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When everyone is feeling rubbish all at once, it makes me tempted to believe in astrology.

Have I mentioned this before? - here that kind of thing gets attributed to cosmic rays. They even mention it in the weather forecast!

substitute, mitya for him (mitya), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Morning, peoples!

Can I add to the chorus of "bah, humbug, morning" around here?

Actually, I'm in a pretty good mood, I'm just tired.

Had a great time last night, mulling and then barn dancing, but even though I left at a decent hour, the OMIGOD I'VE GOT TO HAVE CHIPS IN PITA NOW NOW NOW urge struck me as I was walking down the hill home so I didn't sleep very well.

I'm looking forward to seeing the skullington pictures, CJ! Poor dog. But the last time I found a skull in the woods, it was a deer skull and I had to fight my dog to get it off him!

masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Word up, people. I feel sorry for Louis today.

tissp! (tissp!), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Why, what happened to Louis today?

Something else has just pissed me off today but I can't talk about that. Grrrrrrrr. :-(

But then I got a nice email from PBW, which kinda made up for it. Just when I decide I'm totally not bothered by him, he decides he wants to be friends. OK. Whatevs. ::shrugs::

masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Why? (Hi!)xpost oh yeah?

g000blar (g00blar), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I think you have mentioned it, Mitya.

Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh yeah, Gooblar! Suzy got pictures of your dancing boys routine. It looks freaking cool. Just waiting for Ed to email me the pictures and I will post them.

Anyway, as I said last night, I am officially Over Boys. Square Dancing is the new sex. For the first time, ever I stripped the willow* without managing to take out an entire row of dancers.


*this is actually a folk dancing move, not something FP is into.

masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:29 (seventeen years ago) link

He's being savaged for saying Yanqui UXO is a good record. Which it is. But I would say that. I am the Geir of Post Rock

tissp! (tissp!), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Cool. I'm Over Boys too.

g000blar (g00blar), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link

rats, I forgot and they are on my computer at home, you should have made me do it as I was standing there.

Folk dancing is also full of cute girls.

Ed (dali), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm not even going to bother protesting innocence any more, I think

Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Apropos of nothing

http://home.maine.rr.com/abajoran/img2/abrick8a.jpg

Ed (dali), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:33 (seventeen years ago) link

DAMMIT!!! x-x-post

Which one is Yanqui? I can't tell GSYBE records apart, though I think my favourite is A#F#∞ but that could just be the name. (the one with that gruff voice talking about "the driver is dead at the wheel" or whatever he says. Cannot quite remember, will have to dig it out when I get home.)

masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Honestly, I know it sucks and it's the most massive shame, because I used to get so much enjoyment out of it, but I cannot read ILM any more. It's not even because of trolls and idiots - well, then again, I suppose that depends on your definition. There are two people who have made it completely intolerable to me, even to read.

masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Yanqui is the latest one. It has "Rockets Fall From Rocket Falls" and "Motherfucker=Redeemer" on it. F#A#? (I feel pedantic correcting the order, sorry) is the one with "the driver is dead at the wheel" ("Dead Flag Blues"...I think)

tissp! (tissp!), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Weirdly, so am I. I've got that old fashioned "never gonna be randomly fancied again" feeling this morning as well, which isn't aiding my demeanor. And I'm being bullied by a gu who wants me to fix his database - well, fuck him, I said I was gonna do it at the start of next year, and if he keeps this up, it'll be the start of February.

I haven't been anywhere folky (for want of a better phrase) for a while, but there was no cuteness where I was. It might be different in the Big City, where folk dances are gonna be populated by horsey types (a good thing, btw).

Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:37 (seventeen years ago) link

(xpost)

tissp! (tissp!), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:38 (seventeen years ago) link

ILM is pretty ridiculous nowadays. Stage 6a, though, innit

tissp! (tissp!), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:39 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, I'm a big fat post-rock pretender.

JB, this folk dancing was in Bethnal Green so it was full of cute hipster girls and young nu folk types. I danced with a floppy-haired pointy-nosed friend of Ed's and he didn't even complain when I stepped on his toes!

(I am the world's worst dancer, but my god, I don't let that spoil my enjoyment of it.)

masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:39 (seventeen years ago) link

When everyone is feeling rubbish all at once, it makes me tempted to believe in astrology.

nah, it just reminds me that it's Monday morning ;)

Ste (fuzzy), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:40 (seventeen years ago) link

OMIGOD, I FORGOT TO EAT THE CHOCOLATE FROM MY ILL GOTTEN XMAS CALENDAR!!!!!

masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Is that rick wakeman with the wizard's hat?

problem w/ilm for me is that I've said it all by now, and anything I post is just re-re-re-re-repeating myself.

Norman Phay (Pashmina), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I should have brought my little guitar in today, I'm bored.

Norman Phay (Pashmina), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I love that picture (wizards hat).

My brother just asked me what I want for Xmas. I feel like writing back and saying I don't do Winter Consumerfest. Or asking for something that will really wind him up, since he was so rude about my mum's Xmas present.

masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I have no idea what I want for Christmas, nor what to get anyone else. 'cept my girlfriend, she is sorted out. I am so on the ball with that this year.

tissp! (tissp!), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:46 (seventeen years ago) link

yes it is, I had to find a picture of old rick wakeman to reference with serious cat.

You danced with Henry is lovely, if bumbling, and has really hot sisters. I think Canadian lodge is becoming one of my favourite dances a proper mixup dance.

Ed (dali), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I have 3 days worth on my advent calender. I've eaten the 2nd, the 3rd and 4th will be eaten over the course of this afternoon.

