Watercooler Sub Zero: Ice Capades

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Oh, videos, why to crash Kate's web browsers?

masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Oooh, Kate, kitchen appliances reminds me. All joking aside, how much do you want for that food processor? I really do want to buy one, and yours seems half decent, and if you don't use it I'll be glad to take it off your hands.

I'm loving that second giant squid video, absolutely awesome.

Johnney B's got a system (stigoftdumpilx), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Errr... I don't know! How much do you think you should pay for a food processor?

Problem is, if I sold it to you, I'd have to buy an actual table to keep my sounddesk on.

masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I like the first of those 2 squid clips the best, they're both pretty amazing though.

Norman Phay (Pashmina), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

It was that "You are What you Eat" food processor, wasn't it? It seems to be online for about £40. So about that, I guess. Is that cool? I could pick it up next time I'm round your way. (This might also propel me into remembering your autoharp, although I'm sure you've stopped caring by now.)

Johnney B's got a system (stigoftdumpilx), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha ha, I'd have probably let you have it for a £20 if you'd have come and got it. But I should go to Oxfam and find a low table for my mixer and you can pay me what that costs.

masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I think you spelled 'miXor' wrong.

YAY for promoters contacting US about gigs, rather than the other way around!

g000blar (g00blar), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Has that started happening to you? Cool! I like it when that happens.

masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Yep. It opens up a whole new can of worms (oh noes! all these dates/obligations to keep straight in my head!), but that's a whole lot better than the old can, which essentially amounted to: "Please, please, please, let us play!"

g000blar (g00blar), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

It gets easier - well, actually I'm not sure. We got overwhelmed and ended up booking too many gigs too close together which made us miserable and nearly broke up the band (before we did actually break up).

But once you've got a certain reputation and a certain track record, it's nice when people start approaching you because you realise that in some ways, you've proved yourself.

masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Shyness is nice, and shyness can stop you, from doing all the things in life you'd like to.

Thanks, Emsk, I've got the Smiths stuck in my head now.

masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link

This months Plan B has a live review of someone called Ebony Bones from LSE Quad, London.
And it has the following :
Shimura Curves have already swished and swooshed their pretty velvet-edged electro pop , perverting skinny boys to perform hand-jives and hip rotations across their decorous stage.

Gooblar?

pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link

WTF? Who wrote that? How can there be a Plan B journalist who has NOT been in Shimura Curves?!??! Who is it?!? Find them! Recruit them! We need a sousaphone player!

(Is there more? I'll be jealous if the review is more about Gooblar than about US)

Ebony Bones are very good. Have we seen them again?

masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link

- boo! -

* poof *

substitute, mitya for him (mitya), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Mitya!!!

Come back!

masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/110/314157182_f15ddb5447.jpg

Aaaah, good times. We should do that again. Except I'm not talking to Jim or Jim isn't talking to me, I can't remember which way around it is every time I think I remember it changes if I talk to him, he snubs me, or if he talks to me, I think he's not talking to me so I snub him. It's all too confusing.

I have ONE THING I have to do before I leave and I just cannot bring myself to do it. THis is so stupid. I'm just transfixed by ILX carcrash action.

masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link

We should go and see them again, they are playing at the 333 on friday or saturday, but I am in sheffield.

Ed (dali), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link

They play too damn much! They play, like, every single night. So there is never a point to going to see them, because you could always see them on a different night. If they would play once a month of something, I would make more of an effort to actually see them.

They are too hardworking for indie.

masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link

there is never a point to going to see them, because you could always see them on a different night.

OTM. I am always thinking I should go see 'em again, but yeah, why this time?

I didn't need to be "perverted" into "performing" my hand-jives and hip-rotations!

g000blar (g00blar), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Come round whenever (although give me a chance to tidy up a little)

ok, i am waiting for spanish trapezist's stuff to be done in washing machine then after i've taken it out i will leave the house.

emsk ( emsk ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I am leaving in t minus two minutes.

I have just realised that I cannot do this ONE THING that I have been needing to do before I go, as the critical bit - what DATE it should be filtered on - has been omitted from my brief.

Ah, t minus one minute now.

masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Tomorrow I swear to god I am not going to muck about on ILX at all, and I am going to work like a dog all day long, I swear to god I am.

masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Nah that was all that was mentioned. It was just a live review of Ebony Bones by Hannah Gregory.

pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 18:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh the opening was
Tonight is dance night. Dance as in 'Agadoo' routines, Macarena wrist shakes and can-can knees.
Shimura Curves have already swished and swooshed their pretty velvet-edged electro pop , perverting skinny boys to perform hand-jives and hip rotations across their decorous stage.

pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Whoops, I missed all the "HI DERE NED" comments from yesterday. Hello again all! Three weeks from now I'll be posting on this thread from Andrew's flat going "Wait, I'm in London."

Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 18:46 (seventeen years ago) link

HI DERE NED

wait, it's 2.30am

emsk ( emsk ), Thursday, 15 February 2007 02:23 (seventeen years ago) link

HI DERE NED!!!

Wait, I'm in the office.

I feel very fuzzy this morning. Ed and Emsk got me drunk and tried to demonstrate this "comedy" thing that they have here in the icen forests of Clerkenwell.

I liked Bill Bailey's fake prog song, that was hilarious. And I think I might have to fall into the Mighty Boosh Crush Fold. Apocalyptic grannies and fake Funkadelic wandering the desert in "it's not a dress, they're the robes of a psychedelic monk!" gear. I like.

Now I am going to have some coffee. Or some lemsip. Or maybe both. I'm not sure in which order.

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:28 (seventeen years ago) link

URRGH

Ed (dali), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:32 (seventeen years ago) link

It's your own fault, you bad mang.

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I just watched the clip of Joss Stone on the brits last night, WTF at her fake accent?

Norman Phay (Pashmina), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I've only seen pictures in other people's papers this morning. She scares me. I would probably wear her dress as a shirt, tho.

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:38 (seventeen years ago) link

It is a lovely pattern. But that is not a dress. It is barely even a shirt.

What is wrong with the eyebrows of the bloke next to her?

x-post now THAT is an outfit. I used to dress like that in 1991 or so.

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Ohmigod, what a great shirt:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/mightyboosh/images/wallpaper/640/boosh3.jpg

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I just wanted to say thanks to various watercooler folks who offered advice and supportive thoughts at the end of last week. I have emailed various folks but also wanted to thank Norman, emsk, G00blar, Ed and JB. I hope I haven't forgotten anyone.

Dr.C (Dr.C), Thursday, 15 February 2007 11:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry for awful awful bad form, but I'm sorry, I wasn't around at the end of last week. Is everything OK? I mean, obviously not if supportive thoughts are needed.

Please pardon my ignorance. I'll email if it's private.

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 15 February 2007 11:05 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, it doesn't look like we're leaving this place any time soon:

UK Watercooler Whatever: Searching For The New Sound

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 15 February 2007 11:24 (seventeen years ago) link


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