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Queen Kate's rules apply as usual.

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and DDB's. Lots of DDB's, pointy-nosed sea captains and Masters of the Hunt.

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 10:44 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.bibl.u-szeged.hu/bibl/mil/ww1/who/jellicoe.jpg

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Friday, 29 September 2006 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

And horrible dogs:

http://www.irishwolfhounds.org/dyer4.JPG

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 10:48 (nineteen years ago)

Hello all.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 29 September 2006 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.epilog.de/Dokumente/Spiele/Computer/misc/_Bilder/Firaxis__Sid_Meiers_Pirates_B01.jpg

― teh_kit (g-kit), Friday, 29 September 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

Afternoon, Kerr!

Ooh, teh kit has the idea. What's that from? I don't even like videogames, but if they involve pointy nosed sea captains, they're alright.

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

i don't think you give video games a fair chance.

that is a screenshot from Sid Meier's PIRATES!
i'd link to the ILG thread on it, but meh.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Friday, 29 September 2006 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

haha i have just bought 2 magic eye books off amazon i am a loser.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 29 September 2006 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

let's party like it's 1999!

― teh_kit (g-kit), Friday, 29 September 2006 11:02 (nineteen years ago)

I just don't like games, fullstop. I don't see the point, really. ALl that fighting and point scoring. I just don't understand.

I mean, some of the more narrative ones were interesting from a visual perspective (Amano-designed Final Fantasies especially) but I just can't get engaged with them.

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 11:02 (nineteen years ago)

I have a mental weekend this one, Trip to Bristol, the cotswolds, cooking for my mum and young person's folk dancing.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 29 September 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

It took me ages to learn how to do Magic Eye puzzles. I used to get so frustrated by them. Then one day, I went cross-eyed and I saw it!

The Books Etc. down the street from me is having a £1 sale. Do I dare go in there, or will this way badness lie?

Ooh, the Cotswolds. remember to bring me home a Cotswold Cottage! The tweeer the better!

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

anyway you could jiggle your databases to give me a million pound mortgage I don't have to pay back.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 29 September 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

I totally would, but we'd have to pay off Compliance, who sit behind me. Though they're about to all go down the pub. Hrmmm.

One of these will fit in your pocket, no?

http://www.completely-cotswold.com/dorsing/info/images/Pic00031.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/22/30742576_4c75bac591.jpg

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

Hello All. I met Pete Waterman last night at some champagne fuelled property launch thang to celebrate his new County Hall development. Not overly impressed with the man, but all the discs on the wall (he has his recording studio down there too now) was pretty cool. Better the devil you know I suppose if I had my hand on my heart. But I've got to be certain it's happening all over again.

― Nobodys Prawn (Nobodysprawn), Friday, 29 September 2006 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

Blimey! Now that's a 'cleb I can be impressed by!

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

Still owns a railway engineering firm I believe.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 29 September 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

No, no, actually I want this one:

http://www.motojournals.com/europe2003/images/20047752.cotswoldswoolenmansion.jpg

With lots of barns and things to keep all my Gloucester Old Spot pigs (which, according to Country Life are *the* thing to keep on your estate right now) in.

Damn, though, one of compliance is eating lunch at his desk so no fake mortgage for us. :-(

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

Best blood for black puddings, gloucester old spots.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 29 September 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

Errrr... do we have to eat them? Can't we just keep them as pets? Like piggie dalmations:

http://www.traditionallyrearedmeat.co.uk/images/pork.jpg

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

prawn! i was thinking about you yesterday. all week actually. the russian is flying a PLANE tomorrow, want to come?

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 29 September 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

We could train them up as trufflehounds!

Look at this face:

http://www.farmschool.com/albc/ALBC_Photos/images/GloucesterOldSpotPig_jpg.jpg

This is the problem with being a farmer. I'd cry when I had to make bacon of mine animals. Actually, come to think of it, I didn't, when I was a wee child and my best friend's parents turned the pigs into sausages. I said "yum, sausages" and ate them up. I was a brutish little child, I guess.

I'll grow cheeses instead. What kind of cute rare breed cows can we get for cheese making?

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

goats

― Ed (dali), Friday, 29 September 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

x-post, WHAT?!??!?!

Who is letting The Russian fly a plane?

I wouldn't trust her with anything with an internal combustion engine! She will want too much FIRE!!! out of it.

x-x-post no, goats will eat my clothes. But they make good cheese. Hrmmm. How would you make a goat-proof enclosure? ANything you could surround them with, they would simply eat.

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

http://tropico.strategyplanet.gamespy.com/cafe/YaBBImages/avatars/goat.gif

Tropico features goat AND cow farms.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Friday, 29 September 2006 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

haha exactly! other e gave it to her as a birthday present. i figure though, the safest place to be is right under where she's supposed to be, as she almost certainly won't be anywhere in the vicinity.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 29 September 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

Eep!

OK, the sale wasn't all that. I got Historic Britain From The Air (lots of lugubrious pictures of castles) for £3, Follies and Mazes for £4 and, erm, The Line of Beauty. Not on sale at all.

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

Someone kill my colleagues, please.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 29 September 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

Why, what are they doing?

Mine are still down the pub.

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

we've had the daily football conversation annow the random annoying noises start, awit, we are back on football

― Ed (dali), Friday, 29 September 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

Things like this are why I bring headphones to work. I have no football, no random annoying noises, no recycle bin darts league, just sweet, sweet Roxy Music crooning in mine ears.

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

KIT PLZ 2 STOP LISTENING TO PLACEBO
enough is enough

― teh_kit (g-kit), Friday, 29 September 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

It would be okay if I wasn't bored and actually had some work to do

― Ed (dali), Friday, 29 September 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

MSPAINT an ilx0r then.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Friday, 29 September 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

I have just about enough work to keep me from losing my mind. But I need to rest said mind for the hell that will be monthend next week.

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

I've been hoodwinked into going to a comedy club tonight. Sometimes they're funny, but they usually make me hate myself and want to die. Saying that, if I don't go out soon I'll just collapse into an introverted misanthrope, and I don't think I can be doing with that.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Friday, 29 September 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

I'd chew mine own foot off to get out of going to a comedy club, but, erm... still, going out is nice. Try to just enjoy it. If you're going with friends, just have a good time hanging out with them, rather than having to deal with bad comedy.

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

If they have an open mic, get up and tell bee jokes

― Ed (dali), Friday, 29 September 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, yes, indeed!

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

Where would I beg and plead to get an MSPaint Shimura Curves?

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

OMFingG!!!!

THE HEADS
LORDS
SAILORS
NOTORIOUS HI-FI KILLERS

DJ'S FROM ROCKET RECORDINGS, HUNTING LODGE AND NOISESTAR

SATURDAY 30TH SEPTEMBER
BARDENS BOUDOIR
STOKE NEWINGTON RD

Sorry, Gooblar, I'm so going to this.

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

BTW Kate, I'm going to hold you and francis to a promise of singing at the next magpie's nest open mic, your songs must be lewd and bawdy or brutal and bloody and not EMO

― Ed (dali), Friday, 29 September 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

I have no time for Emo folk. If Frances and I sing, you can bet that it will indeed be both bawdy and bloody. With lots of sex and a high body count. Lusty maidens and bloodthirsty crows and all.

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and sorry Emsk, but I don't think I'm coming out tonight if I'm going out tomorrow and Sunday.

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

I hate comedy clubs too, JB. I'll be the one engaging in some shit anecdote or crap impression if I want some comedy in a pub. Having said that I went for lunch with a really good (amateur) one the other week who was a bit like Jarvis x Peep Show. But speaking of comedy, the RUSSIAN in a plane??? Has anyone phoned the BAA, CAA, BA, Aeroflot, Stelios etc

― Nobodys Prawn (Nobodysprawn), Friday, 29 September 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

The last couple hours of the day are D R A G G I N G...

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

you need LINE RIDER (see "lol play with this lil sledding guy it's awesome" thread)

― teh_kit (g-kit), Friday, 29 September 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

Oooh, a blank white flash square that doesn't work on my computer. Yeah, THAT will make the day go faster.

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

you could try being sarcastic to people trying to help you, that might make the hours fly by!

― teh_kit (g-kit), Friday, 29 September 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

POETS

― Ed (dali), Friday, 29 September 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

I'm cranky when I'm this bored. I've even been hitting the "random" button and had a couple of weird walks down memory lane.

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

yes yes i know. entire western hemisphere, pls to hide under your desks. though if the weather's like this we'll end up not going bc they won't let them fly small planes.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 29 September 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

Oh... am I going to be bad when I get home and have a pizza and a beer? Or continue Being Good?

Life is no fun without the occasional treat.

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Friday, 29 September 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

Everything in moderation, including moderation.

Oh, and I sort of wish I could go check out the heads, so (not that it needs to be said), no worriess

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 29 September 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Hello there. Sometimes I think my life is cursed to get stranger and more complex by the day. Can anyone recommend any good hotels in Glasgow?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 30 September 2006 06:09 (nineteen years ago)

Off to the glasgow thread with you.

Good luck.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 30 September 2006 08:28 (nineteen years ago)

Will I need it, to venture onto the Glasgow thread?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 30 September 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

(and, thank you)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 30 September 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

Morning!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 2 October 2006 07:20 (nineteen years ago)

I have to stop drinking. A combination of late arriving FGW train and hangover meant I missed out on dancing last night.

Curse my friends on sunday morning they took me to a cafe that was also a second hand bookstore and I emerged with two more books.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 2 October 2006 07:24 (nineteen years ago)

You're getting old.

One of the benefits of the social scene I do most of my socialising in is that - well, drinking isn't exactly frowned on, but getting drunk certainly is. You're expected to be able to keep your mental judgement about you, not to mention physical skills, and anyone drunk enough to be hungover the next day gets frowned on rather a lot. Hence, I don't have to worry about being a lightweight, I don't have to worry about not embarrassing myself by collapsing, and I don't have to worry about hangovers the next day. Hurrah!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 2 October 2006 07:40 (nineteen years ago)

Morning all! Comedy club wasn't as bas as I feared. I took a hipflask of absinthe along and I can't remember anything of the second half. Brilliant!

They didnt' do the b'day gather-round on Friday, so I'm expecting it today. They'll expect wit and speeches and things, and I don't know if I can be bothered.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 2 October 2006 07:58 (nineteen years ago)

I'd expect cake, if it were me.

(although here it is the birthday person themselves who is expected to supply the cake)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 2 October 2006 07:59 (nineteen years ago)

I need cake already and it's only 10am.

Our new work placement student barely speaks English and has already got lost while fetching the mail. Oh what a help she will be in these busiest two weeks of the year.

And a student just asked me if I could stay open late so he can watch a football match on TF1. I'm here from 9 to 6 as it is and I doubt I'll get a proper lunch break - am I really going to stay open for fucking sports coverage???

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 2 October 2006 08:03 (nineteen years ago)

Morning. I am a terrible old fuddy duddy and I didn't end up doing a thing I said I would do this weekend. Got caught up in a fluster of writing, and then I decided it was simply raining too hard to do anything but lie about the flat writing.

So I didn't go the Heads, or to see Gooblar (hope it went well), or indeed, to go barn-dancing. Though that was more because I finally broke my phobia of going to the movies by myself, and went to see Children of Men. Which was such a... well, harrowing film that I couldn't really face going into London after it. Blimey. It's good, though, you should all go and see it. I think I'm going to get it on DVD when it comes out, as there were just so many details.

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Monday, 2 October 2006 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

Hi all. Today's news: My co-worker, who has his own office while I just have a cubicle, has been pressing management about our (my) seating arrangments - first he said it "made more sense" to have me moved to an office next to his, then when I indicated that I didn't care, he suggested to management that perhaps the open area where I sat could be converted to offices (like his) for our "team," to which I said I didn't care either way as there were plusses and minuses to any change.

Today the architects arrived and they are going to wall off the open area where I sit into a new, smaller group workspace, thus managing to achieve all possible negative consquences from the arrangement: no individual privacy while managing to segregate us out from the rest of our department (who will all have their own offices, and thereby implying that our group are second-class employees).

Yay for co-workers!

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 2 October 2006 08:37 (nineteen years ago)

I went a to prog rock festival in Wolverhampton w/Mark on Sunday. It was OK, I suppose, none of the bands really grabbed me, though. It was all neo-prog. Not sure if it was worth a 500 mile round trip :/

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 2 October 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

Mixed news from my family this morning, as well. Photos of my brother's wedding. I'm not sure if I dare post them to my Flickr or what. They are a gorgeous couple, though. My sister in law (funny to say that about a woman I've never met) has made my brother grow his hair so he looks quite floppy and cute now.

But email from my godmother. Her daughter (god, I never know what to call them - is there a word for that kind of relation? Godsister? They always just seemed like another load of cousins to me.) has had an ectopic pregnancy, lost the baby and very nearly lost her life if her husband hadn't come home. God, it's terrifying to think.

My mum had her meeting with the bishop yesterday, and we're all waiting to hear if she gets her own parish or not.

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Monday, 2 October 2006 08:50 (nineteen years ago)

morning! bah just wrote a long post and computer ate it. can't be arsed to do it again.

artmusicpolitic - lotsa fun with cute girls and cute boys so all come next time pls.

saturday - the russian did not kill anyone with her aeroplane (which was TINY, so tiny the training man could spin it round by its tail!). sorry gooblar i didn;t make the gig, i decided i had to stay home and look after myself and eat veggies.

yesterday i was babysitting all day which was loads of fun. he can nearly stand up, woo! he's strong enough, just not quite got the balancing thing sorted out yet. then the no2id comedy gig which was part ace, part shite and mostly decent.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 2 October 2006 08:59 (nineteen years ago)

My wife had 2 of those (ectopic prgnancies), the first one nearly finished her off, b/c the hospital misdiagnosed her as being "overtired". I remember being in the hospital for about the 3rd time with it, this student doctor said "could this be an ectopic?" All the consultants and nurses were like "OH FUCK", and they operated on her that night. It was fuck-awful. Comiserations to the couple, having been through it, it's a bad thing to experience, that can take a bit of getting over.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 2 October 2006 09:00 (nineteen years ago)

Funny old weekend.

I heard my dad had had a 'temporary' stroke. So I gave him a ring. He seemed OK, made some vague arrangements to come over one weekend, see the kids, that sort of thing.

Bear in mind I've seen him about three times in 15 years, one of those times being our wedding. Oh and he's seen the kids once so far.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 2 October 2006 09:04 (nineteen years ago)

Morning, morning, morning.

I'm half a person today, tired, groggy, and my throat feels all constricted--due to craziness of the weekend (gig went great, thanks!)--it's especially unfortunate as 1)I have to teach two classes, 2)I have to go back to London tonight as a friend is arriving from the states, and 3)it's my birthday. Wake up, brain!

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 2 October 2006 09:24 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and now Benjamin has just shouted at me. :-(

I guess "be cool, just a bit of fun" really doesn't work with these touchy pop star types.

I should really have gone out on Friday night as I didn't go out the rest of the weekend after all. Guess I needed a few QNI's before the hell that will be this week.

better get to it...

x-post HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GOOBLAR!!! Hurrah!

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Monday, 2 October 2006 09:26 (nineteen years ago)

xpost I'm sure i'll get cake as well. It'll be one of those rubbish cakes from tescos with the texture and taste of soggy cardboard coated in sticky back plastic.

They were banging on about the no2id comedy thing on 6music sunday morning, it sounded like it might be patchy but fun. ID cards scare me, and a comedy gig sounds fun, so everyone's a winner. I'm sure it was better than fucking jongleurs.

Happy bday sir! Have a cake.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 2 October 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

I made biscuits yesterday, AND did my hilarious 1991 antenatal yoga video, AND cleaned the bath. A bit. Quite productive for a Sunday really.

Happy birthday gooblar!

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 2 October 2006 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

Happy birthday gooblar.

I am very very nervous and very very restless right now.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 2 October 2006 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

Why are you nervous and restless, FP? Or just the usual background anxiety?

I don't like popstars in my inbox. They should stay up on stages where they belong. Instead, I'm going to concentrate on posh totty instead. Rowr.

http://www.csshhq.org.uk/images/tatler.jpg

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Monday, 2 October 2006 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

I am not telling, but it relates to what I posted on this thread at the weekend.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 2 October 2006 09:55 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, you're going to Glasgow to pick up girls. Say no more. ;-)

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Monday, 2 October 2006 09:56 (nineteen years ago)

It's not *quite* like that!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 2 October 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

Mate, it's ENTIRELY like that.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 2 October 2006 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

Boo hoo hoo, the whole world is getting laid, except for me. And I've got this useless autumn burst of hormones to contend with. :-(

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Monday, 2 October 2006 10:05 (nineteen years ago)

You're not the only one, believe me.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 2 October 2006 10:06 (nineteen years ago)

Mind you, my lack of rumpo is down to me not going out enough. I need to sort it out really, but I don't have the cash.

I'm starting to think more and more that a lottery win would be exactly what I need. I wouldn't go bad, I'd just have more cash to do all the things I want to do. Annoying I don't play the lottery, really.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 2 October 2006 10:16 (nineteen years ago)

I know, but I still want to whinge about it.

I could be going out a lot more, but I just can't be bothered. This is the problem with having too nice a house, you don't really want to leave it and go out into the awful, horrible, not so nice and comfortable world. So it's mine own fault, I suppose. Why can't I meet men in the privacy of mine own home? Oh wait, because I don't want them cluttering up the place.

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Monday, 2 October 2006 10:18 (nineteen years ago)

I even tried reading the Guardian soulmates thing, but they were just all so... earnest. Why doesn't Country Life have a personals section? Oh, that's right, because it would be filled with gold-diggers. Lord Tottering-by-Gently's mate took out a personal ad, and he was quoting himself as "GOSH" and Dicky was all "Don't you mean GSOH?" and the friend replied, "No, it stands for Got Own Stately Home". Heh.

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Monday, 2 October 2006 10:22 (nineteen years ago)

I always bemoan the fact that there's not a parade of cute redhaired freckled indie chixors knocking on my door wanting to eat my curries and talk nonsence about minutiae.

I've nere met anyone from a lonely hearts ad/ dating website etc. I'm actually kinda scared by it - the terror of the unknown is easier to defeat when it's right in front of you, but when it's sitting the other side of a VDU it all gets rather uncomfortable.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 2 October 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

I guess now is not a good time to say..

actually, no.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 2 October 2006 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

Well, honestly, I'm not being funny, but how the heck else am I supposed to meet people?

"They" always say that you meet people through exploring your interests, but most of my interests are pretty solitary. Except for maybe music, but that's not really something I really want or even do meet people through any more. Because they're all kids, and well, I want someone mine own age, as settled/stable as me or moreso.

Dating sites scare me a heck of a lot less than, say, singles evenings, even singles evenings for geeks and/or cultural types such as this board loves to laugh at.

I'm not exactly going to meet anyone sitting on my chesterfield reading The Line of Beauty, am I?

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Monday, 2 October 2006 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

Whinge, whinge, whinge, I know. Maybe computer dating is even a way of keeping it all at arms length, rather than in my actual face where it can hurt me.

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Monday, 2 October 2006 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

Try gumtree, Johnny: a really, how you say, hott chick emailed me off there this weekend, so full of irony was she that I'm not sure she really meant what she was saying - obviously perfect.

And I was actually in Oxford at the time, went for an expensive curry and then cocktails at QI and then on Sunday to The Fishes for lunch, which was a great place for all the kids of my friends but served me a nut roast full of pine nuts, which I hate.

― angle of d... (tingo), Monday, 2 October 2006 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

Really? Hmm, I've heard of that, I'll check that place out.

OTM about fishes. I haven't been to the QI place yet, is it good?

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 2 October 2006 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

God, it's all Antipodeans, though!

Obviously, no hope for me, I should just rot in mine own misery. Thanks.

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Monday, 2 October 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

The main problem I have is the whole uni jealosy thing. I didn't go to uni, but everyone who I fancy did. It's a nasty hang-up that straddles the jealosy-anger-fear tryptic, and I need to get over it asap.

But anyway, why are we all mr and miss moany emo today, hmm? Look at the sunshine and the prettiness!

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 2 October 2006 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not mr moany emo, which makes a bloody change!

And no, I'm not off to Glasgow to pick up girls! Just ... someone I've been chatting to online a bit, who I thought it might be nice to meet. You know.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 2 October 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

I'm just annoyed at being yanked so indelicately from my fantasy life and back to boring work and crap.

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Monday, 2 October 2006 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

Awww, my students sang happy birthday to me! (Apparently they found out from another teacher) Everyone gets an A!

Now if only I could get one coherent lesson plan.

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

Capture one in a net.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

I, too, am getting none, Kate. So you're not alone. I could probably outwhinge you on this, actually (still haven't recovered from a breakup, um, ten years ago) except the internet is forever.

I always bemoan the fact that there's not a parade of cute redhaired freckled indie chixors knocking on my door wanting to eat my curries and talk nonsence about minutiae.

Yes.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

Hello everyone! I am in a training course. Woo.

I may have drunkenly sent out myspace friend requests to people last Friday night. Sorry.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

(Oh, and happy birthday g00blar)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:21 (nineteen years ago)

You drunk, sir. How dare you not share.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:22 (nineteen years ago)

I think I actually sent one to you, Ned.

Nothing terrible happened, it was a sitting at home* slowly soaking in alcohol style of drunkenness, unfortunately.

*not alone

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

I think my traditional birthday cold is limbering up right now.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

Oh no!

There's a horrid one going around right now. A party I was supposed to go to yesterday was cancelled becuase the birthday boy had the flu. But that's why I ended up at the movies instead.

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:36 (nineteen years ago)

you must have been drunk to want to friend ned! (i was)

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't been to the QI place yet, is it good?

Not bad. Good Bloody Mary - available without any fishy spices

God, it's all Antipodeans, though!

Nooo - gumtree has local sites for everywhere...

a parade of cute redhaired freckled indie chixors

Emsk! Emsk! Emsk!

how you say, xxxposts

― angle of d... (tingo), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

Aw, what a cute doggie!!!

http://static.flickr.com/111/258534756_d00a90baea.jpg

(I *want* those boots.)

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Monday, 2 October 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

I am *sure* the dog requires a helmet, though.

http://static.flickr.com/101/258534752_bab46c481e_o.jpg

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Monday, 2 October 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

I went to see Russian go up in a plane with Emsk at the weekend. V.good. Not so good hanging round in agricultural shop for AGES while she bought horsey crap. Reminded me of being a kid and having to be entertained by weedkiller/boilersuits in similar shops. Normally I'm annoyed with fancying someone to the point of making myself ill, now I'm annoyed 'cos I can't find anyone to like. Tried dating website - one was too old, one had an annoying coat and way of not deciding on where to go then looking pained when I took him anywhere remotely trendy. I'm not that bothered - everyone seems to be splitting up and Sleazycommissioningeditor who I saw at the Pete Waterman event was all like, "Bahahaha, 95% of married men cheat anyway" Might as well be glad I've lost my mojo, 'cos I've still got Swedish cider and I'm doing some features I'm really enjoying. Ed Balls to it.

― Nobodys Prawn (Nobodysprawn), Monday, 2 October 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, it's more like "95% of sleazeballs who cheat *believe* that 95% of married men cheat, because it makes them feel better about their skeezeballhood".

Where did she buy horsey crap? I need to buy boots and jodhpurs. Actually, I should wait until I lose enough weight to go riding again.

I'm glad that the Russian didn't crash her plane. I did squint up at the sky with ominous worry on Saturday afternoon thinking she was up there.

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Monday, 2 October 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

totally otm with regard to sleazeballs! And then the bloke pulls out his Blackberry and starts sexting or emailing this other journalist and bragging all about it, just minutes after he'd just totally letched over the other editor I'd arrived with a 'looks like a sexy librarian, phwoargh!' Can you see where my current man-hate is coming from???? Anyway, horsey crap was purchased from some shop in the middle of nowhere near Redhill

― Nobodys Prawn (Nobodysprawn), Monday, 2 October 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

A lot of you seem miserable today! I wonder if everyones last fm charts are going to be full of emo or doom metal this week ;)
Better keep you lot away from record shops!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 2 October 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

Miserable and slow, it seems. Where is everybody? (Like I'm such an active poster...I'm just avoiding looking at the faerie queene fer tomorrow)

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 2 October 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

i want to know this editor friend of nobodys prawn

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 2 October 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

I want more photos of Mr. Thornaby-Gore.

My database is just randomly being annoying and not working. Bah.

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Monday, 2 October 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

Miserable and slow, it seems. Where is everybody?
Obviously away buying doom metal cds!!!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 2 October 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, I forgot, if you're bored, you can watch our last song from Saturday night on YOUTUBE. (the soundman made us a dvd!)

