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Hi all. I also <3 LL and hate having the cold, but I am in a good mood because I finally received my end of year bonus.

It looks like I will not be in London this weekend and will instead be there next (unless I decide to play hooky).

Break a leg, Ailsa!

― mitya, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Morning. Argh, something else has gone wrong with monthend. What NOW?!?!?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Argh, my desk is so messy!

I'll never find anything!

I could tidy it or I could do some work. Instead I'll do what Konrad Lorenz called 'displacement activity' and eat a satsuma.

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I am NOT getting a cold!

I'm going to FLODIRA on Friday!

so Grrr...

― Mark G, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:41 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, it's fucked. I've no idea why, clearly I did the Giant Johnny before I had my coffee on Monday. Argh.

Also, thank you so much Mark G, Hawkwind DVD arrived last night, and I watched it. Aaahhh, it looked like so much fun in the late 60s and early 70s. And then it all went REALLY SHIT REALLY FAST. Wow, Dave Brock came off like an arsewipe for refusing to even be in the film since Nik Turner was. Made everything he did seem so much worse because you never heard his side of it.

I think I am in love with young Bob Calvet. Swoon.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, nearly said about calvert before you stopped me.

Hadn't seen the SM 'film' since the TOTP from then.

Also, was that really the Grateful Dead?

― Mark G, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:45 (seventeen years ago) link

found a place in harringey that is more or less same price as the one in peckham (under 200 for a one bed period conversion). street is nicer, and i know the area better, the flat itself isnt quite as nice, but feels less exposed.

i really cant decide what to do

― 600, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Those 60s music clips were INSANE!!! I loved young Keith Emerson leaping over his organ and assaulting it, Syd Barrett waving his arms about, etc.

But the important thing was, you really got a feeling of why 60s music was so urgent, so intense - when put up against the Establishment Men in suits going all "I do not understand this at all, it is bad, why does it have to be so loud?" you understood where they were coming from, and why it was so rebellious, what they were rebelling against. You don't get that these days with bands going on Jools HOlland or Jonathan Ross whatever and the Establishment Figure presenter just drooling all over them, like he's down with the kids or whatever.

I think that's part of what was behind the success of Popworld - Simon dripped contempt upon the musicians in the same way as those 60s figures. Except, well, in the 60s, you were on the side of the musicians, and in Popworld you were on the side of the presenters.

x-post

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I am nearly mended I think. No pain at all today!

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Thesedays, there is no underground. How could there be? There is total visibility.

A bit like how you have dusty pics of ones-self as a child, whereas the kids have perfect quality DVD movies.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I need to figure out how to do screen grabs on Mac because Bob Calvert cavorting about onstage in ... were those skinny skinny velvet jeans? I don't know what they were, but jumping about, shooting everyone in the audience with his mic stand = hottt.

OK, staying up for weeks at a time, locking himself in the bathroom because he was convinced that the white panthers were after him, not so hott. But I'm used to living with totally mad maniacs. I mean, I lived with my brother for how many years? He used to do things like that.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:54 (seventeen years ago) link

screen grab on mac= applications/utilities/grab

― 600, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:55 (seventeen years ago) link

x-post I don't want to recreate the underground, I want to recreate Establishment figures to rebel against. I want to do a music programme with a bloke in a suit showering invective against the bands in the form of "well, it's just regression go childhood, isn't it? I'm too much of A Musician to appreciate this!"

x-post ooh, thanks, Gareth! I will try that.

Indestructible Dr. C, he bounces back. Now stop those crazy rugby tackles!

OK, got to work now.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't suppose you remember "Revolver" w/Peter Cook presenting.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes I do!

x-post : I probably won't play any more this season as the doc says that bruised kidneys take a month or so. I ought to pack in for good really.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 10:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh man, now I really want to listen to Urban Guerilla but I don't have that CD at work. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 10:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, HA HA HA HA HA HA!!! Silver Machine is about a bicycle. Awesome.

Am trying very hard to keep thoughts of young Bob Calvert riding around on a silver bicycle ringing his little bell from distracting me from work.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 10:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Hi room. I've been lurking for the last week since I my project is starting to finish and every electric person IN THE WORLD has heard about my software and thinks it's awesome.

Glad about your table kate - I WILL take that mixer off you, yes. Next time I'm round your way (or you're round mine) I shall collect it, thank you.

― The Wayward Johnny B, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 10:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually email I have just sent my boss:

I have checked this against BZW and I believe it is now right.

Possibly explanations for incorrect figures on previous one:

1) Kate attempted download before crucial morning COFFEE.

2) Kate listening to Steve Hillage instead of Hawkwind and therefore mind off with the fishes in hippie wibble instead of IN THE MATHS TRANCE.

3) In process of formatting report, Kate noticed small coding error in the new RAF by month column, and in fixing it, mistakenly used test data instead of live data in final report.

Suggested solutions:
-intravenous coffee for MI dept.
-download more live Hawkwind bootlegs
-someone in Finance to double check figures!

Do not panic!
Kate

Do you think I will get sacked for that? Maybe I shouldn't have just written my monthend procedure.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 11:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Is that not the m/e procedure itself?

― Mark G, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 11:22 (seventeen years ago) link

That made me smile. I hope your boss smiles also.

― g-kit, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 11:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe I should add those as helpful suggestions to the monthend procedure. DO NOT ATTEMPT THE MONTH END PROCESS UNLESS YOU HAVE HAD AT LEAST 400 (FOUR HUNDRED) MILIGRAMS OF CAFFINE!!! and then "Start listening to Space Ritual NOW! - the data should have downloaded by the end of "Space Is Deep".

