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It's spring, how does your garden grow?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 12:19 (eighteen years ago)

This weekend, I mainly planted flowers. My rocket is already coming up nicely. I'm expecting cornflowers, morning glory and sweet peas. Yes, I'm going for a blue theme.

I did the soaking overnight in warm dark water, too. Some of the seeds started germinating in the cup!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 12:21 (eighteen years ago)

Things are a bit different around here. I'm confused.

Is everyone at lunch? I had to do my laundry this morning (two weeks worth, ugh) because yesterday morning the laundrette wasn't open because the lock was broken. Sigh.

I went to Sonic Cathedrals, though, to their Nico tribute night. Which was nice. I hate the Social, though. One of the bands actually managed to get Kevin Sheilds out of the house to "do sound" which I was hoping would be kind of like him doing live remixes, but really he just seemed to turn the delay up to 11 on everything.

It was a bit much by the end of the night, though. I really wanted to give Dot Allison a hot cup of tea and a lie-down, she seemed like she needed it. And the Butterflies of Love? More like the Eagles Of Wibble. I don't really get them at all.

Had a nice little chat with Roger from the Early Years who was telling me all the gossip from NYC and saying "Joel is really nice, isn't he?" and I just went "yes, he's a sweetheart ::little swoony sigh::"

Oh! And Nat gave me the new School of Seven Bells single. It is very yellow and psychedelic. Yeah. Awesome.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 12:28 (eighteen years ago)

I germinated in my cup once, I was never happier about breaking for lunch.

― g-kit, Monday, 2 April 2007 12:37 (eighteen years ago)

Where is everyone? At lunch? On holiday? In Belgium? (Well, obviously that's where Nath is all the time, but has Ed gone there or Finland? It's like the "where's Waldo?" game trying to figure out where Ed is.)

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 12:58 (eighteen years ago)

warm dark water

???

damn, i wanted to go to that nico thing. early years are aces - playing with brakes and electrelane soom, woo.

i have done no planting of seeds or indeed germinating. i have, however, eaten lots of nice food over the last few days including snails and cockles.

― CharlieNo4, Monday, 2 April 2007 13:00 (eighteen years ago)

I nearly messaged you about it, Chuck, but thought you weren't speaking to me about some stupid shit or other. :-P

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 13:02 (eighteen years ago)

It is so quiet today.

Schools have broken up.

― Mark G, Monday, 2 April 2007 13:04 (eighteen years ago)

[xpost to kate]

not at all! i can count the occasions on which i've been not talking to you on the fingers of one finger. i'm not really into such frippery.

either way it's moot, since i doubt i'd have been able to haul ass out of the sofa last night. damn schnapps. ugh.

― CharlieNo4, Monday, 2 April 2007 13:05 (eighteen years ago)

I was at lunch until a few moments ago. Don't agree with you about Butterflies of Love -- Dream Driver is a fantastic song. The two main guys in the band have the same surname but are unrelated a la Duran Duran.

Classic Wines and Beers in Cowley Road brings Belgium to my doorstep...Chimay, Le Trappe num num.

I had a great weekend! Started off by going to the Actors' Church in Covent Garden to see TS "hisnameisananagramoftoiletsyknow" Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral with my mum. The real actual Archbishop was in the audience and there was a real ROFFLE bit where the noblemen sent to kill Thomas Becket justify their actions to the audience saying "Why kill an archbishop" looking R Williams staright in the eye heh heh.

Last night won most of the rounds of the quiz at teh George in Littlemore and the money at the end, so now have 3 free rounds of drinks for next Sunday....it'll be a Happy Easter!

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 2 April 2007 13:08 (eighteen years ago)

Well, obv. I saw them live rather than listening to the record. They were very good at what they do, but what they do just left me cold. like I said, they just remind me of the Eagles.

Something I never thought I'd say in my life, but after last night I AM SICK OF BANDS TRYING TO SOUND LIKE THE VELVET UNDERGROUND!!! OK, just had to get that off my chest. Too many viola players spoils the voibe. It was quite funny that they DJ'd something like 4 hours worth of VU and Nico covers. I was singing "I'll Keep It ... Vit MIIIIINE!!!" on the bus home.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 13:12 (eighteen years ago)

One for Ed:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Vintage-German-MANDOLA-about-1920-Cister-Waldzither_W0QQitemZ220098204376QQcategoryZ10179QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

How about that for a mandola?

― Pashmina, Monday, 2 April 2007 13:15 (eighteen years ago)

Talking of VU, I saw John Cale a couple of weeks back and he was amazing. Encored with Venus in Furs but that was the only time we heard his viola. I really must check out his back catalogue -- there's a lot to check. Honestly, I've been really remiss. I don't even own a copy of Paris 1919.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 2 April 2007 13:16 (eighteen years ago)

Someone was playing something that looked like that last night! Except it couldn't have been, I think it was just an ordinary 12-string guitar from an odd angle.

It is lovely, though. x-post

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 13:17 (eighteen years ago)

x-post notification is back! Hurrah!!!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 13:17 (eighteen years ago)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=009&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=190097196515&rd=1&rd=1

How about this, then? "VINTAGE ANTIQUE THEORBOED GERMAN GUITAR LUTE c.1900"! If only I had enough money!

― Pashmina, Monday, 2 April 2007 13:29 (eighteen years ago)

german and austrian ebay are great for odd acoustic/folk instruments.

― Pashmina, Monday, 2 April 2007 13:29 (eighteen years ago)

Jeebus, stop posting this pr0nography when I'm supposed to be doing monthend! ;-)

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 13:31 (eighteen years ago)

...or maybe (sorry, kate) a SCHRAMMEL-GUITAR:

http://cgi.ebay.at/SCHRAMMELGITARRE-SCHRAMMEL-HARP-GUITAR-VIENNA-1900-TOP_W0QQitemZ320098359599QQcategoryZ7799QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Or a HACKBRETT:

http://cgi.ebay.at/Hackbrett_W0QQitemZ270104320921QQcategoryZ7799QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

The hackbrett is v.annoying, I was going to bid on it, but it's pick-up only, & located in Austria, a little impractical.

I was going to bid on this:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=006&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=160099115714&rd=1&rd=1

...last night, but we had visitors over, and I forgot. That'll teach me to associate w/other people, won't it. What a lovely little thing, and it only went for 35 quid, grr.

This, I'm determined to get:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160101464220&ssPageName=MERC_VIC_RCRX_Pr2_PcY_BID_IT&refitem=160099115714&itemcount=2&refwidgetloc=closed_view_item&usedrule1=CrossSell_LogicX&refwidgettype=cross_promot_widget

Isn't that cute? I like the name - "Ligyrophon" as well.

― Pashmina, Monday, 2 April 2007 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

Isn't the harpguitar what blokey out of Kaleidescope US used to play? there's certainly pictures of one of them holding one all over the booklet.

I keep reading "Ligyrphon" as "Liphgryphon".

These pictures are cheering me up somewhat, though. I am feeling rather down today for reasons too tedious to get into.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, also, Johnney B, if you are around, I have finally bought a coffee table/mixing desk thing. (Actually I think it started life as a TV stand/VCR holder but it ended up in my local Oxfam for £15, and it is the right coloured wood for my house.) So if you want the food processor, it is yours!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:04 (eighteen years ago)

Got a cold. Haven't read thread yet as im in a rush, my dad needs me to go down the town with him. What was the result of the other poll? I can't see the result anywhere!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:05 (eighteen years ago)

The poll was jazz and B&S tied at 18 votes each.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:12 (eighteen years ago)

How is your dad doing, BTW? Recovered from aftereffects of the accident?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:12 (eighteen years ago)

Eeep! The poll has disappeared! It was there this morning!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

Lock a thread, poll is dead.

― Mark G, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

I have *got* to stop reading the Guardian Weekend magazine. Their "Love By Numbers" column has been winding the fuck out of me and depressing me.

Over the past few weeks, it's been established -

-women with lower IQs are more likely to get married than ones with higher IQs (ditto higher education)
-overweight women have almost no chance of doing well at dating
-and then this weekend, women UNDER average height are far more likely to get married than ones of over average height
-and oh yeah, in case all this shit was getting you down on men? Forget it! You can't even give up and become a lesbian because it's more likely you'll change your nationality than your sexuality.

::beats head against desk::

I mean, what is the point of this, except to unnecessarily depress those old, fat, too tall, overeducated women who are CLEARLY NEVER GOING TO FIND HUSBANDS!!!

I can't decide which depresses me more - the horribly depressing "statistics" they use to back this up, or the implicit statement that getting married and having babies is the be-all and end-all of romance, love, LIFE, etc.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

So Marissa's writing for the Guardian now?

― Mark G, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

Morning. Restful.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

No, for Marissa subsitute "record companies" for men, but same old shit, really.

It's true, though, all women in rock are TINY. But then again, most men in rock are tiny, as well. But I think it's like the reverse of models - they hire rock stars so tiny because they make the guitars look good. It's all a conspiracy by Fender and Gibson, clearly.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

I hate the magazine supplements of newspapers anyway; temples to Mammon. They're just one long commercial break. There is imho nothing to be gained from reading the print versh of any newspaper, the 'core' that is available online is all you need. The only time I ever read actual real papers is if I'm meeting someone in the pub and they're late, to give me something to do while I'm waiting.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

That documentary: Stacia was 6 foot 2!

Blimey!

― Mark G, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

I like the Guardian Weekend because ... well, I'm not sure. It's just comforting or something. The photography tends to be quite good. And I get to laugh at Jon Ronson and Lucy Mangan. (At, not with. At.) But it does sometimes weird me out, the disparity between the grimness of the articles, and then the second half of the magazine is BUY THIS BUY THAT CONSUMERISM IS YOUR GOD!!! LAST YEAR'S WALLPAPER IS NO GOOD, PINK IS THE NEW BLACK!!! and I always hate the clothes, and even moreso hate the underfed teenagers they have modelling them. (Even their "older" models just looked totally underfed - like the time they had that article on anorexia and there was this picture of a woman dying from anorexia on the cover, then turn the page and there's a lollipop model not far off from her body fat ratio.)

And this weekend was the first time in AGES that I'd actually liked the decoration in the featured house. (Because it was all Yves Klein Blue.)

And sometimes, very occasionally they have hott boys modelling cardigans or something - but very rarely do they have boys modelling, and even more rarely are they hott any more. Bah.

I should stop reading it. But I'd die without the crossword puzzle. Maybe I should sign up to get that online, but they want you to pay for it.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

NO SPOILERS ON THE HAWKWIND DOC, PLEASE!!! At least not until I've seen it.

But yeah, she was 6'2". Either

1) Total Tall Hottness
or
2) WILL NEVER GET MARRIED, ACCORDING TO THE GUARDIAN LOVE BY NUMBERS (even though she married some rock star in the end.)

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

...and is the average British woman *really* only 5'3"?

No wonder clothes never fit me. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

NO SPOILERS CITY ARIZONA:

as I didn't get to see it (all). But I can helpfully add that there's a full version of the "Silver Machine" promo after the main doc.

Also, before it, a nice comp of various psyche feat: Syd Floyd, Grateful Dead off Alan Wicker programme, Jimi off Lulu, and others.

And a doc about hippies from 1970.

Boy, how do I heart BBC4. I was dead pissed off when Heat stopped covering the schedule in the TV pages.

― Mark G, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

why does the graun waste its readers' time with something like Love by Numbers? At least you can justify the astrology sections in papers coz ppl who realise its bollocks still quite like to read their stars for fun.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not sure if it's there to turn you into a nailbiting drinkscounting Bridget Jonesalike or to let you be able to go "oh, of COURSE I can't get laid - I'm an overweight, overeducated, too tall FREAK, and let me guess 9 out of 10 single women fitting those criteria are BITTER AS FUCK well I wonder why the fuck why? Because we're sick of getting those types of statistics shoved down our throats?" Argh.

It's just designed to make you feel insecure, I think. And it's working. I left my clothes too long in the dryer this morning and none of them fit and now I'm having the OMIGOD I AM A HORRIBLE FATTIE ARGH horrible I am so ugly and monstrous badhairfatday. :-(

Shoot me now. I'm always like this during MonthEnd, aren't I?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

newspapers are slaves to the companies who advertise in them, as it is they who pay their way. Certainly not the ppl who buy the papers heh heh. So in a way, yes, they do want ppl to feel insecure coz they know that many people will try to buy their way out of their insecurity. Guess no-one with a conscience is going to last 5 minutes as a journo, same as the board room or the political chamber I guess.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 2 April 2007 15:04 (eighteen years ago)

I am a monstrous fatty with bad hair, I just don't want to have to spend any money about it. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

My dad is ok now thanks.
I forgot about the Hawkwind documentary.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 2 April 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

Re: the poll. Are Watercooler posters really B&S fans or did B&S fans just turn up to vote a la Brit Awards?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 2 April 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

How many votes did Funk get?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 2 April 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

Funk was quite close behind, IIRC.

I have kind of a hard time believing that nigh on 60 people read the watercooler, let alone vote, so I suspect it was the latter.

Having a bit of a rough day today. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

the population of lurkdom is always difficult to determine. I'd imagine that lurkdom's inhabitants do turn up at the polling booth, then disappear silently into the night without voicing their views more openly.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 2 April 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

Or people just see POLL and then look vote and don't look again until the result.

But it's quite possible there are 60 regular readers with many just lurking.
Don't feel intimidated folks. Join in!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 2 April 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

Jazz and B&S tied for first, didn't they?

― Mark G, Monday, 2 April 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, it was Jazz and B&S with 18 points each.

Feeling more and more down as the afternoon goes on. Trying to figure out why - I know this seems like pointless navelgazing to some, but honestly, if it's situational, then I can figure out what situation triggers it, and avoid it in the future. Because I was in a lovely mood most of the weekend.

Is it the stress of monthend? Or is it going to SC, and that whole "go on your own, stand on your own, go home and you cry and want to die" thing? Because I've had that experience before, too, that even though I love the music and the club, going to these things by myself makes me feel very very lonely, and that sets off the depressive spiral.

Or it could be monthend. But monthend usually makes me cranky and short-tempered, not actually miserable. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, going to clubs by yourself and sitting on your own makes you feel invisible. Almost as invisible as no one talking to you because you're being depressed on your own thread. Bah.

OK, I'll carry on talking to myself.

I took my sketchbook so I would have something to do, and not feel quite so much like a lump on a shelf. But in a way, that's almost worse because all kinds of strange people come up and try to take this as an entry to talk to you. And I know that's supposed to be the point at clubs, but for some reason, I don't mind random strangers talking to me about my sketches at the Windmill, but at the Social it just feels icky.

Maybe that's my prejudices, that people at the Windmill are usually there because they want to see the bands, and are part of the freak family - while randoms at the Social have just wandered in because it's "cool" and are horrible fashiony types.

God, it's 5.30 already and I only just finished the first report. I thought I'd have more of a break before I started monthend proper. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

In belgium, knackered.

wow, my first xpost warning

― Ed, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

I hate feeling this shit. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

this is nice

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 18:06 (eighteen years ago)

10:45 - not so bad, I guess, this month.

Having to write instructions as I do it is a pain in the arse, though.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Democrat_black_metal

I had no idea you were at work Kate. I emailed you earlier about that Spiritualized Rarities comp.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 2 April 2007 21:47 (eighteen years ago)

Hi everybody! I'm back from Montenegro. Good trip--it looks like we're getting married on September 30...somewhere around here:

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i134/dgoobl/IMG_0247.jpg

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i134/dgoobl/IMG_0253.jpg

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i134/dgoobl/Picture0141.jpg

Not bad, eh? :-)

― G00blar, Monday, 2 April 2007 22:33 (eighteen years ago)

happy tuesday all! i was SO busy yesterday (doing what? i don't know) that i didn't do ANY surfing at all. that's a first, i think.

i am quite enjoying the bits of the new blonde redhead album that i have been able to find so far.

― mitya, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 04:38 (eighteen years ago)

Morning! God, I'm knackered today.

I rather like the new Blonde Redhead album myself. Is it officially out yet?

― Forest Pines, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 08:42 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think so - next week or the week after click here

― mitya, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 09:06 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

Gorgeous. Are you marrying a Montenegran, goobs?

― mitya, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 09:07 (eighteen years ago)

Morning all, from less sunny Belgium. In a break between demos.

― Ed, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 09:17 (eighteen years ago)

xpost Yes, I am!

Morning all.

― G00blar, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 09:30 (eighteen years ago)

Blimey, that's utterly gorgeous, Gooblar. (Kind of like yer Missus!) Lucky man. ::seethes with envy::

Yes, the new Blonde Redhead album is great. I was listening to it last night as I was doing monthend.

Still feeling pretty down. I'm thinking about doing the No S Diet because I can't get into any of my clothes any more.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 09:53 (eighteen years ago)

Grey skies can't be doing that much for yr mood. I'm looking forward to that BH album, after all of the glowing reports.

What'd I miss while I was away?

― G00blar, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 09:56 (eighteen years ago)

Um. Some guitar shopping. Lots of talk about psychedelia. Cookies.

I don't know.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:04 (eighteen years ago)

I have no life. You missed nothing on my end.

― mitya, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:12 (eighteen years ago)

If I didn't have a band, I wouldn't have a life. Start playing an instrument, Mitya. I bet you can find lots of groovy folk instruments in Russia, really cheap.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:14 (eighteen years ago)

cookies still happen here?

― g-kit, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:22 (eighteen years ago)

Well, I can't have cookies as I'm doing this no-S thing. But I wonder if the S in Why Ess Ai counts as an S?

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:23 (eighteen years ago)

CAn we do a pre-poptimism look down denmark st, or will we be pushing timings?

― Ed, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:27 (eighteen years ago)

I dunno. Also, we don't know what equipment we will be having to carry about. (I will definitely have a guitar and a load of pedals.)

That's the first day of my holiday, too, how can I get out of bed early in the morning?

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:29 (eighteen years ago)

I'm pretty down, too. Not even GISing 'synth cat' can cheer me up (too many unrelated results). And I'm mad at Kate for not liking the Butterflies. Grr. (That's meant to be a light-hearted 'grr', by the way, in case it doesn't translate over the internet well. Imagine me shaking my fist in a 'why you young rapscallion' kind of way.)

― emil.y, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:29 (eighteen years ago)

can always leave stuff at my house the night before = no lugging.

― Ed, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:32 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, that's a very good idea, Ed. Thanks. (Though it means I don't get to play with my cosmichorus on Friday morning. Can I live without it for one day?)

Errr, I have synth cat somewhere. Let me see.

http://www.acc.umu.se/~zqad/cats/1163920442-1162644506184.jpg

Sorry I didn't like the Butterflies. I just didn't. ::shrugs and sticks out tongue in a rapscallion-like way::

Check out this show, though!

Sonic Cathedral Presents...

RAINY DAY: THE SOUNDS OF THE PAISLEY UNDERGROUND

@ The Social, Little Portland Street, London W1

Sunday May 27 (yep, bank holiday weekend)

4pm-12midnight

some cool films and djs playing rain parade, dream syndicate, true west, three o'clock etc and playing live:

SID GRIFFIN (of THE LONG RYDERS)
http://www.sidgriffin.com/

THE ASTEROID #4
http://www.myspace.com/asteroid4

THE LEA SHORES
[Removed Illegal Link]

AWESOMENESS!!!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:37 (eighteen years ago)

Another one of those gordon giltrap preamps appeared on eBay for cheap so I nabbed it and now need a PSU, also bellzouki.

― Ed, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:39 (eighteen years ago)

ha, I have just put astrocat on the 50" plasma.

― Ed, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:40 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, have we gone all italic for the rest of time?[/i]

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:40 (eighteen years ago)

Do I come out in italics, too?

― G00blar, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:41 (eighteen years ago)

Oh dear, it's like This Is The Thread Where I Say... in here now.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:41 (eighteen years ago)

ha! xpost

― G00blar, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:41 (eighteen years ago)

Ed, please to be making sure you have AstroCat on your backing videos for ILXorpaLOLooza.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:41 (eighteen years ago)

You'll note that 'Post a response' is in italics too--is it usually like that?

― G00blar, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:42 (eighteen years ago)

Post a response

how genteel!

Let's be bold for all time too!

xpost aw. all better. Or is it? Is it just the (xpost) messages?

― Mark G, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:42 (eighteen years ago)

ah, it is!

― Mark G, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:42 (eighteen years ago)

[/i]off

― Mark G, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:43 (eighteen years ago)

If only.

― G00blar, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:43 (eighteen years ago)

Anyway, can I just say THE LONG RYDERS?!?!? THEE ASTEROID #4?!?!?

Oh, and I finally get to see the Lea Shores, who I have missed a dozen times.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:43 (eighteen years ago)

We just have to wait for Pash to wake up and fix the italics.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:44 (eighteen years ago)

Doesn't he get educated on tuesdays and not really connect to the internet.

― Ed, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:44 (eighteen years ago)

I have asked on the mod request board, but you know that means that I will be shouted at by ADHD noize dudes for the next few days for daring to ask someone to fix a coding error. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:49 (eighteen years ago)

ITALIX ROXXX

― emil.y, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:49 (eighteen years ago)

Hmm, I am intrigued by those seven bells people. All the ingredients sound good, but do they meld well? Doubt I'll ever get to hear them, though.

― Mark C, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:50 (eighteen years ago)

Hey guys - I haven't received anything, not even spam, on my Yahoo account in 5 days (and I know people have tried to send em stuff which has bounced back). Problem is I can't find a way of telling Yahoo there's a problem! Any ideas?

― Mark C, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:51 (eighteen years ago)

See if Yahoo have a gmail account.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:53 (eighteen years ago)

The ingredients meld BEAUOOOTIFULLY well. If they are coming to the UK in the future, I'm sure they'll play Sonic Cathedrals. I hope. Argh, I was going to send you a cookie, but not if yer email is fucked.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:53 (eighteen years ago)

Does anyone on the 'Cooler live in Sheffield, by the way? We're playing there tonight.

― emil.y, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:54 (eighteen years ago)

I had chickenpox! I can't have it now nor any time in the future. I am of course EXTREMELY happy. Hurrah!

― nathalie, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:54 (eighteen years ago)

[/i]Argh!

― nathalie, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:54 (eighteen years ago)

Does THIS work? Probably not.

― nathalie, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:55 (eighteen years ago)

That is AWESOME news, Nath! I'm so relieved!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:55 (eighteen years ago)

Does anyone on the 'Cooler live in Sheffield, by the way? We're playing there tonight.

Where are you playing? I don't live there any more, but I am interested!

― tissp, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:57 (eighteen years ago)

We're playing at the Grapes. Tomorrow, we take on Leeds at the Packhorse.

― emil.y, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:58 (eighteen years ago)

Also, Kate:

http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/2520/cookiekl1.jpg

― emil.y, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:00 (eighteen years ago)

Kate, I know! The doctor said I was negative and positive which first freaked me out, but then she explained I was negative in teh sense that I didn't have it now and positive that I had it at one point in my life. YAY!

― nathalie, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:00 (eighteen years ago)

That is such a relief, Nath. But I suppose it shows Chicken Pox wasn't that bad for you, if you don't remember having it.

Good luck with the gigs, Emily!

Ha ha ha! :-) Ed has a mug with CookieCat on it. I heart cookie cat. But not as much as AstroCat.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:02 (eighteen years ago)

Fixed it, heh. <em> tag causes italics, apparently.

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:02 (eighteen years ago)

Cool! The Grapes is a really nice venue. Very small, but really nice.

― tissp, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:03 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks, Pash.

I think I have discovered the cure for gloomy moods. Put on "Mothership Connection" - it is utterly impossible to be depressed while listening to it.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:05 (eighteen years ago)

cats are kool

(ack! my first xpost mk 2 - scary.

― mitya, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:06 (eighteen years ago)

Nice going Nathalie :)

If anyone really did want to send me a cookie, try my surname at gmail (one S, one R, two Ts).

― Mark C, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:07 (eighteen years ago)

Kate, where did you cut&paste that sonic cathedrals text from, please?

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:20 (eighteen years ago)

http://soniccathedral.proboards31.com/

Sonic Cathedrals messageboard. Don't all rush over there at once. ;-)

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:22 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, the Kontakte gig tomorrow has moved here:

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/1064/untitled1tr5.jpg

Not sure about their description, though...

WHAT? Nobody playing your sort of music in London? well we've got 2 awesome bands and djs (including DJ Lady Genevieve) playing the best of 60s/70s/80s/90s psych/neo psychedelic/experimental/shoegazing/psych-pop which'll be exploding out of the speakers backed by mind bending visuals for you to dig!

yeah we're talking The Stones, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Chocolate Watchband, Jesus & Mary Chain, The Warlocks, Death In Vegas, Spiritualized, Spacemen 3, The Dandy Warhols, BRMC, Ride, My Bloody Valentine, The Morning After Girls, Acid Mothers Temple... the sort of music that you want to hear but nobody plays! see you there, its the best trip you'll get in London for £4!

Errr... "nobody plays"?!?!? Not been to Sonic Cathedrals lately, then, have you? Or AC-30 or Night of the Long Swords or Goo-night or any of the other half dozen shoegazer clubs in London?

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:33 (eighteen years ago)

Oh I am crap at remembering things. Especially diseases. Once it's over, it's in the past. But my mum told me I had mumps, measels AND chickenpox in three weeks time when I was 14/15 years old. I vaguely remember *something* but ah well WHO CARES I can't have it anymore. HURRAH.

I am eating pink strawberry chocolates. Yum.

― nathalie, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:45 (eighteen years ago)

I am eating CURRY. Oh, how nice it is to be eating curry for lunch again. I cannot believe I was ever sick of it. I no longer want to eat anything else.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:48 (eighteen years ago)

What sort of curry is it, Kate?

― C J, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:51 (eighteen years ago)

Astro Cat still reigns supreme, but today I discover the internet is pleasingly full of kitty synth pics.

(Chances of this posting without "illegal url" warning = minimal)

― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:52 (eighteen years ago)

Kate, I just got a package of CHEESE CURRY from my mum. I can't WAIT to try it. It'll be crap, but *good* crap. haha

I like to make Chicken tikka masala from scratch (including the curry). I could eat curry every frigging DAY.

― nathalie, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:56 (eighteen years ago)

Is there a Hawkwind or Prog-Rock Cat for Norm or Kate?

I'm loaded with the cold here. So i'll just be passing through when i'm not feeling too tired or ill to sit at the pc for a while.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:58 (eighteen years ago)

It is a home made curry. It kind of starts life as sag paneer (cheese in curry = OHMIGOD THE YUMMMMMMM!) but I add whatever is sitting in the back of the fridge to it. Which this week means parsnips and carrots and leeks and purple sprouting broccoli.

I put a bit too much SUPER HOT GONDAL CHILLI XXX STRENGTH in it but it is still lovely.

Cats and synths go together like, err... SPACE AND ROCK!!!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 12:01 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/168/444826745_2c39dab437_o.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 12:10 (eighteen years ago)

Cats like Moogs!

http://www.siliconbreakdown.com/moogcat.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 12:27 (eighteen years ago)

Check emails for awesome tuesday cookie (and keep an eye out in 30 mins for another)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 12:35 (eighteen years ago)

I have just bought a pack of 20 Coffea Arabica seeds, which I am going to sow this afternoon. Hopefully these will grow into 20 lovely little coffee plants which I plan to give away at the end of the year as CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. Yes, I am planning Christmas already. How sad is that?

― C J, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 12:52 (eighteen years ago)

Well, it's the time of the year to be thinking about planting things.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 12:54 (eighteen years ago)

I've never tried growing coffee plants before - I'm quite excited!

― C J, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 12:55 (eighteen years ago)

Will they grow in the English climate?

::licks lips at thoughts of growing own coffee::

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 12:58 (eighteen years ago)

From what I've been reading, they seem easy enough to germinate indoors at this time of year. They do well as house or conservatory plants, although you can move them outdoors for much of the year once they're bigger (and just bring the pot indoors for them to over-winter). Unfortunately it takes three years to actually get any coffee beans from them, but they're nice looking plants with glossy green leaves and pretty white jasmine-like flowers, so they'll make nice house plants I guess. I thought it would be nice to try growing something different for a change :)

― C J, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 13:04 (eighteen years ago)

I hate Coffee, but I don't mind coffee cream chocolates if that's all that's left.
Shame you cant grow coffee cream chocolate plants.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 13:20 (eighteen years ago)

We're playing at the Grapes. Tomorrow, we take on Leeds at the Packhorse.

I love the grapes, we used to put on self indulgent dj night there and make lots of noise and feed people brownies. It also seems to be outside the Sheffield venue/promoter beef thing that is going on right now, or at least a neutral zone.

Hopefully the shimuras will be doing a gig in sheffield in the not too distant.

― Ed, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

WHY DOES THE BLOODY MONTHEND RECC NEVER NEVER EVER BALANCE THE FIRST TIME AROUND!??! WHY?!?!? WHY?!?!?

OK, it's better than usual. It should be £3.03 and it's -£.16 as opposed to £3000 or whatever.

WHY WHY WHY??!?!?

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

Woo, just got back from being in the audience at the Culture Show. V.weird as half the time you are meant to be pretending to 'just chat, like you were on a Saturday night' and not gawping at Lauren Laverne. ALMOST asked her where the toilets were after half walked into a broomcupboard. Rest of audience was students (all under 23) and their lack of knowledge of (a) what a mackem is (b) who Mark Kermode is and Field Music are and, oh, countless other things makes me glad not to be their age any more and slightly smug at my superior knowledge and/or coolness. Also they dished out Jelly Babies at the end, so might be on a slight sugar rush.

― Nobodysprawn, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

god hel that sounds horrendous. although laverne in close-up...i could even nearly touch her!

*cough*

― CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

or ask for her phone number.

― Ed, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

I heart Lauren Laverne.

I just got offered a job! And I have interviews (one based on a personal recommendation) for two more! Hurrah for possibly finally getting back to actually earning real money!

(boo for "oh noes, what to do, where to go" dilemmas, should they present themself at the end of the week)

― ailsa, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 16:21 (eighteen years ago)

Question:

Am I going to get back to London in time for any of psychodahlia?

Answer:

Who knows?

― Ed, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 07:53 (eighteen years ago)

morning! i prob won't be here all day as will be working like buggery. yay job news ailsa! hope you feel better and monthend works out kate! have fun in belgium ed!

i have the house to myself for 1 week.

― emsk, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 08:05 (eighteen years ago)

except my cousin and his gf are coming from saturday to wednesday. WHAT CAN I DO WITH THEM.

― emsk, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 08:05 (eighteen years ago)

sell them

― g-kit, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 08:13 (eighteen years ago)

Hello! Today, we are plotting a camping holiday in Cornwall. Hurrah!

Apart from that, I'm feeling awful stiff.

― Forest Pines, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 08:29 (eighteen years ago)

I hate having the cold.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:05 (eighteen years ago)

Hi all. I also <3 LL and hate having the cold, but I am in a good mood because I finally received my end of year bonus.

It looks like I will not be in London this weekend and will instead be there next (unless I decide to play hooky).

Break a leg, Ailsa!

― mitya, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:25 (eighteen years ago)

Morning. Argh, something else has gone wrong with monthend. What NOW?!?!?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:30 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, my desk is so messy!

I'll never find anything!

I could tidy it or I could do some work. Instead I'll do what Konrad Lorenz called 'displacement activity' and eat a satsuma.

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:34 (eighteen years ago)

I am NOT getting a cold!

I'm going to FLODIRA on Friday!

so Grrr...

― Mark G, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:41 (eighteen years ago)

OK, it's fucked. I've no idea why, clearly I did the Giant Johnny before I had my coffee on Monday. Argh.

Also, thank you so much Mark G, Hawkwind DVD arrived last night, and I watched it. Aaahhh, it looked like so much fun in the late 60s and early 70s. And then it all went REALLY SHIT REALLY FAST. Wow, Dave Brock came off like an arsewipe for refusing to even be in the film since Nik Turner was. Made everything he did seem so much worse because you never heard his side of it.

I think I am in love with young Bob Calvet. Swoon.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:41 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, nearly said about calvert before you stopped me.

Hadn't seen the SM 'film' since the TOTP from then.

Also, was that really the Grateful Dead?