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 2 October 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

I must start pluggin my iTunes into lastfm and seeing if I bend the charts at all. Mendelssohn is still rocking my world at the mo, so i dunno if I'd skew it.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 2 October 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

That's it, I just deleted my OKC account. It was only depressing me.

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Monday, 2 October 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

The watercooler weekly charts arent up yet for the last week. I wonder if Sigur Ros will win again.

Kate check your email. Some music for you.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 2 October 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

I must confess, I've not been listening to much except Roxy Music lately.

Actually, wait, no, I listened to Goldfrapp's Black Cherry a few times before it disappeared under the sofa. I suppose I should try to pull it out, but I'm scared of Under The Sofa. BIIIGGG spiders down there. I ejected one from the house last night, but still. Who knows what else might be there.

My mojo, f'instance.

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, they just tried to tell me that I have to work late the night of our *next* gig. I informed them that I simply would not. :-(

Missing one gig is bad enough.

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

kate, i will come and get your spiders out. but you do need them in your flat, otherwise your flat will be full of disgusting flies PUKING and SHITTING on everything.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

No, I know, I know, spiders are on the side of good. I don't kill them or anything, usually I get the dustpan and show them the door or more likely the window.

But this one was HUGE, and scared the shit out of me scuttling across the floor. It's legspan was, like, the size of a £2 coin at least, maybe even bigger.

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

This one, Kate?

http://static.flickr.com/94/241726008_e7d72e2d53.jpg

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh! Ugh! Ugh!

Yes, it was that big. It makes my hair stand on end just thinking about it.

I mean, spiders are cool and all - I like them when there are those lovely furry big ones outside. But I just do not want them that close to me.

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, we've had a couple of them this year too. In fact, I removed one this very morning on my way out to work. Them and wasps. GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 2 October 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning.

You can never listen to too much Roxy Music, Kate.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 04:29 (nineteen years ago)

Morning, there. My weekend plans are still up in the air, but I might find out what they are later.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 04:40 (nineteen years ago)

It's only Tuesday, FP!

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 05:48 (nineteen years ago)

Curses, my cold is no way near bad enough for me to stay in bed, it will surely peak on my birthday.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 05:51 (nineteen years ago)

Bad luck, Ed

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 06:17 (nineteen years ago)

It is the same every year. I think I always get blind sided by it starting to get cold and spend a little too long in sandals and a t-shirt and not closing the windows of the flat at night. Also September is always a really heavy month in terms of activity, eating and drinking and I think by early October the body just wants to shut down.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 06:25 (nineteen years ago)

Ed, this is a perfect opportunity to invite some object of your affection to bring you chicken soup on your deathbed/on your birthday.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 06:36 (nineteen years ago)

Its slow this morning, let's have some vikings:

http://static.flickr.com/60/228358748_bae183f718.jpg?v=0

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 08:37 (nineteen years ago)

That horse looks decidedly unwarlike.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 08:39 (nineteen years ago)

Viking horses were pretty small, to fit on the boats. Their main descendant is the Icelandic pony.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

Morning. What a strange morning it's been.

I have finally got confirmation that I'll be attending Poptimism on Thursday, yipee.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 08:52 (nineteen years ago)

huzzah, do you want a september cd?

I appear to have downloaded a recording of Sting murdering one of my favourite sea shanties in a cod pirate accent. Oh well at least its about syphilis and he might catch something.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 09:08 (nineteen years ago)

you should come for kebabs on weds too.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

A September CD? (xpost)

Ken: I cannot make it on Weds unfortunately.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 09:12 (nineteen years ago)

I am trying to do a cd a month at the moment to encourage me to broaden my musical horizons. August's one seemed to go down well.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 09:13 (nineteen years ago)

i would love a september cd please!

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 09:16 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I think I am coming tonight as I am not feeling too rubbish but I will be drinking only fruit based drinks. (I will have a package for the Russian).

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 09:18 (nineteen years ago)

A package for me? (just kidding)

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 09:22 (nineteen years ago)

A september CD sounds exciting, Ed, count me in.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 09:25 (nineteen years ago)

ace, thanks ed. she better be bloody coming.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 09:27 (nineteen years ago)

HOLLA @ KAET
u r needed in anotha thread

― teh_kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

(specifically the Bluewater FAP one)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 09:55 (nineteen years ago)

aw, you gave it away.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 09:56 (nineteen years ago)

Why do people phone up and say "there's a problem with the email, it's not working" - and then when I point out that the reason their email is bouncing is that they've spelled the address wrong, still behave as if it's somehow my fault?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

We can all pile in with these kinds of complaints: Why do people assume that the time the document needs to go out the door is how long they have to write, and when editors and production people have to spend a half-day just correcting their spelling and punctuation (Microsoft WORD people!!), are we the ones responsible for something being behind schedule?

Next!

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

I'm excited - I am looking at spending the weekend in Glasgow after all :-)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

Hello, hello, sorry I'm late to mine own party. It's monthend so I get to come in at 2, to make up for working until 11.

Vikings, errr, yes please! May I have the brooding looking one in the burgundy?

Hurrah for TISSP! at Poptimism! Hurrah for Glasgow! Hurrah for Russians! Well, at least the two I know. Is the Russian coming tonight? When I can't be there? Well, that REALLY isn't fair. Bah.

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

Click on the viking for more vikings.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

Ahhhh! Hott!!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/95461007@N00/228362182/

I want to muck about with horses and shields and bows and arrows and things. Do they have any calls for Valkiries?

Errr, actually, a bit "so not going to happen" here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/95461007@N00/228362174/

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

The bloke in the second one is their berseker.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

Interweb is terribly slow for me today.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

You don't route through JANET do you (are you at college?) because its fucked today.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

no, the work account is a btconnect broadband one. It's about as slow as my home dialup connection today.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

Our work account is being crap too, but it's a Kingston Comms one.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

The interweb is just about the only thing that is working at the moment.

Seriously, how does one find these vikings? That looks almost as fun as sockshunting.

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

Brandir is a camp friend of mine, they are the wolfguard, Isle of Wight vikings.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

THEY WERE ON THE ISLE OF WIGHT?!??!

I saw no Vikings when I was there. that would be possibly the only way that holiday could have been better. Mead and blood eagles.

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

Mmmmmmmm, mead.

I've not had any this year, since our Morrisons closed. Where can I get mead in London?

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

I think they have it at the pitfield beer shop.

This cd of pirate songs i have is rubbish not least because most of the people on it have no concept of a sea shanty but it does have Brian Ferry singing about lashing his cabin boy to his frozen yard arm.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

you need my PIRATE REMIXES from TLAPD.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

but it does have Brian Ferry singing about lashing his cabin boy to his frozen yard arm.

SHARE!!!!!!

NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Please?)

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

haven't got an ipod cable here but will when I get home.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

That would make my upcoming ordeal a heck of a lot more bearable.

Come on, people. Hurry up and get off the system already. Oh wait, not for another two and a half hours.

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

morning. after a riotous evening last night and a trip home planned for the weekend making me happy this morning, i suddenly just got really sad. pls to make me larf.

maybe you can get it in another morrisons, kate.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

Oh no, why are you sad Emsk? Did something happen?

I'm trying to think of any silly jokes, but, errr...

"Please sir, do you have any cold coffee?!

http://www.julianandeddie.com/strips/HotCoffee.gif

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

Somehow the word "larf" alone is enough to make me feel better.

I almost always get terribly depressed the day after being quite happy. I firmly believe there is only a limited amount of energy in the world, and this is just the natural process of equilibrium re-establishing itself.

(BTW, this also implies that if you are unhappy for an extended period of time, it means someone else in the world is stealing your good vibes.)

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

It's just called serotonin depletion.

OK, I just read the Excelsior thread, expecting some funnies, and it got me really, really bummed out. Like a pack of dogs turning on, err, another dog?

Louis, if you're still reading this, which you're probably not, you're still welcome here.

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

God, talk about being bummed. I even feel left out of mine own band's thread now. :-(

But at least this post will knock that horrid spider off the top.

I got the Goldfrapp album out from under the sofa without disloging any spiders, so all was OK.

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

na, nothing really happened. sudden and weird. cold coffee raised a wry smile though, thanks k8.

xposts

i haven't been doing anything to deplete my serotonin. bah.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

watercooler fap = happyjoy

― teh_kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

i mean bluewater, duh

― teh_kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

Where do you buy and sell second hand bees?

Bee-Bay.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

ouch.

um, HAHAHAHA!

no, it's not working. ARGH.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

I'm looking at pictures of Nelson to cheer me up, Emsk. But I don't think you fancy pointy nosed sea captains, do you?

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

Emsk, I have a story with exactly the same two morals as the one I previously told you, check your email.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

(The morals in question being "People are really nice!" and "I'm a complete moron!" though not necessarily in that order)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

I don't like stories with morals like that. I like stories with morals like, "if you see an outlandish knight on the very first morning of May YOU WILL DIE" or "if your name is Polly, and you are in a folk song, YOU WILL DIE!!!" or "if you kill spotted pigs belonging to witches, then... errr.... actually KILL THE WITCH, KILL THE WITCH, SPLIT HER IN TWO!!!"

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

Nah, if you are a Polly you will be knocked up (probably by a sailor) by verse 5.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

Especially if you keep a thread tied to your ring finger, and go down and let them all in, etc.

(If only I'd know, that was the done thing in Yarmouth, I might have scored.)

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

I'd not heard that one before; i need to learn it, can you remember what it was called?

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

Yarmouth Town, I think it was called? Can't recall.

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

Keywords sailor and sex in the digitrad database:

1. In Yarmouth Town there lived a man,
kept a little tavern down by the strand.
The landlord had a daughter fair,
a pretty little thing with the golden hair.

Ch.: Oh, won't you come down,
Won't you come down,
Won't you come down
To Yarmouth town.

2. At night there came a sailor man
and he's asked the daughter for her hand.
"Oh, why should I marry you, she said,
I have all I want without being wed.

3. "But if with me you do want a linger,
I tie a piece of string all around my finger
and as you pass by, just pull on the string
and I'll come down and I'll let you in."

4. At closing time the sailor man
he's gone to the tavern down by the strand
and as he passed by, he pulled on the string,
and she's come down, and she's let old Jack in.

5. Now he's never seen such a sight before,
'cause the string around the finger was all she wore.
[no missing lines; this verse isn't longer]

6. The sailor stayed the whole night through
and early in the morning went back to his crew,
and then he told them about the maiden fair,
the pretty little thing with the golden hair.

7. Well, the news it soon got around
and the very next night in Yarmouth Town
there was fifteen sailors pulling on the string
and she's come down and she's let them all in.

8. So all young men that to Yarmouth go,
if you see a pretty girl with her hair hanging low,
well, all you've got to do is pull on the string,
and she'll come down and she'll let you in.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

In Yarmouth town there lived a man
He had a little tavern by the strand
And the landlord had a daughter fair
Pretty little thing with golden hair
[Chorus:]
Won't you come down
Won't you come down
Won't you come down to Yarmouth town
One night there came a sailor man
He asked the daughter for her hand
Well I won't marry you she said
I have all I want without being wed
But if with me you'd like to linger
I'll tie some string all around my finger
As you walk by, pull on my string
I'll come down and let you right in
[Chorus 2x]
Well the very next day at closing time
The sailor man goes off to the strand
And as he walks by pulls on that string
And she came down and let him right in
Well he's never such a sight before
A string on her finger was all she wore
[Chorus 2x]
So all you men who to Yarmouth go
If ya see those girls with their hair hung low
All ya gotta do is pull their strings
And they'll come down and let you right in

[Chorus 4x]

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

ha ha, x-post!

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.myspace.com/nphay

(for pure electronic music & funny noises made on analog synthesizers)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

no :( i wish i did

many xposts

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds nice, Pash. Sent you a friend request.

You should totally sign to IFF.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

("sign")

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

If I can get an ep's worth of stuff that I'm happy with together, I'll give you first refusal on it!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

("first refusal")

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

Ha. I am trying to be all marketing and build a "portfolio" for the label. Which is silly, because we have no money.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

Sigh. This day is dragging. One more hour before I can get started. Why do I come in at all, on these days? It's not like I can do anything till everyone goes home.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

kaet, still on for Bluewater FAP? ken is calling for confirmation on the thread.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

I don't knoooooooowwww.

I'm having a lot of second thoughts. Mainly because I remembered that I hate shopping malls, and I hate videogames.

(And nothing at all to do with the posh totty at the Sockshunt, oh no.)

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

kk, np. i hate shopping malls and i hate meeting people.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

kate, check yr mail for the prog pirate faerie

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

Not yet... oh noes...

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

Ah! There it is! Huzzah! Downloading now. Thank you!

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

Aw, this is great stuff! I might just do this at the next open mic! Young boys and sea captains and plenty of whippings and hangings. Oh yes.

THE CRUEL SHIP'S CAPTAIN

The boy to me was bound apprenticed
'cause his parents they were poor.
So I took him from St. James' workhouse
All for to sail on the Greenland shore.

One day this poor boy he did annoy me
Nothing to him then did I say
But I rushed him to my frozen yardarm
And I kept him there 'til the very next day.

When his eyes and his teeth hang before me
With his hands and his feet down bowed
And with a tarry gasket there I killed him
For I would not hear his cries below
I wouldn't hear his cries below.

Now all you sea captains that go out a-navyin'
Take a fair advice by me
Don't abuse your young apprentice boys aboard
Because its hanged that you'd surely be
Or else it's hanged that you'd surely be
Yes it's hanged that you'd surely be.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

Hullo hullo. Free jazz is an odd way to start the day, I've concluded.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

No, no, Ned, listen to some sea shanties. That will start you off right.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

It's one of the better tunes on the album.

depends what, I find song-x by ornette coleman is a fantastic way to start the day.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

I'm starting my data dumps with some Kate Bush.

Damn, I want a dog.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

No, no, Ned, listen to some sea shanties. That will start you off right.

Sung gruffly o' course!

I find song-x by ornette coleman is a fantastic way to start the day

Ascension can work but only if you're trying to get wired up.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

Damn, I want a dog.

You have just suggested a Sophie B. Hawkins/Pet Shop Boys mashup and I fear.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

Oh dear. Kate Bush fans scare me...

http://www.herbleonhard.com/Kate/hounds.jpg

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

zapping the rest, sting is a numpty who can't even sing about syphilis right and that is the idea of singing hauling songs as a dirge does not compute

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

I do like the idea of Sting with syphillis, though. The idea of his knob falling off during a long session of tantric sex amuses me. Probably a lot more than the song would.

Oh wait, no, that's leprosy, innit?

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

That's the version he sings:

Our boots and clothes are all in pawn
Go down, you blood red roses, Go down.
And its flamin' drafty 'round Cape Horn,
Go down, you blood red roses, Go down.

cho: Oh, you pinks and posies,
Go down, you blood red roses, Go down.

My dear old mother said to me,
My dearest son, come home from sea.

It's 'round Cape Horn we all must go
'Round Cape Horn in the frost and snow.

You've got your advance, and to sea you'll go
To chase them whales through the frost and snow.

It's 'round Cape Horn you've got to go,
For that is where them whalefish blow.

It's growl you may, but go you must,
If you growl too much your head they'll bust.

Just one more pull and that will do
For we're the boys to kick her through.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

I do like the idea of Sting with syphillis, though.

Maybe his medieval concept album can be tender ballads about crotch-rot.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

Dunno, might be scurvy.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

The version I know is much lewder, but I can't find it online and can't be arsed to type it out right now

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I've got all the downloads lined up. Do I dare start them now, or should I wait another half hour for the conslutants to get off the database?

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

Plus, I can't find my song book with the long version in it

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

Will download traffic get noticed or do they care?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

Eh? These are the data dumps I do for mine JOB!

I've looked for the lyrics for Blood Red Roses, but they're all the same that you've posted, Ed. (though trying to search folk music archives for blood +red +roses brings up almost every song in the world.)

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

Yarmouth town is hard to sign you really got to hit every syllable right or you loose track of the song. I've just tried it a few times with the mudcat midi files slowed down in garage band and its not easy.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

Eh? These are the data dumps I do for mine JOB!

Apologies, I thought you meant song downloads! My feeble brane, etc.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

Those I do all the doo dah day. Only person who would care is the Sys Admin, and he downloads more than I do!

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

Gather Round you Sailors and Listen to Me
Go Down you Blood Red Roses, Go Down!
Ne'er take a young girl on your knee
Go Down you Blood Red Roses, Go Down!

Chorus
Oh you pinks and posies
Go down you blood red roses, go down

Them Liverpool girls ain't got no comb
They Combs their hair with a kipper back bone

[Chorus]

The winds blow cold around cape horn
Their ain't no pretty girls to keep you warm

[Chorus]

When I was young and in my prime
I took them pretty girls nine at a time

[Chorus]

But now I'm old and getting grey
I can hardly manage one a day

[Chorus]

There's a couple more verses about girls from different places, also until you heard it sung at 2 in the morning the way I know how to sing it by a rowdy drunken choir then you haven't heard it sung.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

John and Jon aside, that is usually the best way to hear folk songs.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

...and this is where FMM, Bishi and I have the three way argument about which way English folk songs sound best. Slightly camp, fey, etherial and spooky, or DRUNKEN AND LUSTY.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

Drunken and lusty all the way.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

Well, we'll get FMM drunken and lusty if we pour more beer down her and show her pictures of Jon's legs! Wah-hey!

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

Its for singin in pubs and on ships and such fey and wibbly doesn't cut it. This is why Scarborough Fair has a 'Shortest Folk song' version.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

Heh Kate Bush quotes that chorus somewhere in The Ninth Wave doesn't she? NB as Kate Bush fans go I am not scary, honest.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

hmm, I'd like to hear kate bush sing about syphilis.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

balls to this. i tried the cute baby animal thread, cuteoverload.com AND catsinsinks.com and NOTHING WORKS :( perhaps i need a beer.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

Ohmigod, is this Blixa Bargeld singing backup on a pirate's sea shanty? I can think of a friend for whom this would be a wet dream come true.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

x-post, yes, when it gets like that beer solves all.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

which one?

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

Also why is Shenadoah on this album? (deserves a Shortest folk song if any does)

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

Fire Down Below. Blixa Bargeld is a Bad Seed.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/pix/boobash02/Cernunnos-m.jpg

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

Are the Old Prunes related to the Virgin Prunes?

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

I agree, though, this comp has a pretty loose definition of sea shanty.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

Are the Old Prunes related to the Virgin Prunes?

A withered up Gavin Friday = the fear.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, so much for peace and quiet. The big boss is in, I can smell him. :-(

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

Ah! At last some proper piratical airs! High Barbary!

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

And agreed, WTF at these dirgelike hauling songs. Ships crewed with this lot wouldn't get ANYWHERE at this rate.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know they could easily get, say, 50 fathoms.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

Deep, I hope you mean!

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

arr, 'tis a measurement of depth, arr

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

Oh no, Gavin Friday is here under this own steam, singing about the Whores of Baltimore. Oh dear.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

I hope he means John Waters-style whores.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

This song is HILARIOUS. Exactly what you would expect from Gavin Friday. Featuring the immortal line "Drags yr nuts across my guts, I'm one of the whorey crew."

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/pages/tiOLDWHOR2;ttOLDWHOR2.html

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

I just had a fish from the chippie for my dinner. Hurrah.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

I'm learning that one too.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

Omigod! That is the easiest and fastest I have ever done a MonthEnd.

(OK, this means that Pipeline tomorrow will SUX0R, I bet you)

Nothing went wrong. No one changed anything while I was downloading. I am OUT OF HERE!!!

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

Hello there.

Glasgow is off again after all. Well, postponed a week or two.

I'm off to the warehouse today. At least it means a couple of hours in the car, away from annoyances.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 08:25 (nineteen years ago)

Morning. God, I feel rough. Got about two hours of sleep last night, due to emotional turmoil, not even drunkenness. Not fun.

But hey, at least the bulk of the work is done.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 08:28 (nineteen years ago)

I hate that sort of night.

I didn't sleep well either, because we had a string of power cuts through the night. And each time it went off, so did the neighbours' burglar alarms. Grrrr.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

WHAT A DAY FOR THE COFFEE MACHINE TO BREAK!!!!

3rd Floor: I'M IN UR KITCHEN DRINKING UR COFFEE!!!!!!!1

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

i got 3 hours of sleep last night cos i spent ages playing civ 4 lolol

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 08:44 (nineteen years ago)

omfg ken, spend more time on ILG.
i'll FITE you at Civ4 sometime!

― teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 08:47 (nineteen years ago)

haha i need to develop some more 1337 at civ first though but YAH RLY

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 08:53 (nineteen years ago)

Civ 4 is evil and will eat your life. Especially if you start playing online

― treefell (treefell), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 09:01 (nineteen years ago)

i started Civing when i was like 12, i'm immune.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 09:03 (nineteen years ago)

besides, i'd happily not sleep for 72 hours if it meant i got to stomp all over this carwash cunt.
http://civilized.de/www/content/civ4/images/leader-isabella.jpg

― teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 09:04 (nineteen years ago)

Look, I know I'm a bit cranky this morning, but could you please take this to I Love Games?

Thanks.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 09:11 (nineteen years ago)

I'm thinking about job titles this morning. Gareth and I were laughing over being "analysts" no matter what you do. I told him it could be worse, he could be a "consultant" but he said he'd be making more money, ha ha.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 09:12 (nineteen years ago)

fine, no more games talk.
music discussion never gets shunted over to ILM, but ok.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 09:15 (nineteen years ago)

I'm in a rotten mood today, Kit, please don't fuck with me.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 09:22 (nineteen years ago)

It wouldn't be appropriate to go and cry in the loo for a while, would it?

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 09:25 (nineteen years ago)

OK, maybe time to spend a morning not on ILX.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 09:27 (nineteen years ago)

Our boots and clothes are all in pwn

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

an analyst is okay as long as you don't pronounce it "analist"

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 09:40 (nineteen years ago)

Insert Arrested Development joke about the combined Analyst/Therapist: analrapist.

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 09:44 (nineteen years ago)

Take it to I Love Anal Rape.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 10:22 (nineteen years ago)

Hooray, I have pills!

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

woohoo, no more unwanted pregnancy for tissp.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

Hello there.
Glasgow is off again after all. Well, postponed a week or two.

I'm off to the ~~warehouse~~ whorehouse today. At least it means a couple of hours in the car, away from annoyances.

Better?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

A whorehouse in a car, wow.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 11:15 (nineteen years ago)

The Ring

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

What exactly does this The Ring link onimo posted got to do with FP visiting whorehouses?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

Dude if you have to ask

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

Snarf.

Morning all. Onimo, how is wee Onimobaby coming along?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

It's quiet today.
Hello Ned.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

I am actually busy today for the first time in weeks. It is somewhat refreshing.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

mmm cheese and onion toastie and beans mmm.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

Why don't I learn? Why don't I ever learn?

There are certain people that I CANNOT trust, with confidences, with emotional matters, with anything.

Why don't I learn? Why do I rise to the bait? Why don't I just hit delete before it starts?

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

Also, on a totally unrelated note, why did g-kit get banned from this thread? I certainly didn't request that. :-(

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

Oh dear here was me thinking that we'd found a task for work experience girl where she couldn't possibly do any harm - dusting. But she's been spraying the Pledge around with such abandon since 10am that I now feel quite sick. These fumes can't be good for baby either :(

ILE is baffling to me lately.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

mmm cheese and onion toastie and beans mmm.

I R jealous! And hungry.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe lacquered baby will be better than:

"Shrink my baby, yeah!"

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

I just spent half an hour crying in the bathroom, and I still don't feel any better. And now mine eyes are salty and sting a bit. :-(

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

:-(

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

Kate, if you want to come round after work, talk, drink tea and watch me clean under the fridge you are more than welcome to.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

I think Kate needs to visit *Ailsa & Simon's early 90s disco/festival, maybe that would cheer her up?

* visit NME's Student Disco Anthems Of All Time Poll if you don't know what i'm talking about.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

I think I just need to sleep. Everything seems worse when you haven't slept.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Where do you buy and sell second hand bees?

Bee-Bay.

Did it work?

To be honest I'm feeling down today. Only coffe and Mozart are keeping me cheery, and that's a close run thing. I think a dose in front of the SAD lamp and an early night is in order for me.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

Everything seems worse when you haven't slept

V. true.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

What I really need is an dog, though.

http://www.irish-wolfhound-longbridge.de/images/wesen_01_1.jpg

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

that is clearly a bear, not a dog.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, it is an wolf(hound).

