| quiet today... |
[Jan. 29th, 2010|10:56 am] |
seems it anyway.
fun at karaoke last night. i did:
rikki, don't lose that number
the snake
epic
as well as lots of joining in, as per. what was less "as per" was TV's Dr Hilary Jones singing Sweet Caroline in the bar area for this saturday's Dancing on Ice (no, i don't know why either), so look out for US being on telly briefly...
i appear to be in the pub from 6 hours time until pretty much monday morning, hopefully this will CHEER ME THE FVCK UP as i am surrounded by an inexplicable low level GRUMP and have been all week...
anyway, i've got eff all to do today, so who wants some anono-comments? |
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| chrome halp? |
[Jan. 27th, 2010|09:58 am] |
is anyone else using chrome? we've been happily using it for about 6 months (yes, before they started advertising it ;)) but all of a sudden it's got monumentally slow (which surely wasn't the point!). last night it was taking actually a minute to go and get facebook, whereas cr4ppy old ie6 was doing it from the same log-in in 2 seconds.
anyone heard anything? |
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| Not Long Now Before Lollipop Men Are Called Darren... |
[Jan. 4th, 2010|12:08 pm] |
Top Ten Actual Listens of 2009 from last.fm:
1 Half Man Half Biscuit – Totnes Bickering Fair 60
2 Steely Dan – My Old School 42
3 Drew – ZERO TO PHANTOM (song fight) 39
4 The Lemonheads – Alison's Starting to Happen 38
4 Mark Ronson – Outversion 38
6 The Smiths – Cemetry Gates 29
7 Kevin Rowland – Thunder Road 28
7 Madder Rose – Pocket Fulla Medicine 28
7 The Lemonheads – It's A Shame About Ray 28
10 The Lucksmiths – The Sandringham Line 27
10 Belle and Sebastian – Dirty Dream Number Two 27
ETA GRAPH, as promised to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ms_bracken
I'm not sure how right it is, it seems to double up some stuff from my itouch, which eventually started scrobbling after 3 years of fiddling...
only new entry in top 20 artistes: DUCKWORTH-LEWIS METHOD, which i thought was aces, but seems to have missed most of the end of year lists... |
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| KWIZ! |
[Dec. 23rd, 2009|12:15 pm] |
i am doing data entry and listening to ipod music, so i thought i'd do a first lines:
1. I do nothing at all and let my legs go fizzy
2. it's 1am and I can't see straight, how am I, how am I gonna get home
3. stone love, she kneels before the grave, her brave son soul love - Dame David Bowie freakytigger and dr_f_dellamorte just about tied for that.
4. you work in a village shop, putting a poster up, dreaming of anything lazy line painter jane (live at bowlie actually, FVCKIN HIT IT BEANS!) - belle and sebastian curiousbadger
5. now here comes a brand new ting (effectively an instrumental this one)
6. she said she show me the secret of virtue, I don't want to hurt you or set you free
7. I always admitted pity cos I was getting lonely, oh I was lonely baby without you
8. tired of being what you want me to be, feeling so faithless, it's under the surface NUMB - jamelia version freakytigger got that
9. well she's up against the register, an apron and a spatula
10. [cowbell going da da da da dada da dada] soul limbo - booker t and the mgs, dubdobdee really actually got this!
11. get off my bunk (?) cos I'll take you out for a ride, tell you about the cuban's 8 foot stride
12. I tried to break away from you, from the spics and blacks and the gum you chew more Dame David, sweet head which friend_of_tofu got
13. don't say a word, don't make this even more absurd
14. Good morning madam. Good Mornign, I wish to buy a red flower.
15. I want somebody to share, share the rest of my life, share my innermost thoughts, know my intimate details somebody - depeche mode, freakytigger is a sekrit teenage g0th at heart ;)
16. [in malawian!]
