UK Watercooler 37: My Marxist Feminist Dialectic Brings All The Boys To The Yard

Yeah, I know the title doesn't go with the number. It's still better than yours. Damn right.

http://thirty-seven.org/historical.html

Tough. It's named now and that's it.

I managed to clean the funk from my head with some Duran Duran. Ha ha. I have escaped your evil plans, Kerr.

See, you all howled and wanted a new thread, and I thought you'd be so happy you'd throw a 1920s free jazz party or something - but nooooo. Where is my 1920s wild jazz party now? Huh?

i'm envious of
your i.q. of
thirty-seven
(thirty-seven!)

or, in other words, hello Watercooler.

Hello!

Going to sulk now at the lack of 1920s jazz party. :-(

http://www.thesartorialist.com/photos/6069DanceRayWeb.jpg

you hate jazz

BEST EVER JAZZ ALBUM redone(AGAIN)

But I like flapper parties.

I'm beginning to think I don't like jazz that much either

I bought a flapper dress last week in Mpls.

Hurrah! Tom is finally seeing the light!

I like beardy scando-balaeric producers too much for mine own good.

Just have been listening to a lot of mid 60s New Jazz stuff, I hate the way that stuff is produced, WHERE'S THE FRIGGIN' RHYTHM SECTION!!!

"Yeah, like you gotta check out Milford Graves' drumming on this album, man, he is awesome, dude" Yeah, so why does it sound like he's rootling around in a cardboard box... two rooms away!!!!!!!

You are just taking the piss now, using this as an excuse to bang on about jazz on this thread.

Now you must post a pic of a current Kate lust object in order to attone for your transgression.

Errrrrrrrrrr, a Turkish 20s jazz dude?

that'll do. so long as he has a good beard.

It's a tribute to that Anal Cunt song "You watched "Thoroughly Modern Minnie" on BBC4 last night"

I'm so confused.

"Yeah, like you gotta check out Milford Graves' drumming on this album, man, he is awesome, dude" Yeah, so why does it sound like he's rootling around in a cardboard box... two rooms away!!!!!!!

I read this as a very strong recommendation -- that he was able to get through to the person doing the listening, despite all the faults in production. Like the assertion that great fiction simply translates to whatever language.

Sorry, you seem to be new around these parts. Jazz discussion is VERBOTEN on Watercooler threads UNLESS the post is accompanied by pictures of my current lust objects.

Yes, I know there's lots of strange rules on these threads, but it's kind of A THING.

that said...

http://www.self-titledmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/Lindstrom_005.jpg

I read this as a very strong recommendation -- that he was able to get through to the person doing the listening, despite all the faults in production. Like the assertion that great fiction simply translates to whatever language.

Is this true, though? Or is it something more due to reputation? Clumbsy production really can make things unlistenable to me *unless* I've been primed to already think of the substance as being great.

I often think about this in going back to records of bands I loved back in the 80s, when everything had that terrible chorusy sound. For instance, Throwing Muses The Real Ramona - which I love as a collection of songs, but the production is really distracting and I don't think I'd give it much of a chance these days if I hadn't already been predisposed to love TM from their earlier material.

(though perhaps I'm agreeing with you, because the songcraft on that album is outstanding, and shines through the terrible 80s production.)

Right, I'm so bored, I'm actually going to write some SQL views to translate those awful BLOB fields to VARCHAR.

I've got the new Annie album and I'm going to listen to it. Hurrah.

A good hook will get itself heard no matter what it has been decorated with (if we take production to mean decoration, which I guess isn't however I have been always somewhat 'deaf' to the whole issue of production; but on discussion of it I see its role as overevaluated when its talked about as obscuring quality) xp

Production is WAY more than just decoration. The way that a sound is recorded can utterly change the whole quality of that sound. Doing this well can lend a whole new dimension to a piece of music - doing it badly can reduce something amazing to a 2-dimensional cardboard box.

Thing is, someone who's not aware as to what exactly production is or does will not know what's wrong with the piece, they'll just say that it sounds "flat" or "boring" or "lifeless". Bad production can suck the energy out of a piece, destroy the emotional mood.

I think Kate should go listen to that album with Milford Grave's drumming.

Kate is too busy having her synapses massaged by scando-balaeric dronerock boys.

