UK Watercooler 13: Houston We've Had A Problem

The one outside Farringdon station stopped a couple of people before we realised it was a promo or something.

I've found the thing it's a promo for:

http://www.lastdaysofnewgate.com/

Which is your face? Celtic Curve? Goth Curve? Ginger Curve? Sunn o))) Curve?

and lets not leave out Forest Pines
http://costumeexpo.com/2005_products/funworld/9159r.jpg

Mwahahahaha!

Actually, I was thinking the other day, I really really want to make a tshirt that says "Some of my best friends are goths" on it.

-- Forest Pines

(Ok that was the best I could find for capes. Damn goths)
x-post.

I bet they all used to be goths anyway.

-- Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy

Maybe we should just let Kate choose which capes they wear.
http://www.monstermarketplace.com/googlesearch.asp?q=capes

-- Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy

Now this made me laugh
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Can you imagine them all wearing capes saying EASY on them?
hahahaha

-- Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy

There has never been a Goff element to our music.

Sorry, FP, I'm pulling rank on this one. I've wanted to call it this forever. You can get the next one. At this rate, it should only be a few weeks.

There has never been a Geoff element to our music.

Shame.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/gloucestershire/focus/2005/08/prog_rock_name.shtml

Hurrah! My Prog Rock Name is: Tangerine Machine

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/id/thumb/7/79/Rick_wakeman_on_stage_with_cape.jpg/435px-Rick_wakeman_on_stage_with_cape.jpg

Ancient of the Replicants, Dawn Destiny and Alien Dimension!!!!

(OK, I cheated for Brandon because he originally got the same name as Ben so I put his names in backwards.)

Which unlucky bastard is going to get Dawn Of The Replicants? Remember them?

Speaking of which, German sounds hillarious sung in a Texan accent.

That prog rock name generator is rubbish.

It is, isn't it?

Heh heh, fancy a burrito, Ben?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v89/Celitae/12.jpg

I don't think burritos are very prog. Or ARE they?

Wheres the pics of other prog capes then?

Cafe Pacifico used to be OK, but it's not as good as it used to be. Though they still have the best salsas in London. mmmm, peach salsa.

We're going to try and round up The Texan to eat Messican food in London and see how she laughs.

Oh, BTW, did you speak to her and sort out where Pentonville Road was?

done all that with chrissie.

Actually, how about the Texan Embassy?

I've only had margaritas there (after the album release party - at the actual Canadian Embassy) but they might be OK?

There's red and green on the bethnal green road but I've only heard about the quality of the drinks.

Lauren claims to have fond a good mexican but I never found out where it was.

http://home.maine.rr.com/abajoran/img2/abrick1a.jpg

Now that's a cape.

Not just cape, but wizard hat, too:

http://home.maine.rr.com/abajoran/img2/abrick8a.jpg

http://www.kingkoncert.com/Portals/7ecbf8d1-c7e0-4596-974c-cd348ddfe15f/Emerson.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v89/Celitae/11.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b132/mel_face/legos.jpg

I was reading the URL of that first celtic picture wrong, see I thought it said Elf In Magical Capes then I realised it was Elfin Magical Capes. Not that it's much of an improvement, to be honest.

http://static.last.fm/coverart/300x300/1428608.jpg

http://www.rhondaar.com/Home/SoulStealing/images/peter.jpg

(Except I swear that's been photoshopped, as he was wearing different pants. More thongy)

Goddamit, I KNOW that Peter Murphy wears capes, why can't I find a picture of one?

I give you "Alien Dimension".

I tried using GIS to back up the probably dubious proposition that rick wakeman was actually quite a good-looking guy when he was younger, pre-beard, but I'm not doing very well, most of the pics are of the older, fucked-up version. I did find this pic of him playing a keytar:

http://news.harmony-central.com/Newp/2002/GMEDIA-Rick-Wakeman.jpg

...which is awesome in its own right, obviously, and also this page where someone has made a scale model of his early seventies keyboard rig:

http://homepage1.nifty.com/tajioku/rick_e.htm

...which has to rock, really albeit in a sort of 1/48 scale way.

Actually, Rick Wakeman *was* hella cute in the early days. We've had this discussion before on ILX.

Let me think about that.

Oh yeah, Hawkwind. Duh.

(i am so very sorry but goal very open indeed)

Slightly down this morning, as the death of TOTP means that in the past six months, two of the pillars of my childhood (that and Smash Hits) have been wiped away. I feel old! And not well-dressed, as per that other thread.

I do have a new toy though - Opera on the Nintendo DS. I got it on Saturday, and have been sitting outside poking on the Internet. Oh sure, I have a laptop (although it's currently at Apple, as it's a shiny new Macbook that has broken horribly), but it's fun to poke around on the little screen keyboard, and then play Mario when you get bored.

