UK Watercooler 28: A Bit Of A Blur

As decadent as it might sound, it is not a good idea to nibble quail eggs in bed. You end up with crunched up bits of blue spotted shell all crushed in your sheets. :-(

Oh no, what happened to the picture?

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ach!

Fixpic/start thread again, I advise!

The picture got lost on Mars, too, I guess.

I don't want to be me, I wanna be someone else.

How is everyone? Did anything happen yesterday?

It started off very quiet again, but actually was OK for the first time for ages.

Today seems to be 'daft revival' day.

Got all 50 of those krock albums!

Sorted for long car journeys for a while now.

OK, that's a lesson. ILX is nicer when I'm not here. Maybe I should stay away.

I had to take a day off work yesterday due to the depression headache getting so bad I physically couldn't get out of bed. :-(

It was mainly because of a Beefheart/Zappa thread, which was actually worth reading.

Apart from that, verry dozy.

I've been busy actually doing some work for a change. I think (fingers crossed) I've nearly got it sorted out now and can spend my Friday afternoon in tipsy land.

I've been working through the 50 krautrock albums (thanks again for the link Kate!) but it's a pain with rapidshare only letting me get one every 3 hours. I just download 1 when I get up and 1 when I get back from work. I'm only on Ash Ra Tempel so far. It'll take me about 2 years to listen to them all though, I've got so much music already to get through.

I bought a 1 month membership. It's quite cheap. (certainly by comparison w/ time and/or cost of those LPs)

I object to paying for mp3s unless at least some of the money goes to the artists. Getting them for free I have no problem with. Which may seem a bit odd.

You pay for internet access, don't you?

Are they still up? I should go and get some more. But I don't like paying for these things. I don't pay for interweb access, actually - I get it free at work. Except on days like this when the system is fucked and it comes and goes. :-(

I would pay an artist for the music, but I also have a hard time paying a third party.

But maybe I'm just feeling a bit uppity about this because, out of the blue, I am getting my first publishing cheque in about 5 years! Woo-hoo. It's like the Tooth Fairy.

They are still up, and should continue to be, I don't think RapidShare has an expiry.

I do pay for internet access, but sometimes I do use if for things other than downloading mp3s!

Aw fuck.

We didn't get the flat.

A mate gave me his password hehehe. I didn't need it though. I got my hd's back as externals and everything(inc those 50 albums I already have)is saved and Kate doesn't need to send me dvdrs I sent her now. Wahey.

I thought rapidshare did delete files if they are not accessed for a certain (longish) period of time.

yeah, they do, but I figure it's unlikely that's going to happen for a while with these.

Oh no, Goobs, what happened?

They don't disappear if the uploader paid to keep them up.

Perfect flat, one minute from Brixtong tube but quiet street and gated building, definitely affordable. Owners don't want to rent to us because we're grad students and don't have full-time jobs, even though we can quite easily prove that we can pay the rent and are quite willing to put in a large deposit. FCKRS.

Oh no, student scum, they will throw parties and wreck the place and scarper without paying the rent. Are you actually dealing with the landlord, or some crappy agency who will never actually negotiate?

It was a private landlord--just a couple who were buying another flat and want to rent out their first one. They probably showed it to another couple who they liked just as much as us but actually have proper jobs.

Stupid people with proper jobs!

Oh wait...

Should I spend £70 getting a lovely 2 volume set of Mesopotamian and Persian art and architecture? God, it's lovely. And I'm thinking about that publishing cheque.

But then again, I should probably save that publishing cheque and put it towards getting the album out. When and if we ever finish it.

What should I do on Saturday?

1) Stay home and rest, you morong
2) Go to Hampton Court Palace and walk about and pretend I'm in the country
3) Go shopping for a dictionary of saints and finish Cowboy Jim's album artwork before he KEEEEELLS me

I'm kind of scared that the only place I could get a dictionary of saints locally is the scary Christian bookshop. But they seem more likely to have big books of WHY EVOLUTION IS WRONG and not useful things like which saints got their eyeballs torn out and which saints were burned on gridirons.

