| What is the haps? |
[Jun. 30th, 2009|09:55 am] |
Ello babies
I went to Glastonbury and it was great and I'll tell you all about it later, but WHAT IS THE HAPS, dudes, as I doubt I'll get a chance to read a whole week of lj innit... |
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| wirelesseseseses |
[Jun. 12th, 2009|12:22 pm] |
So, because my work computer has no sound card in it i NEED some way of listening to Test Match Special at work (and other places not my house actually), but what is the best option? which is more likely to be switched off first, DAB or LW???? I read articles that says that DAB is bobbins and a betamaxy kind of product, and that it might be superceded...
Poll #1414762 wireless
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: Allwhich is better?
what i SHOULD'VE DONE was pick up one of the SIX radiogrammes* (actually 5 radiogrammes and one TELEVISIONRADIOGRAMME!!!!) that were being skipped up the road from my house last week, but i thought, nah, don't need more cr@p in my house. also not very portable...
*what do you mean "what's a radiogramme?"??? bloody kids... |
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| (no subject) |
[Jun. 11th, 2009|10:44 am] |
facebook is broookken
like the first myyyyyyspace
twitter has spooookken
like the first, um, thing...
ANYWAYS the thing is, FB invites are TOTALLY NOT WORKING, which means that YOU do not know that myself and my good lady wife shall be tagteam DJing this sunday at the always delightful HANGOVER LOUNGE:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=102293761041
at the LEXINGTON on penton st from 2ish to 7ish. they have Lovely* American Beer and even an ale on tap now too.
there are sofas for lounging (or indeed lunging as i first typed) on and assorted newspapers to read. who knows, i might even bring my backgammon set if anyone fancies a game?
it would be lovely if you could pop along, even just for a bit :)
*reads: Strong |
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| (no subject) |
[Jun. 10th, 2009|09:10 am] |
morning all!
we had our first Proper Meeting in the curiously deserted Banker last night, which was basically just a HEY, LET'S GET EXCITED ABOUT STUFF meeting as we already have:
venue
accommodation
travel
flyer (see above)
and SHOW
sorted (well, i haven't cast my directorly eye over the show yet, but hibbett is confident)
so it was all the fun things like previews and publicity and extra gigs (no to the royal mile, possibly yes to late and live type things if we can find them) and exactly how much IS too much to pay for a dinosaur costume for me...
also i think the brochure is out today, so will be tracking one down (donmar usually has a stash) and seeing if I can find Other Shows at least tenuously About Dinosaurs as if there are three it is A TREND and we can flog it to feature writers... |
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| shuffle |
[Jun. 5th, 2009|03:40 pm] |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8084571.stm
so burnham's gone to health and denham's gone to communities & lg, so who's doing DCMS and DIUS then????
ETA: BEN BRADSHAW to DCMS!!!! blimey...
hold on, beckett "no longer housing", where's she going? not DIUS, pleeeeeeease...
Edit2 also is a projected share of Tories: 38%, Libs: 28%, Lab 23% enough for a tory government? i thought they HAD to be in the low 40s to get a majority?
Edit3 Mcnulty resigns from cabinet as well??? FFS, wouldn't it be a lot easier just to PUT THEM ALL IN PRAMS so they could throw their toys out, i really cannot see who any of this is helping. |
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| In May I: |
[Jun. 2nd, 2009|07:37 pm] |
went out dancing only once (poptimism)
went to 1 football match (Rotherham, WWWWWWW!!!!!)
went to no other sporting events
went to four (and a bit) music gigs (Art Brut, MELIR on an allotment, MJ & VLADS, Manics (the "a bit" was three songs of some mimsy australians at the hangover lounge that i couldn't hack any more of)
went to 2 comedy gigs (old rope and Bright Club (yeah ok, not entirely comedy but where else to put it?))
went to 0 karaoke
went to 1 quiz (Where is my Mind? (2nd))
went to Sheffield (to see football) Watford, Sarratt, Brighton, Belmont, Fishburn, Sedgefield, Glasgow
went to no art (getting boring now...)
went to 1 theatre (Exquisite Corpse)
went to see Star Trek at the pictures
DJed once (poptimism)
went to 27 different pubs:
ye olde mitre
fox and anchor
the howard, sheffield
betjeman arms
punch tavern
royal oak
trinity arms
old red lion, holborn
buffalo bar
shipwrights arms
the hope
newton arms
st christopher's inn
the rake
evening star, brighton
lexington
big chill house
the phoenix
hawley arms
dun cow, sedgefield
lexington
wilmington arms
chequers
the hope
wilmington arms
kings head, kilburn
positively 4th st
horse bar
the rock, glasgow
uisge beatha, glasgow |
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| intensely intense |
[May. 27th, 2009|10:47 am] |
due to mild error i have:
1 x SPARE MANICS TICKET
for TOMORROW (ie thursday) night at the roundhouse.
