UK Watercooler 32: Fall Into The Meaning Gap

Thank you! Looks like the band like it, too.

I have still got sugar comedown from cake. Or perhaps that is the killer cold coming back to tell me to lie down again. The cure for this, as always, is more tea.

OK, I'm going to delete the full-length photo from OKC. Now I've got creepy French dudes sending me strange messages about my "curves". HALP.

Oh, today is awful. Sigh. I feel really unwell, plus my boss just sent me an email telling me that everyone could hear my music and to turn it down. You need to send me an email to say that? Weirdo.

I am counting down the days until I am out of this place.

I'm talking to myself, too. This place makes me bonkers, it's official. 4 days at home, even in bed sick, and I started to turn back into a human being. 6 hours here and I'm ready to beat my head against the desk.

Hey all. Last Fm seems to be broken.

My top artists has gone all weird http://www.last.fm/user/trailofgybe/
Anyone else have the same problem?

Yet another shameless attempt to get us to look at your Last.fm profile!

Not at all, it's broke! (Have look anyway though ;)

It's not very Kate friendly atm though

I did! There's nothing wrong with it!

The Top artists is completely different. Some bands have lost 300 plays!!
(while fp still has B&S at the top of his)

Infact the great majority of my top 50 artists are no longer there!

And how would anyone but you be able to tell that by looking?

FP would notice

OK, now ex-spacemen are hunting me down and friending me on MySpace! Weird! I'M NOT THE BOOM YOU WANT!!!! I'M THAT OTHER BOOM!!! heh heh.

Um, maybe I should go home, I'm getting delerious. I'm trying to answer the emails of lads on OKC and not making any sense. I'm finding it all very strange that anyone would even approach/respond to me in the first place!

I'm supposed to be "training" someone today. Let's see if they ever turn up.

You know what this thread needs? A wild 1920s style jazz party.

like this:

http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/1920sdance.jpg

http://www.animationarchive.org/pics/heldteaser.jpg

Does this mean that jazz is seeping into you from the 20s up? have you got to Cab Calloway and Count Basie yet?

Precisely like that! In fact, I declare today 1920s wild jazz party day on the Watercooler.

Lindy hopping optional.

fo di o do.

http://bp3.blogger.com/_bdtuKKCTCf4/RZjGbKEZZQI/AAAAAAAAAo0/eWZe8mOsrw8/s1600-h/WBG+-+Still.jpg

Actually, I think that's from that film that Pash was talking about last year! "Why Be Good" or something.

Bah! It is a lady who has been exhausted by THE WILD JAZZ lying down and being, um, made love to by an oily looking gentleman.

Definitely some of this...

http://www.ilstu.edu/~lmerri/uhigh/1920

It's the shimmy shimuras!

Shimuras go jazz? I don't think so!

Maybe I'll have a flapper stage! Except no, I'd have to cut all my hair off into that dreary bob that every indie girl on earth has.

You need more than a badly cut bob from Mr. Toppers to do flapper chic. It also helps to look like this:

http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/norma_shearer___leading_lady_of_metro_goldwyn_mayer.jpg

The bob can always be brylcreamed back into a 20s mannish style.

I once had an Eton Crop, back in my mod stage. But it's too much hard work to keep it going, especially in such a damp climate.

The flapper look has been done to death. I'll stick with the pre-Raphaelite birdsnest. But more pictures of Flappers and the Flaming Youth, please!

That's Colleen Moore, yes! No sign of "Why be Good" & "Synthetic Sin" on DVD yet :(

'20's Jazz party I don't have, '20's high-budget vaudeville show in colour! might do instead, though:

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

From 5.00 on it gets pretty amazing!

Damn, I had to watch it with the sound off because I've been shouted at, but that was awesome! I loved the body popping policemen at the end. Just marvellous. And more flappers than you can shake a (gold-topped) stick at! Hurrah!

