Slow day for OT today
what are you all doing?

Better not be working!
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:12, 61 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I was working!!
I've been working solidly for an hour and a half. No b3ta, no msn, no faceache, no texting. Zilch.
Permission to do Fanny Adams for the next couple of hours?
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:14, Reply)

granted
I've actually been working too. has made the afternoon fly by. the work I've been doing has had big pauses for processing though so I've been on and off b3ta almost non-stop too.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:16, Reply)

I have to deliver some stuff to another site.
Cannot be arsed.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:29, Reply)

Go on, you lazy bag.

( thealternativefact, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:31, Reply)

Ha!
I wormed out of it and got somebody else to drop the stuff off.
Lick that!!
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:59, Reply)

Sorry, been very busy this week
Hopefully it won't be quite as busy next week. I've moved desk as well so other people have a better view of my screen :0(
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:15, Reply)

booo

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:17, Reply)

It's a big booo
Although it could be worse, nobody really pays any attention to what I do :0)
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:19, Reply)

I'm weaning myself off this place
and getting addicted to wanking myself stupid with various vegetables stuffed in my arse instead.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:19, Reply)

a noble cause
and I salute you for it
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:20, Reply)

I'm going to Norfolk a week Tuesday to try and find this guy's house.
www.worldrecordsacademy.org/nature/largest_marrow-world_record_set_by_Ken_Dade_80371.htm
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:21, Reply)

they look less like marrows
and more like dinosaur penises
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:28, Reply)

*horns*

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:31, Reply)

I've been working.
What a pile of shit.
( thealternativefact, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:31, Reply)

I NO!
Please, Clendrix, make this place alive again :(
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:31, Reply)

*sighs*
It may be beyond help. I've been fecking off to /talk but even that's been dull.
( thealternativefact, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:33, Reply)

it has peaks and troughs
it's certainly less boringly cunty recently, while still retaining some elements of cuntyness.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:34, Reply)

All the best regulars have gone.
It's really lost its edge. I know bitching about it isn't going to help, but why can't I bitch occasionally? I ask you?
WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!?
Edit: except a few best regulars of course.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:37, Reply)

It might be a summer slump.
Let's hope so - I finally get a chance to arse around on here and it's quiet :(
( thealternativefact, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:38, Reply)

Pretend to be going gay or something.
It worked a treat yesterday!
Edit: Done!
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:40, Reply)

'tis true
maybe it's time we got to know each other a bit better Clenders my dear ;-)
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:42, Reply)

Ooh!
*gays*
( thealternativefact, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:46, Reply)

*fans*

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:50, Reply)

Trying to remember what the fuck I've done with my Elfen Lied DVDs
and writing.
( Maladicta, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:32, Reply)

I am mentally preparing my set for tomorrow night
I am DJing in London's fashionable Shoreditch for a mate's birthday.

I haven't done it for a while and, whilst I'm not nervous, I don't want to make an arse of myself and am therefore thinking about which records I might play rather than simply filling my boxes with armfuls of the fuckers and crossing my fingers....as I used to do as a semi-professional. What was I thinking...?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:33, Reply)

What're you playing baby?

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:36, Reply)

A veritable smorgasbord
of vintage funk, 70s heavy rock and some mod/psychedelic 45s.

by about 11 I will be blind drunk and annoying everyone with Motorhead and 'DC. It always seems to end up that way....
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:37, Reply)

Haha
Man, I've walked out of parties where that's happened before.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:39, Reply)

Me too
I once walked out of my own birthday do in the West End. I finished my set, picked up my boxes and fucked off in a cab without saying a word to anyone.

I honestly didn't remember it was a night in my honour until about lunchtime the next day. People had driven up from Winchester that I hadn't seen in about 10 years and I never even said hello.

Oops!
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:42, Reply)

A couple of my close friends have an incompatible taste in music to me
Stuff like Elton John, country and western. I often feel rude when declining an offer of an after-pub beer at their place, but it's better than me ripping off their heads and fucking their windpipe.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:48, Reply)

I lost it at my brother's recently
some retarded girl asked for The Smiths one time too many.

We were listening to Bad Brains at the time. What could possibly follow New York Rasta-Hardcore better than fey Mancunian miserablism?