I have been always somewhat 'deaf' to the whole issue of production

I know, Julio! But I'm not though! I remember Brian Eno saying something about how a lot of avant-garde stuff just sounds shitty and sloppy, often on purpose it seems, it makes it more real, man, I suppose ... something like that anyway, I'm paraphrasing like mad... and I don't see the point in any of that. If something's good I want to at least be able to hear it!

It's seems like going to a gig and putting ear muffs on

Oh wait, is xyzzzz Julio? I feel rather dumb now. Sorry, didn't know it was you. But you should know better than to discuss Jazz on my thread! ha!

Yes, slapped wrists, Julio.

(really it's just a ploy to get other people to google for pictures of my lust objects for me, which never seems to work.)

I thought everyone knew it was Julio.

someone says "jazz" and he appears from nowhere to post should give the game away!

I think it was Milford Graves that did it

YOU SAID JAZZ. I DEMAND A PICTURE OF LINDSTROM OR EROL OR A HOTT BEARDYBOY.

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/25869583.jpg

^ Milford have a beard

Actually, he's kinda hott. And bearded. And has a paisley tie! Too bad about the jazz, tho.

Yeah, that is a nice tie!

*Ouch*

Hi Kate.

Actually what got me to look at the thread was that I liked the title of it.

But I'm not though! I remember Brian Eno saying something about how a lot of avant-garde stuff just sounds shitty and sloppy, often on purpose it seems, it makes it more real, man, I suppose

I like Eno but I wouldn't exactly trust him (or anyone) with that assertion; when the technique seems to have been so labouriously worked over a number of years it doesn't make sense to present it badly in a recording of it? The likelyhood is that the conditions under which this stuff was recorded weren't exactly ideal - not that I'd use that as an excuse.

I guess I can tell a scratchy recording from a good one, I shouldn't have said that - but I think enough can be transmitted through.

Ha ha, OK, the title comes from one of Anna's t-shirts. Which has got the most hits of anything I've posted on Flickr in the past few months, it does crack me up.

The likelyhood is that the conditions under which this stuff was recorded weren't exactly ideal - not that I'd use that as an excuse

I would use that as an excuse. On other occasions, like "Lick My Decals Off" (that old chestnut), it's just sheer incompetence.

hello all, I like the thread title.

I often find shoddy production to be a real barrier to listening, perhaps because I am technically minded and can hear the fuckups. Worse though is inappropriate production, too bright and sparkly for a dark and moody or aggressive band seems to be a common crime. (too slow wrt live performance often seems to be inflicted from behind the glass as well).

Less excusable on my part is my reluctance to listen to old crackly recordings. I'm sure I miss out on a lot of great folk and blues from old Smithsonian recordings and the like because I can't listen to a whole disc of gramophone crackle and early tape hiss.

I just have one thing to say:

ARRRGGHGHGHARARRGGGGHARAAAAARRRGGGHGHGHGHGHGH

That is all.

that's sounds like how my threads end

Hey party lovers, here's a lovely psychedelic mix by the lovely Richard Norris:

http://www.theloveunlimited.com/featured/richard-norris-live-at-nash.html

You know you want to listen to it. (I don't know who did the track list, tho - Shadows of Knight is spelled wrong. :-( )

http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll34/lisababy73/MetalKitty.gif

SO I was in Chicago last weekend and had a hire car, it had satellite radio which gave me the rather surreal opportunity to drive down the Kennedy Expressway listening to Annie Mac on Radio 1:

I really like this track, now:

http://www.noiseporn.com/2009/10/27/la-roux-2/

electronic music in the UK seems to have got really interesting again.

You are NOT linking to a LaRoux song, are you? Fie, Ed.

Oh, Boy 8-Bit mix. OK. I nearly had a heart attack for a minute there.

The music's good, but the moment her voice came in I just had a GET IT OFF GET IT OFF reaction.

The vocal I can take or leave, as with most vocals on electronic tracks.

Also, Norris mix is v.v. good. I have to drive to DC this weekend and I think it will earn me a speeding ticket.

Norris has the TOUCH OF WONDERMENT. I'm trying to build up the courage to ask him if he would have the slightest bit of interest in remixing us, and ifso, what his fee is. Coz, like those Time & Space Machine remixes are +++ superpsychedelic to the point where I'm realising that a lot of the wibble in BTWS remixes that I like is actually down to him. Except he probably doesn't have time with the whole new Grid album thing and he probably wouldnt' be interested in doing it anyway.

