISSP on the road after I left.

I turned up at camp very merry and got stuck into the Gin, port, ale and found the bottle of Rye I'd lost 2 weekends ago. Stumbled to bed, did something that I am slightly ashamed of, but no harm done.

Woke up drunk and worked all day with J. and we had a good long catchup. Had a nap later on and somehow revived to do it all again.

Left early because I had to come into the office and then joined the rolling walkers for the last bit of the walk before having a swift one in the Flask with some other friends.

Missions for this week, order pickup mando from David K.

Work out what it was that Emsk and I wanted to do on saturday, besides cycling. (Kate, you may also have been involved in this plan, but neither of us can remember what it was)

Go to Belgium and chill the fuck out for a couple of days.

― Ed, Monday, 12 March 2007 09:44 (eighteen years ago)

Saturday? What were we going to do Saturday? Box Hill? I can't remember either. Nothing written in my diary.

Blargh, I've had a long weekend of REST. Which was obviously much needed. Saturday I decided not to go to NOTLS so that I could be nice and rested up for the walk on Sunday, so I stayed in bed and read the newspaper and then read about the Black Death in Scotland and started City of Quartz as well. Oh, I managed to make a Krautrock comp which balances the well known and the slightly obscured, I hope. Will send that over shortly to Ed and J.

Sunday I woke up and felt awful, but staggered to the train station anyway to find that there were no trains. Tried to get a bus but had to wait for ages for one, then when I got on it, it went out of service early. Got on another one, and that one waited for hours at the top of Streatham Hill while they changed drivers. So in the end it took me 45 minutes to get from my house to Brixton and at that point I was feeling so exhausted and crampy from period that I just turned around and went back to bed. I'm sorry, I hope the walk was good anyway.

Spent another few hours sleeping then got up and started working on the Elektrickometheorie track - after a couple of minutes it sounded so much like The Spangle Maker that I decided to just turn it into a cover. My poor neighbours.

What on earth can one do in bed to be ashamed of? Wetting the sheets?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 10:17 (eighteen years ago)

Shame may be the last vestiges of winter blowing away. I may tell, but not in a message board and not in the light.

― Ed, Monday, 12 March 2007 10:35 (eighteen years ago)

I looked at Holy McGrail's myspace, and I find it impossible to believe that I have not met him at some point.

― Ed, Monday, 12 March 2007 10:37 (eighteen years ago)

Kate & G00blar - this is what I was wibbling about trying out on Friday

Fender Esquire

It says how the switching works - what they describe as 'more top-end sparkle', I'd call 'the sound of civilisations crumbling' .

― Dr.C, Monday, 12 March 2007 10:44 (eighteen years ago)

"Top end sparkle" ha ha ha ha ha. OK, I could do with some of that.

But my next guitar is not going to be another Fender.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 10:50 (eighteen years ago)

Also, I have ended up with someone else's headphones, same as mine, but much less old and debilitated and I have fallen in love with them all over again. Bass is all tight and punchy, subtly reinforced, everything clear.

― Ed, Monday, 12 March 2007 10:59 (eighteen years ago)

OK, this comp is just too big to be sent in one go, so it's coming in two parts. Bloody krautrock songs, all 10 minutes long.

Track listing, for those of you who want to complain WHY DID YOU PUT *THAT* IN... and want to complain about omissions etc.

1) Hallogallo - NEU!
2) Ruckzuck - Kraftwerk
3) Pinch - Can
4) Deluxe (Immer Weider) - Harmonia
5) Surrounded by the Stars - Amon Duul 2
6) Krautrock - Faust
7) Next Time See You At The Dalai - Guru Guru
8) La Dusseldorf - La Dusseldorf
9) Hero - NEU!
10) She Brings The Rain - Can

(Yeah, I should have put on Mother Sky or Halleluwah instead of Pinch, but those songs are both, like 20 minutes long!)

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 11:12 (eighteen years ago)

Hurrah, I can listen to this as I speed through Vlaanderen.

― Ed, Monday, 12 March 2007 11:15 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, perfect for driving or listening to on a train. Especially if the landscape is very flat and monotonous.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 11:17 (eighteen years ago)

I predict you will like Can and Amon Duul best, mainly because the Amon Duul track features what appears to be a banjo solo. (Please correct me if I'm wrong, Dada.)

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 11:19 (eighteen years ago)

Can I have a copy too?

(G'Morning)

― G00blar, Monday, 12 March 2007 11:33 (eighteen years ago)

Please feel free also to intersperce all the umlauts over all the vowels that need be. (Amon Duul has two, take that Motorhead!)

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 11:36 (eighteen years ago)

damn the ILX search is not giving me what I want

― Ed, Monday, 12 March 2007 11:39 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha, if you want a good giggle, try and look up Cocteau Twins lyrics on the interweb!

(I was absolutely flummoxed by the last bit, but now I may go and re-record it.)

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 11:52 (eighteen years ago)

Oh man, I'm still totally unprepared (I'm guessing) for my seminar at 2, but I can't bring myself to really prepare more. I feel like going in there and telling the students that I have bronchitis and have lost my voice, so they're all going to have to talk for two hours while I sort of guide the conversation.

― G00blar, Monday, 12 March 2007 12:17 (eighteen years ago)

.. by semaphore

― Ed, Monday, 12 March 2007 12:18 (eighteen years ago)

Don't joke about losing your voice. Sande (who some of you lot know from the Memory Machine) has got a nodule on her vocal chords and can't talk for SIX MONTHS. Argh!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 12:20 (eighteen years ago)

Hello! Morning! Everyone have a good weekend, then?

― Forest Pines, Monday, 12 March 2007 12:20 (eighteen years ago)

Morning? Not by about 20 minutes there, FP!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 12:24 (eighteen years ago)

OH GOD I HATE WHEN THEY HAVE THE WINDOWS OPEN, DECLICIOUS SMELLS EMMANATE FROM THE PUB DOWNSTAIRS!!!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 12:28 (eighteen years ago)

Ugh, after my first day of Sainsburys "super-natural" ready meals, I am almost ready to start eating mine own curry again.

They make them so they smell good, but there isn't much in the way of taste. This lentil canelloni bean thing tastes overwhelmingly of the lemon juice they used to "preserve" the fresh veg.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:17 (eighteen years ago)

I have been walking around with these cans on and I CAN HEAR THE DRUMS and not just rhythm and all the notes.

― Ed, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:22 (eighteen years ago)

I have found a stereo for the watercooler

http://images.akihabaranews.com/news_pics/13432/HT752TP_1.jpg

― Ed, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:25 (eighteen years ago)

Considering the previous conversation, it took me a moment to realise that you were not talking about walking around with Malcolm Mooney perched on top of your head.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:25 (eighteen years ago)

Also, Sande can't talk!?!?! Wow.

― Ed, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:26 (eighteen years ago)

x-post it took me a moment to realise where I'd seen that stereo before...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/cd/PBlaster.JPG/180px-PBlaster.JPG

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:27 (eighteen years ago)

Afternoon FP.

I had a great weekend. No real damage from the excellent FAP, apart from smoking too much. I am going to stop, for all time, on April 1st. You read it here first. To assist me I am demanding that the world supplies of menthol cigarettes be destroyed and that production be ceased on that date. I re-discovered the glory of menthol ciggies on Saturday, sadly, num num num. The missus smokes them occasionally and happened to have some handy as we cowered in terror in the garden as the boy's 14th birthday sleepover party thing raged on in the house. Actually there were only 6 of them and they were all v. polite and nice, but jeez they didn't half make a racket. And they DIDN'T GO on Sunday. We discovered that one was still in the house around 7.30 yesterday evening, just as we were about to eat. But the main thing is that the boy had a good time, which he assures me that he did. He's starting to get presents that I WANT now - one of his mates bought him a phaser pedal, which despite being a Behringer is quite good. Also a book about Led Zeppelin.

I have a couple of interesting days. Tomorrow - recording the final 3 trax for Band #1's album. Tomorrow and Saturday's gig might be enough for me. I'm going to see how much I enjoy it, or not.

Then on Wednesday I have to discuss teh NEW JOB, that I mentioned a while back, with the powers that be. This might be a chance to do something more creative.

― Dr.C, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:27 (eighteen years ago)

I AM A MORAN AND SHOULD BE SHOT

― emsk, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:28 (eighteen years ago)

You are not a moran and there is no way on this earth that you should be shot, Emsk. Except out of a giant cannon propelling you on a HOLIDAY TO THE MOON. But otherwise, no.

What's wrong?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:29 (eighteen years ago)

Why is that?

Also was Dr C who/what we were going to do on Saturday?

― Ed, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:31 (eighteen years ago)

yes! that was it, we were going to go see Fractured.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

Emsk, shortly?

http://www.spacefuture.com/archive/images/the_future_of_space_tourism.1.gif

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:35 (eighteen years ago)

You're not going to tell us? OK, in that case, I'm just going to amuse myself posting pictures of Bill Drummond and sheep.

http://www.sathnam.com/images/23t.jpg

http://www.trancentral.ru/pix00/03_general/bj02.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:43 (eighteen years ago)

How about Bill Drumond on the moon?

http://www.panoptika.net/por_bill_drummond.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:45 (eighteen years ago)

Ed, Kate - teh Fractured is this Saturday coming (17th).

― Dr.C, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:46 (eighteen years ago)

yes. Emsk and I were talking yesterday and puzzling as to what we had forgotten we were going to do next Saturday.

Do you have hot female fans?

― Ed, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:48 (eighteen years ago)

Will there be sheep involved?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flock_of_sheep.jpg/399px-Flock_of_sheep.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:48 (eighteen years ago)

fractured! yes.

i missed 1x tiny thing which is actually 1x enormous thing - scanning an email for the info i'd requested, only looking at that and not the rest of it and thus missing HUGE GLARING PROBLEM LOOMING. it is all ok but i feel like - am - a complete fucking IDIOT.

― emsk, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:52 (eighteen years ago)

Afternoon, then. I had a lovely weekend, partly because I spent all of it with Herself - walks on the beach, shopping in Hull, and lots of lazing about doing nothing much at all really.

― Forest Pines, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:53 (eighteen years ago)

**Do you have hot female fans?**

Oh yeah, ~~loads and loads~~ a few.

― Dr.C, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:55 (eighteen years ago)

What about the sheeeep? Isn't it lambing season either now or very very soon? Where are the gambolling lamblings?!?!?

http://www.milkandhoneyfarm.com/sheep/images/three_happy_sheep.jpe

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:57 (eighteen years ago)

oh, dhl. o2 sent my new phone via them (WHY DO I NEVER REMEMBER TO TELL THEM NOT TO DO THAT) and they only deliver in work hours while i am AT WORK and not on saturdays except for a fee and i tried to get through to them to either wheedle them into a freebie saturday delivery or ask them to deliver to work address, and i have spent at least an hour and a half over the last week, at up to 20 or 25 minutes a time, holding and listening to their FUCKING APPALLING hold music and have NOT EVEN MANAGED TO SPEAK TO ANYONE. gargh.

i mean, at least my mistake was a genuine mistake and an anomaly, not DELIBERATE CUNTERY.

― emsk, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:00 (eighteen years ago)

x-post Shopping in Hull = the best ever street name "The Land Of Green Ginger".

Is Sydney Scarborough's record shop still around? I bet it's a mobile phone shop now. I used to go shopping with my mum in Hull every half-term. Lunch at Hammonds, fish from Monument Fisheries, tobacco for my Dad from the tobacconists just near the Land Of Green Ginger and back home on the Ferry.

― Dr.C, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:00 (eighteen years ago)

dr c are there cheapie flyers for saturday?

― emsk, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:12 (eighteen years ago)

The fecking set-list discussions have started by e-mail now. O kill me now. My agenda, as ever, is to get me playing guitar on as many as possible. At least I'm honest about it.

― Dr.C, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:12 (eighteen years ago)

emsk - there are no cheapie flyers I am almost certain, because the proceeds of the gig are going to a hospice. The wife of the headliners singer has recently been diagnosed with cancer, so I have been told.

I will check, but I think that's the situation.

― Dr.C, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:22 (eighteen years ago)

er, that's fine then!

― emsk, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

You are right about the best ever street name, Dr C. I take visitors to see it specially. The tobacconists is still there, I think, but I dunno about the record shop. They are tearing down the big concrete 1960s frontage to Paragon Station at the moment. Some time I mean to go down to the pier and take photos of the building that was Hull Corporation Pier Station - ie, the British Rail ferry terminal.

― Forest Pines, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

i like the fish in the pavements in hull.

― emsk, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

oh BALLS i can't come on saturday after all. just checked diary and i'm already booked that eve. can still do bikeride in daytime tho...

― emsk, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

oh Balls! Do still come Kate and Ed and bring ~~menthol cigarettes~~ lots of friends!

― Dr.C, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

Hello hello hello. I am, regrettably, sick. London gave me the disease, I fear. :-/

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

I will endeavour to bring others. If you can promise a supply of non-short, non-whingy, non-brummie men I may be able to bring at least one more.

― Ed, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

I've given up asking if there will be pointy nosed boys at gigs. The answer is, there will, but none of them will be willing to even talk to me. (Unless, of course, they stumble in by mistake and know no one else in the room, and they can't find any pretty girls to talk to, which nearly shocked me off my chair on Friday night.)

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

Oh why oh why did I read that thread. I knew it was a mistake. I've been so ... calm and content the past week or so. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

Good. I will try and provide as much total tall non-brummie hotness as possible.

― Dr.C, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

Pretty girls knocked you off your chair?

― Dr.C, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

Hello hello hello. I am, regrettably, sick. London gave me the disease, I fear. :-/

Look what London did to Papa Smurf!
http://badgas.co.uk/griffnut/gay_papa_smurf.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:04 (eighteen years ago)

No, the fact that someone actually chose to talk to me (something he never does when there are pretty girls in the room) knocked me off my chair.

Oh fuck it, there's no making a funny out of it. It's time to go and be miserable again.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

God, this Arcade Fire album is just so boring. I can't get my head around it, it slips off my ears.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

I have not heard, but I am instantly suspicious of anything that is advertised on the Tube.

― Ed, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

Robitussin!

― Mark G, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

Most of my youthful musical prejudices have gone now, but that one seems to have endured.

― Ed, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

no it is ACES! nonstop anti-capitalist anti-organised-religion anti-consumerist-americanism diatribe all wrapped up in loneliness and drums.

― emsk, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

hmm, can you lend it to me.

― Ed, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

I don't listen to lyrics. And the music is BORING with a capital Blah.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.guitarexperience.co.uk/html/index.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=7

They will repair Jazzy, Kate.

The shop is in Hampton Wick, but is only just past Kingston Bridge, and is only 5 mins walk from the shops in Kingston. Or it's right next to Hampton Wick railway station.

It's where they have the Vox hottness, so beware.

― Dr.C, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks. I probably won't do it until I'm about to have the operation as otherwise I don't think I could go very long without a guitar.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

James is looking to sell his ovation acoustic.

― Ed, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

Is it a 12-string?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

Only 6. He prefers his nylon pickup-less one.

― Ed, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

are "ovations" a bit ovine?

― Forest Pines, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

The Arcade Fire album is good!

So are the Salaryman and Young Gods Albums! HURRAH!!!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

God, this Arcade Fire album is just so boring. I can't get my head around it, it slips off my ears.

yes, Arcade Fire suffer from Difficult Second Album Syndrome in the way Bloc Party most definitely do not/

The best track by far on the new Arcade Fire is No Cars Go - which I have anyway!

The rest of the songs are monotonous - one thing the vast majority of those on Funeral defintiely aren't.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

are "ovations" a bit ovine?

is a standing ovation a sheep on its hind legs?

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

I don't really see the point of non-12 string acoustics. They just invite the wibble.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

Also, I'm hungry, which isn't helping matters. That lunch was not adequate. Well, actually, it was, but I've been stuffing myself for the past week - HUUUUGE plate of curry and then free sammiches - that a little tiny portion of lentils just isn't doing it for me. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

Kate> did i put Black Boned Angel and Birchville cat Motel on your dvdrs?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

I'm starting to think about buying a jazzmaster myself @ the moment. Help.

― Pashmina, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

Yes. I didn't bring them to work today, though.

OK, I have got to go and get some supplemental food. What can I eat that is not ridiculously junk food?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

Yoghurt covered flapjacks?

― Mark G, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

Oh man, that Louis ipod ILM thread...

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

bunnies and flowers, bunnies and flowers

― Ed, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

That Passatino geezer is a real piece of work though.

― Dr.C, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

There is no food available for love nor money around here. Took me half an hour to get a few shreds of salad and a flapjack. :-(

I'm not particularly enamoured of LJ's schtick, but Passatino is a vile excuse for a human being.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

I'm hungry now.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

I promised Norman dvdrs ages ago. I really need to start doing them.

Someday.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

None of it is what I really wanted, which was those little pasta bowties with pine nuts, spinach and mozarella.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

I ate too late. The headache and the crankiness are not lifting. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

How much peach beer do you want from belgium?

― Ed, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

Mmmmmm, peach beer. Can you carry about six of them?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

This hilariously bad album cover should NOT be wasted on the rolling metal thread.

http://www.limb-music.de/gfx/zandelle/cover_hires_vr.jpg
Can someone please photoshop B&S on that instead of the band?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

Oi! Belgians!

BEER AND FRUIT DO NOT MIX!

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

But ... but ... but ... Fruli!

― Forest Pines, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

no buts!

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

That is not a real album cover. Why are the band standing in the corner like wusses, rather than fighting the Beast themselves?

Unless that is the singer or whoever fighting the Beast.

Also, that one fist seems really disproportionate. Who does it belong to?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

I am going by motor vehicle so I can brings as much as you like and drop them off if I'm not back to late come thursday. I'll trade you for the LEAD if you like.

― Ed, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

I am not trading the LEAD for beer! No way! I might accept it as rent, though.

I'm worried about space in my fridge, which is still currently filled with pink wine. For the love of god, someone please drink all the pink wine in my fridge.

And no, Mark, this is a LEMBIC which means it is supreme yumminess with fruit.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

What on earth am I going to use for a bedroom table now?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

Not to be confused with an ALEMBIC, of course.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/Alembic.png

― Forest Pines, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

I could get you beer crates?

― Ed, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

What am I going to do once I've drunk all the beer in the crates, then?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

The crates are proper ones made of hard plastic. Throw a throw over the top, and hey presto...

― Ed, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

What does alembic do? Turn LEAD into gold? Ed is about to turn LEAD into beer! How's that for the philosopher's stone?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

Those plastic things are great for putting amps on top of, actually. Maybe I should move the AC-30 into the bedroom as my night stand. But I just like having a Marshall nightstand.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

They're used for distilling, I think.

― Forest Pines, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

I am yet to be convinced.

These Flemish types even know their fruity beer is wrong!

--- scene - 2003, me in De Hems ---

Curious Me: Could I have a pint of Kriek pls?

Barman: (narrowing eyes) Are you sure?

CM: yes

B: well, try it first (pours 5 fluid oz or so into pint glass and hands to me

(I imbibe)

(no longer C)M: (hands glass back) On second thoughts no thank you.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

I think the suprise was in you wanted a pink. Most belgian beers are for drinking by the 25cl.

― Ed, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

No, those Flemish types know that the English are stupid about fruity beer, so they do not want to waste a whole glass on someone when they could be DRINKING IT THEMSELVES.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

Nath to thread!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 12 March 2007 17:12 (eighteen years ago)

Now I want a nap. An hour and a half until I go home.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 17:12 (eighteen years ago)

A good time to have a nap then. You're not wasting your own time!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 12 March 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

I made it through my seminar (the last one!) and am home, relaxin'.

― G00blar, Monday, 12 March 2007 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

Finally every one else in the noisy noisy deparment (ANother auditor? We just had one last year!) has gone home, so it's not so bad now. I still have a headache, though.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

Today was a totally shit day on ILX, too. :-(

Ach, Mondays - they should be banned.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 17:46 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/news/tm_method=full%26objectid=18721578%26siteid=66633-name_page.html

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 12 March 2007 17:50 (eighteen years ago)

Boring, compared to LJ's lovelife.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 17:50 (eighteen years ago)

possibly should be emailed to him, that woman is not even remotely in the public eye.

― Ed, Monday, 12 March 2007 17:54 (eighteen years ago)

you have mail, kate

― Ed, Monday, 12 March 2007 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

The websites she uses are for the BDSM community - people into bondage, domination, sadism and masochism.

Among the sites she has used is informedconsent.co.uk - described as the UK's leading BDSM website with more than 98,000 filthy perverted weirdo members

Natasha also organises social gatherings, known as "munches", for like-minded individuals in Edinburgh.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 12 March 2007 17:58 (eighteen years ago)

Got it and replied, Ed.

Aw, jeez, who CARES, it's not like this woman is posting all over ILX about what she gets up to. Can't the Daily Mail find something else to get in a froth about?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not into bdsm at all beyond thinking that hott women sometimes look good in some of that gear, but I don't think someone being into this should ever be newsworthy in any way, I mean, loads of ppl are into bdsm, it's not even that unusual - it shouldn't be a big deal, and the daily rekkid are shits for running that story, I find it quite outrageous.

― Pashmina, Monday, 12 March 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.lolrider.com/omgwt/vengeance.jpg

― ken c, Monday, 12 March 2007 18:14 (eighteen years ago)

Kate> It wasn't the Daily Mail!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 12 March 2007 18:18 (eighteen years ago)

All tabloids are one in my eyes.

Maybe I should get a silly alternate identity, I'm feeling left out.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 18:18 (eighteen years ago)

Hello there!

I don't know that woman in the Daily Record - we exchanged emails about secondhand clarinet prices once, but that's all - but we have plenty of mutual acquaintances. And, yes, it's completely inexcusable for the paper to have exposed her like that - but it's all part of a long-running vendetta against her. Someone else on the scene - she says she has a good idea who - handed all her details to them on a plate, so it was a lazy story for them to cover.

― Forest Pines, Monday, 12 March 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not normally one in favour of privacy laws, but that article does make me think otherwise, there is not one jot of public interest there.

― Ed, Monday, 12 March 2007 18:23 (eighteen years ago)

It's certainly a shitty thing to do. I was surprised at The Daily Record for printing it.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 12 March 2007 18:23 (eighteen years ago)

The last few minutes of the day will not end. My god, I just want to take my headache home.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 18:24 (eighteen years ago)

I wonder what Ken C tried to post a pic of?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 12 March 2007 18:29 (eighteen years ago)

This day will not end... OH FINALLY!!!! Hurrah! I can go home.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

well, this day got drastically better. they are paying me more sometimes. hurrah!

― emsk, Monday, 12 March 2007 18:51 (eighteen years ago)

hurrah indeed.

― Ed, Monday, 12 March 2007 18:51 (eighteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v356/kenjuggle3/vengeance.jpg

― ken c, Monday, 12 March 2007 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

If that's the actual new cover then they've finally done something I like unreservedly.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 March 2007 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

hahahaha
AWESOME, KEN!!!

(p.s. that bloke at the back top right has a rather long neck)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 12 March 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

Morning all.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 08:29 (eighteen years ago)

BEER AND FRUIT DO NOT MIX!

we belgians know that, but we produce fruity beers for suckers like ed. ;-))))))
where are you going exactly, ed?

― nathalie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 09:38 (eighteen years ago)

Dendermonde, again, but staying in Aalst.

― Ed, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 09:39 (eighteen years ago)

you hate bruges. :-(

― nathalie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 09:41 (eighteen years ago)

I have always suspected that Nathalie.

see also Stella.

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 09:41 (eighteen years ago)

stella is just a regular beer here. still baffles me that they managed to sell it like it was a frigging natural coloured diamond outside belgium. see: hipsters thread, i guess.

― nathalie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 09:42 (eighteen years ago)

oh and i heart Bruges.

it's where I had Kwak for the first time. Beer and hourglasses definitely *do* mix :)

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 09:42 (eighteen years ago)

Tell whatever TV station you've got in Bruges to start buying kit off us and I'm there.

(If you are in the shop Thursday and I get away early enough, I could drop by for coffee, mail me)

― Ed, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 09:42 (eighteen years ago)

:-D Did you have it in the brewery? cause that's right around the corner from wherei live!

― nathalie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 09:43 (eighteen years ago)

thursday now? i'll see what i can do! but no coffee for me. ah shit, i think i have my doctor's apppointment in the afternoon. Boo. :-(

― nathalie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 09:43 (eighteen years ago)

I love Bruges, it's so pretty :)

Morning everyone, look at all this luverly sunshine again this morning! Spring really does seem to have sprung, and it's making me smile.

― C J, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 09:44 (eighteen years ago)

no it was in a bar which was slightly out of the old historic part of town - near a big river i think?

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 09:44 (eighteen years ago)

I couldn't believe how many frogs I saw on the way to work today!

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 09:44 (eighteen years ago)

Bah, however I am coming through belgium once every 4-6 weeks at the moment so I could make this work. I will probably be in Hasselt next month, not anywhere near you I know but Bruges is more or less on the way to everywhere in Belgium if you are coming from Calais.

― Ed, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 09:45 (eighteen years ago)

French people, or actual frogs?

― C J, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 09:45 (eighteen years ago)

Nathalie can't drink ! Have you heard her news?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 09:47 (eighteen years ago)

Ed, next time then! my email address is stevienixed at gmail.com

yeah, i'm pregnant. morning sickness is such a misnomer. i feel like CRAP. :-D

pub near a river? shit, can't think of one. ahh!!! was it on a small square or something? then i know!

― nathalie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 09:50 (eighteen years ago)

Incidentally what is the name of the local TV station in Bruges?

― Ed, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 09:52 (eighteen years ago)

Congrats to Nath!! (and Thom)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 09:52 (eighteen years ago)

ed, i think you mean focus, right? are you doing sth for them?

― nathalie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 09:52 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.focustv.be/

― nathalie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 09:53 (eighteen years ago)

No but we are doing an open day in Vilv0rde for all the regional TV stations we can grab and see if we can't get some more work there.

― Ed, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 09:55 (eighteen years ago)

I had all-day-long morning sickness which lasted more then 30 weeks in both of my pregnancies, Nath. I really sympathise. It's horrible. (I found that sipping Lucozade, the fizzy glucose drink, helped alleviate the nausea better than anything else).

― C J, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 09:57 (eighteen years ago)

did you know Lucozade used to be called Glucozade coz it had glucose in it? (presumably was changed coz they didn't want ppl thinking it had glue in it)

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:21 (eighteen years ago)

if only Babysham had.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:23 (eighteen years ago)

Because then we wouldn't have babyshambles?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:25 (eighteen years ago)

nothing sparkles
nothing sparkles
nothing sparkles like an Ickle Ibex

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:26 (eighteen years ago)

OK, ha ha ha, that B&S cover is funny.

I feel like crap. I am not pregnant. I am just stupid. Remember yesterday after lunch when I thought I was hungry due to rumbling stomach and headache? Erm, no. It was the first symptoms of food poisoning. Looked at the rest of the yoghurt drink I had for lunch - I thought it expired on the 2nd March - week out of date, but still drinkable, right? No. It expired on the 3rd February. Yoghurt really can go off. I've been on the ginger tea and rice pudding. Stomach is mostly OK now but headache has not lifted.

And I am jealous that Emsk sees Boris Johnson riding his bike so much and I never do. Bah.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:33 (eighteen years ago)

Urgh food poisoning sucks.

― G00blar, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:35 (eighteen years ago)

Emsk sees Boris Johnson riding his bike so much coz Emsk rides her bike so much?

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:35 (eighteen years ago)

She said he was wearing a red touque. (OK, she said woolly hat, but still.) I said RED!??!?! That's not very Tory, he should wear blue, the party tearaway him. What does he think he is, a bloody socialist?

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:37 (eighteen years ago)

I remember being at work and feeling FP coming on, I went round cancelling meetings still looking perfectly well/fine, but saying "I have to get home fairly quickly"

Got home, by then really bad.

rest of week off.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:40 (eighteen years ago)

Someone should make tshirts of that and you all wear them at the next Shimura Curves gig!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:41 (eighteen years ago)

I haven't actually vomited, only the little baby vomit in the mouth thing. Won't be fun when it reaches the other end. (TMI, sorry.)

It's the headache that is really bothering me, I have little tolerance for headaches.

Also, Emsk never sees Boris while cycling! She is usual pedestrian or on the bus or something!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:42 (eighteen years ago)

maybe he picked up a Labour mp's hat off the hat stand by mistake? This is the man who put campaign leaflets through the doors of houses that weren't in his constituency after all.

hope the headache clears soon Kate. You do seem to suffer from more than yr fair share of illness (not that illness is ever fair but you know what I mean).

I have just been visited by Chair Lady. Ok so that isn't her real job title, but she came up to my desk to investigate the back pains I have been suffering on a/c of my work chair. There is a bump in the back which is digging into my back and giving me pain. I have been assured that:

these are Special Ergonomic Chairs that cost 200 +squid and are Specially Designed Not To Give People Back Pain

I pointed out that my chair that I use when using the pooter at home has a comfy flat cushion on the back (identical to the one I sit on, on a/c of it being kind of chair which folds out --> camp bed) and that *never* gives me back pain. Puzzling answer from Chair Lady "just coz it's comfortable doesn't mean it's doing you good"

Cynically and possibly unwisely I remarked to Chair lady that so called ergonomic chairs made uncomfortable on purpose to stop employees falling asleep. Which of course *is* ergonomic, in a sense....

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:44 (eighteen years ago)

I remember being at work and feeling FP coming on

roffle! (sorry)

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:46 (eighteen years ago)

Have you got any tiger balm or similar to rub on your forehead? Also : sip water. Lots of headaches are due to dehydration!

Hope you feel better soon, Kate.

― C J, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:46 (eighteen years ago)

I'm a bit worried that FP came on to him at home

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:47 (eighteen years ago)

I drink so much water I'm surprised I'm not a fish. I've had a cup of tea this AM so it's not caffeine withdrawl. I've even had an ibuprofen (I never take such things unless I'm utterly desperate) but it's not doing any good.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:48 (eighteen years ago)

I miss x-post notifications

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:50 (eighteen years ago)

Massage the acupressure point between your thumb and index finger on your left hand, Kate.

― C J, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:57 (eighteen years ago)

anyway Chair Lady kept saying "I believe you have back pain" through our conversation, tho there seemed to be an unspoken subtext that nothing on earth was going to get me a new chair. The level of the back was adjusted "did you know it did this?" she asked, as if the lever on the side hadn't been clue enough over the last 3 years. I pointed out, not unreasonably I thought, that this would mean that the bumpy bit would simply be sticking in a different part of my back and cause me to have pain somewhere slightly lower. On her suggestion I moved my screen so it was at the centre of my desk rather than to the left.

We shall see....

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:00 (eighteen years ago)

I really, really hope tiger balm isn't made of tigers.

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:01 (eighteen years ago)

I would only really smear something on my forehead if it *was*made of tigers.

I have a cushion for my work chair, Mark, to stop all bumps and annoyances and it not supporting me where I need it. Cushions are way better than stupid arguments with ergonomic experts who think they know all about what you need. Also, my cushion is paisley, and no one ever ever nicks my chair because they know they would not get away with it.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:03 (eighteen years ago)

I may have some ginger tea.

(is it made from REAL GINGERS?!?!?!)

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:04 (eighteen years ago)

yes, Prince Harry and Mick Hucknall.

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:07 (eighteen years ago)

I think Prince Harry is quite cute, actually.

ARgh, I never noticed the sign on the microwave saying MICROWAVE LEAKAGE!!

When I was a child, I was convinced that you should never ever look at a microwave while it was cooking, or it would cook your eyes and turn them into hard boiled eggs.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:08 (eighteen years ago)

I am confused.

― Forest Pines, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:09 (eighteen years ago)

You can't remember ever being at Mark Grouts house?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:10 (eighteen years ago)

I think Prince Harry is quite cute, actually.

Takes after his father

― Tom D., Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:14 (eighteen years ago)

Which one? Natural one?

― nathalie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:15 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, he's the spitting image of Diana's brother, but hey, no Egnlish monarchs have been legitimate since Richard III or whatever.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:15 (eighteen years ago)

Edward the confessor was the last truly legit one.

― Ed, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:16 (eighteen years ago)

only monarchs born in Oxfordshire count.

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:17 (eighteen years ago)

Can't find pictures of him when he was younger, but...

http://www.meijsen.net/diana/images/broer.jpg

Ginger used to be rampant in the royal family in medieval to Tudorbethan times - when did they all get so boring? I suppose the Spencers are probably closer related to the Tudors than the current Royals, tho.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:19 (eighteen years ago)

Did you see that article in the Guardian last week about how the heir to the Bourbon throne is actually an Indian businessman?

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:20 (eighteen years ago)

actually there have been three kings born in Oxfordshire! Kings Richard I and John were born in Beaumont Palace here in Oxford, which became a white friars monastery for a while until the dissolution of the monasteries, when it was mostly pulled down and the stone used to build St John's and Christ Church Colleges. The last remaining bits of it were destroyed when Beaumont Street was widened in the 1820s.

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:23 (eighteen years ago)

when did they all get so boring?

When they let the Germans and Dutch take over

― Tom D., Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:23 (eighteen years ago)

Ah, yes, Mark, that was in my book about Eleanor of Aquitaine, yes!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:27 (eighteen years ago)

Beaumont Street these days is a kind of Oxford versh of Harley Street, full of private doctors and dentists.

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:28 (eighteen years ago)

the only effects of the Chair Lady's visit so far is that I can no longer see my colleague opposite's face, only his spiky hair.

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:30 (eighteen years ago)

Bah, pickup issues not resolved as David K unsure when pickup tamburlins are coming in although he has what he describes as a 'delivery damaged lionheart' which he may be able to cannibalise for me.

Sales to the states have been down because of the Dollar and that is 50% of his market, so dudes, buy some citterns.

― Ed, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:31 (eighteen years ago)

Delivery Damaged Lionheart = King Richard after being ransomed?

Oh, STOP CLICKING THE THREAD, YOU POXY FULE.

(Am talking to myself, why do I keep clicking the purple threads, even though I know they are rubbish? Because I want a new crush. Yet instead of new crushes on parade, I get endless moranism.)

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:37 (eighteen years ago)

I'll see what he says but I may end up going down the PUTW in the end.

― Ed, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:43 (eighteen years ago)

revivify an unsullied crush thread.

― Ed, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:43 (eighteen years ago)

I was all happy yesterday because I had run out of reports to do, but now my boss seems to have remembered a whole bunch she was supposed to brief me on. And I don't want to do *ANY* of them. They're all Oracle or ::glurgh:: Worksmart. Bah. I suppose I'll do the Rate Roll Offs.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:44 (eighteen years ago)

Hullo again. Am still sickish. Bleh.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 12:12 (eighteen years ago)

The Britishers made Ned poorly :( I apologise on behalf of my country.

― C J, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 12:18 (eighteen years ago)

It wasn't us, it was flying on the toothpaste tube of pestilence!

(I am sorry you are sick, Ned.)

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 12:19 (eighteen years ago)

it was flying on the toothpaste tube of pestilence!

Nah, unfortunately it WAS the UK. I started feeling raspy in the throat on Thursday. The toothpaste tube likely didn't help but I slugged down a lot of Airborne Virus pills in hope.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 12:21 (eighteen years ago)

I'm sure shouting in a smokey pub did not help.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 12:23 (eighteen years ago)

We're the Sick Man of Europe, and we've come to spread our germs

― Tom D., Tuesday, 13 March 2007 12:23 (eighteen years ago)

Lionheart is the bouzouki iirc?

I'm tempted to get one off him, but the chroma is going to be eating 500 quid in repair charges next month, so I'd better not!

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 12:26 (eighteen years ago)

I am so hungry because of the smells below. Would it be so wrong to eat mine lunch now? But I will be hungry again come 3pm! Argh.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 12:28 (eighteen years ago)

That said, ebay is calling:

one

two

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 12:29 (eighteen years ago)

I am so hungry because of the smells below

Is that a lyric in waiting or what?

― Tom D., Tuesday, 13 March 2007 12:31 (eighteen years ago)

I can imagine mark e smith singing that.

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 12:32 (eighteen years ago)

My schedule is all topsy-turvey at the moment. I've been getting up early, been walking extra, and now I want to be eating early. Even though I have brought less food. I wonder if I should just add a snack at about 3pm for this week, and then try to cut it out at a later date. Less food more frequently is better for you than one giant meal, right?

I want to eat my burritos tonight, though.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 12:37 (eighteen years ago)

Just thought I'd drop in and give my two penn'orth on fruit beer.

It is magnificent.

― unfished business, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 12:41 (eighteen years ago)

OK, this doesn't smell very good. I'm not excited. There has got to be a better way to go about lunch.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 12:44 (eighteen years ago)

Especially because I bring lunch from home because it's supposed to be cheaper, but these ready meals cost, like £3 or £4. I could get takeaway lunch for that!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 12:45 (eighteen years ago)

I think five or six small meals throughout the day are supposed to be better for you than the traditional breafast/lunch/dinner. Grazing stops you feeling hungry and deprived, and keeps your blood sugar more stable I think.

Good cheap lunches to bring from home = a tub of couscous topped with oven roasted vegetables, a flask of home made soup, or a potato to microwave-zap and top with grated cheese. Or get a cheap sandwich toaster to keep at work, and make lovely sizzling hot cheese and mushroom toasties!

― C J, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 13:02 (eighteen years ago)

Now I'm hungry.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 13:04 (eighteen years ago)

Feed a cold, and starve a fever.

― C J, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 13:04 (eighteen years ago)

Feed a Kate starve a Ned.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 13:07 (eighteen years ago)

I've tried bringing soup, but it invariably leaves me unsatisfied. Soup is just not a meal, it is a snack. I will eat it perfectly happily for supper, but for lunch it just leaves a big hole in me.

I wonder if I could assemble burritos at work, or it it would be too much work - I could heat up the refried beans in the microwave.

I wish I liked baked potatoes, but I just don't.

I need to learn to cook more things other than Curry (which I'm sick of) and Thing (which doesn't keep).

The problem is, if I tend to get something I like to eat at work, I eat it until I'm totally sick of it. Though maybe I could do hummus and pitta and tadizki and olives again. Or make insalata tricolore.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 13:08 (eighteen years ago)

Spread refried beans over a soft flour tortilla, top with some grated cheese (and a few jalapeno peppers if you like), and then place another tortilla on top. Fry gently on both sides in a little oil (it's easiest to slide it out onto a plate, put another dinner plate on top, flip it over, then slide it back into the frying pan ... it's fragile until it's cooked).

Leave to cool, cut into wedges and wrap in foil or pack in a plastic tub and take to work for lunch - just stick the wedges on a plate to reheat for a minute in the microwave. It's really filling, and extremely num.

― C J, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 13:14 (eighteen years ago)

But that's a quesadilla, not a burrito! Part of what makes a burrito num is the fresh stuff what goes in as well - the salsa, the guacamole, etc.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 13:17 (eighteen years ago)

I'm still hungry, even though the root vegetable baked turned out to taste not as revolting as it smelled.

I have an apple left. I seem to be dieting by accident, bah.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 13:19 (eighteen years ago)

I tried 'bringing lunch from home' but I was all 'eat it when got to work' unfortunately.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 13:21 (eighteen years ago)

Lionheart has a 660mm scale length compared to 584 for the tamburlin same body though and can be tuned the same of course.

― Ed, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 13:25 (eighteen years ago)

Wah, why are there not free sandwiches like there were last week?

First there is a sandwich then there is no sandwich, then there is, argh, Donovan get out of my BRANE.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 13:29 (eighteen years ago)

Everything displeaseth me today. I think I may have spring fever.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 13:35 (eighteen years ago)

my husband is doing some tests for a new job. wish him luck. actually might be over already. poor soul. :-( he did alright on the IQ test. (he's very intelligent. this balances it out in our relationship: yin and yang. hur hur)

yesterday after knitting class i was talking with a fellow student (can you say that when you are learning something CRAFTY?). she was smoking. she said she was pregnant. i wanted to blurt out: "YOU SHOULDNT BE SMOKING YOU COW!" but then i realized she had smoked during her previous three pregnancies and they all came out lovely and i shouldn't judge. but still... y'know...

i had superhot curry.

― nathalie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

they all came out lovely

...for NOW.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 13:48 (eighteen years ago)

well, let's hope that doesn't prove to be prophetic words. :-(

― nathalie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 13:49 (eighteen years ago)

Children of Tobacco

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

My colleague has yoghurt covered peanuts or something. WANT!!!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 13:51 (eighteen years ago)

Everything displeaseth me today. I think I may have spring fever

the squirrels and frogs i saw on my way to work definitely did!

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 13:53 (eighteen years ago)

The idea of sneezing frogs amuses me.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 13:53 (eighteen years ago)

ribbooooooooooooooo!

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

Only one thing will cure this funk. Pictures of DDBs. Hop to it.

http://www.tc-lethbridge.com/images/mcgrail.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 14:00 (eighteen years ago)

Our next rolling walk should involve some megaliths. And, err, I should go on it.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

I see 'yogurt covered peanuts' and I just think TUMMY ACHE.

Maybe that's just me, though.

― C J, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

I just think "I am still hungry from an inadequate lunch". :-(

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

I want to go and look at Megaliths with DDBs like it's 2003 again. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe I should learn how to drive, then I could go by myself, and not wait for a passing archeologist to drive me.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 14:16 (eighteen years ago)

They should have special bus stops where you could go and wait for passing archaeologists to come by.

― C J, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.tc-lethbridge.com/images/mcgrail.jpg http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42064000/jpg/_42064634_kevin2bbc203.jpg

― The Wayward Johnny B, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

I don't understand.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

My colleague has yoghurt covered peanuts or something. WANT!!!

im obsessed with yoghurt covered raisins.

― nathalie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

When Ed comes back, I am going to try to convince him that Shimura Curves should do a Megalith searching field trip.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 14:22 (eighteen years ago)

Julian Cope will sue for stealing his idea.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 14:23 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=dirty+dronerock+boys&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

Or
http://www.google.co.uk/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=dirty+drone+rock+boys&spell=1

www.myspace.com/wiredformono
Wired for Mono are dirty drone rock boys in disguise and "A Harbour an Anchor" is the loudest thing NME has heard in a dog’s age. ...

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

hello! NEW BIKE NEW BIKE!! omg it is GORGEOUS. er i haven't had a go on it yet though.

― emsk, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

Googling for DDBs only brings up ILX and Shimura Curves. :-(

Did Julian Cope invent megaliths? I DON'T THINK SO!!! Did he invent DDB's? I DON'T THINK SO!!!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

x-post that is Doomie, who stole my phrase and tried to use it to describe lame Poptones bands. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

Julian Cope invented Krautrock AND megaliths... apparently

― Tom D., Tuesday, 13 March 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

I'm trying to remember what Joe used to say... oh yeah, Julian Cope was ripping off HIM because his granddad was writing about megaliths YEARS ago... etc. etc.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

Alfred Watkins?

