UK Watercooler 32: Fall Into The Meaning Gap

the plot thickens, xpost

Dom P is from Northampton, yes?

yep.

So did anyone see Harmonia? How was it? I attempted some hint-dropping but I'd have had to drag unwilling companions and (made them) pay for hotels etc, so in the end I contented myself w/having seen Rother and Möbius last year. Rödelius seems a fascinating guy from his biography, but of all the post-Harmonia things I've heard his have not grabbed me so much.

New krautrock biography acquisitions: one Wolfgang Flür autobiography from otherwise uninspiring new everything-for-£2 remainder bookshop in Oxford which I discovered while not being sure whether the bookshop I was actually looking for had closed or whether I'd managed to walk past it, since I was in a hurry and not sure exactly which corner it was on. Not very far in yet, so far there's just been a lot of "why can't everyone stop and notice how amazing life is and be nice to each other?". Oh well.

The Oxford-Sheffield (well, Bournemouth to Edinburgh or something?) National Express coaches stop in Northampton and they used to be 3 or 4 times daily. But I think there's a cheaper and more frequent Stagecoach between the two so that the folks in the parts of Northants which are closer to Banbury e.g. Brackley can go in either direction.

Have just google-mapped Brackley (bus is X88 through Bicester, not Banbury, and they don't run as late as I thought) and found a place called Deanshanger. Another Prolapse mystery (not quite) solved. I am all for naming songs after place names; I've got a mental list of places I'd name tracks after, if only I could write the music.

Oh, that.

Oh, that Flur autobiog. Very silly in places.

Hello everyone. How are you all?

So did anyone see Harmonia? How was it?

I was there. So was Kate. I thoroughly enjoyed it - though I don't know that everyone there did.

I spent my weekend driving agricultural machinery, I thoroughly enjoyed that.

Meltdown has been announced, anyone up for george clinton & Parliament/funkadelic on june 21st?

Harmoniaaaaaah was lovely. Very wubby. I nearly ascended to the heavens when they came back and played Immer Weider for the encore. I've never been so happy! Until the next night.

The Flur biog is hilarious. Highly reccomend.

Um, W rang ne and asked if he could come round and pick up his stuff. I put him off and woke up Luke. Not that I need protecting from W - *he* needs protecting from me. He was lovely, though, we all stood in the hall and chatted and played bass at one another.

I didn't discover until after he left, when M came home and started laughing - 1) where the missing drawing went and 2) what the VERY bad thing was. Argh.

Apparently, drunk as f*ck at 5 in the morning, I decided it would be a good idea to go through his gigbag and look at his pedals. M walked in and was all "are you hacking his computer?!?!?" and I drew the drawing to try to explain that I was NOT hacking his computer, but of course that only makes it look more like I was. And left it in his gigbag.

I'm a fangirl, but not that much of a stalker. :-(

Also, where's Chelmsford? I seem to be headhunted for a job there.

Essex, North of London, Norman Tebbit came from there. Thus is my knowledge of Chelmsford exhausted.

Actually I might be wrong about the Normn Tebbit bit. The wikipedia entry is bafflingly detailed:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelmsford

35 mins out of liverpool st to be precise.

You're thinking of Chingford, Pash!

Chingford, yes! It was all a long time ago now, wasn't it.

Chelmsford = Essex = win.

http://thedarksideofplagiarism.com/

scroll down to the bottom

oops wrong thread, sorry

Hello there. I suddenly remembered that ILX exists.

We're probably off to Indietracks this summer; not to the whole thing though. We went to the last one, in December, and (by turning up early and hanging about the station) managed to get invited into the cab of the engine, which was rather good fun.

Pashmina linked to his Tanfield Railway photos upthread - here's mine!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/forest_pines/sets/72157604285611927/

Additionally, if you're ever looking at the Tanfield Railway's own Flickr account, I'm on one of their photos, lurking in the background with my camera.

Pashmina, is this anything to do with you?

Really long eBay link

Wow. It's one of my dad's (who is also called Norman), it'll have been made in the seventies, most likely. No later than about '82. If it were a touring frame, I'd probably be bidding on it myself. My dad was the shit at framebuilding!

Incidentally, I'm looking for a 21 or 22" touring frame, anything knocking around in the shop?

