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

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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

I think it's great.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 2 March 2007 02:08 (seventeen years ago) link

i am besotted. it's like the first one all over again but totally different. it is bloody short though. ok i am going to sleep now.

― emsk, Friday, 2 March 2007 02:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Morning!

― Forest Pines, Friday, 2 March 2007 09:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't stop looking at that eye! If I move from side to side in front of my monitor THE EYE FOLLOWS ME.

― C J, Friday, 2 March 2007 09:31 (seventeen years ago) link

WAKE UP G00BLAR!

― G00blar, Friday, 2 March 2007 09:43 (seventeen years ago) link

it's a beautiful morning!

― emsk, Friday, 2 March 2007 09:44 (seventeen years ago) link

It's jolly chilly-willy though.

― C J, Friday, 2 March 2007 09:46 (seventeen years ago) link

chilly-willy lol! heh i am in a ridiculous good mood. my flatmate is back today hurrah! i prob won't see her until tomorrow unless she is still up when i get home from work around 1am (possible, brazil is, what, 6 hours behind us? 7?) but i have got up early and cleaned the house for her. now i am going to work to Learn More Stuff and listen to clever people bait each other, then go work on the door at a gig (or cloakroom? i forgot) which will be FUNS too.

― emsk, Friday, 2 March 2007 09:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Singing in the pub last night was pretty great. I drank all the beers (no hangover though as it was all young's ordinary). I haven't been to the three kings in ages and this seems like a stupid omission.

Not sure about sunday opening but shall we meet post treasure hunt there?

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 09:53 (seventeen years ago) link

i suspect the treasure hunt will end in a pub and people will not want to leave it. want to join us wherever that is? i can text you and let you know where we're at.

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

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

Skipping 2690 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

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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