More songs about buildings and food

[hirez]

Item: If you like the idea of an hour of slow-moving and seemingly innocuous exercise that leaves you feeling like you've barely survived an attack by feral steamrollers or other roaming plant, I can recommend Pilates.

Item? I'm being invaded by the shade of Jerry Pournelle... Boat-anchor! Godbout! Janissaries! Back! Back, ye hell-spawn of clumping dialogue and tedious repetition! Get away... Roberta's reading program! PClone! I've a copy of Nova Express and I'm not afraid to use it!

...

I think it's gone.

So anyway. I was idly banging on about the Spanish architect who lives and works in a repurposed cement factory earlier, and it struck me that I'd like to live somewhere like that. I think a huge hotel or vast country edifice would do it - someplace where I could wander about and explore and set up camp for a couple of weeks, before wandering and exploring some more. Regularly I would come upon previous encampments.

"Where are you going today?"
"I fancy I shall take a two-day trek down to the Cardiff rooms to inspect the lathes."

... That sort of thing. Normal houses are far too small.

Bob knows what that says about the inside of my head. Something messy and unlikely, I shouldn't wonder.

Other times, I prefer the idea of stopping at the station house in 'The third policeman'. Normal houses have the wrong number of dimensions.

(I'd borrow a concept from sushidog and enquire after other people's domicilic preferences, but it would look out of place. Hm. Should I care? Should anyone else care? Who can say? Who stole my bongos? Did you steal my bongos?)

['Conspiracy' by The Higsons.]

Oh, and... 'Plant'. That's a splendid word when applied to things large and muddy and diesel powered.

Comments

[bluekieran.livejournal.com]

Agoraphobic hiking. Interesting.

[lylith.livejournal.com]

I was idly banging on about the Spanish architect who live and works in a repurposed cement factory earlier, and it struck me that I'd like to live somewhere like that. I think a huge hotel or vast country edifice would do it - someplace where I could wander about and explore and set up camp for a couple of weeks, before wandering an exploring some more. Regularly I would come upon previous encampments.

"Where are you going today?"
"I fancy I shall take a two-day trek down to the Cardiff rooms to inspect the lathes."

... That sort of thing. Normal houses are far too small.

Yay! Exactly how I think! You put it into words far better than I ever have been able to. =]

[aoakley.livejournal.com]

Damn, someone came up with the paltry 3 million for Toddington Manor and beat us to it...

[sakara75.livejournal.com]

oh completly different subject...you own a Nokia 7250i phone...what do you think of it...im upgrading and am deciding what phone to get...

[steer.livejournal.com]

I have one and I'm v. keen on it. The camera quality isn't great, however. [There are various examples on my LJ.]

Battery life is good, built in calendar and to do list replaced my PDA completely, WAP is... uh... no worse than usual. It's the best phone I've owned -- infinitely preferable to the SPV it replaced.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

[FX: Agreement with young Mr. Steer]

I think my old 8110 had greater Matrix-geek value, but was no use at all for this young-person's-SMS-malarkey.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

OTOH, I still have my old 8110 / 503 and prefer it for SMS use. Must be because I now have a Motorola, which is complete rubbish. The Sharp GX30 I've been using is 'orrible too.

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

I like the idea of living in a small part of a big house. Like what you have to do if the National Trust want to put people through your home. It would make for fantastic games of Sardines that could last for a week. (Actually, that sounds like a beginning to a Blair Witch-esque horror film..)

"... living in the Bell Tower like that, they got a lot of room downstairs where the pews used to being. And having all that room, seeing as how they took out all the pews, they reckoned that they didn't have to take out the garbage for a long time..."

But unless there's a false lake in the top of the Volcano that opens up to let the helicopters in, then it's a flawed installation.

[sheepthief.livejournal.com]

I like the idea of living in a tall house - at least three stories, preferably with an additional cellat and loft room. Also, secret staircases. Yes.

There was one of those house-building / conversion programs where an old water tower was converted.... well, actually the bastards just built around the base of the thing and they did bugger-all with the tower - a great shame.

[siani-hedgehog.livejournal.com]

sheepthief
2004-06-23 09:52 (link)
I like the idea of living in a tall house - at least three stories, preferably with an additional cellat and loft room.


you've never visited edwardscissors and i, have you?

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

Remind me to lend you some Uncle (JP Martin/Quentin Blake) books sometime.

Uncle's house was large enough that he would often go on long expeditions in it on his traction engine. Full of fascinating strangeness. Treacle lakes & so on.

[perlmonger.livejournal.com]

You have Uncle books? Give them here at once! [fx: readies skewers]

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

'Uncle noticed tha tthe Old Monkey had propped up one of the table legs with a large stone stone club. It is not usual to take weapons to a tea-party in your own garden, and Uncle had come quite unprepared. Now, ready to his hand, lay the means of delivering a swift answer to these continued insults.'

[codepope.livejournal.com]

Me, I'd be going for one of those semi covered domes, cut out of it's own little hill, with a plexiglass dome over the top and an automated lid.

Sort of a bond villain starter home.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

"No, Mr Bond. I expect you to... Help with the washing-up."

[childeric.livejournal.com]

'Plant'. That's a splendid word when applied to things large and muddy and diesel powered.

These phrases made me think of the erstwhile lead singer of Led Zeppelin... Have they hollowed him out and upgraded to diesel?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

[FX: Noise made by large diesel engine being started. Just like in Mad Max II]

[Further FX: Boggler boggler boggler boggler boggler]

[Grams: Kashmir]

[FX: Boggler *Clank-crunch* BogglerBogglerBRUUUUMMwheeee(turbo)]

"Oh let the sun beat down..."


Yes. I like that idea a great deal.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Kashmir arranged for large engines ? I think you're onto something there.

Never Fallen In Love on sawbenches for a B side ?

[girfan.livejournal.com]

You just want that place we saw in France, don't you?
;P

[sheepthief.livejournal.com]

I gre up just across the railway lines from Hem Heath colliery (later called a super-pit, not that that stopped it from being closed). Anyway, it was a fantastic childs playground - railway sidings, engine sheds, contaminated rivers, vast lanscapes of coal, conveyors, all sorts, not to mention the pit heads themselves, which we used to sneak up - I still have some photographs from up there. It was a huge site, and on a Sunday you could be there all day and hardly catch sight of a security guard.

Then there was the power station not far down the canal...

[glitchdrei.livejournal.com]

I'd quite like to live in a big metal... Thing in the middle of the sea.

I wonder if Sainsburys would deliver?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

What, like the Maunsell forts? (http://www.ecastles.co.uk/armyforts.html)

[steer.livejournal.com]

Eeep... the tripods are coming ... well except they're mutant extra legged tripods -- and that is even scarier.

*scared*

[glitchdrei.livejournal.com]

Yes, newly refurbished and with a balcony.

Bliss.

[sheepthief.livejournal.com]

I'd like the one that was declared an independant state please!

[steer.livejournal.com]

Has there ever been a band called "Heavy Plant Crossing" there should be.