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― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, the Kontakte gig tomorrow has moved here:

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/1064/untitled1tr5.jpg

Not sure about their description, though...

WHAT? Nobody playing your sort of music in London? well we've got 2 awesome bands and djs (including DJ Lady Genevieve) playing the best of 60s/70s/80s/90s psych/neo psychedelic/experimental/shoegazing/psych-pop which'll be exploding out of the speakers backed by mind bending visuals for you to dig!

yeah we're talking The Stones, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Chocolate Watchband, Jesus & Mary Chain, The Warlocks, Death In Vegas, Spiritualized, Spacemen 3, The Dandy Warhols, BRMC, Ride, My Bloody Valentine, The Morning After Girls, Acid Mothers Temple... the sort of music that you want to hear but nobody plays! see you there, its the best trip you'll get in London for £4!

Errr... "nobody plays"?!?!? Not been to Sonic Cathedrals lately, then, have you? Or AC-30 or Night of the Long Swords or Goo-night or any of the other half dozen shoegazer clubs in London?

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh I am crap at remembering things. Especially diseases. Once it's over, it's in the past. But my mum told me I had mumps, measels AND chickenpox in three weeks time when I was 14/15 years old. I vaguely remember *something* but ah well WHO CARES I can't have it anymore. HURRAH.

I am eating pink strawberry chocolates. Yum.

― nathalie, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I am eating CURRY. Oh, how nice it is to be eating curry for lunch again. I cannot believe I was ever sick of it. I no longer want to eat anything else.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:48 (seventeen years ago) link

What sort of curry is it, Kate?

― C J, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Astro Cat still reigns supreme, but today I discover the internet is pleasingly full of kitty synth pics.

(Chances of this posting without "illegal url" warning = minimal)

― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Kate, I just got a package of CHEESE CURRY from my mum. I can't WAIT to try it. It'll be crap, but *good* crap. haha

I like to make Chicken tikka masala from scratch (including the curry). I could eat curry every frigging DAY.

― nathalie, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Is there a Hawkwind or Prog-Rock Cat for Norm or Kate?

I'm loaded with the cold here. So i'll just be passing through when i'm not feeling too tired or ill to sit at the pc for a while.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 11:58 (seventeen years ago) link

It is a home made curry. It kind of starts life as sag paneer (cheese in curry = OHMIGOD THE YUMMMMMMM!) but I add whatever is sitting in the back of the fridge to it. Which this week means parsnips and carrots and leeks and purple sprouting broccoli.

I put a bit too much SUPER HOT GONDAL CHILLI XXX STRENGTH in it but it is still lovely.

Cats and synths go together like, err... SPACE AND ROCK!!!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 12:01 (seventeen years ago) link

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/168/444826745_2c39dab437_o.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 12:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Cats like Moogs!

http://www.siliconbreakdown.com/moogcat.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 12:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Check emails for awesome tuesday cookie (and keep an eye out in 30 mins for another)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 12:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I have just bought a pack of 20 Coffea Arabica seeds, which I am going to sow this afternoon. Hopefully these will grow into 20 lovely little coffee plants which I plan to give away at the end of the year as CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. Yes, I am planning Christmas already. How sad is that?

― C J, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 12:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, it's the time of the year to be thinking about planting things.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 12:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I've never tried growing coffee plants before - I'm quite excited!

― C J, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 12:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Will they grow in the English climate?

::licks lips at thoughts of growing own coffee::

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 12:58 (seventeen years ago) link

From what I've been reading, they seem easy enough to germinate indoors at this time of year. They do well as house or conservatory plants, although you can move them outdoors for much of the year once they're bigger (and just bring the pot indoors for them to over-winter). Unfortunately it takes three years to actually get any coffee beans from them, but they're nice looking plants with glossy green leaves and pretty white jasmine-like flowers, so they'll make nice house plants I guess. I thought it would be nice to try growing something different for a change :)

― C J, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 13:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I hate Coffee, but I don't mind coffee cream chocolates if that's all that's left.
Shame you cant grow coffee cream chocolate plants.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 13:20 (seventeen years ago) link

We're playing at the Grapes. Tomorrow, we take on Leeds at the Packhorse.

