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jed, are you coming?

I heard DFA are in town... anyone?

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 11 November 2005 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link

hmmm, were you at Dave's birthday thing at what used to be the Carnarvon, or am I confusing you with somebody else?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 11 November 2005 16:48 (eighteen years ago) link

hmmm, if it wasn't for the fact i know i know you, if you see what i mean, i wouldn't recognise you at all. you look utterly rockin',

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 11 November 2005 16:49 (eighteen years ago) link

hmmm, I think that was an insult

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 11 November 2005 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link

no i am going to a birthday dinner.

who told you the DFA are in town?

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 11 November 2005 17:46 (eighteen years ago) link

in my world, nothing rocks more than "rockin'".

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 11 November 2005 17:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Sigh, here I sit ready to leave, jacket on and quiff sharpened, yet Madchen's chattering on the phone to her sister and listening to De La Soul while futzing with make-up. What's a stet to do?

(We'll be late)

― stet (stet), Friday, 11 November 2005 19:11 (eighteen years ago) link

you'll be kicked in the nuts.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 11 November 2005 19:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Get a room.

― alext (alext), Friday, 11 November 2005 23:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Thank you Glasgow. My head hurts. You rock, you lot, you really do.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 12 November 2005 11:26 (eighteen years ago) link

bah. while you lot were off misbehavin, i was lolling around rejkevik alone with the cleanres like a moron while all my fellow passengers took advantage of the FREE LAYOVER TRIP TO THE BLUE LAGOON. duh! i am SUCH an idiot. btw, any requests for goods while i'm here (here being america, not iceland)? already on the milk duds, stetty boy.

― dahlin (dahlin), Saturday, 12 November 2005 11:41 (eighteen years ago) link

dahlin: nothing less than dick cheney's head on a silver platter will do.

that was a top night. thank you all. sorry about forcing you to walk quarter of a mile in the pouring rain to the world's shuttest venue, but i'm sure you'll agree that the eventual choice was well worth it in the end. even though i've never, ever seen it before. actually, i'm not even sure it'll be there today when i look.

i trust everyone managed to find their way back north of the river again without being eaten by wolves/shot by bandits/etc?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 12 November 2005 14:45 (eighteen years ago) link

I had a nice taxi driver who played Sam Cooke all the way home. When I say "had" I mean I did it with him.

Sorry if I faded as the evening wore on. I made the mistake of listening when Ally whispered his theories of why our lives are a pathetic sham and the case he made was convincing.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 12 November 2005 14:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Me and Hmmm managed to grab a taxi just outside Syxties. We didn't get any Sam Cooke. :(
Top night though. Nice to see the Bizarro World Glasgow (aka the South Side).

― Stew (stew s), Saturday, 12 November 2005 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link

We had to wait sodding ages for a taxi. Then the cab firm phoned my back and said "your cab is outside". "I am outside" "Yeah, it's outside the Arches" "That's not much fucking use, blah, blah, blah".

I just read my emails and realised someone on the NPL mailing list had emailed to say "come to my jangle pop indie night on teh southside". It was very odd. But in a good way.

I feel quite broken today. I may have to pass on the Winchester.

In other news, I have just provisionally booked a table at Raeburns in Paisley for 10 people at 7pm on Friday 9th December. Doesn't have to be confirmed until the week before, but I thought with it being Christmas I would get in early - we can always change if that doesn't suit, but I thought I would take the early initiative. We can deal with it nearer the time.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 12 November 2005 15:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Thinking about it, it wasn't really very jangly at all.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 12 November 2005 15:46 (eighteen years ago) link

I have MEMORY LOSS.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Saturday, 12 November 2005 17:53 (eighteen years ago) link

his theories of why our lives are a pathetic sham

are they the same as mine?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 12 November 2005 17:59 (eighteen years ago) link

I just remembered THROWING TABLE MATS LIKE FRISBEES! And SETTING FIRE TO TABLES!

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:00 (eighteen years ago) link

(I mean I just remembered *about* those things, not that I actually *did* them)

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link

stet getting bollocked by the old woman in syxties was deeply amusing. i didn't know he did "contrite" as an emotion :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:05 (eighteen years ago) link

That woman was rubbish. She poured me about three quarters a pint of Guinness then had to apologise that there wasn't any more left, so I got a bottom-of-the-barrel not-quite-a-pint and hmmm got a pint of lager. And I didn't get any money back. Though complaining may have been churlish since she could well have been within her rights to say "yes, but your lot set fire to a table".

Is this refreshing your memory any, Mädchen?

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:10 (eighteen years ago) link

mädchen: could your memory loss by any chance be related to the jim beam and lemonade? that was weird. it tasted like a drink, only ... wrong.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:14 (eighteen years ago) link

It was her timing that got me all contrite. I looked up in a brief moment of lucidity to find everyone pointing at me and goin "it was him!" and she looked well cross, so while I worked out what I'd done I thought the face-for-getting-a-row-from-a-teacher was the best plan.

