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Got a cold. Haven't read thread yet as im in a rush, my dad needs me to go down the town with him. What was the result of the other poll? I can't see the result anywhere!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link

The poll was jazz and B&S tied at 18 votes each.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link

How is your dad doing, BTW? Recovered from aftereffects of the accident?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Eeep! The poll has disappeared! It was there this morning!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Lock a thread, poll is dead.

― Mark G, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I have *got* to stop reading the Guardian Weekend magazine. Their "Love By Numbers" column has been winding the fuck out of me and depressing me.

Over the past few weeks, it's been established -

-women with lower IQs are more likely to get married than ones with higher IQs (ditto higher education)
-overweight women have almost no chance of doing well at dating
-and then this weekend, women UNDER average height are far more likely to get married than ones of over average height
-and oh yeah, in case all this shit was getting you down on men? Forget it! You can't even give up and become a lesbian because it's more likely you'll change your nationality than your sexuality.

::beats head against desk::

I mean, what is the point of this, except to unnecessarily depress those old, fat, too tall, overeducated women who are CLEARLY NEVER GOING TO FIND HUSBANDS!!!

I can't decide which depresses me more - the horribly depressing "statistics" they use to back this up, or the implicit statement that getting married and having babies is the be-all and end-all of romance, love, LIFE, etc.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

So Marissa's writing for the Guardian now?

― Mark G, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Morning. Restful.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link

No, for Marissa subsitute "record companies" for men, but same old shit, really.

It's true, though, all women in rock are TINY. But then again, most men in rock are tiny, as well. But I think it's like the reverse of models - they hire rock stars so tiny because they make the guitars look good. It's all a conspiracy by Fender and Gibson, clearly.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I hate the magazine supplements of newspapers anyway; temples to Mammon. They're just one long commercial break. There is imho nothing to be gained from reading the print versh of any newspaper, the 'core' that is available online is all you need. The only time I ever read actual real papers is if I'm meeting someone in the pub and they're late, to give me something to do while I'm waiting.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link

That documentary: Stacia was 6 foot 2!

Blimey!

― Mark G, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I like the Guardian Weekend because ... well, I'm not sure. It's just comforting or something. The photography tends to be quite good. And I get to laugh at Jon Ronson and Lucy Mangan. (At, not with. At.) But it does sometimes weird me out, the disparity between the grimness of the articles, and then the second half of the magazine is BUY THIS BUY THAT CONSUMERISM IS YOUR GOD!!! LAST YEAR'S WALLPAPER IS NO GOOD, PINK IS THE NEW BLACK!!! and I always hate the clothes, and even moreso hate the underfed teenagers they have modelling them. (Even their "older" models just looked totally underfed - like the time they had that article on anorexia and there was this picture of a woman dying from anorexia on the cover, then turn the page and there's a lollipop model not far off from her body fat ratio.)

And this weekend was the first time in AGES that I'd actually liked the decoration in the featured house. (Because it was all Yves Klein Blue.)

And sometimes, very occasionally they have hott boys modelling cardigans or something - but very rarely do they have boys modelling, and even more rarely are they hott any more. Bah.

I should stop reading it. But I'd die without the crossword puzzle. Maybe I should sign up to get that online, but they want you to pay for it.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link

NO SPOILERS ON THE HAWKWIND DOC, PLEASE!!! At least not until I've seen it.

But yeah, she was 6'2". Either

1) Total Tall Hottness
or
2) WILL NEVER GET MARRIED, ACCORDING TO THE GUARDIAN LOVE BY NUMBERS (even though she married some rock star in the end.)

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link

...and is the average British woman *really* only 5'3"?

No wonder clothes never fit me. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link

NO SPOILERS CITY ARIZONA:

as I didn't get to see it (all). But I can helpfully add that there's a full version of the "Silver Machine" promo after the main doc.

Also, before it, a nice comp of various psyche feat: Syd Floyd, Grateful Dead off Alan Wicker programme, Jimi off Lulu, and others.

And a doc about hippies from 1970.

Boy, how do I heart BBC4. I was dead pissed off when Heat stopped covering the schedule in the TV pages.

― Mark G, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link

why does the graun waste its readers' time with something like Love by Numbers? At least you can justify the astrology sections in papers coz ppl who realise its bollocks still quite like to read their stars for fun.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm not sure if it's there to turn you into a nailbiting drinkscounting Bridget Jonesalike or to let you be able to go "oh, of COURSE I can't get laid - I'm an overweight, overeducated, too tall FREAK, and let me guess 9 out of 10 single women fitting those criteria are BITTER AS FUCK well I wonder why the fuck why? Because we're sick of getting those types of statistics shoved down our throats?" Argh.