― Mark G, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:45 (eighteen years ago)

found a place in harringey that is more or less same price as the one in peckham (under 200 for a one bed period conversion). street is nicer, and i know the area better, the flat itself isnt quite as nice, but feels less exposed.

i really cant decide what to do

― 600, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:48 (eighteen years ago)

Those 60s music clips were INSANE!!! I loved young Keith Emerson leaping over his organ and assaulting it, Syd Barrett waving his arms about, etc.

But the important thing was, you really got a feeling of why 60s music was so urgent, so intense - when put up against the Establishment Men in suits going all "I do not understand this at all, it is bad, why does it have to be so loud?" you understood where they were coming from, and why it was so rebellious, what they were rebelling against. You don't get that these days with bands going on Jools HOlland or Jonathan Ross whatever and the Establishment Figure presenter just drooling all over them, like he's down with the kids or whatever.

I think that's part of what was behind the success of Popworld - Simon dripped contempt upon the musicians in the same way as those 60s figures. Except, well, in the 60s, you were on the side of the musicians, and in Popworld you were on the side of the presenters.

x-post

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:49 (eighteen years ago)

I am nearly mended I think. No pain at all today!

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:50 (eighteen years ago)

Thesedays, there is no underground. How could there be? There is total visibility.

A bit like how you have dusty pics of ones-self as a child, whereas the kids have perfect quality DVD movies.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:52 (eighteen years ago)

I need to figure out how to do screen grabs on Mac because Bob Calvert cavorting about onstage in ... were those skinny skinny velvet jeans? I don't know what they were, but jumping about, shooting everyone in the audience with his mic stand = hottt.

OK, staying up for weeks at a time, locking himself in the bathroom because he was convinced that the white panthers were after him, not so hott. But I'm used to living with totally mad maniacs. I mean, I lived with my brother for how many years? He used to do things like that.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:54 (eighteen years ago)

screen grab on mac= applications/utilities/grab

― 600, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:55 (eighteen years ago)

x-post I don't want to recreate the underground, I want to recreate Establishment figures to rebel against. I want to do a music programme with a bloke in a suit showering invective against the bands in the form of "well, it's just regression go childhood, isn't it? I'm too much of A Musician to appreciate this!"

x-post ooh, thanks, Gareth! I will try that.

Indestructible Dr. C, he bounces back. Now stop those crazy rugby tackles!

OK, got to work now.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:56 (eighteen years ago)

I don't suppose you remember "Revolver" w/Peter Cook presenting.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:58 (eighteen years ago)

Yes I do!

x-post : I probably won't play any more this season as the doc says that bruised kidneys take a month or so. I ought to pack in for good really.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 10:03 (eighteen years ago)

Oh man, now I really want to listen to Urban Guerilla but I don't have that CD at work. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 10:04 (eighteen years ago)

Also, HA HA HA HA HA HA!!! Silver Machine is about a bicycle. Awesome.

Am trying very hard to keep thoughts of young Bob Calvert riding around on a silver bicycle ringing his little bell from distracting me from work.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 10:20 (eighteen years ago)

Hi room. I've been lurking for the last week since I my project is starting to finish and every electric person IN THE WORLD has heard about my software and thinks it's awesome.

Glad about your table kate - I WILL take that mixer off you, yes. Next time I'm round your way (or you're round mine) I shall collect it, thank you.

― The Wayward Johnny B, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 10:40 (eighteen years ago)

Actually email I have just sent my boss:

I have checked this against BZW and I believe it is now right.

Possibly explanations for incorrect figures on previous one:

1) Kate attempted download before crucial morning COFFEE.

2) Kate listening to Steve Hillage instead of Hawkwind and therefore mind off with the fishes in hippie wibble instead of IN THE MATHS TRANCE.

3) In process of formatting report, Kate noticed small coding error in the new RAF by month column, and in fixing it, mistakenly used test data instead of live data in final report.

Suggested solutions:
-intravenous coffee for MI dept.
-download more live Hawkwind bootlegs
-someone in Finance to double check figures!

Do not panic!
Kate

Do you think I will get sacked for that? Maybe I shouldn't have just written my monthend procedure.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 11:14 (eighteen years ago)

Is that not the m/e procedure itself?

― Mark G, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 11:22 (eighteen years ago)

That made me smile. I hope your boss smiles also.

― g-kit, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 11:27 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe I should add those as helpful suggestions to the monthend procedure. DO NOT ATTEMPT THE MONTH END PROCESS UNLESS YOU HAVE HAD AT LEAST 400 (FOUR HUNDRED) MILIGRAMS OF CAFFINE!!! and then "Start listening to Space Ritual NOW! - the data should have downloaded by the end of "Space Is Deep".

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 11:36 (eighteen years ago)

Ooh, good news, SC may be featured in a broadsheet-ILX-loves-to-hate next week! Hopefully. Maybe.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 12:22 (eighteen years ago)

The idea that your boss might have even the glimmerest idea of Hawkwind and Steve Hillage existing is somewhat mind-boggling. I know virtually no one IRL who has any clue about music.

― mitya, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 12:28 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't even think that.

Ah well, my entire department knows how much I love Hawkwind to the point where someone in my office told me about the documentary - but that might be because I bang on about them all the time and wave the CDs about saying I'M GOING TO LISTEN TO WARRIOR AT THE EDGE OF TIME NOW!!! rather than their actual knowing who they are.

I mean, even my "ooh, I know everything about modern indie music, me!" colleague had never even heard of Secret Machines.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 12:31 (eighteen years ago)

Whenever I come back from a CD buying jaunt, people always make the mistake of asking me what I bought, then shaking their heads in despair because they've seldom heard of my choices.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 12:32 (eighteen years ago)

I spoke too soon - the Finance Director just walked out and started telling the department that he needs to get "Never Mind The Bollocks".

FUCK OFF FUCK OFF, YOU ARE THE ENEMY FUCK OFF!!!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 12:36 (eighteen years ago)

He sounds alright to me.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 12:39 (eighteen years ago)

He is a total prick, though. I bet he never listened to the Sex Pistols in his life.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

He could not actually hum a single one of their songs when asked.

HA!!!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 12:42 (eighteen years ago)

That's a shame, because I'm sure there's a market for a "A Finance Director Hums The Sex Pistols" CD. Where's K-Tel when you need them?

― C J, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 12:46 (eighteen years ago)

He was clearly just trying to look "cool" because I namechecked Hawkwind in an email that totally criticised him and his staff.

(I mean, in my defense, that report went to FOUR different people to check before it went to the owner - and not one of them noticed the errors. I ask people to check my work for a reason. Because I am not an accountant, I am a data analyst.)

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 12:51 (eighteen years ago)

Whenever I come back from a CD buying jaunt, people always make the mistake of asking me what I bought, then shaking their heads in despair because they've seldom heard of my choices.

That's what always happens to me at work too.

― Forest Pines, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 12:52 (eighteen years ago)

because I namechecked Hawkwind in an email that totally criticised him and his staff.

Yeah, I hate it when that happens.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 12:53 (eighteen years ago)

Sex Pistols songs aren't really designed to be hummed.

― The Wayward Johnny B, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 12:54 (eighteen years ago)

THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE SEX PISTOLS!!!

It has to do with the Finance Director being a twat. And not just a twat, but a twat obsessed with looking "cool" in front of his staff even though we know he's a golf-playing wanker! Come on, his staff call him MIGHTY MOUSE behind his back.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 13:00 (eighteen years ago)

"Golf-playing wanker" is giving me an interesting visual.

― C J, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 13:03 (eighteen years ago)

My immediate boss is lovely, she is great. We work really well together. But this guy is ... grrr. Annoying considering that the old FD (the one that hired me) was great. (Ha ha, my colleagues are now discussing how much better the old FD was.) Ah well, small concerns.

Wank-playing golfer, ha ha.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 13:05 (eighteen years ago)

Stop it CJ!

Kate IGGY POP plays golf!

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 13:05 (eighteen years ago)

and Alice Cooper!

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 13:07 (eighteen years ago)

I know. But Iggy Pop is less of a wanker than our FD. I know that's really saying something.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 13:08 (eighteen years ago)

his staff call him MIGHTY MOUSE behind his back

be even better if they sang "here he comes to wreck the day" as he approached.

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 13:10 (eighteen years ago)

Bah, still in meetings in belgium, they are going well but I want to leave and be out in the cloudless sunshine. Ed

― Ed, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 13:37 (eighteen years ago)

Bah, I wish I were in sunny Belgium. I am rushing to get everything done before I go on holiday, but they keep piling more and more on. Bah. Require hott pictures of Bob Calvert to keep me going.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 13:40 (eighteen years ago)

It's clear blue sky and sunny here again. Been like this everyday for over a week now, and here I am stuck in with a cold :(

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

I worry about it being too sunny in Belgium. Surely all the chocolate will melt??

― C J, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 14:05 (eighteen years ago)

Do I have to do everything myself? Sigh.

http://www.kadu.demon.co.uk/media/archives/umbrella.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

Errr... Ed, can you have James make us some of these?

"I've designed new speakers in chromium boxes which gives us a metallic appearance more in keeping with the group's image," Barnet told me, "And we've painted various areas in apposition to the Pythagorean musical scale."

DO -MARS - RED
RE - SUN - ORANGE
MI - MERCURY - YELLOW
FA - SATURN - GREEN
SO - JUPITER - BLUE
LA - VENUS - INDIGO
TI - MOON - VIOLET

"All the speakers and boxes in that area will be painted those colours and the musicnauts Del, Dik, Simon, Lemmy and Dave will stand in those positions relative to their signs."

Or is that just getting way too far into Spinal Tap territory?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

I mean, even my "ooh, I know everything about modern indie music, me!" colleague had never even heard of Secret Machines.

This is one of the strange things about hanging around ILx -- you start think these are the people who like music, and the stuff that people talk about here is what other people are listening to. In fact (I think - correct me if I'm wrong because I live in SOVIET RUSSIA) we are all pretty far ahead of the curve/out on the margins.

― mitya, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

I bet the russians are still listening to Hawkwind;)

I bet you see lot and lots of Metallica fans, mitya.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

I dunno. I always think that I'm so far behind, because so many of my friends are music writers and they know *everything* about music, and I know so little compared to them.

But then compared with 12-CD people... except this dude isn't even a 12-CD person! He's a music lover. There's just no intersection at all. Thing is, I've at least heard of most of the bands he listens to - just feel a bit sneery about them.

So I guess we are further out on the curve than I thought.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

Since when did music writers know anything? *Runs*

What music is this guy into then?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

(OFF TOPIC: I have an interesting moment from work today that I want to ask one of you in a corporate environement about, but would prefer to post from home, in an hour or two. Actually, does anyone besides Kate work in a corporate environment?)

― mitya, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

(Yup, but prolly won't be here post-5)

― peteR, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

i'm in corporate purgatory (although it's quite nice) and will be around for another two hours. now intrigued!

― CharlieNo4, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

TBH, I think most people here (except Pash and Kerr and Nath and maybe Emsk) work in corporate environments!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know what this all makes me -- I have no idea what Mika sounds like but I know exactly what Thee More Shallows sound like, for example.

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

I have not heard Mika either.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

Am I missing much?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

I wouldn't know.

I used to have a penpal called Mika when I was a teenager. I wrote some songs with her, but they were just teenage goth folk type stuff, and I doubt that's what they mean.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

What did everyone vote for on the best band from birmingham poll on ILM?
I voted Black Sabbath.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

Me? dEUS. haha

Mika is the one that does that horrendous Grace Kelly song, right? Urgh! YUCK! B.A.R.F.

― nathalie, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

I was torn between Black Sabbath, Dexys and The Move. But I forgot to vote anyway. The Sabs are worthy winners.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

I don't read ILM much. Especially not threads by Dom "flaming misogynist" Passawhotsit.

The best band in the history of Birmingham was clearly Duran Duran anyway.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

Blimey, Keith Emerson was once Kate Bait.

http://www.united-mutations.com/n/nice.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!

http://www.guitarhero.com/images/KeithEmerson_side.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

OK, I'm bored and I've done enough work for the rest of the day. I'm going to post pictures of Keith Emerson's increasingly ridiculous keyboards for the rest of the day...

http://www.britannica.com/psychedelic/images/opsyroc148p1.jpg

WHEN KEYBOARDS ATTACK!!!

http://www.hammond-organ.com/Artist/image_directory/ELP_B_29Acrop_hammond.JPG

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 16:21 (eighteen years ago)

Duran Duran was from Birmingham? Didn't know, but if so, then YES probably best band to hail from B.

― nathalie, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

Were Yes from Birmingham? I thought they were from OUTER SPACE or something. I was just listening to Yes - GIS brought up a picture of Rick Wakeman's amazing keyboard setup so I had to hear it.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

Oh wait, I just totally misunderstood you. Ha ha ha.

Yes, Duran Duran were from Birmingham. The band Yes were from ~~outer space~~, I mean London.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

Wait, a minute - Chris Squire was in The Syn? As in the "Created By Clive" Syn?

Whoa small world. I've got to dig out all my Nuggets and Freak Beat comps.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

Where should I eat in Camden?

Ah, why am I asking here anyway, everyone else has gone home...

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 17:31 (eighteen years ago)

I work in an entrepreneurial rather than a corporate environment.

― Ed, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 17:51 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, he was in The Syn. Who knew anyone had ever heard of them.

So anyway, here's my tidbit, although everyone really has gone home now. The issue is basically this. In my company people get paid an annual bonus, usually right around now - once the company has a clear idea of how they've done for the year and therefore how much "profit" they have to distribute. And the way it is usually announced to you is in percentage terms (x% of your salary) at least as far as I understand. In theory, having worked for only part of the year, my bonus would be pro-rated for the time I was there. But:

1. When the time came, my boss gave me an actual number as opposed to a percentage.
2. When the money showed up in the bank, it was exactly that number.

The problem is that this is really out of proportion. Troublingly, but not impossibly so.

Not that I'm going to run out and spend it all, but I guess my question is, How concerned should I be that someone will come up to me next week or next month or next year and say, "Ooops sorry, we just realized that we made a mistake and we'd like our money back. Now." Do mistakes like this one happen? If it is a mistake, can they actually expect to get the money back?

― mitya, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 18:35 (eighteen years ago)

kate, the country gentleman is for you

― Ed, Thursday, 5 April 2007 06:54 (eighteen years ago)

Keith Emerson was interviewed on Today on Radio 4 the other year, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the invention of the Moog, and related tales of keyboards so large he needed a stepladder on stage to reach some of the controls.

I am in a mildly corporate environment, but it isn't really very corporate compared to most people on this thread.

― Forest Pines, Thursday, 5 April 2007 08:14 (eighteen years ago)

I have only heard of The Syn because I was heavily into the mod/freakbeat/garage psych scene in my day. My ex-boyfriend absolutely loved the song "Created By Clive" and used to play it all the time.

re: your bonus. If it is exactly the number that your boss told you, chances are they haven't made a mistake. Then again, part of this department's job is to work out bonuses, and yeah, sometimes they make mistakes and have to take the money back. If you're really concerned, a passing visit to your finance department might not go amiss - couch it in not very obvious terms, like, ask if tax has been taken on the bonus, or if you are responsible for additional tax. That way you can bring the amount to their attention without going OHMIGOD DID YOU REALLY MEAN TO PAY ME THAT MUCH?!?!?!??!?!!!11 - if it's really wrong, someone will hopefully speak up and go "oops, we stuck an extra naught on that" - if it's not wrong, well, be especially nice to finance. They appreciate it, as most people aren't, as they never come to visit unless they're complaining about it.

Oh god, that Country Gentleman is gorgeous. I wonder what the reserve price is.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 09:50 (eighteen years ago)

ANyway, I am sleepy this morning because despite planning a lie-in, my old boss texted me at 8AM to say happy easter. Nice of her, but still. I could have done with the extra sleep.

My ears are still slightly ringing from last night. Kontakte were really super-amazing-good. They were really LOUD and the sound was ever so slightly DIRTY in a way that really suited them. Sometimes they can err on the side of being slightly too pristine and Germanic, but they really rocked the house down last night.

The other band... Electric Koolaid or whatever they were called. Disappointing, because they ticked so many of my boxes, and I should have loved them, but I just didn't. Despite having EIGHT dirty dronerock boys (one of whose job was simply to Bez out on maracas) they didn't really do much with all that sound. Most of the time it just seemed like a BJM/Dandy Warhols tribute band. Which should have been great, but it just... I dunno. They were very good at what they do, and they were doing a thing I really like, but I'm just sick of tribute bands. But then suddenly on the last song, they seemed to flip out, and started making feedback and odd noises and suddenly turned into a good band. If they'd sounded like THAT the whole set, they would have been my favourite band on earth.

Ah well. It was a fun night. I liked the psychedelic projections, though, that was good.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 09:55 (eighteen years ago)

I haven't clicked the link but I assume it's not an auction for a husband for Kate.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 5 April 2007 09:58 (eighteen years ago)

No, I'm bidding on this one for my future husband:

http://a778.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/01050/77/79/1050289777_l.jpg

It is the most beautious guitar I have seen in a long time.

I was playing along with "Space Is Deep" on my 12-string this morning. It sounds lovely. We should do a cover of that, I've been saying that for years.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 10:02 (eighteen years ago)

I run a shop. I don't think I'll ever go corporate, unless you can lick stamps and sort mail. I don't have any qualifications to get me into that world.

I am currently baking a meatloaf! HURRAH! Hopefully it'll turn out okay. I noticed how different the method and length of baking is in different recipes. I worry. I wanna sink my teethies in a juicy scrumptuous meatloaf.

Also enjoying "Entourage" while I knit. I keep wanting to see Nicky Hilton pop up and slam Kevin Connely (sp?) into a wall for having fooled around.

― nathalie, Thursday, 5 April 2007 10:25 (eighteen years ago)

I am currently baking a meatloaf!

I would do anything for love, but I won't do that.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 5 April 2007 10:28 (eighteen years ago)

Meatloaf? Blimey.

I can make a, uh, nut loaf. Does that count?

Aw, how cute. My 17 year old (actually I think he just turned 18) dirty dronerock friend is coming to London in the autumn to go to university. He's asking me where all the cool clubs are! Heh heh, I can totally corrupt him and take him to Sonic Cathedrals and Night of the Long Swords and stuff.

Note to self: Keep him AWAY from Ampy. ;-P

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 10:37 (eighteen years ago)

Running a shop is good, I think. We're not really supercorporate (yet, anyway) but I haven't worked at any place this big for years.

Thanks for the feedback, Kate. My gut tells me that this is a little too good to be true, but I'm not really that concerned because I don't have any plans to spend the money now. I can happily park it in an interest-bearing account for at least a month and see if there's any fallout.

In any case, I am once again completely out of credit card debt, though. Yay me!

― mitya, Thursday, 5 April 2007 10:45 (eighteen years ago)

GG, I wanted to make a Meatloaf ref but decided against it and invite others to do so.

Yes, Kate, a meatloaf! My first time so if it's a half-~~assed~~baked one, I don't mind. I am itching to bake and cook a lot lately. Been paging through my gazillion cook books for new things but also discovered that there are lots of recipes that I have neglected. (Courgette cream pasta! YUM!!!!1!!!!!)

― nathalie, Thursday, 5 April 2007 10:50 (eighteen years ago)

He can introduce us to hot corruptible students.

― Ed, Thursday, 5 April 2007 11:04 (eighteen years ago)

TOO YOUNG FOR YOU, TOO!!!

Hey, what am I talking about, he'll probably end up joining the band since he's, like, a musicial prodigy and plays about 6 different instruments.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 11:06 (eighteen years ago)

18 is not too young for me, I am a mere stripling.

― Ed, Thursday, 5 April 2007 11:07 (eighteen years ago)

OK, since your last girlfriend was 10 years older than you, your next one will have to be 10 years younger to make up for it.

But I will still mutter about cradle-robbing.

See, maybe this is where I go wrong. I don't see hott 18 year olds and go for HOTT SEXXX I just end up mothering them and telling them what kind of amps to get.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 11:09 (eighteen years ago)

See, maybe this is where I go wrong. I don't see hott 18 year olds and go for HOTT SEXXX I just end up mothering them and telling them what kind of amps to get.

I thought you wanted to avoid the getting of amps.

― Ed, Thursday, 5 April 2007 11:11 (eighteen years ago)

ARGH. What kind of amplifiers. And stay away from Amp, she turning into a Cougar!

Meow! I am only teasing about the cougars if A is reading this.

He's doing Music at Goldsmiths, so I just know he's going to end up running around with a bunch of hott music students and I will just feel like Den Mother. Actually, that's not so bad. I already tried to smuggle him in to Sonic Cathedrals by telling Nat he was my son.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 11:14 (eighteen years ago)

Dirty Den Mother?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 5 April 2007 11:20 (eighteen years ago)

We should take him to NOTLS at the windmill.

I have just got the freak boutique mailout, I should not read, it's worse than FOPP, so many cheap things and I have 5 unlistened cds at home, plus many cookies.

― Ed, Thursday, 5 April 2007 11:22 (eighteen years ago)

Nooo... this is why I have not signed up for the Freak Boutique even though they have things I want to order. I keep seeing things on the upcoming releases list like "Space Ritual Reissue Double CD with DVD" and going ARRRGGGHHHHH, NEEEEEEEEEDDDD!!!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 11:24 (eighteen years ago)

Am very much enjoying your comp, Ed (even though I already knew half the stuff on it - and half of that I sent you!) - any song where the music stops for someone to shout "SOCK IT TO ME" is automatically good. We should train Lisa to do that occasionally.

I really really need to get the Nuggets II box set.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 11:27 (eighteen years ago)

We need more new orleans soul/funk influences.

― Ed, Thursday, 5 April 2007 11:28 (eighteen years ago)

Um.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 11:29 (eighteen years ago)

Oh noes, creative differences!

― Ed, Thursday, 5 April 2007 11:30 (eighteen years ago)

I like funk if it's the P-Funk. I am perfectly down with the P-Funk.

I don't know New Orleans funk.

If it involves playing the same chord for ten minutes while shouting about needing the funk, wanting the funk, getting the funk, having the funk, and the superfunkofouterspacegroovybabyyeah yes, good.

It if involves horn sections, no, bad.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 11:31 (eighteen years ago)

Even with HUNH! Sock it to Me!

― Ed, Thursday, 5 April 2007 11:32 (eighteen years ago)

No horns. Unless we can get:

http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/iow-nik-turner-sml.jpg

or the hott horn player from Flowers of Hell.

OH NOES THEY BE CHECKING MY BUCKET!!!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 11:34 (eighteen years ago)

No Horn sections? bah.

Mind you. Today has been another Black Sabbath day
http://www.last.fm/user/trailofgybe/

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 5 April 2007 11:37 (eighteen years ago)

Man, I *really* like their artwork. Why can't they do more songs like that last one? They would be my new favourite band in the world ever if they did. I hope they go in that direction.

http://a167.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/01254/66/14/1254044166_l.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 11:56 (eighteen years ago)

I started my 1st ever poll on ILM
http://www.ilxor.com:8080/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=57038#unread

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 5 April 2007 12:11 (eighteen years ago)

the meatloaf was slippery artery incuding heartattack garanteed deliciousness.

― stevienixed, Thursday, 5 April 2007 12:12 (eighteen years ago)

Glad it was worth the wait, Nath! I'm looking forward to my curry for lunch.

Ed, tell me more of this Sabres of Paradise goodness? IIRC, they're one of those Warpy Electronic bands, but this is way pretty shoegazeyness.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 12:17 (eighteen years ago)

I have a couple of Sabres Of Paradise cd's somewhere. Unless someone borrowed them

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 5 April 2007 12:21 (eighteen years ago)

There is nothing else by them that is that ambient and spacey but you might find some more to like if you can over the dubby breakbeats. You should probably hear Chapel St Market and Haunted Dancehall, poss Inter-Lergen-Ten-Ko II which are the least dubby tunes I can think off.

I have post for you from specsavers.

― Ed, Thursday, 5 April 2007 12:24 (eighteen years ago)

For *me*?!?!? I haven't lived there in 5 years! Ah well, it's probably Specsavers saying it's time for a checkup. Which I had at the Streatham Specsavers last month!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 12:26 (eighteen years ago)

incoming cookie

― Ed, Thursday, 5 April 2007 12:26 (eighteen years ago)

So Kate when do we get the best spacerock poll from you?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 5 April 2007 12:29 (eighteen years ago)

WE ARE THE WARRIORS OF A THOUSAND COOKIES AND WE ARE TIRED OF MAKING LUNCH.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 12:31 (eighteen years ago)

I have had mozarella, alici and tomatoes for lunch. Now I want an icecream.

― Ed, Thursday, 5 April 2007 12:33 (eighteen years ago)

You are clearly not on the No S Diet.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 12:34 (eighteen years ago)

― Ed, Thursday, 5 April 2007 12:35 (eighteen years ago)

No Snacks, no Sweets, no Second helpings, except on days which start with S.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 12:35 (eighteen years ago)

So you'll be turning down spiced christ buns, toasted with butter, when you come round later then?

― Ed, Thursday, 5 April 2007 12:36 (eighteen years ago)

Argh! It is Monday Thursday, which is a Special Day.

(Besides, hot christ buns aren't sweet, are they? I thought they were savory.)

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 12:37 (eighteen years ago)

Having told you to listen those tracks I had to listen to them it is amazing how they now sound like backing tracks, I could envisage wanging out a song over the top of Haunted dancehall.

― Ed, Thursday, 5 April 2007 13:05 (eighteen years ago)

I saw a recipe for fish with curry sauce. I NEED AN APPLE. OH THE BLASPHEMY! Apples for curry. ;-)

― nathalie, Thursday, 5 April 2007 13:19 (eighteen years ago)

ARGH ARGH ARGH ARGH, MUST NOT BLOW TOP ON THAT OTHER THREAD!!!

POPTIMISM ARE WAY BETTER BECAUSE AS FAR AS I KNOW, NO ONE FROM POPTIMISTS HAVE EVER BEEN A BIGAMIST WIFE-BEATING SUICIDE-FAKING-FOR-ATTENTION EMOTIONAL-BLACKMAILING LET'S-HAVE-A-SELF-AGGRANDISING-9/11-BENEFIT-FOR-"DEAD FRIENDS"-WHO-ARE-STILL-ALIVE-IN-BROOKLYN COCKFARMER!!!!

aaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 13:22 (eighteen years ago)

x-post apples in curry are DAH BOMB. Really, it works great. But you've got to have a nice, sharp cooking apple.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 13:23 (eighteen years ago)

I too will be staying clear of that thread.

― Ed, Thursday, 5 April 2007 13:24 (eighteen years ago)

This is not what I am needing today. I was in such a good mood this morning and do not want to lose it after the depressio of earlier this week.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 13:26 (eighteen years ago)

The sun is giving me the urge to make cocktails.

― Ed, Thursday, 5 April 2007 13:27 (eighteen years ago)

We are having pink wine tonight as it feels like Spring!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 13:28 (eighteen years ago)

I have no idea what that was about. Do I have to go read it to find out?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 5 April 2007 13:28 (eighteen years ago)

My mother has been baking God Has Been Executed Buns today; the house is full of cinnamon-smell. Sadly, I won't be around tomorrow to eat any.

― Forest Pines, Thursday, 5 April 2007 13:31 (eighteen years ago)

Don't bother, it is history.

What cocktails can be made with pink wine? Or shall we just have pink gins or negronis?

― Ed, Thursday, 5 April 2007 13:31 (eighteen years ago)

So who is voting on my ilm poll?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 5 April 2007 13:34 (eighteen years ago)

I did.

― Ed, Thursday, 5 April 2007 13:34 (eighteen years ago)

Basically it's a bunch of people comparing ILX house club, Poptimism to a club run by a man who should, frankly, be in jail, and not just for crimes against "pop". But it's bad blood under the bridge and

GODDAMMIT, WHAT IS IT, EX BOYFRIENDS COME UP TO HAUNT ME DAY TODAY?!?!? I keep thinking it's emails popping up from an important client but it's an ex who works for a client.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 13:38 (eighteen years ago)

What did you vote for Ed, if you don't mind me asking.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 5 April 2007 13:42 (eighteen years ago)

Paranoid, not having heard much beyond vol 4

― Ed, Thursday, 5 April 2007 13:43 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, Chuck, if you're reading this, I know you meant well, but it's exactly posts like that that are going to turn that thread into a hellhole. Because all people see is, Kate is upset oh noes, not again and start taking it out on me.

People can forgive Phil Spector for being a wife-beating psychopathic asshole and still enjoy his music, so I guess they will have the same attitude towards Hasbeen.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 13:44 (eighteen years ago)

So I am not quite frivolous and free-spending enough to play hooky tomorrow and fly to London just to hang out at poptimism. curse self yet again for being poorly organized about these things.

instead i will be around end of next week.

happy easter folks. jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine, as we're the only office in the company working tomorrow and monday :( frigging orthodox calendar, 70 years of communism, etc etc etc

― mitya, Thursday, 5 April 2007 13:44 (eighteen years ago)

Paranoid, not having heard much beyond vol 4

I was wondering if that would be the general case with voting when I made the poll. A kind of public votes for St Peppers as best album as it's the only Beatles album they know Syndrome

Tho I thought you would be a Sabbath fan somehow. Kate are you a Black Sabbath fan?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 5 April 2007 13:48 (eighteen years ago)

Hapy Easter Mitya!(and everyone else of course)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 5 April 2007 13:49 (eighteen years ago)

I don't really own any Sabbath albums, even though they have always seemed (early stuff at least) like exactly the sort of thing I should like.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 13:49 (eighteen years ago)

End of next week, shimuras at HDIF and NOTLS with I can't remember.

― Ed, Thursday, 5 April 2007 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

General consensus is 1st 5 albums are essential. (Like Led Zep and Can)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 5 April 2007 13:51 (eighteen years ago)

No, no, Mitya can't come to any Shimuras gigs, he is BAD LUCK!!! He makes us break up!

Just kidding, just kidding! Honestly! Love ya! Mwah!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 13:51 (eighteen years ago)

I have a single of "Paranoid" and "Shake your head".

Alice had a look of disappointment/disapproval when I played her the latter.

― Mark G, Thursday, 5 April 2007 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

You taking her to see Heaven & Hell ? ;)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 5 April 2007 13:55 (eighteen years ago)

Hmm, no Ozzy. Let's think that one through...

― Mark G, Thursday, 5 April 2007 14:00 (eighteen years ago)

Me liking the other Sabres of Paradise LOTS. It's all the stereo tremoloes FUCKING WITH MY HEAD.

You know, I was asking for stuff like this years ago, when everyone was saying all "oh, Kid A sounds just like Warp" and me going SHOW ME WARP STUFF THAT SOUNDS LIKE THIS BECAUSE I WOULD LIKE IT and everyone telling me to listen to Two Lone Swordsmen or whatever. When this was exactly the kind of thing I was wanting.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

― CharlieNo4, Thursday, 5 April 2007 14:19 (eighteen years ago)

Stay here and help us puzzle out which early warp is kate friendly.

― Ed, Thursday, 5 April 2007 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

SEEFEEL!

― CharlieNo4, Thursday, 5 April 2007 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I was the same about Kid-A so me too.

― Mark G, Thursday, 5 April 2007 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

I have none of their records, which is unbelievable.

― Ed, Thursday, 5 April 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

SeeFeel weren't "Warp" they were shoegaze! And I loved them!

I want warpy stuff that sounds more like SeeFeel. Not even sounds, but *feels* - you know me, I'm all about the texture.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

Also, see Orbital. Man I loved them. But they were always sampling Emma Lush and stuff like that, so there was a lot of shoegaze crossover.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

um, were they actually on warp? shit. let me google.

LFO - Frequencies
The Black Dog - Bytes
Polygon Window - Surfing On Sine Waves
both Sabres albums
Artificial Intelligence II
Autechre - Tri Repeatae
Red Snapper - Prince Blimey
Jimi Tenor - Intervision
Squarepusher - Hard Normal Daddy

There's a handful of the most important albums of my life, indeed. Although none of them sound like Seefeel. Oops.

