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But then we wouldn't have pop stars! And I LIKE pop stars!

(xpost = hullo watercooler people. I'm looking at last.fm and thinking about it)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I do want to be a pop star, but wouldn't stop making music if I knew (ha! I do know!) that I won't be one ever. But I don't want to be a pop star to be famous. At this point I just want the opportunity to play lots of shows to lots of new people all the time.

― g00blar, Tuesday, 15 August 2006 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

And hang out with Britt Daniel
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― g00blar, Tuesday, 15 August 2006 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Hi Ailsa, did you have a nice weekend?

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I used to get all bent out of shape thinking about what sort of person I *wanted* to be listening to my music - and of course, never being satisfied with the people that *did* listen to my music, and alienating them in the first place, without ever attracting the DDB's I was craving. And then one day I thought "fuck it" and threw up my hands and just started concentrated on making music that hit *my* Happy Buttons.

And every now and then, I have a bit of a wobbly, but I have to kind of remind myself why I do make music. Because I go stark raving mad(der) if I don't. It's nice when more people listen to it, yes, I'll admit that (and it's probably really frustrating when you see you audience slipping away, or failing to form) - but the funny thing is, I think that people (music fans, whatever) are more attracted to your music when it *is* coming from your own Happy Buttons, that it's somehow just fresher, more energetic, more open, more honest, more... interesting.

And the funny thing is, the guys who invented the Crazy Frog were just f*cking about, trying to make the most annoying sound ever, for the sheer joy of it. Hence why its original name was "the annoying thing". Maybe that's not necessarily *musical* creativity, but it certainly fulfils the "push your own happy buttons first" criteria.

― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I drank lots of wine and ate lots of nice food. Same as I would have done here, except my parents paid, and the weather was worse. (xpost)

Most exciting thing today = we bought a new fridge. Our old fridge has been kind of failing doing what it's meant to, so quick trip to Comet and, hurrah, cold food and drinks again.

I'm going to Edinburgh tomorrow to drink booze.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

hullo watercooler people. I'm looking at last.fm and thinking about it

Onimo joined!

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Blah blah blah, DDBs, blah blah blah, TSM, blah blah blah, Benjamin, blah blah blah, pedals, blah blah blah.

― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Dude remember I was saying, that it was a good thing that ILX was down, while there were still issues that should be sorted out face-to-face? This is sort of what I was talking about.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link

The last couple of times I've tried to see this person (not in my band, BTW) we've tried and failed to get together. I think this is something that is definitely something that I need to think (write) about myself and then just not bring up the next time I see her (whenever that is).

― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Onimo joined!

He told me. I've told him about here. I'm sure he'll be along at some point to share your enthusiasm :-)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm sure those that didn't know will see it mentioned over there(about here) I think the last fm watercooler may remain active so the music chat is confined there and away from here.
Unless people can't be arsed posting to both. In which case normal spacerock/prog rock service will be resumed here shortly ;)

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Is the last fm watercooler the same thing as the last fm ILXOR group?

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Yup. We sought refuge there while ILX was down.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link

And now, we seek to conquer.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Not until you join us on last fm, Ned. I've only spent the last 2 years trying to get you on there. I gave up.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

That's because I don't listen to music on my computer much! Usually it's CDs or mp3 discs I've burned and then play over there. Better sound, you see.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought you ripped all your music to mp3 and sold the cds because of space issues.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Is the last fm watercooler the same thing as the last fm ILXOR group?

No, it's another last.fm group - it's called "UK Watercooler".

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link

thought you ripped all your music to mp3 and sold the cds because of space issues.

Oh heavens no. I just ripped the stuff I didn't listen to anymore. (Which was about, oh, a thousand CDs to start with.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link

How many cds do you have????

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Ned will be back in February, Kerr, when he's finished counting them all.

― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Hahahaha.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Instead of selling them you should build a boat. A very shiny boat.

― nklshs (nklshs), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link

At highest count, something like 5000 CDs, I think. I believe I'm down to around 4000 and probably something like...*thinks*...not sure, 500 mp3 CDRs? More?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Is that audio cdrs or data cdrs?

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Why would anyone have 500 new Star Trek cdrs?

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh dear.

Pfunk -- the latter.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I used to have that Ned until I got a dvd writer. Holds a lot more.I have 100 dvdrs I think.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link

This is why I plan on a MacMini soon.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 18:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Too much.

― Gerry Watt (nu_onimo), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Too young.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link

ihttp://images.google.co.uk/images?q=tbn:3x6OSZI99ss2oM:http://mini-exchange.com/BMW%2520Mini%2520Cooper%2520S%2520for%2520sale.jpg

x-posts

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link

OH GOD, THE NEW OLD ILX SEEMS TO HAVE STARTED POXY FULING ALREADY! ARGH!!!!!

I am listening to Can today, because I finally got my staff copy of Plan B and FMM had a big article about them.

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 09:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Hello. ILX isn't working for me today.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 10:02 (seventeen years ago) link

OH god, I'm counting down the hours til I get to go home and just die.

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

Who controls the British crown?
Who keeps the metric system down?
We do! We do!
Who leaves Atlantis off the maps?
Who keeps the martians under wraps?
We do! We do!
Who holds back the electric car?
Who makes Steve Guttenberg a star?
We do! We do!
Who robbed the Irish of Home Rule?
Who keeps ILX in POXY FULE?!?!?
We do! We do!

