Watercooler Sub Zero: Ice Capades

£5 for Bringing It All Back Home! Best Dylan album evah! (If you are not PBW and therefore stupid and irrational on the subject.)

Maybe it was simply bad choice of words on yr part but if you are simply "glum"...

Yes, bad choice of words on my part (i.e. supermegaunderstatement) and *no* intent to offend anyone. My only point being that for most of my teen and adult life people have commented on or asked why I am depressed (or complained about it), meanwhile sometimes it seems like everyone else and their dog are "on" something.

Now back to discussions of Dr. Who boxed sets...

Ailsa, brandy, honey and fresh ginger in a glass topped up with boiling water is STEP ONE to shifting a cold. STEP TWO involves a trip to an Indian food outlet: think Jalfrezi or Dupiaza - somehow chili, garlic and onions help too. I trust you will find this agreeable, or at least more so than sinking a bottle of Actifed.

(I had an older CD version, no idea what happened to it. My parents had a beat-up vinyl one.)

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Lloyd Cole - Rattlesnakes (plus 4 bonus tracks) - £5
Lloyd Cole - Rattlesnakes Boxed Version - £10

Like, what kind of mug do you think I am?

A quick trip to the drinks cupboard shows that I appear to have finished off the brandy. Bah. I have some honey rum left instead, so am now drinking that. Oh noes, I am a terrible alky!

How can this be a best of Donovan if it has no "I Like My Shirt"?

Chiz!

A lot of xposts:

My theory on raisins is that they have been dried up for the express purpose of soaking up liquid and that if that liquid is booze then so much the better.

Aaaah, it's too bad I can't wind up my mum by telling her that Donovan was a better lyricist than Dylan. I used to get great amusement by winding up my sisX0r's mum by telling her that. She was such a Dylan freak that she had this massive fuckoff terrifying Lionel-Ritchie-In-Hello-Video style clay bust of Bob Dylan in the spare room. It used to terrify me because with its massive larger than lifesize mole. Anyway, I used to tell her that "First there is a mountain then there is no mountain then there is" was heights of lyrical abstraction that Dylan could never hope to scale.

But then she gave us her copy of the box of A Gift From A Flower To A Garden. And my sisX0r and I sat up all night taking speed and eating M&Ms and we covered the cover of the box with M&Ms the same colour as the picture until we had a giant Chocolate Donovan. Hence the song of the same name.

Aaaah, happy times.

I used that as a nom de poetry (or whatever you'd call that) for a while.

That was the first cd I ever bought, back in 1986 and it cost me £13 back then.

I plan to celebrate Christmas by pouring brandy on my muesli.

Man I had forgotten just how GROOOOOOOOOOOVY Donovan is. Why let hippie parents have all the fun?

He's got the most hilarious accent this side of a Jesus and Mary Chain song - i.e. pretending to be west coast Dylanamericana when he's really from Glasgow.

I still hate raisins but have never met an olive I wouldn't eat by the kilo.

Ailsa it is now time for CURRY UPGRADE. Go for Thai red.

On Monday I had OMG proper Mexican carne asada burrito after which my entire family cussed me out for going to "the ghetto" to get it. Minneapolis has a LARGE Mexican population (who have all moved Norte over the past decade) and the bigot wing of my family assumes they're all undocumented unless they are practically brandishing papers. FFS. I'm kind of sick of this attitude my immediate family have developed where nobody in America does an honest day's work except for them.

I am going back to said "ghetto" (actually a heavily gentrified former Sears building) at least once every few days until I come home.

Nick sounds nothing like Donovan. Donovan way cooler.

Kate, has anyone ever recommended Hugh-Laurie-in-medical-drama House to you?

(Though TISSP was getting off on just how formulaic it was.)

"Jennifer... Juniper! Lilacs in her hair..."

This is just the... *wettest* music ever.

http://www.hurdygurdy.farmcom.net/parts2.jpg

Those freaking snare rolls, that fuzz guitar like a gnat... aaaahhhh...

So, I guess it's "Satanic Maj" on the way home tonight.

This is always the problem with Donovan best ofs, I get as far as Hurdy Gurdy Man and then can get no further, coz I just carolanne on it.

You loved it!

(Though TISSP was getting off on just how formulaic it was.)

Makes for good drinking game material.

This is as good a chance as any to advertise my forthcoming HOUSE PARTY, which will of course be a HOUSE-themed house party. Word.

I was drunk! I was so full of tequila I loved Muse videos!

So long as it's not on the 13th January. Don't force me to choose between crushes.

I saw Billy Mackenzie in a bar in Dundee and was exactly the same. And probably would be if I saw N in a similar situation.

Man, I had the nastiest tasting cough mixture in the world, and it still hasn't stopped me coughing. Bah.

(what have you agreed to on the 13th?)

x-post there's a Gooblar gig on the 13th. I think. He's not here to confirm or deny.

I'm really torn. I mean, if it were anything else, I'd obviously go to your birthday. But my only chance on earth to stare at PBW completely unhindered and unembarrassed coz like you're supposed to stare at people who are onstage, it's OK and not creepy or anything... no wait, now that sounds creepy.

OH OH OH but what are you people doing on the 9TH OF JANUARY?

-- tissp! (tissp2...) (webmail), December 1st, 2006 12:44 PM. (tissp!) (link)

by which i mean the 13TH, of course

-- tissp! (tissp2...) (webmail), December 1st, 2006 12:46 PM. (tissp!) (link)

I have no idea! That's, like, next year!

-- masonic boom (kateotheremai...) (webmail), December 1st, 2006 12:46 PM. (kate) (link)

I know! Normally I wouldn't have a clue myself but it's my BIRTHDAY PARTY!

-- tissp! (tissp2...) (webmail), December 1st, 2006 12:47 PM. (tissp!) (link)

AAAAAHHHH!!! OK, I am going to your birthday party, then.

-- masonic boom (kateotheremai...) (webmail), December 1st, 2006 12:48 PM. (kate) (link)

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No, no, noooooo... We've already had this out, that I will have just had an operation on mine hand and won't be up to travelling.

Can't you change your birthday?

Probably. You are, after all, a big ol' alkyhellic.

If you're drunk at that time your Mum might have a point...