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
Lexington obvs!
― santa clause four (suzy), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 15:35 (four years ago) link
geeta has opted for the racketeer nr kings X, from 6
― mark s, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 20:38 (four years ago) link
Racketeer is a good choice. I have never been to a FAP but aspire to do so within my earthly existence.
― britain's secret sauce (seandalai), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 05:46 (four years ago) link
See you then!!
(Elvis - sorry I couldn't get to arrange anything, weekend filled up with duty all of a sudden)
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 07:30 (four years ago) link
I'm going to try to make it to the Racketeer in between engagements this evening, I'm not sure whether it will be possible.
Anyone fancying a hang-out on Sunday afternoon might note that we're convening a rare Hangover Lounge on Sunday at the Pembury Tavern in Hackney, all welcome, no action expected apart from some ale soaked relaxing.
― Tim, Friday, 15 November 2019 10:17 (four years ago) link
bit of a step for me
― mark s, Friday, 15 November 2019 11:39 (four years ago) link
Yes, I'm going to a birthday thing for someone in the work tonight - also in Kings Cross, coincidentally - so unlikely to show.
― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Friday, 15 November 2019 12:09 (four years ago) link
Another US ilxor is in London tonight, playing a virtually sold-out Shepherd's Bush Empire lol
I am working until evening and unlikely to show for anything :( unless really persuaded. & tt is seeing Dashboard Confessional ffs
― imago, Friday, 15 November 2019 12:36 (four years ago) link
COME ON PEOPLE
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 November 2019 13:17 (four years ago) link
to be clear i'm coming to this as shd everyone, my joke abt the distance to the pembury may have landed wrong
― mark s, Friday, 15 November 2019 13:20 (four years ago) link
OK! See all you tankies, trots and lefty scum later!
― santa clause four (suzy), Friday, 15 November 2019 13:23 (four years ago) link
look out for my gold trot hat
― mark s, Friday, 15 November 2019 13:25 (four years ago) link
This additional US ILXOR will be seeing aforementioned other US ILXOR at said gig and is super excited tho sad to miss FAP.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 15 November 2019 18:11 (four years ago) link
"I'm going to try to make it to the Racketeer in between engagements this evening, I'm not sure whether it will be possible."
Try hard. We're building socialism here.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 15 November 2019 18:58 (four years ago) link
Hacking the WiFi in this place
There by 8.
― santa clause four (suzy), Friday, 15 November 2019 19:09 (four years ago) link
pre-Christmas?
― britain's secret sauce (seandalai), Thursday, 5 December 2019 01:01 (four years ago) link
Could happen
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 5 December 2019 10:59 (four years ago) link
You've never attended one right? What's a good day for you?
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 5 December 2019 11:00 (four years ago) link
oh we can do a pre-christmas one surely. be good to see you seandalai.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 5 December 2019 20:56 (four years ago) link
Early next week?
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 12 December 2019 21:01 (four years ago) link
I'd be up for that. Would do us all some good maybe, considering current events.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 12 December 2019 23:42 (four years ago) link
Can’t do but I will come to one eventually, promise I am better company irl than on ilx
― gyac, Thursday, 12 December 2019 23:50 (four years ago) link
Surely this is needed now more than ever.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 13 December 2019 22:05 (four years ago) link
i'll be central for an early finish pint if anyone's interested.
― Fizzles, Friday, 20 December 2019 12:52 (four years ago) link
Up for a drink too!
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 20 December 2019 13:25 (four years ago) link