UK Watercooler 27: Let's Get Cool In Der Pool, Let's Get HOTT In Zee Dancing Spot!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/images/400/kennyeverett_1.jpg

I don't understand.

Maybe I just need some more coffee.

They took our actual watercooler away today - I just hope they don't take the coffeemachine or I will die!

I was listening to "Cool in the Pool" when I was a lad and my brother came in and said, "He sounds just like Kenny Everett" and totally 'harshed my buzz'... because he did sound like Kenny Everett. I've never been able to hear a Holger Czukay album in the same way since.

I guess I'm lucky since I don't actually know who Kenny Everett is. So my buzz cannot be harshed.

The similarity is uncanny

Flying to AMERRRRRRRRCA today!

Argh, flying, eeep, good luck, bon voyage and all that.

Are you ready to surrender your fingerprints at the border, g00bs?

Really? They doing that now for citizens?

My green card has my fingerprints on it!

Yet another reason not to go to The Wedding, besides my crippling fear of flying.

Not yet, just trying to scare people :)

Cheers!

I think they start fingerprinting for all non-US citizens beginning in 2009 (or that's when they want to).

Bloody hell, my boss's assistant is a MICRO-MANAGER. She just gave me the disk ten minutes ago, and came over to my desk wanting to know if I'd done it. I WILL GET BACK TO YOU WHEN I HAVE DONE IT. DO NOT BUG ME.

Tell her you're not in the office today.

Oh! I nearly forgot. I have agreed to go bike shopping with Emsk the weekend after I get paid.

They had a Tour De France themed bike festival on the Common on Saturday, with stunt bikers and French clowns on stilts. It was highly entertaining. I got a Tour De France souvenier pen.

Oh, and I found out I can get bike lessons through Lambeth Council. Hurrah!

French clowns on stilts. It was highly entertaining

Does. Not. Compute.

OK, I've just got asked what the heck I am using up SO MUCH BANDWIDTH OVER. For once, it's not the interweb, it's this stupid massive huge database I'm trying to download. Heh.

Better be careful, though.

French clowns on stilts. It was highly entertaining

Does. Not. Compute.

-- Tom D., Tuesday, 19 June 2007 10:21 (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Ha ha ha ha. Tr00.

It was actually hilarious!

OK, maybe i was just really hungover.

"De Subjectivisten" appears to be coming back to life, I wonder why?

Yeah, they don't fingerprint you for entry to the USA (yet).

They do for entry to Universal/Disney, though.

Please tell me you're joking about that Disney thing.

Database will not open. I wonder if I can ring back dude from sys admin since he winpopped me his direct line number.

Oh yay, a new thread to coincide with my birthday! If only I were 27 too.

So Sunn o))) were good then? Did they have any special guests on with them apart from Atilla (vocals)? The 2nd time I saw them they had Justin Broadrick with them on guitar.

I wonder if I can ring back dude from sys admin since he winpopped me his direct line number

i think you definitely shd, speshly with annoying micromanagers buzzing around.

Happy birthday, Archel!

That is exactly what I did. I should have it in 20 minutes.

Now I wonder if I can go back to him to ask him if he can extract dronerock bootlegs while he's at it, hah!

I should never forget how much I love Quasi. They're helping me pack.

i have no idea who was with them. it was dark. they were hooded.

Best review ever!

I have looked at the Tour De France flyer I got this weekend, and i feel chizzed coz they're not even going through our neighbourhood! bah!

You never can see the faces because of the smoke machine. I'll have a look on the SL board. Some guy was moaning about lots of nigel hipsters being in the crowd now since they got in the wire, pfm etc.

couple of people posted about it here http://forums.southernlord.com/viewtopic.php?t=22633

I'm clearly a hipster kid who's not cool enough for the SL site.

You're not a bearded doom metaller. Right age at least though.

You know, I could try as hard as I like, but my beard never gets more than 2 hairs. :-(

Bloody Sys Admin said this DB would be unwrapped in 20 minutes, 2 hours ago. Still waiting...

happy birthday archel!!!!

Anyone here have a beard?

oh yeah Happy Birthday Archel!

Kate I think you will like the Kinski and La Otracina albums.

Ed has a beard. TISSP! has a beard! Lots of people here have beards.

It's just rather anatomically impossible for me to grow a beard. I know that most people rather forget I'm a girl, but uh... I'd have to take hormone supplements to get one!

sorry, I can't d/l anything, the sys admins are on to me and watching my d/l today.

Ed's beard is esp. splendid

Mr Archel has a lovely beard.

Also I just saw one of my colleagues for the first time in six months and his beard has become positively Darwinesque in the interim, it's fantastic.

I used to be anti-beard but now I am definitely pro. Possibly because I'm getting OLD.

Anyone here have a beard?

as in facial hair or what? :-)

...and now it's time for the post-lunch slump. :-(

Sudden burst of loneliness this morning, which went away when I got to work and got on the interweb, but now that's worn off and it's back. I suppose I'm just so un-used to having anyone around my flat. That it was really really great to have all these people round and lots of socialising and fun. and now it's kind of heightened the sense of loneliness that I feel all the time in everyday life.

I know it's sooo tedious to go "ooh, I'm so lonely" all the time and even more pathetic than *being* lonely so I've been trying not to do it. But it's getting to me at the moment. :-(

Yes, work has been slow around here for a while, which means I exhaust the internet quickly and start to think, "christ what else is there." idle hands make the devil's work.

I thought you liked living on your own. I suppose it's nice to have visitors but I bet you're glad they all go home and aren't there all the time.

It's like the post-party blues. (Reason to get drunk - so you're too hungover to get depressed afterward.)

I've been spending a *lot* of time around couples recently.

And though they're nice couples, and I'm happy for them, and totally "awwww" about them, it does heighten my own sense of lonelines.

Kate check out the pics of Boris

Sod it
ILX needs boris pics

http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/2954/img3269ys2.jpg
http://img369.imageshack.us/img369/7006/img3318fh8.jpg
http://img369.imageshack.us/img369/7202/img3321ud3.jpg

http://img369.imageshack.us/img369/8620/img3356ms5.jpg
http://img369.imageshack.us/img369/2569/img3370pn5.jpg

K-Rock Kookie winging its way to youse all

That gong is terribly amusing.

I can remember the first time I heard of Boris - went round Frances' house and she was interviewing them (not in person, obviously) and she was all "can't talk now, interviewing Boris!" but I thought she said "Forest" and she was all "got any questions?" so I said "Ask them what their favourite kind of tree is!"

I think she asked them, too. Cannot recall what their reply was, though.

Nebula have a gong too. They set it on fire at the end of their set.

Gongs, who mentioned gongs?

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-359415-1102780739.jpg

I remember standing in close proximity to the Flaming Lips' gong at [insert name of festival what I've forgotten here], and getting very sore ears.

We had a sound festival in Seaford recently with GONG BATHS, it was great.

Oh, it was T in teh Park.

I thought that was going to be a pic of

http://www.disco-robertwyatt.com/images/with_friends/images/WorldOfGong_big.jpg

http://www.planetgong.co.uk/images/Gong_classique/73_hillage_close-up.jpg

Going all the way back to the beginning of this thread, I must say that I can't dislike Kenny Everett, for I discovered many of my favourite songs through this album:

http://i21.ebayimg.com/05/i/000/a3/f7/a8aa_1.JPG

I never said I disliked Kenny Everett! That album is a classic!

I liked Kenny Everett. Even if he was a tory cunt.

ooh i was at that t in the park flips gig arch

Really? I was cold and grumpy but it was pretty good iirc.

yeh it was a wet festival i think
it was a GREAT show
was the first time i ever saw them. i remember walking out of the tent giggling and in tears at the end

Hurrah, We just hit 1000 friends on MySpazz. I don't have a clue who most of them are, they just seem to be musicians that are collecting friends. What is the point, I ask you?

Do you ever see a thread on ILM, have *no* idea what it's supposed to be about from the title, then open it, and have even *less* idea what on earth they're driving at?

(obv this applies only to people who read ILM)

all the time

is there another meta thread going on?

This is why I prefer ILM polls to normal threads right now -- ILM polls are far less annoying than ILE polls coz you'll have Best Single by Duran Duran or somesuch that anyone can contribute to -- in other words, ILM polls are abt the same bands that ILM C or Ds were about in 2001!

yeah the polls are pretty much C or D but with an end result and lurkers are contributing in a little way at least. They're never gonna post but at least their opinions are being heard via a vote.

WTF:

Gentrification, "Coffee Table", the 90s, Broadsheets, False Consensus and "The New Punk Rock"

What on earth is that thread about? Or is it just another bunch of wanna-be music crits slagging off the "established music press"?

It's a spin off from the mercury music prize where a discussion started on "coffee table music"

MMP thread that should say

Kerr, if "the lurkers" never post on poll thread, how do you know it's them clicking the button to cast a vote?

Kate, it's about some shite on the Mercury Music Prize thread about whether M People are crap or not because lots of stupid people who drive Ford Mondeos like them.

xpost

OK, so self referential that no one else on earth is going to get it.

Does the MMP still happen? Is it in any way, shape or form relevant in any way?

Er, so self-referentially obscure that it mentions the origin of the thread idea in the opening post. And gentrification of music, perceptions of what sort of people like what kind of music, the concept of "coffee table music" etc are hardly so obscure as to render the thread unapproachable to the kind of people who give one flying one about it.

yes, MMP still happens. I'm one of those people who don't give one flying one, so don't ask me re relevance. Why don't you start a thread on ILM about it :-)

I suppose that lurkers wouldn't bother signing up but there are people who have posted the odd time but lurk mostly and I think they will be voting.

I bet the Lighthouse Family are mentioned on that thread.

M People are one of the groups I hate most in the world (along with OCS) and i'll happily let everyone know of my hatred for both at any given opportunity. :)

MMP still exists and is as shit as ever. Not interested in these awards that have political reasons for award "its time for a rock/pop/dance blah blah turn"." this type of band won it last time so it cant happen this year" Either it's the best album of the year or not. And usually it's not the best album that wins it.

It is now GG :)

Seriously, this DB is so large as to be effectively unusable. :-(

I started a query about 10 minutes ago and it's not even displayed the first page of results. 531,384 records.

Oh hang on, it's done something.

M People make me want to check out Quando Quango and T Coy to see if they are any good or not, much as I want to check out the Mothmen coz the idea of ppl being in both Durutti Column and Simply Red is so intriguing.

TBH I quite like the original unremixed versh of How Can I Love You More; it's what M People became subsequently that I object to. "Search for the hero inside yrself" is one of the worst lyrics anywhere ever, incidentally.

Add the fields to the key, then it won't have to look at the main data for your results.

Anyway, someone say: Are there loads of polls knocking around? I switched them off on my preferences, and would like to venture back...

