what pastimes, work, interests, passions will or may be side-lined due to 'routine' weekend endevours? ME: I need to complete the painting of the spare room. I'm a quarter of the way there on the 2nd coat and the skirting boards are screaming for gloss, believe me they'd lap from my hand. But the situation has now turned epic and I have been putting it off or looking for a diversion. Maybe Sunday, with The Queens of the Stone Age, they'll help out and they owe me one.
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Well, I have to save an oil refinery from the scourge of asbestos.
From Sunday, I will being working days and nights on the refinery for two months as it is shutdown, so no more TMO for me.
It is dangerous there. I may die.
Nice little holiday for everyone else, though.
Actually, last week I painted the kitchen, so if you need any hints or tips, don't hesitate to ask.
Posted by squeegy (Member # 136) on :
quote:Originally posted by Roy: so no more TMO for me
Ha! I'll believe it when I see it.
This weekend will consist of the usual drinking and smoking in excess. I should be looking for a house.
Posted by zebraboy (Member # 196) on :
Cheers Roy, very thoughtful and stay safe.
Posted by froopyscot (Member # 178) on :
Good luck Roy. When you get back, remember that my kitchen needs painting. Thanks for sharing your expertise.
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Froop, I'll paint your kitchen for nothing, if you cover my expenses.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Pssst, before you go to the sea Roy, you can check out our webpage that went live today. Leave some abuse if you dislike it, we don't mind. xxx
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Will do. Hang on.
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Well...I'm impressed.
I really like that track. It's got a helping of angst mixed in with a dose of football terraces and I like it a lot.
Good work fellas.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
The people on the PWEInation board are the nicest people ever. I met this guy and had a ten minute chat outside Shepherds Bush at the PWEI reformation gigs and he replied to my blatant plug with:
quote:When you're coming up north give me a shout and we'll sort you with a gig and crash space.
and thanks roy! We hope to see hooligans smashing up the streets and singing it loudly whilst old folk cower indoors. Nice commentary.
[ 17.02.2006, 15:27: Message edited by: New Way Of Decay ]
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
Well, I think that's a really nice website actually, and I also very much enjoyed listening to Menthol whilst, coincidentally, chewing a menthol and eucalyptus flavour Airwaves. Can you make some slightly politer t-shirts though, for the older fan?
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
I didn't see Menthol. I'll have a listen to that.
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Menthol really reminds me of 1989/1990 house music. The piano and mad drums; the sample that you could imagine really doing your head in on a pill as you tried to work out what it was saying; the changes of tempo.
Good stuff.
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
What's this thread about? Was it some kind of veiled attempt for zebraboy to make a strange Queens of the Stone Age reference? Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
I think he wants the Queen of the Stone Age to help him paint his spare room.
Funny thing is, he says "They will help me out and owe ME one" as if painting his spare room is some kind of personal favour Zebraboy grants people.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
I should point out that the MP3 of Menthol is at a very early stage. The live version we've been rehearsing is an altogether different beast, replete with a heavily distorted thrash guitar and thumping bass replicating the lower end of the synth part. Glad you like it though - I do have a soft spot for the simplicity of this mix.
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
I liked the lady's voice.
I've got lots of rooms that need stripping then painting if Queens of the Stone Age or anyone else wants to help out. I'm considering having a party called 'The Big Strip' where everyone strips and er, strips, and er, I dunno, plays 'Put your clothes back on Poker' or something and gets drunk and stuff.
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
People could paint themselves and do body prints on the wall.
Maybe not. It might make your flat look like Hiroshima.
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
No. Our design aesthetic is red, white and black. We're not racist! My bedroom is going to have white walls and then I'm going to strip off the municipal lino and polish up the concrete floor and paint it red. Londons room is going to be white walls and a white polished concrete floor.
Here is a picture of our front room with little London and I reflected in the window:
white walls and flowers, red wine (and jacket I'm wearing) and black table and laptop. Perfectly fitting in with our design aesthetic!
[ 17.02.2006, 17:31: Message edited by: Uber Trick ]
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Sounds good. Is that the lights outside or do have a million candles in your flat?
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
The lights of London, Canary Wharf in all its glory is just to the left but not visible in that picture.
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
That's a cracking view. Where in London are you?