Actually, I'd be surprised if Hampton Court Palace bookshop didn't have such a book!

A dictionary of saints should surely be available at any decent-sized bookshop? It is of obvious interest to people into eg the arts, regardless of religious views.

Depends what you mean by "locally" I suppose.

Argh! A quiet day when in theory I could leave early and of course the sun goes away at the end of the day and we've got a nightmare thunderstorm! Aaaaaa!

HCP was the home of HENRY VIII who spent lots of time trying to get RID OF lots of evil Papist saints and things. So unlikely to find one there.

I tried looking at Foyles but no joy - before, when I had to buy one, I had to go to a scary Christian supply shop. But that was a nice Catholic one in NYC, full of lots of blood and gore. I wonder if I can get one at St. Pauls, actually, that's not too far from here. But their bookshop probably closes well early on a Friday.

Go and run around in the rain anyway, Mitya. I tend to enjoy that kind of thing at the weekend. But obviously only if it was boiling hot before, not freezing cold.

yeah, cheers. have a good weekend, k8 and everybody else.

I always think this thread is mine, but it's really Mitya's. It dies every time he logs off.

but you were also gone, for so long!

I was gone for a whole day and things carried on. Mitya goes home, and we go all quiet. Mitya is really the god of all things, he just hasn't told us.

I mean, imagine keeping that quiet, being a deity and all.

Argh, I want to go home, I've nothing to do again.

I mean, imagine keeping that quiet, being a deity and all.

Maybe mitya's not a deity, just a saint? They're sometimes pretty silent and all that, I think.

http://orthodoxwiki.org/images/6/60/StDimitriOfRostov.jpg

You could of course check the Dictionary when you find it.

I wish I could go home early and buy a dictionary of saints. That would sort this whole mess out. I wonder if I should try the crazy Christian bookshop by the City Temple. I have no idea what particular brand of Christian they are. But they always have copies of "The Dawkins Delusion" in the window. And not too much "Let's repeal the law of Evolution..." crap. I don't think.

Ohmigod, there's both an Oxford Dicitonary of Saints and a Penguin one. Amazon has a deal on both of them for only £13.

Why do I just prefer going on bookshops and getting things?

less waiting time?

Also there is nothing on this earth like the smell of a bookshop.

Maybe I will walk to Oxford Street and go to a big bookshop. They stay open late, don't they? Or maybe I'll go to the big Foyles. That's closer, I think.

Yes! They have both books in stock at the big Foyles. At least according to the interweb.

Also there is nothing on this earth like the smell of a bookshop.

Plus when you get there and find their saint-dictionary department, maybe you'll see one that looks even better and didn't find at amazon hurrah!

I have this one, with focus on Saints in Art, ie mainly the major rather than minor ones. Hm I think I too need a more comprehensive one actually...

Well, I have to make art out of saints, so one with a focus on that would be good for me. All the symbolism, the various significant animals and actions and the like.

It's useful that, becuase otherwise how would you know which saint was which, because they look so different according to various local interpretation. But if he has a gridiron, it's Lawrence, a wheel, it's Catherine, keys, a lamb, oh, I wish I could remember it all. I've got a good book on how to "read" a church, but it only has the most common saints. I'm interested in the weird minor ones.

And especially finding out what saints are patrons of strange things! St.Claire is patron saints of television, I seem to recall.

It's in Italian though, which I can only kinda read but not really. Lots of pretty pictures with arrows and explanations and stuff on the other hand.

The flag of the British Virgin Islands depicts St. Ursula, but for some reason not her 11000 virgins:

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Ursula's holding some pretty crazy Masonic regalia there.

Or some turtles. I'm not entirely sure which.

