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LEAST BAD ONE, GUYS!!! LEAST BAD!!!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I too was listening to the meters on the way to the folk. However I voted Jazz.

― Ed, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

No, it's the LEAST worst.

― G00blar, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

yes, don't listen to tissp, he's an idiot

― tissp, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

OK I was right.

FUNK is GREBT.
Jazz, I like. (the missus likes it more and has educated me somewhat)
B&S are my worst nightmare.

― Dr.C, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Will be funny to see if theres more votes than people posting.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

There will be, the cooler is heavily lurked.

― Ed, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Lurkers, WTF? Why the hell would anyone read this?

Anyway, we were talking about guitar amplification. Maybe I should start paying more attention to ampage again, but that has kind of gone by the wayside since becoming a laptop head. I end up just using whatever is lying around for gigs. Mainly because I cannot be bothered dragging the AC-30 across town on top of everything else. And, err, the Marshall has become my bedside table.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I just keep coming back here to look at the giant purple pyramid eye thing. I'd love to get a tattoo of that. But I said my next tat would be a Spacemen 3 logo. Which is almost the same, actually.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link

What type of Marshall is it?

― Dr.C, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh blimey, I stare at it every morning,I should remember. Lead 400 or something?

Gazrg, I want coffee. I've got another 6 hours to go and I'm exhausted already.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, that stupid poll announcement in the title is starting to irritate me already. Why did I pick such a date so far in the future? I guess I thought it would lock the thread when the poll was closed.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I hate musoes therefore I hate funk and jazz, but I like Dear Catastrophe Waitress, as all good, honest, true people should.

― Dielo, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

So are campaigning to be nuked or to be saved?

― Ed, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Save the 'Cooler!

― G00blar, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm for a post apocalyptic 'cooler where we all have mutant powers.

― Ed, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.thomasmichaelcorcoran.com/no%20nukes%20plate%2001.jpg

― tissp, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Ooooh, I'd like to post just by blinking my eyes. Or something with laser beams.

― G00blar, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Mutant powers would be awesome! Nuke us, in that case.

Also, I just wanted to say thank you. I was in an awful, awful mood this morning, and all the chatter on the 'Cooler has very much cheered me up. :-)

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

whoops, I could've sworn this was the other thread then

― tissp, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Damn, I would have voted for Glasgow, had it been up there. So I had to pick "other".

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

for the record, i picked funk!

I am freaking out a bit today as we are probably moving on the 19th March. And that's now officially THIS MONTH argh. So much to do... and so difficult to do any of it with a grouchy baby around.

― Archel, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Good luck with the move.

Now - I'm off to play DAAAARRRRTTTS. (And drink ale). I will be hungover tomorrow so go easy on me.

― Dr.C, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't seem to have persuaded anyone to come dancing tonight so I may just do signing in the three kings.

― Ed, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

oh god and had a run-in with THE most miserable woman in the world today. She's my friend's downstairs neighbour and I was visiting this friend, attempting to fold up the buggy in their shared hallway when she came through the front door and immediately launched into this TIRADE. Saying how this was her front door and she needed to get in, and she couldn't have these buggies here, and she was going to call the police. The police! Because I had a buggy in her hallway! I wasn't even going to leave it there - the only reason I was trying to fold it up was so I could take it up into the flat and thus AVOID getting in her way. I hope she DID call the police, I'm sure they would have been highly entertained.

― Archel, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh god, demon neighbours, argh. Yes, phone the buggy removing police department, I'm sure the council will send someone round. In a WHITE SUIT to TAKE YOU AWAY!!!

Signing what, Ed? Have you released a solo album already? I'd love to go dancing but i've got these reports to run. Have just had a GREAT WHACK of coffee, hurrah. Waiting for people to piss off so I can start the downloading.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Singing, with campers.

― Ed, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link

They are not having a meeting tonight, therefore I will go.

― Ed, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I may try and recruit some of them for dancing but some of them have beef with CaS

― Ed, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh god, the politics of the folkie scene! Everyone has beef with everyone!

Oh, hott banjo player, why do you have a girl? there are no crushes left for me anywhere. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link

This is camp rather than folk politics.

― Ed, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link

hey do any of you guys play any instruments?

onimo

Ahh the unanswered question was actually an attempted joke.

Hence the non answer.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, the CaS people are rather camp... ;-)

Oh hyuck. When should I start downloading? I guess I should finish my email, then start setting them up and download starting at 7pm. That seems like long enough to get all the conslutants off the system.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I have played through the set, and I am excited. My Angel is going to make my arm drop off I think.

