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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

I don't really understand this whole craze.

masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

some excellent examples here: http://blog.so-net.ne.jp/photolog/archive/c22183

nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Bah. It's way too early to be poxy fuled. Tell us what it's all about Benjamin?

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

I've had no sleep last night. Up at 5am with stress dreams and even hot milk couldn't get me back to sleep. I'm exhausted from lugging heavy bags of equipment across London at inappropriate hours, fighting commuter traffic.

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 31 August 2006 08:44 (seventeen years ago) link

ihttp://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y161/MarkGrout/P8200499.jpg
Farmer looks in his hutch, one chicken missing. Higher up, a fox absconds.

M Grout (Mark Grout), Thursday, 31 August 2006 09:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Not being a raging bitch or anything but... wait, I'm Queen here, I can do what I want.

THIS THREAD IS FOR CHATTER. AND BENJAMIN. IF YOU WANT TO POST WEIRD PICTURES THAT LOOK LIKE MODELS START YOUR OWN THREAD.

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 31 August 2006 09:01 (seventeen years ago) link

early? its been down since about 7pm last night.

pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 31 August 2006 09:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I wasn't here last night. I was sitting on Ed's couch listening to our single on a really, really good stereo.

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 31 August 2006 09:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Right, I finally upped and ordered the single!

Ooh, it'd better be good! :)

M Grout (Mark Grout), Thursday, 31 August 2006 09:20 (seventeen years ago) link

On Ed's stereo... well, Ed's stereo sounds SOOO NICE that everything sounds good on it. But well, it was the first time I'd actually listened to it and really felt... PROUD.

Like, "wow, we made that!"

So if you don't like it... get a better stereo! hah! :-P

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 31 August 2006 09:22 (seventeen years ago) link

(I've ordered a better stylus, funnily enough)

M Grout (Mark Grout), Thursday, 31 August 2006 09:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Hello there. I went to the pub on Saturday afternoon, for a bit ... and got back last night. Hurrah!

Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 31 August 2006 09:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Was wondering where you'd got to!

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 31 August 2006 09:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I need a new stylus, I only have an old (10+ years) Sony hifi with a record deck. But as its old the stylus i need is about £40 at least.

pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 31 August 2006 09:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I need to get a record player, fullstop. I totally covet Ed's (well, more likely his speakers...) but totally out of my budget.

I have so much I have to buy now and no money.

-hard drive
-recording mic
-vaccuum cleaner
-Moogerfooger low pass filter
-Lovetone Meatball
-Prunes and Custard Harmonic Generator (or maybe I will get an Electroharmonix HOG or POG)

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 31 August 2006 09:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, I went to Leeds for a munch, and offered the organiser a lift home (it was in Selby, more or less on the way). He invited me in for a coffee, then said "want to come to a club with us tonight." So I did. I ended up staying a couple of nights, to give them a hand clearing out their spare bedroom.

I'd been hoping to visit York on Monday night anyway, so after we'd done the bedroom-clearing I went off there, and ended up spending a couple of nights in York too. Eventually, I got home, having had a great weekend, and still with a grin on my face. Hopefully going back to York again tomorrow though, to help A Certain Someone with moving house.

Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 31 August 2006 09:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Check e-bay for stylii. Mine cost £12 incl postage. And it's ooh 15 years old. The turntable that is. And the present stylus.

M Grout (Mark Grout), Thursday, 31 August 2006 09:47 (seventeen years ago) link

The day I buy actual, like, furniture instead of like, guitar pedals is the day I will consider myself a grownup.

I should buy a stereo, though. This is absurd that I'm still listening to CDs on my 'puter and studio monitors.

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 31 August 2006 09:52 (seventeen years ago) link

So I did. I ended up staying a couple of nights, to give them a hand clearing out their spare dungeon bedroom.


Sorry , I couldn't resist. I know you don't like it when we don't stereotype you ..

pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 31 August 2006 09:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I have now decided to listen to Iron Maiden (the 1st album). What a classic album that is. I actually have this on vinyl, bought it maybe 13 or 14 years ago for £2.99. A few people at school were into them but I never cared for them until I heard this album(a few years after I left school and got into grunge). Don't think i'd wanna listen to anything they've done in the last 15 years mind you. Someone did send me a file of the new album though.