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 11:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Ooh, good news, SC may be featured in a broadsheet-ILX-loves-to-hate next week! Hopefully. Maybe.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 12:22 (seventeen years ago) link

The idea that your boss might have even the glimmerest idea of Hawkwind and Steve Hillage existing is somewhat mind-boggling. I know virtually no one IRL who has any clue about music.

― mitya, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 12:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I didn't even think that.

Ah well, my entire department knows how much I love Hawkwind to the point where someone in my office told me about the documentary - but that might be because I bang on about them all the time and wave the CDs about saying I'M GOING TO LISTEN TO WARRIOR AT THE EDGE OF TIME NOW!!! rather than their actual knowing who they are.

I mean, even my "ooh, I know everything about modern indie music, me!" colleague had never even heard of Secret Machines.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 12:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Whenever I come back from a CD buying jaunt, people always make the mistake of asking me what I bought, then shaking their heads in despair because they've seldom heard of my choices.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 12:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I spoke too soon - the Finance Director just walked out and started telling the department that he needs to get "Never Mind The Bollocks".

FUCK OFF FUCK OFF, YOU ARE THE ENEMY FUCK OFF!!!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 12:36 (seventeen years ago) link

He sounds alright to me.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 12:39 (seventeen years ago) link

He is a total prick, though. I bet he never listened to the Sex Pistols in his life.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 12:40 (seventeen years ago) link

He could not actually hum a single one of their songs when asked.

HA!!!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 12:42 (seventeen years ago) link

That's a shame, because I'm sure there's a market for a "A Finance Director Hums The Sex Pistols" CD. Where's K-Tel when you need them?

― C J, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 12:46 (seventeen years ago) link

He was clearly just trying to look "cool" because I namechecked Hawkwind in an email that totally criticised him and his staff.

(I mean, in my defense, that report went to FOUR different people to check before it went to the owner - and not one of them noticed the errors. I ask people to check my work for a reason. Because I am not an accountant, I am a data analyst.)

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 12:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Whenever I come back from a CD buying jaunt, people always make the mistake of asking me what I bought, then shaking their heads in despair because they've seldom heard of my choices.

That's what always happens to me at work too.

― Forest Pines, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 12:52 (seventeen years ago) link

because I namechecked Hawkwind in an email that totally criticised him and his staff.

Yeah, I hate it when that happens.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 12:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Sex Pistols songs aren't really designed to be hummed.

― The Wayward Johnny B, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 12:54 (seventeen years ago) link

THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE SEX PISTOLS!!!

It has to do with the Finance Director being a twat. And not just a twat, but a twat obsessed with looking "cool" in front of his staff even though we know he's a golf-playing wanker! Come on, his staff call him MIGHTY MOUSE behind his back.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 13:00 (seventeen years ago) link

"Golf-playing wanker" is giving me an interesting visual.

― C J, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 13:03 (seventeen years ago) link

My immediate boss is lovely, she is great. We work really well together. But this guy is ... grrr. Annoying considering that the old FD (the one that hired me) was great. (Ha ha, my colleagues are now discussing how much better the old FD was.) Ah well, small concerns.

Wank-playing golfer, ha ha.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 13:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Stop it CJ!

Kate IGGY POP plays golf!

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 13:05 (seventeen years ago) link

and Alice Cooper!

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 13:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I know. But Iggy Pop is less of a wanker than our FD. I know that's really saying something.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 13:08 (seventeen years ago) link

his staff call him MIGHTY MOUSE behind his back

be even better if they sang "here he comes to wreck the day" as he approached.

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 13:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Bah, still in meetings in belgium, they are going well but I want to leave and be out in the cloudless sunshine. Ed

― Ed, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 13:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Bah, I wish I were in sunny Belgium. I am rushing to get everything done before I go on holiday, but they keep piling more and more on. Bah. Require hott pictures of Bob Calvert to keep me going.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 13:40 (seventeen years ago) link

It's clear blue sky and sunny here again. Been like this everyday for over a week now, and here I am stuck in with a cold :(

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 13:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I worry about it being too sunny in Belgium. Surely all the chocolate will melt??

― C J, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Do I have to do everything myself? Sigh.

http://www.kadu.demon.co.uk/media/archives/umbrella.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 14:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Errr... Ed, can you have James make us some of these?

"I've designed new speakers in chromium boxes which gives us a metallic appearance more in keeping with the group's image," Barnet told me, "And we've painted various areas in apposition to the Pythagorean musical scale."

DO -MARS - RED
RE - SUN - ORANGE
MI - MERCURY - YELLOW
FA - SATURN - GREEN
SO - JUPITER - BLUE
LA - VENUS - INDIGO
TI - MOON - VIOLET

"All the speakers and boxes in that area will be painted those colours and the musicnauts Del, Dik, Simon, Lemmy and Dave will stand in those positions relative to their signs."

Or is that just getting way too far into Spinal Tap territory?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 14:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I mean, even my "ooh, I know everything about modern indie music, me!" colleague had never even heard of Secret Machines.

This is one of the strange things about hanging around ILx -- you start think these are the people who like music, and the stuff that people talk about here is what other people are listening to. In fact (I think - correct me if I'm wrong because I live in SOVIET RUSSIA) we are all pretty far ahead of the curve/out on the margins.

― mitya, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I bet the russians are still listening to Hawkwind;)

I bet you see lot and lots of Metallica fans, mitya.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link

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