1. listened to Vision Creation Newsum (Saturday)—the best part was that I was driving my dad’s car which has a shitty muffler, whatever track 2 is called is in the same key as 83 mph
2. played yahtzee (yesterday)—totally beat the shit out of everyone else, too
3. MADE ESPRESSO AT HOME. Have I not told fucking EVERYone this yet? I love my shiny little stovetop espresso pot and it tastes to drip coffee like summer tomatoes taste to winter tomatoes — that is to say that drip coffee can go hang.
- visited the Horniman museum in South London
- picked up and carried a very young child (srsly)
i.e. kidnapping?
Built bmx obstacles and took cool panoramic photos of them!
http://www.mullsports.com/uploaded_images/image-upload-25-798661-799153.jpe
http://www.mullsports.com/uploaded_images/image-upload-34-749776-750676.jpe
(this is a lot higher, narrower, and wobblyer than it looks)
xxpost: Did you pick up the child at the hornyman museum?
“played yahtzee (yesterday)”
DUDE!
Changed my gtr strings the RIGHT way for the first time in 15 years! It only took me like 15 minutes, instead of more than an hour.
omg the horniman museum! MAAAN that takes me back! Do they still have the awesome aquarium bit?
they built a new aquarium last year.
The second photo Ste looks like a homeless dude showing his place off on Cribs!
“This is where I get my eats on. Rats mostly, southern fried just like momma useta make”
All it needs is sundry others in teh background making thug mugs!
LJ to thread?
give it a week or two, things looking promising
haha, actually he was pretty injured by this point in the photo shoot.
How’s the bunnyhopping coming along?
Is it bad that I smiled at that? (xpost)
LJ, just stop and think about it: Clean slate. Why not start on a good note here and avoid being sniped at. I am not being a total bollicks here, I just think it’s a good idea not to post shit like that and then start defending yourself.
Remember: Not all attention is good attention.
fair enough, but i was only responding to psmith’s enquiry!
ok, shit stops here.
my own answer = bought a Barry Adamson album. OH YEAH!!!
1. listened to Vision Creation Newsum (Saturday)—the best part was that I was driving my dad’s car which has a shitty muffler, whatever track 2 is called is in the same key as 83 mph
Star!
Tracks 2 through 4 are pretty much the best thing ever.
i just emailed the R1AA my first narc report. first one finished! this is all very exciting!
my dad and i drove across new york state super fast + stoned on a sunny day listening to VCN
the end of track four is unbelievable, yes, but track five is only the rest-break before the awesomeness of track six!
i went cross-country skiing on saturday!! fell down some hills before i figured out how to snowplow in damn x-cntry skis, but totally had fun, will do again ++!!
vcn is awesome for driving, yeah
yeah, but not with other people in the car. this one guy told me that it “sounds like a washing machine” and i “purposely try to find horrible music.” we’re not friends anymore. -_-;;
Stovetop espresso rules my mornings.
I also visited the Horniman the weekend—I went into the hands-on music room and had my first go at playing a bodhran. It didn’t sound very good but then it was nearly drowned out by everyone else in the room hitting things.
There’s some incredible edits of the end of VCN track four done on the Rebore series. On the DJ Krush one (Vol 3) listen to ~30:00 to 37:15 or so. There’s all these scratches (or are they tape yanks?) and this lovely lovely lovely haunting synth riff added. If anyone can ID it, I would love it! Then it launches off to Super Roots 7 (MEKONS!)
VCN: Bringing ILX together in its time of greatest need.
Super Roots 5 is on sale at the local Fopp, is that the one everyone raves about?
Super Roots 5 is the most noisy
Gee, mickey, between your narc jokes and your continual use of the word “faggot”, you are certainly a chucklefest!
Gone to Berlin! Shopped in Berlin shops! Gone to Berlin art openings! Everything WONDERFUL.
i feel like super roots 7 is the one that most people rave about, but SR5 is certainly awesome, and is called “the centerpiece of the super roots series” or something on the reissue packaging...
There’s only a single word spoken. “Go!!!!”.
7(kraut-mekons) > 6(recorded in the dark lying on backs; kuiper belt to vision creation newsun’s stellar core) > 5(stellar remnant collapses into neutron star and spins for an hour) > 8(cover of isao tomita j-lion king theme... short) > 1(pop tatari type weirdness) > 3(trance bad brains cover) > 2(throwaway version of 1)
John Justen, oh no, i can’t believe i lost you as a fan! you’ve always been such a huge supporter of me here. time for some serious introspection. -_-;;
IIRC, 4 *was* recorded but I’ve never heard it discussed.
