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

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If you don't what it's about by now, you never will.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

i knew at first, i don't anymore.

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Monday, 31 July 2006 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

Welcome to our new home:

http://p.vtourist.com/852587-Versaille-Versailles.jpg

I quite like the idea of being an absolute monarch.

I still don't have anything to do at work. :-(

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

Is it about... you?

― Not Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 31 July 2006 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

Didn't Tompaulin do a song called The Boy Hairdresser?

I am angry. My mother (who is a moron who deserves to be shot) has managed to lose the cat, miles from home.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 31 July 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

I have no idea. It was the name of Joe Orton's first novel. (I think? Or was it a play?)

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

(At one point I was going to call it The Boy Eraser, but then I put the vox and guitars on, and it stopped sounding so much like TY.)

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

What were she and the cat doing miles from home?

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 31 July 2006 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

Cats (and mothers) are like homing pidgeons. They have special extra senses which allow them to navigate home, even after several miles.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

the boy hairdressers were a band on 53rd and 3rd. scottish. twee. bmx-bandits / teenage fanclub related. named after Joe Orton book, probably.

http://www.twee.net/bands/boyhairdress.html

oh, that bloke who did the tape on the floor stuff for the last turner prize is ex-boy hairdressers...

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A02E1DE1E38F937A2575AC0A9679C8B63

great picture, very dazzleships:
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/turnerprize/2005/images/mentaloyster2.jpg

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Monday, 31 July 2006 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, he was the cute one, wasn't he? Awww.

mmmm, I got Paneer from Tooting instead of Sainsburys for this curry and num num, yes, it's actually better.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

Going to the vet. She had just got off the bus, and apparently the cat box lid (to which its handle is attached) "fell off".

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 31 July 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

Is it me, or is, like, everyone on ILX pregnant at the moment?

(Except, of course, for the boys.)

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

So no love for the free cd offer, I defy anyone not to find something to like across the two discs.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 31 July 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

Some of the ILX boys are expecting, if not actually carrying.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 31 July 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

I said I wanted a CD, Ed! Or is this different from the Mushroom thing you were talking about? If you're making compilations CDs of course I wants one.

x-post... ::throws self off bridge::

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

Er I only know of one other pg person! And one expecting man.

Oh FP, how awful :(

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 31 July 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

I hope you know at least one expecting man Archel!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 31 July 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

i need a new name, this one is way old and liek, totally not topical anymore.

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Monday, 31 July 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

Ok two men!

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 31 July 2006 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

-- teh_kit has expensive hair

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 31 July 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

I'm trying to fill in my OKCupid profile. Why the heck do they ask such stupid essay questions? How do you distill your personality into these things?

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

roflofl@expensive hair

― teh_kit is jayne without the tits (g-kit), Monday, 31 July 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

I have an ex-catwalk hair guy who works at a barber and cuts a load of ILX blerks/chixors' hair for £10 including the tip. Best part is he will do neck shaves for the price of ONE beer betwixt proper haircuts.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 31 July 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

ok, haircut thing;
since i go so long without having haircut, it's always totally awkward for me when they ask "what you want done then, lol?"
because i have no idea what i want, let alone how to describe it. and i don't want to say "whatever will look good" in case i get some kinda myspace haircut by accident.
so this time i came very close to becoming everything i despise and saying "i want my hair like (person from TV)", because that would have been easiest. but i really didn't want to go there, because i would've felt hella silly. is there shame in that? i kinda ended up with it not looking quite how i would've liked, but it's ok.
is it a personal hang-up of mine, or is asking for hair like (person on TV) an arrestable offence in everyone's eyes?