Maybe instead of moving to Wiltshire to farm pigs, I shall breed Wolfhounds. Dalmation Planitation or something.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

Check yr email, Kate?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

Cheers, pash.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Kate you need to come to bluewaters on saturday that's what you need to do

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

Wait until tomorrow night, then we can PARTY

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

morning! wow for the first time i am the first one in. is v weird being at work this early.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 5 October 2006 06:03 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, and here's me still eating whole wheat muffins

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 5 October 2006 06:09 (nineteen years ago)

Morning.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 5 October 2006 06:49 (nineteen years ago)

london was all pink as i was coming in. then as soon as i got inside the skies opened. today i am feeling... blank.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 5 October 2006 06:59 (nineteen years ago)

Morning all! Brrr, I am a bit chilly-willy this morning, I may have to put some heating on if this keeps up.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 5 October 2006 07:13 (nineteen years ago)

Got my winter boots out today! Luckily they still fit over my hideous swollen ankles :(

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 October 2006 07:15 (nineteen years ago)

You shouldn't be feeling the cold at all Archel! Not with your very own little heat generating tummy-bump.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 5 October 2006 07:20 (nineteen years ago)

Hi all. I went to bed at a sensible time last night and didn't imbue anything, and I'm now the most wide awake person. Yay me!

I linked up to last.fm last night - yay me! I've joined the watercooler group, which is all good, so expect to see me bothering the charts. Does anyone know if there's an easy way to 'scrobble' from my iPod? Looks like it only takes stuff that I've played on iTunes, which doesn't reflect the way I listen to stuff at all.

It is chilly this morning. I prefer it when it's either sunny and warm, or cold and grey. In between is what annoys me - can't it make up it's mind?

Emsk, why you feeling blank?

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 5 October 2006 07:25 (nineteen years ago)

If you download the older iScrobbler software that allows you to scrobble from iPod, alternatively play your Recently Played with the volume off after you have gone to bed.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 5 October 2006 07:40 (nineteen years ago)

Grr my email is buggering about, after a spam run using my domain name that actually caused my hosting company to phone up and ask me to turn off the "forward unknown usernames to..." setting.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 5 October 2006 07:46 (nineteen years ago)

xxxxxxxxxxxxpost

thanks for asking Ned, onimobaby is doing very well. She's a month old already!

I, however, will hopefully get all the sleep I need when I'm dead :)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 5 October 2006 07:58 (nineteen years ago)

My god that month went fast! She'll be going out on dates and wearing unsuitable make-up before you know it :)

I'm not sleeping properly and my baby isn't even BORN yet (11 weeks to go!) so christ knows when I'll get a full night's rest again...

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 October 2006 08:10 (nineteen years ago)

A really boring access question:

I've just added extra columns to the main table in my database. Anyway of updating all of my queries so that these columns are added in without doing them all manually?

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 5 October 2006 08:14 (nineteen years ago)

Morning. The heating came on last night, which was the first time this winter. Nice to be snuggled up on the sofa with the velvet throw. Still didn't sleep properly. Fell asleep OK, but up at the crack of dawn with thoughtworms. Not fun. :-(

Some boy was STARING at me on the train platform. I mean, staring, very overtly. It was freaking weird. I thought he was looking at the timetable or something, but he kept looking me direct in the eye. It was really unnerving, made me wonder if I had oatmeal in my teeth or something. Or I'd met him and forgotten who he was. (I have a poor memory.) But then for the first time it suddenly struck me. Maybe he's seen me on TV! He was kinda dressed like a grown up version of an internet geek/indie kid, so it's possible.

He got on a different door of the train, but then came and sat close by me. Too bad he didn't actually sit opposite me, or I'd have asked "hello, do I know you, or have you just seen me on TV?"

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 5 October 2006 08:17 (nineteen years ago)

(11 weeks to go!)

Or more! My wife's sister was supposed to have her baby last week and she's still moping around being HUGE.

I'm now an uncle too, my brother's wife had a wee girl last week!

Shagging's a big part of our festive celebrations :-)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 5 October 2006 08:18 (nineteen years ago)

He was probably thinking "blimey, it's that bird with the guitar off the telly"!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 5 October 2006 08:24 (nineteen years ago)

Cheers Ed, I'll try that out. Don't think there's any way of adding in columns to queries automatically I'm afraid. I'm sure you could do it in VBA if you're changing them all the time, but I don't think Access knows how to do it by itself.

Tee hee at kate being gawped at 4 being famous!

I keep having really dirty thoughts today. They climb into my head unbidden and won't leave. It's a real nuisanse. I want a cup of water but I don't really want to stand up :(

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 5 October 2006 09:04 (nineteen years ago)

We obviously timed it all wrong so that sprog will be born at Christmas rather than conceived then. Unlikely to be much festive shagging, in other words.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 October 2006 09:28 (nineteen years ago)

I remember festive shagging . .. . sigh . . . .

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 5 October 2006 09:30 (nineteen years ago)

I don't.

Festives have always been times of stress and strain and arguments and ending up with no sex at all.

So, erm, just like usual, then.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 5 October 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, happy National Poetry Day by the way.

A bit of rudey poetry for Johnny - the Earl of Rochester had dirty thoughts too:

Naked she lay, clasped in my longing arms,
I filled with love, and she all over charms;
Both equally inspired with eager fire,
Melting through kindness, flaming in desire.
With arms,legs,lips close clinging to embrace,
She clips me to her breast, and sucks me to her face.
Her nimble tongue, Love's lesser lightening, played
Within my mouth, and to my thoughts conveyed
Swift orders that I should prepare to throw
The all-dissolving thunderbolt below.
My fluttering soul, sprung with the painted kiss,
Hangs hovering o'er her balmy brinks of bliss.
But whilst her busy hand would guide that part
Which should convey my soul up to her heart,
In liquid raptures I dissolve all o'er,
Melt into sperm and, and spend at every pore.
A touch from any part of her had done't:
Her hand, her foot, her very look's a cunt.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 October 2006 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

I'm stupid. Today is the 4th, not the 14th. Onimosprog is 3 weeks old tomorrow, not a month old at all. See what not sleeping does to you?

Stress and strain and arguments should never prevent teh shagging.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 5 October 2006 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

Heheh it is the 5th actch!

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Thursday, 5 October 2006 09:44 (nineteen years ago)

Archel, you have dehydrated Johnny.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 5 October 2006 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

Oh great, Johnny Deep wank fantasies all round!

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y150/constantine_rules/DEPP/libertine14.jpg

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 5 October 2006 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

Man I forgot to skip the 31st on my watch!

I need sleep!

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 5 October 2006 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

hehe, women are lucky really - we can have as many dirty thoughts as we like and our bodies don't incriminate us. Sorry JB.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 October 2006 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

Today is Thursday! Onimosprog is 3 weeks old *today*.

Fuckin hell my brane

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 5 October 2006 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

Cor yeah I still haven't seen The Libertine - Matt is reluctant. Possibly he thinks it will corrupt me.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 October 2006 09:51 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, see The Libertine. It is WONDERFUL. I didn't have very high hopes for it, but it was everything I hoped for and more. Depp chews scenery like there's no tomorrow. Which there probably isn't if you've lost half your nose to syphillis.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 5 October 2006 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

Yay for rude poetry! Although what you saying about me, what have you heard? ;) xpost.

Oh, that's what you've heard. Mind you, Johnney Depp has successfully calmed me down enough to go and get a cookie from downstairs.

Onimo OTM btw. The best part of breaking up etc . . .

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 5 October 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

It doesn't always work that way, tho. :-(

Why do I feel hungover when I haven't drunk in days? Must be lack of sleep or something. Or else I'm coming down with a cold, just typical.

Maybe I'll have some green tea.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 5 October 2006 10:06 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

Onimo - Have you bought a small wheelie bin to put Onimosprog in yet?

And I haven't said congrats yet, which is really remiss of me. Ooh and give Anne my love.

OK back to Johnny Depp...

― Guilty Boksen (Bro_Danielson), Thursday, 5 October 2006 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

No, even Johnny Deep isn't really doing it for me today.

Require something more effacious.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 5 October 2006 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

I am not watching GB giving "his love" to Mrs O at Camber next year.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 5 October 2006 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

Stop bringing things down to your level, cowpat.

― Guilty Boksen (Bro_Danielson), Thursday, 5 October 2006 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

It's not my fault we're not all as tall as you.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 5 October 2006 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

xxpost Hang on - Johnny Depp lost half his nose to syphillis?!?

― Guilty Boksen (Bro_Danielson), Thursday, 5 October 2006 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

No, the Earl of Rochester did.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 5 October 2006 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

Mrs O might not be getting the Guilty love at ATP next year, what with the baby and all that - so I'll pass on the love for you, at Chistmas probably :)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 5 October 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

ARGH!!!!

I have just found out that this company should have set me up a pension, matching my contribution, for the past sodding year and a half, and no one ever mentioned this to me.

This shit pisses me off. I STILL don't even have a contract. I should just walk out and refuse to come back until I have both - BACKDATED for the past year.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 5 October 2006 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

That same thing happened to a friend/colleague of mine.

He got his contribs backdated.

So can you. Bite them, though.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 5 October 2006 10:47 (nineteen years ago)

Hello. Yesterday was Doncaster. Today, I be in Hull. It wasn't planned as a week of trips out, though.

Archel, have I told you, one of the staff here in Hull also has 11 weeks left to go - she's due on Christmas Eve, though.

Kate, thanks for the comment on the blog, it was much appreciated :-)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 5 October 2006 10:57 (nineteen years ago)

Because I cannot find the thread...happy birthday, Ed!

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 5 October 2006 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

That blog entry really made me think, though. What you were saying about you can learn a lot from someone about how they talk about exes. And that kinda scared me, because yeah, I do talk a lot of shit about my exes. (though I really have tried to make an effort not to talk about them at all, WRT people I'm considering or entertain a new relationship with.)

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 5 October 2006 11:02 (nineteen years ago)

x-post, indeed!

Did I not say so already? Bah, remiss of me.

Happy Birthday, Ed.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 5 October 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

It wasn't me saying that part, it was The Friend Near Glasgow.

It's Ed's birthday? Happy Birthday, Mr E L-B!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 5 October 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

Happy Birthday, Edward!

I'm working very hard not to allow this hangover to last all day and cripple tonight's shenanigans. The weather's not helping, though.

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 5 October 2006 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

He got on a different door of the train, but then came and sat close by me. Too bad he didn't actually sit opposite me, or I'd have asked "hello, do I know you, or have you just seen me on TV?"

Of course just maybe he fancied you.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 5 October 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

Happy birthday, Ed!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 5 October 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

Happy birthday, Ed!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 5 October 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

Emsk, why you feeling blank?

dunno, up too early i think. considering lunch now but it's raaaaaaiiiining.

happy birthday ed!

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 5 October 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

Birthday rah!

Oh, see The Libertine. It is WONDERFUL.

Yes'm, it's quite good.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 October 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

I got 18 months of pension contributions backdates too. Go see the HR person and say you'd like to do this. Should be fine.

HBE!

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Thursday, 5 October 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

I am at the beginning of a stupid wrangle with HR about maternity pay which REALLY makes me wish I'd been better at record-keeping over the past few months. Well, years. :(

Happy birthday Ed!

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 October 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, the new Plan B has a cover mount CD. I can remember when they swore they would NEVER EVER EVER have one.

I got the best Edward Monkton thing at Paperchase. It's the sort of card I would love someone else to give me, but I bet my mates would be too scared.

It's got all these badly drawn pills, with various explanations underneath, and across the top it says "We must TAKE our TABLETS or else we will GO MAD"

-This one helps me not to scare the postman
-This one is so BEAUTIFUL it PAINS me to DESTROY it
-This one is EVIL and must DIE
-I love this one so much it HURTS, one day it will understand my SPECIAL POWERS and love me too
-Sometimes I hard this one singing in voices so HAUNTING and LYRICAL that a single note can make me WEEP

I really want to keep it on my desk (next to all the vitamins) but I'm not sure if people will understand. Or if I want them to.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 5 October 2006 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

I got my copy of Plan B in last week.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 5 October 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think I have an article in it so I'll have to buy one or nick one off FMM. :-(

Ohmigod, I want these. They look like they might actually be quite slimming/flattering as far as jodhpurs go. With "sticky bum for dressage" which makes me cackle like a sick duck.

http://www.tack365.com/ProductImages/BIG/BGLJ-RL-BE.jpg

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 5 October 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

No comment on bum above.

Have I missed Ed's birthday?! Happy birthday!!! (!!)

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 5 October 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

Come on, I think even *I* would look hott in those.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 5 October 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

You have got an article in the current plan b - a write-up on the secret machines' film.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 5 October 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

I do?!??! I thought that wasn't going to run coz they couldn't find a picture. Or did they find a picture?

Man, I want those jodhpurs. But I'd have to get down to a 34" waist.

:-(

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 5 October 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

From the RISE ABOVE newsletter
NEWSFLASH – Circulus to play free show at the new Fopp records store, Tottenham Court Road, London TONIGHT Thursday 5th October, 7pm.

Rise Above Records Newsletter – October 2006

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 5 October 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

Also
Fri 6th - Union Chapel, Islington, 7pm
Thurs 26th - Fabric, London London EC1 8pm

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 5 October 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

Are you going Kate or are you washing your cape those nights?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 5 October 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

I can't concentrate now. Image googling for men in jodhpurs has made me, errr, too excited.

Don't know. Was thinking about Union Chapel.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 5 October 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

Oh! Except it's tomorrow, innit? Probably not then.

Maybe Fabric.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 5 October 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

This picture has really... er, excited me:

http://www.astiequestrian.co.uk/trolleyed/images/thumbs/t_thnimrodbreeche.jpg

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 5 October 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

I would like to see circulus but I hate fabric.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 5 October 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

I'd like to hear something by this band

Chrome Hoof – Release New EP on Rise Above.

The Avant-Garde Kraut Doom Prog troupe known as Chrome Hoof unleash their latest offering, a headfuck of an EP tiled ‘Beyond Zade’ on Mon Oct 30th. Most definitely not for the faint hearted and narrow-minded amongst you, which, come to think of it, doesn’t probably count for many!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 5 October 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

Though...

Sat 11 November - Lord Mayor's Show, London

Oh yes.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 5 October 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

many xpost: Wikipedia describes Giles Andreae (the guy who does the Edward Monkton and Purple Ronnie stuff) as "Britain's best-selling contemporary poet". Surely greeting cards barely sneak under the radar as poems? And surely it's the guy who writes the hallmark poems if they do?

Hott posh chick in jodphurs = no water for me for a while.

Oh yeh, and rest of thread OTM on the subject of Ed and his b'day happiness.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 5 October 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

omg. Work experience girl has tidied my stationery cupboard to within an inch of its life. It's great, but... how will I find anything? And now she's back on the Pledge. I think she might have some sort of cleaning compulsion actually.

Oh are Edward Monkton and Purple Ronnie the same guy? I like the former but not at all the latter :(

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 October 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh, I hate Purple Ronnie. That's really annoying.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 5 October 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

Do you dislike your card now, or are you still cool with it?

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 5 October 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

No, it's still a great card.

Especially "this one helps me not to scare the postman"

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 5 October 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

Thank you all for birthday wishes, you can get me drunk later.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 5 October 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

::kicks stuff::

I have a variance of -£3259 (which means I've got £3k more data that I'm supposed to have).

And the more I investigate, the weirder it gets.

OK, that's .01% on the whole DB, but it's more than I can live with.

:-(

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 5 October 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Boo for numbers not adding up.

I just remembered that I have to drink Lucozade tomorrow morning so the midwife can test me for gestational diabetes. Yuck.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 October 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

I've got 0.01% errors as well - some sites are de-energised when they should be energised, and visa versa, and it's my job to sort the osdding thing out. Grrr . . .

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 5 October 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

I've got 0.01% errors as well - some sites are de-energised when they should be energised, and visa versa, and it's my job to sort the sodding thing out. It may be a small error, but 0.01% of a massive portfolio of electric sites is quite a lot!

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 5 October 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

Kate, are you going to Poptimism tonight?

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Thursday, 5 October 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

Eventually. Going to dinner first.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 5 October 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

Need more pictures of men in jodhpurs or breeches, please.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 5 October 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Okay dokey. Just wanted to check someone was going who I had the number of, just in case.

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Thursday, 5 October 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

Kate and her new admirers... (in fantasy land...)

http://www.rhmiller.co.uk/images/cw1lo.jpg

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 5 October 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

I think that young man's other hand is somewhere rude and I think the horse knows where.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 October 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Hence why its head is cocked?

(Even though the young man riding the horse seems to be oblivious... or politely averting his eyes.)

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 5 October 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

Here's one for Johnny B:

http://www.tackinthebox.com/images/Products/rider/cl304_200.jpg

This *IS* what I will look like after 6 months of detoxing. Yes, it *IS*. God, maybe I should cut that picture out and tape it to my fridge.

Or my monitor, except people would think I was gay. No, I am not gay, that's my thinspiration. Or whatever.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 5 October 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

I hope Johnny has gone out the door otherwise hill be stuck at his desk all night.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 5 October 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

"hill" is a new one on me. I only know "tenting".

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 5 October 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

When you think of all the inconvenient erections suffered by men over the years, it's a wonder that something all-disguising like the crinoline wasn't invented for the male gender rather than the female one.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 October 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

Codpieces, Arch!

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 5 October 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

Hide or accentuate?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 October 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

Also:
http://www.brookvale-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/Excursion/2002/Extension2/Pic1.jpg

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Thursday, 5 October 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, I like this fellow's breeches.

http://synonym.dk/mall/images/varer/350693.jpg

Wellies of Sex!

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 5 October 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

OK, question... where does he hide his... YOU KNOW...

http://www.hannoverianridingwear.com/images/mens-breeches/Copy%20of%20sioux.jpg

I picked up Horse and Hound at the weekend and started reading it and got several pages in before I realised my mistake. (It was next to Country Life.) What is happening to me?!??!

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 5 October 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

Or has it just been airbrushed out?

Yes, I'm obsessed, leave me alone. It's been far too long. :-(

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 5 October 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

He's upper class, he comes with detachable fittins, so he's like ken for riding, one for the misses, one for the mistress one for town, one for the country.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 5 October 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, I thought I had chased down a problem, but resolving it actually put my variance UP to nearly £4000.

What on earth could it be?

It's got to be Value Variance, there's nothing else it could be. But how can I find it?

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 5 October 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

What is that chap in the tweedy breeches doing with his right hand?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 5 October 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

Pocket billiards.

Morning all. I had a blast last night.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 6 October 2006 05:49 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah!

I ... um ... stayed in and talked online.

Well, that's not quite true. I went to see a neighbour for a bit of website design consultancy (paid in booze), and then went home and talked online.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 6 October 2006 06:07 (nineteen years ago)

Hello all!

I went to the pub last night and drank some wine with my new Italian housemate. She got busy insulting my clothes before saying I had "classical Spanish good looks" - living with her for a year will be interesting.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Friday, 6 October 2006 07:23 (nineteen years ago)

Morning (well afternoon here). I went home early-ish and have no clear recollection of doing anything. Which I guess you need sometimes, although I would've rather been having a blast with a new Italian housemate (in jodhpurs) to tell the truth.

A couple of journos came into our office today, looking to make nice and thereby develop future contacts ("cooperation," was the word our PR used in the e-mail that went around). I jokingly remarked to a colleague this morning (after seeing an unknown group of girls wandering around our office) that I would be happy to cooperate with the journalists, too.

So I'm working at my desk when said colleague comes around with PR officer and says, "Hey the journalists are here, they want to talk with us." I assume it's a joke, but they insist - won't leave. So, whatever, I think. Maybe they are just meeting everyone, or it will be interesting to meet with foreigner, or who knows.

We go into a meeting room, the PR officer sits down, I follow, and then my colleague (who's still standing at the door) mumbles something that suggests he'll be back (as if he was, for example, going back to his desk to get business cards). But he doesn't come back.

The journalists, of course, don't want to speak to me at all (they ask what sector I cover and I say I don't have a particular sector, that I review everything, you can imagine the look on their faces).

What the PR officer was thinking was totally beyond me. Also taken in? Couldn't find anyone else to speak with them? Just stupid? The worst thing about it was that the issues that they were looking for contacts on were actually the kinds of things I used to deal with in my old job. But of course I have neither the status nor the authority to talk about them here (nor, I think, does anyone here really know/understand what I used to do, so it's not as if this was anything but a weird coincidence).

Nothing like a little humiliation to take the shine off casual Friday.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 6 October 2006 07:45 (nineteen years ago)

Morning! I, too had a blast last night. Though I'm very glad that The Lex (of all people) rescued me from too much ruin (you are a BAD MANG, TISSP!).

I'm not hungover, but again, I didn't get much sleep. (I tried to sleep in but was woken by a BT guy trying to work out where the lines come in the building.) And a touch of jelly belly thanks to eating the meaty gravy, bleurgh.

But wow... Welsh Rarebit. I think it may be my new food obsession.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 6 October 2006 09:08 (nineteen years ago)

Proper Welsh Rarebit is lovely. I've not had it in YEARS.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 6 October 2006 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

mustard, cheese, beer and bread, what a champion combination. I am shortly off to look for Emsk's keys.

I have a little jelly belly but I put that down to the champagne/ale/overeating combo.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 6 October 2006 09:12 (nineteen years ago)

I'd never had it before. I was all "what? Four quid for cheese on taost?" when Ed told me to get it. But man, he was right. Cheese and BEER and cheese and mustard and BEER and cheese and toast. It is just loveliness.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 6 October 2006 09:13 (nineteen years ago)

I think I am going to have a cheese and garlic galette for lunch today.

(After you left I spent most of the rest of the evening being psychoanalysed by Sandy (who is lovely) whilst Emsk slept with her head on the table)

― Ed (dali), Friday, 6 October 2006 09:15 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, I thought Emsk had got over her falling asleep in pubs and clubs thing. Sandy is lovely, yes. I heart her.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 6 October 2006 09:18 (nineteen years ago)

kaet! can you check yr yahoo and answer the russian pls? she tried to call and email but no joy. she can call you if easier than email. she has to leave the house at 1.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 6 October 2006 09:28 (nineteen years ago)

sorry, that was v rude. i was being harangued by russian via telephone. i had a blast last nite too but for some reason went home - from angel to homerton - via piccadilly.

???

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 6 October 2006 09:35 (nineteen years ago)

whoops, I should have walked you guys to the bus stop, impressive that you crossed over to get the bus though.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 6 October 2006 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

The evening is over once the pubs chuck you out. This is bizarrely the second time I've had to correct someone on this in three days. Is it the new 'revert'?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 6 October 2006 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, I was on MySpace and not checking my email! but I have now, and have given her directions and the number of the taxi driver who knows exactly where to go.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 6 October 2006 09:38 (nineteen years ago)

Emsk, are there and identifying features on your keyring?

― Ed (dali), Friday, 6 October 2006 09:40 (nineteen years ago)

found it! if it was the one i was thinking of. maybe i lost my other keys? hm.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 6 October 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

You were worried that you'd lost house keys and an archive of work keys.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 6 October 2006 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

well this morning i couldn't find ym bike keys but it didn't get nicked anyway. didn't think it was bike keys i'd lost anyhow as wisely anticipating RUIN i left bike at home. i will tell sande you all love her :)

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 6 October 2006 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

Oh! And I finally got my Plan B today. So now I have two compilations to listen to at work, with Ed's September comp as well.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 6 October 2006 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

It's been a while since we had a Benjamin, so here he is, looking unearthly like the hero from Silent Running.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 6 October 2006 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

Dammit...

http://static.flickr.com/112/261980830_b9b1be5117.jpg

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 6 October 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

Kate, I keep meaning to ask - who does the lead vocals, Benjamin or his brother?

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 6 October 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

Brandon. Benjamin sings harmony, he's got the higher voice.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 6 October 2006 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

and a light up crotch.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 6 October 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

Hush you, that's his light ~~saber~~ show.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 6 October 2006 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

Kates fantasies would be ruined if Benjamin was a castrato.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 6 October 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not so sure that statement is true.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 6 October 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

Afternoon all. Midwife took three tubes of blood this morning! I am a pale shadow of my former self.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 6 October 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

Gd'afternoon. I am hurting today, although lots of beigels have helped a bit.

Question: where would we rather play: The Legion, The Dublin Castle, or 333?

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 6 October 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

The Legion!

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 6 October 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

(Who books it? I'd love to play there.)

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 6 October 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

bugbear, apparently.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 6 October 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

OK, really I just want to play Sonic Cathedrals there, but I'd have to start a shoegazing band in order to play there. Sigh. Anyone want ot be in my shoegazing side project?

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 6 October 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

I want to record it. Sande convinced me that I should be a producer/engineer.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 6 October 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

I'd be tempted, except for my strict no-pedals policy (born out of my strict no-money policy).

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 6 October 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

Sande was supposed to be in my shoegazing side project once upon a time! But we always forget about it until we get very drunk.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 6 October 2006 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

::BOUNCE::

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 6 October 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

Kate (or anyone on last fm) can you post Here your answer to my journal question?

(Just so to keep the discussion away from here and annoying people who have no interest in music chat)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 6 October 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

I did that survey for you a while ago via email!

