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I was doing quite well on GTA IV until Kellifer accidentally deleted my game save file from the PS3's hard disc, in order to save space. She said she made sure to leave the most recently modified GTA file alone, but sadly that was my user profile, not a game save. I think she was more gutted about it that I was...
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quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: I was doing quite well on GTA IV until Kellifer accidentally deleted my game save file from the PS3's hard disc, in order to save space. She said she made sure to leave the most recently modified GTA file alone, but sadly that was my user profile, not a game save. I think she was more gutted about it that I was...
So... you're looking for a lodger? Who won't ask too many questions about the mound in the garden.
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I hate Valentine's Day. Stupid commercialised crap
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quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: Aces! Little Thorntavia is just straightening her goggles. This is a very important time, s/he's putting her affairs in order, doing a bit of light dusting in order to leave the place immaculate for the next conception and then, probably, fixing a bracing cocktail. Gin Martini, at a guess. You need to start playing lots of ROCK, very loud.
Given how precisely accurate this turned out to be, I'd like to know if you have any handy racing tips for the weeekend?
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Wear: Orange Goblin t-shirt, Black shorts, shell-toes.
Eat: Lemon meringue pie for breakfast. Might go to the pub for lunch... Barbecue in the garden, tonight. I have chicken, ribs and HEARTS marinating in the fridge.
Listen: The new Future of the Left album, I told you.
Watch: Fack all, been reading instead.
Read: Everyday Drinking - Kingsley Amis, Crooked Little Vein - Warren Ellis, The Executioner: Extreme Justice - Don Pendleton
Weekend: Bit o' gardnin', arrrr. No big plans. I'm on holiday for eleven days!
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Wear: A t-shirt explaining that we're all made of carbon, with different carbon based animals on it like the loch ness monster, a penguin an anteater and a unicorn
Eat: custard doughnut, bbq hula hoops, chocolate mousse. It's my bosse sbirthday and she bought cakes and invited the entire department. I didn't get to eat a cake, so I had to be interested in someone elses birthday for the doughnut.
Watch: Erm, I watched the entire series of Shigurui recently which was amazing. The Baader-Meihner Complex which was quite thought provoking. Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is on its way but I don't remember ordering it so I might push large boulders towards Pia if it turns out to be shit.
Read: nothing, not even a magazine. Been reading loads of shit online, but that's it.
Weekend: tonight, maybe a chill out before Pia gets home from her final lecture and perhaps watch one of the three films being delivered. Sunday is a bbq that I haven't told my girlfriend about yet so she can look forward to that. Maybe band practice, maybe not yet I haven't decided.
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Octavia
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Wear: jeans, Chelsea boots, striped socks, baby in wrap, zipped fleece Eat: apple, Onken wholegrain and peach yogurt Listen: hideous child-abuse play on radio 4 Read: American Pastoral Knit: feather-and-fan baby blanket Weekend: some ironing, some weeding, taking Wunderkind out to lunch with chums tomorrow, comparing respective Wunderkinder with other chums on Sunday. Hopefully swimming again.
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quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: Watch: I watched Terminator on Sky last night, with the Masketeers. They got a bit bored and I was reminded that it was a bit shit.
Plus, they've blatantly picked the wrong Terminator for governor of California.
Listen: I got a ticket to go and see that new band with John Paul Jones out of Led Zeppelin, Dave Grohl out of Foo Fighters & Nirvana, Josh Homme out of Queens of the Stone Age. That might be good.
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I was hoping Thorn would at least be posting how good Chutzpah! is and rubbing it in as I am unable to get my hands on a copy. Or Cherry? Someone must have it.....
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I'm still here. Just. I'd forgotten how exhausting babies can be. Cthulhu's pretty laid-back most of the time. She's good at night. But, it's all the other stuff, as well. I suppose the school holidays don't help. The oven, washing machine and dishwasher seem to be on the go constantly. It's an endless round of feeding, cleaning and purchasing. We went to Chessington last week, though. And Camden. And I might even make it to the pub this weekend.
quote:Originally posted by Waynster: I was hoping Thorn would at least be posting how good Chutzpah! is and rubbing it in as I am unable to get my hands on a copy. Or Cherry? Someone must have it.....
I did nearly post something about it in music, but the last few times the Wildhearts got mentioned people (Dang, I think) complained that it was unrestrained spam so I er, didn't.
But! I got the album the day it came out - cycling up to the record shop like an excitable teenager. It's a fantastic album, no question. The songs are brilliant, an the opening track, The Jackson Whites, is a knockout.
All that's fairly standard. The main difference between this and other Wildhearts albums is the massive production job they've done on it. It's much, much glossier, bigger, crisper than anything they've done before and the reaction to it has been one of unfettered enthusiasm.
Howvever, Octavia and I were chatting about it the other day and I'm not quite convinced that it's necessarily an improvement. Apart from ...Must Be Destroyed, which was weirdly limp, Wildhearts albums have never lacked bite, and for the most part sound absolutely ferocious. As I understand it they used to (before this album) record songs in one or two takes, all playing together - proper scrappy garage band style. On this record they've done the modern production thing of recording each instrument track separately, recording each chord separately and then having a proper producer put it together for the album.
So it sounds superslick... but it also sounds a bit more like every other band out there (especially the generic single The Only One, which caused much disappointment in our house when it came out a few weeks ago).
Ordinarily, the WH's have an absolutely explosive sound on record - somewhere between sounding 'live' and sounding like you've been invited into the practice room and are watching them nail it for the first time, with all the energy, rough edges and excitement that that implies. When their at their best with this approach - Sick of Drugs, The Hard Way, I Wanna go... - they sound so fricken' tight it's unbelievable and when the songs reach their crescendos it's a dizzying, exhilirating rush. And I don't think that's something you can replicate when you're assembling a song on a computer. You can make it sound 'expansive' and 'huge' and 'sweeping', but you can't replicate that feeling of being yanked up by the scruff of the neck and hauled along for the ride.