(on a side note, big prize on offer if you guess whose hair i wanted, obv)

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Monday, 31 July 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

FP: You are hereby empowered to disown your mother now. Losing the cat is an unforgivable offense. My parents are watching mine now and they have enough problems taking care of themselves. I try not to even think about it.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 31 July 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno. It must be devastating to be the one who did the losing and it could happen to anyone.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 31 July 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

throw me bone plz

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Monday, 31 July 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

kit, i don't go that long between haircuts, but i am at an age where I really should know how to explain what i want and still about all i can get out is "shorter." then they ask all kinds of questions like "how much," as if i measure how long my hair is after i get it cut well, or have collected the clippings from the floor and therefore know that i'd like 2.5 cm taken off please thank you.

i don't see how requesting person on tv's haircut is any worse than when they give you one of those magazines and ask you to point out the haircut you want. i'd think the only danger is that you pick someone your stylist thinks looks ridiculous. plus didn't thousands of girls go into salons 10 years ago and ask to look like rachel on "friends"?

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 31 July 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, that's what brought on THE FEAR. i've never done a magazine pointing thing, either! i've never been shown any. how odd.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Monday, 31 July 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

surely it's worse for boys, though? boys are weird.
i just imagined the 'stylist' (barber, ffs) would roffle at me.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Monday, 31 July 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

it's happened to me only on those couple of times when i've said "i want something 'different'," and actually been willing to let them try something. apparently hairdressers are only interested in demonstrating their artistic talents in a contrarian context -- when you actually request something specific -- and not on demand.

and a 'barber' seems more likely to laugh than a 'stylist,' i think.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

i have been ready to go home for an hour and a half, but the stupid receptionist won't leave and therefore i have to hang around until she's gone so i can print a bunch of documents from her computer.

(the mac refuses to fully integrate into the windows network, for some reason)

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

I learned, a long time ago, to take a picture with you, and say "do this!" when you go to get your haircut, or you will end up with an abomination.

The best haircut I ever had, I took a picture of Alex James and said "put this fringe on my head!" and, admirably, they did! Maybe I should do that again.

OK, I've just spend the past hour taking tests on OKC, and my top matches are THE SAME PEOPLE as I matched with last year when I did it. WTF? That's faintly depressing.

I did, however, message a floppy-haired posh boy who lists Peter Ackroyd as one of his favourite authors but I can't imagine he'll respond.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

I have only once gone into a hairdresser with a photo from a magazine. I was practically laughed out of the place because of not having the same hair type as the girl in the picture.

Nowadays my sister cuts my hair. She works at Av3da and all the hair products that she can't test on her own hair (straight and shiny) she tests on mine (thick and frizzy).

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

The solution is obvious -- never cut your hair. (This might not be practical.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

hm, i do have same hair type as (TV person). maybe i should give it a go. i think i'd find it EXTEMELY embarrassing, nonetheless.

Ned, if i could get away with it...

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

I can't remember the last time I actually got my hair cut, though. September? I hacked at my fringe a few weeks ago and trimmed the really ragged stuff at the back. But I can't afford to go to a salon. Got a £10 off thing, but their regular haircuts are £45! Sod that!

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

last had mine cut the weekend the Elephant was in london. needs doing again. but i have the usual fear.

if i go to proper hairdressers and they ask me how i want it and i say shorter at back, not so much off the front they say it's impossible. i don't know why.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

g-kit, is it Brad Pitt?

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.fantascienza.com/magazine/imgbank/NEWS/david-tennant_1.jpg

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha ha, yes, I think that's it.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

Archel, fuck no.
Onimo, i kill you.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

i like hair by fairy in covent garden. i have only been there twice (i don't get my hair cut much, the last time was march, and the time before that was summer 2004) but i always come out of there feeling and looking a load better than i'd expected and it only costs £12.50 and that makes it really easy to tip £2.50 if you're happy with your haircut.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

hair by fairy = tabby cat hair. i remember this. i never went through with it.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

Hair by fairy did my dreads originally, however subsequent maintenance has been done by hair by christmas in sheffield.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

Hair by Fairy have ruined my hair twice. Never going back there again.

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Hair by fairy did my dreads originally

You mean you didn't just let them mat (matt?)? How nouveau!

