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Bloody pissing it down this morning, it was.

Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 11 December 2006 09:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Very stormy here again overnight.

pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 11 December 2006 10:00 (seventeen years ago) link

We had an awful storm here at ten to eight, just before I left for work.

Kerr, did you notice I'd been looking at your last.fm page this week?

Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 11 December 2006 10:18 (seventeen years ago) link

morning! lovely weekend full of rarely-seen friends. have some kind of lurgee. don't care.

emsk ( emsk ), Monday, 11 December 2006 10:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Let's recap the morning so far.
1. No hot water in shower.
2. Pissing rain, heavy winds.
3. The next westbound circle line train is due to arrive in 19 minutes
4. Wait in the rain and wind for 19 minutes for the 205.
5. Arrive at college with 2 minutes to read student's essay.
6. Bullshit my way through tutorial, stomach growling from hunger.

g000blar (g00blar), Monday, 11 December 2006 11:14 (seventeen years ago) link

FP, yeah i noticed you had visited a couple of times. Are B&S or Stereolab your top artist this week?
Actually I've forgotten to check the past couple of weeks who is top of watercooler charts.

pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 11 December 2006 11:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Awwww, sorry that's all so rub, Gooblar. But just remember YOU'RE A ROCK N ROLL STAR and then it's all alright.

I had a good weekend. Lots of much-needed and well-deserved REST.

Stayed in on Friday night, ate stir fryed tofu in ginger sauce with boiled rice (I don't know why I've never been to the CHinese restaurant at the top of my street - it's REALLY GOOD) and slept.

Saturday I caught up on loads of stupid shopping I've needed to do for ages. Cleaned the flat, unblocked the plughole in the tub, all that kind of thing. And then went out to see the fabulous Gooblar Band who get better each time I see them. Talked wonderful gobshite with G and PBW all night (managed to get in an argument with PBW about folk music) and in bed by 10.

Sunday I slept. Felt bad about not making Sinker's party, but I just needed to rest. I slept and I read and pottered about and made mine own ginger stirfry (ginger is the magic food that makes my stomach better) and then mucked about on the 'puter and wrote a brand new song! I think this may be the duet I've been threatening. It's called Meet Market

masonic boom (kate), Monday, 11 December 2006 11:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Awesome. Single cover:

http://www.ottomanellimeats.com/ottom/images/ottomhome.jpg

g000blar (g00blar), Monday, 11 December 2006 11:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Dibs on the tall dude in the middle!

masonic boom (kate), Monday, 11 December 2006 11:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Weather is ok here, but I drove my guitarist friend down to his parents' place w/all his gear yesterday b/c he got evicted last week. His parents live near York, next to the swale, and it ahd obv been super-heavy there, all the fields were flooded and the river was up to the top of its banks.

Ginger stir fry sounds pretty damn fine to me.

Shower stopped working last night, just as I finished washing Adam's hair. I have to phone the manufacturer helpline, suss out what's wrong, and fix it. Tiresome as the water will have to be turned off.

other than that, shit is OK, I suppose.

Norman Phay (Pashmina), Monday, 11 December 2006 11:26 (seventeen years ago) link

And I just looked at the sign-up sheet for next term, and no one wants to take my mini-course of seminars :(

Fcking first-years, preferring Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Joyce to Nathanael West and Carson McCullers.

g000blar (g00blar), Monday, 11 December 2006 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link

What is going on with The North? Apparently it's crazy arctic winter flooding up there. While it's still summer down in London. I was walking around in a t-shirt yesterday. A t-shirt! Outside! In December!

Shower not working = utter rub.

I have discovered the secret to ginger stir-fry, which is shred it up nice and fine and then fry it up with the onions and build your sauce off that - soy sauce, honey, bit of mustard, etc.

Interesting things you can do outdoors... rock collecting?

masonic boom (kate), Monday, 11 December 2006 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Glad to hear you're better, i appear to be due a little gut wrenching today. I cooked all day friday and all day saturday which was fun.

