Watercooler 0: Nothing Is A Problem For Me

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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

Yes, remind them, and mr DC should you run into them. Johnny B, come to London on Sunday. I want to see Matthew do a dosey do.

Ed (dali), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link

My weekend plans:

Tonight: a quiet night in cos I'm knackered, not getting home from the photoshoot until 1am last night.
Tomorrow: off to Donna Nook to look at the newborn seal pups
Tomorrow night: a cosy night in with DVDs
Sunday: Sheffield munch

Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link

but a tacit understanding that it goes no further

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

;p

tissp! (tissp!), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I have myspaced him about it. I shall remind the Payne SisX0rs at rehearsal tomorrow.

x-post, keep your nose out of my blog!

masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link

My nose is out of everyone's blogs

Ed (dali), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I was talking to TISSP!

But maybe that's the difference. I *know* that TISSP! has a girlfriend, and that she's lovely and I heartily approve of and like her. So I know that it's So Not Gonna Happen.

PBW is kinda like a loose cannon WRT his Situation, and perhaps that would make the same sort of thing completely dangerous in a way in a way that it just isn't with TISSP!, as lovely and pointy-nosed as he is.

masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I posted a very good shaggy dog story to my blog, recently.

Well, I say "very good". I'm biased because I wrote it. In length-to-crapness-of-punchline ratio, it's very good, I reckon.

Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost
i would think pointy noses were welcome in your blog, kate :)

how cool is tissp for playing with a mellotron over the weekend!

i am off, ladies and gents. have a one-der-ful one!

substitute, mitya for him (mitya), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, but you never post the PUNCHLINE to your shaggy dog story.

(Unless you have done so in the hour or so since I read your blog this morning.)

...or maybe that's the point.

I've decided to keep my PBW navelgazing on my blog and out of this thread, so I apologise for that above post.

x-post bye Mitya! Have a good one!

masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry if I upset you, Kate :(

tissp! (tissp!), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

You didn't upset me! I was teasing.

I wouldn't put stuff on my blog if I minded people reading it. I just wanted to keep it there, not here. Cause I'm sure everyone is quite bored of my pathetic (lack of) lovelife by now.

masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, but you never post the PUNCHLINE to your shaggy dog story.

The punchline is the very last sentence of part three.

Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah, phew!

I would've commented on yr blog but I have no blogger account so thought it easier to post here!

xposts

tissp! (tissp!), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Bye Mitya!

pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

(OK, I've changed my blog settings - I just turned off anonymous posts because I got sick of having to delete crap from wankers and trolls.)

I still don't get it, FP. (As I said on your blog, my browser must have displayed the cached version when I looked at it this morning. It's always doing that.)

masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I am free Sunday (I think). Mulling? Eh?

Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Wine drinkers may want to read this
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6198828.stm

pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link


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