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 13:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I have been forced to take this week off work (actual reason, working too hard) and have spent the afternoon teaching myself that Oliver Barbieri tilt-shift photography thing. Some are obviously the work of a beginner, but I have a couple I'm really pleased with and will post in the thread if ILX ever comes up again.

Tomorrow I am going to play with my new camera.

― much_aldo_about_nothing (much_aldo_about_nothing), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 14:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Hurrah for new cameras.

I've just got in trouble because my colleagues made me sing the American national anthem, out loud, because none of them could remember how it went (one of them thought it was Land Of Hope And Glory, ha ha). Oh, what hilarity.

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm a bit scared of my new camera. 8Mpixels seems like an awful lot (supports A3 photo printing, apparently).

And the garage have just phoned to say I need to pick up my new car tomorrow.

― much_aldo_about_nothing (much_aldo_about_nothing), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link

New camera, new car... blimey.

I've got a new... errr... skirt.

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Camera was a birthday present.

Old car literally falling to bits, ex-wife sells house and gives me the money I've been waiting on for SEVEN FUCKING YEARS, script writes itself.

― much_aldo_about_nothing (much_aldo_about_nothing), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Happy birthday for the other day aldo!

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Great! You can drive me to Skye, then!

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link

happy birthday for the other day aldo! I didn't know and no-one told me *slaps Onimo rounds head*

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I didn't know until someone told me afterwards! *gives ailsa a knuckle sandwich*

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Some "friend" you are, not knowing people's birthdays. (Consider your virtual slap retracted)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link

IT'S ONLY A WEE CAR. (not that I'm saying you're big, but the journey is) (xpost to Kaet)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/aldo_cowpat/petra.jpg

Mini Petra

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/aldo_cowpat/palace.jpg

Mini Water Palace at the Red Fort in Jaipur

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/aldo_cowpat/jaipur.jpg

Mini Indians in a mini Jaipur street

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/aldo_cowpat/dambullah.jpg

A mini giant Buddha in Sri Lanka

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/aldo_cowpat/cricketmatch.jpg

Mini West Indies vs Mini South Africa

― much_aldo_about_nothing (much_aldo_about_nothing), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

They look blummin big to me!

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link

'Mini Indians in a mini Jaipur street' works best, I think.

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

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I can feel the atrophication as we speak.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 11:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I've only been ice skating once. I spent half an hour on the ice, and was terrified for every second of it. I value my fingers too much to go ice skating. it';s the kind of thing that looks brilliant once you can do it, but learnign to do it looks REALLY hard. EVERYTHING is easy if you know how!

― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 11:40 (seventeen years ago) link

also, I can see how learning to skate when one is very very small is the way to go - just because the rules of allometry mean that kids hurt themselves far less when they fall over anywhere, not just on ice so one can learn the balancing act and overcome one's fear early on and never have to worry again (if you keep on skating obv).

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link

"Why is it that women are seen as unsuperior to men?"

― Almost Done Marking (g00blar), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 11:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Uh, sorry, wuh?

What does that even mean?

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 11:50 (seventeen years ago) link

You tell me! I've got to mark it!

― g000blar (g00blar), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 11:53 (seventeen years ago) link

inferior or of equal worth?

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 11:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Marissa's doing your course?

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 11:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Skating is totally great, isn't it? I am still very very angry, 15 years on, with Richmond council for selling the Richmond ice rink to property developers. Said developers were supposed to be contractually obliged to build a new one in the borough. As I point out to every Lib-Dem canvasser who darkens my door - I AM STILL FUCKING WAITING!!

― Dr.C (Dr.C), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 11:58 (seventeen years ago) link

It almost seems like they're trying to say "why are men seen as superior to women?" but garbled it with "why are women seen as inferior to men?" and came out with something utterly nonsensical.

Unless of course they were actually trying to say that they beleive women are superior to men. (Only if you're an actuary, actualy.)

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 11:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Please take the skating talk to the skating thread? It looks so lonely! I want to talk about skating, but over there.

Also, L@@K:

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o125/wonderandlust/The%20Secret%20Machines/sm4.jpg

TSM are vampires!

1) drinking blood
2) NO REFLECTION IN MIRROR!!!

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 12:00 (seventeen years ago) link

"The Faerie Queen was a very important person in the mythological world, as she was Queen of the Faeries."

― Stop Me Before I Post Again (g00blar), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 12:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Are these like the literary equivalent of that "Find X - Here it is!" mathematical paper? ;-)

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 12:03 (seventeen years ago) link

"There must be some reason why this person will always be remembered as Shakespeare's brown-haired individual."

― Seriously, I Shouldn't Be Doing This (g00blar), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 12:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe because they have brown hair?

"Hey there, you don't care
Beautiful boy with the long brown hair..."

http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog-images/humor/find-x.jpg

I should set up some new users or something.

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm thinking of publishing my own version of Kids say the Darndest Things.

xpost awesome.

― g000blar (g00blar), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Please take the skating talk to the skating thread? It looks so lonely! I want to talk about skating, but over there.

You could just rename the skating thread to

Watercooler Sub Zero: Ice Capades

as it's all the same people and this thread is about a million posts too long.

― Blaze the Violet Flame (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link

ha ha ha ha! THat's great, actually.

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 12:07 (seventeen years ago) link

And so you shall be!

::waves wand::

Watercooler Sub Zero: Ice Capades

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 12:21 (seventeen years ago) link

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