Colleen was No1 flapper girl!

http://www.doctormacro.info/Images/Moore,%20Colleen/Annex/Annex%20-%20Moore,%20Colleen_05.jpg

I've been looking for pictures of the real life Lord Lindsay, but keep getting pictures of bloody Elizabethan era Cecils and Burghleys. Dammit. He was supposed to be a posh hottie - I found one picture that proved this, but it wasn't linkable. :-(

Ah well, this will have to do:

http://www.olympic.org/upload/heroes/top/87810_TOP.JPG

He turned rather lizardine in old age, though, as all posh tottie eventually does.

x-post, she looks like my friend Danny!

Ah well, the thumbnail is linkable. You have to use your imagination for the pointed nose and chistled cheekbones.

http://www.topfoto.co.uk/gallery/olympics/1932%20Los%20Angeles/images/thumbs/0086772.jpg

Colleen was in "Flaming Youth", which is like one of the top ten lost silent films, and supposedly defined the jazz age, flappers etc. She is one of my favourites, & is like Pola Negri and Clara Bow in that she's way way sexier in motion than she is in stills. She was the biggest movie star in the world for a couple of years in the late '20's. She seems to have been a really switched on, smart & likeable person, which is kind of rare when you read about silent movie stars , most of them were pretty seriously messed up.

Wikipedia is so great for links to links to links. (Oh, and also the fact that she had one blue eye and one brown eye which is pretty darn cool!) So, apparently she and her husband held parties (I'm trying very hard not to imagine Wild Jazz Parties) for competitors at the 1932 Olympics in LA... at which, guess who competed?

Yes, here we go...

http://multimedia.olympic.org/pic/burghley_gal_l_03.jpg

No wonder conspiracy nuts love the web. The world is linkee-linkee.

Now I'm googling for lighthouses. Great. The depths that boredom brings me to.

And how about a wild 1920s jazz party on top of a Scottish lighthouse, featuring the entire UK Track and Field team of 1924? Or has this just turned into a Belle and Sebastian lyric?

Did you decide on going to visit your brother?

greetings from Gdansk. Easter has been really great this year. Cross country skiing on Saturday and Sunday, followed by a walk on the beach on Monday. Coming back to England later today....

Oh, I didn't mention going to visit my brother to him, so it's probably too late now.

I actually had to do some work! This poor young man came over and asked me to explain him Crystal so, well, I did, and I rather fear I've made his head spin a bit.

Gdansk! I am jealous of the x-country skiing. I haven't done that in years and miss it.

Sag Paneer is spicey today! The lady at the whole foods shop now recognises me when I come in. Tee hee.

funny, I never think about how Crystal works, I just use it and I'm usually quite impressed! the reports come out really fast, tho i think that is to do with the good architecture of the database that feeds it rather than Crystal itself. Unlike the interface design of said database, which is lousy!

we were skiing in this forest which is managed by the Polish equivalent of the Forestry Commission, which, if I understood Asia correctly, is quite a corrupt organisation, not averes to felling & selling perfectly healthy trees to make a few readies rather than, y'know, looking after the things.

I am still not used to seeing środa, 26 marzec appearing next to my online name.

Were you designing reports in Crystal, or just running them?

Crystal should run quite fast if it's set up well, but the databases I work with are, quite predictably, usually monsters. I think they're set up either for ease of use or ease of reporting, but not both.

I think the poor lad was expecting something, well, less programmy.

just running them admittedly - I think I wouldn't be much use if I was *building* them and still didn't understand how they worked!

Why does all of Northampton seem to think I'm a scientist? I'm a MATHEMATICIAN. Not quite the same thing. I blame that Carruthers. He's been going around spreading malicious lies about me.

You wouldn't be the first to build Crystal Reports without knowing how they worked, though, Mark!

I shall retaliate by sending him into SPACE:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/mar/22/spaceexploration.spacetechnology

Yawn.

That was my entire excitement for the day. Now everyone is back to ignoring me. I wonder if I can sneak out early to go to rehearsal.