UK Watercooler 32: Fall Into The Meaning Gap

The flapper girl from the film:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3185/2366656471_ebb47ed14e.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2358/2366657559_5a78448b79.jpg?v=0

i would happily go to the pub with you kate but they'd be closed by the time the plane lands :(

Flapper girl is excellent!

But with the time difference, surely it would work, Mitya? The russian pubs would be closing, but the Russian Bar in Shoreditch would just be getting started!

Not that I'd uh, want to go there.

Guess it's going home and making stir fry and watching CoF again. Unless I stop at a shop and buy some new films. I got my timesheets signed, but keep forgetting to turn them in. They owe me a couple of thousand pounds by now.

I'd come to the pub with you , but I live a million miles away.

I have four films on my HD, one of which I shall watch tonight. Should I watch:

Midnight Cowboy
Chinatown
Repo Man
Election

Repo Man! Plate of shrimp!

I thought I had that, but apparently I don't. Maybe I'm thinking of the soundtrack.

Where can I videos on TCR? That are not of a dodgy variety. I suppose I better walk down to the Zavvvvy or whatever it's called.

I would doubt that zavvvvvvvy has tapes either. The only place that seems to have them are small coprner shops with greying copies of when harry met sally and robocop.

I'll give Repo Man a go then. I hope it's not rubbish.

I like Repo Man. It helps if you're into early 80s So-Cal punk though.

Sorry, geez, I'm turning into an old lady. By videos I mean DVDs, natch. I can't stick videotape in my powerbook, oh no!

No, Repo Man is just funny, fullstop. It helps if you're into crazy conspiracy theories and like laughing at punks and scientologists and the government alike.

There is a great place on charing cross road, corner of old compton st, run by the grumpiest human in existance, that sells dvd's of silent films, old musicals, vintage comedies, black and white melodramas etc.

Off to norway, not through LOLT5, fortunately.

Repo Man is certainly not rubbish! It's very funny & weird.

Zavvi is a terrible shop. I'm amazed it's kept going TBH.

That sounds like a great place, Ed. I must take a look next time I'm in London.

I wonder if I can get down to Compton St. in my lunch hour. Probably not, and I bet if it's run by a grumpy dude, it will be closed by the time I get out of work.

All I really want is Brideshead, Bright Young Things and maybe another season of Bab 5. I've got to get through my upcoming unemployment somehow!

I am being forced to take a lunchbreak due to the developers doing updates on the DB. Lord knows what will be missing again when they are done. Sigh.

I have a strange craving for a bagel (probably due to dreaming about eating bagels) but I know there's nowhere around here I can get a decent one. Sigh.

You had a dream about eating bagels?

I had a dream about making toast once. It wasn't very good.

The toast or the dream? Or both?

Well, there was more to the dream than that. I went to visit my brother, at my parents' old house. And for some reason the Olympic Equestrian Team moved in to the farm next door. We had bagels for lunch, but I planted the carrots in the garden so we had no veggies.

HA HA HA. Tzr just asked if I wanted to go to a METAL FESTIVAL in Portugal later this month.

When are they going to figure out I don't actually listen to metal?

Nu-shoegaze gets lumped in with metal, doesn't it?

My dream consiste dof me getting up in the middle of the night to make some toast, but when I got downstairs there was no bread so I had to go back to bed. And I know it was a dream because I got some bread out of the freezer that evening. It was possibly the dullest dream anyone's ever had tho.

You definately should go to a portugese metal festival.

Should definitely go to Portugal, skip the festival, then do all the research you need on Portugese metallers by hanging out in Camden Market at the weekend

Think of all the lovely port.

I'd love to go to Portugal. But 1) expenses are not included, so you have to find your own place to crash and 2) the bands are REALLY terrible. It's not even nu-gaze metal or doom metal or drone metal. It's proper MEH-UL!!! and I'm quite, quite terrified of it.

Get Kerr to do you a 12 hour compilation

Maybe Kerr should go to the festival and pretend to be me!

Not if it's that kind of metal.

btw what band is the lead review on?

A Silver Mount Zion And Tra La La band.

I probably shouldn't be leaking all this to you, should I?

Ha ha ha, I have just turned my bandmates on to STEAM PUNK and they have fallen in love with it. Singer just asked me "Would you mind dressing as a Victorian scientist for our next photo shoot?" To which mine only response can be "Mind? MIND? Try and stop me!"

Oh no, I'm f*cked:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7315656.stm

That's a GYBE spin off. New album is pretty rock though. It's def not metal though so i think you should do it (as long as you give it a good review)

Im about to walk down the town to buy the new Terrorizer actually.
Look who is on the cover
http://www.terrorizer.com/images/issues/bigt169.jpg

Nadja are in it too in a Roadburn(psychedelic/stoner/spacerock/doom/drone fest) Special! A load of my online mates are off to that.
Hawkwind played it last year and Nik Turner the year before.
http://www.roadburn.com/frames.html <------- Next Weeks Line-Up
Unfortunately Electric Wizard and Grails pulled out of this years.

Terrorizer really is becoming KateMusic™ these days.

5ive are in it too. That's a great spacerock album!

OK, that SUCKS and I am now cross. Because I was originally supposed to do the artwork for the cover of that one. :-(

I would definitely have done a better cover than that. Grrrrr.

I am never going to get to do illustrations for anyone! They lure you in with this "oh yeah, you can do illos" and then you get stuck doing reviews for the rest of your life.

I am quitting after this one. I really am. :-(

You gotta bid your time til the chance comes. You're getting a lead review now. Stick in!

THEY offered it to ME. I had to tell them about doing it in post production and all that. And then they go and get someone else to do it. I'm going to email Stannard and go BAH to his face. Or at least his email. :-(

Database still isn't back up. But at least I have coffee now.

OK, he said it was the photog who wanted to use a mate of theirs, and therefore not his fault.

But still. BAH!

You will get another chance. Im now back with said magazine. And in the mail came a free copy of the zine a guy on DFFD does. He's an awesome cartoonist and I'm looking forward to reading this.

Things are a bit weird at work at the mo. One of our colleagues was killed in a motorcycle accident yesterday morning, it's really sad, he was always really friendly and happy and had a wife and 2 kids. No-one's talking about it at all, just getting on with it. Not that there's any other way of dealing with it.

That sucks. :-(

But still, something that probably has to be dealt with after a drink, not in the office.

I've just looked at the line-up that the Windmill have scheduled for the day that I would have had my now-cancelled birthday party... and I haven't heard of ANY of those bands!

What a load of nonsense.

Yeah you're right, I don't think it's really sunk in yet anyway. xpost

re: Windmill - are they actually under new management or have the old management just gone a bit psycho for no apparent reason?

Kate have a read at http://www.foreverdoomed.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=1389&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&hilit=NAGAWIKA

What festival in Portugal is it btw?
Mark im sorry to hear about your colleague :(

hahaha
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h108/NAGAWIKA666/bobmacabreSmall.jpg

I don't know what's going on at the Windmill. It's still Tim running it. I think he just doesn't trust *me* to promote a show any more.

:-(

I don't understand the jokes in those comics?

This is my alltime fave by him
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v675/shatteredsounds/KelticfrostLarge.jpg

I don't understand that at all!

You havent heard of Celtic Frost? You know who kate Moss is. Moss is a great UK doom band (olly posts on the SL/DFFD board)
This is the comic I got
http://www.foreverdoomed.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=2874

It's 'in' humour, right? Don't have to be funny or anything.

I had no idea that Moss were a band. And it's still not funny.

Is so.