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Blinkers on!

If anybody can be bothered to ban me from this thread, please do so.
Kate, maybe one day, you'll drive everyone away, and get your wish: a thread all to yourself. Wow.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Is that Beth Orton or Joanna Newsome? Joanne Newsom has a pretty pointed nose, but is too gelflinglike to be actually attractive. Beth Orton, however, rowr!

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG at teh pointy-nosed girls!

(Sorry to go all lex, but who's Joanne Newsom?)

― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, you'd love her, JB. Let me google something up...

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link

"Beth Orton"

Is the right answer.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Harp-playing gelfling girl:

http://www.dragcity.com/press/pimages/photos/dc263ph01.jpg

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Uh . .. um . . .. hi . . . . uh . . . so, do you like Novel X?

― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Anyone want to scare up some boyish girls for me.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

She's inherited Beth's old haircut!

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link

:-)

Ha ha, it's hilarious when I know my friends' "type" as well as mine own. I could spot Ed going all gooey over a bassist on Wednesday as easily as he could spot me going all gooey over Gooblar's band.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link

i love joanna newsom. i want to listen to her NOW but i am too busy listening to viva voce, can't bring myself to switch it off.

― emsk ( emsk ), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link

For Ed:

http://www.mintrecs.com/mint/files/media/the_organ/organ01_lowres.jpg

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link

"Hello, Ed, we are here to knit you a new tent, then possibly chop some firewood and have you cook us up some stew on our campfire!"

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link

When I was young and foolish enough to do such things, I nominated Beth Orton in the FHM Top 100 Sexy Women of the Year list.

She wasn't placed.

― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I had forgotten about the cuteness of the organ.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.billions.com/artists/joannanew/images/newsome_highrez.jpg

Why, hello Johnney B! Will you save me from these wolves?

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.partydomain.co.uk/d-commerce/media/bpartbignose.jpg

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.hisplacecommunitychurch.com/images/Bruce_bald_and_big_nose_2_copy.jpg

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Beth Orton looks a heck of a lot like my former bassist:

http://www.popboks.com/img/intervju/bethorton.jpg

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

that man is configured for supersonic speeds

― Ed (dali), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Or Willow from Buffy:

http://www.underexposed.org.uk/lollies/lol5.jpg

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link

(She does also look like my wife)

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Jane or Beth?

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link

or drummer canuck (whose name I forget after all these years)

― Ed (dali), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

The first ever gig I went to was a Beth Orton gig. She was supported by Travis, who were rubbish.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

LL Matt Hew?

awwww, poor Travis. Their bassist is HOTT.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

"My colleague here who works at HSBC tells me that they give out accounts to non-EU types if they bring along -
- a passport
- a letter confirming their UK address (or bill or something like that)
- a letter from their employer saying "Yep, this person isn't a bum"
- their visa"

OH MY GOD. I hope that's true now, because I tried to do this when I arrived in London five years ago. I had all of the above, PLUS I had a letter from my HSBC branch in Australia saying how fabulous I was. The bastards STILL refused to give me a bank account. As did every other bank.

― marianna longmire (marianna lcl), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Dougie Payne... what a hottie:

http://www.travispage.alpha.pl/Agata/Travis/pictures_pliki/dougcute.jpeg

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link

http://images.starpulse.com/Photos/Previews/gareth_m.jpg

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Separated at birth!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link

::insert quizzical Lex face::

I have no idea who that is.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Beth, naturally.

xpost, naturally.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Travis bassist hotness = final proof of kate's mentalism! ;)

Lollies bass-mistress looks like all 4 of my sisters sort of made into one. But a bit younger.

― Dr.C (Dr.C), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link

What can I say? He's go a GREAT nose!

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link

this thread has taken a turn for the strange since i went for lunch

― tissp! (tissp!), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link

He's also really really sweet. And he was a fan of the Lollies, which automatically makes him cool! :-P

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Is that you, Kate, next the cute bassist?

I hope Johnny likes Joanna, because Beth is MINE. (Or whoever's - has she had the baby yet?)

Thanks for the bank info. What a nightmare. I need to find a non-US, non-Russian bank. (And no, I am not money laundering. Much.)

― substitute, mitya for him (mitya), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link

What's everyone doing at the weekend? That's a suitable water-cooler question.

Me :

Tonight - Quiz + Booze
Tomorrow - Christmas shoppin' (a.m), Rugby if knee recovers, it should do(p.m), cinema maybe (evening)
Sunday - helping kids with homework, cooking, playing guitar if time.

― Dr.C (Dr.C), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link

That was me, next to the cute bassist. :-(

What am I doing this weekend?

Tonight - working.
Tomorrow - Shimura Curves rehearsal! In a STUDIO! (if the ceiling doesn't leak and Dave Q doesn't forget)
Sunday - MULLING party! Hurrah!

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I hope g00blar got my email about mulling.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Apparently tonight I am drinking beer, as my bipolar friend has decided today that she does not hate me (sure to change shortly after seeing me, no doubt).

Tomorrow I should really try pricing a synth as I think that is what I will get myself from Xmas and I would like to be certain it's cheaper in London than here.

Sunday I am meeting a real estate agent.

None of these days am I working. (Yay!)

― substitute, mitya for him (mitya), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm gaming this weekend.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link

tonight - gig, hopefully, dunno which one. tomorrow - as kate, then someone's birthday party somewhere off old st. sunday - mulling party & barndancing yay!

― emsk ( emsk ), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Practice & Dodgy Sci Fi Film Night tonight,
playing with mellotron tomorrow, late show at cinema tomorrow night
sunday is free but will probably involve giving a driving lesson and a walk in the country somewhere (assuming the weather is okay)

― tissp! (tissp!), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link

What synth are you going to get? (buy a nord, they are red)

Tell me which gig, emsk

― Ed (dali), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Gooblar! Come mulling! Bring K! Do not bring Jim if he wants to be a poo-poo head. Also I should remind Matthew and the Payne Sisters that they are to come mulling.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm also gaming, in between christmas shopping (for my tree too), cooking fancy things, and hopefully if my mind is up for it a little artwork and xmas card making.

― Ste (fuzzy), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Also tonight: hoping the police aren't around to notice that I completely failed to change my tax disc this morning

― tissp! (tissp!), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link

As hott as JN is (and thx to emsk, I approve of her skewed folk whimsy, cheers emsk) I find it vaguely disconcerting that people can "name my type". I don't know what that says about me, or even people who were successfully naming my type.

Marianne (and mitya), apparently HSBC have changed a lot in the last 5 years, so you should be fine. The account you'll get is rather basic (No overdraft, basic ATM card, that kinda thing) but it'll be there.

I worse a 3-pc suit into work today for no reason other than I wanted tom, and even if I say so myself, I look pretty damn good. This waistcoat is getting quite hot now, but I'm too psyched by my own suaveness to take it off.

― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I have an eye for beauty, and a head for patterns. That's all it says.

3-piece suits *are* hott. And hot.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link

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