You can tell how happy *I* am about work at the moment! Just wait until I get onto a rant about the new database's import/export functionality (the *only* API is for *VBA*, for fuck's sake)

xpost: a CD of what?

It's not *too* bad. The old one is a custom-built Ingres setup that has been running for fifteen years but no-one understands, and the new one is a proprietory system for schools with a horrendous interface, but at least it runs on SQL server.

VBA only? My goodness. That strays into the realms of torture, and not in a good way!

I am in the process of replacing all our old inter-systems interfaces - application A spits out CSV file, database X imports it directly in - with new, terror-filled ones - application A spits out CSV file, user opens an Excel spreadsheet (written by me) and pushes a button to load the CSV file into the spreadsheet, generate a heap of formulas, and do all the necessary VBA function calls to do the import. The code is *horrible*.

Actually, I'm happy. I spent most of the weekend recording and now have 2 new songs - one of which is the silliest thing I've ever recorded and the other one is my attempt at happy hardcore but it still sounds like shoegazing. Rah!

Must try and rip them and upload them.

Mitya, it sounds like she's been reading The Rules, which is bad for both boys and gurls. Sigh.

Stupid Rules.
My only rule is: neither men nor women are psychic, you have to say what you mean and what you want or you can't complain when you don't get it. I haven't always followed this mind you, because it's always nice to think that your needs might be anticipated and if they were really your soulmate they WOULD know what you meant and what you felt and blah blah.

i had a haircut, it cost like £17. wtf tbh.

Got some recording done over the weekend, though not as much as I would have liked. Mark's fancy acoustic guitar has a preamp that is very nice except it picks up a buzz from somewhere, so I have all these nicely-plyed acoustic parts, but there's a constant tizzzzzz which is just too loud. Likely I'll track in a string machine part, and filter it so it covers the frequency of the buzz. Annoying.

I also took delivery of this thing called a "Zeit", an amazing analogue-style step-sequencer, with memories, a mighty UI, lots of extra features and so on. I'm beta-testing it for the designer, who lives 20 miles away. I spent hours sounding like t-dream, dep mode & some weird hybrid of the 2.

http://www.myspace.com/masonicboomk8

Zeit sounds like fun!

a pic of four of them

Looks like something that would be controlling the world in the Hitchhiker's Guide!

The Heads are AMAZING, I totally love them. Most psychedelic thing I've heard in ages.

Paik were pretty good in a Loop stylee, I enjoyed them. Subarachnoid Space were slightly disappointing - though maybe I uploaded the wrong album. I'll give them another try.

kate's new stuff sounds good. couldn't grasp the lyrics to The Boy Haridresser over the office noise. out of your blog just sounds vindictive though. and isn't writing a song bitching about people bitching on their blogs er, the same thing? 8)

got fed up of the piles of cds littering the flat so went out on sunday lunchtime and bought another Argos cd rack like the two i already had (only not black as they don't do them in black anymore). got home, put all the unfiled cds into new rack and filled it up and i still have piles (albeit fewer smaller piles). curses.

wasn't that the second of a three part Folk thing on bbc4? (oh, could be a repeat) i watched it last time around. and it was great, even though i don't normally like that kind of thing.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/music/features/folk-britannia.shtml

i got goats...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/DBX-MINI-PRE-AMP-VACUUM-TUBE-MIC-BOXED-BRAND-NEW_W0QQitemZ270011172986QQihZ017QQcategoryZ47075QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Better out than in, as I usually tell people when they want to bitch about whatever I'm bitching about. Yes, I know it's self referential. What's wrong with that? I like the endless recursiveness.

Mushrooms, mmmmmm. Sounds good, Ed.

Paik were pretty good in a Loop stylee, I enjoyed them. Subarachnoid Space were slightly disappointing - though maybe I uploaded the wrong album. I'll give them another try.

I knew you would like The Heads. A buncg of their old singles and 12"s just sold for a fortune on ebay and I wish i had them all.

Best SubArachnoid Space albums to start with is "The Red Veil"

What did you think of Zombi?

Btw did i do Surface Of Eceon albums for you?

I will try The Red Veil tonight. (I started with Sleeping Sickness or whatever it was called, which was kinda samey.) And look for Surface of Eceon (blimey, these names just get better and better.)

I can't decide if that would inspire me to Eno-esque feather boas and platforms, or Numanesque black and white.

All these things are on your dvds so I hope its ok to talk about them!

http://www.hecklerspray.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/54.jpg

Though, uh, what's going on here is anyone's guess...

http://www.insanityartists.co.uk/images/general/leeotwayroster.jpg

http://www.itv.com/uploads/images/1136391965718_0.8945137111537331.jpg

UK Watercooler XIV: L'Etat, C'est Moi