Worth an ask in my book, especially if the expected result is no with good reasons.

This may well deserve a thread of its own but what would consider to be the garage/psych standards? I'm thinking things that have passed from being things that get seen as covers to things where the song is more famous than any particular version.

I'm thinking

Louie Louie
Gloria

but what else?

hey joe
wild thing

Meaning stuff that was a standard back in the 60s, or stuff that's a garage/psych standard now?

If the former, "I'm A Man" and, erm, there's another blues song that they all had a crack at that escapes me right now.

Hey Joe - good call, but still not that one I'm thinking of

Train Kept A Rollin'

NO NO NO NO NOOOO I can NOT be getting sick. I'm DJing at Sonic Cathedral tonight (and FINALLY winning the competition with Farmer Brown) and I can NOT be ill.

I thought Farmer Brown had been defeated a long time ago.

I'm thinking more of in the 60s/70s, I feel that associations with a particular version are stronger now than back then.

Other Ideas:

The Witch
Fade Away (less sure about this one, other versions may count as Stones Covers)

I've never played Sonic Cathedral before tonight! This will be my first time!

Which song "The Witch" do you mean? I know 3 or 4 different songs with that title, but they're not covers.

I CAN NOT BELIEVE I've failed to bring any Chapterhouse with me. I'll go for Falling Down over Pearl, though. Pearl is played out.

Psychotic Reaction, Ed.

That's an original, and I can't think of any other bands at the time that covered it. Too strongly associated with The Count Five.

OK, finish the joke for me.

I'm DJing at a bar, and Kevin Shields walks in.

!!! and you say 'why the long nose?'

or "why the long noise"

(and not "why the nong noise" like I nearly typoed)

ha ha ha, good work, you two!

He so lovely, did you chat?

ha, in my cut/paste buffer right now:

My Bloody Valentine

Loveless: Remastered: 2cd
list price £16.99 your saving £8.00

release date: 04-01-2010

pre order now

"House of the Rising Sun"

I was stuck behind the decks for most of the night, didn't get to talk to anyone muchly.

I was just in Paisley, and there's not many shop window panes in the High Street other than Charity Shop Window Panes

Yeah, but the idea was that I would go around town centres with lots of closed shops, and paint all the closed-down shop fronts paisley as some kind of artistic regeneration!

Paisley could do with some Paisley, believe you me

Whoa, the most exciting thing in years happened on Streatham high street this morning. A car drove into the window of New Look. All the traffic ground to a halt so everyone who was waiting for the bus gathered and rubbernecked as they pulled it out. The police told us to stand back because there might be a CASCADE OF GLASS which we all wanted to see. But it just pulled out with no damage.

Still. It was the most exciting thing since those dudes got shot at the ice rink a few years ago.

Paging Suzy - sorry, can't find yr email and this won't fit in 160 characters.

Things got really weird last night. We ended up having to pull a midnight runner from the hotel. (after a really boring but insane Hoxton rave in a parking garage, argh, I'm too old for this shit.) Anyway, Dara is at mine now. Still sleeping at the moment. I actually have a pre-existing lunch date, but I've given her your mobile number and told her to call you when she wakes up. Maybe see you later?

Sleeping D? Now that's a surprise. I'm just hanging out here, cleaning flat and stuff so whenever she wakes, phone away (this may be when you get back, ha ha).

Am intrigued by midnight runner incident.

It's been kind of a comedy of errors lately. I'm off work today while we try to sort shit out. I have to go back to work tomorrow but she's here until Wednesday. Got quite a bit of gossip but nothing I feel like putting on a public forum.

Right. Now I have to do the laundry coz I'm glamourous. Ha ha.

Ah, will phone presently.

Still asleep. I'm back at work today.

LOL guess whose call got me out of the bath this morning?

My flat (AKA "sickbay" for the past 10 days but not now) is spotless and over the course of being ill last week, I lost about 3 kilos. BTW there's nothing more vile in the cough medicine department than Actifed for chesty coughs - I almost heave after each 10ml dose because it tastes like pure poison. Robitussin definitely tastes nicer.

Robitussin definitely tastes nicer.

Particularly with elderberry wine, or so Moby Grape would have us believe

I never do nothing but Beacham's Honey Lemon.

I forgot that scented candles gave me smokers cough. Ugh.

