Watercooler 0: Nothing Is A Problem For Me

I like the way you try to imply that sort of thing didn't happen on ILX Classic.

yeah I have avoided registering - too much like acceptance :)

So kate, tell us more about the tv thing!

Kate , You haven't heard of Joanna Newsome before?

My Warmer Milks lp came today. Woohoo!

I've heard the name, but just assumed it was more of that wibbling neofolk crap like Devandra Beardface or whatever.

OK, it's nice, but I can't listen to more than about 10 minutes at a time without feeling like I've eaten a bit too much carrot cake and am about to get into sugarshock.

Weird, she looks a bit like my friend Frances.

If shes twee then Mitya and FP should love her!

Something about her is intriguing. But equally, I find something about her is irritating, almost in that "ooh, look I'm a Kate Bush style pixie fairy girlchild" way.

I don't know. That's maybe a horribly sexist thing to say. (I mean no one ever calls the Animal Collective twee for the same kind of routine.) But that's what I mean by "twee" I guess.

Well her voice does make Lisa Simpson sounds grown up.

Her voice is nice in very small doses, but really annoying otherwise.

Yeah, that's the thing. One song is nice, a whole album is just too cloying.

(What do you make of that crazy spaceship pedal, Pash?)

What is it, exactly (apart from an effect pedal of some sort, with a fancy mirror finish)?

It is Death By Audio, apparently.

(I don't think even Benjamin really knows what it does, exactly.)

Blargh, internet please stop being boring today. Bah. :-(

Closest match on DbA's site in terms of panel knobbage is this:

http://www.killerrockandroll.com/deathbyaudio/soundwavebreakdown.html

I must admit, I've got my fill of fuzz/distortion boxes (turbo rat/rising sun/zakk wylde pedal) Phasers, now, on the other hand...

No, it's a custom pedal that they build specially for Benjamin. no one knows what it is!

I've got two distortion pedals and that's pretty much all I need. I need to get into the envelope filters and the harmonic generators now.

The few times I fancy playing with encvelope filter, I usually just run the preamped guitar signal into the back of this little roland monosynth I have, which has an envelope follower built in. One of these days, I'll pick up one of these:

http://www.blacet.com/IOfp.html

For my modular synth, though most likely I'll run other stuff through it. I have a real love for a nice clean guitar sound, Usually I just like to add leslie simulator or phaser, sometimes a little bit of chorus. All the more radical effects I have usually wind up getting drum machines or monosynths put through them.

The one deranged distrotion/radical pedal I fancied was the "rattle crow", from last gasp arts labs:

http://lalweb.com/rc/rc-e.html

Discontinued, unfortunately. Well, maybe not that unfortunately.

I think I saw one of those once on Denmark Street? Was too scared to try it.

Sorry, Archel - missed your post!

I've just blogged about the BBC filming thing and don't really feel like typing it all out again. Read about it here:

http://masonicboom.blogspot.com/

Ahem, Kerr! You're the one who seems to have bought the album. Pixieish, off-key harpists are too twee for me. Won't Southern Lord revoke your messageboard privileges if they find out?

Just out of curiosity, how were people supposed to know about this nu-ilx we are building here?

It's not Nu-ILX. It's just a sandbox for testing code, and we're just chatting to build up a database for them to experiment with. Honest.

But castles made of sand melt into the sea eventualleee

Thanks k, should have checked your blog first anyway really! I do hope some kind soul puts your breakfast TV appearance on a video content hosting site like say, ooh, YouTube. Not that I wouldn't get up in time to watch it on the real telly, of course. If I had one.

Yeah, it's not like I have one, either! It was quite funny, bandmates gossipping about various presenters with the crew, and I didn't have a clue who any of them were! Oh dear.

now I'm going to waste the rest of the afternoon on this minipops quiz. I thought I was doing terribly with 62 out of 95, but apparently no one in my office has got over 20!

Ha ha, it's really been bugging me, what the b-side of the new TSM single sounds like. That riff... it's just *so* familiar. Early 80s synth tune.

I thought it was Talk Talk or Howard Jones but I was walking around the office singing it, and one of my colleagues is all "why are you singing Nik Kershaw?" God, it's almost exact.

Have you ever tried one of these:

http://www.redwitchanalogpedals.com/deluxemoonphaser.html

This is the pedal I fancy most at the moment.

I've never tried one, but I've seen them. Pretty!

Everyone gone home?

I'm about to go down the pub.

Hurry up harry.

what's the bbc filming for? some bbc breakfast feature about what exactly? is it actually Breakfast, the thing from 6 to 9 every morning?

give me a shout closer to the actual date (ie in a week) and i'll set the video...

Oh boy, is the interwebs still broken?

I am slightly hungover this morning. I cannot BELIEVE we really drank all that brandy on the walk yesterday. But I feel good. Yeah.

Apart from that, spent the weekend getting ready and doing preparation, writing sequencer tracks and the like for my SOLO SHOW!!! I am quite scared excited.

Also, I want a pig. Piglets are the cutest thing on earth ever. Next time someone calls me a pig, I am going to be hugely complimented.

Thehold! At least there's this.

I can not wake up this morning. I would ordinarily be excited to teach Twelfth Night, but as it is, I'll be happy if I can string a couple of sentences together.

I, too, am having trouble staying awake. Even though I slept really well last night.

Bah, proper rehearsal as well tonight. In a studio. Which I don't feel particularly ready for. :-(

Still, that's something to look forward to/wake up for.

Hello everyone! I am tired too. Today must be Sleepy Monday, I expect the moon is aligned all wrong or something.

You sound a bit happier today, Kate. :)

Yeah, I am a bit happier, CJ, thanks!

I didn't go to sunno))) in the end on Friday night, I sold my ticket (took me forever, which was not fun with a bad back) and went home and did some stretching from the yoga book and just chilled out and relaxed, which was really what I needed.

Also, Hawkwind just friended *me* on MySpace! Heh! "You list as an influence, so please be our friend" - excellent.

Hawkwind still exists?

They're probably really healthy because their silver machine is antiseptically clean.

I think there are actually two Hawkwinds going... ;-)

I'm very tempted to leave them a note saying "MySpace is deep... thanks for the add" but I'm sure they get that all the time.

made a daft choice of staying up till 3 last night to watch a crap film Eaten Alive

I awoke at exactly the time i was supposed to get up, which means i had no lazy-lie-in-clock-gazing time. drat.

Hello there. Shall I bother reposting what I've been up to from the last.fm watercooler thread, or shall I just grin a lot?

It's up to you...

I've just realised that my legs are sore. I didn't feel the walk yesterday, but today I'm a bit, err, strained.

I watched the really really crap Prime Suspect, then meant to watch the South Bank Show's thing on Spamalot, but fell asleep before it started. Then I woke up again at 2am and couldn't get back to sleep properly :(

Good weekend for you then I gather, FP?? :))) Repost it! I need a smile today.

The main bits are:

It's weird how, you can chat to someone for a couple of weeks; you can meet them; and within a few hours of meeting them, you both feel that you're so right together, it feels as if you've always been with each other.

We're both a bit scared how quickly it just feels "right"

In other news, my ex just texted me to ask me how my weekend went. She was subtly trying to find out what was going on - let me know she'd heard I'd been away for the weekend - and has now just come out and said "what's the deal with you and ______"?

hello all. G00blar, you were great on Friday.

Yes we did drink 3 half bottles of brandy and 4 pints of Ale (OK 3 pints of Ale and 1 half litre of lager in my case) a piece and walk about 10 miles up a hill.