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

I am listening to Holy McGrail again - he has the same kind of Korg as Frances!

http://myspace-918.vo.llnwd.net/00363/81/96/363726918_l.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

I wish someone had taken pictures at the NOTLS show. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

I am so bored I feel like my brain is melting and dripping out my ear onto my shirt. What should I have for a snack? I suppose I should just go upstairs and see what they have in the machine. Even re-reading the Dirty Dronerock Boys thread didn't do it for me. Sigh.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

Waiting for the shuttle and playing the tamburlin in the car in the sunshine, nice.

I will do megalith field trips.

― Ed, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

I want to hear more about Emsk's rocking new bike. :-)

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

I certainly hope it does not rock, that would make it hard to ride.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

from i love to ride my bicycle:

I AM TEH LUCKIEST GURL
look what my lovely uncle sent me:

Would you like my Woodrup touring bike. It?s the one I had custom made by a shop in Leeds a few years ago, so its unique: designed by me built by Maurice, the only one in the world. It is slightly too big for you, but not outlandish. The only bit you would probably notice is the long reach to handlebars. If you are reasonably bendy this won?t be a problem, except possibly on long descents where your neck and shoulders might ache from being overstretched. You could also fit a shorter stem which would solve some of the problem. The bike is generally a couple of grades up from the one you currently have, with a much better frame and some smoother components. You would find long rides and hills in particular quite a bit less work. The downside is that It has ?Steve's Bike, Hands off? embossed onto the frame.

emsk ( emsk) on Friday, 9 February 2007 17:05 (1 month ago)

and now it is MINE ALL MINE

― emsk, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 17:17 (eighteen years ago)

Congrats Emsk!

― suzy, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

Nice work emsk! Yay to kindly uncles! But are you reasonably bendy enough?

― The Wayward Johnny B, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

i am bloody bendy. i can put my foot behind my head.

― emsk, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 18:29 (eighteen years ago)

Ken C to thread?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

I had fun fun fun on the autobahn with the krautrock primer.

― Ed, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 19:05 (eighteen years ago)

Also. this hotel is fawlty towers crazy.

― Ed, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 19:05 (eighteen years ago)

Has anyone ever met this guy ?
http://wwwthesun.co.uk/article/1,,2007110349,00.html

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 19:33 (eighteen years ago)

OMG SO MUCH FUN

totally different beast to the other bike... very very very wobbly for about 2 minutes but it gets easier FAST. raised the handlebars before i started because i could see trouble coming. stopped halfway home to raise the seat a bit and it got easier again. i am gonna hafta become one of them bum-in-the-air cyclers, haha. ok, how am i gonna get used to my gears being by my KNEES? and there being 3 positions for your hands to be but only one of them has brakes? on a left turn i do every day on my way home i automatically squeezed my hands to brake as i turned (not a busy road and it's one-way anyway but there are often people in cars stopped in the middle of the road to chat/fight/gossip/flirt/buy drugz/whatever) and they closed on THIN AIR ARGH ARGH! there was nothing in the road but a cat so it was ok. (i did not run over the cat.) now i am making carrot soup and drinking wine.

― emsk, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

Welcome to proper cycling.

― Ed, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

there are at least 4 positions on drop bars which is great for long rides as you can vary and save your back. I have a long back so spend as much time as possible leaning on the horns.

― Ed, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 21:47 (eighteen years ago)

yeah i wondered about the horns! they look like a good place to lean where the brakes are still, like, where they're meant to be (by your FINGERS). but pls explain this gears thing. every time i try to change gear my knee hits my hand out the way!

― emsk, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

Norman to thread?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

Haven't had downtube shifters in a long while, I have had bar ends on two bikes and the latest has shifter integrated with the break levers. Answer: you'll get used to it.

Anyone know if a bass can be set up with GDAE Mandolin/violin style tuning? I presume it's just a matter of string weights?

― Ed, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

Answer: you'll get used to it.

yeah, that's what i figured. am *really* looking forward to saturday now! where are we going again? i want to check for weather. to see if there will be any.

― emsk, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

Kent, I forget exactly where.

― Ed, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

You must take photos so I can enjoy it from a distance.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 22:08 (eighteen years ago)

Kate - any news from the Brixton venue yet?

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 09:58 (eighteen years ago)

Morning people.

― Forest Pines, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 10:08 (eighteen years ago)

Morning all.

Emsk's cycling shenanigans sound huge fun!

― C J, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 10:11 (eighteen years ago)

Hello from belgium.

David K seems to have come up trumps for me. Should get pickup tamburlin this week.

― Ed, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 10:25 (eighteen years ago)

Hurrah for cycling!

Ed, I don't know about setting up a bass like that, but I presume you can if you find the right weight strings - you might be better with a tenor guitar (Danelectro do a lovely one) - it would be a v. v. v. good idea.

If you are enjoying KateKrautrockSampler, I will make you another volume with the longer songs on it. Perfect for driving, jah? Just remember to get off the autobahn when you get to Belgium and not keep going all the way to Dusseldorf.

Also, how is April for megalith visiting? FMM wants to do it some time near our birthdays.

And yes! ILX Festival confirmed at the Windmill. Excellent!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 10:37 (eighteen years ago)

::boucey bounce::

Damn, Dr. C must be in his job meeting thing.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 10:47 (eighteen years ago)

Waaaah, aint' no more of this...

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/170/420794184_15b14b08dc.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 11:05 (eighteen years ago)

Megalith visiting sounds fun. Shame there aren't any decent megaliths at all near me, just unexcavated barrows.

― Forest Pines, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 11:09 (eighteen years ago)

Oh great - ILX gig is on. Thx Kate.

Job meeting part 1 is over and adjourned until later. Going well so far.

Kate - are you at all interested in playing bass for The Fallen Leaves? They are the bunch that are headlining on Saturday. They have had a few different ones over the years (including a couple of quite well-known people) and have a stand-in right now. They asked me if I knew anyone, and I thought of you. They don't play very often - it might be a fun part time gig. Just a thought.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 11:17 (eighteen years ago)

Yay to all of that, can we get you camping?

Do we take the small (free) volvo or hire something bigger?

Who wants to come?

I did some more research and it should be possible using the f# strings from a 5 string. I am having mandodobro bassbeast fantasies, but not till later this year.

― Ed, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 11:19 (eighteen years ago)

Errr, maybe! Depends on what they sound like, natch. But I will find out on Saturday, no doubt. I would love to play bass again, I don't do it nearly enough.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 11:20 (eighteen years ago)

Good morning!

― G00blar, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 11:20 (eighteen years ago)

yes, I would camp for megaliths!

Arrggghhllllsnnnaarrrr, I know I'm a vegetarian and all, but I just really REALLY want to take a quick bite out of Benjamin's thighs here. It's not even sexual. I be HUNGRY.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/165/420792579_d83b7a00e4.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 11:21 (eighteen years ago)

Kate - garage-punk.

Guitar by R0b Simmons of the Subway Sect. Previous bass players include Paul Myers (Subway Sect), Phil K1ng (Lush, Felt, every creation band ever).

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 11:25 (eighteen years ago)

Depends what end of Garage they pull towards. Garage-psych-freakbeat, god yes, in a heartbeat. They sound very very Nuggets-y from the name. Is there any band that Kill Phing hasn't been in? Hah. That seems quite promising, I love playing the basslines for that kind of stuff.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 11:29 (eighteen years ago)

They have a myspace. I think less psych - more beat. Maybe more Milkshakes-y and more punky. Straightahead, I think.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 11:33 (eighteen years ago)

I have looked at their website, and they look good, they look *fun* which is important - have downloaded a track and will listen to that. Whether I end up joining garage bands really comes down to how they feel about my paisley shirts. I'm nowhere near as mod as I used to be.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 11:39 (eighteen years ago)

Great!

I actually had fun with Band #1 yesterday. We did 4 trax for the album in the studio. Two were my songs, which obv featured lots of guitar from moi and NO keybds. The real surprise was when they decided that we were going to do an old song, that I didn't really know, I came up with extra guitar parts on the spot and they really liked them. Guitarist #1 is not always the easiest to fit in with as he tends to go for a loud Gibson-style crunch which doesn't always leave much room. But he was playing his Epiphone 335 yesterday, which fits a lot better with the Tele. I am actually looking forward to Saturday now!

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 11:52 (eighteen years ago)

Nice!

We looked at a couple studios yesterday for recording, maybe have one we can use--it's one drawback is a v. small live room--it'd be hella cramped with all four of us and a drumkit in there.

― G00blar, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 12:06 (eighteen years ago)

V. small live room? How on earth are you going to maintain sound separation under those circumstances? Or is that the point - that any overdubs will be minimal, so it doesn't matter?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 12:11 (eighteen years ago)

Crazy clever soundproofed cabinets where the amps live.

― G00blar, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 12:14 (eighteen years ago)

I am dubious. I mean, if the amps live in soundproofed cabinets, isn't the sound going to be crazy muffled? Or is it recorded direct, and fed through your cans?

I know so little about recording live, all at once together in a room. I don't think I've ever really done it. Certainly not in years. (this was to the detriment of some recordings, I definitely think.)

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 12:21 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, the amps live in cabinets, but are miked there. Apperently they are not muffled. This is then run through the headphones so we can all play along with the drummer whilst he is recording. Or something.

― G00blar, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 12:24 (eighteen years ago)

OK, that sounds interesting. You could sell the ladies on the idea of hott sweaty boys all locked in closets, recording, or, erm, something.

SPRING JUST END ALREADY, OK?!?!?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 12:33 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, my colleagues have all gone out for a pub lunch. Maybe I should have gone. But they never have any decent vegetarian food there. Bah. So I'm stuck at work with cumberland pie.

Mmmmmm, pie.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 12:36 (eighteen years ago)

PIE

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 12:38 (eighteen years ago)

WTF? I just googled cumberland pie to find out what was in it, and it took me to a page which showed me people talking about pie for about ten seconds before just freaking out and going to a blank screen telling me that IE was rubbish and I should download Firefox. Like, WTF? That shit pisses me off. It's one thing to say that your page is optimised for certain browsers, but quite another to completely ban others. I mean, I don't have any fucking choice in what browser I use. Fucker.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

hello! crazy-ass ride in this morning! i heart my nu-bike. i need to give it a name. the last one was ariadne, a girl, wayward lover of dionysius/bacchus. this one is def a boy - goes where it wants, when it wants, as fast as it wants. oh god i need to take a picture so i can dribble over it even when i'm not riding.

― emsk, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 12:53 (eighteen years ago)

x-post Yeah we record the basic track pretty much live, no baffles or anything. It's too sterile otherwise. Also yesterday I was still watching the other guitarist's hand to follow one of the songs that I didn't know, so it's good to be close by and in sight. We have cans on, as the singer is in a separate room. The engineer seems to be pretty good about minimizing bleed just by mic choice and placement. We did have a problem with a couple of stray guitar notes that had got onto one of the drum tracks yesterday, but we managed to zap it in software.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 13:01 (eighteen years ago)

Hey we mention CUMBERLAND SAUSAGES in the track 'The Shocking Price of Bread'.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 13:02 (eighteen years ago)

this one is def a boy - goes where it wants, when it wants, as fast as it wants.

Peter Fonda in Wild Angels!!! "We wanna be free, to do what we wanna do, we wanna be free to ride our MACHINES without being HASSLED by THE MAN!!!"

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 13:03 (eighteen years ago)

My cumberland pie was lovely. But there was not enough of it. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 13:08 (eighteen years ago)

hmm, i like your thinking. it's not a peter though. and it can't be a fonda, too many other connotations, i would have to explain it to myself all the time. hmm... hey, you should SEE it first. DROOL.

― emsk, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 13:09 (eighteen years ago)

Man, I lost ILX for about half an hour! I thought I was done for! everything went dark in here!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 13:48 (eighteen years ago)

The ilx on port 8080 has been flickery update your bookmarks with the port 80 version.

― Ed, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 13:52 (eighteen years ago)

I don't have any port bookmarked, it just assigns itself.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

You know, since I stopped eating massive curries, I've had a massive resurgance of the after-lunch crankies.

I wonder if there's something in curry which is calming, or if it's the sheer volume of carbohydrates. I'm not even that hungry today, just cranky.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

rowr carrot soup, i am king of carrot soup

i restrained myself from going down to the carpark after eating it just to perv over the bicycle

went to evans to look at bags where they have helpfully placed all the rackbags ON THE WALL WHERE YOU CAN'T REACH THEM grrr

the nice boy was very nice but anyway evans are the evil empire in waiting

― emsk, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, you know what's making me cranky? It's the constant smell of cooking meat from the pub below.

:-(

God, I cannot wait until we move to the new office. We might actually have temperature control there.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

And my office is NOISY today. Bah. Everyone is gathered around my desk for various reasons nothing to do with me.

And the new bloke (to replace the Finn, who I actually liked, who is leaving) is into FOOTIE and is shouting over my head at my other colleague who sits next to me about some fucking football thing. SHOOT ME NOW. THIS IS MY IDEA OF HELL.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, I said the F-WORD. This is how fucked off I am by this whole development. They're so loud that even playing music doesn't drown them out. How can I work in these conditions?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

You can't. Who could reasonably expect you to? You should just get up and leave.

― Rock Hardy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

I don't even know who you are!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

If you can't beat em , join em'?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 15:16 (eighteen years ago)

My name's William. I've been posting to ILX for 3+ years now.

― Rock Hardy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

Hello, you're new to the 'Cooler, though!

I think my colleagues were all drinking at lunch because they are all very loud and boisterous now.

Maybe I'll go out and get a flapjack and hope they've passed out by the time I get back.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

I've spoken to William on AIM chats a few times. He's very nice!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

Honest!

What's on your headphones today, Kate?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

I was listening to the Sons of TC Lethbridge, but it's too noisy in here. :-(

I went and got a flapjack. And then my boss told me that I'm getting hungry in the afternoon because I'm eating the wrong kind of carbs which give me a quick sugar burst and then a downer - the reason I didn't get hungry when eating curry was because I ate it with a load of brown rice.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

So you're going back to eating curry then?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

See, the 'Cooler is really boring and no one posts when it's all nice and friendly and there are no FITES. I swear people only ever used to come in here to rubberneck and now it's just a study in endless stiffling office boredom.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

Where's tissp and mitya these days?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

Did they go on holiday with Ailsa?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

Mitya said he was having trouble getting to Nu ILX. Or maybe he kicked the habit while he didn't have access. TISSP! I have no idea where he's got to, in fact, he isn't even answering his email at the moment, which is annoying because we're supposed to be collaborating and he hasn't responded to the MP3 I sent him of my rough mix. Argh.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

tissp has been missing for aaaaages. Hope he's well.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

I was listening to the new Hella album and now it's Odawas. What an excellent album this is.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

He was at the FAP last Friday.

I am so bored I'm actually trying to register to vote. I cannot believe that I've got to this age and never done it before.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

Hello there.

I have a question.

Why is it, when you work in any sort of roughly support-related IT job, you end up having conversations like this:

Annoying colleague: "Why can't you get X to behave the way I think it should?"

Me: "[long, factual explanation, carefully filtering out tech jargon and tricky concepts]"

Annoying colleague: "Yes, but that's no help to me, why can't you just get it to work the way I want?"

I mean, sometimes I feel as if noone ever listens to *any* explanation I give them, so I'm not sure why I bother. I could just as easily say "because it would upset the Silicon Pixies and they would sneak into your computer at night and let all the magic smoke out" for all the use it would do.

Today's discussion is about laser printers with re-used waste toner bottles giving spurious Toner Bottle Full alarms, but it could be about anything really.

― Forest Pines, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 16:21 (eighteen years ago)

Because people don't actually want you to tell them what's wrong with it, they just want you to FIX IT for them.

You could tell them anything you bloody liked, so long as the thing worked again. It's not their job to know, so why should they care?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

So why ask for an explanation then!

― Forest Pines, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 16:23 (eighteen years ago)

Because you haven't got it to work the way that they think it should.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

Moreover: if I want something and I get told "that's not possible", I want to know why. I ask them why, I listen to the explanation, and I try to be constructive. I don't just ignore what I've been told or say "well I don't see why you can't do (the impossible)"

Am I just odd, then?

― Forest Pines, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, you are odd in that you actually think, and want to know how things work, rather than expecting everything to be done *for* you, like most users do.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

Hi all. Been busy these last few days, hence me being quiet. It's not that I hate you all!

Just had more strong coffee. Have the caffeine shakes. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Also talking like Bridget Jones. V. bad.

― The Wayward Johnny B, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

Is it really such an odd question, wanting to know how and when people first started voting?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

Kate you really need some closed back headphones for work isolation, check out sennheiser HD25 (or HD 25SP, but the cord on those is really annoying) or Beyer Dynamic DT770s

― Ed, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

I don't need closed back headphones, I need noise cancelling headphones to work around here. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

― tissp, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

(Also: Hi Dere everyone)

― tissp, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

And we thought you were just ignoring us and HAAAAAAAAAATED me, etc. etc.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

Trust me I can block out jackhammers with my HD25, they are broadcast studio floor headphones, very isolating.

― Ed, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

And we thought you were just ignoring us and HAAAAAAAAAATED me, etc. etc.

Nope! I've been a bit busy work-wise and haven't managed to get online much, sorry :(

― tissp, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

Hey tissp!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

hey kerr! what's cooking?

― tissp, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

Bah. Clearly, I don't exist around here. Not only did I get left out of the leaving cards for the Finn, but the head of the department gave this speech about her being the second longest serving member of the department - like what am I? Chopped liver?

This is actually the "Finance and MI Department" but because the MI department is just me, and my boss is in a different department, I just get left out of everything. :-(

If I don't exist, maybe I should just go home and not do this huge complicated report the head of teh department just asked me for. :-(((((((

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:13 (eighteen years ago)

:( :(

― tissp, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

OK, maybe this is mine own fault for never going to the pub or lunches or Xmas parties or that stupid social crap with them, but still.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:17 (eighteen years ago)

We had a bloke retire today (I don't know why he finished on a Wednesday) who started aged 16 in 1969! He has left to look after his aging parents.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

Bollocks to them.

Are you going to send me the orginal of that track Kate? I am off to rural Dorset all next week but I can take my laptop and piss about with NOISE IN DAS COUNTRY!

― tissp, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

oops, that was an xpost, obv

― tissp, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah I thought you meant 'bollocks to his ageing parents'!

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

yeah i realised when i came back to the thread! we need xpost notification STAT

― tissp, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yeah, if you like - I just wanted to send you our version first to see if you liked it.

Just make sure you set the correct BPM when you record - which I don't actually remember right now. Damn.

How are we going to put together the bits? I've recorded all of it in Cubase, can I send you the whole cubase file? (You record in Cubase, right?) and then you record your bits in? Who gets to MIX it?!?!?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

Also, TISSP! are you still up for the ILX Festival on Sunday 17th June?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

Not bad, Rhys. Heard any tissp-tastic post-rock recently?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

Bah, I've just bought another instrument, and already I am having lust over this:

http://www.folkofthewood.com/page1277.htm

― Ed, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

I definitely like the stuff you've done!

You can email the bpm with the original--I won't get chance to do anything until next week because I'm tied up producing someone else's record for the rest of the week, but like I say I should be able to get some ideas flowing next week!

I don't use cubase, no :( Might be best to send wav files for each track bounced down and extended to 1:0:000 so I can't fuck the positioning up--as for just messing about with the laptop then the rough mix will be good enough to play along to.

As for mixing, we should have a FITE! Involving booze and glass! Or you can mix it and I will master it, or vice-versa!

― tissp, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

ILX fest is GONNA RULE.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

Bah

http://www.folkofthewood.com/Images3/jnsnaedobrobassmonts.jpg

― Ed, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

Damn, xposts!

Also, TISSP! are you still up for the ILX Festival on Sunday 17th June?

Er, "probably" (i know this isn't helpful--I will check and let you know)

Not bad, Rhys. Heard any tissp-tastic post-rock recently?

I haven't been listening to any post-rock lately (SHOCK HORROR)! I have been all about the delta blues. And PJ Harvey. Have I missed anything good? Is EITS's new one out yet?

― tissp, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:30 (eighteen years ago)

The EITS album is indeed out now on CD & Vinyl and is very very good.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

Dobro bass = WRONG!!!

What other instrument have you just bought, Ed?

OK, TISSP I will mix my bits individually down to stereo tracks - which is good, as it means I can bounce mono doubled vocals down to single stereo tracks and free up more room. Everything will be the same length... I have had trouble importing things to Cubase and keeping them straight, as I found out when I tried to remix Gooblar. :-(

I'll send the original over now, and the rest of the stuff tomorrow morning - email me your snail mail address as I'm going to stick everything on a CD and mail it to you rather than risk it.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:34 (eighteen years ago)

It's all about Marnie Stern around here though (and the usual suspects of Can and Hawkwind)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:34 (eighteen years ago)

I just got the pickup tamburlin, now debating what to do with the current one.

― Ed, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

Dobro Bass, looks so wrong, sounds so right.

― Ed, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

email me your snail mail address as I'm going to stick everything on a CD and mail it to you rather than risk it.

Good plan, have mailed you now

― tissp, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:37 (eighteen years ago)

Although this will not work for kate (unless you download them and take them home) here are some videos of the dobro bass being played.

― Ed, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

The original is now in the emails, winging its way over to you, TISSP!

I always wondered about acoustic bass guitars, how they could ever really be loud enough - dobro certainly solves that problem, tho.

I will get a 12-string next. I will!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:41 (eighteen years ago)

I'm hoping the stringy greasy mullet isn't obligatory.

― Ed, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:41 (eighteen years ago)

Now you make me really want to see the video... ;-P

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

And how fun has my morning been?

I ran to the nearest restroom...the women's restroom, at that...at work because I felt like I was about to vomit, thus was the state of my stomach.

And this happened twice in two hours.

Feeling...better...sorta.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

I know how to tempt you, however, in the clips where he has washed his hair he looks like meatloaf.

― Ed, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

I need to redo the vocals on the end, though, as I had no idea what she was singing, so I improvised - and now I've found some other attempts at deciphering the lyrics on the interweb.

(Liz Fraser has said, about the web interpretations "they're very beautiful, they're like poetry - sometimes I wish that was what I was singing at the time, but it wasn't." or something like that. So I don't feel bad about however off the money I might be.)

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

x-post oh noes, Ned! That sounds awful! Hope that you feel better - get some ginger tea down you.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

Right now I'm just sticking with water, sipped carefully.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

Though now I've read others' versions, I'm realising that it is "whistling" where I'm singing "with sun gang". Oh well.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

This is very very funny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPwwiZcE1G8

as is this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDr7yPjeVqw

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

This should totally be our promo shot:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/70/226397060_9d9cd7d863.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

Einsturtisspde Neukaten

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:56 (eighteen years ago)

YES!!!! YESSSSSSSSS!!! YESSSSS!!!!!!!

The Column I have wanted since Plan B began is mine next month.

Now I have to figure out what music related thing I hate the MOST out of all the things I hate. (I do not dare actually write "Why I Hate... Football" or I would be lynched.)

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

Mitya just posted on my last fm asking if Kate has got ever the secret machines split yet?

So 1st column is going to be Why I Hate.... PLAN B Magazine?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 18:37 (eighteen years ago)

There are SO MANY things that I hate. Which oh which should I choose? Something not too obvious.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

Knowing you it will be jazz drummers playing cymbals.

But how about lack of krautrock influences in todays NME Carling Rock bands?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 18:45 (eighteen years ago)

It should be something that by all rights I *should* love, but just don't. I wonder if anyone has done the Dead yet, or if that's too obvious. I mean, there's lots of things I hate - NME/Carling rock. Noize Dudes. But nothing I really want to STAMP STAMP STAMP off the face of the earth. And I can't think of any until they are staring me in the face.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

jazz!!! Yes!!!!! A winner is jazz!!! KILL KILL KILL STAMP OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

Boooooo!!!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 18:51 (eighteen years ago)

Though I would really really like to demolish the Dead. I can't decide! Why can't I have three heads?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 18:52 (eighteen years ago)

I knew you wouldn't dare saw TWEE should be stamped off the face of the earth.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 18:52 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not that bothered about twee. I don't care that twee exists, I just don't want it applied to me.

Jazz and The Dead? STAMP STAMP KILL KILL LIKE A COCKROACH, ARGH GET IT AWAY FROM ME!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 18:54 (eighteen years ago)

But what about the twee huggers? In bad cardigans and crap hairdos? If you killed them there would be more room for dirty dronerock boys in clubs.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 18:55 (eighteen years ago)

(i don't really hate twee or twee people, I just like to wind up FP and Mitya :) )

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 18:55 (eighteen years ago)

If people can list 10 reasons why jazz should be wiped off, then Kate should do the article on that.

Reason no 1?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 18:57 (eighteen years ago)

Can I do you a jazz primer so you can get in the mood?

― Ed, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 19:01 (eighteen years ago)

This is MY article, not yours!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 19:01 (eighteen years ago)

I should probably do it on the Dead, because I have actually had more experience of people trying to make me listen to the Dead, but hating Jazz is more comedic.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 19:02 (eighteen years ago)

otm

― G00blar, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 19:06 (eighteen years ago)

Oh! I hate Experimental Sound Art, too, but that's just too easy a shot, but oh, the fun of taking swipes at my ex in print.

(though taking swipes at one's ex is childish, mean and bitchy and should not be encouraged.)

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

James was banging on, this weekend, about a 3 man dj crew who play nothing but the dead.

― Ed, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 19:10 (eighteen years ago)

Slagging off jazz in a rock mag makes it just look like a rock mag that doesn't like anything non-rock.
(which is possibly true, but i'm sure they don't wish to give that impression)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 19:11 (eighteen years ago)

He bloody would! OK, that is my 5-year crush on James nipped in the bud right there.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 19:11 (eighteen years ago)

Does anyone care about the grateful dead in the UK?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

Well, the funny thing about my jazz hatred is, I love loads of bands that are *heavily* influenced by jazz, from Funkadelic to Hawkwind to Spiritualized - I just hate jazz.

I would honestly rather write about the Dead, because they are one of those bands (hippie, psychedelic, drone, wibble, etc) that I should love. But I just draw the line there. But I'm convinced that someone has already done them. Everyone always says "oh, but the first album is pure garage!" and though there are lots of bands whose first album *is* garage and is quite good (Status Quo - no, really!) - even the first Dead album is BOLLOCKS. And the way that every Dead fan is always convinced that no, really they *can* convert you to be a fan, if they can just dig out that ONE SPECIAL TWENTY MINUTE JAM FROM SOME SHOW IN SOME GODFORSAKEN PART OF CALIFORNIA IN 1973 and yet they can never find the exact one, and keep dragging out tape after tape of toneless, wibbling hippie WANK...

OK, that's half my article written right there.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

x-post

1) Yes
2) Plan B actually has quite a large Merkin circulation

Who else do I really, really HATE?!?!? I can't think.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

Do you like any bands influenced by them too?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, half the West Coast psych scene.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

Sound art?

― Ed, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

Cookie monster vocals?
Macho bands?
Music journos?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

So Kate you actually hate Deadheads more than the actual band?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 19:22 (eighteen years ago)

No, generally I like deadheads. Except for when they try to make me listen to the Dead. I just HAAATE the Dead.

I mean, the only other thing that I really hate is freaking Ladyfest, but I would never slag that off in print, because of the politics of it. I agree with many of hte principles, just think it's generally poorly executed.

I'm trying to think of stuff Joe used to play that REALLY wound me up but it was only ever soundart and dodgy Oi! bands and I don't know enough to write about the latter.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 19:25 (eighteen years ago)

Pipettes?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

Though it would be really really REALLY great to get in some digs at two exes of Plan B writers in one go slagging off soundart, and talking about how Joe used to say all art was subconscious self expression and say "yes, exactly, your art is intellectually clever but EMOTIONALLY BANKRUPT."

But no, getting in digs at exes is BAD BAD BAD and I will not perpetuate this.

Anyway, I'm going to go home and have a think about this.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

How about emokids?
Nighto

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 19:28 (eighteen years ago)

As much as I dislike the Pipettes, I don't think I would ever slag them off in print - it just looks like a cat fight.

Besides, AMP has already said everything that needs to be said about them - they just reinforce that old aphorism, "men act, women appear."

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 19:28 (eighteen years ago)

The Column I have wanted since Plan B began is mine next month.

Nice. So it rotates around, then?

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 19:30 (eighteen years ago)

Kate's stolen your column??!!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 19:32 (eighteen years ago)

I have the new Plan B but i haven't even opened the envelope it came in yet. Anything good in it this month?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 19:33 (eighteen years ago)

Kate's stolen your column??!!

Uh, no? I was just curious.

Anything good in it this month?

My Brilliant Jesu Review. And a bunch of other things. (Good issue all around.)

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 19:35 (eighteen years ago)

Music related - what is the thing you hate most , Ned?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

Who else do I really, really HATE?!?!? I can't think.

Yourself? Just guessing.

― Rock Hardy, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

Music related - what is the thing you hate most , Ned?

That's easy -- my time being wasted. All the groups I loathe waste my time.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

Morning!

Well, the funny thing about my jazz hatred is, I love loads of bands that are *heavily* influenced by jazz, from Funkadelic to Hawkwind to Spiritualized - I just hate jazz.

is yr jazz hate evenly distributed between the trad jazz of, say, Chris Barber, to the more innovative stuff by, for example Sun Ra?

I don't care for trad jazz, my parents loved it - I always considered it to be a generational thing.

Mind you, I love the Durutti Column track, "Jazz".

And I like a lot of bands with trumpets e.g. Pigbag and A Certain Ratio.

I don't care for saxophone, ugh! The eighties were spoilt by all the saxophone. Even great tracks like Furniture's "Brilliant Mind" had their greatness severely tempered by it.

I have written a song called "Candle Snuffer" and I am trying to decide if it is any good or not.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 15 March 2007 09:48 (eighteen years ago)

Hello there. Damn, I'm sleepy.

― Forest Pines, Thursday, 15 March 2007 10:01 (eighteen years ago)

me too, was in London yesterday and went out drinking in the Edgware Road area with a couple of mates who used to live in Oxford whom I hadn't seen for ages.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 15 March 2007 10:06 (eighteen years ago)

Sun Ra is not Jazz, Sun Ra transcends your puny earth genres, being from outer space and all.

It's not anyone's column, it floats around each month. They must really be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they let me do it! I suspect I only ever get called in when someone else has missed a deadline, because I can write quickly.

This morning, I woke up and thought about it. (Last night I was reading The Modern Antiquarian and trying to decide if I wanted to go to Avebury yet again, or somewhere new like the Rollright Stones.)

I don't have much hatred left in me, maybe that's because of SSRIs and CBT, maybe that's coz I just don't read the music press or listen to the radio or watch TV any more. There were lots of bands I used to HAAATE (the Strokes, the Libertines, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Artic Monkeys and on and on) but these days even they get a shrug and a meh. But then, thinking back about when I really used to HAAAATE them, it wasn't even the band that I hated, but the overhyping of them. So I'm writing about why I hate MUSIC PRESS HYPE.

Anyway, good morning.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 10:21 (eighteen years ago)

Excellent choice.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 15 March 2007 10:27 (eighteen years ago)

I suspect I only ever get called in when someone else has missed a deadline, because I can write quickly.

doubt it v much - there is a range of v good writers of whom you are one.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs = odd. Saw them at Primavera Sound last year. Karen seemed a troubled soul. It was v obvious that there were some songs which were good and some which were definitely meh and the one person in our party who was sufficiently familiar with their work said the good ones all came from the same album and the poor ones from the succeeding one. We were standing to one side of the stage and noticed Wayne Coyne smiling and nodding approvingly from the wings.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 15 March 2007 10:28 (eighteen years ago)

Sun Ra is not Jazz

Oh yes he is!

― Tom D., Thursday, 15 March 2007 10:29 (eighteen years ago)

Transcends your puny earth genres, you FULE.

TISSP!!! It's 98 BPM!

Today I am mostly wondering why it seems that megalithic monuments and stone circles seem grouped in (fairly obscure) locations - there's a ton all close to one another in Wiltshire, another gang in Cornwall, a whole group on the moors between Manchester and Sheffield.

Is it because as most Fortean/Copey types claim, these areas are "sacred!!!" or something - or is it simply because their sheer inaccessibility meant that they were not dismantled and chopped up and ploughed oer by successive waves of Romans/Anglo-Saxons/Christians etc. etc. and carted off for building stone, like the others which may have formerly been spread more evenly over prehistoric Britain?

Hrrrrmmmm.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 10:38 (eighteen years ago)

oer = over. I have not gone totally antiquarian just yet.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 10:38 (eighteen years ago)

At stonehenge, they used to rent out a small hammer sos you could chip off a bit for yourself as a souvenir.

Not within my lifetime, obv...

― Mark G, Thursday, 15 March 2007 10:43 (eighteen years ago)

Waaaahhhhhh...

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g152/Lnachts/420768518_4c500c83ae.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 10:45 (eighteen years ago)

Kate's post abt the obscure locations reminds me of something in one of my school books. The word 'anachronism' is being explained. Two ramblers in v 1930s clothing -- trews tucked in socks, tweed jackets, cloth caps -- are seen in the countryside overlooking Stonehenge. One is resting on his gnarled walking stick and pointing and saying to the other "Why did they build it so far from the railway?"

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 15 March 2007 10:48 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

They aren't/weren't they planning on building the 303 or some other motorway or bypass straight *under* Stonehenge at some point?

Stonehenge seems to be much later (Bronze age) than most megaliths, but still.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 10:50 (eighteen years ago)

It's the latter, Kate. Well, partly that and partly the geology. Apart from exceptional stuff (ie, Stonehenge), megaliths are generally made from fairly local stone. Hence, few megaliths in areas where the local stone only lasts a couple of thousand years' exposure. In some areas, "megalithic" structures are likely to have been made out of wood - see "Woodhenge" on the Norfolk coast, found a few years ago; and also Tara in Ireland.

There are also few megaliths in areas which have been intensively farmed. We know from historical records that about half of the barrows in Lincolnshire that were still extant 300 or so years ago (or, when antiquarians started to care) have been destroyed by farming.

There *may* have been regional differences in megalith building for other reasons - very localised distribution does crop up with, for example, the Clava group of megalithic tombs near Inverness - but given the widespread distribution of megalithic-type structures in general, it's unlikely that there would have been areas of Britain with no large-scale megalithic-style structures of any of the main types.

― Forest Pines, Thursday, 15 March 2007 10:52 (eighteen years ago)

it depresses me much that I have lived in Oxon for so long yet not visited Rollright.

maybe I should learn to drive and buy a car....argghhhhhhhh! Noooooooo! What am I saying????

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 15 March 2007 10:52 (eighteen years ago)

Ohmigod, the Rollright Stones have their own website!

"please do not leave offerings on the stones. Chemical reactions caused by items left causes the stone to wear." - gotta love hippies.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 10:53 (eighteen years ago)

Stonehenge started off around the same time as everything else, but I think the trilithons are relatively late for megaliths. This is off the top of my head, mind.

The plan to put the A30whatever in a tunnel is still kicking about. The archaeologists were rather upset when the plans changed from a bored tunnel to a cut-and-cover, which would be rather destructive to build.

― Forest Pines, Thursday, 15 March 2007 10:55 (eighteen years ago)

TISSP!!! It's 98 BPM!

Ah! I knew there was something I needed to know missing from yr email!

― tissp, Thursday, 15 March 2007 11:00 (eighteen years ago)

I love that the Rollright Stones website puts the myths and the legends and the "wyrd" stuff ahead of any actual history or archeology. Spirals of energy and dowsing and ley lines, oh my...

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 11:01 (eighteen years ago)

Now I want to get an OS map and look at all the leylines.

This would make a good car trip, as we could chase the leylines all the way down to the White Horse of Uffington, even though we visited that last year, I would be happy to go again. I'm always up for White Horse Hunting! Or we could hike down the Ridgeway. I think.

I looked up Barbrook circles (From the Sons of TC Lethbridge song) but that is oop norf on teh Moors.

There was another castle/hillfort mentioned though in the Avebury alignment that I'd been to with Joe and his mum. I was good at spotting which ones were ancient and which ones were Norman.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 11:06 (eighteen years ago)

I got one of those fancy new Steve Hillage remastered albums last night - "Fish Rising", which was always my favourite back in the day - I cranked it up in the car on the way home & I was like OMG THIS IS THE GREATEST MUSIC EVER MADE, I even drove the long way home to hear more of it. listening to it this morning, Hillage's usual tendency to waffle & for everything to not quite join together nicely is more apparent, but still, loadsa great stuff on that album, & some great playing, esp from pierre moerlen. Lots of nickable production tricks as well. "Aftaglid" is pretty unfuckable with, there's a bit near the end where you seem to be passing through the music as it plays, I'd love to figure out how he did that.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 15 March 2007 11:07 (eighteen years ago)

Aren't there about a dozen alignments through Avebury?

Spotting ley lines on OS maps is great fun - all you need is a map and a ruler!

― Forest Pines, Thursday, 15 March 2007 11:08 (eighteen years ago)

Oops, that was meant to go somewhere else altogether, never mind.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 15 March 2007 11:09 (eighteen years ago)

yes, there are loads, that's why it's supposed to be such a significant sight for Wyrdoes!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 11:09 (eighteen years ago)

Wrong place? Er, no, please explain there's a bit near the end where you seem to be passing through the music as it plays, I'd love to figure out how he did that. because that sounds utterly fascinating.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 11:10 (eighteen years ago)

I'm always up for White Horse Hunting

Oh we used to do all the time, when touring round the hellholes of Southern England

― Tom D., Thursday, 15 March 2007 11:11 (eighteen years ago)

I had a whole thread about white horses, where did it go? Probably best not to revive, though, as it will be full of me gushing about Joe. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 11:13 (eighteen years ago)

a White Horse walks into a bar....

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 15 March 2007 11:21 (eighteen years ago)

"Why the long (man of wilmington) face?"

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 11:22 (eighteen years ago)

.and says "Yeah yeah, Eric ale, long face all that JUST GIMME SOME CRISPS RIGHT!!!?"

― Mark G, Thursday, 15 March 2007 11:22 (eighteen years ago)

(oops xpost)

― Mark G, Thursday, 15 March 2007 11:23 (eighteen years ago)

...and says "neigh". He would've said "ouch", but horse's can't speak.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 15 March 2007 11:24 (eighteen years ago)

"The horse turns to the other horse and says HOLY SHIT,A TALKING DOG!!!"

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 11:26 (eighteen years ago)

Wrong place? Er, no, please explain there's a bit near the end where you seem to be passing through the music as it plays, I'd love to figure out how he did that. because that sounds utterly fascinating.

Masonic Boom on Thursday, 15 March 2007 11:10 (10 minutes ago)

There's a section on the end of this track "Aftaglid", called "the golden vibe" - it's this weird bouncy riff played through an echo machine (a description which matches all steve hillage music ever, or all decent steve hillage music anyway) - after the band have run through it a couple of times, the sound kind of subtly changes, and it seems to kind of move forwards around your ears in some way - the effect is particularly strong on headphones. There's a little bit like it on a track from "Six" by Mansun as well. I'd love to work out how to do it.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 15 March 2007 11:26 (eighteen years ago)

...and the jockey says "you idiot you were supposed to jump it!"

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 15 March 2007 11:27 (eighteen years ago)

God, they're trying to send round this whole CHARIDEEEE!!! thing for tomorrow. They want to milk us for £1 if you wear red and £2 if you don't. Feck off. Though I know someone's going to call me a horrible person for not participating. I have a direct debit that sends money off to CHARIDEEEEEEE every month, I just find this huge public breast-beating display faintly revolting.

Am I turning into a Grumpy Old Lady?

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 12:08 (eighteen years ago)

what if you wear pink? do you have to pay £1.50?

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 15 March 2007 12:10 (eighteen years ago)

You should wear a suit covered in six inch nails, and if anyone hassles you for money, threaten to walk into them.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 15 March 2007 12:10 (eighteen years ago)

ha ha, one of my colleagues is also bitching.

I should do some work, but my boss who asked for it is off playing GOLF.

Oh wait, I finished something yesterday evening, maybe I can fob someone off with that.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 12:16 (eighteen years ago)

I went without lunch once cos I got MUGGED by CHARITY

― tissp, Thursday, 15 March 2007 12:16 (eighteen years ago)

you can't really complain though if it's charity

― tissp, Thursday, 15 March 2007 12:16 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, wait. shit.

― tissp, Thursday, 15 March 2007 12:17 (eighteen years ago)

Colleague is talking about his former employer, where they had a "wear a silly hat day for CHARIDEEEEEEE!!!" and how people would go out and spend £10 on the hat, and then put £1 in the collection jar. What is the point?

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 12:19 (eighteen years ago)

charity helps the economy!

anyone who disagrees is a COMMUNIST

― tissp, Thursday, 15 March 2007 12:19 (eighteen years ago)

Dude, how can I be a communist? I read COUNTRY LIFE. Tory accusations, maybe, I will accept, but Communist? NEVER!!!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 12:21 (eighteen years ago)

Elektrikkomettheorie: RED MENACE

― tissp, Thursday, 15 March 2007 12:22 (eighteen years ago)

Kate The Red.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 12:28 (eighteen years ago)

electrified six inch nails. with poison on them.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 15 March 2007 12:28 (eighteen years ago)

yes, I'm like my great-uncle the Harley Street Socialist, I raise a glass of sherry in solidarity with the working classes on May Day.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 12:29 (eighteen years ago)

Kate St. Red

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 12:32 (eighteen years ago)

OK, I am never buying Sainsburys ready lunches again. This risotto is the stinkiest thing ever. I did actually have to apologise to my colleagues for how bad it stinks. It smells like stinky feet cheese. I hope it tastes nicer than it pongs.

Back to curry next week.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 12:58 (eighteen years ago)

All cheese smells like stink feet. ALL CHEESE IS EVIL!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:00 (eighteen years ago)

Cheese is one of the greatest achievements of human civilisation

― Tom D., Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:01 (eighteen years ago)

It does taste nicer than the smell, but it would be pretty hard not to. Hating on cheese is just weird. Unless you are actually Chinese are something.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:06 (eighteen years ago)

Cheese mings

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:13 (eighteen years ago)

~~Cheese~~ Jazz and Funk are two of the greatest achievements of human civilisation

Tom D. on Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:01 (12 minutes ago)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:15 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry, Brigadier, you're on your own on this one.

Are you actually lactose intolerant, or just downright strange?

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:16 (eighteen years ago)

the latter?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:17 (eighteen years ago)

Next you'll be telling us that beer is vile and we'll have to have you committed.

Cheese, like beer, if proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:19 (eighteen years ago)

Tuomas posted something about choosing Cheese over free-will on another thread.