Our taxi driver on the way home told exactly the same sorts of stories as the one on the way there -- the night the steeple fell down on Sauchiehall street -- but his were vastly more entertaining. And we were drunker, which could have had an effect.

Christ, 14.5% wine on an empty stomach. Mistake. Woodside anyone?

xposts

― stet (stet), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Madchen sez: "OOHHH COMMEE ONN!?"

(she's watching some football thing)

― stet (stet), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:16 (eighteen years ago) link

we think we're going to stay in. although it's early days yet. we'll decide later. we're going out tomorrow for mrs fiendish's sister's birthday, and i could really do with a night off.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:21 (eighteen years ago) link

I would really like to go out for more booze and fun tonight, but I feel a bit ill (I had half a pint of shandy whilst watching the Scotland game in the pub across the road) and I really don't think listening to the Hector Collectors will do anything to make that better. Some other time.

(Raeburns' house red is 14.5% as well. Just warning you, like. However random acts of violence and wilful fire-raising are de rigeur in Paisley, so you should be alright).

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link

I have a text from last night that says otherwise. Text is bond, yo.
(xpost to hrzly fiendish)

― stet (stet), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:24 (eighteen years ago) link

mrs fiendish says: "we'll see." and who am i to argue?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:26 (eighteen years ago) link

meanwhile: count me in for raeburn's. this sounds top.

mrs fiendish says she might come too. i know that isn't helpful in terms of proper booking, but hey: being organised is over-rated.

or so i'm told.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:30 (eighteen years ago) link

nb to anyone from raeburn's who might have reached this thread from a referral: we were lying about the flying table mats. and the pyromania.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:32 (eighteen years ago) link

something immense has just happened in the world of football, sports fans. I'm not sure what.

― stet (stet), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:34 (eighteen years ago) link

http://sparky.thehold.net/pix/care-o-meter.jpg

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:36 (eighteen years ago) link

England have scored. Against Argentina. It's a big deal for them, despite it being a "friendly". (something to do with the Falklands, probably)

xpost - hahaha, sorry.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I like very much that the care-o-meter has pi marked on it. In fact, I love that it has pi marked on it.

― hmmm (hmmm), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:38 (eighteen years ago) link

ally: what was the name of that stars track, by the way?

i wish i could remember at what point my brain decided to stop me checking out stars. even the cover of the bloody album looks familiar. gah. anyway, i thought it was fantastic, whatever it was.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 12 November 2005 18:55 (eighteen years ago) link

The best Stars track is Elevator Love Letter. In fact, it's one of the two best indie tracks of this MILLENNIUM. Maybe.

I don't know if this is what Ally was talking about.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 12 November 2005 19:03 (eighteen years ago) link

it was the one they, er, played in teh club :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 12 November 2005 19:17 (eighteen years ago) link

I've just discovered the huge cut on my ear from that mat, fiendish. get one pair of running shoes

― stet (stet), Saturday, 12 November 2005 19:20 (eighteen years ago) link

*MIRTH*

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 12 November 2005 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link

no really! it's huge!

I'm going to get you. with a mat. unless mrs fiendish sees, when I'll look all contrite instead

― stet (stet), Saturday, 12 November 2005 19:23 (eighteen years ago) link

take a picture!

how the FUCK have you gone for 22 hours without noticing it? (mädchen: this q also applies to you.)

are you sure it was the mat, and not the sheer metaphorical power of that woman giving you a verbal clip round the earhole?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 12 November 2005 19:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Probably because they've just sobered up.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 12 November 2005 19:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Cozen - can I point you in the direction of the 'Hanne Hukkelberg - best thing since sliced bread' thread as I have just yousendited a sutekh mix of 'ease' which is really quite excellent.

― hmmm (hmmm), Saturday, 12 November 2005 19:39 (eighteen years ago) link

"ageless beauty", i think it was. it sounds very familiar.

"elevator love letter" also awesome, though.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 12 November 2005 20:00 (eighteen years ago) link

I did notice it the cut ear, but he was asleep so I couldn't say anything to him. I am, as M. Rossiter sang, sick, sober and sorry (that I won't be at the Winchester Club tonight). I am cradling a big cup of coffee and checking out the TV guide.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Saturday, 12 November 2005 21:46 (eighteen years ago) link

I am at tehh winhecster nad I am danicng....

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 12 November 2005 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link

with your mac?!

i am drinking wine and watching madonna on parkinson. (not literally "on" parkinson. that would be wrong.)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 12 November 2005 22:16 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't know anyone who works at mono

maybe cookie should get a job there instead of at a police station

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 13 November 2005 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link

is cook a cop now? my, i've missed so much...
i agree, alba. i agree
and um... yeah
my dad is cheering a football score too, but it's of the helmeted mongrel variety.
do you miss me yet?

― dahlin (dahlin), Sunday, 13 November 2005 21:05 (eighteen years ago) link

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