Damn my country pumpkin roots! Why can't I got to folk dances with cuteness, instead of folk dances with beardy old men covered in last year's cider and inbred country types that look like extras in an english remake of Oh Brother where art thou?

Xmas presents - Ug! I've never been good at presents. As a child we didn't really DO presents in our house, so I haven't got in ingrained that I have to buy people things (I'm the same at b'days). As such, the whole thing seems like such a chore - I'd rather just go round and see people that I want to see and bake them cakes.

Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:53 (seventeen years ago) link

The problem for me is having my birthday directly after xmas, so people badger me about what I want for both xmas *and* my birthday.

tissp! (tissp!), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Let's do a london sunday walk on the day of the next one, you can come and to that and then we can dance and the ladle you onto the oxford tube (also our party is lacking in men, and in fact I would say it is about 2 to one men to women in there and even higher ratios on the dancefloor.)

Ed (dali), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Dude, he is Hugh Grant in combat boots. If I were not Officially Over Boys, I would be totally crushed out on him.

Problem is, I never remember the *names* of the dances I like! That over-and-under one is great! Everyone gets tied in knots.

I think the other one I really like is called Riverside - is that the one where the top two couples run down the room yelling "Charge!" and you have to duck before they take your heads off?

Plus, it's got doe-si-doeing in it.

masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Over and under is Waves of Tory

Riverside is the decapitation dance, I've done that one with 120 people in a field

Canadian Lodge is the go fast bum bumping dance

Ed (dali), Monday, 4 December 2006 11:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe I should ask my brother for a violin. That way he can get my dad to pick it (he will know what to look for in a fiddle) because I don't trust my mum.

There were lots of men last night - just none of them would get on the dancefloor - they hung back behind us, looking at the girls.

x-post - Waves of Tory? Ah, so that's why they were talking about Ireland!

Is Canadian Lodge the one that goes round in a big circle? I've yet to dance that one, I always end up deciding to sit out a round before it comes up.

I can't imagine we'd have the energy to go dancing after a rolling London walk.

masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 12:00 (seventeen years ago) link

We could do a rolling sitting around in the pub all afternoon instead.

Ed (dali), Monday, 4 December 2006 12:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Or a Bethnal Green Rolling Pub Crawl.

masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 12:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I'd be scared by all this fold dancing. I remember being made to do "country dancing" at primary school, and it wasn't a happy experience.

Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Monday, 4 December 2006 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link

No, JB, it is MUCH FUN!!! Trust me on this, I wouldn't do anything that wasn't fun. Well, not twice at least.

they had real hay, too, not that rubbish fiberglass stuff.

masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 12:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, FP, please email the link to those pictures. (Though I will have to wait until after hours as I assume they are not exactly SFW.)

masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 12:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Like Norman, I'm not at my best today. I've sprung a rib cartilage, which is not nice. Actually it's not totally sprung, but sort of torn. It hurt horribly yesterday, but is relatively OK today apart from certain movements.

Dr.C (Dr.C), Monday, 4 December 2006 12:08 (seventeen years ago) link

We had a square dancing night on one of our school (overnight) trips in Junior High, I think, and it was this big thing that you had to 'ask someone to the dance'--like to be your partner. I (apparently) had no realistic idea of my actual status, and so I asked a really hot (and popular) girl. She politely (bless her heart) declined. I ended up going with a friend.

g000blar (g00blar), Monday, 4 December 2006 12:09 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost ow!

g000blar (g00blar), Monday, 4 December 2006 12:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Ohmigod, Dr. C, that's awful! How painful! I hope you don't have to do anything strenuous for a few days. No guitar windmills for you.

Ugh, Gooblar, I think that's the kind of thing that put me off formal dances for ages. That whole "you have to ask a partner" thing which is just rubbish. It's far easier and less pressure to just have everyone turn up, whether they have a date or not, and have fun as they chose. (Which is what they did at my high school - I never had so much as a friend date in all three years there.)

masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 12:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, there was *such* pressure, actually. I think I actually took weeks to get up the courage to ask out K@ra F1tzg3rald, then looked her up in the phone book and called her up, prolly asked "will you go to the square dance with me?" in about .0000001 seconds. Her reply took only slightly longer to be voiced. I had probably never said a word to her before in my life.

g000blar (g00blar), Monday, 4 December 2006 12:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah, the joys of buying a new car. Over Christmas.

tissp! (tissp!), Monday, 4 December 2006 12:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I want to buy a violin. Question:

Should I start with a cheap violin while I'm re-learning the instrument, on the offchance that I get bored with it, in which case I've only really wasted £50/£60.

Or should I go for a better quality, prettier (I'm looking at lovely purple electric violins from Hobgoblin) violin which will tempt me to play more, and be more performance-ready when I get up to speed?

masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 13:01 (seventeen years ago) link

If you can afford the latter, go with it.

tissp! (tissp!), Monday, 4 December 2006 13:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Mrs. Dr. C used to play a bit and sez you should never buy a cheap violin, as they can never sound good.

Dr.C (Dr.C), Monday, 4 December 2006 13:06 (seventeen years ago) link

*Good* violins cost £1000 and up! I never even spent that on a guitar!

But there are some mid-range violins at about £250/£300. Electric ones (I'm pretty sure that I'd rather have one with a built-in pickup rather than fiddling (heh) about with installing mine own).

masonic boom (kate), Monday, 4 December 2006 13:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I'd say mid-range too. Cheap violins are really shit--I should know, I played one for years!

g000blar (g00blar), Monday, 4 December 2006 13:12 (seventeen years ago) link


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