anyone want? face value (£25 i think)
in other news, i have been doing lots of things that have intersected with things some of you have done and also been up north where we discovered that the best thing in teh world is my three year old nephew singing "the car song":
brother in law: william, sing the car song for us
(me: expecting some cr4ppy kids tv rubbish)
william: here in my car, i feel safest of all, i can lock all my doors, it's the only way to live in cars
i had to applaud. |
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| little bit of politics |
[May. 12th, 2009|04:18 pm] |
now, i don't bang on about politics much here (do i? i don't think i do...) but WHAT THE HELL IS THIS:
http://wageconcern.com/
i mean i ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ prescott when he's banging on about t'internet and grassroots activism because he's kind of amazingly enthusistic whilst clearly not having that much of a clue, but why on earth are the largest party in the house pretending that the minimum wage might fall under this tiny little tory bill backed by ten known idiots? i mean WTF?
it's just a ruse to get people friended up on fb right? then use them for euroelections/local council elections and The Big One next year, i assume... surely they'll end up putting people off who don't rly understand what they're signing up for, won't they? |
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| (no subject) |
[Apr. 2nd, 2009|03:49 pm] |
INDIE DISCO REQUEST
hey the internets! you like indie, right? proper indie*?
why not come to MUTTON with me tomorrow night?
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=88345441040
"where people who used to make C90 mix tapes can happily dance like idiots next to those who can still get away with skinny jeans."
ETA: as endorsed by INTERNETS superstar ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) leedy!!!
pleeeeeeeeeeeeeease, if only so that i don't look like a complete sad act with no friends (braisedbywolves will be late tomorrow, so i'll have no one to hang around with) who just turns up to jump around like a fool with his tall irish boyfriend...
*don't start lex ;) |
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| AW BLESS |
[Apr. 1st, 2009|02:06 pm] |
the climate camp twitters at:
http://twitter.com/climatecamp
(unsurprisingly)
are so lovely so far, am almost tempted to pop down after work just to say hello...
am definitely going to pop down after work, short of hearing anything untoward in teh meantime, which seems unlikely... |
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| in March I |
[Apr. 1st, 2009|10:23 am] |
went out dancing three fridays in a row (MUTTON, rocksteady and poptimism)
went to 1 football match (Luton, W)
went to England vs Scotland (rugby union) at Twickenham
went to three music gigs (New Royal Family et al, MELIR, totally acoustic)
went to four comedy gigs (Girls with Guns, The Trap twice, Gifted Children)
went to no karaoke
went to one quiz (which i hosted (indie quiz at hangover))
went to watford, cheltenham and brockworth
went to no art (AGAIN!!!)
went to no theatre (this will change in april though)
went to see ANVIL! the story of Anvil at the pictures
DJed at poptimism
went to thirty twenty nine (had counted h&c twice) different pubs (BLIMEY! that did include five on saturday though...):
salmon & compasses
pillars of hercules
golden lion
three stags
phoenix
royal oak
buffalo bar
english rose, luton
hercules pillars
hen and chickens
crown and cushion
swimmer
the gaff
royal oak
newton arms
bedroom bar
o'neills (watford)
cheltenham chase hotel bar, brockworth
horse bar
hole in the wall
salmon and compasses
hen and chickens
shipwrights arms
carpenters arms
bethnal green WMC
angel in st giles
blue eyed maid
royal oak
rake
the ring
prince arthur
the lamb
CNPS: 10
also, because simon told me to, i have AN DAYTUM: http://daytum.com/CarsmileSteve what shall i count? |
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| (no subject) |
[Mar. 5th, 2009|03:01 pm] |
i KNOW it's only thursday but i am BORED because i have this annoying job to do at work which is reliant on other ppl doing stuff they haven't done yet and i suppose i could do some other things but i doubt it would make me LESS BORED.
so either come and play wordscraper with me or do anonocomments innit. i can't even think of anything to poll you all about...
