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Mon Oct 09, 2006 9:59 am
Forum: Other
Topic: Favourite Moderator!
Replies: 90
Views: 15460

My other half has a real thing about bats. And frogs. Seriously . They shit her up something rotten. So imagine her horror when I found this: http://www.freakingnews.com/entries/9000/9206-Bat-frog_w.jpg And then this: http://www.worth1000.com/entries/182000/182033bGjF_w.jpg Personally I thought the...
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Fri Oct 06, 2006 5:05 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Favourite Moderator!
Replies: 90
Views: 15460

I've lost my sense of scale - that looks like one of those Highland Cattle.
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Fri Oct 06, 2006 4:18 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Convergence.
Replies: 12
Views: 2843

All the skeletons in my musical closet have been sent packing around the world, thanks to good old eBay. Yeah... you say that now. I got rid of all (some) of my embarrassing Grunge records... coloured vinyl subpop 7"s and all... unaccountably I kept a lot of the NWONW and Riot Grrl stuff. At l...
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Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:58 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Convergence.
Replies: 12
Views: 2843

I wish I still had all my old embarrassing records. But in my teenage years I had a bit of cleansing and on a few seperate occassions dumped too many records with second hand records markets. Getting vertually nothing in return. It was a stupid thing to do, I wish I still had them in the loft somew...
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Fri Oct 06, 2006 2:29 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Convergence.
Replies: 12
Views: 2843

.... there is also a No Jacket Required, Bad, several 'NOWs' &c. &c... but as they remained at her parents house until they moved, I can hardly hold it against anyone.

I just wonder what may be lurking in *my* mum and dad's loft which may come back to haunt *me*...
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Fri Oct 06, 2006 10:54 am
Forum: Other
Topic: Convergence.
Replies: 12
Views: 2843

Good thread - We still have two copies of Screamadelica, The White Album, Stone Roses, Hatful of Hollow among others. She liked more jazzy funky than me (though my tastes have changed in that regard over the years). I like more rock'n'roll than her. I don't think I'd want to throw any of her music a...
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Fri Oct 06, 2006 9:52 am
Forum: Other
Topic: Favourite Moderator!
Replies: 90
Views: 15460

They have differently shaped abdomen - some of them end in a point, some are blunt. I don't know which are which (I could hazard a guess, but what would be the point of that?) but that's the difference. They are evil - they wait in the bathroom, flapping around, and when you're wet, and then flap ag...
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Thu Oct 05, 2006 1:41 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: I'm missing music like you wouldn't believe
Replies: 17
Views: 3131

Fuzzhead wrote:
will this do? wrote: It was *amazing* getting stereo back.
That is my goal! One week today since I had that simple pleasure.
Not just music - EVERYthing It was like living in one of those Hi Fi demonstration studios you get in the shops. I nearly had a fLaShBaCk!
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Thu Oct 05, 2006 11:03 am
Forum: Other
Topic: I'm missing music like you wouldn't believe
Replies: 17
Views: 3131

I had one ear block up for about a week once... it was horrible. The pain was worse than the deafness... everyday I had to drive over the North Downs, and my ears would pop... agony... but nothing else happened. I tried the drops (etc), but they just soften it (eeew... sorry, I know). Then they syri...
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Wed Oct 04, 2006 3:10 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Landlords
Replies: 7
Views: 1646

You are right in theory... the question is how you challenge him over it... He may claim to have some kind of 'implied permission'. About this time last year our landlord was selling the house, and we were in the process of buying one... while the whole thing was going on there were all sorts of 'fa...
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Wed Oct 04, 2006 9:06 am
Forum: Other
Topic: Colours - Changing/Hallucinating?
Replies: 17
Views: 3850

will this do? wrote:I think you probably need a new monitor ...
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Tue Oct 03, 2006 5:00 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Do you believe in God?
Replies: 38
Views: 7680

scratch wrote:... annoy God just as much as atheists.