― Mark G, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:21 (eighteen years ago)

Beer (and all alcohol) is vile. Horrible taste .Can't stand it. To Room 101 it all goes with Kate's loathing of jazz and Mark C's loathing of prog.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:22 (eighteen years ago)

But... but... cheese on toast and beer! The greatest culinary combintation yet discovered by mortal man! Contains all the major food groups!

― tissp, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:25 (eighteen years ago)

Awwwww, man!!!

Some of my Favourite Science Myths Debunked

I wish I hadn't found this site. Half of what I believe is false!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:29 (eighteen years ago)

What do you MEAN the five second rule is not true?

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:29 (eighteen years ago)

Does it say Sun Ra didn't come from outerspace at all and Parliament/Funkadelic didn't come from the Mothership?

If it does then its LIES LIES LIES!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:34 (eighteen years ago)

It says men sex do not think about sex every five seconds at all sex.

― Mark G, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:45 (eighteen years ago)

Dude, I think about sex every five seconds and I'm not even a mang.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

Does it say if all men really do stand up to take a "waz"?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

ah, but Meng were what was being debunked thar.

― Mark G, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

I love the idea of scientists dropping cats from various heights to see how quickly they turn over. Like, where is the Control Cat? Quick! drop the Control Cat now!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:49 (eighteen years ago)

The control cat is either

1) a dead, stuffed cat, positioned to aerodynamically recreate the initial arch position of a descending cat, or
2) a dog.

― Mark G, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

3) Bagpuss

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:52 (eighteen years ago)

Man, if we could still change screennames, my new screen name would SO be Brand X Control Cat.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:53 (eighteen years ago)

Was that Phil Collins nickname?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 13:55 (eighteen years ago)

I can still smell the Bad Lunch. Bah.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

Cheese is great. My romantic valentine's present to give to someone special this year was: cheese.

I don't like enforced charity, but fortunately the management here hate it even more than I do, so such dilemmas do not arise.

("Arise, Sir Dilemma!")

― Forest Pines, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

we have similar things here but they are certainly not enforced.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

mmmmmmmmmore carrot soup mmmmmmmmm.

i am thinking of calling my bike DEDALUS. what do the watercoolerpeople think?

― emsk, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

sounds cool. it's usually DAEDALUS tho.
then you'd have to have something else called ICARUS

(trike for housemate's kid perhaps???)

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:16 (eighteen years ago)

Daedalus? As in the bloke who flew too close to the sun? Or was he just the dude that invented the wings to fly, and it was his silly son who flew too close to the sun?

(Now I've got Yes stuck in my head.)

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:16 (eighteen years ago)

he also designed the labyrinth that that horny chap lived in!

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

x-post.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

Pervert.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

Cheese is great. My romantic valentine's present to give to someone special this year was: cheesey knob

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

where did i get it without the e then? my brain was telling me that and i ignored it, stupid me.

yep daedalus was the one who invented and made the wings, foolish icarus melted his by flying too close to the sun and drownded in the sea.

that is better than having doves stuck in your head (i mean, not actual doves, that would rule, but the tedious manc band with 0 tunes) which is what i have got now. to make it worse the radio is playing the feeling argh argh argh awful awful sub-travis wittery.

― emsk, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

he also designed the labyrinth that that horny chap lived in!

the minotaur? that is PERFECT, then, for backstreet navigation. daedalus it is!

― emsk, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

You could call it Dadaismus

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

Ugh ugh ugh, but hey, having birds in your head would be good but if they were actual doves, I would be scared that horrible pidgeons would get in there by mistake, I see what they are doing to the bridge over Streatham Station, and would not like that done to my brain.

I am listening to Triumph 2000 and oh dear, such silly silly lyrics. I suspect they may be up there with the 120 Days or whatever in "err... thanks but no thanks" stakes. I hate when DDBs *try* to be sexy. They try too hard and end up anti-sexy.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:22 (eighteen years ago)

The Triumph 2000 was a pretty crappy car IIRC.

That Colleen Moore clip has been pulled from youtube due to "terms of use violation". WTF, the film's from 1929, might get a limited theatrical release, will probably never come out on DVD, I don't understand the logic.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

No misquoting TYVM!

― Forest Pines, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

Anyway, morning. My first fully healthy day so far since my return!

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

Stephen Dadaismus - I would prolly have called myself that in old-ILX

― Tom D., Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

I've got to stop looking at pictures of Hawkwind for the "cute bassists" thread because every now and then a pic of Stacia pops up and it's all WHOOPS seriously not work safe there.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

A friend of mine and Hari's is in berlin on a college trip. She was telling us that her hotel is in a street with sex shops, porn cinemas and fetish/rubber clubs. One of which is called [i.Stink![/i]

So FP...

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

Woot! Healthy Ned!

OMG Emsk, the fucking feeling. We saw them one night on live at abbey road and had to physically restrain each other from leaping at the tv and KILL KILL KILL.

― G00blar, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

Those pictures of stacia on that jorgen angel site are, er, quite something. She was an awesome-looking woman.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, she is an awesome looking woman! Quite gorgeous. But I really don't want to see her nekkid breasts popping up when my boss walks by.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

Ah ha! Kate's groupies have arrived at the Truck Festival!

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

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

I want purple corduroy flares. Would that make me too much of a sodding hippie?

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

yes

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

Nah, if the paisley didnt' do it, the flares certainly won't.

― G00blar, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

Point/Counterpoint

― G00blar, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

Well, it's not like I'm going to get purple corduroy flares with little paisleys embroidered around the hems or anything!

Though actually... hrmmmm.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:40 (eighteen years ago)

Who did Stacia marry? Some rock star...

― Tom D., Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:40 (eighteen years ago)

Yes.

I am on FIRE today. I have obtained the use of a Honda F1 racing car for our company to use for 4 days! (You can't drive it - but we can have it at work or at a show or to swank around with customers).

I have part 2 of nu-job interview in 20 mins. Getting the car will help!

― Dr.C, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

Tony Ashton from ashton, gardner and dyke, I think?

― Pashmina, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

Nice one, Dr. C!

― G00blar, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

Six foot tall she was! Mama!

― Tom D., Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

Re: bike -- PEDALUS

Re: the feeling, i was convinced this was a sick joke for some time

― tissp, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

I hoped The Feeling were a joke too but sadly they do exist.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

There should be a band called The It

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

kate i have some purple corduroy flares... try them out next time you come round!

― emsk, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

Would be superb with a yorkshire accent

― tissp, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

(xpost)

― tissp, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

Like yr clothes would ever fit me, Emsk! I might get one leg into the waistband. :-(

I have never actually heard the Feeling. I think this is why I'm so calm and non-hating about music these days. I just don't get exposed to bands that I would hate!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

The Feeling are difficult to hate--they are so utterly bland that it's difficult to summon up any kind of emotion whatsoever (ironically)

― tissp, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

Using The Lex Rule™ You don't need to hear bands to hate them anymore.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

That said, the Triumph 2000 tracks where they don't sing, and don't really have any riffs, and just kind of wibble on are quite nice.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

**Six foot tall she was! Mama!**

TOTAL TALL HOTTNESS?

― Dr.C, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, Stacia = the very definition of Total Tall Hottness.

I just want more pictures of young Hawkwind with Lemmy looking almost.. err... cute.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

I have heard one Feeling song which was a quite good ELO pastiche. The only other one I heard was the one they performed on the Christmas Day TOTP which was really awful!

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry, I can't find any photos of Stacia with her clothes ON just right now...

but in the meantime, wow, look at these synths:

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

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

To be accurate, that's some "sound generators" Dik Mik fiddling about with

― Tom D., Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

Ahah!

http://www.starfarer.net/galleryd/staciach.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

Not very flattering, she's got platforms on, she must have been about 6' 2" in them!

― Tom D., Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:04 (eighteen years ago)

The one on the left is a synth! It's a primitive VCS3 or something. On the right is just oscillators of the sort that Joe used to have. And what looks like a Copycat type tape echo or something. Hard to tell.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:04 (eighteen years ago)

I haven't played the Triumph 2000 or The Slipstream yet.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

OK, then, Dada, you find a flattering SFW pic of Stacia with clothes on.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

x-post it gets much better towards the end, when it goes all instrumental. I'm scared of the remixes, though.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

The ones with clothes off are better.

You should talk to our drummer about Hawkwind, Kate.

― Dr.C, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

Del is indeed playing a VCS3 with a Cricklewood keyboard. Suppsedly DikMik was a TV repair man, and used to use his test tone generators from work, and yeah, that looks like a copicat in front of what he's fiddling w/.

There are a couple of WS images of stacia on that jorgen angel site, but I'm too into looking at this:

http://www.silentstar.com/web/sites/www.silentstar.com.web/files/images/Brooks%20OShea%20Dance%2001.jpg

rowr etc.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

I thought Dik Mik was just their dealer

― Tom D., Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

... so they had to give him something to do in the band

― Tom D., Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

maybe fixing tellys didn't pay well enough, I dunno.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

So according to this DikMik was their roadie originally. As was Nick, ha ha. They wanted to buy him a Moog to "give him something to do".

Shimuras need to get one of those - someone who just kind of hangs around and fixes things. And, err, well, I don't take drugs, but they could deal CHEESE to us.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

That Carol Clerk Hawkwind biography from a few years ago is well worth reading, btw, though it's more than a bit grim w/r/t the nineties-date. A bunch of lives you would not want to live yrself or have anyone you cared about live them either.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

What was that 70s Hawkwind book? I read that once

― Tom D., Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

What, the science fiction novel by michael butterworth? I had that, and the follow up - "time of the hawklords" and "queens of deliria" I think? They were both really terrible, bad pulp fiction.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

All you cheese loving cooler residents should just go live in a commune and make cheese and listen to Hawkwind.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:26 (eighteen years ago)

The first one, I went round various gigs getting members to sign it - I got Nik Turner, Bob Calvert, Dave Brock, Butterworth Himself, then I presented it to Lemmy "I'm not signing that, it's fucking shit!" - here endeth that plan.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

No no, I think was "This is Hawkwind: Do Not Panic", which appears to have been publish in 1984

― Tom D., Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

Suggestion for next poll.
Can we have a census on the age of all watercooler posters?
18-24
25-30
35-40
40-45
Coffindodger

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

um there should be a 31-35 in there haha

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, I had that as well, it was written by Dave Brock's gf Kris, who's from Shields IIRC - she was always nice to the hangers on after HW gigs. It was quite entertaining, I lent it out to a few people, and after a while, if you put it on a table or whatever, it would fall open on the page with the photo of stacia on it. I lost my copy years ago.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

All you cheese loving cooler residents should just go live in a commune and make cheese and listen to Hawkwind.

This is the bestest idea EVAH!!!

Actually, that's an idea, to read a bio - I don't actually know that much about them as people at ALL. And virtually nothing beyond the sort of "classic"era.

But it's kind of nice to keep this image in my mind of free love free drugs free noise space hippies riding this wave of sonic terror through the cosmos and not learn thee ugly truth about them getting drug addictions and a fighting all the time and bands splintering and them all sueing each other over the name and the publishing and all those other horrible things that bands end up doing to one another. (I do not actually know if any of these things happened to Hawkwind in specific, I've just read too many rock bios.)

Can it spoil your appreciation of music to learn too much about the people that made it? I'm thinking of that Nico bio, how sad it was.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

SORRY HAWKWIND AREN'T SIGNED TO A DOOM LABEL & DON'T RELEASE THEIR RECORDS IN LIMITED EDITIONS OF 227 ON CLEAR VINYL W/PURPLE STREAKS IN LEATHUR-EMBOSSED COVERS, KERR!!!11

― Pashmina, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

Or, you know, something like that (gestures vaguely)... ;)

― Pashmina, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

Shimura Curves would get Benjamin Curtis to dance naked at their gigs if they could afford it.

Infact they probably just wouldn't bother playing the gig and just make him dance in ~~Kate's dungeon of wibbling lust~~ the dressing room

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

Norman> I like Hawkwind!!!! It's just cheese I hate.

*puts on Space Ritual*

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

Discussion of Hawkwind will ALWAYS be allowed on ver Cooler, you cheese-hating surrender monkey, Kerr!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

Why do Norman & Kate think i want discussion of Hawkwind banned?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

We were going to have F's boyfriend J dance in a loincloth at a gig sometime, actually... but I think he was drunk when he agreed to it! Hah!

Pash, if I were going to read one Hawkwind bio, which should I get?

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

Mitya just posted on [Removed Illegal Link] that ILX doesn't work for him anymore. So everyone go msg him on his last fm page. I think he's missing everyone.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

The Carol Clerk one, def. But, it is depressing. It doesn't sound like there was much fun to be had as a member of HW since, like, 1976. From the '80's onwards, it just sounds like an ordeal of unrelenting grimness.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.last.fm/user/trailofgybe/ that should say

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

... And Turner & Brock's ongoing endless feud is just pathetic. 2 bald men fighting over a comb territory. Both nice guys when I met them, though.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

What was the genesis of the feud? (Or should I just not ask?)

That said, when you're in a band with someone, and you start to not get on, the rivalry can reach such epic proportions that it's just not important what it started over, it just reaches a *thing* of its own. I don't think I've ever permanently been in that kind of a state with a former musical partner, but come pretty close.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

Never argued over a hairbrush?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha, like anybody in Hawkwind ever used a hairbrush

― Tom D., Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

How perfect is Space Ritual? why can't their studio albums live up to that!!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

I have argued over a hairbrush, actually. But it wasn't about the hairbrush, per se, as much as the whole rivalry for years and years and all "argh, you nicked my hairbrush AGAIN, you are always stealing EVERYTHING OF MINE, all my songs, all my hard work, just like you NICKED MY BOYFRIEND WHEN I WAS 17!!! ARGH!!!! I HATE YOU!!!"

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

I think it's basically over control, money & exploitation of the band's back catalog & live recordings. The stupid thing is they could all make money of archive HW recordings if they did them properly a la King Crimson collector's club, but as often as not some dodgy label puts stuff out, they get the money, and the people who played on the record (incl Brock and Turner) get shit.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

I'm driving the slow way back, along the coast rd. Stopped for a breather in the sand dunes. Lovely

― Ed, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

Space Ritual is great, but the Watchfield & Stonehenge festival live tapes from '75/'76 are just.... beyond....man, they're awesome.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

They should really sort it out and put out a proper series of releases. I'd even get a Hawkwind passport if it let me collect them all.

This makes me want to listen to Space Ritual and I've no idea what happened to my copy, I think it was actually on cassette so lord knows where it went.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry - almost didn't see you in there! Hi Ed! Jealous of you in the sand dunes there. When come back bring CHEESE!!!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

So what about Turkish dirty dronerock boys from 1971 or so?

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dri200/i258/i25892krq3l.jpg

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

What on earth?

Great cover, though. It's just everything that's great about that era in music.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

I have a feeling you would like a lot of the music itself too.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

Hi 'Cooler. Everyone alright?

I'm off to Hackney to look at two more studios. At least one of them has to be good, right?

― G00blar, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

Your studio will find you, Gooblar. I know it.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

OK, I've been listening to the Slipstream now, and I'm sorry, it's just kinda boring. It's not even that it's "poppy" - it's just kind of generic sounding and not really there for me.

Weird, I thought the two albums would sound the other way around.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

This makes me want to listen to Space Ritual and I've no idea what happened to my copy, I think it was actually on cassette so lord knows where it went.

Not that you're dropping any hints or anything...

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not actually - I'm going to buy the fucker again.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

It might be on the way anyway

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

Re that HMV thread on ILM, where do you all buy your cd's/vinyl/Tapes/78's these days?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

HMV, mostly! Hah!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

No local indie shops then? or do you just hate them?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

And pick up Warrior on the Edge of Time while I'm at it. Which I still don't have.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

We've had this discussion before - my nearest indie shop is Rough Trade and it's just too bloody hard to find anything in there, it's so sectioned out by increasingly complex genres. I don't want to have to look through Psychedelic, 70s, Prog, and Spacerock to find Hawkwind - I just wanna go to the H section.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

Did I tell you I got "Space Ritual Vol 2 - Sundown", or whatever you call it, in a car boot sale for £2?

― Tom D., Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

no indie record stores south of the river???? whaaat?

actually none in Oxford now that Vinyl Frontier and Polar Bear have both closed. the record store is, it seems, brown bread.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

There are no record shops in Streatham, fullstop. This is probably a good thing. If I want to buy CDs, I have to make a trip from work. Closest are the HMV in Covent Garden and Rough Trade.

I suppose I could walk over to Soho during a lunchtime, but generally I can't be bothered.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

So that's why people always slag off Rough Trade. My friend wouldn't go in there when he lived in Essex. It scared him too much.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

There (used to be?) a really good second-hand LP shop, in a 'square' where the fire-station cafe is. It was a downstairsie, if I remember correctly, and I do.

― Mark G, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

I have an orgone accumulator.....

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

Do you?

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

I love what's being charged in this one:

http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/toolsforwellnesscom_1937_26804069

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

http://z.about.com/d/inventors/1/8/M/_/orgone.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

Got the job! It's still here at the same place so still with Beryl, but a new job that no-one has done before.

― Dr.C, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

Hurrah, congrats, Dr. C!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

Do you?

No. I don't even know what it is.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

yes, well done!

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

Thx! I'll have to do some bloody work soon though.

― Dr.C, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:00 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, Kerr, and go and read up on some Wilhelm Reich, it's really wonderfully ridiculous stuff.

A Pyramid Shaped Orgone Accumulator!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:00 (eighteen years ago)

They are these sort of metal boxes that people sit in, and they get warm - Reich claimed "through orgone energy!" (though Einstein debunked - through convection) - and hippies claim they have all sorts of healthful effects - though overuse can lead to priapism, as it's supposedly harnassing the sexual energy of the cosmos or something - orgone is derived from orgasm.

It's wacky wacky sci fi stuff - William S. Burroughs was really into it as well.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.thelastfourbooks.com/imageKV9.JPG
http://www.thelastfourbooks.com/image2IC.JPG

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.thelastfourbooks.com/johnnypyramid.jpg

You could make all the Shimura Curves have an hour in that before you next do a recording.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

Erm.... no.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

probably a better idea to put the recording device inside it.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

Or use the crystal to power your guitar

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:13 (eighteen years ago)

I bet M@rissa M@rchant records all her work in an orgone box. Nuff said.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

hahahaha

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

Moshe Daniel: author, Kabbalist, alchemist, naturopathic doctor, singer/songwriter: My Idea Of Hell.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

Is he on the next madonna album?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

I am going home early tody - except I'm not going home, I'm going down the pub for the Finn's leaving do.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

you having cheese and wine?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

Dunno if you're here or not Kate but check your email.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

Just been digesting the Magpie's nest email for this month, it's going to be good. We have blues and american folk from [Removed Illegal Link]. The frets player, I'm assuming, is related to David K.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 06:33 (eighteen years ago)

Just been digesting the Magpie's nest email for this month, it's going to be good. We have blues and american folk from the groanbox boys and more north east folk nepotism with faustus. The frets player, I'm assuming, is related to David K.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 06:38 (eighteen years ago)

Morning. Well done Dr C - I'm glad you won't be parting from Beryl though.

― Forest Pines, Friday, 16 March 2007 09:48 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, that's on the 28th March, isn't it? I just got that email, too. Looks good.

I don't wanna go dancing by myself, though!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 10:04 (eighteen years ago)

I need to do a rundown on NOWDASISTVATIKALLKRAUTROCK VOL1, but I have a conference call.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 10:19 (eighteen years ago)

Bah, sod conference calls. I want to know what you liked best, so I can work on Vol 2 this weekend!

This morning I am mainly upsetting myself with how badly DDBs age. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 10:20 (eighteen years ago)

haven't started yet but I can't believe I have gone through my life without hearing Ruckzuck, pure techno.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 10:32 (eighteen years ago)

Ruckzuck isn't techno, it's ... I don't know. Kraftwerk doing krautrock with a flute.

The college radio station I used to listen to when I was, like 16, used to use it as an instrumental backing for when they read out local gigs and events listings. I knew it for years and loved it without ever knowing what it was -didn't find out it was Kraftwerk until I went to a Kosmische night and asked the DJ.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 10:35 (eighteen years ago)

Morning all! Congrats Dr C!

Two studios yesterday were pretty shit. The more I think about it, the more I like the one with the tiny live room I saw first. We'll see, a couple more next week.

K8, I'm just waiting for confirmation from the bandmates, but we're 95% confirmed for ilxorpalooza.

That "see the dalai" or wahtever song is teh roXor.

― G00blar, Friday, 16 March 2007 10:36 (eighteen years ago)

Go for the studio which gives you the best feeling, like the one that makes you feel like you could actually be creative and comfortable there. You're going to spend enough time there...

Actually I remember the last proper "live" studio I recorded in (not since NYC, which is like 10 years ago, but I've been in every shitty studio from the Meat Packing District to Williamsburg) was Kurt Ralske of UVS's studio. That was lovely, huge live studio, nice control room, hanging out/chilling area with big leather sofas. It was different from a lot of the real workmanlike studios I'd recorded in previously, in that it had that chilling out area, which wasn't just a waiting room or a kitchen. Because it's actually really important to just kind of sit around with your bandmates and TALK - about how you want the music to sound, about directions you want to go in, that sort of thing. Which is often as important as doing the recording.

He said a lot of bands he'd had in had the same reaction - for example, it would be the first time a lot of musicians had actually heard the *lyrics* to the songs they were doing, stuff like that.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 10:41 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, that's exactly what I like about that first place. Aside from the small room, it has everything else we want--and I felt totally comfortable there. Great vintage mics, lots of amps, everything clean, organized, and easily found, nice big chillout area with couches and tv and stuff (way bigger than live room lol), and a totally easy-to-talk-to/work with engineer. I haven't felt like I would want to spend more than a few hours in any of the other places, let alone 5 days, but this place felt totally cool.

― G00blar, Friday, 16 March 2007 10:44 (eighteen years ago)

"vintage mics, lots of amps; everything clean, organized, and easily found; nice big chillout area..."

― G00blar, Friday, 16 March 2007 10:45 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, when you're going to be spending 10 - 12 hour days in a studio (don't think you won't, especially during the mixing process) you want to make sure it's somewhere you feel comfortable spending time.

You will end up having disagreements during the recording process (any band, no matter how well they get along does) - but having that chill-out room to retreat to and talk stuff out stops it from getting too hairy and it turning into arguments.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 10:47 (eighteen years ago)

Yep. Definitely. And I don't want that happening in the place I saw yesterday: a dank basement cave that reeked of cat piss (and in which I waited a half an hour for the stupid engineer to show up).

― G00blar, Friday, 16 March 2007 10:49 (eighteen years ago)

OK, I have 5 tracks from Hawkwind live@ the Stonehenge festival 1977 w/Calvert - highrise/damnation alley/uncle sam's on mars/iron dream/robot. drives like fuck & simon house is ON FIRE. anyone want it?

― Pashmina, Friday, 16 March 2007 10:57 (eighteen years ago)

yes, yes, yes, yes yes, please, Pash!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 10:58 (eighteen years ago)

Great, now I've got Spinal Tap stuck in my head... "HELL HOLE!!! You know where you are in a HELL HOLE!!!"

I know the Tap are supposed to be based on Status Quo, but there's a lot of Hawkwind in there, too.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 11:13 (eighteen years ago)

yes please

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 11:28 (eighteen years ago)

I had forgotten how much I love the Bob Calvert rants between the songs. :-)

This is the first Hawkwind record I ever heard. It was also one of the first times I ever got stoned. What a life-changing event.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 11:44 (eighteen years ago)

Hot banjo player needs a room and somewhere to store his equipment, phnarr.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 11:45 (eighteen years ago)

Thanx for the job congrats. Yesterday was going well - as well as my news my daughter got in her school rowing team, which she was very proud about (but not as proud as me!), but then the missus had a bit of a job setback where something she had worked really hard to get on is now not going to happen. She'll bounce back, but is pretty pissed off. I am going to cook special stuff tonight to try and make things extra nice.

― Dr.C, Friday, 16 March 2007 11:46 (eighteen years ago)

'worked really hard to get' , not get on

― Dr.C, Friday, 16 March 2007 11:48 (eighteen years ago)

school rowing team
is this the right room for an argument?

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 16 March 2007 11:49 (eighteen years ago)

I'm just going to ignore the obvious there, Ed. Hott banjo player has a girl and must only be lusted over from afar. :-(

Aw, poor Mrs. Dr. C - nice dinner, candles, bottle of wine and some making nice-nice seems in order.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 11:50 (eighteen years ago)

hah!

Hey and Kate and Ed - don't forget the gig tomorrow! Bring ~~pies~~ friends!

I am actually looking forward to this gig - the last few have just seemed like a chore, but I think we have a good set lined up that will work well. At least I hope so!

― Dr.C, Friday, 16 March 2007 11:52 (eighteen years ago)

I have no friends. :-(

But I will do my best to make the gig. I have no excuses for not going out this weekend, and really need to get out, in fact.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 11:53 (eighteen years ago)

x-post 'making nice-nice'

― Dr.C, Friday, 16 March 2007 11:54 (eighteen years ago)

Ed's your friend!

― Dr.C, Friday, 16 March 2007 11:55 (eighteen years ago)

I knew someone was going to think that was a double entendre. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 11:55 (eighteen years ago)

It's that bloody sitcom thread wot done it.

― Dr.C, Friday, 16 March 2007 11:58 (eighteen years ago)

I feel like I should actually get up and go into town and DO SOMETHING tomorrow before the gig. Like look at some art or go to the park or something like that. Maybe I will go to Hampton Court! I don't know. Something exciting. I am sick of resting. Maybe the Science Museum, even.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 12:17 (eighteen years ago)

VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION

who loves the new arcade fire album? and the first one? and is at a loose end in londontown on saturday night?

i MIGHT have something you might like

― emsk, Friday, 16 March 2007 12:20 (eighteen years ago)

I love the first one, but I don't love the second one. And I've got plans for Saturday night so I'm probably excluded from this quiz. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 12:22 (eighteen years ago)

yes yes and yes.

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 16 March 2007 12:22 (eighteen years ago)

yes yes and no goddammit. (my parents are coming to town)

― G00blar, Friday, 16 March 2007 12:25 (eighteen years ago)

Bring Parents to Rocktor C.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 12:26 (eighteen years ago)

I cannae, no. K's parents are here too.

That's right, this is the weekend I have in front of me: the first meeting of the future in-laws. Should be fun!

― G00blar, Friday, 16 March 2007 12:27 (eighteen years ago)

Just remember: it is your wedding, not theirs. It is your rest of your lives together, not theirs.

Not that I have any experience in this sort of thing. My mum wouldn't meet Joe or his family while we were "living in sin". She was right, I was wrong, I can't really complain.

I'm feeling kind of down, I should eat lunch and then go buy some Hawkwind records.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 12:28 (eighteen years ago)

Yes please , Norman.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 16 March 2007 12:29 (eighteen years ago)

Oh best of luck with that G00blar! I've always got on better with in-laws than my own parents.

― Dr.C, Friday, 16 March 2007 12:30 (eighteen years ago)

Wouldn't she meet them because you were livin' in sin, Kate?

― Dr.C, Friday, 16 March 2007 12:32 (eighteen years ago)

mmmm, sin.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 12:33 (eighteen years ago)

She later visited my brother and his then girlfriend when THEY were living in sin, but let's not bring up that again.

I also got along better with my in-laws than my parents, but I lost them when Joe dumped me. Oh, I'm supposed to be trying to cheer up, not getting depressed over stupid crap in the past. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 12:38 (eighteen years ago)

I actually get on great with the in-laws already. And I'm sure my parents and them will be fine together. It's mostly cultural/language differences I'm a little worried about--but that's more concern over potential awkwardness than it is over potential fisticuffs, etc.

― G00blar, Friday, 16 March 2007 12:39 (eighteen years ago)

Topics to avoid: Tipping, tumble dryers, washing machines and their location

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 12:42 (eighteen years ago)

It's mostly cultural/language differences I'm a little worried about

What, New Jersey vs. Sunderland?

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 March 2007 12:46 (eighteen years ago)

We are such geeks in this department, we've just had a discussion about the merits of SumIf vs. If Then Else vs. Iif ha ha.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 12:47 (eighteen years ago)

NJ vs. Montenegro

― G00blar, Friday, 16 March 2007 12:54 (eighteen years ago)

IIf as in VB? It SUXXX bcz it doesnt skip the false part if true and vice versa, ie eg if y = 0, you get ERROR from

quot = IIf(y = 0, 0, x/y)

Argh, that annoys me so much!

― anatol_merklich, Friday, 16 March 2007 13:00 (eighteen years ago)

Bloody YSI is taking forever. what's yr email addres, Ed?

― Pashmina, Friday, 16 March 2007 13:11 (eighteen years ago)

Ouch. My head hurts.

― emil.y, Friday, 16 March 2007 13:13 (eighteen years ago)

Norm> SS is usually better and you don't need to sign up.
emil.y >why does your head hurt?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 16 March 2007 13:15 (eighteen years ago)

Hangover. Went to The Music Library last night, stayed up until 4. Ow.

― emil.y, Friday, 16 March 2007 13:18 (eighteen years ago)

Lurkers, WTF? Why the hell would anyone read this?

cos I was on the first watercooler thread and have hardly been able to get a word in edgeways since :)

― Matt, Friday, 16 March 2007 13:25 (eighteen years ago)

Is that a huge x-post? because I don't remember anyone saying that!

btw thats now 2 whole weeks on the 'cooler we've had no arguments. So everyone be friends!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 16 March 2007 13:30 (eighteen years ago)

an enormous crosspost, it's from about two weeks ago

― Matt, Friday, 16 March 2007 13:31 (eighteen years ago)

Cheers norm.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 16 March 2007 13:31 (eighteen years ago)

Arrgh, big snowstorm hitting northeast us TUH-day, let's hope not fcking up flights.

As if my mom wasn't nervous enough about flying. Double the Xanax!

― G00blar, Friday, 16 March 2007 13:34 (eighteen years ago)

norm dali (at) zerointegrity dot co dot uk

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 13:49 (eighteen years ago)

Got it, Ed. Email fired your way.

― Pashmina, Friday, 16 March 2007 13:53 (eighteen years ago)

Eh? I have been at HMV buying GIANT SLABS OF PROG!!!

The salesbloke even laughed at me. I bought 2 Hawkwind albums (I *still* cannot find Warrior at the Edge of Time) and 2 Yes albums (I really wanted Yessongs but it was £23, which was more money than just buying Yes and Fragile together) and that Steve Hilliage album that Norm was raving about the other day.

He was sniggering, indie boy. Asked me "do you want to buy one of these DVDs on special offer?" and I gave him this withering look to say "unless one of them is called something like MASTER BLASTER SPACE VIXENS FROM PLANET PROG I have no interest in your puny earth films!" and he kinda laughed. Argh.

Thanks for the Stonehenge stuff, Norm. I hope this Steve Hilliage album is as good as your description of it.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 13:53 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, also, my sisX0r is on the back cover of the new Stooges album! Heh!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 13:58 (eighteen years ago)

"Warrior on the Edge of Time" has been oop for a while - the CD I have is a different mix to the album, the guitars are quieter, it sounds pretty lame. "Astounding Sounds/Amazing Music" has been oop for over 10yrs, wtf? Maybe after the VdGG and Hillage remasters, they'll do the Charisma Hawkwind titles, I hope so, they're all pretty great.

I hope you like the Hillage album! Sorry if you don't... I tried to copy it for you to listen to, but the protection on it is pretty effective, it just rips a blank .wav when I try.

― Pashmina, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:00 (eighteen years ago)

I wonder if the Stooges album is good? I've been listening to Fun House a lot over the last week - it really is genius that recd.

I keep thinking about that 3CD Yes retrospective. I think it's £6 in FOPP.

― Dr.C, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

Ed, where did you get it from, then? Off James? Or should I not ask? MAKE ME A BLOODY COPY.

Not that I am encouraging that sort of behaviour or anything, ha-hem.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

Kate, you will have a cookie shortly.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:04 (eighteen years ago)

I like cookies too.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:04 (eighteen years ago)

Once you have this cookie we can focus on the wizzard blew his horn and opkalopka

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

OOH FOPP

i am in spendy mood, yesterday i bought my new bike a new lock and some new pyjamas (the old ones have holes in)

today i want to buy it a computer

and now you mention FOPP, grr, i am working 90 seconds walk from the massive one on tcr. MUST RESIST CAN NOT RESIST MUST RESIST CAN NOT RESIST MUST RESIST CAN NOT RESIST MUST RESIST CAN NOT RESIST MUST RESIST CAN NOT RESIST MUST RESIST CAN NOT RESIST MUST RESIST CAN NOT RESIST MUST RESIST CAN NOT RESIST MUST RESIST CAN NOT RESIST MUST RESIST CAN NOT RESIST MUST RESIST CAN NOT RESIST MUST RESIST CAN NOT RESIST MUST RESIST CAN NOT RESIST

this is why i never have any money. as soon as i get any i spend it all on biketoys and rekkids.

― emsk, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

I've heard mixed reviews on the Stooges album, but I will reserve judgement for myself. Nearly bought it, but it seemed ... WRONG to buy a Stooges album with all that prog. Like Ron would have reached off the CD cover and punched me in the nose.

Which retrospective? There was that 35 year thing in HMV, but it was more expensive and plus I refuse to buy anything with Owner of a Lonely Heart on it.

So far the Hilliage album has been quite enjoyable, but it's gone a bit jazzwank now. Argh, stop doing that stupid jazz thing with the cymbals and the bass, and get back to the bits where the synth went wibblewibble and the guitar went WHOOOOOOSHYWHOOOSHYWHOOSH all phasey like. I liked that bit better - oh yes, here we go again.

Mmmm, cookies, my colleague bought me a curly wurly to make up for my not being in the department I sit with any more.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

A guy brought in a pair of fancy Trek mountainbikes yesterday - both front changers seized solid, he's used bucketloads of wd40 on them etc etc. I just fixed both of the fuckers in <10minutes, har. Took me longer to get them off the bikes than it took to fix them. I'm good, me! Unfortunately I'm good at something that has almost 0 market value.

― Pashmina, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

Culinary advice needed :

What pudding will go well with either seafood bouillabaisse (if I can get monkfish) or salmon and asparagus lasagne (fallback, since I will be able to get good salmon).

Is CJ around? She'll know!

I can easily pack the kids off to some other part of the house, so that nice-dinner can be extra nice-nice. But how do I accomodate Tara in Fame Academy?

― Dr.C, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

x-post. Yes, the 35 year thing. I LOVE 'Owner of A Lonely Heart'!

― Dr.C, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

The later Hillage albums are very fuzak-ish, "Fish Rising" is more yer archetypal Canterbury Prog album, it even has Dave Stewart on it - probably best avoid the other titles, I like them, but I'm waiting till they turn up at a fiver a go. The way Hillage builds up his rhythm guitar parts using an echo machine is always pleasing to my ears.

― Pashmina, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

I might be able to get a warrior on the edge of time cookie. Who would want one?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

Just promise me that you won't send any Yes cookies.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

I know nothing about pudding or fish. :-(

I hated that whole Yes 90215 album - but it has been 20 years since I've heard it. Mainly I hated it because it kept coming out on the album rock radio station charts and pushing Duran Duran's Seven and the Ragged Tiger off.

The echo on this album is fantastic, yes, it's just so lush-sounding. There's a lot of stereo fuckery going on, though I haven't got to that song you say goes "through the music"- I bet it's some kind of crazy stereo thing. That's totally what he's doing on Meditation of the Snake which is on now, slow stereo pan which is just astonishing. I have a pedal that does that, which I use on Hung With Joy, yeah.

Mmmm, cookies have downloaded, yum. That will be next. So much prog to listen to!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:23 (eighteen years ago)

Seven And The Ragged Tiger

I got that and The Police Greatest Hits on lp for my xmas the year they were out.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

OK. Calling CJ for emergency pudding advice!!

I'm thinking citrus-y, but what? Also, that could be wrong.

― Dr.C, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

I had stopped liking the Police by then, but I will still fairly in the grip of my Duran obsession.

Sorry, that Meditation of the Snake thing may just be the best thing I've heard in ages. It's just blown every wibbling spacerock album of the past five years away. Wow. It sounds like... a snake. A slippery snake. Emsk, you might like this maybe.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

NJ vs. Montenegro

Minor details.

New computers are always good things.

I found it easy to resist Fopp this time because of the exchange rate. Aside from getting the Relaxed Muscle album of course.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

OK, he just sang about salmon swimming up the stream of time from Atlantis - this is the best concept album about fish ever. OK, only, but still.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

i think i might! what album is it? i got trapped in the yes field at glastonbury for about an hour a couple of years ago when they were playing some ridiculous like 4 and a half hour set.

― emsk, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

For those with infants and toddlers or mums/dads to be (or Mark Grout because he will want to look anyway)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

I cannot dispense emergency pudding advice without knowing the rest of the menu!

― C J, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

Either seafood bouillabaisse (if I can get monkfish) or salmon and asparagus lasagne (fallback, since I will be able to get good salmon).

― Dr.C, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

It is called Fish Rising. It is a prog concept album about... fish. Salmon to be specific, I think. It's NUTS. In the best possible way, with this crazy phasy guitar going everywhere, all over your headphones. Ooh, there's the coolest picture ever on the inside liner notes of a chick (?) playing keyboards with these massive earphones on and the keyboard reflected in her goggles so that the keys look like her eyelashes. Awesome!

I think he was in Gong, not Yes, though. Pash would know? If Gong sound anything like them, maybe it's time to get over my "bleurgh, this is music for hippies!" prejudice.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

He was

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

kate admit it. you are a hippie

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

I'm presuming you don't have much time to cook ....... how about a home-made rice pudding made with a good dollop of thick cream stirred through it and a little freshly grated nutmeg (or buy a good quality ready-made one, and tart it up a bit), and serve it chilled and topped with chunks of kiwi fruit, peach, mango, pineapple etc which have been threaded onto small skewers and marinaded for an hour or so in Malibu.

― C J, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

(ed are you checking your email? did you get that one from j just now?)

― emsk, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:40 (eighteen years ago)

I did, replying.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

The "through the music" bit is about 12.04 into "Aftaglid", there's a drum fill, and the stereo inage, I don't know how, it alters somehow, it's very clever. "Fish Rising" sounds a bit like Gong, but w/o the dippy/hippy pixie stuff? The woman in the liner notes is Miquette Giraudy, Hillage's partnet, and an excellent synthesiser player. She has a Moog modular synth w/suns and moons painted all over the module faceplates, apparently. Why Hillage prefers System 7 to this is something that has baffled me for 10 years.

― Pashmina, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

Google image searches for hippy kate just bring up kate hudson

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

Lemon tart makes a nice ending to a meal, but I don't think you've got time to cook and chill that now before tonight (unless you are working from home today). I can give you the recipe for it if you like ...

― C J, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

who is kate hudson?

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

Ed! Frances wants to do Rollright Stones/White Horse on the way back -I've emailed you about this.

I was raised by hippies. What do you expect?

Awww, I'm just about to get to that bit, Pash.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

I have a couple of hours or more. I'll be back home at 5 hopefully.

That sounds great - thanks! I might cheat - get a Waitrose one (they're v. nice) and then do the fruit/Malibu thing. I am not really that great at puddings - I normally delegate that part of the menu, but tonight it's down to me. Actually sod it, I think I'll make the whole pudding myself. It'll be better than a bought one (hopefully...maybe?).

― Dr.C, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

Ok, I image googled, where's the mud?

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

She was married to Chris Robinson of The Black Crowes.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

Uh I posted twice.

CJ - yes, yes, Lemon Tart recipe please!!

I might have time, because it's quiet here and I could clear off and get home maybe at 4, even allowing for the supermarket trip.

― Dr.C, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

Emailing you a recipe now, Dr C.

― C J, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

Aww - lovely! Thanks!

― Dr.C, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe If I could get her muddy and maybe feed her a little she would be attractive.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

Kate Hudson is the daughter of Goldie Hawn, no?

― Dr.C, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

OMIGOD, OMIGOD, I HEARD IT, YEAH, I SEE WHAT YOU MEAN, PASH!!!

That is absolutely awesome. I think I see what he did there - for most of the song, there are two guitars, one in each ear, totally stereo separated, which a separate delay on each of them. That "through the music" effect sounds like he's brought the two halves together so that both guitars are at 12 o'clock, and then they "cross over" and go slowly round the dial to full channel separation again. But with mad stereo delay on each.

It's a bit like that Pink Floyd "Welcome to the Machine" trick but much, much subtler, i.e. they are not taking the whole track round the stereo dial, but each channel separately.

Gosh, that is clever. My sisX0r and I used to do that sort of thing on 4-track mixes to fuck with each others' heads.

The woman in the liner notes is Miquette Giraudy, Hillage's partnet, and an excellent synthesiser player.

I so want to show this picture to Frances and say "THIS IS YR NEW LOOK, YOU KNOW YOU LOVE IT!" though she would probably look a lot like that if her hair grows long.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

Kate Hippie google brings up this:

https://www.simplyfloorcoverings.net/shop/images/S_05440.jpg

Something to do with MaryKate Olsen, I think?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

This one looks a lot more like me, but i have cooler glasses. And I'd *never* wear white.

http://www.adrian.smith.clara.net/photos/Kate_fairy.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

That is absolutely awesome. I think I see what he did there - for most of the song, there are two guitars, one in each ear, totally stereo separated, which a separate delay on each of them. That "through the music" effect sounds like he's brought the two halves together so that both guitars are at 12 o'clock, and then they "cross over" and go slowly round the dial to full channel separation again. But with mad stereo delay on each.

Need to hear

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

Went home at lunch and there was no thingbringer card. So no mando to pick up yet, booand I lugged the LEAD up the stairs and everything.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

Ed, Hillage has stolen your boilersuit!

http://www.spaceritual.net/tractor-so/hillage-front.jpg

Will make a copy for you at home due to stupid copy protection racket - Macs just laugh at that.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

Mine is more so.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

OK, now I'm not so sure. It's more like the guitar is in the left channel, but the delay signal is reverberating across the right channel. The main guitar channel definitely floats from left to centre in that "through the music bit" but the reverberation still seems to be going all over the place.

God, I love stereo delay. Surely invented on the eighth day.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

I am confused. Discussing Steve Hilliage in one window and planning a megalith expedition in another! Argh, I'm a hippie! We should take James on the moors Barbrooke hunting TC Lethbridge expedition because he has 1) a degree in archeology and 2) every Hawkwind album ever recorded, which makes him perfect for the expedition.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

I think we should hook up his geophysics dissertation project up to a synth and see what happens.

2) is probably not true.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

Finally! A chance for me to actually say SEND IN GEOPHYS!!!!

Maybe we can combine this with our Hawkwind tribute band project.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

If you have your acoustic by then, we can all bring instruments. Does Doom have a wind up synth or shall we recruit Emsk as synth dynamo?

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

Doom has AN HARMONIUM!!!!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

(Though it actually says in the Gazetteer - please respect the sites and realise that others may not appreciate your digereedoo/blaster duet as much as you do - or at least do this at non-gazetteer sites!)

