The Late Shift: All honey, no vinegar.

03:22 / 24.01.05

I strongly agree that I change moods/emotions quickly.

Thanks all for the moving discusion we had last night. I'll be persuing Portland first thing tomorrow morning.

Also: I'm working on a book project and I have a music question for all the band geeks here. What is the sound of all the instruments "warming up" and making noise before the conductor comes out and starts up the concert? S'not overture.... whatsitcalt?

03:53 / 24.01.05

Hey, cool. Portland's awesome (I lived there for a few years), but be warned- here in Oregon, we have (I think) the worst job market in the states, and the most underfunded public schools.

Dose

04:20 / 24.01.05

how does everyone fell bout Americans...
Im no Mason Lang but everyone can crash here when the heats on us...

04:24 / 24.01.05

what?

Dose

04:26 / 24.01.05

Meh. well i tried my old rule for orgies and fistfights..
Watching for a great long time before jumping in...

Dose

04:27 / 24.01.05

been watching the forums for a while.

Dose

04:29 / 24.01.05

thought id try an Invisibles refrence since thats how stubled on to you gents/ladies

04:34 / 24.01.05

Oh, then welcome to the 'lith. I'm not trying to scare you off, I just didn't know what you were getting at.

The US citisan in me loves Americans, but the British citisan in me is afraid of them.

01:03 / 25.01.05

Anyone around?

01:16 / 25.01.05

Only me.

01:25 / 25.01.05

I'm here too, sitting around my apartment waiting for a package to be delivered.

01:28 / 25.01.05

Evening, Qalyn. Evening, Sean.
A package? Anything exciting?

01:28 / 25.01.05

yo ya'll... anybody else suffer that fool quimper today?

01:32 / 25.01.05

I noticed that there were a number of posts by him in the Temple, but I din't bother reading them. What's the gist of the complaint?

01:35 / 25.01.05

I've only just seen the threads in question...

...evening, lekvar!

01:37 / 25.01.05

Basically another novice overdosing on McKenna, Morrison, and something called the Church of the SubGenius. He enraged the ladies of the Temple. Mordant C most of all. It was beautiful. He insisted that we were the all-accepting subculture of illuminatus, and that we acted like "the man", meaning mainstreamers. Ah well. He's one of our trolls, until we develop a succinct way of dealing with this particular brand of newbie.

I sent a package today. Go me.

01:39 / 25.01.05

01:43 / 25.01.05

What did you send?

Hmm. I'm at work, having come from seeing Pop Will Eat Itself with Jack the Bodiless. Coming from that straight to the office sucked really badly.

01:44 / 25.01.05

Also, does anyone happen to know the answer to my question above?

What is that sound or time before an orchestra concert when all the instruments are warming up... that swelling sound... Anyone?

01:44 / 25.01.05

I always feel faintly silly when people use this variant spelling of my name.

01:46 / 25.01.05

I wrote a sizeable post on quimper666, but it was eaten up by the internet demons. Just read what Chad said.

Stoatie- Yes. The Filth and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, vol. 2.

01:52 / 25.01.05

Stoatie, are you saying that PWEI still does shows?

*feels electric thrill of adolescence coursing through veins*

Christ, I sooooooooooo wish I lived on the other side of the Atlantic, now more than ever.

Sorry, Chad, I've no idea what that sound is beyond simpy calling it tuning.

01:54 / 25.01.05

Specifically:
first and second installation disks for OSX Jaguar
Mac Office for OSX installation disk
Third disk of four of the Metropolitan Opera's perfromance of "Carmen".

Symbolically:
Fuck you. These are your last things. Stay the fuck away.

God Bless the UPS

02:00 / 25.01.05

Ah well. Thanks though, lekvar.

I have a three part book I'm working on about philosophy and history and I wanted the initial part to called that, the middle part to be called "overture" and the twentieth century to be called "finale".

02:04 / 25.01.05

I've been living in America for too long. I thought that PWEI broke up in '96. Are they doing new stuff?

02:12 / 25.01.05

I'm eating crackers.

02:13 / 25.01.05

I thought they'd broken up too, gone on to producing and making their marks behind the scenes.

Maaaan, I'd kill nuns and orphans for the chance to hear a single track off "This is the Day..." or "Dos Dedos" live.

02:21 / 25.01.05

The word you're looking for isn't prelude, is it? It's not exactly what you're describing, but it's the only thing I know of that comes before the overture.

02:24 / 25.01.05

you would be eating crackers.

I thought of something else instead... Thanks again.

02:25 / 25.01.05

It's not the exact term, but would susurrus work, Chad?

02:25 / 25.01.05

No, I don't think there's a word for that. It's "warming up". It's not part of the performance.

02:27 / 25.01.05

Chad: Do you like cats?

02:28 / 25.01.05

[PLEASE DO NOT ANSWER!]

02:28 / 25.01.05

Dammit. that last post wasn't supposed to as sarcastic as my italics imply...

It's okay, I'm using pyramids and eyeballs instead.