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Saturday? What were we going to do Saturday? Box Hill? I can't remember either. Nothing written in my diary.

Blargh, I've had a long weekend of REST. Which was obviously much needed. Saturday I decided not to go to NOTLS so that I could be nice and rested up for the walk on Sunday, so I stayed in bed and read the newspaper and then read about the Black Death in Scotland and started City of Quartz as well. Oh, I managed to make a Krautrock comp which balances the well known and the slightly obscured, I hope. Will send that over shortly to Ed and J.

Sunday I woke up and felt awful, but staggered to the train station anyway to find that there were no trains. Tried to get a bus but had to wait for ages for one, then when I got on it, it went out of service early. Got on another one, and that one waited for hours at the top of Streatham Hill while they changed drivers. So in the end it took me 45 minutes to get from my house to Brixton and at that point I was feeling so exhausted and crampy from period that I just turned around and went back to bed. I'm sorry, I hope the walk was good anyway.

Spent another few hours sleeping then got up and started working on the Elektrickometheorie track - after a couple of minutes it sounded so much like The Spangle Maker that I decided to just turn it into a cover. My poor neighbours.

What on earth can one do in bed to be ashamed of? Wetting the sheets?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 10:17 (nineteen years ago)

Shame may be the last vestiges of winter blowing away. I may tell, but not in a message board and not in the light.

― Ed, Monday, 12 March 2007 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

I looked at Holy McGrail's myspace, and I find it impossible to believe that I have not met him at some point.

― Ed, Monday, 12 March 2007 10:37 (nineteen years ago)

Kate & G00blar - this is what I was wibbling about trying out on Friday

Fender Esquire

It says how the switching works - what they describe as 'more top-end sparkle', I'd call 'the sound of civilisations crumbling' .

― Dr.C, Monday, 12 March 2007 10:44 (nineteen years ago)

"Top end sparkle" ha ha ha ha ha. OK, I could do with some of that.

But my next guitar is not going to be another Fender.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 10:50 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I have ended up with someone else's headphones, same as mine, but much less old and debilitated and I have fallen in love with them all over again. Bass is all tight and punchy, subtly reinforced, everything clear.

― Ed, Monday, 12 March 2007 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

OK, this comp is just too big to be sent in one go, so it's coming in two parts. Bloody krautrock songs, all 10 minutes long.

Track listing, for those of you who want to complain WHY DID YOU PUT *THAT* IN... and want to complain about omissions etc.

1) Hallogallo - NEU!
2) Ruckzuck - Kraftwerk
3) Pinch - Can
4) Deluxe (Immer Weider) - Harmonia
5) Surrounded by the Stars - Amon Duul 2
6) Krautrock - Faust
7) Next Time See You At The Dalai - Guru Guru
8) La Dusseldorf - La Dusseldorf
9) Hero - NEU!
10) She Brings The Rain - Can

(Yeah, I should have put on Mother Sky or Halleluwah instead of Pinch, but those songs are both, like 20 minutes long!)

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah, I can listen to this as I speed through Vlaanderen.

― Ed, Monday, 12 March 2007 11:15 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, perfect for driving or listening to on a train. Especially if the landscape is very flat and monotonous.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

I predict you will like Can and Amon Duul best, mainly because the Amon Duul track features what appears to be a banjo solo. (Please correct me if I'm wrong, Dada.)

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

Can I have a copy too?

(G'Morning)

― G00blar, Monday, 12 March 2007 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

Please feel free also to intersperce all the umlauts over all the vowels that need be. (Amon Duul has two, take that Motorhead!)

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 11:36 (nineteen years ago)

damn the ILX search is not giving me what I want

― Ed, Monday, 12 March 2007 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, if you want a good giggle, try and look up Cocteau Twins lyrics on the interweb!

(I was absolutely flummoxed by the last bit, but now I may go and re-record it.)

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man, I'm still totally unprepared (I'm guessing) for my seminar at 2, but I can't bring myself to really prepare more. I feel like going in there and telling the students that I have bronchitis and have lost my voice, so they're all going to have to talk for two hours while I sort of guide the conversation.

― G00blar, Monday, 12 March 2007 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

.. by semaphore

― Ed, Monday, 12 March 2007 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

Don't joke about losing your voice. Sande (who some of you lot know from the Memory Machine) has got a nodule on her vocal chords and can't talk for SIX MONTHS. Argh!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

Hello! Morning! Everyone have a good weekend, then?

― Forest Pines, Monday, 12 March 2007 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

Morning? Not by about 20 minutes there, FP!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

OH GOD I HATE WHEN THEY HAVE THE WINDOWS OPEN, DECLICIOUS SMELLS EMMANATE FROM THE PUB DOWNSTAIRS!!!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh, after my first day of Sainsburys "super-natural" ready meals, I am almost ready to start eating mine own curry again.

They make them so they smell good, but there isn't much in the way of taste. This lentil canelloni bean thing tastes overwhelmingly of the lemon juice they used to "preserve" the fresh veg.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

I have been walking around with these cans on and I CAN HEAR THE DRUMS and not just rhythm and all the notes.

― Ed, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

I have found a stereo for the watercooler

http://images.akihabaranews.com/news_pics/13432/HT752TP_1.jpg

― Ed, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

Considering the previous conversation, it took me a moment to realise that you were not talking about walking around with Malcolm Mooney perched on top of your head.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

Also, Sande can't talk!?!?! Wow.