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
All Saints - Poplar
Turn to the left:
Turn to the right:
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Cool. You can go and play football when summer comes
[ 17.02.2006, 17:48: Message edited by: Roy ]
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
Football? I'm getting out my retro rollerskates which are currently in our 'Cupboard of Hate' - there's this cupboard just outside our front door where someone - presumably the kid of the people who lived here before but you can never tell - has carved "HaTE iS ALL i fEEl" on the door :rad: We now put things that don't have a place, that smell bad, or that we hate in it, but we LOVE that cupboard!
Anyway, I should stop talking about our beautiful new flat.
Have we established what this thread is about? Is it about things that you should be doing but aren't this weekend? I'm not meant to be doing anything. Last night I turned in a beautifully crafted essay on a modern contextualist history of Wallace's definitions of the boundaries of science and how that affected his reputation as a scientist. This leaves me this weekend for debauchery. Which unfortunately sees me in on my own with expensive wine tonight while my sister plays hooky in my clothes that I need for tomorrow night. She is missing for TEH SECOND NIGHT IN A ROW! *sigh*
[ 17.02.2006, 17:56: Message edited by: Uber Trick ]
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
I'm actually wondering how Zebraboy is getting on with his painting. We haven't heard from him. Maybe he's had a nasty accident. Perhaps he was a light that shone for half as long, but twice so bright.
Or whatever.
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
And what is a Zebraboy? Is he a superhero who can, at will, transform himself into a pedestrian crossing solution?
All these questions. Damn the mystery.
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
maybe... too many jokes should I go for the horse-zebra-cocksize joke or continue the un-pc not racist theme from the other thread...?
[ 17.02.2006, 18:06: Message edited by: Uber Trick ]
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Go for both. It's gone eleven and we're both adults. We can handle it.
Posted by Kira (Member # 826) on :
good evening x
I have been drinking absinthe...just a warning...
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Hello, Kira.
I was going to make the 'Absinthe makes the heart etc' but I won't
Posted by Kira (Member # 826) on :
i hope i havent interrupted owt, its been a long time with no internet access at work and I just had to say hello!
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
There is a prize if you can work out what this thread is about.
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
hello kira! I made that absinthe joke on VDay night as it happens!
Um, yeah well I was going to say that either zebraboy was trying to make an 'inclusive' comment on racial origins or perhaps he was just, er, hung like a zebra?
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
You can't discuss things with Zebras. Everything's just black and white with them.
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
Would you like to taste the future? Wrap your eyemouths around this! Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Sorry
Posted by Kira (Member # 826) on :
i have just read it and i'm not very sure either...
but then i'm not very sure of anything at the moment...
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
I've only had absinthe once, and I was smashed on coke and stuff. What it's like? Is it freaky?
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
whatever you do kira don't give him a pitylol, men really don't like that.
Posted by Kira (Member # 826) on :
its ok, havent had very much to drink and the other green stuff probably doesnt help either...
I admit to feeling a bit spacey but its ok...
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
absinthe is like having four vodka and cokes and a spliff all in one glass.
Posted by Kira (Member # 826) on :
serious quesion?
am i wrong for loving the arctic monkeys?
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
I'm just waiting for that link of Uber's to download.
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kira: serious quesion?
am i wrong for loving the arctic monkeys?
Man, either I am really uncool or totally cool saying this BUT I haven't heard any of their stuff.
Posted by Kira (Member # 826) on :
I have the album and love it, his voice...
its messy, honestly...
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
arctic monkeys? til last weekend I could honestly say I'd never heard of them, thankfully I can say that I've still never heard them but apparently a friend of mines 16 y/o nephew camped outside all night to get tickets for them. Not sure how this helps you though, kira.
roy - its worth it: DOGS. ANTI-GRAVITY. LAZERS.
[ 17.02.2006, 18:24: Message edited by: Uber Trick ]
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
I'm having to install stuff to play it.
Posted by Kira (Member # 826) on :
I seem to have a thing for northerners, possibly its the bit of rough thing...
maybe this is really the wrong time to be posting?...
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
that's usually the best time!
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
you ok, love?
Posted by Kira (Member # 826) on :
nah just wondering if that post'll still be there in the morning Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Northerners are great. All my family are northerners, except me and my bro, who are cockney bastards.
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
Aww... you, me an roy. Reminds me of Birmingham in November.
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Ahhh! This video is scary!
Posted by Kira (Member # 826) on :
I usually have a rule that i stay true to myself and dont edit stuff out but i think i may make an exception this evening...
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Some of these dogs are hott
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
all the best people like a bit of rough!
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by Roy: I'm just waiting for that link of Uber's to download.