It's just designed to make you feel insecure, I think. And it's working. I left my clothes too long in the dryer this morning and none of them fit and now I'm having the OMIGOD I AM A HORRIBLE FATTIE ARGH horrible I am so ugly and monstrous badhairfatday. :-(

Shoot me now. I'm always like this during MonthEnd, aren't I?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link

newspapers are slaves to the companies who advertise in them, as it is they who pay their way. Certainly not the ppl who buy the papers heh heh. So in a way, yes, they do want ppl to feel insecure coz they know that many people will try to buy their way out of their insecurity. Guess no-one with a conscience is going to last 5 minutes as a journo, same as the board room or the political chamber I guess.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 2 April 2007 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I am a monstrous fatty with bad hair, I just don't want to have to spend any money about it. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link

My dad is ok now thanks.
I forgot about the Hawkwind documentary.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 2 April 2007 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Re: the poll. Are Watercooler posters really B&S fans or did B&S fans just turn up to vote a la Brit Awards?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 2 April 2007 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link

How many votes did Funk get?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 2 April 2007 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Funk was quite close behind, IIRC.

I have kind of a hard time believing that nigh on 60 people read the watercooler, let alone vote, so I suspect it was the latter.

Having a bit of a rough day today. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link

the population of lurkdom is always difficult to determine. I'd imagine that lurkdom's inhabitants do turn up at the polling booth, then disappear silently into the night without voicing their views more openly.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 2 April 2007 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Or people just see POLL and then look vote and don't look again until the result.

But it's quite possible there are 60 regular readers with many just lurking.
Don't feel intimidated folks. Join in!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 2 April 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Jazz and B&S tied for first, didn't they?

― Mark G, Monday, 2 April 2007 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, it was Jazz and B&S with 18 points each.

Feeling more and more down as the afternoon goes on. Trying to figure out why - I know this seems like pointless navelgazing to some, but honestly, if it's situational, then I can figure out what situation triggers it, and avoid it in the future. Because I was in a lovely mood most of the weekend.

Is it the stress of monthend? Or is it going to SC, and that whole "go on your own, stand on your own, go home and you cry and want to die" thing? Because I've had that experience before, too, that even though I love the music and the club, going to these things by myself makes me feel very very lonely, and that sets off the depressive spiral.

Or it could be monthend. But monthend usually makes me cranky and short-tempered, not actually miserable. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, going to clubs by yourself and sitting on your own makes you feel invisible. Almost as invisible as no one talking to you because you're being depressed on your own thread. Bah.

OK, I'll carry on talking to myself.

I took my sketchbook so I would have something to do, and not feel quite so much like a lump on a shelf. But in a way, that's almost worse because all kinds of strange people come up and try to take this as an entry to talk to you. And I know that's supposed to be the point at clubs, but for some reason, I don't mind random strangers talking to me about my sketches at the Windmill, but at the Social it just feels icky.

Maybe that's my prejudices, that people at the Windmill are usually there because they want to see the bands, and are part of the freak family - while randoms at the Social have just wandered in because it's "cool" and are horrible fashiony types.

God, it's 5.30 already and I only just finished the first report. I thought I'd have more of a break before I started monthend proper. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

In belgium, knackered.

wow, my first xpost warning

― Ed, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I hate feeling this shit. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

this is nice

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link

10:45 - not so bad, I guess, this month.

Having to write instructions as I do it is a pain in the arse, though.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link

hahaha

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Democrat_black_metal

I had no idea you were at work Kate. I emailed you earlier about that Spiritualized Rarities comp.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 2 April 2007 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Hi everybody! I'm back from Montenegro. Good trip--it looks like we're getting married on September 30...somewhere around here:

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i134/dgoobl/IMG_0247.jpg

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i134/dgoobl/IMG_0253.jpg

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i134/dgoobl/Picture0141.jpg

Not bad, eh? :-)

― G00blar, Monday, 2 April 2007 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link

happy tuesday all! i was SO busy yesterday (doing what? i don't know) that i didn't do ANY surfing at all. that's a first, i think.

i am quite enjoying the bits of the new blonde redhead album that i have been able to find so far.

― mitya, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 04:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Morning! God, I'm knackered today.

I rather like the new Blonde Redhead album myself. Is it officially out yet?

― Forest Pines, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 08:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't think so - next week or the week after click here

― mitya, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 09:06 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost

Gorgeous. Are you marrying a Montenegran, goobs?

― mitya, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 09:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Morning all, from less sunny Belgium. In a break between demos.

― Ed, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 09:17 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost Yes, I am!

Morning all.

― G00blar, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 09:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Blimey, that's utterly gorgeous, Gooblar. (Kind of like yer Missus!) Lucky man. ::seethes with envy::

Yes, the new Blonde Redhead album is great. I was listening to it last night as I was doing monthend.

Still feeling pretty down. I'm thinking about doing the No S Diet because I can't get into any of my clothes any more.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 09:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Grey skies can't be doing that much for yr mood. I'm looking forward to that BH album, after all of the glowing reports.

What'd I miss while I was away?

― G00blar, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 09:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Um. Some guitar shopping. Lots of talk about psychedelia. Cookies.

I don't know.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I have no life. You missed nothing on my end.