Beeechams/Lemsip-type drinks make me feel very nauseous - I have no idea why. Instead, I take a paracetamol and make a puree of garlic, ginger, one hot chili and lemon juice. Added (with one tsp of sugar) to hot water, this seems not to set me off as badly. A hippie I know brought me some Sambucol, which is elderberry-based immune system happytime elixir. It's what I take when I can't face the Actifed syrup, but it's £9 for a Robobottle when Robo is £3.

Yesterday in getting my clean bill of YOU DIDN'T HAVE THE OINK from the doctor, he informed me that catarrh is a combination of pus and dead white blood cells and tried not to laugh as I piped up with 'remember how I said that nausea was not part of this cold? Somehow that just changed...'

Jesus christ, I feel like I could lie down and sleep for a week. So exhausted.

A sad day. Just found out one of my friends from "the scene" died on Sunday. He only found out two weeks ago that he had liver cancer. I know he hadn't been round in a while coz he hadn't been feeling great. But this is just so sudden.

That's awful, I don't really know what to say.

I think you met him at my art opening. Martyn - tall guy, always glued to a camera - he toured with the Asteroid No.4 quite a lot.

I remember. Makes me want go to the doctor and get extensively probed.

I have pulled a muscle in my shoulder and I am not a happy girl.

Everything involving anything except the most tiny of mouse movements hurts. :-(

Seems to be the day for it, my lower back went into spasm yesterday afternoon, I am alternating between hot baths and hotpads.

Dara did her ankle in. INJURY SEASON. I don't even have any ibuprofen at work or anything. Bah.

Why will bloody Crystal freak out when I try to get it to do the simplest of joins? Grrrrrr.

I hate the internet.

People always think I'm serious when I'm joking.
And think that I'm joking when I'm completely serious.

Humour is hard enough for me IRL, trying to get it across on the internet is a complete waste of time. Why do I even try?

Scratch that, what I hate is human beings.

Food programme is about artisan turkish yoghurt this week:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00nhtk2/Food_Programme_Yoghurt/

also, retro synth ads:

http://retrosynthads.blogspot.com/

Will check out at work tomorrow, when I've got a decent connection.

In the meantime, want:

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/30537661/Lindstrm.jpg

Ah! the mysterious castle I found when I was in Broadstairs:

http://www.pashnit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=22770

hat, garden, chair or beard?

Hat, garden, chair AND beard. Especially if the luscious Norwegian proggy space disco scando-balaeric dude comes with all that.

Yeah, I know he looks a lot like Joe. But, well, actually HOTT. and talented.

(It is Lindstrom. I want to lick the beardo from his, well, "disco".)

Paging Ed,Possibly Pashmina,maybe even Tom D but definitely not Kate

OK, someone has just opened a new moneyspinner at the top of Regent Street. Takeaway called "LEBANEATS" two blocks from my office that sells Muhumara (aka Anatolian Breakfast), hallumi, foul mesdammes, Batinjan Rahib - I am just going to set up a direct debit emptying my paycheque in there so they can make me nommy nommy foods for lunch.

I just ate an amazing auberginey thing with some hallumi in a khobez and I am the happiest girl around.

OK I will be joining you at this Lebaneats place in the very near future.

Suzy I'm cross with you, I think you gave me your LURGY.

B-b-but I was ruled non-contagious the day before, by my GP! Look to recent house guests w/fresh airplane germs.

Just when I thought that autumn was finally over and my hormones would return to normal...

http://ceaidesunatoare.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/l_6e192b520fa615889837ef8e518c4a09.jpg
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/36281097/Pantha+du+prince+pantha1009.jpg
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/3330016/Pantha+du+prince+pantha2.jpg

This can NOT be good for me.

ha ha, I am recruiting new blood for the forum...

I think my libido has seriously lost the plot.

Horndogging like crazy over this...

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/292963/Aphex+Twin.jpg

Is that Aphex 10 years ago?

Dunno, but it's the 32p stamp for the "Heroes of IDM" series in 2011.

this is him now
http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/Mick-Hucknall-Photograph-C12148132.jpeg

No, it's actually WORSE than that.

Like his hair... it's really really bad. He cut it all off. And not even coz he was going bald. Just bad short hair. It SO doesn't suit him.

(and it's more like 20 years ago now, Ed... yikes)

I'm trying to get back into girlypop mode to DJ tomorrow but all I want to listen to is BLEEP BLOP BLOOOP.