I bet the cats come back with something way cool. They're not going to ignore a challenge like that.
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
I saw a dog's pee-pee!
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
Actually, Raz just sent me an .avi of my pussy going outside for the very first time but for some reason my computer is refusing to show me the visuals, just his commentary, which although amusing in itself is not quite the same.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by Roy:
quote:Originally posted by Kira: serious quesion?
am i wrong for loving the arctic monkeys?
Man, either I am really uncool or totally cool saying this BUT I haven't heard any of their stuff.
Don't worry. By the time you get back from the oil refinery no one else will remember them either.
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
quote:Originally posted by Roy: I saw a dog's pee-pee!
Told you it was worth it.
Uber: for all your bestial needs and desires.
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
That video was good, with lots of cool dogs flying in the air and lazers.
I'm not on acid. Honest.
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Dang, do you know what this thread is about?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Good to see you back on the boards, Uber.
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Anyway, I wonder how they got those dogs to fly. Maybe they were on trampolines, but a dog wouldn't necessarily know what to do, so I suspect that they threw them into the air.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: Good to see you back on the boards, Uber.
StevieX is back too, on the other thread.
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
If I can't show you a dogs pee-pee drunken good time then who can?
Yes, I thought trampolines but perhaps with human agency to help get them so high?
[ 17.02.2006, 18:40: Message edited by: Uber Trick ]
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by Roy: Dang, do you know what this thread is about?
It's about two pages, so far.
Edit: ...three pages
[ 17.02.2006, 18:40: Message edited by: dang65 ]
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
has kira passed out?
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Looks like she went a bit coy.
Posted by Kira (Member # 826) on :
no i'm still here...hanging on by a thread...
[ 17.02.2006, 18:45: Message edited by: Kira ]
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Why did they take your internet away from work, Kira?
Posted by Physic (Member # 195) on :
Evening nightowls, isn't Zebraboy just trying to casually mention that he knows QOTSA? If not then christ knows what he's on about..
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Horse porn
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
because she's a very bad girl.
Posted by Kira (Member # 826) on :
just general housekeeping i think Roy, you have to be a certain grade to have it...
I cant really complain, i wasnt sposed to have it the whole nine months i been there...
[ 17.02.2006, 18:48: Message edited by: Kira ]
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
quote:Originally posted by Physic: Evening nightowls, isn't Zebraboy just trying to casually mention that he knows QOTSA? If not then christ knows what he's on about..
Man, I didn't consider that.
I want proof. I want a picture of QOTSA doing some plastering or something in ZB's flat.
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
And hello, Ringo.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
That absinthe stuff takes time to really send you off. I had some in a bar once after a lunchtime beer session, went back to work, went home... passed out at about 6pm and woke up at 3am, no recall. That sort of scenario.
I'm not really that keen on drugs where you don't remember anything. It's like paying to get into Alton Towers and then finding yourself driving home going, "Er, did we go that Nemesis thing? Or anything else?"
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
Christ its a full house tonight
Posted by Kira (Member # 826) on :
i'll be back...
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Zebraboy's strange thread has bought us all together.
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kira: i'll be back...
that's what they all say
edit: for clarity
[ 17.02.2006, 18:54: Message edited by: Uber Trick ]
Posted by Physic (Member # 195) on :
Wayne did you see my email? And also are you and D Skyped up yet?
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
It's a bit late for Arnie impressions.
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Kira's gone to, you know, top up her levels.
Poor Ringo. It's the one's closest who suffer.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Yeah I got absolutely cunted on the first and only night I ever drank absynthe. It was at a party at a mate's house, and me and another chap bought a large bottle between us. I can't remember drinking much, in fact I can't remember much of anything. But what i do remember is dry retching for about 4 hours the next morning, and then discovering that me andmy mate had more or less polished off the entire bottle, plus a bottle of tequilla. I drank a lot that night.
Worst hangover ever.
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
quote:Originally posted by Physic: Wayne did you see my email? And also are you and D Skyped up yet?
I've been Skyped up for ages - trouble is the Skype machine is offline just now. Did see your email as well maytey and will get back to you tomorrow as I'm gonna have to hit the hay in a bit.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
In fact I'm pretty sure at one point, having run out of mixers for vodka, I tried a vodka/ketchup shot. This was possibly the most vile thing I've ever put in my mouth, and let's face it that's really saying something. I was quite possibly instantly sick. I'm not really sure.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
You obviously forgot the Lea & Perrins.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I may also have drunk 2 shots of fabric softener, just to demonstrate how much of a crazy bastard I am. I am a crazy bastard you know. Fucking tapped.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I bet your shits felt lovely and soft after that.