I'm not sure why, but this is very funny indeed. Ha ha.
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Tue Oct 03, 2006 2:12 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: do you believe in iPod?
Replies: 29
Views: 4776

So... you believe in iPod and Father Christmas... interesting.
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Tue Oct 03, 2006 12:22 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: do you believe in iPod?
Replies: 29
Views: 4776

I don't have one - but the 'user interface' as you call it... isn't the half of it (am I right?)... the little white box might have 2 buttons, or whatever - but what about the things you've got to do to actually get tunes onto it? It's ok if you've been duped into having a mac ( oooh, they look so p...
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Tue Oct 03, 2006 11:50 am
Forum: Other
Topic: do you believe in iPod?
Replies: 29
Views: 4776

I think alot of people who are anti them are against them just because they're the latest craze. Likewise I was against mobile phones for years until I got one, and realised they were actually quite handy. Oh spot on... but it's not the useful/load of rubbish dichotomy I'm against... I agree they (...
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Tue Oct 03, 2006 11:07 am
Forum: Other
Topic: do you believe in iPod?
Replies: 29
Views: 4776

When they very first came out, I thought: "Oh 'The White Headphone'... how groovy. I bet they get mugged a lot". So I thought - why would anyone wear them? Wear black ones and no-one will know for sure whether you're the sort of *expletive deleted* who's got an iPod - you've probably got a...
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Fri Sep 29, 2006 5:55 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Gimme Shelter
Replies: 13
Views: 2861

'let it be" One of the most depressingly unedifying spectacles ever (IMO). It was out on VHS... I guess Macca will have to become VERY hungry if we're ever to see that on DVD. Likewise Help (I'd love to see that - is it that much worse than Hard Days Night?), and Magical Mystery Tour - a lot o...
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Fri Sep 29, 2006 4:18 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Do you believe in God?
Replies: 38
Views: 7680

Re: Do you believe in God?

Chapter Two wrote:You?
No. I don't.
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Fri Sep 29, 2006 4:17 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: What's that yer readin'? [with added flirting]
Replies: 131
Views: 22556

A little respect, please.

A gentleman would never bandy names in such a fashion. I'll leave it there for now, but mark my words...
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Fri Sep 29, 2006 4:04 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: death in vegas
Replies: 25
Views: 4394

Re: RE: Death in Vegas

Rumour has it that Chris Karloff who very wisely left Kasabian is doing some stuff with Death in Vegas / Fearless... aha how did you know that......its true by the way.......they're recording in new york. he was rather wise to leave kasabian. Yes, he must be delighted at missing out on headlining f...
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Fri Sep 29, 2006 2:34 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Gimme Shelter
Replies: 13
Views: 2861

It seems like unedited footage really. You said that before... actually, I (and I appreciate you said we may be talking about different 'product') think it's VERY edited, and in an incredibly modern fashion (especially given the fact we are talking 1972)... the way it conveys boredom (among other t...
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Fri Sep 29, 2006 11:52 am
Forum: Gigs
Topic: highest gig in the world
Replies: 33
Views: 7312

Deepest Gig...

Katie Melua To Set Guinness World Record For Deepest Underwater Concert "On 2nd October Katie Melua will set a Guinness World Record for the deepest underwater concert when she performs a concert at the bottom of the North Sea. The concert will be held at the bottom of one of the four shafts of...
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Fri Sep 29, 2006 9:34 am
Forum: Other
Topic: Welcome to the board!
Replies: 17
Views: 2954

Starfish wrote:ash, you probably need to hear this, mate. Introduced by John Peel...


http://download.yousendit.com/7963FF301C681125
/\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ It's here! Vatican Broadside.
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Fri Sep 29, 2006 9:30 am
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Mercury Rev
Replies: 45
Views: 7779

I haven't heard Everything's Alright Forever since I split up with D****e P**. I'd love to hear it again...
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Fri Sep 29, 2006 9:24 am
Forum: Other
Topic: Welcome to the board!
Replies: 17
Views: 2954

Re: Welcome to the board!

