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WTF. Where is everyone!

I am sitting at work. Bored. Drawing eyes. Counting minutes. I have once again become a slave to the flexi-clock.

What "things" do people send each other? I can't remember the last thing I sent anyone (other than cheques & stuff).

I hear ya :( (xpost)

I have received a card and will send a card. Send your address to me and I'll send you one at some point if you like.

Have visitors for 3 days. Why won't they leave me alone!

a slave to the flexi-clock

I thought that said "flexi-cock". Hmm.

I sent Nath a couple of handcrafted things and knitting and sewing supplies. I assume the other boxes flying around aren't quite so specific.

Why onimo, that's like asking an employee of the Mafia what they do for a living! They do "things". We send "things"! kv_nol, you have every right to be scared!

First rule of Things: don't talk about Things!

I've long since given up on using flexi-time to build extra leave. Now I just work about an hour extra on a Monday. Then for the rest of the week I get an early train, take a short lunch, and I leave as early as I can.
Means I spend more concentrated and therefore less boring time at work, a lot less killing time waiting for trains and more time at home doing stuff I'm actually interested in doing.

It comes down to how much one likes to receive things in the mail, and how easily one is delighted by oddiments.

Ms M I love your splashback on the other thread!

I am scared patita, that's part of the problem!

I am now officially annoyed that I sent the following things in the post over two weeks ago and have received no acknowledgement:

a cheque for €100 to the SPCA where we got Rory
a cheque for €100 to our local SPCA, just because
a wedding present to friends of ours

And nothing! Not a peep! Ungrateful bastards. Hmmph.

a wedding present to friends of ours

Remember the wedding I didn't want to go to? I sent a present off of the registry. Guess what? As to be expected sadly...

Tammy Wynette-ville?

"Stand by your man"??

If it's only a couple of weeks then the wedding folk are probably still on honeymoon/honeymoon comedown. It took us about a month to get thank you cards out: that didn't mean we weren't grateful for all those knives and forks and things.

It's still not happened. I'm just anti the whole thing at the moment!

No, "D-I-V-O-R-C-E"
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Ahhhhh Makes more sense thanks.

If it's only a couple of weeks then the wedding folk are probably still on honeymoon/honeymoon comedown. It took us about a month to get thank you cards out: that didn't mean we weren't grateful for all those knives and forks and things.

The wedding was in June!

And I sent them a big fat Amazon voucher in a card that said "buy your own present, why don't you".

hi, toasted everything bagel w/ light creem cheese and beef barely soup for lunch

is SO GFUCKINAG DGOOD

Hello peoples, I am stealing internets at a friend's house. The Jesus and Mary Chain were awesomely awesometastic and I tried to record them on my phone for Onimo but it didn't work at all. Sorry mate. I shall bore you shitless by wanking on about how grebt they were the next time I see you, if that helps?

New house is also awesome, and Neil did a grand job of tidying it up while I was cavorting round exceedingly muddy fields being stalked by Dave Grohl (seriously, dude was following me everywhere, but no-one I was with believes it was him. It totally was though).

Other bands seen were Jarvis (brilliant), Super Furry Animals (pretty good, but I was fairly drunk by then), one song each by Nouvelle Vague and Go! Team whilst ambling about between stages, Bat for Lashes (yawn), Tilly and the Wall (aces), Rilo Kiley (OK), Candie Payne (started off dull, turned ace half-way through), Regina Spektor (meh), Patrick Wolf (amazing), Teenage Fanclub (sadly underperforming), Big Star (marvellous - came on and said "hi, we're Old Age Fanclub", for massive lolz) and LCD Soundsystem. Managed to miss Bjork totally (no great loss) and the Beastie Boys (even less of a loss), couldn't be arsed walking through mud for the Fire Engines but was told they were shit. I sat in my tent with a bottle of wine and listened to Mogwai and Primal Scream over the wall and they sounded ace, but I was far too muddy and cold and wet to be arsed actually moving to get back into the festival site.

Still, top weekend. First festival I've camped at for ages, but had as much fun as is possible when ankle-deep in mud and completely unable to walk due to 85-mile walk between carpark and campsite with several tons of unnecessary shite on my back.

Oh aye, we saw the Parsonage Choir as well, who are a choir who do choral versions of Johnny Cash and Joy Division and stuff. They were lovely in principle, but a bit less so in practice.

Hi Ailsa!

I didn't realise your new house was in the middle of a music festival. You will be popular.

Um, by which I mean, what festival were you at?

This one: http://www.connectmusicfestival.com/content/

Argh, how did I forget to mention we saw the Polyphonic Spree - they were brilliant. My festival-companion was trying his best to put me off by regaling me with tales of how not-good they'd been every time he's seen them before, but we ended up staying for their whole set and missing Bjork and having stupid amounts of fun.

Ailsa praised the Polyphonic Spree and dissed the Beasties. I shall never play Scrabble with her again.

Ms M I love your splashback on the other thread!

gratzi! They're 1x1 inch glass tiles and we love them too. I wish we could do our entire bathroom in them but they are a bit pricey.

Aw, sorry Sam, but really, the Polyphonic Spree were brilliant, and I wasn't expecting them to be so. Beastie Boys, meh, sorry, don't get it at all.

