UK Watercooler: In the Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)

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A new, improved 'Cooler to match the (soon) hopefully new, improved LUMP FREE Kate...

You lot behave while I can't type, you hear?

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

Of course, now I've got the Dukes of Stratosphear in my head... "2032... housewife shocking blue!"

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

can we have a best krautrock poll or something

No no no, too many polls. Plus I'm dreading a Best Can Album poll and having to argue with everyone (again) about how "Future Days" is not their best album.

― Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

If we had a poll, it would be something totally non-music related like

-cake
-chocolate cake
-tiramisu
-DONUTS!!!!
-cookie

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

It's a good thing I've got a month to think about 26, because I'm flummoxed.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

kate needs some fucking surgery

― g-kit, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

Dada I'm doing the best Can poll it's already filled out!

Here's one for Kate so she can type on it today before she has to get the lump removed!
http://www.ilxor.com:8080/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=57444#unread

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:16 (eighteen years ago)

Oh don't do a Can poll for God's sake

― Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

Already told you it was done!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, don't follow the link you end up in weird 8080 land.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

polar bears >>>>>>>>> 8080

― g-kit, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

Oh Best Can - my head sez Tago, my heart sez I am loving Soundtracks SO much at the moment. I'll probably vote for Saw Delight though. Very underrated.

Why are we on a nu-thread?

― Dr.C, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

Because the last thread got too long and I won't be around to make a new one for 10 days after surgery.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

Wasn't there a chic song "on a scale of one to ten my baby's a twenty six"?

Not one of their more catchy tunes, I'll grant ye.

― Mark G, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

wtf @ ilm poll frenzy #17

maybe I should add a few:

best borbetomagus album
best tandoori cassette album
best third world war album
best rabbi josef gordan single

etc :-/

― Pashmina, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

I tried to tell him not to do it, but he went ahead anyway

― Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

Now we can have a poll about which Can poll is the best! Hurrah!

OK, I should do some work.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry Kate but I thought I should start the best spacemen 3 album so you could vote on it now incase someone did it while you were away.

Norman please delete that other Can thread since Dada decided he must have Unlimited Edition to note vote for after all.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

I'll text you the results Kate.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

Can we have a pole instead?

I just got an email from a friend, that just said "Did you know Julia?" Which is, let's be frank, a little ominous. She's someone I know, not well, but I do know her. Well, it turns out, she's got cancer, it's thoroughly metastised, and she was told she has about 8 weeks to live. That will be about 7 left now.

― Forest Pines, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

:( Sorry to hear that FP.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

OK, Kerr, this is war...

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=57449

Oh man, that's awful, FP!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

The last time I saw her was about three months back, at which time she had tests due at the doctor's, but outwardly seemed absolutely fine.

― Forest Pines, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:04 (eighteen years ago)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

anyone know where that yeeeeeeeaaaaaahhhhh! thread is? kinda hard to search for...

― CharlieNo4, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

Hi all. Popping in to say hello, I've not been posting cos work is the busiest thing ever rather than me thinking you all smell.

― The Wayward Johnny B, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, we know we all smell. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

work is the busiest thing ever

heh, wd that be coz you were "working from home" yesterday? ;-)

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

That's a drag, FP. I'm not sure what would be worse - hearing that when the person only has a few weeks left, or hearing afterward. (Gosh and I feel callous even saying that.)

― mitya, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, that sounds tough, FP. I'm sorry, man.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

(Exordium and Terminus?! I say we let someone less prog-afflictied like, Ed ~~Kerr~~ emsk name the next thread.

― mitya, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

It's not prog, it's 60s psych!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

Chicken-in-a-basket psych at that!

― Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

Says mitya the yes and king crimson fan

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.lyricsvault.net/halloffame/zagerandevans.jpg

Folk rock, even!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

That's a better album cover than the copy I've got

― Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, it's the wrong album, but I think only you and I would know that.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

The real one is kind of brown and ugly, with that ker-azy 60s lettering on it.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

The one I've got is a horrible amateurish sort of cartoon

― Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

Blah. I wants more cake! I fear I have eaten it all up.

Oh wait, I have mousakka or something in my bag. I am just eating as much as I humanly can today because I know I can't eat at all tomorrow.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

Kate, can you mail me with the approximate location of the hospital?

― Ed, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, yeah! It's kind of under the London Bridge station.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

I listened to a load of Amon Düül II albums yesterday and now it's time for some Faust.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

But no Amon Düül II or Faust polls please!

― Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not doing any more for a week.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

You're just scared because you couldn't choose best Faust or Amon Düül/Amon Düül II albums. Like you couldn't with Can.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

Stevem blames me for polls but i've done 6 polls in 3 weeks. Mark G has done 6 in 2 days. Geir has done 200 odd.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

I just bought an ice lolly to have after my dinner. A nice juicy cold fruit pastilles ice lolly.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

OK, this "moussaka" appears to be just aubergine in a cheesey sort of soup. Interesting.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

It's no Fruit Pastilles ice Lolly!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

Indeed. I think it has lentils in it, but I can't be sure.

Great, now I can't go to Poptimism. Grrr. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

When is it?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

It's not a question of *when*. Oh, never mind. La la la, Sonic Boom solo albums.

Everyone said that the moussaka smelled great, but it did not taste so good.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

OK, I need to think about simple things I can be eating for the next 5 days which do not involve any preparation. I cannot live on soup alone!

Though this is when I start to regret not having an oven or microwave.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

Is it too late to ask them, while they are in there, can they stick in a data port? Ha ha, bionic wrist.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe some kind person will either come cook for you or send you takeaway.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

What happens if someone does a best Hawkwind poll while you are away?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

Well, that will spare me the onus of actually having to choose a favourite album.

I might be happy with the takeaway option, though. Got a good Indian and a good Chinese on my street.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

OK, I am out of here like Vladimir!!!

You guys behave while I'm gone, you hear?

New improved lump free Kate to follow tomorrow! Maybe I can get them to do some liposuction while they're at it and make me totally hotttt when I come out. Or maybe not.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

Good luck! Maybe Ed will be the Bouncer for the Cooler.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 17:37 (eighteen years ago)

Friday will be dead with Kate gone and some others at ATP.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

I ain't bouncin' nuthing.

― Ed, Thursday, 26 April 2007 17:41 (eighteen years ago)

apparently there is a massive fire in the building next to m&s on oxford st and they've been trying for an hour to put it out and can't - anyone see/know more abt this? i might go and have a look

― emsk, Thursday, 26 April 2007 18:23 (eighteen years ago)

I was going to go to the borderline but got into spring cleaning instead. Tell me if you go.

― Ed, Thursday, 26 April 2007 18:35 (eighteen years ago)

fry-day... looking forward to this week being over.

― mitya, Friday, 27 April 2007 05:32 (eighteen years ago)

i went to the borderline, to see indigo moss, didn't twig strange death were playing until i got there and had missed most of their set :/ but the song they do last is best anyway so it was fine. i am in luv with indigo moss too which is quite useful. www.myspace.com/indigomoss
so the fire was above top shop apparently. we saw cranes and smoke and police when we were walking down from tcr to the borderline but didn't go and gawp.

― emsk, Friday, 27 April 2007 07:49 (eighteen years ago)

I was going to go for strange death but really had to do prep work for saturday and got into some heavy spring cleaning, I dumped 5 bags of rubbish/recycling and have a big pile for the dump.

― Ed, Friday, 27 April 2007 07:55 (eighteen years ago)

Morning all that are left. I am neither in the hospital nor at ATP. At home, thinking about doing some work, etc. Blah.

― G00blar, Friday, 27 April 2007 09:11 (eighteen years ago)

At work on hurry up and wait.

― Ed, Friday, 27 April 2007 09:15 (eighteen years ago)

Just back from lunch. Me, too. In K8's absence, it seems excess negative energy is all flowing toward me today :(

― mitya, Friday, 27 April 2007 09:38 (eighteen years ago)

Doesn't sound good.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 27 April 2007 09:59 (eighteen years ago)

What *is* going on today? I am feeling absolutely terrible, grouchy, bunged up, I have a headache, I keep making lots of mistakes (me posting a new thread on ILM when it was meant to go on ILE is symptomatic, I have bn making mistakes at work too) and I getting anxious abt things which I know I have no reason to, eg the powerpoint presentation -- all of 10 mins -- I have to give on Monday, the impending office move, the boat trip at work i'm organizing for the work social committee.....

aaaaarghhh!

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:08 (eighteen years ago)

ARGH ARGH ARGH ARGH ARGH, SO AFTER ALL THAT THEY DID NOT OPERATE ON ME!!!

I got right into the pre-op room. I have tags on, and a big black arrow pointing to my lump going OPERATE HERE.

But when the surgeon saw the marks from my attack earlier this week, he was all "no, no, no!" They can't operate because there is double the risk of infection and complications from open wounds.

So now, after all that, he can't operate until NEXT month.

I just want to go back and find that cnut who assaulted me and... well, I'm feeling vindictive, but honestly, now I wish I'd called the police and pressed charges. Bah.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:23 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, man, that's terrible.

― Pashmina, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:25 (eighteen years ago)

Is till don't understand why they couldn't tell you that on Wednesday, surely someone else could have used the operation slot.

― Ed, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:26 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't speak to the surgeon on Wednesday, only the nurse. Who didn't actually see the wounds becuase they were under a plaster. I described them as "scratches" but apparently they are more serious.

:-(

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:27 (eighteen years ago)

God, food has never tasted so good.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:27 (eighteen years ago)

Geez, what a nightmare, kaet. I would've gone straight to the pub after that.

― mitya, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:32 (eighteen years ago)

I should have gone home, but like an idiot I came to work instead.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:33 (eighteen years ago)

Oy, what a fscking headache!

― G00blar, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:35 (eighteen years ago)

Oh no!!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:36 (eighteen years ago)

I must still give you all of this dr who and time team I burnt for you, kate.

― Ed, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:36 (eighteen years ago)

Good Grief!

― Mark G, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:38 (eighteen years ago)

That's awful, Kate! Of course surgeons always play golf on Fridays, don't they? Not yours though, oh no.

― Dr.C, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:38 (eighteen years ago)

I was all bouncey and tiggerish this morning at the hospital, cause there was all this cool looking science crap around. But now I'm just cranky. Carrot cake time.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:39 (eighteen years ago)

My surgeon must play golf every day but Friday because that is the only day he does operations at Guys on.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:39 (eighteen years ago)

I read that as that is the only day he does operations on Guys.

― G00blar, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:40 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha, no, that is the name of the hospital. Or maybe it should be pronounced Geese or something. He was apparently a very strange bloke, Dr. Guy.

I suppose it's better than going to Blokes Hospital.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:43 (eighteen years ago)

In fact, he appears to have been rather a crook! (And was a Sir, not a Dr.) This is rather omitted in the hospital diorama about Sir Guy.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:45 (eighteen years ago)

Sir Thomas Guy!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e7/Thomas_Guy.jpg

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:46 (eighteen years ago)

So, Month End is On-a-roonie, right?

― Mark G, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:47 (eighteen years ago)

The hospital he founded was for incurables, which I hope is not a statement on my prognosis. :-(

Yes, I am doing monthend as normal. Next month however... oh dear.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:49 (eighteen years ago)

So, you get to document *every* keystroke now?

― Mark G, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:52 (eighteen years ago)

Nah, we'll probably just go back to usual. The deal is that anyone who wants to learn the procedure has to stay as late as I normally do it - and I have no takers for some reason.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:55 (eighteen years ago)

When did everyone start posting on ILM or ILE?
As I said over on that ILM thread/poll I was 1st aware of ILM at the end of 2000 as a friend kept linking me to threads, and in 2001 I started lurking regularly, back when it was still on Greenspun so I know that's early 2001. But I never even looked at ILE til about 2003 at the earliest. And never posted on ILE until 2004/2005 I think.

Kate/Ailsa were you here at the beginning of ILX? (I know Ned was)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 27 April 2007 11:32 (eighteen years ago)

2001 for me.

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 27 April 2007 11:33 (eighteen years ago)

I was lurking from 2000, and posted for the first time in December of that year, I think. Found it through a link from Star Chamber.

Argh! School of Seven Bells are playing on 19th May!!!

In NYC. :-(

Do you think I could get a last minute flight?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 27 April 2007 11:34 (eighteen years ago)

It is a possibility.

― Ed, Friday, 27 April 2007 11:35 (eighteen years ago)

I posted a little on ILM in 2000/2001 but didn't really get going till ILE started.

― Ed, Friday, 27 April 2007 11:36 (eighteen years ago)

Could I get over my fear of flying for Benjamin? I don't know.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 27 April 2007 11:36 (eighteen years ago)

I've always been ILM instead of ILE.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 27 April 2007 11:40 (eighteen years ago)

I watched the Pola Negri film last night, after we got in, it was good & pretty funny. It's a farce on small town mores, which turns the viewer's assumptions back on themselves near the end where the townspeople turn out not to be anywhere near as uptight as they at first appear. There's a great running joke where the 2 town gossips are a couple of older women who sit on rocking chairs knitting on their porches across from where Negri's character is staying, and they watch everything that goes on - Everytime Negri's character does something gossipworthy you get a quick flash of an empty rocking-chair rocking on the porch, symbolising, I guess, word of her latest outrageous behaviour spreading round the town. The scene where she flogs the DA with a horsewhip is pretty daft, until the point where she gets him right across the face with it, then it's like woah, hang on a minute, that's pretty extreme.

― Pashmina, Friday, 27 April 2007 11:40 (eighteen years ago)

*urge to make stereotype joke rising*

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 27 April 2007 11:42 (eighteen years ago)

Hey Norm did you sort out msn?

And has Geir been banned from starting polls yet?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 27 April 2007 11:43 (eighteen years ago)

a/not yet b/not possible

― Pashmina, Friday, 27 April 2007 11:44 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, the stills on your flickr look pretty impressive, Pash!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 27 April 2007 11:44 (eighteen years ago)

x-post I hated polls at first, but must admit they're getting me to post more on ILM.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 27 April 2007 11:44 (eighteen years ago)

I've noticed a lot more activity on ILM since the polls started.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 27 April 2007 11:45 (eighteen years ago)

But a lot more moaning too...

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 27 April 2007 11:47 (eighteen years ago)

not possible

― Mark G, Friday, 27 April 2007 11:49 (eighteen years ago)

OK, since my boss didn't have anything planned for me to do as she didn't think I'd be in today, my task for the afternoon - sort out my inbox.

AAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

I am vaguely frightened of my inbox. There are things in there going back to 2005. 374 unread messages. (Though I have probably read them, just in the display pane.)

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 27 April 2007 11:51 (eighteen years ago)

x-post I hated polls at first, but must admit they're getting me to post more on ILM

Seconded!

I was on ILM in either late 2000 or early 2001.

― Dr.C, Friday, 27 April 2007 11:54 (eighteen years ago)

Hmm, Today's boomcat mail has some good stuff in it, Lesbians on ecstasy and Electrelane

― Ed, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:01 (eighteen years ago)

Ed do you get the Aquarius or Volcanic Tongue mails?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:07 (eighteen years ago)

Might have done I don't know.

― Ed, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:08 (eighteen years ago)

Is that a new dating site or something?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:10 (eighteen years ago)

:-P

― Ed, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:13 (eighteen years ago)

http://aquariusrecords.org/cat/newest.html
New one will be sent out tomorrow so if you sign up now you will get it.

http://www.volcanictongue.co.uk/
Sent out every sunday night.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:14 (eighteen years ago)

I need no more record store emails, you trying to bankrupt me or something. (Nonetheless I signed up)

― Ed, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:17 (eighteen years ago)

These ones usually have stuff noone else does.
The AQ one is posted on the site anyway and I prefer reading it there. Have a quick look at that one as it will be gone tomorrow.

VT is a shop/mail order in Glasgow but don't post the list online.
I'm waiting on my Blues Control lp and Warmer Milks cdr I ordered from them.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:20 (eighteen years ago)

Record store mailouts? I am trying to get OFF one that Rich signed me up for. Argh. It's all indie schmindie and not really my thing. But then again, if it were all spacerock and dronerock I would be too tempted to buy everything.

I am down to 270 things in my inbox. This is mind-numbingly tedious.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:20 (eighteen years ago)

AQ does the spacerock/drone/doom/weird/black metal/noise/prog/psych you name it.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:29 (eighteen years ago)

This price is just NUTS. Norman showed it to me yesterday.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=010&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=200099475315&rd=1&r

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:32 (eighteen years ago)

No, when I start to read, my eyes start to glaze over. Better not to join up. 240 in my inbox now!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:33 (eighteen years ago)

Just had the local green party candidate in - local elections are running, and he's the only one not running a knocking campaign. The leader is an indie candidate who is well fucking dodge, he's running the worst knocking copy and, well, he's the front runner. It's working. WTF.

― Pashmina, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:37 (eighteen years ago)

I'm glad I only work here!

― Pashmina, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:39 (eighteen years ago)

Ok, I have just had the most revolting sweet I've had in a while - at least since the interesting Finnish salty sweets. It was called a "white mouse" and it was made of white chocolate flavoured with... I swear to god, something that tastes like Rosemary. As in the herb.

Very, very strange.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:44 (eighteen years ago)

I havent had white mice in years.
I get the same A Quarter Of Email Onimo gets. I was tempted to buy mouth puckering Acid Drops. but can't afford it.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:47 (eighteen years ago)

Ah! My colleagues reminded me there is a soda pop machine on this floor. So I don't have to go out to get one. That white mouse was so revolting I just have to get the taste out of my mouth.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:53 (eighteen years ago)

50 emails left. I'm nearly into 2007. God, why am I so shite at inbox management?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 27 April 2007 13:45 (eighteen years ago)

*bouncebouncebounce*

― emsk, Friday, 27 April 2007 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

why bounce?

― Ed, Friday, 27 April 2007 13:48 (eighteen years ago)

also check yr mail

― Ed, Friday, 27 April 2007 13:48 (eighteen years ago)

just general BOUNCE

― emsk, Friday, 27 April 2007 13:48 (eighteen years ago)

there is nothin' new
in my email

― emsk, Friday, 27 April 2007 13:49 (eighteen years ago)

that's cos I wrote the mail just after writing that post.

― Ed, Friday, 27 April 2007 13:49 (eighteen years ago)

So in Russia, they have this weird thing. If a holiday falls on say, a Tuesday, they also make Monday a holiday so as maximize your break time. (Nothing strange about that, you say.)

HOWEVER, they also have "make up" days, such as tomorrow (SATURDAY!!!) when we have to come in to make up for the fact that we get Monday along with Tuesday. How effed up is that? Grrrr.

K8, I have somewhere around 900 unread messages in my yahoo inbox (and that's not the stuff in the spam box).

― mitya, Friday, 27 April 2007 13:51 (eighteen years ago)

Email? Is this about BLUEBELLS vs. COAST on Sunday?

I cannot believe it! Those white mice, that no one will eat. One of my colleagues, as a joke (because it tasted like chalk) started trying to erase the whiteboard with them. And they actually work better than the graffiti remover we use to clean it with! Argh! I ate one of those!

x-post Mitya, this is WORK email, so it's really shocking that I've done nothing with it! I am now into last month. most of which will still be relevant. I must never let it get this bad again!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 27 April 2007 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

"Dear Colleagues,

I continue insisting on that there MUST NOT be a situation when within the period from 9 a.m. till 6 p.m. in any department of XXXX there is nobody to answer a telephone call.

There MUST NOT be a situation when there is not a single employee in an office (please plan your lunch breaks and meetings).

There MUST NOT be a situation when you cannot transfer the call coming to your absent colleague from his/her telephone to your telephone (just apologize to your caller and briefly respond to the incoming call of your absent colleague).

I notify all employees that each and every instance of unanswered telephone call in your department (from 9 a.m. till 6 p.m.) from now shall entail a fine in the amount of $100 imposed on the head of your department.

In addition, I have run out of the reserve of my appeals to mutually respect the users of our Outlook.

Dear friends, if you receive a letter from your colleague that implies that the sender is waiting for an answer, you are DOOMED to respond in the shortest period of time. It is basic politeness. Even if you have nothing to say be kind to at least inform the sender about this fact.

The only possible justification of your missing answer is YOUR ULTIMATE ABSENCE in the office. In such a case please do not forget and neglect to activate the “Out of Office” function. If you do not know how to do it I invite you to attend my training course.

If you SUDDENLY felt sick and had no time to activate this function, ask your Head of Department to do it for you (or send out a message regarding your absence to ALL AND EVERYBODY).

In all other cases you can bravely and freely not to respond to incoming messages for 23 hours and 59 minutes after reception of the message (if it does not write otherwise!!!!). After the 24th hour, you may not answer too, but it will cost you $30.

Let us learn business ethics on the basis of concrete money.

I renew my assurances of sincere respect for you."

― mitya, Friday, 27 April 2007 13:56 (eighteen years ago)

The only possible justification of your missing answer is YOUR ULTIMATE ABSENCE in the office. In such a case please do not forget and neglect to activate the “Out of Office” function.

= plz to notify yr contacts of YR HAVING DIED

― anatol_merklich, Friday, 27 April 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

Oh for the love of god. I never answer the phone. Sometimes I read my email, sometimes I don't. I wouldn't work anywhere that imposed strictures like that on an office. For crying out loud, if you're that worried about having someone answer the phone ALL THE TIME then hire some secretaries and/or receptionists.

Very rarely is email imperative. If I am working on something really important, it is far more imperative that my train of thought NOT BE INTERRUPTED so that I can concentrate on doing my work. Not answering some crap phone call of someone wanting to know when the work will be done.

This is why I never answer the phone.

Gah! looks like I'm done.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 27 April 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

I like 'you are DOOMED to respond'

still haven't decided about sunday, email was about other things.

― Ed, Friday, 27 April 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

I cannot remember the last time I received an actual LETTER in my office. 1997? 1998?

I wonder if I can just go home now... oh wait, gah, no, gotback to the top of my inbox and there is a report request. Bah!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 27 April 2007 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

Also, should I get BUPA? I have just been offered. I have to pay £33 a month, though.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 27 April 2007 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

I am anti-private medical insurance, but it may work out for you. I presume this does not cover any pre-existing conditions.

― Ed, Friday, 27 April 2007 14:12 (eighteen years ago)

I have no idea. I need to find this out...

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 27 April 2007 14:22 (eighteen years ago)

Ooh, no health check, no denial of pre-existing conditions, apparently. That might be worth it. I mean, if it meant I could move out of current cachement area without worrying about it... though nah. I like mine flat.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 27 April 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

Ed > Another good list to sign up to
http://www.stonerrock.com/store/ath.asp
If you spend over $50 you get a freebie. If you spend $100 you get a better freebie (and so on up til $300)

They just got some Hawkwind stuff in btw...
~Hawkwind: Empire Pool Wembley 1973 CD
~Hawkwind: This is Hawkwind, Do Not Panic CD
~Hawkwind: Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music CD
~Hawkwind: P.X.R.5 CD
~Hawkwind: Quark Strangeness and Charm CD

To go with all their other stuff that they have.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 27 April 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

A lot of Hawkwind actually http://www.cosmicdoom.com/store/search.asp

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 27 April 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha ha, I just found a picture of an ex boyfriend who has grown a truly unfortunate moustache. E for effort, but honestly, he's a lanky lad of Irish extraction with barely a hair on his chinny chin chin and it just looks ridiculous.

I like it when exes look awful. It makes me feel better about their dumping me.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 27 April 2007 15:16 (eighteen years ago)

and 5 Hawkwind dvds.

I have the VHS version of this CAN dvd
http://www.fuzzrock.com/store/info.asp?item_num=ATH-3668

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 27 April 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

Hey Ed here's 2 DVD's with some cooking tips!

http://www.fuzzrock.com/store/info.asp?item_num=ATH-2167

http://www.fuzzrock.com/store/info.asp?item_num=ATH-3049

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 27 April 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

(not for Emsk or kate)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 27 April 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

I just got the new HEADS cd in the mail. Cookies?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 27 April 2007 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

There's the pics and tracklisting
http://www.theheadsrock.com/homepage.html

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 27 April 2007 15:26 (eighteen years ago)

Not even kate?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

What? I downloaded the tracks off their MySpace earlier this week.

I've put myself on a CD buying moratorium for a while. Because I want the HOG and I must save up.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

I mean cookies.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:24 (eighteen years ago)

Ailsa were you here at the beginning of ILX?

No.

― ailsa, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

yay, I've been told I can go home! Off to Drinkin' Island!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

For Kerr

― ailsa, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

(i think it was sort of well-received though.)

lol apparently i was not wrong. but i am being a boy and he is being a girl. NOW WHAT. (write a suede song?)

― emsk, Sunday, 29 April 2007 10:42 (eighteen years ago)

close enough to a Morrissey song tho.

― Mark G, Monday, 30 April 2007 07:40 (eighteen years ago)

What was sort of well received?!?!? Argh, it must have been on the other thread. I am totally confused.

Good morning. Well, I had the most boring weekend ever. I slept, I read the paper, I slept some more, I planted some tomatoes, I did the laundry and I wrote a new song.

Oh, and I watched about 6 hours of Frances' bug documentary. That was GRATE. I simply could not stop watching it. Wasps are bastards. Spiders are great.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 09:38 (eighteen years ago)

I now have swollen sinuses and a sore throat from cleaning all weekend and aI am still not done.

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 09:39 (eighteen years ago)

However room is ready for the lodger which was at least the goal and I am off to belgium tomorrow.

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 09:40 (eighteen years ago)

Hurrah for clean room! Boo for swollen sinuses. Watch out for the mumps.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 09:44 (eighteen years ago)

Nah, I've had them, it's the dust bunnies. Tonight I have to unbury the living room.
I have a t-shirt and some dvds for you.

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 09:45 (eighteen years ago)

Hey all.

Kate http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=57477#unread

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 30 April 2007 09:48 (eighteen years ago)

Hurrah! Did my t-shirt get there already? I will swing by tonight after work.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 09:49 (eighteen years ago)

Given that you are already sick, Ed, can you clean my apt. when you're done? Thx.

Holidays here, but of course the temperature has plunged to overcast and 0. Rumors of precipitation tonight to boot. :(

However, TCM was showing "The Little Hut" this morning.

― mitya, Monday, 30 April 2007 09:50 (eighteen years ago)

the best spacemen 3 spin off thread has disappeared off ilm's bottom of the page.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 30 April 2007 09:57 (eighteen years ago)

Can I alphabetise your record collection now, then, Ed? I'm so disappointed now my CD collection is all alphabetised in a case, I don't get to change the order and re-alphabetise any more.

I've bumped the Sp* Spinoff thread.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:00 (eighteen years ago)

OK, I am SOOO BORED today. My boss wasn't expecting me to be here, so she has no work for me. And she's really busy with the online launch. I cleaned out my entire inbox on Friday. I can't start a big project because I'll just have to stop it tomorrow when month end starts.

WHAT ON EARTH SHOULD I DO TODAY?!?!/

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:20 (eighteen years ago)

Hello there!

You can come and alphebetise my CD collection if you want, Kate. I haven't done it for ages. It probably isn't as big as Ed's though.

Bought the new Blonde Redhead album at the weekend.* As the packaging is so nice, I think I'm just going to burn a copy and keep the original in as mint condition as I can keep it. Oh dear, I'm turning into a music geek! I have enough geeknesses about me already.

* even THOUGH i already had it cookie-monstered away on my hard drive. See, definitely geeky.

― Forest Pines, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:24 (eighteen years ago)

(alternatively, Kate, you could create some database reports for me!)

― Forest Pines, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:24 (eighteen years ago)

What kind of database? Can I back Crystal up to it? Otherwise, forget it.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:25 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, it's running on MS SQL Server

Although I can't remember where our copy of Crystal has gone. The management want PRETTY GRAPHS, so I was going to hack something together in Excel.

― Forest Pines, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:26 (eighteen years ago)

I ordered the Blonde Redhead vinyl from http://aquariusrecords.org as it has the free 7" with it.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:27 (eighteen years ago)

I have now discovered how to do pretty graphs in Crystal - you can do not just pretty colours, but SHADED colours. It always amazing, how the coding of the reports can take weeks to set up, and they're not impressed. Drop a bar graph in there, and they go "ooh, aaah, how clever!"

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:28 (eighteen years ago)

Yes you can, kate by all means.

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:29 (eighteen years ago)

I must have played a lot of krautrock last week http://www.last.fm/user/trailofgybe/charts/?charttype=weekly

B&S not in top 10 again http://www.last.fm/group/UK+Watercooler/charts

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:31 (eighteen years ago)

Buddhist Monks of Maitri Vihar Monastery 1 play

Ed or emil.y ?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:33 (eighteen years ago)

Can I then do a bar chart graph mapping your record collection by genre and record label? ;-)

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:33 (eighteen years ago)

Because I've not been at home much

(xxpost)

― Forest Pines, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:33 (eighteen years ago)

Ned Raggett 1 play

????????!!!!!!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:37 (eighteen years ago)

Ah, Ed was telling me about the track, so it must be him.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:40 (eighteen years ago)

When are we going megalith hunting again? Frances wants to come this time!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:41 (eighteen years ago)

Duh, by "this time" I mean "again".

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:42 (eighteen years ago)

on monday but I think the russian got in first to claim the last seat :-( However let's see what car they give me tomorrow.

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:46 (eighteen years ago)

Aw, but the Russian is going to COMPLAIN... "You call these megaliths?!?!? In Russia megaliths hunt you!"

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:47 (eighteen years ago)

What do you know? They have Megaliths in Russia!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:50 (eighteen years ago)

I might end up with a grand scenic again which has 7 seats.

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:51 (eighteen years ago)

How much peach beer do you want?

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:52 (eighteen years ago)

7 seats! Tourbus! Hurrah!

I need to get out the Copey and find some megaliths to hunt.