Mothmen! Yay!

"DOES IT MATTER IRENE?????!!!!!"

Imagine Syd Barrett umm, that's it really.

At least that song now reminds me of the father ted sheep competition episode.
x-posts

Bernard Manning, *Ian Brady, M People... Manchester's finest!

(*yes, I know he's from Glasgow)

And hello hello. So glad to hear those intros of mine went over a treat, rah!

Manchester so much to answer for.

the intros were great, Ned!!!

I just went with the bandlisting, the brief self(?)-descriptions and my own vision of the universe. And is now well known, I do not play Half-Life 2.

Descriptions were all written by the band except Ken C, who didn't get his in on time. Quelle surprise.

"The chances of anything coming from Ken..."

It was quite funny having to explain to Asia not only who Jeff Wayne was but also who Richard Burton was!

(if the Lex had been there I could have told him too)

Do you ever see a thread on ILME, have *no* idea what it's supposed to be about from the title, then open it, and have even *less* idea what on earth they're driving at?

-- Masonic Boom,

the Broons are a Scottish cartoon family iirc. Expect a thread abt Oor Wullie shortly.

It's a sair fecht

Oh, I give up, I just don't understand anything around here any more.

:-(

Wee Eck.

Oh, and the last time we talked the Mothmen was: Your favourite Absurd Records release

Any Soapy Soutar lookalikes around here?

My cousin Wendy.

Oh dear

Did the lighthouse family ever get nominated? my god they were shit.

wait until you hear the indie band featuring one of the lighthouse family : Orange Lights

The Orange Lights feature vocalist Jason Hart (formerly lead guitarist with Spiritualized) and keyboard player Paul Tucker (songwriter, one-half of The Lighthouse Family). The Single and the album was produced by Ken Nelson (all three Coldplay albums), Chris Potter (The Verve's "Urban Hymns").

so dreary it has to be heard to be believed.

-- mark e, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 15:16 (28 minutes ago)

So, not even

Like that thread wasn't bad enough the first time round, do you really have to quote it over here?

Hang on, what's the point of starting the thread then carrying on all the discussion here instead?

xpost - or indeed, importing quotes from other threads in here?

OK, OK, I'll switch "Polls" back on. Seems only fair.

Wait, ANOTHER bad band with ex-members of Spiritualized? They should all go on a tour called "We All Fuckin' Suck."

"Ladies and Gentlemen, we are floating in Myspace"

Considering about 500 people have at one point been in SPZ*, it's not hard for most of them to suck.

*And most of the ones that claim on the connection are session players who were around for only late stuff anyway.

LOLpine Howl

LOL, AIM message takes a while to reach me:

pfunkboy1973: [Offline IM sent 13d and 21h ago] back

you haven't been on for about 13 days? sounds about right.

<img src="http://www.chroniclebooks.com/site/catalog/images/items/0735820/073582035X/073582035X_norm.jpg";>

http://www.chroniclebooks.com/site/catalog/images/items/0735820/073582035X/073582035X_norm.jpg

I can't even do a freaking post right at hte moment. :-(

Hello.

*goes back to sleep, cos he feels knackered*

I was trying to find you a 'cheer up' lolcat... but teh internetz eated it.

xpost

I am so stupid I actually managed to lock myself out of the system.

It made me change my password this morning, and I could not for the life of me remember what I changed it to.

Some mornings I am surprised I remember how to breathe. :-(

I spent ten minutes trying to work out what I had changed my password to yesterday morning, you are not alone.

Yeah, but you were ruined. I have no excuse.

So, it looks like we are doing Ghost School next week.

What have I signed myself up for? two gigs in two days?

The Sunn o))) line up was

SOMA - Guitar
Greg - Bass
Steven Stapleton - Guitar/noise
Daniel O'Sullivan - Rhodes/Moog
Attila - Vocals

The people on the SL board who were there said it was the best they had ever seen them.

Oh, just make me feel worse about missing it, why don't you. :-(

Steven Stapleton as in Steven Stapleton?

Aye.

sorry kate.

Morning. How is everyone else today?

I sat up and watched the rest of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and drew posters.

Finns have stolen my voice.

Depp or Wilder?

Bad Finns! Tuomas, make them give it back!

x-post Depp, of course.

Tim Burton is just a big old goff and I'm ashamed to admit how much I love his movies.

Feel strongly that I. Should. Not. Be. At. Work. today. Bleugh.

Do we not always feel that way Archel? :-) I 'm hellatired. Pregnancy sucks the energy outa ya.

I'm going to make prawn curry. YUM YUM

I feel that rather strongly, too, Archel. But I have no reason to feel like that.

At least there is shoegazing tonight.

Does anyone want to go to a psychedelic music festival with me? Late August. No idea where it is. All the usual bands that celebrate themselves are playing.

It's one thing to go to a club in Hoxton by yourself, quite another to go to a farm in the middle of an unspecified secret location. :-(

Kate, I'll join you in mind. I wish I could join you *physically* as well. But alas no. :-(

It looks really good!

The Dream Machine

Date : Fri 24th - Mon 27th August 2007
Location : It's a secret.

Line-Up

The Early Years
Lab Partners
The Cush
Outrageous Cherry
yndi halda
The Asteroid #4
Je Suis Animal
Sunsplit
White Russians
First Communion Afterparty
Gilbert
Kontakte
Labrats

( plus a few more surprises )

It's gonna suck if I can't go. What are the chances I can learn to drive lefthand by August?

i MUST be getting old, never heard of any of these bands. :-(

I know you've heard of The Early Years because I go on about them ALL THE TIME!!!

Hold on, I think I have heard OF Outrageous Cherry.And The Early Years. It's coming back! (Brain and memory.)

And The Asteroid #4!!! I always used to put them on comps because they have a song called "Kate And The King" which is one of the few songs whiuch has my name in it that doesn't suck.

ooh i have 1xtrack from yndi halda on a label comp it is ace

I know I have heard of Yndi Halda but not sure if I have heard them, but I have heard good things about them.

The festival is run by the Man With The Massive Beard who does the crazy lights for Teh Early Years. Every time Frances sees him, she wants to run up to him and run her fingers through his beard. It's quite impressive.

Burton's Charlie And The Chocolate Factory has one of my favourite visual gags in it - the "Flags Of The World" bit.

Plus, it has Mark Heap and Kevin Eldon in it!

(having said that, the 1970s version has a Tim Brooke-Taylor cameo)

I just took the first of 2 second year electrician's exams - pass with credit. Cheers, cheers etc.

rats, I think that weekend I am in chicago.

Also Wilder PWNS depp. 'We are the music makes, we are the dreamers of dreams'

Hurrah for Pashmina! Hip hip HOORAY!

you are so wrong, Wilder is not as good as Depp. Depp is just... CREEPY on a Michael Jackson scale which is perfect. Much better than sitting around with bad hair quoting Shakespeare.

Hurrah Pash!

It was reported that Depp did use Jackson as inspiration for his performance. But, does he have an office full of things cut in half? I think not!

The Asteroid #4 were really great at Sonic Cathedral the other week. Out of the other bands I only know Outrageous Cherry, and I can't remember what I thought of them. I think I like them.

Well done Pash!

Man, I had to miss that SC show because of my wrist. :-(

And I've just been told by my boss that there have been "complaints" made about my attendance, that I'm not working my full 40 hours. Uh, NO. I have not been working full 40 hour weeks the past month because I have had A MASSIVE PAINFUL CAST ON MY WRIST!!! Did you maybe not notice that? I could have been signed off work for weeks by my doctor, but I came in because no one else could do monthend. And now people are complaining that I didn't work my full hours?

Fuck RIGHT off.

Bosses.... Then again, I would have appreciated that our employee called yesterday saying everything was alright with the baby instead of walking into the shop with a big grin as if nothing happened. A bit rude and thoughtless, did she not realize how worried we were? Guess not.

Pash, congrats!

No, it wasn't my boss who said these things, she was just repeating what was said to HR. By some mysterious persons. In fact, I think I know who it was that said it. Cow.

Well I hope HR/your boss told said cow that her complaint wasn't legitimate.

I wonder if I should just start looking for another job. I'm bored out of my mind here. Totally lost focus and sense of purpose. The reason I stay is becuase I like the people I work with and don't get hassled about petty stuff, but if that's going to change, maybe i should find something else.

I mean, I didn't come in until 11 today. Not because I wasn't awake, but because I lacked the energy or the reason to get out of bed. I don't know if that's depression, or just total lack of engagement with work or what. :-(

Just make sure you have ILX access! :-D

It would probably be better for my work focus if I didn't. :-(

On a lighter note, I'm really enjoying hte Thomas Dinger album.

Work ethic be damned! :-)

I kind of want a new job too since I'm theoretically able to command a professional librarian's salary now. But my current employer has been really flexible about letting me specify my hours and when I work them, which I doubt I'd get so easily in a new place...

yeah, the flexitime thing is a big bonus for me. But now there are all kinds of noises about wanting to regularise it...

Can I say "f*ckers" here?

Be passive-aggressive about it - get the doctor to sign you off for the rest of the recovery period and let them deal without you.

The recovery period is now over, so it's pointless.

It's not my boss, it's the jobsworthies in HR.

I should just start looking for a new job. I hate my life so much right now, this might be a hasty decision, though.

Start looking now so that you won't have to wait around when you're REALLY ready to go.

mitya's right. look now. if you come across a good job, then take it.

I fear it's not my job that I hate, but my life. If I leap into a new job without sorting out the rest of my life first, then I'll be in a worse position.

What would you like to change? I of course mean the things that are within your reach (?) to change.

I'd like to stop hating myself so much, I'd like to stop being so hard on myself. I'd like to be happier with who I am, and stop comparing myself so much to people I see and things I wish I had.

OK, I also wish I were about 4 stone lighter and not so hideously ugly, but I'm too lazy and depressed to do anything about that at the moment.

You should realize there are tons of people who are envious of your talents (and your stooges t-shirt).:-) I know that will only make you go:"But I am ugly and fat! blabla". Well, you're not. Stop being so hard on yourself! :-) *sending you some good hippie vibes*

what nath said.

Sorry, it isn't working. I'm incapable of seeing myself through someone else's eyes. :-(

I have *got* to do something about the weight, though. I've been all "I don't care" for ages. And besides, food is one of the few sensual pleasures I actualy have left, of course I overindulge in it. But I have been seeing photos of myself - especially ones from Paris. ANd it's not the usual "ugh, I'm so ugly" but "OMIGOD, I AM REPULSIVE, I CANNOT BEAR TO LOOK!"

I wish I were capable of feeling love from other people. I just don't seem able to do it. It's like i'm missing some kind of sense.

I'm sorry this is all going so navel-gazing. You did ask, Nath.

Now I will shut up and commence naval-gazing.