17. there once was an old captain who wished nothing more, than to relive his old voyages and walk by the shore
18. all my friends are talking to me, what's this love I see, I know you can't make it right, I'm still waiting now. RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE, AH! the night - SCOOTER freakytigger
19. she's giving it some thought and it's giving her some grief, could it be she's bored beyond belief? the sandringham line - the lucksmiths cis gets there eventually ;)
20. sometimes you're better off dead, there's a gun in your hand pointing at your head. west end girls - petshop boys curiousbadger again!
some easy, some hard, some unknown, go for it!!! |
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| AIOTM! |
[Nov. 3rd, 2009|10:45 am] |
anyone fancy going to see Mr Herring doing "As It Occurs To Me" next monday?
http://www.leicestersquaretheatre.com/lqt/show/S1251303475/
basically an hour or so of him pratting about with TV's Emma Kennedy doing stuff that has occurred to him during the week. I've listened to one of the podcasts and it was pretty good. you can listen here:
http://www.comedy.org.uk/podcasts/as_it_occurs_to_me/
if you would like, and then decide :)
related:
1. h1tl3r m0ust4che is at leicester square theatre in February and having missed it in edinburgh i am VERY KEEN to see it
2. poo-art wee is there also doing panto "if you prefer a milder comedian" 7 Dec to 17th Jan, i would also like to go to this.
3. i got a bit over-excited and booked four tickets for Christmas Karaoke Circus at Bethnal Green WMC, Thursday 3 December and I only need two of them, if anyone would like to bagsy them... soz, gone now! |
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[Oct. 30th, 2009|12:23 pm] |
right, i am having a cr@ppy time at work due to RANK INCOMPETENCE OF OTHERS and i need cheering up between now and beer o'clock (5.01), so lets have an exciting anonocomments afternoon y/y?
(beer at the horse, what with it being poptimism and all) |
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| SHUNT! |
[Oct. 6th, 2009|10:24 am] |
right, we are DOING THIS THING on Friday:
http://www.shunt.co.uk/events.php
ooh look, there's more stuff on now including BRAINDEAD COLLECTIVE on friday, hurray for noise/jazz nonsense, also peotry and installations and stuff.
i suggest meeting in the shipwrights:
http://www.fancyapint.com/pubs/pub476.html
round the corner from post-work o'clock, going round to shunt about 8ish/8.30ish?
remember you need photo id to get in!
Poll #1467139 SHUNT!
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 26are you coming?
EDIT Also, please to be inviting Like-Minded People who I might not know innit ;) |
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| CRICKET! |
[Aug. 20th, 2009|11:22 am] |
oh cookie, cookie, cookie, cookster, cookie...
CRICKET DISCUSSION HERE PLS. |
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| (no subject) |
[Aug. 18th, 2009|10:49 am] |
so despite being only back at work for One Single Day, today i have a day off due to there being NO ELECTRICITY at work today, and thus, 0 for me to do (i don't really have filing).
so, apart from the hoovering, WHAT SHOULD I DO? seems to be a waste just faffing around on the internets all day when i can do that at work...
also, send me links of things (music preferably) to download as it feels like i've heard 0 new music for aaaaaaages. |
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| 90 minutes to go... |
[Aug. 5th, 2009|03:28 pm] |
will attempt to update at some point over the next ten days, if only to show you pictures of me terrifying small children on the royal mile ;)
anyway:
woo!!! |
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| (no subject) |
[Jul. 31st, 2009|03:08 pm] |
blimey, cricket!
aus all out for 263 after onions and anderson rip through this morning's session.
eng now 2 for 1, cook wafting at one.
in other news boycott is bibbling on like there's no tomorrow (although looking at the forecast, there may not be!) |
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| (no subject) |
[Jul. 24th, 2009|01:46 pm] |
it's friday
i'm bored
let's do ANONO-COMMENTS!
