UK Watercooler 32: Fall Into The Meaning Gap

The Old Bull and Bush would be brilliant. I went to a wedding reception there which was aces.

1) pub must be free to hire
2) not hassle me about how many people I get down there

and, actually... hrmm, pub might be good if...

3) they let us play some music. As in, have people play, not just have DJs - I realise this probably requires some kind of license. But if it's going to be in an pub then I could at least have Will still play!

Downsides to pub:
Expensive bouze, no BYOB. I'd like to just bring a couple of bottles of rum and wine to a party rather than make everyone buy stuff.

Problem is, none of us have houses any bigger than yours.

This is true. :-(

Actually, I wonder if I could ask the pub across the road from me. I never actually go in there, except to complain about how noisy they are. But I might do them a deal - "I will never again complain about how noisy you are if I can have my birthday party here."

Emsk used to have a great house for throwing parties in, but she moved.

How about:

Dame Margaret rutherford and her astronautical rascals

for a name for this combo?

Madame Arcati and her Dronerock Totty?

there definitely ought to be more bands called x and his/her y rascals, this is the best i can find:

Borah Minnevitch & His Harmonica Rascals

Just stop it, you lot.

If it's gonna be anything, it's going to be Henrietta Leavitt and her Cepeid Variables.

Now be quiet, I'm trying to code and listen to the Asteroid Number 4.

I said Leavitt.

Hahaha, my friend just told me the other day that she went in to record a radio session and the secretary woman thought they were called 'Dawn and her Replicants'. Awesome name for a tribute act, at least.

Ooh I have some Dawn of the Replicants singles from back in the day. Is it terrible I can't remember their names?

I don't really know much of their stuff. My mate was in a slightly later incarnation of the band - I think after the press had stopped writing about them in a big way.

I get the feeling I shouldn't be here but hey, not many other excuses around to ramble about this, so... I always wanted to name a band or an EP or something after Annie Jump Cannon and was a little peeved on a googling a while ago that someone else got there first. Such an ace name though.

Why shouldn't you be here? You are perfectly welcome! (Unless of course you will get in trouble with work, etc. for mucking about on the interweb.)

So many of the good names are already taken. But, also, startling, so many of the clever names are not!

:D:D:D:D I have taken delivery of a box of Bo-Tan Rice Candy and Kraft Deluxe Macaroni and Cheese Dinners.

I really liked Dr C's guitar sound tonight - that Vox amp rocked!

I remember Dawn Of The Replicants. One of my mates had their 1st cd.

I also remember them, but my recollection includes them being a bit crap. This may be unfair, I don't think I listened to much of their stuff

In case you think your life is bad: I discovered today the US Inland Revenue has just frozen "all my assets" (such as they are, not even anywhere enough to buy a small apartment) in the US. Now I have to hire a lawyer and an accountant to figure out what the hell is going on, and hope that they don't want to throw me in jail like Wesley Snipes and that somehow I don't lose my job over this. :( :( :(

WTF?? I don't know your history mitya but why are they freezing your assets? Is this because you spent too long behind the Iron Curtain?

Anyone on MSN tonight? I'm bored!

Most ilxors use aim for some reason. fp, you and I are the only ones from here on msn since mitya,nath and g-kit never seem to come on anymore.

apart from the jaggers of course.

oh and I mustn't forget emil.y
Though shes never online much now

The Inalnd Revneue are being totally wack at the moment. I heard through the grapevine that they were chasing my former housemate for money they claim I owe from 1997 - even though I haven't lived in that house for 11 years, and haven't lived in the US for 10 years! I have no idea what tax they think wasn't paid unless they retroactively changed the short form tax returns. I suspect what they're actually after is my green card, because if I say that I wasn't in residence in the country then they can take that back. Fuck it, have it! Taxation without representation is illegal acccording to yr own War of Independence!

Anyway. I am sore today. The Upper Fleet kicked my arse. And I ate something that disagreed with me. I'm guessing something scarily pink.

Got home, went to bed with the OMM (and that has NOTHING to do with those pictures of J. Spaceman lying on the floor sucking his thumb, oh no, I'm not the slightest bit intersted in THAT) and fell asleep about 9pm.

I'm going to start taking bets on when (or if) my boss will ever turn up today, or if I'm going to spend the entire day mucking about on the interweb.

he HAS to turn up! I need to get my timesheets signed!

Hey, that's something I can do - I can set up my printers.

I slept like a baby that had eaten too much cake last night. Yeh, the fleet killed my legs. And my shoes. My socks from yesterday were full of fleety goodness and are currently sticking up my washing basket.

Yes, my left sock was still completely sodden and caked in mud when I got home. My boots are gonners. The River of Pestilence and Madness claims two more soles.

Every day I love the health food curry in a bun shop even more.

I really liked Dr C's guitar sound tonight - that Vox amp rocked!

Wow thanks! A great night on Friday - the place was pretty full and everything went according to plan. The albums were even ready on time!

Massive thanks to Ed and Colonel Poo for coming along :)

Today's happy MySpace discovery:

http://www.myspace.com/soundpool

Pretty swhirly girly shoegaze. Yum.

Oh no, oh no, YouTube heartbreaking buzzkiller. :-(

Found hott boy's band's video and they're nowhere near as good as I remembered them. Or maybe I just liked them live but didn't like them on record. Oh no.

An hour and a half to go...

This job is punnishment for every job I've ever had where I've wasted time mucking about on the interweb, isn't it? Now I have nothing to do BUT muck about on the interweb, I never want to see the interweb again.

Something to do! Something to do! I've just been given five more minutes stuffs to do!

here is a rook

http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/content/images/2006/03/27/randall_rook_450x356.jpg

and here is a crow

http://www.unitedwildlife.com/images/s_crow.jpg

That's so Raven!

Good morning Coolers.

Find some time, this guy's a must-see. He needs no bucket:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDg7kWgs5e0

Awaiting feedback.

Everything seems rubbish today. Bah.

I haven't mentioned this before, because I haven't been on ILX much lately, but we have a dull cloud hanging over us at work. The sort of dull cloud that makes people update their CVs. But. It's just hanging over us and not going anywhere. The storm won't break today. It might wait until tomorrow, it might be later. But until then, the cloud's still there.

In other news, last week I booked a camping trip to Wales just before the news started running stories about how cold wet and windy the Easter weekend is going to be. Bah.

Bah to dull clouds. Bah to wet and windy Easter camping breaks.

Bah to recession, bah to job cuts and redundancies, bah to job interviews, bah to not getting offered jobs, bah to unemployment, bah to getting up at 6.45, bah to getting home from work too exhausted to do anything for myself, bah to scratched DVDs, bah to wind and rain, bah bah bah bah bah!

/rainspotting.jpg ;-)

Funnily enough, I did book a campsite right next to a railway line. So trainspotting *and* rainspotting.

Although there won't exactly be many trains to spot, because it's not a busy line.

Well, at least I managed to reformat my Bigstick so I don't have to buy another one.

Ah, boss is actually in today. Wow. I can get my timesheets signed, even if nothing else.

bosses, bah

Swans in, says "yes, we should talk", I agree, then sit and wait. And wait. And wait. And adjust my profile on OKC and answer some emails. All men there of a suitable age seem to have children already.

Getting some money usually cheers me up. But it won't be until after Easter now. :-(

It's scary how many women around here, of my age, already have children.

Then again, I could probably have said that ten years ago.