Isn’t the number 4 unlucky in Japanese culture, or am I making things up? Presumably it’s the event horizon of the set...
It is unlucky in all east asian cultures (sounds like DEATH iirc), but that wasn’t why I think.
God damn, I want that sample ided
1. listened to Vision Creation Newsum (Saturday)
ah. Congratulations. That is some kinda rekkid.
eaten oatibix....it has revitalised breakfast!
Hmm, well, if I see 7 or 6 lying around I’ll pick it up. I still think Pop Tatari is their best album, mind, although were it to have Super Coming as its centrepiece it’d be EVEN BETTER.
Oh wow, I SO want 6 now that I’ve seen its Allmusic praesee.
my top seeded torrents right now:
1) Super Roots 7
2) ZZ Top—Deguello
3) Super Roots 6
Who is downloading all this ZZ Top?
Super Coming is like a Beefheart jam turned into a 12 minute tribal metal stomp.
Super You = Super Roots 5
Super Are, Super Going = Vision Creation Newsun
Super Coming, Super Are You, Super Shine = Pop Tatari
Super Good = FREE (END OF SESSION VERSION)
now if someone YSI’s the “2001 Boredoms” 12“ I will be happy.
Super Coming is flat-out one of the songs of the 90’s. And it might just have the most tantalising first two minutes of any piece of music ever! I wish I knew all the lyrics...
That ^^^ seems to figure, ‘cos my favourite Super Ae tracks are the ones you’ve aligned to Pop Tatari, although the whole album’s pretty awesome.
louis, I have a present for you.
I don’t want to know the lyrics. I JUST DON’T WANT TO KNOW.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hv5Q22nTv0
^ short mix of super going + rad video
xxpost: omg teh olive branch! :D awesome, cheers j0n!
:D
check your email
already have done! currently unzipping!
this is fantastic stuff, btw, but i must go now. the rest shall be consumed later...
...no, let’s wait and see how they do the whole ‘YAAAH!’ chord-changey bit that some dude in Stylus described as the greatest moment in modern rock or whatever...
...are they gonna do it AT ALL? in some ways i’d rather they didn’t, this is mesmeric at the moment...OMG and there it is! Rather than the abrupt change on the LP version it just kinda slipped in, casually...OH HANG ON it does it in TWO stages! THAT’S more like it!
woohoo!
immense
you can hear the edits on the lp version
I think its all the same take though
I cooked a lobster last Sunday that someone caught for me. I liked how it turned red in the pot. It was super fresh & tender topped with a delicious mornay under the grill.
anyone have super roots 9
I listened to Float On by Modest Mouse for the first time this week. It’s pretty good!
rode to work (now 5 minutes faster than train with heaps of room for improvement, plus removal of fatty fatty fat fat stomach)
made honey soy chicken! tasty
I listened to Float On by Modest Mouse for the first time this week. It’s pretty good!
That album is so well-done.
so tonight for my remote sensing class I did lots of NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) analysis. NDVI is basically the difference of reflected near-infrared and red light (from its wavelength band in the visible spectrum), divided by the sum of those two bands. Once you georeference the image raster to whatever ground coordinates you have, you basically get a map of plant intensity, due to the fact that in photosynthesis plants absorb light most abundantly from the red wavelengths, but reflect/scatter near-infrared light because they can’t use it and it would just burn them up. So we do a little model building in ArcGIS (or Erdas IMAGINE since my ArcGIS geoprocessing tools were “not licensed”), and throw in a little boolean SQL in the models to calculate an NDVI raster. Of course once you get that you can illustrate and do spatial analysis & statistics of its NDVI change on a temporal scale (cause of season change) or how it reponds to any environmental factors. It is pretty neat
I think you posted on the wrong thread. You meant this:
Books a Man Has Given Me That Made Me Swear NEVER to Go on Another Date with Him EVER Again
this thread has inspired me to drink a bottle of wine and smoke a little and listen to super roots 7 which is more awesome than leslie nielsen
the best part abt seven is the chill-out music towards the end since they just made your brain bleed
they love you.
