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

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kerr i did get yr mail about hari's band - i saw one of the people i need to talk to about it last night but we were at a gig and couldn't talk much bc the band came on and we are respectful but he said he's gonna call me today. if he doesn't i'll call him sunday/monday.

PLEASE STOP RAINING KTHXBYE.

― emsk, Friday, 30 March 2007 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

i am trying to resurrect pleasant crush on officeboy but he is not being very obliging.

― emsk, Friday, 30 March 2007 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks Emsk! Hari is getting new internet today so he should be able to get online more and chat on the Cooler/ILX !

I can't do anything about the rain i'm afraid. It's nice and sunny here again.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

Aw, we need to find Emsk a new crush. This is one of the problems with riding a cycle to work, you do not get crushes on hott commuters on yr train. And the only person you seem to run into repeatedly is Boris Johnson and he is MIIIIIINNNNNE!!!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, but you do get to exchange conspiratorial smiles and winks with other cyclists. er. that's not quite the same, is it.

― emsk, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

Emsk I just sent you another webmail ( I don't have your email address)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

Congrats to the new Shimura Curve (for the day)!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Christ I forgot how much people post here... As usual I will post completely outside the flow.

I haven't met a new person in ages and ages and ages, so no real spring crushes, although there is one girl in the office -- there's always one isn't there -- who clearly has the "magnetic" personality, at least for me. But things are reasonably arms-length around here, as far as I can tell.

My well-timed London trip is at risk -- stupid me didn't really process that Friday and Monday are HOLIDAYS in the western world, and therefore me planning a business trip around them is kind of... stupid. My own fault (as usual) for not organizing quickly enough to get in BEFORE the holiday. (That said, the whole Poptimism thing was vaguely weird last time, while subsconsciously I feel that I was somehow to blame for SCmk3 imploding.)

I will decide to be bummed about this on Monday.

― mitya, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

Bummed by who?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

Who invited Ricky Gervais on to the thread?

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

I'll get my coat.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

Dada I think you should do a best scottish band poll on ilm!
Then we all vote sensational alex harvey band!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

Either them or the Whistlebinkies

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

Omigod, someone just came around with the THIRD lot of cookies (actually chocolatey kind, not ILX kind) today. This is already on top of the carrot cake.

And yeah, Mitya, it was all your fault! Hurrah, we can blame you, and not the awful sound man, and the fact that we all HAAAAATED each other by that point, much better, yes.

But more of an excuse to have an extra long weekend if you do your work on the Thursday or Tuesday, no?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Go do it man!

On an unrelated note I am listening to His Name Is Alive.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Which album, Kerr? And more important, is my sisX0r Dare on it?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

I could do a "What Is the Best Scottish Folk Band of the 1970s" Poll - the Whistlebinkies, Gaberlunzie, the JSD Band, Boys of the Lough, the Tannahill Weavers, the McCalmans, the Battlefield Band, Ossian...

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

Well, actually the logic being offered is "it doesn't really make sense for you to come then given the holidays." I am not telling the travel people not to book the flight, hoping that I can then just say "Oops I've already got a ticket" and get away with it that way. :)

― mitya, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

HomeIs In Your Head and Mouth By Mouth.

The cd's i actually own are Livonia and Someday My Blues...

I always meant to buy the others but never got round to it.

It was Hari asking me last night if i liked them that made me dig out my cd's and dvdrs.

ps who is your sisX0r Dare?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

I'm trying to remember which one Mouth by Mouth is... the third 4AD release, right? I can't remember if she's on that one. She might be. I know she's definitely on Fort Lake, she sings lead on a couple of songs on that one.

I think "Home Is In Your Head" is still my fave.

Cookies?

(My sisX0r Dare = my best friend from childhood, we have the same birthday so we tell people we are twins.)

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

>> an F with an open (top) E

I believe that is Fmaj7. I also like that chord.

