Alba is in London next week - it would be nice to see people on Wednesday

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Wednesday the 22nd. A week today.

The... Glasshouse Stores?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:00 (twenty years ago) link

That sounds perfectly doable.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:03 (twenty years ago) link

Can't we go to a... bar?

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:03 (twenty years ago) link

Are you trying to provoke controversy, Mr The Nipper?

― Ricardo (RickyT), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:04 (twenty years ago) link

I'm just being a ponce.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:04 (twenty years ago) link

Oh my lord.... GAH! I have rehearsal that day! what are we doing rehearsing on a Wednesday? maybe we can shift it back to Friday unless The Kidz actually have developped a social life or something...

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:04 (twenty years ago) link

I might be around but have a strangely busy week and I'm not sure I can do two FAPs in three days. I'd like to see you though, as it'll be nice to remind each other tha we're actually friends in real life.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:06 (twenty years ago) link

gah, we are going round some friends' for dinner. though i guess an early pint would be doable.

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:07 (twenty years ago) link

I would love to go to a bar, but I fear it would only be me and you turning up, Jerry.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:07 (twenty years ago) link

i would prefer a bar, too.

two faps in 3 days, mark? what's the other one?

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:08 (twenty years ago) link

When is the other FAP that week?

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:08 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, did I get it wrong? I had Colette's FAP in my diary for the Monday but, having a closer look, I also have it in there for the following Mopnday. I guess the latter is right and there's no problem after all. Is there?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:15 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.my.calendars.net/ilxfap

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:17 (twenty years ago) link

Oh.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:17 (twenty years ago) link

Oh shit. Is that when I'm going to Sean and Zoe's with you Toby? Nick, I'm an idiot. I was all 'oh yes, Wednesday will be great, it will be lovely to see you'. I am such a bloody idiot.

(I would go to a bar.)

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:19 (twenty years ago) link

Well, an early drink then?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:21 (twenty years ago) link

Definately. Depending on what you're doing I could even meet you before hand.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:25 (twenty years ago) link

What are you doing in the London, Mr D? Top-secret media spying?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:27 (twenty years ago) link

aargh there's a gig on the same day...from what time do you think you'll be there N ?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:34 (twenty years ago) link

If someone can suggest a decent bar, I'll go. We've been trying to find one to go to on Friday but I only know BOOZERS, don't I. Do cocktails come in pints?

― Starry (hello chickens), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:36 (twenty years ago) link

i would go to a bar.

and (for anyone too lazy to click on the link to the calendar), my fap is the 27th. woo! yay!

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:37 (twenty years ago) link

count me in, bar or pub.

alba, we were quite shocked to see ian brown on telly the other day and realising that HE IS TURNING INTO YOU!!!!

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:38 (twenty years ago) link

ian brown was on the Big Issue cover the other day there was a resemblance, definitely.

starry cocktails sometimes come in jugs.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:39 (twenty years ago) link

What is this crazy bar bandwagon? Times have changed.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:39 (twenty years ago) link

Except N. sounds just like Joe Cornish. Really, I phoned him while Joe Cornish was on telly to check.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:39 (twenty years ago) link

So it's the Glasshouse Stores then?

― Starry (hello chickens), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:41 (twenty years ago) link

Hurrah! I'll definitely be coming out.

― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:42 (twenty years ago) link

Anna, that show was prerecorded.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:43 (twenty years ago) link

I'm very touched by all the enthusiasm, btw.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:43 (twenty years ago) link

But i could still hear what he sounded like. Is this actually your job? Do you secretly overdub all of Joe Cornish's TV apperances?

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:44 (twenty years ago) link

i can't remember ever hearing N's voice, even tho i met him at Glastonbury

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:52 (twenty years ago) link

he sounds something like this:

"I don't think so..."

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:54 (twenty years ago) link

i can't remember ever hearing N's voice, even tho i met him at Glastonbury

oh yeah, was he one of the crowd of guys wearing construction overalls or something, that i thought was a random passerby, but turned out not to be?

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:54 (twenty years ago) link

whoa! looks like Ian Brown and sounds like joe cornish, what a freak!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:56 (twenty years ago) link

haha

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:56 (twenty years ago) link

I think maybe we're all sick of the same old men's boozers and want N. to inject a little glamour into things.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:57 (twenty years ago) link

You have an interesting definition of glamour barry.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:58 (twenty years ago) link

from now on Mark will do the thinking for all of us...

but yeh, a change is as good as a fap - i just can't think of any adequate bars, my bar knowledge is lacking, no bar expert me, you may deride my bar-recommending ability

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:59 (twenty years ago) link

are there bars with bar billiards?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:01 (twenty years ago) link

The gig I'm planning to go to takes place downstairs at a bar. Its in stoke newington, tho'.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:02 (twenty years ago) link

Bars:

Freud most cocktails under a fiver and generous, top of shaftsbury av, no tap beers, stuck in 1992 but in a good way

YO Below, Poland St, Karaeoke, beer on tap at the table (danger danger), japanese snacks

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:02 (twenty years ago) link

keston lodge in islington would actually have room for all of us, and isn't stupid expensive...