It does make me happy that this is mostly a boredoms thread.
Forgot to say: Finished my first track last night! Playing it to a jury of my peers this evening. Very nervous but at least there’ll be a few drinks at the same time: everything sounds better with a couple of drinks in you!
Made home-made chips! Omigod, I am never eating horrible ones from kebab shops again! HOme made chips actually taste of potato and are soft and luscious and not too greasy.
made these mofos and pwned them: http://www.astray.com/recipes/?show=Parsnip-potato%20pancakes
Made home-made chips!
OMG KAET DOES YOUR OVEN WORK?? i am coming round to roast things in it. also... home made chips—chuck some of your curry spices in with the oil when you roll them around in it and omg yumminess comes out.
No, mine oven does not work. I fried them. But not deep fried, but lightly fried, and then blotted the excess grease off them with kitchen roll. Ooh, I should try curry spices. I had them with a cheese an nonion ommelette, but I eat those all the time so it is nothing special.
Put pancetta in my mushroom risotto (it didn’t rule, as such, but it was nice)
YSI KV
ate a chorizo and tzatziki toasted flatbread from local lunch place. it was amazing.
i actually shead a tear with my last bite.
“chuck some of your curry spices in with the oil when you roll them around in it and omg yumminess”
kebab shop tastes die hard!
no no! they are fuck all like kebab shop chips! for a start they are made from actual POTATOES
YSI KV
Ha ha no! My ‘peers’ (if one could ever believe that there are people who could even hope to ascend to my levels of wonderfullness) are other students on the course! If I ever do something that I feel I could let go without last minute tweaks then I’d send it in a shot!
sqeegeed off my headlights, which i haven’t done all winter. shits was dirty!
But not deep fried, but lightly fried
just out of interest for myself, how lightly? i want to cook homemade chips but am petrified of heating up jillions of gallons of oil to stupid temperatures.
Well, the trick is to parboil the potatoes first (about ten minutes)—then you fry the chips in oil about halfway up however thick your chips over. Turn them over halfway through. When they are done on both side, put them on kitchen towel and pat lightly to remove the icky greasiness. Then consume with extreme joy.
ideal! thanks
I listened to the JB’s “The Grunt (Parts 1 & 2)” for the first time ever and suddenly realized where the main samples used in Public Enemy’s “Rebel Without A Pause” and “Night of the Living Baseheads” came from.
not for the first time ever, but for the first time in a year—cycled to work! completely awesome. so glad to have a bike again.
I donated blood and it wasn’t scary or painful at all. The thought that it might be of benefit to someone else made me absurdly pleased. I wish I hadn’t put it off for so long due to my phobia of needles. Will definitely do it again.
good work gem. i’m a total convert.
not for the first time ever, but for the first time in a year—cycled to work! completely awesome. so glad to have a bike again.
— Gem (gemilyinterrupte...), February 14th, 2007. (gem ) (later)
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I donated blood and it wasn’t scary or painful at all. The thought that it might be of benefit to someone else made me absurdly pleased. I wish I hadn’t put it off for so long due to my phobia of needles. Will definitely do it again.
— Hard like armour (mungbea...), February 15th, 2007. (Hard like armour) (later)
ok these two are my FAVOURITES so far. yay you two!
Cheers! Glad to be of assistance.
had one of my flikr photos published. It was in the Liverpool Daily Post. I recv’d a tearsheet in the mail and I am thrilled.
So you should be, that is awesome.
WORN LONG UNDERWEAR. JUST, LIKE, FOR WORK.
i know i’ve put them on as a kid to go sledding or whatever. But today it’s -9, and the pair of pants i wanted to wear are really thin. so, out come the thermals. SOLUTION.
Had a producer like my baby client’s work so much they want to meet her.
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professional (as in ‘i gots paid’) sound engineering work
I ate a lychee, even though it looked like a peeled testicle.
Just this evening “glitched a photo” never done it successfuloly but it is way cool here is the link:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/photochopkungfu/discuss/72157594547517900/
3. MADE ESPRESSO AT HOME. Have I not told fucking EVERYone this yet? I love my shiny little stovetop espresso pot and it tastes to drip coffee like summer tomatoes taste to winter tomatoes — that is to say that drip coffee can go hang.
I remember getting one of those espresso pots for Xmo a couple of years back, and spending the festive period buzzing my nuts off.