Oh argh in web cafe and man next to me has zero concept of personal space. Yes, you to my left with your mouse and BOTH hands on it, please move the fuck over. And yes I do hope you see this over my shoulder, oxygen thief.

Kate, HR types drive me teh mad, they are empty inside. Do not let them ruin what is actually a pretty nice life.

xpost Kate, you're not navel gazing. (Typed naval gazing first. Wouldn'tr that be coolio to do today?)
I do understand you, but... I choose to ignore those emotions. I used to be like you but now I see how relative it all is. You *can* look through someone else's eyes. If not, then realize that your standards are probably much too high: most of us are *average*. You gotta focus on the positive. I'm rambling. Which is close to rumbling which is what my belly is doing (stomach and belly). ;-)

And just realize: if you think the other has it better, that's not always the case. That I know for a fact.

Naval gazing:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/totheendsoftheearth/images/photogallery/340x255/anderson.jpg

PHWOAR!

Afternoon all.

Speaking from personal experience, k8, you have a good point about sorting out life v. work - i suspect i'd've made different work choices if i'm been happier personally. at the same time, though, to the extent that you include your work in your idea of your self, the change may be helpful (although i'm guessing this is less true for you than me)

Also (cliche cliche cliche) I personally am always less morose when I've had some exercise, so the "four stone" and "lazy" may be a vicious circle.

Please note you can't be too horrible otherwise we wouldn't all hang out on your threads.

To divert discussion from navel-gazing for a moment, where should I go to see Tegan and Sara in August:
- Um, Nottingham (Social)
- Brighton (Komedia)
- Copenhagen (Vega)
- Berlin (Tacheles)

Yndi Halda? Great band. Anyway, carry on.

Ugh, I've wasted over an hour chasing down a weird field which behaves like a datetime, but is actually a date field. Can't figure it out. I hate this system.

I *have* to be hyper-critical/hyper-proud of my accomplishments. They're all I've got. I don't get to have other things like normal human relationships.

Just realising that trying to explain my family and why we are the way we are to my sister in law has brought up a lot of crap. It explains why I am the way I am, but it makes me unhappy and bitter when I think about it. Which is why I generally *don't* think about it. Stirring shit up is a bad idea.

Also, I'm realising more and more that although crushes make me super-happy in the short term, in the long run, they are horribly bad for me. It's like crack, I need more and more to get the same result. And when it comes crashing down to reality, like it always does, I am left feeling even more alone and unlovable than before.

But really, how can anyone else ever love you, when you hate yourself as much as I do? It's a vicious circle, with no way out.

smalldatetime fields are crap.

Now I wish I hadn't bought an advance ticket for tonight, because now I feel so shit I don't want to go anywhere but home, to bed. and yet it was way too much money to just write off. :-(

And I'll go on my own and feel like a plank, and be weird if no one talks to me, and be even weirder if anyone does talk to me, and just feel shit.

Why do I have to go on feeling like this, again and again? It's so unpleasant.

Oh, this is fucking shite.

I have been trying to find out how to go to this festival. Dude who runs it is ignoring my emails. Now I look up on his space, and there's this message going "it's a private party, only for friends of friends, like a six degrees of separation type thing".

OK, I guess I'm not cool enough to go to your party, then. What, am I supposed to list, like, six people we know in common? What a fucking load of toss. I'm very tempted to write him back and say so. And then unfriend the fucker.

So much for the fucking scene that celebrates itself.

Six degrees of separation is basically a fancy-assed way of saying "a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend [or closer]".

Private party = not letting the plebs in. He might not be ignoring you so much as not actually be checking his emails right now. If you know people in/around any of these bands (you know TEY, right?), email them and ask if they can put in a word for you to get an invite.

Also, chin up. Go home, look at your paisley walls, put on some cheery music. Stop over-thinking stuff right now.

Thing about MySpace is, it tells you when people read your emails.

I know what six degrees of separation is. I am friends with a LOT of people in that scene. I think it's just pathetic that i would have to go "hey, I know Nat and Claire and Roger and Dave and Joel and Ian" to get in. I mean, the whole thing about MySpace is that they can just LOOK at your page, and see who's on your friends list, or see who's left you comments and see AT A GLANCE if you know anyone in common.

Fuck this elitist shit. If I'm just not cool enough for their festival, well, fuck the load of it. It's not like I am actually going to be able to go in the end anyway. And if it's going to be a bunch of people sitting around being snobby because they all know each other, it doesn't sound like a whole lot of fun anyway.

Oh well, I tried :-/

thursday, watercooler back to the top of the queue

hey everyone

no festival is gonna top ILXfest anyway

RIGHT!?

Kate, to quote a terrible song (hah!) "you do it to yourself." Stop worrying so much! Noone is gonna will all of the battles in life. I know from experience. So you just have to ignore the crap and focus on the good.

Another day, another chance to be happy. :-)

Six degrees of sep?

Man, that's everyone in the world!

I was at one point, four degrees of sep from George Harrison! It didn't mean I got to be on the Trav Wilbury's album tho.

i wore the same bunnysuit as justin timberlake but i am not britney spears

Morning there. A database I thought was dead and buried has returned from the grave to haunt my working hours.

If you want to whinge about date and/or time fields: well, you know I've whinged before about the 'database' our accounting system uses, and its ODBC SQL interface. Said SQL interface has *no way* of converting a literal string into a date/time field. So there's no way of doing queries like "SELECT * FROM orders WHERE order_date > '2007-01-01'" - it will just fail and tell you it can't convert a string to a date. Wonderful.

Damnit:

Still not free of finns
I poured brandy in my laptop
the RDC server is dumping me out every 19 minutes

Morning. I'm in a slightly better mood this morning (couldn't get much worse) but now I'm slightly ruined. No more drinking on week nights. I can't hack it.

Sonic Cathedrals was strange. Luckily I ran into someone I knew (D, friend of a friend, 2 degrees of separation) and we bagged the good bench behind the soundboard. We assembled a gang of girls who had gone on their own, so it was good. Met a couple of people. Man With The Amazing Beard was doing lights, so I said hello and you don't know me but I know people you know and asked him about the festival. D also wants to go, so I suggested we get a car.

I was tired and hot and somewhat bad-tempered, so I didn't really have that great of a time to start with. Flowers of Hell were great of course, but the French Band really wound me up. The Clientele were lovely, just what I needed at the time - but these horrible hipsters kept TALKING TALKING TALKING all the way through. And someone smashed a bench into my calf. Ouch.

Dean and Britta went on and made everything better, though. Oh, the tremoloes. And Sonic Boom came out and played Omnichord with them. (Sort of a fucked up electronic autoharp.) Turned out one of the random girls played autoharp as a kid! Big Bloke told hipsters to SHUT THE FUCK UP and they went quiet and moved off. Hurrah.

We were all (about 3 or 4 girls) trying to balance on these 2 long, thin benches like planks. The bench starts wobbling like crazy and we all nearly fall off, and look back and see Sonic Boom balancing next to me on the end, gleefully and I'm all "don't upset the plank!" and he's all "ha ha! I love upsetting planks!" and hops across several of them like a lanky pirate to talk to the sound man, nearly scattering all us girls in the process. Quite bizarre encounter. I ended up in a bizarre conversation with him about autoharps by the end of the evening.

The end.

And Sonic Boom came out and played Omnichord with them. (Sort of a fucked up electronic autoharp.)

Always wanted one of those, yer average autoharp is too quiet to be much use.

Yeah, he told me autoharps are much better than omnichords, but I was like "you can't play one live unless you stick a pickup in it!" But he said he just used them for recording.

They are great, you don't need to learn chord shapes or any of that stuff, just push buttons

No, I love the omnichord to bits (c.f. Pram).

(The no bit was to autoharps being better, sorry.)

we must have duel, kate on the autoharp vs Emily on the omnichord, this could be a concept album, St Claire vs Kawasaki.

That would be awesome.

I asked the girl from NYC if she fancied playing autoharp for us some time, too. Though she belongs to a dance troupe which is always off doing ballets out of town, so who knows if we could schedule it.

The new version of "Reason" apparently includes a sound bank programmed by Sonic Boom.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Must. Buy. Reason. For the first time ever.

So, uh, Yndi Halda are playing Sat 23rd - Notting Hill Arts Club, London. I really really really hope thats an afternoon show so I can get back to South London in time for Long Swords.

Hahaha, duel would be GRATE, though I fear Kate would win through superior playing skills. To be even-handed about this, I think my love for Omnichords is influenced more by associations and subsequent fetishisation than any thought-out comparison with the autoharp.... but I *love* them.

You're assuming that I have the slightest clue how to PLAY an autoharp, Emil.y!

You press buttons and strum. It's harder than it looks. I think you will win coz an Omnichord is LOUDER.

http://www.propellerheads.se/products/reason4/index.cfm?fuseaction=get_article&article=more

(scroll down to "Signature patches")

the new sequencer looks awesome, I think I'll take the plunge myself when it comes out.

I COULD HAVE THE SONIC BOOM WUB NOISE COMING OUT OF MY SHINY SILVER BOX!!!

How awesome would that be?

OK, my piece of shit non-updated Mac would probably refuse to run the new Reason. ARgh.

I'd be interested in hearing the Plaid patch... and Morgan Geist, because I've forgotten who Morgan Geist is and it's really annoying me.

The Richard Barbieri set is the one that's piqued my interest. The new synthesiser does look pretty great, too.

Ha ha ha, I asked Nat about a song he played at SC last night, going "that's GREAT, I need to get it! what is it?" only to realise when he told me what it was, that I do already own it. I think.

My CD collection is out of hand.

Morgan Geist - Plaid - Sonic Boom - Two Lone Swordsmen

Noooo, don't make me want Reason! I can't get on with the interface, it seems to work better for people who are more used to hardware than software. Does it load VSTs yet?

I saw an omnichord in a shop once and didn't buy it because it was a bit more than I thought it should be, though I haven't seen another since so I guess it was a good deal. I've been regretting it ever since. Though actually I hardly use the gear I do have (I realise now the rightful owner of some of it has started to talk about getting it back) so I guess it would just be another layer of clutter...

xpost I do that too, except I'm terrible at titles, so I still wouldn't know until I got home and looked it up, and then I'd only have the faintest nagging feeling that I'd bought an album which looked a bit like that. I have some dreams of selling the CDs I don't want so it's easier to find the CDs I do want, except I don't think it would work, and apparently The Kids do not buy CDs any more.

(vinyl is just a dead loss now the only flat surface for my router is on top of the record deck lid)

I don't entirely know what a VST is!

But yeah, it's really user friendly for people who are used to working with actual physical equipment, which is why I (and so many musos) love it so much. Especially that you can tab and see round the back of all the "units".