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:26 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe we can combine this with our Hawkwind tribute band project.

Shimura Wind?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:26 (eighteen years ago)

I take it you know about megalithic.co.uk

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:26 (eighteen years ago)

[url]http://www.themegalithiceuropean.com/[/url]

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

Mainly I've been using the Modern Antiquarian

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

Awesome!!!
Julian Cope likes Harvey Milk

Their stuff should be on your dvdrs, kate.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

I also got this cd a few weeks ago

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

I seem to recall that there is a bunkhouse near big moor, at Eyam I think. Bigmoor = breakfast at the Grindleford station cafe, huge fry ups and as pride taken in their surly rudeness.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

Could I be reminded where Rocktor C is tomorrow?

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

Kate check this

How many of these albums have you heard? (there should be quite a few on your dvdrs)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

Whooooaaaaa!!! I just had a look at Worksmart (demon application) in Crystal and OMG, WTF? It's lovely! All the relationships and joins are automatic, all colour coded and pretty and totally easy to use. Why did I ever both trying to use their built-in reporting tool?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

My favourite canadian country singer is touring yurp this summer and playing the lumi on june 26th. Who's with me?

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

That's the weird thing about Copey - he has great taste in music, he's a fabulous writer - if he'd been a music journalist, he could have run the universe. But his own music has always seemed to have something, well, missing.

Yeah, where is the Rocktor? I think in Notting Hell somewhere. Let me dig out the email.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

Ms Case?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

was that to me?

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

Parliament Club, The Inn On The Green, Notting Hill on Saturday March 17th.

http://www.mynottinghill.co.uk/nottinghilltv/bars&Music-reviews-inn-on-the-green.htm

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

Hmm, I wonder if T is doing anything?

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

It's 3-5 Thorpe Close, right under the Westway. I can't promise stereo-delay floatiness, but I'll try and make the Telecaster growl a bit. I should be doing about half keybds and half guitar, IIRC.

― Dr.C, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

Gotta hit the supermarket now. Hope you make it tomorrow! Have good weekends all!

― Dr.C, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, so it's right by the Ladbroke Grove tube, and nowhere near actual Notting Hell Tube?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

Yes!

― Dr.C, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, Ed. I was asking if you meant Neko Case?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

i got new bike computer!

― emsk, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

What does everyone else think of Marnie Stern?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

Bike computer? What does that do?

Ed! Opa-Loka is just NEU!

Honestly, this is just Fur Immer or something.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

Fantastic, in places it sounds like a fight between the pizzicato five and van halen.

Country singer is Corb lund

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

That's the weird thing about Copey - he has great taste in music, he's a fabulous writer - if he'd been a music journalist, he could have run the universe. But his own music has always seemed to have something, well, missing.

having seen him live on four occasions I beg to differ.

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe I should see him live. I never have.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

I love the Teardrop Explodes 1st album and about 5 or 6 of his solo albums. Sadly he hasn't done anything really good in years.

Check your emails shortly for some cookies from the edge of time

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

I have already got cookies from the edge of time, thanks to Ed!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

bike computer tells me how fast or slow i am going, how far, and this one tells me how hot it is!

― emsk, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

the longest gig I ever went to was one of his - Bristol, 20 Mothers tour, autumn 2005. he was onstage for over 3 hours, well, apart from leaving it momentarily to go to the toilet.

he had mellotrons. and he did loads of Teardrop Explodes stuff. the only thing missing was Sqwubbsy!

when Cope presented TOTP he wore a top bearing the legend "A Bypass Is Not the Answer" (it was around the time of Twyford Down iirc). This got more complaints from the public than anything else in TOTP history!

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

NOWDASISTVATIKALLKRAUTROCK VOL1

Neu! - Hellogallo, so pretty, so driving, responsible for 105mph crossing of the franco-belgian border

Kraftwerk - Ruckzuck see above, I want to play this at a psyTrance Rave

Can - Pinch Could get them written up for inappropriate use of congas, and I have I high threshold, I like it sometimes

Harmonia - Deluxe (Immer Weider) I like this, I gues this is trad Krautrock, no

Amon Düül II - Surrounded by the stars Seeing through the eyes of Murdah's Kestrel

Faust - Krautrock OHYESYESYESYES, however the tambourine is the most important thing on this records, without it it would be nothing

Guru Guru Next time I see you at the Dalai Very garagey but, I guess the least handle on this one

La Dusseldorf - La Dusseldorf I love the piano break which sounds very tv theme, expet when the big drums kick back in

Neu! - Hero The only one I didn't like much, mainly because of the drunk billy idol singing

Can - She brings the rain Always nice to finish with loungecore

Favouries were the first Neu, Kraftwerk and Faust, followed by La Dusseldorf and Harmonia

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

1995 doh!

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

Crying babies sleepless nights and walking round and round the garden

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

*suddenly realises quoting random JC lyrics just as likely to piss ppl off as 12 threads per day*

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

hero is awesome!!!! It's probably where johnny rotten got his vocals from!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

NEU! are like the gateway drug of Krautrock, I think they're the most immediately accessible - and lead you to the other bands. Harmonia and La Dusseldorf are both NEU! spin-offs, one by each of the dudes in NEU! - both of whom used to be in Kraftwerk during their Krautrock period. It's so incestuous. You'll come round to the rest of it in time. Frances and I *will* make a Can fan of you.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

I wasn't opposed to can, the are testing my latin drum tolerance.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

You should've gave him Mother Sky to start with

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

WDYLL is amusing me today.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I know but Mother Sky is fifteen minutes long and Pinch is only nine.

They've all got the crazy bongos, though, Can are truly bongo brothers, they have found the new sound.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

But Opa-Loka is totally NEU! - you hear that, right?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:21 (eighteen years ago)

Mmmm, early Echo and the Bunnymen. Sorry, had to be said.

"Passing round the me-di-cuh-hun..."

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:24 (eighteen years ago)

Mother Sky (edit) from Cannibalism/Anthology then!

― Mark G, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, and "Turtles have short legs" is Tago Mago for Kiddies Parties! Take That, Saint Etienne!

― Mark G, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yeah, I hear that.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

Hey Ed, I was in your manor today - was visiting the swanky office furniture showroom a couple of doors down from the pub. And what a fine day for subsequent pottering around Clerkenwell and lunching on the Green today was too. I bought a turquoise woollen hat from a charity shop as well. Not too keen on the lack of cashpoints though - or are they just invisible to me?

― Nobodysprawn, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

Bottom, of leather lane, or in the garage on clerkenwell rd.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

And to think I was crawling around that area a week ago. (The Plan B offices are kinda small and tucked away.)

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

Ooooh, thanks. I went to look at really nice scruffy freelance journalist desk space on Hatton Wall as well. Finally, I may escape my bedroom! They all seemed like a really nice bunch in there too.

― Nobodysprawn, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

I mourn the demise of the bar in there.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

Oh and Dahling, we should do lunch.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

WTF? this is a fucked up version of Motorhead I've never heard before. Fiddles? I think the version I have is live.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

HA HA HA HA HA!!! One of Yes is playing what looks like... yes, in fact, it IS... an Octave Mandolin on the inside cover of the eponymous album. Excellent!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

It is only an octave mandolin if it is gdae tuning, it may well be a bouzouki of some sort.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

Hrrmm, it is listed as a "Vachalia" but closer inspection reveals Although long credited as a vachalia, around three decades later Howe discovered that the instrument concerned was not a vachalia at all, but a Portuguese guitar.

It sure looks like an octave mandolin, it has those distinctive double strings - but then again, the neck isn't quite as long as yours.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

Could be a mandola, I could be some kind of 8 string guitar beast.

That version of Motorhead is the bestest one, I can't believe you haven't heard it?

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:31 (eighteen years ago)

God, Rick Wakeman was pretty when he was younger, sigh...

Err... can't think if I have. I've heard the Motorhead version, a couple of live versions - is there one on the double album Doremi/In Search thing? (Even though the disc of In Search Of Space never came home from the Truck Festival - maybe it was an offering to the White Horse.)

It sounds like a mandolin - on the first movement of Your Move. (You can tell it's a good Prog album when songs have movements!)

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

CAn I have a cookie?

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

Let me see...

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:41 (eighteen years ago)

Also, I didn't get the cookie from pash, could you forward that.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:41 (eighteen years ago)

Hmm, I am contemplating where the LEAD might live.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

I sent it again, Ed. I mistyped "zeroinetgrity" like an idiot.

― Pashmina, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:46 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

Cookie on its way, this cookie is rather an aquired taste - Joe and I were torturing Frances at the last gig by singing it at her.

Be careful where you put the LEAD as it may fall through the floor!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

No sign of the pickup mandolin unless my upstairs neighbors signed for it. (they may of course be withholding if they saw me bring the amp in, I thing I'll be able to turn it all the way up to 0.11)

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

I am actually curious as to what a Mandolin would sound like, on the boost or overdrive or distortion or whatever Marshall call it of the LEAD turned up to 11. Maybe do it on Friday evening when there's so much noise about no one will notice.

(Did I paint the 11 on that one? I did on my former guitarist's Marshall. But then again, we were always mucking about with each others' amps - we turned our bassist's EARTH amp into a FART amp and he never noticed.)

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:51 (eighteen years ago)

note the significant decimal point.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:51 (eighteen years ago)

I misread, yes, I will try it with boost on, and all knobbulation turn to the right, almost as a first go, but maybe with the cab disconnected and it inputting into the MOTU box.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:53 (eighteen years ago)

Ah! I did not notice the decimal point.

Ah, the bands that have used that amp. It was touring bitch for every KRS band ever from the Bangs to Slumber Party to the Gossip.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:53 (eighteen years ago)

If I dust it will I be removing anything significant?

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:54 (eighteen years ago)

I think the dust may be holding the front screen together! It really needs a new front put on it - but I want a paisley one, of course. Be careful of what is in the back of the cab, though - at one point the fallen off knobs from the front were taped in there.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:56 (eighteen years ago)

Even the fallen off knobs have a minor indie cleb story - they were knocked off by Dan Channel 6/Absentee!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:58 (eighteen years ago)

Also some casters on one of the short edges would be a good idea.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:58 (eighteen years ago)

I did buy casters at one point! But they were too puny for the LEAD power and bent and buckled before I could get them fastened on! You have to get heavy duty rollers for amps.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

You know who this sounds like a job for. I still haven't broaced the subject of him building a cab for me.

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

My type = shit today

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

If he didn't smoke so much pot, he would be my dream man. But if he didn't smoke so much pot, he would not be him. Sigh.

Argh I need to be putting things on the BigStick to take home and listen to, but I'm forgetting eveyrthing I have to do this weekend? 1) Finish mixing a Shimura Curves song for ILX comp. 2) Put individual tracks of Elektrickometheorie onto a disc 3) Remix G00blar song 4) Write Plan B articles! Gah! I'm not going to have time to go out tomorrow! Too much to do!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 16 March 2007 18:10 (eighteen years ago)

This version of Uncle Sams on Mars - fuck yeah!

― Ed, Friday, 16 March 2007 18:22 (eighteen years ago)

I wonder what Kate decided to write for Plan B in the end?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 17 March 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

It won't let me vote for jazz twice.

Curses!

― H-ari A-shurst, Saturday, 17 March 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

Hey Hari! Any sign of your internet connection being fixed?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 17 March 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

Not yet.

Hopefully Tiscali will go into the business of divine intervention.

― H-ari A-shurst, Saturday, 17 March 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

Why Hari, it's been a bit. And you missed me in the UK once again!

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 17 March 2007 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

Argh! Curses.

I have returned to the fold. Are you going to make the journey for the ILXfest Ned? I'm hoping to persuade Kate to allow me and my motley reprobate band to have some stage time.

― H-ari A-shurst, Saturday, 17 March 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

You should ask emsk if you can play Truck with Shimura Curves!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 17 March 2007 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

Pickup Mando has arrived. I have no time to plug it in and strum, but I am excited. I need to find the appropriate moment to turn everything up to eleven and make big noise.

― Ed, Saturday, 17 March 2007 19:40 (eighteen years ago)

Awesome! Pics?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 17 March 2007 19:57 (eighteen years ago)

Tomorrow, I need to get to Dr C.

― Ed, Saturday, 17 March 2007 20:00 (eighteen years ago)

Various Artists - Psychedelic Phinland - Finnish Hippie & Underground Music 1967-1974

wo of our favorite words! (Though we normally spell Phinland, Finland.) The current Finnish psych
phenomenon -- Avarus, Kemialliset Ystavat, Circle, Pharaoh Overlord, Kiila, etc. etc. is of course a major AQ obsession. As is vintage psych from, well, heck just about anywhere, but certainly Scandinavia. So this double-disc compilation, subtitled "Finnish Hippie & Underground Music 1967-1974" has got us all excited. There's 29 tracks from almost as many artists, a fantastic trip into the early daze of the Finnish freak-scene. Perhaps another good subtitle would have been: "When Drugs Came To Finland". There's even a few songs about marijuana to set the mood, starting off disc one. But Psychedelic Phinland is just as political, and parodic, and perverse as it is potheaded. There's plenty of Flower Power pop and/or fuzzed-out blues rock, but you'll also find jazz-damaged prog and mystic folk, revolutionary theatre and electronic insanity. There's so much here, we can't mention it all, but look out for heavy psych jammers Baby Grandmothers, "rocking lavatory anarchists" Suomen Talvisota 1939-40, and progrock pioneers Wigwam... then there's there's Eastern-inflected psych-folk from Pekka Streng and the Yippie ranting of Markku Uto...
And then on disc two things get REALLY weird. Yeah this one's even further out, crossing over a bit into "Arktinen Hysteria" territory (you maybe remember, that great collection of early Finnish avant-weirdness from a while back, also released by Love Records). It starts off innocently enough with our new favorite band(name), Those Lovely Hula Hands. Really, that's their name, and they included several 13 and 14 year old sisters playing violins and recorders, singing gently amidst tape-recorded bird-twitter... a song about Tarzan! Then we hear from Pekka Airaksinen and also his band The Sperm, doing extended feedback and tape music experiments. We remember The Sperm from that Arktinen comp and had wanted to hear more. Later on, there's some wonderfully primitive, ceremonial hippy jamming, particularly from a band called Sikiot, who have a krautrockish vibe like Siloah or Amon Duul. And there's plenty more, some other names of note on these cds include J.O. Mallander, Charlies, Topmost, Juice Leskinen & Coitus Int, Apollo, Blues Section, Hector & Oscar, and Kruunuhaan Dynamo...
All of this is pretty much totally obscure, in fact a lot of it consists of previously unissued archival recordings from the vaults of Finland's Love label and other sources... A true labor of Love. Comes with a twenty page, full color cd booklet with English-language notes on each track and tons of cool old photos and graphics.

Who wants cookies?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 00:14 (eighteen years ago)

Damned stoners.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 18 March 2007 00:16 (eighteen years ago)

Send me cookies.

― Ed, Sunday, 18 March 2007 00:17 (eighteen years ago)

OMG ARCADE FIRE *melt* they did no cars go second (it seemed like they were doing their setlist backwards for a little while) so i ended up at the front with the jumpingpeople for pretty much the whole set. WUV

― emsk, Sunday, 18 March 2007 00:22 (eighteen years ago)

Who else wants cookies? I'll do em now.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 00:23 (eighteen years ago)

Were you jumping about Emsk?

cookies are on their way, ed. Do you think Kate The Hippy will want them?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 00:29 (eighteen years ago)

Yay cookies. And later I'm off to a fine meal but right now I'm listening to drones recorded in Texas.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 18 March 2007 00:33 (eighteen years ago)

yes i was jumping! like a 14yo boy! i think the last time a band * made* me do that it was pixies at the same venue. my clothes are all blech.

― emsk, Sunday, 18 March 2007 00:34 (eighteen years ago)

I still jump about or dance(it's less tiring).
I don't have emsks email to send cookies.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 00:40 (eighteen years ago)

oh i still dance about a lot, all the time, and jump about fairly often - but if it's jumping about there's usually a bit more impetus from me - "i want to jump about!" this time i knew i was gonna end up doing it but thought i'd watch half the gig from halfway back then wriggle down the front for the rest. but when no cars go started i couldn't stay still, and then i couldn't leave.

― emsk, Sunday, 18 March 2007 00:46 (eighteen years ago)

Do you want cookies, emsk?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 00:52 (eighteen years ago)

Then Emsk took the stage and rocked out. Surely.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 18 March 2007 00:53 (eighteen years ago)

I hope Ed's mandolin is a MANDOLIN OF DOOM!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 01:28 (eighteen years ago)

It's a sure sign that when you see the word cookies and think of the internet that you have spent too long online.

Yahoo was searching for America's best cookie earlier and all I could think of was how I wouldn't be able to log in to oink.me.uk if that cookie ever got deleted.

I'm a complete saddo though. Continue your business.

― H-ari A-shurst, Sunday, 18 March 2007 01:30 (eighteen years ago)

Cookie is a code word (for cookies honest)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 01:46 (eighteen years ago)

Code schmode

― H-ari A-shurst, Sunday, 18 March 2007 01:48 (eighteen years ago)

hello peeps, gosh, isn't 'children of men' a good film?

currently having my mind blown with countless doom metal recommendations via MSN and the goodfolk who have posted immediately before I.

and to think i still regard SFA's 'Rings Around The World' as one of the pinnacles of post-2000 music...

― unfished business, Sunday, 18 March 2007 01:48 (eighteen years ago)

Now e need to get louis started on dronerock

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 01:58 (eighteen years ago)

dirty drone rock boys uniteeee

― H-ari A-shurst, Sunday, 18 March 2007 02:12 (eighteen years ago)

yay @ isis, neurosis, red sparowes

best dronerock = last four minutes of Soft Machine's 'Moon In June'

― unfished business, Sunday, 18 March 2007 02:12 (eighteen years ago)

not forgetting that pelican EP I have,

or Jesu

― unfished business, Sunday, 18 March 2007 02:13 (eighteen years ago)

Hari is Devons finest dirty dronerock boy I heard

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 02:15 (eighteen years ago)

Not sure if this is ok to post in teh watercooler threads but this is the most dronerock i've ever looked.

Especially while playing pop music.

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/9066/meeditdq5.jpg

― H-ari A-shurst, Sunday, 18 March 2007 02:18 (eighteen years ago)

Kate likes photos of dirty dronerock boys. Don't you fear! she also likes posts of Benjamin Curtis and Howard from The Mighty Boosh.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 02:21 (eighteen years ago)

And Alex James.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 02:21 (eighteen years ago)

Kate's weekly crumpet quota has just been filled in one fell swoop, I suspect.

― unfished business, Sunday, 18 March 2007 02:21 (eighteen years ago)

Are you wibbling out there, Hari?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 02:22 (eighteen years ago)

What's wibbling?

― H-ari A-shurst, Sunday, 18 March 2007 02:22 (eighteen years ago)

I think Kate will need to answer that one.
I just hope Kate scrolls up, todays posts might have vanished by the time she sees it on monday!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 02:24 (eighteen years ago)

What pedals do you wibble with?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 02:25 (eighteen years ago)

I don't do much 'widdling' in that band.

My new ones I'm gonna use my voice and guitar through a DD6 and several different tremelo pedals offset to make insane stuff happen.

Possibly a bass distortion pedal on the guitar too.

― H-ari A-shurst, Sunday, 18 March 2007 02:26 (eighteen years ago)

in my new bands i mean.

― H-ari A-shurst, Sunday, 18 March 2007 02:26 (eighteen years ago)

If you do play the ILX gig you and the Shimura Curves need to play together and take a ride to wibble heaven.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 02:28 (eighteen years ago)

With Ed on the MANDOLIN OF DOOM

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 02:29 (eighteen years ago)

you wait till I release a track for the ILX, it'll be dirtier and dronier (ok, maybe not, but definitely proggier) than all you guys combined :-P

― unfished business, Sunday, 18 March 2007 02:29 (eighteen years ago)

But Shimura Curves can wibble while the others fall down...

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 02:31 (eighteen years ago)

1st part of a 2 cookie set has been sent..

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 02:42 (eighteen years ago)

Cookie part 2 now done and i can go to bed.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 03:59 (eighteen years ago)

disk 1 doesn't really kick in until about track 6. Then it gets great.
Im off to bed now though.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 04:32 (eighteen years ago)

kate, why oh why did you have to alert me to the existence of things like this?

http://www.8stringbass.com/Images/BCRich8/images/BCRich8b_jpg.jpg

― Ed, Sunday, 18 March 2007 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

Ed> Did you get those cookies?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 18 March 2007 13:57 (eighteen years ago)

I got cookies, but not digested yet. 2nd one being very slow.

WANT:
http://www.12stringbass.com/Tennesseeda_1_sbl.JPG

― Ed, Sunday, 18 March 2007 13:58 (eighteen years ago)

I am accessing them cookies now.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 18 March 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

For those who wanted to see my instruments, the pickup one is on the left.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/425247508_a96c46d816.jpg?v=0
alt image link

― Ed, Sunday, 18 March 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

Bass or Sitar?

http://www.12stringbass.com/vox2.gif

― Ed, Sunday, 18 March 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

Who wants cookies?
Sabu Orimo
Susabu
Subjective Spirit Sound SSS-105
CD-R
£8.99

Amazing new limited edition solo album by this young Japanese shakuhachi avantist who describes himself as playing "Japanese old stone age style" and "noise shakuhachi". Orimo plays with natural bamboo flutes using no F/X whatsoever but he tears through the instrument with distorting force, blowing teeth through the valves with the kind of power-thinking more commonly associated with saxophonist Mats Gustafsson or Masayoshi Urabe. Susabu consists of nine pieces recorded in March of 2006. Some tracks here work locomotive growls and roars into truly ferocious forms, while other juggle meditative tonal puffs, long, elegiac single notes and pregnant iceberg silences ala Kaoru Abe. The point where Orimo's straining against the instrument finally breaks into screaming vocals and barked ecstatic wows is truly spine-tingling. Pretty much explodes the idea of what you would expect a 'solo shakuhachi' record to sound like. A major discovery and highly recommended.

I don't have the other album yet sadly.

Sabu Orimo
Ichi-On
Subjective Spirit Sound SSS-106
CD-R
£8.99

Amazing new limited edition solo album by this young Japanese shakuhachi avantist who describes himself as playing "Japanese old stone age style" and "noise shakuhachi", a companion album to Susabu, also released by SSS. Orimo plays with natural bamboo flutes using no F/X whatsoever but he tears through the instrument with distorting force, blowing teeth through the valves with the kind of power-thinking more commonly associated with saxophonist Mats Gustafsson or Masayoshi Urabe. Ichi-On feels more intimate than the preceding Susabu, with Orimo's long, deep flute tones working delicate gravities of growl and drone while environmental aspects creep in around the edges, most affectingly during "Yure" where the dance of rain provides a highly atmospheric counterpoint to Orimo's elemental performance style, flashing from rage to silence in the tiniest of eternities. A beautiful performance with little parallel on the instrument. Highly recommended.

Who is going to be brave?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 19 March 2007 02:00 (eighteen years ago)

OK, maybe we could calm down a little with the cookies and get back to the chatter? I don't want to get PTW in trouble.

How was everyone's weekend?

I had a nice, quiet weekend - spent most of it writing my Plan B article - it was actually quite difficult to write. It's hard having to confront your own prejudices head on. But I namedropped some ILX0rs, ha ha.

Went out to see Rocktor C on Saturday night and got rather drunk by mistake. But my god,I don't know if it's spring or what, but that pub was like Night of the Silver Foxes. Hottt older dudes everywhere - Ed said it gave him hope that people can stay cool (as in interesting, individual) as they get older. The Fractured were great fun. And I was bopping like a FULE to the Fallen Leaves, they were a lovely beat/early garage pop combo. Inspired me to get out my bass on Sunday afternoon (oh my poor neighbours!) and play every garage riff ever. (OK, there are only 4 of them,but I improvised a bit.)

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 11:13 (eighteen years ago)

Ohmigod, 8 and 12 string basses. I actually kinda want one. The 8 string bass coz of Curtis the Elder, I've no idea what a 12 string bass would sound like, I'm kinda scared. But then again, I have been listening to Steve Hillage all weekend so bring on the PROG. (I am carolanning on the Aftaflid.)

I like the look of the mandolin brothers by my LEAD amp!

Welcome to the 'Cooler, Hari!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 11:15 (eighteen years ago)

**Hottt older dudes everywhere **

Oh Kate! Hahaha! It must have been a figment of yr imagination because it's well known that ALL blokes go fat, bald and wear sensible knitwear the very minute they hit 40! :)

There were some hott women too - but that must have been my imagination, because plainly all women go fat, insane and loose their own teeth at 39.

― Dr.C, Monday, 19 March 2007 11:24 (eighteen years ago)

the very minute they hit 40! :)

3.5 yrs to go...I'd better make the most of it ;)

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 11:26 (eighteen years ago)

ALL blokes go fat, bald and wear sensible knitwear the very minute they hit 40! :)

Ooh, ooh, miss! Miss! I get 0 out of 3!

― Mark G, Monday, 19 March 2007 11:26 (eighteen years ago)

Oh Kate! Hahaha! It must have been a figment of yr imagination because it's well known that ALL blokes go fat, bald and wear sensible knitwear the very minute they hit 40! :)

Yeah, that's what I thought, but ohmigod,the silver hottness that came and sad down opposite me on the comfy sofa!

plainly all women go fat, insane and loose their own teeth at 39.

Ouch, I'm all three of those things, and I'm only 36! :-(

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 11:29 (eighteen years ago)

because plainly all women go fat, insane and lose their own teeth at 39.

*cries*

― C J, Monday, 19 March 2007 11:31 (eighteen years ago)

Seriously, it was a fun night and thanks Kate and Ed for coming to see us. Probably the best venue we've ever played - nice-sized room, plenty of gear storage space, good food, nice bar with terrace. Also a really well organized club with super-nice people running it. Terrific to share a bill with the Fallen Leaves and one of my heroes Rob S1mmons.

Kate, your comments re : band dynamics freaked me out. I hadn't realised quite how obvious things were! The whole evening has crystallized my thoughts wrt my immediate musical plans, although as ever I am in a bit of a flap about it all. I HAVE to get it resolved quickly, but it's causing a bit of angst right now.

― Dr.C, Monday, 19 March 2007 11:33 (eighteen years ago)

**Yeah, that's what I thought, but ohmigod,the silver hottness that came and sad down opposite me on the comfy sofa! **

Who was that then?

― Dr.C, Monday, 19 March 2007 11:35 (eighteen years ago)

I'm sorry, I mean, you had expressed a lot of these things to me earlier, so it's not like it would have been totally obvious to a casual observer, but knowing the situation, the body language was totally clear.

(Then again, also I have spent a lot of time both in and watching bands that aren't getting on, and band dynamics are a particular obsession of mine, so I do tend to notice these things more.)

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 11:36 (eighteen years ago)

The kid was a bit off colour yesterday (he's off sk3wl today) & thus totally hyper & infuriating. Still got some music done - I tracked a keyboard lead that's been bugging me for a while - I think I got it right. Triple layer analog modular = awesome tone, hopefully the recorded part matches the sound.

Quiet here today, I'm bored.

― Pashmina, Monday, 19 March 2007 11:57 (eighteen years ago)

Oh no need to apologise, Kate!

It's not like we don't get on - they're all great mates of mine and have been for many years. It's been fantastic - we've played all over the country, been on national radio a number of times, and they got me going again when I wasn't playing and I'm very grateful. But what I do in bands is play guitar, write and arrange and generally drive things. I need to be doing what Rob S was doing in the Fallen Leaves - seeing them just drove that point home. If I'm not doing that, I'm uncomfortable and not happy. In Fr4ctured I would be pretty much OK if I played guitar all the time, but I can't see that happening.

Which is why I have re-started band #2! I don't really want to do both - what I'd rather do is concentrate on band #2 and put all the effort in there. I do need to speak to them all first and check out their commitment, so that I don't find out that I'm left with NO band in a few months. I know what I WANT to do, but am anxious about letting down mates etc etc. I think they know I'm not happy, but as ever everyone always expects me to kind of soldier on with things - be solid and reliable. But I just want, for once, to make a decision based on what I want, rather than what I think other people want me to do.

― Dr.C, Monday, 19 March 2007 12:03 (eighteen years ago)

Friday:

Was going to take kids to school, but I got the message, School closed (burst watermain)!

So, got a couple hours off work, then swapped with D and she had them the rest of the day.

Alternate school day: Went to shops, spent money on clothes, etc..

Then Amber had her party on Friday, then Alice had her party on Sat.

MANIC TIMES.

― Mark G, Monday, 19 March 2007 12:03 (eighteen years ago)

because plainly all women go fat, insane and lose their own teeth at 39

*cries*

Aww CJ, I'm sure you're teeth are wonderful! :)

― Dr.C, Monday, 19 March 2007 12:05 (eighteen years ago)

Please let Rob know if he wants a Garrrrage/freakbeat bassist, I'm available!

It just reminded me how much FUN that kind of music is to play - on the bass. I like being a guitar goddess and songwriter and everything, but there's times I really really miss the kick and growl of playing bass. Also, despite not playing bass professionally for, oh, 10 years or so, I was surprised by how well I could still play it. I'm not tooting mine own horn or anything, but goddamn, I'm a lot better on the bass than I actually am on guitar. It's one of those instruments that is easy to learn but hard to master, but I have mastered it in a way that I've never been totally comfortable on the guitar - I feel like i'm still learning guitar in many ways. Playing bass just comes so much more naturally to me.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 12:07 (eighteen years ago)

you're = your

Kill me now, Punctuation and Grammar Police!

― Dr.C, Monday, 19 March 2007 12:07 (eighteen years ago)

Weight + teef are just fine, thankyouverymuch.

Insane ..... well, I'll give you that one.

― C J, Monday, 19 March 2007 12:08 (eighteen years ago)

Shall I give him your e-mail address?

I know that they are trying a new bassist this week, but he did ask me about you at the end of the evening.

― Dr.C, Monday, 19 March 2007 12:09 (eighteen years ago)

Hush about teeth, I've got a real toothache in my last baby tooth today, I know the thing is contemplating dropping out on me.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 12:10 (eighteen years ago)

x-post

You're more than 39?

― Dr.C, Monday, 19 March 2007 12:10 (eighteen years ago)

x-post yes! I told you that on Saturday night. Would have talked to him then, but for unexpected utter drunkeness. (Never ever try to keep up drinking pints of bitter with Ed.)

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 12:11 (eighteen years ago)

O god my landlord is on the phone! He keeps on about Jefferson Airplane. I wish he'd just fix my internet.

― H-ari A-shurst, Monday, 19 March 2007 12:26 (eighteen years ago)

"Mumblin' Jim could be BIGGER THAN THE AIRPLANE...."

Sorry, Psych Out flashbacks there. Heh.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 12:30 (eighteen years ago)

(I've just broken the news to the P@yne sisX0rs that we've turned the band all prog in their absence.)

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 12:31 (eighteen years ago)

how did they take it.

― Ed, Monday, 19 March 2007 12:50 (eighteen years ago)

Don't know - they haven't responded. Trying to set up a get-together/rehearsal for Wed or Thurs. (I seem to recall those were the days you said were good with you?)

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 12:51 (eighteen years ago)

yes both goo but would like to know which one soonish so I can plan for the other.

― Ed, Monday, 19 March 2007 12:58 (eighteen years ago)

Welcome to the world of being in a band - waiting for other people to figure out their schedules so that you can get on with scheduling yours. :-(

I only sent the email an hour ago - if neither of them have replied with a preference by the end of the day, pick which one you'd prefer. I have little patience for the cat-herding aspects of being in a band.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:01 (eighteen years ago)

Did Hari's band make it onto the ILX comp?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:01 (eighteen years ago)

Got the email, Kate. Thanks.

It just proves that when Kate's are 36 they become HIPPIES!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:16 (eighteen years ago)

Dude, listen to Aftafglid and tell me that's not SPACEROCK.

I've been a hippie all my life.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:17 (eighteen years ago)

Did Hari's band make it onto the ILX comp?

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy on Monday, 19 March 2007 13:01 (31 minutes ago)

Subject to getting the track, yes.

― Mark G, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:35 (eighteen years ago)

That's the hard part! His connection is useless!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:37 (eighteen years ago)

What were the previous comps like?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:39 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, stop me from looking wistfully at the Gretsch price list...

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:45 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, be mine...

http://www.gretschguitars.com/repository/gretsch/images/G5126_md.jpg

Or the super duper full price version...

http://www.gretschguitars.com/repository/gretsch/images/G6129TAU_md.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:55 (eighteen years ago)

You wouldn't be happy with them....

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:56 (eighteen years ago)

I would be SOOOOOO happy with them.

I also need to look up how much a Rickenbacker bass is.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

Never liked Rickies much

― Tom D., Monday, 19 March 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

They look better than they sound, but I love the growl on them. Still, £1100, ouch. Look like there are some deals on eBay, but I'm not allowed to eBay.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

I meant I don't like how they look, that's the most important thing in guitar/bass!

― Tom D., Monday, 19 March 2007 14:08 (eighteen years ago)

Gretsches I like:
http://www.gretschguitars.com/repository/gretsch/images/G6199_md.jpg
http://www.gretschguitars.com/repository/gretsch/images/G6128TCG_md.jpg
http://www.gretschguitars.com/repository/gretsch/images/G6129T-1962_md.jpg

Terribly expensive, though.

What about one of these, eh:
http://www.jerryjonesguitars.com/_borders/Supreme.jpg

― Pashmina, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

I like ricky basses loads, I think they look great, though my favourite isn't the "classic" shape, it's the semi-hollow one mani used to play in the stone roses.

― Pashmina, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

this one, the 4005

― Pashmina, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

Rickenbacker basses are SOO cool looking! Come on! How can Peter Hook, Lemmy and, err Chris Squire be wrong?!?!?

That said, I'd probably plump for:

http://www.fender.com/products/prod_images/basses/0131800300_md.jpg

(this is all entirely theoretical, depending on joining a band that I would play bass for. If not, I'm going to get a 12-string or a hollowbody.)

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, effing DROOOOOL...

http://www.fender.com/products/prod_images/basses/1500060800_md.jpg

I love Fender VI's.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

Ooh, look at this one,though - lovely custom job.

http://www.stthomasu.ca/~pmccorm/research/lemmy2.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

I have been looking at acoustic amps, which, in the main seem to be brown , which can only be a good thing.

― Ed, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

Now you're talking Bass VIs are great. We played with a band a while back who had one of those new Jaguar basses - they sounded great if you want a bright sound. If I was a bass player I'd get a Fender Jazz Bass I think.

Fr4ctured bassman has a big old Bruce Foxton style-Ricky as well as his Fender Precision, but it doesn't sound great to me - too rumbly and not agile enough.

― Dr.C, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:19 (eighteen years ago)

I think I am developping an unhealthy fixation on Lemmy. This worries me.

I love the way Rick basses look, but they do only really have *one sound* - they're not nearly as versatile as Fenders. I've been playing my shitty paisley bass which half the sparkley nail varnish has flaked off. It looks like shit, but honestly, I've never found another bass that sounded quite as good.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:22 (eighteen years ago)

What guitar is Hari playing?
http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/9066/meeditdq5.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:23 (eighteen years ago)

I could have had a bass iv for very cheap years ago, before I knew what such things were. Actually, there used to be a music shop, long defunct, up the road from us that had LOADS of jaguars and jazzmasters in used, for next to nothing, before they became collectable. This was before I started playing guitar, and I wanted a Les Paul b/c Robert Fripp and Steve Hackett played them, I remember looking at the Jazzmasters with their funny controls & tremelo, and thinking they looked weird & cheap. What an idiot, feh.

― Pashmina, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:23 (eighteen years ago)

Oh wait hahaha i can actually READ what he's playing. hahaha

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

Hari has some weird Fender I don't recognise.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

Where's Onimo these days?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

Lemmy is an interesting character; fear not.

actually, Kate, far be it from me to lead you off yr own thread, normally, but Tuomas's one on why misspellings in English are funny (or not) on teh interweb is v fascinating.....

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

Lemmy's bass sound I believe is down to him stripping the stock pickups out of his rickenbacker and replacing them w/pickups from a Gibson thunderbird?

― Pashmina, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

I am liking this, purely based on the wood.

― Ed, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.fender.com/products/prod_images/amplifiers/2271000000_xl.jpg

― Ed, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

It gave you wood?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha, this is an acoustic amp, therefore it must be MADE OF WOOD, LIKE ACOUSTIC INSTRUMENTS!!

I thought you meant Acoustic brand amps, which are actually fantastic if you can find them. The old ones, at least. I used one of their cabs in a rehearsal studio for ages.

Aaah, Gibson Thunderbird - now *there* is a bass. My sisX0r used to play one of those.

There's all these photos of a young, cute, sparkly-eyed Lemmy on the Hawkwind reissues. Ah, crystal meth, what did it do to you?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

ARRRTGGH, SNOW!!!

I forgot to bring my precious seedlings in this morning.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

the pimple (is that the correct dermatological term?) on Lemmy's face is interesting.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

They're warts, not pimples. Proper warts. Like witches (and Spinal Tap) got. This is a man who actually managed to give himself Trenchfoot on a European tour through never changing his socks. They had to take him to hospital and cut them off surgically. That's taking being a DDB a bit too far. But still intriguing.

The office smells strangely like WEEEEEEEED!!! I have no idea why. Actually, I think someone may have sprayed some kind of plant smelling odour spray over the top of the owner's cigars. But still.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

i have good asshole-screening abilities. It is a pity, that I can't put that skill on my CV.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

You mean jess and ethan being dicks as usual?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

i have good asshole-screening abilities. It is a pity, that I can't put that skill on my CV.

If you were applying for a job as a proctologist, it'd probably be a necessity.

― C J, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

in one of my former jobs somebody *did* ring me up to ask me the difference between an anoscope and a proctoscope....

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

OK, the "stealin' my bucket!" gif never fails to make me laugh...

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/_2.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

did you work for welch allyn or something?

― Pashmina, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

(xpost to GG!)

― Pashmina, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

Eating an ice cream:

http://www.angel.dk/specialoffer/hawkoffer01/HawkBWB_06.JPG

So cuet. I didn't think he ever ate between 1970 and about 1982.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

Oh wait, better not let Rumpie see that picture!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

I think I will lust after this:

http://www.swrsound.com/products/prod_images/swrsound/4460400010_xl.jpg

― Ed, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

Why?
x-post

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

Because Rumpie is phobic about people eating ice cream in the street!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:16 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.gretschguitars.com/repository/gretsch/images/G6192_md.jpg

This is like my guitar, pretty much.

― Mark G, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.gretschguitars.com/repository/gretsch/images/G6192_md.jpg

pah! I was banned for some reason. Guess I'm back on now.

― Mark G, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

I am just writing the job description for my nu-job. I also have to list some stuff I need to get started - so far I have put a Mac Book and a couple of training courses. I want to add 'hott ladies' and 'vintage 1965 Fender Jaguar' but I think I may have trouble getting them through.

― Dr.C, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

Push your luck, go for Mac Book Pro.

― Ed, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

shiny
http://www.ashdownmusic.com/acoustic/products/resonator1.jpg

― Ed, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

And minions. Don't forget to ask for a host of minions to do your bidding!

How come acoustic amps are so much prettier than RAWK amps?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

acousitc = hello flowers hello trees

http://www.deanguitars.com/content/imagelib/gtrlib/amps/DA30-4.jpg

― Ed, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

Sos they look nice next to a fey young girl strumming folkie tunes?

― Mark G, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

And they all have XLR inputs!

Can you find a paisley one?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

That shiny one looks just like a PC power supply box.

― Pashmina, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

What about an OLD GREY HOTT ONE?

― Dr.C, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

That Tuomas thread encapsulates everything I hate about nu-nu-ILX - a bunch of assholes jumping on what could have been a very interesting thread simply because of their incomprehensible dislike for a personality.

they are jealous of his smratness. wink wink

god, my hormones are RAGING. i am blue one moment, a bitch the next. or both. *sigh*

also, i think i threw away something that was very important for my mum. :-( well, more a souvenir with a lot of emotional attachment but still... :-(

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

Make another one out of bent paperclips and ticky-tacky. She will never know.

Well, I just read our company's safety policy. That's 20 minutes of my life I'll never get back. But at least I made sure there was nothing in there about not downloading Hawkwind bootlegs at work.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

I want to find the shiny amp and try it out, also the red one

― Ed, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

I have to go on a course entitled 'Standards of Business Ethics and Conduct' in April.

― Dr.C, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

Day 1

9.00 Coffee and biscuits

9.15 Message Board Ethics

Part i : describing the antics of a colleague on an internet message board

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

As long as its not not me that's being described, that's OK.

What kind of biscuits? That's urgent and key.

― Dr.C, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

Well, I just read our company's safety policy

i remember but one line of my old company's safety advice. It was "never use a laptop on your lap".

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

Hobnobs, natch.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

Oreos! Best thing ever = Oreo ice-cream! I wuv America! I want to go back NOW!!!

(um, hello)

― ailsa, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

hello,

isn't cookies and cream hagen dasz made with oreos?

― Ed, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

hello Ailsa!

now you can answer the question, on myspace surveys, abt Oreos.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

Ailsa now understands our superior Oreo ways.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

Omigod, only for sale in Nebraska. :-(

http://rainbowmusicomaha.com/acoustic140bassamp.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

Ailsa's back! Hello!

― Dr.C, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

I have always wanted to Kustom amp. They are squishy and shiny and you can use them as furniture.

http://online.physics.uiuc.edu/courses/phys498pom/amps/amp_pix/70Kustom_100.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:00 (eighteen years ago)

Of interest to Kate

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

Hrrrmmmm, multi-dimensional symmetry, always good. Maybe there's a song in there.

Now sensible Lemmy has traded in his ice cream for some BOUZE so Rumpie can look again:

http://www.angel.dk/hawkwind/store/Hawkcolor_22A.JPG

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:53 (eighteen years ago)

Does rumpie read the cooler?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:04 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know. That is the *cleanest* I've ever seen Hawkwind look, though. They look almost... fluffy.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

I want to pat their hair, like cats.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

If only they were doing the nutty walk.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:09 (eighteen years ago)

Like this?

http://home.dti.net/joly/hawkwind/eggman.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:10 (eighteen years ago)

[Removed Illegal Link]

― G00blar, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:26 (eighteen years ago)

Hop-on, Hop-off: How I Survived A Day Sightseeing in London With My Parents and Future In-Laws

― G00blar, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:26 (eighteen years ago)

Ahhh so that pic was of Gooblar!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

Kate> what Robotville songs did you like best? My favourite is "Ashley Olson"

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

TSDOLE on saturday in Camden

― Ed, Monday, 19 March 2007 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

Morning, morning.

Bloody Norah, that's cold out there.