Pretty much fucking anything....
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 17:06, Reply)

I can't bear Morrisey or the Smiths
dreadful stuff
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 17:37, Reply)

that sounds awesome

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:41, Reply)

Ah you're a progger aren't you?
My pal turned me onto Tractor's 1972 self-titled LP earlier this week. It's utterly superb - reminded me in parts of Caravan, King Crimson, Jethro Tull and a little bit of Sabbath.

You may like it, I really fucking did.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:44, Reply)

that sounds like it ticks all the right boxes
I'll check it out.

my drummer bought me the Jefferson Airplane album Volunteers for my birthday, that's worth checking out.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:47, Reply)

My dad saw 'em BITD
and recently gave my his White Rabbit 45. Love 'em.

Actually their best one is the live LP ' Bless its pointed little head' - go get it!
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:56, Reply)

I'll give it a bash
I'll fire you a copy of the thing I'm working at the moment when it is done. It's a modern prog epic about the plight of the red squirrel
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:59, Reply)

I would be honoured

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 17:01, Reply)

Haha wtf?
I must hear this.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 17:02, Reply)

it's currently 29 minutes long
in a few linked parts. has bowie-esque bits, floydy bits, it will have a hard rock/metal bit once I've come up with it, spanish style, there's kettle drums, a gong....what more could you want?

other than lots of synth obviously. fortunately you are in luck!
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 17:05, Reply)

What're you using to put it together?

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 17:07, Reply)

It all goes through a 16 track desk
into a Boss digital recorder then into laptop with Cubase*. I'm just getting involved in the writing, arrangement and playing though, my compadre knows how to use all the gear very well, so me doing it seems unnecessary


*think it's cubase anyway
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 17:10, Reply)

I used to use Cakewalk Sonar for live audio and Reason for beats and synths.
Then my mate moved to China and I lost my collaboration partner and kinda fell out of it. I'd love to get back into it again.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 17:13, Reply)

Me too
My engineer and I fell out massively and that was 'career over'.

High point: playing some guitar parts for a Siouxsie and the Banshees remix project.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 17:14, Reply)

it's been even more enjoyable than I thought it'd be
we're both really enthused about it because the first few sessions have gone so well. We're on the same wavelength which is really cool. Having someone with all the hardware and the ability to use it is a massive help obviously!
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 17:16, Reply)

Definitely.
Keep up the motivation, especially if you eventually end up going your separate ways. Find someone to bounce off, to work with. Without it, it's so, so easy to let it all go.

It's actually one of my biggest ever regrets.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 17:19, Reply)

we've been too busy to do anything for the last couple of weeks
so things have died down a little, but if the surf is no good this weekend then we'll be having a good session on saturday. need to come up with the rock bit though! and some proper hardcore electro stuff.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 17:22, Reply)

I look forward to hearing it.
I think I might put a notice up in the local music shop looking for collaborators. It's about time I did something constructive with fifteen years of guitar, ten years of singing and five years of electronic messery.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 17:24, Reply)

it's well worth it
you are bound to find some like-minded individuals.

our project came out of a stoned conversation suggesting we collaborate, then firing ridiculous names at each other. I came up with The Red Squirrel / Grey Squirrel Scenario, and things went on from there...
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 17:26, Reply)

I've got "Hall of the Mountain Grill" on vinyl
Never listened to it. I can't even remember who its by!!!
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:57, Reply)

Hawkwind
Not their best but damned fine.

I've seen them 20+ times, old lag that I am.

Warrior on the Edge of Time is their best IMHO.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 17:01, Reply)

I have been working
Wow this place is dead without my amazing wit
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:51, Reply)

w t +s
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:53, Reply)

^ could be it...

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 17:10, Reply)

Haha
Thank fuck someone saw it.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 17:14, Reply)

I had a good smirk about it
if that helps :-)
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 17:17, Reply)

It does, man. It does.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 17:21, Reply)

*bows*
I live to serve
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 17:23, Reply)

I thought it was the other way round, my dark lord.
*bandwagons temporarily*
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 17:25, Reply)

sorry, this bandwagon is full

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 17:31, Reply)

I'll hitch instead.
Beer, chicken kievs and DJ Mehdi await!
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 17:32, Reply)