― CharlieNo4, Thursday, 5 April 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

With the exception of jimi tenor, all good ones.
LFO rule all.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 5 April 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

Never liked Autechre or Squarepusher which were the things people kept trying to tell me that Kid A sounded like. Um, no. This is just squelching noises. Kid A is squelching noises with choons and beats and indie vocals.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

that's because they added radioheadness to autechreness. nobody on warp sounds like radiohead, ffs. stop looking.

― CharlieNo4, Thursday, 5 April 2007 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

Well, it really used to wind me up that people would dismiss RH "for sounding just like Warp" when I could find no Warp that sounded anything like that.

Anyway, WHAT WOULD LEMMY DO?!?!?

http://www.motorhead.ru/gigs/stefano/cr-lemmy.jpg

WARP?!?!? SOD THIS MUTHAFUCKIN' WARP SHITE, THE ONLY WARP I WANNA SEE IS THE WARP IN SPACETIME WHEN MY MUTHAFUCKIN' BASS SOLO HITS LIKE A NEUTRON BOMB!!!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

Ian from Kontackte has thanked me through the power of myspace for coming down last night and apologising for not talking, I love them even more.

― Ed, Thursday, 5 April 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

Good! You two talk gig booking while I google pictures of the Venusian Space Bassist.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

I'm going to the pub. see some of you tomorrow.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 5 April 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

See ya, Mark!

OK, yay, I got a nice message, too.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

First I am going to work out what I am supposed to be doing in Helsingfors.

― Ed, Thursday, 5 April 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

Helsingfors? Is that like somewhere vampire fighters gather?

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.hel.fi/svenska/

― mitya, Thursday, 5 April 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

Well, someone just went and pissed all over my chips. And now I'm feeling pretty shitty. People hate my fun.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

Not just your fun, Kate, everyone's. The world is a vampire...

― mitya, Thursday, 5 April 2007 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

I wasn't talking about you, Mitya.

Sometimes ILX's cliqueyness really bugs me. But then I suppose I can just go back to mine own clique and talk about vampires and Finland and stuff, so that's a relief.

I suppose I could get some kicks using google translater to translate that page into broken English.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

Smashing Pumpkins lyric. Ned will be here soon. He has been summoned.
x-post

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 5 April 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

Good eye kerr.

xpost

I wasn't talking about myself :)

I feel like it's Friday evening already...

― mitya, Thursday, 5 April 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

Well, that's no fun. Google doesn't translate Finnish. We need to somehow tempt Tuomas here to tell us what goes on in this Helsingfors place.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

I think that page is actually in Swedish

― mitya, Thursday, 5 April 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

Ah, wait!

http://www.hel.fi/wps/portal/Helsinki_en/?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=/en/Helsinki/

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

They keep finding ONE MORE THING and then ONE MORE THING that I have to do before I can go on holiday.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

ME TOO!

― Mark G, Thursday, 5 April 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

DAmnit I posted that cocktail asking thing to the wrong thread, we are probably in big trouble now.

― Ed, Thursday, 5 April 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

What, is Ally going to shout at me again, then get all her DC howler monkeys to line up and throw shit at me for having a different sense of humour?

Whatever, I want blender booze milkshakes now. To the point where I cannot concentrate on making graphs in Excel. Who on earth reads graphs in excel anyway? Bah. Pure maths was good enough for the last FD.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

Pls to not hurry too fast I have to unbury my floor.

― Ed, Thursday, 5 April 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

Seefeel came up on my ipod yesterday! Ah, happy memories.

― Mark C, Thursday, 5 April 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

They are not going to let me leave for at least another hour. :-(

And then I must source pizzas.

I have brought all my pedals so I may need to take over your entire kitchen with my wub.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

How do you do a chart in Excel anyway? Where is pie chart man when I need him?

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

Select the data, choose insert chart follow the wizzard.

― Ed, Thursday, 5 April 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

WILL THE WIZZARD BLOW HIS HORN??!?

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

I hate the chart wizard in Excel, but I haven't found anything better for doing them.

(oh, apart from my dissertation, when I did them all in Gnuplot from text files)

Anyway, that's me off for the weekend, now, to Liverpool. Have a good eggy/chocolate/bun weekend, Watercooler!

― Forest Pines, Thursday, 5 April 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

Have a good time in L'pool, FP!

I have done my chart. Blimey, that was easy. (though I am somewhat disappointed at the lack of horn blowage.)

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

Hmmmmm. Work is strange.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 April 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

Oh. My. God.

I just got birthdayed.

After complaining that no one in the office would ever ever even remember my birthday or get me a card, I didn't just get a card, but a present too and everyone singing while I crawled under my desk in embarrassement.

Aw, that was really sweet.

My present was the BIGGEST COFFEE MUG IN THE WORLD. Seriously, it's like a pint sized coffee mug. Just an excuse to bring my percolater from home and fill it up every morning. Awesome.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

!!! HBK!

― CharlieNo4, Thursday, 5 April 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

also, same day as Echo's?

― CharlieNo4, Thursday, 5 April 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

(No, my actual birthday isn't until the 10th, but I took next week off so I wouldn't have to deal with spending my birthday in the ofice.)

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

I AM NOW GOING!! HURRAH!!!

HAVE A GOOD WEEK WITHOUT ME!!!

BEHAVE! REMEMBER NO F**TB*LL AS I WILL BE CHECKING IN!!!!!!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 5 April 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

While the Kate's away... ;)

have a good easter and week off, Kate!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 5 April 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

REMEMBER NO F**TB*LL AS I WILL BE CHECKING IN!!!!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/threecounties/read_this/big_brother/big_brother_2003/images/bigbrotherlogo270.jpg

HI DERE, I'm Big Brother, I'll be watching you :-D

― ailsa, Thursday, 5 April 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

Hi all. I've not been around as we've been in the recording studio for the past two days. It's going pretty well! We're doing five songs, and we managed to get ALL the drums and all the bass done on Wednesday, and all the guitars done yesterday. Today's vocals, so I'm trying to psych myself up, and maybe mentally undo all the smoking I've been doing...

This does mean that I'm almost certainly not able to come to poptimism tonight. Have fun everyone who is, and even those who aren't.

― G00blar, Friday, 6 April 2007 08:24 (eighteen years ago)

Hi Goobs!

I'm going for a cycle today - it's such a beautiful day and I at least need to remind my biking muscles what to do before I start commuting next week. Last summer - I rode about 3 days out of 5 - I tend to go full pelt and literally don't have the strength left to do it every day. Is this dumb? Should I take it easier and try to do it every day?

― Mark C, Friday, 6 April 2007 10:41 (eighteen years ago)

Oh - I have signed up for a new singing group in Putney! I'm sure it'll be cheesy but I haven't used my voice in ages, and maybe it could be a stepping stone to a more "proper" choir of some kind.

― Mark C, Friday, 6 April 2007 10:42 (eighteen years ago)

do it every day. take it easy in the morning and come home full pelt.

i am about to go for a run but i am still sleepy and have just come out of a buffytrance.

― emsk, Friday, 6 April 2007 10:50 (eighteen years ago)

It is snowing here in moscow :(

― mitya, Friday, 6 April 2007 11:59 (eighteen years ago)

Hope everyone had a happy easter!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 8 April 2007 23:47 (eighteen years ago)

Easter was great, although I believe I have drunk a whole case of wine this weekend. Up here in norfolk we have ducklings and baby moorhens (moorchicks?) and bunnies on the lawn in the sunshine.

Tonight I am travelling back to winter on the shores of the baltic.

― Ed, Monday, 9 April 2007 06:46 (eighteen years ago)

We had a veritable blizzard yesterday, but luckily it was warm enough (plus 2 today) that it's mostly just traces today. For some reason, I have never noticed this Easter holiday disjuncture before - very strange.

― mitya, Monday, 9 April 2007 07:01 (eighteen years ago)

Hi Mitya & Ed!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 9 April 2007 11:40 (eighteen years ago)

God I'm bored. I'm the only one in at work in my entire dept today.

― treefell, Monday, 9 April 2007 11:41 (eighteen years ago)

Having to work on a Bank Holiday sucks. Not that I'm doing so today, but I have in the past. My husband's working away just now - in Dundee for three days, God love him :-(

― ailsa, Monday, 9 April 2007 11:51 (eighteen years ago)

Awww. Hope you had as nice an easter as you could Ailsa.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 9 April 2007 12:07 (eighteen years ago)

I think I'll probably somehow survive independently until tomorrow night on my own, though evidently I am spending my time weeping and pining and desperate for his return to allow my to enjoy myself properly. Still, at least I'm not in Dundee.

(answer, yes, very nice thank you. I ate nice food and drank a lot of wine and watched Zoolander and this afternoon I am going to teh pub)

― ailsa, Monday, 9 April 2007 12:12 (eighteen years ago)

Sometimes the internet is as good as it should be: http://www.international-klein-blue.com/.

― G00blar, Monday, 9 April 2007 13:40 (eighteen years ago)

MONDAY hi dere.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

Hi Ned! Did you have a nice Easter weekend?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

I saw Grindhouse, ergo yes, yes I did.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

Wide awake in helsinki. This hotel is pretty swanky. I did a mix of the spangle maker over the baltic, or rather started one. It sounded pretty good just with everything set to 0, but i've spent dometime messing around with the bass so it fits better with TISSP's guitar parts, next job is to lift the vocals which need to retain thier sparkle.

― Ed, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

okay people the holiday is over. back to goofing off!

― mitya, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 09:09 (eighteen years ago)

Holiday over indeed, although you wouldn't know it looking at our team. The reporting server is having a few issues, so we're staring at the screen, hoping that IS will fix it soon. I've got shit I need to do!

― The Wayward Johnny B, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 09:13 (eighteen years ago)

And a Happy Birthday to Kate! Who may or may not be celebrating at home listening to lots of Hawkwind up loud.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 11:29 (eighteen years ago)

yes! happy birthday!

― nathalie, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 11:44 (eighteen years ago)

w/e off was great. Being back at work sux0r, though.

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 11:45 (eighteen years ago)

yes, happy birthday kaet!

― mitya, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 12:14 (eighteen years ago)

Happy b'day you!

― The Wayward Johnny B, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 12:21 (eighteen years ago)

YEAH, WHERE'S MY BIRTHDAY THREAD, BITCHES?!?!?

You all suck.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 13:37 (eighteen years ago)

HBK!!!!

http://www.fleckensteins.com/Balloons/balloon%20happy%20birthday%20cake.jpg

aren't we supposed to be getting emails about teh Focus Group?

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 13:46 (eighteen years ago)

o, is it hb kaet?

― g-kit, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

happy burfday kaet! a blast from the past:

http://www.nrk.no/img/248051.jpeg

― emsk, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 13:49 (eighteen years ago)

mark, 2 lots of results are up on ft now.

― emsk, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha ha, that's more like it. Frances and I had a massive drunken rant about how much she HATED Bob Dylan last night between all the wibbling spacerock and synth recording. It was great.

She's a convert to Steve Hillage loving now, but she always had a thing for French Prog. Hah!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 13:53 (eighteen years ago)

This hotel has bicycles one can borrow, I may not come home. It's all dark wood, brown leather, red vases and white linen.

Work was frustrated by some damaged hardware. I'm going to go out and enjoy the cold sunshine and try and find a dinner location with a sunset, before coming home and doing some more mixing.

― Ed, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 13:56 (eighteen years ago)

the dept secretary has booked me into a radisson on portman square. where the hell is that?

― mitya, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 13:59 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yes, happy birthday, kate.

Portman square is an OK location, close to marble arch and baker's st. Is is a Radisson SAS or Radisson Edwardian (I prefer the former, modern rather than chintzy)

― Ed, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:00 (eighteen years ago)

More mixing when you get home, Ed. Frances and I spat out miles of tape last night. All my songs are too dense. I need to make them twice as long so I can do twice as much. Blimey, it's too much sonically going on to fit into 3 minute popsongs any more.

Portman Square... I have a feeling that's quite posh, actually.

Argh, I have to do a Guarniad interview, what a way to spend yr birthday. I think I need some more special coffee, it was the hair of the dog this morning.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

I think it's an SAS - I seem to recall a picture of a glass and steel atrium or something. (I would prefer bikes and brown leather though :)

― mitya, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

I WENTED TO THE NEW LIDO YESTERDAY

IT IS ACE

PROS:
1 BIG
2 CLEAN
3 NOT TOO HOT
4 NOT TOO COLD
5 NOT TOO CHLORINEY
6 YOU CAN SEE TREES FROM THE WATER

CONS:
1 NOT ANYWHERE NEAR DEEP ENOUGH
2 "DEEP" AREA COVERS APPROX 1/20 OF POOL'S AREA
3 SNACKBAR ONLY SELLS NESTLE
4 LOCKERS ARE THE STEAL-YER-MONEY TYPE SO YOU CAN'T GET EG MONEY OUT THEN LOCK STUFF UP AGAIN (BUT THIS NOT SUCH A BIG PROB - SEE 4)
5 "SUNBATHING TERRACE" ALL HARD CONCRETE TILES - WTF?
6 "WE PROMISE ALL BINS WILL NEVER BE MORE THAN HALF-FULL" - SCANDALOUS WASTE OF RESOURCES

― emsk, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:04 (eighteen years ago)

CORRECTION: "SEE 4" = SEE 3

― emsk, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:05 (eighteen years ago)

Yay more mixing. I used spring reverb, phaser and resonant filter to dirty up the bass (then back off a lot make it fit), I need to put the dry bass on to return a little definition to it but DP was being iffy with the file for no apparent reason.

The challenge is going to be the vocals, they need lifting but the need to stay bright

― Ed, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

Emsk did you talk to truck guy?
When is truck? hari may be elsewhere in July.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

Dirty up the bass? this is going to sound nothing at all like the original! ;-)

Which Lido is this? Where? Though I don't actually swim I like the idea of Lidos.

Since my party tonight isn't going to be til much later than I thought, should I start working on new vocals this afternoon? Or drink more special coffee.

Mmmmm, special coffee. I love amaretto. It's coz Frances scoffed all the ale last night. Fiddler's Elbow, yes, that was nice indeed. Arrrr.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

Ed are you actually Ed Stasium? You are quite convincing with yr jargon there.

― mitya, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

Try recording your vocals with a bit more gain, Kate. There is loads of headroom above your vocal recordings and you have really good control.

I am studiously avoiding the original as instructed.

who?

― Ed, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

Hm... maybe he was American. Ed Buller?

― mitya, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

Huh. I usually record my vocals right at the sweet spot. Maybe I turned them down to mix them in with the rest of the track.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:16 (eighteen years ago)

Ed are you actually Ed Stasium?

The burning question here is why has no-one ever released a compilation of Ed Stasium productions called "Stasium Rock"

― Tom D., Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

All the vocals you gave me are peaking at -12dB which means that we're potentially missing a lot of definition there. (I just checked them)

anyway, I'm going out to enjoy the sunshine

― Ed, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

I always read the name of the RHCP album as "Stasium Arcanium" to tell the truth (i actually mean that, not just a cheap pun)

― mitya, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

Everything except the vocals came straight out of Reason, but the vocals I had to mix down from Cubase to get them stereo with all the step delay on them. (other producers never put enough step delay on things, so I wrote them direct to the track.)

Argh, I'm nearly out of web cafe time. More booze I think is required.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

yes, yes, more booze. it's only 3:30! too soon to stop

― mitya, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

I will not be defeated by my PhD.
I will not be defeated by my PhD.
I will not be defeated by my PhD.
I will not be defeated by my PhD.
I will not be defeated by my PhD.
I will not be defeated by my PhD.
I will not be defeated by my PhD.
I will not be defeated by my PhD.

― G00blar, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

o, yr doing a phd?

― g-kit, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

Hello everyone. Happy birthday Kate. I should probably go and do more work now.

― emil.y, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/0000bfwh1.jpg

― G00blar, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:21 (eighteen years ago)

sweet pic.

morning all.

― mitya, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 07:32 (eighteen years ago)

Mornign all, or rather, it's nearly lunchtime here.

My feet don't look like they will touch the ground this summer.

― Ed, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 08:11 (eighteen years ago)

Morning!

― Forest Pines, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 09:09 (eighteen years ago)

Hi FP! Wie gehts?

― mitya, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 09:12 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not bad, although it feels like a shame to be back in the office after the weekend.

― Forest Pines, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 09:19 (eighteen years ago)

I know. I told Jesus that three days was awful quick to be rising from the dead, but he was anxious to be moving along to His Father's Kingdom, y'know?

― mitya, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 09:44 (eighteen years ago)

Stupid Jesus.

― G00blar, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 09:50 (eighteen years ago)

Get back to your PhD, g00bs!

― mitya, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 09:54 (eighteen years ago)

You're like that voice inside my head, Mitya!

― G00blar, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 09:59 (eighteen years ago)

I wish I had a voice in my head to tell me to get things done. My voice in my head says things like HANGOVER ARGH WHY DID I DRINK SO MUCH BOUZE YESTERDAY AH WELL, TIME TO START ON TEH SPECIAL COFFEE AGAIN.

Had a great party last night (need to find the flickr to see if Lisa put up the MATHS CAKE) but my god I am hungover. Bleurgh.

I am doing the laundry but had to nip in here to fire off hte interview I forgot to do yesterday. Oh dear.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 13:33 (eighteen years ago)

Yaaayyy!!!

Flaming cake:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/200/454656324_efee27aa3e.jpg

Maths cake:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/194/454670537_813f7d3ef4.jpg

(The cake was not big enough to fit in "where N is an integer" but you get the idea.)

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 13:36 (eighteen years ago)

(unfortunately, Lemmy did not leap out of the cake, despite Joe's promises.)

Also.... OOOOHHHHH!!!

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/182/451297893_53da07a419.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 13:40 (eighteen years ago)

Ah, I better go check on my laundry I don't wanna be THAT GUY that leaves their laundry in the machine for hours.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 13:44 (eighteen years ago)

Hi Kate!
This sounds Ed and kate friendly
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2815

Norman do you know of them?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 13:48 (eighteen years ago)

TAIPUVA LUOTISUORA (Bending Plumb-Line) was founded in year 2002 in the city of Rauma at Finland. Their music have both space-rock and folk music elements, having some similarities with bands like HIDRIA SPACEFOLK and OZRIC TENTACLES.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 13:49 (eighteen years ago)

Nice cake, nice pedals! You look so happy in that picture!

― G00blar, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:04 (eighteen years ago)

Taipuva Luotisuora are pretty OTM, from my perspective (based on one track). I shall see if Ic an find a record store to hear some more, although that may have to wait till tomorrow as I was at work late today.

― Ed, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

Also, ask tuomas.

― Ed, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

Would he actually know of them? It is Tuomas after all.
I shall try find something in the usual places.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

He or one of his mates might. He knows a lot about a lot of things.

― Ed, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

good morning! I have a meeting in 15 minutes with the guy who is going to be my boss.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 12 April 2007 08:46 (eighteen years ago)

good morning good morning good (from lombard street, this time)

― mitya, Thursday, 12 April 2007 09:37 (eighteen years ago)

Morning morning.

I'm thinking about starting a travel advice thread - we're off to Cornwall in a few weeks, so does anyone know any places we should definitely visit?

― Forest Pines, Thursday, 12 April 2007 09:39 (eighteen years ago)

Eden Project, obviously. I did some walking about the Southwest Coast Trail (or whatever it's called properly) - fantastic. Porth Curno was really fantastic. St. Ives is a little posh, I guess, but well worth a visit.

The things I appreciated were standard English atmosphere stuff - not sure how interesting it would be for you.

― mitya, Thursday, 12 April 2007 09:50 (eighteen years ago)

Morning. Afternoon. Whatever it is! Tra la la. I was up all night last night mixing. 9 songs in approaching readiness rough mix state, and 2 more to go and then we will have AN ALBUM. Give or take a few vocal and mandolin overdubs. (I'm filling in all your parts on the 12-string for now, Ed, awaiting when you have time to do a session.)

Kerr, go and download some LITMUS. You would like them. They are like the doom metal Hawkwind or something.

Good lord, our gig tomorrow is nearly sold out already. Better go and warn people that they should buy tickets if they are thinking of attending.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 12 April 2007 10:19 (eighteen years ago)

I still have not figured out what on earth it is that I'm supposed to be doing tonight. I didn't write it in my diary so I'm lost.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 12 April 2007 11:05 (eighteen years ago)

Hehe.

Yesterday I (for once!) actually finished all I set out to do on my phd, sending in a good chunk of an introduction to my supervisor in time for the deadline she set me. That means that today I get to play with album cover designs and, erm, send out emails about my wedding. *Sigh*, adulthood.

― G00blar, Thursday, 12 April 2007 11:11 (eighteen years ago)

Litmus? any albums?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 11:38 (eighteen years ago)

Hello 'Cooler!

Happy belated birthday, Kate, I was FLYING on your big day. If you are looking for Kate-friendly Warp may I suggest BROADCAST who may be an even cooler band to come out of Brum than Duran.

Have been away in Florida watching my sister marry Fred Flinstone (name actually Tim, but OMG 'Wiiiiilma!') and trying not to kill my mom's boyfriend, whose opinions on 'illegals' would make Enoch Powell blush. My sister suffered from Nervous Ancipient Bride Micromanagenent Syndrome. The family dog participated in the beachside wedding ceremony. On the bright side, I ate tons of seafood and went shopping and have snuck something like a tan through customs (though if you were to check carefully it might well be freckles running together).

I feel like I've been holding my breath for the past couple of months; the day before my birthday in February my dad called me to tell me he had kidney cancer - and swore me to secrecy because he'd fallen out with my sister (my parents are sooooooo divorced) to the point where he was disinvited from her wedding. I couldn't go to the wedding with that under my hat, so I was stressed for the month I kept my word to him and he did tell her once he had his surgery date (which meant he would have had to cancel his trip to Florida anyway). So, apologies to any friends whose heads got bit off. He's probably going to be all right, his kidney came out two weeks ago, and the spots they found on his lungs are coming up benign. However, he saw "pretty colours" on morphine and freaked out his wife, who thought he was having a stroke.

My best friend from school thinks she is having another girl. Go, N3lli3!

― suzy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 12:54 (eighteen years ago)

Belated birthday greetings, ms st claire, I'be been not very on line these last few days.

My twin neck guitar is gone! I took it to the music shop, and said "here, sell this". The amount of space it's liberated is, er, liberating. Fylde Touchstone cittern, here I come.

That sounds pretty tough, Suzy. Keep yr chin up & all that.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:14 (eighteen years ago)

Geez, quiet around here, isn't it?

I'm liking the London office - people make me tea and feed me biscuits, and now I'm going home at 5pm. Nice...

― mitya, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

Very quiet. But Kate's on holiday and the others are busy I guess.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

::waves to Suzy::

Blimey, that sounds like a lot of stuff all at once with your family. Hope your Dad is OK.

Flying visit to the Cooler today... apparently the gig tonight has pretty much sold out already. Yikes! I think we've got one spot left on our guest list. I think I'll use a made-up name and then tell whoever needs it to be that person.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 13 April 2007 10:17 (eighteen years ago)

At work, going home shortly to rest. Did Tim get his spot on the GL?

― Ed, Friday, 13 April 2007 10:19 (eighteen years ago)

Hello all!

Sold out gig? How I will be able to come and force you all to break up, then?

― mitya, Friday, 13 April 2007 10:20 (eighteen years ago)

I'm liking the London office - people make me tea and feed me biscuits

The whole of British business is fuelled by tea and biscuits.

Morning! I was greatly annoyed this morning - when I woke up I was convinced, on some deep-down instinctive level, that it was Saturday, so was very confused and annoyed when the alarm went off.

― Forest Pines, Friday, 13 April 2007 10:20 (eighteen years ago)

I put Tim down, but no idea what his surname is.

Mitya, if you are coming, I'll email you the name of the person you shall be. Just let me know if you can't make it for any reason, so we can give it to someone else!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 13 April 2007 10:23 (eighteen years ago)

Mitya, I've sent email. Leaving web cafe in 8 minutes, but I put my phone number in there so you can text me - or email Ed if you don't get it, as he's a total crackberry addict. ;-)

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 13 April 2007 10:25 (eighteen years ago)

i'll definitely come if i'm not taking someone normal person's place, sure.

― mitya, Friday, 13 April 2007 10:31 (eighteen years ago)

have a good one tonight guys! remember lumi can record your set if you give them a minidisc. i wish i could be there but my little bro is getting MARRIED in three and a half hours omg!

― emsk, Friday, 13 April 2007 11:09 (eighteen years ago)

Oldskool. I will see if I have a blank.

― Ed, Friday, 13 April 2007 11:51 (eighteen years ago)

xpost My sympathies - and I hope little brothers are less nervy than little sisters.

Last night I went to an art talk at the ICA and when I emerged, found myself talking to my friend, an ex-bassist, who was with Ned's favourite Irish person in the world. We drank, we ate, and the Irish person was earnestly discussing drugs conspiracy theory and the James Brown that makes no girl jump back and kiss herself. I felt like telling my friend it was like a Syndrome reunion; the artist talk I had been to before was a Manc-fest where I'd bumped into another old friend (Liz says to say HI, Mark S).

The nicest thing about it was my bassist friend being charming and Mr Voice Of Experience about quite a few things which I really needed to hear right about now.

― suzy, Friday, 13 April 2007 11:53 (eighteen years ago)

I have no idea if Mitya is checking ILX or his mail but I just wanted to say I'm not going to make it out to the club tonight. Last night broke me. Now I remember why I never drink lager - killer headaches that last longer than the hangover. Also sheer exhaustion. Bah. I hate being old.

But hurrah! Wallet was regained safely this morning with everything intact - even the money still in it! (Which I left as a reward for the cab driver to thank him for bringing it in.) So all's well that ends well.

Great show last night! Thanks to everyone who made it out. Now I am going to go home and collapse with the Guardian crossword.

― Masonic Boom, Saturday, 14 April 2007 18:31 (eighteen years ago)

Aaah, Frances, why are you hiding in the shadows?

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/181/458500730_9ca83d33cd.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Saturday, 14 April 2007 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

we've fallen off the new answers page!

back in moscow, all. had a great time at the gig on Friday - thanks to k8 and ed for chatting with me when there were probably people they actually knew around :)

― mitya, Monday, 16 April 2007 05:49 (eighteen years ago)

I ache all over but that was a pretty stunning weekend. Including things like this:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/232/460638125_4c18489588.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/219/461138099_e432b0d473.jpg

― Ed, Monday, 16 April 2007 06:24 (eighteen years ago)

I want to be where you are.

― Maria :D, Monday, 16 April 2007 06:27 (eighteen years ago)

Click through for more photos.

Friday - gig
Saturday - Softball
Sunday - Megalith hunting

was a pretty good run. The Cotswolds is the tweest patch of ground on the planet, there is SQUEEEEE! round every bend. Our 50ps at the rollright stones were good values, one of the volunteer keepers cam and chatted to us and told us tales of naked sabbats, vikings, large ladies from wisconsin, knights, paint splashing loonies...

― Ed, Monday, 16 April 2007 06:34 (eighteen years ago)

i totally would've come on the megalith hunting if i could've. next time...

― mitya, Monday, 16 April 2007 07:25 (eighteen years ago)

Hello everybody. I'm back working again after a lovely couple of weeks off over Easter, lazing about in this smashing spring sunshine. My batteries are all re-charged again, wheee!

A very happy belated birthday to you, Kate! I'm sorry I wasn't around to send you felicitations on the correct day - I hope you had a good time.

Really sorry to hear about your Dad, Suzy. I hope he's going to be okay.

― C J, Monday, 16 April 2007 08:48 (eighteen years ago)

Morning all. Ed, who is that in the pics with you and Kate?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 16 April 2007 10:32 (eighteen years ago)

Frances, keyboardist for the Shimuras, improv fiddle player, folk, kraut and psychedelic aficionado and all round good egg.

― Ed, Monday, 16 April 2007 10:34 (eighteen years ago)

(Frances is in the second pic, and in the darkness in the first pic, Kerr.) In the light is in the first pic is Lisa. No idea who the softball guy is.

― mitya, Monday, 16 April 2007 10:37 (eighteen years ago)

Thank you kind sirs.

btw is that Kate drinking alcohol in a public place? Isn't that illegal now? OFF TO THE CELLS FOR YOU with no Benjamin,Alex James or Lemmy pictures!!! ;)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 16 April 2007 10:47 (eighteen years ago)

She was offering a libation to the stones. There is nothing wrong with drinking in a public place south of the border in any case, and besides the stones are owned by the rollright stones trust so the land is private.

― Ed, Monday, 16 April 2007 10:48 (eighteen years ago)

That reminds me. Dave Rowntree is standing as a Labour councillor.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6540743.stm

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 16 April 2007 10:49 (eighteen years ago)

Ahh I wasn't sure if it was illegal in england & wales or not.
When is Kate back from holiday?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 16 April 2007 10:50 (eighteen years ago)

Wait, it's illegal to drink in public in Scotland?

― mitya, Monday, 16 April 2007 10:52 (eighteen years ago)

That reminds me. Dave Rowntree is standing as a Labour councillor

funny isn't it? When Blur were at the apex of their popularity in the midst of Britpop he seemed like the sensible one. Now Alex James seems like the sensible one and Rowntree's the loser!

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 16 April 2007 10:52 (eighteen years ago)

When it boils down to it, at least he's not a Tory.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 16 April 2007 10:57 (eighteen years ago)

This is awesome btw

http://aquariusrecords.org/images/zadzremicd.jpg
ZECHARIA, ZADIK Kurdish Melodies On Zorna (Bo'Weavil) cd

This was originally released as a super limited cd-r, and people dug it so much we could barely keep it in stock. Now the fine folks at Bo'Weavil have reissued it as a proper cd, packaged in a gorgeous fold out thick paper sleeves with extensive liner notes and an insert printed with a brief history of Zecharia's life, the whole thing housed in a thick plastic sleeve. Still limited, to 500 copies this time, so not sure how long these will be around. Also included on the reissue are two bonus remix tracks!

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be in the Middle East, on a hot sweltering day, with the dust, the scorching sun, and all of that history surrounding you on all sides, letting that intensity overwhelm you and opening your ears to a wondrous world of beautiful and mysterious sounds? Well here it is! Recorded in Jerusalem in 1980 and previously only available as a homemade cassette and later as a cd-r until now, this is a whole disc of Zadik Zecharia furiously rocking the zorna, an instrument most of us had never even heard of until now!! Born in a small village in Kurdistan before moving to Israel in 1950, Zecharia has dedicated his life to playing the zorna (a traditional Kurdish instrument somewhat similar to a longer more narrow trumpet or Scottish bagpipe). This record doesn't let up for a single second. The moment it starts Zecharia is taken over by the power of his instrument and the fugue state he must descend into to elicit such amazing passionate sounds. You get the feeling that there is no time to pause, no time to think, no time to even take a breath.
When I (Irwin) had the amazing opportunity to be in the Middle East in 2000, I remember walking through street markets, standing on the border of Syria and Israel, feeling years of charged history, pain, and passion, right there beneath my feet, and all around me. Taking off my headphones I was immediately overtaken by the myriad of sounds baking in the desert heat. Those moments were magic, and it all seemed to come together perfectly, and for just a moment it felt possible to forget about hate, war, religion and politics. This record takes me back to that place more then anything I've ever heard. Like the best snake charmer records, the kind of music that grabs you by the ankles and sweeps you off your feet, this has the same hard hitting intensity, with an underlying energy that feels boundless and endless. If you've been to the store recently you've probably noticed the nonstop construction going on outside. So for hours at a time we've been hearing drilling and pounding and the sounds of asphalt being torn apart. When the Zecharia has been playing in the store, the combination of all that commotion and the wailing zorna has made for one of the most amazing high voltage drone drenched pounding creations we've ever heard. But even on its own, this record has the ability to take your body hostage, every listen literally forcing various parts of your body to break out in uncontrollable movement. The dola drum which accompanies the zorna helps create a simple backbeat that balances Zecharia's fiery melodic frenzies. A musical fire that you never want to see extinguished. Recommended with more exclamation points than we have room to print!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! etc...

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 16 April 2007 11:08 (eighteen years ago)

That was the awesomest weekend in the history of a very long time.