A lot of people seem to have a metal period in their earlier teens, I on the other hand seem to have started to like it more again as I got older (apart from a few years when I 1st got into music at 18/19)
So what did you all listen to in your teenage years? Did you have a metal period?

pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 31 August 2006 10:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I had a short metal period in my late teens - I was listening to a lot of Guns N Roses at the time. I was more into Hardcore Punk when I was in my mid teens. Before that it was crap synthpop and the like.

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 31 August 2006 10:11 (seventeen years ago) link

teen years went pretty much from punk/new wave to prog/space music. Got heavily into "proper" indie (ie independent record charts, not brit "indie" genre) in the mid eighties onwards, but went back to prog/spacemusic/new wave when indie got lamaquized. The only metal I really liked in the 80s was motorhead, hanoi rocks, twisted sister & judas priest, though I went to see most of the big metal bands play (most of whom sux0r3d)

Norman Phay (Pashmina), Thursday, 31 August 2006 10:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Whassamatter with Grouty's pic? It looks like a detail from a model trainset, and model trainsets are awesome! I wish I had room for one, whenever I'm in town, I always look at all the little hornby steam locomotives in modelzone & feel all wistful.

Norman Phay (Pashmina), Thursday, 31 August 2006 10:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Feeling really down, & also really wound up today, I don't know why. didn't sleep well last night either.

Norman Phay (Pashmina), Thursday, 31 August 2006 10:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Funny, a lot of people I know who say they were into metal in the 80s growing up say they then got into punk/hardcore then indie or dance or whatever.

When i was 15 or 16 I got a cd player (I had a few lps but wasnt really INTO music, just listened to charts radio like most people but preferred the rock or synthpop end i suppose) So I got into U2 and then after a few years I got into Rolling Stones, Beatles, Who, Sex Pistols and then Nirvana came along. Talk about perfect timing. When I got into Nirvana my new mates(i only moved to hamilton about 6 months before Nevermind came out) were in two camps. Ones i knew from Accies games and they tended to like indie like Stone Roses, Primal Scream,The Smiths, Pixies etc and the non footy ones liked Metallica, Guns n roses etc. I never liked glam metal at all(had a mate at school who did) so Grunge was a great way to bridge the gap between the two. Was great finding out there was good bands existed but weren't in the charts.
Nirvana really was life changing for me since I didn't have any older brothers or sisters to get me into music like so many do. So I had to find it all by myself(with help from Nirvana of course). melody maker, Raw, Kerrang and even NME were good back then helping me discover stuff.
And of course Napster and co helped me find new bands when I just wasn't liking what the magazines were covering 5-6 years ago, as I was buying mainly old music like Krautrock,funk, jazz and erm the classics obviously.
The internet helped my tastes get even broader.

I do wonder what age I will be when I finally give up on new bands, or even music.

x-posts as I took so long typing that out.

Hanoi Rocks are a great band! One of the classic bands i got into in the late 90s. My mate saw them with Johnny Thunders opening for them in 1985 I think it was. Since he's 40 he's seen loads of great bands. His elder brother saw Sabbath with ozzy. My mate saw them with Dio. Those 2 and their friends have seen some amazing gigs.

pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 31 August 2006 10:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Aw, sorry you are also feeling rub today, Pash. :-( Is it post-holiday blues? When you have a good time on holiday, it's rubbish to have to come back to work.

I am feeling rub because of nerves mainly, for tonight. Which I guess is a good thing, as I haven't had nerves about a gig in... well, about as long as I haven't been enjoying them. So maybe nerves are an integral part of the process.

Oh, and other crap, but I'm not going to get into that here.

x-post

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 31 August 2006 10:31 (seventeen years ago) link

My sore eye seems to have improved a bit. Its where it was when it 1st went sore on tuesday. A lot better than yesterday though. That Golden Eye ointment the pharmacist recommended seems to be doing the trick. Hope It doesn't get worse again though or I will have to try get an appointment with the doctor.

Norman> Any news on whats up with ILX?

pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 31 August 2006 10:38 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, you got me: It's from the Pendon model railway museum, near Abingdon. Alice won a Family ticket to it.

Slaves to authenticity: Someone noted to the guideperson that the ticket inspector on the GWR train coudn't be from the 1940's as they always had a buttonhole (flower). So they dug up the regulations, and apparently all customer-facing staff had to provide of themselves a buttonhole flower. So they shut it down overnight, opened the top of the train, and put a little white dot on the lapel.