Perhaps I should see if the thai place has ginger fish on today.

Ed (dali), Monday, 11 December 2006 11:32 (seventeen years ago) link

The new Ghost album is FANTASTIC. Anyone want to hear it? Email me at this address and i'll send it.

pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 11 December 2006 11:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh noes! How was camping, though? Was the Xmas dinner good? (That is what you were doing this weekend, right?)

masonic boom (kate), Monday, 11 December 2006 11:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Camping and xmas dinner were great. Gut wrenching may be due to over indulgence.

Ed (dali), Monday, 11 December 2006 11:51 (seventeen years ago) link

early years playing thurs: http://www.supmag.com/checkit/archives/2006/12/sup_holidaze_pa.html

emsk ( emsk ), Monday, 11 December 2006 11:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Thursday? I thought it was Wednesday. Oh dear, I'm confused. Or am I going to the ballet on Wednesday. They did tell me they were playing this week.

At the Old Queen's Head, which is that lovely place we go to the folk open mic nights at, Ed!

Still waiting to hear from Dare to find out if she is up for hanging out tonight, otherwise I'll be at the folk.

(Just sent a rambling email to PBW trying to explain what I was *trying* to say when I was arguing with him. Well, not really arguing. You know how I get when I'm interested in exploring an idea in conversation. Problem is, I find myself being almost uncontrollably slightly *rude* to him because I'm so attracted to him. This is rub and I need to learn not to do this.)

masonic boom (kate), Monday, 11 December 2006 12:00 (seventeen years ago) link

dunno, got that invite from supmag. i am viva voce-ing tonight yay.

emsk ( emsk ), Monday, 11 December 2006 12:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, it is Thursday. Ballet is Wednesday. I'm just confused.

ha ha, the Early Years' guitarist also works for wbankers. Mathsrock solidarity, yeah!

Speaking of which, I should get to work.

masonic boom (kate), Monday, 11 December 2006 12:13 (seventeen years ago) link

There's a documentary about Battersea power station on resonance this afternoon at 16:30.

Ed (dali), Monday, 11 December 2006 12:31 (seventeen years ago) link

They should get out more.

M Grout (Mark Grout), Monday, 11 December 2006 12:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh no, he brought up Dylan. This is war.

masonic boom (kate), Monday, 11 December 2006 12:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Who did? Where?

(Isn't BatPowSta next door to Res?)

M Grout (Mark Grout), Monday, 11 December 2006 12:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Uh-oh. Never get into a landwar in Asia, and never get into a deep discussion of Dylan with PBW.

g000blar (g00blar), Monday, 11 December 2006 12:56 (seventeen years ago) link

BPS (not PBW) is in Battersea! Res is on Denmark St, I thought!

I have not responded to PBW's impudence yet. Never get into a landwar in Asia and never get into deep discussions of songwriting and "originality" with Kate! (I think this is going to be fun.)

masonic boom (kate), Monday, 11 December 2006 13:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Are B&S or Stereolab your top artist this week?

Stereolab at #1, B&S at #2.

Never get into a landwar in Asia

I'm tempted to buy my mother the Princess Bride DVD for Christmas, but can't really decide if she'd go for it.

Fcking first-years, preferring Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Joyce to Nathanael West and Carson McCullers.

You'll just have to go sit in a cafe. And look sad. And, erm, write a ballad about that.

Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 11 December 2006 13:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Yep. Me and my two students.

g000blar (g00blar), Monday, 11 December 2006 13:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm familiar with McCullers, but explain me Nathanael West.