Mmmm, peach beer. Can you get me 8 again?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:53 (eighteen years ago)

we'll have to see, it's not what I've booked but who knows what they will give me as it is short notice.

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:54 (eighteen years ago)

HI DERE COOLER

― G00blar, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:59 (eighteen years ago)

HI DERE G00BLAR!!!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:00 (eighteen years ago)

How's everyone been?

― G00blar, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:00 (eighteen years ago)

I'm bored. Have you done any more mixin'?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:01 (eighteen years ago)

Have I ever! I've got a mixing hangover this morning--Eleven (11!) hours in teh studio yesterday mixing, and mastering, but I think (I think!) we might be..................done.

― G00blar, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:04 (eighteen years ago)

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now that is what I call Mixin' Island. When do I get to hear them?

I spent most of yesterday afternoon ripping off La Dusseldorf. When Frances came round on Friday, my iTunes would not stop playing La Dusseldorf. Seriously, it played every one of their songs over the course of about 3 hours. So I nicked one of their chord progressions/motorik beatz for this melody that has been bouncing around in my head for a while - the song about Great Circles. I wonder if anyone will notice. Or if they'll just come back with "sounds like Stereolab!"

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:06 (eighteen years ago)

"Sounds like Neu" :)

― Dr.C, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:23 (eighteen years ago)

No, because we have girly vocals. We can do a carbon copy of a Neu! song (Noyfriend) and people will still go "oh, sounds like Stereolab".

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:24 (eighteen years ago)

La Dusseldorf are much sillier than NEU!, as well. I think that's why I like them.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:25 (eighteen years ago)

FP will know if it sounds like Stereolab. He's a bit of an expert.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:26 (eighteen years ago)

You are going to have to teach me to sing like klaus dinger.

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:26 (eighteen years ago)

Just shout about Dusseldorf in a comedy German accent, you'll be fine.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:27 (eighteen years ago)

Die Toten Hosen!

― Mark G, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:31 (eighteen years ago)

Also, Klaus Dinger was quite a hottie:

http://www.emusic.com/img/artist/116/354/11635467.jpeg

This is clearly the part of the day when the Cooler gets bored and talks about Krautrock.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:33 (eighteen years ago)

It's all prog rock to mark c.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:34 (eighteen years ago)

It's all Hott Boys to me.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:34 (eighteen years ago)

I fear I would sound more Lieutenant Gruber.

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/3/30/Lieutenant_Hubert_Gruber.jpg

(Dinger looks a lot like aphex twin)

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:35 (eighteen years ago)

Perhaps, but Aphex Twin is always making HORRIBLE HORRIBLE FACES which negate the possibility of his ever appearing hott.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:36 (eighteen years ago)

I mean, come on...

http://www.nndb.com/people/794/000029707/___rdj.jpg

STOP GURNING, YOU FULE!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:37 (eighteen years ago)

Much as I love it - a no-krautrock May?

― Dr.C, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:39 (eighteen years ago)

It is impossible to find a picture of him not making a stupid face!!!

OK, wait, I've found exactly one and it's Wiki so I can't post it.

x-post no, sorry. Football and Big Brother are the only banns. I couldn't go a month without krautrock. You might as well ask me to go a month without hott boys.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:40 (eighteen years ago)

Not possible. xpost

― G00blar, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:40 (eighteen years ago)

linky?

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:41 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, wait!!!

CUET:

http://www.kludgemagazine.com/images/concerts/rich-4big.jpg

Now too bad about the indelicate matter of his music.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:42 (eighteen years ago)

OK, his eyes are glowing red with the evil of his music, but still: v. cuet in a beardy soundartist sort of way.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:44 (eighteen years ago)

Now that is what I call Mixin' Island.

It was crazy! We thought we were just gonna 'finish everything up', and our engineer took HOURS working on the drum and vocal EQs. I'm listening again now, and even though I'm pretty sure I'm not gonna be able to trust my ears til at least tomorrow, I think I'm calling this thing done and over. NO MORE TWEAKING.

― G00blar, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:44 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, my son, you have reached Mixin' Island indeed.

You never finish a record so much as you abandon it. You just get tothe point where you never, ever want to hear it again, and then you call it "done" and then you have to spend the rest of the year touring and promoting songs you never want to hear again in your life.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:46 (eighteen years ago)

Last week Kate was staring at pics of Norwegian bums now she's looking at pictures of German dingers.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:46 (eighteen years ago)

otm xpost.

― G00blar, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:47 (eighteen years ago)

I mean, hehe German dingers.

― G00blar, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:47 (eighteen years ago)

Ah yes, Ed! This song has a breakdown just to organ wub (and crazy phased drums that ticker tacker like insects - I need to do some more work on them when I get it into Cubase as I'd really like to program a phase sweep on them) and then the other bits slow come in and then there are BIG DINGER DRUMS and then it rocks back up to anthemic ending.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:48 (eighteen years ago)

I reckon I could find some aphex you would like the first SAW which is somewhat kraut.

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:48 (eighteen years ago)

This is going to be like the thing with the banjos. Just because you can find one example I might like, does not mean I approve in general!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:49 (eighteen years ago)

wtf is she hitting those drums with now!!
xxipost

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:49 (eighteen years ago)

Absolutely, you are never going to be that into 26 mixes for cash or druqks. But you might like some of SAW and surfing on sinewaves.

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:50 (eighteen years ago)

Aphex Twin rules.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:52 (eighteen years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6606927.stm

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:53 (eighteen years ago)

I have not heard this tune yet, but sample the drum machine and reverse it to breakdown back from the wub.

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:53 (eighteen years ago)

Scientists are developing a pill which could boost women's libido and reduce their appetite.

The hormone-releasing pill has so far only been given to female monkeys and shrews who displayed more mating behaviour and ate less.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:54 (eighteen years ago)

When it was given to monkeys, they displayed mating behaviour such as tongue-flicking and eyebrow-raising to the males, while female shrews displayed their feelings via "rump presentation and tail wagging".

Who Mickey Finned emsk?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:54 (eighteen years ago)

Start a thread, dude.

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:54 (eighteen years ago)

on who mickey finned emsk?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:55 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, blah. Miracle pill makes women up for it all the time, and stop eating to turn them into oversexed hotties. Just like some pneumatic male dream. Never mind men actually doing something to make themselves more attractive to their partners... you know, like taking some of the slack in terms of work that leaves women too exhausted to think about sex.

Argh, sorry, I've just been wound up by "What Women Don't Know About Men" again. Err, what, that some men are pathologically insecure fuckwits who are only intent on reinforcing the double standard? Sorry, we KNEW that already!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:56 (eighteen years ago)

ANYWAY, backwards drums, yeah, that's an idea - I often do that in Cubase in breakdowns, but can't do it in Reason.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:56 (eighteen years ago)

reversing the sample rather than the pattern so it sounds like the drums are being sucked back into the machine.

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:57 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not sure I can do that in cubase - or at least I would have to do it manually and it would take forever.

I was having a lot of fun playing with the soundwaves to build the wub up. I had a sawtooth going for a while, but it sounded too harsh. The squarewave was fantastic! And then mixed in with a flute attack at a different speed. I love the Maelstrom, you can mix and match your waveforms and filters endlessly.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:59 (eighteen years ago)

Does reason have a soft sampler, because that would be the place to do it?

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:00 (eighteen years ago)

Monday 18 June
Roky Erickson plus Clinic Royal Festival Hall
SUNN 0))) plus Chrome Hoof Queen Elizabeth Hall

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:01 (eighteen years ago)

Interesting, is that part of meltdown?

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:01 (eighteen years ago)

yup

http://www.ilxor.com:8080/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=56484#unread

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:03 (eighteen years ago)

Apparently the iguana is playing on the 20th. Does this mean you sisxor will be back sooner than planned, kate?

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:05 (eighteen years ago)

jarvis has book m,torhead for the rfh

I will be elsewhere though :-(

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:06 (eighteen years ago)

Hrmmm, seeing SUNN0))) somewhere I can sit down (and not have to worry about injured back) would be good. But the ambience would be a bit wrong.

I think Reason has a sampler - errr, Recycle? But I'm scared of it. They are actually programmed drums, rather than sampled drums. There's got to be a way to edit them, then stick them back in the drum machine.

Don't know when/if she's back. She said she wouldn't be until Autumn. Last I spoke to her, she'd broken her cheekbone ice skating and was out of commission for a while.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:11 (eighteen years ago)

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

Friday 22 June
The Jesus and Mary Chain plus 1990's Royal Festival Hall

How do you get tickets? Can you get tickets just for one show?

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

Tix go on sale May 3rd, 9am, I think.

― G00blar, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:22 (eighteen years ago)

OK, confusement. There are just as many websites saying that above pic is Michael Rother as saying it is Klaus Dinger. ?!?!?!?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:23 (eighteen years ago)

Reaon has Dr Rex but you have to have recycle to make much use of it (it has NN19 as ell but thats more of a musical farts sampler). You need to play the drums out into recycle then put them back into Dr Rex. Should be fairly easy and I have the technology.

(drop by after work and I will give you a bundle of DVDs and a T-shirt).

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:27 (eighteen years ago)

Could someone book me a ticket for Sunn0))) and the lost ladies of folk? I will be in belgium and not near a computer.

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:29 (eighteen years ago)

I will try but I still haven't exactly figured out the process of booking tickets yet!

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

I know, I know, you ring up the number and tell them you read the Observer and want to see some music. But it's confusing. Back in the day, when I wnated to go to Meltdown, I emailed S and he would give me free tickets. Now I have to buy them with everyone else, oh noes!

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

Re: Dinger/Rother pic

One had a beard, one didn't.

Then they swapped over.

― Mark G, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:32 (eighteen years ago)

I suppose it doesn't matter, they were both hotties. And all German hippies look essentially alike.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:35 (eighteen years ago)

Must mention to discoveries in waitrose this weekend:

Delouis Fils Fresh Mayonnaise
Fever Tree Tonic Water (nothing artificial in it, tasty, expensive)

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:44 (eighteen years ago)

My waitrose grapefruit was a big disappointment this morning. For shame.

― G00blar, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:45 (eighteen years ago)

I don't have a Waitrose anywhere near me. :-(

And I ran out of muselix this morning. Bah!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:47 (eighteen years ago)

Those Dorset Cereals are so nice, but the boxes are so small.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:47 (eighteen years ago)

True that, there only about 4 breakfast's 'orth in there.

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:48 (eighteen years ago)

OK, I can get about a week and a half out of them, but it's annoying to run out halfway through the week! And it isn't even! It's only Monday!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:49 (eighteen years ago)

David Mitchell in yesterday's OFM was talking about how he makes an everlasting mueslix by buying strange and different ones all the time, and always adding a bit to a big jar, then having lots of surprises down the line when he gets to the apricot (or whatever) he squirrelled away back in September.

― G00blar, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:53 (eighteen years ago)

He nicked that idea from Ed and James!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:54 (eighteen years ago)

Fucking novelists, always stealing ideas.

― G00blar, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:54 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

James and I used to do this we had a big 3 gallon tupperware tub for the mixing and storing of the muzel.

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:55 (eighteen years ago)

I ish I could get hatever it is out from under my '' key. It is somhat annoying.

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:55 (eighteen years ago)

I thought "G00blar - Roughs" was a great thing to be written on a CD, but nope, "Gooblar - MASTERS" is even better!

We are masters!

― G00blar, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:55 (eighteen years ago)

I AM THE MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE, THE WIND OF TIME IS BLOWING THROUGH ME
I AM THE MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE, AND IT'S ALL MOVING RELATIVE TO ME!!!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:56 (eighteen years ago)

Ha-hem, sorry.

I should upload a new mix to our MySpace and bug AC-30 for a gig.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:57 (eighteen years ago)

G00blar £12.99 is even better.

can you YSI to me?

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:57 (eighteen years ago)

One sec.

― G00blar, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:58 (eighteen years ago)

DONE.

― G00blar, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:00 (eighteen years ago)

I meant kate not you, but thanks anyway.

BTW 30sec in, 11 hours well spent.

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:01 (eighteen years ago)

But you already have the mixes, up to where I got to! I haven't done any more mixing. Unless you want the new songs, in which case, no I've not finished writing and demoing them yet!

Can I have some G00blar masters?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:02 (eighteen years ago)

You got 'em too!

― G00blar, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:03 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry I assumed you had one on the big stick ready to go. No worries.

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:05 (eighteen years ago)

No, I meant to do some mixing this weekend, but when I sat down to it I realised I wasn't on Mixin' Island and couldn't bear to listen to the songs any more. So I wrote new ones.

Downloading now, G00blar, thanks!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:08 (eighteen years ago)

Guitars be having teeth!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:15 (eighteen years ago)

Kate be having attacks of jealousy over how good this all sounds.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:21 (eighteen years ago)

Now that's nice to hear!

― G00blar, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:21 (eighteen years ago)

what is mickey finning pls?

― emsk, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:24 (eighteen years ago)

i am all aflutter

― emsk, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:24 (eighteen years ago)

I mean, wow, those guitars just sound so BRIGHT and SPARKLING and SHARP (as in clarity, not in tone) like cut glass. And the vocals are much better, much brighter, it sounds like you up front and in yr face, not like you singing in another room made of soggy cardboard.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:25 (eighteen years ago)

x-post Mickey Finn = slipping someone something in their drink, yesno?

What are you aflutter about? Office crush? How is the proper job going, anyway?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:28 (eighteen years ago)

x-post Mickey Finn = slipping someone something in their drink, yesno?

ahaha gotcha. srsly i am the person most likely to be spiking my own drink...

i am so aflutter i am READING MY FUCKING HOROSCOPES ONLINE argh argh oh noes :/

i will explain the flutterage irl. there are Complications but i am serene. and fluttery. and i have the clumsy on me, oh no, i have spilled my tea on my desk twice today already.

― emsk, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

new job fucking ROCKS

― emsk, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

and so did the party on saturday that came with the new job oh dear lord what world have i landed myself in?

― emsk, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

book us lots of gigs on the sly (G0oblar too).

That sounds really good, G00blar, Is that a flanger on Uh-Oh? Does this mean you can wheel out your psychedelic side project: 'Dr G00blar and the Inclement Weather'

I didn't press you on the hott boy yesterday, but stop fanny dangling and tell us.

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:35 (eighteen years ago)

You are entering a new and exciting world that is leaving us in the dust and you won't even TELL US of your new and exciting adventures.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:36 (eighteen years ago)

Re: Dinger/Rother pic

One had a beard, one didn't.

I think they both had beards then Klaus cut his hair off and went all glam. Now Klaus looks like a hippy again and Michael looks like a advertising executive. Pic above is Michael Rother

― Tom D., Monday, 30 April 2007 13:37 (eighteen years ago)

The msytery is solved.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:37 (eighteen years ago)

Klaus is kind of beaky and Teutonic looking. That La Dusseldorf look is great tho, innit? "White Overalls! Over all over all over!!"

― Tom D., Monday, 30 April 2007 13:39 (eighteen years ago)

No flanger, I don't think :(

― G00blar, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:42 (eighteen years ago)

There is something on the uh-ohs.

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:42 (eighteen years ago)

Sounds good though.

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:43 (eighteen years ago)

Klaus Flanger - which band was he in again?

― Tom D., Monday, 30 April 2007 13:44 (eighteen years ago)

hottttt

http://nastypanda.com/wp-content/ladusseldorf.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:46 (eighteen years ago)

x-post ha ha ha, Klaus Flanger is going to be my psuedonym for my krautrock alter ego!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

Emsk will never stop giggling.

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

"it is pronounced flang-ger, not flanjer."

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

Thomas Dinger was the hottie in that band, unfortunately he's dead now :( ... in fact so is Andreas Schell

― Tom D., Monday, 30 April 2007 13:48 (eighteen years ago)

Quick, what is a male German name starting with M? I need a middle initial.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:49 (eighteen years ago)

Michael! Markus!

― Tom D., Monday, 30 April 2007 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

i will tell you, i just do not want to make it a matter of public record. it is a new and exciting world, and also one in which i am 17.

(also yes, i have just turned into beavis/butthead)

munter

― emsk, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

Manfred!

― Tom D., Monday, 30 April 2007 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

MILHAUS

― G00blar, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:51 (eighteen years ago)

More Germanic sounding.

x-post Münter, yes, with umlauts!

Klaus M. Flanger, that is me.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:52 (eighteen years ago)

We can gossip like schoolgirls on friday evening, with a real teenager too.

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:53 (eighteen years ago)

yes! yes we can.

― emsk, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

:-( I am not going to be there Friday, I am never going to get to hear the gossip. :-((((((

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

german deities

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:56 (eighteen years ago)

Münter it is, because I bet I would make a really ugly German. Awesome! I'm going to go and re-vote in all the ILM polls.

― Klaus M. Flanger, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:57 (eighteen years ago)

late breaking vote for Mannaz

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:00 (eighteen years ago)

I am now very tempted to go and get in a row with Geir or someone on ILM or something, mwah hah hah.

x-post it is a good rune, but it does not display in my browser.

Even when I type, I now hear my words internally in a German accent.

― Klaus M. Flanger, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

OK, that entertained me for about 30 seconds and now I am bored again.

What on earth should I do with the rest of the afternoon?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

OK, in seven minutes, I have gone to the loo and made a cup of coffee. There has to be more to life than this! The last day before monthend is always EXCRUCIATINGLY slow. I wish I could just go home.

Oh wait, a new user, hurrah. That will take five minutes.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

I might have to de-beard tonight and it has only just got to a length where it is soft as well, boo.

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

Oh! My dad has finally sent lyrics for that song you liked. And pictures of him and my brother flying a helicopter.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

I might try and learn that one with johnny.

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

My dad never seems to take pictures of people. He takes pictures of the helicopter, of the buildings, of the view - but what I really want to see is him and my bother!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:40 (eighteen years ago)

OK, they flew under the Golden Gate Bridge. That is kinda scary/cool.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

Ah, finally, at the very end, my brother with chopper:

http://www.farfoto.com/070414_CHOPPER_SHORT_WEB2/W-AF-39.jpg

There were a couple of pictures of clipper ships and things from above! I knew helicopters were fast, but did they fly back in time?!?!?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

I have no idea who those people in the background are. Also, it seems that everyone in SF wears tan pants, all the time.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

Under the bridge, wah-hey!

http://www.farfoto.com/070414_CHOPPER_SHORT_WEB2/W-AF-18.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

Now let's fly back over it!!!

http://www.farfoto.com/070414_CHOPPER_SHORT_WEB2/W-AF-23.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

My brother and my dad taking pictures of one another!!!

http://www.farfoto.com/070414_CHOPPER_SHORT_WEB2/W-AF-29.jpg

I have no idea who the small child is. AFAIK, my bother has not bred.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

As if this day couldn't possibly get any more tedious, neither of the new users I was supposed to assign user numbers two were set up in the system. AND I'm got a backache.

I don't know if it's from the office chair, or if it's due to the awful posture I was sitting in while recording last night, since I discovered I could set up my studio on the coffee table and lie on the sofa.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

You are coming round to my way of doing things. We all need hammocks.

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

And then my back would go into permanent spasm and I would have to phone in the next gig from traction in the hospital.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

However, I've discovered that my footrest has nice enurbuly bits that feel good on bare feet. Wah-hey, I'm that bored at work.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

I quite envy yr dad and bro, Kate, I have never been up in a helicopter.

Today was mostly spent packing. Tomorrow I move desks. Up a floor, new dept, new boss, same job but WINDOW SEAT! Yay!

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

Helicopters give me the fear. Not enough in the way of spare engines for backup.

You know what else gives me the fear? Buying houses. Aaarggghhhh. So. Much. Money.

― ailsa, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

I've never been in a helicopter either. :-(

I got so bored I made a watercooler tagcrowd:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/212/478567352_54c51a7ebb_o.jpg

So Hawkwind is on it, but no Krautrock? And no "hott boy"? We'll have to work harder.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

one of the journals produced by our hoboken overlords has the acronym NME, leading to much roffle from me and no-one else in a meeting earlier today.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

xpost how do you get that? I'm sourcing ideas for ILXVol3 art...

― Mark G, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:21 (eighteen years ago)

You upload a bunch of text to this:

http://www.tagcrowd.com/

And it spits out the most common words for you.

I just uploaded the whole 'cooler thread.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:23 (eighteen years ago)

I just love "oh OK poll really - someone, something, song - start!"

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:23 (eighteen years ago)

.. it's in danger of looking a bit like this:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y161/MarkGrout/ilx3.jpg

― Mark G, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

Why is BUM on the tag?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

Because you're covering up Al, it would appear.

― ailsa, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

Because of the naked Norwegians!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

Bum makes it but no Forest Pines.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

I wish I were a thousand times more articulate than I am, but I am not.

Reminds self 10 times: do not discuss serious things on the interweb. Do not discuss serious things on the interweb. Do not bring up anything that you actually care about on ILX.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

Wonder how Onimo and co are enjoying ATP.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 30 April 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

Well, they're not any more since they're back home (it's a Friday to Sunday thing, and aldo already posted about it on the ATP thread at about lunchtime).

― ailsa, Monday, 30 April 2007 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

hello may day!

― mitya, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 04:30 (eighteen years ago)

white rabbit white rabbit white rabbit

― emsk, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 07:21 (eighteen years ago)

red banners red banners red banners

― Ed, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 07:22 (eighteen years ago)

hares.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 07:41 (eighteen years ago)

Morning!

I wonder how many stoopid stoodents have jumped off that stoopid bridge.

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 08:14 (eighteen years ago)

2 days (mainly) offline and I've still got fuck all done.

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 08:43 (eighteen years ago)

Morning argh headache 'cause windows were closed all night NEED AIR.

― G00blar, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 09:23 (eighteen years ago)

Wonder how Onimo and co are enjoying ATP.

Lots of noise, lots of booze, lots of singing, sunshine and walking and pub grub and more booze and noise and singing and stuff.

grebt!

― onimo, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 09:24 (eighteen years ago)

Blargh, monthened. I'm feeling a bit strange today, problems sleeping and brain hyper and not shutting up and all thoughtwormy.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 12:14 (eighteen years ago)

onimo otm

― g-kit, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 12:16 (eighteen years ago)

And I binged on telly again last night, I sat down and watched 4 episodes of Dr. Who back to back. (Though I still haven't seen the Runaway Bride.) I would have watched Torchwood, too, but it had no sound. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 12:28 (eighteen years ago)

Why did I come into work so early today? It's not like I have anything to do until 6pm anyway. I think I just came in for the free interweb.

My brain is in a state where extended periods of boredom is doing it no good at all. Maybe I'll go dig out the Dr. Who thread.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 12:44 (eighteen years ago)

I can't find the most recent one. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 12:46 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=52833

(I think, I'm not reading it yet as I haven't caught up with Saturday's ep)

― onimo, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 12:50 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, I had to stop reading about 2/3 of the way down because I hadn't seen part 2 of the dalek's doubleheader yet.

I don't have much to add, anyway, though.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:01 (eighteen years ago)

I do like Martha, though, it's nice that she is so brainy and intellectually curious, and might actually be an intellectual sparring partner for the Doctor in the same way Romana was an equal. Didn't realise just how simpering Rose was until a stronger woman appeared.

Plus, HAH!!! Take Guys and St. Thomas to the MOON, will you? I'll NEVER get my operation then!!!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:02 (eighteen years ago)

Whoa!!!! Miss AMP just got her own bitchy ILM thread about her!

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=57491

Welcome to the bigtime, sweetheart! I feel so proud of her.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:29 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, I clicked on the Dr. Who thread by mistake and saw something I now really wish I hadn't have.

Today is going to go really slowly on ILX, isn't it? Bah. I'll end up talking to myself for the rest of the afternoon until someone calls the men in white suits. But only after I've done monthend. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:34 (eighteen years ago)

*bouncebouncebounce*

― emsk, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

Well, now I know what you are bouncing about...

::BOUNCEBOUNCEBOUNCE:: indeed!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

*bounce*?

― G00blar, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

yeah. i don't need sleep or water any more.

― emsk, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

There is no point in arguing with Americans. There just isn't.

For gods sake, I lived there long enough to be able to criticise the goddamn culture. But no. Criticise America = "love it or leave it!!!" in a way that criticise UK = "err, well, put up with it or write a letter to your local council."

But no, I've said my peace and I don't want to get sucked into a flamewar as people continue to concentrate on literal pedantery while missing the whole point.

Emsk, I am jealous. But still happy at your bouncitude.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

I am staying off that thread.

Damn all this tree detritus flying around London! *SNEEZE*

― G00blar, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

War is peace! Slavery is freedom! Tree pollen is sneezin'!

Oh, I am bored.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

I have just had lots of crisps and cake to slebrate/commiserate (del as applicable) my move upstairs to our Professional Business Unit*

* what does that make all our others????

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

I bet I'm more bored than you are (xp)

― Tom D., Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:40 (eighteen years ago)

Crisps and cake... ::drools:: I've got a strange Friday feeling despite its being only Tuesday. I blame monthend.

God, my boss's cigar STINKS.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

he's smoking in the office? how gross.

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

He's one of those "I'm rich! the rules don't apply to me!" types. I mean, he is soft spoken and mostly so bloody ... nice in that gracious, self depreciating super-posh way that you can't argue with him because he has all the power because he owns the place. But GAH! Not fun.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

hello

kate http://www.ilxor.com:8080/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=57444#unread

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

I never saw them live, Kerr. They never toured the States.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

That thread is about to disappear off the bottom of the page into the void.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

These things happen.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

That thread is about to disappear off the bottom of the page into the void.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bump

― onimo, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

I remain bored.

But I get to see the new office tomorrow afternoon! Chancery Lane. Oh dear.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

I move to my new desk tomorrow. I get to see BMW out of the window -- where they build the Mini.

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

Out of my window I will see nothing but lawyers. :-(

But the site is on top of the Silver Vaults! Hurrah!

(Do not bother stalking me, the security on that building is way heavy.)

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

I will miss the Freemasons Hall, tho. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

you'll be able to go to the Cittie of York for lunch.

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

I used to work in Goldsmith's Hall,(as a gold cutter!), the security there is waaay heavy too. That was the only job I've ever had where you got luncheon vouchers - they're classic. Great job that! 10 pints with the Canvey Island crew straight after work every Friday set you up nicely for a night in the gutter.

― Dr.C, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

Gah, I worked for a diamond importer/jewelry manufacturer in NYC (in the accounting dept, not doing anything fun) and my god, the security there - you had to go through a metal detector and have your bag x-rayed every time you went in and out of the office. It was like going to the airport every day! If they could have given us cavity searches, I think they would have. Such a hassle.

but working at Rock. Center was great fun.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

I don't even think that diamonds show up in a metal detector! Honestly!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

They don't. I used to have to hack up bits of gold and test for how many carat it was. As a newbie the old East End lags didn't trust my testing always - they could tell if 9 carat was being passed off as 18 just by looking at it and rubbing it. Then they used to make me phone the poor bastard in Hatton Gardens who had bought some rubbish. The other scam was passing off good stuff as poor deliberately to reduce import duty. But the whole scene was crooked anyway, so it always got sorted in the end.

― Dr.C, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

It takes two crooks to strike an honest bargain!

Maybe I should dump mortgages and go back to the diamond trade. Hmmmm.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

Nah, actually, mortgages *slightly* more ethical.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

It was a ~~dis~~honest day's work, guv, and make no mistake. I think I enjoyed it the most of any job I've done - you were part of a whole hidden London underworld.

― Dr.C, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

OK, people are starting to pack up. I'm going to have to run the dreaded MONTHEND soon. Should I have some more coffee in anticipation, or have I had enough?

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

(Though the Wimpy thread has got me all nostalgic ... weird how lots of locations in North London seemed totally exciting and romantic and slightly exotic when I was 6, that now, being more familiar with the geography of London, I laugh at.)

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, and the Radiohead site just told me today is International Sex Day.

Um... what?

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6609415.stm

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know if this will work without giving the answer away with it.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42842000/gif/_42842559_maths_diagram_416.gif

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

So don't cheat and look at the bbc link.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

I haven't studied geometry in ... 23 years?

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

I was never any good at maths.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

I used to be really exceptionally good at geometry. Now it's all gone. I was stretching the banks of my memory to write "In non-Euclidean geometry, the shortest path between A and B, is not necessarily, a straight line".

It's depressing to think how much smarter I was when I was 14.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

that was a fairly horrendous drive, carnage all over the belgian motorways.

― Ed, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

Have you only just got there?

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

yes, how I'm not dead I don't know. (a bicycle came off a roof rack and, somehow, ended up in the central reservation and not under my wheels)

― Ed, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:51 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, you mean carnage as in actual accidents, not just heavy traffic?

Blimey! That sounds awful.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:52 (eighteen years ago)

remarkably few actual accidents but too many near misses for comfort. Bank holiday traffic here.

― Ed, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:55 (eighteen years ago)

OK, for future reference, Mulligatawny soup *seriously* doesn't agree with me. I feel quite ill. Bah.

But on the good side, I'm ahead of schedule on Monthend - I've ploughed straight through it and only have the Pipeline Recc to do tomorrow. If that goes well (which it never does) I'll be finished a whole day ahead of schedule.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

Doesn't Mulligatawny have meat, specifically lamb in it?

― Ed, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 21:33 (eighteen years ago)

I've never had Mulligatawny soup. I like Scotch Broth best.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 21:56 (eighteen years ago)

Mulligatawny is awesome!

I think it's one of those things where there are a million little variations, but I've never had it with lamb or any other meat, in fact. But it is based on chicken broth.

― mitya, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 05:30 (eighteen years ago)

Heinz tinned Mulligatawny soup smells evil and bad. My boss used to have it for lunch nearly every day and the smell of it evokes the horrible atmosphere of my old workplace. Good proper fresh-made mulligatawny soup = yum. Heinz tinned stuff = bleurgh x 10000000.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 05:45 (eighteen years ago)

No, this claimed to be a vegetarian one. Though if it did have chicken broth in it, that would explain why I was so bloody sick last night!

