Julian Famous Five?
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damn you Andrew.
how about Julian Clary?
OK, there are some unattractive Julians. But not many.
Right, I am now half an hour late thanks to the dronerock fairy, I better get my ass out of here and to the Tai Not A Cult Food and then Shoreditch.
Julian Clary was quite attractive in his younger days (I realise it’s not my opinion that’s being canvassed here)
Do all men from Leeds just have the same mouth or something?
Good lord! We must be secretly married. I never knew he could paint. I thought he just wrote funny songs.
Anyway! I’m leaving! Now! I’m not hanging around the office, I do NOT have an internet addiction. I’m in yr Shoreditch drinking yr edgy style drinks. Honest.
non-hott Julian: Julian Fellowes.
Julian Gough, ex lead singer of Toasted Heretic!
non-hott Julian = Julian McMahon (I may be the only woman on earth who thinks this)
Good god, what has Julian turned into? He looks like he’s stuck his head on a fake neck.
Anyone found a pointy nosed jazz musician for Kate yet?
Morning, you lot.
- grumble, nod -
Even more annoying than the credit card thing, my phone turned itself off last night (or rather the battery ran down because the camera slidey thing opened up and the phone was trying to take pictures of the inside of my pocket all night) and so I missed a phone call from my brother Paul (who some of you met) to say that he was in town for just one night last night.
Stupid phone.
Otherwise, though, I am in good humour. Got a good start on novel edits, which is v. satisfying.
It could be worse. My 2003-vintage Motorola would just randomly turn itself off for no reason. Usually when I was expecting a call, of course.
i had that motorola phone. it was the worst phone i ever had. also cut off in the middle of calls, got bored halfway through a text message and ate that as well, wouldn’t ring when someone called but half the time go straight to voicemail. RUBBISH phone.
weren’t Toasted Heretic sort of an Irish Pulp? I remember Gary Crowley playing one of their songs on his GLR show circa 1991 (it was about Sinead O’Connor and was called “Galway and Los Angeles”) and it sounded like pre His n Hers Pulp to me.
Hi all. We all good this morning? I made a lentil-based dinner last night, it was awesome. Surprising cos I thought I didn’t like lentils, but I gave them another chance, and they have repaid me well.
This made me laugh this morning:
I like that teach has drawn a nice ring doughnut on that paper.
That’s a snack for the elephant.
Morning all.
Today I’ve got to finish reading Kalooki Nights (100 more pages to go!), and then discuss it with The Jews Of North London.
It’s Pancake Day! It’s Pancake Day! It’s P-P-P-P-Pancake Day!
(god bless Maid Marian. And poor Danny John-Jules, reduced to the godawful MI-High)
I’m having trouble sleeping at the moment; it seems that the most rest I have got at any one time in the last week has been on the bus into work :(. And there’s no data in these tables I’m supposed to make a report from! I don’t even know if they’re the right tables either, so I guess I should find out before going too far..
Is this the Motorola which was overexcited about being able to ring your voicemail, and had a big awkward button that would do so immediately, if necessary possible throwing your text message to the depths of hades? I had a loan of one in 2003 for a bit.
Also I hadn’t thought of Toasted Heretic as an Irish Pulp, that makes an awful lot of sense.
Really? The very first time I heard Pulp I thought they sounded like Toasted Heretic. Ah, if only Julian had not hit Tony Wilson over the head with that tea tray that time, how different things could have been.
it was silver with a green backlight to the screen, though the pics on the internet always had a blue backlight which looked so much cooler. wai they lai?
I don’t think my Motorola had one of those—but the faults with it were nearly all software ones so probably all Motorolas of the period had them.
Motorolas are horrible, horrible phones. The only reason people I know get Razrs or whatevs is that the service providers appear to be giving them away. I had one of the first tri-bands handed down to me when I first got a phone and it ate all kinds of calls going each way, which sucks when you’re Pay As You Going for all kinds of fuckup. Also CLAMSHELLS ICK. So it’s a Sony Ericsson or Nokia for me.
:::BOUNCE::: No hangover here, BTW.
it also had an aerial that you could unscrew. WHY? it was non-flippy. i am looking for a pic but there are LOTS of pics of motorola phones on the interweb. also the battery life was rubbeesh which sucks when you’re at a festival or something. the bradfordian has a motorola now which she says is really good, charge lasts for a week etc, but i’m dubious. and i’m getting a new phone in the next week or so bc it’s upgrade-time and i’ve been using a phone from like 5 years ago since one started smelling like fire and the other one got run over by a car.
Mine was silver, flippy, and did have a blue backlight. The battery life was indeed terrible if you actually wanted to call anyone.
god, some of their phones are so fugly. who gets away with designing these things?
