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Ooh! I wonder if the Clark's outlet store at Bicester Village has an EVEN CHEAPER THAN THEIR SHOPS sale!!! I must go .....

― C J (C J), Friday, 24 November 2006 12:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Is that what "lugubrious" means?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 24 November 2006 13:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Well maybe you can get someone to ask PWB to pose naked for you and you can slip him a viagra...

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 24 November 2006 13:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Kate, I think I sent you another YSI last night. Did you get it?

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 24 November 2006 13:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Lugubrious: exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful

I suppose I tend to mean it a wider sense, of just sort of.. well, Victorian and full-on, lucious darkness. Reclining on a velvet divan with hand to one's head going "oh woe is me, alas..." while smoking clove cigarettes and reading French poetry. I'm an ex goth, so of course I think lugubrious is a total compliment.

Hrmm, my email's been being funny, Kerr, I'll check if it went into the bulk box or something.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 24 November 2006 13:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I sent you this. http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=24324

I doubt the other watercoolers would be interested though.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 24 November 2006 13:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I have found it. I am downloading it.

AND I HAVE CARROT CAKE. I should probably get offline before the hypoglycaemic fit commences. Wah-hey.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 24 November 2006 13:49 (seventeen years ago) link

SUNNO)))-worshippers alert! 1/2 of that drone metal behemoth, our pal Stephen O'Malley (who has also piloted or participated in such units as Khanate, Burning Witch, Ginnungagap, Teeth Of The Lions Rule The Divine, Thorr's Hammer, Fungal Hex, Lotus Eaters, etc.) has travelled to Europe to collaborate with Austrian experimental digital noise artist Peter "Pita" Rehberg! They're calling themselves KTL because the music they made is to be the soundtrack to some sort of stage piece called Kindertotenlieder by performance artist Gisele Vienne and novelist Dennis Cooper ("Closer") due to debut at a festival in France next year. Judging from the music, not to mention the people involved, we imagine it's gonna be beautiful, but also somehow disturbing and dark... This cd certainly is. It starts off with the 24 minute drone "Estranged", blissful and spooky piece that builds towards its end to noisier heights, threatening the storms to come on this album. And yes, the four parts of "Forest Floor" that take up the main, middle part of the disc are a harrowing journey indeed, into a buzzing, claustrophobic realm of dangerous digital sonics and heavy drone, like SUNNO)))'s lugubrious riffage mixed with the glitchy crunch of Pita -- which is what it is, of course! Not for the faint of heart. Part four, in particular, sounds like a doomed prop engine airplane rumbling over a dark forest landscape from some black metal album cover, at night... Finally O'Malley and Rehberg wind things up with the quieter (but still creepy) 13 minutes of "Snow", a softly pulsing, detailed improv exploration of lowercase sounds... Very nice! Let's hope KTL isn't just a one-off collaboration, we'd like to hear more from these two! Their mastery of minimalist ambient music, electronic glitchology and Earthy guitar sludge make a fine sipping brew.

That lugubrious word again!

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 24 November 2006 13:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Things which are lugubrious - a list.

-Gothic and neo-gothic architecture
-Victorian interiors
-Beethoven Symphonies
-Pre-Raphaelite paintings
-Consumptive young maidens
-The novels of Sir Walter Scott (and possibly Dickens)
-Bauhaus albums

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 24 November 2006 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Sir Walter Scott is a distant relative to me apparently.
One of my mums aunts searched the family tree for my grans family and completed it just before she died. My gran should have a copy of it somewhere i'll need to ask her.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 24 November 2006 13:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Blimey! You could be lugubrious by association! ;-)

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 24 November 2006 13:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I just love saying the word "lugubrious". Luh-GOOOOOOO-bri-us. It just sounds like what it is. What's the word for that? Onomatipaeic or something?

Maybe that's where your name is derived from, Gooblar!

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 24 November 2006 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Ooh, I feel quite funny now.

I think I've realised - it's not actually the carrot cake that makes me go all ADHD, it's the *icing*. I felt fine until I ate the icing and now I feel like I'm drunk.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 24 November 2006 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Does that mean you're going to post some benjamin pics and lust over him?

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 24 November 2006 14:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Nah, I just feel like getting in a play slap-fite with some noizeboarders. ;-P

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 24 November 2006 14:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, alright, just the one...

http://myspace-765.vo.llnwd.net/00954/56/75/954675765_l.jpg

Then I'm going to make faces at my colleagues who are still stuck in their debtors meeting. I just heard that 91% of our debtors are new! Hurrah!