― Ed, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

x-post it took me a moment to realise where I'd seen that stereo before...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/cd/PBlaster.JPG/180px-PBlaster.JPG

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

Afternoon FP.

I had a great weekend. No real damage from the excellent FAP, apart from smoking too much. I am going to stop, for all time, on April 1st. You read it here first. To assist me I am demanding that the world supplies of menthol cigarettes be destroyed and that production be ceased on that date. I re-discovered the glory of menthol ciggies on Saturday, sadly, num num num. The missus smokes them occasionally and happened to have some handy as we cowered in terror in the garden as the boy's 14th birthday sleepover party thing raged on in the house. Actually there were only 6 of them and they were all v. polite and nice, but jeez they didn't half make a racket. And they DIDN'T GO on Sunday. We discovered that one was still in the house around 7.30 yesterday evening, just as we were about to eat. But the main thing is that the boy had a good time, which he assures me that he did. He's starting to get presents that I WANT now - one of his mates bought him a phaser pedal, which despite being a Behringer is quite good. Also a book about Led Zeppelin.

I have a couple of interesting days. Tomorrow - recording the final 3 trax for Band #1's album. Tomorrow and Saturday's gig might be enough for me. I'm going to see how much I enjoy it, or not.

Then on Wednesday I have to discuss teh NEW JOB, that I mentioned a while back, with the powers that be. This might be a chance to do something more creative.

― Dr.C, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

I AM A MORAN AND SHOULD BE SHOT

― emsk, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

You are not a moran and there is no way on this earth that you should be shot, Emsk. Except out of a giant cannon propelling you on a HOLIDAY TO THE MOON. But otherwise, no.

What's wrong?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

Why is that?

Also was Dr C who/what we were going to do on Saturday?

― Ed, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

yes! that was it, we were going to go see Fractured.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

Emsk, shortly?

http://www.spacefuture.com/archive/images/the_future_of_space_tourism.1.gif

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

You're not going to tell us? OK, in that case, I'm just going to amuse myself posting pictures of Bill Drummond and sheep.

http://www.sathnam.com/images/23t.jpg

http://www.trancentral.ru/pix00/03_general/bj02.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

How about Bill Drumond on the moon?

http://www.panoptika.net/por_bill_drummond.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

Ed, Kate - teh Fractured is this Saturday coming (17th).

― Dr.C, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

yes. Emsk and I were talking yesterday and puzzling as to what we had forgotten we were going to do next Saturday.

Do you have hot female fans?

― Ed, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

Will there be sheep involved?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flock_of_sheep.jpg/399px-Flock_of_sheep.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

fractured! yes.

i missed 1x tiny thing which is actually 1x enormous thing - scanning an email for the info i'd requested, only looking at that and not the rest of it and thus missing HUGE GLARING PROBLEM LOOMING. it is all ok but i feel like - am - a complete fucking IDIOT.

― emsk, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

Afternoon, then. I had a lovely weekend, partly because I spent all of it with Herself - walks on the beach, shopping in Hull, and lots of lazing about doing nothing much at all really.

― Forest Pines, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

**Do you have hot female fans?**

Oh yeah, ~~loads and loads~~ a few.

― Dr.C, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

What about the sheeeep? Isn't it lambing season either now or very very soon? Where are the gambolling lamblings?!?!?

http://www.milkandhoneyfarm.com/sheep/images/three_happy_sheep.jpe

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

oh, dhl. o2 sent my new phone via them (WHY DO I NEVER REMEMBER TO TELL THEM NOT TO DO THAT) and they only deliver in work hours while i am AT WORK and not on saturdays except for a fee and i tried to get through to them to either wheedle them into a freebie saturday delivery or ask them to deliver to work address, and i have spent at least an hour and a half over the last week, at up to 20 or 25 minutes a time, holding and listening to their FUCKING APPALLING hold music and have NOT EVEN MANAGED TO SPEAK TO ANYONE. gargh.

i mean, at least my mistake was a genuine mistake and an anomaly, not DELIBERATE CUNTERY.

― emsk, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

x-post Shopping in Hull = the best ever street name "The Land Of Green Ginger".

Is Sydney Scarborough's record shop still around? I bet it's a mobile phone shop now. I used to go shopping with my mum in Hull every half-term. Lunch at Hammonds, fish from Monument Fisheries, tobacco for my Dad from the tobacconists just near the Land Of Green Ginger and back home on the Ferry.

― Dr.C, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

dr c are there cheapie flyers for saturday?

― emsk, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

The fecking set-list discussions have started by e-mail now. O kill me now. My agenda, as ever, is to get me playing guitar on as many as possible. At least I'm honest about it.

― Dr.C, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

emsk - there are no cheapie flyers I am almost certain, because the proceeds of the gig are going to a hospice. The wife of the headliners singer has recently been diagnosed with cancer, so I have been told.

I will check, but I think that's the situation.

― Dr.C, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

er, that's fine then!

― emsk, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

You are right about the best ever street name, Dr C. I take visitors to see it specially. The tobacconists is still there, I think, but I dunno about the record shop. They are tearing down the big concrete 1960s frontage to Paragon Station at the moment. Some time I mean to go down to the pier and take photos of the building that was Hull Corporation Pier Station - ie, the British Rail ferry terminal.

― Forest Pines, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

i like the fish in the pavements in hull.

― emsk, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

oh BALLS i can't come on saturday after all. just checked diary and i'm already booked that eve. can still do bikeride in daytime tho...

― emsk, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

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