Pump Up the Late Shift Jam

03:42 / 21.08.04

Dunno, but it better get it checked. Dealing with intense and deep seeded boredom. And that fucking tree frog/cricket is still here.

03:45 / 21.08.04

And it's time for me to sleep. Bon soir, iao.

03:47 / 21.08.04

Is it being in a new place and not knowing people (the boredom, not the strange sound), or something else?

Have you tried to follow the sound to the source? Probably take some patience if it is still only sounding a few times every fifteen minutes. Could it possibly be a household phenomena--like a water heater or something?

03:47 / 21.08.04

Oh. Well, have a good sleep Sally!

Lord Morgue

04:05 / 21.08.04

Green tree frogs in Darwin get in the toilet and jump on your arse in the middle of the night, like a big cold wet hand coming out of the s-bend to goose you. Can be quite disconcerting if you've had a few.
And I remember seeing this poor little bat on T.V., wedged into a sort of plywood sandwich on the end of a swinging arm, and these scientists were swinging the arm at a wall and recording the sound, to research bats' echo-location, and this poor fucking tiny little bat was going FFFAAAARRRKK!, it's little eyes popping out like a chihuahua on coffee candy, because it kept thinking it was going to smash its brains out on the wall- FFFFAAAAAARRRRKKK! I was rushing at walls and squealing for days.

04:07 / 21.08.04

That's as wacky as a walrus.

How's Morgue tonight? Quiet, cold?

04:46 / 21.08.04

MORGUE!

You dirty bitch! Hit and run all the time with you isn't it? Can't answer a simple question like "how are you doing?"

Like I really wanted to know anyway...

Bastard.

06:05 / 21.08.04

You are a Peg Boy.
I am a Peg Boy.
I am the Gobstopper!
Can't chew can't chew
Can't can't can't can't chew.

Lord Morgue

14:02 / 21.08.04

iao wah
a place to stay
get your booty on the floor tonight
make my day
make my day
make my make make my
make my day
YO PUMP IT!

Damn, Cat's, you know all those other threads didn't mean nothin'. Gimmie some sugar, baby.

Yay, it's my first ever lateshift! Be gentle with me...

21:00 / 21.08.04

Hey Kitchen that belongs to Hattie! How are you?

I heard tell that you used to work with Stoatie & MGB. Whydcha leave--better job?

21:06 / 21.08.04

Yo, cat! I did used to work with Stoats and MGB (sat next to Stoats on nightshift for 2 years, in fact - he has a lot to answer for...)

I'm in my flat, just played Manhunt but I'm stuck so thought I'd take a breather...

21:09 / 21.08.04

Oh yeah - I left nights to work on days, biiiggg mistake - don't know how I ever thought I'd fit in with the 9 to 5 people, if I said pirates v ninjas, they'd just look at me blank.

21:11 / 21.08.04

What's Manhunt? Is it one of those shooter type of games? I don't play video games all that often, some I'm pretty much in the dark about them.

I too am in my apartment. Hangin' 'round. Lazily tidying. The sky here is looking quite dark, and I expect that it could be pouring rain at any moment.

Later, I am off to a friend's place for dinner. Mmm, I love it when someone else prepares food for me!

21:13 / 21.08.04

I have no idea why my fingers typed 'some' instead of 'so'...

21:19 / 21.08.04

Manhunt is a console game where you get to strangle people with plastic bags and sever heads with machetes and then throw the severed heads at people - it's cool, I love it.

I threw my first ever dinner party last night - pizza and beer, cos I've only just moved in here and didn't have enough plates for everyone.

What time is it where you're at, it's 11.23pm here - I'm staying in tonight cos some mates are coming down for the London Madonna concert tomorrow, and I have to save my drinkies for when I see them. Fucking Madonna, honestly, she's turning into the Kaballah version of Cat Stevens/ Yusuf Islam...

21:25 / 21.08.04

LOL! I've never cared much for the Material Girl myself.

Pizza and beer is good--not fancy, but still good! Congrats on the new pad, btw, hope it is a nice place for you to call home!

It's about half past four in the afternoon. I'm going to dinner around six.

Indeed, the sky has opened up and let loose with the wetness.

Moments ago I was distressed 'cause I smoked the last ciggie in the pack, but luckily I caught my partner at work, and she's going to stop and get me some more smokes on her way home.

21:26 / 21.08.04

Evening personages. Life goes on.

21:28 / 21.08.04

Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, eh?

Howdy!

21:31 / 21.08.04

I never cared much for Madonna, I liked how she was the first to do the whole Girl Power thing, but I wouldn't waste any money on her, unlike my dickhead mates who have paid £150 a ticket...