― C J, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 08:32 (eighteen years ago)

morning everyone

it's cold here! gloves and scarf again I think

― H-ari A-shurst, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 08:37 (eighteen years ago)

Ah no new girlfriend yet? wink wink

I am obsessed with chocolate covered waffles.

― nathalie, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 09:38 (eighteen years ago)

was that directed at me?

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 09:38 (eighteen years ago)

It's sunny here but bloody hell it's baltic.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 10:14 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry, that looks really rude in black and white, it wasn't meant to be.

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 10:26 (eighteen years ago)

Brrrrrrr!!!

I actually picked up the big planter with all my seedlings in it and brought it inside last night, and I'm glad that I did. Looks like the wisteria and the rocket will survive, but I think it's too late for the basil.

Where are TSDOL playing? I need to get out of the house more. I'm starting to get that crankiness from staying in too much and being bored.

My favourite song I think was the one with the line about "sleeping against a frozen car"? I am rubbish at remembering song titles.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 10:33 (eighteen years ago)

Camden Barfly.

Steve Hillage is a little masturbatory, no?

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 10:34 (eighteen years ago)

I'm still wondering what Ed thought was directed at him.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 10:46 (eighteen years ago)

Ugh, I hate the Barfly, boo.

Steve Hillage does go on a bit, but when he hits a good groove, it's mind-expanding. That passage on Aftaflid is still one of the best things I've heard in ages. Just the way that track... swaggers. I swear to god Benjamin Curtis got half his style from him, ha ha... but I suppose he is really a guitar player for guitar players.

But if you think that's mastabatory, I won't send you Yes cookies, hah!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 10:48 (eighteen years ago)

I've only heard the first track of the Hillage, I preferred that one track of Yes though.

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 10:52 (eighteen years ago)

Put on Aftaflid right now. I'm not talking to you about Steven Hillage until you listen to it. Especially about the 11 minute mark.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 10:53 (eighteen years ago)

Ah no new girlfriend yet? wink wink

this one

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 10:54 (eighteen years ago)

This Zodiacs album is awesome.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 10:54 (eighteen years ago)

Ahh, no, that was directed at the devonshire dirty dronerock boy.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 10:55 (eighteen years ago)

I really really really want coffee today, for no apparent reason. It must be the cold.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:10 (eighteen years ago)

I am listening to something fishy

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:18 (eighteen years ago)

Marillion's 2nd album?

― Tom D., Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:19 (eighteen years ago)

Hello. Bleah, I feel awful today. Still made it in to work, though.

No snow on the ground here, but there was a little bit settled in Hessle earlier.

― Forest Pines, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:28 (eighteen years ago)

No, some cookies Kate sent. A concept album about fish it seems.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:32 (eighteen years ago)

Fishcakes? You'll have to explain this stuff about cookies becuase I haven't a Scooby what you're on about...

― Tom D., Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:33 (eighteen years ago)

I did manage to snag the 2nd Sabu Orimo

Sabu Orimo
Ichi-On
Subjective Spirit Sound SSS-106
CD-R
£8.99

Amazing new limited edition solo album by this young Japanese shakuhachi avantist who describes himself as playing "Japanese old stone age style" and "noise shakuhachi", a companion album to Susabu, also released by SSS. Orimo plays with natural bamboo flutes using no F/X whatsoever but he tears through the instrument with distorting force, blowing teeth through the valves with the kind of power-thinking more commonly associated with saxophonist Mats Gustafsson or Masayoshi Urabe. Ichi-On feels more intimate than the preceding Susabu, with Orimo's long, deep flute tones working delicate gravities of growl and drone while environmental aspects creep in around the edges, most affectingly during "Yure" where the dance of rain provides a highly atmospheric counterpoint to Orimo's elemental performance style, flashing from rage to silence in the tiniest of eternities. A beautiful performance with little parallel on the instrument. Highly recommended.

I don't think anyones been brave enough to try the 1st one though.
Check your email dada.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:34 (eighteen years ago)

All will be explained.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:35 (eighteen years ago)

Kate - I meant to ask you if you liked Soft Machine?

― Dr.C, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:35 (eighteen years ago)

I used to not like Soft Machine - too much jazz in there - but I have not heard them in years, and my tastes have changed, so I should probably give them a second chance.

Actually, no,that's not true. They had a "Soft Machine" room at the Tate Liverpool when we went to see the "psychedelic art" exhibit about two years ago. I loved the Velvet Underground lightshow room, and the Pink Floyd/UFO lightshow room, but the Soft Machine one left me cold.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:37 (eighteen years ago)

(xpost) No it won't!

― Tom D., Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:38 (eighteen years ago)

Soft Machine were great!!! I have the the 1st 2 Volumes on 1 cd and 3rd on cd. I'm not Kate though.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:38 (eighteen years ago)

Bit jazz for Kate? Vol. 3 and onwards...

― Tom D., Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:40 (eighteen years ago)

It was a fantastic idea for an exhibit - they tried to recreate the experience of going to these concerts - the music, the lights, the films, the oil slides etc.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:40 (eighteen years ago)

Oh right, cookies, nudge nudge wink wink, I'll bet she does! I'll bet she does! etc

― Tom D., Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:42 (eighteen years ago)

Soft Machine / Matching Mole - candidate for the most obscure pun ever?

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:43 (eighteen years ago)

say no more say no more

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:45 (eighteen years ago)

i like the barfly. possibly because i pretty much lived there for 2 or 3 years.

― emsk, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:49 (eighteen years ago)

It's a horrible place to see bands, though! The bar is right in the wrong place, so you can't actually get into the room if it's crowded, and end up stuck in that horrible L-bit where you can't see the band. It's pretty much the last toilet venue in London I've never played and never want to.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:52 (eighteen years ago)

yes what is it with the venues with L bits? Brighton's Freebutt is like that too.

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:53 (eighteen years ago)

I've only ever been there once - Jim Reid played!

― Tom D., Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:53 (eighteen years ago)

It's nice if you don't want to see everyband, so you have a place where you can go and chat and not have to have Cheesecake Truck or whatever inflicted on you. But it is STUPID to put the bar at the apex of the L, so no one can get from one bit to the other.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:53 (eighteen years ago)

BUT BUT BUT if you squeeze yourself through the big jam by the bar you find TONS OF SPACE and you can see and hear and stand under the aircon if it's hot.

― emsk, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 12:00 (eighteen years ago)

(also lol @ cheesecake truck)

― emsk, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 12:01 (eighteen years ago)

But the reason there is TONS OF SPACE is because no one can actually get through the horrible jam! The number of times I've nearly died getting past the bar, to find the front of the stage clear... it is BADLY BADLY designed, that venue. They need to move the bar.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 12:02 (eighteen years ago)

OK plan for the weekend

Friday evening ?
Saturday afternoon, guitars
Saturday dinner, poss meet T. for vietnamese in camden pre TSDOLE
Saturday Night TSDOLE
Sunday Glong Bong walk in Kent

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 12:16 (eighteen years ago)

Whoa, I can't go guitar shopping on Saturday afternoon if I'm going to be out walking all day Sunday! I need some time to shop for groceries and do my laundry and clean the flat and read the Guardian!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 12:19 (eighteen years ago)

I thought that would happen in the morning?

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 12:19 (eighteen years ago)

The point of a Saturday is to REST, not to spend it rushing around like a chicken without a head!

I'm old! I need lots of time to relax on the sofa with a cup of tea at the weekends. I need at least one day a week I don't have to set the alarm clock! Obviously that isn't going to be Sunday now we are walking.

So how can I get out of bed around 10, do the laundry, rush down to Sainsburys by noon, then get home by 2 and instead of having a nice relaxing lie down with a cup of tea, I have to rush out again and look at guitars? I can't do it! I'll collapse! And will either not make it out that night, or the next morning.

I am old and I have no energy.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 12:23 (eighteen years ago)

Now I am just getting exhausted thinking about this weekend. Oh no.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 12:25 (eighteen years ago)

Aftaflid, is much better but it still sounds like a guitarist strumming himself to ecstasy. Perhaps I need to listen to it in the dark.

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

Listen to it on headphones, it's the only way to appreciate it. But yes, a psychedelic monk strumming himself to ecstacy is right. (To me, this is a good thing. But it may just be a guitarist thing.)

I have not just had free sammiches, but free almond croissants. My life is good!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:12 (eighteen years ago)

I almost always listen to everything on headphones.

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

It's all about the production, maaaaaaan.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

which is very good.

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

I'm having a hard time getting through the afternoon. Might be time to break out Warrior At The Edge Of Time. That'll teach me to eat the free sammiches.

Trying to figure out when on earth I'm going to do the mixing for the ILX comp now!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

I am making a tour of the balkans to promote this

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, when will I ever learn? If I eat a load of sugar at lunchtime, I have a massive crash in a couple of hours and get horribly cranky and bad-tenmpered. And then someone goes and asks "do you want a maple cookie?" (of the actual maple syrupy kind, not 'Cooler Cookies) and like a dumbass I go all "Yeeeessss..." and wonder why I'm in a terrible mood and pissed off about stupid inconsequential crap.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

Why am I even still *involved* with the user set-up process?!?!?

Why can't I just hand it over to HR, whose freaking JOB it is. But they are lazy bastards and can't be bothered to learn it becuase they think it's "technical" which it so isn't. And there are too many freaking cooks involved in the process, there's no communication between then, I don't have my whole mind on it, mistakes get made, and it all goes horribly wrong. Argh.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

hi kids. got out early today.

― mitya, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, lucky you - I am still stuck here pulling out data for journalists. Argh.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

I am home and ill again. Feh.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

You're ill again? You've only just had a horrible lurgy! How awful!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

home and ill > at work and ill

― mitya, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

Hey Mitya!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

Psst, Kate. I've been told you're the person to ~~pester~~ be very nice to if hoping to jump very late onto any Ilx comp/gig thingy. Is it too late?

― emil.y, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

Comp is me!

Do you have a track ready?

― Mark G, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

Well, we've got loads. I'll have to make sure the rest of the boys are okay with it, but if so we could get one to you in the next couple of days.

― emil.y, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

Argh! At the moment, we have eight bands! I'm either going to have to kick someone off (actually, one of those bands never formally confirmed. Hrrmmm....) or else check with Tim just how many bands we can get on. I think he would probably make an exception for you guys.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

Make it a weekender! ILx-a-go-go!

― emil.y, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

Give us a field and we can produce a weekender.

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

By we, I mean me and james, and then only if we can get his live gear back off of sh3fst0ck

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

The Friday and Saturday are already booked, I think! I could not do a whole weekender, I would be pulling my hair out by the end of it.

I mean, if we *actually* start on time, (and they never do - first band won't go on much before 5) and give every band a half hour slot... that's four hour s of music, plus changeover times - everything hinges on how quick the changeovers go. You always plan around 15/20 minutes but it's always closer to half an hour. I mean, the Windmill never minds if you keep going until midnight, but lots of ~~stupid North Londoners~~ people have to leave before the last tube.

I would really like to have you guys play!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

It'd be ace. But don't worry about it if it'll just make stress, for one thing I haven't asked the boys yet, so it would be very rubbish of me if you end up struggling to make room only to find one of them is on holiday or something.

― emil.y, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

Well, ask them and find out first. I need to sit down and plan the schedule realistically anyway.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

You will come whatever happens, though?

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

emil.y and hari's band* on would be great. You need to do a tour!

*I haven't heard the other bands, no offence.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

CAn you be tempted to take the long road south?

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

Oi, Pfunk, you better start bigging MY band up the same sort of way or we will have words!

::folds arms across chest and harrumphs::

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

But Kate everyone knows Shimura Curves are great!

ed, nah, i'm skint. Do a tour and i'll come to Glasgow!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:05 (eighteen years ago)

I'm pretty sure I'll be there - it's the beginning of summer holidays, so no reason not to. I've never FAPped before or anything, though (unless you count harrassing ken c about hen fap at bbqs). What if you're all REALLY ODD?

― emil.y, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

I will be up in Edinburgh around festival time (providing a friend gets the funding for her show), I at the very least will come and drink a beer with you.

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

What if you're all REALLY ODD?

THEN YOU WILL FIT RIGHT IN!!!! ;-)

::ducks::

I think you should be more worried if we're not odd. We are all delightfully odd. Honest.

I am making a spreadsheet as we speak.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, ill again or at least a nasty little sinus infection. Bleh.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

YOu already know we are all really odd.

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

Is this spreadsheet going to calculate ODD QUOTIENTS and multiply them by eccentricity variables?

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

Hehehe. Yes, I was simply trying to assert my own normalcy, and failing dreadfully. Bah. I'll go back to staring at AstroCat.

― emil.y, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

OK, this is my spreadsheet:

17:40 - 18:10 * 30 min * Band 1
18:10 - 18:30 * 20 min * Changeover
18:30 - 19:00 * 30 min * Band 2
19:00 - 19:20 * 20 min* Changeover
19:20 - 19:50 * 30 min * Band 3
19:50 - 20:10 * 20 min * Changeover
20:10 - 20:40 * 30 min * Band 4
20:40 - 21:00 * 20 min * Changeover
21:00 - 21:30 * 30 min * Band 5
21:30 - 21:50 * 20 min * Changeover
21:50 - 22:20 * 30 min * Band 6
22:20 - 22:40 * 20 min * Changeover
22:40 - 23:10 * 30 min * Band 7
23:10 - 23:30 * 20 min * Changeover
23:30 - 00:00 * 30 min * Band 8

And that is going on the assumption that we are *supposed* to start at 5, and there will be 30 minutes of faff with the soundman. (there always is.)

We *might* be able to squeeze in a ninth band, but that removes *all* of our faff cushion of time. And I don't want to spend the entire day standing by the side of stage with a clipboard shouting at bands that they've been playing too long, and getting the hook out to drag them off. Plus, *someone's* pedal or analogue synth will have something go wrong with it that takes more than 20 minutes to fix - it *always* happens!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

No one is going to want to go on before 5pm or after midnight! Even if we can get the soundman to turn up on time!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

Crikey, that's a lot of bands!

― Tom D., Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

Tell me about it! I'm pulling my hair out, wondering how to get them all on.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

Don't forget to factor in the mass singalong, with everyone onstage, at the end

― Tom D., Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

That can happen after midnight.

I wanted to have an open mic slot as well, but when will that happen? Three in the afternoon? While we're soundchecking? (If we are even going to be able to soundcheck?)

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

Do a 14-Hour Technicolour Dream thang and have two bands playing at once (drawback: everyone in the audience will have to be on acid)

― Tom D., Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

I'll have to speak to Tim about dosing the devilled eggs at the BBQ.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

Blimey, I have had a really super-busy day. And after doing all this other SUPER URGENT DO RIGHT NOW RIGHT NOW crap, I still haven't even thought about the giant massive fuckoff project which I know is going to be a hell and a half to code.

I'm going to have to hard code a bunch of targets into a report. And I just KNOW, no matter how often I stress "these are going to be HARD CODED - it will be REALLY DIFFICULT TO CHANGE" - every month someone is going to ask me to change the targets. Argh.

I wish I were being pessimistic.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:13 (eighteen years ago)

Anyway of scripting the coding process?

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:22 (eighteen years ago)

Probably. I'm just trying to figure out how to do it.

I can't even start to look at this now, I'm too burned out - AND ANOTHER REPORT JUST LANDED IN MY INBOX, ARGH, GO AWAY.

I just wanna go home and eat burritos.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:24 (eighteen years ago)

mm burritos, I had one for lunch. (have you tried the leather lane burrito stand, it is not bad?)

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

Does Kate get made a Dame for organising the fest?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

No, I haven't tried it. It's a bit far to walk for lunch most days. I love MINE OWN home made burritos cause I can splash on all the habanero (sp?) chili sauce I like.

I ain't no pantomime dame!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

Baroness Kate Of ILX?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

They seem to be becoming quite common, leather lane, exmouth market and chapel market all seem to have them now. This can only be a good thing.

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:37 (eighteen years ago)

I'm already Baronness of Chester.

And I was going to buy a title from Sealand - wonder if they're still doing that now they're selling it.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:37 (eighteen years ago)

Kate - my thoughts on the gig :

1. Forget the open mic session
2. Can 3 or 4 of the bands do 20 mins? Some of the less-established bands may be happy with that.
3. Forget sqeezing in a 9th band
4. 20 mins changeover is generous
5. We are happy to play any slot from 2-5, based on your timings.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 09:13 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, a 9th band looks like it would be far too much trouble. We'll be reserves, in case anyone pulls out. And Dr C is right, 20 minutes changeover is plenty (although I've seen listings where they only give you 10 minutes - it ALWAYS takes about 15 for bands with more than just guitars).

― emil.y, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 09:21 (eighteen years ago)

Morning all, I was farting around with computer based effects last night, Mando + phaser + resonant filter is very nice.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 09:27 (eighteen years ago)

Even if I were a less established band, I wouldn't get out of bed for only 20 minutes. It's shitty enough to put on "less established bands" at 5 in the afternoon, don't want to penalise them any more.

Anyway, this is not the thread for this. It's all bringing back horrible Ladyfest tour memories of bands getting all diva-ish and refusing to go on during their previously agreed time slot because "someone from the NME is coming down!!!" and crap. And that makes it not fun.

Blah.

Effects, hurrah! Phaser and resonant filter sounds good. Worship ye the STEP DELAY, though. I was mucking around with analogue delay and stereo tremolo last night and oh the yumminess.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 10:39 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, also I heard from my sisX0r today - where is a good hotel (which will put up with rock stars) in Clerkenwell? the Rookery?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 10:40 (eighteen years ago)

The Rookery or The Zetter. They should eat at St John and Medcalf.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 10:41 (eighteen years ago)

I was just suggesting a possible solution that's all. Based on someone's suggestion that some of the bands may not want to do 30 mins. Whatever.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 10:42 (eighteen years ago)

Sticking a tremolo between the the phaser and filter was pretty sweet too.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 10:49 (eighteen years ago)

I'd get into bed for 20 minutes though.

(I'll get me coat)

― Mark G, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 10:51 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry, logistics makes me cranky. I'm sure none of the bands here are going to pull a G0$$1p.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 10:54 (eighteen years ago)

Ooh! A tale?

― Mark G, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 10:55 (eighteen years ago)

A very old and tedious and boring tale told already.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 10:56 (eighteen years ago)

OK.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 10:56 (eighteen years ago)

Bass love:

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o125/wonderandlust/The%20Secret%20Machines/secret-13.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 11:05 (eighteen years ago)

When we go guitar shopping, maybe we can do phaser shopping as well.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 11:06 (eighteen years ago)

I need to get a chorus - and a sampler delay (different texture from analogue delay) but I think I'm just going to get little Boss pedals.

Do you want to borrow my Smallstone, see how that is? I love MXR phasers, too.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 11:08 (eighteen years ago)

The Simulator was simulating an MXR Phaser 90 and that was a nice sound. I'd love to borrow some more of your stuff.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 11:09 (eighteen years ago)

MXR phase 90 is the DREAMBOAT of phaser pedals - if they weren't so expensive I'd probably have one of those instead of the Smallstone. But a Smallstone is more adjustable. Try out the Electric Mistress, too, but I've got to find a power supply for it.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 11:18 (eighteen years ago)

The Orange plus 1 big knob appeals to me. (although there is the multi patterned EVH edition too). There are some on eBay but I'm not going to be buying anything this month.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 11:22 (eighteen years ago)

does anyone want a haprsichord? I know someone who wants to get rid of one. The legs are a bit damaged apparently but otherwise its in full working order.

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 11:25 (eighteen years ago)

I really do not want to say no to that, how big is it?

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 11:25 (eighteen years ago)

OK, I'm confused. The Early Years said they were playing "a rave in a car park" this Saturday but their MySpace is all f*cked up:

The Early Years

25 Mar 2007, 04:00
Hearn Street Car Park, Shoreditch, London,

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 11:26 (eighteen years ago)

Harpsichord?!?!??! God, yes! Oh we will have to fight over that, Ed.

Oh wait, the rave is expensive, never mind. £10 advance, I don't think so.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 11:27 (eighteen years ago)

there is one person in Oxford I know who might be interested but if he says no then Ed vs Kate FITE! will be on.

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 11:29 (eighteen years ago)

I will be bumbling around that neck of the woods about that time, having just seen roll deep, I may go.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 11:29 (eighteen years ago)

We can have joint custardy of a harpsichord, I would need to clear out some stuff to fit it in, probabkly under my bed

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 11:29 (eighteen years ago)

I have far more space for it - I could fit it in my living room by the chimneypiece that the recently vacated LEAD left room for.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 11:32 (eighteen years ago)

TBH you would probably be better able to play it straight off.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 11:34 (eighteen years ago)

However you must gig with it with a candlestick, liberace style.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 11:34 (eighteen years ago)

An excuse to use The Ladies!!! (my art nouveau candlesticks) Hurrah! However, gigging with a harpsichord would be problematic. Trust me, I've lugged a Vox Continental all around England twice. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 11:36 (eighteen years ago)

I think RA will be into the Rookery in a big way

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 11:40 (eighteen years ago)

Uhhh... yeah. So long as they let him smoke cigars in his room. That's on the banks of the River Fleet, isn't it? the Iguana wouldn't like it so much as there aren't enough old ladies to shock.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 11:43 (eighteen years ago)

OK Mis KStC, you have now got me into gear freakery, I purchased an eSub to SoS and I want one of:

[image]http://www.schippmann-music.com/ebbeundflutklein.jpg[/link]

these

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 11:44 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.schippmann-music.com/ebbeundflutklein.jpg

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 11:44 (eighteen years ago)

MWAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH!!!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 11:46 (eighteen years ago)

The iguana can shock market porters at 5 in the morning.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 11:48 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, I cannot believe that my mother has run out of Roibos tea already! She only took about FOUR crates home with her on the plane. So I have to buy some and mail them to her. Sigh.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 11:58 (eighteen years ago)

Surely they must sell it in the US?

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 12:00 (eighteen years ago)

They don't! It comes from South Africa therefore you can only get it in Canada.

Or they sell it vastly overpriced in health food shops with stupid flavours (vanilla?) added.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 12:01 (eighteen years ago)

Hmm? I get Roibos at Avanti every so often -- no more expensive than the other teas there.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 12:03 (eighteen years ago)

My mum lives in rural Vermont, not LA.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 12:05 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, FUCK LENT, I want me some coffee!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 12:07 (eighteen years ago)

Drift over to IMM

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 12:08 (eighteen years ago)

My mum lives in rural Vermont, not LA.

Granted, but LA isn't Canada either. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 12:09 (eighteen years ago)

Canada is a lot closer to Vermont than LA! My mum actually goes to Canada occasionally - especially if she's working in Burlington.

I have me some coffee. Plus, I ran into my boss in the loo, and we had a right snarkfest about the idiots who commissioned the report I've just done.

I'm slightly worried because we've just had to kind of punch a hole in the security of one of the dbs we use in order to get everyone access to this report - but my boss and the head of IT are convinced that everyone in this company are such flaming idiots that they wouldn't actually know how to use it, even if they were aware of its existence. Though that said, I'm worried about their breaking things through SHEER IDIOCY.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 12:16 (eighteen years ago)

Sometimes, in your professional capacity you come over as Alice in Dilbert, mind you everyone in any kind of tech job has dilbert moments.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 12:18 (eighteen years ago)

Which one is Alice in Dilbert? I don't know it well enough to know the characters' names.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 12:20 (eighteen years ago)

I 'wrote' a Dilbert column, you know. There! There's a "only ILXor to have" surely?

― Mark G, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 12:20 (eighteen years ago)

The only woman with an name, and therefore a techy.

See today's
http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2008145870321.gif

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 12:21 (eighteen years ago)

All techies are frustrated by their users. It is the way of thing - I mean, look at the ILX technical threads - the coders make this beautiful fast efficient machine of a new database, and everyone goes WAH, WHY DOESN'T IT HAVE DOUBLE DASHES BEFORE THE NAMES, WAAAAHHHH!! which is how I often feel in my job.

I'd love to have a no email Friday, because it would mean no one bugging me and I could spend ALL my day on ILX.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 12:24 (eighteen years ago)

I am liking Grails.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 12:27 (eighteen years ago)

I am liking coffee. How does it make everything better so quickly?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 12:33 (eighteen years ago)

I submit yesterday's band #2 pedal board for your persual, Kate.

(Tele and Jazzy) + Boss compressor/sustainer + Behringer Ultra Phase + Danelectro TunaMelt + Digitech Bad Monkey Tube Overdrive + Boss Blues Driver. Delay on a separate footswitch to the amp.

Nothing particularly fancy there, but all sounded surprisingly good. The Ultra-Phase belongs to my son - it's surprisingly good for a cheapie! The Bad Monkey is astounding - it's one of those pedals that you try at 'playing-at-home' volumes and it apparently doesn't do much at all. Use it at high vol and it's amazing. Fantastic for light crunch for the Tele (Keef Richards style) and the Jazzy, and great at pushing the Blues Driver for fuzzy solos. I left off my OS-2, which I normally use for feedback and tinny 'bee-in-a-jar' distortion, because I don't use it much and I can get feedback using the compressor and the two overdrive pedals.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 12:43 (eighteen years ago)

OMG MY FUTURE IS BEING DECIDED AS I TYPE

― emsk, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 13:25 (eighteen years ago)

Are you talking about the Budget or something at the Lovely Job?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 13:26 (eighteen years ago)

Fingers crossed.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 13:29 (eighteen years ago)

They sell Roibos in our canteen! I drink it most days.

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 13:40 (eighteen years ago)

YYYYYEEEEEEEEAAAAAHHHHHHH!!! MY FUTURE IS GO!

― emsk, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 13:41 (eighteen years ago)

Hurrah! Excellent! Congrats to Emsk!

(What is your future?)

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 13:41 (eighteen years ago)

(My mum is trying to argue maths with me, telling me that she took 3 boxes of 60 bags each, and drinks one tea a day, and this should last her 3 months. UM, no! You ain't gonna get that past a mathematician.)

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 13:44 (eighteen years ago)

hurrah, hurrah hurrah, want a celebratory drink this eve?

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 13:44 (eighteen years ago)

yay! my job is one for 6mths + handover period, april-oct + possibly more...

― emsk, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 13:49 (eighteen years ago)

You have 6 months to make yourself indispensable.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

i have been working on that for 4 months already!

― emsk, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 13:53 (eighteen years ago)

That is awesome, Emsk! Calls for celebratory drinks, definitely. You are obviously already indispensible.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 13:55 (eighteen years ago)

Kate,

This would be way cheaper than sending from the UK.

http://www.amazon.com/Freshpak-Rooibos-Tea-80-bags/dp/B0001590IC/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-2485501-8195261?ie=UTF8&s=gourmet-food&qid=1174485720&sr=8-1

0_0

― 0_0, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

OOH
i would love a celebratory drink but i have to speed home to pick up veg before pickup time is over then i have to go running (2nd run2min/walk1min sesh, yowsa) then my personal trainer and i have an appointment with some chili and a bottle of wine. tomorrow, or friday? i have stuff on both nights but may be able to squeeze in between tomorrow, def can fri.

― emsk, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

Friday good, I'm going to Roll Deep but not till later.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

Friday, yes, that is better.

Thank you, 0_0 person - I have forwarded that link to my mum.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha, my mum has tried to defend her maths saying that sometimes she shares her tea with visitors. I asked if she had started serving tea to the Corgi, to get through tea that fast. SHE DRINKS IT!!! SHE IS A GREEDY TEA DRINKING FREAK!!! And then lies about her tea habit because she feels so smug about re-using teabags while I use a fresh one every time becuase I am decadent.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

the harpsichord definitely *is* available!

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

Yes! Shimura Curves want it. Not sure which one of us gets to have it in their house, but that depends on going to fetch it, I suppose?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

can we get dimensions?

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

I have been unable to do any work today due to our RDC being offline because the Datacentre's router failover procedure did not work.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:16 (eighteen years ago)

Hello all. Today I have been really into Fela Kuti again.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

I haven't listened to any in ages, maybe I will when I get home.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

I've been listening to Grails.

And I feel terribly like I've let the cat out of the bag by telling people that most of the money in outrageous London house prices DOES NOT ACTUALLY EXIST, it is imaginary play money in the hands of accountants.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

The fact that money is a fiction is not really one big secret.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

The new Grails album is great. Did I send cookies of that? or is there a cookie monster in the cooler?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

SOmeone did, It is pretty great, I will have to buy a copy.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

It was your cookie, Kerr! You can't even keep track of your own cookies!

I'm feeling quite excitable and need to calm down. It must have been the coffee.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't make it you see. I just saw the cookie on another board.

I'm surprised you're not all over that prog thread on ILM, Kate!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, arguing with Geir and Louis is my idea of a fun afternoon... NOT!!!

Besides, I've been using BULLET POINTS to explain equity. One of the few times my job comes in useful.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

I think you should do a powerpoint for the lex at the next FAP.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

I'm just realising, that as much as I complain about how my parents (especially my mum) f*cked me up on an emotional level (especially with regard to relationships) they (specifically my mum) gave me an INCREDIBLY grounded sense on financial matters.

And funnily enough, this didn't even come from the maths side of the family (my dad has to this day no sense of money because he grew up such a Trusta) but from my mum trying to run around cleaning up my dad's financial messes. And mostly, knock on wood, I have not made my parents' mistakes with money. The middle classes begat middle classes in more ways than just fronting deposits on houses.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

I'm feeling really freaking smug today. Someone shoot me.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

I finished varnishing the top half of the synthesiser cabinet:
pics here
it looks great!

― Pashmina, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, arguing with Geir and Louis is my idea of a fun afternoon... NOT!!!

geirbot excelling himself yet again with

But symphonic rock should have male singers. Yes did, Genesis did, ELP did, King Crimson did. No point trying to sound different from those in any way.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

You know, that's exactly the kind of thing that I'm trying to AVOID by not reading the thread.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

God I'm in love with your synth-cab, Pash.

― emil.y, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

It was surprisingly easy to build, though it took a while. I can sit in front of it and reach/see all the connections & controls really easily, which is exactly what I wanted.

Kate, I don't know how to reply to comments, but yes, that's the daisy retro-h 12-string, which I'll be bringing to the gig.

― Pashmina, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

You just leave another comment below it.

Aahhh, can't wait to hear the 12-string!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

Things I've learned on ILX today - it's considered bad form to talk about your finances being healthy in a way it's never considered bad form to talk about your relationship being all SQQUUUEEEEE, LIFE IS SO GREAT!!!!

Smug homeowners are the new smug marrieds! Hurrah!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

Where on earth have they hidden the bloody info that I need? Argh, I hate this db!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:04 (eighteen years ago)

*bounce bounce bounce* i am neither married nor a homeowner.

― emsk, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, but you're hateable, because you have no credit card, therefore you are smug debt-free person!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

you just got a job, it's only a matter of time.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:09 (eighteen years ago)

Besides, I bought earlier than you therefore I am more smug.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:09 (eighteen years ago)

i am not debt free! i have like £3,500 or something of student debt. shit, what do i have to be making for them to make me start paying it back? it was £15,000 for ages which i've never been anywhere near, then it went up to £18,000 leaving me even further behind. they haven't sent me the Drreaded Letter this year yet, maybe i should call them or sth.

― emsk, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:13 (eighteen years ago)

You are same generation as me so you have to ring them up and ask them to start taking DDs.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:15 (eighteen years ago)

I am not being awful, but your "terrible student debt" sounds so TINY compared to US student debt. Or what UK are trying to turn student debt into. Bah.

That reminds me, I need to fill in my voter registration form (after all that excitement, I keep forgetting to send it) and hassle the utilities company to send me a bill to pay. You'd think they don't WANT my money.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)

I don't have I have had an electricity bill since I switched to wind power.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)

first have = think

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

(I know I am a terrible person, but I am just so happy to finally find something to be smug about! I know I did not win the genetics lottery or the luck lottery on the relationships front - I am ugly, predisposed to be fat, have 0 people skills, never had a stable enough childhood to have a childhood sweetheart and therefore have no relationship, but I won on the maths skillz, the thriftiness skillz, the luck of finding well paid jobs in finance, and the genetic lottery of having lovely posh grandparents to conveniently die and leave me half a deposit luck)

I mean, so many things are just luck in being born who you are.

If I REALLY wanted to be a horrible person, I would go on the London Housing thread and say all the encouraging things that smug marrieds say to eternal singles - DON'T WORRY, EVERY POT WILL FIND ITS COVER, I MANAGED TO BUY A HOUSE, YOU CAN TOO, DON'T GIVE UP HOPE!!! HA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAA YOU SINGLE LOSER YOU, YOU HALF A PERSON COZ YOU CAN'T GET A ~~BOYFRIEND~~ MORTGAGE!!!!

Not that I'm bitter or anything, mind you! :-)

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:22 (eighteen years ago)

Start chilling the champers, Tarquin, I'm going home.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

You are same generation as me so you have to ring them up and ask them to start taking DDs.

no i bloody don't! i don't want to give them anything! usually by this time of the year they've sent me a letter demanding the blood of my firstborn.

― emsk, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

Ah, but you have to give it to them, if you are the next generation then they just lift it from your paypacket.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:48 (eighteen years ago)

Emsk, you should phone them and ask them to post you a deferment form ASAP. I ended up squillions of pounds in debt because some twat at the SLC decided to send my form to my old address, and I just sort of assumed they had carried on my payment deferment when actually what they thought was that I was ignoring them and therefore accruing squillions of pounds in "charges".

― ailsa, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:50 (eighteen years ago)

(Funnily enough it took them three years to find me, via my aunt who I had named as a contact detail all those years before, who hardly ever leaves the house, so I find it kind of hard to believe that it took them three years to get her in. Less profitable for them if they find me and my shitty wage, I guess)

― ailsa, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:52 (eighteen years ago)

Ah, but you have to give it to them, if you are the next generation then they just lift it from your paypacket.

not if i'm not making £18,000 i don't. or £15,000. whichever.

Emsk, you should phone them and ask them to post you a deferment form ASAP.

yeah you're right actually, they *always* fuck up somehow, saying they've sent me stuff they haven't, saying i haven't sent them stuff i have... eventually they're always like "oh yeah. you're making a pittance. here's your deferment, you sad sorry fuck" but not after months of horrible threatening phone calls and crap...

― emsk, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:54 (eighteen years ago)

this job may end up paying enough for them to start demanding, they have ways of finding out.

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

do you think they read the watercooler?

― emsk, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:57 (eighteen years ago)

They have eyes everywhere, I mean look, they found alisa in 3 years, through her aunt ;-)

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 19:02 (eighteen years ago)

Welcome back Ailsa, Did you have a nice time?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 22:41 (eighteen years ago)

Mostly.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

I saw Clint Eastwood in a petrol station, and I ate my own body weight in food several times over. I went on a boat in the Everglades, and I saw tons of alligators. I even tipped generously in bars!

There were some crap bits too, but the good stuff made up for it.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 22:46 (eighteen years ago)

OMG, we went to Celebration! Ned-Flanders-ville alert! Creeptastic!

― ailsa, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 22:47 (eighteen years ago)

(I'm not sure about the Clint Eastwood sighting - me and my mum convinced it was him, the rest of our party, not quite so much. We did see Davis Love III though*)

Also, Ben Fogle's mum and dad were on our flight on the way back (Tampa to Gatwick leg) and our second home flight (Gatwick to Glasgow) got hit by lightning.

There ends the edited highlights of my holiday. I don't have many photos. My mum has several of me looking very wet and screaming a lot on various rides at Universal, which I hope will never see the light of day.

* Kate, don't ask, you don't care, honest

― ailsa, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 22:51 (eighteen years ago)

Obviously, best thing about Manatee County = manatees. LOOK AT IT! IT'S HUEG!!

[img]http://www.homesafe.com/manatee/photographs/xa19.jpg[/img]

― ailsa, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 22:58 (eighteen years ago)

oh bugger.

http://www.homesafe.com/manatee/photographs/xa19.jpg

― ailsa, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 22:58 (eighteen years ago)

http://drpeterjones.com/images/hugh_manatee.jpg

― Ed, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 22:59 (eighteen years ago)

I went on a boat in the Everglades, and I saw tons of alligators. I even tipped generously in bars!

Don't suppose you bumped into delboy and rodney?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 23:12 (eighteen years ago)

Is Clint Eastwood, Davis Love and the Fogle-parents not enough? Yeah, OK, I met them. Crockett and Tubbs too. And Gentle Ben. In my trip to THE FICTIONAL EIGHTIES FLORIDA.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 23:33 (eighteen years ago)

No flipper, no credibility.

― Ed, Thursday, 22 March 2007 10:30 (eighteen years ago)

Did you go to Kennedy? Did they melt your heart? Do you want to be an engineer now?

― Ed, Thursday, 22 March 2007 10:32 (eighteen years ago)

Hello 'Cooler!

My parents have moved on to Paris, and although K's parents are still here, the main event has passed. Not too bad, all told. Everyone was on their best behavior, got along well, seemed to like each other. I was the designated chaperone during the days, taking them all around LDN, to see the sights, to the tate, to the theatre (Don Johnson in Guys&Dolls LOL). I'm happy to have nothing to do today (aside from pick up MORE theatre tickets for K's parents).

Actually the only real stress that came out of the visit/meeting was about wedding dates, and that completely from my side, as my mother is apparently very Jewish when it comes to when a wedding can be, but not so much for ALL OTHER ASPECTS OF LIFE.

― G00blar, Thursday, 22 March 2007 11:16 (eighteen years ago)

will their be klezmer?

― Ed, Thursday, 22 March 2007 11:39 (eighteen years ago)

Please say there will be klezmer.

― Ed, Thursday, 22 March 2007 11:39 (eighteen years ago)

A Little bit of fun for those who have a Last FM account

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 11:42 (eighteen years ago)

And Morning all.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 11:42 (eighteen years ago)

It doesn't work, Kerr, even if you put a dot in before "com".

(morning!)

― Forest Pines, Thursday, 22 March 2007 11:43 (eighteen years ago)

I am 5.49% mainstream.

― Ed, Thursday, 22 March 2007 11:44 (eighteen years ago)

Morning Kerr!

There will not be klezmer. It's not going to be a Jewish wedding! (Aside from a few 'elements'). Which my parents are fine with. What they (read: my mom) is not fine with, is having it on a Saturday. Or a Friday night. Or anytime in the days before, after, or on the high holidays.

― G00blar, Thursday, 22 March 2007 11:48 (eighteen years ago)

Oy!

― Ed, Thursday, 22 March 2007 11:49 (eighteen years ago)

Story of my life:

http://levinejudaica.com/catalog/images/2007%20little%20joy%20little%20oy.jpg

― G00blar, Thursday, 22 March 2007 11:55 (eighteen years ago)

So is it going to be a town hall wedding? The council chamber that Mr and Mrs HAnd had theirs in in Islington town hall is pretty spanky, if very very RED.

― Ed, Thursday, 22 March 2007 11:58 (eighteen years ago)

Civil ceremony. But in Montenegro!

― G00blar, Thursday, 22 March 2007 11:58 (eighteen years ago)

Hey Gooblar, Ed, FP!
http://mainstream.freevicente.com/ is the url if anyone wants to try for a bit of fun. It was Hari who showed me the site.
Rock 'n Roll! You are 7.96 % mainstream!
my pfunkboy account (with all my funk and jazz) fared a bit better
Rock 'n Roll! You are 3.78 % mainstream!

Ed> Did you get that Hawkwind related email? I sent it to a few of you incase there was some cd's/lp's/dvd's you were looking for.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 12:01 (eighteen years ago)

I did, and there are a few Iw ill order, however I have just bought about 4 cds which need to arrive and be listened to first (Ash Ra Tempel - Ash Ra Tempel,Bonzo Dog Band - (Songs Of) - Songs The Bonzo Dog Band Taught Us - A Prehistory Of The Bonzos, and a couple of broken social scene ones, Grails on pre-order)

― Ed, Thursday, 22 March 2007 12:03 (eighteen years ago)

The 1st Ash Ra Tempel is AWESOME!

I'll get the Grails on vinyl from TRL when it comes out. It will be after the cd though sadly.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 12:09 (eighteen years ago)

It's quiet today.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:17 (eighteen years ago)

I don't like Ash Ra Tempel's 1st album much... or them, for that matter. Ed, if you thought Steve Hillage was masturbatory!!!!!

― Tom D., Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:19 (eighteen years ago)

I prefer a circle jerk or soggy biscuit to solo performance masturbation.

― Ed, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:23 (eighteen years ago)

The ash ra tempel album rules.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:46 (eighteen years ago)

Each to his own Krautrock...

― Tom D., Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:49 (eighteen years ago)

I bet we all have our own faves. Like Kate's compilation would've been different to all ours.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:55 (eighteen years ago)

I like that Ash Ra Tempel album with the looney singer on it

― Tom D., Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:57 (eighteen years ago)

Rock 'n Roll! You are 1.02 % mainstream!

I was hoping for a lower number.

Also, on the krautrock tip, I will say again: LA DUSSELDORF!

(Right, got to get back to actual work now.)

― emil.y, Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

Creedence appears to be what is pushing my number up.

― Ed, Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

emil.y is so indie!!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

... can't go wrong, etc

― Tom D., Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

Viva

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

Can't go wrong with either La Dusseldorf or Creedence!

― Tom D., Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

Indeed!!!!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 15:04 (eighteen years ago)

i called the student loans ppl and they said they sent my form out 2 days ago, hurrah. this means i will get it in may.

― emsk, Thursday, 22 March 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

Hooray for money!

Hooray for me. I think. In that I'm feeling better.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 March 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

I'm feeling worse :(

― Tom D., Thursday, 22 March 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

dada did you get that finnish comp?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

Oh Jesus, I keep forgetting I have a gmail account

― Tom D., Thursday, 22 March 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

haha
I hope cookies haven't expired past the use by date

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

I don't see anything Finnish, I do see "Space Ritual", cheers! It's not prog is it?

― Tom D., Thursday, 22 March 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

haha no, i will get the form in may. then i will send it back recorded delivery with copies of 5 weeks' payslips, and they will phone me up and say they haven't got it and i will get them to send me another ans send it back to them again. then they will make threatening phonecalls to me and (this is the part i like least) send a threatening letter to my grandmother who will call me, worried, and not be entirely convinced by my reassurances that it's ok, they're a bnch of cockfarmers (no i do not use that sort of language to her) and eventually, after about 2 months of to-ing and fro-ing, they will say "oh yeah. you're making a pittance. here's your deferment, you sad sorry fuck." I HATE THEM FOR THEIR SHEER INCOMPETENCE.

― emsk, Thursday, 22 March 2007 17:05 (eighteen years ago)

check your email in a few

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

You get it?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

.... errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, yeah, should I be thanking for you this tho... I'm wondering!

― Tom D., Thursday, 22 March 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

haha. charming!

I think emil.y and Ed liked it. No idea if Kate did.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

No flipper, no credibility.