When I alphabetised my CD collection I was embarrassed to find I actually had doubles of some albums that I had forgot I bought and then bought again.

Aww Kate that's great. I was cursing my timing when i heard that Dean and Britta were playing - i missed them by a couple of days. Does SB still look about 25? He did when i saw him last year with my doomed office crush.

Hey folks. I'm just going down the town. Big rainclouds forming though. I know 5 mins down the road and it will start pissing down.

SB has cut his hair, which has aged him slightly. He now looks about 28.

Just the look of sheer *glee* on his face as he tried to pitch us off our blank.

OH NOES SONIC BOOM MADE ME WALK THE PLANK!!!

Hey, Kerr! Take an umbrella!

blank = plank, clearly. Arrrrrr.

He tried pitch us off our blank

That sounds like some kind of weird slang expression

Say it in Terry Wogan's voice then get a c-lister to give you some comedy answers.

Does SB still look about 25?

YES, last autumn I saw SB + Piano Magic at a festival and thought "huh, he looks younger than Piano Magic... wait, he looks younger than most of the bands on the bill".

I also found a nice cosy spot at the back to sit down (this was after, oh, 6 hours of mostly standing?) and zone out under an overhanging piece of decor, got many looks like I was clearly out of my head, and had someone say hi to me that I babbled incoherently back at and later realised he was an ILMer. Heh.

Clister? 70s German band? (xp)

Does SB still look about 25?

Heroin is good for you!

(xp, that YES was out of gladness that someone else remarked on this and not because I think "last autumn" is more recent than Kate's "last night". Er.)

Although I fear I may have my leg bitten off or something for saying this, he may look 25, but he looks like a 25 year old who has spent the last 20 years on skag. This surely is not a good look?

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/17336.jpg

(sorry if the title of that album cover are illegible, it's supposed to be "Skag Heaven".)

He was playing with magnetaphone and king creosote when i saw him, must have been late april last year - i failed to recognise him at first because i assumed the guy on stage was much too young looking to be him. He was also the first person i saw flout the smoking ban - he sparked up and a guy from venue quickly went over and asked him to put it out.

That Sonic Boom, he's a rebel and he'll never never be any good.

He has been looking remarkably healthy in the past year or so.

Smoking's good for you!

This day is completely utterly fucked. Hey tears.

Oh no, Nath, what's the matter? What's happened?

What's happened, nath??

I actually found that squirrelbait record in a second hand shop, i didn't buy it though.

Allee Waltzer by Thomas Dinger = best use of Rockenspiel, ever.

Hope yr OK, Nath, sending good vibes yr way. You know we love you here.

I don't want to sit crying behind my comp (even tho I do). At least noone sees me crying. Wee.
Hey didn't I say this day good be GREBT? Well, not mine!

Shit, why did I put foundation on today? WASTED money.

Lonley teardrops. My pillow's never dry.

hahaha Shit, I gotta think of happy go lucky tunes.

I'm gonna so regret having all this posted, right? RITE?

I wonder if they are looking at me wondering "wimpy bitch, crying at your desk".

Maybe I cn say it's just contractions and I'm crying for that?

Hmm, maybe not.

Hey look birdie.

Sorry, I was getting lunch. What's the matter? I always hate crying at my desk. I have to go and lock myself in the loo. Sometimes just having a big weep makes me feel less shite, but I hate other people seeing me doing it.

I suppose it's different in an office than in a shop.

Well, yeah. For one thing I can't control my tears as easily. Especially if a friend called and had a talk. My voice is way too loud. Everyone knows.

Hey look a BIG PINK ELEPHANT.

http://www.phsc.ca/Alf/pink-elephant.jpg

Can I cheer you up with a LOLephant?

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/tirez.jpg

How about little baby LOLephants?

http://www.thelollies.co.uk/images/elephants2.gif

I have never cried at my desk, is it commonplace?

I think it's a girl thing.

Shit, no, Tom. It's just... well, wrong isn't the word. It's just extremely uncomfortable for everyone involved. But heck, I'm pregnant, a woman (duh!),... And I can do the exception to the rule cause it's a freaking appropriate thing to do in the circumstances.

Still uncomfortable though. I hate doing it.

Kate, I had a good roffle at that!

I have just learned to be totally unapologetic about crying fits at my desk. I excuse myself and go to the loo until it's over. No use upsetting anyone else, or facing the questions of my colleagues.

I mean, in my case, it's one of the symptoms of depression, uncontrollable crying jags. But it's also a hormonal thing, at certain times of the month, or especially when pregnant, I would cry if I dropped a fork.

Argh, these are the questions I am *supposed* to ask, as part of my job!

Do you really want to monitor these two independent criteria as subsets as each other (in which case, you'll be coming back to ask me for totals, I just know it) or do you want them monitored independently?

NO ONE BUYS SUB-PRIME BUY TO LET!!! It just doesn't happen. Why do you want to make me monitor it?

OK, I'm wrong. But there are only 101 cases in the entire database!

These are independent criteria, they are not linked.

But heck, I'm pregnant

Now that is a girl thing!

Hey, that's sexist!

Oh wait...

Arnie was preggers.

I JUST TYPED PREGGERS.

Eh, I just messaged one of the moderators on SoS forum, asked him to ban me from it. Being told to "get a life" by someone who's trademark is histrionics about "prolitical correctness" = the last straw for me. It used to be a cool forum, now it's just a load of whining as far as I can see.

WTF? What do rants on prolitical correctness have to do with Sound Production?

Anyway, I'm quite pleased as one of our marathon 2-gigs-in-2-nights has turned out to be doubled booked, so we've cancelled. I'm actually really relieved. I was wondering how on earth I was going to cope.

Anyway, I'm pregnant. Wait.

Congratulations! Dan must be so proud!

hahaha

Ah, it's the off-topic flamepit. I've seriously lost respect for a bunch of ppl who post there over the last month or so, it's like it's been taken over by daily mail readers.

Congratulations! Dan must be so proud!

It's amazing how these things happen.

YSI?

short for you sperm it

It's quite scary to find out what "normal, regular type people" actually believe sometimes. I always think of artists and creative types being quite liberal, and it can be shocking to find out that a great deal of them aren't at all.

x-posts

Nath - EEEUUUWWWW!

;-)

Ha ha, I just got emailed a picture of my boss PACKED IN A MOVING BOX.

I have no idea when I'm going to pack. I suppose I should do it today to avoid doing it in a hurry tomorrow. Plus, I'm ascared I'm going to run out of boxes. And whatever I pack, I will need tomorrow. Argh!

Must remember to take all the crap out from under my desk and take home TONIGHT.

I'm very tempted to post it,but I know it would be Lolcatted in a moment and end up all over the interweb and then she would KEEEEEEEL me.

Hey folks. I ended up going into Glasgow. Bought some cds and an lp I didnt actually plan on buying. Damn you Monorailmusic.

Well, what do you expect if you go record shopping, but to come back with records?

I was only really in a for a walkabout. But they had loads and loads of stuff. I got 4 cds on the Paradigms label. The last Guapo cd and a Sunn o))) spin off lp.

Do you do anything other than listen to music all day?

It can take me weeks to listen to a CD!

That's because you're too busy out in swinging london!

I wish it were swinging that stopped me from listening to music. Unfortunately, it's my job that stops me, most days.

I've just found out that listening to Dan Deacon on the way into work turns me into a grinning yet hardworking employee. I have four browsers open, three different messageboards and facebook.

Hot dankity.

You guys don't me swinging swinging right?

I love it when typos result from overexcited quick posting :-p

Oh shit. Uh, MEAN MEAN MEAN.

Nath, you're so mean if you know what I mean. ;-)

j/k, you know I love you!

It's Friday! Hurrah! I have a short day because the network is being switched off at 4pm for the move! Hurrah! We have just had a massive problem with the file I sent through last night which has to be DONE DONE COMPLETELY REDONE by 2pm. Boo.

Love you too! Doobeedoo! :-)

URg the fins are messing with me. They have booked me to go over for the first full weekend in july without specifying whether it is friday saturday or saturday sunday they want me and the have optioned me for the following weekend which is personally very important to me indeed. WOuld be fine if they confirmed because then I could work round that.

Heheheh! Apologies!

Pfff as if you MEAN that. ;-)

Morning folks, my mammy is getting her hip replaced right about now, hope it goes smoothly.

Hope yr Mammy is alright!

I am going bandage free for the first time today.

And I've cheekily asked if I can have the spot at Long Swords that someone dropped out of for Saturday. No time to assemble any music, I'll just set up some drones and wub. Especially since Ken C still hasn't claimed his microkorg. Heh. I'm sure she's found someone else, though.

Ah well, looks like someone else was quicker than me. :-(

you were badmouthing the microkorg not so long ago.

I'm not going to look a gifthorse in the mouth!

The Microkorg is shit compared to the MS10 or the MS20, but I'm sure I could get some fun wub out of it.

I've just found out that listening to Dan Deacon on the way into work turns me into a grinning yet hardworking employee. I have four browsers open, three different messageboards and facebook.

How does this make you hardworking?

Posting to all those messageboards is hard work!

Speaking of which, I have got to get this thing sorted out. MUST GET OFFLINE.

Multitasking my dear! I'm working too. I'll burn out by lunchtime though. Are we going to have bagel fun at lunchtime?

Mmmm, bagels. I wish there were a good bagel shop near here. There's one on Leather Lane, isn't there? I suppose I can go there when we've moved.

Gah, I dunno. I'm really tired and hungover, but I might make it out for 1. Probably. Possibly.

xpost there's a 24-hour bagel shop in Stoke Newington. Bagels!

I Want More (Bagel Shops).

There are no good bagels in Holborn. I have to make do with a Bap. But it's two more hours to lunch! Maybe I should just have another coffee.

Are you guys all pronouncing it 'boigle' in your heads? It is the only true way.

To be poyfectly harnessed....I'm thinking about the donuts.

No, I'm pronoucing it "Beige - uhl" (as in the colour). Because that's how it's spelled in London. Beigel. I suppose they are kind of brown, but it still seems wrong.

'Beigel'? Really? Is that a localised spelling or a common error?

Beagle
http://www.poster.net/peanuts/peanuts-snoopy-roof-2410230.jpg

It's a Brick Lane thing, I think.

'Beigel'? Really? Is that a localised spelling or a common error?

Buy-gel. It's Yiddish I think. That's how my friend David pronounces it.

Bagel is for Gentiles

Well, I'm certainly a gentile, now GIVE ME BAGELS.

Now I've got Jonathan Fire*Eater stuck in my head.

"Give me bagels
And make 'em 1 - 2 - 3!"

Oh, yeah, pronouncing it that way is cool, I just didn't realise the spelling changed. I mean, I think the 'boigle' pronounciation comes from the 'buygel', it's US Yiddish, isn't it?

xpost and now I have that stuck in my head too.

