Alba is in London next week - it would be nice to see people on Wednesday

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i think the pinefox thought you were on good form, as well, since he told me several times how well you've aged.

which all made me giggle a little.

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I've aged?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:42 (twenty-one years ago)

it is the way of all things

― teh pow! (blueski), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:43 (twenty-one years ago)

alba had a gig with oasis??

I am disappointed about the trig brother thing, I was hoping you guys were doing that "FLAME" love matching game that we used to do in school.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:43 (twenty-one years ago)

where were you anyway?

― teh pow! (blueski), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:43 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry i couldn't make it. my wasp stung toe would have made me cry if i didn't come home straight after work and abstain from any walking
-- ken c (pykachu10...), September 22nd, 2004 11:41 PM. (later)

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Poor Ken. How's yr damaged digit?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i used to love playing FLAME!

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

what is "FLAME", you burn people alive and if they survive they are in love with you???

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

what is "FLAME", you burn people alive and if they survive they are in love with you???

i'm not THAT bad!

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:49 (twenty-one years ago)

That sounds like a terrific game!

x-post. Oh, shame.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I cannot believe Dastoor is accusing people of looking like a tramp.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:50 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not that I thought he looked like a tramp. It was just the way the pinefox introduced him. Bear in mind that I have been waiting 7 years to meet Peter Miller. "I've brought along someone" was not the introduction I was hoping for.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:52 (twenty-one years ago)

i forget the mechanics of the flame game now.. it involved writing down names on a piece of paper.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I had a lovely evening. I cuddled Nick quite a lot, which was less painful than it sounds.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i thought sarah's back already.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't remember all this cuddling. Please apologise to your girlfriend on my behalf - I spoke complete rubbish to her, I think.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:57 (twenty-one years ago)

'alba had a gig with oasis??'

no but he has just collaborated with noel gallagher.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Man, I would've loved to have met Blur. Of course, the first thing (well, fifth) I didn't want to say to my mum was "I know I just got back this morning, but can I go out tonight and meet a group of interweb people and a famous pop band for one too many drinks?", although I know she would've said "yes".

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Thursday, 23 September 2004 10:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Damon Alba?

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 23 September 2004 10:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Alba was on top form, Ally C.

Nobody else met them except for Ed when he came over to a) get served and b) see what the fuck the popstars and his girlfriend were giggling about. We were merely having a shared WTF? moment when he arrived, honest, Guv.

Barima, they stayed for like two drinks, and Demon let the barmaid keep change from a £50 note on a £20 bar bill.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 23 September 2004 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)

What was strange is that they looked so emphatically like Blur I assumed they were lookalikes. They were almost caricatures. I didn't tell anyone this at the time. I just trotted out my story about seeing DA in Habitat being sullen. Which was slightly redundant in the circumstances.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Nobody else met them

har, that's right, rub it in...

― teh pow! (blueski), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I had that feeling when Des Moines said 'and you can keep the rest, awroight daw-lin?' to the bargirl. Also, the coxswain looked astonishingly healthy and good compared to the last time I saw him.

I have now brought Kate up to speed on events, and what I thought they were up to. She is quite chuffed.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

you guys should have trumped him by telling the girl she can keep the change from a £50 note for a £10 bill.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:15 (twenty-one years ago)

all whilst talking on a mobile phone

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Did nobody manage to sneakily get them in the background of photographs? Speaking of which, are there any photos at all for us to laugh at?

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:17 (twenty-one years ago)

i took a couple of pictures, but left the cable for my camera at home. will post later!

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)

(not of the band, by the way. just some standard ilxor shots including, if i reacall correctly, stevem looking both very gay and then very 'macho')

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Nobody else met them

You lot were all hiding in a corner giggling and whispering like star-struck schoolgirls, weren't you?

Wish I'd known this was happening, tho I'd promised to go see Coffee And Cigarettes instead and was slightly uh irritable and exhausted from plane jouney, so wouldn't really have been good company.

― cis (cis), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I leave £30 tipping to the people who can easily bestow such things: millionaires.