Starfish wrote:
bunnyben wrote: at least '...cunt...' is listening to spiritualized not slipknot...
Who the fucking hell are Slipknot...?
Like the Half Man Half Biscuit song!! :lol: :wink:
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Fri Sep 29, 2006 9:05 am
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Gimme Shelter
Replies: 13
Views: 2861

ha! i can't beleive some of you have actually seen this. so what's the story with it's release, even bootleg. it has to be floating around the internet somewhere. i'm sure some of our more savvy websurfers should be able to find it. (yes yes that's a challenge!) ohh and sympathy for the devil is ac...
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Thu Sep 28, 2006 4:33 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: chip buddy
Replies: 56
Views: 10760

ro wrote:i'll be frying up some chewed up eyelashes, with a side of- um- what goes with that?
Grit :wink: .
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Thu Sep 28, 2006 4:32 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: chip buddy
Replies: 56
Views: 10760

ro wrote:i always called that fried egg/toast thing a bullseye.
We called it 'Egg with a hat' (because you re-place the square of bread before serving).
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Thu Sep 28, 2006 4:26 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: chip buddy
Replies: 56
Views: 10760

Ooh... I'm planning on cooking a splendid meal at the weekend - start with braised asparagus with a poached egg on top (idea stolen from Celebrity Masterchef Graeme Le Saux chiz chiz)... followed by poached white fish - (I'll see what they've got that's good) with a beurre blanc sauce (following Ric...
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Thu Sep 28, 2006 4:09 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Gimme Shelter
Replies: 13
Views: 2861

Isn't it? (Did you see it at Tate Modern the other year?)

Gimme Shelter's good - but it had damn well better have plenty o'bonus footage - more of the Altamont Support acts please. The Burrito's spot is woeful.
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Thu Sep 28, 2006 9:02 am
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Roger McGuinn on Front Row, last night...
Replies: 7
Views: 1518

Roger McGuinn on Front Row, last night...

There he was, on BBC Radio 4's Front Row, being interviewed in promotion of the new Byrds Box Set... I thought it was very interesting (he gave a demonstration of how they came up with the arrangements for Eight Miles High and Tambourine Man) and could have done with the whole half hour... Don't for...
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Wed Sep 27, 2006 4:30 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Last five albums/lp's you bought?
Replies: 2585
Views: 657792

A Damned compilation - it was cheap, but all I wanted was Neat Neat Neat. Ciccone Youth Whitey Album... because I wanted to hear it, and I never play vinyl anymore. And it was cheap. Nick Drake treasury. A Sly Stone compilation - replacing a knackered cassette. Nuggets II box set. Wicked. "My F...
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Wed Sep 27, 2006 4:19 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Welcome to the board!
Replies: 17
Views: 2954

davedecay wrote:the worst of it is that hirsute and hairy mean the same thing!
Oh, I always enjoy a nice tautology... they can be terribly poetic.
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Wed Sep 27, 2006 3:33 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Mercury Rev
Replies: 45
Views: 7779

Me too... I wonder what I did with my old Mercury Rev LPs...
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Wed Sep 27, 2006 3:21 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Mercury Rev
Replies: 45
Views: 7779

See You On The Other Side - is what came between Boces and Deserters Songs.
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Wed Sep 27, 2006 3:07 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Mercury Rev
Replies: 45
Views: 7779

...so we were both right - Car Wash Hair IS on it, AND it isn't.
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Wed Sep 27, 2006 2:39 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Mercury Rev
Replies: 45
Views: 7779

Yerself Is Steam (Your Self-Esteem) has Car Wash Hair, sung by guest vocalist Dean Wareham (Galaxie 500/Luna). One of my favorite songs. I'd like to find a copy of that bonus disc, never knew about it![/quote] Does it? I must say, I think you're wrong, but I can't be 100% sure... I had the vinyl ve...
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Wed Sep 27, 2006 10:35 am
Forum: Other
Topic: Favourite Moderator!
Replies: 90
Views: 15460

clewsr wrote:I'd rather you change the bloody record.

morning.
Post of the day!


(I think it was the combination of pithy common sense, and the fact that it was followed by the salutation).
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Wed Sep 27, 2006 9:46 am
Forum: Other
Topic: The Chess Story 1947-1975
Replies: 8
Views: 1850

Can you but them up as seperate volumes - each featuring an individual artist? Or is this something else? Can i put them up, as in post them for folk to download? Well, i intend buying the box set in about 16/17 days time, so i can see what i can do after that, if anyone's bothered. ...he said ' b ...
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Wed Sep 27, 2006 9:14 am
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Mercury Rev
Replies: 45
Views: 7779

Well, I only ever had the first 2 albums... and some kind of bonus album - what would that have been?

