One of the most annoying things about WFH is that when you connect you the VPN they disable Spotify, even the web version. But I'll listen to that at evening/weekends.
I don't much drink - I'm literally the "oh yes an average of a pint a week" guy that doctors never believe, but I've been hitting the late night video games pretty hard - I forgot that the clocks were going back, so suddenly it was 2, and what was I doing with my life? And this morning I remembered the clocks and suddenly everything's fine, nothing to investigate further.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 29 March 2020 10:40 (four years ago) link
I've been listening to a lot of doomy droney stuff because a writer I follow loves that sort of thing and throws up a bandcamp link every day and I find some of it good to work to. Bandcamp put up a feature on one of his favourite labels - it's definitely not for everyone, particularly In This Current Climate.
https://daily.bandcamp.com/label-profile/cryo-chamber-dark-ambient-guide
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 29 March 2020 10:46 (four years ago) link
love that NickB post (also glad you didn't get the Miley off a tumbledown drunk)
it was hard to get up this morning, with the change of clocks, and the feeling of "so what, I'll just be sitting in this room all day anyway, won't even get round to reading a book or doing anything useful/creative", and also I may have trudged to bed in slight disgrace after my trenchant opinions were deemed to be terrible and bringing everyone down *shrug*
thanks AF, the blurb sounds interesting, later I'll see if I like the music as much (I also have friends who are into "dark ambient", which is very adjacent to genres I like, and yet a lot of it leaves me cold - well, that might be what it's supposed to do, I guess, but I usually don't quite share their enthusiasm)
― a passing spacecadet, Sunday, 29 March 2020 10:51 (four years ago) link
^^ love that. Would you mind sharing who the writer is? Sounds right up my street.
I've been finding solace in classical, drone, ambient and black metal, too these days. But then that's where I found solace way before all this happened :)
xp to Andrew
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 29 March 2020 10:55 (four years ago) link
Its a comics book writer called Warren Ellis: https://warrenellis.ltd/ who has definitely been "I'd like to welcome everyone to my hermitage, no not literally"
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 29 March 2020 11:17 (four years ago) link
Thank you, and this is one for the 'shockingly old' thread: I've always though Warren Ellis the musician and Warren Ellis the comic book writer were one and the same o_O
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 29 March 2020 11:21 (four years ago) link
really wish i could go prop the bar in a quiet daytime pub right now
― Let's kill the Queen and be legends (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 10:42 (four years ago) link
maybe i'll just walk round to the Harry Pursey and scratch on the door and whine
― Let's kill the Queen and be legends (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 10:44 (four years ago) link
Last night I dreamt that my old local was having secret free lock-ins to use up stock.
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 11:33 (four years ago) link
must be someone somewhere currently tunneling in to their local, great escape style
― ymo sumac (NickB), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 11:44 (four years ago) link
uh fantastic mr fox style, pls
― ole uncle tiktok (darraghmac), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 11:48 (four years ago) link
boggis, bunce and shebeen
― ymo sumac (NickB), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 11:54 (four years ago) link
now we're getting somewhere
― Let's kill the Queen and be legends (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 11:56 (four years ago) link
the Thursday before lockdown i was laughing with the woman who lives above one of my locals and we agreed there were worse places to be locked in
― Let's kill the Queen and be legends (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 11:57 (four years ago) link
this could all have been arranged so the socially neediest could be hunkered down together
― Let's kill the Queen and be legends (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 12:01 (four years ago) link
One pub I passed yesterday, instead of the usual cutesy “we love you, stay strong, see you on the other side” notice had one that just said “CLOSED NO MONEY OR STOCK INSIDE”
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 12:12 (four years ago) link
understandable in the circs
i'll get my apology in early, i'm gonna be a drunky git today and there will be rambling bollocks.
