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The Late Shift II

 
  

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Mazarine
22:22 / 18.10.02
I want to make Barbelith top trumps. I feel it would be amusing.

Although it is artistically narrow minded of me to presume that trumps would be cards. Trivets, coffee mugs, perhaps Barbelith Top Trump Tea Cozies or collectable wee spoons. Maybe stained glass.
 
 
Murray Hamhandler
22:48 / 18.10.02
Back yet again. Not doing anything constructive tonight or even pretending to. Killing time until I go see Mark Eitzel and Low. Two hours to go.......
 
 
Mazarine
23:48 / 18.10.02
Barbelith Trump Socks. Toe socks, knee socks, nothing to do on a Friday night socks...
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
00:23 / 19.10.02
Awake and home too at a ridiculous hour... got pissed mid-afternoon and slept for most of the evening... now attempting to feel tired so I can get up early tomorrow (walk dogs, go to Anarchist Book Fair, then meet someone in Wembley at about 2 to go and see Motorhead and Hawkwind later.)

Taken sleeping pill, so if I fuck off without warning, there ya go.
 
 
Persephone
00:29 / 19.10.02
Am inordinately glad that this week is over. And now I am trying to type and lick cake batter off a beater at the same time. And to convince Husb to go out in the rain and get the next DVD in Sopranos Season 3.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
00:36 / 19.10.02
Aaawww... I'm kind of missing this week already... (back to work Monday, been enjoying the whole drinking/reading/playing video games/ doing other fun stuff cycle. Not sure I'm ready to return to the drinking/working cycle.)

But hey! I have cigarettes, beer and ice cream. And will probably sleep like a baby tonight (which never happens. sleep is the most valuable commodity known to man.) so I'm happy.

Barbelith Top Trumps? Hmmm... strange idea, yet somehow cool. What would the categories be?

Socks, I've never understood the point of making socks look cool. I'm a boots rather than shoes kind of mammal, so the general public never get to see my socks anyway. Fortunately for them.

God, just to ruin my own night even more, I guess Deric's in mid-gig euphoria right now. Bastard!
 
 
Mazarine
00:45 / 19.10.02
Seriously. This week was a wash from midnight on Sunday onward.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
00:52 / 19.10.02
Hope next week's better. Nah, fuck that. Hope next week's the best week ever.
 
 
Mazarine
00:56 / 19.10.02
You'd have to ask his Haus-ness about the categories. He came up with it, I'm obsessive, so I'll just won't let it drop. It's my charm.

And socks rock. There should be as many different kinds of socks as possible. Toe socks are great, long socks are sexy, and they keep my feet warm. Hooray for socks.

I'm going to drive to my parents house tomorrow, which means I get to see all the pretty leaves through the Catskills and Adirondaks. It'll be joyous. Seasons like this make me glad I'm all provincial and stuff.
 
 
Mazarine
01:00 / 19.10.02
Next week very likely will be better, thank you, sir Chairman. But I am off to bed. Because sleep is when I'm happy. Hugs and adoration for all of you my dears. Night.
 
 
Persephone
01:11 / 19.10.02
Socks are fun to knit, too.

Husb has opted for hot shower instead of cold rain. Blast him.

Oh well, I guess I'll go read Malory.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
01:13 / 19.10.02
Goodnight. My sleeping pills seem to be kicking in, so I think I'll be turning in pretty shortly myself.

"Sleep... is nature's balm", as Polidori says in "Gothic".

Sleep is my favourite thing. Dreams are better than tripping, and a hell of a lot less effort.

Night all.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
01:14 / 19.10.02
Persphone- damn! you're gonna beat me to the "reading before Hallowe'en" thing, aintcha?

Bugger. Must GET READING.
 
 
Saint Keggers
02:12 / 19.10.02
11:11 pm no clue what the barbtime is)..anyone up?
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
03:18 / 19.10.02
Stripey and spotty socks rock.
 
 
Murray Hamhandler
04:04 / 19.10.02
Yeah, I'm back for a bit. The show let out and now the sky decides to make w/the rain. When I live halfway across town, the buses are through running, and all I have left is achy feet and a bike that doesn't understand the concept of braking when it's wet. So I'll soon be going walkies for about an hour, umbrella in one hand and bike handlebars in the other. Fuuuuuuuuun.

BTW...Low was okay, but Mark Eitzel rocked socks.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
21:02 / 19.10.02
I'm up again. I've just had the weirdedst dream about buying drugs. Spent the evening at afriend's farewell party, drinking my way through a bottle of fairly nice red en seule, before paying far too much to get a taxi home. Grrr. Was online when I actually got home, but fell asleep - for the first time in WEEKS - and have just awoken to find my laptop on my bed, still, with all the barbewindows open that I was on teh verge of checking out before narcolepsy set in.

Um, yeah, long sentences. Yipe.