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
A night out with Ringo and Kira must be like being in Motorhead.
Posted by Physic (Member # 195) on :
quote:Originally posted by Waynster: I've been Skyped up for ages - trouble is the Skype machine is offline just now. Did see your email as well maytey and will get back to you tomorrow as I'm gonna have to hit the hay in a bit.
Okay mate, added you to my contacts, is Darryn on there? Can't find him under his normal emails or any variation of his name?
Posted by kovacs (Member # 28) on :
Interloper:
I love your site -- the branding, the portraits, the overall consistency of the icons, the underground-network stylings, the world-conquering confidence of the concept. I didn't enjoy NOthing so much though, I'm afraid. After three careful listens I think my problem with it is the stubborn refusal to give the listener a tune except briefly in the chorus -- instead, there's a riot of textures and layers, which are interesting but make the track sound like a hoover being rattled around in a cupboard full of brillo pads and metal pots. I appreciate the idea of a scratchy, raw, messy aesthetic, but in practice it was hard to enjoy, and for some reason the vocals felt clumsily basic rather than vital and stripped-down. I like the tinny drums and the more sampled vox so I suppose it was mainly the verse voices that jarred for me: slightly out of time, obstinately unpretty, clunky... just not pleasant to hear. One bit that lifts it is the higher voices joining on the final line of the chorus; the rest of it I found, again, sounded willfully careless. Three guys in a bedroom laying down deliberately rough vocals sounds promising but there's also the risk that it can just turn out amateurish. Drowning that in fuzz should give it a Marychain vibe, but, I don't know, it just sounded like mediocre vocals disgused with loads of distortion.
Based on that one track, I like the description of your music better than the music itself. Don't take that badly. You seem to want to treat this project really professionally and seriously, so I'm giving you my honest view rather than soft-soaping because you're TMO boys.
On a positive note, I've enjoyed the track more every time I've listened to it. Perhaps on attempt #10 I'll love it? I would like your layered collages and experiment to feed into a richer, smoother, more tuneful sound -- but what do I know, I'm sounding like an advert for instant coffee.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: I bet your shits felt lovely and soft after that.
They probably would have done, if the liquid had actually got that far.
Anyway, I don't behave like that any more. Now I'm old and sensible and responsible and probably pretty boring if I'm honest. Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
When are we going to have Skype Meat then? Couple of boxes of wine, headphones clamped to brain, conference up to five revellers, swap music files. Can you play music to everyone in the conference? There'd be no need to ever go out again. Except to get more wine boxes.
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
I've got this Skype or whatever. More to the point, the missus has.
I could phone someone in say, a few days time.
Not sure what I'd say, though.
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
"Hello? Hello? It's Roy. No, Roy. You know, from TMO. Er, how are you?"
Posted by Physic (Member # 195) on :
I'm game for some Skyping, you can add me on physic77 at hotmail should you desire.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I'm sure I could jump on this latest bandwagon if enough people were doing it.
Posted by Kira (Member # 826) on :
see told you i'd be back...
Posted by Kira (Member # 826) on :
and now you've all gone quiet...typical...
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
it's too late, kira, we lost them to manstuff.
Posted by Kira (Member # 826) on :
i know its very disappointing...
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
More people should look at the flying dogs. It would make the world a better place.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I'm here, I just have nothing to say
Posted by Kira (Member # 826) on :
i did look at it...
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Is that why you had to go away? Because of the dogs?
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by Uber Trick: it's too late, kira, we lost them to manstuff.
I'm fairly sure that talking on phones is ladystuff isn't it? Er, *gruff voice* Anyone watching the rugby tomorrow then?
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
what about that bit when the shitzu is shaking its head and all you can see is its stupid mouth and all this hair, or when that shaved monstrosity is bouncing around showing off its pee-pee to Roy?
I used to have a shitzu called Charlie when I was a kid. My friend called Sue used to want a shitzu, this was only a few years ago. My other friend bart said, you can't get a shitzu otherwise people will say "Here comes Shitzu and her dog!"...
[ 17.02.2006, 19:19: Message edited by: Uber Trick ]
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
I got out a Ray Winstone film called 'Everything'. I've not watched it yet but I bet it's brilliant.