Great spacerock gig, freaking out the twee kids! Mitya, I had an excellent time chatting to you about the Russian music scene (or lack thereof) and Stuyvestant Town etc. I was really glad that you came down. Plus, who would have carried mine amps if not for you? You are forgiven for breaking up the band last time.

and Megaliths! The Rollright Stones! Pouring libations for the gods, talking to the cool megalith geek, reading Julian Cope while lying in the grass by a dolmen, looking for lost listening posts, driving around Oxfordshire, drinking in the cloister of a former monastary (want to go back and stay there), running about the White Horse, dancing on top of teh Dragon's Den, Wayland's Smithy ... 500 yards around the next corner, honest, Shirley Collins and Wassailing songs, drinking in the countryside as the sun went down, driving back at 60mph along bendy bendy roads in the dark wtih Kate Bush blaring on the stereo... HEAVEN!!!

Last night I dreamed Lemmy was my boyfriend. We were living in a garage, and I kept trying to stop the rain from leaking in on my boots.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 16 April 2007 12:17 (eighteen years ago)

This photo does not do justice to how FREAKING LOVELY Cotswolds pubs are, but it comes close:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/206/460631954_8b59fd3b7f.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 16 April 2007 12:21 (eighteen years ago)

Um, that looks lovely enough!

(GRATE wibbly, droney show on Friday, btw)

― G00blar, Monday, 16 April 2007 12:37 (eighteen years ago)

Wb Kate. Some cookies for everyone in their mails.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 16 April 2007 12:39 (eighteen years ago)

That weekend was indeed the awesomest,

― Ed, Monday, 16 April 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.alien8recordings.com/artist_image/name/214/size600/skullflower_band.jpg

KATE WHERE IS THIS

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

we get a whole afternon of talk about john coltrane for that I think.

― Ed, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

Waht? (wfmu reposted this)

http://www.mingusmingusmingus.com/Mingus/cat_training.html

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

Aside from recording what I consider to be the greatest recording of a piece of music of all time. Mr charles mingus trained all his cats to use a flush toilet and wrote a book about it.

JW, this thread has rules, a decreed by kate, one of the rules is that ll posts about Jazz must be accompanied by photos of Julian Barret, Hawkwind era Lemmy, however I'm guess in DDBs by standing stones would be also good currency.

― Ed, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.karljkaul.com/images/comedy/portraits/JulianBarrett.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

Looking like a lost member of Crosby stills and nash there.

― Ed, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

http://members.iinet.net.au/~michaelbolger/mp3/lemmy.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.angel.dk/hawkwind/store/HawkStaA_02A.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/38/Hawkwind.jpg/220px-Hawkwind.jpg

2 jazz posts allowed now, Ed.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

I just left a band. I've never done that before - normally I'm the last one standing. I feel rather weird and upset.

― Dr.C, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

smoke a bowl, it's rock & roll?

― g-kit, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

But you have your other project to focus on?

― Ed, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yeah - recording on Wednesday. But you know...

― Dr.C, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

(grr - drunk colleague drunk again after work today)

― mitya, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

teh_kit has 420 friends

― onimo, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

Who is going to the Charles Dickens Theme Park?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6559197.stm

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 16 April 2007 22:51 (eighteen years ago)

Hello kind Watercoolerers. I shall be in London this weekend (see this thread here:- http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=52976#unread) so, y'know, pub.

I hear talk of Shimuras - Kate or Ed, will we have to get tickets in advance or can you stick me + 1 down on the door to make sure we get in?

― ailsa, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 07:37 (eighteen years ago)

What about us non-kind watercoolererers?! Yeesh :)

― mitya, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 08:06 (eighteen years ago)

hang on let me bump the thread so kate can insert some info.

― Ed, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 08:32 (eighteen years ago)

Waht about kind non-Watercoolers?

― g-kit, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 08:37 (eighteen years ago)

So are we talking about a friendly thermos or something? Now I'm confused.

― mitya, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 09:19 (eighteen years ago)

Hello! This is happening this weekend:

http://a143.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/58/l_ccf8d965d435169a0294e4cbfe6f873e.jpg

We have unlimited Cheeky Cheap List so if anyone wants in for a mere FOUR of your earth pounds, erm, let me know. Messages here or on the Shimuras thread (when I revive it) will be fine.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 09:22 (eighteen years ago)

We're on first, so you can make it to our gig then go on to any FAP action in the East End, if you so choose! (Just sayin' not like I'm encouraging anyone to skip out of anything.)

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 09:23 (eighteen years ago)

Now to say hello properly to everyone and bah why am I back at work, etc.

Dr. C so you took the plunge! Blimey! Was the news taken OK?

Jon, I think that might be Callanish from the landscape, but I shall check Saint Cope when I get home.

Grr, Jazz... ooh! Lemmy! My good for nothing boyfriend. He kept having all his biker friends round for stoner jams in our garage where we lived. Oh dear. That's a really nice picture of Julian Barrett, too.

Drunk colleagues being drunk? Who knew! I have to stay off drinkin' island this week, I think.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 09:28 (eighteen years ago)

I already did, but without the dollybird and sitar combo.

I finally watched the hawkwind doc last night (along with a really good Dr Who), didn't get round to the crazy Kurds though.

― Ed, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 09:28 (eighteen years ago)

Dollybird and Sitar are URGENT and KEY!

I was going to watch some videos last night but i got totally sucked into Nancy Friday.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 09:34 (eighteen years ago)

Dr. C so you took the plunge! Blimey! Was the news taken OK?

Not really. I said I would do one last gig, a week on Sat at Shrewsbury with the N1ghtingales. It seems like a good thing to do - go out on a high and all that, and also not leave them in the lurch for a really good gig - but I don't know what they want to do. Anyway I'm recording with ANM tomorrow.

― Dr.C, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 09:45 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, agreeing to do gigs that are already booked is the honourable thing, but it's best not to go dragging on once you've already made up your mind to quit.

God, I have done no work yet. I simply cannot get into the swing of working again. GET BACK TO WORK YOU SCIVVER!!!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 10:08 (eighteen years ago)

Ed! Check it out! These people just friended us on MySpace.

http://www.myspace.com/indietracks

It's GIGS on a STEAM TRAIN!!!

FP, I think this is closer to you than us, so maybe you should take a look, too.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 10:24 (eighteen years ago)

It's very indie-schminide, but I like the idea.

― Ed, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 10:35 (eighteen years ago)

Good morning all; I cannot wake up this morning.

― G00blar, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 10:40 (eighteen years ago)

No one can wake up this morning. The woman who sold me my travelcard couldn't stop yawning either - I told her I totally understood and related.

Yeah, it's kind of a pity about the music becuase the idea is great. Maybe they could get iLiKETRAiNS to do a guest Signal Failure on it.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 10:43 (eighteen years ago)

with us

― Ed, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 10:45 (eighteen years ago)

OK, so the gigs happen in the station with DJs in between on the train.

― Ed, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 10:47 (eighteen years ago)

Ooh, I'd love to play with ILT, but I'm kind of intimidated by them as they're all so good looking.

Why can't the bands play on the train? Bah!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 10:48 (eighteen years ago)

Think about your average railway carriage, although finnish rail do have that disco carriage.

― Ed, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 10:49 (eighteen years ago)

Ah, I see your point. Though so many clubs are long and narrow, with the bar along one side!

http://www.alien8recordings.com/artist_image/name/214/size600/skullflower_band.jpg

Actually, these are totally the wrong kind of stones for Callanish, they are less spikey than the Quartz. Maybe they're one of those circles up on teh Moors.

http://www.megalithia.com/callanish/060501_callanish_img_2397.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 10:52 (eighteen years ago)

Grr. I don't want to do this.

― mitya, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 11:02 (eighteen years ago)

Do what? Work? I don't want to do it either.

That's why I'm mucking about on Megalithia.Com.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 11:04 (eighteen years ago)

A-ha, I think I've got it - this is from the other side, but it looks like Swinside:

http://www.sacredsites.com/europe/england/images/swinside2.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 11:27 (eighteen years ago)

Is that another one that would have been a wall?

― Ed, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 11:29 (eighteen years ago)

Got it - look at the hill in the background, it's Swinside:

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http://www.astrocal.co.uk/callanishjourney/swinside1.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 11:30 (eighteen years ago)

This one shows the field boundary markings on the hill in the background:

http://www.alien8recordings.com/artist_image/name/214/size600/skullflower_band.jpg

http://www.le.ac.uk/home/rug/image_collection/cd07/076.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 11:31 (eighteen years ago)

yes, it's one of those 28.7m stone circles, so presumably it would have been a wall like the Rollright Stones were once.

http://www.megalithia.com/sites/sd172881.html

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 11:32 (eighteen years ago)

You can see the three standing stones (really pointy one in the middle) with the fallen one between them on the left here:

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The one on the right is distinctively broken at the top.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 11:35 (eighteen years ago)

Bah!

http://www.visitcumbria.com/sl/swinsida.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 11:35 (eighteen years ago)

And this is what Copey and his lot have to say about it:

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/79

OK, I am going to do some work now, honest.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 11:40 (eighteen years ago)

Some of those could be a KLF album cover.

Afternoon everyone.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 11:46 (eighteen years ago)

Afternoon, Kerr! Bloody cookies crashed my machine. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 12:00 (eighteen years ago)

Which cookies? I wonder if anyone will like the kurdish one (or if indeed anyone will try it apart from Ed)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 12:14 (eighteen years ago)

Some of them take a long long time to arrive... dodgy at work, to be honest

― Tom D., Tuesday, 17 April 2007 12:17 (eighteen years ago)

Every flipping thing that Joe Meek ever produced or even engineered is utter, utter genius.

Just thought I'd mention that.

― Dr.C, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 12:19 (eighteen years ago)

Oh Kate did you vote on the 3 pfunk polls on ILM?

(no ones done a best Hawkwind album poll yet)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 12:28 (eighteen years ago)

TOO MANY POLLS!!!

I mean, maybe someone should do a BEST STONE CIRCLE: 1) Stonehenge 2) Avebury 3) Callanish 4) Rollright Stones 5) Other (specify) poll.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 12:35 (eighteen years ago)

Druid Of The Year poll.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 12:43 (eighteen years ago)

It's a straight fight between Julian Cope and Ken Barlow

― Tom D., Tuesday, 17 April 2007 12:43 (eighteen years ago)

Who would you rather go on a rolling London rolling walk with:

1) Julian Cope
2) Bill Drummond
3) Iain Sinclair
4) Boris Johnson

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 12:48 (eighteen years ago)

morning! omgz! exciting timez!

― emsk, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:07 (eighteen years ago)

tell us morez!

― Ed, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:07 (eighteen years ago)

Morning? At 2 in the afternoon? What kind of exciting times?

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:07 (eighteen years ago)

(no i didn't see boris johnson on the way to work this morning)

xpost

i will in a few hours! eekz! btw ed i have your jam. the understanding was that you wanted it back?

― emsk, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:08 (eighteen years ago)

I am easy going about the jam, if you would like to finish it, please do, I have more.

― Ed, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:09 (eighteen years ago)

morning! omgz! exciting timez!

for a brief moment, i thought this was one of my posts.

― g-kit, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:10 (eighteen years ago)

I'll have the jar back when you are done though.

― Ed, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:13 (eighteen years ago)

aha! maybe it was the jar you wanted back. mmm i will eat the jam then. with an SPOON.

― emsk, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:14 (eighteen years ago)

What kind of jam?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:14 (eighteen years ago)

purple.

― emsk, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:15 (eighteen years ago)

Damson.

― Ed, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:16 (eighteen years ago)

Yum!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:16 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.wegofunk.com/photo/201036-264718.jpg

― Tom D., Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:18 (eighteen years ago)

OK, my inbox is finally back to the same state it was in last week before I left. Which means it's time to pester my boss for something to do. Probably all the stuff she sent me weeks ago that I didn't do before my holiday.

Oh, why am I back at work... I don't want to be here!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:37 (eighteen years ago)

la la la la la la la
x-post

Kate did you get all the cookies?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:39 (eighteen years ago)

I feel like I now know the location of every bellzouki for sale in the world. CGDAeb, CGDAEg, CCGDae, CGGDae?

― Ed, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:42 (eighteen years ago)

Question for Dada/Dr /Mark Grout
Do you know this band?
http://aquariusrecords.org/images/afflcompcd.jpg

AFFLICTED MAN The Complete Recordings (Senseless Whale) 2cd
A while back we remember running across a bootleg-looking vinyl reissue of an LP called Get Stoned Ezy by some British band from the early '80s called High Speed and The Afflicted Man. This obscurity was supposed to be an unknown precursor to the blown-out psychedelic speed freaks sound of Japan's High Rise -- in other words, a holy grail of wah and fuzz. Tom Lax wrote a review of it on his Siltblog that said it sounded like Saint Vitus covering Les Rallizes Denudes! Can anything live up to that? Heck, if Get Stoned Ezy even just remotely came close to living up to its excellent title we'd be curious. Are you curious too?
Well that LP is long gone, but all the tracks from that and more are to be found on this new double cd collection of everything ever recorded by guitarist Steve Hall's DIY punk-psych outfit Afflicted Man (aka Afflicted, aka High Speed and The Afflicted Man).

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:43 (eighteen years ago)

Ramshackle, lo-fi, outsider guitar blurt that reminds us of everything from The Heads to the Stooges to Human Instinct to Michael Yonkers to Zippo Zetterlink to Baby Grandmothers to Acid Mothers Temple and the Pink Ladies Blues. It's psychedelic hard rock done "Messthetics" style.
There's over two hours of music here. Disc one features Afflicted Man's three Bonk label 7" singles, and their The Afflicted Man's Musical Bag LP (which dates from "probably 1979"). The songs from the 7"s are all fairly rockin' punkers, while the Musical Bag LP is weirder and more damaged, with tracks like "Hippy Punk" and "Hippy Skin" (that's what these guys were?), the downer blues of "Glue Sniffing", and the krautrockish "Musically Insane", a track that's really a reinterpretation of their first single "I'm Afflicted", extended to eight minutes and buried amidst shimmering piano and freeform FX.
It's what that song would sound like if it was covered by Moolah!
Disc two is where the really fuzz really hits the fan, comprising both the I'm Off Me 'ead LP (1981) and the aforementioned Get Stoned Ezy (1982).

On both records, Hendrix and Hawkwind are obvious references, playfully roughed up by these punks n' skins. The three long tracks of Get Stoned Ezy, especially, take that hippy psych sound into a back alley and fuck it up, but all in good weird fun.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:43 (eighteen years ago)

and yes Kate. Cookies are forthcoming.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:44 (eighteen years ago)

it's nice that the cookie flame still burns ;_;

― g-kit, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:45 (eighteen years ago)

Wasn't this something to do with United Dairies (the label, not the, errrrrr, dairy)? (xxpost)

― Tom D., Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:45 (eighteen years ago)

No, no more cookies, please, I'm only just getting to the ones you sent WEEKS ago. I cannae take any more cookies!

I'm suddenly remembering the HORRIBLE REPORT from last month I needed to do but kept putting off and now I have to do it. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:46 (eighteen years ago)

Kate, can you shot me the rough mix of the album,I'm putting my headphones on for a while and realised that I've not listened to it yet.

― Ed, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry, I have not ripped it to MP3. And I kinda don't want to, because 1) MP3 quality is shitty and 2) I don't want it getting out. You're going to have to do it the old fashioned way and find the CD I gave you on Friday.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, I can't remember how I was doing this. I had a system. Now I've completely forgotten it.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:53 (eighteen years ago)

I know where it is, it's just not in the office.

― Ed, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

Does Teh Kit want cookies?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:55 (eighteen years ago)

I'm listening to the new manics. It's not as painful as the last album so far.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

I lost interest around the time of Everything Must Go, tbh.

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

Some of "know your enemy " was quite good. But the last album had 1 grat song and the rest were turkeys.
This album sounds good so far tho. Much better than I expected. It's def in the style of EMG though. No return to the early sound.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

All Manics are rubbitch.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

Agreed.

― Ed, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

http://uk.geocities.com/girlscout666/images/redstripe.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

OK, I managed to get about halfway through the Kurdish album before it started to grate. Good in limited doses, but the sound gets really annoying really fast.

x-post get that off my thread. Unless it's Nicky Wire vacuuming in a dress. That I might just allow.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

Ohmigod, I've just done 1 team and I've got 10 to go and I just want to stab myself repeatedly in the eye with a fork so I never have to do any more.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, looky here!

http://www.howdoesitfeel.co.uk/apr132007b.html

Great pictures of Frances unlike the other photos where she's all dark!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

Was ken c there, I see his picture but he never said hello.

― Ed, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, he was hiding out in the entrance bit, sitting on the stairs.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

I guess Lemmy had started his facial growth by 1972:

http://www.starfarer.net/gallryak/lemprf72.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

Though he doesn't seem to have it here:

http://www.starfarer.net/gallryao/lm62806a.jpg

Curioser and curiouser. These photo galleries go on for ever. How many zillions of photos of Bob Calvert fighting robots and playing about with radiotelescopes are there?

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

Waht about kind non-Watercoolers?

There is an actual FAP thread, I was just alerting people who might not read other threads but this one.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:03 (eighteen years ago)

I take it "Silver Machine" is going to be the all-star finale piece at the LOLapalILXor gig?

― Mark G, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

Nah, "Space Is Deep".

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

I had a really cool photo of OOIOO and some stones but I lost it ;_;

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:02 (eighteen years ago)

T/S stone circles vs snake mounds

http://www.hope-of-israel.org/img/serpent.jpg

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

Morning all

― mitya, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 06:15 (eighteen years ago)

Morning there. I think my own personal hay fever season has kicked in.

― Forest Pines, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 07:32 (eighteen years ago)

Morning, everyone.

Stone circles, definitely. Stone circles are just about cooler than everything.

I'm starting to get slightly worried about my mum. She didn't call me at the weekend, which she *always* does, without fail. I thought she might be working overnight (which she often does at the hospital) so I sent her an email. No reply. I just emailed my aunt to check if she went to visit them, which she said she might.

I know I sound paranoid, but it's *really* odd for me to go a week without hearng from my mum at all.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 09:06 (eighteen years ago)

THE ANTARCTIC is cooler than stone circles. So there.

― Forest Pines, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 09:09 (eighteen years ago)

Not for much longer, given global warming!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 09:10 (eighteen years ago)

I hope everything is OK. Do you have any contact numbers for her neighbours, or for that mater do they have any numbers for you or your brother?

― Ed, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 09:10 (eighteen years ago)

Uh... I don't actually know any of my mum's neighbours. I haven't actually *called* my mum's house yet, to be honest. I will tonight, if I haven't heard from anyone.

I'm sure people at her church have her next of kin numbers and the like. It's more likely that she's on holiday with her brother, or that she's off at some retreat. I'm just paranoid.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 09:23 (eighteen years ago)

I finally got round to messaging NOTLS about DJing for them. And they are going to find us a slot after the summer, which is cool.

― Ed, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 09:47 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, excellent!

I'm going to try and go to the one on Saturday - or at least drop in on the way home from the gig, since it's on the way home.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 09:51 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, today of all days, my boss is away and I need ILX to be interesting, and it's boring today.

Here's a question for you: would you rather be stabbed or shot?

I was thinking stabbed earlier, because it seems like there's a greater chance you would survive. But then I thought if it was going to be mortal, I'd rather be shot, because it seems ... cleaner and quicker, and it would be less painful and take less time for you to die.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 09:59 (eighteen years ago)

I guess I'm talking to myself here. :-(

Shall I have a cup of coffee? I just really don't want to have to go and do the hard slog of finishing that giant report I was working on yesterday. I don't feel like listening to any of my music. I don't feel like being here. I guess I was expecting the people at my work to have missed me more. Or to come in to a MILLION IMPORTANT THINGS in my inbox to make me feel necessary when really they got along just fine without me. Bah.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 10:11 (eighteen years ago)

Would you rather be stabbed by a naked benjamin curtis or shot by lemmy?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 10:14 (eighteen years ago)

Decisions, decisions.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 10:17 (eighteen years ago)

There's a thread in that I think. I am trying to staying in the expenses trance and failing.

― Ed, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 10:20 (eighteen years ago)

Or Shot By Both Sides?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 10:20 (eighteen years ago)

I should be teaching myself to do powerpoint now. Anything is better than that.

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 10:21 (eighteen years ago)

God, this whole Lemmy crush is just pathetic. Because it's that horrible nostalgia/being in love with an idealised version of your own youth, wishing I was 20 and running around with my sister popping diet pills and staying up for days at a time recording spacerock and driving cross-state at odd hours of the night - or being 30 and living in a rented room in Hoxton and staying up all night drinking and taking trucker speed at Mother Bar, reminiscing about being 20 with my sister - when AT THE TIME IT WAS BLOODY AWFUL - I just want to try and pretend to myself that I'm not a fat, lazy, middle aged woman with a mortgage and a dull office job, in my mind I'm still a skinny hippie dirtbag running around on drugs. Bah.

The problem with going on holiday is how much it makes you hate your life when you get back.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 10:24 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, there is a jew's harp festival on April 28th in Oxford.

― Ed, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 10:25 (eighteen years ago)

WHY AM I OBSESSING OVER MINE OWN WASTED YOUTH WHEN I HATED IT SO MUCH AT THE TIME?!?!?

Shoot me. I've decided. Don't waste time with the stabbing, just shoot me.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 10:25 (eighteen years ago)

yes and the guy who sits next to me here in the office is organising it!

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 10:26 (eighteen years ago)

x-post, erm WHAT? Jews Harp Festival? As in Boingy Boingy Boingy? Cool!

Stay in the Expenses Trance. Then you can enter the Bellzouki Trance when you get the money.

Powerpoint is evil, stay away stay away.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 10:26 (eighteen years ago)

evil or not, I have to talk to my new colleagues from Ch1ch3st3r about what I do on 30th April and that means giving a presentation with powerpoint.

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 10:28 (eighteen years ago)

What would happen if someone, somewhere, gave a presentation WITHOUT POWERPOINT?!?!? The world would surely implode.

Our head honcho is old skool. He scribbles on PAPER BOARDS on a tripod.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 10:30 (eighteen years ago)

powerpoint is like make-up in that respect.

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 10:35 (eighteen years ago)

I never wear makeup unless I'm onstage.

And I don't wear girly shoes! I am gender confused. Feminist writers are bending my brain. Well, just Nancy Friday lately.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 10:37 (eighteen years ago)

I am (trying to) (finally) read the Simon Reynolds book and listen along chapter by chapter (and maybe write up some reactions, that was my ambitious idea anyway. You know, I have never listened to any PiL before Album, except for "This is Not a Love Song." Kind of strange for me, although there's not much to like in Lydon's voice.

(Note me procrastinating because the Ukrainian real estate market is just about the last thing in the world I want to deal with at the moment.)

― mitya, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 10:43 (eighteen years ago)

gender is only black and white in the minds daily mail land

― Ed, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 10:44 (eighteen years ago)

That's cool, Mitya; I've always wanted to do such a thing (with a music book).

― G00blar, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:00 (eighteen years ago)

It's weird, because though "Album" was really the breakthrough one for me - i.e. the first one that I heard - it's not very indicative of a lot of PiL. I didn't really see how they got from the Sex Pistols (which I was just discovering for the first time around then) to there. Until I went back and listened to older PiL - and discovered that I absolutely loved The Flowers of Romance. The abrasiveness of Lydon's voice is kind of the point, the insectoid whine. Though I can't stand anyone else trying to "do" Lydon's voice.

I'm not talking about the Daily Mail's black and white views of gender, I'm talking about Nancy Friday in The Power of Beauty. And I keep trying to remember that *anyone* talking about gender is talking about their experience of it - it's never one size fits all. Friday was the archetypical ugly duckling who grew up to be a swan and discovered the power of beauty. I never had that swan transformation, I never had beauty of mine own, so I never felt that kind of power. I mean, it explains so much about my own life, but there's always that line. I had to learn to compensate for lack of feminine beauty by being clever, by being creative, all these other things. And tried to convince myself that it was OK - and here comes this book to blast all that out of the water, and reawaken a lot of old insecurities.

I mean, I suppose with insecurities, it's good to be aware of them so that you can compensate for them without overcompensating. But sometimes it does hurt to dig up the really old ones.

I really want to talk about this book, but don't really know anyone else who's read it recently. I think a lot of women (at least the ones I know) read it as part of the feminist canon or whatever. I digested so much of feminism second hand that I haven't read a lot of the original documents, and get them kind of twisted through translation.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:02 (eighteen years ago)

Whereas I read a lot of the original stuff (well, I don't know about a lot, but quite a bit) and then gave up when I realized a) as a man I would always be evil and guilty, no matter how enlightened I tried to be, and b) that being "enlightened" in fact made me less interesting to most women, who actually like a bit of macho swagger even though they sometimes don't admit it.

― mitya, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:07 (eighteen years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6564215.stm

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:08 (eighteen years ago)

Hrmmm.

See, this is one thing that I like about Friday that I don't like about a lot of what she calls "Matriarchal Feminists" - is that she holds women equally responsible for gender roles as men. I never got the "women good/men bad" dichotomy of a lot of feminism, because, as the terminal scapegoat who had suffered so brutally at the hands of 12 year old girls (and the 12 year old girl inside adult women), I saw that women were just as capable of cruelty and evil as men.

It's easy to blame certain *specific* men for the problems in mine own life, but harder not to try and generalise the discomfort.

It was refreshing that she knew there was a lot wrong in her life, but rather than blaming her father, she blamed the fact that her father was *missing*. And was also very spot on about the way that women police each other far worse than men ever did. And trying to get back to the fact that feminism was originally supposed to be good for men as well as women.

Anyway, I don't know about whether "enlightenment" makes men more or less attractive to Women In General, because I'm not a woman in general. I suppose sometimes the fear is that men are lying about their "enlightenment" in order to get laid. For myself, obviously I sometimes find swagger attractive (e.g. Lemmy) but the men I actually end up in relationships with are the ones who are as confused/grey area about their gender roles as I am.

But one size never fits all. The problem with a lot of gender studies is that one size never DOES fit all when it comes to gender. You can only ever talk about generalisations.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:20 (eighteen years ago)

I have four more teams to code, and then this report is done for the rest of the year. But I just cannot seem to drag myself to do it. It is SOOO tedious.

I'll swap you for your Ukranian real estate, Mitya.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:27 (eighteen years ago)

two expenses sheets done, one to go.

― Ed, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:28 (eighteen years ago)

I just need to put Uncle Sam's On Mars on the headphones and knuckle down to it.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:29 (eighteen years ago)

yesterday I thought this curry wasn't hot enough. I think it is increasing in goodness with age.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 12:17 (eighteen years ago)

Isn't curry always better with age, like goulash?

I will fill out your expense reports for you, Ed, if i can get the reimbursement :)

― mitya, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 12:27 (eighteen years ago)

If you get the reimbursement, then YOU have to buy the bellzouki! (And fly in from Russia every time we play.)

Yes, curry does improve with age, but generally people tend to eat it too soon to notice. It's best about the 4 or 5 day mark, but it tends to go off around the 5 or 6 day mark. I've eaten 7 day old curry - sometimes I'm OK, sometimes I'm hideously sick. I never really learn. Like Homer with his sandwich. It's best of all when it's just about to go off.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 12:30 (eighteen years ago)

Mmmm.... sandwich

― mitya, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 12:34 (eighteen years ago)

Mmmmm, sandwich...

http://www.uloc.de/screenshots/7/7f20_homer_mit_sandwich_im_bett.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 12:37 (eighteen years ago)

The best thing about being on holiday (apart from not being at work) was that I got to take a nap every day after lunch. As our climate becomes more European, will the idea of the siesta grow in acceptibility?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 12:45 (eighteen years ago)

Two teams left. The end is in sight!

Manchester and Tunbridge Wells, I'm coming for YOU!

In a minute, after I've dethawed my brain from the tedium.

God, I can bear anything but boredom.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:39 (eighteen years ago)

you can't dethaw. You can thaw, or you can defrost!

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:41 (eighteen years ago)

mind you I don't know why Bart is writing auf Deutsch in the picture above so I can hardly claim the intellectual high ground.....

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:42 (eighteen years ago)

Talking of Manchester, Faust are playing there next month, as part of the Futresonic festival, I'm busy that weekend, but I thought I'd mention. (although ways of of making it happen are possible).

― Ed, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:43 (eighteen years ago)

Oh you can dethaw, it is the opposite of defrost and the same as refrost.

― Ed, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:43 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha ha, that's Bart saying I WILL NOT STEAL BANDWIDTH or something similar in German - it was a picture of Homer with the SANDWICH when I posted it.

I have just finished reading an article about the use of the Heavy Metal Umlaut so my mind has gone a bit German.

Do Shimura Cürves need an umlaut? Or should we change our name to Shimura Cüürves? It seems Amon Duul II were the first band to use the umlaut.

I'm not sure what my brain is doing. I'm adding coffee so it may thaw or defrost or refrost or dethaw or whatever it does to make it sensible again.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:49 (eighteen years ago)

(Then again, it's an interesting notion, the idea of my brain melting with boredom and needing to regain structural integrity.)

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:51 (eighteen years ago)

there should be a band called Rock Dots, certainly!

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:53 (eighteen years ago)

Umlauts are like medals, we can only have one if we have at least two song over 8 minutes.

(PS been listening to the rough mix and loving it)

― Ed, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:55 (eighteen years ago)

Can we all have them? Rename ourselves Ëd, Käte, Fräncës and Lïsa?

Hüng With Jöÿ definitely hits the eight minute mark when we do the full wub at the end of it. I guess that means I have to write one more.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:58 (eighteen years ago)

That is the sounding particularly good, the first time I have really heard what you and frances are doing, although it is difficult to pick out your hard panned stereo tremolo (or has that not been mixed yet?)

― Ed, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

No, I haven't recorded it yet because I still haven't figured a way of getting stereo guitar into cubase! There's only 12-string on it with a bit of stereo action. (And even that isn't on the second half.)

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:05 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe we need to use my magic box (It's got two instrument level inputs)

― Ed, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

Do the two halves of it sound like they belong to the same album?

Not even the sequencing, which I haven't decided on yet, but the fact that there are two very different sessions with two sets of musicians and/or singers on - is that noticable?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:19 (eighteen years ago)

That's a more difficult question to answer I will listen more to the vocals and less to the wibble.

― Ed, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

Well, the wibble, too. I think it's probably good that there's not keyboards on every song, because it allows the textures in the other songs to breathe. I love the way it sounds, live, and want it on everything - but on the other hand, I don't want it to be like a new toy you get and have to have on every single song.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

Emsk never came back and posted her Amazing Thing, did she?

EMSK, WHAT IS YOUR AMAZING THING?!?!?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

Emsk, yesterday:

http://www.aural-innovations.com/robertcalvert/hawkwind/images/astoxy.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

Ed http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6568191.stm

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

ok kids, i'm outta here. enjoy the rest of your day...

― mitya, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

Me jealous you get to go home so early.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

Have fun, Mitya!!!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

Omigod, I think it's done. The horrible evil report. It's done!

OK, I still need to stick some ValVar in there and ValVar is horrible and evil and awful, but it's childsplay next to hard coding 15 different sets of targets for 16 teams.

How can I celebrate?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

7pm is not that early, and I'm usually in the office around 7:30am. If that makes you jealous, I'm scared to ask...

― mitya, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah yeah, I forgot about the time difference. It's still 4 here. Which means I've got another 3 hours to go.

I used to work hours like that (8.30am to 9 or 10 at night) and then one day I read this book called "Willing Slaves: How The Overwork Culture Is Ruling Our Lives" and I thought "fuck it".

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

carrot cake?

there was a beetroot cake recipe in the paper this weekend which I'd like to try.

― Ed, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

Noooo, I'm not allowed carrot cake, it's not an S day. I can't imagine beetroot cake. But I'd sure like to try it. Combine two of the tastiest things ever - beetroot, and cake! how can it go wrong?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:16 (eighteen years ago)

hugh said it was to beetroots what carrot cake is to carrots.

― Ed, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

If carrot cake makes me feel drugged, beetroot cake would probably send me to outer space.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

Ed> Did you like Zadik Zecharia - Kurdish Melodies Played on Zorna?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

I found it quite hard going, quite jarring, but I shall persevere.

― Ed, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

by heck, I have funded the company to the tune of £1300 this quarter

― Ed, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

Blinkin' 'eck!