I feel like I've only just left this place. My watercup is still on the desk and all. I had to have another GodOmelette again this morning (added fresh basil today) because I had no muselix. Oh, what an imposition. But I remembered to buy muselix on the way here today.

I am wearing a summer dress because I feel quite summery.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:22 (eighteen years ago)

"Hey, where is everybody today?" he wrote, pre x-post

Yay for girls in summer frocks!

― mitya, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:23 (eighteen years ago)

(Err, women, that is.)

― mitya, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:23 (eighteen years ago)

You can call me a girl, it's summer, I feel girlish, hence the frock.

:-)

(actually, it's not technically a frock but a skirt and a shirt in very similar colours that looks like a dress. But still.)

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:25 (eighteen years ago)

D@wn broke out a summer dress today.

It's all good!

― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:39 (eighteen years ago)

I suspect it is going to be another slow day today. But I have chocolate. And I need to have mucho coffee before I get back into monthend. But I am going to look at the new office at 2! Excitement.

And I'm still being obsessed by my book about the moon. MOON ROCKS. The space race stuff is interesting. Plus, well, MOON ROCKS. I've touched a moon rock in the Houston space centre. Annoying companion was trying to hurry me along but I was all THIS ROCK HAS BEEN IN SPACE!!! IT HAS BEEN ON THE MOON!!!! I DO NOT WANT TO STOP TOUCHING IT!!! I'm intrigued by the descriptions of areas of volcanic green glass. How cool is that?

Mitya, do the Russians have their moonrocks on display anywhere?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:42 (eighteen years ago)

One would think they do somewhere, but honestly I don't know where. Maybe here: http://www.moscow.info/museums/cosmonautics-memorial-museum.aspx

― mitya, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:54 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, that looks really incredible. I'd love to go.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 11:00 (eighteen years ago)

Cosmonautics is just such a fantastic word. Is that the building with the giant space needle? I think that Ed posted photos of it.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 11:02 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, it is! It is! It's such a beautiful building!

http://www.astr.ua.edu/keel/space/cosmusglassx.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 11:03 (eighteen years ago)

(that is some stained glass on the inside, obviously not the space needle.)

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 11:04 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

There are (at least) two needly things here. One is the TV tower; this is more like a Nike swoosh headed skyward, and it's not actually a building, just a monument. They built the museum afterward, underground.

― mitya, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 11:06 (eighteen years ago)

No, no, the spikey thing with the bas relief of cosmonauts on the side is what I'm talking about:

http://www.moscow-taxi.com/images/museums/memorial-museum-of-cosmonautics.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 11:07 (eighteen years ago)

La la la la laaaa. I don't want to be inside. I can't wait to visit the new office and get outside in the sunshine.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:38 (eighteen years ago)

kate have you touched the meteorite at the nhm?

OMGZ NO SLEEPS (not as exciting as it sounds)

and tonight is the run

wah!

― emsk, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:52 (eighteen years ago)

The run! The run! Good luck with the run!

Can you tough the meteorite? If you can, then I'm sure I have. But meteorites, though cool as fuck, are still not as cool as MOON ROCKS.

Also, are you around on 17th June? Need someone organised and responsible and I trust you.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:54 (eighteen years ago)

yeah you can touch it
i used to go there on fridays just to do that

― emsk, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:03 (eighteen years ago)

17th june? is that for ilxorpolooza (sp)?

― emsk, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:06 (eighteen years ago)

Hello all, the sun is shining and I have to spend my afternoon in a windowless room. On the plus side, I still have a beard.

― Ed, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:13 (eighteen years ago)

Also, I have people flirting with me.

― Ed, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:15 (eighteen years ago)

you must be extra charming if people are flirting with you despite the beard!

― mitya, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:19 (eighteen years ago)

i have people flirting with me too

it is nice

and i can see a window, just

― emsk, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:21 (eighteen years ago)

Extra flirters may come to Moscow. My quota is not yet filled. ;)

― mitya, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:27 (eighteen years ago)

No one is flirting with me, either, Mitya. I suppose we could always flirt with each other. May I touch your moonrocks, Cosmonaut? ;-)

Ooh, the new building is lovely. And there is a shortcut through the Inns of Court to get there, which is even better. It's a big imposing building built around these two courtyards, with lots of light. Too bad we are stuffed away in the darkest corner of it.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

Flirting is electronic so they have not seen the beard. It needs some sun exposure to go blonder.

I am going for 50s action hero beard or kon tiki expedition member.

― Ed, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:59 (eighteen years ago)

I am looking forward to picnics in Lincolns Inn. (Not just the fields - the Inn grounds! It's like a little University campus in there, lovely!)

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

I get the feeling already that the ILX fest is going to be like herding cats. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

Afternoon all. It's glorious weather here.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

Afternoon. I wish I were out in the glorious weather, and not struggling to keep awake through monthend.

And my back hurts again. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

I think ILE has finally run out of things to talk about.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

I thought it did that years ago?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

I just got an email from Will Carruthers. Forwarded it to you Kate.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

That's when the balkanisation of ILX started. Now even the Balkans are out of gas. Or maybe I've just reached disenchantment.

x-post I got that email, too, thanks, Kerr, I am on his distribution list.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

Ok. i wasn't sure.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

I have £6858 in valvar I cannot recconcile away. What oh what could it be?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 17:03 (eighteen years ago)

Your bonus.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 17:04 (eighteen years ago)

I wish. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 17:04 (eighteen years ago)

There's a band called Masonic Youth. I wonder how long it took them to come up with that name.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

maybe its a Sonic Youth tribute band who dress in Masonic gear.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

Hurrah! Thursday!

― mitya, Thursday, 3 May 2007 06:29 (eighteen years ago)

I am waiting to find out if thursday is, in fact, friday.

― Ed, Thursday, 3 May 2007 06:30 (eighteen years ago)

Thursday will, in fact, be Friday, but only in about 11 hours.

― mitya, Thursday, 3 May 2007 08:50 (eighteen years ago)

Ah, but will friday be saturday, this is the question?

― Ed, Thursday, 3 May 2007 09:20 (eighteen years ago)

(Someone is supposed to chime in now and say, "Every day's like Sunday, as far as I'm concerned.")

― mitya, Thursday, 3 May 2007 09:30 (eighteen years ago)

I'm so confused. This is like the time in high school that a time warp swallowed Thursday, so Saturday became Thursday.

Watched Time Team last night. I want to go to Doggerland! Oh wait, it's drownded, I can't. Bah.

Trying to work out megalith trip. There's a couple more in the Cotswolds that we haven't hit yet but they tend to be off the map. Or we could do the Avebury alignment. I don't know. I'm also not sure if I'm ascared of taking trains by myself.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 3 May 2007 09:39 (eighteen years ago)

Why would you be scared of taking a train by yourself, Kate?

― mitya, Thursday, 3 May 2007 09:40 (eighteen years ago)

Wouldn't want to go much further west than Avebury but hitting some more in the cotswolds = picturesques and coming home via the M40 = preferable to M4 or M3.

― Ed, Thursday, 3 May 2007 09:44 (eighteen years ago)

Because I might get on the wrong train, or get off at the wrong stop. Or, err... what am I talking about? I do it all the time.

x-post we could throw in some country houses in the Cotwolds and save Avebury for another time.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 3 May 2007 09:44 (eighteen years ago)

Plan is to pick you up at hungerford, do some stuff in the avebury area then maybe drift a little north and then coming back by the same route as last time (without the detour via oxford).

― Ed, Thursday, 3 May 2007 09:51 (eighteen years ago)

Do you have an OS map for that area, as you need one to find some of the gazetteered sites?

I am just sad because Frances and Emsk could go crazy on the bug expert stuff which would have been great. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 3 May 2007 10:13 (eighteen years ago)

Next time next time.

Not sure, I have the hungerford one but I'm not sure how far west that goes. I shall try and obtain

― Ed, Thursday, 3 May 2007 10:22 (eighteen years ago)

Hey all. Just voted a short while ago.
And on a similar note a lot of the polls on ILM end tonight and Kate's best SP3 spin off poll has slipped off the bottom of the page.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 3 May 2007 10:30 (eighteen years ago)

That Time Team thing was so cool, though. I'm still thinking about it, trying to get my head around the prehistoric landscape of Europe, with Britain not being an island.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 3 May 2007 10:39 (eighteen years ago)

I have Sunno)) and lost ladies of folk meltdown tickets.

― Ed, Thursday, 3 May 2007 10:40 (eighteen years ago)

Good thing you remembered because I totally forgot.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 3 May 2007 10:40 (eighteen years ago)

I can't believe i have to do the pipeline recc ALL OVER AGAIN.

Better get started on it then, I suppose.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 3 May 2007 10:41 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, BTW, there's pictures of the last SC gig on Underexposed now.

I don't want to look at pictures of myself ever again, but some good shots of Ed and Lisa and especially Emsk!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 3 May 2007 11:08 (eighteen years ago)

My colleague just gave me some grapes and it just tickled the WINE TWITCH and now I really want a nice glass of merlot.

OK, cool! I am getting involved in an artistic project which means I have got to draw HOTT BOYS. Now where can I find hott boys? Just for drawing. Nothing underhanded. Advertise in art schools? But I might have to pay those. Just approach hott boys in clubs with a portfolio?

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 3 May 2007 12:36 (eighteen years ago)

I already have a kind of a shortlist for boys I would like to draw. But it would probably be tricky to ask them. Yes, I would like you to take your shirt off, for art, as I like drawing shoulders and chests and nipples. And especially collarbones. But no, it is not a seduction attempt.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 3 May 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

You could have had me until you said shirt off.

― Ed, Thursday, 3 May 2007 12:54 (eighteen years ago)

But you're a hippie! You're supposed to like running around with no clothes on! Or something. Can you ask some of your hippie friends, then?

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 3 May 2007 12:56 (eighteen years ago)

*unicorns*

― emsk, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

*rainbows*

― emsk, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

*kittens*

― emsk, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

OK, enough.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

lol

― emsk, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

emsk could become a teacher
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6618431.stm

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

No, I'm pissed off. My monthend has gone horribly wrong and I can't get it back on track. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

Anyone here like Magma?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

Frances does, but she doesn't post here.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

They're no' bad, bit overrated, but what isn't?

― Tom D., Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

Also, Kerr, did you sendspace me some weird file this morning?

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

Frances should then!

I sent you some old album I had by a band, yes. I thought you may remember them from YEARS ago.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

dada you think everything is overrated!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, you didn't tell me what it was, or even that you sent it, so I ended up deleting it.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

Well, you think everything's great! If you've got the alternate version of "Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh" I wouldn't mind that... (xp)

― Tom D., Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

I don't actually know what they sound like.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

3 girls and a token male drummer!!

I didn't even know there was an alternate version!
ps That's just because I don't waste my time talking about stuff that's shite!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

Carl Orff meets, uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I don't know actually, Van der Graaf? With some Phillip Glass?

― Tom D., Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't even know there was an alternate version!

I think it might just be instrumental, but I think it's got a lot more drums and bottom end than the original version, 'cos a Magma album where you can't hear the drums is a bit pointless!

― Tom D., Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.diecheerleader.net/

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:04 (eighteen years ago)

I'm sure Ailsa or Onimo heard some Die Cheerleader at indie discos ;)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

There's some amazing Magma footage on youtube where they just tear through the songs twice the speed of the album versions and just sound pure evil and demented.

I bet Dada went to the gig that Steve "Interesting" Davis financed!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

kate http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE47B16DC49A87420D4942A4AC2B67CEB29D64CEE831F29461BDFBA3C54851865EA59E78D88FDFF6AB766ADFF2EA3160ED2C0EC55F6DF672D4CF0&sql=11:3ifwxqy5ld6e~T1

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE47B16DC49A87420D4942A4AC2B67CEB29D64CEE831F29461BDFBA3C54851865EA59E78D88FDFF6AB766ADFF2EA3160ED2C0EC53F6D9622D4CF0&sql=10:wvfixqegld0e

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

The only thing is that's when they abandoned the jazz on that album.

Some prog fan kate is when she doesn't know Magma!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

Such a condescending attitude is unlikely to make me look very favourably on it, Kerr.

Isn't there a Magma poll on ILM you guys can discuss this on?

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

Don't put ideas in his head

― Tom D., Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

Ooh, I started my first poll on ILE!

― mitya, Thursday, 3 May 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/200/480077720_d374ef804d.jpg?v=0

― Ed, Thursday, 3 May 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

Oooh!

Blargh, I'm feeling a bit out of it today. My upstairs neighbour got burgled last night! Argh! She thinks that she left her keys in the door by mistake (her flat's entrance leads directly onto the road, unlike mine) and someone just took them, then came back and ransacked the place. :-0

They took her phone, so I lent her mine so she could call the police ad locksmiths and her family and people. Her father eventually loaned her another phone and she gave me mine back, but it meant I had the police and various people calling and asking for her at odd times of the night. So I've been woken up at odd times all night.

I hope she's OK. I told her she could stay at mine, because I'd be scared to stay in a house that a robber still has the keys to. But she said she'd just put the deadbolt on, and she'd rather stay in to prevent any more theft as the thief only came when she wasn't home.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 4 May 2007 09:06 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, it's Friday, people! Don't make me work, out of sheer boredom!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 4 May 2007 10:20 (eighteen years ago)

Kate, did you get my text last night?

― suzy, Friday, 4 May 2007 10:25 (eighteen years ago)

I did not have my phone last night, but I saw it later.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 4 May 2007 10:29 (eighteen years ago)

It was the most bizarre corporate hell shindig; mobile phone company got Lily Allen to play and there was a ~~VIP area~~ wanker corral containing SMeg Matthews and one or two of Kate's socially profligate faux-bender lust objects. We escaped before Bobby G started to DJ.

― suzy, Friday, 4 May 2007 10:36 (eighteen years ago)

Back on the shuttle.I sincerely hope it is sunnier in england than northern france.

― Ed, Friday, 4 May 2007 10:38 (eighteen years ago)

I don't fancy Noel Fielding at all. He vaguely revolts me, especially recently.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 4 May 2007 10:39 (eighteen years ago)

SUNNY HERES

― G00blar, Friday, 4 May 2007 10:40 (eighteen years ago)

Note to self: never buy plane tickets first thing in the morning.

― G00blar, Friday, 4 May 2007 10:40 (eighteen years ago)

Why?

― Mark G, Friday, 4 May 2007 10:41 (eighteen years ago)

'Cause it's put me in a horrid mood.

(I always put off buying about one day too long--buying a ticket yesterday would have saved me £50)

― G00blar, Friday, 4 May 2007 10:42 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, that reminds me, I need to book Eurostar to Paris, and it's now only a month away so I'm not going to get a good deal, bah, but that's due to my brother's unstable mental state and me not being entirely sure that I'm going to be welcome in Paris once I get there. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 4 May 2007 10:43 (eighteen years ago)

Sucks about your neighbor but take comfort that it was oppotunist due to stupidity rather than breaking and entering.

If your brother is not welcoming go and draw skinny french boys in the marais.

― Ed, Friday, 4 May 2007 10:47 (eighteen years ago)

Aaaahhhhh... Parisian boys, oh god, I had forgotten how pretty they were. Sod my brother, I will just go and do that.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 4 May 2007 10:49 (eighteen years ago)

Image googling "french boys" not exactly SFW but entertaining nonetheless.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 4 May 2007 10:50 (eighteen years ago)

BOXCARBOXCARBOXCAR
CASTLE DOESN'T WANT ME BACK FOR TEACHINGFUUUUUUUUCCCCKK.

― G00blar, Friday, 4 May 2007 11:50 (eighteen years ago)

Oh no! No more castle?!?!? Why not? What will you do instead?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 4 May 2007 11:50 (eighteen years ago)

??????

― G00blar, Friday, 4 May 2007 11:51 (eighteen years ago)

quality of applications was outstanding decision process particularly difficult intrinsic merit of your application and qualifications not in doubt

:(((((((((((

― G00blar, Friday, 4 May 2007 11:51 (eighteen years ago)

I saw Martin Carthy playing last night. Why do I get involved in musical genres which are total nerdsville (folk/improv)? Don't answer that.

― Tom D., Friday, 4 May 2007 11:52 (eighteen years ago)

So what they're saying is, you're great, but we got someone even greater? Bah. Find out who they are and poison their cornflakes.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 4 May 2007 11:53 (eighteen years ago)

was best teaching job ever what now????

― G00blar, Friday, 4 May 2007 11:53 (eighteen years ago)

So gutted right now.

― G00blar, Friday, 4 May 2007 11:57 (eighteen years ago)

It does suck.

But go back and listen to your NEW RECORD and you will feel 100x better.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 4 May 2007 11:58 (eighteen years ago)

We escaped before Bobby G started to DJ.

oh god.

― Pashmina, Friday, 4 May 2007 12:26 (eighteen years ago)

I has carrot cake.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 4 May 2007 12:31 (eighteen years ago)

Grr. I had personal stuff that I needed to do before the end of the day, but of course I have all my time wasted with stupid little tasks... until just after 5pm, when it's too late to do my own thing.

Stuff like that makes me feel like my whole weekend has been ruined, even before it's started.

― mitya, Friday, 4 May 2007 13:24 (eighteen years ago)

Bad news, go00bs. Who takes applications for a position when they've already got someone doing the job?

― mitya, Friday, 4 May 2007 13:25 (eighteen years ago)

srsly.

Even squeaky cheese lunch isn't helping (much).

― G00blar, Friday, 4 May 2007 13:30 (eighteen years ago)

Could be worse. You could be doing the same recc for the THIRD TIME IN A ROW. If it doesn't work this time, I don't know what to do. Declare last month's data as corrupt, and try to do a recc back to February?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 4 May 2007 13:46 (eighteen years ago)

sorry g00blar :( that SUCKS.

kittens etc.

― emsk, Friday, 4 May 2007 13:49 (eighteen years ago)

Sounds good to me!

xpost thanks

― G00blar, Friday, 4 May 2007 13:49 (eighteen years ago)

This recc won't even balance with itself.

I want to run away to Siberia or something.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 4 May 2007 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

I HATE DECISIONS

the MASSIVE ones are easy

small ones ???

― emsk, Friday, 4 May 2007 13:58 (eighteen years ago)

Actually the mood I'm in now - cranky, frustrated by work and majorly pre-menstral, I don't really fancy megalith hunting either. I might just stay in bed the whole weekend. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:12 (eighteen years ago)

::beats computer into bloody pulp::

Something in the deads has gone horribly wrong. Bah.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

My colleague just gave me PIE. That made some things better.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

Argh. VV has moved. But not enough. Now I don't know which to use as a baseline against February (last time I know my data was correct.)

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

Fuck it I'm havin' a scotch.

― G00blar, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

Can't have scotch yet, still at work.

Everyone else is gone - did this massive recc 3 back to Feb - STILL the same number missing.

Damn, if things carry on this way,I'm not going to be in the mood to go to the Early Years. But I've already told Tim I'm going and will talk to him about ILXFest there.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

Man, I don't envy you at monthend; sounds 'orrid all the time.

― G00blar, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

did you get my email, kate?

― Pashmina, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I got an email from you about noon, Pash! Sorry, I've not been replying individually, I'm trying to get as much info from the venue before I try to schedule anything.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

Things started to go wrong last month, but it was only about £3 so I didn't worry about it. Never ever EVER not worry about it. Because something small ALWAYS grows into something huge and now I've got nearly £7000 missing and I can't find it. Bah.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

Morning! How is everybody and their lumps?

― StanM, Monday, 7 May 2007 10:27 (eighteen years ago)

Bank holiday in the UK today, Stan, you might not find too many Watercoolerers around...

― ailsa, Monday, 7 May 2007 10:41 (eighteen years ago)

I couldn't even find the thread!

― mitya, Monday, 7 May 2007 10:45 (eighteen years ago)

ah. thanks & enjoy the day off!

― StanM, Monday, 7 May 2007 10:46 (eighteen years ago)

Hey Stan! Found any Therapy? fans who think Diane is an original song to beat up today?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 7 May 2007 13:48 (eighteen years ago)

Hello! Anyone about?

― Forest Pines, Monday, 7 May 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/218/488961674_8da453119f.jpg

― Ed, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:32 (eighteen years ago)

just us rocks

― mitya, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 07:29 (eighteen years ago)

WOW

turned out nice then

― emsk, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 07:39 (eighteen years ago)

Very windy but yes, it turned out nice. We ate lunch in a very good pub with an attached youth hostel. We should stay there and empty their barrels.

― Ed, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 08:09 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, I stayed home because I was GUSHING with blood (heh, it's my thread, I can say that here) and bah, it POURED with rain in Sarf London just at the time that I decided to pop over to the Computer World in Wimbledon (actually, it's in Colliers Wood, not Wimbledon, which I only found out after much faffage in the rain) to buy a scanner.

AND after all that, my bastard computer won't talk to the scanner. I know the scanner works fine, it copies things nicely - my computer just takes against certain programmes and won't load them. Maybe I should just buy a separate laptop for art stuff and keep this one for music stuff.

Went out to the shoegazing on Friday which was GRATE!!! You all have to come to the next shoegazing on next Thursday. I insist, it is the law. TEY have this sort of psychedelic snowglobe stageset now and Ed, they have done to all their songs what you wanted us to do to ours - i.e. stretch them all out to ten minutes long with long psychedelic interludes with lots of tremoloing in the middle. Amazing, amazing, amazing. And I managed to sit and draw all night and drink a bottle of wine without getting so drunk as to fall off the chair.

Up C Down C Round About The Bend C And Back Again To See How Far It Is Again Control Restart C or whatever they are called also played. They were a bit post rock. Ian Kontakte really liked them but I was not entirely convinced. I liked their squelchy bits better than the postrock bits.

Oh, and I have a new crush! Completely inappropriate friendcrush which I must do my best to suppress and not act on IN ANY WAY but it is fun to be crushing again. Woo, spring.

Right, I'm going to go and price a Mac with a nice wide screen.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 09:34 (eighteen years ago)

Morning all.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 09:46 (eighteen years ago)

Morning!

I got a whole bunch of CDs yesterday. Can you guess what any of them are?

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 09:48 (eighteen years ago)

HAWKWIND

― C J, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 09:53 (eighteen years ago)

norwegian bums

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 09:54 (eighteen years ago)

"The Best of the Rest of Geir Hongro"

― Tom D., Tuesday, 8 May 2007 09:55 (eighteen years ago)

Nope!

Oh, alright. I got the new Electric Prunes comp, Kaleidescope UK (aaahh, I had forgotten how great their "treacle marmalade flowers are coming to GET YOU!!!" lyrics are), and catching up getting some Kraftwerk and Bowie on CD. And Echo and the Bunnymen's Porcupine.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 09:55 (eighteen years ago)

Art an music should be able to be like ebony and ivory side by side on your midi controller. However new laptop might not be a bad idea for both for intel goodness. Alternative is to back everything up and do a complete teardown and reinstall of the system or at least bring your system up to date OS wise.

I am knackered after a busy weekend and a busy week. and yet I still have to go back to belgium, I would quite like to have a social life now please.

New houseguest is nice, but only here for two weeks not the six emsk suggested, but that is cool. I have a completely junk free spare room which is great.

― Ed, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 09:57 (eighteen years ago)

I have electrelane and lesbians on ecstasy to listen to at home.

― Ed, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 09:58 (eighteen years ago)

Houseguest into dr who so we watched the doctor and ate curry after megalithing.

― Ed, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 09:59 (eighteen years ago)

Have you guys checked out the 1991 and 1992 NME polls? Everyone seems to hate them and since there's lots of fans on the cooler who were probably into music particularly about then I wonder what you all think.

Also the reaction to http://www.ilxor.com:8080/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=57658#unread is hilarious!! People wanting warned it's not about the usual indie/pop haha.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:01 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, I have some mixy mixy mix mixes for people!!!

G00blar, I've finally sketched out Piece of Me.

Ed, I've demoed A Straight Line (the fake La Dusseldorf song about non-Euclidean geometry) and I've finally got a pretty good mix of HUNG WITH JOY!!! Finally!

Wow, what a lot of mixing. HWJ was bloody hard. The problem is, there's so much going on in the song. But I shuffled through the Eno cards and tried to work with that, and not make any one thing any more prominent than any others - occasionally boosted one thing or another, but more to raise different bits to catch the listener's attention, rather than HERE IS A GUITAR SOLO, HERE IS A SYNTH SOLO, HERE IS A MANDOLIN SOLO!!! It's just all in there like a psychedelic spongecake. Or maybe tiramisu. Mmmm, tiramisu.

I was a psychedelic snowglobe. But what I really want is a little tiny psychedelic snowglobe in my living room with TEY in it, playing donerock for me whenever I give it a shake. Yeah.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:01 (eighteen years ago)

Oooh, I must keep an eye out for that Electric Prunes comp! I got "Daydream Nation" in a car boot sale, i haven't listened to it in years... who knows, I might start listening to guitar bands again!

― Tom D., Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:01 (eighteen years ago)

It happens, I spent years in the WARP and then returned.

― Ed, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:03 (eighteen years ago)

I'm interested to hear the newest Electralane. Despite past feuds (not mine for once! I was once in a band with one of them!) between band members, F insists that the new one is quite good.

I don't really know what to do about the 'puter. I kind of like the idea of getting a new one - with a BIG monitor so I can do art stuff, and keep the little one for gigging.

I don't even know where all the software for mine is any more, if indeed, it was ever mine in the first place - suspect much of it comes from someone none of us talk to any more.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:04 (eighteen years ago)

I should be able to sort you out with everything you need, whether you rebuild the old computer or get a new one.

― Ed, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:06 (eighteen years ago)

Crushy crushy crush crush.

::bounce::

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:07 (eighteen years ago)

I take it this isn't one you are going to be posting lots of pictures of.

― Ed, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:08 (eighteen years ago)

No, can't. It's awkward, as he is a friend. And he knows lots of people that I know. It would get back to him. And experience proves that this way BADNESS LIES. So I'm just going to look at pictures and try to be quiet.

Not very successfully, clearly.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:11 (eighteen years ago)

Hi all! Weekend was alright, managed to drink enough to forget my troubles on Friday, am now not thinking about grate job I don't have anymore. Rehearsal with teh other band is so much fun, and now i'm really looking forward to gig tonight in putney. I like Electrelane A LOT.

I've finally sketched out Piece of Me.

Oooh!

― G00blar, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:13 (eighteen years ago)

Also, I've figured it out: Happiness = cut-up banana in yr cereal.

― G00blar, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:14 (eighteen years ago)

Not in my world it doesn't, however I will take greek yoghurt on my museli instead.

― Ed, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:15 (eighteen years ago)

Let's call the whole thing off.

― G00blar, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:16 (eighteen years ago)

Ed, you are a mentalist. Banana in cereal = food of the gods. How on earth do you get your potassium intake if you are phobic about bananas?

Am coming to gig at Betsey, I think, G00blar, as Putney is not even in London, AFAIAC.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:17 (eighteen years ago)

Oh balls to potassium, bananas suck!

― Tom D., Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:18 (eighteen years ago)

Rubbish.

xpost: that I can understand--I don't even know where Putney IS.

― G00blar, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:19 (eighteen years ago)

My potassium comes from the shit hot sea salt I put in my foods.

― Ed, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:19 (eighteen years ago)

putney is in surrey.

― Ed, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:19 (eighteen years ago)

I came back to say something. What was I going to say? Can't remember. Argh.

Will start emailing those songs to people now. Or should I upload them to MySpace? Probably not, the compression on MySpace sucks.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:20 (eighteen years ago)

Hey! I played a gig at the Half Moon in Putney, London, back in the day. Alright?

― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:21 (eighteen years ago)

can you email songs to me?

― Ed, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:22 (eighteen years ago)

That's where we're playing, Mark!

― G00blar, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:23 (eighteen years ago)

I am doing that right now, Ed! May have to YSI HWJ as it is nearly seven minutes long now!

And the fake La Dusseldorf song is over 5 minutes. (OK, that is cut down as the original is 9.) What are you doing to me? It has a crazy tremolo breakdown in the middle. I stole this from Klaus Dinger, not the Early Years, OK? Bah!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:24 (eighteen years ago)

I am merely the butterfly flapping.

― Ed, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:26 (eighteen years ago)

I put a great phaser on your space-mandolin, Ed! I found in Cubase (my 'puter is so strange - it won't run some programmes, but other programmes just appear randomly in Cubase after I dig around on my hard drive) a plug-in called SUPAPHASER which is amazing, so I put that on your mandolin. It creates some really interesting polyphases as your mandolin picking and the guitar tremolo go in and out of phase with one another.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:29 (eighteen years ago)

I look forward to hearing it. I'm coming round to the idea that stereo phaser is U+K.

your expertise may be of help here

― Ed, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:32 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yeah! We got press!

― G00blar, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:34 (eighteen years ago)

They don't have Guitar Centres in the UK. And I stay out of amp threads on IMM! I always tell people to get small amps that they can carry home, but you know boys judge each others' penis size by the size of their Marshalls. :-(

This crazy phaser, you set up as many steps as you like! I think I used 8 on yours.

WTF? Is the MP3 corrupted, or is my computer just freaking out?

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:37 (eighteen years ago)

but n/a was talking of going for the wee vox

― Ed, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:38 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, WTF, work 'puter? What's wrong with YOU now?

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:47 (eighteen years ago)

I have that supaphaser plugin, it's pretty damn great. Better yet than stereo phaser is record the part twice, put mono phaser on each part with settings the same except for rate, which should be made very slightly different, and pan the parts wide.