Dunno about the photos. I went to the bar because I DID NOT EVEN WANT TO KNOW PEOPLE WERE GOING TO DO THAT.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I took loads but I doubt BlurBlokes feature. I was trying to get the perfect high-ISO grainy Dastoor portrait. He has a different expression in every picture. You can tell he's an Actor.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

coffee & cigarettes vs coffee & tv

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

didn't you get my txt cis?

― teh pow! (blueski), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Steady Mike's Ixus is like half the depth of mine, I was impressed.

― teh pow! (blueski), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

stevem spent half of the time in the princess louise asking people if the got his texts, seems like.

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)

It's about half as good, SteveM. If I'd thought to bring it in to work with a USB cable I'd be photobucketing right now. As it is you'll have to wait until beyond the point where anyone cares to see them.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Didnt't get the text until like midnight. :(

Having communication problems, mister m?

― cis (cis), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:28 (twenty-one years ago)

i only txted two people

― teh pow! (blueski), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:29 (twenty-one years ago)

didn't txt me :\

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Me too. It was dinky and stuff. I was envious.

In Lousy chat related googling - I still cannot find the origin of 'How's your father'.

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)

a bit of the old "how's your father"

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:54 (twenty-one years ago)

No one has recounted that Anna, who had left just before Blur showed, is trying to research an article about groupies. I suggested that, to be helpful to Anna, someone should seduce Blur and report back, but no one was up to it. Then it occurred to me that The Pinefox has made records, so I tried to seduce him, but it didn't really take. Sorry, Anna: at least I tried.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 23 September 2004 12:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I put a 20p tip into their stupid fucking glass of water. I wish I hadn't bothered now.

I thought Blur seemed quite nice.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 23 September 2004 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm sure they're good to their mams

― teh pow! (blueski), Thursday, 23 September 2004 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

They were right in front of me when I walked into Freuds so it looked as if I was with them - I could see people all over the bar, turning to their confreres and saying, "Who are those guys with Dadaismus?"

― Dadrockismus (Dada), Thursday, 23 September 2004 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

you were just a PAWN in their game

― teh pow! (blueski), Thursday, 23 September 2004 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

-- Dadrockismus (kcoyne3...), September 23rd, 2004. (later)

nice- about time you did that.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 23 September 2004 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Dada, at first I thought your sharp Crombie marked you out as part of their entourage, as possibly an assistant from CMO (mgmt co).

A13x used to live on 3nd311 Street and it's his old local (he lives out of London now). Were they not having a pleasurable business drink, I'd have stayed chatting to him for ages, probably. Mostly I was sharing some *extreme* good news about work and inviting them to the corresponding launch at the end of October (finally able to reciprocate some of the hospitality they've showed me, which is nice).

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 23 September 2004 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Martin S, I did not know that you were trying to seduce me. I did point out that you looked smart, when you entered.

I don't think that cuddling N. sounds painful. I would like to do it myself, in theory.

If I seemed to be saying that N. had aged, what I was trying to say was that he had not. What I was saying was that he still looked terrific. I will reiterate that now, for clarity.

N. was on form. I told him, not that so much, but a more detailed version. I told him that his absence had grown more vivid. I found him a slightly changed person, in a way - a good way. His company warmed my heart, for a little while.

It is funny when N. says that he thought PJM was a tramp.

Why is Lara saying that Christian Slater might be posting as me, and what is the relation between 'Christian Slater' and 'Christina Slater'?

I don't really get what JtN says about ironic bold. My sense was that he did want to go to a bar, and I believe that we would not have gone to a bar if he had not made the suggestion.

'Paper Chase' by Jimmy Webb, recorded by Art Garfunkel, is good.

It was good to see the pome, Cozen.

Steady M's point about caricatures is about right. Even the expressions and the way they acted did have an air of caricature, it's true. My feeling was of, say, a hyperreality. They were real, flesh and blood like you and I were; but they were also echoes of many years' worth of representation. Perhaps the result is aura. Perhaps this is related to what Walker Percy says about stars in The Moviegoer.

― the bellefox, Thursday, 23 September 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

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