ip logging etcetc off, let's go crazy eh? |
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| more festival tales |
[Jul. 21st, 2009|10:52 am] |
hello! i went to latitude and it was good and even though it rained it didn't get muddy (the suffolk soil is MAGIC) and i can't remember exactly what i saw when, but i know it included:
(basically, where there are gaps, assume we are listening to robin
ince shouting about natasha kaplinsky)
fri: richard dedomenici, quite a lot of sitting, DUCKWORTH/LEWIS METHOD who are GREAT,"bedtime story" which is Robin reading out a Horrid Henry story to 50 or 60 3-7 year olds and getting them to scream and shout (and SCREAM A BIT MORE) and invade the stage and leave them higher than kites just when perhaps they should be going to bed, the socialist trifecta of Mark Steel, Mark Thomas and Jeremy Hardy in the same day, pretenders, pet shop boys, mystery fax machine orchestra in a tent so small they take up more room than the audience.
sat: clive stafford-smith, david quantick talking to jonathon coe, stuart maconie talking to david morrisey and miranda sawyer, jeanne gruffalo DYING ON HER @SS and leaving the stage after 6 minutes (it would've been 3.5 minutes if the MC hadn't gone for a weewee), fever ray in stupid costumes, patrick wolf (where i bonded with the young man next to me who actually said "facepalm" to describe PW's incredible overreaching pretension), five minutes in the big tent where Guilty Pleasures was happening which is SO VERY SCARY (and also, frankly, skool disco, not GP) that we have to run away to the woods where club du fromage are playing pretty much the same records but to far fewer people.
sun: jake chapman (including hilarious "artists deaths" video and massive ten minute downpour), maggie philbin sheltering from the rain under a tree, kevin cummins talking about why he's fallen out with hooky, sean lock, slow club (the indie ting-tings, no come back, they are pretty good), karaoke circus which, despite my not getting to do pulp, is basically Indie Comedians Do Stars In Their Eyes, in a good way.
and loads and loads and loads of Book Club including nekkid pappy's fun club...
I dunno though, i liked it as a festival, but i don't rly see why ppl prefer places with only 25,000 people there in comparison to ones (ok, one) with 150,000. it's just a bit cosy and weird to me, but then glastonbury is my one true festival love and there's not a lot i can do about it.
also, for those of us going through the pleb gates the insistance that NO LIQUIDS could be taken in (i had to throw away half a cup of coffee) was a complete pain in the arse, also the compulsory bag searches. I can understand them not wanting glass in the arena, or people lugging in cases of carlsberg, but i really think the Lords way (as in the cricket ground, not "The Lord") of being able to take a couple of cans or a bottle of wine in is the best compromise, they can't be predicating their income on wet sales anyway, can they?
ALSO don't forget that it is DINOSAUR PLANET at the Wilmington tonight!!! |
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| other people's dream's are still boring |
[Jul. 15th, 2009|11:11 pm] |
BUT
i was in/preparing to go to edinburgh to tech/direct @trevandsimon's show (can't imagine WHERE that came from...) BUT i'd also booked in to redo the show i took up in 1995 and there was discussion as to whether i could even remember any of it and i was like it'll be FINE and i think i added some half-interesting things (now unrememberable) into what was, frankly, a not very good show that in reality i can remember very little of...
SO
off to get rained on at latitude tomorrow and then, next tuesday, the DINOSAUR PLANET press launch at the Wilmington! do come, it is ACES and only £5 (for which you get added Chris T-T and AN BADGE and everything) |
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| trailer time! |
[Jul. 8th, 2009|09:47 am] |
pretty much all you need to know, right there :)
there is a SEKRIT DRESS REHEARSAL tomorrow night at the Lamb on Lamb's Conduit St, which is FREE, but for a reason as it's the first time it's been done all at once in front of an audience of more than 2 people and thus might need a bit of tweaking...
alternatively there is the Official Launch Party at the Wilmington on Tuesday 21st which also features CHRIS T-T doing his Improvised Piano Solos (no, really). you can buy tickets if you want as well. |
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