US Yiddish? Just Yiddish!

I mean, 'boigle' is US...

"Buy-gel" just sounds like a bad 'Stenders accent to me.

x-post There are totally regional differences in pronounciation of Yiddish!

Given that no one else has bothered to turn up in today I am going to go and 'work' from home (also it is a public holiday in most of Europe and I have no customers to talk to)

OK, I've had to put a bandage back on my scary scar, as it's just too painful having it rub against all the wrist guards on my computer stuff.

What holiday is it in Europe?

Do those hippies get the Solstice off?

Hippies don't work!

I mean I can understand Finns getting the Solstice off, becuase they're so high up near the Arctic circle that it's probably light for 20 hours a day and they're all bouncing off the walls going bonkers with all the sunlight and CAN'T work, but, like, most of Europe is further south than us.

Let's have some pictures of hippies celebrating the solstice:

http://i.n.com.com/i/ne/p/2006/621stonehengecel550x363.jpg

http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/henge-84-solstice1.jpg

http://www.lugodoc.demon.co.uk/Druids/1993%20Dylan%20&%20Arthur.jpg

http://www.lugodoc.demon.co.uk/Druids/1905%20AOD%20Stonehenge.jpg

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

THEY'VE DISCONNECTED THE COFFEE MACHINE!!!!!!!!!!!

I'M GOING ON STRIKE TILL WE GET COFFEE BACK!!!!

XPost (I has a coffee :-p)

My one visit to Stonehenge was at about 5 am one Summer morn nearly 9 years ago. Me and a couple of mates were out 'shrooming at the Arbor Low stone circle in Derbyshire and an eerie orange moon convinced us to abscond, with a pretty much solely Led Zep soundtrack, down to Stonehenge. My erstwhile chum Lee drove through the night...we clippered the fence and ran into the circle...it was amazing.

A warden pottered over after about ten minutes and nattered with us, but was quite friendly and said he could only give us 20 odd minutes, and that was just down to his tosser of a boss. We went on to tour the stones of the south-west... wonderful days, met loads of absolute nutters from all over the shop.

Despite all our megalith hunting, I've never actually been to Stonehenge!

Driven past it in a tourvan, but never actually stopped and gone to look. Compared to Avebury, it's just not that impressive.

We still need to do our tour of stone circles of the Peak District and go look for Barbrooke 1 and 2 and all.

Now I am going to listen to the Sons of TC Lethbridge due to all this stone circle talk.

The Nine Ladies in Derbyshire is/was my favourite, just that whole moor/park...magical. Stonehenge is awesome from within, not quite as wow from without.

This is all the more reason for you and Emil.y to get your Krautrock club going, becuase then the Shimuras will come up to Nottingham and play, and we can take the next day off and go megalith hunting oop norf! This is the way we like to tour!

Compared to Avebury, it's just not that impressive.

Oh, it's still pretty impressive.

Like most celebrities, it looks smaller in person! Who does its press?

Which reminds me I should buy Alex James' book.

Afternoon all

Hahaha, Kate, you will *love* the guy who I'm supposed to be doing the krautrock night with, he is a big stone circle nut. I still haven't asked him about whether we're going to actually do it and if he wants you to play, though. I am teh rubbish.

I should really think about getting the bus if I'm going to meet Mister Craig for lunch, shouldn't I? Gah.

I think that working from home will include a lot of bellzouki and phaser playing.

Hey, Kerr! Been on any record shop binges today? ;-)

x-post ah, he sounds great. Krautrock and stone cirles. Why do they go together? It's not the Julian Cope connection, I think that's symptomatic rather than the root cause. Is it just a love of obscure and arcane things? Hippie-dom?

more x-posts

I should really think about getting the bus if I'm going to meet Mister Craig for lunch, shouldn't I? Gah.
-- emil.y, Friday, 22 June 2007 11:04 (5 minutes ago)

Yep. I'll head to the Malt for 1ish whatevers. I have an Indie, you can get the Grauniad if you read this.

Avebury's great...but having a pub within a circle isn't necessarily a wonderous thing. Sleeping in the henge and being woken by bleating sheep, however, is.

Nope hehe. I did get the 2 Khanate live cd's I ordered last week from
Archive Recordings though. Great prices as ever.

Too busy arguing with The Lex about Hüsker Dü winning that The Seventh P&J Singles Poll! to listen to them though!

and HURRAH FOR GRANPAW BROON! emil.y did you make the mister vote for Horace? ;)

There should be more pubs in circles!

You know how I feel about drinking with megaliths!

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/232/460638125_4c18489588.jpg

Frances is a megalith? ;)

Krautrock and stone cirles. Why do they go together? It's not the Julian Cope connection, I think that's symptomatic rather than the root cause. Is it just a love of obscure and arcane things? Hippie-dom?

No, that is Julian Cope. Don't call me a hippy!

Hippy!

She is indeed.

x-post Krautrock and Stone Circles had already become associated way before Copey! I blame Hawkwind if I blame anyone.

Motorik has nothing to do with the past! The past is dead!! Year Zero!!! Stockhausen!!!! Etc!!

Makes a change from you blaming hstencil.
x-post

x-post

It's all about getting in teh zone, isn't it, what!

Vorwärts!

You are confusing blaming and flirting.

I am glad that I went to the coffee shop. They have put INSTANT COFFEE in the kitchen. What is the point of that, I ask you? JUST PUT A GUN TO MY HEAD AND SHOOT ME IT WOULD BE KINDER.

Instant coffee, a nonsense!

INDUSTRIAL ACTION TIME

It's the 70s revival! Krautrock! Hawkwind! Industrial Action!

We have the same problem here, Kate. They took away our filter coffee and now we just have industrial vats of Nescafe Gold Blend :'(

I told the office manager the IT dept is on the verge of rioting but so far to no avail.

Ted Heath might win the next election

I want Harold Wilson back. With Paddy.

We don't have a 1st lady here.

Paddy was his dog.

a bitch?

It's not permanent. It's only because we're moving this afternoon. We are being let off early (due to the lack of coffee situation... no, j/k)

At the new office, I might bring in mine own personal coffee maker. And plug it into the server, mwah hah hah.

IT and coffee! You just cannot separate the two! It's like Hawkwind and Stonehenge!

It's like Hawkwind fans and soap& water... no wait.

Hush. I know I didn't shower this morning. AND I am wearing a Hawkwind shirt. But the two things are not related. It's sheer laziness.

I have eaten my lunch and had my industrial action coffee. Now back to work I suppose. Sigh.

OK, I think I've done all the urgent stuffs... now to pack, and then I'm out of here for the weekend! Hurrah!

OK, I've got labels with my name on, on everything. Box. Computer. Monitors. Phone. They said not to tag yr mouse, but i'm really protective of my mouse. Maybe I'll just put it in the box. But hten no more interwebs!

And no more Fopp according to that ilm thread!

Eh, what? What does my mouse have to do with Fopp?

Oh noes, Fopp is going? It cannot be!

Where will all the cuet boys in Covent Garden work, then?

I'm going down to the Reading one tonight. Just to check.

Argh, I have to carry stuff home from work or else I'd check ours on the way home. Maybe I will anyway.

I had turkey, avocado, cucumber, spring onion with dressing (olive oil, mint, honey) splashed over it. Not so bad. Didn't eat much though. Also had one spoonful of rice.

Our one closes at six.

If it hasn;t closed already!! I'd have checked this lunchtime, but 1) got distracted 2) didn't know this news.

Kontakte are looking for musicians again. I don't even know if I should be bothered volunteering again, as they've already said no before.

And you know, plus, I'm not a skinny indie boy, so bands never want me to join, regardless of my musicianship. :-(

And Ian wasn't speaking to me on Saturday, I'm presuming because they're still sore over me not namedropping them in that silly review I did of the 120Days gig. Sigh. ::rolls eyes::

Eh, what? What does my mouse have to do with Fopp?

You said no more interwebs!

ONLY AFTER I UNPLUG MINE MOUSE!!!

Then the interweb go bye-bye. You know, like "fog in channel, Europe cut off".

Well, I volunteered. I'm only going to be shot down again, but I suppose it can't hurt.

FIFTY MINUTES TIL INTERWEB GO BYE-BYE! ARRGGHHH!!!

I wish I had known and went into FOPP yesterday.

48 now

Happy 48th birthday Mitya ;)

There is faff now next to me, because just over half an hour to go, and the bank recc won't recconcile.

Morning. Yay zucchini bread.

OK, I WANTS TO GO HOME NOW!!!

I feel way too bouncey to be at work. I think it might have been that extra huge BUCKET of coffee was much stronger than the crap that comes out of the vending machine.

I have packed everythign!

Even FRED, the Liberty Print Hippo!

I am now blasting Hawkwind as loud as my pathetic inbuilt speaker will allow me! Hurrah!

Finally got the ILX bucket page up!

Will add the front/back pics for the cover later.

COUNTING DOWN, FIVE MINUTES...

Does anybody know any details about the Wire/Electra Fest thing in thart London in October? I've searched for details but all I can find is that Boredoms play on October 26. Neeed....Borreddommses...

have a good weekend, all!

Ta-ra!

Everyone's off having fun, but not me. Yet.

Me neither. Emil.y is sitting in the pub with Matt out of Saint Joan and I'm stuck here at work for another hour. Gaaaah.

I've had usual Friday lunchtime session, but have 90 mins before I can go home and continue it.

Emil.y is sitting in the pub with Matt out of Saint Joan

Hey, cool! (In that I like me Saint Joan -- saw 'em last year at Terrastock and hope to be reviewing the new album for the AMG.)

Woohoo! Job offer!

well done G00blar! where is it?

In my current department (you-see-el), just part time, but teaching the seminars that I was REALLY hoping to teach (Moderns 2, so I gets to pick 4 books from 1945-onwards, which is my period).

excellent! just the kind of news you need to kick of the weekend.

Everyone's off having fun, but not me. Yet.

If you consider O havng an echo fun...

I am being taken on a STAG WEEKEND in like two hours. :)

get drunk, dude

New job, hurrah!

I have a new office, so for a bit, I feel like I have a new job.

Upside, no neighbor so I can spread my programming manual library all over the next desk.

Downside NO COFFEE MACHINE. I have to make mine own instant. Blech.

I bought a one cup filter at the weekend and some strong ethiopian so I am very happy.

Install speaker towers and blast sunn((((o (or is that sunn o))))?)

(((1!!))!()

I was blasting Hawkwind for the last ten minutes in the old office. Don't dare try it here.

I've got a window - with a view of a construction site. :-(

I think I am going to have to bring in mine own coffeemaker. I've also been told that we are not allowed to eat smelly lunch at our desks - we have to go to the "breakout area!". OK... I will heat my smelly lunch up in our kitchen, then take said smelly lunch through THE ENTIRE OFFICE to get to the breakout area - and eat my smelly lunch right near the customer area. Yeah, someone hasn't thought this through.

