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

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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.

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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.

I have the new TSDOLE album at home but I've been too distracted to listen to it.

TSDOLE are playing on Thursday I think. Someone is opening for them who I'm supposed to pay attention, too. At the Metro? There's a million good shows on Thursday - Marnie Stern at Bardens, Chrome Hoof at the 100 Club.

I probably won't end up going to any of them. I seem to have a hard time enjoying things at the moment. It's the depression, I know it. Even when something is really beautiful, it just makes me feel alone and sad.

I should get some coffee.

...OK, if there's gonna be no one around here today, then I'm just going to take my depression off the interweb. It isn't very good for me.

It's one more quiet day on the ILX place.

Work is not being conducive to slacking off right now.

Just waking up. Groggy.

Mr G00blar, are you coming to the gig on tuesday?

HUMAN TETRIS

xpost, yes, I believe so.

Excellent, I have someone would like to speak to you about Phds and that.

Nice!

The search for the perfect carrot cake continues. Today - Salad Factory - "Kate's Cakes" Carrot and Orange.

Quite thick-tasting. Nicey grainy quality, and I can feel the carrots in my teeth. Just on the right side of the dry/moist divide. But icing TOO SWEET and way too orangey.

They have two different varieties of carrot cakes, so I'll try the other one tomorrow. It is the "carrot loaf" which claims to have hints of spices, so despite not having icing, it might be nicer.

have you investigated Konditor and Cook yet? They have many many good cakes including a very very good chocolate and raspberry tart.

Where is Conditor and Cook?

So far Kate's Cakes is a front runner - and not just for the name. The texture is so lovely. On reading the ingredients, I realised it was not just the carrot that was nice and crunchewy but also ground up orange zest. Lovely. If it were a bit more cinnamonny and the icing less sweet and more cream cheesey, it would be perfect.

Bottom of Grays inn rd so a little walk, but well worth it.

Bottom of Grays Inn Road (as in South end) is about 50 yards from this building. Wonder why I haven't seen it?

you have to walk past snow and rock, the bagel place and the key cutting place, so not right at the bottom.

But not all the way up to Theobalds Road? Still close. Maybe I will walk by there on the way to rehearsal. But then again, it will probably be closed, and you have FULE.

Argh, after saying I want to concentrate more on illustration and art, suddenly I find myself signing up to do loads of writing.

Oh, Jesus...

depression often involves pushing people away, because they dont seem to care, so, you know, fuck them anyway...

(anyway, when people push you away, theyre really asking you to do the opposite a lot of the time, to show you actually give a fuck)

Lotta people be guessing.

it's not a guess, it's so true it makes me physically feel like throwing up. :-(

It's strange, this place has taught me more about 'd' that I can sort of recognise it more. Things where I could take more to heart previously, now I can rationalise things better. Suppose I didn't suffer it myself but was close to someone who did, and it affected me? not exactly the clinical definition, but feeling like everyone needs help and not being able to supply, and feeling almost suic about that!

(gibberishly typed on purpose)

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and no, I don't have that. Nor am I likely to sadly.

it's not a guess, it's so true it makes me physically feel like throwing up. :-(

the impossible difficult thing is, recognizing what's going on and trying to stop yourself from pushing people away. unfortunately there are few things so unattractive as a needy person...

in other news, i went a whole day without coffee and was quite proud of myself (a calm mitya is a happy mitya). but i couldn't stop myself today, even though the coffee in the office is terrible and we don't have any cream.

quiet day part three.

Indeed it is.

I'm just off out to the fancy dress shop to get supplies for the 'take band names literally' party tomorrow night. Funz0r!

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methinks the fascist regime is inhibiting k8tzor's access to the interwebs.

we *finally* have a warm, no hot day here in moscow, for the first time since that freakish week in april. it was so nice to get outside and feel that, even for a few minutes.

And if you don't get something you like you're going as Ghost?
x-post

ooh that rhymes!

Hehehe, yes, Ghost is the back-up plan. But it was suprisingly painless and I think we've got everything we need now.

Cannibal Corpse? Zombi?

Nope. Not telling until after the party. I will link to pics if we don't look too stupid.

Ones we thought of but didn't use: Supertramp, Gogol Bordello, of Montreal, Panda Bear...

Is it twee?

Noooooooo...

Your fascination with twee, kerr, reminds me a little bit of those people who are always obsessed with exposing Gays, only for it to be eventually revealed that they themselves are gay.

queens of the Stone Age would have been a good one. Or wou;d that be too obv?

Is mitya coming on to me?

victorian english gentlemens club

Queens of the Stone Age has just the right amount of ease coupled with good imagery, so that would be good. VEGC would be rather spiffing also.

And yes, mitya is coming on to you, Kerr - he wants to skip through the fields singing Belle & Sebastian songs and eating ice cream with you.

But don't be too flattered, he wants to do that with everyone.

If I were going to emil.y's party, I'd dress as the jam.

As a jar of preserve or as a member of Phish?

The first.

*fingers crossed*

Mitya's asked you out for ice cream and twee-pop?

Well, in the continuing saga of my co-worker... Now that his departure date is set for September 7, *his* *vacation* is set for August 20-31, I find him once again taking on freelance editing work (and thus, when he gets near their deadlines and doesn't have someone breathing down his neck about his work here) not doing the work he is paid his salary for.

And while I appreciate his "commitment" to his work, it's the pressure of multiple commitments that has driven him to at least one of his recent breakdowns. The logic, I guess, is that in freelance work he is making a *personal* commitment to his client/employer, whereas he doesn't feel that personal connection as an employee (which is super-fucked-up given the ratio between what we pay him and what he gets for freelance editing).

I am so ready to see the back of all this.

*still crossed*

You're going as Liars?

It is time...

UK Watercooler 28: A Bit Of A Blur