Not location specific, No rules: Welcome to ILX heaven

He's moved on now to books about master sniper Bob Lee Swagger's father Earl, who was a badass in his own right. I miss Bob Lee, though.

I should read a badass Stephen Hunter book.

It's weird that I'm so yeuch about eyes when I draw them all the time.

Ian McCulloch's voice isn't a patch on Siousxie's. Last Beat Of My Heart omg this song. I better pep it up a bit or I'll enter the Kingdom of Maudlin.

Siouxsie's, even.
(I can't believe I'm correcting something so ridiculously spelled)

Truly.
Read the Stephen Hunter books. They are a good corrective to maudlinity. Maudlinness?

Maybe I'll just type a Stephen Hunter book into this thread.

God, we don't even HAVE any of them! We gave them all away, in our messianic zeal to spread the sniper word.

Dirty White Boys, Chapter One

Dirty White Boys is an important prequel to the sniper books. Start there.

Badass gunmen were made to be shared.

(slipping back into Maudlin for a second how great is this?

At the close of day
The sunset cloaks
These words in shadowplay
Here and now, long and loud
My heart cries out
And the naked bone of an echo says
Don't walk away
)

It makes a great counterpoint to
"Three men at McAlester State Penitentiary had larger penises than Lamar Pye, but all were black and therefore, by Lamar's own figuring, hardly human at all."

Thanks Beth I shall add these to The List of Books to Read.

I really should stop reading crap books that aren't on The List. My Dad managed to make me start a Jack Higgins book this week - Boy's Own War Time Adventure stuff - haven't read anything like it since I last lived under his roof.

xpost ok wtf

Open the link and bask in the glory.

I did. I am.

I should drink faster, my typing is almost back to sober.

I have to make huge anounts of correstions myself.

I deserted Siouxie for Nick Cave. Still Maudlin away with Foi Na Cruz.

Lamar with the Big Not-Black Dick doesn't remember getting a tattoo. I'm glad that in my formative years the worst I ever woke up with was an earring I didn't want.

Are there really guys, prisoners or otherwise, who fuck guys in the ass but don't think they're gay? Or even think what they're doing is gay? It' a prison movie/book standard but I wonder if it reflects reality.

Yes. My ex's brother was constantly incarcerated. His used to call it "punk pussy."

One of the biggest reliefs in splitting up w/ my ex was that I could start refusing his brother's collect phone calls.

I can't pretend to understand that.

Brompton Oratory now. The Boatman's Call is a great I R Drunk album.

You don't understand because you forget what collect phone calls were? In the dark ages before cellphones people with no money because they were IN PRISON could call you collect, and before connecting them the operator would ask you if you accepted the charges. It was also how you called your parents when you were on the road, to ask them to wire you money.
My kids used to call me collect from the next town when they needed a ride, but instead of saying their name into the recording device, they'd say "corner of Spring and Williams streets." Then I would refuse to accept the charges and go pick them up. We wuz CLEVER.

Sorry, that should have been an xpost. I understand "collect calls" completely (we called it "reverse charging"). It's the whole "yay punk pussy I'm going to fuck guys for my entire sentence but I'm not gay" thing I don't understand.

Well at least we straightened that out before I was forced to call you collect just to demonstrate.

i really need a 1 a.m. reverse charge phone call from "a woman I know from the Internet" to seal a day of drunken marital bliss.

It's ok honey I'll take this omg i'm so dead!

You better go to bed! I'm going to SHOOTER.

I'm onto whisky and old vinyl now. Bed's a world away.

I'm going to be so hungover tomorrow. Or 'onimo-ed' as kev_lol says. I need to do this now and then to give some truth to the myth.

You are so bad.

My computer has decided to start recognising audio disks after days of pissing me off. This means I am having to rip mp3 with not a fucking care about how/what I'm doing. Hopefully default settings let me find it all tomorrow.

Nick Cave's annoying me. I got Arab Strap on now. Given up on attemptingt o play vinyl. too hard.

OH MY GOD!!!! I JUST OPENED MY AWESOME PATITA PACKAGE!!!!!!!!!!
Many small Chinese toys, probably amply leaded!
A hedgehog that trembles when you pull his string!
A beautiful little book of Angkor Wat photos!
A postcard of an Austin pool that is threatened with runoff pollution!
An inflatable fish!
Other stuff!