I have a dictionary of saints, the Penguin one. I don't remember if it has pictures, but I think not. If you can't find one easily, Kate, I could send it to you as a 'thanks for putting us up/putting up with us' present.

Thanks, Emil.y - I'm really looking forward to my trip to the big Foyles, though. Even if I can't find Saints, then I'll take a trip to their amazing maths department and get something great. Or seven. I think I need to get some Feynman books.

OH MY FUCKING GOD.

http://www.rudyarchuleta.com/memberpage/1530101319/1256/2719/big/benjamin_Curtis.jpg

::falls off chair::

Hey, that's not Feynman.

rog has a brother?

He has an insane banjo-playing little brother. Have you not met him? He's NUTS. And I don't say that lightly. He thinks he's a cowboy. (He's never been further West than Birmingham.) He plays with a load of those Contino Rooms type bands.

i have no idea what a contino rooms type band is.

explains a lot that rog has a brother, tho i figured it'd be an older brother who beat the crap out of him or something.

Contino Rooms = Death in Vegas' studio. (It's actually underneath Plan B towers, weirdly enough. As we found out from Insane Banjo Brother, after ages of FMM going "argh, there's a horrible band down there playing shite music REALLY LOUD and I'm trying to work!") All those bands from that incestuous type dark trip-hop/drone scene.

Why do you think Rog is a younger bro? He's so obviously a stressed-out has-to-be responsible older bro to a wacked out drugswhore like Chris.

(did I say that out loud?)

I should probably have googled that, oops. I shouldn't call him a drugswhore if he's going to do figure modelling for me. :-/

GOOGLEPROOFED.

Good god, what's wrong with me today?

I thought they all listened to metal over there at Plan B Towers..

Explains a lot, huh, Stence:

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They listen to all sorts at Plan B Towers. Depends on the mood. Last time I was round there, we were listening to Harmonia. Though you have to turn it up loud to drown out the AWFUL BAND.

oh that would explain the div guitar case rog has.

xpost who is that in the middle?

Daddy M@ck1n.

Why he cut his bro's face in half, I don't know. Those two are weird.

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OK, enough stalking investigative journalism. (Though seriously, why put this stuff on yr MySpace if you don't want people looking at it?) I'm off to eat falk Tai Cult meat with FMM.

is that rog's myspace or his brother's? weird.

I quite liked that "Harmonia" album (off the 50 KRock thread)

Musik von, anyway.

I put some shoegazer metal mp3s on the Shoegazer Metal : Search & Destroy thread. Don't worry it's all legal ones from the record label.
I do recommend checking them out. Some good stuff by those bands.

I am still teh_hungover. Really good film night last night, in odd warehouse artspace. Found scary televisions in an empty room:

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Yay, nice lunch. We ate tai cult food and talked about physics and randomness. And I got back, and someone left me CAKE on my desk! hurrah.

Xmas reindeer hunter photo from Rog's Space. Rog cut in half from his brother's Space, clearly.

Anyway, F and I have decided all boys are rub and not to bother with it all henceforth.

Kerr, check yr email.

i just went for a WICKED lunch meeting that wasn't remotely a waste of time and got to meet someone i have been talking to on the phone for SEVEN YEARS and never ever met until now :) aces...

OK, the Dream Machine has just been moved... AGAIN. To somewhere near Walton on the Naze? WTF?

Were they anything like you imagined they'd be from their phone manner, Emsk?

hey thanks for the loop, dudes!

You mean, the *Cookies*? Yum, yum!

yeah he was! except - maybe this sounds weird - but talking to ppl on the phone i always feel like the nerdy one and imagine everyone is 100x cooler than i am, but then irl they usually turn out to be about the same nerdy/cool as me and this one did too...

Hehheh, that's cool. Weird how that works.

Kerr, don't overwhelm F with cookies, she's got a REAL job she actually likes doing, unlike the rest of us slobs. ;-)

Anyway, even F has now told me to GET BACK TO WORK so maybe I should.