Tiresome, boring weekend in Yorkshire - there's so much stuff I couild be doing at home(music), all there is to do @ mother-in-law's place is watch tv, the best thing on was "a night to remember" and some documentary about germany just after WW1. Everything else was bollocks! I note that the "shitshitshitshitshit" drama, in which people walk around in a state of tension, and keep saying "shitshitshitshitshit" when something goes wrong is still "popular". Low points were soem sky drama set in canary wharf (i think) w/some woman confronting an exec b/c she is going to get busted for drug trafficing, w/much tensing of jaw muscles & saying of "shitshitshitshitshit", and some c4 thing called "skins" w/a bunch of hateful teenagers walking around spouting the worst tv drama dialogue I have ever heard in my life. The only good stuff was the 2 dr who episodes that J's mum taped for adam. The dr's new assistant, a hospital worker(?) is ridiculously attractive!

Back @ work, I have 2 Trice Recumbents that I've sold in to build up. Problem w/one is that the customer specified a shimano xt c/set, and I couldn't get one. It appears that shimano are busy replacing the octalink bottom bracket style (which I think is v v good) with the new (& surprise! totally incompatible) hollowtech type, w/the BB integrated onto the chainset (which I'm not completely convinced by TBH) I fucking HATE shimano, they are a bunch of money-grabbing CUNTZ. Every couple of years, they impose a bunch of new "standards" in part fit on bikes, replaceing their previous "standards", which the new ones are NEVER compatible with. I find this sort of behaviour hatefully cynical and wasteful. It is inexcusable, actually. Fcuk shimano.

OK, time to yank the modem & get back to work.

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:58 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/chris_hawkins/tracklisting.shtml?y=2007&d=20070504

on the radio last Friday.(06.53 am)

― Dr.C, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:00 (eighteen years ago)

Congrats again.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:00 (eighteen years ago)

Congrats!

::jealous::

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:03 (eighteen years ago)

Ta!

― Dr.C, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:05 (eighteen years ago)

OK, now it's working. I'm so confused. I hate computers today.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:13 (eighteen years ago)

Why are Macs so fiendishly expensive?

Then again, maybe I don't need a laptop, maybe I'll get one of those Mac Mini things. But then I'd have to get a monitor and keyboard anyway.

I don't like the little white mac book things. Macs should be silver.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:21 (eighteen years ago)

The mini may creak a little for art as the graphics card is a bit naff, ditto the macbook. Get you brother to bring you one from the states and bay with almighty pounds.

― Ed, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:22 (eighteen years ago)

Are they still cheaper in the States? I might just do that.

Have figured out what is wrong with work 'puter - it freaking hates Flash. So I can't have MySpace open when I'm trying to listen to MP3s.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:24 (eighteen years ago)

Damn, they are so much cheaper over there. The mighty EARTH POUND is a'roarin'. I'll find out on Saturday if my mum is getting ordinated, and if she is, I have to go over anyway for her ordination. Every time I go to see her, I buy a new computer, might as well make a thing of it.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:26 (eighteen years ago)

When come back bring guitars.

― Ed, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:29 (eighteen years ago)

Also is she finally getting ordinated, congrats to her from me.

― Ed, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:29 (eighteen years ago)

Don't know if she is or not, she doesn't find out until Saturday. She is meeting THE BISHOP.

All kinds of political crap going on in the diocise (and stupid backbiting in her own program) so who knows. I hope that it does happen. And not just because I want free guitars and a cheap computer. Maybe I'll go visit her anyway.

Except, UGH, airplanes.

No, no, no, look at pretty picture of crush, feel better. No nasty airplanes. I'll make myself a 342-step polyphaser and FLOAT to North America on a wave of sound.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:32 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, also I sheltered from the rain in a MAPLINS and ohmygod, the KNOBS. They didn't have any chickenhead knobs, but they had TRANSPARENT GLOWING SWITCHES that looked like something out of the tardis. I just want to make a pedal that has GLOWING SWITCHES on it. I don't care what it does.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:34 (eighteen years ago)

Maplins is a dangerous place. I went in just to take shelter from the rain. And maybe get a new stereo connector cable. ANd spent about an hour floating around trying to think of a use for all the cool stuff.

They had a nice stage show lighting section at the back. With strobe lights. I just want to buy strobe lights anyway. They make the little lights on guitar pedals do really really interesting things.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:36 (eighteen years ago)

I have been researching amps and I have a crazy notion to get two ac30 knock offs in kit form and get james to build a mental stereo cabinet.

― Ed, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:37 (eighteen years ago)

Make sure it has glowing switches on it!

I really want to start using the Marshall Lead/AC-30 stereo combo again, but it's too bloody heavy to carry about for ordinary gigs. The baby Voxes will have to do.

Ha HA! That's one thing TEY didn't have, is STEREO tremolos. Not that I'm obsessed with TEY's stage setup or anything.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:40 (eighteen years ago)

I wonder if one can build oil wheels into and amp cab.

― Ed, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:41 (eighteen years ago)

I'm sure Hawkwind did it.

Have you made any more progress on projections for the ILX Festival?

I'm thinking if I get my scanner up and running, I want to make swhirling paisleys for when we are on. I've got to get a new 'puter than can handle animations. Because the only thing better than drawings of paisleys would be MOVING ANIMATED PAISLEYS.

I also spent way too much time in the Pier this weekend. Sheltering from the rain is a bad thing, it makes me do ridiculous things. I came home with a lot of paisley things.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:43 (eighteen years ago)

I have made no progress on projections.

― Ed, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:46 (eighteen years ago)

Bah! I shall make projections if no one else will, then. How do I shot flash, when my computer will not even play it without crashing?

I did, however, manage to put the shiny enamel paisley coasters back because it was £15 for 4 of them, and that really is ridiculous. But then I got all these home furnishing type things and I don't even know what they ARE. Curtain ties? I don't have curtains! But they were purple and sparkling and paisley and I had to have them.

OK, this mix is really bugging me. Jangly guitars DOWN, feathery hammond organ UP, please.

::bounce bounce bounce::

OK, this spring thing is ridiculous, I'm far too happy about nothing at all. Not that new crushes and paisley placemats and psychedelic krautrock bands are nothiing at all, but they're nothing new.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:47 (eighteen years ago)

Oh shit.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:50 (eighteen years ago)

What happened?

― mitya, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:52 (eighteen years ago)

It's not what's happened, it's what I fear I may have forgotten to happen. As in, purple paisley buying sprees, inappropriate crushes, expansive good mood for no apparent reason and I'm wondering if I've forgotten to take my medication or something.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:54 (eighteen years ago)

i got so bored this week that i started downloading the Doom movie.

― g-kit, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 12:13 (eighteen years ago)

six days without seeing another humang. i builded myself an igloo in my living room out of a duvet.

― g-kit, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 12:14 (eighteen years ago)

and i slept 3 times a day, while waiting for new movies to finish downloading.

― g-kit, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 12:14 (eighteen years ago)

and today I'm asking myself: do i really want to be better?

― g-kit, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 12:15 (eighteen years ago)

xpost how do you confirm?

― Ed, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 12:18 (eighteen years ago)

muh?

― g-kit, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 12:22 (eighteen years ago)

Count the pills? I don't know.

The only way I can confirm that I'm actually having a manic episode is when something goes totally out of control. At least I've become aware of it. This means I will *not* be flying to NYC next weekend to buy a new powerbook. It's nice to have this sudden upswing in energy - write and record two new songs in a weekend, get so much mixing work done (listening to Hung With Joy 200 times in a row probably didn't help as it is a song about mania). But must be aware.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 12:24 (eighteen years ago)

Bah! I want to put HWJ on the MySpace, but it's too long! This is the problem with seven minute psychedelic epics.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 12:26 (eighteen years ago)

Might be just a sudden upswing, and besides if you have only missed one, concentrations should return to normal pretty swiftly. I blame spring, sunshine etc knocking the body chemistry about. (cf. my body deciding 5 hours sleep is a'ok as long as it can choose when they are).

― Ed, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 12:27 (eighteen years ago)

What are the myspazz rules?

― Ed, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 12:27 (eighteen years ago)

I have no idea. It just says it's too big. Maybe if I uploaded a lower quality version? I don't want to have to edit it!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 12:29 (eighteen years ago)

― g-kit, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 12:31 (eighteen years ago)

Is that the handlebar moustache you've grown while in bed with the flue, Kit?

What do you mean, 15mg is too big? ::kicks myspazz:: I've got a 5mg version but it's not got STEREO TREMOLO GUITAR and SPACEZOUKI on it.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 12:34 (eighteen years ago)

I am now experimenting, giving it a file that is shorter in length but MUCH BIGGER and seeing how it likes that, to figure out what the problem is.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 12:37 (eighteen years ago)

snot encrusted beard

― g-kit, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 12:39 (eighteen years ago)

6MB seems to be the limit. However a back of the envelope calculation says 128kbit shoould fit.

― Ed, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

I have no re-encoding software here at work. So it will have to wait until tomorrow. Oh well, I will do a teaser one song at a time.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 12:41 (eighteen years ago)

I can do it but it is better to do it from the master.

(BTW I have finally listened to it, I love HWJ, I need a phaser that does that on stage, possibly with a phaser slave to operate the knobs)

― Ed, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 12:47 (eighteen years ago)

Oh good, oh good. Isn't the phaser lovely?

I'll re-rip from the master tonight. I've put up I'm Not Afraid for now, and updated our pictures now that we have some nice ones.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 13:12 (eighteen years ago)

hello! it is still all unicorns and butterflies on planet emma, otherwise known as la-la-land i fear. also i seem to have almost given up sleeping, wtf.

― emsk, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 13:30 (eighteen years ago)

I will have to find out if prophecy sound will do a run of those infiniti or 777 phasers, otherwise the eh polyphase may work out good.

― Ed, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 13:35 (eighteen years ago)

Oh dear, Emsk in la-la land, it's all gone a bit...

http://www.lancasterplayhouse.com/Alice-WebLogo.jpg

...around here.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 13:38 (eighteen years ago)

in the above photograph, i am teh cat.

― emsk, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 13:41 (eighteen years ago)

I am clearly the Mad Hatter.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 13:42 (eighteen years ago)

I had too much to dream last night...

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 13:44 (eighteen years ago)

GALE WINDS+ALLERGENS STOP

― G00blar, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 13:45 (eighteen years ago)

wow. for the last 2 days i didn't eat any fresh fruit or veg and now for lunch i just ate a tomato and an avocado and i swear i can feel them doing good things already. i think i'm going to eat a pear to test it.

― emsk, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 13:51 (eighteen years ago)

That will not work, Emsk, because you are no longer feeling vit-C lack if you have just eaten all that fruit! Not saying that it's not a good idea to eat a pear, but you won't get the same rush.

The problem with listening to the Electric Prunes is I now want to put tremolo on EVERYTHING.

Desperately want to play bass for a 60s psych/freakbeat band again.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 13:52 (eighteen years ago)

TEN FEET TALL

― emsk, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 13:53 (eighteen years ago)

eh? it ate the post before that which said ATE A PEAR

― emsk, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

my pear made internets hungry

― emsk, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

Tremoloes that are TEN FEET TALL?!?!? That sounds like something of my old electronic music proff, who used to muck about trying to make samples of guitar strings as if they were the size of the cables used to hold up the Brooklyn Bridge.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 13:56 (eighteen years ago)

7 stories high, no?

― Ed, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 14:00 (eighteen years ago)

Eight miles high?

The Electric Prunes make me bounce around too much and not want to do my job.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

OOH OOH NEUFRIEND!
AGAIN! AGAIN!

― emsk, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

I will bring you the whole album tomorrow, that reminds me.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

nobody seems remotely phased by my igloo building. that makes me somewhat worried.

― g-kit, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

Which one of us would not do the same given time and cushions?

― Ed, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

cushions?

― g-kit, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

Dude, I had a tent in my bedroom for years. Only the fact that my lights are integral to my ceiling stops me from doing it now.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

k sry

― g-kit, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

It's when you start stapling your tent supports to the ceiling that you have to worry.

MORE CRUSH MORE CRUSH crushes no fun when you can't talk about it. Bah.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

GONE! GONE! GONE!!!!

― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

― Ed, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

(Thchumpah Thchumpah)
TOO MUCH TO DREAM LAST NIGHT!!! too much to dreammmm...

― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

RRRRRRRRRRRIPPPPPPPPPPPP ::shudder::

::tambourine tinkle::

then came the dawn!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

I thought my boss was going to meet with me today. But she has not.

Stupid online site, taking up all her time. But then again, it means I've got nothing to do and can goof off online. Hence why the MySpace is getting so much attention. Need another picture of Ed and the SPACEMANDOLIN.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

we are all on drugs, today, aren't we?

tomorrow is victory day here in russia. i really should take it a bit more... respectfully, but i always feel a perverse need to play the cosmic balance, and therefore i am finding it quite difficult not to be snide (esp. in light of the estonia flap - russia cut all rail communications with estonia today)

― mitya, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

i quite like the pic at the moment, with all that sexy synth there

― mitya, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

Mitya> Have you discovered any russian twee pop groups? Or even twee russian girls?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

What is "Victory Day"? I mean, clearly it's some Russian holiday, but what exactly are you celebrating victory over?

We're not on drugs. We're just singing the Electric Prunes.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

decoder ring

― g-kit, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

And now we are all together, we have certainly got to the WORLD ON TAIMMMEE!!!

― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

This chemical reaction isn't easy to define, you drive me to distraction, you disturb my peace of mind... you got me spinning like a top now and I don't know how to stop now here I go, HIGHER HIGHER!!! Here I go HIGHER! HIGHER! Here I GO! GO! GO-GO!!!!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

What is "Victory Day"? I mean, clearly it's some Russian holiday, but what exactly are you celebrating victory over?

Errrrrrrrrrr, the Nazis? Minor stramash called World War II? You mighta heard about it?

― Tom D., Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

Stramash = haven't used that word in a while

― Tom D., Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

We don't celebrate the day per say but we do ensure that at any time of the day or night you can find a documentary about the nazis or the victory over them on satellite TV.

― Ed, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

OMIGOD, THE SECRET TRACK!!! I HAD A COPY OF THIS ON A TAPE SOMEWHERE BUT I'VE NOT HEARD IT IN YEARS!!!

"Play it, prunes!!!"

Well, if it's celebrating WWII, why don't they have their victory day on the same day as the rest of Europe? Or do we just have more general celebrations for both world wars?

x-post

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

"You can even make your guitar sound like a sitar!!!"

wwweeeeeoooowww-weeeeooooooooow-weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeoooooo

"It's the NOW sound, it's what's HAPPENING!!!"

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

They beat the nazis a day earlier than the west did. I forget why.

― Ed, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

time zones

― g-kit, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

"It's the NOW sound, it's what's HAPPENING!!!"

Ha ha, yes, I haven't heard that in years

― Tom D., Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

xpost (damn)

Survey says, "Ding ding ding! Number one answer!"

(Although in a way, that's my point.) As I was walking home, I was thinking how the US doesn't really celebrate "winning" any wars, as far as I can remember. (Please hold jokes about losing them, wisepeople.) There are days celebrating veterans and dead soldiers generally, but that's it. Is that something "Christian" somehow?

Admittedly, millions of Soviet citizens died. Great, honor their sacrifice if you want, but... "Victory day?" Do the French or Dutch celebrate this? Do you Brits?

― mitya, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

We had a big hoohar for the 50th anniversary.

― Ed, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

Not enough of us died

― Tom D., Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

Plus we weren't occupied

― Tom D., Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

And drove the occupiers out

― Tom D., Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

Why do most of our myspeace friend collector requests come from drum&bass dudez? (denied another one)

(xpost) we used to go to the local cenotaph and see a march of war veterans, boy scouts, girl guides etc when I was a little kid - early-mid seventies. Can't imagine seeing that now.

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

Ed! Buy my Moog phaser pedal, instead of any of that interweb stuff! It's stereo, and it's a MOOG! MoOOooo-oOO-ooog!

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

Yours for a mere 150 quid! Help finance my terrifyingly expensive Rohdes Chroma overhaul!

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

Rumor has it the tanks will be back out on Red Square this year.

― mitya, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

I just took in a vacuum cleaner for repair, belonging to a mrs GROUT!!!

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

Dada, you have a cookie if I've got your email address right.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

Whoa!

There are some left?

― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

I really like stereo phase though. But wait, is the aux out phased as well? have I been confused by the terminology?

(I notice Moog have a new pedal called a freqbox which is rather interesting)

― Ed, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

Grooovy!

― Tom D., Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

Get yr freqbox on!

No, no, I can buy no more pedals. I have to save up to buy a new Mactop.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

Let me think about this. I have to sort out the electricity bill (I haven't had one for over a year and it just turned up all of a sudden last week). Also I do not yet know about this bellzouki.

― Ed, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

I am really liking ease. Can we get FMM a three manual organ and leslie now, please?

― Ed, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

Ease needs some more mixing for me to be happy with it. But I just love that Hammond sample.

You and your leslie fixation!

What do you think of A Straight Line? Is the wub break *wubby* enough?

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

Stramash = haven't used that word in a while

Not since you hung up the tweed jacket in 1985.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

Is this something that some rolling country walkers would be interested in?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nearnearfuture/sets/72157600181760627/

there's this stately home in northumberland, and, starting on may 7th, a bunch of artists, filmmakers, whatever, have filled the space with projections, installations, all kinds of fancy things.

here's the place:

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/ConProperty.117

here's the project:

http://www.picturehousebelsay.co.uk/home/

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

Please please let that not have italicised everything...

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

I like it. It's nice an tight within the context of the song, often I'd look for varispeed wub but the song is about geometry and so the tight regimen of it works well. The intro is fabulous.

― Ed, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

The intro is almost a direct cop of "Time" by La Dusseldorf, but ssshhhh, don't tell anyone.

All I need is a German shouting in the background. But I don't know any Germans. Wait! Danny (Ian's gf) is Austrian, I wonder if we can get her to do something!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

btw dada, did you agree with the results of the best Can album poll?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

In the absence of actual crushage, I am now going to post some pictures of Bernard Sumner.

Barney and An Hoodie:

http://content.answers.com/main/content/img/amg/pop_artists/P02599F61DU.JPG

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

I agree that "Future Days" didn't deserve to win it (xp)

― Tom D., Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

Did everyone vote on the best albums of 1991 and 1992 polls?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

Yes Brigadier.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

So geeky, so cuet:

http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/jfiles/files/img/joy_division.jpg

http://www.enkiri.com/joy/members/b_albrecht1.jpg

http://www.enkiri.com/joy/members/b_albrecht2.jpg

(stupid ILM polls, I always say I'm not going to participate, then they get me all Tiggerish about something again.)

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

I think I'll those two polls a miss

― Tom D., Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

If I do not concentrate REALLY HARD I will forget how to play guitar:

http://www.newwavephotos.com/JoyDivision/01894JoyDivision.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

So young and so fresh-faced!

http://www.newwavephotos.com/JoyDivision/01895JoyDivision.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, don't worry, Barney, in a few years, you will discover drugs and stop being so uptight.

http://www.newwavephotos.com/JoyDivision1/02642JoyDivision.jpg

(the preppie sweater look is still SOOO hott, though.)

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

Ohmigod, he's TWELVE!!!

http://www.newwavephotos.com/NewOrder/06084NewOrder.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

Is that a melodica in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?

http://www.newwavephotos.com/NewOrder/06097NewOrder.jpg

OK, enough. Honestly.

I did find my melodica this weekend, though! Need to start using it more again. I think it only actually made it to two Shimuras shows. What song did I used to play it on?

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

Will a 1990 poll get shoegazers even more excited?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

The novelty of polls has worn off. I only get excited at naked Norwegians and Bernard Sumner's pantylines now.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

I am a shoegazer of the 1990s and cannot really see myself being excited by a poll.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

OK, there are quite a few photos a lot better/worse (depending on your view of teh sexxiness of BS) on that site. It should be illegal to wear one's trousers that tight! You can see EVERYTHING!!! Nothing left to the imagination!

I wonder if that's when he stopped trying to sing like Ian Curtis and developped his trademark falsetto yelp.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

and why "everything's gone green" !

― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

This is why he didn't MOVE onstage - his trousers were so tight he couldn't actually bend!

http://www.newwavephotos.com/NewOrder/06107NewOrder.jpg

Good lord. My good pure mind, besmirched by those trousers.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

Sad trainspotter question : in the photo where Barney is playing Hooky's Rickenbacker copy bass it can be only one of two songs? Anyone know which ones?

― Dr.C, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know. I was actually looking for a photo of him playing the synth so I could see what type it was (actually, you might know, Dr. C)

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:24 (eighteen years ago)

a 1990 poll that includes most of the album lists. Surely something for everyone in them.
http://www.ilxor.com:8080/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=57717#unread

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

STOP THE POLL MADNESS!!!

OK, seriously; enough. Or I'm going to go and spam that thread with pictures of Bernard Sumner's cock.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

JD had an ARP string-synth - one of those that went way out of tune if the temperature changed by 0.000001 degrees (e.g. Decades on 'Still'.

He used to play it right over to the side of the stage - I don't think I've ever seen a decent photo of it.

― Dr.C, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

IIRC it was an ARP Omni, or maybe an ARP Quadra, both of which were rubbish. Most ARPs were rubbish, actually, apart from the 2600, the Oddyssey and the 2500.

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

I love the slightly off key keyboards on "Decades". That's part of the charm.

He was playing it in the original video for "Love Will Tear Us Apart" but I've not seen that in years.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

They can't have been rubbish if they used on "Decades". Sacrilege!!

― Tom D., Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

Seriously, they're horrible!

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

But not on "Decades" they aren't...

― Tom D., Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

BERNARD SUMNER USED ONE, THEY ARE THEREFORE SACRED!!!!

Ha-hem.

OK, I should watch out, I once got sectioned for trying to start a minor religious cult based around New Order and "barneywaves".

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

The word "Best" now appears no less than 27 times on ILM New Answers. I think there's a good case for a polls board.

g-kit do you have igloo pictures? I want an igloo in my house to hide from work for a week :(

― onimo, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

I like the off key keybds in the live Decades too!

Yes, it was an Omni, thanks, Norman. I'd forgotten that. IIRC it was Martin Hannett's toy.

― Dr.C, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

Wheile I'm in the mood for a bit of sacrelige, I just checked my flickr account & noticed that the Louise Brooks screengrabs I put up seem to be getting all the hits. Having watched a few of her films now, er, she looked great, & was obv very smart & a fascinating character, but she wasn't actually that great an actress, was she? I keep watching the 2 Pola Negri DVDs I got, and my god, Pola is about 1000 times better!

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

Ooh, I've poked a hornets nest on that New Order poll, hah!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

(it has Loop in it)
x-post

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

This will probably not link...

http://www.geocities.com/mecha_king_ghidora/BernardSumnerCirca1986-1.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/mecha_king_ghidora/BernardSumnerCirca1986-1.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

he looks like tintin, grown up in that one.

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

Honestly, I cannot believe I have done so little today. I have fixed 2... no, 3 reports, each of which took me about 5 minutes.

And apart from that, I've listened to music, I've sent emails, I've googled pictures of Bernard Sumner's cock, and that's it. Five more minutes before I go home.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

Did you find what you were looking for?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

I still haven't found what... ARGH, no, not going there.

I am now googlestalking and have found out some fascinating things which I cannot share with the class. Suffice it to be said that the UK music scene is the size of a bathtub. Why this still surprises me, I don't know.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

I don't want to go home just yet because I don't want to have to close that picture of BS's tight trousers. Oh for fucks sake! I might as well live here.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

Print it and carry it home and put it on your pillow.

― onimo, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 17:46 (eighteen years ago)

my brane has gone cross-eyed ARGH

― emsk, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 18:10 (eighteen years ago)

I wonder if Kate took your suggestion
x-post

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 18:11 (eighteen years ago)

I like having a lodger; she made me fried potatoes and eggs for breakfast.

― Ed, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 08:34 (eighteen years ago)

Oooh, yum.

― Forest Pines, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 09:02 (eighteen years ago)

Yay for nice Lodgers!

I have been working on the album for so long that I have started dreaming about it. But I may have come up with a title for it, at least.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 09:06 (eighteen years ago)

Well, it looks like I'm never going to be able to go to a FAP again.

At least I have new, smaller versions of the album mixes which I hope will upload to MySpazz. Wait, no, WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S STILL TOO LARGE?!?!?! I've resized it!

Clearly the limit isn't 13mg, it's more like 10. Ed, you were wrong. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 09:22 (eighteen years ago)

I said it was 6MB

― Ed, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 09:23 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, I misread. I was really not paying attention yesterday. It means that nothing will fit now. Gah! Bah! Rubbish!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 09:29 (eighteen years ago)

Wait, no, the 8mg one went up!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 09:30 (eighteen years ago)

OK, the article in electronic musician I read on the subject was a little old. (Nowhere on the myspace website does it actually say)

― Ed, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 09:31 (eighteen years ago)

10 mg would make sense. Anyway, I've put up THE NEW SONG ABOUT GEOMETRY on my myspace. Hurrah!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 09:54 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha, I forgot I was going out for lunch, so I brought a curry anyway. I ended up giving it to my colleague. He thinks it's his birthday and Christmas come at once! He is always lusting after the smell of my curry.

God, today my boss seems to have remembered I exist and has BOMBARDED me with work. Should have gone out to lunch yesterday. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 10:20 (eighteen years ago)

Roger Penrose:

http://www.kosmologika.net/Scientists/Penrose_big.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 10:42 (eighteen years ago)

Um, wrong thread. Oh well.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 10:44 (eighteen years ago)

::stuffs fist in mouth to prevent calling bullshit on someone::

Argh, I'm having a tough time of it today. I should just go to lunch and step away from ILX.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 11:33 (eighteen years ago)

My Spiritualized cd just arrived.

Hello all.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 12:22 (eighteen years ago)

It seems the School Of Seven Bells debut single is due for release judging by it's appearance on certain p2ps.
Of course Kate had Benjamin's 7" a while ago didn't she?
*sniggers*

So um yeah.. now she can have mp3s.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 13:15 (eighteen years ago)

Dude! It's been out for weeks!

Back from lunch. No getting beaten up by scary mentalists.

Took a peek in some shop windows on Tot Court Rd, and I think I'm going to plump for the souped up version of the minimac, which is about £500.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 13:26 (eighteen years ago)

You may wish to look at an external sound box for that as I was listening on my work one yesterday and it was not much cop. Don't forget you need to price monitor, mouse and keyboard as well.

― Ed, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 13:28 (eighteen years ago)

But did you have mp3s to play at work?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 13:29 (eighteen years ago)

I am not getting it for sound, I am getting it for art. It's the souped up one, not the basic one. It's got more memory than my current mac, and that handles photoshop fine. Don't forget, I ran photoshop for years on a 486! Took a while to run filters but it worked.

Now I just have to find my photoshop disc.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 13:33 (eighteen years ago)

useful for monitor reviews

― Ed, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 13:36 (eighteen years ago)

Ah, this Kaleidescope UK comp is so pleasantly BONKERS.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

(Also, I'm getting German spam. Awesome.)

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

I trade you Lesbians on ecstasy and electralane for Kaleidoscope and the Electric prunes

― Ed, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

OK, done.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

Also I has some prog rock 7s from that club in new cross we should play at.

― Ed, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, was it you talking about the club in New Cross! Emsk mentioned it and thought that I had brought it up.

I am going to make demo packages this weekend. If my bloody scanner would comply... grrrr. I wonder if it will even print, if it won't scan. Then again, I know it copies so I might just draw demo covers and copy them.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

New cross is like kilburn, an equal pain in the arse for everyone to get home from.

― Ed, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

I draw the line at putney though

― Ed, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

New Cross slightly easier for me, as there's an easy bus to the Elephant.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

Time to play that Spiritualized cd.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

What club in New Cross? I am playing at a club in New Cross tomorrow.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

Oh hang on - it's in Peckham. The Montague Arms.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

I draw the line at putney though

The District Line, one assumes.

― Forest Pines, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

It is also the montague arms I am talking about

― Ed, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 15:16 (eighteen years ago)

Ah - I know nothing about the venue. Is it good?

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

I know nothing as well.

― Ed, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

I think I've been there. But I can't really remember what it was like.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 15:26 (eighteen years ago)

Anyone around?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

not for much longer

― Ed, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

Half hour to go here. Someone sent me a message on MySpace asking me to check out their band since we both liked Ptolomeic Telescope (I'm so glad when people actually read the small print, and the bit where it says if you're a band I don't know, I won't add you unless you send me a note saying why I should) - I finally got around to looking at his page, and he has the same name as someone I used to be in a band with a million years ago! I wonder if it's him. I just wrote back and asked if it was him. That would be so freaky.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

Bye Ed.
x-post. Surely if that was the case they would've asked if it was you?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

I have a different name, a different hair colour, live in a different country, weigh about twice as much as I used to and I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't recognise me.

Though we spent a great deal of the 90s not speaking for some reason or other (I think that was one of the bands that broke up onstage) - I could have sworn we got back in touch and made up before I moved back to the UK. But if it is him, and he did recognise me, he might just think I haaaate him. The dude I knew was weird like that.

Or maybe it's just a different dude with the same name.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 17:01 (eighteen years ago)

Check your email, Kate.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 17:17 (eighteen years ago)

Cool.

OK, I've had enough and I'm going home. I can no longer focus, even on Bernard Sumner's cock.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

Morning all.

― mitya, Thursday, 10 May 2007 05:37 (eighteen years ago)

morning!

― emsk, Thursday, 10 May 2007 06:59 (eighteen years ago)

morning!

it's v cloudy n grey in Oxford today.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 10 May 2007 08:10 (eighteen years ago)

Beautiful day here (I think), although of course it was raining and then overcast on the holiday (yesterday).