I'm happy because I've finally got a database schema, after, like, a year and a half!

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 6 October 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

Kate, I'm up for the side-project as long as I get to play a few loping bass lines (and you promise to wear most paisley fringy things like that picture you posted months ago).

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 6 October 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

kate, want to go stringed instrument shopping next saturday?

― Ed (dali), Friday, 6 October 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

Next Saturday? Yeah, that sounds cool. Mandolins and banjos and things?

Mitya, which paisley fringey thing? OK, I've got lots of paisley things, just wondering which one in particular. Loping basslines are good.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 6 October 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

Aww post anyway kate. Then maybe ed and mitya will do it too!(and the others who are on last fm)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 6 October 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

Mandolins, Banjos and Zithers, Oh My!
Mandolins, Banjos and Zithers, Oh My!
Mandolins, Banjos and Zithers, Oh My!

― Ed (dali), Friday, 6 October 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

Cheers Mitya and Norman!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 6 October 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

Which reminds me, I never did get my autoharp off Johnny B. :-(

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 6 October 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

I've got a balalaika somewhere, or has my ex-brother-in-law still got it? Bastard.

― Mike Giggler (Dada), Friday, 6 October 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

... plus I used to have an autoharp but he's got that too (tho it was technically his)

― Mike Giggler (Dada), Friday, 6 October 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

I've still that autoharp in my room, but I haven't seen you for aaaaaages to give you it. We'll have to sort out a time for me to come up, or soemthing.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Friday, 6 October 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

I almost bought a mandolin this summer, actually. Very fun but the neck is so friggin' small.

The paisley thing was the one from your historic picture (with your hands in front of your eyes - totally classic).

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 6 October 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

Can the spacerock side project cover the Minotaur's Song by the incredible string band.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 6 October 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

Oh the Jajouka Jacket!

I don't have it any more, unfortunately. God, what a great coat that was.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 6 October 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

Listen, if you ever want to do a psychedelic folk kinda thing, then I'm in! (I speak as a man who once played "Ducks On a Pond" by ISB to a somewhat, errrrrrrrrrr, unsympathetic crowd in a pub in Paisley PLUS spent fucking ages rehearsing ALL of "A Very Cellular Song", instrument swapping an' all)

― Mike Giggler (Dada), Friday, 6 October 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

Psychedelic prog-folk, yes!

But Proper Folk, none of this emo whining boys with guitar fake folk crap. High body counts and drunken sailors and all that.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 6 October 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

Baltimore Whores (which reminds me I need to print out the words)

― Ed (dali), Friday, 6 October 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

SEE ALSO: the Idler posse reclaiming the ukulele this issue, because they *could*.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 6 October 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

But Proper Folk, none of this emo whining boys with guitar fake folk crap. High body counts and drunken sailors and all that

Been there, done that!

― Mike Giggler (Dada), Friday, 6 October 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

We went to an open mic the other night, and it was half and half. Amazing how the pretty boys could play guitar but their own self penned lyrics (and their voices) were just dire. And these (usually older) women would stand up and sing traditional songs, and just blow them all away.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 6 October 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think I've ever seen a pretty boy at a folk club!

― Mike Giggler (Dada), Friday, 6 October 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

Trust me, in the post-Devandra indie/folk crossover world, you do now!

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 6 October 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

I only ever go to the beardie/real ale folk clubs where I keep seeing this guy who's someone's dad in "Hollyoaks" and an actress whose name escapes but is in that new Jack Dee series (not together)

― Mike Giggler (Dada), Friday, 6 October 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

"Don't use the lawnmower to trim the hedge" ROFL.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 6 October 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

I must digest what is on at the walthamstow one in a couple of weeks time, I want to go it looks good.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 6 October 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

Also, any club where John and Jon are playing will have pretty boys, onstage, by default. Not being emo, though, playing Proper Folk.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 6 October 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Morning everyone

― your kisses are wasted on mitya (mitya), Monday, 9 October 2006 03:56 (nineteen years ago)

Morning All

I shall take this opportunity to promote one of my New York friend's bands:

http://www.myspace.com/mercatmeow

― Ed (dali), Monday, 9 October 2006 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

Morning? You crazy peoples, I am about to go to bed.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 October 2006 04:45 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I could go to bed.

― your kisses are wasted on mitya (mitya), Monday, 9 October 2006 05:49 (nineteen years ago)

Morning. Monday's well on the way again. I'm on my own in the office this week, because Big Dave has gone to Rome. I really hope he isn't going to come back Doing As The Romans Do, because I don't particularly want to see him in a toga.

Went out to the usual club on Saturday night and saw The Recent Ex for the first time since we split up, which was a fortnight ago now. We were fine and friendly chatting to each other on our own, but then when we were sitting and joking with other friends, she made a little private reference to something which I took as a bit of a nasty dig - I read it as her saying "why aren't you as upset about us splitting up as I think you should be?"

I am saying *nothing at all* about what I might be doing next weekend, because if I do it's bound to never happen.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 9 October 2006 06:37 (nineteen years ago)

If you need to interpret it for it to be a dig, better not to think about it, I think.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 9 October 2006 07:05 (nineteen years ago)

It was just ... well, it was a private "joke", it referred to our break-up, and it felt a bit unneccessary. My reading of it came mostly from her tone of voice.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 9 October 2006 07:22 (nineteen years ago)

From available evidence, it does seem likely that you're overreading it. And anyway, if no-one outside of the two of you would have noticed anything, which of your available options are better than 'pass it off'?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 9 October 2006 07:42 (nineteen years ago)

People often do make slightly nasty remarks after break-ups though, when they're feeling awkward and raw. It's just one of the rites of passage of breaking up, doesn't mean you won't be ok with each other eventually.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 9 October 2006 08:19 (nineteen years ago)

Morning. What a weekend. What an emotional roller coaster.

FP, these things happen. It might mean that she's been being a drama queen about it, tearing herself up with guilt over what she thinks she's done to you, and now she's upset that she wasted all that emotionally energy over it, when you're taking it just fine.

But that's me, *really* reading too much into these things.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Monday, 9 October 2006 08:23 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning; I add my voice to the chorus of those who recommend you not read too much into the comment, FP.

It's definitely going to be a busy, crazy week, and if things go as planned, I think I'm gonna have some big (and good) news to report come Friday.

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 9 October 2006 08:31 (nineteen years ago)

Good news, hurrah!

My good news is, I bought a new microphone. I meant to get another SM58, but the bloke in the shop actually talked me out of it. He explained how my old one was one of the last good ones (they are now made in Mexico with cheap Chinese parts) and you're just paying for the name. He reccomended me an Audio Technica which is designed specifically for recording female voices (with built in frequency response to eliminate non-human vocal range noises). I was a bit suspicious, thinking it would eliminate resonances, but I took it home, plugged it in, recorded absolutely flat (no EQ on the board) and it just sounds GORGEOUS, so crisp, so clear, so punchy. And no crazy line noise!

So I'm pleased about that.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Monday, 9 October 2006 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, female-voice-specific microphones! That's actually really good to know about the sm-58, seeing how, if I were actually shopping for a new mic, I'd almost certainly just get that one again.

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 9 October 2006 08:41 (nineteen years ago)

I had some emo question I wanted to pose to the peanut gallery, but I am feeling more and more hazy as the hours wear on. Today is one of those dreary wet Mondays, exactly the kind of weather to make your body say, "Yes, yes, in fact I think I will be sick."

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 9 October 2006 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, here are TSM and some sailboats, just to make me happy.
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b132/mel_face/11_1.jpg

Mitya, if you feel ill, GO HOME. There's nothing like feeling a bit under the weather to make emo concerns seem so much huger and worse than they might appear if you were feeling OK.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Monday, 9 October 2006 08:48 (nineteen years ago)

one of the Curves was in my dream last night, don't know her name. the one that was on the telly talking.

i'd left my jacket at her house, went to pick it up, saw a naked man in her kitchen. wtf!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 9 October 2006 08:52 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, yes! That would be AMPy. There are frequently naked men in her kitchen, so that would make sense.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Monday, 9 October 2006 08:53 (nineteen years ago)

she was very pleasant about it all.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 9 October 2006 08:59 (nineteen years ago)

AMP is hard to ~~phase~~ faze.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 9 October 2006 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

FP, in the first few weeks after a split your emotions are all over the place - you go from up to down to paranoid to angry in the space of 5 minutes. Don't read anything into it because even if it IS intended negatively, the next time she opens her mouth she's just as likely to be regretful or affectionate or god knows what.

Good luck gooblar!

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Monday, 9 October 2006 09:11 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of AMP: Gin my NYC friend with the band above has a best mate in London whose husband's ex-girlfriend is a mate of AMP's. Further proof that there are only 500 or so real people in the world.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 9 October 2006 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

Ah! Is that who Gin is? She just friended us this morning, and I was wondering who it was.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Monday, 9 October 2006 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

Check out her band, girls with accordions, rowr.

She want to gig her band with the Curves and Sande and 'Lesbian Acrobats' (this is not a band, but acrobats who are also lesbians)

― Ed (dali), Monday, 9 October 2006 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

Bleurgh. There's no avoiding it. I have to make the annoying report that makes no sense now. Oh wait, I can always make green tea! that will buy me another few minutes.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Monday, 9 October 2006 10:17 (nineteen years ago)

Green tea for me, too, please. (Preferrably in ice-cream form!)

Somehow I knew she'd call to break the date (even if it for a very real reason - a mutual friend's birthday). Why I am engaging in this fruitless bashing of head upon a concrete block behavior I don't know...

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 9 October 2006 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

you are teh "logged out"...?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 9 October 2006 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

Oh dear - is this the friend you have been trying to go on a date with for some time now, but IRL stuff (friends, etc.) keep intruding?

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Monday, 9 October 2006 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

lol, no i am not "loggedout."

and yes this is the same woman, i think. i mean, it must be, because it's not like i've got a whole list.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 9 October 2006 10:39 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, frustrating. Two options, I think.

1) accept that the Universe is trying to tell you something, and find a new crush (yah, I know).

2) turn up at the door to her apartment early in the morning, naked but for a rose in your teeth and a giant bow tied to your knob.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Monday, 9 October 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

"Speaking of AMP: Gin my NYC friend with the band above has a best mate in London whose husband's ex-girlfriend is a mate of AMP's. Further proof that there are only 500 or so real people in the world."

Who's this?

Hello. I'm me by the way. Is it ok to post on here occasionally?

― AMP (ampster), Monday, 9 October 2006 10:44 (nineteen years ago)

Yes please, AMPy!

I like it when you join in and participate. Welcome to us!

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Monday, 9 October 2006 10:50 (nineteen years ago)

Also, totally randomly (well, not coz I'm eating leftover curry now), my culinary discovery of the weekend is that curry + coconut yoghurt = TEH YUM!

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Monday, 9 October 2006 11:02 (nineteen years ago)

"Welcome to us" makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

My ex used to make this sweet fruit curry that was either totally amazing or absolutely inedible. I think we had coconut yoghurt with it.

(Hi AMPy!)

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 9 October 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

She's Miss AMP, if you're nasty. ;-)

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Monday, 9 October 2006 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

This will be ampster on last fm? Hello AMPy.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 9 October 2006 11:14 (nineteen years ago)

Vinyl prices really are getting out of hand. My Mastodon red/blue vinyl of Blood Mountain arrived on saturday. It cost me $16 from relapse + $6 shipping. Look how much this one sold for on ebay

I wish I sadly don't have this version of the previous album

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 9 October 2006 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, curry with fruit in it can be delicious. But not 1970s British "curry" with sultanas.

Thank you all for the advice; I am definitely planning to ignore it, anyway. Not the advice, the comment, I mean. She also irked me a bit later on, because I wanted a private chat with a close friend about how I've been feeling lately, just to get a few things off my chest. Said friend is one of the club owners, and was working the bar, so we didn't get much chance to chat. Eventually she was able to take a break, and told me to sit down in a quiet bit of the bar area with her - and I'd barely got a sentence out of my mouth before the ex came and sat down next to us too. I wasn't sure if she was paranoid about me talking to said friend - who she had also been having a heart-to-heart with earlier - or if she wanted to get me (almost) alone, or what, but it annoyed me.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 9 October 2006 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

That *is* annoying.

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 9 October 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

The girl in question is called alyssa, I have never met the boy and don't know his name.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 9 October 2006 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

I think I have discovered my doom: Konditor and Cook's Turkish Coffee Chocolate Tart. (admittedly this only adds to the many wonderful cakes they do with and without chocolate, but still).

OK, Musicians.

I'm going to buy an instrument on saturday, aside from practising regularly, what's the best way to learn to play and sing. Should i learn lots of chords first, record myself what?

― Ed (dali), Monday, 9 October 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

Concentrate first on learning how to play the instrument. Play loads, especially songs you are already familiar with. Practise the fingering, even when you don't have the instrument with you. What you want to do is get how to play those songs into your muscle memory (procedrual memory), rather than your conscious memory. Once you can play the songs without even thinking about it, then you will find singing and playing at the same time very easy.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Monday, 9 October 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, practise fingering whenever you can.

(sorry, I couldn't resist)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 9 October 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

Hello Amp!

I think the accordion is the musical equivalent of "you don't have to be mad to work here, but it helps!" BRRRRR, yuck.

Ed: buy a ukulele.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 9 October 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

tempting as it is I think mandolin is the way to go (however I did see an Ozark resonator banjo in a shop window). What's the tuning on a Uke?

― Ed (dali), Monday, 9 October 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

I saw a 12-string Dobro on Denmark Street the other day, wow.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Monday, 9 October 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

Ed, I dunno - all I know is that you ought to buy something inexpensive in case you get bored of the instrument, or step on and break the instrument.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 9 October 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno, I find that the more of your own money you have actually invested in an instrument, the more likely you are to 1) take the time to learn and play said instrument and 2) take proper care of said instrument.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Monday, 9 October 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

I'm amazed FP said that before Kate realised what she had said.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 9 October 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

Tuning on a ukelele is like the four highest strings on a regular guitar, except the d string is shifted up an octave, then the whole lot is shifted up by (I think) a fifth. Any guitar chord shape you know can be easily transposed to a ukelele.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 9 October 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

WTF? Fingering is a technical term for skill WRT playing stringed (and other) instruments.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Monday, 9 October 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

This guy is good, Ed. I bought my little travel guitar from him, and it's been great fun to play (also very small & handy for carrying around)

http://www.troubadour.uk.com/

I'm kind of tempted by the bouzoiki, I must admit.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 9 October 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

And I practise my clarinet fingering all the time! I have no idea what Kerr meant ;-)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 9 October 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

Oh boy. :-(

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Monday, 9 October 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

they do look good (pretty?) and the bouzouki would be my choice. I presume the chord shapes on it would be the same as for a mandolin?

― Ed (dali), Monday, 9 October 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

Hiya AMP! Any chance of a mechanically reconstructed playlist for Saturday?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 9 October 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

Ukuleles come with hot girls!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:UkuleleZiegfeldGal.jpg

― Ed (dali), Monday, 9 October 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/57/UkuleleZiegfeldGal.jpg

― Ed (dali), Monday, 9 October 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

OMG Worst. Class. Ever. Like bombing at a gig, playing to an audience that wants more than anything else that you GET OFF THE STAGE and make way for the headliners. Dead-eyed kids, totally uninterested in Doctor Faustus, staring at the clock, or the ceiling, or not even bothering and putting their heads down. Not helped by the fact that I'm on like 4 hours of sleep and sorta don't want to be there either. But how am I supposed to teach 25 kids who don't give a shit about what I'm teaching? I just want to curl up in a ball and sleep for a long time.

Or: Yay, Ukuleles!

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 9 October 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

Bah, sounds rub. :-(

Does stress really make your hair go grey? I just went in the loo here, with really good lights, and suddenly found about four new ones. Argh! I don't want to have to start dyeing yet.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Monday, 9 October 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

I am confused.mainly by hobgoblins selection of books and wikipedia (there's a suprise).

If I go for anything other than a traditional mandolin (or octave mandolin) am I going to find myself in a transposing nightmare that I don't want to be in.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 9 October 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

I awake. And now I wish to sleep again but I'm at work, so.

Lutes, Ed. Then flutes and crumhorns. HUZZAH.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 October 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

And I practise my clarinet fingering all the time! I have no idea what Kerr meant ;-)

yeah... sure..

Yes, practise fingering whenever you can.

(sorry, I couldn't resist)

-- Forest Pines

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 9 October 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

When are we going to play on the slides in the tate modern? They ahve one from the 5th floor to the ground.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 9 October 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

i want to practice my fingering with the ukulele girls

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 October 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

I'm too scared of heights to go on five story slides.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Monday, 9 October 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, MAN!!!!

I was being all bummed out this afternoon, but now I've just found out there's *another* shoegazing club just started up by the Morning After Girls:

throughout the month of october the morning after girls will be playing a new night in london at the fly bar.

The Fly Bar
34-36 New Oxford Street London WC1A 1EP
tel:020 7691 4244
travel:Tube: Tottenham Court Road

they'll be playing with some of their favourite bands and sharing the night with a few like-minded souls.

these good friends will be either guest djs or will join the band on each of the nights.

here are the details.....

october 10th...
guests ~ THE EARLY YEARS & TRAILING LACES
dj set ~ THE TELESCOPES & SONIC CATHEDRAL

october 17th...
guests ~ BOXER REBELLION (acoustic) & HATEROCKTRIO (berlin)
dj set ~ THE DUKE SPIRIT

october 24th...
guests ~ ENGINEERS
dj set ~ THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE & SONIC CATHEDRAL

I'm totally up for the Early Years and the Engineers. Yeah!

Man, how can I get my shoegazerdrone side project to play one of these? I suppose ask Sonic Cathedral.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Monday, 9 October 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

Sigh. The last hour of this day is dragging. :-(

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Monday, 9 October 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

No music to play?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 9 October 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

I only seem to have three CDs here at work today, and I've listened to them all already. Dumb disco stuff to keep me going at month end. And now I don't want dumb disco stuff, I want misery music.

Ah, forget it. 20 minutes left now.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Monday, 9 October 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

Wheres your doom metal or emo cds? ;)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 9 October 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

WTF? I don't listen to emo! Don't be silly!

Six minutes.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Monday, 9 October 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

Bring in your dodgy old goth cds then.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 9 October 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

HATEROCKTRIO (berlin)

odd, they were australian until a couple of months ago.

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Monday, 9 October 2006 23:48 (nineteen years ago)

I am very confused by the whole stringed instrument thing, now.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 06:26 (nineteen years ago)

I am very confused by everything this morning, but that's because I am utterly knackered.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 06:46 (nineteen years ago)

Morning. Why confused, Ed?

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 07:04 (nineteen years ago)

Three instruments with the same (or sometimes slightly different) tunings: Mandolin, Octave Mandola(in), Irish Bouzouki. The second two tuned an octave below the first (The third occasionally tuned with 1 course 2 octaves below the mandolin and the other course 1, but let's leave that out now). Generally tunings are violin style, GDAE (GDAD in the case of the bouzouki, sometimes).

Basically I like the idea of an instrument that sounds in a lower register (and really like the look and price of the troubadour instruments that Pash posted) but am a little apprehensive of deviating away from the straight up mandolin due to fewer manuals and primers on how to play the damned thing.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 07:20 (nineteen years ago)

Pashmina put me onto a cittern guitar a while back, and I got the only left-handed one the fella made. Are those the troubadour instruments you're talking about, Ed? The cittern guitar might not be what you're after - it's basically a guitar neck on a cittern body, duh - but I think it's a lovely little instrument and I often take it round friends' houses cos it's so small but has such a nice tone.

― angle of d... (tingo), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 08:10 (nineteen years ago)

No, I'm looking at the Irish Bouzouki and Octave Mandola he's got:

http://www.troubadour.uk.com/mandozouk.html

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 08:13 (nineteen years ago)

Would it be especially nerdy to want one of these?

http://regmedia.co.uk/2006/10/10/geek_wallet_1.jpg

first 3000 digits of pi

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 08:41 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, look at this:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160037938224

Pro:
Wow, look at it!
The seller's excellent feedback #

Con:
that crack right across the sound table
Probably will go for a lot more than it's currently at.

(x-post, yes Ed, it would be, very much so.)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

Does it come with a free Ned to read it to you? ;-) x-post

Bleurgh. I'm not feeling very well today. Was feeling a bit rub last night after dinner, so I lay down for a nap about 8pm, and didn't wake up until 8 this morning (forgot to set the alarm because I thought it was just a nap).

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 08:43 (nineteen years ago)

I had the BASTARD clock dream this morning, which always = guaranteed late for work. The clock dream = in yer dream you check the time, and it's always about 1/2hr behind the time in the waking world, so you sleep in. One of the shitty tricks yr brain plays on you sometimes.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

I had that dream where you think you're awake, and you are.

Still, dropped off to sleep at around 05:30am, finally. Up by 07:30 (half an hour later than usual)

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 08:55 (nineteen years ago)

I was awoken by a fire alarm at the castle-dorm again (I've stayed over 4 times, and there have been 3 fire alarms), though this time it was at 6:45am, and I was planning on getting up at 7:30. Still annoying though.

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 08:56 (nineteen years ago)

Wow. Someone I haven't talked to in a really, really long time has just got in touch through my blog. Weird. We were unbelievably close for a very long time, and then we just kind of... I don't really know what happened. We totally fell out after a drunken argument where a lot of shit came out, and there was really no going back.

I don't know. I am curious about him, and yeah, there still is a big part of me that cares about him. But I do not want to go back to the way things were. I don't know how I can draw a line under things and say "yes, we've known each other since we were children, and sometimes that kind of understanding is worth hanging on to. But I do not want to drag up a lot of the past." Over the past five, ten years, I've changed so much as to be almost unrecognisable as the teenager he knew.

If we could forge a new friendship as grownups, that would be great. But I don't want to have to explain or apologise for the past. Just say I don't think I'm like that any more.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 09:30 (nineteen years ago)

Also, uh...

http://photos-766.ak.facebook.com/ip002/v47/150/61/9381925/n9381925_34022766_7574.jpg

Yes. Indeed.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

Haha that one really has it all, doesn't it. If he was playing a Jaguar instead of what he is playing, perhaps.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 09:35 (nineteen years ago)

I love the bearded guy in the white shirt in the audience: "Oh Lord"

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder if that's his son standing next to him.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

i dreamed about driving a car a really long way and stealing a piece of fried chicken for someone.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 10:36 (nineteen years ago)

But you neither drive nor eat chicken! Or steal! Are you turning into someone else?

And do you fancy some shoegazing tonight? It's Morning After Girls and The Early Years - at The Fly, which I'm interested in scoping out, seeing as our next gig is there.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 10:37 (nineteen years ago)

i think you've just dreamt about being my wife emsk!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

argh ken i fear you may be right! what road is the a40? i think that was the road i was on. is it something to do with oxford? there was a motorway i wasn't allowed on, and we were in a castle. (the night before i dreamed about nuns at a conference.)

k8 i spent this w/e DRIVING!! in an CAR!! on actual ROADS!! or, some of it was on actual roads, the first few hours we were on an industrial estate. i hate to say it but it is awesome fun :/ me and j are thinking of getting an old taxi (i read in fhm about ten years ago that you can get 'em for like £600, and also they will run on biodiesel) and splitting the insurance etc. well, once i've passed my test. getting ahead of myself a bit here.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

It's like I don't know you any more! But biofuel, yeah. Chip pan oil all around. It'll make you hungry, driving in your cab.

And again - SHOEGAZING! - tonight? What do you think? I haven't seen you in aaaaaaages. Well, not properly. i.e. not in a band related setting.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

It's like I don't know you any more! But biofuel, yeah. Chip pan oil all around. It'll make you hungry, driving in your cab.

haha j has some mates bought a load of vegetable oil and fed it to their van all the way to glastonbury and back...

i can't shoegaze tonight even though i would love to - already made plans. but let's do sth soon. hey, is walking still on for sunday?

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

Yes walking is on for sunday and we may be joined by Rad, Ro, Dom and others.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

And a DOG!!!

I am quite excited about the dog action.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

A dog?

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

Have Sande, Helen and the Russian been informed?

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

and shall we revive the walking thread to talk about this

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

Your sister said we could borrow her dog! So long as we talked to it in baby talk.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

Ah. I will speak to her when she is back from Valencia

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

i will let helen, sande and the russian know. yay to rad-ro-dom-dog!

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

i dreamed about driving a car a really long way and stealing a piece of fried chicken for someone.

Ken C is living in your brain.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

Why is Alan Sugar at a TSM gig?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

Kate:

Funnily enough, someone who knew me also as a kid, I called.