M Grout (Mark Grout), Thursday, 31 August 2006 10:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh yeah, that Goldeneye stuff is great. But I can't even read that name without wanting to go "GOLDENEYE!!!" a-la Tina Turner.

M Grout (Mark Grout), Thursday, 31 August 2006 10:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, "Metal-phase"..

Never did. Only in passing, i.e. bought the first Nirvana album.

M Grout (Mark Grout), Thursday, 31 August 2006 10:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I think it's just that all of the jobs I have in are, uh, "unrewarding", and also I keep losing sales b/c the 2 main bike brands I do are both backordered by several months. I lost a 600 quid sale on tuesday because of this - guy comes in wanting a specific bike, so I phone them up, and the quote the end of november as the due date, bye-bye sale.

OTOH, I really am sick of working. I got loads of music done in my week off, now I'm back to sneaking up into the attic at 10pm and getting a couple of hours done b/c I have to go to bed at 12

Norman Phay (Pashmina), Thursday, 31 August 2006 10:44 (seventeen years ago) link

When I was a kid at school, one of the other kids' dads had a big model rail layout in his attic, with amazingly detailed, realistic scenery. In one corner he'd made a little river out of clear resin, with a little school of fish, made out of tiny slivers of wood, I presume, dipped in silver paint. around a bend in the river from the school of fish was a little model angler, sitting in a dejected pose. When I was a kid I thought it was dorky and a bit embarrasing, but now I think it's really funny and cool, and it makes me wonder what other similar things he'd made that I missed at the time.

Norman Phay (Pashmina), Thursday, 31 August 2006 10:54 (seventeen years ago) link

From my own personal experience the people my age tend to have had a goth phase if they didn't have a metal phase. Those a bit older it's definitely a punk or prog phase if its not the 70s hard rock.
(excluding the people who prefer chart music - ie the majority of people)
x-post

pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 31 August 2006 10:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I saw hanoi rocks on all of their uk tours, the second one was the best, they were absolutely rocking, the forth one, w/johnny thunders supporting, they had got as bit slack, johnny thunders band absolutley blew them off stage. I still like "bankok shocks..." the rest of it, not so much.

Norman Phay (Pashmina), Thursday, 31 August 2006 10:57 (seventeen years ago) link

The 1st album is my fave too. My least fave is the one everyone raves about(the last album),still good though, I just prefer them when they were raw.

pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 31 August 2006 10:59 (seventeen years ago) link

HA HA HA HA HA, yes, I had a Goff phase. Some might say it never ended.

Lookit what I just saw advertised:

http://myspace-115.vo.llnwd.net/01062/51/12/1062212115_l.jpg

ED!!! Someone nicked our prog and psych night idea!

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 31 August 2006 10:59 (seventeen years ago) link

That's all psych! I don't see much in the way of prog there at all!

Norman Phay (Pashmina), Thursday, 31 August 2006 11:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, Soft Machine and Pink Floyd definitely straddle the pysch/prog line. I think I saw Hawkwind in there, too, but maybe it was wishful thinking.

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 31 August 2006 11:02 (seventeen years ago) link

on that subject (the "p" word), I flipped thru a copy of "Classic Rock" in Tesco's the other day, and they had reprinted an old interview w/joe strummer where he was waxing lyrical about how awesome king crimson were! wtf.

Norman Phay (Pashmina), Thursday, 31 August 2006 11:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Why have Soft Machine, 13th floor elevators and Misunderstood got asterixes? hmmm

xpost didn't J.Lydon say much the same thing recently?

M Grout (Mark Grout), Thursday, 31 August 2006 11:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I bought "Red Queen to Gryphon Three" in to-bay, btw if anyone's interested. It'l like that "Bouree" track of the 2nd circulus album, except there's a whole album of it, and their keyboard player has better taste in moog noises.

Norman Phay (Pashmina), Thursday, 31 August 2006 11:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm looking at analogue solutions (uk modular synth manufacturer) website in another browser tab, and it's condensed the url yo "http://www.anal...solutions.com". Ha ha ha ha ha ha. God.

Norman Phay (Pashmina), Thursday, 31 August 2006 11:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha ha ha ha ha, indeed. :-)

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 31 August 2006 11:08 (seventeen years ago) link


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