There’s just something about the average Moto that begs ‘please hurl under a car’.
Emsk if you got a good look at T3$$4’s Nokia last night, it has the most wicked camera, and you should go for that. Dreadlocked Otaku Boy can tell you the model number fer sure.
nah i wasn’t looking at anyone’s phone! anyway my choice will be limited cos i have to go for one of the free ones. i’m not really arsed about it having a camera (s gave me her old digital camera on sunday, yay! i have been playing with it last night)—what i want from a phone is this:
a) long battery life
b) lots of storage space for phone numbers and text messages
c) robust (i would like one of those nokia sports ones as they are apparently also water-resistant, but they come with all this sports and betting shit pre-installed and i definitely don’t want that)
er that’s it.
network?
o2
Surely they are giving things away on O2.
yes, of course they are. i just don’t know what yet. i have to call them in the next few days and find out.
See if they will offer you a sony K800 or k750, I think they do everything you want.
I have Sony w810i; it’s meant also to play mp3s but I’ve never used that side of things.
also k610
coolio, thanks. maybe i should ring them today, i dunno how often they change what’s available. the k800i is on their site, i don’t think they’ll give me it free bc it seems to be free for tariffs of £25+ if you’re a new customer, and my tariff is £20 and i’m not new. hang on, in the specs it says “candy bar yes”—wtf is a candy bar? k750i not available on pay monthly.
they obv just give away whatever they’ve got left from the last few months in the freebie thing, i think i have to talk to them to find out.
No, the K800 is the one I have that keeps turning itself off because the camera slidey thing is too loose and keeps sliding to the camera setting. Annoying! Great camera, though. Reasonably long battery life too, except I keep not charging it. What makes a person be the kind of person who forgets to charge their phone, forgets to take important tablets, but remembers everyone’s name and what they all do for a living, even ten years later?
ah thanks! i won’t get that then—i think sony have a problem with this—the one that smells like fire is (was, sniff) an ericsson (z250/750i i think?) and it was constantly taking pics of the inside of my pocket because it had a little camera button on the side to use to take photos when the flippiness was closed.
Morning! Despite being in a rubbish mood when I woke up, I am now in a great mood because a woman had PUPPIES on the train.
Two of them were on leashes because they were big, but the third was in a puppy transport box and not very pleased about it so she had to take the puppy out of the box and she was all WIGGLY and EXCITED and CUET and UTTERLY ASTONISHED by being on a train and the cutest thing ever in the history of cute.
Johnney B’s elephant physics made me laugh like a drain.
I know nothing of phones, I understand them not. Mine makes text messages, sometimes makes calls—though it does have a weird foible that it has to be plugged in during transAtlantic calls or it will lose charge and disconnect itself, but does not have to be plugged in for calls within the UK. I do not understand this. Surely all calls are going through the same relay point, why would it take more energy to receive a call from the States?
That does seem strange. But oh! puppies.
PUPPIES! i want a cat. or dog. or both. see, i should not have been deprived of pets as a child. kate sorry i didn’t say goodbye to you last night, i didn’t realise you were leaving. i only found out when i thought you’d been a really long time in the loo.
For big talk time, Nokia E50
Sorry, I did kind of leave abruptly but it was one of those things where I could either get drunk and be bad or else sober up and go home and I chose the latter. I got a bus straight away which was good, and then the train came really quickly. But there were no puppies on that train unfortunately.
I want puppies around all the time. Puppies make everything better.
Anyway, on the hotttt pointy nosed Julian front:
Shall I buy an ex-army military spec JCB?
yes, of course.
OBVIOUSLY.
but wait, the disposals agency has a ships section
Ships?!?!? Any tall ones?
But will the JCB fit on a ship? I think you need to get a JCB anyway. It is not one of those things you ever really need to say “oh, but whatever will I use it for?” as you know there are TONS of things you can do with a JCB.
You could be a rogue archeologist and crash Time Team.
BUY ME ONE! Ship or JCB, I don’t care.
We should all pitch in together and buy a giant yacht. And sail around the world. Searching for pointy nosed boys. And booty. And fighting The French.
Arr, I be liking the sound of booty, in a 2live crew sense of the word.
WHEN ARE WE DOING CANALBOAT HIJINX
And wear FANTASTIC HATS!!!!
That photo’s rated RRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
Yes, when ARE we going to do canalboats? I was going to hire one for my birthday, but now I’ve got that gig.
I have a real desire to make a Snakes on A Plane spoof entitled Puppies on a Train
Kittens on a thread! Arrrggghhh!!!
I kill you with tweeness!