I love the grapes, we used to put on self indulgent dj night there and make lots of noise and feed people brownies. It also seems to be outside the Sheffield venue/promoter beef thing that is going on right now, or at least a neutral zone.

Hopefully the shimuras will be doing a gig in sheffield in the not too distant.

― Ed, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

WHY DOES THE BLOODY MONTHEND RECC NEVER NEVER EVER BALANCE THE FIRST TIME AROUND!??! WHY?!?!? WHY?!?!?

OK, it's better than usual. It should be £3.03 and it's -£.16 as opposed to £3000 or whatever.

WHY WHY WHY??!?!?

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Woo, just got back from being in the audience at the Culture Show. V.weird as half the time you are meant to be pretending to 'just chat, like you were on a Saturday night' and not gawping at Lauren Laverne. ALMOST asked her where the toilets were after half walked into a broomcupboard. Rest of audience was students (all under 23) and their lack of knowledge of (a) what a mackem is (b) who Mark Kermode is and Field Music are and, oh, countless other things makes me glad not to be their age any more and slightly smug at my superior knowledge and/or coolness. Also they dished out Jelly Babies at the end, so might be on a slight sugar rush.

― Nobodysprawn, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

god hel that sounds horrendous. although laverne in close-up...i could even nearly touch her!

*cough*

― CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

or ask for her phone number.

― Ed, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I heart Lauren Laverne.

I just got offered a job! And I have interviews (one based on a personal recommendation) for two more! Hurrah for possibly finally getting back to actually earning real money!

(boo for "oh noes, what to do, where to go" dilemmas, should they present themself at the end of the week)

― ailsa, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Question:

Am I going to get back to London in time for any of psychodahlia?

Answer:

Who knows?

― Ed, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 07:53 (seventeen years ago) link

morning! i prob won't be here all day as will be working like buggery. yay job news ailsa! hope you feel better and monthend works out kate! have fun in belgium ed!

i have the house to myself for 1 week.

― emsk, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 08:05 (seventeen years ago) link

except my cousin and his gf are coming from saturday to wednesday. WHAT CAN I DO WITH THEM.

― emsk, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 08:05 (seventeen years ago) link

sell them

― g-kit, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 08:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Hello! Today, we are plotting a camping holiday in Cornwall. Hurrah!

Apart from that, I'm feeling awful stiff.

― Forest Pines, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 08:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I hate having the cold.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Hi all. I also <3 LL and hate having the cold, but I am in a good mood because I finally received my end of year bonus.

It looks like I will not be in London this weekend and will instead be there next (unless I decide to play hooky).

Break a leg, Ailsa!

― mitya, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Morning. Argh, something else has gone wrong with monthend. What NOW?!?!?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Argh, my desk is so messy!

I'll never find anything!

I could tidy it or I could do some work. Instead I'll do what Konrad Lorenz called 'displacement activity' and eat a satsuma.

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I am NOT getting a cold!

I'm going to FLODIRA on Friday!

so Grrr...

― Mark G, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:41 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, it's fucked. I've no idea why, clearly I did the Giant Johnny before I had my coffee on Monday. Argh.

Also, thank you so much Mark G, Hawkwind DVD arrived last night, and I watched it. Aaahhh, it looked like so much fun in the late 60s and early 70s. And then it all went REALLY SHIT REALLY FAST. Wow, Dave Brock came off like an arsewipe for refusing to even be in the film since Nik Turner was. Made everything he did seem so much worse because you never heard his side of it.

I think I am in love with young Bob Calvet. Swoon.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, nearly said about calvert before you stopped me.

Hadn't seen the SM 'film' since the TOTP from then.

Also, was that really the Grateful Dead?