Gonna try to get away with some girly Ellen Allien for my German techno bobbins quotient.

this is his hair now. see? not balding. just... BAD.

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/28267349/Aphex+Twin+RDJ.png

:-(

Oh god. The bad haircut explained. Not balding - GREYING. How's a greying ginger to cope?

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/7344877/Aphex+Twin+2506479898_ef6443fe72_o.jpg

This revisited obsession is really starting to worry me. Have I reached this point in my life that I have to recycle everything?

Where's everyone today? Did the Blunkett Twin scare everyone off?

So bored this morning.

Should I go to Belfast to install a printer?

I like Belfast. Irish boys are unbearably cuet.

ara sure ma'am that's a terrible generalisation

I has a swine flu.

Can't complain, really: I'm walking, talking (softly), coffing a bit and sweating a swimming pool overnight.

And at home.

blog it!

(eh maybe you just did)

The proportion of boys being 1) ginger and 2) pointy-nosed is higher in Northern Ireland than just about anywhere else in the world. However, I got so excited about it, they're now not sending me. Bah.

Oh noes, piggy pox. My comiserations!

Today is going to be a good day. I've got Expert Knob Twiddlers blasting on the headphone, I've cleared a couple of hours for playing with the new version of Crystal and I'm really looking forward to it - but I JUST KNOW - this is when some stupid user is gonna call up with "I has this stupid problem...." that will take 2 days to fix. :-(

The main strain of virus has been termed A/California/07/2009 (H1N1) by scientists

Ahaha, good old scientists (for once)

I am officially off work with "A California"

I wish they all could be California swiiiiine....

Kate, how long did yours run for?

We're supposed to be going up north this weekend, but as one grandparent has diabetes, it may not be on.

I was out cold for nearly a week. I mean, I thought I felt better after about 3 or 4 days, but when I started to feel better, I tried to get up and had to just lie down again. It wasn't even the main flu that was so bad, but the recuperation period is a bitch.

I'm so confused. I'm talking about Rayleigh Scattering, Asobi Seksu and Aphex Twin tentacle sex in 3 different windows and I hope I'm getting the right answer in the right box. Or this could get really interesting.

So here's me, sending "interesting" stories to Andrew Collins' 6Music show...

I can't remember what I did when I had the piggy pox. Slept, mostly, if memory serves. My headache was so bad I had to have sunglasses on, indoors.

I cannot make my bloody date query work, no matter how I format it. :-(

But on a happier note, I keep discovering goldmines of new pics of lust objects on the interweb, so at least that's good.

I've decided that the haircut is cute when it's freshly done...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2128/2116089906_6403c9dc23.jpg

...but looks awful when it's in that growing out ginger furball stage.

This, however, is just... WRONG.

http://l.yimg.com/g/images/spaceball.gif

(yes, I am that bored.)

oops, really wrong.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3064/2843953414_6b3aabb0f8.jpg

He looks like Charles Bronson in that one.

You know, usually, no matter what silly face he's making, he never scares me.

But that pic, he scares me.

Sigh. I wish I were back by the seaside.

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/37299095/Aphex+Twin+Richard+D+James+on+the+beach.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmJVXHLjVhk

Needs a little more...

http://sciencenotes.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/chthulu-thomas-kinkade-lighthouse.jpg

I WANT A BEARD I WANT A BEARD I WANT A BEARD.

Also, an NHS dentist.

Ow.

http://www.nhsdentist.com/find-a-nhs-dentist-sw6/find-an-sw6-nhs-dentist.html

I did find a Dr Beard, but it was in Barrow-in-furness.

Great. Now can you find one in SW16?

I keep playing with the chipped tooth because it's really sharp but that's making it even looser.

http://www.getmeadentist.co.uk/nhs_dentists.asp

God, I feel like crap, again.

Do you want to listen to some Swine Flu Hemagglutinin? My dad sent me an MP3 of its genetic structure translated into electronic music to sooth me to sleep when I was really really ill.

Ah, there is actually a dentist on my high street. Will drop in on Saturday if the Tooth is still bothering me. But it's been bothering me for something like 20 years, so I think it can wait.

I forgot to sign on for dental insurance in the appropriate window and I have to wait till january before I can again.