Plus, well, no more people bugging me when I'm eating might be good. But it means no more surfing at lunchtime.

I recorded the modular synthesiser & drum machine backing I programed for the ilx festival into the computer before I pulled all the wires out:

http://download.yousendit.com/11C548E92091FF9D

I was pretty loaded when I was doing it, so apols for amy mistakes/fluffs.

Awesome!

(though I've been having entirely too much fun with Ken's Microkorg all weekend, I'm going to have to sample that like crazy before I give it back - unless you're willing to lend it to me for a while, Ken?)

But argh, trying to get DDBs to give CREDIT on artwork you do for them is annoying... How hard is it to just put in "Artwork by Kate St.Claire" on something?

I did this Saturday afternoon. I also did some quite good stuff in the Windmill during NOTLS (during the bits that I wasn't getting in a fight wiht a drunken mentalist - do I have "attack me" written on my forehead or what?)

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1312/620230997_64ba7febfb.jpg

Saturday was interesting. Had meltdown tickets and i walked us into the wrong venue, (had tickets for the QEH and we walked into the RFH) so instead of Andy Votel's lost ladies of folk we got Espers side project the Valerie project and Jarvis. I didn't really notice this I just assumed VP were supporting AVatLLoF. Came back in, had our tickets check for a second time, in and someone was sitting in our seats, we looked at the tickets and didn't notice the obvious mistake. So I ended up standing at the front with the photographers. Once Jarvis started everyone swarmed up anyway. Ended up dancing and chatting with an enthusiastic fan who turned out to be JC's wife. Spent most of my time ogling the gorgeous guitars and swirly phasers. JC almost broke my fingers with a mic stand which might have promoted some SC/JC beef.

The Valerie Project were the stars though, utterly utterly amazing. Live soundtrack to a bizarre czech film with salacious priests, nuns, vampires, people getting burnt at the stake, people turning into their grandmothers etc.

The after party featured a reformed Sheffield New Wave band called artery who were very very good, incredibly tight.

Good evening all round really.

put artwork by kate st claire and I myspazz link in the corner

I forgot to put "KMF" in the corner like I usually do. I just figure my artwork is pretty distinctive, so no one's going to try to pass it off as their own. Ah, it's OK, DDBs being floppy and useless, he just couldn't figure out how to do it. Bless. So I explained how MySpace works to him.

How hard is it to just put in "Artwork by Kate St.Claire" on something?

Very easy indeed! (copy/paste as per reverse of ILX comp! you people!!)

Gah, ineffectual human being. I could rule that scene with an iron fist what with my grasp of technology and everything.

The whole appeal of DDBs is that they are floppy and useless!

They resist technology they do not understand!

...except guitar pedals.

Speaking of which, I am utterly failing to "get" Ulrich Schnauss.

It's like he took all the bits of shoegaze that I'm not really bothered about and mixed them with Eurotrance.

Though I did go on a bit of a CD binge at Rough Trade on Friday, and picked up some more Reigns (all their stuff is really good, not just Styne Vallis) and some Grails and the first Brian Eno and Cluster album which is AMAZING.

And got the best of Adam Ant (plus DVD) for £3.99 at Sainsburys! I don't want to talk about how many times I watched Stand and Deliver. Why don't modern bands make videos like that any more? They're so cheesey but SO GREAT.

I rather get Ulrich schnauss because he appears to have mixed shoegaze with minimal german techno.

Morning all. I found out the Pastels were supporting the JAMC on Friday and in a fit of last minute impulsiveness managed to get a ticket right by the stage (must have been some returns as the gig was apparently completely sold out with tickets going for £££ on Ebay)! Hurrah!

that is one of the good things about the south bank - Returns

argh, I HATE YOU!!1 I wanted to go to that and couldnae get tickets. How were they? Chick who was playing at NOTLS (too drunked to remember her name) said they were really good.

US isn't minimal German techno, that would be fine. It's bad eurotrance. And too much HISNAMEISALIVEIFICATION. Man, turn that reverb down. Never though you'd hear me say that, did you?

have been playing with various pedals of Norman's. I still love Prunes and Custard, especially on keyboard. Still not sure about the Rising Sun, though, what all the knobs do. More than 3 knobs on a distortion pedal, I do not get. It has 5!

http://i13.tinypic.com/5zllt88.jpg

Haha Ed I'm going to mail Cam re. Dancing Grizzly Adams. She's ace, you can totally see why he married her. Favourite bit is she calls him The Cocker.

The new office is COLD like the old office was TOO HOT. Fortunately, my mum just mailed me a paisley jacket. She mailed it for my birthday - so how does it turn up at the new office when it never turned up at the old one?

JAMC were pretty good, I guess they were sober as they were all drinking water on stage! They didn't storm off stage mid-song like last time I saw them.

The Pastels I think had sound problems at first cos they were very muddy. They had 2 of Teenage Fanclub on bass & guitar. They played Nothing To Be Done, which made me happy.

And apparently it pays to complain! I phoned the council to get pest control out to sort out our rat problem, they told me 3 weeks, so I fired off a complaint email and they sent someone round today! Turns out it's not actually a rat, just a very large house mouse (I guess I've only ever had field mice before, cos they were tiny compared to this one). But they still carry lyme disease. Ugh.

Hurrah! I got tickets for JAMC in Brixton. A winner is me.

Ha ha, my printer is called Roger.

Field Mice in your house? Argh, get them out! Wibbling twee!

j/k but you were talking about the Pastels. ;-)

Artery have reformed? They were great, hope they make it up here.

I wonder if I can get Kaliflwr to come to England for this...

I do allow those Field Mice in my house, but only in small doses. I do like Sensitive though, fuck the haters.

Not sure if it was for keeps or just for Jarvis, but I would happily see them again.

I did this Saturday afternoon. I also did some quite good stuff in the Windmill during NOTLS (during the bits that I wasn't getting in a fight wiht a drunken mentalist - do I have "attack me" written on my forehead or what?)

From experience, if you attend a gig alone and you're female, then you don't need an "attack me" label on your forehead, they can smell you from a mile away, the pathetic losers. Sometimes I miss attending gigs, but 1 I don't listen to much music anymore and 2 I don't think these mentalists could take my attacks anymore. I mean, I do think I'd be even snappier than my old single self, probably coupled with a few slappings of the Gender Trouble book on their forehead. Re 1 I am trying to find a way to listen to more music. Yes, yes, I know, how hard can it be: just put a bloody record on! Well, uh, I sit in the living room most of the time and it doesn't have a turntable/stereo so I'd need to put a headphone on (attached to an ipod of course hah!) on but what if O would start screaming and I didn't hear her? Hmm. That said, I have downloaded the Gossip record and it ain't so bad. Now I only need to get some *proper* records and listen to music. I'll see tomorrow as a NEW YEAR with good (musical) intentions.

I did have a rather okay weekend. I feel a bit better all in all.

I also had mashed potatos. :-D And I made chocolate ice cream!!!

It was with a woman was the awful part! It's always women that attack me!

I was sitting at this table in the corner, drawing. I'm well known at the Windmill for doing this, most people are tolerant or even encouraging, including the staff. I've never had a problem doing it before. It was NOT busy, there was loads of room.

This extremely drunken girl came and stood in front of the table. She keeps jostling into my table, knocking it about. The guy she's with is all "hey, be careful, there's a girl drawing at that table, don't knock it about." She then sits down on my table. I'm a bit worried, but so long as she stays still, fair enough. No, she starts dancing about ON THE TABLE, knocking my drawing everywhere.

So I kinda said to her "look if you want to dance, stand up. I don't mind you sitting on my table, but if you're going to sit here, please keep still. I'm drawing."

She immediately starts having goes at me going all "what the fuck are you doing drawing at a gig, anyway? ugh, your art is so awful, what are you, 17? you shouldn't be drawing, this is a gig."

I told her "look, I WAS HERE FIRST, this is my table, if you want to dance, stand up" and she wouldn't. I kind of knocked the table to try and get her off. She starts shouting, I start shouting back. Finally, I just reach out and push her off my table.

She turns around and grabs me by the throat. I suppose I deserved it, as I started it getting physical by pushing her, but seriously. I tried to get someone else to call one of the bar staff to get her thrown out, but no one would do anything. Finally she lets go and starts telling the guy I'm asking for help all about how it's my fault for drawing in a bar.

If I wasn't afraid that she'd steal my sketchbook (she was that kind of a mentalist) and do something with it, I'd have gone off and got the manager or something. But at least she spent so much time complaining to the other people in the club about how I was drawing on the table she was trying to dance on that she left me alone.

She later came up and tried to apologise, but I was like "whatever". The girls she had been talking to turned out to be really nice, they talked to me for some time, asked to see my sketchbook and were very friendly.

I still have a bruise on my neck. :-(

It's my fault for reacting, but what am I supposed to do? Just let someone else's assholish behaviour ruin things?

Also, Nath, can't you get little speakers for your iPod? I've got a pair of speakers for my laptop, they were only about £25 and quite good. That way you can listen to music without having to put on headphones. Also, I bet O would like some of your music! Start her early!

Project O=dEUS fan must begin.

Well, I have just done the Walk of Shame, taking my smelly lunch all the way through the entire office to eat it at the "breakout area" with a whole new section of people to be annoyed by the smell. Rather than eating it at my desk with no neighbours.

Also, the breakout area has no rubbish bins or kitchen, so I had to walk the empty dishes still smelling of smelly lunch all the way back the same way.

And our boiling water dispenser has broken on the first day. :-(

And, I had to walk past people in sales eating STINKY MEAT SAUSAGES at their desks. That's far more offensive.

Sounds like the new office needs a rusk and a chew toy.

This one cup filter is bringing me so much joy (and envy)

Need one. Office coffee BRINGETH THE SUX0R.

Monmouth coffee 6 pounds, (could have got a plastic one cheaper).

That's actually really close to me now. Tomorrow lunchtime I will get one. Maybe.

It thought you were chancery lane, is there one there?

Actually she's more keen on Dizzee's new record. She also has this cheapo keyboard I bought in Tokyo. I'm convinced she's going to be this Noise chixor: she likes to put the mike up in her mouth and make these growly noises. She also likes to stand on the keyboard! From time to time she also likes to thump the keyboard like a real Japo Noise PhR34k. Yes, I'm terribly proud of her already. dEUS fan? One is already enough. ;-)

I have speakers but they are standing in the *Smoking Room* (my husband smokes).But I am optimistic: he's said again that he wants to quit. Whjich would mean that the smoking room will be useless. Hence: speakers moving back into living room. HURRAH. :-)

Also I bought some fabric to start sewing. I am developing a PH34R of that secondhand sewing machine I just bought. Just bought? Shit, it's been standing there for a couple of weeks. Time to tackle the machine and my fear. ;-)

Kate, tahnks for reminding me why I don't attend gigs anymore. Shit, what a crazy woman. :-(

So my co-worker had another breakdown today. This one precipitated apparently by a) the fact that he only worked on Saturday and not Sunday to finish a project for today, even though he hadn't actually been given a deadline for it; and b) his wife (who lives on the other side of the country) calling to say that she wanted to quit her job immediately (note that this is same wife who has goaded him to leave this job, which pays infinitely more than he will ever make there).