― Mark G, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:45 (seventeen years ago) link

found a place in harringey that is more or less same price as the one in peckham (under 200 for a one bed period conversion). street is nicer, and i know the area better, the flat itself isnt quite as nice, but feels less exposed.

i really cant decide what to do

― 600, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Those 60s music clips were INSANE!!! I loved young Keith Emerson leaping over his organ and assaulting it, Syd Barrett waving his arms about, etc.

But the important thing was, you really got a feeling of why 60s music was so urgent, so intense - when put up against the Establishment Men in suits going all "I do not understand this at all, it is bad, why does it have to be so loud?" you understood where they were coming from, and why it was so rebellious, what they were rebelling against. You don't get that these days with bands going on Jools HOlland or Jonathan Ross whatever and the Establishment Figure presenter just drooling all over them, like he's down with the kids or whatever.

I think that's part of what was behind the success of Popworld - Simon dripped contempt upon the musicians in the same way as those 60s figures. Except, well, in the 60s, you were on the side of the musicians, and in Popworld you were on the side of the presenters.

x-post

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I am nearly mended I think. No pain at all today!

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Thesedays, there is no underground. How could there be? There is total visibility.

A bit like how you have dusty pics of ones-self as a child, whereas the kids have perfect quality DVD movies.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I need to figure out how to do screen grabs on Mac because Bob Calvert cavorting about onstage in ... were those skinny skinny velvet jeans? I don't know what they were, but jumping about, shooting everyone in the audience with his mic stand = hottt.

OK, staying up for weeks at a time, locking himself in the bathroom because he was convinced that the white panthers were after him, not so hott. But I'm used to living with totally mad maniacs. I mean, I lived with my brother for how many years? He used to do things like that.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:54 (seventeen years ago) link

screen grab on mac= applications/utilities/grab

― 600, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:55 (seventeen years ago) link

x-post I don't want to recreate the underground, I want to recreate Establishment figures to rebel against. I want to do a music programme with a bloke in a suit showering invective against the bands in the form of "well, it's just regression go childhood, isn't it? I'm too much of A Musician to appreciate this!"

x-post ooh, thanks, Gareth! I will try that.

Indestructible Dr. C, he bounces back. Now stop those crazy rugby tackles!

OK, got to work now.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't suppose you remember "Revolver" w/Peter Cook presenting.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes I do!

x-post : I probably won't play any more this season as the doc says that bruised kidneys take a month or so. I ought to pack in for good really.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 10:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh man, now I really want to listen to Urban Guerilla but I don't have that CD at work. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 10:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, HA HA HA HA HA HA!!! Silver Machine is about a bicycle. Awesome.

Am trying very hard to keep thoughts of young Bob Calvert riding around on a silver bicycle ringing his little bell from distracting me from work.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 10:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Hi room. I've been lurking for the last week since I my project is starting to finish and every electric person IN THE WORLD has heard about my software and thinks it's awesome.

Glad about your table kate - I WILL take that mixer off you, yes. Next time I'm round your way (or you're round mine) I shall collect it, thank you.

― The Wayward Johnny B, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 10:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually email I have just sent my boss:

I have checked this against BZW and I believe it is now right.

Possibly explanations for incorrect figures on previous one:

1) Kate attempted download before crucial morning COFFEE.

2) Kate listening to Steve Hillage instead of Hawkwind and therefore mind off with the fishes in hippie wibble instead of IN THE MATHS TRANCE.

3) In process of formatting report, Kate noticed small coding error in the new RAF by month column, and in fixing it, mistakenly used test data instead of live data in final report.

Suggested solutions:
-intravenous coffee for MI dept.
-download more live Hawkwind bootlegs
-someone in Finance to double check figures!

Do not panic!
Kate

Do you think I will get sacked for that? Maybe I shouldn't have just written my monthend procedure.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 11:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Is that not the m/e procedure itself?

― Mark G, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 11:22 (seventeen years ago) link

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