― Let's kill the Queen and be legends (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 12:14 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVlEtQQcX58&feature=share
i'm done with the non-essential tasks
― Let's kill the Queen and be legends (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 12:17 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVlEtQQcX58
― Let's kill the Queen and be legends (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 12:18 (four years ago) link
today i am mostly listening to Iron Maiden, Bonnie Prince Billy and Country
― Let's kill the Queen and be legends (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 12:44 (four years ago) link
oh and whichever wonderful ilxor made the wonderful 1950 compilation, that's in the mix
― Let's kill the Queen and be legends (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 12:45 (four years ago) link
Just had the Pixies on, didn't enjoy that much tbh. Planxty now.
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 13:00 (four years ago) link
gone down a MOP alley but music thank god people thank god stay strong everybody
― Let's kill the Queen and be legends (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 13:00 (four years ago) link
everything today needs to bang
― Let's kill the Queen and be legends (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 13:02 (four years ago) link
Planxty, much more the ticket.
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 13:04 (four years ago) link
nah def, they will fit right in to my original playlist, it's just expanding
also, MELT LINES, DON'T DO IT
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 13:06 (four years ago) link
also it is time for Accept
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 13:08 (four years ago) link
I could really do with sitting in a pub beer garden right now.
Have to make do with walking up the top of the road and back and trying to get a bit of work done. At least I don't have to work tomorrow. My hours have been cut to 4 days a week so I've gone for Wednesdays off so I never have to work more than 2 days in a row.
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 13:39 (four years ago) link
sounds like a relief. just been to the little Tesco for some more rum and basic food, there's a gentle pleasant calm outside round here tbh, people saying hiya at a distance then rolling their eyes just a little bit. comical how the seeds of a better world are scattered in this crappy one, sad to guess it'll pass when "normality" resumes.
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 13:47 (four years ago) link
i finally sent my resignation email today, which is the task accomplished that's allowed me to self-justified boozing it up for the rest of the day.
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 13:48 (four years ago) link
oh and i bought a lottery ticket, apparently the pubs are still open in Sweden
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 13:50 (four years ago) link
FB chat with my kids are so real right now thank you based virus
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 15:10 (four years ago) link
also getting shithot at Freecell
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 15:11 (four years ago) link
ow my head
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 09:49 (four years ago) link
Whose bright idea was it to put that ghoul Whitty on the adverts? I've got chairs with more presence.
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 09:51 (four years ago) link
looks-wise he is memorably unlike the ppl you usually see in adverts -- viz he resembles the mekon's ghost -- so maybe that was the thinking. but then there's also voice-wise…
― mark s, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 09:55 (four years ago) link
‘this is a public service announcement that baw-heided weirdos still have a place in british public life’
― bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 10:01 (four years ago) link
speaking of which, is toby young dead yet
― bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 10:02 (four years ago) link
Not for want of me nailing a voodoo doll.
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 10:04 (four years ago) link
tbh with this hangover I'm minded to hunt the cunt down and do it properly, don't think there's twelve people in the land who'd convict me
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 10:06 (four years ago) link
idk man animal rights
― ole uncle tiktok (darraghmac), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 10:50 (four years ago) link
instead of cruises or the mekon's wooden ghost, ads in law and order today and shilling something called "pure cremation" :( :(
― mark s, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 14:35 (four years ago) link
Been seeing that one for a while. End up feeling bad about letting my children pay for my funeral.
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 14:36 (four years ago) link
I mean not bad enough to do anything about it but hey.
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 14:38 (four years ago) link
Just caught a bit of a livestream by Hull's own Black Elvis, and after he'd finished a blazing "Burning Love" he was thanking people in all the different countries watching him, he mentioned Norway and his partner chipped in with Sweden and he said "well that's part of Norway" ❤️❤️
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 15:00 (four years ago) link
https://imgur.com/a/teyIEjb
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 15:11 (four years ago) link
― Let's kill the Queen and be legends (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, March 31, 2020 8:45 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
:D
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 15:26 (four years ago) link
Walking the dog on Saturday afternoon I interrupted three gents (late 50s?) sitting on logs in a corner of a field sheepishly drinking cans and chatting.
― fetter, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 15:33 (four years ago) link
Thanks Hadrian that compilation is class
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 15:38 (four years ago) link
glad to hear it!
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 15:43 (four years ago) link