Flat's cool, it's the first time I've ever lived by myself - before, I was sharing with a fundamentalist Christian (not that I've got anything against Christians per se, bu the fundies are always the worst - it got to the point where she started shoving leaflets under my bedroom door, so I knew it was time to leave).

Dang, I just smoked my last fag as well, and I really can't be arsed walking to the all-night garage now. Die Hard 2 is on the telly, for the millionth time. Why can't they put good shit on...

Hola Sally!

One-hundred and fifty...*pounds*...a ticket. GASP! That's fuckin' outrageous. Well, hopefully the stage show, which purports to be laden with mystical imagery, will help them get their heads out of their butts!

Stupid pop icons and their ability to vastly overcharge suckers.

Wow, I can't picture you (although I only know you from your posts) living with a fundamentalist Xtian. I've had two different apartments of my own over the years, and each time I very much liked living by myself.

21:42 / 21.08.04

Get this, not only have they paid £150 a ticket each, but they're also FLYING down from 200 miles away, and have booked a hotel for the night, and have each budgeted £200 to spend on merchandise! Fuck's sake!

Yup, me and ex-flatmate had zilch in common, and the bitch would use my pots and pans and tea and cofee and never wash up afterwards. Maybe it's just me, but that doesn't strike me as particularly Christian...

21:55 / 21.08.04

What does one do with two-hundred pounds worth of Madonna merchandise? Although, at £150 a ticket, I bet a shirt is going to be fifty pounds or something. CHRIST!

Y'know, I think there's something in the Bible about that roommate stuff...and yeah, sometimes it really is the little things that add up, eh?

22:05 / 21.08.04

Defo is the little things - I'm the type of person who gets annoyed if someone MOVES my plates, never mind using them and not washing them afterwards!

But I also had to leave because my bike got stolen because bastard landlord wouldn't let me keep it inside the flat, and I love cycling so I was heartbroken.

Ever since I moved in here I've been having mad dreams about people breaking in and using my plates.

Benny the Ball

22:09 / 21.08.04

The Bible says, "And lo, thou should at least wash up thine pots and pans when useth those that thouest belongeth to thine flat mate" .

i don't think that there is a band alive today that I would spend more than 30 quid on seeing.

I remember the story that my old man told me, when, in the good old 60's, you could pop from place to place and see all manner of bands, and he saw Jimi Hendrix, about a month before the release of Hey Joe, at what is now Tooting Bingo Hall.

Hello night shift, by the way, I have dreams plagued with horror and sleep is the cousin of death...

22:17 / 21.08.04

LOL! Surely you jest? Otherwise, um...

My biggest problem with having roomates was always about the lack of control over the space. And by this mostly I mean having people that I didn't really care for over.

When I first moved to Calgary, I shared a house with some people I knew from my hometown. They'd have a couple people over now and then that I didn't like, and thought were particularly dodgy. Sure enough, I had a several CDs go missing one time, but was able to pinpoint exactly which scumbag it was who had lifted them. What sucked most about this was that a couple of the CDs are super difficult to replace--a rare album that had other bands covering PWEI songs, and a limited edition Sugar Besides CD that included a bonus CD of live and rare stuff. I still haven't managed to replace these and they were taken from me over seven years ago!

22:20 / 21.08.04

Crap, that last post was supposed to follow Hattie's', but Benny got in the way! Damn you! And hello!

Shit yeah! I hate shelling out large amounts of cash to see shows. Over fifteen bucks and forget it!

22:29 / 21.08.04

Hola Benny!

I guess I'm too much of an anti-social misanthrope to live with other people, although I am learning to share in my old age. It would be nice if they asked first, s'all...

22:35 / 21.08.04

Hey, to be clear, the "surely you jest" was about your mad dreams...

I agree, it is much nicer when people ask if they can use your stuff. It typically prevents slow growing resntment and such. I mean, it's kinda' rude to simply assume it's OK to use an other's things.

Anyway, I gotta' be off to dinner. I don't know if you'll be up later when I get back in, so it's been very nice chatting with you Ms. Kitchen, and have yourself a goodnight!

Benny the Ball

22:38 / 21.08.04

Hello, When I was at University (oh so many years ago) there was a habit that developed amongst my housemates (I hid away, lived off of rice from the take away and drank straight from the bottle) to use all their own plates etc, and then use everyone elses and then pile them up into the sink until the smell got too bad or the weight of the piled dishes broke something. To be fair, it was a shit house. But the joy and wonder of living in your own space, nothing beats it...

22:44 / 21.08.04

Ciao cat, have a good one!

Hey Benny, know exactly what you mean, I'd rather eat off the floor than go through the mouldy pile of plates I was always confronted with every morning. How the devil are you this evening?

01:15 / 22.08.04

'Allo. Back from din-din me.

Alright Fridge, I'm callin' you out:

Come out, come out, wherever you are!