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

THAT'S expensive hair.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

Straight white hair doesn't do that very well.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

Skipping 1075 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

I wish I could save my name that way so I don't have to keep adding it manually, but the settings page won't take HTML in the user name. :-(

― das Fräuleinmaschine ∞ (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

Hah! Like Shimura Curves have a guitar tech and a wine tech.

― das Fräuleinmaschine ∞ (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

What about wizards hats?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

I was at a place the other night where a friend of mine, who is a corset-maker, was showing off her wares. As well as the corsets, she also had examples of her other dressmaking, including a *lovely* black satin cape. It would be ideal.

(but it was quite expensive - her cost estimate was £150)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

HI DERE

― g00blar ∞ (gooblar), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, a corset-maker!

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:04 (nineteen years ago)

My sisX0r is wearing a corset in her MySpace profile. She is an Ex Goth. (Actually, I'm not so sure about the ex part.)

― das Fräuleinmaschine ∞ (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone here from Norfolk?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

is anybody going to give Merrini the blessing he's asking for to join the Watercoolant Scrobbler group?

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

I've posted about that on my blog, Kerr. My psychotic aunt is from Norfolk - Cromer, in fact.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

I can't! I'm not a member. And the real Admin, Ed, is in a tent somewhere in Wales.

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:14 (nineteen years ago)

The last fm group is open to all as far as I know. Plus i'm sure he made us all mods anyway.

p.s. did you know you can have group revolutions? You can challenge the leader to a vote and anyone can stand in the election. Even writing a manifesto.

Kate could sign up and stuff without even installing the plug in and launch a coup and have a manifesto about spacerock, capes and maths.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

i think he was just asking to be poilite, like.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

I'd be more likely to start a coup to listen to nothing but The Archies.

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

we need 15 members so we can get charts. I should get my other last fm account to join. The one I play all my funk,jazz and soul on.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

I was just trying to be polite, I guess, I figured that you needed one more member and I have a last.fm account I could help you get your charts.

― Merrini (Mezza), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

So how many more people do we need? 6 or 7, roughly?

join us, Merrini, join us!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

polite = good!
can i keep him?

i joined, btw. sorry in advance.

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.mediaevalbaebes.com/tour.htm

NB where they are playing on the 6th December. Tickets are 15 quid. The venue is a cathedral, and one w/fantastic acoustics which holds organ recitals all the time, not some renaissance fair or jousting festival or witches meeting. I've got to go, really, haven't I.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yes, you HAVE to go. Though ha ha, that's probably what Shimura Curves would look like onstage didn't keep my more prog tendencies in check.

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

What music are the other shimuras into?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, it did occur to me when I bought their album, here's another female vocal ensemble with a music director called kate I know of. Not too similar otherwise, unless you fancy buying a cittern and dressing up like a klimpt painting.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, you know I secretly do. But I'm not allowed.

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

no, nobody has any suggestions for stuff for me to do, tonight? i wanna socialise, but i cannae! how to meet randoms?

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

You're asking *us*? the most antisocial bunch of geeks on the interweb?

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

I'm eating a bag of quavers, you fucks.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

i have nobody else to ask :(

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Friday, 11 August 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

I've signed up, though I most often listen to music on my ipod, rather than itunes. You may cast me out if someone better comes along.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 11 August 2006 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

plus, i want a new "teh_kit blah blah something stuff" name, but can't think of one. help plz?

― teh_kit haev been evicted, oh noes! (g-kit), Friday, 11 August 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

I've joined, though my profile is suffering somewhat from when I tested it by playing random songs off my laptop which only has a few songs on it, hopefully i'll get it all set up on my main pc at the weekend which has my mp3 collection on it.

― Merrini (Mezza), Friday, 11 August 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

Woo-hoo true believers! I have a job interview on Monday! Admittedly for a job I could've done in my sleep 10 years ago, and I have no idea whether the money is at all reasonable. But at least it's a job and it would get me out of That Fucking Country.