There isn't, I'm afraid, sorry. you should be able to pick such a thing up pretty cheaply, it's a buyer's marklet for stuff like that.

There's a lot out there, although there is some pretty shonky looking stuff on eBay. Need to go and browse the bike mags in smiths I think.

If you know someone who's in the CTC, their mag usually has some decent stuff in the classifieds

Emsk might be, In shall ask her.

That's now two headhunters trying to get me to go to Essex. Um?

I probably don't have enough SQL for the jobs, though.

I am too sodding exhausted to even go to the shops and buy some supper, even though I'm starving hungry. Carruthers lied. Bass playing is bloody hard work when you do it for four hours straight.

er, yeah!

Morning all. I've got a script for citalopram, has anyone had any experience of it? I've not been on anything since last year's seroxat debacle, i'm hoping this will be better.

I think my gf used to take citalopram - I'll ask her.

My dad took it for anxiety following a stroke. He was also a VERY BIG MAN and managed to reduce his anxiety enough to quit drinking and smoking, no small feat when bars are your workplace and locus of friendship networks. He also lost a couple of stone because comfort eating seemed to go right down as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citalopram

Citalopram is my best friend. I've been on it for years now, and I have to say it's the best thing I've ever taken, with the least amount of unpleasant side effects. (Weight gain and loss of sexual appetite being the main things - funny how those go together.) Email me offboard if you want to talk about anything further. But I have found it magic. Amazingly vivid dreams, too.

I was trying to sleep in this morning as I've got a gig tonight, but first I was rudely awoken by the dustment, and then the headhunters started ringing again (good lord, do they travel in packs or what?) so here I am.

Headhunters offering anything useful or just jobs in outer mongolia?

That sounds promising, I am a big strapping lassie so anything that makes me a little smaller can only be good.

Well, I'm going to see just how far Chelmsford actually is before saying no. Reverse commutes can be good if you have reading material - especially if I get that dongle for my mac! It can be mine interweb time.

Not sure how good the dongles are in moving vehicles, especially ones made of metal.

Depends where in chelmsford as well, by the station or on the edge.

Says the man currently working in Siberia.

My dad weighed 21 stone at time of stroke and once we spoke about the weight issue I was like OMG YOU ARE 3X ME. He dropped to 15 or so eventually but still indulged in ALL THESE BARBECUED RIBS, ALL THE TIME. We called it Former Athlete Syndrome.

By the station, I am promised.

I see people using dongles on the Northampton train all the time, so surely anywhere you can get a mobile signal you can get a dongle on.

Hmm, taken my first citalopram this morning, feeling very sleepy. My pupils are also a bit dilated and sluggish, didn't spot that on the data sheet and am debating whether or not to call the duty GP.

OK, this morning's headhunter rang up and offered me a job in... NORTHAMPTON. I'm taking that as a sign. They say you wanna go to Northampton. I said YES! YES! YES!!!

Sleepy and a bit fuzzy around the edges is normal, but it'll pass quite quickly. I take them at night to counteract that. I got little headaches and a bit of jellybelly, but again, it went away within days.

Also, a million thanks to Ed and Goobs for coming down to the gig last night!

Apparently this is the "least pop" band I've ever been in. I'll take that as a compliment! Hurrah, finally, I'm in a noisy, arty experimental band. Yay!

I enjoyed a lot, especially with the creative mix of live drums and crunchy samples. Want to hear it on a decent system and the sound guy really didn't get it.

Like I said to you on the night, we REALLY need our own sound man. (I wish we could get signed for #1,000,000 so we could hire you away from the tv industry!)

So how is everyone?

I've spent the weekend drawing my jazz singer.

Here he is on my sofa, looking like he grew there:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2389/2448956788_4b3877fa1c_o.jpg

Does, erm, anyone want to come and see some jazz with me, then? yes, I KNOW, shut up.

I R SERIOUS MARMADUKE. THIS R SERIOUS JAZZ

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3216/2448956786_547135a150_o.jpg

I will see jazz with you, I wonder what is on at the bull in barnes.

No, I'm not going to see just any old jazz. I'm going to see that young man up there /\ - his jazz. he's playing in Clerkenwell again this weekend. Are you around or are you in Finland or Serbia or wherever?

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/237237.jpg