Watercooler 0: Nothing Is A Problem For Me

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.

And I ordered a troubadour octave mandola this morning, a chromatic tuner and a book on how to play it by a guy called Simon Mayor who used to play childrens folk concerts. in the foyer of the barbican, with his partner Hillary Jones, when I was small and he was very good. I'm quite excited about learning from his book.

Ooh, that sounds like a good choice. Pictures?

I only had two pints of ale and a little bottle of wine, tho. But way too much brandy. Way too much.

Heh heh, oh dear...

http://images.quizfarm.com/1148547929artist_930[1].jpg You scored as Ethereal Goth. You are an ethereal goth... you favor Projekt and Dead Can Dance and have very refined tastes. You like the fine arts and probably prefer red wine to snake bite. Click on my name to take my other tests if you liked this one.

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Romantic Goth

58%

Old-school Goth

50%

Understanding Outsider

46%

Fantasy Goth

38%

Anything-Goes Goth

38%

Death Rocker

33%

Perky Goff

21%

Industrial/Rivet-Head

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Confused Outsider

21%

Cyber-goth

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Pretty! I like!

Whilst googling I found these bonkers instruments:

http://www.risa-music.de/English/Products/Solids/solids.html

Sunn o)) was great. Fantastic. Awesome.

Bah. I'm glad you had a good time. I just went and stood in the queue for about five minutes, and my back started spasming so bad, I knew there was no way I was going to enjoy the evening. Not fair. :-(

The vibrations from the sound would've helped your back no end. You should've asked if you could lie down at the side of the stage or something hehe.
They had the mega rare 2nd press of the white box set at the London gig, but they only had 10 copies and they all sold so none left at glasgow. It has 2 extras in it, live white(mega rare) and the Candlewolf peel sessions 12" but on red vinyl this time(new press) But it was £100 apparently. I did however get the live white on its own at the glasgow gig for £30 so I was quite happy as I already have an original candlewolf 12".
This time all the shirts and hoodies weren't sold out but all I had the money for was the live white so oh well. I'll get a hoodie and a shirt another time.

Check your email kate.

Yay, I got to read Emsk's MySingleFriend profile for me, and I was really worried because she said yesterday "it wasn't all sweetness and light" but I've read it and it's perfect. *I* would want to meet the person she describes, and you all know how much I hate myself.

I feel genuinely tired an rubbish today. I curse the brandy.

Green tea is doing its best to restore me. I have a long day and a long night ahead of me, I have no time for brandy hangover befuddlement.

...and I'm listening to sea shanties and wishing I had AN BOAT.

I am listening to http://www.last.fm/user/trailofgybe/

I'm not sure if I'm inspiring enough awe in my students: I asked them today how many had read Twelfth Night all the way through for class (like they were supposed to). 3 hands went up, out of 23. There's no way I would have admitted that to a teacher (in that small of a class) as a first year.

You need to wear Kates new boots and put some fear into them.

Ack! Here eeryone is. Been in withdrawal today.

Hello Mitya. How are you?

Oh, why does this whole process take so long? Boywiththeboat and the hottphotog will be snapped up by the time my profile actually gets approved and goes online...

Why am I *doing* this anyway? I'm only getting my hopes up for nothing. I guess I'm just so *bored* without ILX.

Morning. I am sleepy.

Good evening, Ned.

I am now throwing soup at my hangover.

Yum! Soup!

mMmm, pumpkin soup, it was nummy. And now I want some more of it. But I have none left. Bah.

I am also wondering if it was such a good idea putting on such a saucy picture. But I wanted to use a photo where I was actually smiling, and the really eye-catching cleavage one is the only one I have where I'm smiling.

Whens your solo gig, Kate?

Bah. Poxy fule. I hate poxy fule. I actually had to do some *work*.

And now I have no more work to do.

Here, have a Curtis brother. He looks as pissed off as I feel.

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b132/mel_face/avalon.jpg

And here, have another:

http://photo.rukes.com/avalon70/slides/avalon70%20047.jpg

White Rabbits!

We wish you a happy new month.

(and I hope it gets better quickly. I'm fed up with crap at the moment)

Hares.

Happy new month. It's my little sister's 25th birthday today. That freaks me out.

Good morning.

God, those Curtis Brothers are hottt. I had forgotten those photos. I think I shall listen to Now Here Is Nowhere first thing today, while I start the month end malarchy.

I am starting to feel much brighter. Though I lost the beautiful Edwardian chest of drawers at CB Antiques through acting too slow - someone bought it yesterday. :-(

I finished my Big Book Of Nothing today, which was very very good. And it ended with the most beautiful quote...

"We are the music makers
We are the dreamers of dreams
Wandering by lone sea-breakers
And sitting by desolate streams
World-losers and world-forsakers
On whom the pale moon gleams
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world, forever, it seems"

That nearly made me cry on the train this morning, it is so beautiful.

I used that poem ('Ode' by Arthur O'Shaughnessy) for a eurythmy performance at school - here's the next two verses for you kate:

With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up the world's great cities,
And out of a fabulous story
We fashion an empire's glory:
One man with a dream, at pleasure,
Shall go forth and conquer a crown;
And three with a new song's measure
Can trample an empire down.

We, in the ages lying
In the buried past of the earth,
Built Nineveh with our sighing,
And Babel itself with our mirth;
And o'erthrew them with prophesying
To the old of the new world's worth;
For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.

GOD, I HATE SUBEDITORS!!!!

If you do not understand a contraction, then ASK. Do not guess.

"Mog-speed" meaning "a cross between Mogwai and Godspeed You Black Emperor" has been changed to "Mogadon-speed" which means nothing at all. WTF?

lol

Is that a contraction of Loop and Laibach?

In what universe does mog-speed make any more or less sense than mogadon-speed?

I have to say, that was my first thought.

(Sorry for type casting, but I'm guessing that most of Plan B's readers would know both Mogwai and Godspeed... and be able to figure that out.* Guess I guessed wrong.)

*If you are not a Plan B reader, you are not expected to know this.

Anyway, the point being, if it's unclear, fucking ask me, don't just make something up. Who the fuck are Mogadon anyway?

Calm down Kate, take a mogadon :-P