UK Fnordcooler 23: Immanentizing The Eschaton - When The Pyramid Meets The Eye!

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also tomorrow countryside bikeride rah rah pls weather to stay EXACTLY like this.

― emsk, Friday, 2 March 2007 09:55 (seventeen years ago) link

you know what, Emsk, one of these days I am sure I am going to turn up at a random gig and find you operating the cloakroom or door. And I won't be the least bit surprised.

I have just discovered that Apples in Stereo are playing Primavera Sound. Yay!

Oh and Kate, Asia was asking me to play her some Shimura Curves, I couldn't find my cd at that particular moment but found a solo one I got off you years ago which had Lost Rivers of Clerkenwell, Wash and Unfinished Business on it.

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 2 March 2007 09:56 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.lookandread.myby.co.uk/images/downloads/song_chad.jpg
wot no mushroom cloud?

― onimo, Friday, 2 March 2007 10:14 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.paloverde.org/hales/Chem_1_H/mushroom_cloud.jpg

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 10:16 (seventeen years ago) link

From the ashes of the watercooler arose...

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/b/be/180px-Inhumans.PNG

― onimo, Friday, 2 March 2007 10:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry, I'm just not obsessed with the new Arcade Fire album. I supposed I got too many other good albums around the same time. I *am* obsessed with the Flowers of Hell album, though. Maybe the sheer bloody OBVIOUSNESS of the AF's religious symbolism bothers me. A bit ramming it down the throat.

That said, I am REALLY enjoying your book on the Reformation, Ed.

I love the eye, I think it's great. I really want a tattoo of it.

Did we win one nuke? Yay us! We are the RADIOACTIVEST!!! I hope I'm still glowing by next week when I have to go back to the haaaahnd doctor. I will tell the injector guy that I am supplying mine own radioactivity. Hurrah!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 10:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I stopped going to singing in the pub with the campers years ago because it got boring, too much trying to learn new songs and do complicated harmonies, not enough actual singing. Last night was all about the singing. The acoustic in the room was poor, very hard to hear individual voices, let alone one's own. Made call and response songs hard work. Umkonto we sizwe still makes me uneasy, but it is really pretty and that did work well.

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 10:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, I was able to nobble the person I whose camp I want to go on this summer.

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Errr... what does nobble mean? Do I want to know?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:02 (seventeen years ago) link

There is a procedure for getting on camps, and there are ways of going round it to get on the camp you want to go on which are very naughty.

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Man, I so cannot get motivated to do any work today. It is just too damn sunny outside.

And I still feel too burned from my late night last night. I didn't leave this place until 10.45 and got in this morning, less than 12 hours later, to find my glass of water still undrunked on my desk.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:38 (seventeen years ago) link

'Dja drink it?

I'm sleepteaching today and so far that seems to be getting the job done.

― G00blar, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:39 (seventeen years ago) link

This sunshine is glorious.

― C J, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:41 (seventeen years ago) link

No, I emptied it out and got another one. I feel bad when I leave after the cleaner, like I'll mess up all her cleaning.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Emsk, do you fancy a country bike rid on the 17th or 18th of March?

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:48 (seventeen years ago) link

this place is shut at weekends and at 9pm I think, so no opportunities for working oneself into t'ground silliness.

I have never stayed later than 7.00 or so.

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:48 (seventeen years ago) link

This place is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. They really promote the overwork culture.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:53 (seventeen years ago) link

this is one important reason why I don't think I'd ever want to move back to London -- a fear of being sucked into the overwork culture. I like being here in the slack provinces!

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Kate, thoughts on ILX comp: We should change all the 'c's in everything to 'k's because it's more Krautrock

― tissp, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:59 (seventeen years ago) link

No, I had to make a conscious decision not to buy into the overwork culture. Only at monthend will I do it. And if I find myself working late, I come in late the next day.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Elektrik Komet Theory?

"Meine Pferd schön"

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah, it should be Theorie, too, more German!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes!

― tissp, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:10 (seventeen years ago) link

That fruit & nut bar was gross, but now I get rice pudding! Yay for treats.

― G00blar, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I had carrot cake yesterday so I don't get it as a treat today. :-(

Must remember to get carrot cake for the gig tomorrow! Apparently F also gets the same "ohmigod, I'm on drugs weeeeeeee" extreme reaction to it that I do, which is really a good state for playing dronerock.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Kate, thoughts on ILX comp: We should change all the 'c's in everything to 'k's because it's more Krautrock

Funnily enough, I'm thinking of contributing an acoustic Krautrock medley to the comp.

― Tom D., Friday, 2 March 2007 12:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Srsly tho: no one has a tambourine?

― G00blar, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:38 (seventeen years ago) link

£4.50 in hobgobblin

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry, no, no tambourine. All of mine are sampled!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I might pop in there tomorrow, want me to pick you one up?

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:40 (seventeen years ago) link

what's hobgobblin?

― G00blar, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah, I see it. I'm actually not far from there. Could go myself today.

― G00blar, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:42 (seventeen years ago) link

hobgoblin

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Oooh, please pick me up a tambourine, Ed! I would actually like one. (Though does it have a drum skin on it, or just jingle-jangles.)

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:42 (seventeen years ago) link

In fact, I've bought strings+picks from there; had forgotten the name.

― G00blar, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Which would you like? (look at the site pick one)

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:43 (seventeen years ago) link

They have lots! All cheap!

― G00blar, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:45 (seventeen years ago) link

6" is too small, though - I want at least the 8" Tambourine.

Oh, and jingle sticks! I love jingle sticks... and a cabeza... man, we need a percussionist.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:45 (seventeen years ago) link

8 or 10?

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Does anyone have an old altoids or tobacco tin they could let me have?

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I think 10" might be too big, but then again, the drum skin might have a better tone. Big enough to have a good hit on the skin, small enough to be stuck in the back of an amp or a gig bag!

Ohmigod, that's a shop now I remember why I stay out of it.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh noes, we're talking about music making again, how terrible! Non musicians will be alienated!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, Ed, I have something like that.

― G00blar, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:55 (seventeen years ago) link

today naked canadians want to be my friend.

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 13:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh dear lord, naked canadians with 20,000 friends. I just wonder if it actually does any good at all, randomly adding that many people. Or maybe they're big in Canada, and I don't know.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 13:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Um

(What on earth is a Hawkwind passport, and how do I get one?)

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I have printed the form.

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link

We have been joking... OK, this is going to be convoluted. We have these money laundering protocols in place which mean that people cannot buy houses or pay our fees in cash. Someone paid in £5000 in cash the other day, and we were trying to authenticate where the cash came from to process it or reject it. Turns out, it was withdrawn from this bank in Streatham that I happen to know has been the focus of some pretty dodgy dealings in recent years. (Skimming off the ATM as a scam run by some bank employees! that kind of stuff.) So we were trying to establish whether the bank had asked for any ID, passport or anything.

So I was suggesting that I get the HAWKWIND passport and try to take out cash, I'm sure they'd let me.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey best of luck with the gig, Kate! I KNOW it will be fantastique!

― Dr.C, Friday, 2 March 2007 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Murfle mumble. BIRTHDAY. Hmmm. Can I go home early today?

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 March 2007 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link

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