Best advice, is "Most of the bad stuff is irrelevant now, so the reasons they did (or didn't) do whatever are also null and void. You're a different person, even if they aren't the 'game' is not the same. Start it again, don't need to "Forgive/forget" but then again, no need to dredge up bad feeling. getting it all of yr chest is good, but it sounds like it was done before.

That may well all be irrelevant, but *shrug*

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

It's more like... it's not like I don't feel we (probably both, more me than him) don't have the *need* to apologise, but I don't want to get into the badness that would be raised by explaining. But you're right, most of the bad stuff *is* irrelevant now.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

This person (on my side), for the sake of brevity, let's call him "dad".

Left my mum, 15 yrs ago, big surprise and big fallout...

(irony: circumstances led me to meet my wife, whodathunkit)

So now, I'm not a twentysumamt late teen kid, by any means. Most proudedst thing, my kids. I don't need to re-establish a 'parental' relationship, but it'd be nice if he could know them for who they really are, and so on.

I could do the 'beat him up on behalf of mum" once again, but I already did that once, and the badness is off chests, not exactly irrelevant, but done/dusted.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

(beat-him-up = verbally, naturally)

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

Ouch. In the case of immediate family, yeah, 9 out of 10 times (except in the case of abuse) I can see the point of reestablishing contact.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

Hallelujah! I can now edit my crappy access database on my 23" monitor, life has got a notch better.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

For the sake of your kids, as well as anything else - he is part of their background, genetic and otherwise, and it's important for them to kind of see where they came from. (even if it isn't all great, that can explain things, answer questions as they get older, too.)

x-post

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

He also has a daughter, 1 yr older than Amber, ostensibly my half-sister. They have met once.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

heeeeelp. j has killed my beautiful new (first ever) mp3 player :( it's not her fault, total accident. she said she'll replace it but it's tricky - it was one of these gorgeous machines:

http://images.creative.com/iss/images/products/headers/prod10795_hdr_1_6_1.jpg

- the zen micro 6g. i don't like how it looks - it looks like a mobile phone, and i liked the featurelessness of the neeon. i could live with that but it's £122 and that doesn't seem fair. as it's 1g more i'd pay a sixth of it but she'd still end up paying nearly twice what i did for the original. i'd love to just be able to say "ah forget it" but we're as broke as each other.

ideas? is anyone going to hong kong any time soon?

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

well, that didn't work. try this again - http://images.creative.com/iss/images/products/headers/prod12214_hdr_1_6_1.jpg

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

Is there anywhere in HK that would sell you one without fatal shipping prices?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

ebay?

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

So who is gonna post on Post album covers from the year you were born!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

I'm trying really hard to be good and not make smutty "I have a venue that needs a soundsystem... in my bedroom!" comments.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

ebay was no help at all :(

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

"especially a BIG sound system that moves around..."

Does it move... you know, in mysterious ways?

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

x-posts
Ned hijacked the thread.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

What should I have for supper? In and around the Holborn/Clerkenwell area? Maybe I'll try the new Thai Cult Food place.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

hi emsk look!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CREATIVE-ZEN-Neeon-6GB-Silver-Grey-NEW-FM-MP3_W0QQitemZ190037456300QQihZ009QQcategoryZ73839QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

actually that's still 90 quid :\

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

still better than £125/£130, thanks!

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

I am hungry and I want to be having my dinner *now*. But I have to wait another two hours. Bah.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

Oh no... oh no... I'm starting to get that early evening "Well, I could just go home..." feeling. No! Must go out. This is what sucks about going to gigs by yourself. If you don't have the incentive of meeting someone, it's too easy to just cop out.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

where is shoegazing? if you want to drop round for dinner i'm making something with green beans and tomatoes and chickpeas and ginger and onions and cheese and garlic and chillies and pasta/quinoa (haven't decided since i'm not really sure what i'm making). the bradfordian is coming too, she'll be here at 7. get the 38 not the 242 and you'll have to walk a bit further but you won't get lost ;) or the tube to highbury & islington and the overground to homerton.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, but your house is IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND!!! I would not risk it in the dark. I would never be seen again! Shoegazing is at The Fly, very very close to mine office. I'm just whinging to make sure that I do end up going, and don't wimp out.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

you can come round here, but I am cooking fish right now

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

No, no, no, no, no. No fish. Poison gas to Kates.

I am going to go and try the new cult food, then I am going shoegazing. Yes, I am. There will be lovely shoegazing music, and lovely shoegazing boys, and it will all be lovely.

I will not go on my own, and stand on my own, and go home and cry and want to die (even though that song is proto-shoegazing what with all the tremoloes and all). I can go to clubs myself, I am a big gurl.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

How was the shoegazing, Kate?

My work colleague is out of the office for two weeks, so the annoyance factor at work has dropped drastically.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 05:22 (nineteen years ago)

Morning, all, I'm working from home today as i have to wait in for a delivery and I've spent all morning waiting for work to fix the mail server.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 08:15 (nineteen years ago)

we went to the PUB after dinner! and we are going to do it more often. but not to pubs that charges you £3 for a pint of crap lager/glass of shit wine.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 08:16 (nineteen years ago)

Shoegazing was GRATE!!!

OK, bits of it were kinda lame. The Fly opened an hour late so I sat around reading the paper and then my book. I can't make my mind up on what it's like as a venue. It's small and quite badly laid out. (The band play off in this corner which you cannot see from much of the club, and the soundesk is in a really poor position, taking up much of the prime viewing space.) There was no DJing for the first hour or two so I had to listen to the same crap NME/CarlingRock CD over and over. And the first band were quite tedious, also too much in the NME/CarlingRock vein.

However, the Early Years made everything better. Omigod, I had forgotten just how good they are. I thought maybe it was a fluke because I had such a good time at Truck, but no. They're super-intense, utterly mesmerising, really relentless four-on-the-floor krautrock rhythm section mixed with two guitarists with more pedals than I know what they do, and who know how to use them. Like Spacemen 3/early SPZ, early Ride, TSM at their bleakest, Stereolab without the girliness. Nu-gazing at its finest.

Also, I've decided to get brown suede chelsea boots with buckles, as these seem to be shoegazer boys shoe du jour.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 08:21 (nineteen years ago)

Morning! What an exciting day this is turning out to be already.

Glad you had a good time Kate.

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 08:29 (nineteen years ago)

You can say that again, tissp.

I'm happy and excited and bouncy, because this weekend the weekend plans might actually happen.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 08:47 (nineteen years ago)

Weirdness. The long lost friend wrote back to me, seems a pretty cool situation. Some surprises, some not surprises. Some very interesting news, which explains a lot.

He's married now. Weird. I'm the last one of that gang who has never been. :-(

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

Seems to be the season for it. After having a Myspace for a couple of years now, I finally uploaded a photo and someone who I met on a language in Italy in 1999 or so messaged me.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 08:52 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, the day keeps getting better. Some more records have arrived, and my meeting has been cancelled. And I'm covered in DEEP HEAT!

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 08:54 (nineteen years ago)

I got my circulus record today.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 08:57 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah!

Very lacking in the cute boy department, last night was, though. :-(

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 08:57 (nineteen years ago)

yes, I was at home.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 09:01 (nineteen years ago)

yes, and modest to boot! :-P

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I might actually start using this myspace thing:

http://www.myspace.com/zerointegrity

I only just chose a name today.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 09:05 (nineteen years ago)

iLIKETRAINS are playing next tuesday at Cargo. Anyone interested?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 09:07 (nineteen years ago)

Next Tuesday? I thought they were playing with The Early Years on the 20th! Whichever date it is, yes, I'm up for it.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 09:08 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, I have checked the Early Years website, and you are correct about the date. I totally want to see both those bands. Shoe-tastic.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 09:12 (nineteen years ago)

Hi Everyone.

I had a long tiring day yesterday, and knew I needed a good night's sleep, but did I really need to sleep in til noon? Wow. I've woken up with a headache because my brane expected coffee far far before now.

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

Nasty caffeine addiction!

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

Argh! Stupid IT people... they are trying to get me to extract some data from the old Oracle system.

I no longer have access to the old Oracle system - not only did they take away the user ID, but they physically took away the old comptuer that had the software I need on it (non-Citrix software) to administer that db!

So they've just given me back the login, but done nothing about the other stuff.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

xpost loads of messages ago

Emma, I'm off to Hong Kong later today... email me if you want me to investigate mp3 players over there.. I'll be there for about 3 weeks

― jellybean (jellybean), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

I got my circulus record today.

Me too! What colour did you get? Did you get the bonus 7"

First 500 copies will come with a bonus 1-Sided 7", featuring non LP track, Tapestry.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

Proper. Weather.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

oh jellybean thank you! that would be awesome. i found out yesterday evening i have another friend going next week but i dunno if she'll have time while she's there.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

And now, apropo of absolutely nothing, today's hottie will be brought to you by Jane Austen:

http://www.theothersideofkim.com/images/2005files/alan_rickman12.jpg

Rowr.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

ROWR

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

And, err, TSM gastropr0n!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v89/Celitae/Resto-1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v89/Celitae/Resto-2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v89/Celitae/Resto-3.jpg

They reviewed some posh restaurant in NYC for The Daily News. Weirdoes!

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

That makes me hungry. And I've just eaten lunch!

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

I've not eaten breakfast so I'm hungrier.

Hulloa all. The Early Years, Kate sez? Noted. Last night friend Ben said he really liked some band out here with the unwieldy name of LSD and the Search for God.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

is TSM secret machines? my friend took the pic which is going to be on their new record, when it comes out

― -- (688), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

The Secret Machines, yes.

Which new record? Because they are not planning on releasing another any time soon... or do you mean Ten Silver Drops? because I have been trying for AGES to find out where the inside cover shot of that was taken. I swear to god, it's in my old neighbourhood in LIC, on the roof of PS1 or something. Can you ask your friend if that's the one?

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

its for a live lp

― -- (688), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

They look as if eating with utensils is a completely foreign concept to them, Kate!

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

Are you at home, G?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

Eh?!?!??! Where did you hear this? (From friend, natch, I'm assuming.) It's certainly not been even talked about by official persons yet.

But wow... yeah, that would be awesome, especially if the "In The Round" shows are being recorded, because apparently they're the most amazing gigs they've yet played.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

oh, maybe its still all in early stages, i dont know anything about this band. forget i said anything for now...

― -- (688), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

No, you've said it now. The cat is out of the bag.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

I want chocolate! I want rubbish! I want a chocolate orange flapjack!!! arrgghhgghhgghhhhh!!!

What I am going to have is a mug of green tea. Bah.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

More Colonel Brandon required, clearly.

Emsk, go here

Smoulder, smoulder, smoulder...

http://rickman-snape.de/ss/ss13.JPG
http://rickman-snape.de/ss/ss11.JPG
http://rickman-snape.de/ss/ss8.JPG

Boots, rowr...

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

Things I have achieved today at work:

http://static.flickr.com/96/266961298_c5793085a0.jpg

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

Signs you have been spending too much time on ILX:

-you email the sys admin and claim that your 'puter is "poxy fuled" when you can't get on the network.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

Things I have achieved today at work:

No fair, tissp!, you have to tell us who you killed.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

When I'm wearing headphones, THERE WILL BE NO DISTURBANCES

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

"Let's all go make fun of tissp!"

*people do so*

"No! Arrrgh!"

Tissp! is...TEH PUNSIHER.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

Kate, ned, check email.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, no, this time they really *have* found my old 'puter. How do I know it's mine? Curry stains on the front. Hah!

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

I want a mang who knows how to smoulder.

::stamps feet::

I WANTS one. It just isn't fair.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

Smoulder? What, just stand there not saying anything, looking like someone's just farted?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

::glares at dadaismus::

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

Is that a glare or a smoulder?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

A glare. Very definitely a glare.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I'm doing it all wrong then! No wonder I'm having such bad luck with women!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

Smoulder = "I may be thinking about you naked"

Glare = "I am thinking about you naked, and without skin and I am using your entrails for my BOOTLACES!!!"

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

eat more protein based food dadaismus

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.cyh.com/HealthTopics/library/youth_constipation.jpg

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

That surely is a man who knows how to moulder.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

actually he's having trouble when he tries to moulder and is only dropping boulders

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

Schtops!!! Or Alan Rickman will smoulder at you:

http://www.alan-rickman.de/bilder/thelook.jpg

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

So who farted? Dadaismus?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

When do we get the paul hardcastle watercooler?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

The average age of the watercooler is definitely not n-n-n-n-ineteen.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

Dadaismus shouldn't you be posting on this? Post album covers from the year you were born!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

Wax cylinders didn't have covers

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

Gah, my Oracle login is STILL wrong. Monkeys!!!

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

God, I want to kick this stupid system monkey. I have told him, the computer's name is 93014 - he has set it up as 93041. And keeps telling me to try logging on again - no I'm not going to until you fix what I can see is bloody well wrong.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

You can't be that old!! x-posts

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning, people!

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 12 October 2006 08:19 (nineteen years ago)

OK, is it gonna be like *that* today?

Guess I better just give up and go see if my Oracle system is up today and go do some work. :-(

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 12 October 2006 08:35 (nineteen years ago)

Too depressed after looking at the accounts.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 12 October 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

Morning. Getting more and more excited and nervous as the weekend approaches.

It's a weird feeling. I have this big feeling of warmth inside me, and it's something I'm not used to.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 12 October 2006 08:44 (nineteen years ago)

Still boggling at "visual flight rules"

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 12 October 2006 08:45 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck.

Fuckfuckfuck.

:-(

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 12 October 2006 08:53 (nineteen years ago)

feeling very head strong today, had a good night last night and sorted some 'issues' out.

sup kate?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 12 October 2006 08:56 (nineteen years ago)

what what what?

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 12 October 2006 09:00 (nineteen years ago)

Today is going to be a great day, I swear. (Hello)

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 12 October 2006 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

Resolved. Still not happy, but understand.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 12 October 2006 09:19 (nineteen years ago)

omg teh SUNSHIEN

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 12 October 2006 09:25 (nineteen years ago)

What sunshine? I'm in a sodding office. It's dark when I wake up, it's dark when I go home. It might as well be Siberia outside.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 12 October 2006 09:26 (nineteen years ago)

Wanna bet?

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 12 October 2006 09:28 (nineteen years ago)

OK... point taken. It might as well be Swindon. Or Albany, NY. Or whatever. I've had a sudden attack of the bleakness, and I think I have to go and, well, *do* something. Maybe listen to some really dark music and rip a report to pieces and rebuild it from guts up.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 12 October 2006 09:30 (nineteen years ago)

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 12 October 2006 09:32 (nineteen years ago)

No no, that's constructive, and there are days when having done one thing that's put the world in slightly better order or made someone's life slightly easier is a win.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 12 October 2006 09:51 (nineteen years ago)

Hi guys. I've been in hospital since Monday night :(
Back home now and fine - just a bit of a scare with bleeding and slight contractions which obviously requires keeping an eye on in case it's early labour. But it wasn't, hurrah.

God hospitals are boring places. (At least during the lulls between having internal exams and being shot in the bum with steroids, which was all a thrill obviously.)

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 12 October 2006 10:13 (nineteen years ago)

Ohmigod, Archel, that sounds terrible!

v. glad to hear that you are alright now, though.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 12 October 2006 10:15 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe I should buy Sense and Sensibility at lunch. Jane Austen has ways of cheering one up immeasurably. Sigh. God, this just came out of nowhere. Well, no, not nowhere. But I thought that it was over, dealt with, emotions tucked away neatly and bad stuff filed.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 12 October 2006 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

I hope you're feeling better, and everything's back to normal now, Archel.

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 12 October 2006 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

'Normal' becomes a bit of an unknown quantity when you're pg for the first time and have no idea what to expect, but yes I think I feel fine now. Thanks!

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 12 October 2006 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

Here's some news that will cheer everyone up. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6043810.stm

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 12 October 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

"Noooo!!! He was the best one!"

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 12 October 2006 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

Well, the band were detrimental to *all* our recovery.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 12 October 2006 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

What a fucking laym0r. If I was in that position - rich, famous-ish - and I couldn't find anything better to do than knock back loads of vodka, and boot loads of fucking rails I think I might as well kill myself.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 12 October 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

Morning all. Kate (and any other recovering 'gazers), Stripey aka friend K.S. was doing some scrounging on YouTube last night and created a useful primer which you might enjoy, though I'm also sure you've found these all already. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 October 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

Oh shit, not Justin :(

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 12 October 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

I wish YouTube worked for me. :-(

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 12 October 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

they've just blocked it for us here at work. bounders.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 12 October 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

oh lord, shit popstar wants to become counsellor. GO. AWAY.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 12 October 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

Not just bounders, but cads!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 12 October 2006 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry to hear about you hospital visit, Archel. DId they try and charge you £5 a day for watching TV?

Trade fair this morning, for streaming media, so lots of encounters with companies with ridiculous dot com era names.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 12 October 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

mmmm. vodka

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 12 October 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

Yep, well £3.50 for TV and £1.50 to make phone calls... frankly though I woud have been chewing my own arm off with boredom without Will & Grace, Frasier, Trisha and Trinny & Sussannah (who'd have thought it?) so £3.50 seemed quite a bargain.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 12 October 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone here know of anyone who plays World Of Warcraft?
This south park episode is hilarious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQjR9EOwHuw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz5rP4OcHVg&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8Uu7spdSKQ&mode=related&search=

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 12 October 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I went outside to experience this so-called "sunshine" (blimey, yes, it's quite warm out, I was very overdressed) and to engage in a spot of retail therapy. I promised myself boots if I lost weight, and boots I have got.

Boots of sex.

http://www.jonesbootmaker.com/ebusiness1/images/product/large/Soldier_Brown_Nubuck_L.jpg

Because they are lace-up, I can actually make them *fit* my fat calves, unlike other riding boots. And they will adjust back in if when I continue to lose weight.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh they are lovely!

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

They make me look like a nazi dominatrix.

OK, so I'm still fat, miserable, ugly, have no social skills, and everyone hates me, but at least I can do all that while wearing cool boots. I'm tempted to put them on at work to cheer me up, but I might scare the conslutants.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

Let's see if we can chip away at a few of those, especially 'miserable', next week.

Also: goody goody PRESS TRIP AHOY. Hopefully won't be like the last one where I felt like clouting PR over the head for her 'speak English or DIE' attitude when dealing with members of the food service industry here and in LA.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

I have put them on, tucked my trousers into them, and have been striding about the department threatening people with Bad Things in a bad German accent if they muck up the data any more.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

They are definitely boots of sex.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

but I might scare the conslutants

Errrrrrrrrr, calling Dr. Freud

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

AMPy reckons I should just give up on these stupid emo dating sites, and just go on some uber-specific kinky site and just post that I'm looking for - no sex, no relationship - just a bloke who will let me whip his arse, and who will kiss my feet. I think the boots may help with this.

x-post, no, not a slip at all. That's what we call the fuckers.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.idodogtricks.com/index_flash.html

from DC thread

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

"conslutants" is a standard term in IT, Dada.

Kate, I'll give you the URL of the one I use if you like :-)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

(you will, however, get an awful lot of messages from men who are internet fantasists and back out of meets at the last minute)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

No, that would completely sodding wreck my ego trip, and send me spiralling into depression too much to ever try it again. God no.

:-(

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

I'm right naive, me (xxpost)

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

The fantasists are, to be honest, fairly easy to spot. Plus, the site I use has a "network" system, where each member's profile has a public list of people they know, online and in real life. So if someone comes on with a profile that just says "i want a mistress i will do anything for her and be her slave 24/7" and no members on their network, you know not to believe anything they say.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

(I was kinda kidding about the whole thing, FP.)

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

(I thought you might be! But if there's an opportunity to convert people.... ;-)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 12 October 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

That said, I wouldn't mind it within the context of a relationship... but likelihood of that? Zero to nil. And we're back at the beating myself up emo again.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 12 October 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

Arrrgh I hate phones.

I just switched on my UK phone to show my sister something (I'm abroad right now), when some HR person rang just at that precise moment to talk about a job that I applied to months ago. Cue me nervously rambling about how it's too expensive for me to talk right now..

I'm so rubbish at presenting myself in a decent way when companies keep phoning me up as their first way of contacting me. :(

Sorry, just had to let that out...

― jellybean (jellybean), Thursday, 12 October 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmm. I just realized I haven't had anything to eat yet today. How in the world have I survived the morning?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 October 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

not moving?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 12 October 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

There is that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 October 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

Another half hour crying jag in the loo. Too many of these lately. I'm so sick to death of feeling like this.

I want my mum. I want someone to put their arms around me and tell me that I'm not actually a bad person, and that everything will be alright in the end. :-(

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 12 October 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

Where is louis these days?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 12 October 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

on the shoegaze thread on ilm, today.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 12 October 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

Pointless. I guess I'm just going to go home and stare at the wall and try to decide whether to bash my head against it or just go to bed. And wait for another pointless day to begin. In a thoroughly pointless week. Why can't I just press fast forward on these bits?

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Thursday, 12 October 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

No shoegazing nights to go to?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 12 October 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

It *will* get better.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 12 October 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

Yus.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 October 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

This photo of Tissp gives him THE pointiest nose in the world. That should cheer up Kate, no?

http://static.flickr.com/116/267836312_83e4e2e67e.jpg

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Thursday, 12 October 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

Hey K8! You're not a bad person, and everything will be alright in the end! Chin up!

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 12 October 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

Agreed.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 12 October 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

Groan... Can someone bring me breakfast, please? A muffin or something?

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 13 October 2006 03:42 (nineteen years ago)

I'm drinking tea, does that help?

Thought for y'all before I get some sleep -- so the current Army Chief of Staff rubbishes Iraq policy in the Daily Mail and all. Isn't there some policy against standing officers doing that, or are things just different in the UK? (In the US, much as I would love people to do that vis-a-vis Bush etc., doing so also means your career is over, for a start.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 13 October 2006 04:14 (nineteen years ago)

(I had some coffee, which is the exact wrong thing to do when you're sick, but I needed something. Also found some crumbling cookies in the back of a desk drawer. The things we'll do when desperate...)

Ned, don't you think that the number one guy gets a certain amount of latitude in public comments? (Admittedly this is pretty far out there, but still...)

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 13 October 2006 04:53 (nineteen years ago)

This goes beyond that certain amount, I'd say!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 13 October 2006 04:59 (nineteen years ago)

A lot of officers are getting a lot of latitude to speak out. The Lt. Col. of the Paras just returned from Afghanistan was pretty free with his comments and The media seems to be the place that officers and soldiers on the ground make demands for better equipment and other resources.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 13 October 2006 05:32 (nineteen years ago)

He had permission from the MOD and had an MOD press officer with him during the interview.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 13 October 2006 05:42 (nineteen years ago)

There was an interview with him on the Today programme this morning. It should be available in podcast form later.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 13 October 2006 05:54 (nineteen years ago)

Morning you lot.

I'm scared and excited and bouncy and nervous and just want to run around the room screaming today.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 13 October 2006 06:24 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds like a good state of being.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 13 October 2006 06:36 (nineteen years ago)

Is this because you're going to Glasgae this weekend??

― C J (C J), Friday, 13 October 2006 06:42 (nineteen years ago)

Um yes. And hopefully it will all turn out for the good.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 13 October 2006 07:03 (nineteen years ago)

I hope it does, FP. This is someone you've been talking to online, right? If you've both clicked with each other but it doesn't turn into anything romantic when you meet, remember you've still made a great online friend and that can be a great thing in itself.

Best of luck!!

― C J (C J), Friday, 13 October 2006 07:10 (nineteen years ago)

Er, it does appear that army chief is being "invited to discuss his future" at the MoD sometime today.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 13 October 2006 07:15 (nineteen years ago)

Hari Kiri?

― Ed (dali), Friday, 13 October 2006 07:16 (nineteen years ago)

UK Army chief causes 'Hoo-Ha'

― Ed (dali), Friday, 13 October 2006 07:20 (nineteen years ago)

We are not montenegro

― Ed (dali), Friday, 13 October 2006 07:20 (nineteen years ago)

We Are Devo.

― C J (C J), Friday, 13 October 2006 07:36 (nineteen years ago)

Ahem.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 13 October 2006 07:40 (nineteen years ago)

I asked.
She said YES.
We're engaged.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 13 October 2006 07:40 (nineteen years ago)

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 13 October 2006 07:41 (nineteen years ago)

Congratulations!!

― C J (C J), Friday, 13 October 2006 07:45 (nineteen years ago)

Congratulations.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 13 October 2006 07:58 (nineteen years ago)

wow congratulations!

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 13 October 2006 08:04 (nineteen years ago)

Congratulations!

This is someone you've been talking to online, right?

Yes, and on the phone a little bit too.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 13 October 2006 08:08 (nineteen years ago)

I watched TV last night for the first time in ages, I don't think I'll bother again.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 13 October 2006 08:15 (nineteen years ago)

Morning. I'm not feeling much better, the depression has kind of settled in, and I'm just going to have to ride it out. It's spilled over into physical symptoms, as well - my back has started doing that spasming thing it does when I'm totally stressed, so now I'm in pain as well as sad. Not fun.