What they seemed to have then, which I believe they lost later was (I'm not sure about this) ... was there a guy called Grasshopper?
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Tue Sep 26, 2006 12:36 pm
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Mercury Rev
Replies: 45
Views: 7779

I saw them with the God Machine, supporting My Bloody Valentine.

Gig of the century.
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Tue Sep 26, 2006 9:50 am
Forum: Other
Topic: What's that yer readin'? [with added flirting]
Replies: 131
Views: 22556

Sorry chaps - if you knew me personally, in real life, you'd know I abhor violence with every fibre of my being. But you are going to have to fight me. Ok?
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Mon Sep 25, 2006 4:53 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Open letter to moderators
Replies: 55
Views: 10978

spzretent wrote:Everyone should be offended.
Round and round we go.
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Mon Sep 25, 2006 3:13 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Open letter to moderators
Replies: 55
Views: 10978

... Their their. Don't take on so... This isn't a politics forum. It's not an arena for the excercise of free speech. It's a marketing tool for a pop group. I agree there have been lots of things on here which are capable of causing offence (hell, EVERYTHING can offend SOMEBODY), what we've seen lat...
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Mon Sep 25, 2006 3:03 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Open letter to moderators
Replies: 55
Views: 10978

Well, there you are. And in Britain - where the more or less the entire urban population was under nightly threat from raining High Explosives for two or three years - German Nazis were being depicted in sit-coms a mere 20 years later. what's your point? The sitcoms didn't undermine the sheer effor...
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Mon Sep 25, 2006 2:50 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Open letter to moderators
Replies: 55
Views: 10978

gimperella wrote:Freedom.
...up to a point. You seem to be advocating anarchy - I'm not (just for clarity).
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Mon Sep 25, 2006 2:47 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Open letter to moderators
Replies: 55
Views: 10978

What?

Well, there you are. And in Britain - where the more or less the entire urban population was under nightly threat from raining High Explosives for two or three years - German Nazis were being depicted in sit-coms a mere 20 years later.
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Mon Sep 25, 2006 2:28 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Open letter to moderators
Replies: 55
Views: 10978

For all the times I've clashed with him I'm now in a position of defending him against what I feel was a totally unnecessary attack. Unnecessary, yes. Unnecessarily *ahem* frenzied, certainly. Unprovoked... perhaps not. A point which is my opinion , and somewhat irrelevant in the face of what follo...
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Mon Sep 25, 2006 2:17 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Open letter to moderators
Replies: 55
Views: 10978

Ah well... I must have missed a lot of what you're referring to. I guess I agree with 'the rules', and I am all for civilisation. I also agree his behaviour was ruining the forum. It's a shame he went off the deep end, because he was a good guy really, with a lot to offer us all. A Beautiful Noise i...
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Mon Sep 25, 2006 2:05 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Open letter to moderators
Replies: 55
Views: 10978

spzretent wrote:The use of nazi imagery pretty much did it among other things.
How absolutely ridiculous. In my opinion.
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Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:40 am
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: The Fall
Replies: 17
Views: 3322

anorthernsoul wrote:when i was about thirteen i asked mark e smith, crumpled up and drunken, in a heap on a bridge, if he was alright. fact.
And? Was he???
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Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:10 am
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: The Fall
Replies: 17
Views: 3322

Re: The Fall

As much as I hate to agree with Anthony H Wilson, he really hit the nail on the head when he said he was unsure if he liked their music but he knew for definate that he liked the Fall. That's Tony Wilson's job, as far as I can see (Malcolm Maclaren's, too): They're both arseholes, to be sure - but ...
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Fri Sep 22, 2006 4:01 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Dig!
Replies: 15
Views: 3014

jack white wrote: bRand
:?:
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Fri Sep 22, 2006 11:30 am
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: The Smiths
Replies: 74
Views: 13381

I just wish 'Amy Relaxes in a Riverboat' Poster would chip in. It sounds like what the forum wants. (I bet it isn't... I bet it's a spambot, here to post links to lesbian milfs 'doing it'. eeew.)/
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Thu Sep 21, 2006 3:23 pm
Forum: Spacemen3
Topic: Spacelines (Sonic Sounds for Subterraneans)
Replies: 14
Views: 6208