Also, his daughter is in it. How cool would it be to go out with her? I could hang out with Ray then.
[ 17.02.2006, 19:21: Message edited by: Roy ]
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Thanks for the feedback Kovacs. I think over time I had learned that about 90% of the battle is having good PR. I mean, we are really winging absoloutely everything we can at the moment (the track was mixed on headphones for gods sakes)
I think the idea to have this overly confident swagger was so that it would convince people to at least give it a try. Production value: low, facilities: none, confidence: massive. I've heard a lot of finished demos that Felix has been part of and he absoloutely loves being in the band so to me, that's a pretty big compliment. I get a lot of kudos from other musicians. We are getting lots of feedback, mostly from young females. They seem to love jumping up and down to the sound of boys being noisy.
i don't know what to say really except I took your comments as quite helpful. We know there is a market for it, we are just trying to work out how and who will want it.
Edit: there is absoloutely no distortion on any of the vocals, I just sound that raw.
[ 17.02.2006, 19:38: Message edited by: New Way Of Decay ]
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Look, Tmo, there's something I need to get off my chest. I know you're not going to be happy about this, and I'm sorry. I only hope that, in time, you realise that the decision was for the best. Let me start by saying that we started out with best intentions, and we had some fantastic times that'll stay with me forever. But as time went on it's become increasingly clear to both of us that while we care very deeply for each other, we're just too different to really make this work in the long term. I'm sure we can still be friends, although it's difficult now with everything so fresh and vivid in my memory.
I'm sorry TMO, but what I'm trying to say is, me and Kira actually kinda broke up.
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Ah.
Sorry to hear that, both of you. Apols for any insensitivity on my part. Believe me, none was intended.
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
I made flying lazer anti-gravity dogs!
Stupid Roy.
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Weren't me!
I was talking about Ray Winstone. No-one EVER wants to talk about Ray Winstone on here.
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Did you make that video?
Posted by Kira (Member # 826) on :
No insensitivity was really shown on anyones part cos noone knew, we just didnt know how to broach it I suppose.
But Chris really couldnt have put it any better...
Posted by Physic (Member # 195) on :
quote:Originally posted by dang65: I'm fairly sure that talking on phones is ladystuff isn't it? Er, *gruff voice* Anyone watching the rugby tomorrow then?
As long as we all have a drink in hand and make sure to stick to suitable topics such as sport, cars, booze and birds we'll get away with it, like being in the pub without leaving home, and minus the kebab on the way home. ...hmm, I may have just spotted the flaw there..
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
I'd totally do him, if that would help? Not even as part of the "IF YOU ABSOLUTELY HAD TO" game.
edit for clarity: Ray Winstone
[ 17.02.2006, 19:32: Message edited by: Uber Trick ]
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Does this mean I can ask Ringo out now?
[ 17.02.2006, 19:33: Message edited by: Roy ]
Posted by Kira (Member # 826) on :
god Roy its not been that long...
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
hey kira, how *you* doin'?
Posted by Kira (Member # 826) on :
hey oooooooooooooooooobs Posted by Kira (Member # 826) on :
god cant believe i'll be in work tomorrow Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
sux 2 b u
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
poor kira Posted by Kira (Member # 826) on :
thank you Ringo; you are very eloquent this evening arent you...
[ 17.02.2006, 19:40: Message edited by: Kira ]
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
I keep starting to write things, then deleting them. I think I'm suffering some kind of booze related internet impotence.
Posted by Kira (Member # 826) on :
nah just stop being chicken Roy...
write what you like and like what you write.
Like that man in Coronation street...
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Well, I did think of something funny, but I'm not sure that it is.
Posted by Kira (Member # 826) on :
i'm not even trying now, its all down hill from here...I even have coldplay on...
[ 17.02.2006, 19:49: Message edited by: Kira ]
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
I think you caught JONESYISM, Roy
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
They have split up. You're not allowed to listen to them anymore.
And did you see his HAIR? Ffs.
Posted by Kira (Member # 826) on :
i thought they were in the paper stating they arent splitting up? and i missed the brits unfortunately!
[ 17.02.2006, 19:49: Message edited by: Kira ]
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Okay, what I thought was funny was if that Ringo had posted that well written post about him and Kira splitting up, and Kira was sitting at home, mashed on drugs and Victorian drinks and she read it and she's like "What? First I've heard of it...what's going on?"
Maybe not funny.
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kira: i thought they were in the paper stating they arent splitting up? and i missed the brits unfortunately!
