Watercooler Sub Zero: Ice Capades

So, sandbox again! Did you all see that cuffufle on the other thread? I hate it when ILX starts arguing with itself, it all seems so undignified.

yeah, seriously. the spanish trapezist got threatened by a guy trying to hit her with an iron bar through his car window while she was cycling up cambridge heath rd the other day. must be cameras *everywhere* but obv the police aren't interested as she wasn't hurt or killed. not even a crime ref number. it really sounds like it might be worth chasing the insurance co - and apart from anything else, this fucker is going to keep driving like that if no one stops him, and who says the people in the next car he broadsides will be so lucky?

Emsk wasn't able to make it along with her nummy pancakes she told me that she was cooking in a txt I got from her

omg they were SO GOOD (ARE so good, there are lots in the fridge if anyone wants to pop round). they are these - http://www.astray.com/recipes/?show=Parsnip-potato%20pancakes

Larrikin Love. Were they good, Emsk?

larrikin love were actually a lot of fun. it was a proper Kids' Gig, y'know, everyone chucks their beer in the air when the band come on (we were safe up on the first balcony, phew), they crowdsurf at the mere sight of an electric guitar, the band come on in cheesy outfits for their last encore. but yeah, i liked them. i liked how they started out like a gypsy band then turned into a samba band at the end. i like that they have a violin and a cello but use them to make this raggedy noise, and i like their stage props: two goats, a hawk and a shark. tiny dancers, on the other hand, who were supporting, were appalling.

And I'm still having a lot of trouble getting used to my new prescription. Things far away look GRATE, super clear and crisp and almost disconsertingly so (like in those "objects in mirror may be closer than they appear" mirrors) but close up I am having a lot of trouble focusing mine eyes on the same thing, and when I do, even flat things look kind of 3-dimensional like mine eyes are doing those magic things that Emsk loves.

Got a lot of reading done yesterday, though. Finally finished "The Gentleman's Daughter", which was delightful. A good balance between academic theory and characterisation - these 18th Century womens' personalities really shone through. And got about halfway through Alain de Botton's "The Architecture of Happiness" which is just Katepr0n from end to end as I knew it would be.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6356521.stm

It had me a little WTF?

I tried listening to Clipse on the tube today to try to rectify my mood, but it just made me feel more tense. Back to the new sloan then, which sort of did the trick (not quite all the way, tho).

I should have stuck with the Elizabethan Secret Service but it's oddly dry and academic for what should be an utterly intriguing (ha ha) subject.

New Sloan functions as topical anti-depressant. it is great that way.

Things I'd forgotten I had, even though I didn't buy them too long ago. It's funny the things that wear off. (Nathan Fake, Appliance) and the things that don't. (Espers, the Dandy Warhols)

I think that Welcome to the Monkey House is my ultimate musical anti-depressant. There is no way to be miserable listening to that album. Also, god, I had forgotten how much I shamelessly ripped off this album for early Shimuras stuff.

WOO-WOO! yeah. I am a scientist. I CAN LIVE ON SCIENCE ALONE-UH!!!

Where do all the hott single people go on Valentine's night?

Oh wait, no, that's just me. ;-)

(insert your own comments about there being no universe where I would be considered hott.)

Welcome to the Monkey House is my ultimate musical anti-depressant. There is no way to be miserable listening to that album

oh god, that album totally makes me miserable. because it is so BORING!

vd pubcrawl is being altered as nobody's prawn and i are both too skint. to go pubcrawling. eh h, what are plans now?

Or I might just buy loads of roses and give them out to single people in town. Maybe put my phone number round it. That could work!

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Anyway, he's not for you, Emsk, he's shagging Courtney Love now. Or was at least.

he totally looks like he's trying to be andy 80smbd there: http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=tbn:zo1rbJWADTA-UM:http://www.illustrationweb.com/artist_pages/artist_images/artist_91/eighties_matchbox_b_line_disaster_andy.jpg

Anyway, what am I doing mucking about on teh web? I should be ripping MP3s for Ver Payne SisX0rs.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/173/374920193_741d339d42.jpg

OK, just remember NO SHARING, Emsk, these are embargoed until they are properly mixed.

You impertinent engineer!

Damn, listening to MP3s at work is making me realise all the stupid P's and B's I did not manage to edit out. MUST. USE. POP. SHIELD.

I always do now, but forgot to in the last sessions, and had to edit them all out by hand, which was PAINSTAKING.