UK Fnordcooler 23: Immanentizing The Eschaton - When The Pyramid Meets The Eye!

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Trying to get 5 people in a band to agree on a friggin' date to do something is torture! I have just had to play the fascist dictator to get things going. I guess it's the tradeoff for having artistic control or whatever you call it. Sometimes wonder if it's worth it.

― Dr.C, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

It depends. Problem is, when you have to play the fascist dictator to get things done, people end up hating you and resenting you and thinking you're "a bitch" or "a nightmare to work with" and all that name calling crap. When it's like... if I didn't do this, there wouldn't be a band. Trade off? Sigh.

I've decided that I do it for fun, and being the fascist dictator makes it not fun. But you've seen all the horrors I've been through before hitting on the current arrangement. (and wondering, like an open marriage, how long it's going to be good for.)

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

Problem is that sometimes being in a band isn't fun and you just have to do the unfun stuff to make the rest of it work. I don't always feel like lugging a car full of gear round the M25 to a rehearsal and getting back at midnight when I'm knackered. But if you sit at home on your arse all the time, then NO BAND.

I'm overstating it a bit, but really....

― Dr.C, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, but the trick is to make sure the unfun stuff is equally distributed. (Everyone has to haul crap.)

Or make sure the fun stuff (getting to write the songs) balances out the unfun stuff (having to book the shows and arrange everything).

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

Fucking monthly pipeline recc, I hate this thing. I'm out by £378.06 which is so small it's got to be just one fee on one case but I'm fucked if I can find it.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

Hi dere all. Seems that finally my car has come out of limbo and I can actually have it this weekend (for reference: I should have taken delivery of it last December). Hooray.

― tissp, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

(Everyone has to haul crap.)

Don't get me started!

But yeah the fun stuff does balance out the unfun stuff in the long run.

― Dr.C, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, I didn't read yr post, Dr C. The Wyllie is a hotrodded version of the old "superfuzz" pedal. Is sounds huge, so much so that really it's only suitable for lead, I think - if I play that e5 chord, the one you can play all of hawkwind's songs with through it, with it just being root and fifths, it should sound good through any fuzz/distortion box. Through the rising sun, it sounds kind of like a nuclear holocaust? It sounds great, but I've never been able to fit it in with anything, it's just too much. I nearly always play clean anyway.

I'll have a blast of the P&C and the Wyllie over the next 2 weeks, try and fit them in w/something, but realistically they've got to go.

― Pashmina, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, I don't know where I'm going really but I'm off to the wilds of Whitechapel and then Gooblar. See some of you laters!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 5 March 2007 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

Mmm, morning.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 10:02 (nineteen years ago)

This is my last post on this subject, but I give you all notice that trying to co-ordinate recording for band #2 looks like resulting in KITTENS BEING HARMED! Reasons for not being able to make a date because "I'll have a hangover" , "or I'm not sure where my drums will be" SO don't cut any ice with mr.fascist dictator here. DON'T have a hangover and KNOW where your drums will be! Think about the kittens!

― Dr.C, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

Morning, Ned.

― Dr.C, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

Poor kittens.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 10:15 (nineteen years ago)

I have no sympathy for the kittens.

Actually, recording with a hangover can be quite good because it really focuses you.

Man, I am tired this morning.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 10:49 (nineteen years ago)

Wind/Hail/Rain?

― Mark G, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 10:50 (nineteen years ago)

Errr, there was some rainish sort of stuff happening but I lay down after taking a shower (that was how tired I was) and when I got up, it was clear.

God, I am so tired. I may have to have coffee this morning. So much for Lent. I bought an avocado at the weekend, too. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

Why nobody talking today? Don't make me actually... WORK. I'm scared of my recc at this point. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 11:15 (nineteen years ago)

Train strike starting tomorrow, so I'm working from home for the rest of the week.
That saves me two and a half hours a day travelling. Which means I don't have to get up at 6.30 for a change.
This makes me happy.

― treefell, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

Er, train strike? Where?

― tissp, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, in Scotland. Phew!