― mitya, Thursday, 10 May 2007 08:22 (eighteen years ago)

bloody windy here nearly blew over a few times

― emsk, Thursday, 10 May 2007 08:44 (eighteen years ago)

I have bn brought to a standstill coz IT have got to install some software on my pooter without which it is impossible to do my job. They are usually really good, why they have been on a go slow this last coupla days is a complete mystery to me.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 10 May 2007 08:49 (eighteen years ago)

Morning. Argh, must kick into high gear over ILX Festival now. Looks like we can have advance tickets, though - hurrah!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 10 May 2007 09:03 (eighteen years ago)

I am so stupid! I mixed a smaller version of HWJ last night, and then forgot to drop it on my BigStick! ::knocks head against desk::

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 10 May 2007 09:34 (eighteen years ago)

I was introduced to a rather interesting and exciting woman last night, I may have a date.

I do seem to have contracted the chicagoan killer death flu though. It is my gift to the belgian people.

― Ed, Thursday, 10 May 2007 09:37 (eighteen years ago)

A date! A Date! Exciting. Now just remember to spell her name right.

:-P

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 10 May 2007 09:49 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, thanks, Ed.

The Belgian Watercooler Lurker Massive, Yo.

― StanM, Thursday, 10 May 2007 09:51 (eighteen years ago)

We know, you just come here to foist off your fruitbeer on us. And we will gladly take it!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 10 May 2007 09:54 (eighteen years ago)

Ok, I'm so bored today I might actually have to work. Bah!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 10 May 2007 10:17 (eighteen years ago)

Ahhhhrt party tonight!

Ed: bison grass vodka?

― suzy, Thursday, 10 May 2007 10:39 (eighteen years ago)

Woo, I got a cool moonphase thing for my MySpace! It will probably not work on ILX, though. Bah.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 10 May 2007 10:58 (eighteen years ago)

n.b. this is about the phases of the actual moon, not some moon branded phaser pedal. Though the moon would sound pretty cool phased.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 10 May 2007 10:58 (eighteen years ago)

Kate, I read that as 'menopause'. Just for a second, mind.

― suzy, Thursday, 10 May 2007 11:00 (eighteen years ago)

"Moonphase Menopause" - song or album title?

― Tom D., Thursday, 10 May 2007 11:01 (eighteen years ago)

Morning! (Ooh no just crept into afternoon as I typed.)

Crazy morning already, my stepdad had an asthma attack at work and we had to rush round trying to track down my mum and get her over there since he had the car. He's at the hospital now (having at first refused to go the silly sod) but doing ok.

And this afternoon I'm taking Alice for some craniosacral treatment, about which I'm still a bit sceptical but apparently it works wonders for crying babies.

What does the moon phase thing do kate?

― Archel, Thursday, 10 May 2007 11:02 (eighteen years ago)

Tom D: that's the title of Polly Harvey's upcoming release in 2025, when for a brief 28 days her menses resume and she discovers feminism 'after all these years'.

― suzy, Thursday, 10 May 2007 11:04 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, that sounds scary, Archel, hope he's OK.

What on earth does craniosacral mean? It sounds interesting, I hope it's helpful.

The moonphase thing shows you what phase the moon is in! It's 47% full at the moment, and waning, I think. Let me check. Yes, third quarter.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 10 May 2007 11:04 (eighteen years ago)

OK, Kerr, those SPZ demos you sent me are actually reducing me to tears.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 10 May 2007 11:29 (eighteen years ago)

Craniosacral therapy was developed by an osteopath who discovered that tiny movements in the bones of head express the health of the body generally, or something. The practitioner just puts their hands on your head very gently and 'listens' to the body rhythms.

― Archel, Thursday, 10 May 2007 11:37 (eighteen years ago)

Very interesting. I read the wiki, too, but couldn't really understand much of it.

This is a completely wild theorisation, but it seems to me that a lot of alternative therapies seem to focus on the perhaps counterintuitive but basic premise that being touched is good for you.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 10 May 2007 11:40 (eighteen years ago)

Afternoon

I certainly agree that being touched is good. Aren't we meant to hug, to stroke? I'd draw the line at a cuddle party but then I'm very conscious of my personal space.

Maybe that's why I'm such a bad communicator...

― *rumpie*, Thursday, 10 May 2007 12:06 (eighteen years ago)

No, I absolutely hate being touched.

After the last gig, Lisa was trying to give me a surrepticious backrub because I was so tense. I kept warning her "it's not going to do any good, the more you touch me, the tenser I become!" and after about five minutes, she gave up.

For most people, it's probably psychologically good. But it's interesting to see that it might be medically good as well. But then again, there is a link between psychological state of mind and physical recovery. (I think?)

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 10 May 2007 12:12 (eighteen years ago)

gah I have been hung out to dry by one of our suppliers

― Ed, Thursday, 10 May 2007 12:26 (eighteen years ago)

What's happened Ed?

― *rumpie*, Thursday, 10 May 2007 12:33 (eighteen years ago)

I have a dream that someday there will be a UK politics thread which actually has genuinely interesting debate on it, and will not simply be marred by twunts repeating tired old slogans. More disillusioned than usual with ILX lately. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 10 May 2007 12:57 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not terribly erudite when it comes to politics, so I tend to lurk more than attempt to debate.

― *rumpie*, Thursday, 10 May 2007 12:59 (eighteen years ago)

That's a fine thing. I'm not particularly erudite, either. Which is why I want to learn about it. But how can you learn anything, when people only seem to be interested in hurling insults at one another? Yes, I know they learned these slogans wholesale in the 80s and just trot out the old "ooh, Thatcherite!" slurs like a tired overcoat, but it just seems to be so much of a substitute for actually saying anything anyone actually *means*.

Maybe they're not terribly erudite, either, and hence the simple slogans. I don't know.

I'd rather read about rocket science, frankly, it seems simple by comparison.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 10 May 2007 13:03 (eighteen years ago)

OK, Kerr, those SPZ demos you sent me are actually reducing me to tears.

They're not that bad! ;)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 10 May 2007 13:27 (eighteen years ago)

Tears of happiness, Kerr, tears of joy.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 10 May 2007 13:27 (eighteen years ago)

Between that and the new picture of My Secret Crush (tm) on the interweb today, things aren't so bad.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 10 May 2007 13:28 (eighteen years ago)

I always thought his eyes were brown. They are actually blue.

OK, I'm going to stop swooning and do some work. yes.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 10 May 2007 13:30 (eighteen years ago)

FOR FUCKS SAKE, IT IS ILX, IT IS ABOUT ALL OF US. IT IS ABOUT ALL OF US HAVING OUR OWN OPINIONS, AND DISCUSSING THEM. I DON'T SEE ANYONE ELSE ON ILX REGULARLY GETTING TORN A NEW ARSEHOLE FOR DISCUSSING THEIR OPINIONS OR EXPERIENCES WITH OTHER PEOPLE - WHY ME?!?!?!?

God fucking damn this, I'm sick of being singled out as a punching bag. I'm sick of being told I'm "a nutjob" or "it's not all about you" for DARING to discuss something or hold an opinion on something.

Fuck the load of this, I'm angry and I'm sick of turning the other cheek and ignoring arseholes with a personal vendetta against me. No one else has to put up with this. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 10 May 2007 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

hello!
omg responsibility
there is no one here to tell me what to do next, i just have to do it
ARGH!

er xpost

― emsk, Thursday, 10 May 2007 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

No one else has to put up with this.

yes they do!

― g-kit, Thursday, 10 May 2007 14:19 (eighteen years ago)

I suppose you're right. I'm feeling touchy.

I'm also sick of the increasing tendency of ILX0rs to start using "you are being condescending" as a substitute for "I just don't agree with what you are saying though you're not actually talking to me."

I'm not enjoying ILX recently. It's probably me, not ILX.

Looks like they're going to be changing my database so I'm going to have to spend a lot of time as other users, therefore won't be able to be on ILX as much. Probably better.

It all makes me feel like saying "fuck this, I'm taking my ball and going home" WRT not planning/promoting the ILX Fest because I'm sick of ILX, but that isn't fair to the other bands.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 10 May 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

What thread did all this happen on?

― Tom D., Thursday, 10 May 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

This one:

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=53637#unread

― ailsa, Thursday, 10 May 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

I'm glad I missed that one. Some people are annoying me a lot on ILX today.

― Tom D., Thursday, 10 May 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

Different threads over the past few days. If it were just one thread, I'd ignore it.

It's me, I'm feeling touchy. It's not any particular thread. Though if you want to watch a carcrash in action, go on the "being the other man/woman" thread.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 10 May 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

I always experience abuse and difficulties when posting on political threads too. i think what it boils down to is that there are two types of ppl, the political hacks in one camp and the other ppl in t'other. The hacks are always saying that everyone else is apathetic and they should get more involved in politics, but when those ppl *do* try to get involved and (God forbid) bring their own ideas and opinions with them, the hacks don't like it and condescend to them, telling them they are wrong, they just don't understand, you can't do that because, ect ect.

and it makes no difference whether the getting involved is actually physically getting involved or discussing politics on a message board.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 10 May 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

i have a feeling that whoever is annoying Tom D, is the same person that usually annoys me

― 696, Thursday, 10 May 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

I have to admit, speaking as a contrarian myself, my tolerance for other contrarians is at breaking point. Still, ladies in my work have asked me to go out for a drink, so down the hatch!

― Tom D., Thursday, 10 May 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

(xp) If it's the same person, they never used to annoy me even tho they annoyed other people

― Tom D., Thursday, 10 May 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

Drinking with ladies is great.

Look at the pretty lights:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/140/325749794_56f2e8d573.jpg

I'm going to think about Sonic Cathedrals next week instead. Gareth, you (and your beard) must come. You haven't been to SC in ages.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 10 May 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

next week? maybe, im in the middle of lots of stressful things at minute. where is it and who is on? is it thurs?

― 696, Thursday, 10 May 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

i dont have a beard

― 696, Thursday, 10 May 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

Plenty of time to grow one

― Tom D., Thursday, 10 May 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

It is Thursday. At the Legion on Old Street. 120 Days and The Early Years (it's their swhirlie above) and Kontakte. It will be very good, I think.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 10 May 2007 16:24 (eighteen years ago)

I was googling for more pictures of the swhirly lightshow and found hstencil's flickr. Oh, hstencil, where has he gone? I miss the flirtin'

:-(

I suppose cat pictures is better than people deleting whole threads and/or ILX in its entirety, but it's still annoying that people choose to shut down debate rather than ignore or participate.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 10 May 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

Who is the contrarian? There's like 3000 of em on ILX.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 10 May 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

Tickets on sale for ILXorpaLOLooza here:

http://www.wegottickets.com/event/18510

That was bloody hard work, harder than I've worked all day, organising the schedule and getting all that done, so phew, I'm goin' home. And fixing me a stiff drink.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 10 May 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

Can you not put it on the week before so I can come - I can't possibly come to London two weekends in a row :-/

― ailsa, Thursday, 10 May 2007 18:41 (eighteen years ago)

TGIF, slavtigospody

― mitya, Friday, 11 May 2007 06:27 (eighteen years ago)

Nasdrovieh.

Belgium is wet and dreary today, getting home will take for ever.

― Ed, Friday, 11 May 2007 06:37 (eighteen years ago)

Are you flying, or is there some interesting land/sea route?

― mitya, Friday, 11 May 2007 09:15 (eighteen years ago)

Good lord, Ailsa, will nothing make you happy? Shall I just move an entire festival, 7 bands, over 40 people, to fit in with your schedule! Quit being such a moaner and get down here. ;-)

I am in a super good mood today because I finally figured out a way to get my scanner to talk to my 'puter! The scanner has a hole for the BIGSTICK so I can scan to the bigstick and then move it to my computer. Here's one I did earlier:

[Removed Illegal Image]

I have asked them if I can draw them properly. They can keep their clothes on, since they're such nice lads.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 11 May 2007 09:25 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/206/493469805_c9c249741c.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 11 May 2007 09:25 (eighteen years ago)

Morning everybody! I am having an horrendous start to mey day because it appears someone has been mucking about with my ebay and gmail accounts and my passwords have been changed - I fear I have been targetted by internet thugs :((

― C J, Friday, 11 May 2007 09:29 (eighteen years ago)

Bah! Rubbish interweb thugs! A pox upon them. (Unless it's not actually thugs but a small child mucking about with your puter - or catlike typing detected.)

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 11 May 2007 09:31 (eighteen years ago)

Nobody in the entire world knows my passwords, they're weird and unguessable and they've never been written down anywhere. The kids wouldn't have mucked about with anything, and I don't think the cat's that clever.

I'm surprisingly distressed at finding I can't access anything because the passwords have been changed. It's an unnerving feeling.

― C J, Friday, 11 May 2007 09:39 (eighteen years ago)

OK, that is pretty freaky, and that would bug the hell out of me. Sounds like your account was phished - if you use your gmail account for ebay, getting one would give access to the other? Horrible.

If you use online banking or any other online services, I'd contact them posthaste and have those accounts checked.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 11 May 2007 09:42 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, this is what I fear - the password has been changed to the gmail account associated with ebay, but my other gmail address is okay. I think there has been some ebay-related suspect activity goin' on overnight :((

I've checked my bank and paypal, and they're fine. I still feel weird about this though.

― C J, Friday, 11 May 2007 09:46 (eighteen years ago)

Well, it is like being robbed! It's not just what they take, but they take your peace of mind, and your sense of security as well! You feel so... exposed!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 11 May 2007 09:47 (eighteen years ago)

Jesus, that sucks. I fear that happening, just a little, all the time.

― G00blar, Friday, 11 May 2007 09:48 (eighteen years ago)

I feel so violated. And not in a good way :)

― C J, Friday, 11 May 2007 09:51 (eighteen years ago)

Oh shit. You didn't get an e-mail that looked as if it was from ebay asking you to log-in and check your account details and paypal details, did you? I have had a couple of those and I believe that they are commonly used to phish for that info. The ones I got looked dodgy, so I deleted them.

Worth checking paypal outside of e-bay, unless the password has changed. You can get in touch with them on the phone - I found them surprisingly helpful when I had a problem with my account. Maybe you can lock paypal.

― Dr.C, Friday, 11 May 2007 09:51 (eighteen years ago)

Oh my message is a bit out of date - I didn't read the x-posts.

― Dr.C, Friday, 11 May 2007 09:51 (eighteen years ago)

Don't start with the Depeche Mode jokes, CJ!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 11 May 2007 09:52 (eighteen years ago)

"I don't understand your payment instructions" is a classic.

― Mark G, Friday, 11 May 2007 09:53 (eighteen years ago)

Kate - we played the Montague Arms last night - excellent venue! Check it out! Nice big stage, good sound and a totally weird ambience with tons of deer heads, a penny-farthing and bits of ships on the walls. Also the oldest bar staff ever - two old women and a man, who must all have been pushing 80.

― Dr.C, Friday, 11 May 2007 09:54 (eighteen years ago)

That is my friend The Texan's local, I think. She is always trying to drag me there. She insists I've been there, but I was so drunk I don't remember. She says they have back issues of Country Life everywhere. I would like to play there. I'm just a bit busy to be booking more gigs right now! Bah! We need a manager again!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 11 May 2007 09:58 (eighteen years ago)

I will get a demo pack out to the white noise folks, they might like us and have a monthly there.

― Ed, Friday, 11 May 2007 09:59 (eighteen years ago)

Cool. Ah! I must upload the smaller mix of Hung With Joy to the MySpace as well.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 11 May 2007 09:59 (eighteen years ago)

Are you going to make physical or virtual ones this weekend?

― Ed, Friday, 11 May 2007 10:04 (eighteen years ago)

Aw, I've been talking pedals with a Japanese psych band who saw the pictures of my Memory Man on MySpace!

x-post erm, yeah, I'm going to make some physical ones this weekend now I've got the scanner up and running. I promised I'd give one to Nat and one to Ian Kontakte at Sonic Cathedrals next week. It's not finished, but they're good enough for demos.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 11 May 2007 10:05 (eighteen years ago)

The promoters for last night were Sump Puppy - they run a night about once a month, I think. It's usually a punky/post-punk/garagey, but the opening band last night were a cello and laptop duo!

― Dr.C, Friday, 11 May 2007 10:06 (eighteen years ago)

I really like what is on their label too

― Ed, Friday, 11 May 2007 10:08 (eighteen years ago)

Lovely artwork on those records!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 11 May 2007 10:09 (eighteen years ago)

they are mp3s on the site so you should be able to listen, I have the 7s but haven't got round to listening to them.

The pope has been replaced by spike milligan.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42911000/jpg/_42911309_pope_ap203x.jpg

― Ed, Friday, 11 May 2007 10:14 (eighteen years ago)

If I can't download them, then I can't listen.

Spike Milligan was way cuter than that damn pope.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 11 May 2007 10:18 (eighteen years ago)

Also, people are arseholes. But I refuse to let that ruin my good mood.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 11 May 2007 10:19 (eighteen years ago)

OK, now I'm really paranoid - after your tale, CJ. Got this weird flickr comment which just looked like phishing. Guy said he was a fan of my photos "and had been for months" (erm, I haven't posted anything this year?) and asked me to look at "a gift" which he linked to. It was a different web address, (i.e. not Flickr) but displayed a new screen saying I wasn't logged in to Flickr and could I log in again. Um... NO!

I deleted the comment, but just thought I'd warn you guys.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 11 May 2007 10:26 (eighteen years ago)

that looks like phishing to me, not seen it through the medium of flickr before.

― Ed, Friday, 11 May 2007 10:27 (eighteen years ago)

Well, my flickr is connected to my Yahoo account, so I imagine they were trying to get that.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 11 May 2007 10:33 (eighteen years ago)

The scene that celebrates itself is in a flyer-sticking frenzy of madness this afternoon!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 11 May 2007 11:17 (eighteen years ago)

Okay, this is all getting really really weird.

Someone has hacked into my ebay account and sent emails out purporting to be from me. This is very worrying.

― C J, Friday, 11 May 2007 11:42 (eighteen years ago)

Have you contacted eBay yourself and reported it?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 11 May 2007 11:43 (eighteen years ago)

I've just been chatting to them on a live link. They've been very helpful - eventually. They wanted me to fax a copy of my flippin passport to them though! I wouldn't do it. I'm paranoid now that everyone's a fake!

― C J, Friday, 11 May 2007 11:45 (eighteen years ago)

If you called them, then it's likely that you are speaking to the real eBay - that's what they always say about dealing with phone phising for bank account details. If anyone rings you from a bank wanting to know your personal details, ask for their contact details. Ring the bank back through their official phone number and see if you can get the same person.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 11 May 2007 11:47 (eighteen years ago)

No, I'm computer live-chatting to them. I think they're real though.

― C J, Friday, 11 May 2007 11:51 (eighteen years ago)

All my colleagues have gone down the pub and left me by my lonesome in the office. They didn't even invite me. Not like I would have gone, but still. :-(

I just want to go home and play with photoshop.

I think I'm going to go to Long Swords after Lisa's picnic tomorrow evening since they sent me a text message about it. I did not recognise the number and was wracking my brain trying to figure out who it was inviting me out to go and see a dronefolk band. I said I might be very drunk by the time I got there and she said HOORAY THE DRUNKER THE BETTER! Oh dear. I suspect it might be one of those weekends.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 11 May 2007 11:59 (eighteen years ago)

Someone has hacked into my ebay account and sent emails out purporting to be from me. This is very worrying.

It's also insane! Maybe they tried to get into paypal but couldn't, and are now just making mischief. Bizarre.

― Dr.C, Friday, 11 May 2007 12:05 (eighteen years ago)

Gah gah gah gah. I can't write this c0cking essay.

― emil.y, Friday, 11 May 2007 12:21 (eighteen years ago)

I can't seem to read any books anymore. Too many headaches and being very tried: inability to read books. Started on Crash but stopped and now started Money by Amis which seems to be a freakfast as well.

― nathalie, Friday, 11 May 2007 12:23 (eighteen years ago)

freakfast? is that like crazy eggs on wacky toast? FREAKFEST

― nathalie, Friday, 11 May 2007 12:23 (eighteen years ago)

Dr C I haf just emailed you. Pls to check yr massages.

― C J, Friday, 11 May 2007 12:25 (eighteen years ago)

I like the idea of freakfast, I'd eat it every morning!

I'm so bored today. Cannot focus on anything, but I've not really had much luck focusing on anything this week. I think I'm slightly manic and it's not helping that I've been doubling up on meds to make up for forgetting to take them all weekend. :-(

Interest in books depends on what I'm reading. I've just started Cloud Atlas (yeah, I know, everyone in the world was going on about how great that book was last year, and I just didn't want to read it because it was on Richard and Judys book club and everything like the whole world and their dog was reading it, even though I really like David Mitchell) and it's utterly absorbing. Like to the point where I have nearly missed my train stop because I couldn't stop reading it.

Haven't been like that with a book since Vanity Fair or The Big Bang.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 11 May 2007 12:27 (eighteen years ago)

x-p I could do with a massage.

But yes, will do.

― Dr.C, Friday, 11 May 2007 12:28 (eighteen years ago)

I've had an amazing week this week - I sold 1 x brompton, 1 x dahon, 1 x birdy rohloff and 2 x trice tricycle recumbents (I bet you would love one of these, Ed). It's been frantic! "high" point - the recumbents need to be set up for their riders - pedal boom length, seat height & angle, handlebar angle etc, it takes a while. Both the recumbent customers came in at the same time! Argh, haha.

― Pashmina, Friday, 11 May 2007 12:28 (eighteen years ago)

Kate, what is it about? Never heard of it!

Do you need to double up meds? I would just do the normal dose. But I'm not a doctor, so probably gving the wrong advice here.

I want to eat CANDY but don't know which. :-(

― nathalie, Friday, 11 May 2007 12:29 (eighteen years ago)

I want to come to NOTLS and not go camping this weekend. However, having whinged at campers this week and called a collective meeting about how we aren't having enough meetings I feel I ought to go.

I would like either of those last two bikes.

BTW I have almost decided on buying your Moogerfooger

― Ed, Friday, 11 May 2007 12:29 (eighteen years ago)

Good weather, good business, hurrah, Pash! Long may it hold out!

OK, maybe less frantic would be good, but the money must be nice.

x-x-post, hang on

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 11 May 2007 12:30 (eighteen years ago)

xpost damn

Have never even heard of Cloud Atlas.

I am very picky about books because I have (had) a bad habit of buying things I wanted to have read (frequently several at a time) and not only not finishing them, but not even starting most of them. For several years now, I have a self-imposed rule: buy one book at a time, no new books until you've finished the last one (or make a conscious decision to abandon ship, which is what I did this week with Mishima's _Confessions of a Mask_).

― mitya, Friday, 11 May 2007 12:31 (eighteen years ago)

Nath, it's just a bunch of interconnected short stories so far, it's not *about* any one particular thing, it's just the way that the stories and the characters are so absorbing and so well-written and it's like skimming in and out of different worlds. I'm only halfway through (and dealing with the ethics of cloning right now) and can't really tell you what it's about but I can't put it down.

The instructions on the meds say double up I need to and/or forget my meds. But it does make me more... spacey than usual.

Meetings about having meetings? that's insane, Ed.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 11 May 2007 12:32 (eighteen years ago)

Basically we stopped discussing things because we wanted to get straight to the beer drinking but we have let things slip so we need to work out a new forum for discussing things.

― Ed, Friday, 11 May 2007 12:35 (eighteen years ago)

Surely things are better discussed after some beer?

Mitya I tried to do that, but it didn't work! I keep saying "no more books until you finish the ones you've got!" but then I'm always reading about three books at a time. And I'll go in some stinky second hand bookshop and hurrah, more books I simply *have* to get...

Which reminds me, I've got books on order at the Folio Society which I've got to go and pick up. I just want them to stop sending me catalogues becuase I end up buying things, and every time I go to the shop, I buy more things...

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 11 May 2007 12:44 (eighteen years ago)

Before going though I may go and have a serious go on that bellzouki.

― Ed, Friday, 11 May 2007 12:48 (eighteen years ago)

I think I have more unread books than read ones. :-( Well, I shouldn't put on a saddo face. I quite enjoy being surrounded by books, read or unread. :-D I'm Walter Benjamin's bastard child. ;-)

― nathalie, Friday, 11 May 2007 12:48 (eighteen years ago)

I just got so bored I filled out an Online survey.

Problem was, it was all about American things and American brands and none of the "where do you buy your clothes?" things applied. Unless Liberty counts as designer? I've no idea.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 11 May 2007 13:18 (eighteen years ago)

Phwah! Why did I go to the Folio Society? I knew this would happen. I went to pick up Frances's birthday present (a month late, I know) and came out with an extra book about plant species that changed the world, as well. They are SO BEAUTIFUL, why can I not have them all?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 11 May 2007 13:45 (eighteen years ago)

Will this Friday afternoon never END!??! Oh don't make me actually have to work.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 11 May 2007 13:55 (eighteen years ago)

My ebay problem was someone hacking in to my account and trying to buy thousands of pounds worth of mobile phones and computer equipment via my paypal. AAARRRGGHH!!! Thankfully they did not succeed.

― C J, Friday, 11 May 2007 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

AARRRGGGHHH!!! indeed. How on earth did that happen?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 11 May 2007 14:05 (eighteen years ago)

I have no idea whatseover, which is really unnerving. A lucky lucky guess at my password, I suppose. I didn't think it could be so easy to break into people's accounts like that, but apparently it is.

The perpetrator hails from Nigeria.

― C J, Friday, 11 May 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, CJ! You must have replied to one of those HELLO I AM THE MINISTER OF CORRUPTION FOR SOME COUNTRY letters in yr email. ;-)

Sorry to make a joke of it, it is an awful thing to happen.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 11 May 2007 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

I've had a grudge against Paypal ever since someone broke into my account and managed to get money transferred from some poor person in the US to a bank account in England through them. I live in Scotland and have never had a bank account with an English bank yet I had to get a notary public to countersign a sworn affadavit that it wasn't me that had received the money before they stopped to reclaim it from me. I was the one that reported it too.
It was very stressful. I've refused to use them ever since. I have to use proxies if I want to get anything from retailers who only use PayPal.
Sounds to me like their customer service has improved since, though.

― treefell, Friday, 11 May 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

I think i'll go change all my passwords!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 11 May 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I was just thinking the same thing!

― G00blar, Friday, 11 May 2007 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

Make them super-complicated ones, too!

I still feel sick. It's a horrible thing to have happen to you.

― C J, Friday, 11 May 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

Good lord, Ailsa, will nothing make you happy? Shall I just move an entire festival, 7 bands, over 40 people, to fit in with your schedule! Quit being such a moaner and get down here. ;-)

Aye, if you could, that'd be marvellous :-)

Nah, I was all set to come down that weekend, then we got an invite to a Big Gay Wedding in London the weekend before, so there is no way I can afford to do both. Whereas recovering with BBQ and bands in Brixton would've been the perfect end to the weekend. Perhaps I could get Neil's pal to change the date of his civil partership thingie instead?

I'm not actually invited to this wedding, but Neil is, so I'll be in London anyway, so may well require company for alkyhol if I'm not actually going to the wedding. Also, we are (or he is) only going to the evening reception, so may be about for Soho-centric pubbage mid-late afternoon on Sat 9th June and could almost certainly be persuaded to partake of Sunday afternoon drinking somewhere also. I mean, I'll probably be doing that anyway, but if anyone cares to join us...

― ailsa, Friday, 11 May 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

Perhaps I could get Neil's pal to change the date of his civil partership thingie instead?

That would be much better! I'm in Paris that weekend with my brother and sister in law, so I can't possibly host a festival then. Unless it's in Paris.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 11 May 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha ha ha, Kerr has a MySpace! Ha ha¬!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 11 May 2007 16:23 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I had to sign up to buy a Zombi lp. Bastards. I resisted so long as well. Can you delete them? I'll end up doing so I'm sure.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 11 May 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

You can never delete them. Murdoch owns yr arse for EVER AND EVER AND EVER!!!! Mwah hah hah hah.

I am plumbing new depths of boredom at work today. I should have gone to the pub hours ago. Everyone else did.

But, on the plus side, my boss is in Newcastle half of next week so I can play.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 11 May 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

i drank too much coffee

i can't see

― emsk, Friday, 11 May 2007 17:54 (eighteen years ago)

welcome to the working week. i hope you recovered from your coffee blindness, emsk.

― mitya, Monday, 14 May 2007 08:51 (eighteen years ago)

since when has coffee caused blindness? I suppose if you missed yr mouth and tipped it in yr eyes it might hmmm.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 14 May 2007 08:55 (eighteen years ago)

i could not focus on my computer screen, or anything else.

shitty morning out there :/

― emsk, Monday, 14 May 2007 09:08 (eighteen years ago)

Morning! Today is the weekend for me as Matt and I both have a day off together woo. Although Alice is having a weird nocturnal phase - she slept half the day yesterday and was up all night wanting to play grrr...

― Archel, Monday, 14 May 2007 09:14 (eighteen years ago)

Babies are like weird ferret like creatures. Their sleeping habits are a mystery.

I've had a weird weekend. Spent Saturday morning having awful, awful panic attacks (at Sainsburys, irony of ironies) so I took loads of extra medication, then went out and got utterly twatted at L's birthday party then at NOTLS because I forgot you're not supposed to drink on meds.

A mang made eyes at me! I was confused. OK, I was v. v. drunk and me and Erica were kind of pointing at him and giggling in a girlish way. And he kept smiling back and playing with his hair and stuffs! Argh! But then it turned out that he was BoyInABand and he must have been looking at me because he thought I was looking at him because I recognised him as BoyInABand when really I was just looking at him because he was the hottest boy I'd seen since last Friday night. (Secret Crush is by definition the hottest boy in Hackney.) Um. I wasn't very impressed by his band, though. They were OK, Ed liked them as they were hippies and they had a hott flautist.

Then Ed and E kept trying to drag me home but every time I'd try to leave, Nicky LongSwords would put on the Electric Prunes or something and I would have to get up to dance.

Yesterday I was horribly ruined. So I did my laundry and drew ILX fest posters. Hurrah.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 14 May 2007 09:40 (eighteen years ago)

Weather is making me glum.

