this is the thread where marcello, mark s, suzy and kate decide when we are all going to hang out

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well?

― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

soon-ish but after easter cz i am in shropshire then

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm in barcelona for easter ... got a band review for tuesday and my editor's birthday and wednesday - well - anytime after thursday!!!!

― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Cliquish! Exclusionairy! Popularity contest! Econometrics! Sycophantic onion rings!

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 16 April 2003 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

nah. i'm too unpopular on ilx. i just want to round up some friends.

― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 19:07 (twenty-two years ago)

(I'm just over-caffeinated and was trying to make mock accusations of the old ilm nu ilm sort.)

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 16 April 2003 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

again, i was very unpopular on old ilm so that really does not apply.

― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

(Don't feel bad, I'm just joking around unsuccessfully in an out-of-character way. Now I'm feeling guilty about purposefully invading this thread.)

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 16 April 2003 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I was hoping this thread was "this is the thread where marcello, mark s, suzy and kate decide when we are all going to lez up."

― hstencil, Wednesday, 16 April 2003 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)

it is!!

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 19:28 (twenty-two years ago)

you should all relocate to newcastle-upon-tyne. it's very nice!!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

aww, you forgot about Ed!

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 17 April 2003 05:52 (twenty-two years ago)

suzy is a hybrid!!!! : - D So no - I didnt.

― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Thursday, 17 April 2003 05:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I wish I was Sonny. heh. :-)

― nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 17 April 2003 06:37 (twenty-two years ago)

>> personal request from a representative of the overseas ilxspora:

> dear marcello, mark s, suzy and kate and co,
> whenever you get to eventually hang, could you-would you please,
> for the benefit of the non-london ilxspora,
> do the hanging live on the radio?

> i promise not to phone in and ask 'bout mark s's book, honest.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 17 April 2003 07:29 (twenty-two years ago)

But I don't want to hang! I'm finally happy! I like my life! I don't want to hang myself any more!

So, erm, yes. After Easter. Definitely. Let's lez up. Ha-HEM. I mean meet up. Can I bring Handsome SoundArist? (If HSA can stand to be in a room full of former and current Wire writers without screaming and running off screaming about his oscillators...) Can one of you bring me the back issue with the luscious pouting full page colour photos of Handsome SoundArtist?

― kate, Thursday, 17 April 2003 07:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Kate, the HSA man is more than welcome! :-)

But yes, terrific idea. I'm away for Easter tomorrow but will be back in London from Monday 28th onwards, so any time after that (except Thursdays) will be OK :-)

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 17 April 2003 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

that's cool - so maybe sometimes umm, the weekend after this one? i hope nothing comes up ... i would like to go out. let's keep this thread open. we should actually do something - like err, see a band or something????

― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Thursday, 17 April 2003 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, I'm back now - hope you all had a good Easter, etc. (mine was a slightly boring but entirely necessary pit stop. Mostly I spent it writing up next month's Uncut reviews). Is this meet-up still happening?

― Marcello Carlin, Sunday, 27 April 2003 11:14 (twenty-two years ago)

email me, marcello!!! we will sort it out. i don't check ilx that often...

― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Sunday, 27 April 2003 11:16 (twenty-two years ago)

ditto ditto

(well i check ilx all the time obv but i think email is the way to go on in re this matter)

(marcello, talitha sends yr her love, she is already planning picnics...)

(sonny i have been dropping the ball all spring: mea total culpa)

(suzy and kate and ed: hey there, i am yrs to play with)

(lurkers: i kiss u, u all roXoR)

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 27 April 2003 11:28 (twenty-two years ago)

o.k, i am working in hackney at the mo' ... i made plans with suzy on thursday (which are no good for marcello) .... howsabout, well, i was going to say next weekend but i am in paris, am interviewing somebody on monday, tuesday is novel day, wednesday is alan day, thursday is suzy day, friday ... friday night might be good ... or we can hang out early saturday morning????

― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Sunday, 27 April 2003 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Huh? Huh? Wha? Sorry, I have disappeared into the world of pipes and slippers and smug couplehood and have not been paying attention to my friends blah blah blah but YES!!! Must make an effort to hang out with my other friends. Friday evening is good for me. And, as it is PAYDAY, I intend on going record shopping on Saturday morning if you'd like to make it a monthly ritual, Marcello.