― Ed, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Then you will sprout wings, like an angel!

I just have to remember to sing the right words to My Angel, and not burst into "I thought that they were angels, but to my surprise... I climbed aboard their starship and HEADED FOR THE SKIES!!!"

I've given up trying to keep verses 2 and 3 of OPC straight, though.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link

This (shown to me on I make music), is blowing my mind.

― Ed, Thursday, 1 March 2007 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Holy shit! - Available soon, priced at Available soon, priced at $14949

― G00blar, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Um, why did it do that? Should read:
"Available soon, priced at $149."

― G00blar, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I'd be all "holy shit!" if it cost $15k, too!

The Luminaire have just asked us for a spec sheet and I'm kinda perplexed because, uh, I have no idea who will be playing at that show yet!

I suppose it's better to ask for too much rather than too little. I can cross out things like "cello" and put in "mandolin" instead (coz cello is actually on their example tech sheet) but I've no idea how many vocalists!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Your sheet should just read:

~~cello~~

― G00blar, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, I was about to post the tech sheet so we could laugh at it and realised, OK, maybe this is the point that we should take it to IMM with the limits of technical music geekery.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link

IMM Thread On Spec Sheets

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Jazz is the least bad. My dad likes jazz.

― jel --, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Feh! A skeeve to jazz!

Man, OK, I've finished Business Written. Which means I'm about a third of the way through, but the easy third. Accounts In... aaahhh... and Risk and Fee is just as bad as Account In now that I've changed all the reports to be net. I'm going to be here all night. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link

My future father-in-law (an esteemed maths professor): So, what are you up to?
Me: We're working. K's working on her thesis, I'm working on my students' papers.
F-i-L: Do you work for pleasure? For history?
Me: I work for money.
F-i-L: (BIG laugh) That's good. It's better to survive than . . .
Me: It's better to survive than to not survive.
F-i-L: (more laughter)

Look at me bantering!

― G00blar, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Banter banter banter, ha ha. Oh the joys of in-laws.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link

You should put that on your "things what are great about being on yr own" = no in-laws.

― ailsa, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Is that thread still going? I haven't read it since yesterday morning.

Back when I was in a LTR, I actually really liked my in-laws. I may even have liked my ex-partner's mum better than I liked him. We got on really well. I still miss her. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

kate, i don't get how you can't be OBSESSED with this arcade fire album. i cannot stop playing it. you forget about the brooce after a bit.

― emsk, Friday, 2 March 2007 01:19 (seventeen years ago) link

(also here is 1xthing i will not FITE with you about it being LOADED with religious mentions and symbolism and shit)

― emsk, Friday, 2 March 2007 01:40 (seventeen years ago) link

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Playing with your thumb

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Rebecca (or Kerr, if you have tiny hands) maybe you should try a Daisy Rock guitar - the whole point of them is that they are built for smaller hands and are supposedly easier to play.

(I am lucky in that I have rather long fingers for a female, and also did loads of hard core piano training when I was very little, which stretched out my fingers so I have an octave reach.)

I dunno, I think Word Up could be condusive to orgone accumulation, but only in the original, and certainly not in the Scary Spice cover.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link

The original is a classic. Actually Cameo's early albums were very pfunk influenced!

To those who got 13th Floor Cookies yesterday... what do you think of the alternate mixes on both albums?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

...Oh, those bands aren't from Nottingham - sorry for jumping to that conclusion - but the descriptions I've found so far are intriguing.

I put a bid on a purple sparkly Daisy Rock on ebay once or twice but it was not to be. I've never seen one in a shop where I could have a chance to try it, but then the staff never acknowledge my existence and after ten minutes of hanging round wondering whether to ask I get too intimidated by them and all the teenage boys tapping their way through intricate metal solos and leave anyway. And I'd love a shorter-scale bass because my current cheap bass is just too huge and high-actioned and telegraph-cable-like, but the only ones I see are that Epiphone SG shape, which I don't like much.

― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I haven't listened to the alternate mixes much. I must admit, I just jumped straight to the albums because I love them so much. I often get frustrated by alternate mixes of songs I know really well, because they are not, well, the way I *expect* them to be!

Argh, I hear you about guitar shop staff. But the last time I went guitar shopping, I took Ed and everyone jumped on him offering him service, and he just pointed them to me, ha ha. Actually, that was one of the nicest things about R&V Guitars on Denmark Street, is they're not sexist at all in there - the bloke noticed it was me perving over the Cosmichorus. I often get asked if I need help in there, but unfortunately I can't afford anything in there.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I love the alternate mixes on Marquee Moon.