also, weekend of STUFF, viz:
tonight: "girls with guns" comedy unless my soon-to-be-ex boss (he's leaving tomorrow) buys me lots of drinks in the pub
tomorrow: MUTTON
sat: LUTON (for football) followed by party and soulmole
sun: listening to the podcast of FREAKY TRIGGER AND THE LOLLARDS OF POP as i will have missed it going out live on resonance 2.30-3.30pm on Saturday due to being out at the foopball innit. |
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| ANVIL! |
[Mar. 4th, 2009|01:18 pm] |
dudes, if you have been in a band, or if you have hung around ppl in bands you should rly rly go and see ANVIL! The Story Of Anvil (it doesn't matter what kind of band it was, this stuff is universal) as it is possibly the most touching hour and a half about male bonding and bad touring i have ever seen. the stupid curzon audience was laughing at some of the touching bits but that is because they be heartless meeja hos who do not understand teh power of ROCK!
meg was still harrumphing about it being faked, but i can't see it myself. OK the rock star talking heads at the very begining *may* have had their lines fed to them, given that Slash would still have been living in Stoke at the time (except lars ulrich of course who is one times complete trainspotter about these things), but everything else (particularly the 80s footage of them) seemed genuine. OF COURSE their producer has a big knob in the middle of his mixing desk that goes up to eleven, so do most marshall amps these days and the trip to stonehenge was just a little "b'dum tsch" by the director rather than any hint of full scale fakery.
also, doods, they have a song called METAL ON METAL:
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| In February I: |
[Mar. 1st, 2009|12:26 pm] |
went out dancing no times
went to no football matches
went to no other sporting events
went to six music gigs (dream themes and the chap, My Exciting Life In Rock twice, spinnerete and future of the left, MJ Totally Acoustic, sunlight factory etc)
went to two comedy gigs (storytellers at BAC, richard herring)
went to one karaoke (random in-pub karaoke at the duke of sussex)
went to one quiz (which i hosted)
went to leicester
went to no art [0]
went to no theatre [0]
went to no films at the pictures
DJed at Matt's birthday party at Juno
went to twenty three pubs:
famous cock
buffalo bar
pembury
three kings, clerkenwell
criterion, leicester
varsity, leicester
firebug, leicester
mucky pup
doric arch
duke of sussex
king and queen
st alyouisiousousosussss social club
salmon and compasses
imperial
Three Stags
LJR
Reliance
Juno
Angelic
The Lamb
The Kings Head (Kilburn)
Old Red Lion
Bullet Bar
[0] despite going to no art or theatre, i did watch two hours of the live six hour forced entertainment show on the internet and also BOUGHT art, viz LADA limited edition t-shirt and build your own live art development agency |
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[Feb. 27th, 2009|12:20 pm] |
atommickbraneface gave me some things to write about and as it's a lovely sunny day and i am but a handful of work hours before ALL TEH WORK IN TEH WORLD falls on top of me (there is like 0 prep i can do for this either which is even more annoying) it's meme time:
( internet t-shirts, art, DIY, comedy, divine comedy )
anyone else want to play? |
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| POPTIMISM! back! Back! BACK!! |
[Feb. 19th, 2009|03:42 pm] |
great news for all our readers, poptimism is BACK and this time it's even SOUTH OF THE RIVER.
so that's Poptimism, Horse Bar, 124 Waterloo Westminster Bridge Road, SE1 7XG. Friday 20 March, 7-12, FREE ENTRY.
HORSE BAR is just across the road from where i work, which is handy if you're me, but actually quite handy for Most Other Londoners too, as it is just round the corner from Leading Transport Hub Waterloo and as we'll be finished by 12 (possible late licence in the futur if it goes ok) you can even get the tube home if you need to.
what else do you need to know? they have ALE, so that's good...
(i might x-post this a bit, given that it's our first one in ages. apols if it clogs up yr friendspage) |
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[Feb. 16th, 2009|04:10 pm] |
DERE LORD, the internets, but i'm tired...
...waking up at five probably wasn't the best idea, but then i thought "oh noes, big deadline day today and i've 897698276412434 tonnes of work to do on it first" so i didn't go back to sleep (usual waking up at 5 pattern is: wake up at 5, lie in bed thinking about things, also stuff until meg gets up at 7, lie there for a bit longer, fall asleep just as alarm goes off at 7.40, switch it off and sleep for another 45 minutes until i have to *have to* get up) and was at work before 9!!! and then, then it only took me four hours to do all the work on the thing i was doing whereas i was expecting it to take all day. either i am KING OF THE WORLD or i made a right pig's ear of it last time...
i had a rather lovely weekend, although an awful lot of it seems to have been spent in the pub, well done pub. |
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| snowball |
[Feb. 2nd, 2009|02:37 pm] |
this is the only kind of snowball i'm interested in...
mmm, mallowy...
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