UK Watercooler 32: Fall Into The Meaning Gap

Another for the mustache hall of fame. Malaysian branch of the family here...

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I have no idea what's going on here...

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I'm sure The Empire is opressing the natives in the form of more aunties.

Oncle Ian, letting the mustache side down.

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Actually, it might have been an RAF thing, because another uncle from the Indian branch didn't have a mustache either. Maybe the mustaches weren't aerodynamic enough.

There's some funny pictures of my brother leading a party of Vietnam War vets through some mountains in Russia to meet some Afghan War vets. He looks quite disappointed that he has neither An Empire nor a mustache.

Think he is a marine paratrooper rather than RAF.

"Righty-Oh! Empire Administered! Natives Converted! Who has time for a spot of golf, then?"

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OK, enough of this. I shouldn't poke fun at my relatives. It's my DNA, too, I suppose. But people from THE PAST always look funny.

x-post you might be right. The RAF uncles had much jauntier hats I think.

At least one auntie, I discovered, got sent to Bletchley Park!

ahem.. Not wanting to start owt, but he does look like the one on the left in this pic:

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Well, I probably imprinted in some way.

(Even though all of the people in the photos ... oh, except Oncle Ian... were all dead long before I was born!)

Shall we have some ladies with outrageous Edwardian hairdoes?

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WHOA where did you get these, Kate?

Have also been at the ancestry, tying up some loose ends after demise of dad. Grandmother's 'French' family came to NY in late C17. Greatx5 grandfather and his brother were serious Revolutionary War heroes before they decamped from NYC to found a county on the NY/PA border after the War. I did find a letter from George Washington to one of them!

Ed, Nationwide were *brilliant* when I got hosed by that ATM in America over Xmas; couldn't do a thing about getting hosed while in US but they'd grabbed it back for me w/in 3 days of my complaint once made here (it's supposed to take more than a week).

My brother has been posting them to his Flickr.

My personal favourite... I think this is a great, great, great grannie? (My great grandfather's mother?)

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Don't those kids look terrified of her!

No! Great grandfather's GRANDMOTHER.

It's the EARS that always get me. How they managed to run the country with those ears. Or perhaps such superflaps provided some kind of evolutionary advantage.

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The pictures are all great! The one with granny and the three kids is the best one. She is almost archetypally "edwardian granny".

Yay! I has something to do today. At last.

...except while I've been on other projects, the developers have dropped the table I was working on! argh!

Probably not helpful to your lenten ways; but I have discovered that you can by south african pepermint crisps by the district line platforms at wimbledon.

You can sometimes buy them at London Bridge, too. I think when Lent is over, I shall go and indulge in a big bunch until my teeth turn lime green and fall out.

Oh, what have I just done? After saying I'm not going to do music journalism any more, Tzr just wrote and asked if I wanted to review Silver Apples... and I said yes without even thinking about it.

It's always like this, isn't it? "OK, one more time..."

you're so metal

>:-(

Silver Apples, though!

You will be listeninhg to Colonel Poo's grindcore compilations soon enough!
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Yes, it may be Silver Apples but I'm suspicious of reunion shows. I have a funny feeling that one of them has actually died. Hard to compensate for when there were only ever two of them!

You will enjoy it regardless.

Maybe you will get sent to review Portishead.

Diamanda Galas is on the cover of the new terrorizer btw. Pash are you a fan? I always meant to check some of her stuff out but wouldn't know where to start.

And there's a review of Hawkwind in it too..

Kate is correct:

In 1999, their tour van was forced off the road by an unknown driver, breaking Simeon's neck. As of 2004, Simeon was much recovered, but he was unable to play his instrument in the way he used to. He never fully recovered his hand movements, so his keyboard work is much more simple and direct now.

Since the accident, Silver Apples' activity has diminished. Simeon spends his time making new music, recuperating, and boating on the Gulf of Mexico. Xian Hawkins has released three albums of solo material under the name Sybarite. Danny Taylor died on March 10, 2005 in Kingston, New York. In September 2007 Simeon went on tour for the first time in years, performing as a solo version of the Silver Apples to much acclaim.

From Wik:

I don't know if I'm even in the mood to review a gig. And I've not brought a notepad or anything.

I've been kind of down on music lately. It's hard to be objective about a gig - or even subjectively critical - when you're not really enjoying music fullstop.

x-post that's interesting and good to know in advance.

I remember Simeon's crash in a way: I was looking for a website for them, found it and was surprised that this had happened to no coverage in the NME etc. This was six months after the event. So I emailed the NME newsdesk with the link and a "isn't this the sort of news you should be covering" type message. 30 mins later, it was on the NME news page. So, yay me.

You will enjoy it regardless.

-- Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 14:12 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

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w/r/t Diamanda, I had a few of her albums, she's good, but heavy going. Plenty of stuff on youtube. hugely powerful deep, rich singing voice, she can be very emotive, but you've REALLY got to be in the mood for it. I like her straight songs way better than the shrieky stuff. The straight songs, maybe you could compare her to Dagmar Krause or Pola Negri, but both are a stretch, the more freeform stuff, like nothing else on earth.

i dont think that hat would suit Kate.

We're missing an FP on this thread. Anyone seen him?

I know I haven't

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Saw teo class 37s on either end of a track measurement train at wimbledon at lunch today.

Ooh, nice. I saw the track measurement HST between York and Thirsk the other weekend.

They have beeter kitchen facilities on the TMT than in my office.

It's really doing my head in, not having two monitors any more. I keep trying to move things over to the other monitor and realising it's not there any more.

Stupid IT department not giving me one. They said I could have a wheelie mouse, too, but do I have one? I should have taken my laser wheelie mouse from my last job. No one would have noticed.

Probably in mine too. We've just been stung with a 50% rise in tea-fund costs! I'm going to get a new job, I think.

(or maybe just opt out of the tea fund)

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I use MS Virtual Desktop Manager at work to cope with Windows not having virtual desktops by default; I'm too used to having them at home on Linux. But it fucks up Excel (2003) and MSN.

Is it still stormy down south?

Don't know. All of my views out the window are of brick walls.

What should I do for supper tonight? I'm going to end up wasting all the money/food I bought this week, as I'll end up not having one single meal at home.

I don't even really want to go out tonight. I'm feeling distinctly otherwise and want to go home and do my laundry and get to bed early. Why am I doing this? Does anyone want to pretend to be me and review the show?

Think about the effect pedal you can buy with the money they pay you.

Pay me?

Has tissp abandoned us for good?

Don't know. I was listening to Elektrikometheorie (infinity) the other day.

I guess I'm eating dodgy tai cult food. I had Indian food yesterday and can't really deal with that again. Or maybe pizza. Actually, pizza sounds alright. I am talking to myself, about what I am going to have for supper, by myself. I am becoming one of those crazy old ladies who talks to cats, but instead of cats, I have the internets.

They're not paying you? Fuck that then.

(reminisces about the happy days when a 2 1/2 page review in "The Mix" (rip) would net 350 quid)

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