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 24 November 2006 14:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I got The Wire today. Smiths got it in and my dad picked it up for me when he was down the town.
The Melvins are on the cover. Written by Phil Freeman.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 24 November 2006 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Grrrr, I'm irritated by people who don't understand what a "remix" is.

No, you cannot just take one of my songs, rewrite it and then have my band perform it your way. In fact, I'm mildly insulted by that proposition.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 24 November 2006 14:19 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.last.fm/group/Brainlove

http://www.last.fm/user/john_brainlove/

is that the same ...?

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 24 November 2006 14:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Ugh. Yes.

Just found another place where he's been slagging me off. Just fuck off and die, OK, f*ckwit? And take your comment box and stick it up your woo-woo.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 24 November 2006 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link

(Actually, I just realised that's kinda sick. He looks like a younger version of *my* brother there.)

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 24 November 2006 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Of course, this is the only photo of my brother I can find right now:

http://static.flickr.com/112/304942907_c0aac6c16b.jpg

(n.b. he and my sister in law are actually at a Halloween party, he does not actually have Boris Johnson style emperor aspirations. I don't think. Well, if he does, he doesn't actually dress like that all the time.)

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 24 November 2006 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought that was Martin Clunes in that dr who story!

that brainl0ve guy has been slagging you off?

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 24 November 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

dude looks like he plays way too much Rome:TW

― teh_kit, Friday, 24 November 2006 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Dude should've cut his wrist tag off when he escaped

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Friday, 24 November 2006 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Dude does not play videogames. His wife has a degree in Latin, tho.

And do not slag off my brother. >:-(

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 24 November 2006 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link

sandbox ilg plz

― teh_kit, Friday, 24 November 2006 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link

He does look like Martin Clunes tho.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 24 November 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Referring to something upthread, Mogadon is a downer, so I would assume the sub who changed "mog-speed" to "mogadon-speed" assuming it meant "really slowly". I must admit if I'd read "mog-speed" I'd have assumed it meant mogadon, not mogwai.

Back in the '90's we used to rofl at the prospect of someone inventing a genre called "moggie-house", slowed down, drowsy/sicky sounding beats. I guess moggie house sort of came to be when some FIEND invented trip hop.

[filthy paragraph about B&Q & improv bondage excised in the name of taste, har]

― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Friday, 24 November 2006 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought Moggies were cats. I cannot imagine what music by cats would sound like.

Pointy nosed dude in that photo looks exactly like my brother looked at about 14. But I cannot for the life of me find an old photo, even though I know I've scanned many.

I'm sure this says something terribly sick and horrible about me.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 24 November 2006 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link

My frater doesn't actually look anything like Martin Clunes, but now, having seen this picture, I sort of see your point:

http://www.tnelson.demon.co.uk/cult/images/martin_clunes.jpg

(Frater's ears don't stick out that much, though.)

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 24 November 2006 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha! Tryptophan hangover and myriad of things going wrong this morning did not prevent me from having four successful, positive tutorials today. I pwn the world!

― LuGOOOOblar, Friday, 24 November 2006 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Teh Kit, why do you always request being locked out of the watercooler? Has someone offended you?

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 24 November 2006 15:12 (seventeen years ago) link

TAKE YR BEEF OUTSIDE!

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Friday, 24 November 2006 15:12 (seventeen years ago) link

teh_kit got sonned by himself in a watercooler beef

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Friday, 24 November 2006 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 24 November 2006 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Ramalama.

Lenny was OK. As he's a local person thesedays, it was weird him ironically referring to Woodley's black ghetto, almost with accuracy.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 24 November 2006 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm not discussing that here.

― teh_kit, Friday, 24 November 2006 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm lost.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 24 November 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Who's Lenny?

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 24 November 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Singer out of Notorhead.

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Friday, 24 November 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/sv/a/a4/Lost_logo.jpg

― Sawyer, Friday, 24 November 2006 15:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, what is Tryptophan?

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 24 November 2006 15:16 (seventeen years ago) link

(And when did I turn into teh Pinefox?)

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 24 November 2006 15:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow. Tryptophan:

Why Turkey Makes You Sleepy

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 24 November 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Lenny Henry. I mentioned upthread.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 24 November 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Who is Lenny Henry?

Oh, never mind. I'll go google.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 24 November 2006 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link

FAKE TUOMAS/LEXBOT LOVECHILD.

― much_aldo_about_nothing (much_aldo_about_nothing), Friday, 24 November 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah, he is a professional Funny Person. No wonder I had not heard of him.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 24 November 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I think Tryptophan gets mentioned in Robert Clavert's "Captain Lockheed and the starfighters" as part of the cocktail of drukqs a starfighter pilot has to take before flying "the widow maker".

― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Friday, 24 November 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

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