UK Watercooler Twenty-Twenty-Twenty-Four Hours To Go: I Wanna Be Sedated

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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

I dunno. I always think that I'm so far behind, because so many of my friends are music writers and they know *everything* about music, and I know so little compared to them.

But then compared with 12-CD people... except this dude isn't even a 12-CD person! He's a music lover. There's just no intersection at all. Thing is, I've at least heard of most of the bands he listens to - just feel a bit sneery about them.

So I guess we are further out on the curve than I thought.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Since when did music writers know anything? *Runs*

What music is this guy into then?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link

(OFF TOPIC: I have an interesting moment from work today that I want to ask one of you in a corporate environement about, but would prefer to post from home, in an hour or two. Actually, does anyone besides Kate work in a corporate environment?)

― mitya, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

(Yup, but prolly won't be here post-5)

― peteR, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 14:43 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm in corporate purgatory (although it's quite nice) and will be around for another two hours. now intrigued!

― CharlieNo4, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link

TBH, I think most people here (except Pash and Kerr and Nath and maybe Emsk) work in corporate environments!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know what this all makes me -- I have no idea what Mika sounds like but I know exactly what Thee More Shallows sound like, for example.

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I have not heard Mika either.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Am I missing much?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I wouldn't know.

I used to have a penpal called Mika when I was a teenager. I wrote some songs with her, but they were just teenage goth folk type stuff, and I doubt that's what they mean.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link

What did everyone vote for on the best band from birmingham poll on ILM?
I voted Black Sabbath.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Me? dEUS. haha

Mika is the one that does that horrendous Grace Kelly song, right? Urgh! YUCK! B.A.R.F.

― nathalie, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I was torn between Black Sabbath, Dexys and The Move. But I forgot to vote anyway. The Sabs are worthy winners.

― Dr.C, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 16:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't read ILM much. Especially not threads by Dom "flaming misogynist" Passawhotsit.

The best band in the history of Birmingham was clearly Duran Duran anyway.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Blimey, Keith Emerson was once Kate Bait.

http://www.united-mutations.com/n/nice.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!

http://www.guitarhero.com/images/KeithEmerson_side.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, I'm bored and I've done enough work for the rest of the day. I'm going to post pictures of Keith Emerson's increasingly ridiculous keyboards for the rest of the day...

http://www.britannica.com/psychedelic/images/opsyroc148p1.jpg

WHEN KEYBOARDS ATTACK!!!

http://www.hammond-organ.com/Artist/image_directory/ELP_B_29Acrop_hammond.JPG

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Duran Duran was from Birmingham? Didn't know, but if so, then YES probably best band to hail from B.

― nathalie, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Were Yes from Birmingham? I thought they were from OUTER SPACE or something. I was just listening to Yes - GIS brought up a picture of Rick Wakeman's amazing keyboard setup so I had to hear it.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

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