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

If I didn't have a band, I wouldn't have a life. Start playing an instrument, Mitya. I bet you can find lots of groovy folk instruments in Russia, really cheap.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:14 (seventeen years ago) link

cookies still happen here?

― g-kit, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, I can't have cookies as I'm doing this no-S thing. But I wonder if the S in Why Ess Ai counts as an S?

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:23 (seventeen years ago) link

CAn we do a pre-poptimism look down denmark st, or will we be pushing timings?

― Ed, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I dunno. Also, we don't know what equipment we will be having to carry about. (I will definitely have a guitar and a load of pedals.)

That's the first day of my holiday, too, how can I get out of bed early in the morning?

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm pretty down, too. Not even GISing 'synth cat' can cheer me up (too many unrelated results). And I'm mad at Kate for not liking the Butterflies. Grr. (That's meant to be a light-hearted 'grr', by the way, in case it doesn't translate over the internet well. Imagine me shaking my fist in a 'why you young rapscallion' kind of way.)

― emil.y, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Skipping 1270 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

i have new mail! aquarterof.co.uk have added Jelly Babies and Strawberry and Cream Jellies to their catalogue! Not to mention resurrecting Chelsea Whoppers!

― onimo, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:01 (seventeen years ago) link

oh wait

― onimo, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:01 (seventeen years ago) link

i have other new mail

thanks pfunkdude :)

― onimo, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I got a track from Dr. C's new band! Hurrah!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:02 (seventeen years ago) link

you fuckers

― g-kit, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:03 (seventeen years ago) link

waht

― onimo, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Language, Timothy

― Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:03 (seventeen years ago) link

No one else has mailed me all day - except a couple of Nigerian gentlemen wanting to share their ill gotten gains with me. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I sent you an email kate

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:06 (seventeen years ago) link

and teh kit should've got it too. hmmm. maybe I need to resend.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:07 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, I just got that one, too.

Just so you know, Kerr - I'm not gonna be able to check my email for the next 10 days starting tomorrow. Or at least, I'm not supposed to type at all.

OK, Kyuss were alright until the dude started singing and he's total CONSTAPATION ROCK!!!!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:07 (seventeen years ago) link

http://users.skynet.be/JePe/images/1969%20-%20Jay%20Hawkins%20-%20Constipation%20Blues%20-%20Label%20Front.jpg

― Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I used to think that but then John Garcia grew on me. Still prefer Josh Homme singing though.
Garcia is great in Unida/Hermano where the vocals suit it more.
I guess you don't like Ian Astbury singing for The Cult then? Since the voices are pretty much the same.(Garcia's influences he says are Ian Astbury and Earth Wind & Fire)

x-post

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:10 (seventeen years ago) link

er ok thanks

― g-kit, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I think The Cult may well be my answer to the "You Owned More Than One Album By Them. You Listened To Them Fairly Often. You Knew, In Your Heart Of Hearts, That They Really Weren't Very Good." thread on ILM that I haven't posted to.

― onimo, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Ian Astbury was never quite *that* constipated. He was more Rubber Plant influenced. And Rubber Plant isn't constipation rock, he is "he's got plyers on his balls" rock.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Ian Astbury was well constipated... and not fit to lace Planty's moccasins!

― Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm on another call with TTH right NOW! She's still TT&H today.

― Dr.C, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:44 (seventeen years ago) link

No, he was definitely plyers on balls school of RAWK singing, not constipation rock.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link

He was trying for pliers on his balls but came out constipated

― Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:47 (seventeen years ago) link

x-x-post, dammit I need a new IRL crush. Like, not a celeb crush or a crush on a dead person, but an actual crush on a person I can look at, and interact with and speak to (or fail to speak because I am being too googly-eyed crushed out).

There were too many ex-crushes there last night, and it just made me vaguely disappointed. I mean, Jim's cute but he just looks WAY TOO MUCH like my brother which is totally creepy, and besides, he's kind of too awkward about being crushed on. Joe remains hott, but then again he plays BANJO which excludes proper crushability.

And I think I just want someone totally new. Am jealous of how Emsk was talking about her hair-twirling and Dr. C with his puppydog eyes thing.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:49 (seventeen years ago) link

He was trying for pliers on his balls but came out constipated

Ever tried taking a shit with pliers on your balls?

(me neither but I don't imagine I'd be too keen)

― onimo, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:50 (seventeen years ago) link

What a bizarre conversation.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Plyers on his balls school of RAWK singing = AC/DC.

Constipation rock school of RAWK singing - Journey, Asia, Eddie Money, etc.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link

NEW CRUSH NOW!!! NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW!!!

Grrrrr.

I feel sleepy, I think I've had too much sugar again.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Kate> since you won't be able to type for 10 days can you start a new cooler please? This one is quite long. (also can we have a best krautrock poll or something?)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Eddie Money? Nobody outside the USA has any idea what Eddie Money sounds like!

― Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link

No, no more polls on the Cooler, as we lose the results when the threads get locked. OK, I will start a new one.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=53408

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:06 (seventeen years ago) link

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