Yes - I heard that. No news, I suppose?
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Thu Sep 21, 2006 3:10 pm
Forum: Spacemen3
Topic: Spacelines (Sonic Sounds for Subterraneans)
Replies: 14
Views: 6208

twentysixdollars wrote:The Rays' tune is a Gene Clark cover, no?
No, it's not - it sounds like it could be on the Singing Detective soundtrack. 40s Doo wop proto Rock n Roll, with whacky vocal sound effects. "I'm an elevator operator, in a department store... "
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Thu Sep 21, 2006 3:01 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Colours - Changing/Hallucinating?
Replies: 17
Views: 3850

Hmmm.... "or were you SURE the colours were changing...? " there's a name for the kind of ambiguous question you're posing here my friend. $26 or Superstar or someone educated may be able to help me out... one thing's for sure, the answer can't be 'Yes' or 'No'. What I will say, for clarit...
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Thu Sep 21, 2006 1:16 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Youtube highlights
Replies: 26
Views: 5614

Don't miss this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAzRFbj- ... ed&search=

It's Paul Revere and the Raiders selling the Pontiac GTO.

"The verdict is in."
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Thu Sep 21, 2006 11:13 am
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Feel so good
Replies: 13
Views: 2923

Chapter Two wrote:fIREHOSE - Soon
Good call... you know I thought I must have been the only person in the world to like fIREHOSE records... alas I lost all mine about 10 years ago. Haven't heard any since - apart from the odd dose of Mike Watt via J Mascis records, I've been utterly bereft.
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Thu Sep 21, 2006 8:58 am
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: The Smiths
Replies: 74
Views: 13381

he was born to be rockstar. and theres really nothing wrong with that. He was always a joke. We all love a joke. Now he's not funny anymore. And what's the use of all those fantastic influences if what comes out of the mixer sounds like a brown sludgy mixture of Faces B sides and *name that cliche*...
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Wed Sep 20, 2006 1:01 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: What's that yer readin'? [with added flirting]
Replies: 131
Views: 22556

Right so... Lord of the Flies is the one where the guy invents a teleport machine, but an insect gets in one of them and he goes all hairy and super strong. No? :oops:
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Wed Sep 20, 2006 12:49 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: What's that yer readin'? [with added flirting]
Replies: 131
Views: 22556

baz (mark II) wrote:
Superstar wrote:...being a librarian and all :oops:
Awww, cute!

Lord Of The Flies makes me saaaaad. Good book.
Especially the bit where they think Gandalf is dead and they're all sad, and then he's not and they're all happy.
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Wed Sep 20, 2006 12:46 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: What's that yer readin'? [with added flirting]
Replies: 131
Views: 22556

You know a lot about architecture... are you in 'the game'? If you view Architcture as a balancing act between 'space' and 'object', I think the philosophy behind the design of the British Library placed the emphasis squarely on the former, with very little consideration of the latter (beyond the pa...
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Wed Sep 20, 2006 11:57 am
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Boring
Replies: 20
Views: 5036

Superstar wrote:
a beautiful noise wrote:ahh jesus, just one post from you and now let the flirting start
So I'm not allowed to post ?? Frog march me from the Forum then - I dare you!
Ignore him - he's been a misery since day one.
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Wed Sep 20, 2006 11:55 am
Forum: Other
Topic: What's that yer readin'? [with added flirting]
Replies: 131
Views: 22556

I went to the Great British library in Kings Cross a little while ago when I had some time to kill. Great place. Really loved it. I remember thinking i wished I worked there at the time. It is a great building - although I haven't been right to the back (as it were)... so I don't know how the readi...
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Wed Sep 20, 2006 9:31 am
Forum: Music (Dedicated to Fuzzhead)
Topic: Boring
Replies: 20
Views: 5036

a beautiful noise wrote:
Superstar wrote:
assoc. wrote:this place will be better when there is a 'personals and dating' forum
I vote for a problem page. Will volunteer myself as resident Agony Aunt.
ahh jesus, just one post from you and now let the flirting start.

i think it's time to reinvent myself.

Moan moan moan. You make me sick.