Read all about it here! Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
Yes. I was going to make a similar comment about imagine if you were broken up with via message board too! But I didn't. I posted about flying dogs and lazers.
I have to go to bed now in anger. My sister has stolen my weekend clothes and is not coming home AGAIN tonight. I didn't do any washing because I thought she was bringing said clothes of mine home. I now have precisely nothing clean or decent to wear when I go out tomorrow. Grr! Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
dudes, slow down and let a girl catch up
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Hey, Hippy.
Posted by Kira (Member # 826) on :
b-but we havent broken up this evening...
it was a couple of weeks ago...
Posted by Kira (Member # 826) on :
evening Hippy!
its like old times in here...
g'nite Uber x
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
I-I know, we - well I was playing on a riff set up by Ringo and continued by Roy. We'll stop now. I bet you've at least got clean clothes to wear tomorrow and your current favourite going out outfit hasn't been stolen!
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Oh, Uber's going?
Night, Uber. Thanks for the dogs and stuff.
ETA: I think. If I dream about that pee-pee, I won't be best pleased.
[ 17.02.2006, 19:56: Message edited by: Roy ]
Posted by Kira (Member # 826) on :
i dont know, i thought uber was saying she was going...
i'm just confused .
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
What time do you start work?
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
Well, you see, you're supposed to say "But you mustn't go to bed in anger, it says so in the Bible" or similar and then try and persuade me to stay for a bit. But it's ok. I understand. Actually, it might not be in the bible that it says about not going to bed angry but there is definitely a saying about not letting the sun go down on your anger. But what about if the sun is already down when you get angry? then can you go to bed? its such a minefield.
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Uber, STAY
Pour another drink. Sit yourself down. You know you want to
Posted by Kira (Member # 826) on :
1pm til 5...
its only a bad shift from the point of view it really doesnt seem worth going in...
Posted by Kira (Member # 826) on :
yes stay uber...drink with us lol
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
You should probably get some sleep.
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
I'm a bit pissed, actually. I've got like 5 million beers left as well.
I might show myself up.
Er, more than usual.
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
I hadn't finished the one I was drinking anyway. But I'm out of fags. Thankfully I'm seeing the stop smoking nurse on Wednesday. Doesn't fucking help me tonight though.
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
I've got a nicotine patch you can have.
They are great
*bites arm of sofa*
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
ok so i'm stony sober, just bored (family visiting).
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
do they come in marlboro menthol flavour?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Come on the sober camp! w00t!
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
What, hippy's family?
Posted by Kira (Member # 826) on :
i really do have to go to bed x nite x i'll regret all this in the morning Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Night, Kira.
[ 17.02.2006, 20:10: Message edited by: Roy ]
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
If it comes in marlboro menthol flavour then just pop it in my mouth and I'll smoke it.
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
night kira. you could stay if you like? have a last drink, one for the dreamroad?
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
I'm sure it was you who got me smoking again last time.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
so, this skype thing, can someone show me how/where to get it?
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
it was
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
I think you get in touch with Skype direct. Most people are getting it through work, I think.
ETA: Enough 'I think' there
[ 17.02.2006, 20:18: Message edited by: Roy ]
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
quote:Originally posted by Uber Trick: it was
In your disguise, if I remember.
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
It wasn't meant to be a disguise, it felt like me all the time, but perhaps with slightly different make-up on and a new dress affecting a slightly different manner for a night out on the town meeting newfolk.
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
I made up a disguise as a female poster, Roy in drag if you like, to vote on 'TMOs Sexiest Poster Poll'. She was called 'Rowetta'
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: so, this skype thing, can someone show me how/where to get it?
Just download the program (v.small) and install (v.quick).
It's pretty much the same as MSN, but with actual people talking.
[ 17.02.2006, 20:26: Message edited by: dang65 ]
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
I feel like I've fallen asleep in the pub and woken up to find the lights off and the doors locked.
Posted by Uber Trick (Member # 456) on :
Me to, Rowetta, I'm going back to my pitta and dips and Pygmalion. Nice chatting to you. And you all.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
still here fiddling with skype
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Night, Uber
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Do you need special headphones for Skype?
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by Roy: Do you need special headphones for Skype?
Just a headset and a microphone. In fact, I don't suppose you need the headset at all, just speakers and mic, but the proper call centre set is probably more comfy.
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Well, I've got that in a drawer here. Do I just need to download the software then?