Off to the dacha for a weekend of kebabs and vodka! Cheers!

(Sorry to be absent today, been having problems with wi-fi for some reason, as Kerr can attest to.)

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 11 August 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah for a job interview! Will keep fingers crossed for you.

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

If you don't have many mp3s you can listen to last fm streaming radio.

x-posts.
Yes I can.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

I can't stop laughing at this:

On ebay someone is selling a Sunn o))) white box set. Which cost $80 if you live in the USA. Has been selling for $200-$300 on ebay.

The seller had a Buy It Now for $280 and one of those best offer options too.

Someone bid $12 LOL.
What sort of tight arse would do that?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 11 August 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

Congrats mitya! Hooray new possibilities!

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 11 August 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

Thom Yorke interview at Pitchfork

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 11 August 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

I'm currently struggling with the concept of m4a and MP3. Is there anyone out there who knows how to convert one to the other, in order that our hostess may receive her rightful pay?

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Friday, 11 August 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

Hm, the trouble with Revels is that it's alarmingly easy to get through a whole bag because you keep thinking 'maybe the NEXT one won't be coffee flavour'.

So can you still sort of use last.fm if you don't have any mp3s? Would there be any point?

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 11 August 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

Good luck mitya!
G-kit any gigs you could go to?

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 11 August 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, Thom and Pitchfork? ILM's worst nightmare! Off to read that now.

Aw, I really like the coffee revels. I hate the raisins and the orange ones.

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

Archel, you can listen to other people's music through the radio stuff.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 11 August 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

I hate the orange ones too. There's like... a 1 in 3 chance of getting a Revel I don't like! Why do I eat them? It's worse than russian roulette.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 11 August 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

Ah. Can you still choose the kind of music you want to hear or is it random?

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 11 August 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

They were better when they had nuts instead of raisins - then there was only one rubbish one.

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

Pitchfork: Well, with Hail to the Chief you scaled things back on record and went back to more typical touring and marketing patterns.

Whoops

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 11 August 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

Oh DEAR the end of that track you just sent is big. OH DEAR. Sounds like Spiritualized avec several extra effects pedals and bigger amps...

Are you SURE you've got no way of playing m4a? No Realplayer or something which still utilises that format?

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Friday, 11 August 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

I like this bit:

Pitchfork: And of course most of the bands that've taken cues from you have done so from things like "High and Dry". Was it ever disappointing that when your peers looked to you guys they ignored Kid A and Amnesiac and took the simpler, more well-traveled road?

TY: But that's the majors all over. "Oh, uh, shit, we need to find something else that looks like it." They spent loads of money and crap and they were right, so I can't argue with them I guess. It's business.

But it upset me a lot, yes. I was really, really upset about it, and I tried my absolute best not to be, but yeah, it was kind of like-- that sort of thing of missing the point completely. When we put Kid A out, I specifically remember saying, "Copy that, you fucking..."

Whatever. We've ripped off R.E.M. blind for years, you know-- amongst other people. Everybody does. It's how you rip them off, as John Lennon said.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 11 August 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

Which track, Louis? Part 2 of An Epic Case, or Funky Doldrums? Funky Doldrums gets SO BIG THAT THE GALAXY CANNOT CONTAIN IT AND SPACEROCK GOES SPILLING OUT IN GIANT SOLAR FLARES THAT REACH ALL THE WAY TO ANDROMEDA!!!! and then the bloody file cuts off.

Just becuase those bastards want me to start buying singles again. Not unless Benjmain delivers them personally, bucko.

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

Ah. Can you still choose the kind of music you want to hear or is it random?

A bit of both, I think.

You can however stream our entire EP for zero money, which should be a draw enough for anyone. Oh yes.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 11 August 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

It is time:

UK Watercooler Fifteen: Men On A Dead Men's Chest

Yo ho ho.

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Friday, 11 August 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

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