I need to pick up The Church's _Starfish_ and Sonic Youth's _Goo_ and Peter Gabriel's _Passion (Last Temptation of Christ Soundtrack)_

― kate (suzy), Sunday, 27 April 2003 13:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Record shopping on Saturday morning seems like good fun - shall we plan? I just have to be at UCL for 3:30 sharpish...

― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Sunday, 27 April 2003 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I've never actually been in the rough trade shop...

― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Sunday, 27 April 2003 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Kate - can you email Marcello, etc - and let's get this party started!!! Woohoo!!!! Time and dates - might be fun to go for coffee and hit record shops ...

― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Sunday, 27 April 2003 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

i can do this also as long as i am not required to actually buy records :)

(and not to barge in on kate and marcello's time together if they'd prefer not...)

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 27 April 2003 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm barging, so Mark S you can barge as well! If they are going to make it a monthly ritual - than we have to celebrate by all going along!

― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Sunday, 27 April 2003 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

etiquette is not dead!!

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 27 April 2003 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Not that I'm scared, obv, but does Sonny get around UCL way terribly often. See, I work there...

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 27 April 2003 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

julio is at UCL also, and a couple of my friends are there, and also a mutual friend of ed, ambrose and i. small world!

― gareth (gareth), Sunday, 27 April 2003 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Or big university in the middle of town, perhaps.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 27 April 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, I want to meet up with Julio soonish. Martin no need to worry - yer secret identity is safe with me ...

― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Sunday, 27 April 2003 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

julio is cool guy, you will like him

― gareth (gareth), Sunday, 27 April 2003 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

thank you master gareth.

― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Sunday, 27 April 2003 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, he is sweet. (Not much of a secret Sonny - if you look in the online UCL directory under my ILX name, there I am. In fact I'm in charge of the system that generates said directory, so could keep my identity secret more easily than anyone else at UCL.)

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 27 April 2003 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I mention you too my girl and she knows you!

― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Sunday, 27 April 2003 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

!!! Oh dear, etc.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 27 April 2003 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

don't worry - i'll make sure she gives you the evil eye from now on!!!! ; - )

― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Sunday, 27 April 2003 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

You aren't going to tell me who she is, are you? I'm not sure what I'd do with the info if you did, of course...

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 27 April 2003 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Nope. She's not involved with ILX and she has her original name. So you can't track her, either. Plus she would be very very pissed. And understandably so. She is very good at what she does. It's funny, in a strange paranoid way (meaning harmless but still kind of 'it's a small world sort of way').

But here is a hint - she's very pretty!

― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Sunday, 27 April 2003 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

martin thinks everyone is pretty!

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 27 April 2003 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

She has just informed me that you are funny and very nice to deal with...!!!

― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Sunday, 27 April 2003 18:13 (twenty-two years ago)

martin is a honey

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 27 April 2003 18:16 (twenty-two years ago)

martin in good guy SHOCKAH!!! : - D

― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Sunday, 27 April 2003 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

you're all soooo sweeeetttt!!!!!!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 27 April 2003 18:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Ahh!!! Julio do you still want to meet up???

― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Sunday, 27 April 2003 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah sure. when is it OK for you?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 27 April 2003 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

give me a time - and i will sort it out - i.e. when you are free.

― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Sunday, 27 April 2003 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I have visions of Martin going - WHO IS SHE?? I MUST FIGURE THIS OUT..... and scanning his many databases of London and running queries...sort of like Batman in his batcave.

― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Sunday, 27 April 2003 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

any weekday at say, 1-2 pm (lunch). I do take a tea break at abt 4pm.

is that OK? (I mean, the above isn't fixed or anything, I can have lunch at 12 or tea at five).

this week is all fine apart from tuesday aftrenoon.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 27 April 2003 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

is it that rigid? i am working in hackney (mark s!!) at the moment - the soonest i can make it cross town - let me see - it would have to be five thirtyish ...

― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Sunday, 27 April 2003 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

no it isn't rigid at all. we can meet late too (sometimes i'm at uni until 7/8pm).

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 27 April 2003 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

whereabouts (approx if u phear stalkage)?

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 27 April 2003 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

ok, cool, do you want to perhaps meet up on friday???

whereabout ... near the red cross....

― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Sunday, 27 April 2003 18:34 (twenty-two years ago)

oh that is not far!