Congratulations, Gooblar.

Good luck with the weekend, FP.

Please don't torture me with TISSP pictures. Please remember he *has* a girlfriend, who I am actually very fond of. And it is actually starting to bother me a bit, that yeah, I know the flirting isn't serious - but it isn't really fair or appropriate for an attached man and an unattached woman to behave like this. :-(

I don't even know if I can go to sunno))) tonight because of my back. I've no idea if there's seating at the Hippodrome and I cannot stand for four hours in this condition. Would anyone be interested in my ticket? I've got a weekend pass.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 13 October 2006 08:21 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, Kate. Hope you have a better weekend yourself.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 13 October 2006 08:23 (nineteen years ago)

Do some gentle yoga to un-knot your back, Kate! And then go out tonight!

― C J (C J), Friday, 13 October 2006 08:24 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know any Yoga!

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 13 October 2006 08:25 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to lunch with a friend today. That's something to look forward to. It's a hard thing for me to do, when I'm really mizzy to actually ring someone up and say "I'm feeling mizzy, do you have a moment to just chat?" But it kinda worked out this time.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 13 October 2006 08:26 (nineteen years ago)

but it isn't really fair or appropriate for an attached man and an unattached woman to behave like this. :-(

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO etc

Congratulations, g00blar, that's fantastic news.

I am typing slowly today because one of my arms is in a sling. Woo!

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Friday, 13 October 2006 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

Oh Kate, I hope you can go to the gig! It is very important to phone someone when mizzy.

Had a bit of an OMG moment yesterday because interview subject interested in keeping friends w/me. Let's just say if it were 16-year-old me, I would be GOBSMACKED. Today chuffed does nicely.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 13 October 2006 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

TISSP, why is your arm in a sling?

Ha ha, saw yr email Suzy, check your inbox.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 13 October 2006 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

To be honest I'm not really sure. It's a precautionary thing because I shouldn't be using it. Have been having shooting pain/numbness/aching in it for the last few days.

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Friday, 13 October 2006 08:36 (nineteen years ago)

Yep, got it. Obviously I can't say who the person is online (not that they are prone to ego-surfing; in fact they absolutely do not)but I have to pull myself together here as I'm artphagging around later.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 13 October 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

Left arm or right arm?

― C J (C J), Friday, 13 October 2006 08:39 (nineteen years ago)

Right arm.

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Friday, 13 October 2006 08:41 (nineteen years ago)

It's always good to have someone to talk to when you're feeling that way. It's the big problem I have, when the nearest friend I can have that sort of conversation with lives 30 miles away.

Tissp, I was hoping it was some kind of bizarre electronica-related accident. Well, not *hoping*, but you know what I mean.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 13 October 2006 08:44 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I think I did it from using a computer, so that kinda fits...

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Friday, 13 October 2006 08:55 (nineteen years ago)

congratulations g00blar!! wow.

kate do you want to borrow my teach yrself yoga book? it's actually quite cool and not at all insane, good clear instructions and diagrams and explanations and stuff, and not as hippy as it might be.

this week has been WEEK O' FOOD, every day i have been cooking for someone or had someone cook for me, and i invented (well haha, it has prob been done somewhere before) a Chickpea And Green Bean And Ginger And Quinoa Thing which was totally nummy and had flatmate's dad (who apparently usually only considers a meal a meal if it has something in it that used to have eyes (a potato?) and legs (not a potato, then)) saying "you can cook like this; now you can get married." which ok is er a bit of a funny compliment written down but apparently it is a saying in brazil.

ahaha and yesterday i discovered that if you go in gregg's you can get a PACKET OF BATS!!

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 13 October 2006 09:23 (nineteen years ago)

"you can cook like this; now you can get married."

I must try that one myself

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 13 October 2006 09:25 (nineteen years ago)

do you want to borrow my teach yrself yoga book?

Yeah, actually I would. That wouldn't be a bad thing. If it helps me relax, and it helps me with these horrid spasms.

Ha ha, I tried to the "learn to cook, get married" route but it didn't exactly work as I was trying to marry into a family of professional chefs.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 13 October 2006 09:28 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, actually I would. That wouldn't be a bad thing. If it helps me relax, and it helps me with these horrid spasms.

yeah, it will, if you do it right, and it's nice and gentle (afaik the only other thing that gives you as much benefit with less of the injury risk is swimming, and i know you don't like that). i should do it more often but i have zero discipline and so end up doing like 3hrs of emergency yoga a few times a year which probably isn't that much use.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 13 October 2006 09:40 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks all! I'm in the midst of teaching four tutorials today (well, ok, I've got a break now), for which I'm pretty unprepared, but I Don't Care!

We were up until 3 last night excitedly talking on the phone with/emailing friends/family. And even though I was up at 8 and had to get through circle line hell to get to college this morning and then 'prepare' for my tutorials, I am not grumpy in the least!

(huh, I guess I made the same point twice there; I don't care)

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 13 October 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

Gooblar, for the longest time I thought you were a girl. I guess I can be pretty sure you're not, now :) Congratulations!

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Friday, 13 October 2006 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

Cheers; my ~~girlfriend~~ fiancee had half a mind that I was gay when she met me--I think that lasted about five seconds though, by which point it was obvious to everyone that I had a massive crush on her.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 13 October 2006 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

omg there is the most beautiful boy on mysinglefriend.com. nobody's prawn found him for me, but i need to be signed up to message him. pls to sign me up, someone! hel?

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 13 October 2006 09:56 (nineteen years ago)

"Morning", Britishes! I'M IN UR CAPITAL, BESNORING UR HOTELBEDS!

Wow this hotel internet lark is splendid idea, but
like total lamez0r execution. It's like they put someone
who's only READ about teh web to describe to a conslutant
what a keyboard should do and how a screen should work.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Friday, 13 October 2006 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

3:30... not much longer...

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 13 October 2006 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, I'm into Toad again. And DAMN I had forgotten how awful it was. COmments? What comments? WTF does this code even *d*? It's like pulling at strings to figure out where they go and maybe there's what you want at the end of it, maybe there's A MINOTAUR who is going to jump out and eat me., Bah.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 13 October 2006 10:37 (nineteen years ago)

You should be signed up now, Emsk.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 13 October 2006 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

Kate you have to try go to see Sunn o)))! The vibrations from the music will help your back. You will feel like you're in the middle of an earthquake. Its awesome!

And you want to marvel at the wall of amps!

http://www.tubevision.com/LEGO_666_SUNN_1.JPG
http://www.tubevision.com/LEGO_SUNN_03.JPG

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 13 October 2006 10:49 (nineteen years ago)

If I am allowed to lie on the floor.

Right now it is pains to walk from one workstation to the other. Bah.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 13 October 2006 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

I had evil frozen shoulder complete with emergency codiene and referral to NHS osteo with 22 week waiting list for pretty much all of August, then it went away and now it has made a slight return. It is on the upper right shoulder and shoots down my arm from time to time just to check I'm paying attention.

Also my editor still loves me and I'm not a deadline-surfing piss-taker after all! Woot!

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 13 October 2006 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

It happens all the time. It's not as bad as it often is, i.e. I can actually get out of bed. What it requires is rest and relaxation and destressing. If it hasn't got better after lunch, I might take an ibuprofen, but am wary of that, due to extreme nap time qualities of ibuprofen for me. ANd I have to do some Oracle coding after lunch.
:-(

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 13 October 2006 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

Try applying some heat to it, Kate. That might ease the pain and spasm.

If anyone is going out at lunchtime and going anywhere near a supermarket, get them to buy a small bag of (uncooked) long-grain rice for you. Wrap it in some fabric - have you got a spare cardigan or something lying about the office?? - and microwave it for a couple of minutes. Or knot some rice into a long sock (I bet you have socks on, you look like a sock girl). It'll stay warm for about half an hour, and will help relieve your back pain if you wedge it up the back of your jumper or lean against it in your chair while you work.

― C J (C J), Friday, 13 October 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

I was expecting that to end with someone whacking Kate's back with a sock full of hot rice, for some reason.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 13 October 2006 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

The words 'whacking' and 'sock' should not appear in the same sentence, really.

― C J (C J), Friday, 13 October 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

Hullo hullo. Rah g00blar! Rah emsk's cooking! Rah Kate feeling better soon! And so forth.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 13 October 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

Multi-tasking:

Emsk cooks food for Gooblar's wedding reception.
Kate removes now-cool rice from sock to shower happy couple with.
Ned, of course, will officiate.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 13 October 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

Emsk cooks now-cool rice from sock for Gooblar's wedding reception.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 13 October 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

Emsk could cook some of Kate's ex-sock rice for Gooblar's reception too. Waste not, want not.

Ned could walk up and down on Kate's back, in some sort of far-eastern massage type way.

― C J (C J), Friday, 13 October 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

Ha! xpost Dada!

― C J (C J), Friday, 13 October 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

There is a drunken nutter yelling FUCK America downstairs - also going into some detail about IRA money-laundering for extra special kerayzee. For 30 minutes.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 13 October 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

It's not me... this time

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 13 October 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

I had a crazy woman put her hand on my neck last night, after which she gestured threateningly to some figure only she could see on the bar, pointing at me, pointing with her forehad at the bar, wordless, until she left, still staring at me. Teh weirdness.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 13 October 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

hehe 'forehad'

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 13 October 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

Ned, of course, will officiate.

"Go in peace and sin some more."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 13 October 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

6pm Friday and nowhere to go. I'd feel lame if I weren't so interested in getting out of here. Ciao people.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 13 October 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

Ta-ra! Have a good weekend!

― C J (C J), Friday, 13 October 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

Have a good weekend, Mitya!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 13 October 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

Blimey. two hours lunch was just what I needed. Feel a lot better now. Now if only my back would calm down... I've taken an ibuprofen as microwave sockrice not exactly doable at work.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 13 October 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

I too, found a beautiful mang on mysinglefriend. Sigh. Owns his own boat, too. I don't trust any of you to write me a reccomendation, though. :-P

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 13 October 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

...except maybe Emsk, but I left her at Stamfords so I don't expect to see her again until next week.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 13 October 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

Owns his own boat, too

http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/totheendsoftheearth/images/photogallery/340x255/anderson.jpg

― Diddumsismus (Dada), Friday, 13 October 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

I think Kate's brane may now have started spontaneously manufacturin' the Chemicals Of Horn.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 13 October 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

*insert joke about sailing round the Cape of Horn here*

― Diddumsismus (Dada), Friday, 13 October 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

*insert Horn into Kate's Cape*

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 13 October 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

Do I really want to spend £20 to be able to message him something filthy about sailing round the cake of good soap?

Sigh. I suppose this means I'm actually looking. But I suppose if I put money into it, I kinda have to do it.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 13 October 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

I've had no success at all myself with paid-for dating sites. Mind you, being a skinflint, I only tried one (Grauniad Solemates).

Mind you I've had no success at all with people from sites that are specifically *dating* sites. The one site that's led to Things Going On is more of a community site, and most of the people on it are happily coupled-up already.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

x-post HANG ON, DID SUZY JUST LEZ UP THERE?!?!?

:-P

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Well, this site seems a bit better, because it takes away the BIT I HATE, i.e. having to write a description of yourself. I think other people are just better are describing their friends more accurately, it's a very good idea. (unless of course they set themselves up two email accounts and write their own description, which kinda ruins the point.)

I guess I'm kinda viewing the sign up fee as a filter to keep out teenagers and the unemployed.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

There were two gentlemen entirely randomly dressed as naval types loitering in my street this morning. Matt and I tried to get a photo for you Kate but failed :(

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

Right, I'm going.

Have a good weekend, you lot.

Fingers crossed, I will too. I can't believe the way I've been feeling the past week.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

Haev a good time, FP!

Damn, my back is not feeling any better.

Does anyone want my sunno))) ticket? I suppose I should ask on ILM.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

I'd take it but I don't particularly want to go out on my own.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 13 October 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder if the Hippodrome does returns.

Or should I go and just try to sell it out front like a scalper? that just sounds exhausting.

I wish I knew if there were seats or not.

I hate my back, I want a new one.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 13 October 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.cirquehippodrome.com/

there appears to be seating

― Ed (dali), Friday, 13 October 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

That's not the same place, Ed - that's a restaurant underneath it, I think. Cause I certainly am not going to a salsa contest, which is what they have on tonight!

I guess I've learned a lesson here - never, ever, ever buy tickets in advance. Because if anything happens - and more likely than not in my case - you get stuck having spent money in advance on something you end up not being able to use. :-(

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 13 October 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

maybe I should wait until people go home, and then lie on the floor for a bit and see if that sorts me out.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 13 October 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

i was gonna go and see g00blar. what time are you on g00blar?

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 13 October 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

OK... Ed's "Alexander Technique" (which turns out to be indistinguishable from Supta Vajrasana in Yoga) seems to have sorted things out, at least short term.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 13 October 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

I really hope Kate was able to go see Sunn o))).

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 13 October 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

Welcome back, ilx

― your kisses are wasted on mitya (mitya), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 05:50 (nineteen years ago)

Hooray!

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 05:53 (nineteen years ago)

Morning!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 06:03 (nineteen years ago)

What, ilx is down for the better part of three days, and this is how you all show your appreciation? Let's see some chatter 'round here! How am I supposed to prepare a lesson plan if I don't have you lot to ~~distract me~~ ~~entertain me~~ baffle me with discussion of obscure prog/psyche/drone/folk groups?

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

Well, my how to play a mandolin book arrived this morning and a tuner. I just have to wait for the instrument itself to appear.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

Is it perverse to gain pleasure from watching parcel tracking?

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

Are you masturbating?

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

Ewww.

Last night I remember thinking, "I wonder if Kate likes them?" but now I can't remember who I had in mind. The new(ish) Snow Patrol album? Hmm...

Someone is about to piss off my boss, and I have the feeling I am going to suffer as a result.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 09:35 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, I think Snow Patrol are just kinda dull.

Morning (is it still morning?) - I'm late because I feel like death on toast. Period is early, and very heavy. Sorry if discussions of periods offend anyone here, but that's why I'm feeling so yuck right now.

So, uh, anyway. Yeah. I appear to be on A Dating Site now. I'm wondering how active I should be - like, should I go messaging boys? Because boys never seem to message me back if I take the first move. Or maybe I'm being paranoid. I hate all of this and kinda wish I hadn't done it, but it's paid for now, so I'm got to do it. Which was kind of the point of paying for it.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

Dating sites here are sprinkled liberally with out-and-out prostitutes (both labelled as such and not), although who knows what percentage of any of postings are actually real).

The other terrible thing about those sites, however, is they immediately point out to me and everyone else that I am Old. What a drag it is...

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

I have, of course, lied about mine age.

I am, however, looking for someone who is about 40. So "old" is in the eye of the beholder.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

xpost No wonder Sunn O))) was at a bad time!

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

God, I'm too intimidated by most of these men to write to them. I keep finding research scientists and architects and, err, doctors who collect British Art and it's like "wow, you're really sorted. you'd never go out with me, would you?"

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

Research scientists, ROWR.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 10:14 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, hill-climbing research scientists. I messaged him and said stupid things about the Adirondacks.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 10:17 (nineteen years ago)

bleep bleep bleep:

http://www.infectionmusic.com/instruments/ZeitSamples/pulse1.mp3
(7m20s, 10Mb)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

purple and knobby.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 10:22 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe I should just message everyone who catches my eye. I have NO IDEA how to approach this and fear making a fule of myself.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

Norm, was that you on Stereolab's "The Groop Played Space Age Bachelor Pad Music" mini-LP?

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

That's the only stereolab album I haven't got!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

Kate, I am too young for you! Yay! (Well, you know what I mean...)

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 10:36 (nineteen years ago)

morning! yay the internet is back on! i have just bought the BIGGEST ONION IN CHRISTENDOM and am off to put it in some dahl num num. last night i made garam masala from scratch i am awesome in kitchen etc etc.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, but we all know the biggest onions grow on top of Mosques so I don't think your onion is all that at all.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 10:57 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, no one is going to write me back. I give up. Maybe I should do some work.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

I think both joining An Internet Dating Site and making yr own garam masala are very admirable and positive things. You have to put yrself out there and get past your fears that maybe you won't be able to deal with so much cardamom (metaphorically).

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

I just don't have a clue what to say when I message these people. So I end up trying to be funny and failing miserably. And some of them are just so... "wow!" that I can't actually bring myself to message them. Like, there's no way this dude is ever going to go on a date, so why should I try?

Then again, it's just a message. I've got nothing to lose by writing it. The worst thing that can happen is, he can not write back. And block me from his inbox, but I'll never know that.

I just hate the waiting bit.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

...and my profile makes me sound like a bit of a mentalist. But I *am* a bit of a mentalist. Someone out there has got to find that kind of cute, right? Maybe?

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

Then again, it's just a message. I've got nothing to lose by writing it. The worst thing that can happen is, he can not write back.
Then again, it's just a message. I've got nothing to lose by writing it. The worst thing that can happen is, he can not write back.
Then again, it's just a message. I've got nothing to lose by writing it. The worst thing that can happen is, he can not write back.
Then again, it's just a message. I've got nothing to lose by writing it. The worst thing that can happen is, he can not write back.
Then again, it's just a message. I've got nothing to lose by writing it. The worst thing that can happen is, he can not write back.

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

This one man, he is so pretty, though, he has the pointiest nose and sparkling eyes and his profile is SO FUNNY and OK, it makes him sound a bit of a mentalist, but my kind of "bring it on! let's run away to an island and live on a boat!" mentalist.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

See? Don't tell me this isn't at least a bit fun. OK, so it can be frightening, and you are worried about rejection (who isn't?), but it's new possibilities, and new experiences, and even if nothing works out, this part--the 'ooooh what would it be like to be with that person (on a pirate ship)' part--is part of it, and a very good part.

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

Hello! Can't stay long... Just thought I should let you know I saw Boris Johnson riding his bike in Trafalgar Sq just now. He was standing on his pedals to climb the not-very-steep incline past St Martin's in the Fields, and making an O-face (with the effort, I hope).

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

Everyone gets to see Boris Johnson on his bike except me! Maybe he knows I would kidnap him for breeding stock. Ah well.

And yes, you're right, this is the exciting part, I guess. Before the rejection. And also, need to remember that I've got this excited about boys on dating sites who did *not* turn out to be all that after all, so keep my expectations low.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

(forgive an english teacher:) You're sounding like Olivia, from Twelfth Night, who *thinks* what she needs is seven years of seclusion, cut off from the mess of life, left to "water once a day her chamber round / with eye-offending brine," when in fact what she needs is the very thing she's rejecting--someone who will spar with her, insult her, challenge her, scare her--that same mess of life.

So perhaps you're just waiting to start flirting with a woman dressed as a man, and then to realize that she is, in fact a woman, only to--at that moment--meet her long lost twin brother. It just so happens that this twin brother is exactly like his sister in all aspects, except that he's male. Hurrah!

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

I never get told I'm like Olivia. I always get told that I'm like Katharine, usually after I've smashed a lute over someone's head, and that I need to find a man who will beat me and lock me in his castle and starve me until I agree the sky is green when it's blue.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

But is he a old dirty dronerock man?
x-posts

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, how weird... it tells you when people have read your email.

I'm not sure if I like that or not. It's nice when you see that they haven't read your mail, and they're not ignoring you. But it's not very nice when you see they've read your mail and are just not replying.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

I think you are having the same issues as me regarding speed of communication response. Just be glad you doing have a blackberry for additional angst.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

I'm trying to be good. I mean, I'm thinking of my childhood friend who got back in touch, and I haven't replied to his email since last week! Which doesn't mean I don't want to talk to him, it just means that I don't want to give him a half-assed brushed-off reply.

If someone writes me on a dating site, I usually go and look at their profile and have a think about it before I reply anyway.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

Whose wife did we say emsk was? Mine?

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

Is this afternoon ever going to end? Is this week ever going to end?

I am so bored with my job. I can just not keep my focus on it. It's not that I dislike the work, it's not that I dislike the people, I'm just bored to tears by everything I do. I've only been here a year and a half. Is this normal?

x-post, eh?

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

Oh! no, Ken C's wife, I think.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

Murflemumblegoodmorningmmmm...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

Morning, Ned. What do you have in your mouth, there?

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

Ususally you can tell by the photos on his flickr, but today: nada.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

Nothing in mouth; that was more the sleepy mental fog I was trying to be coherent through.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

It's sure gone quiet in here.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

I've been doing this.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

This thread needs some more Captain Anderson, I guess.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/totheendsoftheearth/images/450x187/jared_harris.jpg

I have just found out something I did not know about myself. When I sign off emails, I usually write "hope yer groovy, XO, Kate" without thinking about it. If I'm in a hurry or something, I'll just write "K" or something. Apparently, however, AMP has just told me that I always leave out the hugs and kisses when I'm angry about something. I never even realised I did this! So, basically, if I'm writing an email in a hurry and leave off the kisses, people think I'm angry at them!

That's really weird. Because I don't really think about what I sign emails with.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

iLIKE TRAINS were amazing but I was completely blown away by 'The Strange Death of Liberal England' whoa re playing at the Luminaire on Tuesday. Anyone want to go?

The Early Years were good but the seemed somewhat mundane when compared to the other two bands. Which I think says more about the other bands than the Early Years. Kate said about TSDOLE that very rarely do you hear something truly unique. There's a bit of early mogwai in there and very little else.

I think I need to get some of those high tech earplugs.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 07:23 (nineteen years ago)

Also, an instrument shaped box arrived in the post today just as I was leaving the house.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 07:23 (nineteen years ago)

I am in a strange mood today. Long-distance relationships are hard, especially when they're just starting out.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 07:37 (nineteen years ago)

the strange death of liberal england - brilliant name. i went to see 120 days @ madame jo-jo's, they were ace, and k8 their bassist is MADE for you - on the left here:

http://myspace-249.vo.llnwd.net/01187/94/25/1187355249_l.jpg

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 08:29 (nineteen years ago)

Title of a famous political book.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

They've got stuff in their eyes

― Diddumsismus (Dada), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 08:33 (nineteen years ago)

Is the blonde at the back a girl or am I fancying a boy?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

No shame in that, in this day and age

― Diddumsismus (Dada), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 08:37 (nineteen years ago)

Check yr email dada!

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

Haha yeah emsk I saw a (n00d!) pic of 120 days in a Norwegian mag and immediately thought of k8 myself!

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 08:40 (nineteen years ago)

you are fancying a boy! also they are all about ten.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 08:43 (nineteen years ago)

They look young enough to be the leads in a new BBC drama

― Diddumsismus (Dada), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 08:45 (nineteen years ago)

eck more emo kids

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 08:50 (nineteen years ago)

Morning all! I get to sleep in on Wednesdays!

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 08:55 (nineteen years ago)

Kate, YHM!

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 09:38 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning - oops, afternoon.

I feel like utter rubbish today. I could barely wake up, let alone walk. (Took the bus from Farringdon to work, that's how rub I feel.) I'm having my second period in three weeks and I'm coming down with the office lurgy and despite how good the show was last night, standing up for several hours in cramped quarters has killed my legs and feet and my back hurts, bah booo etc.

Errr, yes, they are very pretty that band. But what do they *sound* like? they look like they might be very rub haircut band.

TSDOLE were... blimey, they were odd. With most bands you can just say "they sound like a cross between X adn Y" but they were just utterly unlike anything I'd heard in a long time. Bits of Mogwai, bits of 1920s protest songs, xylophone, and everyone switching instruments every song, and a drummer who kept getting up and wandering around with giant placards.

The Early Years... I *love* the TEY, they blew me away last week. But this was kind of the wrong bill for them. Though I liked the way they functioned a bit as a palate cleanser because the other two bands were *so* odd it would have been too much had there been three odd bands. They suffered from a poor sound mix, (the sound engineer seemed to think they should sound like U2 when no, no, no, they should be mixed like Neu!) but they had fantastic lights and seem intent on turning into early Spacemen 3 fronted by a supremely acid-monged Ian MacCullough - a very very good thing if you're me.

And then iLiKETRAiNS who are clearly Ed's new favourite band ever because they were checking out each others' train gear and there was mutual lust for Ed's orange engineer's jacket and their vintage conductors' uniforms.

It's funny because, about a million years ago, when Emsk was first trying to describe British Sea Power to me, I got a very clear idea of what I thought they would sound like - strange, oblique, thick, mysterious, epic, windswept. Problem was, BSP didn't sound like that at all. iLT *do* sound like Emsk's descriptions (even though they sound nothing like BSP). They write songs about chess games and abandonned railway lines and stabbing people with the silverware. And I think I might fancy their singer even though he looks a lot like my grandfather and that's just *wrong*. He's like Neil Hannon's demented evil twin brother who escaped from the institution and was raised by wolves.