Drinks on you this weekend!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

Ah, so this is where this quote comes from:

Never wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it. - George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

It's been following me around the past week or so.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newport_Tower_%28Rhode_Island%29

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 18:48 (eighteen years ago)

Good morning, good morning, good

(not really, but just thought I'd sing a little for you)

― mitya, Thursday, 19 April 2007 05:36 (eighteen years ago)

Fodder for euroskeptics:

Our IT people have informed us that "our file hierarchy is not in conformity with European standards," and therefore they will be restructuring our network over the weekend.

― mitya, Thursday, 19 April 2007 07:44 (eighteen years ago)

Hurrah for singing.

My mum got back in touch this morning, she was in Canadia with my aunt and uncle, phew. I do worry about her, now that my brother has moved out to California, I think that there's no one really living close to her. I wish she'd move back to England. Or at least to Albany where people know her.

It is hot today. This morning as I walked past a mens hairdresser I had the sudden urge to cut off all my hair. Maybe get an Eton fringe like Alex James used to have.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:16 (eighteen years ago)

I endorse this proposal. (although possible run it by someone who has more style principles than, 'girls should have short hair')

― Ed, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:18 (eighteen years ago)

My father would disown me. Again. I just think this hair is too hot for summer and it feels already like it's going to be a global warming hot one.

I will try to find pictures of me with short hair and then I will ask the other Boys of the Watercooler what they think.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:21 (eighteen years ago)

do not let your father disown you, there is a 1966 12-string gibson at stake, although I could try and explain my theory that men should have long hair, women short, to him. (is he coming to visit, you mentioned that he might)

― Ed, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:23 (eighteen years ago)

men should have long hair

:(

― Tom D., Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:25 (eighteen years ago)

He mentions that he might come to visit me, but he never does. He believes that men should have long hair *and* women should have long hair. Everyone should have long hair and be freeee and natural in their natural long haired state and barbers are instruments of the devil sent by my mother to torture him.

I just want floppy Alex James hair because I cannot have Alex James.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:26 (eighteen years ago)

Sell the flat and buy a cheese farm. Next best thing.

― mitya, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:29 (eighteen years ago)

Mmmm, cheese.

Even if my mortgage was fully paid off, I could not afford a cheese farm. Got no more rich relatives left to die off, and I'm too old to be a pop star, so I guess embezzlement it is.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:33 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.philneillcards.co.uk/images/alex-james.jpeg

― Tom D., Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:34 (eighteen years ago)

You know that's not allowed. Quit it.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:35 (eighteen years ago)

... sorry, but that's who I think of when you say Alex James

― Tom D., Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:35 (eighteen years ago)

... I'm more 1920s than 1990s basically

― Tom D., Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:37 (eighteen years ago)

No, no, no, no no. This Alex James:

http://www.clikpic.com/cambridgejones/images/2002.04.17_234.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:38 (eighteen years ago)

This is the haircut I want, though:

http://images.43things.com/profile/247133pw400.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:40 (eighteen years ago)

I think that would work.

― Ed, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:40 (eighteen years ago)

Today, though, I have mostly been thinking about Entitlement. Maybe I should start another thread. Why Entitlement Issues raise my hackles so much. Is that sense of Entitlement always such a bad thing? And ifso, why?

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:41 (eighteen years ago)

I have just noticed that he is growing a mole on his right cheek. I wonder if it will reach Lemmy proportions, and how long it takes a bassist to get eaten by his own mole.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:42 (eighteen years ago)

So, that single he did with Betty Boo, how many do you reckon that sold? 28, 47, 3?

― Tom D., Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:42 (eighteen years ago)

I bought at least 2 copies.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:42 (eighteen years ago)

xp by which you presumably mean an over-inflated sense of entitlement, yes? For everyone has some sense of entitlement, and rightly so.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:43 (eighteen years ago)

Well, that's what I mean by entitlement *issues* - everyone has their own sense of entitlement, but when it gets over-inflated into what I'd call "issues", it really raises my hackles and I wonder why. New Thread time.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:44 (eighteen years ago)

Were you at that FAP that Alex James (and the rest of Blur) were at?

― Tom D., Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:47 (eighteen years ago)

No. :-( I was at bloody rehearsal with a band I'd leave in a few months anyway. Bah.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:49 (eighteen years ago)

I wonder if anyone will post to my thread, or if it will just be written off, or have the piss taken out of it simply because I started it? I'm paranoid about that lately. I don't seem to be able to step onto other threads without someone shouting at me.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:50 (eighteen years ago)

I will certainly post on it and not shout at you. It sounds interesting.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:54 (eighteen years ago)

Well, it's been unanswered for nearly 10 minutes.

It's something that I'm really interested to see other people's thoughts on, but no one replies because it's me asking. Great.

The sun is shining, maybe I should put on some Motorhead and pretend to work.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:59 (eighteen years ago)

I simply hadn't noticed it until then. Gone are the days when unanswered threads appeared helpfully in bold.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:07 (eighteen years ago)

I guess it's still an interesting experiment. I was complaining last night that perhaps no one on ILX has anything new to say to one another. Everyone has already formed opinions on what they think other people believe, and they don't actually respond to what one another actually say, but to what they *believe* this person thinks.

Watching political threads at play, it's fairly depressing.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:08 (eighteen years ago)

My god, I need some coffee.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:09 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't understand yr thread, sorry.

― g-kit, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:10 (eighteen years ago)

It's hard to get into without examples. But I can't really get into the example that got me thinking about it. Trying to think of other examples from my past.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:12 (eighteen years ago)

Once again bothered by all the activity going on around me in the company that I am not involved in. :(

Will look at entitlement thread now, though I can't committ to commenting on it.

― mitya, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:18 (eighteen years ago)

I'm feeling that "no one on ILX has anything new to say to each other" thing too, 'though it's compounded in my case by little energy/time these days to really fully engage with threads at all. I keep feeling I'm late to every thread--I'll come on, read, and by the time I've caught up on whatever today's bete noire is, I'm too exhausted to add my two cents (like anyone cares).

― G00blar, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:19 (eighteen years ago)

the fun part of the internet is dying and it will soon be used for nothing except shopping.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:20 (eighteen years ago)

Dying's no fun, Mark.

― G00blar, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:20 (eighteen years ago)

I kind of keep up with some threads as they are happening - if they happen during the time zone I'm at work. But after 20 odd posts of the same people saying the same things, I lose the energy to reply.

Even if - *especially* if - I have an opposing viewpoint. Why would I set myself up to be their strawman?

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:22 (eighteen years ago)

Web 2.0 is pretty grim, it's true. Imagine how gothic babe of the week would have played out, web 2.0 style, ugh.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:22 (eighteen years ago)

(x-post)

― Pashmina, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:22 (eighteen years ago)

perhaps we should have left the archives behind when we moved servers.

― Ed, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:23 (eighteen years ago)

That still wouldn't affect the old "we've done this before" response.

― G00blar, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:25 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, they've changed my pension plan. I never got the mail because I have a shared mailbox I don't have the key to and things just... disappear. :-(

But the head of HR has just given me another pack and I've got to fill this out this afternoon, then I guess.

I only just set up my pension - why do I have to do it again?

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:25 (eighteen years ago)

x-post I don't even think it's to do with the archive - it's to do with the fact that we are too familiar with each others' interweb personnas.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:25 (eighteen years ago)

I guess so.

― Ed, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:26 (eighteen years ago)

Anyone who is new is pidgeonholed then run off - especially if they have a slightly different viewpoint to the hivemind consensus. (the irony being, it is the pettiness of small differences, the people who still espouse views that the hivemind consensus has "outgrown".)

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:27 (eighteen years ago)

It would've stopped the annoying people who just wait for the opportunity to post links to all 300 threads on the subject we had previously.
People forget there's lots of new people come to ILX since a lot of those old threads plus some posters will have changed their mind (apart from geir).
The most annoying aspect however is the fact if someone doesn't like a thread they (and others) image bomb it.
x-posts

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:27 (eighteen years ago)

Afternoon everyone!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:28 (eighteen years ago)

Ahoy hoy. Kind people of the 'Cooler, please decide my fate for me tonight. Bearing in mind that I have three essays in dire need of attention (and two others that I can just about justify putting off for the time being), do I a)stay in and work, b)go to The Music Library, or c)go to see Napoleon IIIrd?

Also, Kerr, did you ever offer 'Zadik Zecharia - Kurdish Melodies Played on Zorna' to me? It sounds like something I might like...

― emil.y, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:33 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, and yeah, I really REALLY hate not having the New Questions as the default page.

― emil.y, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:34 (eighteen years ago)

I would say napoleon IIIrd because I know who he is and really enjoyed him last time I saw him, no idea about the music library.

― Ed, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:35 (eighteen years ago)

Emil.y I did. Pop on msn just now and i'll give you the link.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:38 (eighteen years ago)

Napoleon IIIrd is very, very good. I would highly reccomend going to see him.

I was thinking the Music Library was an actual library, but it looks like a club. Still, a very good name for a club.

But essays... hrmmm, who wants to work on essays when the weather is as glorious as this? I still haven't started work on putting the finishing touches on the Horrible Report.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:38 (eighteen years ago)

Hehe, I hate outdoors anyway (not a goth, though, honest). I have seen Napoleon twice before, and he is good, plus my friend who has just moved away is playing in his band now, argh. But the Music Library is really nice, and if I go I'll get my library card stamped and get a free CD (of what, I have no idea). It is not exactly a club, it is in a pub called Moog with comfy seats, just a kind of 'drinking with good music playing' club. Oooh, maybe I should try to do both.

― emil.y, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:49 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe you could take you notebook to the pub and write your essay while drinking and listening to good music! That's what I would do actually.

But I've developed a rather antisocial habit of writing or drawing at pubs and clubs.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:50 (eighteen years ago)

Oh god the pub down below is grilling vegetables or something and the wafty garlic smell is going all through the office and making me SO HUNGRY when I have only just eaten breakfast.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:59 (eighteen years ago)

I was actually thinking about doing just that - I always like reading/writing in pubs. But I'll be with the mister, and no matter how good my intentions may be I know we'll end up just sitting around talking crap and getting drunk.

― emil.y, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:02 (eighteen years ago)

Make him bring a book, too.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:03 (eighteen years ago)

I have been listening to No Remorse, and instantly I am about 16 or 17 again, pumping as hard as I can over Krumkill Hill on a bicycle with this in my headphones, pretending my bike is a Harley. Oh dear lord.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:12 (eighteen years ago)

Eek, my father wants to come to gig, I suppose it is best to get it over and done with. Damn my loud mouthed siblings.

― Ed, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:16 (eighteen years ago)

OH DEAR LORD!

Erm... are rental units allowed at gigs? I'm not sure about this at all.

Then again, your dad is slightly less likely to poke groupies with umbrellas if they say they'd like to jump yer bones.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:17 (eighteen years ago)

like I said, best to get it over and done with

― Ed, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:19 (eighteen years ago)

he can pay full price though.

― Ed, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:19 (eighteen years ago)

I keep reading about the silent era actress Norma Talmadge:

http://www.stanford.edu/~gdegroat/NT/home.htm

- it's occupying my mind a lot these last couple of weeks - I often find that I get really interested in some subject like this. I guess what you would call the plight of her art is something that makes me feel really sad - she seems to have specialised in "weepies", melodramas - "women's films" as was, and there's no real place for that kind of thing in arts criticism, I don't think, though I don't see any reason why such pieces are any less valid as art or entertainment than the stuff that does get written up - "auteur", "rebel/beautiful loser", "sex symbol" blablabla. It's a kind of bullshit distinction. The plight of her art is that there's a bunch of her films surviving in various archives in the US, but the expense of restoring them, clearing the rights and scoring them is such that the likelyhood of them coming out on DVD is pretty much zero. It pisses me off loads! A few of the films actually sound great to me, and they, and she was/were massively popular at the time (she was the biggest female filmstar of the early '20's at least, w/the possible exception of Mary Pickford). The (grim) lesson that seems to come from this is - if you want your work to be remembered in the medium/long term, make art that appeals to male critics. That's a fucking crock, culturally speaking.

All I get to see of these films are stills, and good grief, she looked great! Very glamorous in a real old-fashioned way:

http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Talmadge,%20Norma/Annex/Annex%20-%20Talmadge,%20Norma_04.jpg
http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Talmadge,%20Norma/Annex/Annex%20-%20Talmadge,%20Norma_01.jpg
http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Talmadge,%20Norma/Annex/Annex%20-%20Talmadge,%20Norma%20(Lady,%20The)_02.jpg
http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Talmadge,%20Norma/Annex/Annex%20-%20Talmadge,%20Norma_05.jpg

― Pashmina, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:21 (eighteen years ago)

My dad called my band "thrash metal" :(

― g-kit, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:21 (eighteen years ago)

My dad is unlikely to really get it although, alison might.

― Ed, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:21 (eighteen years ago)

My dad would actually really like our band. But he would probably want a go on your mandolin, Ed.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:22 (eighteen years ago)

I still have two, he could join us and do the acoustic bits on space is deep.

― Ed, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:23 (eighteen years ago)

He was wrong, you see.

― g-kit, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:23 (eighteen years ago)

I am (trying to) (finally) read the Simon Reynolds book and listen along chapter by chapter

Me too, though I'm not making much of a dent in it so far. My commuting at the moment seems to want to be in relaxed brane mode so I can't read non-fiction :(

― onimo, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:23 (eighteen years ago)

But he played our CD loads when he was decorating.

― g-kit, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:24 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think my dad liked Hawkwind. Yes was more his style. These days he's prefer to jam with Frances on some Shirley Collins, I think.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:25 (eighteen years ago)

Waht is your band like, g-kit?

― emil.y, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:25 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think I've ever really cared(?) what either of my parents thought about my music/the music I like. Hawkwind, Black Flag and CabVolt's "NagNagNag" were the records they hated when I were but a lad. They were big jazz fans in the '50's, but they don't seem to be really into music, and haven't been for years and years and years.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:27 (eighteen years ago)

Thrash metal is aces for decorating.

xpost

― onimo, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:27 (eighteen years ago)

i don't know :(
not thrash metal for sures. someone who has heard us plz 2 classify 4 emil.y

i like that i wasn't asked "waht are you like, g-kit?" for a change.

― g-kit, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:27 (eighteen years ago)

wait, i got it: "indie rock by numbers"

― g-kit, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:28 (eighteen years ago)

My mum *insisted* on coming to one of my early gigs, as a social thing. She was shocked, and never went to one again.

I sent my dad a CD around the time I recorded my first solo album, and he loved it - especially the vocal harmonies. (I totally inherit my love of female vocal harmonies from him.) And pointed out a passage I'd nicked from Yes. Ooops.

Ah, that reminds me. My brother sent me some of my dad's recordings last week and I haven't downloaded them yet.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:32 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think I've ever really cared(?) what either of my parents thought about my music/the music I like.

aka "I make music for myself and if anyone else likes it, that's a bonus" Oh NO! har har haaargkgkgkgh.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:34 (eighteen years ago)

you were all totally supposed to disagree with that indie rock X #s thing btw and be all like no wai g-kit yr awesome

― g-kit, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:36 (eighteen years ago)

also, what is wrong with "I make music for myself and if anyone else likes it, that's a bonus" ?

― g-kit, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:37 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry, Kit. I posted my review of your band on another thread. It was very spikey and reminded me of the Victorian English Gentlemans Club IIRC.

Damn m4as whatever they are, they won't play on my computer. So I can't get to hear my dad's songs. And apparently one of my sister in law's father's songs.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:37 (eighteen years ago)

OK, I can hold out no longer. It is curry time.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:39 (eighteen years ago)

In theory, nothing Greg. I mean if someone doesn't like their own music, what right do they have to expect other people to like it?

It became a music paper inteviews indie band cliche in the '80's/'90's when the statement &/or variations on it became used as a shorthand for "we're not (spits) commercial crap, us, like"

― Pashmina, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:42 (eighteen years ago)

okies! that's fine. i kinda feel like that, you see. but i can totally back up that talky-talk with walky-walk, cos we don't play live shows or like, sell CDs.
big paws high five!

― g-kit, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:44 (eighteen years ago)

or have a fucking myspace

― g-kit, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:45 (eighteen years ago)

I make music for myself and myself ONLY. I don't want anybody else to like it. GO AWAY AUDIENCE.

― emil.y, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:45 (eighteen years ago)

bring them round this evening and I will magic them.

― Ed, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:45 (eighteen years ago)

(This is how I justify being a failure.)

― emil.y, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:46 (eighteen years ago)

Um, xpost

― emil.y, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:46 (eighteen years ago)

I don't care if my parents like it or not. It's nice that my dad does.

I *do* however care that my friends, my mates, the cool kids down Sonic Cathedrals and NOTLS like my music. That I care about very passionately.

I am easily led, me.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:46 (eighteen years ago)

also I will get to hear them, and I am intrigued.

I make music because Kate tells me to ;-)

― Ed, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:47 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, I twisted your arm behind your back and MADE you get a mandolin. No, I said, oi, since you've bought a mandolin, you should be in a band.

I am kind of scared of my dad's songs. I think they may be "funny". I'm not sure. I just want to hear that lovely 12-string again.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:49 (eighteen years ago)

that said, i DO care what people say should they actually somehow hear it. i like to hide/bury everything i make. a bit like a cat what just maed a poo.

― g-kit, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:49 (eighteen years ago)

i totally made LOLs at my own joke in my office on my own :(

― g-kit, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:49 (eighteen years ago)

I LOLed with you.

Kate, I only blame you for unleashing the well known monster within that is craving weird 12-strings and pedals and technology, that I was keeping so well buried. C'est La vie, I quite like that monster.

― Ed, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:51 (eighteen years ago)

Also, I just heard two people, one from compliance, one from operations I think, talking in the kitchen, and they were talking about discrepencies in the system, and how people don't check, they just take the numbers as they are in there, whether they are right or wrong. I wanted to point out that the *system* is correct, it's my job to make sure it's correct, but it's not the system's fault if people type the wrong numbers into it. But then one of them said something like "well, if they system told them to jump off a bridge, would they?" which made me have to leave the room in order not to laugh out loud at the thought that I *could* make the system say GO JUMP OFF A BRIDGE if I wanted to.

Oh, the power.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:51 (eighteen years ago)

Do you have spangle make vox with you. I want to make saturday or sunday morning harmonious and productive.

― Ed, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:54 (eighteen years ago)

I crave attention and approval and admiration like most people crave breathin' air. I want people to love my music. OK so that's not my primary motivation for making it (first I want to make stuff that I want to hear), but it's definitely there.

― G00blar, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:54 (eighteen years ago)

that jump off a bridge thing reminds me: I remember being on a training course once where someone had been messing about w/ the computer the trainer was using. They had written a vb script then made a shortcut w/ icon to one of the Microsoft apps linking to it which the trainer mistook for the real shortcut, clicked on it and was rewarded w/ a dialog box with a rude message. They emulated Queen Victoria.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:57 (eighteen years ago)

G00blar, do you still want to use my speakers for mixing/mix checking?

― Ed, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:58 (eighteen years ago)

The xcitement is building. The best Led Zep and Funkadelic and pfunk spin off polls end tomorrow.
I hope you all voted!

FWIW I voted
Physical Graffiti
Standing On The Verge Of getting It On
Mutiny or was it Eddie Hazel? I forget haha

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:01 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, I think I'm not gonna need 'em. The studio we've recorded at has thrown in an extra evening (next Monday) gratis for us to finish up the mixing. I probably should be checking the mixes on shitty speakers, anyway. xpost

― G00blar, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:02 (eighteen years ago)

Ah, but maybe I could send you one or two songs for your opinion (from yr good speakers) on whether the vocals are loud enough? It's been a great debate.

― G00blar, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:03 (eighteen years ago)

I like the sound of that. I'm exited to hear the recorded stuff. My view on your vocals (and the others) is that they should be prominent and fairly bright.

― Ed, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:05 (eighteen years ago)

hahahaha

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5012334.stm
next FAP to be held there?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:07 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, I will bring Spanglemaker vox tomorrow, I was not in last night so I did not mix them.

Of course people crave admiration and attention for the Things What They Do. I think the whole "if anyone else likes it that's a plus" anti-comercialism is a twist (and a particularly English twist) on the idea that you would change your Art to make other people like it. You want people to like and respect your Art (and therefore you, as creator) Just The Way It Is, rather than this taint of begging for attention, pleading for success, changing things in order to be successful.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:07 (eighteen years ago)

This bit made me snigger

A £7m sex theme park, which has no rides, is to open in London's West End later this year.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:07 (eighteen years ago)

the first phrase that jumped out at me

'it has no rides'

xposts

― Ed, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:08 (eighteen years ago)

So basically ILX is a series of chatrooms now, right.

― Ed, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:08 (eighteen years ago)

because that would have been new thread time in the Old days, Kerr. Take back the night start a new thread.

― Ed, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:09 (eighteen years ago)

I'm gonna make like Queen Victoria over the sex theme park thing.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:09 (eighteen years ago)

Cool. Will do, Ed.

All this being said, I'm particularly sensitive to any suggestion that the way I have done things (written, performed, or produced a song) may not be the absolute best way. I'm trying to get over that sensitivity and allow myself to let others' opinions make songs better (which is the point, innit?). ach xxxxxposts

― G00blar, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:10 (eighteen years ago)

Nah, people complained last time I did news/silly news stuff because I wasn't asking questions and it was pointless etc.
Then others said "but I don't read/watch news so reading about it on ILE is how I find out stuff that's happening". And it ended up a dreaded meta-thread.

Plus Ken C should be starting that thread if anyone.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:10 (eighteen years ago)

Feel free to start it though Ed.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:17 (eighteen years ago)

Damn, this is one of the things I really hate about this system. In order to get reports into the correct folder I have to log off and log on to the user for that folder, then upload them.

But after I've esentially restarted the computer to get back to being me again, I completely forget whatever it was I was doing. That wasn't arguing on ILX, natch.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

I thought I'd killed the chat on the cooler today.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

lol? i chatted on teh cooler today! if that doesn't kill it, nothing will.

― g-kit, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

It always hits a lull after lunch.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

Did anyone else like Mustafa Ozkent or Zadik Zacheria? (or indeed want cookies)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

"Hey Ed, you do realise that you still have 3 or 4 posts about jazz allowed from the pics that were posted the other day?"
http://www.nndb.com/people/687/000110357/julian-barratt.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

Free jazz posts do not carry over from day to day. You missed your chance.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:19 (eighteen years ago)

"Help me, Kate is making me mix her new album in her dungeon and I can't get out, and all she has left me is one lousy bottle of lager"
http://www.thebeststuffintheworld.com/images/images_of_stuff/210x600/julian-barratt-2584.jpg?1173108526

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

"Here is my new song. About how fickle Kate is and how she neglects me now"
http://www.yelah.net/images/3445

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:22 (eighteen years ago)

He looks really hott there, except for the fact that he is probably DJing jazz. x-post

OK, I'm going to go and listen to side 2 of No Remorse and pretend to do some more work.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:23 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.cisnky.com/images/blog/ceiling_cat.jpg
http://www.nndb.com/people/687/000110357/julian-barratt.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, it's more like Ceiling Cat Is Watching You Jerk Off A Builder.

OK, that was weird - my CD drive didn't want to recognise side 2 of No Remorse. It was afraid of the power of Lemmy's RAWK!"!!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

And Benjamin, I didn't abandon you. You ABANDONNED ME WHEN YOU WALKED OUT OF SECRET MACHINES!!! Fie! The shame!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

K8 I finally posted something in yr entitlement thread. I really left early today (5:20) -- I need to improve my mood this weekend.

― mitya, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

Mitya play some Mustafa Ozkent. That will work!!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

OK, I've found my dream cover. I had forgotten about this song!

Shut up, you talk too loud
You don't fit in with this crowd
I can't believe you exist!
I've crossed you right off my list

NO CLASS!!!

Aw, Mitya, I wish I knew how to improve your mood. If I knew yer crushes, I would post loads of photos of them. All I can reccomend is drinkin' island. And blasting Motorhead as loud as possible.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

Interesting charts this week.
http://www.last.fm/group/UK+Watercooler/charts

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

Talking of photos of crushes, I'm still lusting after Kyran Bracken and a friend of mine has just sent me a naked picture of him which she found. Bloody hellfire.

― C J, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

The Kinks and Aphex Twin would be Ed, methinks.

naked pictures? Blimey! Where can I get nekkid pictures of my crushes? I'm going to have to make do with Lemmy dressed up as the Pope and burning his bandmates at the stake. I should learn from Lemmy. Oh wait, no, on the next page, they fry him in the electric chair. He looks like he's enjoying it, tho.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:04 (eighteen years ago)

aphex twin was me

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

Taht reminds me, damn, I forgot to bring Ed's Aphex Twin t-shirt which somehow ended up in my washing. I will bring it on Saturday.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

Kate do you like Aphex Twin, Autechre or Squarepusher or any of that ilk?
I don't think I've ever seen you talk about dance music ever actually.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

x-post CJ She 'found' eh? She must have a more powerful and far-reaching version of Google than you!

Now that I have recorded some tracks with nu-band, which one to donate to the ILX comp.

1. Garage-pop one with nice surfy guitar and hammond organ
2. Sort of garage-rock thing that turned out a bit more 'big rock' than expected.
3. New-Ordery gloomy one. Not very representative, but rather lovely lovely keybds and although I say it myself, rather tasty guitar line towards the end.
4. Phasey wall-of-sound one. Turned out a bit weedier than hoped for, except for a nice bit of three-way mad Jazzmaster fite in the middle.

We did em all live, with a few overdubs. They all need remixing, which is next Monday. Maybe I'll just see which turns out best after mixing.

― Dr.C, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:16 (eighteen years ago)

I just talked about it upthread, Kerr!

Or maybe it was on the last thread. No, it was on this one, because it was in response to Ed's comp with Sabres of Paradise on it. I like bits and pieces, but in general, it leaves me wanting. There is some dance music that I like, but in general it does not have enough of what I love in music - texture and harmony.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

I am really tempted to start my own parody thread called "Enlightenment Issues" and go "what's up with all the big wigs?"

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

It's all gone quiet again.
FP is away on holiday isn't he?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

I think people are starting to go home.

Dunno where FP is. I think he said he wasn't going to post here as much coz we teased him too much. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:21 (eighteen years ago)

I'm listening to that Alex Delivery album that got a really good review in The Wire last month. It's pretty good.
Definitely Kate & Emil.y music.

What Paul Lester thinks in The Guardian
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Music/Pix/pictures/2007/02/12/alexdeliveryfaces_big.jpg

Hometown: Brooklyn.

The line-up: Nik Bozic, Marika Kandelaki, Robert Lombardo, Colin Ryan, Yegang Yoo.

The background: And now for something completely different. Something electro-organic. Something vaguely redolent of ... Trail Of Dead jamming with Faust and Arthur Russell. Alex Delivery are an NYC-based five-piece specialising in krautrock, space rock, digital dance and musique concrete, either at once or in sequence: their songs-cum-cosmic travelogues are blurry blends, one genre slowly morphing into the next like a time-lapse photograph. Whether they're actually any good or just a load of clattering about from a bunch of Williamsburg bohos with too much time on their hands is another matter entirely.

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You name it, if it's far-out, it's here. The sound of insects chattering from deep inside a kettle drum? Check. A robo-monster rampaging down an abandoned future highway? Check. Sylphs delicately plucking strings? Check. Boogie-woogie polyrhythms? Check, mate. Just don't expect to hear any of this on Zane Lowe. If anything, Star Destroyer is like listening to Radio 3 at 1am with your head underwater and your stereo dipped in LSD-enriched treacle.

Meanwhile, the otherworldliness extends to their album cover art - six original oil paintings courtesy of multi-instrumentalist Kandelaki - and their website, which has the creepiest image of any homepage, ever.

The buzz: "The most original still-obscure band in New York."

The truth: They're obscure because they're original. Like, duh!

Most likely to: Get played on Resonance FM.

Least likely to: Get played on TopShop FM.

File next to: Faust, ... Trail Of Dead, Trans-Am, Cul-De-Sac.

What to buy: Star Destroyer is released by Jagjaguwar on April 23.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

And now for something completely different

What, sounding like Krautrock?

― Tom D., Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

It probably is different for Guardian readers/journos :P

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

Will there ever come a time when music critics won't mention Krautrock in every 2nd or 3rd review they write?

― Tom D., Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

When the lex rules the world.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

Roll on that glorious day then!

― Tom D., Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

Do they mention krautrock in NME? Do NME readers know what it is?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

One of them looks almost disturbingly like my ex. OK, they're all just blurs, but he's a very ex shaped blur. (Ah, if only I had Blur shaped exes. Then maybe they wouldn't be exes.)

Anyway, sorry, what?

Yeah, Krautrock, experimental as milk. I get irritated by reviews that seem to count every band with a synth squiggle or a 4/4 drumbeat as "krautrock".

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

I'm probably guilty of it myself, though.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

Describing every band with an irritating out-of-tune flute as Krautrock would be more accurate

― Tom D., Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

... esp. every band playing clunky creaky jazz rock with an out-of-tune flute

― Tom D., Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

Lemmy = son of a clergyman. Who knew? Actually it's obvious now I think about it. You can spot them a mile off.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yeah, that's common knowledge that one! Him and Alice Cooper.

― Tom D., Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

I knew Alice Cooper, didn't know Lemmy. He didn't make it on the other Son Of A Preacher Man thread, though.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

I do not want to be here. I want to leave already. Sigh. I have to log off and log on again anyway to upload a stupid ops report anyway.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

I thought Dada was gonna say he was the son of a priest.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

OK, I'm leaving for rehearsal now. BAI!!!!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

Hello, I am still in Florida.

― Mark G, Friday, 20 April 2007 00:49 (eighteen years ago)

Hi Mark!! Hope you're all having fun!!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 20 April 2007 00:52 (eighteen years ago)

Good (whatever time it is where you are)

Yep!

LATERS!

― Mark G, Friday, 20 April 2007 00:54 (eighteen years ago)

Bye!!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 20 April 2007 01:11 (eighteen years ago)

Morning, people! TGIF.

― C J, Friday, 20 April 2007 08:42 (eighteen years ago)

rah, rehearsal was good last night, also kate's dad's songs are great.

― Ed, Friday, 20 April 2007 08:54 (eighteen years ago)

TGIF indeed!

Yes, it was kind of the lesbian folk trio rehearsal last night, with no pedals.

I'm kind of traumatised by my dad's songs. Now I realise where I get my awfully high body count in songs from. And the appocalypse will be caused by the lack of wire coat hangers and free matches. Um.

Bluebells are starting to come out along the train tracks! We need to do a bluebell walk soon soon soon.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:07 (eighteen years ago)

week on saturday/sunday?

― Ed, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:17 (eighteen years ago)

also, we need a jazzmutant lemur

― Ed, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:20 (eighteen years ago)

We were talking about doing something else that weekend! Maybe the Spinal Tap weekend? Actually, no reason we can't watch Spinal Tap after a bluebell walk.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:23 (eighteen years ago)

how about FIRE WALK

― g-kit, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:23 (eighteen years ago)

xxpost
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40069000/jpg/_40069099_lemurcow_203.jpg

― G00blar, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:23 (eighteen years ago)

We were talking about doing something else that weekend! Maybe the Spinal Tap weekend? Actually, no reason we can't watch Spinal Tap after a bluebell walk.

I second this motion.

― Ed, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:26 (eighteen years ago)

I would like to watch Spinal Tap this weekend.

― G00blar, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:27 (eighteen years ago)

Morning all.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:27 (eighteen years ago)

Is that like a high tech Kaos Pad?

I don't know. Even though I hate jazz, instruments with Jazz in the name tend to be good - .e.g. the Jazzmaster, the Jazz bass, etc.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:27 (eighteen years ago)

this is U&K

― Ed, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:28 (eighteen years ago)

as for the lemur, I have been looking at control surfaces, I want some real movin' faders and blinkin' lights and I came across the lemur which is a crazy expensive touchscreen control surface for DAWs

― Ed, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:30 (eighteen years ago)

You won't be happy until you have your mandolin hooked up to the control desk of the Enterprise.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:34 (eighteen years ago)

erm, yes

― Ed, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:36 (eighteen years ago)

Cats be funny.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:38 (eighteen years ago)

when we had the XSAN running in playout I could go and watch that to satisfy my techno cravings, watching the load lights rev up as a big transfer started was very satisfying but now I have to make do with the single blink blink of my skype phone.