― G00blar, Monday, 14 May 2007 09:42 (eighteen years ago)

I am having residual yippie woo I be floating extra medication side effects so the weather is fine by me.

Oh! Looks like we are playing with Ebony Bones again (maybe, not confirmed) and perhaps Bishi. Awesomeness.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 14 May 2007 09:44 (eighteen years ago)

Nice!

At least the weather's fine by someone. It's totally been bringing me doooowwn for the past week.

― G00blar, Monday, 14 May 2007 09:46 (eighteen years ago)

It maketh my plants grow big and bushy and I have been worried about them. My tomatoes are coming up! My sweetpeas are running wild!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 14 May 2007 09:47 (eighteen years ago)

OK, now I am not SPEAKING to the Early Years. They nicked my artwork, stuck it up as their profile, without so much as an ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, let alone a thank you.

I am cross, cross, cross.

Bad dirty dronerock boys. No cookies for you.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 14 May 2007 10:06 (eighteen years ago)

...if, once, you hear someone hott saying "should of", how many times less hott does that make them?

i will soon know the answer to this question.

― emsk, Monday, 14 May 2007 10:18 (eighteen years ago)

I am in both alkyhell and immingham. I desperately hope that both conditions will lift in time for a date this evening.

― Ed, Monday, 14 May 2007 10:19 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not that much of a grammar pedant. ;-)

However, nicking my artwork without permission or thanks makes people WAAAAAAYYYYY less hott.

x-post date! date! date!

But my god, yr alkyhell must be much worse than mine, as I did not drink yesterday. How is the Bellzouki?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 14 May 2007 10:20 (eighteen years ago)

srsly. Immingham. xpost!

― G00blar, Monday, 14 May 2007 10:21 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yes, wait - I told Ed but forgot to tell everyone else.

MY MUM CHARMED THE BISHOP!!!

He has agreed to put her forward for ordainification, she has been approved and everything. Hurrah! She will soon no longer be a trainee priest but a proper hands-on-head fully fledged priestling!

I will have to go to the ceremony. I've only been to one ordaination before. It was quite an experience! Very dramatic! But that might have been because it was a monking ordaination, and they have to prostrate themselves on the floor and things. I think my mum will just get patted on the head by an bishop.

They asked her, as part of the interview, what her dream job was, and she kept saying "Oh, whatever the Lord will give me, I will accept" and being all modest and stuff. And they said "No, really, what would you ultimately like to do?" so quick as a flash she says "Well, I wouldn't mind being Archbishop of Canterbury! I'd like to live in Lambeth Palace!" and the bishop heaved with laughter and put her though.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 14 May 2007 10:24 (eighteen years ago)

OK, just saw them online so I dropped them a note. I don't mind them using it, but I would like credit and/or a link or something. I'm quite protective of my artwork.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 14 May 2007 11:01 (eighteen years ago)

Bellzouki is the awesomes, in between everything else I did a heap of tension calculations and worked out how to strin it to my needs. The steel has not been drawn into wires that can get a high b. So I've gone for CCGDAE and ordered a half capo. I did think about droping 1 or two courses and may try putting an Fsharp course on at some point.

Date is with the girl I was introduced to last week. We shall see what happens but I have the horn bigstyle right now. Not sure if having a lodger who I am incereasingly become attracted to is helping.

Send my congrats to your mum. When will she be ordained?

― Ed, Monday, 14 May 2007 11:03 (eighteen years ago)

I have friended the band from Saturday, I would actually like to listen to them while sober and see if they are more like Proper Folk.

Waiting to hear when she is ordained. At the bishop's leisure, no doubt. :-(

TEY have written back to say sorry, and they have added a credit - and asked if they could commission a poster from me! OK, they are forgiven and back in my good books.

Especially if I can get some life modelling out of them. They can keep their clothes, on, though.

I thought you said on Saturday you weren't attracted to your lodger! That way badness lies. Read the "living with people who are hott" thread and see the peril. (though she is also incredibly nice and good fun, as well as hott.)

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 14 May 2007 11:17 (eighteen years ago)

I am trying to find out more about this Sonic Boom gig this Friday. Shoegazer club every night this week! Dang!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 14 May 2007 11:27 (eighteen years ago)

Hah! Someone just emailed out of the blue looking to get a hold of a copy of that Ladyfest split single we did a million years ago with the Gossip. I guess it's suddenly valuable since the Gossip are rock stars now. I don't know if I have any left! I know that Nathan was chucking them out on eBay every now and then for a while, but can't even find the record label's website now.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 14 May 2007 11:34 (eighteen years ago)

Congratulations to your mum, Kate.

― suzy, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:04 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks, will pass them on!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:06 (eighteen years ago)

hi dere

plz suggestions how to survive when L O S T goes off the air?

― g-kit, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:13 (eighteen years ago)

Holiday on a distant island?

― Mark G, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:14 (eighteen years ago)

already thought of that; not practical :(

― g-kit, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:14 (eighteen years ago)

Although because I was not permitted a L O S T themed wedding, i have managed to secure a Hawaii honeymoon.

― g-kit, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:17 (eighteen years ago)

which was pretty skillful, even if i say so myself.

― g-kit, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:18 (eighteen years ago)

Erm, write fan fict? New stories of your own imaginings?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:24 (eighteen years ago)

Congrats to K8's Mum the Priest!

― G00blar, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:36 (eighteen years ago)

I am going to start calling her Father Margaret to wind her up. ;-)

The Reverend Margot? I'm not sure what her correct form of address will be.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, I forgot to bring the CDs that I put out to bring this morning!

But fortunately I left a CD by mistake in the drive of the work 'puter. So I shall listen to Echo and the Bunnymen.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:06 (eighteen years ago)

I shall listen to Mr Eko

― g-kit, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:07 (eighteen years ago)

No LOST talk please, I haven't seen any of season three yet. thank you.

― mitya, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:09 (eighteen years ago)

Ooh, tetchy! That's usually my line!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:12 (eighteen years ago)

sry but my going to hawaii isn't exactly a spoiler. fuxache.

― g-kit, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:15 (eighteen years ago)

i mean srsly

― g-kit, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:15 (eighteen years ago)

No fightin', boys. I am enjoying Ian MacCullough flailing about like a goon on acid far too much.

DDBs never their emails. They suck.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:16 (eighteen years ago)

the list of things i can't talk about is actually longer than those i can, yknow?

― g-kit, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:16 (eighteen years ago)

never ANSWER their emails. I can type today.

It's hardly beastly mean to ask people not to spoil the ending of programmes they haven't watched yet! I'm relieved that no one has been spoiling Dr. Who for me. Ed, have you downloaded the next few episodes of Who yet? I want to know what happened in the second Dalek episode.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:19 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

chill, kit - i was just heading things off at the pass - didn't know where things would go and i wanted to avoid any heartbreaking spoilers.

― mitya, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:20 (eighteen years ago)

k-rowr:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvITjzAAXYc

<3<3<3

Googling up images of hott silent movie stars = evidence of BOREDOM at work.

they had a 5 x DVD Fritz Lang set @ HMV for £40. I'm v.v. tempted.

― Pashmina, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:34 (eighteen years ago)

Stupid youtube won't even let me watch silent films today. Bah.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:39 (eighteen years ago)

Also, I love the flapper hat, as seen @ 2.11 in that youtube clip!

― Pashmina, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:39 (eighteen years ago)

Want more DDB pictures. I've decided that I'm bored with this secret crush and want one I can actually gush out about and post piccies of in public.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:46 (eighteen years ago)

I have "M" on DVD. Have you seen that, Norman?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 14 May 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

A-HA! Now where in Camden is "Proud" ?

http://a857.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/14/l_7333b70372fdf3f7e8ac275c501bebe0.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 14 May 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

Kate/Ed/Norman have you ever heard Flower Travellin' Band?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 14 May 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

Um, no, but intriguing name.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

Japanese band from the 1970s. Satori is one of the greatest albums ever made.

I guess cookies are required.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

Copes a big fan.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

Cope's a fan of anything these days. I no longer trust his taste!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

true.

― Mark G, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

Do you trust mine?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

Not always, sweetie! ;-) You've sent me some rubbish sometimes! OK, you've sent me some great stuff, too. But I'm never forgiving you that Walter Wegmuller!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

Emil.y recommended it too!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

What about Mugstar?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

MUGSTAR Bethany Heart Star / Bilkas Crib (Trensmat) 7"

Brand new 7" from UK space rockers Mugstar, who pack some serious spaced out psychedelia into these two short sides.
The A side begins with a weird drone-y chant-like whir, along with some tribal drumming and distant guitar plinks, gradually building and building, the minimal vocals transforming into some serious howling, when suddenly everything drops out, leaving just the drums and some super processed guitar strum, very rhythmic and strangely spacy, eventually the rest of the band kicks back in and locks into a cyclical angular groove, looping and repetitive, a furious grinding riff over the relentless drumming. Epic and exhausting.
The flipside is way more synth heavy, some weird sort of post punk noise rock, almost kind of mathy, a bit like a supercharged, way more metallic Stereolab, which intensifies until it explodes into wild psychedelic squalls of acid fried synths and freaked out guitarnoise.
Packaged in a fold over full color sleeve, with a 45 sized hole and one of those old school yellow turntable adapters already in the hole!

MUGSTAR s/t (Sea) cd
We first heard from UK spacerock outfit Mugstar on a super limited 7" we listed a while ago, where we described them as sounding like a supercharged, way more metallic Stereolab, but HOLY SHIT, that 7", as much as we loved it, just did not do these guys justice. They are so much weirder and heavier than that ep let on, it makes sense that it took a full length record for us to see that, their sprawling drone drenched FX doused instrumental metallic space rock is way more suited to the extended format, with the tracks being allowed to stretch waaaaaaaaaaaaay out, locking into mind blowingly cyclical psychedelic spacekraut blowouts. It's hard not to hear a lot of Loop, as well as some Spacemen 3, and yeah some Stereolab, definitely some Circle, but as much as it may be hard to believe, and a little sacrilegious to even say, lately we're digging this a whole lot more than any of that other stuff. A lot of it has to do with not just the sounds, but what these guys are able to do with them.
The opener is a planet crushing, skull caving slab of glorious Hawkwind worship, propulsive, relentless rhythms, dense swirls of FX, churning bass lines, over nearly static, looped sounding riffs, it's a gloriously unholy tangle of space rock and krautrock. And while that tends to be the basic template for most of the record, it manages to veer dramatically in all sorts of different directions. A handful of the tracks devolve into dense blown out noise jams, that are so distorted and washed out and in the red, they sort of sound like M83 being broadcast through a vacuum cleaner. Awesome!! Some tracks get all blissed out and sort of lope along lazily, still spacey and druggy and trippy, but sounding more like some sort of hard rocking Necks, albeit with a serious doom bent, lurching and trudging through dense blackened clouds of acid fried shimmer. Some tracks are jagged and hyper rhythmic, the drum pulse and guitar crunch locked into mesmerizing loops of pulse and throb, reminding us of a metallicized Neu! Elsewhere the guitars get tangled up in dense little melodic snarls, or are spread into diaphanous sheets of gauzy thrum, but always wrapped around a dense core of relentlessly rocking rhythms and killer heavy riffing. So fucking awesome! Fans of any of the above mentioned bands need this for sure, as does anyone into blown out spaced out freaked out drugged out heavy rock spacegroovekrautpsych!! So recommended.

KateMusic™

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

polar bears

― g-kit, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

Mugstar is making me headbang like a dirty dronerock beavis and butthead, like I just told you in email!

Stupid name, though.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

Though - the real test of katebait is, are they CUET?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

It is hard to tell - the only photos I can find are just squiggly psychedelic overexposures. They don't look like they have any hair, though.

OK, the album is going a bit Sonic Youthy which I'm not sure about.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

No idea what they look like.
They're from the UK so maybe they will play some gigs/clubnights near you.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

Their website didn't look like it had been updated since 2005. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

Julian Cope likes them.

Also coming on in a headlong rush is the self-titled debut album by Liverpool band Mugstar, whose eight tracks of driving motorik Litmus-style instrumentals distil/streamline all the best late Lemmy-period Hawkwind into a tougher and more speedfreaked out version of top flight La Dusseldorf. Get down to www.mugstar.com or buy their album from Sea Records at www.searecords.co.uk/shop.htm.

I’ve also been both tripping out, meditating and exercising to the new Bardo Pond album ADROP, a single 33-minute track divided into three long pieces each featuring slightly different instrumentation and musicians for each phase. The first third wells up like a transcendental take on Nico’s ‘It Was A Pleasure Then’, with spectacular free drumming and microphone feedback, melding seamlessly into a kind of liquid downbeat FAUST IV scenario, before concluding with an acoustic Scando-drone-folk fade that brings to mind the Gothic mantra at the end of Amon Duul’s 15-minute ‘Love Is Peace’. Excuse all these overly-simplistic comparisons, for ADROP is entirely itself and wholly original, and should be searched out at www.threelobed.com/bardo.

I've got that Bardo Pond cdr!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

I think emil.y will be intersted from that description. FP was interested earlier earlier when it mentioned Stereolab. Sadly i still can't interest teh kit so i'll mention no more.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

Oh no my typing has gone all britney fan!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

wait waht

― g-kit, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

People suck. Well, not all of them, just specific ones.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, Kerr, you and Copey are both right. Flower Travellin' Band is really really good! Especially that bit at the end of Satori Part 3 where the drums kind of ... chase the rest of the band about the stereo panning sphere. Nice.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

Man, I have been in alkyhell all day.

― Ed, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

Are you at least back from Hull (or Furimmerham or whatever it's called)?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

I said FTB were great!! I sent you some Alex Delivery. Wondered what you would think of that.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

I haven't finished listening to FTB yet! Blimey, too much music for one afternoon.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 14 May 2007 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

Ok, now I've had another *really* apologetic mail from TEY.

Oops. I wasn't actually angry, I was kind of kidding around. People never understand when I actually am joking. I think it comes off as more aggressive than when I actually *am* angry. Sigh.

I am not good at this interacting with humangs thing. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 14 May 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe if you are joking you have to use smileys otherwise people think you are serious.

btw no such thing as too much good music! my copy of Plan B arrived this afternoon. I now have that and Skyscraper to read.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 14 May 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

OK, I am kind of psyched to be playing with Bishi and ebony bones.

― Ed, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

Hang on, Ed was in Hull?

― Forest Pines, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

and now he's back..

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)

There's a joke in there somewhere

― Forest Pines, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

I was in Immingham very briefly today. I have racked up 2000 miles of driving in the last two weeks.

― Ed, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

Ew, really? If you were there for longer, you should have said something - Immingham's only about 10 minutes from my office

― Forest Pines, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

I bought a new car today! Hurrah!

― ailsa, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:23 (eighteen years ago)

Cool, what did you get?

xpost I may be back soon, If I end up doing an overnighter we should grab a beer.

― Ed, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:24 (eighteen years ago)

Definitely! Let me know.

― Forest Pines, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:24 (eighteen years ago)

Bet you didn't know there were 2 possibly three tv stations broadcasting from immingham.

― Ed, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:26 (eighteen years ago)

A SKODA!!!! It is lovely and marvellous and means I can finally condemn my rusty old Fiesta to the dustbin. I am all stupid excited and want to go driving places just because I know I can get there without bits falling off my car.

― ailsa, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:26 (eighteen years ago)

I almost bought a skoda when I last bought a car (got a gold estate in the end as it was slightly bigger) but they are built like tanks and go on for ever.

― Ed, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

gold = golf

― Ed, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

Nope, I didn't.

― Forest Pines, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

Can you make FP a tv star?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

there's a joke in there that I'm not even going to lower myself to.

I have heard nothing but good things about Skoda so I think I have chosen wisely. Fingers crossed. Apart from the house, this is the most I've ever spent on anything ever, my previous cars have all cost about £250.

― ailsa, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

Yay Skoda!

Today we get to hear about Ed's date, no?

― mitya, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 08:02 (eighteen years ago)

Date intellectually very stimulating but nothing more than that. I have other reasons to be HWJ this morning.

― Ed, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 08:40 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hwj

Hmm, no help.

― mitya, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 08:43 (eighteen years ago)

*bouncebouncebounce*

― emsk, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:02 (eighteen years ago)

mitya: hung with joy

― emsk, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:03 (eighteen years ago)

is my article in Plan B this month? I never EVER ever get my staff copy. I'm going to kick Frances next time I see her. Which won't be tonight. Bah, stupid Plan B. Are we going to rehearse anyway, Ed? I want a play on your bellzouki.

Smileys or no smileys, everyone haaaaaaaates me so it's not worth bothering. Bah. I am not HWJ this morning, I am feeling quite sorry for myself.

The full line-up of the gig hasn't been confirmed yet. We probably shouldn't talk about it yet.

And, uh... I'm really glad I haven't lost my bigstick. I was going crazy looking for it last night, and I came in this morning and it was on my desk. I am estupido.

Well, at least date was enjoyable on that level, Ed.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:12 (eighteen years ago)

What's your article on and i'll check.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:16 (eighteen years ago)

Good Morning!

― G00blar, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:16 (eighteen years ago)

It should be the WHY I HATE.... column this month. I hate hype.

x-post morning.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:16 (eighteen years ago)

We talked about the law of the forest and habeus corpus and property being the foundation of anglo saxon legal systems.

― Ed, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:18 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yes, that one on hype. Yes!
x-posts

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:18 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha i'm glad you didn't mention cookies in it

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:19 (eighteen years ago)

That is very interesting stuff indeed. I take it this was the lawyer, then?

x-post I have got to see how much they chopped. I did mention you in it, Kerr, but I also namedropped Sonic Cathedrals and SVIIB.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:20 (eighteen years ago)

"the law of the forest"

― G00blar, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:22 (eighteen years ago)

and ilm

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:22 (eighteen years ago)

It's a fun game every month, "what have the sub-editors f*cked with this time?"

(Just kidding, Plan B subs, you know I love you all. Mwah. I know my spelling is poor but leave my convoluted grammar alone.)

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:23 (eighteen years ago)

and school of seven bells

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:23 (eighteen years ago)

Good, I'm glad that they kept the SVIIB bit in, I feel bad enough about not being able to review the single. Which I love love love.

I will have to go out at lunch and buy a copy myself. And then make F buy me a drink as compensation.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:27 (eighteen years ago)

HA HA HA, I just logged onto the Shimura Curves MySpace to see that Ed had turned into a Walrus. :-D

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:28 (eighteen years ago)

hehe!

― G00blar, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:33 (eighteen years ago)

CAN YOU BELIEVE IN THIS DAY AND AGE I AM HAVING TO EXPLAIN WHAT A BOOTY TEXT IS?

― emsk, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:44 (eighteen years ago)

Just play him NEUfriend.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:44 (eighteen years ago)

who, me?

― emsk, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:47 (eighteen years ago)

Surely the lex has heard Neufriend!

― G00blar, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:49 (eighteen years ago)

"Friends with benefits, fuckbuddy bitch, BOOTY CALL or scratch that itch. Boyfriend, partner, lover, date, common-law wife in certain states."

Or just play him All Saints. ;-)

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:51 (eighteen years ago)

hogan, truck what do I need to do.

― Ed, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:51 (eighteen years ago)

CAN YOU BELIEVE IN THIS DAY AND AGE I AM HAVING TO EXPLAIN WHAT A BOOTY TEXT IS?

When you're done with your explanation can you explain it to me next?

― Tom D., Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:53 (eighteen years ago)

and me

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:56 (eighteen years ago)

i talked to the guy booking truck last night and he is gonna email me with his email address today then i am gonna hit him back with yr myspazz.

tom, kerr, it's like a booty call, but it's a booty text.

― emsk, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:57 (eighteen years ago)

HOGANS HEROES!!!

Booty text = booty call, but in text form. Just sending someone a text demanding they come round just for sexing. x-post

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:58 (eighteen years ago)

Errrrrrrrrrrr, booty call?

― Tom D., Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:59 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not getting out enough

― Tom D., Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:59 (eighteen years ago)

Ooh, is our MySpazz in any shape for gig-getting? I ph34r it might be a bit of a mess. HWJ comes up first, though, which is good. And NEUfriend is on there.

This week is going to be mental. Gooblar tonight, shoegazing tomorrow, (forgot it is Ulrich Schnauss) *and* Thursday and Sonic Boom on Friday. I was going to skip tomorrow, but if Ulrich Schnauss is playing... though he may be just DJing. But then TEY said they were DJing. I am confused.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:00 (eighteen years ago)

They are both DJing. It is going to be crowded in that booth.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:04 (eighteen years ago)

Hot sweaty, crowded shoegazer boys in a DJ booth. Mmmmmm!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:06 (eighteen years ago)

I mean, uh...

ARGH! I HATE SPRING!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:07 (eighteen years ago)

MY FEET

THEY ARE NOT ON THE GROUND

ARGH!

― emsk, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:07 (eighteen years ago)

Spring is great! Much better than Summer!

― Tom D., Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:08 (eighteen years ago)

But then so are Autuomn and Winter!

― Tom D., Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:08 (eighteen years ago)

WELL THIS IS WHY YOU MUST SHOEGAZE, TO LOOK AT YOUR FEET AND ASCERTAIN WHERE THEY HAVE GOT TO!!!

You are coming on Thursday, yes no? Or are you bootying off to Brighton?

x-post

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:08 (eighteen years ago)

I do not like spring because suddenly the boys get all hott walking around in their stripey shirts, and it rattles me and I want everything to go back to normal.

Oh, I have something good. I seem to have lost nearly half a stone and my Liberty shirts seem to fit again. I have no idea where the awful weight came from, I've no idea how it came off again. My scales are posessed. As is my waistline. Then again, perhaps it was just PMS.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:10 (eighteen years ago)

I do not like spring because suddenly the boys get all hott walking around in their stripey shirts, and it rattles me and I want everything to go back to normal.

Oh right, now I understand. Summer is like that with women, it's like they hide the rest of the year and only come out when it starts to get warm and there's always so many new ones you've never seen before!

― Tom D., Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:13 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not getting out enough

Or enough booty calls/texts

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:14 (eighteen years ago)

Try none. Ever.

― Tom D., Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:15 (eighteen years ago)

Last BF used to booty text me if he was driving near my house. It was quite nice, none of the stress of thinking that you have to go on a date or be presentable or any of that stuff. If your booty texter/textee comes round and you're in your pyjamas, so much the better.

Oh, booty calls, STOP TALKING ABOUT THIS SEXING THING OR I WILL THINK ABOUT THE CUET SHOEGAZE BOYS IN THE STRIPEY SHIRTS AND GET ALL DISTRACTED AGAIN.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:17 (eighteen years ago)

Is it a coincidence that HWJ manages to put Alone, Jealous, and Stoned into my head?

― G00blar, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:18 (eighteen years ago)

(changing the subject)

― G00blar, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:18 (eighteen years ago)

(Well done)

― Tom D., Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:18 (eighteen years ago)

Does it? Huh. It was written in 1992 or 3, so it's unlikely to have been influenced by TSM at all.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:20 (eighteen years ago)

It's not so much the main bit of A, J&S, but the noodly guitar bit. It probably *is* just a coincidence.

― G00blar, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:22 (eighteen years ago)

Well, the main guitar riff, no, that's ancient.

The second guitar riff/solo that comes in after the third verse... err, that might be a subconscious cop. ;-)

Oh, Benjamin, shoegaze boy in a stripey shirt that you are.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:25 (eighteen years ago)

SHOEGAZER BOYS IN THEIR STRIPEY SHIRTS, ARE COMING TO TAKE ME AWAAAAYYYYYY!!!!!

http://www.thepin-up.com/chapterhouse.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:29 (eighteen years ago)

The solstice is approaching I appear to be on 3 hours sleep a night right now.

― Ed, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:30 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, so I can blame the solstice for that too, can I?

― Tom D., Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:31 (eighteen years ago)

Yes we should still rehease tonight, you can teach me a straight line and ease, play bellzouki and that. I will see if I can nap pre rehearsal ,so I make G00blar.

― Ed, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:31 (eighteen years ago)

How about shoegaze girls in their stripey shirts?

http://blog.pucp.edu.pe/media/16/20051025-slowdive_zillo_nov1991.jpg

I keep waking up at 7 and not being able to get back to sleep which annoys me as I looooooove sleep. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:32 (eighteen years ago)

I do not have backing tracks for A Straight Line and Ease as I did not have my Bigstick with me, so we are just going to have to play along with the record. You can do all the jangly arpeggio bits on the bellzouki, that will sound amazing.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:33 (eighteen years ago)

Oh Slowdive! THey used to rehearse in the room next to 'ours'.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:35 (eighteen years ago)

God damn, the things that pop up if you google Ride...

http://www.ticket2ride.it/imgs/picgal/drawings/kmark.jpg

Mark G, do you know how many indie boys in the universe would KILL for the chance to "rehearse" in the room next to Rachel Gosling?

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:36 (eighteen years ago)

Cool looking band, never heard them tho:

http://www.citypreachers.de/images/1970.jpg

― Tom D., Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:37 (eighteen years ago)

Shoegazing boys in stripey shirts make the world go round...

http://www.adriandenning.co.uk/pictures2/ride.jpg

x-post dada who on earth is that?

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:37 (eighteen years ago)

girl in the back is teh hott.

― Ed, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:38 (eighteen years ago)

Dagmar Krause!

― Tom D., Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:38 (eighteen years ago)

xpost Yes, yes I do.

They never came out though, so we never actually saw them!

― Mark G, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:41 (eighteen years ago)

Hang on, did anyone actually watch Eurovision?

can someone please tell me which country this lot were representing?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v719/gofugyourself/GFY112005/74139726.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:54 (eighteen years ago)

i dunno about thurs yet
may not know til like 6pm thursday or something

― emsk, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:56 (eighteen years ago)

(xp) I watched it! They were the entertainment at the interval, I went and made a cup of tea...

― Tom D., Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:57 (eighteen years ago)

g00blar did you get my email yesterday pm? not the one about me being a computer moron, the other one

― emsk, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:58 (eighteen years ago)

lol
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6656631.stm

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:10 (eighteen years ago)

Pssh!

It's hard enough getting a footrest!

― Mark G, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:14 (eighteen years ago)

ARgh! I have enough trouble walking and chewing gum, now they expect me to walk and use a computer? I don't think so!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:16 (eighteen years ago)

Must stay off MySpace. Stop it! You're becoming pathetic.

(no "what do you mean, becoming?" jokes, please.)

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:23 (eighteen years ago)

I haven't looked at myspace since I last got a message. I don't see the point of it. I much prefer Last FM. Which reminds me, I wonder what the watercooler charts were like for last week.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:28 (eighteen years ago)

B&S as usual http://www.last.fm/group/UK+Watercooler/charts

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:31 (eighteen years ago)

That looks like hell on earth

― Tom D., Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:32 (eighteen years ago)

Yes but MySpace has cuet boys. Last.fm is stupid if you can't listen to music at work!

Cuet boy probably thinks I haaaaaaate him so he will not friend me. Or he will simply not remember who I am and think I'm some random band.

Oh, I am feeling sorry for myself today. I'm gonna eat some worms.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:35 (eighteen years ago)

http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~aherns/worms.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:41 (eighteen years ago)

im all about this today

http://themfq.hippy.jp/discography/cyrus.JPG

― 696, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:43 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe TSM have cute boys as fans? http://www.last.fm/music/Secret+Machines/+fans

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:44 (eighteen years ago)

ok de city preachers look pretty good, what are they like?

― 696, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:44 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know, they were a German folk band, I mean Germans playing folk not German folk music

― Tom D., Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:45 (eighteen years ago)

Ugh, I feel dirty. There is no point in trying to sell me on last.fm - I simply cannot participate. It's not a choice, it's simply not possible. x-posts

I agree, we need more investigation of this band Dada posted. They look like their music should be great.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:46 (eighteen years ago)

Dagmar Krause was in 'em. And Inga Rumpf, who was in crap bands thereafter, but looked great.

― Tom D., Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:47 (eighteen years ago)

I wonder if Kate will look at all the pages of TSM fans in search of hott boys hehe
Then it will be school of seven bells. Might be best to give Hawkwind a miss though..

x-posts damn

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:48 (eighteen years ago)

Inga again:

http://www.alexgitlin.com/atl3.jpg

― Tom D., Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:48 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

Kind of funny to look at those charts (given how few members actually seem to scrobble often) and look for what you listen to. e.g. despite Kerr's imprecations I had nothing to do with B&S. Meanwhile TWO of us listened to Eddie Rabbitt last week!

― mitya, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

Well! I should go out at lunch more often, it was nice.

I went to HMV and bought Plan B and the new Maps album coz well, ILM told me to. And then I stopped off at East to float through and look at the pretty dresses - oh I love East, they seem to go by the idea "ooh, anything that can be made can be made BETTER by being PAISLEY!" and I narrowly escaped without buying anything.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:46 (eighteen years ago)

I could explain the Eddie Rabbit thing, but it involves video games, so you'll just have to accept that you'll never find out.

― g-kit, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:48 (eighteen years ago)

I never blamed you mitya. It's usually FP!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:49 (eighteen years ago)

2 people played school of seven bells.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:50 (eighteen years ago)

On ILM the Hilary Duff thread has 200 new answers. Is it worth reading to find out why????

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:51 (eighteen years ago)

it doesn't scrobble what i listen to on myspace or eg through band's radio

― emsk, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:51 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, that is an integration step that needs to happen.

― Ed, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:54 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, No wonder I'm not getting my staff copies - I'VE BEEN LEFT OFF THE CONTRIBUTERS LIST AGAIN!!!

However, they managed not to slice up my column too badly. Heh, I forgot I didn't just talk about you, Kerr, but also Pash and Beth Parker in passing.

