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

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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

http://www.paloverde.org/hales/Chem_1_H/mushroom_cloud.jpg

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 10:16 (seventeen years ago) link

From the ashes of the watercooler arose...

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/b/be/180px-Inhumans.PNG

― onimo, Friday, 2 March 2007 10:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry, I'm just not obsessed with the new Arcade Fire album. I supposed I got too many other good albums around the same time. I *am* obsessed with the Flowers of Hell album, though. Maybe the sheer bloody OBVIOUSNESS of the AF's religious symbolism bothers me. A bit ramming it down the throat.

That said, I am REALLY enjoying your book on the Reformation, Ed.

I love the eye, I think it's great. I really want a tattoo of it.

Did we win one nuke? Yay us! We are the RADIOACTIVEST!!! I hope I'm still glowing by next week when I have to go back to the haaaahnd doctor. I will tell the injector guy that I am supplying mine own radioactivity. Hurrah!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 10:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I stopped going to singing in the pub with the campers years ago because it got boring, too much trying to learn new songs and do complicated harmonies, not enough actual singing. Last night was all about the singing. The acoustic in the room was poor, very hard to hear individual voices, let alone one's own. Made call and response songs hard work. Umkonto we sizwe still makes me uneasy, but it is really pretty and that did work well.

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 10:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, I was able to nobble the person I whose camp I want to go on this summer.

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Errr... what does nobble mean? Do I want to know?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:02 (seventeen years ago) link

There is a procedure for getting on camps, and there are ways of going round it to get on the camp you want to go on which are very naughty.

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Man, I so cannot get motivated to do any work today. It is just too damn sunny outside.

And I still feel too burned from my late night last night. I didn't leave this place until 10.45 and got in this morning, less than 12 hours later, to find my glass of water still undrunked on my desk.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:38 (seventeen years ago) link

'Dja drink it?

I'm sleepteaching today and so far that seems to be getting the job done.

― G00blar, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:39 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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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