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Morning. I heard the cheese on the radio.

― Forest Pines, Thursday, 29 March 2007 08:41 (nineteen years ago)

I would like to befriend the cheese, but I have no Myspace.

― C J, Thursday, 29 March 2007 08:41 (nineteen years ago)

"befriend a troll"

― Mark G, Thursday, 29 March 2007 08:43 (nineteen years ago)

I think I heard someone say that the cheese-cam gets interesting at about 10 o'clock each day, because that's when the cheese is turned!

It's quarter to ten now. I will go and watch .....

― C J, Thursday, 29 March 2007 08:44 (nineteen years ago)

I would like to befriend the cheese, but I have no Myspace

the ball is v much in yr court -- the great thing about myspace is you can reveal as much or as little about yrself as you choose.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 29 March 2007 08:47 (nineteen years ago)

....and when it comes to setting it up, as Take That once said, It Only Takes A Minute, girl.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 29 March 2007 08:48 (nineteen years ago)

I grabbed my "myspace" just to stop anyone else with the same name as me getting it.

I already lost out on getting one with my very old alt.name, but I think my old band-name is still up4grabs.

― Mark G, Thursday, 29 March 2007 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder if the gherkin and the cheese are friends, cheese goes well with gherkins.

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 08:59 (nineteen years ago)

Folk last night was the best yet, and so busy. I am in love with the Basses on The Groanbox Boys' accordion. Open mike was stellar. Annie thinks I should come down to cecil sharp house to cut my teeth as a singer. The guy who sold kate the cosmichorus played some seriously vintage guitar with very long fingernails. Benji K should not be allowed near soundmen he's a fussy bugger about monitors.

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:03 (nineteen years ago)

But he was playing a bouzouki so I got some playing tips by watching (I need to be less afraid of hitting it harder seems to be the message)

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:04 (nineteen years ago)

Coincidentally, I had a Myspace Friend Request this morning from someone called Nine Inch Nails Worshipper. I have no idea who they are, or what my Myspace password is any more.

― Forest Pines, Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:06 (nineteen years ago)

(I suspect, though, that they are not a cheese)

― Forest Pines, Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:11 (nineteen years ago)

cheeses prefer Ministry.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

Cheeses Loves You

― Tom D., Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:30 (nineteen years ago)

Cheeses died for someone's sins, not mine!

― Mark G, Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:30 (nineteen years ago)

What kind of bouzouki did/do you play, Tom D.?

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, some plank of wood that my best friend's Polish (or, more likely, Ukranian) neighbour gave him when he was a nipper

― Tom D., Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

What tuning?

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:38 (nineteen years ago)

I can't actually remember, i just slapped some guitar strings on it and played it like a giant oddly-shaped banjo

― Tom D., Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:40 (nineteen years ago)

I mean if Robin Williamson could take a Moroccan lute and play it with a double bass bow so it sounded like a cat being disembowelled .... authenticity, pah!

― Tom D., Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

I must stop looking at instruments and play the one I have better. Currently in my lust pile

http://i12.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/94/32/d5f7_12.JPG http://i5.ebayimg.com/06/i/000/94/32/d7fe_12.JPG

http://i12.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/94/32/d5f7_12.JPG

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:55 (nineteen years ago)

bah
3rd image should be:

http://i21.ebayimg.com/04/i/08/b5/4f/7f_1.JPG

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:56 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.pulsatingdream.com/kaleidoscopegroup1.jpg

― Tom D., Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:02 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, Kay is a lovely brand - my first ever guitar was a Kay guitar. (Actually it was my dad's guitar and I was about 13, but still.)

Ed, FP, any train enthusiasts - what is a "Lab. 19 Iris II" (could have been Isis, actually)? One came through the station while I was waiting for my train - lovely old looking locomotives with what looked like guards vans - but with people in there WITH LOADS OF COMPUTERS AND SCIENTIFIC LOOKING EQUIPMENT!!! two of them strung together.

Any ideas what they are for?

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

probably a track monitoring and recording train.