― Ed, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:39 (eighteen years ago)

I think this is why I chose DP5 over cubase, because the meter bridge looks better.

― Ed, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:40 (eighteen years ago)

how many gigs have you been to where the performer's sole instrument (save their voice) is an ipod? Just one for me so far, but I saw it as a sign o' the times.

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:40 (eighteen years ago)

Dude, this is what pedals are for. Watching the blinking lights. Sometimes when I get the tremolo and the chorus going in sequence, I get MESMERISED.

x-post Only person I've ever seen do that was Momus.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:41 (eighteen years ago)

16 people voted they didn't like Led Zeppelin.
Tuomas owned up as one.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:42 (eighteen years ago)

Ed/Kate are you going to do a best Hawkwind album poll? The Motorhead poll results were announced.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:43 (eighteen years ago)

There was a Motorhead poll?

Polls are out of control, clearly. The novelty has worn off.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:44 (eighteen years ago)

That's just out of control. Like, the first 20 threads are poll threads. What is the point? How is this any different from "POO" or "POX" or whatever? It's no different from list threads, really.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:45 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not prepared to plump for a best hawkwind album because I have not heard them all and I have different favourites from different eras.

― Ed, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:50 (eighteen years ago)

also I don't really like pols and charts and music writing and I am a curmudgeon

― Ed, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:52 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, that too. It's hard enough when people ask me "what album should I get?" well it depends on what your tastes are. Do you want hippie wibble, driving amphetamine spacerock, prog extravaganzas, synth proto-techno, what?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:53 (eighteen years ago)

a cat waht just did a POO/POX

― g-kit, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:54 (eighteen years ago)

The poll threads do have good discussion on them. Plus they act as a pointer for people to go buy the albums if they haven't heard them. A few have said they have done that.

I like polls.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:54 (eighteen years ago)

It is time for First Coffee.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 09:56 (eighteen years ago)

I went to see Porcupine Tree last night. Wow, they absolutley blew. It was awful. It cost 18 quid too! And, I had a puncture in the car on the way home, and the tyre's fucked. Expensive night :(

― Pashmina, Friday, 20 April 2007 10:07 (eighteen years ago)

Bah, that sounds like an awful night all round, Pash. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 10:07 (eighteen years ago)

It was! I've seen PT three times before, and they've been great live. This time round, I amused myself by imagining how much better they'd have been w/nicholas barker or hellhammer on drums, or if they'd replaced the pretentious emo back projection with some keystone cops comedies.

Best laff of the night was seeing the shithead drummer from the old band - he looked me in the eye, but was too much of a lamer to speak to me. God.

― Pashmina, Friday, 20 April 2007 10:14 (eighteen years ago)

Well, at least that was a laugh. That's the kind of thing that would ruin my whole night. But it's a healthy sign that you can just laugh at him about it.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 10:15 (eighteen years ago)

Musidora:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52ut-CBSGBg

Scary!

― Pashmina, Friday, 20 April 2007 10:40 (eighteen years ago)

What's scary is taht YouTube decided to actually work for me with that! Maybe my 'puter likes silent films better. Or maybe the Evil Eye worked on my processors.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 10:43 (eighteen years ago)

Pash, do you have any favourite phasers?

― Ed, Friday, 20 April 2007 10:46 (eighteen years ago)

christ almighty there's nothing on ILM but polls! Kerr are you behind this?

― mitya, Friday, 20 April 2007 10:49 (eighteen years ago)

ILM has finally turned into Poptimists! Nothing but polls!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 10:50 (eighteen years ago)

i have 1ghz duron
sometimes i can FEEL the power

― g-kit, Friday, 20 April 2007 10:56 (eighteen years ago)

I just sent my brother some of Shimura Curves in response to my dad's stuff that he sent me. I will probably live to regret this.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 11:15 (eighteen years ago)

my brother plays drums, so he's down

― g-kit, Friday, 20 April 2007 11:21 (eighteen years ago)

My favourite phaser, Ed is the TC Electronic MK12, which handily enough, has just been reissued:

http://www.tcelectronic.com/ClassicPhaser

It has a very sharp, clean sound, I've had mine for 20 yrs (!!!!) and I've never got sick of it. If you're up for a bit of DIY, the Oakley "Equinoxe" is fantastic as well:

http://www.oakleysound.com/equinox.htm

I'm flogging my Moogerfooger phaser as well, if yer feeling spendy:

http://www.moogmusic.com/detail.php?main_product_id=7

£170 exc cond, but no manual (I threw it out by accident)

― Pashmina, Friday, 20 April 2007 11:25 (eighteen years ago)

I tried to get my brother to play all kinds of instrument, from recorder to cello, when I was younger, but he's just totally non musical.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 11:25 (eighteen years ago)

Moogerfooger is tempting, I should try one out. I want to try a red witch moon phase and an EH polyphase.

― Ed, Friday, 20 April 2007 11:32 (eighteen years ago)

how do i got watercooler decoder ring

― g-kit, Friday, 20 April 2007 11:33 (eighteen years ago)

Moogerfooger is the one kind of pedal I still don't have that I want, despite being told to get one by young Benjamin - but I want the lo-pass filter not the phase.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 11:34 (eighteen years ago)

What time do Merkins wake up? Oh wait, I forget almost all of my family is on the dreaded Left Coast now.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 11:36 (eighteen years ago)

how do i got watercooler decoder ring

8080cosignotmetc

― onimo, Friday, 20 April 2007 11:37 (eighteen years ago)

Red Witch Moon phase looks great, I agree. 2 other cool looking ones are the prophecysound infinitphase and the "phaseur fleur", which I think ios available in kit form.

http://www.prophecysound.com/if.html

http://www.4mspedals.com/phaseur.php

I'm scaling down, though. I have so much shit, it's stopping me getting any music done!

― Pashmina, Friday, 20 April 2007 11:39 (eighteen years ago)

phaser fleur appeals to me aesthetically sounds good too,.

The prophecy sound one scares me, but in a good way. And I love the sound clips, so much by way of range of different sounds from it.

― Ed, Friday, 20 April 2007 11:51 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, am tired. Completely failed to get any work done, as I suspected, but we did win the music library quiz (I knew we were going to do pretty well when the second question was 'what label are Belbury Poly and the Advisory Circle affiliated to', ha). Napoleon was also good.

― emil.y, Friday, 20 April 2007 11:54 (eighteen years ago)

This, frankly, terrifies me:

http://www.prophecysound.com/images/ifmkII2006/ifmkII2006sun1.jpg

Set phaser to WUB!!!

x-post ha ha, I knew you would go out in the end.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 11:55 (eighteen years ago)

Cor, infinitphase....

Yes, it was inevitable, really. We won 'Charley Says' a 150-minute long compilation of public information films. Yay!

― emil.y, Friday, 20 April 2007 12:00 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, what a cool prize, as well!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 12:02 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.4mspedals.com/phaseur/logo.jpg

― Ed, Friday, 20 April 2007 12:03 (eighteen years ago)

aesthetics are important too

― Ed, Friday, 20 April 2007 12:04 (eighteen years ago)

That does look pleasingly like a spirograph, yes, but banks and banks of knobs will always beat anything, any day.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 12:06 (eighteen years ago)

Trying to make a quality distinction between all of these really nice sounding phasers is hard, the TCXII is sounds good too.

― Ed, Friday, 20 April 2007 12:06 (eighteen years ago)

A moog quite frankly are naughty for demoing their moogerfooger with the greatest of all wave forms, the sawtooth.

― Ed, Friday, 20 April 2007 12:07 (eighteen years ago)

My next pedal:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/05/uk_battersea_power_station0s_past/img/3.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 12:12 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, blimey. I've got a date for my operation - next Friday.

SEVEN THIRTY AM. Argh!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 12:14 (eighteen years ago)

It's awfully close to monthend. I may need a helper monkey. Argh.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 12:16 (eighteen years ago)

I can't even remember how long it took me to recover from the last wrist operation, and that was only a minor procedure - this is proper surgery. For some reason, I don't think I'll be back up and running in four days. Will ask Ritesh when he needs monthend.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 12:27 (eighteen years ago)

Good luck with the op Kate!

(Woo I have broadband at home again at last.)

― Archel, Friday, 20 April 2007 12:37 (eighteen years ago)

Woo for Archel back on the interweb! Hurrah! How's things?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 12:38 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha, it's too bad that AMP isn't playing with us any more. We should really really really do a cover of "Jailbait" for her.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 13:01 (eighteen years ago)

Things are good! Still trying to get the house sorted out really, and Alice has been colicky, ie. crying for England, ever since her lip operation two weeks ago. But hey, it's spring and we're in our lovely little cottage!

― Archel, Friday, 20 April 2007 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

christ almighty there's nothing on ILM but polls! Kerr are you behind this?

I did one poll! (and 1 last week and 1 the week before)
Although I did ask shakey to do all the pfunk ones, but he got carried away and did them all instead of leaving me one)

It's a new fad. In a few months all polls will have been done andnormal service will be resumed.

At least it's gave ILM some life, it's been dead since last year.
I think if the red bits were moved to either the end of the question or changed to normal colour people wouldn't complain so much.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 20 April 2007 13:51 (eighteen years ago)

Oof just got back from 4 pint lunch, luckily I don't have much work to do this afternoon!

Kate - if this was directed to me

Yeah, that too. It's hard enough when people ask me "what album should I get?" well it depends on what your tastes are. Do you want hippie wibble, driving amphetamine spacerock, prog extravaganzas, synth proto-techno, what?

Driving amphetamine spacerock please! :)

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

Speed spacerock tends to be the second half of most of the 70s albums, but try Warrior on the Edge of Time.

― Ed, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

Did you also ask which was the best Hawkwind album to get? The last person I was trying to tell was Mitya!

Driving Amphetamine Spacerock would be Doremifasolatido or whatever it's called. Maybe In Search Of Space. You want the Lemmy era for that.

Or just get Space Ritual and be done with it!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

x-post no, Warrior is where they start to go really really prog. Not that that's a bad thing. But not what was asked for.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:19 (eighteen years ago)

Ah, no I guess it wasn't me then :) I said something like I've heard everything up to Warrior, and asked what's the best late 70's album to get!

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

The late 70s is where I get off. But Quark Strangeness and Charm is a great song.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:22 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah I was thinking of going to Quark next.

It's amazing the difference one more pint makes after 3. I can work after 3 pints. 4 pints and I can barely focus. What is it about afternoon drinking?

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

I like what I have heard of PXR5

― Ed, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

It's all about the drive home, Col.Poo

― g-kit, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

Afternoon drinking in the sunshine. I am so jealous. I haven't had anything to drink and still can't focus on my work.

(Mainly because I've been given unclear requests with conflicting demands and the dude who made the request isn't here to clarify, bah.)

I think I might go and get carrot cake, but that would be wicked.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

Of Which High Rise and Uncle Sam's on Mars are my fave tracks.

― Ed, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

Of that era, I only have live stuff and don't know which song belongs on which album. My knowledge expires there.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

My colleague just came over and said "OHMIGOD that is a giant piece of carrot cake, no wonder you act like you're on drugs after you eat them. think of the sugar rush!"

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

Why have I never experienced sugar rush?

― g-kit, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

Is it a metabolism thing or something? People say it all the time but I must have something wrong with me because I'm sure I've never had one.

― g-kit, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

Do you eat a lot of sugar on a regular basis? I never had one until I gave up sugar for a detox thing. The next time I had a massive whack of sugar (I ate the carrot cake) honestly, I totally flipped out.

But I never really experienced it until I stopped eating sugar for a while.

Now I'm aware of it, I'm bad and I use it to get through dull afternoons.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

I rarely eat sugary stuff. I am a total savory food person, I dig spicy stuff and I'm not really keen on sweetness. I never have dessert, for example. But on the occassion I have some chocolate or something, I just eat it and like... that's it.

― g-kit, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

Nah, chocolate doesn't really have a high enough sugar content to kick it off. You wanna get a massive slice of carrot cake with loads of sugary icing. Then wooooooo!!!

OK,I'm going to go and listen to some spacerock and enjoy the rush.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

Cats, dude.

http://www.kscakes.com/LolCats/Uploads/Saved/drinkin-island-is-inside-each-of-us-my-son.jpg

Now I've had my carrot cake, I want some peach lembic.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

do you have any left, how was the canned timmermans?

― Ed, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

I only have one tinned timmermans left. It wasn't as good as the bottles of the other kind - a bit too sweet, kinda like peach soda. But still delicioius. Peaches and beer go together like... peaches and cream.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

Drunked @ work w00t

cool yr waters kids i'm off to teh pub

― onimo, Friday, 20 April 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

Hurrah for drunked at work! I only have to pretend to function for another hour.

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 20 April 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

I have another two hours. But then I got burritos and beer awaiting me at home!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

Mmm, beer. We have people coming round to view our flat tonight so I have to put off beer & spliffs til they leave :'(

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 20 April 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

Must, must, MUST remember to 1) mix new Spanglemaker vocals and 2) mix new backing tracks with Frances Wub on them for tomorrow.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

Oh god...

Sonic Cathedrals, Thursday 17th May.

120 DAYS
http://www.myspace.com/120days

THE EARLY YEARS
http://www.myspace.com/thesoundoftheearlyyears

KONTAKTE
http://www.myspace.com/kontakteuk

TIM HOLMES (DJ SET)
http://www.myspace.com/electriclooporchestra

Tickets: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/18003

OK, I'm thrilled coz I'd love to see TEY and Kontakte on the same bill, but at the same time I'm seething with envy because all my friends get to play SC and we never do. OK, I've never asked. But just coz I'd be devastated if they said no.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

TOO MANY SHOWS!!!

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/195/466219479_3eaa9313f1.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

They did the forgetting to have the night thing again didn't they.

Just give them a copy of spangle maker and ask them, they cannot possibly say no.

― Ed, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

sorry, hung with joy, wrong song in my head

― Ed, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

Kate/Ed/anyone who cares have you ever seen http://www.duke.edu/~tmc/pfunk.html?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, I have seen that, in fact I have it bookmarked - you must have posted it before.

Actually, Nat is a big Cocteaus fan so he would probably appreciate the Spangle Maker. Unless he got mad at us ruining it. :-(

I keep saying no, no, noooo I am going to go home early and get the last train and Nat is all you always say that and you never do, I always end up getting swept out with the rubbish at the end of the night coz I can't go home.

As soon as we finish HWJ I will give him a demo and go PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE.

Also, we must set up playing with Kontakte at the Good Ship perhaps.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

Reposting this from the ILM London gig thread:

Ooh yeah that reminds me - does Sonic Cathedral usually require tickets in advance? I'm supposed to be going to see Asteroid #4 there next month.

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

I answered over there, but the answer is no, you can get tickets on the night.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

...though must remember am having hand operated on which will pretty much preclude gigs until about June.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:21 (eighteen years ago)

Just read on ILM that Andrew Hill has died :(

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

Can an amnesiac be a hypocrite?

I'm curious.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

There are times when you really want to call someone out and go "either you are lying or you have genuinely forgotten your own behaviour!" but then again, it's time to remember the phrase: Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty, but only the pig enjoys it.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

...though must remember am having hand operated on which will pretty much preclude gigs until about June.

boo, but also yay because that means you will be able to do windmills like you always wanted to ;-)

― Ed, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

No, I will have to look after my wrists from now on.

God, looking at 120 Days, they are almost UNBEARABLY attractive. Especially the sort of dirty one who looks a bit like Benjamin Curtis. But I just don't like them. It's the vocals, I can't stand the vocals.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha. Poor Benjamin. Dumped by Kate.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 20 April 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

Like I said, *HE* dumped me by quitting my favourite band. Until the School of Seven Bells tour, and then I will love him again.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

Bottom left, hotttt with a hundred t's and possibly some umlauts:

http://harpmagazine.com/img/articles/200612_116.jpg

pedal pr0n:

http://depts.washington.edu/kexp/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/120%20Days2-CMJ-wideeffect.jpg

I JUST HATE THEIR SINGER'S VOICE!!!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

Who would you like to join them as singer then?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 20 April 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

Me!

No, wait, erm...

Latitia Sadier (sp?) probably.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 20 April 2007 17:37 (eighteen years ago)

Can Ed sing?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 20 April 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

hahahahaahahhahahahahahhaahaha

― Ed, Friday, 20 April 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

I would love it if you turned out to sing like Laetitia Sadier.

― ailsa, Friday, 20 April 2007 17:41 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe he does and that's why he is laughing!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 20 April 2007 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

HELLO
i went to the pub for someone's leaving drinks
OOPS

― emsk, Friday, 20 April 2007 17:53 (eighteen years ago)

get t'park

― Ed, Friday, 20 April 2007 17:54 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe see you tomorrow then!

― ailsa, Friday, 20 April 2007 17:56 (eighteen years ago)

I will be along at some point, also gig, our paths should cross.

― Ed, Friday, 20 April 2007 17:56 (eighteen years ago)

london fields yeh?

SEE YOU TOMORROW AILSA!

― emsk, Friday, 20 April 2007 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

IS ANYONE ELSE COMING TONIGHT, Y'ALL!?!??

(this is Kate not Ed but I can't change the screen name.)

― Ed, Saturday, 21 April 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

it is snowing today :( :( :(

― mitya, Monday, 23 April 2007 05:48 (eighteen years ago)

Sucks, weather is turning here but I doubt snow is on the cards.

this may cheer you up

― Ed, Monday, 23 April 2007 07:11 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry I didn't make the gig, Kate, I was overtaken by curry lust. Top weekend though, and really nice to see people again and meet Emsk and Nobody's Prawn.

― ailsa, Monday, 23 April 2007 08:09 (eighteen years ago)

I think I was a bit beyond coherent conversation when I turned up, sorry.

― Ed, Monday, 23 April 2007 08:14 (eighteen years ago)

I think I was beyond coherent conversation long before you turned up - we'd walked the length of London and had been up since 5am.

― ailsa, Monday, 23 April 2007 08:15 (eighteen years ago)

You're not supposed to get jetlagged just coming down from glasgow.

― aldo, Monday, 23 April 2007 08:37 (eighteen years ago)

Jetlag: Tell me about it!

Amber could not get to sleep last night until 01:00 am.
Alice slept like a log, until 05:30am.
So between the two of them, I managed 2 hours.

― Mark G, Monday, 23 April 2007 08:40 (eighteen years ago)

Hi hi hi. Where did the summer go?

Sorry I didn't make it out to Ailsa/Kv_nol-FAP2007; a garden party in Waterloo called, and I could not sway the group elsewhere (can't blame them tho, it was lovely). Tonight, we finish mixing the record! (I hope!)

― G00blar, Monday, 23 April 2007 09:22 (eighteen years ago)

Bah, we make plans to picnic for lunch today, and it rains. :-(

Oh, I spent yesterday in alkyhell. And writing out so many cheques to pay bills that I don't think HOG is going to happen any time soon, no matter how much I love HOG.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 23 April 2007 09:30 (eighteen years ago)

OK, School of Seven Bells talk has just been banned/bannished from the Secret Machines messageboard. For the love of god, the band split was amicable - why are the fans being such pricks about it?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 23 April 2007 09:50 (eighteen years ago)

bah myspace is not letting me upload a picture, I want to thank the loves with a ticket to drinkin' island

― Ed, Monday, 23 April 2007 09:51 (eighteen years ago)

I just tried to thank Fortuna Pop! but they didn't approve our friend request. Bah.

Am feeling funny because I want to be booking more gigs, but know that we can't until my wrist is operated on and recovered.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 23 April 2007 10:02 (eighteen years ago)

yes that does suck a little, I feel we have a bit of momentum right now.

― Ed, Monday, 23 April 2007 10:03 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe we should be looking at booking future gigs, for June and beyond.

And work on finishing the bloody album! Argh!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 23 April 2007 10:04 (eighteen years ago)

At least I have finally remembered to do the bills. And I've just turned in a CORRECT gas reading. They sent me a bill for £120! I don't THINK so!

The electricity reading was low, though. Odd. I blame the dehumidifyer.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 23 April 2007 10:43 (eighteen years ago)

Where is everyone today? Oh god, I'm so bored today is going to be ENDLESS if no one else talks. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 23 April 2007 10:51 (eighteen years ago)

It is quiet, yes.

― Mark G, Monday, 23 April 2007 10:53 (eighteen years ago)

Don't know what HOG is, have nothing to say about utility bills. Sorry.

― mitya, Monday, 23 April 2007 10:54 (eighteen years ago)

sorry, damn work is getting in the way of procrasturbation

― Ed, Monday, 23 April 2007 10:54 (eighteen years ago)

House of...

Guitars?

― Mark G, Monday, 23 April 2007 10:55 (eighteen years ago)

Here's a question: why do I feel more hungover today (with no drinking yesterday), than I did yesterday (after prodigious ruin)?

― G00blar, Monday, 23 April 2007 10:55 (eighteen years ago)

Harmonic Octave Generator. It makes your guitar sound like a mad hammond organ with portmento. I wants one. I can't afford one this month.

I guess I'm just having comedown from several weeks worth of excitement and real life looks a bit boring now.

x-post G00blar, it's because you drank so much on Saturday that you were STILL DRUNKED on Sunday.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 23 April 2007 10:57 (eighteen years ago)

Didn't drink?

Dehydration. Should have drunk something. Water. Coffee. Anything.

― Mark G, Monday, 23 April 2007 10:57 (eighteen years ago)

I thought I did! And I made (and ate) soup!

― G00blar, Monday, 23 April 2007 10:58 (eighteen years ago)

I suppose I should do some work today, too. But my boss is at home, sick, so I can't actually get any guidance on what I should do first, or explanation of what these people actually mean in these ridiculous report requests. So I'd rather not do them.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 23 April 2007 11:00 (eighteen years ago)

Similar: My PC de jour has no SQL EntMan. So whaddayawanmetaDO?

― Mark G, Monday, 23 April 2007 11:00 (eighteen years ago)

I came into the department today to do my long-put-off end of term reports (term ended a month ago; today's the first day of the new term). But as soon as I got in, the department secretary told me there's no rush, no one's doing any work in the dept anyway. So now I (obvs) don't feel like doing them.

― G00blar, Monday, 23 April 2007 11:02 (eighteen years ago)

I'm looking through my inbox, and there's all these requests that have "we'll discuss after your holiday..." written on them, and then no one ever DID!!!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 23 April 2007 11:03 (eighteen years ago)

Hello all.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 23 April 2007 11:15 (eighteen years ago)

Morning! Feeling better about your lump? ;-)

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 23 April 2007 11:16 (eighteen years ago)

yup.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 23 April 2007 11:22 (eighteen years ago)

ILM made me listen to AC/DC and now I wanna listen to Genesis for the 1st time in ages.
Nothing will make me listen to Yes(apart from Roundabout), so sorry Kate.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 23 April 2007 11:23 (eighteen years ago)

And no I don't even like the early more psych influenced stuff. I could give some a go if I got cookies but I just can't see me liking them. Same with Jethro Tull and ELP.

Bit like how Norm doesn't like Camel.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 23 April 2007 11:24 (eighteen years ago)

Kerr likes "invisible touch" but "starship trooper" he can't handle? pftt.

― mitya, Monday, 23 April 2007 11:52 (eighteen years ago)

I was just listening to that yesterday. (Starship Trooper.)

argh, is it sunny or is it raining, I cannot tell. I want to be OUT and not in the office and eating lunch in the park.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 23 April 2007 11:53 (eighteen years ago)

I really wish that 120 Days sounded more like Triumph 2000. They are both trying to do the same thing, but for some reason Triumph seem to just be slightly better at it, to the point where I can listen to them. (So long as I don't stray into the remixes.)

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 23 April 2007 11:54 (eighteen years ago)

Fuck anything after Peter Gabriel left.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 23 April 2007 12:09 (eighteen years ago)

I AM SO HUNGRY. EMSK, WHAT HAPPENED TO LUNCH?!?!? ARE WE DOING THIS OR WHAT?!?!??!

I am getting crankier by the second.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 23 April 2007 12:10 (eighteen years ago)

Ugh. That sandwich did NOT help.

― G00blar, Monday, 23 April 2007 12:13 (eighteen years ago)

"Remember to work off those calories"
http://stat.rumandmonkey.com/tests/5/3/2735/9975.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 23 April 2007 12:14 (eighteen years ago)

"psst Kate doesn't like Benjamin anymore"
http://valenciaeven.blogg.no/images/boosh2_1143108976.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 23 April 2007 12:17 (eighteen years ago)

Anyone seen FP lately?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 23 April 2007 12:18 (eighteen years ago)

Haha Just as I hit send I got an email about those Kyuss cookies!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 23 April 2007 12:22 (eighteen years ago)

Bah, it is pissing it down now. :-(

At least I have food so the crankiness will hopefully shortly end.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 23 April 2007 12:31 (eighteen years ago)

Pissing down here too.

http://www.last.fm/group/UK+Watercooler/charts

B&S go down again!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 23 April 2007 12:32 (eighteen years ago)

I just tried to thank Fortuna Pop! but they didn't approve our friend request. Bah.

I wouldn't worry, Kate. As far as I'm aware, Sean still hasn't got back to us about the Butterflies of Love stealing our cymbals and taking them on the road (accidentally, natch). And we need them back by next week, aaargh. Flaky bastard.*

*In case of googlage - we love ya really.

― emil.y, Monday, 23 April 2007 12:34 (eighteen years ago)

Thieving bastards!

And they sound like the Eagles. Ha ha. ;-)

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 23 April 2007 12:38 (eighteen years ago)

Grr, I'll get them onto you. They're all 7 foot tall, you know!

― emil.y, Monday, 23 April 2007 12:39 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, but are they LIZARDS?!?!?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 23 April 2007 12:42 (eighteen years ago)

Hmmmm... maybe. Jeffrey certainly doesn't blink much.

....Anyway, got to go to class, argh.

― emil.y, Monday, 23 April 2007 12:43 (eighteen years ago)

Sounding like the Eagles is not a good thing so could someone linkify so I can judge for myself. (sounding like journey of the sorcerer is a'ok of course)

― Ed, Monday, 23 April 2007 12:44 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha, OK, I should stop - this is how feuds get started, and I'm just kidding around. I bear no ill will towards any one. Except for the cnut who said my amp was "broken" when he just didn't have a clue how to use a tube amp.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 23 April 2007 12:45 (eighteen years ago)

myspace is rubbish

― Ed, Monday, 23 April 2007 12:49 (eighteen years ago)

Can you still not get in? Or are you trying to do something that it doesn't like?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 23 April 2007 12:50 (eighteen years ago)

Stupid MySpace. We just can't both be in there at once. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 23 April 2007 13:11 (eighteen years ago)

Eating did no good. I am just cranky today. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 23 April 2007 13:16 (eighteen years ago)

Is pfunkboy still around? His zip file has me puzzld.

― Mark G, Monday, 23 April 2007 13:23 (eighteen years ago)

Grrrrrr.

OK, today I am in just one of those moods where I'm pissed off by every little thing, so I should just stay clear of the internet - especially Web 2.0 where people can advertise stupid high school crap.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 23 April 2007 13:34 (eighteen years ago)

I am here , Mark.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 23 April 2007 13:42 (eighteen years ago)

bah today is busy, I want to talk about hogs and bellzoukis

― Ed, Monday, 23 April 2007 13:45 (eighteen years ago)

OK,

You sent a zip file. Is that lots of tracks? (I haven't had time to unzip/listen to it) and if so, what track?

― Mark G, Monday, 23 April 2007 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

Was it the Afflicted Man double cd? I must have sent it by webmail as I don't have your email.

If you scroll upthread you will see what I posted about them.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 23 April 2007 13:53 (eighteen years ago)

I deleted the comment, but I'm still smarting.

I mean, this is what I mean by high school crap - a friend said that they made a second flickr account to post photos that they didn't want everyone seeing. (I'm assuming that they meant dirty photos or whatever - though, honestly, Flickr has it so you can restrict views of photos to friends or families anyway.)

So I tried friending this second account - I still haven't been added. Today they've put this picture on their regular account going "Oh, I was going to put this on the other account, but it's too cute not to share!"

Like, dude, why are ADVERTISING the fact that you have this super secret account from which certain people are blocked? If it's a cute picture, just put it up.

It just seems so freaking high school. Or maybe I'm still in high school for being annoyed by the patent YOU ARE NOT MY FRIEND message implied. I don't know.

It's just one of those days when everything is getting on my nerves.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 23 April 2007 13:53 (eighteen years ago)

I'll repeat it here
Question for Dada/Dr C/Mark Grout
Do you know this band?
http://aquariusrecords.org/images/afflcompcd.jpg

AFFLICTED MAN The Complete Recordings (Senseless Whale) 2cd
A while back we remember running across a bootleg-looking vinyl reissue of an LP called Get Stoned Ezy by some British band from the early '80s called High Speed and The Afflicted Man. This obscurity was supposed to be an unknown precursor to the blown-out psychedelic speed freaks sound of Japan's High Rise -- in other words, a holy grail of wah and fuzz. Tom Lax wrote a review of it on his Siltblog that said it sounded like Saint Vitus covering Les Rallizes Denudes! Can anything live up to that? Heck, if Get Stoned Ezy even just remotely came close to living up to its excellent title we'd be curious. Are you curious too?
Well that LP is long gone, but all the tracks from that and more are to be found on this new double cd collection of everything ever recorded by guitarist Steve Hall's DIY punk-psych outfit Afflicted Man (aka Afflicted, aka High Speed and The Afflicted Man).

Ramshackle, lo-fi, outsider guitar blurt that reminds us of everything from The Heads to the Stooges to Human Instinct to Michael Yonkers to Zippo Zetterlink to Baby Grandmothers to Acid Mothers Temple and the Pink Ladies Blues. It's psychedelic hard rock done "Messthetics" style.
There's over two hours of music here. Disc one features Afflicted Man's three Bonk label 7" singles, and their The Afflicted Man's Musical Bag LP (which dates from "probably 1979"). The songs from the 7"s are all fairly rockin' punkers, while the Musical Bag LP is weirder and more damaged, with tracks like "Hippy Punk" and "Hippy Skin" (that's what these guys were?), the downer blues of "Glue Sniffing", and the krautrockish "Musically Insane", a track that's really a reinterpretation of their first single "I'm Afflicted", extended to eight minutes and buried amidst shimmering piano and freeform FX.
It's what that song would sound like if it was covered by Moolah!
Disc two is where the really fuzz really hits the fan, comprising both the I'm Off Me 'ead LP (1981) and the aforementioned Get Stoned Ezy (1982).

On both records, Hendrix and Hawkwind are obvious references, playfully roughed up by these punks n' skins. The three long tracks of Get Stoned Ezy, especially, take that hippy psych sound into a back alley and fuck it up, but all in good weird fun.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 23 April 2007 13:55 (eighteen years ago)

Ah right!

Thanks for it! I have no idea if it's my thing or not, but I will give it a listen.

― Mark G, Monday, 23 April 2007 13:57 (eighteen years ago)

I thought one of you 3 might have been familiar with them. It's pretty good actually.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 23 April 2007 13:57 (eighteen years ago)

It did remind me of Michael Yonkers more than any of the others mentioned.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 23 April 2007 13:58 (eighteen years ago)

Hello there. I am still alive.

― Forest Pines, Monday, 23 April 2007 13:59 (eighteen years ago)

It sounds like the sort of thing the Head Heritage site might have reviewed.

xpost hi!

― Mark G, Monday, 23 April 2007 13:59 (eighteen years ago)

OK, now I'm starting to understand why certain people get bothered by all the music chatter. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 23 April 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry kate. I thought it was his contribution to the ILX Vol 3 comp.

Discussion endie.

― Mark G, Monday, 23 April 2007 14:04 (eighteen years ago)

Hi FP!

Sorry Kate.

I thought it was always ok to have several conversations running at once? I wasn't ignoring you, I was just answering Mark's question.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 23 April 2007 14:05 (eighteen years ago)

I wasn't complaining (well I guess I was) - I was just saying that now I understood that point of view.