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:03 (twenty years ago) link

sounds alright, and i can hobnob with Centaur staff ("don't you think £5.50 is a bit of a joke price for Creative Review?")

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― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:04 (twenty years ago) link

went to the goodge bar on goodge street once and it was ok

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:05 (twenty years ago) link

is that frevd related to the oxford frevd ed? also haven't i asked you this quesiton before?

(keston lodge being what used to be granita, and run by the same people who run the lock tavern, fact fans)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:05 (twenty years ago) link

i'm going to check out YO below one of these days.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:06 (twenty years ago) link

Also, The Social on little Titchfield st

We could compromise and ggo to one of the Bierodromes and rink expensive beers

Steve, I don't know?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:06 (twenty years ago) link

i can't remember ever hearing N's voice, even tho i met him at Glastonbury

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:09 (twenty years ago) link

keston lodge actually used to be an all bar one...granita was a couple doors down, and is now a turkish restaurant.

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:10 (twenty years ago) link

yes?

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― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:11 (twenty years ago) link

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He's like the KLF.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 17:49 (nineteen years ago) link

He has got a bit of the look about him, yes.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 17:50 (nineteen years ago) link

He gets a proud, mischievous look in his eye when he amazes people with his digital camera mastery.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I have a CD-R that was forged on the The Pinefox's magical music anvil too. It isn't in my hands, but it is in my car.

The photo I put on the front made me want to title it "The Look Of Love" but an alternative just about Covers it.

Every digital camera I have ever used or seen others use just plain gobbles up battery life, whether re-chargeable or not. What does Steady Mike use in his wonderful camera, that is so small that stupid me thought that it was a phone?

― Mooro (Mooro), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 19:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I can take about 50 pictures (with flash) on mine before the batteries wear down. Make sure you have Ni-Mh rechargeable batteries, not Ni-Cad. I expect you know that.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 20:19 (nineteen years ago) link

It's true: why is Steady Mike's camera so much inherently better, in every way, than everyone else's?

I don't have an I Pod.

― the bluefox, Thursday, 21 October 2004 08:11 (nineteen years ago) link

I know it, but I don't know what it means, apart from 'more expensive'.

I was hoping I would be able to ram my camera right up close to things and take perfectly good pictures of them, like Steady Mike does, but all I get is a.... BLUR!

And that will bring us back to d'oh.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 21 October 2004 08:16 (nineteen years ago) link

My camera is not better, for instance, than SteveM's. In fact, it is specifically designed to be inferior. The Macro mode is the easy way to impress people - "Look, the edge of the desk! You can see the grain."

It has a Li-Ion battery pack which supposedly lasts for 190 photos (within the constraints of Canon's idealised view of how people take pictures); I've had it about ten weeks, taken about 1400 pix and charged it perhaps fifteen times. I don't use flash if I can help it.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 21 October 2004 08:23 (nineteen years ago) link

I find the flash is a bit too bright anyway.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 21 October 2004 08:35 (nineteen years ago) link

I wish my camera had a half-power flash. I reckon I need a new one anyway - if only Steady Mike's had an optical zoom :(

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 21 October 2004 08:40 (nineteen years ago) link

i was impressed by the look of Mike's camera - sleek and elegant, just as he. he has confirmed it's supposed technical inferiority though. but, as we all know, it's the operator that makes the difference.

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Thursday, 21 October 2004 08:41 (nineteen years ago) link

I hold my finger over half of my camera's flashblub quite often.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 October 2004 08:42 (nineteen years ago) link

You clever man!

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 21 October 2004 08:44 (nineteen years ago) link

It works quite well. I am clever.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 October 2004 08:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Get her with her big hips and kinky arm.

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 21 October 2004 09:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Vorderman is just the type to advertise to potential employers, suitors and viewers the undeniable fact of her double-jointedness.

Shhhh! .rehtegot oiduts eht ni D & G em dlot reganaM

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 21 October 2004 09:35 (nineteen years ago) link

.smra s'namredroV loraC tuoba si daerht siht tub ,llew yrev lla s'tahT

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 October 2004 09:39 (nineteen years ago) link

.svokenhsalaK fo ehcac egral a gnikniht m'I

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 21 October 2004 10:53 (nineteen years ago) link

yag lla r u

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Thursday, 21 October 2004 11:01 (nineteen years ago) link

mottob kcor tih sah daerht sihT

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 21 October 2004 11:11 (nineteen years ago) link

it was too difficult to make every word an actual dnoucnrmu

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Thursday, 21 October 2004 11:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Shhhhhhh! Graham Coxon is on 'The Frank Skinner Show' tonight! It says in the paper that it continues after the news! I can only think of one possible piece of news they could be referring to! So that's it then, it's official!

