The spiritually immature mansion/Let it rock

[hirez]

I mailed the Lundy-people because for some mad reason I want to get out of the office for a week and knacker myself out doing proper work. (ie something that involves sheep, walls and power tools) They have yet to reply, but I'd best buy a Bergen anyway.

Speaking of, anyone else think the Dorkbot Camp might be a laugh? I'm unsure. I suspect an atmosphere of us-and-them and English Blogging Uselessness.

The filthy communists over at Bristol City Council have given us a pig-bin (and indeed a pig-handbag), which is probably a good thing, but will lead to confusion. However, with any luck there will be less throwing away, and that's probably the point.

Those dreadful rotters at PostEverything emailed about a Kid606 album. While I was poking about for a sample of same, I stubbed my toe on a Caribou album (AKA Manitoba) and it seemed a terrible shame not to purchase both. They're very fine in a completely buggered gurgling psychedelic heap sort of a way. In that the Kid606 album sounds like two competing old-skool analogue events running down the quarter mile in blown doorslammers, while Dan Caribou makes that utterly odd noise that makes you think of mechanical Christmas trees lurching drunkenly round the pits while waving spanners at each other.

The guitar-people will hate both with an eye-bulging passion.

Oh, I've been on holiday. It was very nice.

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[quercus.livejournal.com]

I'll lend you a bergen and a billhook, if you fancy finishing off my past struggle against the evil rhodedendrons of Lundy.

(If you went anywhere near North Light and found a labyrinth of stones, that was my doing)

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Ah. I did have this half-memory that you'd been there for a while, but I didn't recall the nature of your stay.

So how was it and where's the dead Heinkel?

I got as far as the threequarter wall before I was distracted by a Black Stump and went to look at Tibbets instead.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

If you ask nicely, can't you get a pig-dalek for the garden, thus avoiding pig binnery out the front?

At least you don't live on a road full of students, where they stagger past your bins late at night and rootle through them looking for discarded kebabs. Wheelie bin molestation is a terrible thing...

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

Terrible ? Went to CAT on Monday. They remind us that re-use is even better than recycling.

Hence, the students *should* have the second-user fast-food. Lucky souls.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Ye-es, but that would mean grubbing up the concrete so there was somewhere to put it.

[operon.livejournal.com]

See if you can find the Kid's remix of Straight Outta Compton by NWA, it's genius.

Andrew.

[tails-redux.livejournal.com]

From the music you are listening to, would be it too much of a presumption to drag you along to the next Bashout (http://www.cleancutrecords.co.uk/bashout/index.htm) (lineup TBC) at the Black Swan? The one that just went by this Saturday were reet grand.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

No, not a presumption at all. I saw your mention of it just about early enough to have got out if I'd been keen and not falling asleep.

[tails-redux.livejournal.com]

Next time save your energies.

Out and about at the weekend?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Gothing it up, apparently.

I'll have to see if I can find an Epitaph t-shirt.

[tails-redux.livejournal.com]

Them were days ... I should start humming t'Ovis ad. Have Ian and Cath just vanished into obscurity these days?

Sadly things clash and I'm at a 4 while 4 indieelectropunk thing. Client and Mesh on Friday?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Aye, 'appen. Etc.

No, Nottingham. [FX: Pause for obvious jokes] I bumped into Ian @ Whitby - I think he was minding Frankenstein. Oh, and George.

I fear Mesh aren't my slice of lager.

[tails-redux.livejournal.com]

Thought they were all based over that way. Don't suppose you have any contact details you could email my way?

Client are the reason I'm going. Have to get a fix of the West Yorkshire accent from an asthetically pleasing lady ;) They also do a good cover of Xerox Machine.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Um. One or other of us may (or may not) still have a flyer with an email address thereon.

Ah. Fair enough. I suspect I'll still be recovering from running several miles.

[reddragdiva]

I haven't been to Dorkbot in ages, but it always did strike me as very Hirez.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Hm. I may well do the thing a serious injustice, but it's always seemed a little too blogger-approved for comfort.

[Entire rant that begins with sodding bloggers reinventing the wheel, using 6A's utter misunderstanding of the Lessons of Usenet as an example, then moving on into familiar packer vs mapper territory (which was part of the nipplegate problem) and drawing the obvious parallels between LJ-abuse and AGSF, before spiralling off on a tangent about Hacktic having EnglishPete and Dorkbot having some nonce with an AirPort.]

[/Curmugeon. I'm sure this port-80 business will be jolly useful when they iron the bugs out of the people-layers.]

[reddragdiva]

It's blogger approved, but it actually doesn't (or didn't) suck. If you find yourself quantum-tunnelled through the M25 force field on a Dorkbot evening, here's hoping it's a good one.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotlondon/camp06/

... Was what I was on about.

[reddragdiva]

I think you'd have a great time :-) Don't forget to bring suitable recording equipment so you can finish the album of filler to put around the "Sack Of Hammers" hit single ...