It's not like there's much other discussion going on at the moment. I'm just in a cranky mood, feeling excluded by one friend, and now feeling ignored on here. When I feel like this I should just stay off the web, fullstop.

Carry on talking about music all you like.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 23 April 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

polar bears!

― g-kit, Monday, 23 April 2007 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

I've been in a cranky mood myself, for no real reason apart from feeling a bit under the weather.

― Forest Pines, Monday, 23 April 2007 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

Like I said i wasn't ignoring you , Kate. I just didn't know how to answer what you said.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 23 April 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

Here's a topless Julian to cheer you up

http://www.timeout.com/img/forced/16784/w200/h160/image.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 23 April 2007 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

Question for Dada/Dr C/Mark Grout
Do you know this band?

Only in that I vaguely remember them being around back in the day. Sorry!

― Dr.C, Monday, 23 April 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

We had a fairly crap first quarter here and we're just getting word that there is likely to be some 'right-sizing' as a consequence. Like that makes any business sense....

Anyway, better do some work, I guess!

― Dr.C, Monday, 23 April 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

I hope Beryl's job is safe!

― C J, Monday, 23 April 2007 14:40 (eighteen years ago)

I can't stay awake this afternoon and I'm reading an article about yet another putative standard for metadata exchange.

― Ed, Monday, 23 April 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

Not another one!

― G00blar, Monday, 23 April 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

Well, I came up with mine own answer. Just remove the person from my flickr contacts entirely, so I don't have to be reminded of it. If they want to play high school games, I don't have to see it.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 23 April 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

Everybody hates me, nobody loves me and I'm going to eat some worms.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 23 April 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

I hope Beryl's job is safe!

She'll be OK - finance people always are! But of course if it looks like she is for the chop and I'm not I'll be chivalrous and fall on my sword to save her.

― Dr.C, Monday, 23 April 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

Kate did you check out those Kyuss cookies?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 23 April 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

Nah, I'm in a cranky mood and I find it difficult to listen to new music in this kind of mood - I automatically hate almost everything.

Which day is bank holiday? This coming Monday or the Monday after?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 23 April 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

Monday after.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 23 April 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

Bah. Then again, I may have to take this Monday off anyway, if I can't use my hand yet. I have no idea how long it will take to recover.

What a nuisance. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 23 April 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

Did the doc say you can't use it for a certain period of time?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 23 April 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

Haven't spoken to the doc about it yet - pre-surgery consultation is not until Wednesday.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 23 April 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

Oh right. Well I hope it goes well!!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 23 April 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

You won't need a general anaesthetic will you?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 23 April 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

I have no idea. I hope not, I want to watch what they do. I watched last time, but it wasn't very exciting. Most doctors don't let you; I suppose they don't want you back seat driving.

Argh argh argh argh argh, cranky cranky cranky.

It is probably just come down from the past few weeks, but I hate it.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 23 April 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

We've got recording and mixing to look forward to.

― Ed, Monday, 23 April 2007 17:12 (eighteen years ago)

check this out

― Ed, Monday, 23 April 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

they are GORGEOUS, aren't they?

― emsk, Monday, 23 April 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

deep sea creatures

― Ed, Monday, 23 April 2007 17:37 (eighteen years ago)

weird looking fuckers. totally adorable.

― emsk, Monday, 23 April 2007 17:51 (eighteen years ago)

Okay, folks, let's have a bit of chatter today.

― mitya, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 08:07 (eighteen years ago)

Well, I'm working from home today, waiting for replacement cards. (I lost my wallet being a drunken idjut on sunday morning)

― Ed, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 08:16 (eighteen years ago)

Should be quieter than yesterday. First day back from vegas for people and all that.

― Ed, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 08:22 (eighteen years ago)

Vegas? Who was in Vegas?

― mitya, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 08:40 (eighteen years ago)

The whole of the broadcast industry. It's a big annual trade fair.

― Ed, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 08:42 (eighteen years ago)

I was, mercifully, not in vegas.

― Ed, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 08:42 (eighteen years ago)

Good morning. I feel awful - blocked sinuses - and I've got my annual review in a short while. Oh, joy.

― Forest Pines, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 08:52 (eighteen years ago)

Rather bizarrely someone has posted all of my cards to me, but kept the wallet.

Anyone know where I can get a good wallet?

― Ed, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 09:08 (eighteen years ago)

Morning.

There are some ugly fuckers in there - the predators I imagine - but the others are gorgeous! The yellow pikachu fellow! The rainbow floaty thing! The psychedelic bells! The octopi!

I'm feeling a bit better than I was last night. Strange dreams last night, and I'm trying to figure them out. Like my subconscious is working out something I can't.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 09:11 (eighteen years ago)

x-post is it wallet losing season or what lately?

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 09:11 (eighteen years ago)

Of course, getting my cards back is no bloody good as all the important ones are cancelled, but at least I don't have to get replacements for the piffypaffy ones (Hertz, Liberty, Oyster, etc.)

― Ed, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 09:15 (eighteen years ago)

Why would someone nick a wallet, but not the cards?

I got my wallet from a biker style leather shop in Camden because I wanted one with a chain. Not as a fashion statement, but because I kept losing my wallet (and Green Cards are a BITCH to replace) and I wanted to chain it to me/my bag. It's been very long-wearing.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 09:18 (eighteen years ago)

Plain black leather with lots of card slots, will take a £20 without folding, no transparent plastic window, no zips.

― Ed, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 09:25 (eighteen years ago)

this works for me. Most of the cheaper ones I can find have plastic windows or large brand names stamped on them.

― Ed, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 09:30 (eighteen years ago)

STILL NOT DONE URGGGG

― G00blar, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 09:30 (eighteen years ago)

Those do look nice, Ed. But they will still fold a 20 in half! Or do you mean not crinkling the ends?

I always have to have a tri-fold wallet. I don't know why, I just like them. The only thing that my current wallet doesn't have which I like is a zipper pouch to keep my change - this is especially U&K in the UK.

My NYC wallet has a change pouch which is odd because I never care about change in NYC coz it's so worthless. I suppose I used to keep subway tokens in it - actually, no I didn't - when I used tokens, I had this neat contraption that would hold a week's worth on my keychain.

Funny how I had to have a new wallet for a new life. That was quite a nice wallet, too - it was purple and green suede.

What are you not done with, G00blar? The mixing or your PhD?

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 09:39 (eighteen years ago)

Pockets are for change, wallets are for flat things.

Talking of mixing I did spangle maker last night. Took a new approach to it using, less compression and pan than the last mix, phasing the percussion, gentle fan of vocal and guitar parts. I'm not happy with it. especially near the end. It seems to drift off when it ought to be peaking. Too much time spend searching for things causing peaks. I think I need to start again, again.

― Ed, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 09:49 (eighteen years ago)

The song kind of drifts off when it should be peaking because I could not figure out the words for the last bit, so I just sang the chorus over and over. You can turn the guitars up there and go for a squall.

Ladies' outfits don't always have pockets. That's why their wallets have to have change pockets. Or maybe purses? I don't know. I'm not very good at this "lady" thing.

Just saw some pictures from the last gig. God, I'm a fat fuck. I mean, I know that I'm fat, but it's always a shock to see just *how* fat I am in photos. I look like my mum. There just doesn't seem to be doing anything about it. Food (and drink) occupies the hole in my life where love, romance and sex used to reside. It's the last sensual pleasure I've got left, I'm not giving it up. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 09:52 (eighteen years ago)

Are they the Matthew ones or has bob got a secret stash somewhere?

― Ed, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 09:53 (eighteen years ago)

The mixing, my god, the mixing. Uh-oh's pretty much done, but we didn't do any of the tweaks of the other mixes last night (understandable, as it was 10:30 and the dude is now essentially working for free). He said he'll do the tweaks over the next couple weeks, but I'm now emailing him to offer to pay him for another day just so I can come in and do it with him ASAP.

― G00blar, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 10:01 (eighteen years ago)

The Matthew ones, Bob hasn't uploaded his yet. They're a bit blurry.

Looking at Bob's site is weird - he is a fantastic photographer, but I get so overwhelmed by just how *many* bands there are in London. He makes them all look so exciting. (Even though I know they are probably wibbling indie.)

x-post

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 10:02 (eighteen years ago)

Mixing takes about TWICE as long as you think it's going to. Always.

No matter how good an engineer or producer you're working with, you need at least half a day - sometimes even a day - per song.

You always kind of schedule mixing as an afterthought, and then when it's happening, you realise that it takes longer than the actual recording in many cases.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 10:04 (eighteen years ago)

OTM. I realize all of this. And I am soooo grateful that we've got a studio/engineer that is willing to put in the extra time (for free!) even though we've only paid for 5 days. But the little kid in me who wants his shiny new record is just disappointed and impatient that it's not done yet.

― G00blar, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 10:06 (eighteen years ago)

I mixed 3 songs in 3 hours last night! The ILX track is selected.

With mixing I think you have to be non-perfectionist.

― Dr.C, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 10:08 (eighteen years ago)

x-post there's non perfectionist, and there's getting things the way you want them to sound!

Tell me about it! Rough mixes, as exciting as they are, just make you want to make more tweaks!

(Though the delays in our case are pretty much due to line-up changes - every time I think we've got a good recording someone else leaves or joins and I have to do another session, argh, and that means a whole nother hell of mixing.)

ACtually, Ed, that's something we can work on while my hand is out of commission - I can bring my laptop round yours and you can get your paws on the buttons. But you will have to learn Cubase.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 10:09 (eighteen years ago)

It's kind of dangerous having your own mixing setup at home. Sends you into Kevin Shields territory, but when you are mixing in a studio, a time limit is a good source of discipline.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 10:10 (eighteen years ago)

I have no problem learning cubase. It is learning how to mix that is more difficult.

I'm in hurry up and wait mode at home, (waiting for work things waiting for cards, waiting for tea to brew) so I have just deleted all of the automation from the mix I did last night and mildly compressed the drums.

Because everything is on stereo tracks and moving across the field quite a lot it is quite hard to sport where there are going to be coincident signals where it is going to peak.

― Ed, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 10:14 (eighteen years ago)

x-post All 3 sound how I want them to sound, except for a slight tweak to the snare sound on one track that I think we'll make when I go in to do the other 2 trax next week.

Wait till you hear the ILX track! I was torn between a 60's-ish garagey thing with clavinet, hammond and duane-eddy style geetar riffs and a post-punker with phased synth and a huge jazzmaster mashup in the middle. In the end we went with the latter because it's a slightly better performance - we record live and then add on a few overdubs where needed.

― Dr.C, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 10:15 (eighteen years ago)

Ooh, that sounds good.

It's kind of hard to record "live" when most of your band lives in a shiny metal box! And also harmony vocals require a lot more careful mixing - as Ed points out, they blend in unpredictable ways.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 10:18 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, why is arranging lunch always so difficult?

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 10:23 (eighteen years ago)

A hardware mix controller would be a good thing.

― Ed, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 10:24 (eighteen years ago)

To arrange lunch?

― onimo, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 10:25 (eighteen years ago)

x-post Yeah we don't have harmony vox, but I have got some ideas in that area. I might try and add some to the next session.

I will see if I can send you an MP3 at some point - I think you might like the track!

― Dr.C, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 10:25 (eighteen years ago)

TS: musical arranging vs. lunch arranging

― Tom D., Tuesday, 24 April 2007 10:26 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not a big fan of automation. I try to use it as sparingly as possible. The dynamics should really be done within the programming and the playing.

But then again, that's why my drums are always too quiet at the beginning and too loud at the end.

What on earth should I work on first today? I've got no motivation because my boss isn't here. And my mind is on lunch.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 10:26 (eighteen years ago)

Basically I have to drop the levels of the voices when there is more than one set going at a time with the aim of keeping the overall volume the same. I'm really trying hard to hover just below the clip lights because I want this track to sound loud.

― Ed, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 10:31 (eighteen years ago)

Um, you shouldn't have to do that. Set the volume on the harmonies so they are right when they are all going. The overall volume shouldn't be the same - the track should build as the other harmonies come in.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 10:34 (eighteen years ago)

Oh shit, I've changed my mind on which track to submit.

― Dr.C, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 10:34 (eighteen years ago)

Stop being such a perfectionist

― Tom D., Tuesday, 24 April 2007 10:35 (eighteen years ago)

Aha already much better after chopping out a lot of guff. Still need to drop the voices a little towards the end but then we might have it.

― Ed, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 10:42 (eighteen years ago)

It is *supposed* to be really sparse and kind of quiet at the beginning - and then the end is the giant explosion of voices and feedback.

I'm really tempted to send you the original, but that would be defeating the point or the re-interpretation.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 10:47 (eighteen years ago)

I have got to find something else to listen to. I'm getting wound up by faff and need something to calm me down.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 10:50 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I'm nearly there anyway. It's a case of dropping a few things down so everything fits we're talking -0.25 or -0.5 across the guitars and vocals. Plus lowering the drums across the whole track as they are a tiny bit prominent.

― Ed, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 10:50 (eighteen years ago)

I'm at home so what do you want.

― Ed, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 10:51 (eighteen years ago)

This is the problem with my boss not being here, is she normally functions as my faff-shield.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 10:53 (eighteen years ago)

my boss is my sneezeguard

― g-kit, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 10:56 (eighteen years ago)

no idea why but that makes me chuckle.

― Ed, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 10:57 (eighteen years ago)

octopus eating a shark

― Ed, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 10:58 (eighteen years ago)

Nope, Marnie Stern too much for my jangled nerves.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 11:02 (eighteen years ago)

i'm really bored

― g-kit, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 11:09 (eighteen years ago)

even by octopus eating shark?

― Ed, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 11:13 (eighteen years ago)

sorry, shark eating octopus

― Ed, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 11:14 (eighteen years ago)

it's only 2 minutes long, i have 5 hours to go

― g-kit, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 11:15 (eighteen years ago)

super xposty:

Hi, FP! Hope your review went well.

― mitya, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 11:37 (eighteen years ago)

OK, I am off to lunch. I will probably be early since I don't believe this bus connundrum.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 11:41 (eighteen years ago)

My brain hurts from reading http://www.ilxor.com:8080/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=57264#unread

Also B&S fans there's a poll for you guys on best album
http://www.ilxor.com:8080/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=57348#unread
Not started by me btw, Mitya. SO you can't blame me this week.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 11:45 (eighteen years ago)

aw p00r w33 sh4rk ;_;

youtube comments are usually rub but this made me laugh:
I'd like to see the octopus AND the shark team up against a barracuda and a badger.

― onimo, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 11:46 (eighteen years ago)

I am bemused, that led zep and sabbath thread actually appears to have some intelligent discourse going on.

― Ed, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 11:50 (eighteen years ago)

Hongro vs Goldberg was enough to make me run away.

― onimo, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 11:52 (eighteen years ago)

Who is that Goldberg guy? I saw JW had a run in with him. Has he always posted round here? I can't keep track of who is who now since the big change.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 11:53 (eighteen years ago)

iirc he was on ILM a year or so back spouting some shite about how only properly trained musicians were qualified to have opinions on music or something like that.

― onimo, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 11:55 (eighteen years ago)

OK, I only read to the break, I may have missed that but I'm not going back.

― Ed, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 11:57 (eighteen years ago)

http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6586879.stm

This might make your eyes water a bit.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:06 (eighteen years ago)

proposition to change name of ILM to LOL

― g-kit, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:12 (eighteen years ago)

The enemies of ILM thread is lacking teh kit cat poo jokes.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:13 (eighteen years ago)

LOL = Looneys of London

― Tom D., Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:14 (eighteen years ago)

there's an enemies of ilm thread?

― g-kit, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:14 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.ilxor.com:8080/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=57264#unread

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:16 (eighteen years ago)

oh right. it's on ILM.

― g-kit, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:17 (eighteen years ago)

Yes.
I forgot you never read ILM.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:25 (eighteen years ago)

i read mini-ILM instead

― g-kit, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:25 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, I know you trust the musical opinions of watercooler folks, Kit.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:32 (eighteen years ago)

I only come here to see if you're talking about something different :(

― g-kit, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:35 (eighteen years ago)

We had sharks and octopuses (octupii?) for a couple of minutes.

― onimo, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:35 (eighteen years ago)

"we"

― g-kit, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

There was funny cat photos last week or the week before.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:43 (eighteen years ago)

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j114/Brad_Will/Fark/Cats/cat-getinthecar.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:45 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.subaru-svx.net/photos/files/Landshark/38153.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:46 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.acc.umu.se/~zqad/cats/1161455485982.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:46 (eighteen years ago)

http://uregina.ca/~lacey11b/catjeeesus.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:47 (eighteen years ago)

http://uregina.ca/~lacey11b/catgurlfrend.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:47 (eighteen years ago)

http://uregina.ca/~lacey11b/caturdayeveryday.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:48 (eighteen years ago)

"response in quote marks"

― onimo, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:48 (eighteen years ago)

Stop img spamming our cooler!

― onimo, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:49 (eighteen years ago)

Can I post more?
http://www.acc.umu.se/~zqad/cats/1156888263403.b.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:49 (eighteen years ago)

hell yeah, it's not like I have anything to say right now.

― Ed, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:50 (eighteen years ago)

One of those pics I think was done by Teh Kit. Can you guess which one?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:51 (eighteen years ago)

I shall stop just now unless Kate says it's ok to post more.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:52 (eighteen years ago)

YAY someone came in to buy a pair of pedals and left with a dahon mu p8 which is a lovely bike that costs 470 quid

BOO I tried to order another one to restock, no more 'till june. Gah.

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:52 (eighteen years ago)

That ILM thread is hilarious in a quiet and unintentional way.

― Forest Pines, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:52 (eighteen years ago)

Score, pash.

I played the home brew psylocybe (nice sound stupid name, no rate light); Red witch moon phase (very thing sound but stereo output), Sub Decay Quaser (okay sound, but something missing from it). I like the stereo phase effect though so maybe an modified infitiphase or the Prophecy 777. Can you think of any other stereo phasers?

Also I played the Bellzouki and I has a really really great sound and I think it may be mine when my expenses clear.

― Ed, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 12:58 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.messengermods.com/data/thumbnails/2/ConfusedKitten.jpg

― onimo, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:00 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.benway.com/vagrants/other/fork-pie2.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:03 (eighteen years ago)

http://danstheman.com/guitar.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:09 (eighteen years ago)

Ed, the only other one I can think of is this:

http://www.blacet.com/StonZ.html

I think it's a hot rodded small stone. Downside is that it's a kit, and it's a modular synthesiser module, not a pedal - you'd need a rack, a power supply and a preamp to go with it.

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:19 (eighteen years ago)

Jesus Christ, do I have a sign on my forehead saying LOONIES ATTACK HERE?

I just got assaulted by another crazy person. WTF? My arm is all scratched up. I'm wondering if I should get tetanus shots or something.

I was just walking down Tottenham Court Road, because I was trying to cross. There's this really narrow bit behind some construction or something, and the same time I go in, this other girl is coming from the other direction. And then out of nowhere comes a bendy bus, right by the curb, so neither of us can get anywhere. I just stop. She starts shouting at me to move, so I reply "what am I supposed to do, step in front of the bus?" and then she rushes me and KICKS me as she goes by.

I was like WTF? and tried to grab her, and got her by the hair and was asking what was that about? Don't kick me! And she freaks out and starts scratching and biting at me and screaming at me. I was just "dude, YOU started this, you kicked me!" and she grabs hold of my pass around my neck like she's going to choke me, then starts screaming "AH SO YOU WORK, I KNOW WHERE YOU WORK NOW!!!!" (uh, no, actually it doesn't say where I work on my badge) but I manage to pry it back from her coz I don't want a lunatic with the pass to my office.

I was just so outraged - don't fucking kick me. And she's screaming at me, and I'm just looking at her, like - you are two foot tall and half my weight, are you *trying* to start a fight with me? And then she ran off shouting that she knew where I worked.

She's torn several holes out of my wrist. I'm very shaken.

Do I just have a *sign* on my head? What is it that attracts lunatics? I mean, that crazy lady on the bus the other month.

What was I supposed to do? Step in front of the bus? Like she couldn't wait the 30 seconds until the bus stopped or moved on?

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:29 (eighteen years ago)

CHRIST!

― G00blar, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:31 (eighteen years ago)

Which wrist?

That is pretty terrible. I got threatened in the post-office last week for 'bouncing at me'. (I was not bouncing at anyone I was just bouncing to the iPod)

I guess you can ask the doctor tomorrow, when did you last have a tetanus shot (they last 10 years)?

― Ed, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:33 (eighteen years ago)

London is full of idiots

― Tom D., Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:33 (eighteen years ago)

I'm really shaking, because it totally kicked in my fight or flight adrenaline system and it took every bone in my body not to kick her right back. Except she was half the size of me and I could have done her serious damage. I'm really scared, more because of my own reaction. And you really don't expect to be physically assaulted on the pavement.

The right wrist, same one I'm supposed to have the operation on.

I should really get plasters at least, because they haven't stopped bleeding.

I don't know when my last tetanus shot was.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:34 (eighteen years ago)

I'd go to the chemist and get some disinfectant at the very least, if only because it was the single grimiest street corner in britain.

― Ed, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:35 (eighteen years ago)

I presume there is a first aid point in the office?

― Ed, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:36 (eighteen years ago)

I have no idea who the first aid person is, it says in teh kitchen but it is out of date.

Good idea about the chemist. I washed it out with soap (stung like a mother) but should really get disinfectant plasters.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:37 (eighteen years ago)

There should be a first aid box around

― Tom D., Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:38 (eighteen years ago)

wtf sorry to hear that kate :-(

― CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:39 (eighteen years ago)

OK, there was a first aid box. Had both disinfectant and plasters.

I'm still just in "WTF?" land.

A real shame as I'd had a lovely lunch with Emsk on Sunny Goodge Street.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:43 (eighteen years ago)

Oh man, that sounds terrible. Don't know what to say! (first response I must admit is that you should have delivered a mighty beatdown, you probably did the best thing under the circumstances though, really.)

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:44 (eighteen years ago)

The girl was half the size of me. Seriously. I feel bad enough about pulling her hair, but it was the only part of her I could grab.

What do I do to attract more than my fair share of loonies? Am I just too defensive?

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

I've got Spangle, Ed, I will listen in a minute when I've calmed down.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:51 (eighteen years ago)

There's still a few pops on it. No rush.

― Ed, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:51 (eighteen years ago)

I feel terrible. I still shakey and uptight.

I suppose I spent the whole morning feeling uptight, so it's nothing new. My wrist is freaking killing me and it's making me paranoid. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

Is it worth going to the clinic in soho square, shouldn't be too busy around now?

― Ed, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

No, it's almost entirely psychological.

OK, she wrenched my wrist but it's not injured, I wouldn't be able to move it if it was.

I'm just really shaken.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

I'm also doing something really tedious at work, which isn't helping, as it means I'm just going over and over it in my mind.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

That means it's time to stop and look at pointy-nosed DDBs:

http://www.stereogum.com/img/cmj06/120days2.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

Much better:

http://www.atnzone.com/uploads/musiczone/120Days.jpg

I feel really stupid for letting it get out of control, for responding in the first place. But muttering at someone who cuts you off is one thing, and physically assaulting them is quite another.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

Probably everyone on ILX thinks I deserve it for being mouthy. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

You did well to maintain control of yourself and not let the violence escalate.

I know it's easier said than done but you should try to forget about her. Running into occasional random arseholes can't be helped - hopefully you've used up your quota for a while.

― onimo, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

Probably everyone on ILX thinks I deserve it for being mouthy

Oh don't be daft

― Tom D., Tuesday, 24 April 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

Bloody hell Kate, I hope you're alright. You did well not to beat her up.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

I don't like thinking of myself as the kind of person who would even be *tempted* to beat someone up. It scares me that it's such a deep-grained urge. It just makes me think that underneath this somewhat grumpy personna there's this seething mass of rage and violence which could just spring out if provoked. And that is a terrifying thought.

It's bad enough being assaulted over something so ridiculously minor. But much much worse to have to face the possibility in yourself.

The reason I get in so many of these situations is because I react when provoked. I have no idea how to let things go. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.ilxor.com:8090/ILX/StatsControllerServlet

How the fuck did I get into the top posters of all time stats?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 00:45 (eighteen years ago)

this somewhat grumpy personna there's this seething mass of rage and violence which could just spring out if provoked

i know this feeling. The tricky thing, I think, is that I have never reallly been able to sort "letting go" out from "pretending to ignore but actually letting sink to the riverbed which over time will become a filthy, rusted, spiky mass, which will tear a hole in the hull at some unexpected point in the future."

lunch on sunny goodge street sounds wonderful, although emsk probably wouldn't let me eat any lovely animal flesh, would she? (sorry emsk)

― mitya, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 04:49 (eighteen years ago)

Kerr, that's just the stats for the Sandbox (alternatively because you spend too much time here?)

― ailsa, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 06:18 (eighteen years ago)

:-)

― ailsa, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 06:18 (eighteen years ago)

Mornin'

Was out yesterday, at t'Barbican.

Dawn got her official oh what do you call it? BSc(Hons), cap/mortarboard/gown, shaking hands w/ Sir Trev, all that.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 09:10 (eighteen years ago)

I am getting stoked for ATP boozing and dancing and singing and goth bowling and cake (oh, and some bands are paying too)! Shame I've got about 5 days work to get through in two days before I go.

― onimo, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 09:17 (eighteen years ago)

Sounds like fun. ATP never has quite enough bands that I'd like to see.

― Ed, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 09:24 (eighteen years ago)

― g-kit, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 09:33 (eighteen years ago)

Argh. Bad news, worse news, worst news from the Dr.

1) NO BOOZE FROM NOW UNTIL 48 HOURS AFTER MY SURGERY!!!!

2) 10 day estimated recovery time. Which blows monthend out of the water.

3) Have to find someone to a) pick me up at the hospital and take me in a cab (not on public transport, in a car) home and then have someone stay with me for 24 hours after surgery.

Everyone I know works, how on earth am I supposed to find someone to escort me home? Plus stay with me overnight on a Friday night? On such short notice? It's too short notice for me to stay overnight in hospital. They can keep me in day surgery recovery until about 6.30 but then I have to find a way home. Argh. :-(

I wish they'd told me this A WEEK AGO so I could have found someone.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 09:36 (eighteen years ago)

2) is GOOD NEWS (isn't it?)

― Mark G, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 09:37 (eighteen years ago)

No, it's terrible! I have to work next week, there's no way I can take 10 days out of my life! Especially in the middle of monthend. I'm going to have to get a temp helper monkey to help out or something. Which will make everything take twice as long.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 09:40 (eighteen years ago)

Oh shit, and mumps is going through the office now.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 09:41 (eighteen years ago)

The guy who sits opposite me has just come down with it, and one of the conslutants has got it, too. Have I had mumps? I think I have been innoculated against it. I know I haven't had it, I've only had measles and chicken pox.

Is this something I should warn the hospital about?

Argh, I'm so paranoid.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 09:48 (eighteen years ago)

first and foremost, your health is much more important than your job, Kate

I'm going to have to get a temp helper monkey to help out or something. Which will make everything take twice as long.

better twice as long than not at all

Is this something I should warn the hospital about?

yes, far better you tell them and its irrelevant than you don't tell them and it is.

Wish i could help, Kate, with regard to the transport issue, but am car-less in a different city and am going through a mad time myself with a desk move and a dept move thanks to our Hoboken overlords, so i shall say hope it all goes ok, and I'll be thinking of you.

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 09:53 (eighteen years ago)

Also, I have to bring a dressing gown. I don't have a dressing gown. I suppose this is as good excuse as any to buy one. Where can I get a good dressing gown? I want one of the big snuggly ones. The last good dressing gown I saw was at Liberty and was v. expensive.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 10:06 (eighteen years ago)

John Lewis, generally my answer for everything like that (Also M&S and BHS should do something, too)

― Ed, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 10:09 (eighteen years ago)

Kate - month-end is not YOUR problem. It's up to your employers to find someone else to deal with it. I hope it all goes to plan and you're mended soon. Buy yourself the EXPENSIVE dressing gown!

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 10:10 (eighteen years ago)

Smoking Jacket and a cap with a tassle.

― Ed, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 10:11 (eighteen years ago)

Uh, no, it's my problem. The buck stops with me. If you are in a position of responsibility, you get paid to take the responsibility.

I have asked to get a helper monkey temp with lots of Excel experience. I will come in and guide them through it.

John Lewis is a good idea. Though the Liberty dressing gown was HOT PINK. In fact, IIRC, they had paisley dressing gowns. Hmmm.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 10:13 (eighteen years ago)

I mean, as noted upthread (or on the last thread) I am the only person in the company who knows how to do it. It's not something someone else could take over. no one else has that kind of intimate technical knowledge of the system.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 10:13 (eighteen years ago)

Also, I have to get to hospital by 7.30am WITHOUT THE USE OF TEA!!!

I have to appear at 7.30 having not eaten or drunk since midnight. I think I would go into anabolic shock if I went that long without caffeine.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 10:16 (eighteen years ago)

Don't worry about month-end, Kate. Knowing the way the NHS seems to be run these days, they'll call and cancel your apppointment at the very last minute anyway.

― C J, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 10:29 (eighteen years ago)

I just found out that one of my friends just got, like, her dream job. Awesome. Her title is "writer at large" which is just about the coolest job title ever. That's the kind of thing I would like written on my tombstone. I'm so pleased for her!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 10:39 (eighteen years ago)

Doesn't "at large" mean you're freelance, and don't have a proper contract?

― C J, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 10:42 (eighteen years ago)

that's the best job title I've seen since IT Superhero!

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 10:46 (eighteen years ago)

No, she has a contract. It's just a funny/hip job description.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 10:47 (eighteen years ago)

[i]If you are in a position of responsibility, you get paid to take the responsibility/i]
Presumably yr financial director gets paid too?

I got an email from someone whose job title said 'director and olympic athlete' That's cool and impressive, I reckon!

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 11:17 (eighteen years ago)

Oh I can't DO bloody formatting today.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 11:18 (eighteen years ago)

They are getting me an temp.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 11:18 (eighteen years ago)

A Hott temp or can't you specify?

― Ed, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 11:19 (eighteen years ago)

I strongly doubt that accounting temps would be what I would consider hott. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 11:21 (eighteen years ago)

temps come in all shapes and sizes

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 11:22 (eighteen years ago)

"Hello? Rock N Roll Dirty Boys R Us? Please can I have a temp for next Tuesday and Wednesday?"

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 11:23 (eighteen years ago)

UM!

http://www.vicerecords.com/artists/120days/120Days.jpg

UM UM UM UM UM UM UMMMMMMMM UUUUUUUUMMMMMM...

::literally speechless::

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 11:26 (eighteen years ago)

Um bum

― C J, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 11:30 (eighteen years ago)

Um!

Um um um um BUM BUM BUM um!!!

Naked Norwegians! It's a bit much for me to take.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 11:31 (eighteen years ago)

Have the nekkid Norwegians really brought conversation to a standstill?

What time does John Lewis close? I probably can't there over lunchtime but I might take a trip there after work.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 11:56 (eighteen years ago)

The naked Norwegians are doing nothing for me. They look too girly and WHERE IS THEIR BODY HAIR?

I got my bathrobe from John Lewis - it's a lovely thick velvety snuggly white Egyptian cotton one. I never want to take it off, and wish I could wear it all day long.

― C J, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 11:58 (eighteen years ago)

I've blocked the image. Pictures of nekkid people, even Norwegians, are frowned upon at work.

― onimo, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 11:58 (eighteen years ago)

Twas funny being up in the Barbican region, "This used to be my playground (at lunchtimes)"

There's a HMV branch at Moorgate now! I'd have never gone home! (not really obv)

We had to go home during the 17:40 rush-hour. unbelieveable, the number of Metropolitan line trains all 'comfortably seated', and one HamCit train every 8 mmins, all crammed like pilchards!

I'd forgotten how bad going to paddington was!

― Mark G, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 11:59 (eighteen years ago)

The pointy nosed bass player is totally winking at me. Right, JL closes at 7. I should go now. Sigh.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 12:01 (eighteen years ago)

Hello all. If you start posting naked norwegians bums then FP might get ideas!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 12:17 (eighteen years ago)

Dunno where FP is. I think he said he wasn't going to post here as much coz we teased him too much. :-(

― onimo, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 12:21 (eighteen years ago)

shhh. i played hookey today! but because i am stupid, i am now going to go get a haircut.