Hi watercooler people. I am bored at work :(

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

Hi, Col. Poo. Bored at work is what we are here for.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

Post the story of your rise up the Poo ranks, starting with when you were a humble Private Poo.

― g-kit, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

it's only ten to four!

― Mark G, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Now I know why no-one drinks the last cup of coffee in the jug. Euggh.

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not really Watercooler, I just wanted to say "Private Poo".

― g-kit, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

I'm actually Field Marshall Poo now, but you can't change your screen name.

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

I'm glad you did.

― ailsa, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

Brigadier vs. Colonel: FITE!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

Really, shall I tell it again?

― g-kit, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

Glad to see The Kit posting again!

Hi Colonel Poo!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

Nah, you don't want to overdo it. It made me laugh.

My eyes are all icky. I rubbed them so hard one of my contact lenses fell out, and now they have some odd goo in them. I am going to go and attempt to wash them from the inside out with Guinness. I don't know if this will work.

― ailsa, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

note to self: unplug the cable from the mains before attempting to repair the vacuum cleaner.

(short version: OW.)

― Pashmina, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

Do you really care if it works or not?

― g-kit, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

Home Is In Your Head is the 2nd one on 4AD I think.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

Mouth By Mouth is the 3rd.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

That's what I said!

Argh, I think I'm starting to get a backache - because I'm so used to being able to put my feet up on my guitar case and now I can't. Must find something else - the rubbish bin isn't comfortable.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

No office boys to do that job?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

Mouth By Mouth was my first HNIA and has a special place in my heart. Beyond that I can't really explain in useful terms which one it is, but it's got that short "channel of your peace" song on and is possibly the most beautifully creepy throughout (others will disagree, I'm sure). I am very impressed whichever album she sang on, but, wow, I listened to almost nothing but that one for a good long time.

What is Hawkwind Chord? Something like a six-stringed open E5?

I'd have said major 7ths were the most postrock of all chords. I get sad because I'd like to understand more about chords but whenever it comes to attempting to make music I just get stuck switching between I and vi forever. Then again some of my favourite records don't do much more than that so maybe it should be enough for me after all.

But most importantly Quack Quack are ACE and I would be dead proud to play even half a note with them. I'd love to see them live again, but in the meantime I will console myself with singing very badly along to the synth lines on their mini-album thing.

I disappear now before anyone notices I was here, safe in the knowledge that these threads move so fast I might never see this part of it again.

― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

I have no idea who you are but hello and welcome!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

For Norman

http://www.leninimports.com/louise_brooks_gallery_4.jpg vs http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/houseofeliott/images/intro.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/houseofeliott/images/index1.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/louiselombard/1louise2b.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

What is Hawkwind Chord? Something like a six-stringed open E5?

It is indeed!

― Pashmina, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

Is 'a passing spacecadet' that Rebecca person? I'm sure her ILx email was 'spacecadetsomethingorother'...

― emil.y, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

Hello. I was an occasional ILXor a long time ago so I don't expect anyone to have any idea who I am, or at least I sort of hope not; it's quite a relief to imagine nobody does.

Meanwhile I'm looking at this this Hawkwind guitar basics lesson and guessing the talk above is about shape 1 with an open lowest string for the E version? Maybe not at all but I feel pretty orgone-accumulatingly space-rocking now!

― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

2 people guessed who you are already!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

Aw, that's awesome - Hawkwind guitar lessons! yeah!

If you are Rebecca (from Oxford parts, IIRC?) then I remember you! Unless you are some new person with a similar handle. In which case, welcome.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

That's what I call an A-barre. (Bar? Or am I getting it mixed up with ballet?) It's like an A chord moved up the neck. An E-barre is lower.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, hawkwind guitar lessons!

The chord I'm thinking of goes (from low string upwards) open string (low E)/E (octave up from open string - fretted)/B fretted/Efretted/open string/open string. If you slide the fretted strings up and down, BRAINSTORM.

― Pashmina, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

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