Ed on Thursday, 22 March 2007 10:30 (7 hours ago)

Now, now, I *did* go out in a boat in the Everglades and saw lots of dolphins up close, a family of five, including an ickle baby one were swimming round our boat and leaping through the waves created by our wake.

I didn't get to Kennedy, no. It's on my list of things to do when we go back. We were restricted by familial commitments, people to see and whathaveyou. It'll happen.

― ailsa, Thursday, 22 March 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

I want this to remain.

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/ihasabukkets1.jpg

― Ed, Thursday, 22 March 2007 22:46 (eighteen years ago)

I very nearly just wrote 'OTM' in the margin of a student's paper.

― G00blar, Friday, 23 March 2007 01:01 (eighteen years ago)

I thought better of it in time, and put a check mark.

― G00blar, Friday, 23 March 2007 01:01 (eighteen years ago)

At least it wasn't OMGWTF!!!11

I wonder if that will ever happen to Louis? ;)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 23 March 2007 01:09 (eighteen years ago)

I doubt it. He'd have to be right sometime :-)

― ailsa, Friday, 23 March 2007 01:12 (eighteen years ago)

if I ever have to mark a student paper, I may succumb...

― unfished business, Friday, 23 March 2007 01:13 (eighteen years ago)

I wasn't talking about you marking.....

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 23 March 2007 01:14 (eighteen years ago)

and :-P at ailsa, whom i earlier spent roughly three hours (in essence) rigorously defending. :-D

― unfished business, Friday, 23 March 2007 01:14 (eighteen years ago)

i shall make my 14 year-old brother mark my upcoming dissertation. then we shall see.

― unfished business, Friday, 23 March 2007 01:15 (eighteen years ago)

Just wait til he finds out about ilx..

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 23 March 2007 01:55 (eighteen years ago)

NO NO NO NO

― unfished business, Friday, 23 March 2007 01:56 (eighteen years ago)

That's funny, I bet everyone else reading was thinking the same!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 23 March 2007 01:57 (eighteen years ago)

I'm back now, you can all stop having a good time now.

My bloody sinuses are killing me. I'm not built for this IT'S SPRING, no IT'S SNOWING, no IT'S SPRING no IT'S SNOWING!!! weather.

But I'm happy coz rehearsal last night was so much fun. Ed, I have the Electric Mistress for you today to try out, but watch out, she eats batteries like she eats men.

I still need a good Mang Name.

Where are we going for celebratory drinks tonight?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 10:15 (eighteen years ago)

Do I need a girl name? I'm not very happy with Edwina.

Beaver DeBeauvoir is my Tranny/stripper name but I need something more ladylike for everyday.

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 10:20 (eighteen years ago)

Busy busy busy.

Band #2 has a bubblegum song with funky bass clavinet!

― Dr.C, Friday, 23 March 2007 10:21 (eighteen years ago)

What's a good stomp box analogue resonant filter?

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 10:21 (eighteen years ago)

Rehearsal was indeed fun last night, I've now got the Sticky and brown oho oho oh bit down, I should have the chord changes in just like friends sorted soon as well.

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 10:23 (eighteen years ago)

Bubblegum bass clavinet?!?! Excellent!

What's not to like about Edwina, Edie? (You just need a Patsy. And some vodka)

My name doesn't turn male very easily, like Manlee and Mannemarie. :-( I mean, I used to have an inner homosexual called Kevin, but I need to get in touch with inner Rock Pig.

But I suppose that's it - AMP and Lisa are such girly girls that they have butch inner men. I'm such a Boy most of the time that my inner man is a flouncing ponce.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 10:28 (eighteen years ago)

Mate?

― Mark G, Friday, 23 March 2007 10:30 (eighteen years ago)

Why is it still so cold? Bloody Arctic front. Need more coffee.

― G00blar, Friday, 23 March 2007 10:37 (eighteen years ago)

Coffeee... oh god, I was hoping Wednesday was an aberration, but I wants it even more now.

Where is caffeine on that list of government drugs? This shit is way more addictive than speed.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 10:39 (eighteen years ago)

Yes - the bass clav sounds so fantastic. I can't wait to play this song live - it's Chicory Tip meets.....actually it's just Chicory Tip. I fully expect it to go to the top of the hit parade.

So are thee gurls back in Shimura Kurves then, Kate?

― Dr.C, Friday, 23 March 2007 10:39 (eighteen years ago)

Manlee is back in the band. Manmarie wants to take time off to finish her book. (I want her to finish her book, too - it's a history of old school Riot Grrl, v. v. cool.)

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 10:43 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yeah, also...

http://www.nikkihirst.co.uk/aprilflyer.jpg

My mistake - the 21st April, down in my neck of the woods. Awesome!

Also, Emsk, do you have a contact for the Flowers of Hell? We should talk about doing another gig with them and Kontakte.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 10:45 (eighteen years ago)

I think I am free that weekend. I shall be there. They have consistently great flyer designs at NOTLS

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 10:47 (eighteen years ago)

There is also one on Old Street on the 14th, if I may utilise your couch before we go MEGALITH HUNTING!!!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 10:48 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, I think this is a plan. Have you ever slept on my famous sofa?

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 10:48 (eighteen years ago)

Errr... no. It's not very comfortable these days, is it? You still had a second bedroom when I lived there, before it was turned into the MANDOLIN CAVE.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 10:54 (eighteen years ago)

If I tidy the cave, and someone does something with the boxes they dumped there, then there is a futon that can be rolled out.

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 10:56 (eighteen years ago)

i have emailed you a contact email address for flowers of hell, kaet.

― emsk, Friday, 23 March 2007 10:58 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, how did I become organising person? I hate organising things.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:02 (eighteen years ago)

I am a shy and retiring flower and should not be allowed to talk to people.

Oh well, I will email him and say hello.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:02 (eighteen years ago)

pub tonight - ARGH - i finish here (central, off tcr) at 7 and i'd like to be at a friend's bf's leaving do (he is going to IRAQ fucking scary or wot) on the harrow road by 9 or 9.30 and in the middle i want to go for a quick run (30 mins tops) which i don't want to do in central london but am happy doing around the streets near harrow rd. um how am i gonna work this?

― emsk, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:03 (eighteen years ago)

What I mean is - thanks!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:03 (eighteen years ago)

I will organise, but I don't know how to shot organise a gig.

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:05 (eighteen years ago)

What's a good stomp box analogue resonant filter?

Ed on Friday, 23 March 2007 10:21 (42 minutes ago)

The Frostwave "Funk-a-Duck" is pretty great!

http://www.frostwave.com/

― Pashmina, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:08 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, Emsk, that is complicated. (Iraq? Argh!)

How to shot gig - uh, um. How I've always done it is, err, get a bunch of bands to agree they want to play together, which is the easy part. Then you have to find a venue.

Some venues, you just tell them what bands you want and they say "fine" (like the Windmill, this is why I like the place) - others you have to approach through a promoter and they are supposed to do all the organising but usually they do very little, and just take all the money. (Depends on the promoter, obv. some are lovely but lots aren't.) And then some venues they want you to do the whole thing and hire the hall up front and promote it all yourself.

Then some have weird deals - the Buffalo Bars it used to be that they didn't charge you for the venue, and you got to keep everything you made ont he door, but they had to make a certain amount on the bar or they would keep your deposit.

it's all so CONFUSING.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:10 (eighteen years ago)

Also we should ask to play more of the shoegazing clubs around town. Like AC-30 and Club Goonight (I think the latter said they would have us before). And I should really ask Nat if we can play a Sonic Cathedral some time but I love love love Sonic Cathedral so much I'd just about die if we got to play it so I'm scared to ask. I am a FULE.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:12 (eighteen years ago)

The fact that I actually hate one of my students means it's probably good that this is the end of term (and thus, effectively, the end of the year). GET OUT OF MY LIFE.

Forgot to say--Congrats Emsk!

― G00blar, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:26 (eighteen years ago)

I always wondered how hard it would be to teach someone you ACTIVELY HATED.

Phew, I got really scared - just got an email from my boss saying could we be in Brighton by 9AM next Wednesday, and back in Holborn for noon. Uh... NO. I can barely make it to the shower by 9AM, let alone. But it turns out that it was meant for the other Katharine.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:28 (eighteen years ago)

Hello everyone. My database that I thougth was finished isn't, so I've been urshing around fixing that this week. Anything interesting happened while I was away? (I could just read the thread I guess . . . )

I also walked into (and may have helped cause!) the shitstorm on the Ronaldinho thread. Now I feel bad. I think I got called a racist, although in that thread it's hard to tell.

― The Wayward Johnny B, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:30 (eighteen years ago)

I stand by my comments calling the whole boiling lot of you fucking insane.

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:31 (eighteen years ago)

Nah, you didn't cause anything. Aside from a few snark-masters, I think the general perception was that you were at least being honest and open about your impressions and knowledge (or lack thereof) of certain associations. At least that was my perception.

― G00blar, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:32 (eighteen years ago)

xpost.

― G00blar, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:32 (eighteen years ago)

Pash, why the funk-a-duck over the resonator?

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:34 (eighteen years ago)

thanks gooblar!

Argh, Emsk, that is complicated. (Iraq? Argh!)

i know! he is a good person too, it's bizarre.

also more complication - no alcohol before run, i think it would be a bad idea. hmm.

― emsk, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:35 (eighteen years ago)

Running?!?!? What is this nonsense about running. You must DRINK!!! With US!!! We are YOUR FRIENDS and we want your company for SEVENTH MOST DANGEROUS DRUG EVER consumption with us. In a PUB.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:38 (eighteen years ago)

5th

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:40 (eighteen years ago)

What is the seventh most dangerous drug? Speed? we can take that, too. KINGS OF SPEED, KINGS OF SPEED!!! ::jumps up and down in chair::

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:41 (eighteen years ago)

i have been running and LOVIN' IT! haha ok not very far or fast (i am up to RUN 2 MINS WALK 1 MIN which has been surprisingly easy and we accidentally did a 4 min run which was easy too (i think it was the weather, it was cold and still and dry)) but still. i'm quite surprised. yay for the teenager.

hrm, maybe i could run tomorrow and monday instead of today and sunday. what time do you think we will be back from the walk on sunday? it may not be practical to do it sunday anyway if we're back too late.

― emsk, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:43 (eighteen years ago)

Wait, no, speed is 8th, 7th is Valium. Snorrrrre. Never liked that. Preferred diet pills. What has got into me today? I feel 18 again, want to drink loads of coffee and pop diet pills and drive all the way to Vermont, vrrrooooooom!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:43 (eighteen years ago)

I imagine we will be back quite late on sunday.

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:49 (eighteen years ago)

Eep, I'm going to start next week with a sleep debt, aren't I? And I've got so much planned...

If we play with FoH, can you get projectors, Ed, and we can turn it into a crazy multimedia psychedelic event with films and lights and things. And we can do Hawkwind covers!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:56 (eighteen years ago)

I can borrow, yes.

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 12:00 (eighteen years ago)

Ed, the resonator (one of which I own) is a fixed filter. It's a great piece. The Funk-a-Duck, though, has an envelope follower built into it - it tracks the volume of the signal it receives, and changes the cutoff of the filter according to the level, a great effect.

― Pashmina, Friday, 23 March 2007 12:09 (eighteen years ago)

I should try plugging through Doom's MS20 to see if I like the sound. But I like the idea of envelope following.

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 12:11 (eighteen years ago)

Order today 032/32/007 and you could score a free
Frostwave SpaceBeam Theremin / CV controller
worth Aud $387.00...

I wish I hadn't seen this/

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 12:13 (eighteen years ago)

That should have been in quote style but the damned input parser is a nazi.

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 12:13 (eighteen years ago)

Uuuhhh... Theremin? What?

I just got paid today. Maybe I can afford that 12-string bass after all. I just wish I could have a go on it before deciding to spend £400 plus shipping on it. I mean, I know what an 8 string bass sounds like from TSM, but no idea if 12-string = lovely heavenly angel choirs of gorgeousness or muddy prog hell.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 12:15 (eighteen years ago)

Did Rob S contact u Kate?

― Dr.C, Friday, 23 March 2007 12:18 (eighteen years ago)

Nope, Dr. C.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 12:20 (eighteen years ago)

I am suffering from ILX burnout, I think. Go on another thread, start typing out this quite long, quite detailed analysis of something and then halfway through just think "crap, is anyone going to be bothered to read this, or are they just going to come back with some kneejerk reactions - besides, we've already done this a hundred times if we've done it once..." and then just hit clear.

I am feeling sleepy. I already want more coffee. Beer drinking mannequin has aquired a bike helmet - WTF?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:07 (eighteen years ago)

I think I am going to become addicted to yoghurt coated ginger.

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:09 (eighteen years ago)

Ohmigod, anything covered ginger is food of the gods - I was eating the yoghurt covered ginger last on the Isle of Wight, it is teh yum.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:10 (eighteen years ago)

Alara on marchmont st is becoming my favourite lunch spot.

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:12 (eighteen years ago)

I had aubergine and mushroom biriyani - not as good as homemade, but Emsk still has my curry making pot.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:13 (eighteen years ago)

I should get a better curry making pot, with a copper bottom or something, so that it does not burn like those enamel pots do. They are so pretty, though, with the peatocks and the paisley.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:14 (eighteen years ago)

Enamel is fine, you just need a heavier bottom. The dread IKEA has very good le cruset and cast iron knock off type things.

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:21 (eighteen years ago)

If you get heavy enamelled pots you can use humbrol paints to paint your own designs on.

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:22 (eighteen years ago)

Is Alara Indian? I don't remember that place.

― G00blar, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:25 (eighteen years ago)

It's the whole food store on marchmont st.

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:26 (eighteen years ago)

Sigh. I used to have the best currying pot in the world, but it got lost in one of my many moves. Enammel on the inside is good, as it's much better for you than the dread no stick. But I swear, those pretty peatock pots must have tinfoil between the layers of enamel, they are so thin.

Awww, I see what you mean about the hottt young Tory photo, now. Phwoar, etc.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:27 (eighteen years ago)

Soooooo almost done with my day. One more tutorial (2 papers to mark for it, tho), then home for naptime!

― G00blar, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:28 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, and yeah, I've always been curious about that place (alara).

― G00blar, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:29 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, *that* place! yes, I used to like it, too, when I lived there but now it is in the EEZOHAD.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:30 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry, cannot stop looking at the hotttt young Tories. So wrong, I know. But so RIGHT.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:31 (eighteen years ago)

You just want to look at me taking my shirt off on that thread Kate. I know full well.

― Dr.C, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:43 (eighteen years ago)

I did look at you taking your shirt off, and I did respond with a "phwoar etc." over there!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:44 (eighteen years ago)

Only joking! I know I'm old and hideous.

― Dr.C, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:46 (eighteen years ago)

You do have a good nose, though, if I may say so without seeming too forward.

Pielettes, pielettes, Shimuras be wanting PIERETTES!!! Arrrrrr...

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

It wasn't always that shape.

― Dr.C, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:48 (eighteen years ago)

That's what you get for playing Rugby!

Maybe I should fancy more rugby players if they've all got noses like that. But they tend to be too, well... BEEFY for my tastes.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

...hrmmm, maybe I should go shopping for guitars tomorrow to see if I can get that 12-string bass out of my mind.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

yes, guitar shopping. (Also I want to get you off the bass idea, I want that as my fantasy)

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

I need to get a chorus pedal and a digital delay/sampler, but I can get those locally.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 14:04 (eighteen years ago)

kate, if my bikelock will go through the handles on your pot i can bring it on sunday. (i mean i can bring it anyway but if we can't lock it up with my bike we'll have to trapise around with it all day.) d'you want me to?

― emsk, Friday, 23 March 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

Arrr, I don't want to tramp around with it all day. (Though maybe if we get lost in the woods we can build a fire and make our own curry.) Though you can check if it fits before then!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

Whoa, I have been complaining about having to do all this Worksmart crap, but I've just found out I've got access to everyone's birthdates! It's kind of an eye-opener finding out how much older I am than everyone in my department. Even my *boss* is younger than me! Sheesh!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

Speaking of ages, at the daft battle of the bands for people who work on lads mags thing me and Emsk went to last night, everyone was in their early twenties and was so decidedly uncool. And they all looked the same. I mean, I have highlights, but they all looked like, I dunno, junior girls own Appleton sisters or something. Scary. I'm in a v.good mood now 'cos I took my favourite, bashed up fmbs to the cobblers and they said they could fix them. Hurrah!

― Nobodysprawn, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

Hurrah for fixing shoes, but what is FMBS?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

Erm, fuck me boots. It's not a phrase I coined, nor do I intend to be doing anything sordid in 'em. They are just lovely, sensibly heeled black knee high boots.

― Nobodysprawn, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, and and you kind of feel, y'know, Nancy Sinatra type strutting empowerment in them

― Nobodysprawn, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

Ah, yes, I know what Fuck Me Boots (fuck me pumps, etc.) are - I just didn't recognise the acronym. Also known as "boots of sex".

Maybe I need me some of those. Hrmmm. Wait, I bought some but never wear them.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

haha i have just bought the FUNNIEST dress from the charity shop! what can i wear it for...

― emsk, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

Funny peculiar or funny "ha ha"?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

hi kids

― mitya, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

hi, how is it going, have you tried the port 80 version of ilxor.com from work?

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

Mitya! I suppose it's already Friday evening out East.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

Yep. 7pm -- for some reason people decided to order pizza and vino, so we stopped working at 4:30. of course, half the office went back to "work" around 6 when it was all gone, but I came home.

Ed, I think I tried the port 80 thing -- it seems to works sometimes, but not often enough that i didn't get pissed off from not begin able to get it.

― mitya, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

err, "being able to get in" (no i didn't have that much wine ;)

― mitya, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

the vodka was the killer.

I'm off to belgium again in two weeks time and finland the week after. Things be getting busy.

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

Fuck Me Shoes?
i want a Fuck You Face.

― g-kit, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

Hello all.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

I'm back in london in early april (oddly enough, just in time for poptimism again, i think)

― mitya, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

hurrah, the all day boozefest.

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, Kerr! I'm listening to Fresh Maggots today.

Yay to Mitya coming back to London, you've got to come to the Poptimism boozefest. How long are you here for?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

I sent some more cookies to a few people. Ones that I made for LJ. If you don't already have them, enjoy!
Wb Mitya!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

Mmmm, cookies.

I want real cookies. And coffee. It's coz it's Friday. Ed, Emsk, where are we BOOZING? Maybe I will get dodgy cult food first.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

Emma, Kate, What's GWAN

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

I just finished fitting a Rohloff hub to a bike. God, what a job! Took me all day.

― Pashmina, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

Are GWAN like GWAR? I'm confused.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

I've always wondered how complex they are. Rohloffs are teh sex for engineers, though.

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

Where is Emsk running? what pubs are near there?

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

I thought Emsk said she was running tomorrow and Monday because she didn't want to run after drinking, and we were getting home late on Sunday.

But I don't know. I don't want to go very out of the way because I managed to lose my travelcard last night - I only found out this morning when I went to get off the train at City Thameslink - no travelcard. The bloke let me through because I had my receipt from buying it, but that wouldn't work to get anywhere else except home. And it's what - £2 for a bus ride now? Eep!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

OK, I am going to drink after work with colleagues round Kings X so I suggest we do kings X farringdon so you can get home, emsk can get home and I can get the mistress home before I go and get messed up.

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

Oh wait, I just turned out my wallet, and found it stuck at the back amidst a bunch of old travelcards. Sheesh! I had two months of weekly travelcards in there!

But still, Kings X/Farringdon/Holborn is a good idea.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

xpost-y:

Two or three days, and I'll tack on the weekend.

― mitya, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:23 (eighteen years ago)

Grrr, make people stop picking on Lemmy on the Ugliest People in Rock thread. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

I am now listening to Guapo. Norman approved prog!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

Once they're set up, they're great, Ed, it's juts the setting up process, argh. there are 2 wires which wrap round a pulley to change the gears, and you have to cut the wires almost exactly right - it always takes me ages. Still, I could do w/selling some more of them @ 700 quid a go.

― Pashmina, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

But he IS! *shrinking away in fear*

― mitya, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

Lemmy is *NOT* ugly!

OK, he's got warts now.

But he was TOTALLY HOTTT when he was in Hawkwind. Are you kidding?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

I think Guapo are on Kate's dvdr's so maybe Kate can join in! (unless she's listening to VDGG)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

Most people only think of Lemmy as = Warts.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

I think I've seen Guapo. I can only eat one cookie at a time.

Don't make me go posting hundreds of pictures of young DDB Lemmy to prove my point.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

Does that mean we can talk about jazz each pic?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

No, that was only Julian Barratt. I get as many free Lemmys as I like.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

Today will just totally NOT END. I don't understand; the rest of the week went so quickly.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

We need a new cooler on monday.

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

We can't start a new cooler until the old survey is complete! I set it for a month, I didn't realise we were this chatty.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

what should poll lengths be in future?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

I like having them run for a month. It kind of sets a defined time limit on the threads now that the database is so fast it doesn't really matter how long they get.

Next thread has *got* to be called "Watercooler Twenty-Twenty-Twenty-Four Hours To Go, I Wanna Be Sedated" though.

Eep, I have to be careful searching for Hawkwind photos from work, cause every time I think I've hit a cache, whoops! Up pops nekkid Stacia, whoops. Can't have my boss seeing that.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

This may be a game I should play at home.

― Ed, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

okay all have a good weekend, and see you (so to speak) after work on monday, maybe. drink a pint for me this weekend!

― mitya, Friday, 23 March 2007 17:00 (eighteen years ago)

I prefer the idea of 2 weeks instead of a month myself.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 23 March 2007 17:00 (eighteen years ago)

Take care, have a good w/e, Mitya! We will drink booze for you.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 17:00 (eighteen years ago)

When someone figures out what we're doing this evening, could they please let me know? Coz otherwise me and my Electric Mistress are going home to eat pizza.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

i am running tomorrow and mon instead of today and sun

i have to go to bloody harrow road later

kings x/holborn would be ace

― emsk, Friday, 23 March 2007 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

I had to look up Harrow Road to see where it was, I had no clue! (Answer: not in Harrow.)

I'm hungry more than thirsty right now. What time do you get out, Emsk? i'm guessing Ed is at the pub right now as we speak. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 17:51 (eighteen years ago)

i get out at 7

― emsk, Friday, 23 March 2007 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

I think I am going to go and eat in that cult food place on the corner of Greys Inn Road and Theobalds Rd either now or around 6.30. Can one of you message me or come and get me when you decide where you are drinking? That's reasonable convenient enough for Kings X and I will be cranky and unable to drink if I don't get some food soon.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 March 2007 18:04 (eighteen years ago)

That was another great weekend.

― Ed, Monday, 26 March 2007 09:04 (eighteen years ago)

Next thread: t-t-t-t-twenty four hour watercooler people, plastic face carn't smile or wash up?

― Mark G, Monday, 26 March 2007 09:14 (eighteen years ago)

We may have broken kate yesterday, we wait with bated breath.

― Ed, Monday, 26 March 2007 09:21 (eighteen years ago)

I went to see Daniel Kitson's 'C90' last nite: haven't laughed so much in ages!

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 26 March 2007 09:32 (eighteen years ago)

I am only slightly broken. I needed to take the bus from the train station to work today. Not as badly broken as I was expecting. I got home and ate sag paneer from next door.

What a fantastic weekend! Rolling Country Walk yesterday was the best one in ages, absolutely perfect.

And I bought loads of guitar stuff - well, a COSMICHORUS pedals MADE IN SPACE. And a 12-string acoustic guitar. I am a happy girl. Except for the giant blisters on my foot and also on my thumb.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 26 March 2007 09:46 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.drscientist.ca/_images/cosmo.jpg

― Ed, Monday, 26 March 2007 10:04 (eighteen years ago)

hi!

woah cosmichorus loooks amazing!

― H-ari A-shurst, Monday, 26 March 2007 10:07 (eighteen years ago)

They are made in a castle on an asteroid by Dr Scientist.

― Ed, Monday, 26 March 2007 10:09 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, it is the best pedal ever. And it sounds amazing, too. I am going to go and look at the Dr. Scientist MADE IN SPACE site and tell him how lovely it sounds.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 26 March 2007 10:10 (eighteen years ago)

That was I highly successful musical stuff shopping trip (OK I escaped with only a strap), but I got to play a 1930s 4 string resonator banjo, Kate got to play a '66 jazzmaster (to test the cosmichorus) and we want to go back and find out what the Danelectro Bellzouki sounds like.

― Ed, Monday, 26 March 2007 10:12 (eighteen years ago)

I thought of you all at the weekend with your musical shopping trip, when I saw two electric guitars for sale in a charity shop on Saturday. I don't think I've ever seen musical instruments for sale in a charity shop before!

― C J, Monday, 26 March 2007 10:19 (eighteen years ago)

I don't feel very well today. Oh dear. Too much excitement over the weekend.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 26 March 2007 10:19 (eighteen years ago)

Me neither. Too much (negative) excitement+cold+morning sickness. Not that anyone cares of course. ;-)

― nathalie, Monday, 26 March 2007 10:20 (eighteen years ago)

Needless to say, I now want a 4 string resonator banjo.

― Ed, Monday, 26 March 2007 10:21 (eighteen years ago)

What was the 'negative excitement', nath?

Hope anyone who's sick feels better again soon.

― C J, Monday, 26 March 2007 10:22 (eighteen years ago)

Morning. I can hardly move.

― Dr.C, Monday, 26 March 2007 10:25 (eighteen years ago)

Post-rugby aches and pains?

― C J, Monday, 26 March 2007 10:27 (eighteen years ago)

Ooh, CJ, what kind where they? Chazzer shop guitars are GRATE. they are usually totally cheap no name weirdness.

Oh no, poor Nath! Negative excitement doesn't sound good.

Ed is a BAD MANG for getting me wrecked on Special Coffee at Freuds the night before a 10 mile hike. And then pouring so much beer down my throat last night! But he is a good mang for going to catch the train and hold it while Emsk and I hobbled over the bridge.

Why are you injured, Dr. C? Been braeking your ribs playing Rugby again?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 26 March 2007 10:28 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not a guitar person Kate, so I didn't recognise one of them. The other was a black and white entry level Fender Stratocaster for about forty quid.

― C J, Monday, 26 March 2007 10:32 (eighteen years ago)

Morning

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 26 March 2007 10:32 (eighteen years ago)

Morning, Kerr!

Man, I want coffee. I thought Lent was over yesterday beacuse my mum said it was Palm Sunday and she should know, but she was confused, or maybe I was. I don't know. She was quite upset over my brother's latest crap. :-(

Oh, the other thing I learned is - never go shopping at FOPP when drunked. You will come home with Motorhead albums and not remember why.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 26 March 2007 10:34 (eighteen years ago)

Negative excitement I don't want to discuss, really. :-(

― nathalie, Monday, 26 March 2007 10:34 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, my retirement lasted all of 4 weeks or so. I foolishly said I'd play on Sat, as I didn't really have anything else special to do. Nothing specific happened to cause it, but my back has seized totally today. It was stiff but OK yesterday. I have managed to get to work, but I think I'm going have to go home. I'm OK if I can get moving, but sitting at a desk isn't doing me any good at all.

― Dr.C, Monday, 26 March 2007 10:37 (eighteen years ago)

Coming home w/motorhead albums sounds like a pretty good result to me!

― Pashmina, Monday, 26 March 2007 10:37 (eighteen years ago)

Depends what Motorhead surely?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 26 March 2007 10:38 (eighteen years ago)

Also check email norm/kate to see new Boris with Merzbow album artwork!

If someone can post it here it would be great. Everyone needs to see this!!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 26 March 2007 10:39 (eighteen years ago)

Well, on the plus side - pictures of Lemmy dressed up as the Pope. On the negative side, realising that actually, yes, Motorhead really do have only one song. It is quite a good song mind you, but they have been playing that same song for about 30 years.

Ugh, if yer back is out, the last thing you need to be doing is sitting at a desk. My feet are killing me. And my stomach just feels like I've drunk too much acidic things and not put enough food on top.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 26 March 2007 10:40 (eighteen years ago)

Aha, the revenge of the pickled egg.

― Ed, Monday, 26 March 2007 10:41 (eighteen years ago)

Oh god, is that what it is? I had forgotten about the pickled egg.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 26 March 2007 10:42 (eighteen years ago)

Rock! With Easter and stuff, I am going to get a week and a half off over my birthday, for the holiday time of a week! Awesome!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 26 March 2007 10:44 (eighteen years ago)

4 days surely, or are you taking the thursday as well?

― Ed, Monday, 26 March 2007 10:45 (eighteen years ago)

I am taking the next Monday, the day after we go megalith hunting, as I am sure you will ruin us on that day, too.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 26 March 2007 10:48 (eighteen years ago)

Is it always my fault?

― Ed, Monday, 26 March 2007 10:48 (eighteen years ago)

Ed, stop ruining Kate!

― Mark G, Monday, 26 March 2007 10:49 (eighteen years ago)

Hi all! I am happy because:
a) The sun is shining.
b) All parents have now left the country.
c) Recording studio/schedule has been sorted out!
d) Gooblar.com now up.

― G00blar, Monday, 26 March 2007 10:52 (eighteen years ago)

I always say "shall we get another or shall we be sensible and go home?" and you always say "Another pint!" therefore it is your fault.

Hurrah for sorting out recording studio.

Also, I want to spend my birthday here - the tweest village on earth.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 26 March 2007 10:53 (eighteen years ago)

Ohmigod, lookit!

http://www.castlecottagechilham.co.uk/images/House/house-big.gif
http://www.castlecottagechilham.co.uk/images/House/main-image-big.gif

It is inside the castle walls!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 26 March 2007 10:55 (eighteen years ago)

this is a genuine quote from our staff magazine:

"Authors Father K3nn3th Br1gh3nt1 and Father J0hn Tr1g1l1o recently had the opportunity to meet Pope Benedict XVI, and presented him with an advance copy of their new John Paul II for Dummies."

...it also features tweest book ever "Pet Tails: Heartwarming Stories of Real Pets".

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 26 March 2007 10:56 (eighteen years ago)

Double wow.

― G00blar, Monday, 26 March 2007 10:56 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.chilham-parish.org.uk/graphics/chilcast_arial_l.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 26 March 2007 10:56 (eighteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v94/krakdownnj/blog2007/03_2007/bm01.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v94/krakdownnj/blog2007/03_2007/bm02.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v94/krakdownnj/blog2007/03_2007/bm05.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v94/krakdownnj/blog2007/03_2007/bm07.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 26 March 2007 11:06 (eighteen years ago)

Me want.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 26 March 2007 11:06 (eighteen years ago)

only 50 quid

― Ed, Monday, 26 March 2007 11:17 (eighteen years ago)

NO BANJOES.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 26 March 2007 11:18 (eighteen years ago)

that's some beautiful artwork!

― nathalie, Monday, 26 March 2007 11:19 (eighteen years ago)

Hey Nath! Hope you feel better soon!

The artwork is inspired by Kate I think. hehe

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 26 March 2007 11:22 (eighteen years ago)

I am having mushroom stroganof for lunch. It is nowhere near as good as Ed's. :-(

You need to send me that recipe for that. (And noodles.)

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 26 March 2007 12:25 (eighteen years ago)

Mushroom strognaoff is the easiest thing in the world.

You need: onions, garlic, mushrooms, redwine, smoked paprika both hot and sweet, salt and pepper and cream, creme fraich, or sour cream.

Soften the onions and the garlic, then fry the mushrooms, add a generous amount of paprika to taste a goodly load of wine, simmer in the wine until the liquid reduces by 2/3rds, season, stir in the cream and gently heat through.

Noodles: Strong flour, I was using whole-wheat bread flour, water, an e if you like.

Make a fairly firm dough with flour water (and egg) knead, roll out flat, as thin as possible on a floured board, roll the flat dough up and cut off the spirals of noodles. Leave the noodles to dry for at least an our. Boil in salted water.

― Ed, Monday, 26 March 2007 12:33 (eighteen years ago)

Y R U NOT ON AIM, Pfunky?

― nathalie, Monday, 26 March 2007 12:35 (eighteen years ago)

Cool! I will have to try that.

I have downloaded the lyrics to Charlie and the MTA - apparently the version my dad taught me is the Kingston Trio version which makes sense. Now to get up the courage to do it on Wednesday!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 26 March 2007 12:35 (eighteen years ago)

buy you courage in the for of whisky?

― Ed, Monday, 26 March 2007 12:35 (eighteen years ago)

an e = an egg

― Ed, Monday, 26 March 2007 12:36 (eighteen years ago)

oh bummer not that kinda e. ;-)

― nathalie, Monday, 26 March 2007 12:36 (eighteen years ago)

The world does not need psychoactive noodles.

― Ed, Monday, 26 March 2007 12:36 (eighteen years ago)

bet they'd be MULTI-COLORE!

― nathalie, Monday, 26 March 2007 12:39 (eighteen years ago)

Psychoactive noodles? Heh, uh, no.

STOP TRYING TO LEAD ME DOWN THE ROAD TO ALKYHELL!!!

Too much whisky and I will not be able to hold my 12-string the right way around.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 26 March 2007 12:39 (eighteen years ago)

It has 12 strings, some of them must work upside-down

― Ed, Monday, 26 March 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think I could fret backwareds.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 26 March 2007 12:41 (eighteen years ago)

I have tried, on left handed guitars.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 26 March 2007 12:41 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, an ex was left handed - I could play his bass perfectly fine, but could not play his guitars.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 26 March 2007 12:42 (eighteen years ago)

The Shamen would have to write a song about those noodles.

I'm on AIM now if anyone cares.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 26 March 2007 12:56 (eighteen years ago)

Can I join the legions of sick people on here? OWWWWWW I hurt.

― emil.y, Monday, 26 March 2007 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

Why do *you* hurt?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 26 March 2007 13:34 (eighteen years ago)

Too much boozing. 'Tis the bane of my life.

― emil.y, Monday, 26 March 2007 13:39 (eighteen years ago)

hurrah!

― Ed, Monday, 26 March 2007 13:40 (eighteen years ago)

Ah, that is self inflicted alkyhell!

I feel somewhat slightly better due to ginger tea ingestion, but now I'm having green tea. I'm sick of green tea, it's like drinking grass.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 26 March 2007 13:40 (eighteen years ago)

The ill advised and very crap vietnamese followed by tub of hagendasz I got on the way home last night is not agreeing with me.

― Ed, Monday, 26 March 2007 13:41 (eighteen years ago)

sorry pfunky had to run.

― nathalie, Monday, 26 March 2007 13:41 (eighteen years ago)

Heh, yes, I think the incredibly cheesy pizza we ordered hasn't helped much either. But it was sooo goooooooood.

― emil.y, Monday, 26 March 2007 13:43 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, you lot, blaming the haagen daaz and the cheesey pizza when we all know it was the EIGHT BEERS and the FORTY-SEVEN SHOTS OF BRANDY what did the damage.

I am having burritoes tonight. I cannot wait. Num.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 26 March 2007 13:44 (eighteen years ago)

If the pub had had more than pickled eggs and crisps then there would have been no such problem.

― Ed, Monday, 26 March 2007 13:45 (eighteen years ago)

Heh it's like this every monday on the cooler.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 26 March 2007 13:46 (eighteen years ago)

Well, who picked the pub?

You have only yourself to blame.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 26 March 2007 13:46 (eighteen years ago)

Heh it's like this every ~~mon~~day on the cooler.

Fixed!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 26 March 2007 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

It was a lovely, pub with lovely smooth fast drinking beer (let's blame the beer for being easy to drink, nay calling out to be drunk).

― Ed, Monday, 26 March 2007 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

Blaming the beer, whatever next? that pint of golden ale was a damn floozy, it was calling out to be drunked by the bucket.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 26 March 2007 13:49 (eighteen years ago)

Heh it's like this every ~~mon~~day on the cooler.

Yes, I'm pretty sure the last couple of times I've been on here I've complained about a hangover and then disappeared. My life is so varied and interesting.

― emil.y, Monday, 26 March 2007 13:51 (eighteen years ago)

we have the nascent egg of a plan that involves you.

― Ed, Monday, 26 March 2007 13:53 (eighteen years ago)

Eek! It might just be my hangover, but "nascent egg" is freaking me out, proper style.

― emil.y, Monday, 26 March 2007 13:56 (eighteen years ago)

So long as the egg isn't pickled, I think we're alright.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 26 March 2007 13:57 (eighteen years ago)

Afternoon there. How's things? I've not been around much.

― Forest Pines, Monday, 26 March 2007 13:57 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/182/434744161_8e6073a869.jpg?v=0

― Ed, Monday, 26 March 2007 13:58 (eighteen years ago)

I wanted this image

http://goaste.cx/goaste/pictures/nemi/NEMI003.gif

― Ed, Monday, 26 March 2007 13:58 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, FP, the usual. Hangovers and guitars. How's things with you? Why are you so busy?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 26 March 2007 14:00 (eighteen years ago)

I've been ill myself, but not with a hangover, just with a nasty cold. Still feeling a bit sleepy and under the weather, and it left things feeling a bit awkward at the weekend. Relationship things: the weekend left me feeling like a disappointment, for various reasons, and there are a few other relationship issues I'm worrying about too.

(note to self: do not use ILX to ask for relationship advice)

― Forest Pines, Monday, 26 March 2007 14:08 (eighteen years ago)

I am having burritoes tonight. I cannot wait. Num.

having a case of the osbournes? (this only works if you watch reruns of teh show)

I AM CRAVING PIZZA BIG STYLEE. Pizza and chocolatey waffles. YUM YUM.

― nathalie, Monday, 26 March 2007 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, new comptroller wants me to teach someone else how to do MonthEnd. I don't think I want to.

1) Everyone around here are idiots, they will fuck it up in some way.

2) If someone else knows how to do it, I am more sackable

3) Honestly, I'd have to figure out how I do it and write guidelines and directions and stuff and I'm not sure I could. I just have this ... psychic connection to the data and can *feel* when it is wrong.

Only bonus would be... occasionally getting holiday at the beginning of the month. How do I not train anyone else without making it seem underhanded?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 26 March 2007 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

Dude, I've just been friended by the GHERKIN!!!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 26 March 2007 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

Despite emailing me back Dr Scientist still has not friended me.

― Ed, Monday, 26 March 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

Also Dr scientist has a filter with step sequencer on breadbord which he doesn't know when he is going to put in a little box.

― Ed, Monday, 26 March 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

I am now listening to the 1st VDGG album. Very underrated. "Afterwards" is one of my very fave songs.
Anyone want cookies?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 26 March 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

Spencer Percival was at home when I got here.

― Ed, Monday, 26 March 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

i have been searching the interweb to figure out wtf uis wrong with my stupid ankle (it is 100% fine when nothing's touching it, been cycling and walking and jumping around today and no probs at all) and i think i have done something to my peroneal tendon, which i have never heard of before. hm.

― emsk, Monday, 26 March 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

hi kids

― mitya, Monday, 26 March 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

Hi (Dr) Mitya!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 26 March 2007 17:04 (eighteen years ago)

Hi, Mitya!

Argh, I have been hard coding a mock-up of the horrible report of all things. I just need to reinforce the idea that this gets done ONCE AND ONLY ONCE as I'd shoot myself if I had to do it again - and I've only done one team. Out of about 16. Bah.

Emsk, be careful with tendon things, because it hurting at all is a sign of being something wrong - I ignored my ankle problems for ages because they didn't hurt when I wasn't wearing the stupid shoes. But my ankles are permanently damaged now. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 26 March 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, that is what a few runners' advice sites told me. should i take it to the doctor? but it seems so TRIVIAL :/

― emsk, Monday, 26 March 2007 17:13 (eighteen years ago)

It's never trivial.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 26 March 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

It *might* be trivial, don't put the fear of God into the poor girl! "ha Emsk, you're fucked", or whatever = not helpful. It may just be because you're using muscles and tendons that you don't normally use.

― ailsa, Monday, 26 March 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

Go see the doctor.

― Ed, Monday, 26 March 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

(but, yeah, go and see a doctor)

― ailsa, Monday, 26 March 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

i will call nhs direct and see what they say.

― emsk, Monday, 26 March 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

I wasn't saying it was bad. I was merely responding to emsk when she said it seemed too trivial to see a doctor, that it's never too trivial to see one. Doctors always say to see them if there's something wrong. Better safe than sorry.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 26 March 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

this is true. but they are surrounded by people who think it is their job to keep you away from the doctor. and hackney docs are busy busy. srsly my gp fucking RULES, i really landed on my feet, but his receptionists SUCK, they are so bitchy. in the 2.5 years i've lived there i've been to see him twice, and both times the receptionist was like "you want to see a doctor. for THAT. are you for real?" then he was all "yes yes you are right to come and see me! don't listen to them". weird.

― emsk, Monday, 26 March 2007 17:34 (eighteen years ago)

ooh i put that full stop in a weird place.

― emsk, Monday, 26 March 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

i really landed on my feet

Awkwardly? Was that what fucked your ankles?

― ailsa, Monday, 26 March 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

lol :)

― emsk, Monday, 26 March 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

Morning all!

How's your ankle today, emsk?

― C J, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 07:40 (eighteen years ago)

morning! thanks for asking cj, how are you? it's fine because i haven't been wearing shoes that touch the bone... it's weird, the pain feels like a bruise, it's on top of and slightly above/behind the knobbly ankle bone, and it only hurts when there's something touching it. even then sometimes it's just a bit irritating and pretty much ignorable, and sometimes it's ARGH ARGH LEG IS BUCKLING. last night i went for a run (7 x 2 minutes with 1 x 5 minutes at the end, woo! 1st 5 minutes...) and it was completely fine. this morning it's still completely fine.

god it looks GORGEOUS out there this morning, i can't wait to get out. i have to do the washing up first though.

― emsk, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 07:55 (eighteen years ago)

Unexplained pain/weakness like that is really disconcerting - I never know whether I should be worried about it or not. I had this peculiar sharp ankle pain on Saturday which came on quite suddenly and hurt like crazy making it difficult to dorsiflex my foot, but it was all okay again by the evening. Odd. Sometimes I think we pull or strain a muscle without realising it and all it takes is some rest or ibuprofen or a neoprene support for a while, to give it a chance to heal itself. I'm glad your ankle is okay again today!

I'm all bungled-up with cold. How can I be unwell AGANE? I only recently got over flu, and now I'm coughing and spluttering all over again. It's not fair :(

― C J, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 08:05 (eighteen years ago)

hackney docs are busy busy.

why is this? are there fewer docs per capita? Or is Hackney full of ill ppl?

Definitely go see the doc emsk. I have always found it weird here that, in a country with free healthcare at the point of delivery, we say "mustn't bother the doc over something so trivial whereas in, Germany and Russia say, they are rushing to the doc at the v first cough.

god it looks GORGEOUS out there this morning

wish it did here -- Oxford is coated with FOG. and it's chilly again. If 2007 has taught me anything, it's never to be surprised by the weather.