(p.s. no nekkid pics on the cooler thread, pls. thanks.)

― mitya, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 13:12 (eighteen years ago)

Field hockey or ice hockey?

― Ed, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 13:13 (eighteen years ago)

sorry, hooky not hockey

― Ed, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 13:13 (eighteen years ago)

i played hookey today!

like Ralf Little?

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 13:15 (eighteen years ago)

They're only mildly naked. Not, like REALLY naked.

Anyway, John Lewis were no use at all - they had only flimsy summer girly gowns that came down only to my knees.

So I went to Liberty and they had FULL LENGTH FLUFFY LUXURY dressing gowns. I bought one in BRIGHT PINK. I looked at the paisley embossed one in black, but thought - black in a hospital? No. Someone is going to mistake me for the angle of death.

So now I have a hotttt pink dressing gown. It is so lovely and fluffy I'm tempted to wear it in the office.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 13:20 (eighteen years ago)

p.s. plus CAKE.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 13:20 (eighteen years ago)

I over starched at lunch and I'm now in a coma.

― Ed, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 13:22 (eighteen years ago)

the angle of death

as opposed to the Saxon of death, one supposes.

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 13:24 (eighteen years ago)

Curse you, kate, now I am looking at liberty wallets.

― Ed, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 13:27 (eighteen years ago)

The acute angle of death. As opposed to the obtuse angle of LIFE.

Yes, everything Liberty is just lovely. I'm really torn about that lovely black one. They had white ones with the pattern on them, too, but I don't do white.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 13:29 (eighteen years ago)

Oh no!!!

Sockhunting starts again on Sunday. Can I hunt with an arm in bandages?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 13:30 (eighteen years ago)

I think you need a bath chair and a tartan blanket for that.

― Ed, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

And a good helping of medicinal brandy.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 13:33 (eighteen years ago)

and some krautrock cookies which may have been emailed recently to everyone ...

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 14:00 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, but are they naked?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

Well Julian Cope says

Walter Wegmuller - text & voice. Jerry Berkers - bass. Jurgen Dollase - mellotron, organ & piano. Hartmut Enke - wa-guitar. Manuel Gottsching - wa- guitar. Klaus Quadro Schulze - synthesizers & voice. Harald Grosskopf - drums. Walter Westrupp - acoustic guitars, mandolin, pipes, voice, etc. Bernd Witthuser - spoken word. Rosi Muller & Dieter Dierks - choir.

Yes, I know that you have to pay an arm and a leg to get this album (but no more as it's been re-released by Spalax - minus the Tarot Cards). Yes, but once you have it you will not worry about the cost. Let the music lift you. It is one on the best albums of all time, ever. However, be warned, do not step into the deep end without first immersing your whole body in the other albums. It is well worth the wait. The music you always dreamed of placed through the Kaiser's Cosmic Courier Mincer. A big fat big 11/10.

THE BEST KRAUTROCK ALBUM IN THE WORLD EVER!!!

I suppose they may have been naked in the studio while recording and Julian just didn't know.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 14:04 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, Wegmuller. Yes, bath chair. Yes.

― emil.y, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

I fear my mind may have been permanently affected by that naked photo. That and springtime. Oh, springtime please stop, you are messing with my mind. IF I DON'T GET LAID SOON, I MAY EXPLODE. Possibly.

Just springtime please to be over and hormones go away please.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

I think the cap with a tassle is U+K.

― Ed, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

They did not sell those at Liberty.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

What about naked norwegian bums?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

If they sold them at Liberty, I would have one. But actually, I didn't even check the mens department. They might have had some there. I just want a DDB to take to Liberty and dress up in pretty paisley shirts.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 14:12 (eighteen years ago)

I have just discovered the purpose of the smoking cap and jacket, to keep one's hair and clothes from smelling of smoke. Useful.

― Ed, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

THE BEST KRAUTROCK ALBUM IN THE WORLD EVER!!!

Well, not really but out of the last 50 or so Krautrock albums I've listened too, that Walter Wegmuller was one of only two actually worth buying (the other was the Liliental album)

― Tom D., Wednesday, 25 April 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

Paisley! DDBs! Krautrock! Argh!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

and naked norwegian bums and wine and you have Kate's 5 favourite things.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

I am on a conf call with TTH now. Remember her?

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

the totally hott lady?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

Total Tall Hottness!

Yes, of course we remember her.

(Why do I know more about Dr. C's colleagues than mine own?)

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

Have you come over all unnecessary, Dr C?

― C J, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

Argh! Should I go out tonight?

I do really want to go out tonight but...

-Should probably stay in and rest as will not get much sleep rest of week due to insane early morning surgery time
-CANNOT drink alcohol
-Club I want to go to NEVER ends on time and I end up on night busses

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

Then again it's the last you can go out for a while.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

True dat. Argh. Though I don't want to sit on the floor. Though if we get there early, we can eat and get a table.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

I am all for this plan.

― Ed, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

Yes TOTAL TALL HOTTNESS!!
As I may have mentioned, my nu-job means that I am doing all the marketing communications for 4 businesses and that means that I work with TTH's agency on creative for all projects. That means considerably more TTH than before - gulp. She is coming to the UK in mid May for a photoshoot.

But I'm so over her...

Have you come over all unnecessary, Dr C?

(head in hands, whispers...)

yes

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

mid May is only like TWO WEEKS AWAY!!!

― C J, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

I need a plan of action to not (I'm quoting you here, CJ) make puppydog eyes again.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

I love that phrase.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

Some people don't dance. Why does that make everybody hate them?

― g-kit, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

your friends don't dance and if they don't dance
Well they're no friends of mine

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

Phil Collins can't dance.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

Because people hate people what hate fun.

Oh, angel Kate and debbil Kate are arguing it out on my shoulders.

But if I go and eat pub food in a pub, I will want to DRINK BEER with it. Except the beer in that pub really isn't very good.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

nobody said anything about hating fun, don't read between the lines please.

― g-kit, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

I definitely can't dance.

(and I do hate teh fun)

― Forest Pines, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

I had the wegmuller album on vinyl and on cd, it's good, but not that great - like, cosmic jokers vol1 and vol2 are loads better. Cope on music these days just makes me want to go STFU DUDE at the top of my voice.

― Pashmina, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

Last time I read his was about "Sir Lord Baltimore" or some such.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

It's OK, but it's not like OHMIGOD THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING ALBUM EVER RELEASED EVER or anything. I don't know if I'll actually listen to it more than once.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

He basically seems to have turned into a written-word version of Zane Lowe - THE HOTTEST RECORD IN THE WORLD TODAY etc. It is not at all endearing.

― Pashmina, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

TBH, I like his writing better when he is writing about megaliths because then he is actually factual and interesting, and has no urge to go OMIGOD, THE TOP FIVE STONE CIRCLES IN CUMBRIA ~~TODAY~~ DURING THE BRONZE AGE!!!!!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

What should I listen to now? Something to make me want to go out.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

Some people don't dance. Why does that make everybody hate them?

Who doesn't dance? Who hates people who don't dance (because you're wrong with "everybody")?

― onimo, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

Kyuss. Though that make you want to go out in the desert.
x-post

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

OK, I'm going to listen to the naked Norwegians again in an attempt to FORCE myself to like them.

I'm just going to imagine them naked until I start to actually appreciate the music through positive association. I mean I *want* to like them. Honest, I do.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

Kate - what's the latest on the ILX gig? All still on?

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, all still on AFAIK. Argh, I'm not going to be able to do much organising due to upcoming surgery. And Ed is going to be away the day before and morning of due to a wedding, so I probably need to recruit some other helpers.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

OK, it's starting to work! If I look at the picture while listening to the music, and don't pay any attention to the awful vocals, I'm actually starting to... like... well, not hate it.

I WILL FORCE MYSELF TO LIKE THIS MUSIC. I WILL!!!!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

I might be playing at flippin' Glastonwick the day before.

Lots of people keep asking me about tickets etc. We have built up a healthy demand by doing 1 gig in 20 years.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

I will ring Tim and ask him about tickets soon - hrmmm, haven't heard back from him in a while.

But I kinda don't want loads of people buying advance tickets and then only turning up for the headlining band! The whole point is that it is a festival of *all* ILX bands!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

Barbecue to make 'em come early, innit.

― Ed, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, you get no BBQ if you don't come by early evening.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

OH SHUT UP JUST SHUT UP, EVERY TIME I ACTUALLY START ENJOYING THE MUSIC, YOU COME IN AND START YOWLING AT ME LIKE A CAT ON HEAT AND TOTALLY RUINING MY ENJOYMENT.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

I'm sorry but that made me chuckle.

― Ed, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

Our lot will come early (hopefully we won't play too late) and stick around for most of the bands, don't worry.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

Do the bands get a guestlist?

(I intend to stay as long as trains will allow me to)

― tissp, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

What time do you think one would have to get there to get a table/sofa, Ed?

OK, I am trying to pretend that he is a DDB on heat and he is yowling because he wants to mate with me.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

7, maybe?

― Ed, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

OK, I might have to take the bus up and meet you there.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

OK, we can do that.

― Ed, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

Do DDB's have barbed pen... wait, I'm gonna stop that thought right there.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

I really need to get a life. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

I bet Kate prints out the naked norwegians pic to stare at on the bus.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

It is torture having this window open, because the pub below us is constantly emitting cooking food odors, which makes my stomach growl and makes me hungry whether I've eaten or not.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

I need a plan of action to not (I'm quoting you here, CJ) make puppydog eyes again.

argh argh argh this is impossible, i totally caught myself doing this the other day. and completely by accident! i swear i was even batting my eyelashes! if i had had a floaty scarf i probably would have fluttered it coyly across my face! i couldn't make it stop! help! (i think it was sort of well-received though.)

― emsk, Thursday, 26 April 2007 08:03 (eighteen years ago)

[i]I need a plan of action to not (I'm quoting you here, CJ) make puppydog eyes again.[i]

wear sunglasses constantly.

― mitya, Thursday, 26 April 2007 08:33 (eighteen years ago)

argh stupid bbcode

― mitya, Thursday, 26 April 2007 08:33 (eighteen years ago)

good morning!

haha, yes, sunglasses, the ogler's most important tool!

I have received an email today from one of our IT guys saying that my email is being upgraded to Outlook 2007. Unfortunately the Word file attachment detailing how the 2007 versh is different is one of the most patronising things I've read in a long time.

sample sentence: "E-mail isn't just about sending… it's also about receiving and replying. "

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 26 April 2007 08:40 (eighteen years ago)

wear sunglasses constantly

Good idea, Mitya. But might seem a bit odd? I could pretend I have a black eye.

i swear i was even batting my eyelashes!

Batting eyelashes is classic though - I am a sucker for being batted at.

But I think the phrase making puppydog eyes applies to more than just the eyes. General mooning about, trying to hard to be funny etc etc is probably included in the overall definition. If not, it should be. CJ can adjudicate on this if she pops in.

― Dr.C, Thursday, 26 April 2007 08:54 (eighteen years ago)

Get Beryl to police you.

― Ed, Thursday, 26 April 2007 09:12 (eighteen years ago)

She does that anyway - for everyone here.

― Dr.C, Thursday, 26 April 2007 09:24 (eighteen years ago)

"I saw yer, following TTH awound the office like a puppy, weren't yer, swwet'eart?"

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 26 April 2007 09:25 (eighteen years ago)

I swear Beryl was on the bus the other day, but it was probably just a random cockney. "You ain't got an 'ope in 'ell of the bus driver lettin' you off 'ere, sweetie!"

Glad I went to the folk last night, even though we got there hours early and they wouldn't let us in, so I had to bagsy a good sofa and then stressed about not just losing the good sofa, but my Liberty bag, too! But then we ran into Jim of G00blar band who is either 1) stalking us or 2) randomly decided to do the Magpie's Nest open mic night.

A good time was had. Even if Ed's burger had no bun. (Not a dirty metaphor, though it should be.) The open mic was very, very good - someone had an amazing lute, even though they did not play it, and played a strange Irish drum with spangles on it. The first band was a bit... err, James Blunt but the dude was hott and had a really nice guitar. (It is Frances' theory that the cuter the boy, the worse the lyrics will be, and she's almost always right.) The second band were really, really good - I wasn't expecting them to be, as they were dressed as a white belt band, but they were Proper Folk with wibbly Jonny Greenwood bits. V. V. Good. And an amazing fiddler. The third band were just plain RUBBITCH, I didn't last two songs - Jim had the right idea, taking off before they even went on.

And this morning, tiramisu! A winner is me.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 09:50 (eighteen years ago)

Tiramisu for breakfast?

I lasted the length of time it took to finish my double scotch after you left. That band would have been a sub-par thrill jockey band if they dropped the vocals as it was they were just plain awful.

It was good though and I talked to the hot acapella singer with the single coming out (she needs to work out what she's doing with with her arms whilst she sings, but then so does lauren). Also, the jury is still out on her.

― Ed, Thursday, 26 April 2007 09:54 (eighteen years ago)

mmm tiramisu!

I saw a lovely stringed instrument in an Oxford antique shop window yesterday. Not sure what it was -- it was about the size of a banjo but the body of it was triangular. Was on the bus at the time and so was unable to see how many strings it had.

In the pub later I discovered how difficult it is to define the word "cheeky" to someone whose first language isn't English.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 26 April 2007 09:55 (eighteen years ago)

today is like friday to me, since i'm off to ATP tomorrow. plus, L O S T tonight. wows.

― g-kit, Thursday, 26 April 2007 09:56 (eighteen years ago)

i mean like, GOOD TIMES or whatever ppl say.

― g-kit, Thursday, 26 April 2007 09:56 (eighteen years ago)

A Balalaika. I think dada has one.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 26 April 2007 09:57 (eighteen years ago)

(xposts!)

― Pashmina, Thursday, 26 April 2007 09:57 (eighteen years ago)

if the preview includes "i don't care waht jack said!", i know it's gonna be a great weekend.

― g-kit, Thursday, 26 April 2007 09:57 (eighteen years ago)

I already had breakfast an hour ago! Maybe two. It is my mid morning snack. I hope the birthdays never end.

God, yeah, they were unbelievably bad. Singer dude thought he was Mark E. Smith in the worst way, a jazz drummer, a post-rock trumpeter, a crazy corduroy trucker hat hipster on bass, they were just ... NO!!!

I went from "this is not proper folk" to "this is not proper music!" before the scotch fumes had even reached me.

It is hard to know what to do with your arms while singing. That's why I play guitar. She seems very sweet. But you fancy her = she plays for the other team. ;-)

OK, I was disappointed in the fancying department as the hott boy turned out to be rubbitch which kind of ruined my enjoyment, but still. WHERE IS HOTT BOY WHO MAKES MUSIC THAT IS NOT RUBBITCH?!?!?

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 09:58 (eighteen years ago)

hi dere

― g-kit, Thursday, 26 April 2007 09:59 (eighteen years ago)

A Balalaika. I think dada has one.

Used to :(

― Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 10:00 (eighteen years ago)

But you fancy her = she plays for the other team. ;-)

I must ask Lisa how to score a conversion.

OK, I was disappointed in the fancying department as the hott boy turned out to be rubbitch which kind of ruined my enjoyment, but still. WHERE IS HOTT BOY WHO MAKES MUSIC THAT IS NOT RUBBITCH?!?!?

Focus on the totally amazing sounding white archtop.

― Ed, Thursday, 26 April 2007 10:01 (eighteen years ago)

I must ask Lisa how to score a conversion.

Surely you mean ask Matthew. ;-)

Oh wait, I should listen to that CD Jim gave me. I think he was mildly not amused by the "the cuter the boy, the worse the lyrics" crack wondering if it was aimed at him. (It wasn't actually - it's just an open mic truism.)

But Pash! You would have liked the song he played, it was about Louise Brooks.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 10:03 (eighteen years ago)

only joking

― g-kit, Thursday, 26 April 2007 10:04 (eighteen years ago)

g-kit you do not play folk open mic nights! (that I know of...)

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 10:05 (eighteen years ago)

aye, i was only joking ^^

― g-kit, Thursday, 26 April 2007 10:07 (eighteen years ago)

Possibly my last gig with band #1 this Saturday :

http://www.carolinetruerecords.co.uk/news/?c=The-Nightingales

― Dr.C, Thursday, 26 April 2007 10:07 (eighteen years ago)

Ha. I grabbed a few images of la brooks off VLC player & stuck 'em up on flickr, by coincidence. I watched "Pandora's Box" again, meaning to grab a load of images, but I didn't get many b/c every iconic image of LB from Pandora's Box is already out there online. Terrible apostasy, but for the most part, I don't think her acting in PB is that great. The woman who plays the lesbian countess is much better!

― Pashmina, Thursday, 26 April 2007 10:10 (eighteen years ago)

I was just looking at yr flickr, and noting that!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 10:11 (eighteen years ago)

...best thing about PB is that all of the supporting characters look like geroge grosz pictures.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 26 April 2007 10:12 (eighteen years ago)

I must watch that. (grosz is a particularly favourite artist with me)

― Ed, Thursday, 26 April 2007 10:16 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't even drink last night, and I still feel vaguely hungover. Can't possibly have been the tiramisu?

Maybe it's just lack of sleep. Didn't get home until 00:40 AGAIN.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 10:23 (eighteen years ago)

I thought that said 4:00am and then looked closer. Feel old at all? ;)

― mitya, Thursday, 26 April 2007 10:25 (eighteen years ago)

It's not the getting home at that time that's the problem, it's the having to get up again in the morning afterwards.

Now I have coffee.

What should I do today? Looks like my boss is back, I should probably go and see how she is.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 10:27 (eighteen years ago)

Blimey! My boss has been here EIGHT YEARS today. We shall have a meeting in a minute.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 10:30 (eighteen years ago)

OK, this should be interesting. My boss is going to be my hands for Monthend. It's good, because I trust her and get along with her. But I'm afeared that this is a PLOY to get me to divulge my special knowledge, oh noes! I just hope she can go as fast as I can.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 10:58 (eighteen years ago)

Morning all! (Just barely!)

I forgot that Jim was doing that thing last night; I should have gone. Apparently he was asked to do it as a sort of tryout for a future gig. xpost

― G00blar, Thursday, 26 April 2007 10:59 (eighteen years ago)

I think he was somewhat flummoxed by the realisation that "folk" is not a worldwide genre - English folk is very different from North American/Canadian folk. It was a "whole new world" quite literally.

I mean, that's the confusing thing. People mean "folk" as a genre, when really it is not. It's a term for the native or indigenous or traditional music of another country. It doesn't necessarily translate.

(And this is why people get annoyed when others who don't really know much use "folk" as shorthand for "acoustic singer songwriter".)

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 11:01 (eighteen years ago)

But the Magpies Nest is very good, you should come to one.

We are GOING to do it at the next one, we have now promised. Now we just have to agree on what song to do. Ed, do you have a recording anywhere of the song you want to do?

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 11:02 (eighteen years ago)

Totally agreed on the folk thing--I don't really see how his new stuff is folk in any sense of the word, actually.

― G00blar, Thursday, 26 April 2007 11:04 (eighteen years ago)

From the stuff of his that I've heard, I'd say it was more country than folk.

But I am turning into my dad - a folk nazi.

(Not as bad as the melodeon nazi who was sitting on my other side - she was great, I actually learned a lot about melodions just by eavesdropping- how Irish and English melodeons are different, about the tuning of them, etc.)

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 11:10 (eighteen years ago)

It is also just totally different instrumentation.

I mean, from memories of my dad's folk festivals, American folk is much more guitar centric. An American folk combo will usually have guitar, banjo, maybe stand-up bass, fiddle. The "basic unit" of an English folk trio seems to be more fiddle and melodeon, maybe mandolin.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 11:13 (eighteen years ago)

g-kit otm re Friday feeling + ATP + LOST stokedness etc

It is torture having this window open

You know you've been staring at your computer too long when your first thought to that is "but it's your thread kaet!" Why couldn't Bill Gates have named it ShiteOS back in the day and avoided this confusion?

― onimo, Thursday, 26 April 2007 11:13 (eighteen years ago)

Fiddles seem much more of Scottish/Irish folk thing than an English folk thing

― Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 11:15 (eighteen years ago)

But most of these new English folk bands have fiddles! Fiddles seem certainly more common than guitars.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 11:17 (eighteen years ago)

I suppose I'm thinking more "trad"

― Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 11:20 (eighteen years ago)

I know (from listening to the woman next to me) that English Melodeons have only diatonic buttons (8 note scale), while Irish Melodeons have the full chromatic (12 note scale) scale with sharps and flats. She was saying that English melodeon players tend to have so many different melodeons in so many different keys because there are certain notes that just don't exist on the instruments!

It's fascinating the things that you learn just from hanging around at this club.

Still haven't quite cracked the functional difference between a Melodeon and an Accordion - I think the latter have a piano keyboard on them?

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 11:20 (eighteen years ago)

Fiddles for tunes. Guitars for songs. Innit? Accordions = Jimmy Shand. Innit?

― Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 11:21 (eighteen years ago)

Fiddles for tunes. Guitars for songs. Innit?

Possibly true. Unless you are 1) Jon and John or 2) that great old Swedish-American bloke who comes and plays fantastic Swedish drinking songs on the fiddle while insisting "I'm not a fiddle player, I'm a guitar and banjo picker who insists on playing the fiddle!" He's really amazing.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 11:24 (eighteen years ago)

Melodeons generally only have access to one or two keys, that's why melodeon players have so many. An accordion can sound in any key. Melodeons are cheaper because of this.

― Ed, Thursday, 26 April 2007 11:25 (eighteen years ago)

Ah Scandinavian fiddle music, there's a folk genre worth looking into!

― Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 11:25 (eighteen years ago)

I did like his, 'we've had too much booze, but there's some on your bottle, let's drink it and end on the floor with the sailors' polka

― Ed, Thursday, 26 April 2007 11:26 (eighteen years ago)

Fiddles with sympathetic strings!

― Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 11:27 (eighteen years ago)

four!

― Mark G, Thursday, 26 April 2007 11:28 (eighteen years ago)

What you need to play in any key is a chromatic scale, not a diatonic one! (or is it the other way around?) i.e. an Irish Melodeon not an English one. You need to have a full range of sharps and flats to play in any key. Like a piano keyboard.

The Swedish folk songs are great, he sings them in Swedish first, and they sound mysterious and lovely, then he sings them in English and they have lyrics like "no, you cannot have my vodka, because I have almost none left. And we have drunk all the other drink in the house. And if we finish the vodka we will pass out on the floor!" Sweden sounds like great fun.

But then again, if I judged places by the morals of folk songs, I would never ever go to London for fear of being run off with by a sailor, and I would never go abroad on the very first morning of May for fear of being 1) raped and/or killeed if female or 2) pressed to sea if male.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 11:30 (eighteen years ago)

I think the key thing refers to the basses and then you the the chromatic/diatonic subdivision within melodeons.

― Ed, Thursday, 26 April 2007 11:33 (eighteen years ago)

At least we solved the bass guitar vs. bass melodeon conundrum - i.e. electric bass without drums is pants but bass melodeon = TEH ROX0R!!!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 11:35 (eighteen years ago)

It appears that in irish and cajun music a melodeon only refers to a diatonic single row button accordion, but in england it refers to any button accordion.

― Ed, Thursday, 26 April 2007 11:37 (eighteen years ago)

And what about concertinas?

― Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 11:41 (eighteen years ago)

In the random facts from ILX that make me happy department:

I've seen the direct translation used: interrete or simply rete. The World Wide Web may be translated as Tela Totius Terrae (TTT).

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 11:46 (eighteen years ago)

English ones are full range concert instruments. Others are diatonic.

― Ed, Thursday, 26 April 2007 11:48 (eighteen years ago)

The universe is permeated with the odour of barbeque sauce.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 12:03 (eighteen years ago)

From what I see, Irish music goes round tuning everything they can get there hands on in 5ths and playing a lot in the keys of C and G (easiest chords on a 5ths tuned instrument) because the fiddle is the key instrument.

There's a lot more brass in the history of English music so Bb and Eb instruments and weird tunings are a lot more common. However in the last 50 years or so the irish style has been crossing over to england (and to a certain extent has been present in some areas of England for a long time where fiddles have been common or local tunings have been around C or G)

― Ed, Thursday, 26 April 2007 12:12 (eighteen years ago)

Huge broad brush generalisations there.

― Ed, Thursday, 26 April 2007 12:12 (eighteen years ago)

Tuning in fifths is only really good for instruments where 1) they have tiny short scales or 2) are mainly lead instruments or drones, not chords.

Unless the Irish have, like, REALLY MASSIVE HANDS.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 12:15 (eighteen years ago)

It's a nice day here. Some clear blue skies! So should I listen to some fine desert rock by Kyuss or should I play Sunflower/Surfs up by The Beach Boys?

Onimo/Teh Kit enjoy ATP this weekend!

emil.y > How was the Low gig?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 12:20 (eighteen years ago)

Don't mess with the Irish:

http://www.independentcritics.com/images/science%20of%20sleep%20SPLASH.jpg

BEARTRAPS

― G00blar, Thursday, 26 April 2007 12:20 (eighteen years ago)

A Kyuss website turned up in my dreams last night! And I haven't even listened to it yet!

x-post ARGH!!! no wonder they make those silly "promise ring" things with the freaky disembodied hands on them.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 12:22 (eighteen years ago)

My 2 Pola Negri DVDs just arrived from the states!

Check out the story on one of them, WTF:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016548/usercomments

― Pashmina, Thursday, 26 April 2007 12:31 (eighteen years ago)

Look bellzouki copies with three pickups.

― Ed, Thursday, 26 April 2007 12:32 (eighteen years ago)

The muso corner on Billy Bragg's forum has some interesting stuff, the guitar talk is good.

― Ed, Thursday, 26 April 2007 12:36 (eighteen years ago)

Those aren't bellzouki copies! Those are fake Vox Teardrops!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 12:36 (eighteen years ago)

some of this guy's instruments might interest you, Ed:

http://www.jerryjonesguitars.com/index.htm

― Pashmina, Thursday, 26 April 2007 12:37 (eighteen years ago)

Aw yeah...

Ultimately, the Countess confronts the hypocritical Granger at a meeting of the town council. Armed with a horse-whip, she flogs him bloody before the shocked assembly of village elders.

My kind of a lady!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 12:38 (eighteen years ago)

however fucking chr1s m@rt1n plays one

― Ed, Thursday, 26 April 2007 12:41 (eighteen years ago)

So did Brian Jones. (A vox teardrop, at least.)

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 12:42 (eighteen years ago)

That cutaway 12 string is lovely.

― Ed, Thursday, 26 April 2007 12:44 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha ha, we are comparing the looks of the new interviewees, cause apparently the last one they interviewed had beautiful cheekbones. I keep asking them to hire some eye candy for us ladies, but they never do!

And then somehow we got on the "I want a beard" conversation.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 12:47 (eighteen years ago)

Ah! Apparently if you get minoxadil on your face, you will grow facial hair! So what if I got it and rubbed it on my cheeks, would I get sideburns?!?!? Awesome! Too bad it's prescription only.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 12:49 (eighteen years ago)

mmmm Mulligatawny Soup = awesome lunches

Why do no two mulligatawnies ever taste the same?

I shall now contemplate afternoon CAKE.

― onimo, Thursday, 26 April 2007 12:50 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha, I've just remembered I used to think Mulligatawny soup was Irish when I was a lad

― Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 12:52 (eighteen years ago)

POLAR BEARS tbh

― g-kit, Thursday, 26 April 2007 12:53 (eighteen years ago)

onimo check email (and others)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 12:56 (eighteen years ago)

you want me to check my mail?

― g-kit, Thursday, 26 April 2007 12:57 (eighteen years ago)

or you want onimo to check my mail?

― g-kit, Thursday, 26 April 2007 12:58 (eighteen years ago)

i have no new mail

― g-kit, Thursday, 26 April 2007 12:59 (eighteen years ago)

made you look

― Ed, Thursday, 26 April 2007 12:59 (eighteen years ago)

i have new mail! aquarterof.co.uk have added Jelly Babies and Strawberry and Cream Jellies to their catalogue! Not to mention resurrecting Chelsea Whoppers!

― onimo, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:01 (eighteen years ago)

oh wait

― onimo, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:01 (eighteen years ago)

i have other new mail

thanks pfunkdude :)

― onimo, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:01 (eighteen years ago)

I got a track from Dr. C's new band! Hurrah!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:02 (eighteen years ago)

you fuckers

― g-kit, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:03 (eighteen years ago)

waht

― onimo, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:03 (eighteen years ago)

Language, Timothy

― Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:03 (eighteen years ago)

No one else has mailed me all day - except a couple of Nigerian gentlemen wanting to share their ill gotten gains with me. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:03 (eighteen years ago)

I sent you an email kate

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:06 (eighteen years ago)

and teh kit should've got it too. hmmm. maybe I need to resend.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:07 (eighteen years ago)

OK, I just got that one, too.

Just so you know, Kerr - I'm not gonna be able to check my email for the next 10 days starting tomorrow. Or at least, I'm not supposed to type at all.

OK, Kyuss were alright until the dude started singing and he's total CONSTAPATION ROCK!!!!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:07 (eighteen years ago)

http://users.skynet.be/JePe/images/1969%20-%20Jay%20Hawkins%20-%20Constipation%20Blues%20-%20Label%20Front.jpg

― Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:09 (eighteen years ago)

I used to think that but then John Garcia grew on me. Still prefer Josh Homme singing though.
Garcia is great in Unida/Hermano where the vocals suit it more.
I guess you don't like Ian Astbury singing for The Cult then? Since the voices are pretty much the same.(Garcia's influences he says are Ian Astbury and Earth Wind & Fire)

x-post

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:10 (eighteen years ago)

er ok thanks

― g-kit, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:39 (eighteen years ago)

I think The Cult may well be my answer to the "You Owned More Than One Album By Them. You Listened To Them Fairly Often. You Knew, In Your Heart Of Hearts, That They Really Weren't Very Good." thread on ILM that I haven't posted to.

― onimo, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:41 (eighteen years ago)

Ian Astbury was never quite *that* constipated. He was more Rubber Plant influenced. And Rubber Plant isn't constipation rock, he is "he's got plyers on his balls" rock.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:43 (eighteen years ago)

Ian Astbury was well constipated... and not fit to lace Planty's moccasins!

― Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:44 (eighteen years ago)

I'm on another call with TTH right NOW! She's still TT&H today.

― Dr.C, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:44 (eighteen years ago)

No, he was definitely plyers on balls school of RAWK singing, not constipation rock.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:45 (eighteen years ago)

He was trying for pliers on his balls but came out constipated

― Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

x-x-post, dammit I need a new IRL crush. Like, not a celeb crush or a crush on a dead person, but an actual crush on a person I can look at, and interact with and speak to (or fail to speak because I am being too googly-eyed crushed out).

There were too many ex-crushes there last night, and it just made me vaguely disappointed. I mean, Jim's cute but he just looks WAY TOO MUCH like my brother which is totally creepy, and besides, he's kind of too awkward about being crushed on. Joe remains hott, but then again he plays BANJO which excludes proper crushability.

And I think I just want someone totally new. Am jealous of how Emsk was talking about her hair-twirling and Dr. C with his puppydog eyes thing.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:49 (eighteen years ago)

He was trying for pliers on his balls but came out constipated

Ever tried taking a shit with pliers on your balls?

(me neither but I don't imagine I'd be too keen)

― onimo, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

What a bizarre conversation.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:51 (eighteen years ago)

Plyers on his balls school of RAWK singing = AC/DC.

Constipation rock school of RAWK singing - Journey, Asia, Eddie Money, etc.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:52 (eighteen years ago)

NEW CRUSH NOW!!! NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW!!!

Grrrrr.

I feel sleepy, I think I've had too much sugar again.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

Kate> since you won't be able to type for 10 days can you start a new cooler please? This one is quite long. (also can we have a best krautrock poll or something?)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

Eddie Money? Nobody outside the USA has any idea what Eddie Money sounds like!

― Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

No, no more polls on the Cooler, as we lose the results when the threads get locked. OK, I will start a new one.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=53408

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

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