Apparently someone on MSF has marked me as their favourite so I should probably go and look at that.

― The 120 Days Of Streatham (kate), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

Archel is in the Guardian! Archel is in the Guardian!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

Is she? Doing what?

― iL0VETRAiNS (kate), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 10:50 (nineteen years ago)

They had a beard-growing competition. Their guitarist lost.

http://www.music-dash.co.uk/siteimages/bands/iliketrains.jpg

― Blah Blah Blah (kate), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

xpost link?

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

Answering questions in Notes And Queries.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

Heh yes I forgot I'd even emailed them after all the kerfuffle with being in hospital. I feel a bit silly that there's two professors of linguistics/developmental psychology answering the question and then randomly me.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 11:11 (nineteen years ago)

Iggy Pop's rider

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

That one, over on the right:

http://www.iliketrains.co.uk/snow/images/ilt3sm.jpg

My actual grandfather, for comparison:

http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/history/gilliland.jpg

(The drummer is also pretty hott.)

― Blah Blah Blah (kate), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

I thought the person in the middle of that first ILiKETRAiNS pic was me when I was about 18, for a second. Make of that what you will.

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

Your grandfather is very dapper.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

My grandfather was extremely dapper. White linnen suit, bow tie, lounging on the veranda of a house in the colonies... My mum has a picture of his and my grandmum's wedding, and they look like movie stars. He died before I was born, tho. :-(

― Blah Blah Blah (kate), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

:( Mine's was alive till I was about 3 or 4, but I don't remember him plus I've never even seen a photo of him (there are none that I know of)

― Diddumsismus (Dada), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

Here be a photo of Baby Silvertooth with his silvertooth a-glinting sexily:

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g152/Lnachts/GlintingTooth.jpg

― Blah Blah Blah (kate), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

Googling "baby s!lvert00th" leads us to the TSM board, Kaet

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, so?

― Blah Blah Blah (kate), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

I have been banned from ever eating stinky feet cheese rissotto at work ever again. :-(

― Blah Blah Blah (kate), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone have any suggestions for what someone can do on a press trip to Luxembourg? I have a feeling there's only one day of fun and I'm there for at least two.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

go to Brussels

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

I just realised that I don't know a thing about Luxembourg, the place.

― Blah Blah Blah (kate), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Hrmmm. I was looking for a thread on which to vent my discomfort with the upcoming Xmas debacle being threatened by my family, but all I found was this:

Seasons Greetings, I Mean Depression

Bloody hell.

Anyway. Yeah. I have four days of holiday off. My mum said she wanted to come and stay with me for two weeks, half of which she would entertain herself. We agreed in advance about boundaries and especially hygeine/meat rules.

But now she says she deliberated too long, so now she's missed the cheap flights - and now she wants me to fly to the US instead. Yeah, for 4 days? *And* go to California to see my father and brother for half that time? And then get back for Month End with massive jet lag on the 3rd?

Please to be recommending a place I can just go off to BY MYSELF for the week between Xmas and New Years?

― Blah Blah Blah (kate), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Luxembourg?

― Diddumsismus (Dada), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

That might not be a bad idea.

― Blah Blah Blah (kate), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

Ed, I don't think the press officer would be too happy if I went gallivantiing off to Brux.

Also please to be telling me best website for flights and J Lewis one that's also good? Cannot remember.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

I kind of know someone from Luxembourg, they're quite German as a rule (more than they are French or Belgian or whateva)

― Diddumsismus (Dada), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

Does she have buck teeth?

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

Do not fly to luxembourg, go by train. Flying is horrible right now.

(johnlewis services site is called greenbee.com)

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

Does she have buck teeth?

She's more along the lines of "You're the One For Me, Fatty"

― Diddumsismus (Dada), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

I cannot afford one of those "country house Christmas" things. And they're all for couples, anyway. :-(

― Blah Blah Blah (kate), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

SideStep searches the travel search engines.

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

Go to Andorra, I say.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

I'm quite relieved that any Christmas responsibilities I might usually have are going to be thrust aside by me having a baby right in the middle of it. Ha, take that, importunate family! Although we still ominously managed to have an almost-row with M's parents at the weekend about when they're coming down.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

Camp outside Benjamins house.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

any Christmas responsibilities I might usually have are going to be thrust aside by me having a baby right in the middle of it

New Christmas carol time!

"While ILXors Posted on Threads at Night"

"Hark! The Shimura Curves Sing"

"Away in a Brighton"

"O Come All Ye FAPpers"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

I have actually heard good reports about Andorra, funnily enough, albeit all from skiers.

I have to deal with my holiday plans soon too, but as low man on the work totem pole, I am apparently "on duty" during the Russian dead period (January 1-5 and 8 are holidays) :(

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

I would love for the Curves to sing carols to my new baby :)
Of course it will probably be late and I'll have to endure the whole sorry business like normal, but with the added misery of being huge as a house.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

yes, we will serenade you barbershop quartet stylee with "Baby on board...."

― Blah Blah Blah (kate), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I have now responded to the biologist who messaged me yesterday. I always worry about my responses because I have such a tendency to babble about nothing at all, at great length. I need to learn how to be quick and witty.

But, I suppose I should try to "be myself" in these things. Sigh.

― Blah Blah Blah (kate), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

Don't sigh Kate! This is exciting! x

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

If by exciting, you mean terrifying...

― Blah Blah Blah (kate), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I have now responded to the biologist who messaged me yesterday

Is this gonna be like those yoghurt adverts?

― Diddumsismus (Dada), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

I have learnt a valuable musical lesson.

Don't try and tune a stringed instrument to an octave above its intended tuning. I broke three strings learning that. D'oh.

I think I worked out the setup thing though. Good job there's two strings on each course and I could at least practice tuning.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

Argh! Indeed!

― Blah Blah Blah (kate), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and that's nice! The Biologist wrote back to say that he was out with friends tonight, but that he liked my questions and would answer them when he got back from the pub. That's very considerate of him. Full marks.

I'm trying to find my profile to show Marianna, but it never seems to come up when I search. Bah!

― Blah Blah Blah (kate), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

you didn't seem to come up when I was looking at profiles yesterday but you have to sign up to fine tune search options.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

Well, it won't let me search girls in the fine tuned options without resetting myself as a lesbian! Ah well.

How does it sound when you're done with the tuning?

― Blah Blah Blah (kate), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

very nice. It is louder than I imagined. Same sort of register as a guitar (G and E strings correspond to those of a guitar according to the tuner thingy) a much more bell like quality to the sound.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

What did you get, Ed?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 19 October 2006 07:55 (nineteen years ago)

Octave Mandolin in the end

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 19 October 2006 07:56 (nineteen years ago)

maybe it will come up if you log out and search? i can email m the link.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 19 October 2006 08:01 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning!

Feeling a lot better this morning after going home and resting. I needed that.

My mum rang and we sorted everything out. She *is* coming here after all. She's just going through the "waaah, you don't want me to come because instead of leaping out of your seat with unbridled joy, you're trying to figure out ways to stop us from fighting."

Dude, you're my mum. We fight. That's the way we are. It doesn't mean I don't want to see you, if I'm aware of this and want to take steps to counteract it. It means I want to see you *without* fighting.

― Blah Blah Blah (kate), Thursday, 19 October 2006 08:24 (nineteen years ago)

Hahahaha. My mum and I just have the one shouting match about two days into the visit and then everything is FINE.

Will the weather be holding for a Hackney Afterworker next week as Jamaican take-away is, I'm told, now open. I am also told Ital for vegetarians is always available.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 19 October 2006 08:28 (nineteen years ago)

Morning there!

I have signed up for something which *I* think is rather cool. And I appear to have been accepted. Hurrah!

(NB: this is me thinking it is cool. It involves writing, anthropology, me (and lots of other people) rambling about my opinions, and dusty archives. So the rest of you might disagree)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 19 October 2006 08:29 (nineteen years ago)

OMG, the Biologist wrote back, very drunk, after getting back from the pub. He's talking about earthworm distribution and Madagascan intiation rituals. SO FREAKING COOL!!!

He is clearly way too clever for me, but wow.

However, he did say something very funny - he said that maths has a higher degree of certainty and therefore predictability, ha ha ha, I hate to have to disillusion him on the real world applications of mathematics I deal with. Oh dear.

x-posts

Suzy, I'm just trying to forestall what the shouting match is about, or get it out of the way before she comes. Because the shouting match always boils down to "you don't actually want to see me!" Which isn't true. I do want to see her, but I don't want to fight with her. Argh. Catch 22.

FP, that sounds cool to me indeed.

― Blah Blah Blah (kate), Thursday, 19 October 2006 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

Biologist sounds just about clever enough.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 19 October 2006 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

Is it Mass Observation, FP? Or something more secret?

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 08:45 (nineteen years ago)

OK, search is broken, so I can't find the Transport of Delight thread, but this is just about the coolest thing I've ever seen:

http://fabulist.org/postimages/pda.jpg

― Blah Blah Blah (kate), Thursday, 19 October 2006 08:53 (nineteen years ago)

The Rolling Rolling Thread: A Transport of Delight

Cool. We must organise an abandoned station festival.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 19 October 2006 08:57 (nineteen years ago)

Indeed - but with only train-themed bands.

iLiKETRAiNS
Engingeers

Who else?

― Blah Blah Blah (kate), Thursday, 19 October 2006 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

Blythe Power have a very good knowledge of TOPS numbers and locomotive names.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 19 October 2006 09:04 (nineteen years ago)

There's a Glasgow band called Eastfield - their logo is the blue-diesel-era Eastfield depot sticker.

I thought you might guess, Archel, being local to them.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 19 October 2006 09:07 (nineteen years ago)

Mere yards away at this moment :)

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 09:52 (nineteen years ago)

I will DJ XTC's 'Big Express' as a warm-up for the gig.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 19 October 2006 10:06 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, and "All Aboard The Express Khundalini" by Love and Rockets, of course.

― Blah Blah Blah (kate), Thursday, 19 October 2006 10:06 (nineteen years ago)

I Often Dream Of Trains, anyone?

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 19 October 2006 10:13 (nineteen years ago)

Trains to Brazil

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 19 October 2006 10:22 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of, "O trem azul" by Milton Nascimento

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 19 October 2006 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

effing a i have been sitting around all day waiting for any one of three people to finish what they're working on. of course i'm going to get everything all at once and then be stressed to get them all done as quickly as possible. argh.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 19 October 2006 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

I get asked to run a query and then a mail merge for this selection of cases (because NO ONE else in this company knows how to do a mail merge - I swear to god!) - and it would REALLY REALLY help if they'd actually given me the correct case numbers in the first place. Argh.

― Blah Blah Blah (kate), Thursday, 19 October 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I've run out of things to do and my boss has gone home.

― Blah Blah Blah (kate), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

I feel like my head is going to explode if I get any more bored at work. :-(

― Blah Blah Blah (kate), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 20 October 2006 05:27 (nineteen years ago)

*yawn* morning.

daerest skygod, pls to change mind about drenching all of southern england this weekend. do it on monday instead.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 20 October 2006 07:00 (nineteen years ago)

remember, that part of the world has a strange microclimate, also trees

― Ed (dali), Friday, 20 October 2006 07:03 (nineteen years ago)

Morning there.

Things are a bit weird at the moment, I think.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 20 October 2006 07:10 (nineteen years ago)

Things fucking suck at the moment.

He didn't write back, at all. I've scared him off, and the girls are all telling me all these stupid, crap "Rules" that I don't understand and just confuse me and seem like a load of crap, but apparently dating is just Not For Me because I can't do them.

And I suck, and it's all crap. :-(

― Blah Blah Blah (kate), Friday, 20 October 2006 08:10 (nineteen years ago)

I know I shouldn't be upset about stupid crap like this, but I *am*, OK?

I shouldn't bother trying, ever again. It isn't worth it.

― Blah Blah Blah (kate), Friday, 20 October 2006 08:19 (nineteen years ago)

kate, fuck The Rules. you don't want a man you'd get by following them. and it still hasn't been that long to write back. it often takes me days, occasionally weeks.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 20 October 2006 08:20 (nineteen years ago)

The weather is good west of london anyway, well there is some blue showing.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 20 October 2006 08:22 (nineteen years ago)

Things have been a bit sucky for me too.

I shouldn't really post details. It's about the girl I met last weekend. Someone has been trying to split us up, saying that I'm not the right Man for her, that his love is undying, etc etc etc. He's been telling her things he says his flatmate told her about me, claiming that I was coming on strong to his flatmate and was talking to her online non-stop for weeks. I don't know which of them is lying, but it's definitely the biggest pile of bollocks I've ever heard in my life.

Anyway, she's told me she's blocking his messages now, because she believes my side of the story. She also believes that he genuinely thought his flatmate was telling the truth, though. I've met the man, and I think he's a cunt, and I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him. Hopefully we're going to get over it.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 20 October 2006 08:29 (nineteen years ago)

Bright sunshine at reading, emsk.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 20 October 2006 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

I shouldn't really post details.

Then you shouldn't really post vague hints either.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 20 October 2006 08:35 (nineteen years ago)

I know, but sometimes you just want to get things off your chest to people.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 20 October 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

That's cool. It's rough when you think "friends" of your intended are down on the relationship and are lobbying against it for reasons which are usually nothing to do with you and everything to do with a neurotic desire to be at the centre of attention or a need to manufacture a crisis to offer "support" through. Baaaarf.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 20 October 2006 08:48 (nineteen years ago)

It's not even that he hasn't written back. I mean, I know that it takes me days to answer email sometimes. It's that I really hate myself for my reaction to it. But the self loathing only makes the reaction worse, and I get caught in this downward spiral.

I hate meeting people for romantic purposes. It makes me feel physically ill, most of the time. Not with butterflies and happy feeling with but with stomach-ulcer stress.

I just start on the "of course he hasn't written back, the Noize Dudes are right - I'm fat, ugly, and psychotic. Why would anyone want to be with me?" And then I start beating myself up going "WHY THE FUCK DO YOU CARE?!?!? You are SO PATHETIC!!! How can you be such a HORRIBLE GIRLY GIRL instead of a strong woman. You'll be whinging about Alsations and buying shoes and self help books next, YOU PATHETIC FUCKING COW!"

Which only feeds the "oh god, I'm fat, ugly, psychotic *and* a pathetic Bridget Jones of a cow, on top of everything else" self hate.

― Blah Blah Blah (kate), Friday, 20 October 2006 09:03 (nineteen years ago)

And, as usual, I've killed this thread dead.

I should just be shot, for the protection of others, or something.

:-(

― Blah Blah Blah (kate), Friday, 20 October 2006 09:35 (nineteen years ago)

It's been really slow on ILX all week generally for some reason. However, this thread had almost a grand worth of posts. Might clean slate 19 improve mood?

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 20 October 2006 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

Dear Kaet:

http://jcoglan.com/folio/photos/music/ben-curtis-trails.jpg

Yrs,
The 'cooler

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 20 October 2006 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

It's just lies. Boys like Benjamin don't really exist except in my mind. Publicity to make it seem like men are a good idea when really they're just more shite designed to destroy your self esteem in new and exciting ways. :-(

― Blah Blah Blah (kate), Friday, 20 October 2006 09:52 (nineteen years ago)

I'm curious abt these "rules", it sounds like they should be complete rubbish. Do you have any examples for 1 x clueless person?

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Friday, 20 October 2006 09:54 (nineteen years ago)

ATP 2007 wknd 1 announced; Dirty Three curating, Nick Cave headlining, Low.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 20 October 2006 09:56 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sorry. That was uncalled for, Mitya, I know you were trying to cheer me up and that's sweet. This just really makes me hate humanity in general and men in specific. I'm sure men have the same experience of hating women when they use these things.

― Blah Blah Blah (kate), Friday, 20 October 2006 09:58 (nineteen years ago)

I hate flea-bitten misogynist Nick Cave.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 20 October 2006 10:10 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

(LOL, I was about to write the same thing. Yes, we do.)

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 20 October 2006 10:10 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway, I've just discovered why it is that no one writes me back - because one smug cnut was brave enough to be honest on his profile (yeah, in there with the hypocritical "I don't want a high maintainance girl - but I want a slim girl with long legs and perfect skin, because we all know that just happens *completely naturally*) to say that he only dates girls with POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDES!!!!

Hurrah. Like yeah, anyone who's been on a dating site for more then thirty seconds is going to have a positive mental attitude.

I just wanted to message him and say GOD, YOU ARE AN UTTER CNUT but figured I'd be banned for that.

― Blah Blah Blah (kate), Friday, 20 October 2006 10:14 (nineteen years ago)

On a completely different note, does anyone have any idea whether it would be worth going to see Hooky do a DJ set?

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 20 October 2006 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

I have no idea. Only know that promoters often scam the bands involved with pay to play crap.

If my mood does not improve noticably after lunch (and I've been crying pretty much all day) then I think I'm going to ask to go home. Because this is fucked. I can't concentrate on my work. I just had the urge to put my forehead through the tiled wall in the bathroom.

I've head a headache all week, for no apparent reason. The only thing that makes me think of is SSRI withdrawl - and I've been taking the stupid freaking meds all through this.

― Negative Mental Attitude (kate), Friday, 20 October 2006 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

Even I'm bored of my fucking whinging now. I can't imagine how you lot feel. I just wish there were a way to TURN IT THE FUCK OFF but it doesn't go away.

― Negative Mental Attitude (kate), Friday, 20 October 2006 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

I think I should get offline now.

― Negative Mental Attitude (kate), Friday, 20 October 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

i like reading your posts kate, you sound like a female version of me most of the time. except i'm not musical.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 20 October 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.vinyltap.co.uk/gallery/ps/psychwly4998876793146220.jpg

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 20 October 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

erm, that's not to say I enjoy reading about you feeling shit. just that i can relate to a lot of it. i guess i should shut up now.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 20 October 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

well, if anyone's still here: i'm outta here in a few minutes. Have a good weekend!

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

You too, Mitya!

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, Monday.

You know what? People really are bastards. And that includes me.

In fact, the only people I've talked to over the weekend who don't come across as bastards are either a) my ex b) her friends. Hurrah!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 23 October 2006 06:33 (nineteen years ago)

Welcome to misanthropy, FP! We are glad to have you with us!

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 23 October 2006 06:43 (nineteen years ago)

Misanthropy's great, isn't it.

I can tell I must be half-asleep this morning because my spelling/typing's gone to shit. I had to correct this post about 10 times. Possibly cos I only had one coffee before leaving the house this morning.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 23 October 2006 06:47 (nineteen years ago)

The coffee hasn't helped me at all today, for some reason. I am totally nodding off at my desk.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Monday, 23 October 2006 06:59 (nineteen years ago)

I love misanthropes, they're brilliant!

I'm hungry. Italian housemate invited lots of Italian friend around for dinner, and in a not-at-all stereotypical Italian way, has pasta and salad. This is all very well, but afterwards I did feel like I needed some sausages.

I've updated my OkCupid profile: http://www.okcupid.com/profile?u=stigoftdump . Would you guys mind proof-reading it and telling me where it's wrong? Ignore the horrible photo that I keep meaning to update, and read the words. Those who know me, please tell me things to leave out or add.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 23 October 2006 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

Morning! Hurrah for half-term. I still have infinity+1 reports to write, and something happened to my neck on Friday night which means that every time I move the right side of my body, I'm in agony, but apart from that, all is well :). Well, aside from the email from a friend confirming that all attempts at The Long Game will end in pointless heartbreak, but I'm used to that by now.

After watching all of The Prisoner this weekend, I have this urge to say 'Be seeing you' at the end of my conversations. It's not big or clever. But it has solved my Hallowe'en dilemma (not enough time to make a decent costume, but I can pull together a Number 6 six outfit easily enough).

― carson dial (carson dial), Monday, 23 October 2006 08:54 (nineteen years ago)

Hi all. Lots of people seem to assume that I get some kind of half-term thing here. I don't. But wooo I only have 3 weeks left at work!

Hi JB, I am messaging you because I thought Lost in Translation was vapid and racist :)
Some proofreading notes:
1) you saw a guy in a dressed as a tiger - remove 'in a'.
2) 'predeliction' should be 'predilection'.
3) 'learbn'.
4) 'Just a Miute'.
5) 'misinthrope'.
6) I haven't checked the dictionary but I suspect that 'inconsistancies' should 'inconsistencies'.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 23 October 2006 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

I need to watch The Prisoner again, I remember it being fun. We should do a Prisoner marathon!

My mate is putting on a Ska night for Oxfam, calling it (predictably) Skalloween. I hope I've still got that skeleton suit, that would be prefect.

Thanks for that Archel, much appreciated. It shows up how much my spelling has gone to pot since I got used to F7 doing the work for me.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 23 October 2006 09:17 (nineteen years ago)

Nobody I know is doing anything for Halloween. Shame really because I've got a plastic scythe and everything. (Although not really the rest of a grim reaper costume - Matt has a Santa suit though so he could be the Grim Santa I guess.)

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 23 October 2006 09:22 (nineteen years ago)

Prisoner marathons can leave you feeling a little odd, I find.

Be seeing you!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 23 October 2006 09:24 (nineteen years ago)

But FP, that's kinda the point! (esp. after the final episode, which I haven't seen in years cos it weirded me out too much.

Matt in costume:
http://www.starstore.com/acatalog/nbx-2-Santa-Jack.jpg

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 23 October 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

I'm feeling weird enough right now.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 23 October 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

Morning. Back at work again. Can't see the Doctor until Wednesday so I'm doubling up my meds and feeling very very groggy.

Weekend was pretty good, held it together. Spent a lot of time with friends, talking to friends, which was very very good.

Gig last night was scary as fuck, but I got through it and got it over with and spent lots of time just hanging out with my mates which was the best thing I could be doing, I think.

Also, weird blast from the past - there was this amazingly good band also playing, called The Bronsteins. They were really really lovely, very much a K Records gentle girly harmonies and sweet melodies thing going on. So I went up to their singer after they played and told her how much I'd liked it. And she kept looking at me, going "where do I know you from?" And I told her I was in Shimura Curves, and used to be in the Lollies, and she was all "OHMIGOD, you wrote a song about my bandmate! Ha ha!" and it turned out to be Melinda from the Channel Six! That was a really great blast from the past, and we just kept hugging and bouncing up and down and having a good old gossip. Making plans to play together again soon. (She always was the coolest C6.)

So that was really nice.

― Negative Mental Attitude (kate), Monday, 23 October 2006 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

Were the bronsteins the band with the girl I fancied singing?

― Ed (dali), Monday, 23 October 2006 09:38 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning. Reading week means no trip to the castle for me this week. I'm lounging around in flannel pajamas.

Tried to make it out last night, but it didn't happen for a couple reasons; glad to hear it went well.

― g00blar (gooblar), Monday, 23 October 2006 09:45 (nineteen years ago)

Ed - yes.

Their MySpace is here:

http://www.myspace.com/thebronsteins

She also plays keyboards in Absentee with Dan Clark. Funny thing is, I've *seen* Absentee, and I thought "that keyboardist looks really familiar..." but totally didn't place her because she used to play drums.

― Negative Mental Attitude (kate), Monday, 23 October 2006 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

I should have stuck around and seen if my railway worker disguise and manly woodsmoke and sweat pheromones worked on the ladies.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 23 October 2006 09:52 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, it was a night of loveliness for the boys. Barims lost his heart to a "polkadot playboy bunny girl" from Manic Cough.

― Negative Mental Attitude (kate), Monday, 23 October 2006 09:58 (nineteen years ago)

You had the beergut band for eyecandy.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 23 October 2006 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

Incidentally, I'd like to know their name so I can avoid them in future.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 23 October 2006 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

they were called butchers boy. or butcher's boy. christ, they were appalling.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 23 October 2006 10:08 (nineteen years ago)

I have mail in my MSF account, but am too scared to go and see what it is. :-(

― Negative Mental Attitude (kate), Monday, 23 October 2006 10:10 (nineteen years ago)

Ed you are a HORNBUCKET these days. Or possibly you always were.

I had a great weekend, including a trip round BATTERSEA POWER STATION!! I am sure my photos are the same as everyone else's, but please go and have a look at muh Flickr set if you have a moment.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Monday, 23 October 2006 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

Be advised: one woman's pheromone is another's BO.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 23 October 2006 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

Cool photos, Mark. Looking forward to seeing it next weekend, now...

― Negative Mental Attitude (kate), Monday, 23 October 2006 10:39 (nineteen years ago)

Great pics. What's with all the apples!?

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 23 October 2006 11:11 (nineteen years ago)

ok now i am excited again about battersea. and the night before i am seeing a WICKER MAN BURNING woo!

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 23 October 2006 11:15 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's part of the "art" - or at least so it was reported in some newspaper.