God, I love the trembling hedgehog.

Patita, I am mailing you a package! I got a printer ink cartridge from Amazon that came, of course, packed with air-balloons in a way-too-big box, and something made me save the box and the air-balloony things. Now I know why! We should all recycle the stupid packaging thus.

Arab Strap's The Last Romance is one of my faves, esp. There Is No Ending. I played it over and over and over last summer.

Last Romance is an under-rated classic AS album. Fuck breaking new ground, they did what they did best.

Has anyone ever joined Laurie Anderson's 'O Superman (for Massenet)' and Art of Noise's 'Moments in Love' together? Someone should. I'd buy it if it sounded anything remotely like as good as it is in my head.

IT'S PAST TWO IN THE MORNING!

I better turn in.

Goodnight Beth, thanks for tolerating my drunkenness.

YAY Beth! I mailed out a bunch of packages and that's 2 that have been received. Those air pillow things totally rock for random thing-sending. I can't wait to see what you can pack in a box :)

Sam, I have the land-based equivalent here for you.

If you ever make it here, you should see Barton Springs Pool. There's a little salamander that lives there that's found nowhere else in the world!

I wish I was like this while drunk posting. Instead, the revived "My Cleaner Stinks" thread shows what I end up doing. :-(

I look forward to tales of extreme onimoedness in about an hour when he finally gets up. Had he not said he was out of beer, I would be betting on something like the last ATP when "I overdid it a bit yesterday, I'm going to pace myself properly today" was immediately followed by "does anyone else want a can?".

Then again, I have blinkered hindsight.

<cough>Last Christmas, putting the Suicide album on at 5 in the morning round onimo's having drunk pretty much everything in the house.</cough>

I look forward to tales of extreme onimoedness in about an hour when he finally gets up

-- aldo, Saturday, 8 September 2007 10:21

Ok that's spooky!

I have v sore head and an achey breaky neck. I'm testing my stomach's resolve with peanut butter on wholemeal toast :/

I linked to the smelly cleaner thread on the "take off your shoes" thread. So I'm the kind of drunk poster who inspires people to revive threads we'd rather leave buried.

I'm now going to read whatever I typed last night.

Jesus, the things that happen on this thread when I'm asleep. It's mad! It's like you're all real people with lives and so on.

That's wasn't too bad. Now I need to look at pink links and see where else I've been spreading the good news.

Drunk or not this is a great idea: Has anyone ever joined Laurie Anderson's 'O Superman (for Massenet)' and Art of Noise's 'Moments in Love' together? Someone should.

<cough>Last Christmas, putting the Suicide album on at 5 in the morning round onimo's having drunk pretty much everything in the house.</cough>

-- aldo

There's never a bad time to play the Suicide album but it's usually best left until your totally hammered and Mrs O has given up on any pretension at listening to us and gone to bed.

Hi dere accentmonkey. Posting drunk from yr house on a Friday evening doesn't really qualify as "having a life", I don't think.

I'm supposed to be tidying up while Mrs O's taking my son to karate. So far I've managed to mess things up a little bit more :(

Hi dere accentmonkey. Posting drunk from yr house on a Friday evening doesn't really qualify as "having a life", I don't think.

Ha! How about going to bed sober at 11 pm on a Friday, having been at home all day?

Get cleaning!

Oh man, UK Gold is having a Dr. Who marathon and I have to work today. Goldarn it.

Looks like it's all Ecclescake episodes, got them on DVD.

I am toying with Not Drinking today. Problem is the footie's on Sky, which I don't have. Going to the pub and Not Drinking feels wrong to me.

Mrs O's taking the kids to the Viking Festival in Largs. It's good fun and I should really go with them but I don't want to miss the Scotland game :/

Take a drink.

Looks like it's all Ecclescake episodes, got them on DVD.

Well, look at you.

Do you have a friend who has Sky so you can avoid going to the pub? My brother has Sky and lives in Glasgow. You will have to make friends with him.

I'm going to be so hungover tomorrow. Or 'onimo-ed' as kev_lol says.

Looool where as I feel fresh as a daisy! YAY sobriety.

I'm up as well. Already cleaned the kitchen! Mr BP made dinner, which always involves heroic numbers of roasting pans.