I just got spam for viagra from Ned Braggett

bizarre.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I have to repost this weirdness

http://www.kropserkel.com/Images/horsehead%20(6).jpg

and this cuteness

http://www.dailykitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/1174019305cats-026.jpg

― Ed, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

link to long picture

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I had a stuffed horsehead when I was a child! It's not that weird!

(OK, my mum was obsessed with the Godfather for a while.)

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

If you get small pics when you click that link, just click the pic to magnify it. For some reason the pic comes out small automatically

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Have a good weekend everyone.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

You, too, Kerr. (I'll be going home to pizza and imagining how good the Hawkwind doc is as soon as I finish transferring some files.)

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Am home today. The weekend has already started. Yay me!

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 March 2007 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Happy weekend, watercoolerers.

I feel I should add that the staff of PMT Oxford have usually been helpful and the guy who runs the computer+synth room is always enthusiastic and friendly. Which is also a bit intimidating in its own way, because it seems a shame to go from feeling like maybe I've managed to fool someone into thinking I know what I'm doing with a proper nerdy conversation about LFOs and pulse-width modulation and then blow it by showing him I really can't play.

On the other hand, I had a very odd experience in a record shop (sorry, long story and one I may have told before). Every few days I'd go into their dance music basement, spend a while looking and almost always buy something. I got chatting to the guy occasionally, because I'd buy crap nobody else wanted from the bargain bin and the "what the hell?" / "weirdassed drill/breakcore" sections.

We got talking about production too because the weird stuff he didn't know where to file or how to price he'd often show to me, and he'd got some sample CDs in or some 8-bit chiptune thing I said I might buy just for sampling. Anyway, I was in there a LOT, spending a lot of money, and I never once took anyone else there or even spoke to any other customers.

After a few years he said, "Shame your friend isn't with you today, I've got some stuff he might like."
"Er?"
"Oh, you know, that guy you're always in here with, he listens to all the weird stuff, and he makes his own music so he buys those CDs with beats on."

I have NO idea how to explain that exchange except that it was just so MALE that anyone would regularly paw their IDM and weird cheap stuff and talk about making music that he completely IMAGINED someone else coming in every week while I stood behind this imaginary customer staring uncomprehendingly at the records and then leaving again, just so as not to think a woman might have any musical knowledge. But I'm hoping there's a better explanation.

― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 30 March 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Sounds like a typical dance music shop. 13th Note in Glasgow went all elitist and snobby when it became dance stuff only.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link

That's pretty WTF. I don't know what to say really.

― Pashmina, Friday, 30 March 2007 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Norman OTM. Utterly bizarre.
Despite reading Muzik and Mixmag all the time I hated going into dance shops TBH. Always seemed really unfriendly and elitist. I tended only to go in when I was with one of my mates if he was after stuff.
I usually just bought my cd's elsewhere. I used to go into 13th Precinct (not note, lord knows why i said that haha) out of habit as it used to be a good indie shop. But eventually it got moved downstairs and then dropped completely and I just didn't like the shop anymore.

I haven't been in 13th Precinct for years. Wonder what it's like now.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Hi everyone!

just got new net...more watercooler from here on out.

― H-ari A-shurst, Friday, 30 March 2007 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Snazzy new look!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 30 March 2007 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link

It's hard to find threads thesedays.

Search doesn't show them, there is no "show all" anymore, and if it wasn't for my own 'history', I'd lose threads!

― Mark G, Monday, 2 April 2007 09:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I've forgotten what the question was

― Ste, Monday, 2 April 2007 10:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Hello! I had the weirdest dream (or rather nightmare EVAH). A small baby was pooping orally. His (or her, can't remember gender) blew up so big that it turned see-through.

― nathalie, Monday, 2 April 2007 11:32 (seventeen years ago) link

That sounds horrifying

― H-ari A-shurst, Monday, 2 April 2007 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, this was due to the fact that Ophelia had pooped so much it was sticking to her legs (at 4 am). We had to wash her up and take her into our bed. This was the worst but previous nights have been the same. heheh

― nathalie, Monday, 2 April 2007 11:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I haven't been in 13th Precinct for years. Wonder what it's like now.

I fondly remember buying "So Far" by Faust and "Der Elektrolurch" by Guru Guru before it went dance

― Tom D., Monday, 2 April 2007 12:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Morning!

Erm ... I mean, Afternoon!

― Forest Pines, Monday, 2 April 2007 12:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Afternoon!

It's time for a New Thread

really hope that coding works. I'd only just got used to link! Anyway, if that doesn't turn out, it's here:

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=53035

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 12:20 (seventeen years ago) link

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