The art doesn't look much cop, but then again, who on earth is going there for the art?

x-post

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Monday, 23 October 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

my railway worker disguise

The good old orange boilersuit?

(mine is more brown that orange, due repeated accidental oiling)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 23 October 2006 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

Burn the Welsh, Burn the Welsh...

I don't think I'm going to be coming to the Wicker Man thing. I think I'd get very stressed out, going to Wales for just one day.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Monday, 23 October 2006 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

I'd grin, too, if I had an 8-string bass:

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e68/LennonWoreChucks2/Concert%20Photos/tsm58.jpg

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Monday, 23 October 2006 11:22 (nineteen years ago)

Just don't look at any road signs and you'll forget where you are.

(xpost)

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

Sarah might disagree but the art was underwhelming. It is mostly video/film installations, some of which are good/clever (watch the clapping film - it's called "Happiness") and some of which are dull. But tbh the show was never going to compete with the fact YOU'RE IN BATTERSEA POWER STATION OMG - indeed, the first thing you do once you get inside is shuffle along to a viewing platform in the middle to wonder at the hulking architecture around you.

2 tips: firstly, go for lunch and eat at the Yauatcha temporary restaurant. For £19 you get the oriental afternoon tea which is just fantastic (and generous). Secondly, if you go in the afternoon, try and be inside the Power Station by 2 - the queue got much longer after that and if the weather is as foul as it was yesterday you don't want to be standing out in it. Oh, and if it's cold, wrap up warm (wet, take a brolly) - it's all either outside or unheated.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Monday, 23 October 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

Secondly, if you go in the afternoon, try and be inside the Power Station by 2 - the queue got much longer after that

be there by 2 for the opening that starts at 3.30? or am i confused?

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 23 October 2006 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm. Maybe I am confused. I think we had a ticket that meant we could go between 12 and 5 - is that possible? If there is indeed a later ticket then I guess there's not a lot you can do. Sarah was the one with the tickets, I just followed eagerly along :)

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Monday, 23 October 2006 11:36 (nineteen years ago)

we've got tickets that say you can go between 3.30 and 6.30. the other option for the day was between 12 and 3.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 23 October 2006 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I read the mail. He confessed that he didn't actually understand half of what I was talking about in my mail*, and asked me to explain.

Which makes me feel a bit like a freak, I guess.

*You know, just standard stuff like explaining what my job is, and well, OK, psychogeography and quantum theory. But still.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Monday, 23 October 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

Ed, Emsk, have you listened to the Bronsteins' MySpace?

I know who it is they vaguely remind me of... Sande and the Memory Machine!

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Monday, 23 October 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

Not listened yet, I will when I get home.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 23 October 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

can't listen to anything through computer as amp has been borrowed for the weekend. hopefully back soon.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 23 October 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, I just tipped a glass of water all over my desk.

Second time in two days I've had a major spillage like that. Last time it was pink wine. :-(

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Monday, 23 October 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I hate people. I don't think I should bother venturing onto any other threads on ILX. I don't see other people getting their answers to joke threads getting picked apart on such a personal level. Twats.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Monday, 23 October 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

Why do I always get so cranky after lunch? Grrrrrr. :-(

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Monday, 23 October 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

Wow. My boss just bought me a little bar of Green and Blacks 70% chocolate.

That was really sweet of her!

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Monday, 23 October 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

haha i just realised i have seen the strange death of liberal england before! def wanna go tomorrow.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

But... but... Hilton Betegeuse will be there. :-(

If I go anywhere, I'm going to Engineers. But I'm thinking more and more that I need a break tomorrow as it's looking like I'm out the rest of the week.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

Hello all.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

Hi, Kerr.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

How is everyone? Got any good music on the go?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

Still listening to the Early Years.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

Wow it wasn't Kate who revived the Ride thread on ILM.
Does Louis not post on the watercooler anymore?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Hari has an ep coming out! Robotville feat. Cadence Weapon - Kick Out The Snow

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 23 October 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

Yesterday morning I was in a good mood. But it's been all downhill since then. Sigh. I think I will listen to my iPod today.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 06:17 (nineteen years ago)

Bloody hell, I'm sleepy this morning.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 07:14 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah me too; need coffee now.

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

I could use a donut, actually.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 08:53 (nineteen years ago)

Hi all. I did yoga for the first time last night, and today everything hurts! My ipod is set to Cheese (the last 3 songs were Dub Be Good to Me, Where are you Baby and Groove is in teh heart) which is making me bouncy and beamy.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

I swear that said "My ipod is set to Chinese" and then magically switched.

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 09:22 (nineteen years ago)

I am also tired and sleepy. Could not get out of bed this morning. I think I might still be there if the man hadn't come to read the gas meter.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 09:24 (nineteen years ago)

Add another name to the tired list. Although my B vitamins and dried apricots for iron seem to be helping a bit.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

Finally took up my proper gym membership this morning and was disturbed by the treadmill machines with built-in idiot box showing three types of ITV. Barf. I swear I'd rather listen to KISS FM.

Kate, what's going on that's fun this week? Wish to redeem my rain check before going to Luxembourg.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 09:52 (nineteen years ago)

When do you go to the Lux? Thurs or Fri good for me. You've probably already seen it, but I really want to see Marie Antoinette. I'm in the mood for fluffy ear candy.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 09:55 (nineteen years ago)

I think I'm going on Monday for what promises to be a rivetting tour of about-to-be-renovated art spaces dotted throughout the principality. Thursday therefor good for teh Marie Antoinette.

Have to say, though, if ever forced to interview Coppolette herself would have to brazen iit out by finding something other than the benefits of having a director for a daddy to discuss. Which would be the part when I'd 'have to confess' that I hated all Mafia movies including those made by him.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

Well, it's a good thing, then, that we are just going to see the movie and maybe have a cocktail afterwards - and no interviewing of anyone will be involved. :-)

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, come on. It's pretty people flouncing about in frock coats and wigs while The Cure and Adam and the Ants plays. If I wanted depth, I'd put on Dangerous Liasons without the sound and blast 17 Seconds or Faith. But I just want fluff and a giant fluffernutter sammich of brocade is what we shall have.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 10:10 (nineteen years ago)

Please to not forget the Manolo Blahniks made for the film that Sofia sort of can't stop mentioning she was allowed to keep, as if keeping costume bits was somehow unusual for people working on a film to do. Soundtrack may very possibly be the best thing about it, which is fine.

As to COCKTAILS I think the film is on near Freud.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 10:16 (nineteen years ago)

Did anyone click that link and listen to Hari's song from his ep thats coming out?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

I can't be doing with ILM. It makes me feel sick. :-(

Argh, the Database is down. WTF am I even doing here then? Actually, it might have been me that crashed it. There's this horrible report that is so complex with subreports that it crashes the system. So I had to change it to make it not crash the system.

So now they're all "can you change it so we don't have to cut and paste when we download it?" and it's like NO!! What part of "that was what was crashing your system do you not understand?" Because they can't figure out how to do a simple vlookup? Argh.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

Heres the direct link then http://www.myspace.com/robotville

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

Will today never end?

I feel like my head is going to explode with boredom.

Didn't I write that yesterday? It just shows how little my life changes from day to day.

Is this what all jobs are like? Just crushing boredom and slowly decaying your brain from the inside out?

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

I tried to buy The Wire and wh smiths have cut back about 70% of their music mags in my store. Don't know if they're just late getting it in or if they're not gonna stock it. Only shop in my town that stocks it as well.
I also notice they have no copies of plan b on sale. Yet they have a couple of new magazines for sale.

Bring back John Menzies!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

Is this what all jobs are like? Just crushing boredom and slowly decaying your brain from the inside out?

yes

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, where _do_ you go to get a copy of Plan B? I wandered all the way over to WH Smiths on Oxford St (okay, on the awy to HMV) and no luck.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

Why don't you order it/them?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

Because I sometimes get it for free.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

You have reminded me I need to write up my review of Om for an upcoming issue. (Hello all.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

(xpost) Bah, I thought it didn't post that. That's why I don't get a subscription, though it's an excellent suggestion for filling in gaps.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

I was more talking to Kerr who doesn't have a large metropolis of London shops at his disposal - it's unlikely that small-town provincial WH Smiths are going to stock stuff they aren't going to sell, so you have to make them aware you want it then they'll keep it in stock for you.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

(I am well aware that metropolis is the wrong word there. I had several difference sentences in my head there, but somehow still didn't manage to come up with one that made sense)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

i think you used to be able to get plan b in hmv, dunno if you still can. if not, borders.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

I always order Plan B from the website. I just mentioned that Smiths didnt seem to be stocking it anymore because Kate writes for it.

I was more complaining about The Wire. If they don't stock it anymore then yes I will have to get them to order it in. Fingers crossed however that they will still stock it. I'm sure it sells pretty well in there as i've been getting it from there since about 1995 and they were certainly selling it before that. They wouldn't sell it for that long if it didn't sell i'm sure.
Plan B however may not sell too well with it being new to them. That however is probably something more for DJ Martian hehe.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

I just mentioned that Smiths didnt seem to be stocking it anymore because Kate writes for it.

That's a terrible reason not to stock it. Poor Kate :-)

(seriously, that's why I said "it/them", because I didn't know which one you meant. Shops do change their stock policy from time to time - maybe all the other Wire readers have moved on and you're the only one buying it, and only occasionally,so it's not worth getting it in especially. Or maybe it's so popular it sold out before you got there. Who knows? Actually, who cares? I was just making a helpful suggestion)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

hahahaha

(I buy it every month and it does always seem to sell well, especially compared to lots of other magazines that are stocked. I'll check back in a couple of days and hopefully they will have it.)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

PLAN B Stockists
(This list is not comprehensive: if there are any shops that should be on this list, or if you would like to stock the magazine, email Chris Houghton)

In the UK, Plan B is distributed by Warners Group Distribution Services (WH Smiths, Newsagents, Borders, HMV, Virgin Megastores, Worldwide) and Cargo Records (record shops).

NEW - WH SMITH STORES
Aberdeen St Nicholls
Argyle Street
Aylesbury
Banbury
Bedford
Belfast
Bexleyheath
Birkenhead
Birmingham Union Street (smaller store)
Birmingham Union Street
Bluewater Park
Bournemouth
Bradford Kirkgate
Braehead
Brent Cross
Brighton
Bristol Galleries
Bromley
Cambridge
Canterbury
Cardiff
Chatham
Chelmsford
Cheltenham High
Chester
Chesterfield
Colchester
Crawley
Cribbs Causeway
Croydon
Cwmbran
Ealing
East Kilbride
Eastbourne
Epsom
Exeter
Fareham
Gateshead Metro
Grimsby
Guildford
Hamilton
Hammersmith
Hanley
Harrow
Havant
Hemel Hempstead
Hertford Hertford
High Wycombe High Wycombe
Holborn Circus
Huddersfield
Hull
Ilford
Kings Lynn
Kingston Upon Thames
Kirkcaldy
Leamington Spa
Leeds
Leicester Gallowtree
Lewisham
Lincoln
Liverpool
Luton Luton
Maidenhead
Maidstone
Manchester Arndale
Mansfield
Meadowhall
Merry Hill
Middlesbrough
Milton Keynes
Monks Cross
Newcastle
Newport Gwent
Northampton
Norwich Gentleman Walk
Nottingham Listergate
Nottingham Victoria
Orpington
Oxford
Perth
Peterborough
Plymouth
Portsmouth
Reading
Redditch
Rochdale
Romford
Salisbury
Sauchiehall St Glasgow
Shrewsbury Slough
Southend
Staines
Stockport Sutton Coldfield
Sutton
Swansea
Swindon
Taunton
Telford
Thurrock
Trafford Park
Uxbridge
Watford Harlequin
Weymouth
Woking
Wolverhampton
Wood Green
York

BRIGHTON
Get Cutie, 33 Kensington Gardens
Immediate
Rounder Records, 19 Brighton Square

BRISTOL
Here Shop, 108b Stokes Croft

EXETER
The Cavern, 83-84 Queen St
King Ludd Books, New Bridge Street
Milk, Fore Street
Solo Records, Guildhall Shopping Centre

GLASGOW
Monorail, 12 Kings Court, G1 5RB

LIVERPOOL
Probe Records, Slater Street

LONDON
ICA
Phonica, Poland St
Rough Trade, Covent Garden
Rough Trade, Ladbroke Grove
Sister Ray, Berwick St
MANCHESTER
Piccadilly Records, 54 Oldham Street

NOTTINGHAM
Selectadisc, 19/21 Market St

PORTSMOUTH
Boomhound Records, 137 Albert Road, Southsea

SHEFFIELD
Forever Changes: 6 Hickmott Road
Record Collector: 233-235 Fulwood Road
Rare and Racy: 164-166 Devonshire Street
Jacks Records: Unit 1, Aberdeen Court, 95-97 Division Street

HMV
Aberdeen
Avon House - Oxford Street
Basingstoke
Bath
Blackpool
Bluewater
Bullring - Birmingham
Canterbury
Cardiff
Chelmsford
Chester
Churchill Square - Brighton
Covent Garden
Donegall - Belfast
Dudley
Gateshead
Harrow
Inverness
Ipswich
Kingston
Leeds - Headrow Centre
Leicester
Luton
Manchester 90 Market Street
Newcastle
Northampton
Nottingham Victoria
Oracle Centre - Reading
Oxford
Pallasades - Birmingham
Perth
Plymouth
Princes Street - Edinburgh
Sheffield - High Street
Southampton
Watford

VIRGIN MEGASTORE
Aberdeen
Argyle Street Glasgow
Basingstoke
Belfast
Bluewater
Bournemouth
Bradford
Brighton
Bristol
Bromley
Buchanan Street Glasgow
Camberley
Cambridge
Camden
Canterbury
Cardiff
Carlisle
Cheltenham
Chester
Colchester
Coventry
Crawley
Crewe
Cribbs Causeway
Croydon
Denton
Derry
Dundee
East Kilbride
Edinburgh
Exeter
Falkirk
Fulham
Glasgow Fort
Grimsby
Harlow
Hastings
Hull
Ipswich
Kensington
Kings Road London
Leeds
Leicester
Liverpool
Loughborough
Merryhill
Middlesbrough
Milton Keynes
Newcastle
Newry
Newtonabbey
Northampton
Norwich
Nottingham
Oxford
Oxford Street London
Pavillions Birmingham
Perth
Peterborough
Plymouth
Portsmouth
Romford
Salisbury
Sheffield
Shrewsbury
Southampton
Southend
Stevenage
Stirling
Sutton
Swindon
Taunton
Telford
Trafford Park
Walsall
Watford
Woking
York
Virgin Entertainment Store - Piccadilly

BORDERS
Beckton
Birmingham
Bournemouth
Brighton
Cambridge
Charing Cross
Edinburgh Kinnaird
Ellsmere Port C/Oaks
Glasgow
Inverness
Islington, London
Kingston
Leeds
Leicester
Oxford
Oxford Street, London
Speke
Stockport
Swansea
Swindon
Watford
West Thurock
York

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

I will look in my local WH Smiths (it's on the list) and slap them if I can't find it.

I've only seen it in Borders, York; and Avalanche Records, Glasgow.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

Well my town is on it so I shall look out. However I just order it from the site anyway.

Last FM has a beta site for subscribers and one of the new features is a compatability rating for each person you visit. Everyone will get this new feature soon enough after testing is finished.
Here is what it said for Forest Pines

Taste-o-meter
Your musical compatibility rating with forestpines is:
Very Low
You share 17 artists in common, including Mastodon, and Paik.

and Mitya
Your musical compatibility rating with Mitya is:
Low
You share 46 artists in common, including Boards of Canada, The Velvet Underground, and Hüsker Dü.

FP the Mastodon fan!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

Who the hell is H?D? (Husker Du?)

I bet FP and I are compatible.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 04:37 (nineteen years ago)

Well you know the only reason I listen to Mastodon - someone sending me MP3s!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 06:55 (nineteen years ago)

marianna martian

― -- (688), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 07:02 (nineteen years ago)

DJ Marianna Martian.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 10:09 (nineteen years ago)

Mitya , you subscribe so just go to http://beta.last.fm/user/forestpines
and http://beta.last.fm/user/gsdali (for Ed) and see if they're compatible.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

It's not bad enough I have to sit up all night trying to finish my Plan B articles before the deadline, but I come back and this is now the Plan B thread? take it to their message board or I'll... I'll... post lugubrious photos of AMPy with Owen Pallett. Phwoar.

http://static.flickr.com/114/278672136_3aae561352.jpg

I think there might be a band catfight over Owen, but we'll just have to share. Sigh. (God, I hope he doesn't read ILE as well as ILM or I am in trouble.)

Today is not my day. Went to the doctor, only to be told that he is "off sick" - no one rang me. They claimed they did "but couldn't get an answer". Dudes, there are no missed calls on my mobile! Liar. Had to reschedule for Monday.

Got caught in a downpour walking home. Then got on a train, which got delayed by "signal problems" which kept moving from Blackfriars to City Thameslink depending on what station we were at. (There were men dressed like Ed in the tunnels between City and Farringdon so that might be it.) So it stopped for ten, fifteen minutes at every bloody station. And I've only just got in. :-(

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, never mind, AMPy can have Owen. This is my future husband:

http://photo.rukes.com/avalon70/slides/avalon70%20020.jpg

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

You never told me that 'They came from the stars I saw them' was an early 21st century style german jazz house act.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

They are? they didn't used to be. They could be bloody anything by now.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

The crowd don't seem too impressed by him (xxpost)

― The sun sets on twelve tons of pickled onions. A dynasty is dying... (Dada), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

Could be japanese jazz house as well. I don't think they or anyone in the audience realises how they sound like early Jazzanova Compost recordings (few extra wibbly bits, no imposed four to the floor). I quite liked them though (I have aforementioned early JCR recording and like those too).

TSDOLE were great again and I had a brief chat with the drummer as I was leaving. They make me so happy.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

I think I have caught the cold :( Not been feeling so great since last night.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 10:37 (nineteen years ago)

That crowd are so totally STONED I'm surprised they can even stand up.

Sorry to hear yer ill, Kerr. Eat garlic. That scares off colds.

When I was hanging around with Hilton Betegeuse, he was all into Krautrock and drone but then again, he was an E dealer for so long, the house thing doesn't surprise me.

I would like to see TSDOLE again, I was trying to write a review of them last night and couldn't quite capture them.

Bah - Sonik Kathedrals are having their big Krautrock night, but it's the SAME NIGHT as the next Shimura Curves gig, (2nd November) so I'm quite upset I can't go. But whatcha gonna do?

At least it's payday today.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

Many were sitting down on the floor in front of the stage.

TSDOLE are on at the dublin castle on the 28th. They were slightly hampered by the smaller stage at the Luminaire which would have been fine apart from the last act's drumkit being on stage as well as the one that TCFTSIST and TSDOLE were using.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

Bah - Sonik Kathedrals are having their big Krautrock night

What do people do, dance?

― The sun sets on twelve tons of pickled onions. A dynasty is dying... (Dada), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

Flop their fringes around and stare at their shoes - what else does one do at Sonic Cathedrals?

Dublin Castle's stage is even smaller than the Luminaire's!

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 10:47 (nineteen years ago)

What do people do, dance?

How do you dance to krautrock?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 10:50 (nineteen years ago)

How do you dance to any other kind of music?

You sway your hips and you move your arms and legs in time with the beat, occasionally jumping up and down. I would have thought it was obvious.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

There's shitloads of danceable Krautrock!

― The sun sets on twelve tons of pickled onions. A dynasty is dying... (Dada), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, they just usually play it at Kosmische, and everybody dances. Sonic Kathedrals is going all Krautrock for one evening because Damo Suzuki is playing.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway, don't go to that! Go see Shimura Curves instead! Bah!

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

But if you insist...

http://static.flickr.com/80/273753853_cdbc351577.jpg

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

Will Malcolm Mooney be at your gig? I haven't seen you lot yet...

― The sun sets on twelve tons of pickled onions. A dynasty is dying... (Dada), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 10:57 (nineteen years ago)

If you hear a Scottish voice heckling you then you know he has seen you.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

Sonic Kathedral: We kicked G00blar clear across the street.

I love the dude just below-right Benjamin's guitar.

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

I have a feeling it will be possible to go to both GIG which has earlier-closing doors and then on to SK for all hardcore ümläüt action as it seems to be open later than gig venue.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

I don't have a fringe to flop and my shoes aren't interesting enough to stare at

― The sun sets on twelve tons of pickled onions. A dynasty is dying... (Dada), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

Well, maybe if I weren't carrying a load of gear across town. That's always the problem with gig-hopping after yer own gig.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

What do shoegazers do when they get older? Flop their comb-overs?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

What do shoegazers do when they get older? Flop their comb-overs?

Hi dere :(

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

Same thing the metalheads do, I guess, Kerr.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

Hi dere!

http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2003-09-04/music_feature5-1.jpg

― Not All Aging Shoegazers Go Bald (kate), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

Not another photo of Ned Raggett, Jeez!

― The sun sets on twelve tons of pickled onions. A dynasty is dying... (Dada), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

I would imagine the metalheads and shoegazers clubs have lots of wigs on the floor then.
*Imagines all the shoegazers and metalheads dancing round their wigs while the ladies dance around the handbags*

Do shoegazing ladies dance around their pedals?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

Have you never actually seen anyone dancing, ever?

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

Can I just say that people are evil, people burn you, and if any of you ever think I look like I'm getting close to anyone ever again, to slap me and tell me to stop it.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 26 October 2006 07:54 (nineteen years ago)

Mate, I've always said that that's true. A rock feels no pain and an island never cries, and all that jazz.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 26 October 2006 08:18 (nineteen years ago)

Johnny, I think you should get yourself down to a folk club, all the girls were too clean for me, no 'hundred years of soot underneath that dress' last night but right up your alley I think.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 26 October 2006 08:20 (nineteen years ago)

It might be different round your way, but every folk club I've been to round here is populated with stereotypical old men with beers and banjos and a pint of mild. Good fun, but not exactly packed with totty. As opposed to WOMAD, where I couldn't leave the camp site without there being hot fun girls everywhere.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 26 October 2006 08:35 (nineteen years ago)

You need to come and visit on a day the magpie's nest is going. I think you'd got weak at the knees. Especially at the last band I think.

http://www.thedevilsinterval.co.uk/

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 26 October 2006 08:39 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yes, JB would like the Devils Interval indeed, they'd get his socks off. Even they seemed surprised by how *young* the Magspies Nest audience is. But really... it's because folksongs are *filthy*! Where else can you hear such great medieval terms for smut?

God, there were cute boys there, too. It was a bit disorienting.

FP, some people are evil. Not all of them. However, that is generally why it's so advisable not to leap too quickly into relationships, not to get all emotionally engaged before you have some kind of depth sounding as to the reliability and trustworthiness of the relationship. If you go to the beach, do you go straight to a cliff and dive in, let yourself be carried off by the current then moan "water is EVIL!!!" when you find yourself drowned? Or do you paddle in slowly, get used to the water, try to find your depth and watch out for the tide? Be *careful* sweetie, that's all I'm saying.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Thursday, 26 October 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

Kate, YHM about tonight and am hoping you'll be able to join me at the Al3x J@m3s Bar at say 5.30/45 for a 6.10 show.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 26 October 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

I ordered the album last night and also discovered a couple of other young folkies last night with good tunes on their myspaces:

http://www.myspace.com/askewsisters
http://www.myspace.com/shonakiplinganddamienokane

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 26 October 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

I must say I was very impressed by the song about where the 6 dead incest babies (aborted?)were buried was magnificent in its brutality.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 26 October 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, I asked for a quite high body count, and we certainly got one.

Anyway, here's a pile of TSM boys:
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e68/LennonWoreChucks2/Pic%20Stash/72258767.jpg

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Thursday, 26 October 2006 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

all the girls were too clean for me, no 'hundred years of soot underneath that dress'

Ed, do you find yourself strangely attracted to railway tunnels? ;-)

Thanks, Kate. I just wish all the mutual acquaintances who are saying "yeah she's a bit mad, we wondered what you were doing," had warned me off beforehand. And that I'd listened to the one friend who did do that.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 26 October 2006 09:52 (nineteen years ago)

Ed, do you remember the name of the bloke who did that song about the "hundred years of filth beneath her finery"? That's the problem with open mic nights - you never really get to find out who you're listening to.

Suzy, cocktails will have to wait until after the film, coz I'm sneaking out early to meet you.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Thursday, 26 October 2006 09:56 (nineteen years ago)

No, but I will email Joe later on and find out, also about the room and sound system.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 26 October 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

Joe is the cuet one, yes?

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Thursday, 26 October 2006 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

It is time:

UK Watercooler N-N-N-N-Nineteen: Purple heart Saigon

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Thursday, 26 October 2006 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

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