UK Watercooler 32: Fall Into The Meaning Gap

tomorrow, afternoon.

Dear Customer,

We thought that you might like to know that PETE DOHERTY has been confirmed as support for THE SONICS date at The Forum in London this Sunday:

LONDON The Forum - Sun 23 March 2008

Damn, can I swap my Friday ticket for a Sunday one?

Surely you mean can I swap my Sunday ticket for a Friday one?

I daresay there's proba a few Sonics fans wanting to swap for a support band that's anyone but PETE DOHERTY in capitals. Looks like a solo gig.

Well, yes. Oh never mind.

Yes, I'd pay to avoid Doherty.

This headache is getting worse. I might have to go to Boots and get some aspirin or something.

Have a good time in France. Be sure to bring back some good cheeeese.

Come on, mood, shift shift back to good again. Come on, be a friend.

When are you off for Eostre?

The :zoviet*france: album? I've got that!

No, no, the bastardised pagan fertility Equinox festival thinly dressed up as a Christian holiday, which is responsible for our 4-day weekend coming up, oh, tomorrow! Hurrah!

Morning!

when I saw Doherty, as part of Babyshambles at the Primavera Sound Festival in 2006, he was not late, not outrageous, not really good or bad - just, well, boring. And that was the day after the "tourniquet on Easyjet" incident. But one of my friends had the nous to break the tedium by suggesting "Let's go and see what's going on on the other stage?" and because of that, we were introduced to the fun and entertaining I'm from Barcelona.

But, anyway, surely the good Colonel can just spend longer in TEH PUB beforehand???

I joined freecycle yesterday! It's great! I've already unloaded my un-used computer desk on casters to a middle-aged Chinese molecular medicine expert, and that was just after Johnny B turned up to collect my beanbag lounger (it was fun squeezing it into the back of his housemate's car, I just hope he was able to get it out again).

Freecycle means I get to read emails like THIS:

Hi there,
I am offering a supply of fresh natural manure from my 2 lovely horses.
The paddock is just outside of didcot but i cannot deliver it. If
interested please email me!
Thanks
Amy

There's a Monty Python sketch about that

lol I'm going on Friday so I don't need to avoid Doherty! TBH I have no idea who the support is on Friday. It's being put on by some mod festival weekend thingy.

I saw I'm From Barcelona last year (missus is a big fan) they were loads of fun, chucking balloons around and stuff. It was all horribly twee of course :)

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must...read...posts...properly.

I overslept today! well, either I slept through the alarm or I turned the alarm off and went back to sleep. I have no idea which! This is of course in no way related to the fact that I broke my alcohol fast with krupnik (Polish honey liqueur) and Polish cherry flavoured vodka while listening to the Dukes of Stratsphear and Los Camposinos. I have prolly misspelt the names of both those bands.

I am waiting for Kate to get back so I can ask her what her favourite track is on Chips from the Chocolate Fireball. Mine is What in the World at the moment but it keeps changing!

Um, back from what? I'm reading, I just don't have much to say.

I like the whole of the first EP - it's just all wonderful. 25 O'Clock, Your Gold Dress, all of it!

Mine's 'Vanishing Girl' or the one that sounds like The Byrds 'So You Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star'. Somewhere there was a thread in which people speculated which 60's band each track was most like. Or did I imagine such a thread?

no Dr C it really existed.

I am being interviewed for a THIRD time for that job tonight. Well, the agency said "they've got a couple more questions for you" but that's a couple in the "down the pub for a couple of pints" sense I'm sure.

On the phone from New York again at 7 o'clock!

I don't know anyone who's been for a third interview that wasn't offered the job.

More evidence that I'm a bad person - I'm unemployable.

One of my colleagues has just handed in her notice cos she's got a job at Microsoft - she had EIGHT interviews (3 over the phone, but still, wtf)

That doesn't invalidate my assertion. She does have the job.

"Well you're a good man Albert Brown
And you was wounded in the war
And though you shot some people down
You're still a good man Albert Brown!"

i was interviewed 3 times for a job once before and didn't get it. and that was one phone interview and two face to face. on that occasion I went home to wait for a phone call from New York and waited...and waited...and waited. No-one rang but next morning I found out why on the news - a massive power black-out had denied electricity to the whole of the eastern seaboard of the US!

I don't count phone interviews, really. But that could be to do with the fact that I associate them with headhunters, who, as we know, are worse than rubbish.

Actually, I can give you an answer - my favourite DoS song is Bike Ride To The Moon.

Microsoft are notorious for multiple interviews.

DOS for a while was "Pale and Precious", but I reckon now it's "Jackie". Or maybe "albertBrown". oh, maybe "your gold dress". Yeah. That one.

OK, I give up, I'm going to have to go to Boots and get something for this headache.

Had to be done:

Psonic Pollspot! It's the DUKES OF STRATOSPHEAR POLL with your atom bomb!

Nice one. You're My Drug is the Byrds one that I was trying to remember. The Lennonish Collidascope is also good.

what could they ask me in this third interview then eh? Suggestions pls.

What your favourite Dukes of Stratosphear track is

Mole from the Ministry, i think, although I don't remember Psonic Psunspot enough to say for sure.

The only third interview I ever had, it was mainly me asking them questions, and getting to meet all the people that I would be working with, in order to ascertain whether I got on with them, and could work with them or not.

The problem was, even though the answer was a resounding yes - within a year they were all sacked, made redundant or left.

Just remember that you are interviewing them as much as they are you.

My headache hasn't gone, and now I have a stomach ache from the ibuprofen. Can't win. :-(

Is this what my life has come to? I'm temping at a job I can't stand, for a boss who ignores me, and wasting my entire day on a messageboard where I'm almost universally reviled because I have nothing else to do and nowhere else to go and no one else to talk to.

Apart from the temping bit, that sounds almost like me!

Is this what my life has come to? I'm temping at a job I can't stand, for a boss who ignores me, and wasting my entire day on a messageboard where I'm almost universally reviled because I have nothing else to do and nowhere else to go and no one else to talk to.

fixed

Sorry, Mark H, outside of this thread, I pretty much am.

I understand why, but that doesn't make it any easier to deal with when you're feeling down.

Two more weeks. I have just been hearing the woman who sits next to me on the phone, and she sounds frustrated. She's here for a year, which would make me slit my wrists.

I've now got a plus one for Diamanda, and no one to take.

Anyone? Obviously this would have been a perfect occasion for Kerr to check her out, if he lived anywhere near London. Ah well.

I thought Tom D might've been a fan. I really need to hear some of her stuff.

Never heard her. Seems a bit ooh-look-at-me-I'm-spooky for my taste.

I'm still unsure of your taste. What the hell do you like? hehe

There is no such thing as taste!

Whoops, sorry, went a bit Maggie Thatcher there for a moment.

Now that is someone who is universally reviled.

If ever you're feeling down just say to yourself "thank fuck I'm not maggie thatcher"

She is far from "universally reviled"

...and even she could get a freakin' date for the opera. :-(

I like Diamanda Galas. Unfortunately I am not in London.

Well, I finally have something to do. But it's like pulling teeth to get it around here. :-(

Information only seems to come out in dribs and drabs - it would have been so much more helpful if everything had been told to me, in total, at the beginning of this wretched assignment.

lots of people being laid off or whatever in mysterious circumstances here - inc someone in the Marketing section of our division and I wasn't even told!!! When i asked why the reply was "Don't ask".