Keith and I have decided that when we are millionaires, we are going to buy a tramp steamer and chug around the world in it. We are semi-serious about this, although it is unlikely that we will ever be rich enough.
Tramp steamer would be awesome! You could be like Rachel and her Steamboat (she called it Baby Boy)—keeping in line with the hott Julians of the world. When I retire or pay off my mortgage, whichever comes first, I am going to buy a canal boat and just putt about Britain.
Anyway, here are some more kittens...
(Come on, that’s a kitten even Kerr could love!)
I think that cat is sitting on an LFO.
A friend is in town during daylight hours, and I’m going to meet her for lunch somewhere near Victoria. Does anyone know anywhere nice around there?
I have nothing against kittens. Just fed up seeing them on ILX!
God, I want sideburns. Why can’t I grow facial hair?
Kate wants sideburns? Stop drinking spearmint tea then!
Who will find a picture of the drone rock dalmation for us?
victoria is pretty rubbish for nice places to eat, drink etc. there’s an ok curry place just by where the oxford tube goes from.
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whaaaa’? since when?
Dirty dalmation, sure, but dirty dronerock? Don’t know...
HEY, WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?
Pashmina, can you turn off email notifications for this thread? I mean, this ain’t my real email, but it just seems a bit... twisted.
whaaaa’? since when?
it’s probably just Andrew, because his request was time-specific.
Ha ha ha, Kerr, I was listening to the Dronerock Fairy’s offerings, and thought “wow, this Arcade Fire album got about 1000x better on the last song” and then realise that Blonde Redhead had started.
Oooo, I love Blonde Redhead.
They’re one of those bands I always forget I like. I mean, I take no note of them, despite having a couple of their albums—until someone plays them and then suddenly I go “ooh, what is this?”
Kinda disappointed by the new Arcade Fire. I mean, I love their giant church organ sound. But they don’t do much with it. And Win Butler has developped an annoying habit of singing like Bruce Springsteen.
::shudders::
Very Springsteen. And very disappointing at first. But it’s growing on me a LOT.
Yeah, and otm re: the redhead. I always forget about them too. I still haven’t seen them live—I can’t decide if they’d be the best thing ever or totally rubbish.
You are from New Jersey. It is written in, like, your birth certificate that you have to like Bruce. I remain unconvinced, but I will allow it to grow on me.
True. K lost her shit the other night after I (for the thousandth time, probably) made a positive comment about the boss. She apologized like 20 minutes later, but not after seriously imploring me never to mention his name within her hearing again.
She is a sensible woman!
AWESOME!!!!
I wonder if I should ask to get the Shimura Curves thread unlocked, or just start a new one for SCIV.
I have never knowingly heard Blonde Redhead. I have the chance to see them live at the end of May tho as they are playing Primavera Sound in Barcelona!
Now they’ve announced the full line up (bar a few last minute surprises, I’m sure) I should revive the Primavera thread....
Love the bat. The fact that I had to turn my head sideways to read the band names less so.
Each SC lineup should have a badge like a campaign medal or some such. Possibly there should be a flag,
Campaign medals! Yes, that would be awesome! I served in the Truck Campaign. Or served during the Bumlove Campaign years.
ooh, flowers of hell too.
SEE BLONDE REDHEAD
they are magnificent
OK, I’m vaguely upset. iLiKETRAiNS have decided to stop dressing like conductors and start dressing like undertakers:
I hope this is just an abberration for the Spencer Perceval single, and not a permanent move.
Also, if it is Andrew following this thread by email, I’m going to make sure there are lots of lovely Julian Barratt pictures for him to look at to amuse him during lunch.
OK, I should really get back to work. Bah. Why do I have so much work to do today?
Accentmonkey drops the science—I can read my email on my phone, but not ILX.
It turns out the answer was The Recency Cafe, though I only found this out after we were sitting in La Tasca in the Cardinal Place shopping centre. Which was also quite nice.
OMG PATATAS BRAVAS
Is that a band or a dish?
Errrmmm, NIPPLES!!!
it is an DISH what i just made
and it is GOOD
Brave Potatoes? You can see why I thought it might be a Bull and Gate Band of the Week name.
(Though I have actually seen a band called Papas Fritas, but that’s just French Fries in Spanish, que non?)
I’m sorry, I keep getting distracted by the nipples. I’m starting to get a bit sick of having a crush now but it’s not like you can turn them off and on when it’s inconvenient. Sigh.
Yes, Patatas Bravas, and aubergine things, and breaded something else and a quiche type thing, and the best chocolate and orange cheesecake ever, it was like a Terry’s Chololate Orange had been very very good and then got reincarnated as a cheesecake.