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 08:09 (eighteen years ago)

The fog-on-the-Isis will lift soon, Mark. It's supposed to be nice here later.

― C J, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 08:10 (eighteen years ago)

good!

I am going to London tonite to see I'm from Barcelona again! At Koko!

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 08:11 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah go and make sure.

Hari's band has made an ep. He's no 3 on the O1nk charts!!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 08:11 (eighteen years ago)

It's true. Gonna have copies to sell this week. Already got 7 pre-orders!

― H-ari A-shurst, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 08:13 (eighteen years ago)

It's on mini-cd with handpainted art and stuff

― H-ari A-shurst, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 08:14 (eighteen years ago)

Bloody hell hari. Do you have text alerts when your name is mentioned on here?

Where can we buy them? I'm in for a copy!! "Go Electric" is bloody great!!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 08:15 (eighteen years ago)

I'm awake waiting for garanteed before 9 a.m delivery.

It's 9:17.

― H-ari A-shurst, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 08:17 (eighteen years ago)

Spoke to soon.

Just arrived!

― H-ari A-shurst, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 08:19 (eighteen years ago)

You must have the same driver as emsk gets then!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 08:19 (eighteen years ago)

x-post

maybe not then. Yours arrived.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 08:19 (eighteen years ago)

Or is Hackney full of ill ppl?

yes, it is a very deprived inner city area with higher health problems per capita than most other parts of britain.

― Ed, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 08:24 (eighteen years ago)

Hi Hari!

WHERE'S YR TRACK 4 ILXVol3?

Regardsssss

― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 08:25 (eighteen years ago)

Spencer Percival if everything Ib wanted it to be, with better production, so much more space in the mix.

― Ed, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 08:27 (eighteen years ago)

Oh crap, I'll send it now Mark. Whats yr email?

― H-ari A-shurst, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 08:28 (eighteen years ago)

higher health problems per capita than most other parts of britain

hmm, I sometimes forget how lucky we are in Oxford. The healthcare system is excellent and we prolly have *lower* healthcare problems than most other parts of Britain. Shame some of the (many) Oxford docs can't move to Hackney to even things out a bit, in that case. It is v rare for me to be unable to get a doc's appointment next day.

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 08:29 (eighteen years ago)

For ages and ages, I avoided seeing Doctors about anything - partly that was due to living in the USA without health insurance, but I just remained doctor phobic even after moving to the UK. I'm lucky in that now I have a very good health centre which my doctor is part of (part of the reason I stayed in the neighbourhood) - but if my recent wrist problems have taught me anything, it's that you should see the doctor when things become a problem. If you put it off for months and months or years and years hoping it will go away, it doesn't go away - it gets worse and worse.

Hackney is patchy - I was on Hackney NHS when I lived in Hoxton, but we had this little mini-hospital practise thing attached to St. Leonards which was great.

I am so sleepy today. I have not got my head around the time change yet. And Ampy filled me with two bottles of wine last night.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 09:56 (eighteen years ago)

My GP is a horrible horrible Chinese man, a rude and obnoxious twunt

― Tom D., Tuesday, 27 March 2007 09:59 (eighteen years ago)

Next time he's rude to you, say "diu lay lo mo" back to him.

― C J, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 10:02 (eighteen years ago)

Ah! Aaaahhhh!!! Who has a television who doesn't mind my coming round on Friday night?

My colleague has just told me that there is AN HAWKWIND DOCUMENTARY on C4 on Friday. I must see it! Or can someone tape it? or both?!?!?

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 10:04 (eighteen years ago)

hopefully the internet magic will make it downloadable.

― Ed, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 10:11 (eighteen years ago)

That does not help me.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 10:13 (eighteen years ago)

We must try and make downloadable playable on percy.

― Ed, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 10:15 (eighteen years ago)

I can DVD record it.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 10:15 (eighteen years ago)

Morning all! 4 pints last night, and not even the hint of a hangover!

― G00blar, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 10:18 (eighteen years ago)

I hate you. Where is the coffee?

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 10:19 (eighteen years ago)

On the stove.

― G00blar, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 10:19 (eighteen years ago)

maybe they're watering down teh beer.

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 10:19 (eighteen years ago)

Correct answer: In the machine. Except someone is banging in the kitchen. Not sure what that's about.

please can someone record the Hawkwind programme, as I do not trust Ed rummaging around in Percy's bowels.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 10:21 (eighteen years ago)

OK! No doubt I'll forget. But I will try. (absent minded, you know)

― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 10:21 (eighteen years ago)

I wish my nice neighbours still lived behind me, because they would totally watch it, and I could go round there and watch it. My new neighbours are not friendly.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 10:24 (eighteen years ago)

Buy a tv!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 11:02 (eighteen years ago)

Can you send a cookie of one?

― Tom D., Tuesday, 27 March 2007 11:04 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, ILX be coming and going! I got poxy fuled for ages!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 11:07 (eighteen years ago)

does it still say poxy fule? I just found it didn't connect.

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 11:08 (eighteen years ago)

Hey Hari You're at no2 now in the O1nk chart.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 11:08 (eighteen years ago)

Even when it doesn't say poxy fule, I still know it's poxy fuling.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 11:09 (eighteen years ago)

Ah right. I thought it was just "me"

― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 11:12 (eighteen years ago)

Aargh, I've got to put together a cd of songs with production I like to give the engineer some idea of what we're going for. This is the kind of thing that seems really cool at first but is actually incredibly hard.

― G00blar, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 11:21 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, it's hard not to get distracted by the songs, rather than the actual production. You have to be kind of a geek to get into production on that level.

I cannot find the links between these stupid tables, argh.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 11:23 (eighteen years ago)

I'm a bit torn at the moment about songs from Navy Blues--I think it's the best produced sloan album, and sloan's not too far from what we do, but the gtrs are so 70s hard rock..

― G00blar, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 11:27 (eighteen years ago)

Hrrrmm, I actually prefer the production on Pretty Together.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 11:29 (eighteen years ago)

Really? Sounds all pro-tooled and auto-tuned to me.

― G00blar, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 11:30 (eighteen years ago)

Yesss, I love the pro-tooling. It sounds like it's been put through the "make it sound slick" machine from Josie and the Pussycats. But I like that kind of production. I don't like sloppy lo-fi indie production.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 11:33 (eighteen years ago)

Fair enough--I just think Navy Blues is the happiest of mediums, between recorded-on-a-boombox One Chord and recorded-in-a-studio-made-of-DIAMONDS-in-L.A. Pretty Together.

Hurrah! Spoon's new album is gonna be called Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga!

― G00blar, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 11:36 (eighteen years ago)

recorded-in-a-studio-made-of-DIAMONDS-in-L.A.

Thank you, you've just given me a description of what I want Shimura Curves to sound like!

Uh, no, not really. I've been loving the "ohmigod, stereofucking with your head" production on Steve Hillage and the silky-soft-smooth-as-a-butterfly's-wing-in-a-tempest mid-period Echo and the Bunnymen type production.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 11:41 (eighteen years ago)

Things I think I want from the production of this record: vocals RIGHT up front; total stereo separation of parts--everything precise and isolated, to give a real sense of space; great drum sound more important that great guitar sound.

― G00blar, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 11:43 (eighteen years ago)

Did anyone like that finnish comp?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 11:48 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't get very far into it, as it was a bit too uh... odd.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 11:55 (eighteen years ago)

OK, no. that ooh lookit, so healthy, 3 portions of fruit and veg is simply NOT enough food for me, for lunch. I'm still starving hungry. God, I want proper curry for lunch, not this stupid ready meal pasta crap. I may have to get a sammich.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 12:06 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha.
about track 5 or 6 it gets really good and more spacerocky

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 12:07 (eighteen years ago)

OK, I'm now traumatised by Shaun Ryder's teeth.

I have had an egg sammich, though.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 12:37 (eighteen years ago)

It is SOOOOO Sunny outside. It is spring again.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

My sister was in NCY the other week, and she got me this:

http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00005M1ZO.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

!!

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:08 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, excellent!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:09 (eighteen years ago)

Whoot, my hotel in Helsinki is brand new and teh swank, for real this time.

― Ed, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.palacekamp.fi/pics/hotelGlo/iso08.jpg

― Ed, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:48 (eighteen years ago)

Ooh, that is very minimalist swish.

Are those leather walls? Oh my god, I want leather walls.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:49 (eighteen years ago)

Wow. I feel like I could accomplish anything in a room like that!

― G00blar, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:53 (eighteen years ago)

where do you put yr alarm clock?

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:56 (eighteen years ago)

is that a bike, parked between the bed and the uh... corner thing?

― emsk, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

No, it's a coffee table with a plant on it. You have bikes on the brain.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

pot plant I think, but hey, they be crazy in finland.

― Ed, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

I have learnt, from the wind you up thread, that the boston metrocard is called the charlie card.

― Ed, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAA!!!

Oh, that is too funny.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

Can I post from this account, or am I banned, too?

― kate, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

test

― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

So what happened just then, then?

― Forest Pines, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

Can I post now?

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

banned?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, so it looks like someone is throwing me a birthday party! Hurrah!

Too bad it's not going to be a SURPRISE birthday party, but I guess that would have been kind of difficult.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

I wish I could record somewhere like this:

http://www.radiohead.com/deadairspace/images/set%20up%202.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

With Aspidistras and everything.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

Aaah, at last I have discovereed how to approximate the "random" function - just read all the threads in order. I found the first thread I ever posted to on ILX that way!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

What time are you rocking up later?

― Ed, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

Probably about 7-ish. Should I pick up some food on the way over?

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

Nope, I am making Tortilla and have some salad.

― Ed, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

Excellent.

It's not like I have anything to do at work, but still.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

i will bring thing

― emsk, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

I hope you are bringing my curry making pot and not Thing!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

Adrian Mole's thing?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

How about this for the new shimura curves look?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 17:37 (eighteen years ago)

Nice sword!

― Forest Pines, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 17:41 (eighteen years ago)

Which one of the Shimura Curves gets to brandish the sword on stage?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

We *are* talking about the one in the picture, right?

― Forest Pines, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

Yes
http://a395.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/7/m_a06398841183b525b228a3833c2912da.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

http://a752.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/2/l_e7fbdbda8536d14bbb04415726e6faaf.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not sure, myself. Whichever of them has the most hands free.

― Forest Pines, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 17:52 (eighteen years ago)

Kate has a guitar though. Unless she gets a Hands Free Sword Kit..

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 17:54 (eighteen years ago)

Errrrrrr....

Maybe not. We prefer not to look like questing hobbits.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

You could get FP onstage to brandish his chopper.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

Uuuhhh.... NO!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

Have you actually *listened* to them, Kerr?

I mean, I know you like D00M and all, but that is just... SILLY!!!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

Totem are really good. (they feature an ilxor btw). I have the demo if anyone cares.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

Kerr, I worry about you some times.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 09:33 (eighteen years ago)

My chopper is not going anywhere near a stage!

― Forest Pines, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 09:34 (eighteen years ago)

Kate, what don't you like about Totem?

FP > I was talking about your old bicycle.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 09:53 (eighteen years ago)

I had a vanilla waffle. Yuck.

― nathalie, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 09:54 (eighteen years ago)

Waffles, mmmmm. I just bought strawberries. (I hope they are polytunnel not flown in from somewhere faraway.) They would go nicely with waffles.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 09:54 (eighteen years ago)

Hey kids! I am back from my holidays! Have just recieved the dreaded "STOP USING THE INTERNETS SO FUCKING MUCH" email at work. Busted!

Kate, I didn't get much chance to do anything other than listen to/think about things für Das Spangle Maker between time issues and my own incompetence, but I will definitely get some time to put something together over the weekend.

― tissp, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 09:59 (eighteen years ago)

Welcome back, TISSP! Was beginning to wonder what had happend to you!

Also, could you officially confirm or cancel the ILX Festival? Just let us know either way, as you are the last band that hasn't been in touch!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:02 (eighteen years ago)

Ah right, sorry! We are confirmed. Officially.

― tissp, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:02 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah right, Kerr, I know how often you talk about my arse pic

― Forest Pines, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:03 (eighteen years ago)

Welcome back Tissp. Hello all. Woke up sore.

― G00blar, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:04 (eighteen years ago)

Why so sore?

― tissp, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:05 (eighteen years ago)

Too much wanking. ;-)

― nathalie, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:06 (eighteen years ago)

Haha no.

It's my neck, I think from sleeping half the night on my stomach, but with my head still on a pillow.

― G00blar, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:09 (eighteen years ago)

Aaah the neck! Sucking off DIY stylee ey? ;-)

― nathalie, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:10 (eighteen years ago)

Nath!

― G00blar, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:11 (eighteen years ago)

What? It's not my mistake you're sore! ;-)

― nathalie, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:12 (eighteen years ago)

Good lord, watch those hormones, girl! Pregnancy is making you go all sex-loopy!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:12 (eighteen years ago)

I feel at least partially responsible for this

― tissp, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:13 (eighteen years ago)

Nah, it's alright. Besides, I can never reach.

― G00blar, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:14 (eighteen years ago)

either yr totally responsible for Nathalie's pregnancy or yr not at all, tissp.

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:15 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha

― tissp, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:16 (eighteen years ago)

(nervous laughter)

― tissp, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:18 (eighteen years ago)

I am simply tired. But not hungover, as I resisted Ed's attempts at bedrunking me with crazy Belgian beer.

Poor Emsk arrived halfway through the mixing, when Ed and I were in the Mix Trance and urgently debating the appropriate uses of compression. I've never EVER mixed with compression before, but it did rather save a popping bass track.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:27 (eighteen years ago)

You've NEVER EVER mixed with compression? Srsly?

― tissp, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:28 (eighteen years ago)

My father was UTTERLY AGAINST Compression as the instrument of the devil. I kind of agree with him. I've never used it.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:30 (eighteen years ago)

How odd!

― tissp, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:30 (eighteen years ago)

No, there's whole threads on ILM about how evil Compression is. I'm not alone in my thoughts.

Tiny judicious use of it is OK in the mastering process, but never blanket compression when mixing. Bad bad bad! If you want the song to be louder, that is what that big knob on your stereo is for. You don't want to lose the dynamics of a song.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:32 (eighteen years ago)

Compression on vocals tho.

― G00blar, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:35 (eighteen years ago)

No no no, I am completely against over compression of records, but you're talking about mastering compression. Insert compression is useful and nearly essential on individual instruments to level out the individual dynamics to an appropriate level--most obviously, vocals.

― tissp, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:36 (eighteen years ago)

Compression on vocals - NEVER!!! Step delay on vocals. You never fuck with vocals.

Compression on bass, that I'm willing to conscience, because you boominess and depth without crazy volume increase.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:37 (eighteen years ago)

("what g00blar said" xpost)

― tissp, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:37 (eighteen years ago)

Sick Mouthy's yer man for the anti-compression rants

― Tom D., Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:37 (eighteen years ago)

I would always slighlty compress vocals to even them out, but I guess it would come down to how good yr singer is!

― tissp, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:38 (eighteen years ago)

If you need compression on vocals, either you need a new microphone, or you need to learn better breath support to get a more even sound. A properly trained singer doesn't *need* compression. That's just ugh ugh wrong, feh!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:39 (eighteen years ago)

But mastering compression is different from insert compression at the mixing stage--Nick's completely against overuse of mastering compression (I am am completely in agreement with him).

― tissp, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:39 (eighteen years ago)

(xpost nightmare here)

― tissp, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:40 (eighteen years ago)

If you need compression on vocals, either you need a new microphone

How does this work then?

― tissp, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:46 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.drugs-forum.co.uk/steveepostman_lsd_blotter.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:47 (eighteen years ago)

I see

― tissp, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:54 (eighteen years ago)

That blotter makes me want to take acid again.

No, no, no. Boxcar, etc.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:58 (eighteen years ago)

Oh god, I am addicted to coffee again. How did that happen? I was being so good. It's this stupid hour earlier thing, I'm still not adjusted to it.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 11:20 (eighteen years ago)

In from college for dinner.

I watched some of the DVD last night - "The Show Off" an entertaining light comedy. contrary to the bumph written about it online, Ms Brooks (3rd billed when the movie was made, top of the bill on the DVD packaging) does not steal the show, the actress who plays the other young female lead is as good an actress as LB was. LB was good, though, convincing & likeable in her (relatively small) role. Also hott, obv. I watched a bit of the Clara Bow feature "The Plastic Age" (great futuristic title for a film made in 1925!) it's a college campus comedy, less sophisticated than "The Show Off", but the bit I watched looked pretty enjoyable. Clara Bow always looked like a little girl (IE not hott) to me in pics, this is not the case in moving images, wow, she was ridiculously sexy. I never realised. Def. developing a bit of a thing for silent era actresses. Best of all, though the DVD is a region 1 one, VLC media player played it no problems (unlike quicktime, wmp & others). LOADS of silent movies available in the US, I hardly know where to start. Some Pola Negri films - "sumurun", "the woman he scorned" look pretty great. Nazimova in "Camille", Gloria Swanson in "Male & Female". I get the impression that in the '20s, tha actresses were by far the biggest stars. Blah blah (etc)

― Pashmina, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 11:31 (eighteen years ago)

i am hands -free kit

― g-kit, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 11:40 (eighteen years ago)

Silent era actors and actresses are totally teh hottness. I used to have the most massive thing for Conrad Veidt (the Somnambulist in the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) - but in talkie movies he always ended up playing Nazis despite being run out of Germany by the Nazis. :-(

There's just something about those Edwardian dudes with their floppy slicked-back hair and their make-up (lots of eyeliner, rowr) that just does it for me.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 11:41 (eighteen years ago)

Also, I have left a message for Dr. Scientist.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 11:42 (eighteen years ago)

Teh pointiest nose in the world!

http://www.silentsaregolden.com/photos2/conradveidt.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 11:45 (eighteen years ago)

i am hands -free kit

Perv! ;-)

Ok, I'll stop now.

― nathalie, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 11:47 (eighteen years ago)

every time i post here, i am accused of being some kind of sexual deviant. despite you guys having FP posting here regularly.

― g-kit, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 11:48 (eighteen years ago)

FP doesn't post anywhere near as much as he used to, so we have to make do with teasing you.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 11:54 (eighteen years ago)

then i must leave, teasing i need not.

― g-kit, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 11:56 (eighteen years ago)

But it's friendly teasing, not "FATTY FATTY FAT FAT" point and laugh teasing!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 11:57 (eighteen years ago)

Ohmigod, polytunnel strawberries or not, these are gorgeous. I'm kind of scared by the size of the last one, it's ENOURMOUS.

6cm by 5cm by 3.5cm.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 12:28 (eighteen years ago)

My lack of posting is, I have to admit, slightly to do with the amount of teasing I get!

(along with slightly to do with a new supervisor at work, with the rest of ILE being relatively boring/annoying, and with various other Real Life Stuff)

― Forest Pines, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 12:31 (eighteen years ago)

Soon there will be no one left. And where will we do then?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 12:51 (eighteen years ago)

Strawberries the size of apples, cane toads the size of dogs. Whatever next?

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 12:53 (eighteen years ago)

End times.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 12:55 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.ldolphin.org/kingdom/echart.GIF

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 13:01 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/fun/devivals/X-Day98/X-Day-2/XXXD-DAYII.jpeg

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 13:03 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.churchofbibleprophecy.org/church-symbol.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 13:04 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.neaiga.org/PicMasonic%20AlterIsrael.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 13:06 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.freewebs.com/gitchimanadusthunder/handsani.gif

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 13:08 (eighteen years ago)

Must stop teasing FP.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 13:49 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.churchofbibleprophecy.org/church-symbol.jpg

We have a cover

― tissp, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 13:51 (eighteen years ago)

does the say pieLX?

― Ed, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 13:52 (eighteen years ago)

I just won Kate's birthday present on eBay.

― Ed, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 13:52 (eighteen years ago)

OOoh, now I'm intrigued.

Aaah, who knows how to write Hebrew? I'd love to have it say "pie" (as in pie you eat) under Pi (as in maths pi).

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 13:57 (eighteen years ago)

From what I have heard of your dad I think he is in the school of thought that says, 'Compression promotes laziness because the musician does not have to play or sing at a consistent level to get a good take'

The guy who taught me recording wouldn't let anything touch the desk without insert compression, generally quite gentle but still it was there.

Given that you are trying to maximise the use of the dynamic range of your recording medium and you are recording someone with limited time, on the money clock, then it would be a good thing to save otherwise good takes with compression.

It shows on the mix we did last night that you have taught the girls to sing well into the microphone and compression is less of an issue.

Wait till you record me on the mando, you are going to be screaming for the dbx to tame my shonky playing.

― Ed, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

No, I will be making you practise more and more to tame your shonky playing.

Part of the whole point of home recording is that there is no money clock!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

Let's see when we get to take 1476.

― Ed, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

Something I learned from Warn DeFever - three takes is all you get.

(Not really, obviously, as I record in pieces and put it all together, but I understand his reasoning - the best take is usually take 1 or 2 and it's nice to have a free take for punching.)

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, if you mess up a take, K8 punches you?!

― G00blar, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

Yup, I'm as psychotic as Phil Spector in the studio. Indeed.

(The funny thing is, I'm actually one of the calmest people you ever want to deal with in the studio. It's one of the only places where I don't get wound up or random urges to punch people, I'm very patient and understanding, even when on about Take 200.)

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

guessing, but i suppose it's cos you love making music; Month End, however.....

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

(Leonard Cohen is in the studio, recording an album with producer K8 St. C1aire. K8 has her arm around Leonard's shoulders, a bottle of wine in one hand, a loaded .45 in the other.)

K8 (smiling): You know what, Leonard?
Leonard (cowering): Uh, what, K8?
K8: I like you, Leonard.
Leonard: I hope you do, K8, I hope you do.

― G00blar, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, speaking of Month End, they want me to write a Users Guide.

The expression on my face must just have been priceless because my boss was all "no, no, we're not going to sack you, it's just that... well, if you got hit by a bus, we'd be SCREWED!"

And I'm all "I can NOT teach someone else to do it - it's just too freaking fiddly and requires a level of technical knowledge... well, not even technical knowledge (that is assumed) but just this kind of instinctual understanding of how our data works..."

My other colleague just asked about it - I think cause she was scared that she was the person who was going to have to be taught it - she thought I just hit a big red button labelled "download" - erm, NO. Would I tear my hear out over that if it was that simple? I think she's relieved that she wouldn't have to be the one doing it. No, you'd need a proper data analyst to do it. You can't just train up an accounts assistant.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe you would get a promotion if someone else could do your job?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

You really don't understand this corporate thing, do you?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

Hello all. The cold is finally finally finally dying. I think.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

Kate, what are we doing for food and folk this evening?

― Ed, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

[Removed Illegal Link] they sell at folk clubs

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

gah
http://www.camra.org.uk/

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know. What shall we do? Are we going to finally try the pub grub? (I freaking wish they had CAMRA Ale there, but they do not, Kerr) Or just go to the Indian Mission again?

I fear I may be sick of the Indian Mission. Or maybe even want a pizza.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:16 (eighteen years ago)

Are you with guitar?

― Ed, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

Them not having proper beer inevitably leads to whisky and ruin.

― Ed, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

No, did not bring guitar. Do not feel comfortable playing that song in front of proper people just yet as have not had enough time to practise. Hungry now.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

I absolutely cannot deal with ruin tonight. WILL NOT DRINK.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

I could go a calzone, DC folks have been taunting me with calzone all week.

― Ed, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

La Porcetta, then? There's no rush if I don't have to sign up to sing. Unless you are going to sing?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

Hahahahahahaha

― Ed, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

Is that you warming up, then? Ha ha ha haha ha!!! I tend to do "ma made me mow the moon" instead.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

It's not whisky that leads Kate to ruin, it's Ed that does that, isn't it?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

And I'm all "I can NOT teach someone else to do it - it's just too freaking fiddly and requires a level of technical knowledge... well, not even technical knowledge (that is assumed) but just this kind of instinctual understanding of how our data works..."

You don't think this makes you sound big-headed at all, do you? I have spent the last two days trying to rectify the arsing-up someone made of our database when we were on holiday and if someone had written a "here is how to do this without arsing it up" book, life'd be a lot easier all round right now. If I'd gone under the wheels of a bus and she'd been left properly in charge of it...I don't think they'd have got the cleaner to work based on instructions or anything, but something to hand over to a reasonably competent successor is always a useful thing to have. The lassie doing my stats and reports when I was off made a fair go of it, but a set of guidelines would've helped, no doubt (I didn't think she'd be doing them, I thought they'd leave it until I got back, or I'd have knocked something up for her).

― ailsa, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

And, on a slightly cheerier non-work-related note, I am almost definitely coming to London for the weekend of 21st/22nd April (will know for definite on Friday). I may be available for fappage on Saturday evening or Sunday afternoon.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:13 (eighteen years ago)

when we were on holiday

lolz at me referring to myself as "we" in a post where I'm suggesting someone else has a slightly inflated sense of self-importance :-)

― ailsa, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

― emsk, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 22:25 (eighteen years ago)

I am very much infavour of this plan for drinking. I summon the sunshine and would like some outdoor warmth.

― Ed, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 23:34 (eighteen years ago)

dude the sunshine is doing its best. there was outdoor warmth today!

i am sad tonight.

― emsk, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 23:44 (eighteen years ago)

why so, is it the coming cold, tomorrow?

― Ed, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 23:49 (eighteen years ago)

no, it is other things. is the cold coming? stay back, the cold!

― emsk, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 23:50 (eighteen years ago)

Hooray for AilsaFAP! BOO for sadness!

We're off to Montenegro tomorrow to pick a place and a date for the wedding. Should be...interesting. Good weekends, all.

― G00blar, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 23:50 (eighteen years ago)

Watch Cheese Mature

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 06:48 (eighteen years ago)

ha i was going to post that!

― emsk, Thursday, 29 March 2007 07:50 (eighteen years ago)

I have friended the cheese on myspace.

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 08:27 (eighteen years ago)

I think we should start using the correct verb 'befriend' to describe the action of adding someone as a friend on social networking websites.

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 08:37 (eighteen years ago)

Morning. I heard the cheese on the radio.

― Forest Pines, Thursday, 29 March 2007 08:41 (eighteen years ago)

I would like to befriend the cheese, but I have no Myspace.

― C J, Thursday, 29 March 2007 08:41 (eighteen years ago)

"befriend a troll"

― Mark G, Thursday, 29 March 2007 08:43 (eighteen years ago)

I think I heard someone say that the cheese-cam gets interesting at about 10 o'clock each day, because that's when the cheese is turned!

It's quarter to ten now. I will go and watch .....

― C J, Thursday, 29 March 2007 08:44 (eighteen years ago)

I would like to befriend the cheese, but I have no Myspace

the ball is v much in yr court -- the great thing about myspace is you can reveal as much or as little about yrself as you choose.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 29 March 2007 08:47 (eighteen years ago)

....and when it comes to setting it up, as Take That once said, It Only Takes A Minute, girl.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 29 March 2007 08:48 (eighteen years ago)

I grabbed my "myspace" just to stop anyone else with the same name as me getting it.

I already lost out on getting one with my very old alt.name, but I think my old band-name is still up4grabs.

― Mark G, Thursday, 29 March 2007 08:49 (eighteen years ago)

I wonder if the gherkin and the cheese are friends, cheese goes well with gherkins.

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 08:59 (eighteen years ago)

Folk last night was the best yet, and so busy. I am in love with the Basses on The Groanbox Boys' accordion. Open mike was stellar. Annie thinks I should come down to cecil sharp house to cut my teeth as a singer. The guy who sold kate the cosmichorus played some seriously vintage guitar with very long fingernails. Benji K should not be allowed near soundmen he's a fussy bugger about monitors.

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:03 (eighteen years ago)

But he was playing a bouzouki so I got some playing tips by watching (I need to be less afraid of hitting it harder seems to be the message)

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:04 (eighteen years ago)

Coincidentally, I had a Myspace Friend Request this morning from someone called Nine Inch Nails Worshipper. I have no idea who they are, or what my Myspace password is any more.

― Forest Pines, Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:06 (eighteen years ago)

(I suspect, though, that they are not a cheese)

― Forest Pines, Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:11 (eighteen years ago)

cheeses prefer Ministry.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:29 (eighteen years ago)

Cheeses Loves You

― Tom D., Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:30 (eighteen years ago)

Cheeses died for someone's sins, not mine!

― Mark G, Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:30 (eighteen years ago)

What kind of bouzouki did/do you play, Tom D.?

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:31 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, some plank of wood that my best friend's Polish (or, more likely, Ukranian) neighbour gave him when he was a nipper

― Tom D., Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:34 (eighteen years ago)

What tuning?

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:38 (eighteen years ago)

I can't actually remember, i just slapped some guitar strings on it and played it like a giant oddly-shaped banjo

― Tom D., Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:40 (eighteen years ago)

I mean if Robin Williamson could take a Moroccan lute and play it with a double bass bow so it sounded like a cat being disembowelled .... authenticity, pah!

― Tom D., Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:42 (eighteen years ago)

I must stop looking at instruments and play the one I have better. Currently in my lust pile

http://i12.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/94/32/d5f7_12.JPG http://i5.ebayimg.com/06/i/000/94/32/d7fe_12.JPG

http://i12.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/94/32/d5f7_12.JPG

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:55 (eighteen years ago)

bah
3rd image should be:

http://i21.ebayimg.com/04/i/08/b5/4f/7f_1.JPG

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:56 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.pulsatingdream.com/kaleidoscopegroup1.jpg

― Tom D., Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:02 (eighteen years ago)

Ooh, Kay is a lovely brand - my first ever guitar was a Kay guitar. (Actually it was my dad's guitar and I was about 13, but still.)

Ed, FP, any train enthusiasts - what is a "Lab. 19 Iris II" (could have been Isis, actually)? One came through the station while I was waiting for my train - lovely old looking locomotives with what looked like guards vans - but with people in there WITH LOADS OF COMPUTERS AND SCIENTIFIC LOOKING EQUIPMENT!!! two of them strung together.

Any ideas what they are for?

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:25 (eighteen years ago)

probably a track monitoring and recording train.

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:26 (eighteen years ago)

Track measuring - they are packed with accelerometers and so on to measure all the sways and bumps.

― Forest Pines, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:27 (eighteen years ago)

Bellzouki, can be in my tuning and only $700.

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:27 (eighteen years ago)

How yellow was it?

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:28 (eighteen years ago)

Heh, I was going to ask if it was yellow. They usually are.

― Forest Pines, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:29 (eighteen years ago)

I am going to see TS Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral at the Actors' Church in Covent Garden tomorrow. I know one of the cast and have just been informed that the real Archbishop is going to be in the audience!

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:29 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, the folk last night was very good. Though damn, it went so late that I missed the last tube and ended up on busses and didn't get home until 2am. I am very very tired now. Sigh. At least I was sensible and did not drink so I do not have a hangover!

Is that last picture a bellzouki?

The poor hott soundman - yes, those boys were fussy indeed! They should count themselves lucky they had monitors at all! In my day, we had to go onstage with all the sound coming out of a tin can! Monitors, a nonsense.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:29 (eighteen years ago)

that was a multi x-post - yes, it was very yellow! Ah, so that's what it was doing. Interesting indeed.

Ah, if you see the *real* archbishop do say hello from my mum. ;-)

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:31 (eighteen years ago)

Does a hello from your mum come with a poke of the umberella and a missive demanding ordination?

It is a bellzouki. Can we go back to vintage and rare and find out how much it is?

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:33 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, we should go back and find out more about the bellzouki, definitely. (though I would be ashamed to play in front of amazing guitar man now.)

No, I think hello from my mum just comes with a glass of sherry. I think she's given up on getting her own parish, though, she seems to quite like ministering at the hospital.

I dreamed about my mum's house late night. Something about trying to pack to move, while Brandon TSM kept trying to record an album around the edges of all the chaos. I'm still not sure what that was about.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:36 (eighteen years ago)

The hott soundman has grown a beard and split up with his girlfriend (thanks, Ed, for telling me this very loudly, in his earshot!). I remain too shy to even talk to him beyond saying hello. He didn't say goodbye to me, though, he went back to packing up his soundboard after saying goodbye to Ed, so this means he hates me.

I find this all terribly depressing. It's kind of worse knowing someone you really fancy is available, but you still can't have them, than knowing that they are unavailable. It could be the lack of sleep, though, making me want to boil my head.

Wait, is that the American Kaleidescope, Dada? Actually, Ed, you would like them. They combine 60s psych with crazy Eastern European folk.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:44 (eighteen years ago)

Quattro Formaggi is what it is all about.

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:44 (eighteen years ago)

He did not hear, he could barely hear me when I leant back.

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:45 (eighteen years ago)

He did not hear, he could barely hear me when I was up close, let alone when I leant back

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:46 (eighteen years ago)

Anyway, you hate banjos.

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:46 (eighteen years ago)

It does not matter. It's not like I'd ever actually have the confidence to even talk to him. Let alone get near his banjo.

Who took my confidence away? Can I have it back please?

Oh, depressio. I need some coffee. And I'm going to see if I can find a picture of the cool yellow train. Did you get a chance to listen to the Groanbox Boys CD?

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:52 (eighteen years ago)

I did, there is not as much of that lovely bass, but we were sitting right by both his left hand and a bass bin, but it is very good, recorded in harefield hospital.

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:56 (eighteen years ago)

I assume it wasn't this one:

The Track Measuring HST

― Forest Pines, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:56 (eighteen years ago)

Morning all.

Anyone seen Onimo about lately? I miss his posts.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:58 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think that is in gauge for much of the southern suburban network.

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:58 (eighteen years ago)

Yes! This was the one!

http://images5.fotopic.net/?iid=yc6wv4&outx=0&quality=90&noresize=1

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:58 (eighteen years ago)

it even has its own Wikipedia page

― Forest Pines, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:58 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not bitter :)

onimo on Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:46 (1 hour ago)
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― Tom D., Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:58 (eighteen years ago)

BAH!!!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:59 (eighteen years ago)

is the HST the shabbiest train on British mainline services these days? the last time I used one it was awful. Indeed, what would be the oldest train on mainline services these days (preserved steam locos and their carriages excepted obv).

HST dates from, what, 1975? 32 years old!

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:01 (eighteen years ago)

It was a really nice old-looking one, not the shiny bullet-pointed new one.

Also, for the past week, we've stopped at Herne Hill to let either a Eurostar or some lovely old Orient Express train go by. I get my jollies in the most pathetic ways on the morning commute.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:02 (eighteen years ago)

HST is 30 years old and still one of the best trains on the network. Recent refreshes by some operators have been good (Not on great westerner and there high capacity let's take away all of the bay tables).

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:03 (eighteen years ago)

yes it was a Great Western one as you prolly guessed.

am still curious abt the oldest non-preserved trains on the network.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:05 (eighteen years ago)

It is probably going to be one of the measurement trains. I think the oldest in scheduled service passenger ones will be the Lymington shuttles (if you don't count the isle of white 1930s tube stock)

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:09 (eighteen years ago)

I haven't been on the Isle of Wight tube stock since 1982!

the Havenstreet railway joins up with that line now I notice.

shame they never extended the line to Ventnor.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:11 (eighteen years ago)

[link This has made me so happy]http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/41620594[link]...

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:16 (eighteen years ago)

http://img255.echo.cx/img255/1737/toyyoda4sn.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:22 (eighteen years ago)

I remember that story!

― Tom D., Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:24 (eighteen years ago)

Bwah hah hah hah hah, that's great.

How can she work at Hooters when she's so flat-chested?

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:26 (eighteen years ago)

once she left the restaurant, she reverted to her former comfy bras which weren't designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:27 (eighteen years ago)

I can't tell if I like Kaleidoscope or not from all music's shonkily encoded .wmas.

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:28 (eighteen years ago)

I have a CD at home, Ed.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:28 (eighteen years ago)

Freak emporium has a triple CD of their 3 60s albums for a tenner.

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:31 (eighteen years ago)

That's a good deal. Though I wasn't aware they had 3 albums worth of songs!

What was their big hit? "Beacon From Mars"?

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:33 (eighteen years ago)

A lot of Kaleidoscope is nonsense but when they're great they're really great. The last album is total rubbish tho :(

― Tom D., Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:33 (eighteen years ago)

I assumed the network measurement HST would have short swing-link bogies to put it in-gauge for third-rail lines. I could be wrong.

― Forest Pines, Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:34 (eighteen years ago)

Three good albums: Side Trips; Beacon From Mars; Incredible!
One terrible one: Bernice

But even the good ones have crap on them - all that jug band stuff, David Lindley's fault

― Tom D., Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:35 (eighteen years ago)

... actually their singles, b-sides, outtakes are arguably better than their albums!

― Tom D., Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:36 (eighteen years ago)

I'm trying to remember which one was Kaleidescope UK, I seem to recall that I really liked them, too. I though they did Path Through The Forest, but that was The Factory (also awesome).

Ah wait, yes, Freely Faintly Blowing...

[image]http://photos1.blogger.com/img/221/3997/1024/kaleidoscope_uk2.jpg[image]

Kind of a proto-Circulus, IIRC.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:40 (eighteen years ago)

freak boutique page

I like the sound of jug band stuff, I noticed they had a version of the hesitation blues on one album, which I love to sing.

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:40 (eighteen years ago)

I am having no luck with the coding today, what is wrong with me? No awake.

http://photos1.blogger.com/img/221/3997/1024/kaleidoscope_uk2.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:40 (eighteen years ago)

I got a new job, people. I am now a features editor. Hurrah! Am not going to have to work in my bedroom any longer. YAY!

― Nobodysprawn, Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:42 (eighteen years ago)

Oh god, the Freak Emporium have that, too. I cannot start shopping there, this could get very dangerous for me.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:42 (eighteen years ago)

Congratulations!

(Apparently there was/is a mexican kaliedoscope as well)

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:42 (eighteen years ago)

x-post to prawn! Hurrah! Congratulations! We should drink to celebrate!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:43 (eighteen years ago)

I like the sound of jug band stuff, I noticed they had a version of the hesitation blues on one album, which I love to sing

They do, on the first album, I always used to skip all that stuff when i listened to their albums, but I do like that song. Is "jug band/ old timey" stuff one of the last genres never to be revived? There's an ILM thread if ever there was one...

― Tom D., Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:43 (eighteen years ago)

We had a lot of that stuff last night at the folk with the groanbox boys. I've been singing a lot of it all my life.

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:44 (eighteen years ago)

You want old timey jug band - do you have any 13th Floor Elevators, Ed?

They had an Electric Jug. I kid you not.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:46 (eighteen years ago)

Fairfield Parlour!

― Mark G, Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:46 (eighteen years ago)

xpost the electric jug bloke wrote the songs!

― Mark G, Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:48 (eighteen years ago)

Stop mentioning names of bands whilst I have freak boutique open in another tab.

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:48 (eighteen years ago)

He wrote the lyrics, to be exact (xpost) I like when Lovin' Spoonful do jugband stuff - more pop versions

― Tom D., Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:49 (eighteen years ago)

I must warn you I am listening to Donovan right now, so I may be feeling a little light on my feet.

It must be spring! I want to dig out all the groovy Psych/Freakbeat albums! Can't find The Factory anywhere, though - I had a taped copy off my rare vinyl collecting ex-boyfriend.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:49 (eighteen years ago)

The Factory single was part of the John Peel box, so there's a number of ILXors that'd have it close to hand.

As I would, but I'm away from base.

― Mark G, Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:56 (eighteen years ago)

It's also on the UK Nuggets box set. (Which I still don't have, like a nidiot.) But this ex had about six songs by them, which were all fantastic!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:57 (eighteen years ago)

I have closed freak emporium after purchasing 3 cds, it is worse than going into fopp.

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:58 (eighteen years ago)

13th Floor Elevators are one of the best bands ever!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:58 (eighteen years ago)

Is that the one based in Camden, across the road from t' market?

― Mark G, Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:59 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yes!

― Tom D., Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:59 (eighteen years ago)

That's "Oh yes!" to 13th Floor Elevators being one of the best bands ever, by the way...

― Tom D., Thursday, 29 March 2007 12:00 (eighteen years ago)

No, it's the one on Shaftesbury. DANGEROUS, especially when bedrunked.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 12:00 (eighteen years ago)

Sounds like the similar.

I had to come out without buying anything! Too risky!

― Mark G, Thursday, 29 March 2007 12:01 (eighteen years ago)

What did you get, Ed?

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 12:07 (eighteen years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg100/g182/g18270pvo5g.jpg
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg100/g182/g18252o8oly.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 29 March 2007 12:16 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, these were both £5 at Fopp last year!

― Mark G, Thursday, 29 March 2007 12:20 (eighteen years ago)

Argh! Why did I not go in FOPP then? I have them both on vinyl - in storage at my mum's house, and only a compilation CD here.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 12:23 (eighteen years ago)

I have this
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd000/d055/d05558n6bs9.jpg

which is really http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:dzfyxqt5ldde with a few extra tracks.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 29 March 2007 12:24 (eighteen years ago)

I actually have 2 13th floor elevators cd comps with all the album tracks on them(bought in mid 90s) So I never did buy the actual albums on cd. I should if FOPP have them next time I'm in.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 29 March 2007 12:25 (eighteen years ago)

"Bull of the Woods" is fucking great too

― Tom D., Thursday, 29 March 2007 12:26 (eighteen years ago)

If Hari is around, when and where can we buy your new EP?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 29 March 2007 12:28 (eighteen years ago)

I want a nap. I'm going to just have to have more coffee. Argh.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 12:48 (eighteen years ago)

yay nobody's prawn! let's go drink cava next week.

― emsk, Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:13 (eighteen years ago)

FREVD? (I am in belgivm next week though, so have fun)

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:16 (eighteen years ago)

I feel even crapper than usual: I might have gotten the chickenpox from O which is NOT good if you are pregnant. :-((((((((

― nathalie, Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:17 (eighteen years ago)

Have you had chickenpox before?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:18 (eighteen years ago)

Ohmigod, not that is very not good if you are pregnant! I hope everything is OK. :-(((((( indeed.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:18 (eighteen years ago)

(there should only be one "not" in that sentance, I am really out of it today.)

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:19 (eighteen years ago)

Kerr, I honestly don't know. I think I might have had it when I was 14/15 yrs old. If only I could remember! My doctor said that I needn't worry: most people have it, but without any signs, and are thus immune to it. And even if I didn't have it, I could have an injection IN TIME. But ARGH I am a hypochondriac and always expect the worst. :-( I of course googled for info on what would happen to the foetus (if it would get infected). :-(

― nathalie, Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:20 (eighteen years ago)

I had it twice when i was at primary school. My mum says I didn't but she has a terrible memory.
I had chickenpox for 3 weeks then a few years later at another school I was off for a week.
In between I had german measles and mumps(got the mumps on xmas eve 1981 i think, couldnt go out on my new sledge when there was the heaviest snow scotland has seen in my lifetime, still I did get nearly a month off school.)