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

Track measuring - they are packed with accelerometers and so on to measure all the sways and bumps.

― Forest Pines, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

Bellzouki, can be in my tuning and only $700.

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

How yellow was it?

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

Heh, I was going to ask if it was yellow. They usually are.

― Forest Pines, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

I am going to see TS Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral at the Actors' Church in Covent Garden tomorrow. I know one of the cast and have just been informed that the real Archbishop is going to be in the audience!

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, the folk last night was very good. Though damn, it went so late that I missed the last tube and ended up on busses and didn't get home until 2am. I am very very tired now. Sigh. At least I was sensible and did not drink so I do not have a hangover!

Is that last picture a bellzouki?

The poor hott soundman - yes, those boys were fussy indeed! They should count themselves lucky they had monitors at all! In my day, we had to go onstage with all the sound coming out of a tin can! Monitors, a nonsense.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

that was a multi x-post - yes, it was very yellow! Ah, so that's what it was doing. Interesting indeed.

Ah, if you see the *real* archbishop do say hello from my mum. ;-)

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

Does a hello from your mum come with a poke of the umberella and a missive demanding ordination?

It is a bellzouki. Can we go back to vintage and rare and find out how much it is?

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, we should go back and find out more about the bellzouki, definitely. (though I would be ashamed to play in front of amazing guitar man now.)

No, I think hello from my mum just comes with a glass of sherry. I think she's given up on getting her own parish, though, she seems to quite like ministering at the hospital.

I dreamed about my mum's house late night. Something about trying to pack to move, while Brandon TSM kept trying to record an album around the edges of all the chaos. I'm still not sure what that was about.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:36 (nineteen years ago)

The hott soundman has grown a beard and split up with his girlfriend (thanks, Ed, for telling me this very loudly, in his earshot!). I remain too shy to even talk to him beyond saying hello. He didn't say goodbye to me, though, he went back to packing up his soundboard after saying goodbye to Ed, so this means he hates me.

I find this all terribly depressing. It's kind of worse knowing someone you really fancy is available, but you still can't have them, than knowing that they are unavailable. It could be the lack of sleep, though, making me want to boil my head.

Wait, is that the American Kaleidescope, Dada? Actually, Ed, you would like them. They combine 60s psych with crazy Eastern European folk.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:44 (nineteen years ago)

Quattro Formaggi is what it is all about.

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:44 (nineteen years ago)

He did not hear, he could barely hear me when I leant back.

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

He did not hear, he could barely hear me when I was up close, let alone when I leant back

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway, you hate banjos.

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

It does not matter. It's not like I'd ever actually have the confidence to even talk to him. Let alone get near his banjo.

Who took my confidence away? Can I have it back please?

Oh, depressio. I need some coffee. And I'm going to see if I can find a picture of the cool yellow train. Did you get a chance to listen to the Groanbox Boys CD?

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

I did, there is not as much of that lovely bass, but we were sitting right by both his left hand and a bass bin, but it is very good, recorded in harefield hospital.

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

I assume it wasn't this one:

The Track Measuring HST

― Forest Pines, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

Morning all.

Anyone seen Onimo about lately? I miss his posts.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think that is in gauge for much of the southern suburban network.

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

Yes! This was the one!

http://images5.fotopic.net/?iid=yc6wv4&outx=0&quality=90&noresize=1

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

it even has its own Wikipedia page

― Forest Pines, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not bitter :)

onimo on Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:46 (1 hour ago)
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― Tom D., Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

BAH!!!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

is the HST the shabbiest train on British mainline services these days? the last time I used one it was awful. Indeed, what would be the oldest train on mainline services these days (preserved steam locos and their carriages excepted obv).

HST dates from, what, 1975? 32 years old!

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

It was a really nice old-looking one, not the shiny bullet-pointed new one.

Also, for the past week, we've stopped at Herne Hill to let either a Eurostar or some lovely old Orient Express train go by. I get my jollies in the most pathetic ways on the morning commute.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:02 (nineteen years ago)

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