I heard the sound described somewhere as 'stadium sized', which is exactly right. It's the difference between seeing a band at a stadium or a festival with a state of the art sound system and tens of thousands of people, or seeing them in a sweaty club with a malfuncitioning mixing desk and 300 beer-and sweat-soaked maniacs. And obviously, obviously the latter is better.
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Aww, I'm only kidding. I even mentioned Led Zeppelin a couple of posts ago, so I can shut up can't I. The new Wildhearts isn't on Spotify yet, else I'd listen to it. Or the first five minutes or so anyway.
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I'm still here and still checking from time to time. I don't usually have much to say though. Life's going ok. Going on holiday next month. All is well.
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We all prisoners, chickee-baby. We all locked in.
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OK then.
I'll take the plunge and give the Wildhearts a listen, if, and only if, you give me a playlist with a maximum of your ten bestest favouritest tracks to set me off as a starter for ten [geddit?]
Feel free to talk amongst yourselves to decide and get back to me, mm'kay?
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For a first time listener, I would suggest:
29 x The Pain Geordie In Wonderland I Wanna Go Where the People Go Greetings from Shitsville You Took The Sunshine Outta New York The Revolution Will Be Televised Everlone Just In Lust TV Tan The Hard Way
...in that order - you know. Download one, and then if you like that try the next one, and so on.
edit: I don't know if they'll have it on iTunes or whatever, because it's a pretty obscure track but you could swap out I Wanna Go... for 'Can't Do Right For Doing Wrong' if they do
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Fucking hell, I've just looked on iTunes and most of those tracks are only available as 'live' versions. What a load of shit.
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quote:Originally posted by Darryn.R: Are they on Spotify ?
29 x The Pain - no Geordie In Wonderland - no I Wanna Go Where the People Go - yes Greetings from Shitsville - yes You Took The Sunshine Outta New York - no The Revolution Will Be Televised - no Everlone - yes Just In Lust - yes TV Tan - yes The Hard Way - no
Saimin (Hypnosis) - watched it last night. I thought it had some good bits and some not so good bits, but overall it was worth it. I liked the bit where the man was hypnotised into thinking that his gas stove was a sink full of refreshing water, and washed his face and hands in the flames.
weekend
Green Lanes food festival on sunday. Will 'rock up' to that and watch the local men and women taking photographs for their blogs / twitters / facebooks etc
probably cinema tomorrow. Adventureland? Although I am interested to see reviews for The Firm. While I've never really liked Nick Love at all, trailers for this make it look maybe ok, and the subject is one I spent a bit of time reading / writing about at university. Maybe I'll do both. The benefits of having an Unlimited card.
no planz for 2nite lol so hit me up yeah if u want to go boozing or some shit.
Will also crack on with 'project learning to draw', which will involve using a pencil to draw lines, dots, and later on, cubes.
this week
ok. generally busy. enjoyed a fair bit of gaming action with the clan mikee. a 5 overall I suppose, but have had more than one moment of complete despair for no real reason.
H1ppychick
We all prisoners, chickee-baby. We all locked in.
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I'm always a bit intrigued by your lifestyle, benway. You obviously work from home most if not all of the time, and I'm not quite sure what it is that you do.
Same with BM - apart from that it involves/involved trawling through the BBC News site and the wearing of 'Vans', whatever they might be.
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clothes. mostly from primark: black trousers (which fit relatively tightly to the leg but which i would not, for some reason i barely understand, describe in company as a 'skinny jean', although that is quite patently what they are)/ blue and green tshirt / grey and black flat shoes (note: not 'flatties'. emphaatically not they).
watching: ANVIL- very good. here is the content of a text message exchange between me and my sister on the topic of said film:
my sister: i love lips! i loved THUMB HANG.
me: THUMB HANG. i liked the bit about shepherds pie. didnt it make you want to buy one of their records and NEVER LISTEN TO IT.
my sister: THUMB HANG. oh yeah, totes. anvil ruled but their music bites.
i think the 'prefacing the content of every text with the words thumb hang' meme has legs. it could last us until well into saturday.
reading: noone is innocent- alan parker. yeah you know what; sid vicious was a fucking prick. a stupid looming bozz- eyed no- talent prick who literally shat on his fans, apparently never said a single thing that was funny or intelligent or arresting in ANY way and and whose continued rebel hero status i am utterly bewildered by.
weeekend: well tomorrow i am stewarding at the bristol festival, which should be mildly entertaining. they have asked me which venue i would prefer and, rather than choosing something comfortable and sedate i have asked for all the venues that will be playing back- to- back bassline music. because i have discovered bassline as a genre very recently, and am overjoyed by it, despite the fact that 80% of it is a fucking hideous racket. the other 20% is fucking awesome. (i listen to the bassline showcase on passion fm, which is a radio station so community focussed that they announce the funerals of old dudes from st pauls in the ad breaks, in between adverts for keith sweat at the cardiff o2 arena and the 'passion fm jamaican saying of the week'. passion fm is the nearest thing bristol has to pirate radio and i really, really love it.)
other than that- chillin' with my sis, washing windows, possibly going to see new landlord. its all good.
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the main thing you have to remember about my lifestyle is that I'm on it, hard, and I'm taking care of bidness twenty fo seven, three six five because this money aint gonna make itself.
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quote:Originally posted by mart: Have any of you ever been out drinking in "Clapham"?
It's a suburb of London or something. I'm supposed to be going there on Tuesday.
Octavia and I properly got together in Clapham. At the Northcote Arms, on a Tuesday. In fact it would have been five years ago more or less to the day.
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