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
There's an extra thing you can get at http://www.voiceemotion.com which lets you play music over the phone too, although it's a little intrusive. But if you just want to say, "You know the song... this one" and play a bit, then it's ideal, probably.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by Roy: Well, I've got that in a drawer here. Do I just need to download the software then?
Yep.
Posted by Physic (Member # 195) on :
quote:Originally posted by Roy: Well, I've got that in a drawer here. Do I just need to download the software then?
Yeah just dl the app and create a user, takes all of a few minutes, then come talk shit with me and NWOD.
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Actually, I don't think this headphone set is compatable with this machine.
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
No, I'm lying. I've found the hole.
Posted by Physic (Member # 195) on :
quote:Originally posted by Roy: No, I'm lying. I've found the hole.
Reminds me of the first time I...never mind..
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: still here fiddling with skype
Hippy, I just connected to you, and could hear you (or sounds of a microphone). Did you hear me going, "Ello? Ello?"
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
dang did you just call me? sorry I don't have a headset yet and was just talking to mikee on messenger and he said to try it out anyway. or was it mikee who called?
confused.
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
okay, I've downloaded and registered.
What now?
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
As above, was me. I'll call again. Try speaking. Just for the hell of it.
Edit: No response. Oh well. Argos do the headsets for a few quid. I got a posh USB one with volume controls and all that, because I can claim the money back, but anything will do the job probably.
[ 17.02.2006, 20:51: Message edited by: dang65 ]
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by Roy: okay, I've downloaded and registered.
What now?
What's your user name?
Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
RoyWinstone
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
sorry guys will have to disappear anyway now, knackered. catch you tomorrow or sometime, microphone-enabled.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by Roy: RoyWinstone
I sent you a contact request. You have to accept, then I can call you just to check it's working. Unless you've done that already.
Posted by Physic (Member # 195) on :
Hah, we beat you to him Posted by Roy (Member # 705) on :
Is Mikee broke then?
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by Physic: Hah, we beat you to him
You wish. Posted by Physic (Member # 195) on :
Hey Zebraboy you're not a Miike fan are you?
Posted by kovacs (Member # 28) on :
OK well I hope after I listened to their track 3 times and spent 20 minutes offering my thoughts, Interloper will be able to find my post about it amid this fascinating thread.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
We did, Kovacs. Again, thanks for your interest and comments. We've had some pretty diverse feedback ranging from appreciative teenage punk girls to my utterly confused, Elton John loving boss.
After a while of recording, rehearsing and listening to the tracks, I sometimes feel like I've lost any sense of how they would sound to someone who is listening for the first time. We're always keen to hear peoples' opinions.
Did you have a chance to listen to our other track, *Menthol?
Posted by kovacs (Member # 28) on :
No, but I will do.
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
vikram ignored the body on the sofa, concentrating instead on the one lying on the floor. The sunlight was spilling across the stripped floorboards, yet failing to penetrate the xanax slumber of his responses. It was as if the morning was passing though him; as if he wasn't there. Ten thousand bottles of wine and a million fags. He remembered to breath. The rancid memories had manifested as silence, and by sighing he attempted to crawl away from the splintered reality, to find a place to hide. But the body was still there.
Single images were intercut with long periods of simple void. A splash of disco red. Spittle on the lapels of a thousand dollar jacket. A scream. These things had changed overnight. The vibrant red was now a sickly black enemy, snaking across the ceiling. The spittle was a ghost. The scream was bouncing like a broken CD player. The scene demanded response, so Vikram sighed again, and sipped from a murky cocktail that had been thoughtlessly left in the sink. All the effort in the world could not drag feeling from inside the well of medication and alcohol. Was this?
The body on the sofa stirred and moaned. Benway lifted a bruised head from underneath the egyptian cotton sheet. The brief eye contact felt to vikram like a mirror reflecting a mirror. There was simply nothing in between. Vikram stood over the body on the floor. There was a faint scent of butchery. It was little more than a postcard from a world of cause and effect, a world where a beautiful corpse had a presence beyond the aesthetic. Vikram crouched, and lifted the thick matted hair from the face. The girl could have been asleep, had her nose and eyes been intact. The fine hairs on her jaw and cheeks revealed humanity, and they existed awkwardly against the bestial truth of the wounds. Her skin was cold, but not unpleasant to touch. The weight of her buttocks in his hand brought about a mechanical response.
'vikram......don't....'
Again, the mirror reflected a mirror.