The illustration makes me laugh like a drain, I absolutely love it.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:54 (eighteen years ago)

Hey Gareth cheers for the heads up on that dj martian post on the carter usm thread. That was indeed a classic.

x-post yeah I saw a bike shop in Newcastle and assumed that meant Norm(except he doesn't have a bike shop there but nevermind hehe)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:57 (eighteen years ago)

So who owns the hairy arse near hull?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 13:01 (eighteen years ago)

Not to go all teh kit on you, but WHAT?

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 13:02 (eighteen years ago)

last.fm

― emsk, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 13:03 (eighteen years ago)

(er i HOPE)

― emsk, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 13:03 (eighteen years ago)

I still have no idea what you are talking about. Hairy arse in Hull?

Why is it still such a thrill to see your work in print? I never seem to get over it, no matter how many times it happens. They're the same words that I wrote up on my 'puter at home, I could read them any time. But when they're in PRINT in a magazine, all glossy and smelling like fresh ink, there's just something magical about it.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 13:05 (eighteen years ago)

Haha, I get it.

― g-kit, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 13:06 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry to distract for random chit-chat:

An angry and bitter Paul Wolfowitz poured abuse and threatened retaliations on senior World Bank staff if his orders for pay rises and promotions for his partner were revealed, according to new details published last night. (Guardian)

I am so glad this jerk is getting his comeuppance!

― mitya, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 13:07 (eighteen years ago)

but you still need to pay to read it!
x-posts

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 13:08 (eighteen years ago)

I am so glad this jerk is getting his comeuppance!

Don't hold your breath, he hasn't had it yet

― Tom D., Tuesday, 15 May 2007 13:09 (eighteen years ago)

I will have to pick up a copy of Plan B next time I'm in HMV.

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 13:10 (eighteen years ago)

I shouldn't be paying to read it, they're *supposed* to send it to me gratis as a staff copy. But they never do. :-(

I'm quite glad they left in the bit about the psychotically ranting fuckwits destroying discourse on messageboards. PWNAGE. Three guesses who that's directed at. (No, actually, don't.)

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 13:10 (eighteen years ago)

;_;

― g-kit, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 13:14 (eighteen years ago)

He does not hate me, he just hasn't logged on. Now stop looking, you freak. Oh god, he is a bike nut. Heaven preserve me, another one.

I hate this weather, the humidity is making me tense and sweaty. Or maybe that's all the coffee.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 13:56 (eighteen years ago)

lol, new nme has a thing about 120 days saying "no one ever got laid by labelling their band 'drone-rock'" - er...

― emsk, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

The NME in "totally wrong" shockah. That's hilarious.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 14:04 (eighteen years ago)

I ought to be bouncing but I am so tired, please to bring caffeinated foods.

― Ed, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 14:08 (eighteen years ago)

Wait, am I supposed to bring food? I didn't know! Bah, I must stop by Sainsburys on the way and my bag is so heavy coz I still have Frances' birthday present in it.

I don't want to do risk analysis. ::stamps feet::

OK, dude has just asked me to do some timing analysis of valuations, I'll do that instead. Phew.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 14:19 (eighteen years ago)

Unless you want to eat kippers.

― Ed, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

We could order in.

― Ed, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 14:22 (eighteen years ago)

ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL ME SO YOU CAN STEAL MY ELECTRIC MISTRES?!?!?

Oh sod it, I'll bring pizza like always.

x-post actually ordering in might be best.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 14:22 (eighteen years ago)

I think I am getting a sore throat. I can NOT get sick this week. I have too much to do!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 14:23 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, could someone for whom YouTube works please watch this and tell me how it is?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MfEP8n1SOuM

Or maybe I will watch it on Ed's puter later tonight.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

y 2 haet teh kit

― g-kit, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

Kippers never taste as nice as they smell while being cooked.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

The smell alone could probably kill me, Kerr! I'm seriously allergic to fish.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

Kippers are fish for people who don't like fish

― Tom D., Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

It's the bones in kippers I don't like. I just have haddock.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

I wish I could come across this lorry http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/6658691.stm

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 02:39 (eighteen years ago)

I prefer Velvet Crumble or Crunchie or whatever you call it.

― mitya, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 05:48 (eighteen years ago)

Morning! Plenty of fair weather cumulus over the BMW plant today. Yesterday we had FLOODS.

I have my first proper round up session with my new boss later this morning so and am drinking lots of coffee.

Tomorrow, the Zodiac (Oxford music venue to those who don't know) has its closing party and it reopens in September as the bigger, brighter Oxford Academy. So I have taken Friday off.

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 08:43 (eighteen years ago)

bouncebouncebounce

― Ed, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 09:17 (eighteen years ago)

they are putting meat in maltesers: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6653175.stm?ls

and milky way

mars is vile anyway but i like the first 2

ohwell

*bouncebouncebounce* i don't need chocolate anyway...

― emsk, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 09:32 (eighteen years ago)

horse meat?

― Mark G, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 09:35 (eighteen years ago)

Man, it's the fucking whey powder thing. Cheaper to dump in food than dump in landfill.

― Ed, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 09:36 (eighteen years ago)

http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2007/05/ramsayprotestPA_450x298.jpg

― C J, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 09:36 (eighteen years ago)

I know why Ed is bouncing. I know why Emsk is bouncing. Or rather, who they are bouncing. ha ha ha.

Bah, I went to drinkin' island by accident last night! I have a teensie tiny hangover lurking behind one eye. But mainly it's lack of sleep as I got lost wandering around the back of Liverpool Street Station and didn't get home until some ungodly hour.

G00blar were fun last night, CD release party was fun. I think I have half a crush on Jim again now he's being nice to me again. We have fun arguments about production techniques.

Now to see if my secret crush haaaaaaates me. As if he could get enough of a care on to notice who I even am. Sigh.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 09:52 (eighteen years ago)

Jim is not in my good books he hates the flanger. (I can hear emsk giggling; even from here)

― Ed, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 09:57 (eighteen years ago)

i was giggling already

i have been giggling for weeks

― emsk, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 10:08 (eighteen years ago)

I am somewhat ebullient this morning.

― Ed, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 10:14 (eighteen years ago)

My secret crush does not care enough to even friend me. Bad crush, no cookie. (He probably does not know what fate he has escaped oh god, to be crushed on by me, fate worse than death.)

Well, Jim is clearly just wrong about flangers. Flangers are awesomeness.

Ah well, at least Dr. Scientist loves me!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 10:17 (eighteen years ago)

No hangover here! (Not that I feel especially great) Stupid worthless meetings all day--I made the mistake of being seen here, now am expected to go to meetings at which I wouldn't be missed if I just stayed in bed.

― G00blar, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 10:52 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, hangover go away. Please? What if I bribe you with coffee?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 10:52 (eighteen years ago)

Hangover? It's Wednesday! Don't you know it was a school night, ms. boom?

― mitya, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 11:02 (eighteen years ago)

I blame Ed. He twisted my arm up behind my back and MADE me drink that last glass of wine when I was all for going home and not drinking any more.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 11:03 (eighteen years ago)

I should have a hangover - I was expecting to have one today as I was due to play darts last night. But various domestic crises forced me to miss me arrers for the fisrt time in years. At least I feel virtuous and hangover free, but I am a bit miffed at missing arrers.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 11:13 (eighteen years ago)

I want one of these for when I'm bored in the hotel rooms of europe.

― Ed, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 11:15 (eighteen years ago)

Oh man, missing arrers! Horrible crises. But I bet your head feels better than mine.

I'm not so sure about that, Ed, it looks uncomfortably like some strange alien sex toy.

Emsk, when do my lessons begin how to shot bike*?

*Yes, I know, I'm pathetic. My friends have been telling me GET A BIKE BE ONE OF US LEARN HOW TO RIDE A BIKE!!! for ages and I've been all "no, no, bikes are bad!" but now it transpires that my Secret Crush is a big bike enthusiast, so *now* I want to learn.

This decision may also have been influenced somewhat by the Senor Coconut version of "Tour De France". Maybe.

I am going to try really hard not to get so totally obsessed that I end up writing concept albums about bicycles, but you know how I get. That certainly wouldn't change those "pipettes fronting kraftwerk" reviews one jot.

But it's going to be difficult, as due to repeated ear inner infections my sense of balance is totally shot. :-( I didn't learn the first time until I was nearly 10.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 11:19 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't get wor first bike till I was 14.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 11:36 (eighteen years ago)

kate i have SEEN you ride an bike, you will be fine. we need to get you a bike first.

― emsk, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 11:37 (eighteen years ago)

You have also seen me ride said bike into parked cars.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 11:39 (eighteen years ago)

bhah blah Boris blah bla...

― Mark G, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 11:39 (eighteen years ago)

n.b. my crush on Boris is HARDLY a secret!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 11:40 (eighteen years ago)

(Also it is because I believe that the new office is going to have a shower in it, so I might actually be able to ride bike to work if I could learn to cycle that far without dying.)

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 11:40 (eighteen years ago)

Oh I wasn't guessing it, I was more about "those that ride bikes also include"...

― Mark G, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 11:41 (eighteen years ago)

Actually:

Yesterday, there was a bike left outside our house. A black one, with a shopping basket on the front full of mildew, and a rack at the back.

And a sticker on it that said "Free to whoever wants it"..

So what, we're living in Amsterdam now?

― Mark G, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 11:42 (eighteen years ago)

I am just disappointed that no one has even tried to guess my secret crush, and I've had it for over a week now! I guess everyone is sick of my crushes. Or maybe they are just sick of me. :-(

x-post that sounds like the kind of bike that I want, shopping basket and all. An old Raleigh boneshaker like what vicars rode in the last century.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 11:44 (eighteen years ago)

streatham to central london is well doable every day. plus you can go as slow or as fast as you like. YAY this means i get to help you work out a route, figuring bikeroutes is one of my favourite things.

― emsk, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 11:45 (eighteen years ago)

bear in mind I can probably find out who it is through my browser history at home.

― Ed, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 11:46 (eighteen years ago)

And now I know.

― Ed, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 11:47 (eighteen years ago)

I want to get a straw bonnet as well, to wear while riding the bike. Though I suppose that would not protect my noggin in the event of a fall.

I'm a-scared to myspacestalk my crush now for fearing of seeing that he has or hasn't logged in and is either ignoring me or just hasn't seen my request yet.

I HATE MYSPACE IT IS EVIL, IT TURNS EVERYONE INTO SCARY OBSESSEES COZ IT IS TOO EASY.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 11:48 (eighteen years ago)

x-post bah I forgot to clear out your cache, that was too easy, Ed. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 11:48 (eighteen years ago)

Your secret is safe with me.

― Ed, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 11:53 (eighteen years ago)

It's not my fault. He's total Katebait. He's got stripey shoegazer shirts and a Spacemen 3 lightmachine and an amazing pedal collection. He was just ASKIN' to be crushed on.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 11:56 (eighteen years ago)

Oh man, missing arrers! Horrible crises. But I bet your head feels better than mine

Sounds like it, yes! Does yr crush have a pointy nose? If so, that would surely out him in the super-league of Kate-crushes.

I am going to play that virtual darts game that CJ linked to if I can find the link. That'll cheer me up. The crises were not real crises, just a whole series of minor screw-ups that attained critical mass. The chain reaction was started by my daughter having about 10 years backlog of homework all of which needed to be done by today, fuelled by a broken printer and the missus losing her purse on the Tube, and reached meltdown when I dropped a memory stick containing all of my daughter's homework in my sister's front garden in the dark. This required a 20 minute search with torches. Luckily the purse was recovered, the memory stick was found and all homework done.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 12:16 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, but of course TSC has a pointy nose, what do you take me for?

Ha ha ha, I think Jim just asked if I would do some artwork for him. I don't think he would get the joke if I said "well, only if you take your clothes off." ;-)

I would actually really like to draw Jim's nose because it is super-anime pointed and would look lovely rendered in calligraphic pen.

Argh, those pesky memory sticks! Always getting lost! They should make them with remote control whistles or something so you can find them when they go walkabout.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 12:19 (eighteen years ago)

Oh God there is a full on shot of TSC where his nose looks so pointed it might poke his speaker cones out. Plus vintage Fender, stripey shirt and leather jacket and that's not playing fair.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 12:27 (eighteen years ago)

You have him, but I'll take the vintage Fender...

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 12:33 (eighteen years ago)

No, I want that, too. :-P

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 12:35 (eighteen years ago)

I wish I could post the picture, but someone might recognise him and tell him and then he would never speak to me again.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 12:36 (eighteen years ago)

ppl who wanted to play truck, you are under consideration. is out of my hands now.

― emsk, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 12:55 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks so much for passing us on for consideration!

Now for nailbiting.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 12:56 (eighteen years ago)

hurrah

― Ed, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 12:56 (eighteen years ago)

I won't be able to go to Truck this year :-(

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 12:57 (eighteen years ago)

More walrus LOLs:

http://icanhascheezburger.com/tag/lolrus/

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 12:59 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, now I am on pins and needles over Truck, but at least it is better than obsessing over TSC haaaating me. Except now Truck will HAAAAATE us and they will book all of our friends' bands but not us and then I will cry and drink a fish.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 13:06 (eighteen years ago)

This deserves our consideration.

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/stik.jpg

― Ed, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 13:16 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, but that is sticky and green.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 13:17 (eighteen years ago)

Also... slugfucking: HOTT.

Seriously, who knew?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 13:17 (eighteen years ago)

Slugfucking:

http://static.flickr.com/89/207375426_4b35b5e76b_m.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 13:21 (eighteen years ago)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y161/MarkGrout/200704/FBike.jpg
One Feral Bike!

― Mark G, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 13:27 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, I love it! I wish I had a bike that looked like that.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 13:28 (eighteen years ago)

...and a dirty dronerock boy to carry around in the little back seat.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 13:30 (eighteen years ago)

ohh that bike is CUET

mark it's not still there is it? i know more ppl looking for bikes

kate how much ££ do you want to spend on it? cos srsly we can find one. ok with it being 2nd hand right? check gumtree, there are always tons for like £50.

― emsk, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

It's just like that song!

"That cat's something I can't explain!"

Oh hang on, wrong track....

― Mark G, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 13:33 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know, Emsk, I need to think this through. I should be saving up for a HOG.

Ha ha, Ed! My teenage friend from TSM board has just informed me that he has got a SPACE BOUZOUKI himself now. But a 6-string Greek one, not an Irish one. The gospel is growing, bouzouki is being accepted as the totally prog spacerock instrument du jour.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 13:36 (eighteen years ago)

fantastic, introduce me and we can talk tunings.

― Ed, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 13:37 (eighteen years ago)

ha, just seen this on the Zodiac website. Is it for real or just a ploy to get us in there early tomorrow???

& JUST CONFIRMED........
We have just confirmed the eighth band!
First on downstairs
another classic Oxford band reformed for an acoustic set.
GET HERE EARLY!

hmm, RIDE possibly???

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 13:56 (eighteen years ago)

I doubt it - Loz is engaged elsewhere - i.e. playing drums for the JAMC!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 13:58 (eighteen years ago)

it's an acoustic set, maybe just guitars and vox.

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

Mark and Steve? Could be. Mark and Andy don't speak, I thought.

Watch it be Tallulah Gosh or something. (Or were they from Reading?)

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

previously they have used the word "classic" v loosely, admittedly...

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:04 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think TG (ahem, Tallulah Gosh) were Reading based.

My guess: Supergrass.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

....except they never split.

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:12 (eighteen years ago)

The Unbelievable Truth?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

haha!

*bouncebouncebounce*

― emsk, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:16 (eighteen years ago)

no more zody til Sept, emsk, can you believe it? WHAT WILL I DO?

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

I would explode if it was actually Mark and Andy. Slashiest slash pair in history.

Oh, I need to concentrate and my brain doesn't want to. I want to look at pictures of crushboys.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

actually Crushboy sounds like a band name. But what would they sound like?

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:23 (eighteen years ago)

Possibly Echobelly.

― Ed, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

Nah, Crushboy would be total power pop, possibly a trio.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

With a singing drummer.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

Crushboy, sons of McFly, grandchildren of Busted. You know I'm right.

― mitya, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

Crushboy would look like:

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/0/0f/Material_Issue_IOP.jpg

Mitya OTM.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

Now I've got "Valerie Loves Me" stuck in my head. Need to get back to Senor Coconut.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

another classic Oxford band reformed for an acoustic set

If this turns out to be Play Dead I will punch somebody.

― aldo, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

5.30?

Mr Big?

Ugly Rumours?

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

I don't want to be analysing SubPrime, bane of my existence (OK, wait, I don't hate SubPrime as much as I hate BuyToLet), I want to be mooning over hott boy photos. And I can't even swoon over them with anyone else, oh this is vaguely torturous.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

Kate did you find anyy Mugstar or Alex Delivery photos?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

I really need this day to end.

― Ed, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

No, but I'm listening to Earthless now. Quite good in a monumental slabs of Hawkwind way.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

Has FP abandoned ILX totally (for the most part), or just this thread?

― mitya, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

I haven't seen him on very many other threads, but I don't really read very many other threads myself.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

I am having an attack of late afternoon angst. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

FP has been busy. He appears on msn in early evenings after work sometimes before going out. He will be on that Stereolab as soon as he sees it no doubt.

I thought you might like Earthless. Do you like the Groundhogs cover? Qotsa used to cover it too.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

I wouldn't know a Groundhogs cover if it bit me in my shadow.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

Is it really bad to eat two bars of chocolate in an hour? I am a man of moderation and this feels WRONG!

I did run 4 miles at lunchtime I guess.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

Kate needs to hear The Groundhogs!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

I could do with some chocolate. I could very easily eat 4 chocolate bars in a sitting. And then get really high. And then get really sick. And then feel really low.

Maybe some sugar would perk me up. I am sure that it is the revenge of the sleeplessness, this angst.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

Ok, I've just bought tickets to go to Paris. Surely that should cheer me up?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

How do you say "shoegaze" in French? Regarder dans le Chaussure?

The streets are lined with pointy nosed boys in stripey jumpers, I am sure of this.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

OK, a quick search of the freakosphere reveals that [Removed Illegal Link] will be playing while I'm there! Seems like they might be a lot of fun.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

Bah, stupid links...

http://www.myspace.com/aquanebulaoscillator

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

Regarder vos chaussures, if it's your own shoes you are gazing at. Regarder les chaussures if it's just shoes in general.

(your translation is "gaze in a shoe", I believe)

― ailsa, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

(disclaimer: I haven't studied French at any level since 1988)

― ailsa, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

God, MySpace is awful. Someone not friending you really feels like a personal insult. :-(

I am going to go home and get a life now.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

ughhh...concerts on a school night are not a good idea. Especially if they're in London.

Poor, poor Zodiac. I'm in two minds about the redevelopment; it sounds like they're goign to improve it quite a bit, but I'm a bit concerned at how Academy seems to be spreading across the country...

― carson dial, Thursday, 17 May 2007 08:15 (eighteen years ago)

I have been a little distracted of late, by people I should ignore because if I know full well that if I don't ignore them it will all end in tears.

― Forest Pines, Thursday, 17 May 2007 08:18 (eighteen years ago)

I was out getting a life until 3 am, after 'moderating' a talk at Tate Britain. Only a very big dinner in a very tiny restaurant has saved me from alkyhell, as we went to Gerry's (sleazy apres-heures theatre bar with a man doing Bowie on Casio and an old club face called Phil Dirtbox behind the bar) and drank champagne until LATE. Among other things, I found out that the lovely French wife of one dining companion refers to her husband as The Cocker, pronounced cock-airrrr, which is trop de cute.

― suzy, Thursday, 17 May 2007 08:22 (eighteen years ago)

Jarvis? His mrs is Fr..

― Mark G, Thursday, 17 May 2007 08:25 (eighteen years ago)

(yes Mark, both were there, and she is my new favourite person)

― suzy, Thursday, 17 May 2007 08:37 (eighteen years ago)

(bit of a giveaway, the nickname tho)

― Mark G, Thursday, 17 May 2007 08:37 (eighteen years ago)

Well, I wanted to get it across, albeit obliquely. OMG hangover coming!

― suzy, Thursday, 17 May 2007 08:46 (eighteen years ago)

I stayed at home last night and drank Krupnik. Hooray for honey flavoured drinks!

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 17 May 2007 08:48 (eighteen years ago)

Morning all, I have been late to work every morning this week.

[url=[Removed Illegal Link] scientist is pedalboard mad this morning.

― Ed, Thursday, 17 May 2007 08:52 (eighteen years ago)

Dr scientist is pedalboard mad this morning.

― Ed, Thursday, 17 May 2007 08:53 (eighteen years ago)

Ooh, pedalboards! I see he has been uploading photos of his pedals that people sent him, because mine is up there!

Morning, I'm feeling slightly better this morning because I figured out what I was actually upset about, and even though I can do nothing about that, at least I've got the upset focused on the right thing, instead of spilling over into inappropriate and silly things.

Did a lot of work last night, made some demo CDs and printed out flyers last night. I am not hungover, phew. I only had a small glass of wine with my burritos last night. I think I am starting to get sick of burritos. !

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 09:03 (eighteen years ago)

You should link back to the myspazz in the comments.

― Ed, Thursday, 17 May 2007 09:05 (eighteen years ago)

So if Benjamin left, why is he still on the posters?

http://www.imagecross.com/myspace-image-hosting3/3970tsm-annex.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 09:11 (eighteen years ago)

My brother managed to f*ck up the hotel booking... argh! he told me months ago he had booked me a room for Saturday, Sunday, Monday - so I booked my train (which can't be cancelled or changed) accordingly. Now he's all "oh, I didn't know you were staying an extra day!"

YES YOU DID!!!!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 09:25 (eighteen years ago)

gah

― Ed, Thursday, 17 May 2007 09:30 (eighteen years ago)

Stupid brother.

Maybe I will go to this and pick up a French DDB and not come back to the hotel at all:

http://www.hi-nu.com/agenda/fly/acidtest_summer_05.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 09:32 (eighteen years ago)

I'm liking that andy votel seems to be big in psych and folk now.

― Ed, Thursday, 17 May 2007 09:34 (eighteen years ago)

Also, pls to litter paris with demo cds.

― Ed, Thursday, 17 May 2007 09:34 (eighteen years ago)

Oh wait, Mai = May, it was last week. Bah!

Oh, they are playing on the 9th June in Paris. I might go to that if I could persuade Ian and Julie to go.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 09:35 (eighteen years ago)

OK we have to learn this song

http://www.useless-knowledge.com/1234/06apr/article046.html

― Ed, Thursday, 17 May 2007 09:46 (eighteen years ago)

http://russianplanet.ru/music/narod/strezhen.pdf

― Ed, Thursday, 17 May 2007 09:47 (eighteen years ago)

my colleague has brought pastelons back from Cordoba. So delicious yet so crumbly! There are now crumbs on my mouse mat and when I move my mouse it makes crunchy noises.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 17 May 2007 09:48 (eighteen years ago)

I am having trouble thinking about anything except the naked DDBs tonight.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 09:51 (eighteen years ago)

Everyone is dropping out of going shoegazing with me. I am going to end up going alone. Like I always do. Billy NoMates. Bah. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 10:06 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry, normal service will be resumed next week.

― Ed, Thursday, 17 May 2007 10:07 (eighteen years ago)

Drinking coffee and listening to Sabres of Paradise trying to cheer up.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 10:20 (eighteen years ago)

i might come

― emsk, Thursday, 17 May 2007 10:20 (eighteen years ago)

Are you sure? You're not off to Brighton for Noyfriending? ;-)

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 10:21 (eighteen years ago)

You can blame me not coming on emsk and her meddling.

(actually it was only ever going to be late doors because of dad's birthday, but it is fun to blame emma)

― Ed, Thursday, 17 May 2007 10:22 (eighteen years ago)

OK, Frances is coming and has plans for how to get the DDBs naked involving horrible Norwegian liquor.. :-)

I suppose you're excused Ed, naked boys not really being your thing.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 10:25 (eighteen years ago)

However, I am missing Kontacte again. Say hi to ian from me.

― Ed, Thursday, 17 May 2007 10:27 (eighteen years ago)

Ian thinks you have something against him. ;-P

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 10:28 (eighteen years ago)

Why? I was spazzed out last time we chatted. To be fair if I came tonight I would also be spazzed out I have not had more than three hours of sleep together all week.

― Ed, Thursday, 17 May 2007 10:30 (eighteen years ago)

I am joking, he doesn't think anything of the sort, I'm just being a troublemaker like Kerr. ;-)

Ian thinks I'm a spazzed out mentalist because every time I see him I'm falling down drunk. But he might actually be right. Heh.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 10:31 (eighteen years ago)

if noyfriending is feasible i will go, helpless weak-willed girlie that i am becoming :/

but i think it's unlikely

and ed, blame me as much as you like, it's a responsibility i'll gladly accept!

― emsk, Thursday, 17 May 2007 10:43 (eighteen years ago)

;-P also :-D

― Ed, Thursday, 17 May 2007 10:43 (eighteen years ago)

Email Nat if you want cheapie list! Do you think Gareth will come? He was vaccillating on Saturday.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 10:44 (eighteen years ago)

come where? i forgot what i was vaccillating about on saturday (i wasnt feeling that well)

i thought votel had always been into psyche and folk. doesnt he have a paul parrish track on his last comp?

you should get the cyrus faryar lps ed, well, not just ed, other people too. i got the findlay brown album but not really so into it

― 696, Thursday, 17 May 2007 10:47 (eighteen years ago)

Sonic Cathedrals at the Legion on Old Street. There will be shoegazing and dronerock galore.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 10:48 (eighteen years ago)

Today I am mainly in love with physics textbooks. Will this post?

http://www.columbia.edu/~mem4/ap6101/Gurnett_Bhattacharjee_Cover.gif

http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/exhibits/pssc/img/physics1-sm.jpg http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/exhibits/pssc/img/physics2-sm.jpg[Removed Illegal Image]

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 11:06 (eighteen years ago)

http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/exhibits/pssc/img/physics1-sm.jpg http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/exhibits/pssc/img/physics2-sm.jpg http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/exhibits/pssc/img/physics3-sm.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 11:06 (eighteen years ago)

is this tonite? i cant make tonite

i just looked at their site. it appears that sonic cathedrals is on...every night?

― 696, Thursday, 17 May 2007 11:11 (eighteen years ago)

No, it's just been on last night and tonight - they never have it this close together! usually it's once or twice a month.

I missed last night but honestly, I needed sleeeeeeep. Sonic Boom is tomorrow, but that's not SC, that's some thing in Camden.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 11:13 (eighteen years ago)

So, are they going to announce their engagement on ILX next?

Fucking hypocrite. I'm going to get off ILX and go look at some dirty dronerock boys until I calm down. >:-(

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 11:20 (eighteen years ago)

sonic boom tomorrow? where at? i dont *think* i can make that either:/

― 696, Thursday, 17 May 2007 11:31 (eighteen years ago)

UFO in Camden. At some place called Proud which appears to be in the middle of Camden Market. No idea, I only found out about it recently.

He's got some good stripey shirts, I should google dear old Mr. Boom.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 11:38 (eighteen years ago)

I know I'm busy - it's 4pm and this is my first netsurf of the day (and that only because I realized I han't yet).

Hi!

― mitya, Thursday, 17 May 2007 12:10 (eighteen years ago)

Hi, Mitya!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 12:11 (eighteen years ago)

OMGZ I JUST DID A BRILLIANT THING BY ACCIDENT YAY YAY

proud is so cool it hurts, i think
i haven't actually been there yet

― emsk, Thursday, 17 May 2007 12:11 (eighteen years ago)

I found Gogmagog by T.C. Lethbridge in a second hand bookstore at lunchtime.

― Ed, Thursday, 17 May 2007 12:21 (eighteen years ago)

Ah! Can I borrow it when you are done reading it?

(OK, I still have to finish The Reformation, Cloud Atlas and Scandal before I start reading any more books. But still.)

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 12:22 (eighteen years ago)

does anyone know if, if i get given/lent a blackberry which is already on o2, if i can get just a sim for it? like on this deal:

http://businessshop.o2.co.uk/tariff_detail.aspx?id=94&term=all&groupid=23

i can't make sense of their site

― emsk, Thursday, 17 May 2007 12:25 (eighteen years ago)

Ring them up is the best, you just extended your contract right, just tell them that you have just changed jobs need a blackberry can you swap phones, obviously they will get the extra money every month etc.

We can PIN each other.

― Ed, Thursday, 17 May 2007 12:27 (eighteen years ago)

Oh god, you are both going to be crackberry addicts now, oh noes.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 12:27 (eighteen years ago)

haha it might not happen anyway, i need to be persuasive

― emsk, Thursday, 17 May 2007 12:41 (eighteen years ago)

I am going to get us in trouble on the SC site, ha ha.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 12:47 (eighteen years ago)

Us, who?

― Ed, Thursday, 17 May 2007 12:50 (eighteen years ago)

No, whoops, I mean, Sonic Cathedrals, not Shimura Curves.

I said there would be a competition for stripyest shirt tonight. Judged by us. And the prize would be a bottle of foul scandinavian aperatif - served with breakfast in the Plan B office after a night of debauchery!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 12:53 (eighteen years ago)

How does one define stripiest.

― Ed, Thursday, 17 May 2007 12:54 (eighteen years ago)

? Damn it I am tired.

― Ed, Thursday, 17 May 2007 12:54 (eighteen years ago)

Simple! Count the stripes!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 12:59 (eighteen years ago)

(I just hope that Joe does not see it, as he would not think it funny that I am leading his wife astray. Though I love love love Joe and would never actually do that. Besides, more DDBs for me!)

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:00 (eighteen years ago)

I couldn't sleep last night so I mucked about with myspace page. I hadn't even signed in since I got it and found 2 requests by people I didn't know who I think were pimping bands and the other had friends who were pimping get rich quick schemes, so I didn't add her either.