I will probably regret the decision to blog all the lost output of Shimura Curves and related side projects and proto-bands but, erm, right now it seems like a good idea. Trying to get inspired again to get it all going.

http://www.hollowearth.org/images/hairy_pp/lemon.jpg

For a second, I thought that was a solo project I'd forgotten about.

I hate when I run out of work before I run out of the day.

TODAY'S CUET GINGER:

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/5081014/Aphex+Twin+Richard+and+his+blue+sweater.jpg

gargargharrgggh

Today I plunged back into Godel Escher Bach - I left off at the end of the first part and decided to give my brain a rest before part 2. I have to be careful reading it on the bus so I don't miss my stop. Or, the other problem is, I have to stop every few paragraphs because something he says will make me think about something else, and that will lead on into some labyrinthine tangle of thoughts from which I can't escape for ages, and when I get back to the book, I have completely lost my place and have to go back to the beginning of the page again.

only cute ginger today is the pudsey bear gingerbreadman i bought from Greggs

GINGERBREAD MAN ARRGGGHHH OMNOMNOMNOMNOM

As I was coming back from John Lewis (and I only narrowly managed to avoid buying Duchy Originals Ginger Stem Chocolate cookies because I was alreayd buying Gu Millionaires Flapjacks) I had the idea floating around in my head that there should be like, easter bunnies, but instead of rabbits made of chocolate, like, little RDJs made of chocolate.

But a GINGERBREAD RDJ would be the BEST! THING! EVAH! damn, I wish I had an oven.

I want to make a gingerbread mansion again and fill it with gingerbread RDJs.

Gingerbread wendy house would be more appropriate IMO.

If I had an oven, I could do it. My gingerbread architecture skills are LEGEND.

Do they do gingerbread houses in Istanbul? Gingerbread palaces? Gingerbread Yalis?

Would it have polygon windows?

Only if I can get the gingerbread caustic enough.

I wonder if I could build this out of gingerbread?

http://riskybuildings.c20society.org.uk/img/29faraday/01sm.jpg

Ok, seriously, I have some stiff competition...

http://yogamum.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/gingerbread_house_13.jpg

like, HOLY SHIT.

http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/ginger-bread-house-6.jpg

blimey

The use of pretzels is totally inspired.

But is that a pepperoni roof?

I thought they were pink necco wafers, but, erm, if it's pepperoni... eeeeuuuwwww.

I am glad that I've now made it to the diner as this proliferation of baked good on ilx today was not sitting well with the lack of breakfast materials in the flat.

I fully expect some kind of gingerbeard aphex cupcakes by the end of the weekend.

HA HA shit didn't even notice that typo as I was posting that.

I think this is just about the hottest thing I've ever seen in my life.

Yeah, I know that I say that about every boy with a massive coccoon of synths, but seriously. I think I just came.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3302/3189335574_13ed8c4c3b_b.jpg

that *is* an EMS synthi by his shoulder, isn't it? I feel like I'm cheating on Sonic Boom's synthi, but really. Too hott.

If I don't stop looking at VCS3 and Synthi pr0n I'm gonna get hairy palms.

One of these days, I really am going to just make a bot that posts to this thread every three days, going, like... "uuuh, gingers! synth pr0n! LOOK AT THESE COOL MEGALITHS!!!" with some random pictures.

And see if anyone notices the difference.

It's getting serphisticated now though, it's claiming to get around to inventing itself at some point in the future!

it's.... it's.... ALIVE!!!

http://www.lusternia.com/images/races/megalithNexus.gif

That said, INDONESIAN OWL MEGALITHS, HOW COOL IS THAT?!?!?

http://www.sulawesi-adventure.com/images/megalith-hamboa.jpg

It has a very suspicious bulge.

What the hell is suspicious about a phallic bulge on a bloody MEGALITH?!? the whole thing's a phallic symbol.

(that said, owl penises are not something I really want to contemplate.)

find me some more RDJ synth pr0n. I know you've got to have sources, Ed.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/138/333750926_9885857297.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/151/333750924_a36bc82a47.jpg

that is an crappy laptop, not an SYNTH, Ed. x-post

I do like his anorak, tho.

give me SSSSSSSSSSYYYYYYYYYYYYYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTHHHHHHHHHHHHSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/19436229/Aphex+Twin+RDJ+2.jpg

This one freaks me the fuck out most of all, because every time I see it out of the corner of my eye, I think "that's me - no wait, when did I get a beard?"

