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If only there were a laffing out loud thread on ILM.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Sunday, 22 February 2004 23:17 (twenty-two years ago)

my head is swimming, just like last night. I don't know what is wrong w/ me.

this isn't a result of the singer's hawtness but she's still hawt.

I hadn't heard them, before last night, but, yeah, £6+down the hill+pals are going+recommendation=I will go and see them. I have downloaded a few songs and confirmed my slight concerns regarding live Vs. recorded sound. I will still buy the record, though. tomorrow, perhaps.

don't say I can't say she's hawt, again, please.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 23 February 2004 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not sure why we are all pretending that it cost £6 when in fact it turned out to be £7.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 23 February 2004 00:52 (twenty-two years ago)

haha, I remembered that and thought about posting it but I realised it was boring.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 23 February 2004 00:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Darn it - I missed all the fun as usual.

― the bluefox, Monday, 23 February 2004 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it is bizarre how this one gig has generated so much reflection and enthusiasm.

I think that maybe you loved the gig because you love each other.

Probably the FFs are mediocre. (I have barely or not heard them.)

It is always nice to see JtN talking about indie culture etc, but let me remind him that I hate Justin Timberlake. If I were in an indie or other club and his music came on, I would go up to JtN or someone else nearby and say: I hate this fucking bastard - people like him have ruined my life - and so on.

Actually JT is a good case for the looks / music thing.

I hate his 'music'.

I hate the way he looks.

I hate him.

re. the big questions that everyone is talking about, I am not sure where I stand.

N. would be a less compelling musician if he looked worse. But even as it is, I fear that he is not a very compelling musician. Possibly I am wrong and he has improved.

― the bluefox, Monday, 23 February 2004 18:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I like to think of myself as a compelling singer, if that counts.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Really?

I would like to hear you sing.

If it were true about you being a compelling singer, then I suppose your combined ratings out of 10 would be off the scale.

Well, no - they would be 17/20 or something.

― the blissfox, Monday, 23 February 2004 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I think you have heard me sing, but I fear I was not at my most compelling. Give me a stage..

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I hope that was not supposed to be an ellipsis.

Why are people no longer capable of using three dots for an ellipsis? Even the front page of the Daily Mirror, etc, does it.

Two dots is far too close to one dot.

One dot is a full stop.

― the bellefox, Monday, 23 February 2004 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I usually do three, sorry. Maybe I thought it looked too inviting.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 23 February 2004 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I really like the fiery furnaces, still!!! even if they're not as great, on record, as they are live.

my interest in timberlake turned into patience with and has, recently, become boredom because of.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 23 February 2004 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

to be correct you need to include a word space in between each dot . . .

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 23 February 2004 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

really? that's weird.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 23 February 2004 20:45 (twenty-two years ago)

This thread took an unsavory turn a few posts ago.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 23 February 2004 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)

N. come to a London karaoke FAP.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 09:03 (twenty-two years ago)

if the ellipse comes at the end of a sentence it works like so. . . .

if in the middle of a sentence like so . . . see?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 09:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey! The person I was going with to see the FFs at the Garage in Ilsington tonight is ill and can't make it. So I have a spare ticket and don't really fancy going alone. If anyone wants to come (it's guest list, so you won't have to pay) email me at [email protected] by 5.30pm today

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 14:39 (twenty-two years ago)

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I WISH I HAD LONDON

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

damn! it's 19.01!

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha they didn't give me a +1 in the end cos it has been so popular. So I will have go on my own anyway. : /

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow!

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 23:46 (twenty-two years ago)

does she look good?

just playin with ya fluxdude!

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I bought the album.

strangely, after them not sounding as good, on my computer, as they did, live, now they don't sound as good, on my stereo, as they did, on my computer.

that is: after not sounding as good as they did, now they don't sound as good as they did.

I still like them a lot, though.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 11:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Interestingly, I didn't fancy the singer. Rather, I think I wanted to be her.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 12:25 (twenty-two years ago)

that often comes down to the same thing IMO

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)

A whole decade of tragic relationships can be put down to my failure to distinguish between the two, unfortunately.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it'd be a bit foolish to assume Basement Jaxx are not about image, to people here, or are purely about the text.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 12:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I was set straight in the boozer the other night, Ronan. I guess my point was less about the band than a kind of post-Reynoldsian formalism or close reading or focus on sound to the exclusion of much else.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

That does happen I guess, in fairness though so few people can actually write well about the sonics of electronic music it's to be encouraged, in my opinion anyway.

I often wish it wasn't so necessary, or so difficult, it's much more natural for me to write about it in the context of life or just general experience. I suppose it's an identity through sound thing with Basement Jaxx, particularly now they seem to have become their own genre.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

There can never be too much good close reading/attention - I agree. I guess I lose patience with it when it becomes particularly bloodless or technical, just cataloguing a series of sound events - a lot of the Wire reads like this to me (though I guess it might make more sense if I were more familiar with some of the music in question).

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

have you copyrighted the phrase "set straight in the boozer" or can i use it?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

It's yours. (BTW Am. are you still in Paris? I think I am visiting over Easter.)

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

yes when is easter (sez the jew)?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:37 (twenty-two years ago)

9-12 April.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

ok email me

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I wish I could visit paris. : /

RJG can I scab a copy of the album?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

First you trivialize her band by calling her hawt, now you plan to violate her copyright?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

New euphemism alert.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

"I'm sorry, Cozen, but the only man I will allow to violate my copyright will be Pedro Almodóvar, not you."

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 17:31 (twenty-two years ago)

cognitive dissonance a-go-go.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

But still, my feelings were hurt.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I wouldn't feel right about it, cozen.

I will let you see the cover, sometime, though.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

Godallfuckingmighty I fell in love with them tonight, in their nonstopunstoppable set before Mission of Burma.

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Sunday, 16 May 2004 05:48 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

they are good, huh?

I like eleanor on that mp3 you posted to your blog matt.

commas excised from first draft of this post: 3.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 24 July 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

I am going to read this thread again, some time.

N. developed a mathematical system, on it!

It was really frustrating how despite reading it a lot, I missed the big controversy when it happened.

It was nice when N. OK'd my reaction to his picture of the band, though. I enjoyed that.

Looking at it now, I wonder who it was who 'set' JtN 'straight' in the, the, 'boozer'? Or even, what boozer it was?

― the firefox, Thursday, 4 November 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Upthread, JtN says that Patti Smith understands the cathexis of the stage. Also (and this is a lot better) he says that N. once said something really good.

― the firefox, Thursday, 4 November 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

the greatest band in the world?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

possibly. or close to it.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

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