Anyway now my page looks different and should play some music from my last fm.
Have a look and see what you think www.myspace.com/pfunkboy and add me if you so wish.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:01 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.georgehernandez.com/h/aaBlog/2005/media/11-29_DennisTheMenace_UK.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:02 (eighteen years ago)

ha ha, Kerr, you will be hooked.

^^^^^^ my dream man, Dennis!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:03 (eighteen years ago)

Ugh, all these random dronerock bands are now trying to add me after that comment!

Go away, I was not trying to flirt with you.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:04 (eighteen years ago)

Dennis is Kate's favourite Scottish dirty dronerock boy.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:05 (eighteen years ago)

Is Dennis the Menace Scottish?

Or are you just noting how much he looks like the lost member of the JAMC.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:07 (eighteen years ago)

Kerr is addicted to MySpace now! Ha ha!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:21 (eighteen years ago)

half my wardrobe is stripey :/

― g-kit, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:22 (eighteen years ago)

Well, the comics were made by a Scottish company and the offices are still in Dundee. Though I suppose Beanotown is supposed to represent any town in the UK. The reader is supposed to think it's their town. So he isn't strictly Scottish. He is whatever you want him to be.

Unlike Oor Wullie & The Broons who are most definitely Scottish.
http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/smallpress/graphics/backthen/boychildint02.jpg
http://www.thatsbraw.co.uk/The%20Broons/Broons-Family.htm

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:23 (eighteen years ago)

bah

http://www.thatsbraw.co.uk/The%20Broons/Broons-Family.htm

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:23 (eighteen years ago)

I like that album quilt(on myspace) with the Neu! covers on it.
If anyone has last fm they can add them automatically on myspace here http://www.last.fm/widgets

Apart from Kate obviously.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:28 (eighteen years ago)

Well, the shoegazing posse tonight is down to me, Frances, Kirsten and maybe Emsk. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:39 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, only four girls, what a drag ;)

― mitya, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:40 (eighteen years ago)

Four of us, four of them... no wait! Stop that!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:41 (eighteen years ago)

Cookies have been sent out peoples. Enjoy!!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

none of those bands are my type

crackberry: no, there's a chance i can borrow one from work, they're getting treos instead so there will be a spare few kicking around, but obv they will keep their sims and contracts and we don't think they'd pay for mine but that tariff is about £15 a month for unlimited email and interweb which i can newly afford so if i had that and my regular phone i'd be fine.

― emsk, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:04 (eighteen years ago)

What bands aren't your type?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

best error from a website today:

'You do not have permission to press that key'

― Ed, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

Kontakte, Teh Aerly Yaers and 120 Days. :-(

Ah well! More DDBs for me! F keeps sending me emails and then going NO NO I AM MARRIED WOMAN I SHOULD NOT BE TALKING LIKE THIS!!!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

Never heard Kontakte, The Early Years and I bored of 120 days after 2 listens. I much prefer Alex Delivery and Mugstar.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

I will now listen to The Groundhogs. Dada are you a fan?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

You would definitely like Kontakte. Hrmmm, don't know if you'd like teh Early Yaers. Probably. Did I never send you any? You might be getting a cookie later this week, then.

I am still listening to Senor Coconut. Fahrn Fahrn Fahrn an der autovahn...

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

Nope, you didn't.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

Well, go and listen to Kontakte's MySpace in the meanwhile - they're in my top 8. Pash likes them, too.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

Only if you listen to The Groundhogs :P

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:22 (eighteen years ago)

OK, OK, I've just finished downloading them, will listen now.

But you sent me two albums! So youv'e got to go and listen to teh Early Yaers myspace as well. They're not in my top 8, coz they stoled my bucket.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

Kontakte:
http://www.myspace.com/kontakteuk

Teh Early Yares:
http://www.myspace.com/thesoundoftheearlyyears

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

It's a deal. One of the songs skips on the groundhogs albums so i'll resend it and you delete the skippy version on Thank Christ For The Bomb (So listen to Split 1st)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

Kontakte sound very good.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:40 (eighteen years ago)

Told you so!

I am importing Groundhogs now, blimey, stupid media player takes forever. I've got too much music on the drive, should clear it out.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

I've spent nearly the whole afternoon watching Mylène Farmer videos on YouTube. Not very productive!

― Pashmina, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

Better than leaving silly comments on the Sonic Cathedrals myspace...

OK, I am liking Groundhogs, v. psychedelic if a bit hippie jamband in places. I like the stereo channel separation. But it's rivalling Steve Hillage in places for "playing themselves to oblivion".

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

Tony McPhee is one of my favourite guitarists. The 2 fixed tracks have been sent.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

Friend Kontakte if you like them, they are lovely people. Still trying to set up a gig with them...

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

i emailed abt cheaplist tonight, ain't heard back, should i worry?

― emsk, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:26 (eighteen years ago)

Nah, I'm sure it will be fine. Actually, when did you email them? They might be down there right now. Tell them you are FRIEND OF KATE AND YOU DEMAND TO HAVE SOME NAKED NORWEGIANS.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

I will now listen to The Groundhogs. Dada are you a fan?

Well I only really know "Split" and a compilation I've got but I do like them

― Tom D., Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

... esp. that track with the mellotron that gets faster and faster (the track not the mellotron)

― Tom D., Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, I am not good with girlclothes. I am wearing ridiculously long full skirts and they keep getting caught under the wheels of my chair.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

"Split" is one of those albums everybody's ex-hippie dad or older brother seemed to have

― Tom D., Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

Qotsa, Cope, Malkmus and Karl Hyde of Underworld are all fans. I guess they must have had hippie dads!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

God, what awful company!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

No, they are hippie dads

― Tom D., Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

Oi!
x-post

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

Dada, Do you like Man?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

― Tom D., Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

Hmm. Hangover better.

Kerr, three of those are excellent, EXCELLENT company. No idea about QOTSA though.

― suzy, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

"Live at the Padgett Romms, Penarth" is great! I liked them when they were a weird dronerock band, less so when they were a dozy sub-west-coast psych band.

― Pashmina, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

Copey is totally a hippie dad, he has pics of his kids in the Megalith book! "3 year old groover shown for size purposes"

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

Qotsa are great!! I wonder what the new album will be like, loads of "fans" I think have decided they don't like it already.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

Qotsa sounds like a strange Chinese fruit. I'm pretty sure I don't like them, though.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

I have a Man cd (Rhinos, Winos and Lunatics) and a couple of vinyls. I have mp3s of that live album, I downloaded all the others I didn't have once. I'll give it a spin after the Groundhogs. (who I sent to others, not just Kate)

1st Qotsa was the best. When josh was making Robot Rock influenced by his listening to Can and Neu! at the time.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

I thought it sounded like a Mayan high priest (xp)

― Tom D., Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

I'm pretty sure you wouldn't, Kate. I have never been hot on QOTSA, possibly because my friend Melen Head goes on about them too much.

Bouncity bounce: JC says I can have Mary Chain tickets. It will be weird to see Phil on bass.

― suzy, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

I saw Qotsa in the Cathouse in Glasgow before they got big. Was a great gig. Think I've seen them 6 times in all. Sadly I never saw Kyuss :(
I did see John Garcia's band Unida in 1999 though.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

"Live at the Padgett Romms, Penarth" is great! I liked them when they were a weird dronerock band
-- Pashmina

Did you say that just to get Kate interested?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, yesterday I was listening to the album and feeling all proud and how great it was, so I made up demos and couldn't wait to hand them out...

and today I'm listening to it and think it sounds all shite and can hear nothing but the mistakes. Bah!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

Nope, I love it when I get to the last third. Maybe I should resequence the whole thing backwards, starting with Hung With Joy. Who says you can't start the album with the 7 minute drone epic? If it's good enough for TSM, it's good enough for us.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

Who says you can't start the album with the 7 minute drone epic?

"Faust IV"

― Tom D., Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

Case in point, what a massive megalith of a song "Krautrock" is. But it makes the rest of the album seem kind of pointless. (Actually, no, not true at all, I love Jennifer etc.)

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

ist cool got cheaplist
do bands start 9.30ish? i'm gonna hafta work late

― emsk, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

Kontakte said they would be on 8.30. Which means 9. It always runs late, though.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

ok so 9? so i can stay here til 8.30

― emsk, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

You know what shoegazers are like, though... TIIIIMMMME HAS NOOOOO MEEEEEAAAAANNNING.... and you hope you will get the last train home, but nope, everything's delayed by an hour and you find yourself drunk on the night bus again.

I cannot guarantee this any more than I can guarantee Norwegian nakedness, though. I would get there at 9 if you definitely want to see Kontakte.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

What should I have for supper? For the first time ever, I don't actually fancy Tai Cult Food.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 17:03 (eighteen years ago)

9 is good

9 is fine

i have started losing my mind again. hurrah.

― emsk, Thursday, 17 May 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

I have definitely lost mine.

"A kiss from an old flame, a trip to the MOOOOOOOOOOOooooooon."

Last night was shoedronekraut AWESOMENESS. So happy, even despite the terrible terrible hangover.

Ah, the pretty boys. All the pretty boys. And the pretty pedals. And My Secret Crush in all his glory. Of course it's not exactly secret any more. He seems to tolerate, if not actually enjoy, the attention. Best kind of friendcrush.

Oh, so much good music. So much red wine. My head hurts.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 09:40 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, where is everyone else this morning to share my bounciness? I know Emsk is alive and didn't crash her bike because we messaged at 2 in the morning.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 09:56 (eighteen years ago)

Also, I have willing victims for my drawing experiments!!! Hurrah!

I had all of TEY one after another bounce up to me to say they loved my illustration of them and so we are going to do another proper one. I gave their singer a hard copy of it, and they all squabbled over it like little girls passing it back and forth.

So we are going to set up polaroids and a sitting.

Sonic Cathedrals want a poster, too. :-)

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 10:18 (eighteen years ago)

Kate, re your artwork for the ILXorlosa..

Any chance of modifying a version for the ILX comp?

― Mark G, Friday, 18 May 2007 10:22 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, sure! If you email me a list of the tracks in order, I can do something, hopefully at the weekend if I'm not too hungover after Sonic Boom tonight.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 10:26 (eighteen years ago)

I'm just waiting on one contribution (possibly) from Ken C.

But I do think I have the blindin' track sequence.

Will mail you the 'proto' version.

― Mark G, Friday, 18 May 2007 10:30 (eighteen years ago)

oooh track listing!

― Dr.C, Friday, 18 May 2007 10:41 (eighteen years ago)

Heh heh, I was listening to the new Kontakte single, and I didn't even noticed that it had finished and Kraftwerk had started. :-)

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 11:07 (eighteen years ago)

One email later, kate!

― Mark G, Friday, 18 May 2007 11:17 (eighteen years ago)

Ooh, excellent! Got it, thanks. I'll see what I can do.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 11:19 (eighteen years ago)

So really no one else in online? This afternoon is going to be SOOOO boring. I might have to work if I can find no one to SQUEEEEE with.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 12:16 (eighteen years ago)

i has a carrot cake.

― Mark G, Friday, 18 May 2007 12:18 (eighteen years ago)

involving horrible Norwegian liquor

Oooh what type? :D

(Actually I first read it as horrible Norwegian liqueur, which would be even yet still more eviler.)

― anatol_merklich, Friday, 18 May 2007 12:20 (eighteen years ago)

It was Gammel Dansk but we couldn't actually find any. And the Norwegian boys turned out to be quite sullen and unfriendly.

And they came out and stood right in front of us while we were trying to watch TEY, and HELLO! they are all eight foot tall and even though Frances said she didn't really mind the view, we wanted to watch teh Early Yares so we had to give them dirty looks and push past them.

Mmm, carrot cake.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 12:23 (eighteen years ago)

What carrot cake? I don't see any carrot cake!!

(sweeps table)

― Mark G, Friday, 18 May 2007 12:24 (eighteen years ago)

What, you don't mind if I take a bite, do you?

::takes out fork and starts stabbing wildly::

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 12:27 (eighteen years ago)

THERE IS NO CAKE! THAT'S A HOLOGRAMMMM!!

alt:

NOOOOO THEY BE TAKIN MY CARROT CAKE!!

― Mark G, Friday, 18 May 2007 12:31 (eighteen years ago)

Afternoon!

I have just found out that a British banking executive who was involved tangentially in the Enron fraud, and who killed himself last year shortly after this emerged, was, as it happened, my second cousin once removed. Lovely.

More cheerfully, however, cats

― Forest Pines, Friday, 18 May 2007 12:33 (eighteen years ago)

Gammel Dansk

= "Old Danish" actually. :) But horrible, oh yes oh yes. This from someone who likes almost every bouze.

― anatol_merklich, Friday, 18 May 2007 12:34 (eighteen years ago)

Ah man, that's rough, I'm sorry, FP.

Though on the upside, the cats comic is pretty funny.

Anatol - F used to go out with a Norwegian boy and so spent a lot of time there - she said all Norwegian hipster boys drink the stuff.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 12:35 (eighteen years ago)

Norwegian Hipster Boy = Geir Hongro?

― Tom D., Friday, 18 May 2007 12:37 (eighteen years ago)

"2 out of three aint bad" - meatloaf

― Mark G, Friday, 18 May 2007 12:37 (eighteen years ago)

Don't make me post more naked pictures of 120 Days. :-P

Argh, I thought I brought my crush's CD to listen to today but I didn't I am estupido and therefore crushless. What should I listen to?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 12:38 (eighteen years ago)

The Brigadier is not around to ply you with cookies?

― Tom D., Friday, 18 May 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

I am sated with cookies for the moment. I need something nice and soothing for my hangover. It still has not lifted.

Then again, I did drink a bottle and a half of wine by myself last night.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 12:41 (eighteen years ago)

she said all Norwegian hipster boys drink the stuff.

By elementary logic I can then not be a hipster hooray! Yeah, it's pretty common.

― anatol_merklich, Friday, 18 May 2007 12:45 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks Kate, although I don't feel particularly bothered about it. I never met the man - I didn't even know he existed.

― Forest Pines, Friday, 18 May 2007 12:45 (eighteen years ago)

I has a hangover. Supposed to be revising for exam tomorrow, which I've had NO time to do seeing as I just handed in 11,000 words at the start of the week. Arrrrrrrrrrrrrgh. And now OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.

― emil.y, Friday, 18 May 2007 12:47 (eighteen years ago)

Revising, oh noes. Hangover, ugh. I am on my third cup of coffee and still feel fuzzy.

However, now I have the giggles because it turns out that not only is MNSSC's name slang for something dirty, but the actual meaning is quite dirty, too. Snargle, snicker, tee hee. Oh my head, it hurts to laugh.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 12:53 (eighteen years ago)

I should do okay, as it is the Philosophy of Sex, wahey, oo-er, etc. But I really can't concentrate on anything other than trying to stop my BRANE throbbing.

― emil.y, Friday, 18 May 2007 12:57 (eighteen years ago)

Philosophy of Sex? GOod lord, giggle, snigger, oo-err, etc. I'm sure it's quite serious a subject but it just sounds gigglesome.

But I'm in one of those "heh heh, I'd like to twiddle the knobs of yr Big Muff, baby" moods right now. At least my brain has stopped throbbing, that is a small mercy. Drink plenty of water, but sip, don't gulp.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 12:59 (eighteen years ago)

Reminds me of a terrible terrible joke I dreamt up the other day.

A woman goes into a bakers, and sees a sign: "Knickers, 50p a pair"

She asks why they're selling knickers now.

"A lot of our female customers find them very useful for preserving bakery products"

"Really?"

"Yes - they're for keeping your muffin"

― Forest Pines, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:02 (eighteen years ago)

Thank god Emsk was nowhere near us when we were talking about Electric Mistresses and Flangers and Super Hard-On Box of Rock last night. Giggle giggle.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:03 (eighteen years ago)

doughnut tell any more bakery gags!

― onimo, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:04 (eighteen years ago)

Are they not to your taste?

― Forest Pines, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:05 (eighteen years ago)

a bit half-baked, that one.

― G00blar, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:08 (eighteen years ago)

Also, he does not like Benjamin TSM, because apparently they got chatting after a gig, and he asked B what kind of pedals he used, and B was all "aw, I can't tell you man, that's a trade secret!" and I told him when I asked B the same question, he was delighted to expound for ages, and even wrote down a list of pedals to get in my notebook (and actually, come to think of it, emailed the next day giving addendums). And MNSSC looked askance and a bit miffed, and I said "well, then again, it's probably coz I'm a girl" and MNSSC laughed "Yes!"

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:09 (eighteen years ago)

Super hard on!

http://www.musictoyz.com/images/jpg/zbhard.jpg

Box of Rock!

http://www.musictoyz.com/img20065/zvex2.jpg

They are real pedals not just sniggerfests!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:10 (eighteen years ago)

Don't worry, there's no risk of more bakery jokes. Unless one of us gets on a roll.

― Forest Pines, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:10 (eighteen years ago)

xpost: I love the pedal artwork!

― Forest Pines, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:10 (eighteen years ago)

Heh, I've just been checking threads from yesterday, and came across this rather apt quote:

Also I have never truly pondered the question "Philosophy: does it fuck?" before.

-- HI DERE, Thursday, 17 May 2007 12:56 (Yesterday)

― emil.y, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:11 (eighteen years ago)

I like the Box of Rock best.

― emil.y, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:11 (eighteen years ago)

doughnut tell any more bakery gags!

Aw, what's wrong with people madeleine in our affairs with their torteuous puns? Surely you gateau love it.

(pls forgive me waffling on like this)

― anatol_merklich, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:18 (eighteen years ago)

He was using a Box of Rock last night. :-) I thought it sounded great, he wasn't impressed.

Good, lord, I'm pathetic, look at me, going over minute topics of our conversation like a 15 year old with a pop star crush. Pathetic! And I'm just not going there, I mean, as I was leaving, he was posing for pictures with cute little groupie girls and as I walked by I heard him going "yeah, you should listen to NEU!" and this girl looking clueless and going "Neu!?" and kind of tipping her head to one side and I just wanted to scream FOR FUCKS SAKE, EVEN THE LEX HAS HEARD OF NEU!!!! but then he saw I was going and came over and gave me a big hug and a kiss and I skipped out into the night floating on a cloud, my head inflated with friendcrush.

FFS, though, pop star boys always wanna get with the dumb blondes who don't even know who NEU! are, not the girls who memorise the Z-Vex catalogue and want to talk about synth arrangements on La Dusseldorf records. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:19 (eighteen years ago)

I know, it's just a Moroccan Roll, but I like it, like it, yes I do.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:25 (eighteen years ago)

What is a Box Of Rock? What doth it do?

― Dr.C, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:27 (eighteen years ago)

It brings THE ROCK. Massive stylee. Like it says on the tin.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:33 (eighteen years ago)

(basically, boost and distortion, kind of like the Marshall Boo Up! Up! footswitch in a box)

http://www.zvex.com/boxofrock.html

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:34 (eighteen years ago)

One minute HIIIIIIIIIGH the next minute LOOOOOOOOOOW nobody knows where we are, nobody knows where we are...

OK, time to put the Kaleidescope on the headphones and get some work done.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:38 (eighteen years ago)

Interesting - it sounds like it would do a good job for solos, for which I mostly use Bad Monkey + BD2 i.e tons of tube overdrive. It's probably better + more focused though

― Dr.C, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:39 (eighteen years ago)

Well, I tend to use two different pedals for the job - I have an overdrive for light distortion and mainly boost, and then the Big Muff for the wasp-in-a-jam-jar gnarly fuzz sound. So this pedal combines both, and the switches are quite close together - Roger was clicking them both at the same time with one stomp. Which would be quite useful, for when you want to slam into solos. Except I would be an idiot and hit them both at the same time, even when I just add them one at a time - which I tend to do more frequently for things like Neufriend and Just Like Friends, which build more than solo. Coz I'm always doing that by mistake with the tremolo - the on/off and mono/stereo clickers are too close together. I have to be careful about what shoes I wear when I play!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

I might buy a Big Muff tomorrow, we'll see. I've been thinking of picking one up for a while.

Yes pedal stomping needs thought. I tend to do a fair bit of that in ANM as sole geetarist. I like having several stages of gain, with individual pedals for each. Generally either the Bad Monkey or the BD2 is on all the time (light overdrive or crunch, depending on song) and then I kick on the other one for solos. But usually I use delay for solos which means hitting the delay and one of the other two at the same time - tricky. Sometimes I stick a third OD in the chain - a Boss OS2, which is useful for ultra-fizzy stuff and feedback.

― Dr.C, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:00 (eighteen years ago)

It depends if I'm singing at the time or not - singing, playing guitar *and* hitting pedals is like playing three instruments at once! I get sloppy on the last if I'm doing the first. I mean, when we had three singers, it was OK for me to drop out, but now it's really noticable if I don't do the harmonies. It's better with the more pointed chelsea boots than with the big, wide flat ones - even though those ones have a better weight for clicking the Electroharmonix knobs.

MNSSC is always wearing great shoes, though. This is important in a showgazer.

::slaps self::

snap out of it, girl!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:05 (eighteen years ago)

What's a showgazer? Good god, my brain has been eaten. SHOEGAZER with great shoes.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:05 (eighteen years ago)

I have managed to make some cheese on toast but now I need a wee. Do I hold out uncomfortably or risk cold toast? Quick now!

― emil.y, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

Eat first then wee.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

Okay, done. I was contemplating 'doing a Hari', but the build-up wasn't there.

― emil.y, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

I think you need to be drunker to "do a Hari".

Now I am feeling horribly guilty about crushgushing all over this thread. It's fine to have a crush, but not OK to talk about it all over the interweb. That is vaguely creepy and I know I should not be doing it. :-(

It's hard enough for me to recconcile the idea that my having a crush no matter how innocent on someone is not some awful punnishment that I am inflicting on them without turning into LJ in the process.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

Bored now. More coffee?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

If it's any consolation, Kate, I've never met a girl (outside of ILX0rs) who's heard of Neu! apart from my wife. So it's not surprising that DDBs would ignore such ignorance, because they wouldn't get very far in life otherwise.

Yes, it's that time again when I get tipsy at lunchtime and can't do any work so I hover around Watercooler threads to pass the time! Mmm, Fridays.

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

Look, most *people*, have not heard of Neu! - fuck, no one in my office, male or female, has heard of them. But you know, if you're *in* a dronerock club, wouldn't you have thought that you might have heard of them? I mean, they played them on the sound system.

I don't know what I'm bitching about. Just insecurity, really.

And a certain kind of male (not that I'm saying that MNSSC is like this at all, I've just known too many men like this) just really gets off on... like, trying to *instruct* women in musical taste. It's almost like they get off on how ignorant the girl is, and they in their magnificent knowledge, will show them the light. And they get scared shitless if they meet a girl who knows as much as they do, because then there's not this power imbalance, and they can't lord it over the girl.

It's not just music. I get frustrated by men in general who like stupid girls because it makes them feel smarter.

Also, I am not a small, cute, blonde, cute as a button clubber girl and seeing such girls brings it back down to earth with a bump how ugly I am. :-( All the dronerock albums in the world won't change that.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

I've spent half my life being ignored by boys because I am not "hott". For once, it was nice that a boy actually did tear himself away from the hott girl to talk to me because he thought I was interesting/talented. This never actually happens.

Oh, depressio. I should go and eat something. But if I eat something now, what on earth will I do between the end of work and the Sonic Boom gig?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

Ack, sorry I didn't mean it like although I see now how it looks - I've never met a bloke who's heard of Neu! either outside of ILX0rs! I was putting myself into the position of DDB meeting girls... that's the only reason I mentioned a gender. Oops.

Anyway, I find musical taste a total turn on. Well, not a sexual turn on but a "ooh I'd like to find out more about you" turn on.

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

Anyway, I'm a big fat hypocrite because, well, really - do I crush on boys because of their amazing record collections, their taste in guitars, their fine filigree psychedelic guitar playing, their talent, their collections of antique and boutique pedals, their scintillating personalities etc. etc.?

No, I crush on them cause they are totally hott DDBs with pointy noses and good shoes.

So there you go.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

I really do crush on girls with musical knowledge. Prior to Mrs Poo the girl I never got over was the one who made me wicked mix-tapes with loads of post-rock and T-Rex and Gong. Although she was amazingly cute as well, which may have had something to do with it.

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

Are these crushes so crushy because they are great people that happen to be cute?

Or cute people that happen to be great?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

Ohmigod, WANT...

http://www.rocknrollvintage.com/prodimages/thumbs/hughes-kettner-tube-rotosphere-leslie-pedal%20s.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

In all honesty in this case it was the latter - but she decided she preferred girls to me :'(

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, if I could just snap my fingers and go gay, it would be so much easier. ;-) But it's not that simple. Boys are too cuet.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

And vice versa ;)

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

I am beginning to wonder if I am going to make it to Sonic Boom tonight. It's only 6pm and I'm dropping of exhaustion. Must! Stay! Awake! Must! Go! Out!

He never plays in London, if I miss this one, he won't play again for years, possibly.

More coffee required, I guess.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

Sonic Boom is playing tonight? Where? You know I might even be able to drag Mrs Poo out to see him. Unless it's going to be one of his Speak'n'Spell EAR gigs.

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

Some place called Proud in Camden near the Stables! I know, I only just found out about it recently. UFO Club.

here's that flyer again:

http://a164.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/15/l_d2b3817cbbf8608bcdf12f5fd148fb63.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

The Gin House, the Stables market, it claims.

http://www.atproud.net/

Mmmm, gin. If I start drinking again, will my energy come back?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

oh dear got taken to pub :/

― emsk, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

Pub is a bad thing?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

pub is a GOOD thing
v
v
good

also they have nice cider
and got to gossip with girlies
but now have to rowk... til 8 or 9...
er, WORK

― emsk, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

SEE?!?

― emsk, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

Working while drunk, ha ha fun. I am so bored I have been looking up things on Flickr. Vanity googling, really. Good lord, there's a lot of photos of Shimura Curves on Flickr. A lot more than MNSSC's band, which is kind of irritating, as I'd rather look at them, they are prettier than us*.

*Actually, not really. It had been such a long time since I'd been able to look at old lineups that I had forgotten how visually arresting we used to be.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

I should probably work some more. Might be nice to get *something* done today.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

OOH i just drank some kickass coffee and am suddenly all on track again

― emsk, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

Coffee makes everything better.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:50 (eighteen years ago)

yeah i'm making some more. NINGNINGNINGNINGNINGNINGNINGNINGNINGNINGNING

― emsk, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:52 (eighteen years ago)

Aw, I wish I had some of your coffee, ours kinda sucks. And is burning holes in my digestive system.

Pictures of crushboys make everything better, too.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:53 (eighteen years ago)

i bought my own coffee it is nicer

i need a new crushboy!

― emsk, Friday, 18 May 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

What, AGAIN?!?!?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

It's to build a new treehouse an' that!

― stet, Friday, 18 May 2007 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

Eh?

is it new thread time? Oh, I'll start a new one on Monday.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

We'll be back in an hour or two. This is just to roll out new code and features, with bug fixes.

― stet, Friday, 18 May 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

Oh!

Ah.

Mine uncle is in London apparently and I didn't even know. Will have to get together for a drink or 6.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

What, AGAIN?!?!?

yeah

i can't crush on noyfriend any more, he has noyfriended off (to explain to potential haterz, he did explain this at the very beginning and even told me which date which is why i'm not pissed off/miserable/whatever)

― emsk, Friday, 18 May 2007 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

Argh. Email or text if you want a drink and/or comisseration or just to go scouting for new crushboys or whatevs.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 18 May 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

nah it's cool! i mean, it's *actually* cool, i'm perfectly happy. i knew what was going on. i can deal with whatever, so long as i know what it is, i just can't deal with people fucking with my head, which he didn't even slightly.

― emsk, Friday, 18 May 2007 18:10 (eighteen years ago)

Fucking branson. Internets been down all day and its back but v v v sloooow. Cant get into gmail and everything takes 5 mins to load. I did a speedtest and its running at like 1% of what it should be.

Telewest was awesome until that bearded prick bought it over. Ruined the tv now the internet. I hate branson.

At least I got on in time to find out that ILX was going down and it wasn't my ISP. Unfortunately I wasn't in time to post it haha.

Everythings still slow. I guess it won't be fixed until tomorrow (if we're lucky) There's nothing on the status page, which used to be regularly updated before Virgin took over.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

That's odd, I haven't had any problems with Virgin at all (though I know Onimo has, perhaps I am just the lucky one). Our telly used to freeze up a few times with ntl, but (touch wood) it seems to have been fault-free over the last few months.

― ailsa, Saturday, 19 May 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

It freezes all the time here.
The internet has been down again since around 9am. It's just come back on.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 19 May 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

Where are you? I was planning on going back to them...

― Keith, Saturday, 19 May 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

The network is Uddingston.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 19 May 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

Ah OK... I'm not going to be connecting there. Cheers.

― Keith, Saturday, 19 May 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

Supposedly this was a national problem today(according to tech support on the phone), but obviously couldn't have been since Ailsa's connection was fine.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 19 May 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

Before you change to virgin, you should realise that they have brought in some form of capping(despite advertising there's no limits). If you download more than the allotment youre allowed between 4pm and midnight you get kicked onto slow speeds. If you are on the XL package(Â£38 per month) you are allowed 3gb then it's capped. (It's a lower amount for the other packages) But I have heard reports of a whole area being capped because people have went over the limit and those who haven't are still being capped. Have a look at the digitalspy forums.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 19 May 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitaltv/a46103/virgin-to-cut-heavy-downloaders-speeds.html

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 19 May 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=75

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 19 May 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/internet/traffic.html

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 19 May 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

Morning all, I have the killer death flu again.

― Ed, Monday, 21 May 2007 09:04 (eighteen years ago)

It is time:

UK Watercooler 27: I Want More (And More, And More, And More...)

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 21 May 2007 09:24 (eighteen years ago)

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