Haven't checked out the house thread yet, but my parents have just done their en-suite with little glass tiles and they're beautiful. I have inherited a peach-coloured bathroom which I really don't like at all, but I haven't worked out what I want to do to rectify this.

Sometimes I wish I was the kind of person who was prepared to make more of an effort to make the house look the way I want it to. I'd love to have it all done in a kind of atomic style. When my older brother and his wife moved into their house in Glasgow, it had this great deep blue bathroom suite from the 60s that I just loved. They offered it to me, but I couldn't be bothered trying to get it all over to Dublin. I should have, though.

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I was living in Dallas when the Spree first hit it big (that's where they where from.) You couldn't turn around without running into one of them. I always joked that it was my goal to run over at least two Sprees a day on my to work. (Sorry they're too cult-ish and happy-happy-joy-joy for me)

They unfortunately frequented the bar I worked at and when they were on the David Letterman show they even gave a shout out to "Sh1p's Lounge in East Dallas!" One night when I was working, my ex-boyfriend was there with a friend of his. They were commenting on a sketch of me a regular had drawn which was pasted up behind the bar. Right below it was a Spree postcard and I commented that the glory of my portrait was ruined by the shitty band below. The ex's friend said, "I play bass in the Spree." Me: "Oh sorry. I hate your band." He still tipped.

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Make your house Sputnik!

I remember seeing the Beasties on a co-headline with the Rollins Band, the week after RHCP had said they'd never play in Britain again, which must have been about 89? Last time, frankly. The Licence To Ill tour was fun (even the riot at the Royal Court was nearly a laff) but this was just mopey shite.

Stop stop all of you or I shall have to keeeel you!

Misery! Ouch.

Beasties = stopped being fun about the same time as RHCP. Kill me if you like.

*BANG*

I've only seen the Beastie Boys once, about 13 years ago. All they could talk about was how they couldn't believe they had never played in Ireland before, considering how good our golf courses were.

hey Ms Misery! YOU KNEW THE SPREE! Did you hang out? Did you pick flowers? Did you get together with Ween and have a sleepover? O GOD do tell all your stories.

I like the Beasties but I've yet to see them live. I'm kind of sorry I talked myself out of going to Connect :(

Glad you had fun ailsa, you can bore me all you like about JAMC as long as you're buying the beer :)

they're too cult-ish and happy-happy-joy-joy for me
Aye, a poor man's Danielson tbh

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Obv. I didn't know them if I insulted members to their face unknowingly. Besides it is not hard to know them when you live in Dallas as there are only 368 members in the band. Is Ween from anywhere in TX? I have no idea.

All they could talk about was how they couldn't believe they had never played in Ireland before, considering how good our golf courses were.

Haha, this is hilarious. Have they played there since? Sounds like the golf would've been a regular draw.

I believe they have played several times since, bless their plaid trousers.

By missing all the music festivals this year, I've missed any chance to see Jarvis. I've not seen him on stage for years now. I miss him.

Misery - that was just a joke, since you were in the mood to shoot people.

I don't think Pulp has ever played in the US. I could be mistaken. I just know they never played back when I was into them.

I try to respond to possible trolling/flaming with a straight face. It's my only defense mechanism.

I am a Texan. We do love to shoot.

What is trolling / flaming? If you don't mind. Nobody else will tell me.

IIRC that Beasties tour, despite being a co-headline, was headlined 100% of the time because according to Andrew Weiss (again, IIRC, it was a long time ago) "let's face it guys, compared to us you're nobodies and never will be".

multi xposts to accentmonkey - if they've waited that long then I suppose "ungrateful bastards" is a fair response. That said, I'm always pleasantly surprised by "thank you" cards as I don't expect to receive them as I assume everyone's as scatter-brained and/or inconsiderate as me.

xpost - It is true. Collectively they block out the sun.

Humansuit, for me it is when I feel someone is trying to bait me or provoke me into a stupid argument.

Hey thanks, I'm really new to this. Mine was just a joke - no argumentation involved.

Jarvis wasn't being Pulp, he was being solo-Jarvis. He did a cover of Into the Valley by the Skids, which shamefully my companions had never heard before. He also had a whole field of soggy wet indie-kids singing "cunts are still running the world", which was nice.

The Mary Chain actually made me nearly cry during Some Candy Talking by being so blindingly good. Annoyingly, no-one I was there with, or any of my friends that I met there, saw them, so I just had to carry this round with me all weekend until I met some drunk people from Dundee half-way back along the 105-mile trek to the carpark who were gibbering about how brilliant they were and gave me some vodka and discussed ace gigs we have seen over the years.

xpost - it took me AGES to do my thank-yous after the wedding, mostly because we got millions of stuff and I failed pathetically at my attempts to keep a notebook saying who'd given us what so we ended up sending generic "thank you for thinking of us" notes for loads of them.

I believe according to formal etiquette couples have up to a year after the wedding to send thank you notes.

I don't think most Americans know who Pulp is much less Jarvis Cocker. His cameo in HP-GOF went largely unnoticed over here.

I thought Americans would know him for taking the piss out of Michael Jackson (not the dead beer writer) at the Brits.

At the what? (j/k I know what the Brits are. Although I'm really not a good barometer for that.)

The Mary Chain actually made me nearly cry during Some Candy Talking by being so blindingly good.

It is at this point I say, on behalf of of myself and I believe onimo, OH JUST FUK OFF. (Only kidding IR just jelus)