Fuck, I'm not sure about this one, plus it's tomorrow!
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 09:13 (four years ago) link
I will swing by, but probably not for long.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 09:15 (four years ago) link
Will be there by six-ish I reckon.
See you then!
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 10:02 (four years ago) link
Fizzles? Farrell? Poo?
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 14:55 (four years ago) link
No worries if this experiment in non-central drinking yields low numbers or you all want to do something at the end of the month I'll be at the commercial reading over a drink anyway.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 3 October 2019 08:24 (four years ago) link
I hope to attend.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 3 October 2019 08:29 (four years ago) link
All being well I'll have a finished copy of the book I've been working on for a couple of years - I did the final print run last night.
― Tim, Thursday, 3 October 2019 08:41 (four years ago) link
Ooh that’s exciting. PF I was just coming to check if you were.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 3 October 2019 08:43 (four years ago) link
I'm going to have to play this one by ear I think. Might see you later. Will be there at 7ish if I am coming
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 3 October 2019 09:43 (four years ago) link
Aw hope you do.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 3 October 2019 09:51 (four years ago) link
Will prob get there around 6:15
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 3 October 2019 15:50 (four years ago) link
Cool
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 3 October 2019 16:13 (four years ago) link
Or 6:50 because the trains fucking suck.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 3 October 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
Cool, just got to the commercial now
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 3 October 2019 17:47 (four years ago) link
Good group of us here now! 👍
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 3 October 2019 18:26 (four years ago) link
regards to some 😘
― all over bar the shouting (im here for the shouting) (darraghmac), Thursday, 3 October 2019 19:52 (four years ago) link
"Is E____ terrorising you?""She's doing as she does"
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 3 October 2019 20:01 (four years ago) link
That almost went horribly wrong. All the trains from Herne Hill were cancelled but I managed to get a bus and 2 tubes to London Bridge and my train arrives in 7 minutes. then in theory I get a bus from Tunbridge Wells and I get home about 2:30 if I'm lucky...
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 3 October 2019 22:48 (four years ago) link
Once again I completely avoided talking to Fizzles. I swear I'm not doing this deliberately
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 3 October 2019 22:49 (four years ago) link
Blimey, for once things are working out, if my train existed I would be arriving at Hastings now but the bus actually turned up this time and just stopped at Battle so I might even get home before 2!
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 4 October 2019 00:34 (four years ago) link
Hope you got home ok
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 4 October 2019 05:35 (four years ago) link
Thanks all for a nice eve
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 4 October 2019 05:36 (four years ago) link
I had a fine time, thanks all. Fizzles, this was the book I was recommending: https://www.influxpress.com/attrib-and-other-stories
― Tim, Friday, 4 October 2019 06:10 (four years ago) link
Thanks Tim. And it's always a real pleasure - doubly so to see ilx faces in your familiar local. Colonel Poo's frosty high-hatting of me notwithstanding.
― Fizzles, Friday, 4 October 2019 12:40 (four years ago) link
having popped back in the commercial while waiting for a chinese takeaway i realise pinefox’s pleasantry about Belly was in fact anchored in the actual music they were playing.
― Fizzles, Friday, 4 October 2019 21:03 (four years ago) link
I had a fine time, thanks all. Fizzles, this was the book I was recommending: https://www.influxpress.com/attrib-and-other-stories🕸
― Fizzles, Monday, 7 October 2019 07:10 (four years ago) link
That book sounds quite worth looking at!
Fizzles, if I mentioned Belly it was because they were playing 'Feed The Tree'.
― the pinefox, Monday, 7 October 2019 10:04 (four years ago) link
Ah, yes, that's what they were playing the other night as well.
Eley Williams has enormous fun with the sound and look of language, and the heft of words and their relation to perception and memory. Normally I'm a little wary of the poeticisation of prose, but I don't think that's what's happening here. It reminds me more of Robert Louis Stevenson's approach to sentence construction, where he recommends an awareness of the patterns of sound across sentences. Love and loss are specifically realised through this prism of language and thought, which makes their representation more elliptical than more conventional representations of those emotions, but more pointed, more tender, with a bursting sense of things felt but not directly expressed so that, to quote Isaac Rosenberg, they are 'understandable but still ungraspable'.
― Fizzles, Monday, 7 October 2019 11:01 (four years ago) link
A brutal comedown.
Thanks to everyone who has come to find me in Brixton - now having lunch in Morley’s - out and about again at about 1 pic.twitter.com/CiJsiFOVhb— Rory Stewart (@RoryStewartUK) October 8, 2019
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 14:14 (four years ago) link
should have been stony-faced next to a white person in the third pic
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 14:19 (four years ago) link
also sorry we didn't show up, organise another one and we will do our best
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 14:25 (four years ago) link
When’s the next one? I’d like to go to one eventually...
― gyac, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 14:29 (four years ago) link
Hasn't been anmounced, and I am guessing it will be central. Usually a 2/3 month gap between 'em.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 14:43 (four years ago) link
Central is good, obviously both of us can’t go due to kittens/being the same person
― gyac, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 14:54 (four years ago) link
bring kittens
― imago, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 14:56 (four years ago) link
for everyone
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 14:56 (four years ago) link
Revive! Going to be in London from Nov. 7 through the 12th.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 4 November 2019 22:23 (four years ago) link
Good forward thinking - with a year's notice, there's next to no chance that we'll not get something sorted.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 07:14 (four years ago) link
Hooray for ILX apathy!
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 08:28 (four years ago) link
f apathy
― conrad, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 09:14 (four years ago) link
So what’s the plan then? When are you free ET?
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 09:44 (four years ago) link
7th is best, but could do Friday for a bit.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 09:58 (four years ago) link
not to jump confusingly in ahead of this but geeta dayal is calling for a nice big london birthday celebration gathering for her eve of fri 15 nov (location tbd)
come one come all :) but she specifically mentioned you xyzzzz__ so be there if possible!
― mark s, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 11:13 (four years ago) link
Oh cool, yes do inform of location and I shall be there :)
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 11:24 (four years ago) link
I will be at the mtn gts show on the 15th!!
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 16:53 (four years ago) link
I'm going to be at The Raincoats gig on the 10th, but have most other nights (8, 9, 11) free. Heading up north after that and won't be back in London until the 21st.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 20:48 (four years ago) link
Actually could do any of those though 8th is best
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 21:47 (four years ago) link
There's a pretty good chance I'm going to go to this Graham Duff and Adam Curtis talk on the 8th. Perhaps the 9th?
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 02:40 (four years ago) link
any ideas for a good geetaFAP locale this friday?
(large-ish rather than small, centralish rather than hackneyside)
― mark s, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 14:10 (four years ago) link
*takes out year-long hourglass, turns it over*
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 14:34 (four years ago) link