So does emsk want to join our little club?

I don't have emsk, Mark G, and various other peoples emails. If you wish to join our cookie club please tell me your email.

Thanks

I think 'that'd be nice' and then I think "I've got 50 krock albums to get through!"

I still haven't gotten to that Can one someone nice sent me.

Whats your email anyway? no one needs to take cookies that are sent.

Man, I keep forgetting why I don't eat tai cult food for lunch.

SOOOOO THIRSTY!!!

Big boss has just gone home. Entire finance department leaving in 10 min.

Me? I'm waiting around until MySpace comes back online so I can check my email one last time. PATHETIC!!!

Then it's hometime?

1st cookies sent to the group. I hope others will contribute though!

One more hour.

This office (oooh-oooh) is like a ghost town.

11 members but that's most people in it twice for some reason.

GHOST TOWN NOW STUCK IN MY HEAD THANKS

Recording JC+RtD all weekend, in a pub! Good weekends, all!

Argh! I owe Cowboy Jim mail! I suck! Tell him I said good luck!

Will do.

I just emailed him, too. Phew. I am NOT as rub as M@ck1n boys. I respond ot email promptly. Yes, I do. Ha-hem. I need to finish his artwork, too. I have drawn 6 saints! I just need to scan them.

All that wait to get on MySpace and NOTHING HAS HAPPENED.

Oh interweb, why you break heart?

I should go home. I have so much work to do tonight.

The group is going well so far. Just need more members.

No, keep it small and exclusive or else it gets too overwhelming!

Anyway, I'm going home.

I just mean I don't want the cooler regulars being left out. Obviously if they don't want in that's fine. But it's nice to be invited etc etc

My weekend:
Friday: Brick Lane w/ K and her cousin. Mediocre food (shocker!), but a nice night. Got to watch a bunch of dudes posing for pictures against a wall with a huge graffitti cock.
Saturday: Showed up for recording with Cowboy Jim, waited 2 hours for the pub manager to show up to let us in (we'd booked a pub in the city to record in this past weekend and next). He never did, turned out he discovered the night before that he needed to secure a license for said activities, couldn't get one in time, then just neglected to let us know that the arrangement was off. Fucker. Ended up finishing my fifth chapter (Hurrah!) though. Taking a walk with K that night, I got hit with a porcelain something (an ash tray? a mug?) thrown from a hotel window above. It luckily only grazed my head, before hitting the ground in front of us at great speed, shattering in a hundred pieces. Pretty scary, actually. Hotel clerk, when told, says basically, 'nothing I can do'. Can't tell which window it came from, don't want to spend two hours waiting for cops, so don't call 'em.

Sunday: Not too much! Made grebt dinner, saw Simpsons movie.

Should have got Bob Dylan circa "Don't Look Back" on the case!

Argh! That sounds awful. You didn't see anything, not even a window closing or curtains twitching?

Oh no, poor Cowboy Jim and band. That sucks. Would have been really nice if the landlord had let him know! Gah. So you might end up in my living room after all. Ha ha.

I spent the weekend writing and drawing. Finished my Plan B copy in record time. Drew 2 Early Years and 3 more saints, then scanned them all in, and uploaded to my Flickr this morning. Blimey, what a lot of drawing! My hands are always covered in ink.

I need a male to give me advice. Getting advice from females on the handling of males never seems to work, for obvious reasons.

I am sometimes considered a male.

Luckily, the dude who's recording us has a house (his wife's sister's) we can record in, in Andover. We're gonna spend Fri, Sat, Sun there.

Ah, excellent. I may email you.

Andover! Will you be channelling The Troggs?

Of course we will be.

Argh, this is how much a preppie I still am, you say Andover and I immediately think "Exeter".

I think it's about time for a Velvets reference...

UK Watercooler 29: Waldo Jeffers Had Reached His Limit