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/238200/Aphex+Twin.jpg

specifically *this* photo shoot:

http://b0.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00872/01/46/872546410_l.jpg

wrong on so many levels.

So fucking bored this afternoon - though at least I got to show off my new Crystal toys to the FD when he came down to get his bike.

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/7344877/Aphex+Twin+2506479898_ef6443fe72_o.jpg

he looks so... timid!

looks like a ginger mighty boosh

Has he had kids or something? Or gone on Ritalin? Because otherwise, how do you go from this:

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/28738015/Aphex+Twin.jpg

to this:

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/13550871/Aphex+Twin+aphex_twin_sept_2008.jpg

Trust me, old age alone doesn't do it.

(old age... sheeeit, he's the same age as me eeep)

he has probably done many many many many many many drugs

(and if he doesn't have kids, erm, would he like to have some? with me?)

you don't want these kids
http://www.barriomulas.com/2008/07/20/Aphex%20Twin%20-%20Come%20To%20Daddy-1.jpg

I was just coming here to post that.

instead here's a particle physics themed lolcat.

http://static.arstechnica.com/in_ur_atom_ars.jpg

I thought they were pink necco wafers, but, erm, if it's pepperoni... eeeeuuuwwww.

Necco wafers are all dusty and chalky looking. These are shiny.

You know, it's kind of creepy/weird and enticing as well at the same time, this idea of breeding with or even making out with someone who is supposed to look so much like you.

But it's not as if he hasn't thought about it.

I mean, wouldn't these kids

http://www.barriomulas.com/2008/07/20/Aphex%20Twin%20-%20Come%20To%20Daddy-1.jpg

be the logical offspring of this union?

http://i21.tinypic.com/10px012.jpg

Oh wait, is the beam going yet? I missed so much going to the pub with my boss, but it was his birthday.

OK, I really *have* seen everything now.

Cthulhonic dildo:

http://whipspiderrubberworks.com/catalog/images/tentacle1.jpg

SO WRONG. SO VERY VERY VERY VERRRRRRRRY WRONG.

(it goes without saying that I want one.)

OH GOD IN TWO VARIETIES

http://whipspiderrubberworks.com/catalog/images/jellyfish.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/138/333750926_9885857297.jpg

haw beer can indicates pic prob taken in my place of birth!

never occurred to me spontaneously the AFX = MBK8 similarity, but yes I can see it!

Cthulhonic dildo sounds like a great band name but I'm not sure for what genre. porn-prog?

Where were you born, Anatol?

there are very cuet pics of Richard camping out around a bonfire in the same Flickr set, but I can't read where it is as it's in some odd Nordic language I don't speak.

beardy Nordic bonfire sausage party rituals in the woods...

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/140/333750929_e595d70bf0_b.jpg

love how everyone else is all sensibly camouflaged but Richard is all "wait, how can you make a ginger even MORE conspicuous in the woods? GIANT ORANGE ANORAK, that's how!"

apparently he has mad bonfire building skillz

Where were you born, Anatol?

Tromsø, ie 69 deg 40 min Northern latitude, sometimes wonder whether I am the northernmostborn ilxor (plenty of likely birthplaces in Norway north of it though, possibly in CAN, USA and RUS as well).

(beercan in last pic is from Sarpsborg, though.)

(where my brother was born, heh!)

Cool! I like the idea of super-far-North almost arctic circle Norway.

Guess what I forgot to do yesterday? Register with the dentist on my high street. I've been scaring myself with "pics of what my teeth looked like before cosmetic dentistry" photos...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2756/4124565674_aab35a61d1_o.jpg

It really scares me to think that I still have one of those terrible teeth, albeit chipped and slowly decaying.

Also, wow, there's some bloody cool architecture up there! I love the falling dominoes house!

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Polaria_Tromsø.jpg

and the weird mirror fish thing that's the library! awesome.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tromsø_library_-_2005-09-13.jpg

want to go there!

super-far-North almost arctic circle Norway

no "almost" even -- it's over 200 miles north of the a/c! Haven't been there myself since shortly after birth though.

ILLUMINATI FREEMASON OR NOT?!?!?!?

http://upload.drarok.com/uploads/2558-3949865963_c45d88a602_o.jpg

That is some pretty grade A serious Yoni-Magick symbolism she is rocking there. I love it.

Lets keep the cooler going.

Roll Call:

I'm here. Hello All.

Lets take this chance to talk about Jazz!