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 27 April 2003 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm on contract until prob. near the end of june - we can def. meet up in hackney...?????? It's up and coming, apparently, Mark!!!

― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Sunday, 27 April 2003 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

haha yes it has been "up-and-coming" for 20 years

but we can certainly meet up

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 27 April 2003 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)

yes we can do friday. I don't quite know where (shall i think of somewhere and report back or can anyone suggest?)

The UCL chemistry department is opposite bloomsbury theater (gordon street) (nearest stop is euston on nothern line).

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 27 April 2003 18:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Good thing I only say positive things about work here. Well, mostly. I won't try to guess - female and pretty doesn't narrow it down so much, after all. She is welcome to mention it when we next interact at work, but I won't stare at all the attractive women trying to guess.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 27 April 2003 18:38 (twenty-two years ago)

we can go down to islington if you prefer - and hang out ala the jets - in tonyblairit'sanewdream ville???

julio - just suggesting anywhere on friday and i'm cool like that.

don't worry - my girl bitches about ucl all the time!!!! a secretary got all 'oooh...someone is planning her holidays on company time' this week and man o man did i hear bitching..

and staring at attractive reason - well, now, you have a reason to chat up females!!!

― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Sunday, 27 April 2003 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)

As if I need a reason! My section is very good and not at all silly about things like that, I'm glad to say.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 27 April 2003 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

''julio - just suggesting anywhere on friday and i'm cool like that.''

yeah sure. I'm fine with anything really. islington is good.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 27 April 2003 18:42 (twenty-two years ago)

it's the new secretary for her section - the other one was chilled but left for more money ... now she is commenting on what time my girl gets in, etc.... the new girl complained about when my girl's boss, boss, got in late as well - she sort of reminds me of that perfume girl from MAD.

islington, julio???? that's cool. worker's cafe, then???

― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Sunday, 27 April 2003 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

mark s - you can come along as well - if you are not busy. worker's cafe is cool. and you don't get so many wankers there...(i dig the record shop in islington..)

― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Sunday, 27 April 2003 18:47 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah fine. we can meet at the nearest tube stop (highbury and islington on the nothern line I'm guessing?) and go there.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 27 April 2003 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

that's cool. martin you can come if you want??? so what time, julio. ps. it's on the victoria line (northbound)- you can get on at warren street.

― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Sunday, 27 April 2003 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

how abt 6pm? is that OK?

so we can meet outside warren street yeah (is that the nearest?)

I'll have a black puma bag.

mark s knows what i look like so if he's coming...

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 27 April 2003 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I appreciate the invite, and maybe another time, but I'm pretty much expecting to be out with an old friend that night.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 27 April 2003 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Just replying to all the emails - OK, let's do the Saturday record shopping (i.e. me, Kate, Doomie & Mark S). Say about noon? Where do we meet?

(I'll email you with this as well)

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 28 April 2003 10:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Goodness! This has become an expedition! You all have to promise not to laugh at the records I buy, because I want very specific ones! Inside the Tottenham Ct Rd entrance of the Virgin Megamonster is always my suggestion. Conveniently close to Berwick St/Covent Garden record shops. And there are magazines to read if anyone (read: probably me) is terrible late.

― kate, Monday, 28 April 2003 10:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Also of course very handy for hanging out in Soho Square; that is if it's not raining, ahem. Yep, Virg Meg sounds good to me.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 28 April 2003 10:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Not that I'm scared, obv, but does Sonny get around UCL way terribly often. See, I work there...

Errrrrm, so do I...

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 28 April 2003 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Sonny is fab and nothing to be scared of. Unless your phobia is extremely tall people.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 28 April 2003 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks Suzy ... but oh well - if they want to be scared - let 'em.

Julio ... sounds good but meet me in front of the highbury/islington tube station.... get on at warren street.

12??? might be a bit rough.

― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Monday, 28 April 2003 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Nordicskillz, I didn't know that! In what capacity? Julio is a doctoral student, and I'm in what is basically UCL's software house.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 28 April 2003 18:16 (twenty-two years ago)

12 is good for me on saturday - see you at the front entrance of the virgin megastore - my anti-socialism almost kicked in and cancelled! Suzy, I will see you on Thursday and Julio, I will see you in front of the Highbury Islington tube @ 6:00 pm.

― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Monday, 28 April 2003 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

yup. see you on friday. really looking forward to it.

(as i said I have a black puma bag and I'll look for a really tall guy. I won't be scared)

is mark s coming along on friday?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 28 April 2003 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

dunno ... he's not written. i hope he will. am just listening to kate bush 'hounds of love' and writing a short story for an anthology. so i'm relaxed. when i don't write - i get scary. like some scruffy boho freak itching for a fix. i think i want to sell some cds....????? so we can head to the record shop and then off to the workers cafe? cool?

i sort of look like a ugly jewish version of kevin spacey crossed with a 1970s sears model - and i dress like the straight guy at woodstock who just took lsd for the first time and have standard issue indie army spectacles.

― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Monday, 28 April 2003 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, OK. record shopping is always good.

and I'll keep yr description in mind.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 28 April 2003 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Nordicskillz, I didn't know that! In what capacity? Julio is a doctoral student, and I'm in what is basically UCL's software house.

Heh, Martin I was just telling julio this the other day. I've been temping at Birkbeck for the last month. Only got a week left, though!

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 28 April 2003 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)

i think i'm busy on friday guys, sorry

sat = i'm there

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 28 April 2003 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

U R GAY

― Sonny Tremaine (Sonny), Monday, 28 April 2003 20:15 (twenty-two years ago)

yup.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 28 April 2003 20:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Nordicskillz, we should meet while you are here. How are your lunchtimes? If we can make it a threesome with Julio so much the better.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 28 April 2003 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Martin, my lunchtimes, like those of paid-by-the-half-hour temps the world over, are criminally short! :)

In fact, "lunch" is usually twenty minutes spent at my desk eating a sandwich and momentarily feeling unselfconscious about being on ILX. I'm coming to the FAP on Thursday, though (if it's still on). Are you going?

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 28 April 2003 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

That said, the SOAS bar is criminally cheap!

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 28 April 2003 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, I'll be at the FAP. Have you bumped into Pete in the SOAS bar yet?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 28 April 2003 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

No, does he study there? Oh wait, I don't really know what he looks like anyway...

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 28 April 2003 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

oops-just remembered, it's in his email address isn't it?

Still - I've never met an ILX0R! The closest I've come is speaking to julio on AIM :)

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 28 April 2003 20:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I think Pete manages the SOAS bar, or something like that. You will see, and far worse hear, him on Thursday.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 28 April 2003 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Martin - I know exactly what Pete does, I just saw his name on a door. I've been walking past his office every day for last couple of months! It's funny to think he might be in there on ILX...

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 08:08 (twenty-two years ago)

that is really funny.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

REVIVE!

''Julio, I will see you in front of the Highbury Islington tube @ 6:00 pm.''

so just checking if you're OK for this sonny.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 2 May 2003 09:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm cool to meet, still - looking forward to it! I'm wearing the t-shirt that says 'Giant Robot'...

― Sonny M, Friday, 2 May 2003 10:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think I'll be able to make the Saturday meeting, though. I've just been feeling terribly aware this week.

― sonny m, Friday, 2 May 2003 10:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah. Great. Doomie suggested this whole thing, and now he is avoiding me.

You know what? I'd rather sleep in on Saturday morning. Marcello, can we make it later now? Like 2-ish?

― kate, Friday, 2 May 2003 10:42 (twenty-two years ago)

later is ok for me

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 2 May 2003 10:50 (twenty-two years ago)

better, probbly: i'd like a lie-in also

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 2 May 2003 10:51 (twenty-two years ago)

believe or not, it has nothing to do with you kate. but thanks for your auto-defense mechanism.

― sonny m, Friday, 2 May 2003 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Groovy, Mark! I will text Marcello later today and suggest meeting at 2pm, same bat-place, same bat-channel.

My hangover is making me v. v. cranky. Especially since my boss KNOWS that I am hungover and decided to make me do all this filing that involved lifting v. heavy boxes. Sadistic bastard! :-(

― kate, Friday, 2 May 2003 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

hey sonny I'll see you there. look forward to it. as I said: black puma bag and I'll have a big umbrella (blue and white) on my hands.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 2 May 2003 11:24 (twenty-two years ago)

met sonny and had a good time. thanks :-)

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 2 May 2003 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)

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