(Maybe we can trick you into giving the seminar here for our own literary edification. Don't blame me for knowing nothing about literature! I studied art and work as a mathematician!)

masonic boom (kate), Monday, 11 December 2006 13:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Dammit, I've just been asked to do a marketing analysis and some projections for next year. CAN'T THEY SEEE I'M TRYING TO HAVE A TECHNICAL DISCUSSION OF THE FOLK TRADITION AND "ORIGINALITY" AS EXPERIENCED THROUGH THE WORK OF BOB DYLAN HERE?!?!?

masonic boom (kate), Monday, 11 December 2006 13:16 (seventeen years ago) link

West seminar will have to wait a bit, as I have a student coming in in 5, and I should re-read his paper.

g000blar (g00blar), Monday, 11 December 2006 13:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Hi all. Mad weekend - too much booze and things. Had a massive roast with the nicest roast potatoes EVER yesterday.

The folk tradition and originality via Bob Dylan? ha ha ha your mate's gonna be so busted.

Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Monday, 11 December 2006 13:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Goose fat?

g000blar (g00blar), Monday, 11 December 2006 13:24 (seventeen years ago) link

No, no, his take (if I understand it correctly) is that everything about Dylan is very deliberately and consciously borrowed, hence that makes Dylan part of the Folk Tradition, even though his songs are "original".

I'm not necessarily disagreeing with him, I just love debating this stuff. (You can take the girl out of art school... etc.)

I am having a "cumberland pie" right now and wishing it was roast potatoes. Sigh.

masonic boom (kate), Monday, 11 December 2006 13:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I am eating salami sandwiches and have just been chatting to the Office Goth. Who seems to have caught a cold. Well, I did say it was bloody freezing on the beach.

Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 11 December 2006 13:34 (seventeen years ago) link

What were you doing on the beach with the office goth?

pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 11 December 2006 13:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Educating her.

I'm slightly annoyed, because I dropped my spare padlock key on the beach somewhere.

Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 11 December 2006 13:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't encourage him, Kerr!

masonic boom (kate), Monday, 11 December 2006 13:37 (seventeen years ago) link

You can't talk Kate, after that comment you left on the blog!

Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 11 December 2006 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link

So she tied him up and the key was lost and it took hours to free him and that's how he caught the cold? Fair enough.

pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 11 December 2006 13:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Like you weren't asking for it, with that blog entry, FP!

masonic boom (kate), Monday, 11 December 2006 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link

No no I have two keys, but I'm annoyed I lost the spare (was attached to one of the locks but I must have dropped it in the dark). The other key is on my house keyring.

And it was me being the dominant one, if you must know. And chain rather than rope, because if you're iffy on knots, padlocks are rather easier in the dark.

True, Kate!

Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 11 December 2006 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link

You've been tying up the office goth. DON'T YOU KNOW BETTER THAN TO PISS IN YOUR DRINKING WATER?!??!?

Jesus, I give up. I really do.

It's like that episode of the Simpsons where every single character goes through their tagline until it gets to Lisa and she folds her arms and goes "I refuse to be reduced to a simple slogan!" or words to that effect.

I must take my stand here.

masonic boom (kate), Monday, 11 December 2006 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link

A pervs got to do what a pervs got to do.

pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 11 December 2006 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link

B&S in joint 1st place again http://www.last.fm/group/UK+Watercooler/charts

pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 11 December 2006 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh my god, his nose is soooo pointy.... sigh.

masonic boom (kate), Monday, 11 December 2006 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Kate, what did you think about TSM getting in the NME and Q albums of the year?

pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 11 December 2006 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I didn't know they got in Q. (I'm not sure I knew Q existed any more.)

I'm just pleased any time they get any kind of exposure, TBH.

Honestly, I'm going to turn off the interweb, put on my headphones and do some work now. No more ILX, no more TSM board, no more teasing FP, no more arguing with PBW about Dylan until this marketing projection is DONE.

masonic boom (kate), Monday, 11 December 2006 14:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Listen to the Ghost album.
(btw not one person took up my offer of a YSI)

pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 11 December 2006 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link

That didn't take very long at all!

I put on The Devil's Interval, and we haven't even finished burning catholics and heretics yet!

masonic boom (kate), Monday, 11 December 2006 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link


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