I am in awe of Mark S

'It's hard' so what do you do? you post a thread abt it.

mark s is a bloody good bloke but why be in awe?

i think i have it on my work computer, in which case you will get it later today, if i don't just fall into a bovine slumber w.my forehead resting on the keyboard

why be in awe?

Isn't it obv?

ooh...lovely.

''Isn't it obv?''

*having cofee now*

yes. yes it is.

Uh? I met you at a FAP, Sam (my first), and you certainly weren't a prat at that one! (I prolly WAS, but then I usually am).

Shamefacedly - I owe you an apology Sam, I found a few days ago, when I was clearing out my archive, an e-mail from you asking for some advice about music for your wedding. For some reason (i.e I'm crap) I didn't get around to replying immediately and forgot about it. So, belatedly - sorry!

btw when i sent out that tolk piece to whoever got it i wanted VERY EXTREMELY CRITICAL FEEDBACK!! only dr vick complied
(haha except also my dad said of one section "it does go on a bit")

if he ever did arrive on ilxor i wd post the text of the angry letter he sent me after my review of mark prenderg*st's book on ambient, which is the most psychotic bit of hatemail i've ever received from someone who i get on quite well with in person!! (or indeed, ever from anyone)

Crass reunion album title.

anyway:

''if he ever did arrive on ilxor i wd post the text of the angry letter he sent me after my review of mark prenderg*st's book on ambient''

i thought he would've hated that book as well.

But while we're on the subject of people writing things or saying they're going to write things, did Marcello ever write anything about Clockwork Orange, as he threatened to the other day?

Swoon! Somebody up there likes me (to hate him)! Why, then 'Mark S suXoRs...' no, I can't say that, it's playing into the hands of the enemy, damn... infernal cunning, mumble mumble, billions of blistering blue barnacles, er, well, 'I AM IN AWE OF MARK S!' (There, that should piss him off, heh heh heh...)

Hi Martin!

mark is cool.

He's good though.

'work’s end, when Scotland is winding itself into the crib of its television guarded couch,' for instance. Television-guarded (should be hyphened), meaning the couch is guarded by the television? The couch is also a crib? Scotland, the nation, is winding itself into the couch? Like a baby in swaddling clothes? I struggle a bit to piece the extended metaphor together, and meanwhile I've lost the pace of the prose and have to catch the next bus, if you see what I mean!

Hope this helps.

Also, just googled Alain Resnais (I never knew who he was) and - I never knew you noticed...

very nice with yr ILM- 'influenced' comments there.

so you edited the mag from 101-12?? and they sound really interesting (too bad abt bjork cover). pity most of them have gone 4 evah. would've liked to have seen you sister robot.

David: Imagine Graham's post as the hook to a Missy Elliott song.

hehe...but they sell it for a billion squid over deh!

i've nevah bough anything over the interweb (don't trust it) but if i get over it i'll give it a go.

however, my awe was not sufficient enough to warrant another meeting with mark s and i never heard from him again.. i often thought about the meeeting and realised, that when he shouted "YOU WERE NOT SUFFICIENTLY AWED" i knew that i would never see him again.

and the he weaved great majick and i thought i was now talking to a) philip k. dick or b) a friendly science teacher. it was glamorous.

i'm in writing demon frenzy at the moment and need to hang with fellow oddballs local 1223 to be properly understood.

i'm going to cambridge for the weekend, HEAVEN KNOWS WHY, ostensibly to meet people, but my forays in socialising with the english who are weirdos, is notoriously awful but i am reassured by sophie that it won't be like, though, she did say, well, the last time we went socialising, it was purdy bad. i.e. met her childhood friend and friend of the childhood friend who is a nhs manager and we wuz bored silly as the nhs manager pretended the 'body world' exhibition wasnt a big freak show but an art exhibit, then sat in in brick lane for bad currie (no, not momus) and bad 'office humour' until everyone was uncomfortable with the nhs manager, and sophie, sniped at me, i left, got home to find sophie in tears on the steps, thinking that the nhs manager was belittling her. i took off my scarf and went "errr...sophie, she was heavily boring, most wanting to dyke it with yer friend and insecure of us' they don't take kindly to bohemians, the middle class, you see. "oh no OH NO WHERE IS THE DISHWASHER, THE KIDS, THE CAR, THE BENTLEY, THE LUXURY FLAT IN CHELMSFORD"....sigh, i will see if i survive and we def. should book a time. argh. i used the word, book. i never did that until i moved to england. help me, please.

i am in brixton at the moment. could we meet up there? i love brixton. very creative mad ghetto place.

next week wd be cool

the cafe is brilliant. low-key, nice, mad, bohemian. i am doing good work there at the moment and want to show you it.

the cafe, not the writing, nor my penis, and i don't care how much kym asks...

Except when he tells me to GO BACK AND RE-READ HIS POSTS!

Hey, I'll be in London for a week at the end of November, I'd like a tete a tete too! Can we go somewhere very arty, Mark, like the Photographer's Gallery cafe or the Design Museum or something?

He seems like a real good bastard, though I prefer a trinity approach to ILX awe. In the name of father Tom and the Mark S-on and er... ever present holy spirit Ned. Satan = Perry obv.

Still haven't seen the ILXesque Wire thing but Kate was raving about it yesterday during our Keep Yourself Fitter/hairdye session so must peruse (though as I live across the street from the big Magma ohyesdesignartwankporn/magazine shop my excuse is what, exactly?)

Am thinking of doing an FAP as rather conveniently I happen to live over a pub we all seemed to like at earler FAP, so do we do this when Jet-Trash Eye-Patch is in town, or what? And Doomie better come just to prove to everyone he's just sooooo not the Antichrist?

Ha Ha!

nick c, yes that would be nice: i like the photographers gallery
marcello, i will check with doom-e: i believe he is still keen to meet you
anthony, i know i am rubbish forgive me
justyn, i did — thank you, in fact thank you everybody who wz supportive and stuff when i wz caught up in family travails, the pressure has eased for a while and my mum is def better presently, tho still quite frail
pete = k-korrekt obv

Like I said, they have ring bookbound copies here [=media department library], so try yours.

I am no longer in awe of myself.

Fitter, happier, hair-dyed, vegetables consumed... and then I ruined it all by eating big bar of chocolate today to get energy for live interview with Radio Belfast.

FAP's @ DOY = scary, unless of course I can run upstairs and hide.

(obv only as long as no one else was hurt by the bomb i'm not that selfish)

marcello you can come....i would like it - myrk has the "real" address...

Suzy, in all honesty, you one of the coolest people i met. We had all out war. We met up at a club. We got on. Verry coool....i deserved nothing....and you were very chilled out - in marked difference to something that i had experienced that was very bad and horrible. i was on an egroup. a a and r jerk was on the egroup. i made a valid point. to this day i have the egroup people snarling at me because i made a honest observation. as i related to mark s, the whole experience was disturbing and forever referenced in the file marked 'music industry twats' but suzy you were cool and kate by default.

just had to get that outta of my head.

c'ya.

and i am the anti-christ, or at least an imitation of christ.

I'll go with that. :-) But Mark shouldn't have to die for our sins! That's very rude.