'I was....'
but there were no more words. Vikram moved over to the sofa. The black stain had flowered underneath the sheets. Lifting the sheet, it was clear that Benway was unlikely to ever move from the sofa. Still, there was no memory behind this vision. Benway hadn't yet noticed, and he grabbed for the sheet. It wasn't cold in the room, yet his body was shivering. a pitch black sludge was oozing from underneath the dress he was wearing.
Vikram ran a knife gently across his own inner thigh.
But the pain couldn't escape from the cage.
[ 18.02.2006, 06:28: Message edited by: Dr. Benway ]
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
That's terrifying and beautiful.
Posted by kovacs (Member # 28) on :
I like Menthol more -- the loopy, retro synths like a science fiction 70s strip bar, and the combination with tight drums (eg. at 0.33) kicks in very well. The robot-vocals give it an Air-meets-Kraftwerk cool vibe.
Still I prefer it when it's not so stripped down: there are moments at various stages in the track where the drum, for some reason, sounds clumsily (maybe deliberately) crude and off the beat (eg 1.30-1.50 approximately) -- maybe that drum's just too loud and flat but it's disappointing compared to the much more groovy snare sound that comes back around 2.20.
The Japanese-type string picking shape is a good constant through the song. It's all quite gentle though, and on the same level (except for when the snarey percussion kicks in and drops out) -- I wonder if you could beef it up into something bigger and clubbier.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
I really like the version of Pure Science Fiction that Mikee sent me a while ago. Is anything happening with that one?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Thanks. As I said *here, it's a long way from being finished. The drums aren't final and there's a whole mess of guitar noise missing from this mix. Saying that, I think the beats are in time (or at least consistently out of time) throughout the track.
Glad you liked PSF, H1ppychick. We're currently working on a massively energetic live version which includes a lot of shouting and jumping around by Mikee and Felix, plus some unusual guitar sounds from my Avonator: Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
Care to explain that modded guitar? Is it just cosmetic or does it actually sound different? I haven't seen anything like it before.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
It's a bit of a one off. The device in the middle is fitted with two plastic pick strips which hit the strings when it rotates. The resulting sound redefines the phrase wall of sound. The best use I've found for it so far is to tune it to an open chord and use a slide and volume pedal to fade the almost synthy noise in and out. It only has one pickup, so the former selector switch is now an on-off switch for the rotator.
It's called the Avonator as it started out as a '70s Avon Les Paul before I butchered it. It runs off a 12v mains adaptor which delivers power via an XLR cable. I was sick of trying to cram 8x AAs in the back, each time it ran out of juice...
I have a couple of other projects in the works at the moment, including the Bassonator and an FX Briefcase.
[ 19.02.2006, 04:50: Message edited by: MiscellaneousFiles ]
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: It's a bit of a one off. The device in the middle is fitted with two plastic pick strips which hit the strings when it rotates.
Does it make a similar sound to the ebow ? That would ROCK !
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Sort of. It's like the smoothness and constant tone of an ebow, with a layer of throbbing V8 engine over the top. The way it builds up when switched on makes it sound rather mechanical. I hit on the idea and started working on it years before I got involved with Interloper, but it seems to fit pretty well with Pure Science Fiction, particularly.
Another advantage of playing a one-handed guitar is the ability to mess with effects settings at the same time, or smoke a fag...
[ 19.02.2006, 13:37: Message edited by: MiscellaneousFiles ]
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Nobody doing a skype tonight then? Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
If I'd have know earlier I would have said hello mate, had I known your id. Just had my first proper chat with my landlord in Australia (hint Skype Fans - always ensure you have no Torrents running - talking with a 30 secind delay is annoying). Also I have rearranged my house so it will work better with the wireless.
Rather good when it works, ain't it?
[ 19.02.2006, 20:09: Message edited by: Waynster ]
Posted by zebraboy (Member # 196) on :
No, It did'nt get painted. maybe next weekend Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
Woo hoo I've bought a headset! Also I nearly have all my wireless network secured and sharing stuff (minor glitches since yesterday, curses)! So I'm coming on in leaps and bounds.
You may yet get to hear my dulcet worzel tones at the other end of a Skype connection once my mum buggers off out of it and I'm free to resume my usual evening programme of dossing about doing eff all and shooting the shit on t'interweb.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
Skype is teh shitz
Posted by saltrock (Member # 622) on :
Every time I talk to someone on Skype it's all mangled. I hate it. They always say it's because they have a program running in the background, but I just think it's shit.
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