Watercooler Sub Zero: Ice Capades

True, but I don't have to think so hard about that.

Honestly, Ed, no scales, no chords. Maybe very limited movement in songs like Noyfriend that have a principle chord and a modulation (that is the G to F natural one) but mostly drone.

I chose all the songs for this set because they are songs that have a very strong drone element - a single note that goes through the whole song. Because I wanted Frances to do super-wubbulation on those notes on the Silver Machine.

OK, let's see.

Or is it like your version of the noize board where you bitch about non-Watercooler people you don't like but where you don't actually put it on the board?

I'm making no progress here, I should go home. :-(

usually if i feel like this i can play with teh baby for half an hour and feel ok again. but teh baby is in teh brazil. I WANT A CAT! *stamps feet*

The nidiots asked to have all inactive employees removed from the report - so that's why it's not balancing with the other report. Ha ha! I can go back and say it's coz they're Nidiots, not coz the report is wrong.

I would like to make it clear that I have nothing to add here.

Argh, what a day. Got up only to have my power go out at 9am - luckily just before I'd got in the shower, not during. I knew I should have got up when the rubbish was collected. So I've had no shower, no tea and err, I still missed the 9.33 train by 30 seconds. Bah! It's ALWAYS late. The one I ended up getting on was 5 minutes late. It SAID on the announcement board that it was going to arrive at 9.35 but at 9:33:30 when I arrived on the platform, it was pulling out. BASTARDS!!!

How is everyone's VD going? Stupid VD.

Have just booked ANOTHER Shimuras gig for April. Blimey. AMP suggested getting yet another of her sisters to play with us. No, there is only SO MUCH PAYNE I can handle.

What are you doing, FP, getting stretched on a pink heart-shaped rack for VD? ;-)

Look, Gooblar, you've got your hott brothers, I've got my hott sisters, but there are very few puns you can make about inclement bandmates, are there?

wait, must stop this.

also I have just been called by a head-hunter.

Head hunter? Ooh, exciting - what kind of tribe are they representing?

I used to get scared when head-hunters called my dad. I did not understand it was just an expression. Too many stories my mum told me about head hunters and witch doctors while growing up in Africa.

Head hunters for the broadcast tribe, representing one of the spun off bits of a monolithic broadcasting corporation.

Everything cooked on a big open fire? Aren't there EU Elf directives against that sort of thing?

I am wearing the other glasses today, and they are TERRIBLE for my peripheral vision. It really annoys me. They have these huge chunky legs blocking out half my vision, and also the glasses do not go all the way to the edge of the frame in some weird kind of architectural thing (I hope they're supposed to be like that, and they didn't just run out of glass) so the edges of my vision are all blurry.

xpost kate you'll get used to it, i have 2 pairs with the arm vision blocking things and it was bloody annoying when cycling in them at first bc when looking over my shoulder to check for traffic they were *exactly* in the way. but you just get used to it, and turn your head further.

Argh, I may get different glasses next paycheck, because although these look great, it is bloody annoying. My head just doesn't turn that far, I have constant problems with my neck. Also, I may need an extra pair of reading glasses, as these are just too strong.

Affluenza... oh dear, that's the problem of the moment, isn't it? Another word for middle class angst? I read Alain de Botton on Status Anxiety, but that's about as far as I go. Maybe I will go and read the Guardian article, but these things tend to kind of wind me up!

CV request? that sounds promising.

It's just a bit embarrassing that she always sends these things to work.

I've heard "affluenza" before - it's just one of those buzzwords. Like I said, De Botton was talking about it in Status Anxiety, which *is* a very good, thoughtful, well written book.

Damn, I am now covered in little bits of fluff and corgi hair.

I think there's more to it than that. Apparently, it's sgnificantly worse in English speaking societies (i.e. free market societies)