― tissp, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

I wish we would get a train strike... oh wait, no, that would mean I'd have to take the bus which is twice as long and twice as hellish.

My stomach does not like me this morning on account of the coffee. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

Why nobody talking today?

My presence is clearly draining. (As it is I'm loving being a lazeabout.)

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

Why nobody talking today?

Need a shower. Can't talk well without a shower.

― tissp, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

I could take a bus to work but that would be a nightmare, what with all displaced train commuters jamming them full, and the fact that the journey takes twice as long.
So I opted for working from home instead.

xposts

― treefell, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

Apologies, I have been in a meeting since 10.

― Ed, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, no, I'm feeling kinda had tempered today. Don't know if it's the coffee or the lack of sleep or the intractability of this recc problem. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

Current DIY work nears completion:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/16804034@N00/412497837/in/photostream/

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

I just saw those pop up on flickr, I had to wipe away drool.

― Ed, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

Ohmigod, synthpr0n, lovely, Pash!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

FMM must be told.

― Ed, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

Dinner options nearish the British Museum, plz. Also plz list all pubs and places to eat talked about last night.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

La Porcetta on, err, Boswell St - it's just across the EEZOHAD from the BM, but the pizza is worth the five minute walk.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

Hi everyone. I'm back from my saucy weekend to find a pile of shouty work in my inbox, hurumph. And SO MUCH MONTHEND!

Big debate in our office about parking spaces. They've just sent round an email asking if people take more than an hour to drive in, and if it's any less they won't get a parking space and have to either park elsewhere or find another way to get into work. It'll cause an awful caffufle with the dumbasses on my team who only live 10 minutes walk away and drive in "because it's easier".

― The Wayward Johnny B, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

There's a really good okonomi yaki place on a street which I will look up shortly.

The Norfolk Arms on Leigh St.

Brasil by Kilo on the start of oxford st.

Polo, a Korean just by centrepoint, ask for yukecha.

― Ed, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

Museum st or Coptic St.

― Ed, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, JB, I hear you on the monthend. Bah.

Fuckers who live 10 minutes away but drive when they could walk should be shot. then they can roll to work in a wheelchair.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks for responses. Any of these places nearer to the Tottenham Court Road station in particular? Am looking at a map now.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

Man, I am a crankster today.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, the Norfolk Arms is now super-awesome.

I'm not posting much because I'm trying to be good and productive today (not working yet).

― G00blar, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

Polo, is almost on top of TCR station and has a good lunch deals (nicely vegetarian friendly). The Okonomiyaki place is next closest.

― Ed, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

Polo's just by Tottenham Ct Rd. Brazil by Kilo's right there too.

― G00blar, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

xpost.

― G00blar, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

G00blar is more right than me. Brasil by Kilo is not terribly vegetarian friendly.

― Ed, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

Kate, when I get a pickup can I borrow one of your amps/bed side table to practice on?

― Ed, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

Also, the flowers of hell album is awesome.

― Ed, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

Great! Thanks to all, will report back on goodness later on.

Right now today = lazy day. Which we're fine with. Tomorrow I will catch Children of Men at last, and Thursday or Friday will be some combinations of the British Museum and the Tate Modern. Must get to Gilbert and George exhibition...

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

(And is Yukecha one of the Polo servers, then? If I'm asking, I just need to know what/who I'm asking for! This will probably be for dinner at 6ish, if anyone wants in.)

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

Guys, I have an tech question. I have an Excel pivot table linked to an access mdb, not created by myself. How do I find out what database and query the pivot table is linked to? There seems to be nothing anywhere on the context menus, and google for once turns up a blank.

― The Wayward Johnny B, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

Errr, I suppose you can borrow one of the amps - it might be useful to have an amp in town. Though you will have to transport it yourself!

(That said, I brought home the AC-30 on the bus when I bought it, but I'd never like to repeat that stunt. That said, it's rather prone to misbehaving, so you might be better with one of the more reliable ones. One of the baby voxes or the Marshall LEAD amp (pronounced as in lead the metal, coz that's what it's made of.))

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

Yukecha is a big stone bowl of really spicy noodle soup.

― Ed, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

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