What shocks me about this whole situation is how someone who really is too fucked up to work manages to hold onto his job with little apparent problem, whereas other people get all kind of grief for well, pretty standard fuck-ups.

Nath, move the speakers! Hah!

Sounds like O has a real thing for the keyboards! You should totally encourage her. It would be so cool if she grew up to be a future musician. Start 'em young!

I am Chancery Lane. Where is it? Haven't been out of the office yet.

Mitya, that sounds fucked. I don't think I entirely understand what's going on there. But the reason that some incredible fuckups manage to hold onto their job is, if they have told their HR that they have mental problems, it would incredibly difficult to sack them without all kinds of disability claims and the like.

Monmouth coffee is closer to you old office. Are you thinking of Konditor and cook which is close and will be good for brain melting carrot cake?

I am not thinking of anything! I'm asking you to tell me where it is!

Monmouth St, Seven Dials, St Giles

Oh! I was conflating Monmouth St with Exmouth Market. It's the Mouth thing. Yes, that's further away now. :-(

I* will miss lunchtime jaunts to Rough Trade.

I'm going to explode with fury, one of my arsehole colleagues (why do I always get dragged into debates) is claiming that depression is made up - he says that the medical profession only class it as an illness because they stand to make money out of it!

I am furious, absolutely seething. I disliked this guy in the first place and I don't even know why I'm wasting my energy fighting with him, but I feel I owe it to myself, my friends and aquaintances who suffer with depression and my good friend Robert (RIP) who was unable to 'get over it'.

Fucking motherfucking fuckdog.

"made up". Oh, FFS... People who think that mental illness isn't real becuase they've never experienced anything like it.

This is why I use headphones in the office. SO I don't have to listen to my colleagues.

I wish I could :(

I'd like to ignore him but he keeps taking my silence as proof that I've run out of facts. I NEED to have the last word gah.

You don't need to have the last word. If he is baiting you, and you don't respond YOU win. If he blows your cool, he wins. :-(

Write "you are a twat" on a post-it and stick it to his head.

You don't need to have the last word. If he is baiting you, and you don't respond YOU win

this is the hardest thing to do, TBH. I agree with you 100% that it's the right thing to do, but god is it hard.

Just say "you don't know anything about it" and repeat ala Paxman.

Keep a little scorecard on your desk and write down a point every time you don't respond to him.

If he asks you what you're doing, just tell him "THE LITTLE MEN IN MY HEAD ARE MAKING ME DO IT!!!" since clearly he won't challenge you, as there's no such thing as mental illness.

Though I did go on a bit of a CD binge at Rough Trade on Friday, and picked up some more Reigns (all their stuff is really good, not just Styne Vallis) and some Grails and the first Brian Eno and Cluster album which is AMAZING.

Which Grails?

Burning Off Impurities.

Rumpie, just tell him something like you hope that he never has to experience first-hand just how wrong he is, and then refuse to be drawn into any more discussions. Win through passive-aggressive niceness!

I was just about to type 'morning all', then I realised how very wrong I was...

He seems to have shut up (for the time being). I told him ignorance is obviously bliss and that's why he's been to blissed out to be depressed.

I wish had some sort of inbuilt controversy filter.

Ha ha, good comeback.

tell him happiness is made up."just look at you! who could be really happy in your condition, ie twatiness!"

just stab him in the face

Burning Off Impurities.

Ahh the new one. Excellent choice.

Kate, you should take a look in the Leather Lane age concern as they have dansette record player in excellent nick in there.

Argh, I bet it will be closed by the time I get out of work and I can't take another break. :-(

tomorrow lunch?

Man, Adam Ant recorded some BAD songs in his time.

I mean, yeah, there are a lot of classics. But when he was bad, he was VERY BAD.

x-post I hope it's still there!

Denizens of LL not indie enough to want a Dansette quick sharp.

Well, now that you've just announced it on THE INTERWEB!

I wish today would end. This new office lark has worn off. I'm bored again.

Oh wait, did I tell you about this yet?

NOTLS are doing a MEDIEVAL BARBEQUE next month. They will have Morris Dancers and everything. (I've warned them they better not have female ones, or it will rain and the bees will fail.) Some folk, some prog. The wearing of costumes and especially CAPES is encouraged.

I will almost certainly be in finland :-(

I mean, yeah, there are a lot of classics. But when he was bad, he was VERY BAD.

SAVE THE GORILLA

Assuming I can come, Are we allowed to bring sticks and/or possibly vikings?

It's the Windmill, I would imagine you can bring anything you like.

which day is it?

The wearing of costumes and especially CAPES is encouraged.

Did you see my mini-series of cape photos on flickr? We were rather drunk, but I actually like them, which is odd as I am TEH unphotogenic (Craig took the pictures, though, and he's pretty good).

I did, they are good capes.

Sunday July 22nd
Night of the Long Swords Presents at The Windmill Brixton
A MEDIEVAL SUNDAY BBQ
Horses Brawl - The Laughing Windows - Telling the Bees - Rosie Meres (dancer) - Richard Olson (The Eighteenth Day of May) + more tbc
5pm 'til late. £5. Free BBQ at 5pm

One of the lovely Sunday BBQs we know and love.

x-post yes, I left you a comment about how cool yr cape was!

Save the gorilla?

Apparently Marco prevented Adam from releasing this, but let him auction one disc of it for the Grrillz.

Which was nice. And after they'd have had to pay for unsold copies, probably meant they made more money for them that way!

i saw some morris dancers yesterday. at a folk festival. someone mentioned them a bunch of posts ago.

Was it fun?

Clean desk policy. Two words: SACK ME.

Then you'd be fucked. I don't understand why this place is going out of its way to make this an unpleasant place to work.

Hello. I'm scared.

I just managed to make it from the office back to my parents' house - there were a couple of points where the flood-water on the road was only just passable in my car.

Hull is, effectively, cut off by the weather. Large parts of it are flooded; and quite a lot of Grimsby is flooded too. The river through Grimsby is on the verge of bursting its banks.

Blimey! That sounds crazy! Isn't this the time of year for hosepipe bans, not flooding?

Hull is a drained swamp with a canalised river through, so I imagine that would be crazy in a flood.

Yep.

Just been on the phone to the gf - the road by her office has been closed since mid-morning. Someone tried to give her a lift home - they had to abandon the car a couple of miles from her house, and she waded from there; the water almost up to her waist. It's just below the front step of her ground-floor flat; she's OK, so long as it doesn't rise more than a couple of inches further.

My parents' village is partly flooded - the stream that runs alongside one of the main roads has burst its banks. We're OK though, until the drains fail. That's what's caused most of the floods, though.

I have found us an autoharpist!

OK, that means I have to go and buy a tuning key tomorrow. Yay, a trip to Hobgoblin.

Can you pick me up a 30 nickel wound guitar string as I think I might have solved my g string problem

And now pictures of the flooding in Grimsby
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j28/ocelot67/stuff/400190607fu3.jpg

Morning. Not drowned yet.

Still raining?

God, that all sounds so awful! Here it's raining a lot as well tho...

i guess it was ok but i wasn't into it. just made me wonder why our trad. dancing is so rubbish in comparison to like... every other country.

plus they seemed to have like zero enthusiasm

It's stopped for now, but the clouds look pretty ominous.

Plenty of roads closed in Grimsby still - in one of the suburbs a river has burst its banks, and that estate's been evacuated.

GMTV were asking for photos.

I was going to send in a photo of our street, dry and bathed in early morning sunshine with a caption "Haaaaa!!!! Unlucky!"

Got persuaded against.

FP I am driving to Cleethorpes on Saturday. Is that area badly affected? Can I expect all the problems to be over by then?

British trad dancing is some of the best going.

It'll be fine by then, I imagine, Onimo. What the hell are you doing down here, though?

Going to a holiday park with my family.

It's the 70s revival!

If it's Thorpe Park: that was evacuated last night. So you might want to get in touch with them, see how things are.

oh that's just great :(

on a lighter note:
http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070626/capt.baf28579cbe143beab9ccb41108127ea.aptopix_paris_hilton_ksd101.jpg

yuk

I liked Beth Ditto's "Paris is going to Jail" dance on Lauren Laverne's prog.

Who's that?

Oh, Paris.

on a lighter note

Well, she did lose a few pounds, no?

Beth Ditto did a different dance? wows.

It was a different dance, yes.

I liked Beth Ditto's "Paris is going to Jail" dance on Lauren Laverne's prog.

I'm looking forward to The Lex's "Paris is out of jail" dance

Morning all. I'm getting hardly any work done this morning due to extreme office crushing - why does he have to be so cute?

Post sneaky stalkerish phone pics, leigh!

(NB: this may well be an extremely bad idea)

Just ask him, "Can I take a photo of you to post on the internet?"

I don't think his girlfriend would be very pleased about that.

Plus it's quite possible that i've mentioned ilx to him in the dim and distant past.

he could be reading this now.

Maybe, hello Mr x if you are...

What, you don't know his name?

that IS his name.

Metro Mr X?

1st name Malcolm?

No, exene.

Yeah, i'm really going to post his name on a public forum...

http://www.intuitivemusic.com/images/ClassicRockcover1.jpg

“Classic Rock magazine’s special issue out dealing with the wonderful world of prog is out this week. With features on the likes of Yes, Genesis, Rush, Tull, Floyd, and more there’s also a four page feature chronicling the making of the first King Crimson album with contributions from Ian McDonald and Peter Sinfield.”

And?

I thought Norman might have it and say if it's worth buying or not.

Of course if you have it i'll trust your judgement too :)

I read it as saying 'with contributions from Jerry Seinfeld' and was wondering exactly what he knew about prog rock.

Any 'cooler folks in Sheffield? I fell asleep listening to the radio and the last thing I heard was about a dam near there about to burst...

I know a few people in Sheffield but not ilxors.

morning. brane still not functioning. glastonbury amazing.

i might be going to glasgow on friday night. a) it looks like all trains going thru the norf are fuxored though. i hope i won't have to fly :( and b) anyone up there fancy brunch saturday am?

I will have brunch with you emsk, if you fly to moscow. (but i like bacon, so you probably wouldn't want to come.)

