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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

Cold shower has left me bone-cold and shivery all day.

― g000blar (g00blar), Monday, 11 December 2006 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link

(and whiny, obvs)

― g000blar (g00blar), Monday, 11 December 2006 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Find a pub with an open fire (there should be some in London this time of year) or at least a fake gas fire. Go and sit in front of it until your bones are toasty warm again.

Burn, burn, Judas, burn... Judas was a red-headed man... what a cheery song!

― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 11 December 2006 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link

You suggesting gingers should be burned at the stake?

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 11 December 2006 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link

No, the Devil's Interval are suggesting that.

You know how *I* feel about gingers.

― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 11 December 2006 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Yr talking *male* ginger's right?

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Monday, 11 December 2006 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link

nope all red heads, (and catholics) burn them all.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 11 December 2006 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey! Some of my best friends are gingers, etc.

And *certainly* no burning Benjamin TSM.

― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 11 December 2006 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link

So if you're a ginger catholic you're fucked?

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 11 December 2006 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, if you're a *male* ginger catholic with a pointy nose... perhaps quite literally! ;-P

(We've stopped burning red headed catholics and got onto hanging Long Lankin now.)

― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 11 December 2006 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link

tissp no has his wallet back. The north east seems to have added extra bushiness to his beard.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 11 December 2006 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Why did they burn redheads? it's not like Chris Evans was around then or anything.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 11 December 2006 15:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I like when TISSP's beard gets all bushy. Because it gets quite gingery then. Ha-HEM.

They are taking photographs in the office across the alley from ours, and the flashes are really distracting me.

― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 11 December 2006 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link

How, exactly is Benjamin ginger? (dying, slowly, of tutorials here)

― g000blar (g00blar), Monday, 11 December 2006 15:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, OK, he's probably not technically a *ginger* - he's just an ordinary pointy-nosed freckled redhead.

But in the UK, pretty much "ginger" and redhead are used synonymously, even though they aren't technically the same colour. (Ginger proper is the colour that Merkins would call Strawberry Blond)

― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 11 December 2006 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I wonder I PBW gets a ginger beard. (OK, PBW is so young looking that I guess I wonder if he gets a beard at *all*.) I mean, sometimes blond boys get ordinary blondish beards. But if they've got that 30% Viking blood, then they have blond hair and BRIGHT GINGER beard which is totally hott.

I'm guessing since he resembles my brother so much, he probably has similar genetic makeup (this is sick and creepy and incestuous and all that, I know) - my brother totally gets the BEARD OF FLAME. He's never experimented with facial hair for this precise reason. Which is probably a good thing.

― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 11 December 2006 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Our Amber counts as "Strawberry Blonde" I guess.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Monday, 11 December 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Dammit, now I'm all excited thinking about gingers and I have to go and do some more marketing analyses. :-(

― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 11 December 2006 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Calm down, dear!

Yes, I know I shouldn't piss in my own water supply, but sometimes I have a hard time passing chances up.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 11 December 2006 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Did the office goth have a good time?

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 11 December 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Very much so.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 11 December 2006 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I was looking for a good photo of Benjmain's natural haircolour and just stumbled across this and couldn't go any further:

http://static.flickr.com/44/135929277_15bd0fb9af.jpg

Hurrah! This means I must be well! I'm not off my food any more, and I'm lusting after boys. I am officially no longer ill, in that case!

― masonic boom (kate), Monday, 11 December 2006 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Hang on, blue is his natural hair colour?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 11 December 2006 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Glad to hear it FP. I hope you and her didn't wake up all of your town though ;)

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 11 December 2006 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I deliberately picked a rather remote beach.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 11 December 2006 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I hope you weren't in Ipswich!!!

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 11 December 2006 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link

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