UK Watercooler 32: Fall Into The Meaning Gap

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

What was that supposed to be?

Oh, well I can see it:
http://991.com/newGallery/Huggy-Bear-Her-Jazz-244048.jpg

Hmm trajectory currently will be Bucks-NC-NY-MN-NY-Norway

That's what I thought it might be.

Good lord, Ed, that's insane.

I don't want to have to look at jazz by myself. I'm a-scared. how about the 11th May, then? He says he'll put me on the guest list. Which is nice. But still, there will be jazz. Though hopefully, knowing him, it will be wild 1920s jazz party style jazz, and not awful horrible skronkwhatsits. I was trying to explain that horrible song that you made me listen to, where the musician seemed to play every single note EXCEPT what the melody was.

Playing "around the beat" indeed.

That Jazz Sofa reminds me of the tea shop we went to again and again in Riga.

You could do this, kate!

I hate Jazz

A radio series in which self avowed hater of jazz, KMB, is taken through the formative stages of jazz, up to and including Charlie Mingus, Kenny Ball, Sun Ra and Miles Davis. In 49 weekply parts...

Can I stroke my beard?

Can we stop you? As if. All Whos great BTW.

You can stroke your beard and knit your dreads, if you like. I wonder if this show is with or without the help of the DEMON ELECTRICITY. I shall find out.

Feh! Feh! No, that is the jazz I hate! I don't do jazz after 1960. Maybe I shall have to listen BECAUSE I hate jazz. And if the presenter hates jazz, too, then I shall have a comrade in my jazz-hating.

And please stop calling my sofa the jazz sofa. That's worse than when Miss AMP called it the sofa full of anuses.

Which reminds me, when is the next Magpies Nest?

deary me, I was this close to blowing tea all over the computer.

Wednesday, Martin Carthy so should be good.

Wednesday! Shall we folk?

Sounds like a good idea, let me shake this cold though, (surrently at home in bed)

(er, kate it was a spoof: KMB being the clue)

I am disappointed: I have hardly any photos of the Riga Teashop. But at least the photo I do have has a shot of one of its huge, double-bed sized sofas:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2048/2260062412_a82f5a2dc1.jpg

Was just randomly reading through an old 'Cooler; am now nostalgic for those chat-happy times ;_;

It is so slow today!

you should chat more then G00blar!

Yeah, I know!--that's sort of what I'm saying.

It's strangely sweet to read through random threads and see a whole lot of people wasting time at work in unison.

Too many people have stopped posting sadly. And when Kate's not here no-one but me posts..

I tend to get dispirited on cooler threads by the lack of responses my posts usually get.

xpost Yes, I gathered. I know I'm part of the problem, but it does get to be a slippery slope, doesn't it?

I keep going back and forth between resolving to swear off ILX all together (trying to get some shit done in my life for once), or staying on, but actually using the time to post, instead of just lurking and wasting time.

haha, sorry FP, I wasn't trying to be part of the problem with that xpost!

I gave up reviving the threads when Kate's not here. I think everyone is missing the prog rock chats of yesteryear and that's why they don't post...

We stopped talking about prog and mark c, onimo, ailsa and others stopped posting. Coincidence?

I just got the new ltd to 100 cd by The Heads!

Less prog, more Japanese hardcore! I'm going to see Systematic Death tonight, hurrah. With the Varukers and Sick On The Bus supporting. Who aren't from Japan, but never mind.

the varukers are still going?

Oh yes. Their singer also moonlights singing for Discharge.

do discharge play any of that metal album they made that you hate?

They did play one song off it before Xmas.

did you go to the bar?

Nah I was all squished at the front, it wasn't too bad anyway cos they played it in the same style as all their other stuff, and without the horrible singing (since it was a different singer and all)

At least with punk bands most of them are bald now so they have the same amount of hair as 30 years ago

Sorry, FP, I ran out of time in the web cafe, and didn't see the lovely sofa you posted! That place looks excellent. If I had a tea shop, it'd look just like that. In fact, when I open my pub, it will be full of sofas like that. Kind of like the Luna Lounge used to be, when the back room was a sea of sofas.

Who is KMB? Sorry, I don't know any radio presenters. Or did you mistype KMF, and I'm supposed to be the presenter? Oh, I hate when someone makes a funny joke at my expense and I don't RECOGNISE it as a joke. It makes me feel foolish when I should be laughing.

I swear off ILX forever when I'm at work. But when I'm not, well, I do sometimes get lonely. Yesterday I took loads of codeine for my cramps and managed to finish Lady Chatterley's Lover without laughing too hard at the ridiculous sex scenes. It's too bad about the sex, as it's quite a decent book otherwise. Full of that interwar angst I happen to love.

I guess, um, sorry. The B was for Boom, I plain forgot the KMF. Will try harder next time..

Argh! I'm so dumb I don't know mine own name.

and DOUBLE ARGH, I totally forgot - the Heads played on Saturday, I had a ticket I'd bought in advance, but I forgot to write it in my diary and I forgot to go! I AM SO ESTUPID!!!!

Actually, no, I was being distracted by jazz singers, but that's all over now.

Taking suggestions for a new crush, please.

Also, I still haven't had my polling card. Can I just turn up to the polling station with proof of ID and proof of address and that little piece of paper that said I registered? I sincerely hope I can. Considering this is the first election I've been legally qualified to vote for in my life, it would be a real shame if I was disqualified on a technicality. :-(

My neighbour has put up Boris Johnson posters. For the first time in my life, I'm NOT pleased to see his face first thing in the morning.

you do not need yr polling card. That ID would be fine.