I thought it was all steak tartar eaten off tiger skin plates with ivory cutlery with supple virgins for tables and chairs in Moscow?

and top quality vodka?

I wonder what kate's thoughts will be on the verve reforming.

I can guess.

Ooh, Emsk, I will have brunch with you. Email me at my first name dot my last name at gmail.com !

(or get my phone number off someone who has it? Andrew F, maybe?)

Why are you coming to Glasgow?

YAY ailsa! i am definitely coming to glasgow! i have booked tickets and everything. i am getting in at 7.45 unless all trains are delayed. i am going to see some indie bands at tut's on friday night and may be up for some drinking/dancing later, but will def be up for brunch on saturday. train back is at 12.45. YAY! i am trying glasgow more!

i'm going to see a band i'm working with but haven't seen yet, and another band someone else here is working with but it sounds like i may be later on. come if you like!

good you back on saturday, what is going on on saturday?

also, are you too boshed to drink a beer on your way home?

(ailsa i have forgotten your last name...)

yeah ed back saturday, into kx 6.45, up to tottenham to see indigo moss (and maybe pete molinari if i'm there in time), then i think down to a housepartay. what y'up to? sunday early show at lumi then indigo moss again at 93.

i am not too boshed to do anything but i am not going home... i'll be at work as late as i possibly can then i'm going to see jay jay pistolet at proud. want to come? i have +1. jay is really good, he's both sweet and rude.

hmm, have appointment at 21:30 so may decline that one

for tonight, otherwise saturday plans sound good unless I can techno with 696,but may reconnect for IM on Sunday as I want to see the rest of them, (also they are nice and convivial drinking companions)

yeah he's on at 9.30, tonight no use. sunday the gig is free too.

so like bring ppl. it's a secret garden party warmup doodah.

I shall endeavour

Emsk, surname is w4ts0n, but less googleproofed. You could use nu-ILX webmail thingie, I guess. Anyway, would be good to see you at some point. King Tuts downstairs bar is a very nice place to drink, and I may well be out somewhere nearby anyway.

Drinking/dancing on Friday is probably National Pop League, which is hot and sweaty and horrible. I am an old fart and do not go out anywhere else, so you may wish to ask other, less boring, Glaswegians.

Morning.

good morning

morning! yow yow yow
i am all sunny again (stupid, sweet noyfriend)
GLASGOW! ok let me know where you are on fri night ailsa and i'll let you know where i am...

Ah, so you zub-conciously distrust zee penis, very interestink </freud>

I've no idea what the classic rock is like, Kerr, I haven't bought it. It's only like 6 months since the last prog rock special? Probably just more blether about how great spock's beard and porcupine tree are (except they aren't)

ANYWAY!!!

City & Guilds 2330-203 appl;ication of health & safety & electrical prinicples PASS W/Distinction 90%

Congratulations.

I am having a good deal of fun with your phaser, especially setting really slow gentle sweeps. Can you recommend a good non sprung expression pedal?

I'm not sure, I never used it with an expression pedal - I THINK you need one that ouputs 0-5v dc, rather than one with a resistor in it, but you'd best check first. Most/nearly all expression pedals should be unsprung?

Well done, Pash!

Things are drying up a bit here.

So I should be ok for Bradley Bear's Musical Funtime?

Hopefully - I'd still call them and check if I were you

angry mitya today. somehow between other people taking vacation, new people starting, my crazy colleague being a) unreliable and b) departing, and merger-related "activity," there is no space for me to take vacation at all!! i am so f@@@ing effed!!11! (this is on top of me being told i couldn't even travel over the long Russian holidays in January).

plus it was all done in a wonderfully passive-aggressive way, so i can't really complain about it, ie., my boss essentially told me two weeks (ie., june 15) ago that he'd prefer I take vacation in june (i.e., the following week). "Can't say we didn't give you the chance..." (ok, i don't think they're being that evil on purpose, just kind of thoughtlessly making it impossible for me).

Well done Norman!

Anyone else afraid to click on the Harry Potter thread for fear that some nasty ILXor will spoil it for you?

No. But then I've never read the books or watched the films.

Boris tonight in Glasgow!

Had a look. No spoilers. Just anticipation. The whole thing is closely guarded isn't it? Probably wont even be leaked before it comes out. (Unlike music)

Well, there was that big scandal a few years ago where the NY Post got a copy a few days before street date and printed a scans of a couple of (irrelevant) pages. Rowling/her publishers sued and got a big settlement. So you can imagine the retribution that would be coming on this one.

Quiet date on the internet today, it seems. Or I'm just not saying anything interesting...

Where's my pizza already, christ!

Yeah it's damn quiet today everywhere. Not just on ILX. I'm leaving soon to see Boris!

FP can't get ILX to work from his own pc still. Anyone got any ideas? he can access it from his dads pc.

Hey guys.

Sorry I've been offline for a few days, I caught a chill on Sunday while waiting for teh sodding rail replacement bus and came down with the death flu. :-(

I've also had horrible news about a very good friend of mine which has totally destroyed my faith in the world. Or at least the male half of it. :-(

I've got no voice and lost partial hearing in my one good ear. Getting really terrified about the gig on Friday.

But what does it matter, it's not like anyone will be there. Wah.

Hello there. As Kerr mentioned my ILX-at-home problems:

I upgraded my PC to Gentoo 2.6.20 on Sunday, and there's been some change, somewhere, to the networking in the kernel. Ever since, I've not been able to access ILX on my PC. The ILX server tries to send pages to my PC, but the networking layer in the kernel drops its packets.

*But*, it only ever happens with ILX. Every other website I use has no problems at all.

(my next diagnostic step: build a vanilla Linux kernel, to see if the problem is with Linux or with the Gentoo Linux patchset)

I wish I knew what FP was on about hehe. lets hope he gets back on ILX at home soon anyway.

Boris was great. Flood was amazing. They played about nearly 90 mins and Flood was about 40 of them. Great stuff.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6247870.stm

However, more rain is predicted.

There is expected to be rainfall of 15-25mm on Saturday, although some places could see 40-50mm.

Oh dear.

Indeed. Get some sandbags!

Just round the corner from my gf's flat:

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42424000/jpg/_42424510_garage_hull_pa_416.jpg

(I think - garages are hard to recognise)

christ that's crazy

We're just not used to rain in Britain

kinell.

However, my desk will soon look like that if my nose doesn't stop running. At least I've stopped running a fever, but alas no more hallucinations.

Kate/Ed do you have this?

you'd think they'd lower their prices a bit, no?

The petrol station or rise above?

The Litmus album? yes, I have a promo copy.

Any good?

petrol station

Yes, very good. A more metal version of Hawkwind. The 80s metal production bothers me in places, but you like metal, so you'll probably like it.

People should take the opportunity to fill up their motor boats direct from the pump tbh. Once in a lifetime opportunity rite?

omgz even the queen is shocked.

i am gonna be trapped in scotlands on saturday innit

Should be OK if you stick to the WCML.

You can jet-ski back to London.

wouldn't really mind being trapped in scotlands, never get to spend enough time there anyway.

You could watch loads of crappy scottish bands!

Yes, very good. A more metal version of Hawkwind. The 80s metal production bothers me in places, but you like metal, so you'll probably like it.

I hate 80s metal though!

It sounds like a load of other crap you love and I can't be bothered with, tho. :-P

Whoa, a concrete staircase just floated up outside the window. What the bejeezus?

Sorry, have I mentioned it here?

The "Krautrock Kenickie". This makes me laff so hard.

Is there a concrete body in it?

I can't find the litmus on the usual channels so i guess i need cookies..

Oh, I'll bring it tomorrow.

There is a building site next door, odd things go sailing up past our windows.

Emsk, Scotland is not flooded, so you are more than welcome to stay here if you can't get back home through floods. Are you sure your train is going to get you here without having to turn into a James-Bond-style jetski-train or something?

yay :)

ed is correct when he says west coast mainline should be ok, and that is how i'm coming up tomorrow.

i am meant to be going back on sat on the east coast line though, which i like more because it goes past the sea and angel of the north and for some reason i find something comforting about gner but which also goes through the part of england that is entirely underwater.

maybe i will get trapped in the northeasts

i have a saver return ticket

i can use this on any train, i think, except like before 10am and whatever, which isn't going to happen anyway

I like the East Coast Line too. Looking out over deserted beaches, Berwick and its swans.

I finally got round to playing that Kraftwerk "Bremen" boot.

"Heavy Metal Kids" !!!

It's great, isn't it?

It is, actually, yeah. The first album was my favourite, and it's bizarre hearing the crowd chanting "KrafT! WekK!" between tracks. Like they were "Slayer" or something.

I need to get hold of this.

I have it somewhere. It's quite a headfuck when it comes on after komentenmelodie or whatever the song just before it is in my iTunes.

I am still ill. And got caught in that crazy 10 minute cloudburst.

And I am now officially at war with my neighbours. Today the fuckers took the full rubbish bins and just stuck them outside the front door to my upstairs neighbour's flat, blocking the way out of the house - AND LEFT THE GATE TO THE COURTYARD OPEN.

It is not our rubbish day. Our rubbish day is Tuesday. Not that they've ever bothered to find out when it was, or once put the rubbish out.

And leaving the gate open when someone in the building was only just burgaled less than a month ago? Fuckers! Then again, its' them that leave their crap all over the courtyard, so it's them that would be robbed. I hate them. Always smoking outside my windows. Leaving cigarette butts everywhere. Knocking my plants over and not picking them up. I HATE THEM.

Not to mention that there are currently FIVE adults and a baby living in the flat. That's got to be illegal.

God, you people always stop talking when I show up.

It's OK, I'm going away again now. :-(

Maybe they're away letting all their hippy commune buddies know they're breaking the law.

It's my day off, why am I at work anyway?

Oh yeah, unlimited interweb access.

Why must work be so busy right now?

Mine is really slow. It's just before monthend. The calm before the storm.

Hey all.
So FOPP has officially gone

Kate I found the Litmus album, if it's good i'll order from rise above along with that Winters album.

See, if only you'd bought a CD or two from Fopp last time you were in Glasgow...

It is thought the stores are closed temporarily and some may be re-opened once the administrator has examined the books.

So, who knows (as yet)

Man, I wish I'd got to Fopp earlier the other day. :-(

You might have saved them!

If only more people were like dada and bought lots of new music!

The Brigadier Killed Fopp, I saw him.

You jammy Londoners
FRIDAY 13th July - OM play the Underworld - £12.50 advance

I think I'm going to see the Clorox Girls that night.

OM?

Yes, OM!

Are you missing at T?

I'd prefer it if Underworld were playing the OM, but hey.

There'll be queues round the block for that one

Om rule

Om Sweet Om

Both Om albums are on Kate's dvds. Maybe she will send you cookies.