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 21 October 2004 11:51 (nineteen years ago) link

I will buy a digital camera, before I go to Dublin and London and Italy, and other places, I think. Tell me what to buy, Mikeorsomeoneelse.

How much do these things cost, nowadays? I have no idea.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 21 October 2004 11:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Pennies.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 October 2004 11:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Mmm, there's a really cute Ixus with lovely zoom for under £200.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 21 October 2004 11:54 (nineteen years ago) link

COXON? ON FRANK SKINNER'S SHOW? the mind bogles

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Thursday, 21 October 2004 11:55 (nineteen years ago) link

With Pamela Anderson.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 21 October 2004 11:55 (nineteen years ago) link

now i understand

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Thursday, 21 October 2004 11:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Mmm, there's a really cute Ixus with lovely zoom for under £200.
Why does this sound so perverted?!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Because it's me saying it, I expect.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:04 (nineteen years ago) link

How did you make the words go back to front?

I cannot read them, easily.

― the bluefox, Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:06 (nineteen years ago) link

it's this thing that on earth we call "typing"

― L Ron Mother Hubbard, Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:08 (nineteen years ago) link

I want Carol Vorderman to do deliciously nasty and perverted things to me with her .smra

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:24 (nineteen years ago) link

now it is us who are eating our breakfasts for the second time

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:30 (nineteen years ago) link

MRSA?

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:30 (nineteen years ago) link

it's a conundrum

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:31 (nineteen years ago) link

I certainly don't want any part of Carol Vorderman's MRSA.

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Digital cameras? Oh, I dunno - I can't believe Canon has a complete monopoly on affordable-but-gosh-isn't-it-good? point-and-shoots so, er, look at some others too. I never see my Ixus i in shop windows along TCR so I can only assume it's old hat and there's something even sleeker with an optical zoom, dental floss and an ejector seat coming onto the market.

I just got a batch of SLR photos back from Snappy Snaps - they're almost all rubbish and when you've spent £6 that actually matters.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:48 (nineteen years ago) link

you have the best old hat

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:49 (nineteen years ago) link

We have Panasonic DMC-LC50EB, which you get from their website. It is advertised in newspapers. I think it was just under 150 quid, but then you have to spend about 50 on extra things like memory card and either battery charger or wheelbarrowful of batteries. And a case. 3.2 mega pixels, 9x digital zoom, 3x optical zoom, whatever that means. You can get it to do all the thinking for you. My main disgruntlement is that it takes a while between starting to press the shutter and the picture actually being taken, so I get quite a few pictures of places where someone has just walked past. The supposedly big deal is it has got a Leica lens. I'm not sure whether I recommend it or not, because I don't have anyhting to compare it with. It's a lovely little toy though.

Snappy Snaps usually charge me 9 pounds. It is run by goths.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 21 October 2004 13:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh no, Frank Skinner clashes with Question Time.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 21 October 2004 18:43 (nineteen years ago) link

How can anything involving Skinner result in a clash?

― the bellefox, Thursday, 21 October 2004 19:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I am told he SPOKE OF THE BAR MEETING and DENIED THEY WERE WORKING TOGETHER.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 October 2004 23:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I couldn't face it after two minutes of Pamela Anderson talking shite.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 22 October 2004 07:45 (nineteen years ago) link

His programme's in trouble if Pamela Anderson's the best he can do in terms of guests. I suppose Tara P-T will be back on soon, seeing as she is, as it were, back on (the wagon).

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 22 October 2004 07:49 (nineteen years ago) link

the radio 6 news said the announcement denied rumours that were printed in the daily mirror. carsmile's posts certainly get around 8)

makes me wonder what mischief we could conjure up if we put our minds to it.

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 22 October 2004 07:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I wish I'd never brought Blur to that bar in the first place

― What did you do in the war, Dadaismus? (Dada), Friday, 22 October 2004 08:51 (nineteen years ago) link

I wish I'd never brought Blair to the bar in the first place.

― John Smith RIP, Friday, 22 October 2004 08:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Derry Irvine shurely? Shcotch anyone?

― What did you do in the war, Dadaismus? (Dada), Friday, 22 October 2004 08:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I aaw Graham Coxon on the repeat of Frank Skinner. I was surprised at how much of a freak he appears to be. Skinner did indeed mention the meeting, saying he'd read it in the paper. What paper? The Daily Carsmile? The Carsmile Bugle? The Carsmile Examiner? He didn't give much away, but he was at pains to point out that it wasn't a secret meeting and that they didn't go out in false beards, so perhaps we don't need to write everything backwards after all. Wehp! It was quite a good interview, but a bit strange, mainly because no one laughed, which seems to be the point of Frank Skinner. Coxon's performance (musical) was very good, I thought. Then I switched over and it was Chuck Berry and he was about ten million times better.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Saturday, 23 October 2004 17:51 (nineteen years ago) link

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