No ordinary measles. Apparently you only get one or the other.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:26 (eighteen years ago)

I've never met anyone who has caught chickenpox off their children EVER. If that's any consolation to you.
If the doctor says not to worry then listen to him.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:27 (eighteen years ago)

I am now waiting on someone googling and posting that it's not true you only get one or the other.
Who is it going to be?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:28 (eighteen years ago)

No, I've had both measles and chicken pox, they are different diseases. You are thinking of cow pox and small pox.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:29 (eighteen years ago)

I've only known one person to get chicken pox as an adult, but he got it in his late teens off his much younger brother.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:30 (eighteen years ago)

The Measles - quite a good name for a 60s beat group

― Tom D., Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:31 (eighteen years ago)

Unless you mean German Measles and Measles, which I have no idea about. I've not had the Mumps.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:31 (eighteen years ago)

... and then there's the German tribute band - The German Measles

― Tom D., Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:31 (eighteen years ago)

The Mumps - that's a good name for a band too!

― Tom D., Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

Or have I had the Measles? Oh wait, no - my brother got the innoculation and was so ill from it that my mother decided to just let me get it. I coughed and coughed and broke out in spots everywhere, so my dad started called me The Spotty Barker.

Which would also make a good name for a band.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

my dad caught chicken pox off me.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

The Mumps just sounds geographical. Or am I thinking of The Mumbles?

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:33 (eighteen years ago)

confusingly rubeola = measles
rubella = German measles

there's an I'm from Barcelona song called 'Chicken Pox':

As a kid I had the chicken pox
the german measles and the scarlet fever
and I don't ever want to go through that again

I had to tell my little broken heart
I had to tell it I'm immune to love
'cause I don't ever want to go through that again

You can't have it once you've had it
You can't have it once you've had it
You can't have it once you've had it, no

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:34 (eighteen years ago)

It'd be good if there was East Anglian Who tribute band called The Ouse - there might be

― Tom D., Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:34 (eighteen years ago)

They had a hit with "Only one Wmn"

― Mark G, Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:34 (eighteen years ago)

i had chicken pox for 2 or 3 weeks when i was about 8, caught in school. i had hella bad german measles a couple of years earlier, caught in a swimming pool in france. isn't the can't-have-both thing that it's really good if you have chicken pox when you're a kid because then you can't get shingles (like 2000 times worse apparently) when you're an adult, hence parents sending their kids to play with kids who already have the pox? though i'm sure someone told me they knew someone who did have both.

― emsk, Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:34 (eighteen years ago)

Not only was that an xpost, but the message explaining the xpost is way xposted.

― Mark G, Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:35 (eighteen years ago)

The Shingles - its' another 60s beat group!

― Tom D., Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:36 (eighteen years ago)

Rosemary Clooney and later Shakin' Stevens informed us that they ain't got time to fix the shingles.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:38 (eighteen years ago)

No, no, no, that's completely wrong, Emsk. Shingles is a recurrant outbreak of the Pox - you can only get the Shingles if you have *already* had the pox - it is a retrovirus like herpes. In fact, it is a variant of the herpes virus.

People send their kids to pox parties because it's fairly harmless when you are ickle - the scarring and sometimes the symptoms are worse when you are an adult.

Maybe we should stop talking about this, because we are probably doing nothing to assuage Nath's paranoia! (Though I love disease talk - I should have been an epidemeologist.)

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:43 (eighteen years ago)

(It was Hasbeen who had Shingles - I stayed home to nurse him and missed ATP because of it. In view of his later hijinx, I really should have just gone without him.)

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:44 (eighteen years ago)

I meant measles and german measles. massive x-post

Norman are you on AIM today? Nathalie?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:46 (eighteen years ago)

Is everyone itching yet?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:48 (eighteen years ago)

not itching but full of snot. this is an IRRITATING cold, it has no effects whatsoever except to make me constantly full of snot. i feel really sorry for the other 2 people in this bit of the office, i must be nearly as irritating to them blowing my nose all day as my nose is to me making me blow it.

― emsk, Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:49 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I totally got the itchies reading Wiki, especially with all the full colour pictures of the pox.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:49 (eighteen years ago)

in my first job here I had to check the colour pics in the 10 or so dermatology journals we publish. nice.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 29 March 2007 13:51 (eighteen years ago)

Everyone is too itchy to post just now.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

No, I went out on a healthful, wake-me-up walk around the block. But made it somewhat less healthful by buying some Ferrero Roche. Oh ambassador, you are spoiling us.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

I hope it turns out to be nothing, nathelie.

Whilst googling about the Bellzouki I found out that yes there is a sparkly purple DC12

http://img.thefind.com/images/WAAFwbsRgCAMANAULuESpLd2Dw8jIh6_I8lR2TiEIzidQ_je_dL1wAPfOEBSDmTjEjJL0-SyMBwidUIMyXrHpve1GyoJayubkjDuGiPONrvoSFrBqs2c1cMP

but not where to buy one.

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:16 (eighteen years ago)

They don't seem to have the 12-strings on their website any more. :-(

I should look up the Danelectros, too.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

Everyone is too itchy to post just now.

insensitive bastard! :-)

― nathalie, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

Discontinued! Man!

Though they are still available in hot pink for as little as £99.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

where from?

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

ah here we go

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

That's a daisyrock not a danelectro

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

"Mumps" is an area of and railway station in Oldham

― Forest Pines, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, that was what I was talking about. Can't find Danelectro 12-strings anywhere except eBay so I imagine they're discontinued, too. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

Oh wait, I have found some Danelectros, but they are all about £300. And mostly have to be ordered.

Found a PURPLE sparkly one on eBay, but it had already gone. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

I need to do some work and stop looking at all the different ways of tuning a guitar in 5ths.

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

[Removed Illegal Link]

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

bah why cant I link today

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

99 quid daisy rock 12 is a left hander (i can't remember if you play LH or RH) right-hander is 129 quid, which is pretty cheap, I must admit. mine did need a bit of setting up & stuff after I got it, but at 129 quid, maybe that's not much of an issue.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

Pash, are you doing the ILXVol3 track?

― Mark G, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

Bah, that will teach me to read the small print. I am a rightie. Can play bass and drums leftie, but not guitar.

I tried one in the shops last weekend, but was not impressed with the action, it felt all wrong. The shop offered free set-up, but I did not fall in love with it.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

Why does that song Barabajagal make me so irrationally happy?

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

Yes Mark, I am (I'm not at the moment, I'm fixing a DC02 right now, but I'm off work a bit next week, so I'll try to finish it off then)

― Pashmina, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

Ooooh...

kontakte are proud to be opening the new Psychodahlia clubnite next weds 4th April @ The Enterprise, Chalk Farm, London.

Live Pysch sets from : kontakte
Koolaid Electrical Company

Pysch DJ sets till 12 / Psych visuals all night long

You will get all this excitement and more - for £3 !

For more information visit - www.myspace.com/psychodahlia

I hope I am not still in MonthEnd hell...

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

bah I shall be driving back from belgium. Will it be monthly? Can we turn all songs into krautrock epics and play there?

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

I think we may have to turn all songs into tinkly spacerock psychedelia. Which is in NO WAY a problem with me.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

Can we have naked tambourine players?

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

Oh good lord...

http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/3724/psychonewversion2sp5.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

Damn, I forgot to bring my tambourine!

Shit, I also forgot to bring CABLES. I was going to use the guitar under my desk so I didn't bring anything with me.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

I have three, plus I can do mutatnt XLR plus adapter thingies.

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

If I am back in time I may try and squeeeze in a last hour with Kontacke, I shall have a liberty shirt and something orange oh yes.

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

Why do all these things end up happening at the Enterprise? Other end of London, hello. Bah.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

Mmm, thanks for the cookies, Kerr!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

The Enterprise pub? I like that pub.

― Tom D., Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

It's all the way up in Chalk Farm!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

Last chalk farm southbound tubes are at 0012 and 0020

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

Last stockwell brixton is 0046 which is only 4 mins after the northern line gets there which is a cutting it a little fine.

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, the Northern Line is never the problem - it runs quite late. It's that Stockwell connection. If you miss it, you are stranded in Stockwell, which is not a nice place to be in the wee hours of the morning.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

or ever.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

No, it's OK during the day because there is a bus that goes to Streatham. OK, it's a bit of a mad bus which goes to Streatham via Clapham (go figure) but it does get there in the end.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

It's all the way up in Chalk Farm!

But it's 20-30 mins walk from my house!

― Tom D., Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

20-30 min walk from my house = The Windmill.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

did everyone get the two lots of cookies?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 29 March 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

Morning all.

Anyone seen Onimo about lately? I miss his posts.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy on Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:58 (5 hours ago)

He posts all over the place. Just not here. He's still around in real life too, though I'm guessing that's not what you meant.

― ailsa, Thursday, 29 March 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

Though I haven't actually seen him in real life for a while, so he may not be, and it could be an imposter posting elsewhere in his name. Who knows?

― ailsa, Thursday, 29 March 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

Excellent, a picture of the Electric Jug!

[image]http://starling.rinet.ru/music/sleeves/zap_13th.jpg[image]

Ed, can you learn how to play the Electric Jug?

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

Bah! I am really not getting this today.

http://starling.rinet.ru/music/sleeves/zap_13th.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

But would Ed get up onstage and play the jug?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 29 March 2007 17:53 (eighteen years ago)

London trip is go, btw. I've jumped on kv_nol's LondonFAP thread and promptly killed it, yay me. But, yeah, I'll be around 21st/22nd April. Mostly touristing, possibly theatring, hopefully FAPping.

― ailsa, Thursday, 29 March 2007 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

In fact, his electric jug (invariably mentioned by all newbies to the Elevators records as, "What IS that weird sound?") was a crock-jug, with a microphone held up to it while it was being blown. Its effect on record was uncanny; its effect live was transcendental. In fact, the band backed up many bands such as Flatt & Scruggs at Love Street and other places, an amazing transposition of pure Texas psychedelia with bluegrass (in other words, the beginning of Cosmic Cowboy).

from

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

Morning all.

Kate, find out where the Alex James cheese can be procured in the cotswolds as the megalith hunting trip will pass right through the middle of that country.

― Ed, Friday, 30 March 2007 07:03 (eighteen years ago)

Why do all these things end up happening at the Enterprise? Other end of London, hello. Bah.

you knew where camden was before you moved to st reatham!

― emsk, Friday, 30 March 2007 08:06 (eighteen years ago)

I bid on an old dynamic mic to do electric jug experiments with.

― Ed, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:08 (eighteen years ago)

St. Reatham? The patron saint of drive-by shootings?

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 09:19 (eighteen years ago)

I was barred when I got in this morning - from ILX, I mean

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 09:20 (eighteen years ago)

what is St Ockwell the patron saint of?

I like St John Bosco coz he's the patron saint of EDITORS!

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:20 (eighteen years ago)

Bastards (shakes fist feebly heavenwards)

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 09:21 (eighteen years ago)

As Stockwell was one of the first tube stations in London,* St Ockwell should be patron saint of tube lines.

* a pedant writes: but nowhere near the oldest *underground* station.

― Forest Pines, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:23 (eighteen years ago)

Ha, there was an email from grouty this morning "i've been banned again", "this again", I thought, went to unban him, and I was banned as well! haha.

― Pashmina, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:25 (eighteen years ago)

It's like Stalinist Russia, who will be denounced next?

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 09:25 (eighteen years ago)

Ah, I will dig out the Observer Food Monthly where it said where he sold it. If indeed he has started selling it yet!

Electric Jug, yes!

I have Camden, I wanted to move as FAR AWAY AS POSSIBLE from it. I just wish they would stop doing cool things there.

St. Reatham's Parish is the nice end, the drive-bys are all up by Brixton Hill.

Oh god, the hotttt mang was on the train again this morning. Swoon!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:34 (eighteen years ago)

Poll results on sunday!

― Ed, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:43 (eighteen years ago)

He is so lovely (the hotttt mang) - I see him quite frequently at the train station so he probably lives in St. Reathams Parish.

He's had his hair cut since I saw him last - he used to have shoulder length hair, but now it's just kind of floppy like a public schoolboy and he plays with it like he's not used to it. Sideburns. Dark brown, and dirty hair, all shot through with little bits of grey. He's got the best nose in the world, super-pointed but in this weird almost concave way, but not a horrible ski-jump nose at all. And these really, really piercing blue eyes. And he's always wearing lovely clothes - today he was wearing a tweed jacket and a black turtleneck and looked totally hott in a German maths professor sort of way.

I am so terribly misreading of train situations, I need to learn how to look in a flirty way, not an intimidating way. Like, smile and twirl my hair or something crap and girly like that. Because I fear I may be intimidating. And I can never tell when someone is being polite vs. being friendly vs. being flirty and I need to learn how to do it or else I shall turn into a Graham.

Because he was sitting on the bench where I usually sat, and I didn't want to go stand by the first carriage because it was raining. So I kinda looked longingly at the bench and he moved aside to make room for me. And we both smiled and pulled out our Guardians and started to read. Until the train started coming and I got up to go and wait by the first carriage. And he got up and was going to get on the second carriage, but then changed his mind and walked up and waited by my door. Looked up and he was sitting near me and I was pleased because I could continue to try to look at him but every time he nearly caught my eye I was all "ARGH LOOK AWAY, DON'T GET CAUGHT STARING, STARING IS RUDE!" And then he smiled at me and I panicked and burried my head in my paper and then he kind of shifted away and hunched his shoulders so we couldn't see each others faces any more and went back to playing with his hair for the rest of the ride. Until I got off the train before him, and I couldn't help but look back but he saw me and wondering is he thinking "argh, thank god that scary girl who was staring at me has got off?" or was he thinking "oh, she looked back at me" or was he thinking "shall I have bacon on toast or fried eggs for breakfast?"

And I'm just feeling all confused and wondering DID I ENTIRELY IMAGINE THAT?!?!? Like, have I completely projected my attraction onto his actions? Or were we both doing the kind of checking each other out thing, and I totally blew it? Or am I becoming the kind of scary old lady who thinks that the television talks to her?

SPRING PLEASE STOP FUCKING WITH MY HORMONES. BOYS STOP BEING SO SCARY AND CUTE.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:00 (eighteen years ago)

That should really have gone on the "Dear Random Stranger, I Love You" thread but it's almost too entirely creepy for that.

I am worrying about myself lately.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:01 (eighteen years ago)

After having resolved to waylay and talk to the hot redhead I sometimes see on the grays inn rd I have not seen her again, bah. Long hair, I think I will allow long hair if it is flame red.

― Ed, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:08 (eighteen years ago)

almost too entirely creepy for that

you can't be too creepy for that thread.

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:10 (eighteen years ago)

Wait, I thought all your crush belonged to the waitress with the groovy shoulderblades?

Is this sort of behaviour totally certifiable, or just English?

I mean, blokes, if you saw some girl (and not a hott cute girl, but a mad, fat, middle aged woman like me) acting like this towards you on the train, would you think she was a mentalist? Or would you not even notice?

I mean, if someone cuts me off getting on the train, sometimes I glower at them all the way to Herne Hill. I hope he did not think I was doing that!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:12 (eighteen years ago)

I would quite like it I have to say.

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:15 (eighteen years ago)

I think I probably need to get laid. Not have a relationship or anything like that, but just have some kind of random casual sex so I will stop being influenced by the crazy spring thing. But what if I can't even get *that*?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:22 (eighteen years ago)

I think I have gone insane.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:32 (eighteen years ago)

hint: do not have casual sex on train.

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:33 (eighteen years ago)

I would take any girl making flirty eyes at me on the train as a compliment at the very least. However it is spring and I think they are all making flirty eyes at me.

Re: hoot waitress etc.

It is spring, I want all the girls.

― Ed, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:35 (eighteen years ago)

Also Re: next friday, I will have to get over to spitalfields by about 7-7:30pm that evening so an afternoon slot in the alldayer would suit.

― Ed, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:35 (eighteen years ago)

On a crowded commuter rush hour train, no less. Oh good lord. It must be spring, I don't often get the urge to shout to the dude opposite me "sod going to work, let's get off at the wrong station together and go to a posh hotel and fuck like animals for a few hours between bouts of cream tea and buns!"

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:36 (eighteen years ago)

― Mark G, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:37 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, see, I just hope he thought that I was making flirty eyes, and not glaring at him for stealing my bench or coz his flies were open.

I am taking some comfort in the thought that spring affects the males of the species, too. So I don't feel like such a mentalist.

Ask on the other thread, Ed!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:41 (eighteen years ago)

I mean, blokes, if you saw some girl (and not a hott cute girl, but a mad, fat, middle aged woman like me) acting like this towards you on the train, would you think she was a mentalist? Or would you not even notice?

Oh yes, I notice! It happens in the supermarket. Why a mentalist? That's what people do, check each other out.

But I'd say that the jury's out on whether he is checking you out or not. Say 'Hi, I'm Kate' next time and/or use a smalltalk intro.

― Dr.C, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:41 (eighteen years ago)

I have been paid. When can we look at this bellzouki?

― Ed, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:42 (eighteen years ago)

[i}I am taking some comfort in the thought that spring affects the males of the species, too[/i]

Ha ha, you've only just realised that!?!??!

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 10:43 (eighteen years ago)

Who's not been? Goddamn BACS!

― Mark G, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:43 (eighteen years ago)

Use the fact that it is spring to talk to the hot man.

― Ed, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:44 (eighteen years ago)

I very nearly asked him if I could check my crossword answers against his G2, as I was finishing yesterday's paper today. But then worried that this might make me look like the sad kind of mentalist who actually cares about crossword puzzles. And also the sad kind of mentalist who reads yesterday's papers. (Fact is, woman on the train left it on her seat one stop before mine, and I nicked it for the crossword puzzle. SKINFLINT!!! I was lying in bed trying to get to sleep when that one popped into my mind and I had to get up, turn the lights back on and write it in.)

But then again, a 30-something mang in a tweed suit and a black turtleneck reading the Guardian - chances are, he probably likes crossword puzzles, too?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:45 (eighteen years ago)

Probably more than sudoku.

(Sudoku is a swizz, it is not a maths problem at all)

― Ed, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:47 (eighteen years ago)

I very nearly asked him if I could check my crossword answers against his G2, as I was finishing yesterday's paper today.

Aw - you should have done. That would have been ideal.

― Dr.C, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:47 (eighteen years ago)

It is just my insecurity that I think most men would be *horrified* to realise that I am checking them out. Or would never actually think that I was checking them out through sheer oblivion to the fact that I even exist.

I don't quite see him enough to make small talk - I mean, I don't see him every day or even every week becuase I rarely take the same train. But I have seen him probably half a dozen times on the platform. And I very much remember his nose. And his tweed jackets.

Argh, BACS are evil.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:48 (eighteen years ago)

Anyway, Journey of the Sorcerer is GRATE!! I cannot believe that it is really The Eagles.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:55 (eighteen years ago)

No they wouldn't be horrified.

I am fecked - I have run out of painkillers and everything HURTS! Also - I am facing a weekend of no boozing when I very much NEED to booze!

― Dr.C, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:56 (eighteen years ago)

I did a mix after you guys left last night, it is very prog.

― Ed, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:56 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, did you record any of it? I really want to capture Frances's wubwubwub synthesis.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:58 (eighteen years ago)

How do they make a banjo sound like a sitar? I suppose it's all the backwards reverb or whatever that is.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 11:00 (eighteen years ago)

I sympathise Kate. It is spring's fault. THAT is why I just convinced myself that one of my longest standing friends is, in fact, the person I should be going out with. It's even taken over all previous obsessions already and I only found out at 2pm yesterday. Could be something to do with the fact he now has a girlfriend for the first time I have known him. I think I want winter and harmless Noel Fielding crushes back, thanks!

― Nobodysprawn, Friday, 30 March 2007 11:02 (eighteen years ago)

It is a resonator banjo, i'm almost certain banjo+dobro= sitar (kate love)

― Ed, Friday, 30 March 2007 11:03 (eighteen years ago)

OK, I am starting to see the point of resonator banjos. Hrrmm, two things Kate hates = something Kate loves. It could happen.

Argh, Prawn, that sounds awful. But sometimes it's just the fact that someone you always thought was just there is now unavailable makes them seem so much more attractive.

Platform Dude's new haircut makes him look a bit less like Brandon Curtis and a bit more like a member of Kraftwerk. But I have learned my lesson of trying to compliment hott blokes by telling them what rock stars I think they look like in case they hate the person I compare them to.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 11:06 (eighteen years ago)

A bobro? A danjo?

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 11:06 (eighteen years ago)

That kay I posted yesterday was a tenor resonator.

― Ed, Friday, 30 March 2007 11:08 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know. I just don't want to be sleeping anywhere within a mile of where it is playing.

Ha ha, though they were teasing me last night that I would put up with a banjo for hott banjo player. Erm, probably.

CRUSHES GO AWAY, THERE ARE TOO MANY OF YOU POPPING UP ALL OVER THE PLACE, BOYS STOP BEING SO CUTE!!!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 11:10 (eighteen years ago)

testing

― mitya, Friday, 30 March 2007 11:37 (eighteen years ago)

Mitya, are you at work and POSTING ON TEH COOLER?!?!?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 11:38 (eighteen years ago)

yes! the IT guy was on the floor taking down serial numbers or something and I asked him to freshen up the ol' computer. (should've got him to put an IM program on, too, darn, why didn't i think of that)

― mitya, Friday, 30 March 2007 11:40 (eighteen years ago)

Excellent, just in time for Friday afternoon whiling away the time. Do you have any springtime crushes, or has spring not made its way to the steppes yet?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 11:43 (eighteen years ago)

I have carrot cake. Be very afraid!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 11:58 (eighteen years ago)

It wasn't even very nice. It was kind of stale and a bit hard. But I do feel drugged now. Wheeeeee!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:24 (eighteen years ago)

Sonic Cathedrals are showing the Nico film at 3pm this Sunday. Means I have to make my curry early - Nat wanted me to bring it down! No no no, MY curry.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:31 (eighteen years ago)

Hawkwind tonight

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 12:33 (eighteen years ago)

in a boring meeting argh.

― Ed, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:34 (eighteen years ago)

Please please please someone tape it for me!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:34 (eighteen years ago)

I am hoping the webbernet will provide

― Ed, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:35 (eighteen years ago)

I'm hoping I don't forget it's on!

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 12:37 (eighteen years ago)

oldskool

― Ed, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:38 (eighteen years ago)

"Hawkwind tonight....in a boring meeting argh" haha

― Pashmina, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:38 (eighteen years ago)

Hello everyone. I went to a great gig last night and ended up playing (two notes) with Quack Quack. Yay!

― emil.y, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:38 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yeah, almost did!

― Mark G, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:38 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, but which two notes, emily?

(We are partial to G and D around these parts.)

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

Hmm, you know, I think it might have been G and D. One of them was D. I do like a D.

My favourite chord is F#minor.

― emil.y, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:42 (eighteen years ago)

D min, Amin, Gmaj, Amin7

― Pashmina, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:43 (eighteen years ago)

don't forget the C, we like that too.

― Ed, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:43 (eighteen years ago)

F#m is a lovely chord. I haven't used it lately, though!

We've been experimenting a bit with C, though, as apparently it's easy to play on a mandolin. And throwing in a bit of Bflat to make a C7 or something.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:44 (eighteen years ago)

Lunch over. I need to get my head down and do some proper hard coding. Oh, how boring. Ah well, I'll put Easter Everywhere on the headphones and everything will be OK.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:46 (eighteen years ago)

E! Motorik folks!!!!!!

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 12:46 (eighteen years ago)

E is too difficult to sing in! Just where my range cuts out at the top and breaks between head and chest at the bottom. Always drop E songs (heh) down to D.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:48 (eighteen years ago)

I don't like 7ths. They confuse me. I do kind of *know* how to play a 7, but I always have to check that I'm doing it right, and then it still sounds bum.

― emil.y, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:49 (eighteen years ago)

(that's our excuse every time we do a slightly dischordant harmony - I mean, we specialise in bum harmonies, but one that is actually noticably odd - we're hitting the 7th, maaaan! Actually, on "I'm Not Afraid" the 7th sounds quite good, though.)

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:51 (eighteen years ago)

I love those Neil Young chords, I don't know how you describe, like an F with an open (top) E, and the C with the added, uhhhhhhhhh, hold on....

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 12:52 (eighteen years ago)

The C with the added... D I think?

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 12:54 (eighteen years ago)

Ooh, is that a Ninth?

Ninths and Sixths are, like, the most post-rock of all chords.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:55 (eighteen years ago)

I'm prolly describing it wrong, it's not weird or nuthin'

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 12:56 (eighteen years ago)

It's total Neil Young

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 12:56 (eighteen years ago)

Like Pete Townshend with his Sus4!!

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 12:57 (eighteen years ago)

Well, a perfect octave is an Eighth, so one up from that is a Ninth. C -> D (provided you put it up in the octave above, otherwise it would be a horribly dischordant 2nd) - it's not weird, it's just used a lot in post-rock.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:57 (eighteen years ago)

It has a kind of drone quality

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 12:58 (eighteen years ago)

Taking requests for friday cookies..

hey all

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 13:01 (eighteen years ago)

E! Motorik folks!!!!!!

Tom D.

E drone, the hawkwind chord, is awesome, it's true.

Amin7 is great on clean guitar & sounds good after a Dmin. It's just a basic Amin shape, but you don't fret the G string. (anyone who makes joke abt "g string" gets permabanned haha j/k)

― Pashmina, Friday, 30 March 2007 13:02 (eighteen years ago)

... that's another Neil Young favourite

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 13:04 (eighteen years ago)

I should drop D-tune (heh) my guitar so I can play the Hawkwind drone in a key I can actually sing in.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 13:06 (eighteen years ago)

Like the Velvets and Metallica!

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 13:11 (eighteen years ago)

Fuckin' zappa obsessives. God.

― Pashmina, Friday, 30 March 2007 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

(not refering to anything on ilx here...)

― Pashmina, Friday, 30 March 2007 13:34 (eighteen years ago)

"well you're not a fan, you won't understand it..."

― Pashmina, Friday, 30 March 2007 13:34 (eighteen years ago)

What jokes about titties are you not understanding?

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 13:35 (eighteen years ago)

Early Zappa was awesome.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 13:36 (eighteen years ago)

Haha, it's not that. It's the "great classical composer of the 20th century" thing. WTF. TS "the yellow shark" & "perfect stranger" vs the entire works of, say messaien, prokifiev and shostakovich.

― Pashmina, Friday, 30 March 2007 13:37 (eighteen years ago)

he had his moments.

― Pashmina, Friday, 30 March 2007 13:38 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, that's total bollocks

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 13:38 (eighteen years ago)

Let me take ya to the empty place in mah FIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRE ENNNNNNN-GINNNNNNNNNE!!!!

God, one more team's targets down, 14 to go. I've got it down so it's not so painful, but my god, it's tedious and time-consuming.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 13:43 (eighteen years ago)

kerr i did get yr mail about hari's band - i saw one of the people i need to talk to about it last night but we were at a gig and couldn't talk much bc the band came on and we are respectful but he said he's gonna call me today. if he doesn't i'll call him sunday/monday.

PLEASE STOP RAINING KTHXBYE.

― emsk, Friday, 30 March 2007 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

i am trying to resurrect pleasant crush on officeboy but he is not being very obliging.

― emsk, Friday, 30 March 2007 13:59 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks Emsk! Hari is getting new internet today so he should be able to get online more and chat on the Cooler/ILX !

I can't do anything about the rain i'm afraid. It's nice and sunny here again.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:00 (eighteen years ago)

Aw, we need to find Emsk a new crush. This is one of the problems with riding a cycle to work, you do not get crushes on hott commuters on yr train. And the only person you seem to run into repeatedly is Boris Johnson and he is MIIIIIINNNNNE!!!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, but you do get to exchange conspiratorial smiles and winks with other cyclists. er. that's not quite the same, is it.

― emsk, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

Emsk I just sent you another webmail ( I don't have your email address)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

Congrats to the new Shimura Curve (for the day)!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:12 (eighteen years ago)

Christ I forgot how much people post here... As usual I will post completely outside the flow.

I haven't met a new person in ages and ages and ages, so no real spring crushes, although there is one girl in the office -- there's always one isn't there -- who clearly has the "magnetic" personality, at least for me. But things are reasonably arms-length around here, as far as I can tell.

My well-timed London trip is at risk -- stupid me didn't really process that Friday and Monday are HOLIDAYS in the western world, and therefore me planning a business trip around them is kind of... stupid. My own fault (as usual) for not organizing quickly enough to get in BEFORE the holiday. (That said, the whole Poptimism thing was vaguely weird last time, while subsconsciously I feel that I was somehow to blame for SCmk3 imploding.)

I will decide to be bummed about this on Monday.

― mitya, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

Bummed by who?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

Who invited Ricky Gervais on to the thread?

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

I'll get my coat.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

Dada I think you should do a best scottish band poll on ilm!
Then we all vote sensational alex harvey band!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

Either them or the Whistlebinkies

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

Omigod, someone just came around with the THIRD lot of cookies (actually chocolatey kind, not ILX kind) today. This is already on top of the carrot cake.

And yeah, Mitya, it was all your fault! Hurrah, we can blame you, and not the awful sound man, and the fact that we all HAAAAATED each other by that point, much better, yes.

But more of an excuse to have an extra long weekend if you do your work on the Thursday or Tuesday, no?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

Go do it man!

On an unrelated note I am listening to His Name Is Alive.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

Which album, Kerr? And more important, is my sisX0r Dare on it?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

I could do a "What Is the Best Scottish Folk Band of the 1970s" Poll - the Whistlebinkies, Gaberlunzie, the JSD Band, Boys of the Lough, the Tannahill Weavers, the McCalmans, the Battlefield Band, Ossian...

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

Well, actually the logic being offered is "it doesn't really make sense for you to come then given the holidays." I am not telling the travel people not to book the flight, hoping that I can then just say "Oops I've already got a ticket" and get away with it that way. :)

― mitya, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

HomeIs In Your Head and Mouth By Mouth.

The cd's i actually own are Livonia and Someday My Blues...

I always meant to buy the others but never got round to it.

It was Hari asking me last night if i liked them that made me dig out my cd's and dvdrs.

ps who is your sisX0r Dare?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

I'm trying to remember which one Mouth by Mouth is... the third 4AD release, right? I can't remember if she's on that one. She might be. I know she's definitely on Fort Lake, she sings lead on a couple of songs on that one.

I think "Home Is In Your Head" is still my fave.

Cookies?

(My sisX0r Dare = my best friend from childhood, we have the same birthday so we tell people we are twins.)

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

>> an F with an open (top) E

I believe that is Fmaj7. I also like that chord.

Hi watercooler people. I am bored at work :(

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

Hi, Col. Poo. Bored at work is what we are here for.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

Post the story of your rise up the Poo ranks, starting with when you were a humble Private Poo.

― g-kit, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

it's only ten to four!

― Mark G, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

Now I know why no-one drinks the last cup of coffee in the jug. Euggh.

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not really Watercooler, I just wanted to say "Private Poo".

― g-kit, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

I'm actually Field Marshall Poo now, but you can't change your screen name.

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

I'm glad you did.

― ailsa, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

Brigadier vs. Colonel: FITE!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

Really, shall I tell it again?

― g-kit, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

Glad to see The Kit posting again!

Hi Colonel Poo!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

Nah, you don't want to overdo it. It made me laugh.

My eyes are all icky. I rubbed them so hard one of my contact lenses fell out, and now they have some odd goo in them. I am going to go and attempt to wash them from the inside out with Guinness. I don't know if this will work.

― ailsa, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

note to self: unplug the cable from the mains before attempting to repair the vacuum cleaner.

(short version: OW.)

― Pashmina, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

Do you really care if it works or not?

― g-kit, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

Home Is In Your Head is the 2nd one on 4AD I think.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

Mouth By Mouth is the 3rd.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

That's what I said!

Argh, I think I'm starting to get a backache - because I'm so used to being able to put my feet up on my guitar case and now I can't. Must find something else - the rubbish bin isn't comfortable.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

No office boys to do that job?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

Mouth By Mouth was my first HNIA and has a special place in my heart. Beyond that I can't really explain in useful terms which one it is, but it's got that short "channel of your peace" song on and is possibly the most beautifully creepy throughout (others will disagree, I'm sure). I am very impressed whichever album she sang on, but, wow, I listened to almost nothing but that one for a good long time.

What is Hawkwind Chord? Something like a six-stringed open E5?

I'd have said major 7ths were the most postrock of all chords. I get sad because I'd like to understand more about chords but whenever it comes to attempting to make music I just get stuck switching between I and vi forever. Then again some of my favourite records don't do much more than that so maybe it should be enough for me after all.

But most importantly Quack Quack are ACE and I would be dead proud to play even half a note with them. I'd love to see them live again, but in the meantime I will console myself with singing very badly along to the synth lines on their mini-album thing.

I disappear now before anyone notices I was here, safe in the knowledge that these threads move so fast I might never see this part of it again.

― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

I have no idea who you are but hello and welcome!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

For Norman

http://www.leninimports.com/louise_brooks_gallery_4.jpg vs http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/houseofeliott/images/intro.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/houseofeliott/images/index1.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/louiselombard/1louise2b.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

What is Hawkwind Chord? Something like a six-stringed open E5?

It is indeed!

― Pashmina, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

Is 'a passing spacecadet' that Rebecca person? I'm sure her ILx email was 'spacecadetsomethingorother'...

― emil.y, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

Hello. I was an occasional ILXor a long time ago so I don't expect anyone to have any idea who I am, or at least I sort of hope not; it's quite a relief to imagine nobody does.

Meanwhile I'm looking at this this Hawkwind guitar basics lesson and guessing the talk above is about shape 1 with an open lowest string for the E version? Maybe not at all but I feel pretty orgone-accumulatingly space-rocking now!

― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

2 people guessed who you are already!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

Aw, that's awesome - Hawkwind guitar lessons! yeah!

If you are Rebecca (from Oxford parts, IIRC?) then I remember you! Unless you are some new person with a similar handle. In which case, welcome.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

That's what I call an A-barre. (Bar? Or am I getting it mixed up with ballet?) It's like an A chord moved up the neck. An E-barre is lower.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, hawkwind guitar lessons!

The chord I'm thinking of goes (from low string upwards) open string (low E)/E (octave up from open string - fretted)/B fretted/Efretted/open string/open string. If you slide the fretted strings up and down, BRAINSTORM.

― Pashmina, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

(Multiple xposts which it didn't tell me about) Oh. emil.y and Kate are correct, that is me indeed. And I knew MarkH would get me after Oxford babble on the placename thread. Uh-oh. (looks around nervously) Hi!

(Is emil.y emil.y ch3m3x? It's good to see some familiar ILX-faces around.)

(you can also recognise my posts from too many brackets and too many hyphen-dash-things)

― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha, Pash, I call those chords "woman chords" because they are easier for us girls with our little tiny hands to play unbarred.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

Hi, Rebecca - yes, that's me. Also, I forgot to mention that you are quite correct that Quack Quack are ACE. This was the first time I'd seen them in a while (when they started up I saw them about 5 or 6 times in quick succession), and they totally reminded me of why I love them. The whole gig was an amazing line-up: Dragon Or Emperor, Quack Quack, Fulborne Teversham and Pit er Pat. Woooo.

― emil.y, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

I have tiny hands. Maybe I could've learned to play guitar after all.
Then i could join in the geek talk with the rest of you all ;)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

You could have done like Kevin Coyne and learned to play it resting on your lap

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 16:23 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.rikwalton.com/music/rock/kevincoyne/p/keco003.jpg

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

...The E5 power chord at 7th fret + 3 open strings is the chord I was thinking of before I looked at the Hawkwind Guitar Lesson but sliding it down and back up the neck has resulted in me sounding like the GUN cover of Cameo's "Word Up", which I believe is not generally considered conducive to orgone energy. More work needed.

My short stubby hands are not good at A-shaped barres so a) I am glad of open strings or unplayed high E string and b) I am trying to convince myself that the inch-and-a-bit shorter scale length of a Jaguar would be all I need to transform myself into guitar genius. OK, I know, but they are so pretty. Sigh...

And hi emil.y. I don't know two of those bands but I will be sure to look them up with a recommendation and lineup like that. Maybe the Nottingham-diskant-Audioscope connection will bring them to us some autumn (well, I'm sort of not even in Oxfordshire any more, but I'll probably head back there soon at this rate).

― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

Playing with your thumb

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

Rebecca (or Kerr, if you have tiny hands) maybe you should try a Daisy Rock guitar - the whole point of them is that they are built for smaller hands and are supposedly easier to play.

(I am lucky in that I have rather long fingers for a female, and also did loads of hard core piano training when I was very little, which stretched out my fingers so I have an octave reach.)

I dunno, I think Word Up could be condusive to orgone accumulation, but only in the original, and certainly not in the Scary Spice cover.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

The original is a classic. Actually Cameo's early albums were very pfunk influenced!

To those who got 13th Floor Cookies yesterday... what do you think of the alternate mixes on both albums?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

...Oh, those bands aren't from Nottingham - sorry for jumping to that conclusion - but the descriptions I've found so far are intriguing.

I put a bid on a purple sparkly Daisy Rock on ebay once or twice but it was not to be. I've never seen one in a shop where I could have a chance to try it, but then the staff never acknowledge my existence and after ten minutes of hanging round wondering whether to ask I get too intimidated by them and all the teenage boys tapping their way through intricate metal solos and leave anyway. And I'd love a shorter-scale bass because my current cheap bass is just too huge and high-actioned and telegraph-cable-like, but the only ones I see are that Epiphone SG shape, which I don't like much.

― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

I haven't listened to the alternate mixes much. I must admit, I just jumped straight to the albums because I love them so much. I often get frustrated by alternate mixes of songs I know really well, because they are not, well, the way I *expect* them to be!

Argh, I hear you about guitar shop staff. But the last time I went guitar shopping, I took Ed and everyone jumped on him offering him service, and he just pointed them to me, ha ha. Actually, that was one of the nicest things about R&V Guitars on Denmark Street, is they're not sexist at all in there - the bloke noticed it was me perving over the Cosmichorus. I often get asked if I need help in there, but unfortunately I can't afford anything in there.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

I love the alternate mixes on Marquee Moon.

I just got spam for viagra from Ned Braggett

bizarre.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

I have to repost this weirdness

http://www.kropserkel.com/Images/horsehead%20(6).jpg

and this cuteness

http://www.dailykitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/1174019305cats-026.jpg

― Ed, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

link to long picture

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

I had a stuffed horsehead when I was a child! It's not that weird!

(OK, my mum was obsessed with the Godfather for a while.)

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

If you get small pics when you click that link, just click the pic to magnify it. For some reason the pic comes out small automatically

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 17:00 (eighteen years ago)

Have a good weekend everyone.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

You, too, Kerr. (I'll be going home to pizza and imagining how good the Hawkwind doc is as soon as I finish transferring some files.)

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

Am home today. The weekend has already started. Yay me!

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 March 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

Happy weekend, watercoolerers.

I feel I should add that the staff of PMT Oxford have usually been helpful and the guy who runs the computer+synth room is always enthusiastic and friendly. Which is also a bit intimidating in its own way, because it seems a shame to go from feeling like maybe I've managed to fool someone into thinking I know what I'm doing with a proper nerdy conversation about LFOs and pulse-width modulation and then blow it by showing him I really can't play.

On the other hand, I had a very odd experience in a record shop (sorry, long story and one I may have told before). Every few days I'd go into their dance music basement, spend a while looking and almost always buy something. I got chatting to the guy occasionally, because I'd buy crap nobody else wanted from the bargain bin and the "what the hell?" / "weirdassed drill/breakcore" sections.

We got talking about production too because the weird stuff he didn't know where to file or how to price he'd often show to me, and he'd got some sample CDs in or some 8-bit chiptune thing I said I might buy just for sampling. Anyway, I was in there a LOT, spending a lot of money, and I never once took anyone else there or even spoke to any other customers.

After a few years he said, "Shame your friend isn't with you today, I've got some stuff he might like."
"Er?"
"Oh, you know, that guy you're always in here with, he listens to all the weird stuff, and he makes his own music so he buys those CDs with beats on."

I have NO idea how to explain that exchange except that it was just so MALE that anyone would regularly paw their IDM and weird cheap stuff and talk about making music that he completely IMAGINED someone else coming in every week while I stood behind this imaginary customer staring uncomprehendingly at the records and then leaving again, just so as not to think a woman might have any musical knowledge. But I'm hoping there's a better explanation.

― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 30 March 2007 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

Sounds like a typical dance music shop. 13th Note in Glasgow went all elitist and snobby when it became dance stuff only.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 17:52 (eighteen years ago)

That's pretty WTF. I don't know what to say really.

― Pashmina, Friday, 30 March 2007 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

Norman OTM. Utterly bizarre.
Despite reading Muzik and Mixmag all the time I hated going into dance shops TBH. Always seemed really unfriendly and elitist. I tended only to go in when I was with one of my mates if he was after stuff.
I usually just bought my cd's elsewhere. I used to go into 13th Precinct (not note, lord knows why i said that haha) out of habit as it used to be a good indie shop. But eventually it got moved downstairs and then dropped completely and I just didn't like the shop anymore.

I haven't been in 13th Precinct for years. Wonder what it's like now.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 18:06 (eighteen years ago)

Hi everyone!

just got new net...more watercooler from here on out.

― H-ari A-shurst, Friday, 30 March 2007 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

Snazzy new look!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 21:55 (eighteen years ago)

It's hard to find threads thesedays.

Search doesn't show them, there is no "show all" anymore, and if it wasn't for my own 'history', I'd lose threads!

― Mark G, Monday, 2 April 2007 09:55 (eighteen years ago)

I've forgotten what the question was

― Ste, Monday, 2 April 2007 10:45 (eighteen years ago)

Hello! I had the weirdest dream (or rather nightmare EVAH). A small baby was pooping orally. His (or her, can't remember gender) blew up so big that it turned see-through.

― nathalie, Monday, 2 April 2007 11:32 (eighteen years ago)

That sounds horrifying

― H-ari A-shurst, Monday, 2 April 2007 11:42 (eighteen years ago)

Well, this was due to the fact that Ophelia had pooped so much it was sticking to her legs (at 4 am). We had to wash her up and take her into our bed. This was the worst but previous nights have been the same. heheh

― nathalie, Monday, 2 April 2007 11:44 (eighteen years ago)

I haven't been in 13th Precinct for years. Wonder what it's like now.

I fondly remember buying "So Far" by Faust and "Der Elektrolurch" by Guru Guru before it went dance

― Tom D., Monday, 2 April 2007 12:13 (eighteen years ago)

Morning!

Erm ... I mean, Afternoon!

― Forest Pines, Monday, 2 April 2007 12:17 (eighteen years ago)

Afternoon!

It's time for a New Thread

really hope that coding works. I'd only just got used to link! Anyway, if that doesn't turn out, it's here:

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=53035

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 12:20 (eighteen years ago)

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