Surprisingly, no headache, but I am still in bed. And wondering why college porters are so crap at answering phones, the scum.

And re: Low - yeah! I was kida disappointed when I saw them (the second time, anyway) as they don't always seem to be able to get across what they do - at least, not in a live setting. I spose there's the risk of coming across as sterile.

How are we all?
 
 
Mourne Kransky
21:20 / 19.10.02
We are cool, Mr R, and an exceptional thing has just occurred: Ganesh has toasted some french bread and put mayonnaise, cheese and Marmite on it. This is all part of our staying in to conserve meagre funds and eke them out to allow a visit to the Black Cap tomorrow for sfd's farewell bash. This secret Delia Smith side to him is, I suspect, not widely known on the Lith.

How's your hangover then? How's life in the Great Southern Land? Is your quiff still perky?
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
21:31 / 19.10.02
ZoCher, mon cher!

Things here are OK. Well, as ok as can be expected given that I've not yet ventured out into the rest of the house this morning, whereupon I'll probably be roped into more yard work. Tote that barge, lift that bale, move that house to the left. That kind of thing. Though I think I'm winning SOME brownie points today by dint of the fact that the house will soon be eating my spag bol, which is pretty snazzy if I do say so myself.

Have been upright, though. No hangover yet. How the fuck does that happen? Drink three beers, feel a bit shit. Drink a whole bottle of red, nothing. I think I'm getting a message.

The quiff is indeed up. Still. That product I use in it is a wonder. In fact, it's bigger now than when I went to bed; perhaps there are Follicle Fairies at work hereabouts. Certainly, I'm more Moz than Elvis at the moment. Though my sideburns are bringing Wolverine into the equation now. Which would make manicures interesting, if naught else.

Will answer your age-old PM soon, too. Ahem.

That marmite part of your lifestyle is evil, though, and must be railed against with all vehemence. You should be eating Vegemite, dammit, if only because their homepage features curiously knowing cockatoos. Or used to. Checking now, it seems to feature a slogan that proclaims that it's made "by Australians... for Australians". Which makes it sound disturbingly like some kind of edible Nazism.

THERE is something that would be a bitch to market.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
22:02 / 19.10.02
Marmite, as any fule kno, kicks the arse of vegemite across the Western teritories. Vegemite is a product. Marmite is the waste product of a waste product. As such, it is cooler than beans.

What a funny day it has been. Have now seen marsyas twice. It's fucking impressive - although I'm not sure if it is more disturbing if seen as the vagina from which the auletic method is born or the dual flensed penis of a hubristic satyr.
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
22:13 / 19.10.02
Oh, don't spoil it...
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
22:22 / 19.10.02
Ahem. Sorry. You're lined up for tomorrow, aren't you, K-CC? Shall you be appearing at SFD's? I am havering...haven't got much done today and should really be the Haus of Action, as opposed to the Haus of Fun...
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
22:28 / 19.10.02
Yes, I'm going... I have just spent the evening in the library to make up for the fact that I'm not going to get any work done tomorrow, and I'll be damned if I don't go after that.

Must say I don't see why on earth you should worry so much about working outside school hours - you know they don't deserve it. Or is it not work work?
 
 
Persephone
22:32 / 19.10.02
Hello.

*sigh*

There are, like, a hundred million parts to the simplest of web pages. I may not be patient enough to do this...
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
22:32 / 19.10.02
It's more sending off warranties for shiny new computer, getting replacement driving license, cleaning flat, writing Blakes 7 epic, researching Gillian Freeman's work on Angela Brazil (did you read Clown? Same woman, remarkably), avoiding traumatic levels of drinking and smoking for one damned day this week action.

Although that all sounds a bit lame and "must simonise the car"...

Also, this whole distributive, networked office is doing my plums, to appropriate Jack the Bodiless' rather wonderful phrase.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
22:33 / 19.10.02
Ah, Persephone, plunderer of Pomegranates, welcome to our sedentary revels. How goes it? Appart from grindingly frustrating?
 
 
Persephone
22:37 / 19.10.02
It goes. I really shouldn't complain. I have a nice curry in the oven.
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
22:40 / 19.10.02
Ah... I see. But, what is this, you are telling me that the author of Leather Boys works on Angela B? Why was I not informed? And, er, what does she say? The only stuff on AB that I was aware of is You're a Brick, Angela, which is all very well but predictable.

I have a yen to go and spend money on school stories. Marchpane is open on Sundays, isn't it? Oh dear...
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
22:47 / 19.10.02
Oh my...
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
22:52 / 19.10.02
Came as something of a shock to me, also...
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
23:09 / 19.10.02
*admonishing finger*

Yes, but vegemite can eat through flesh and all known metals. It is the scum of choice for seekers of black scum.

Tsssk.
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
23:18 / 19.10.02
'Dutch' keeps coming out as 'Ducth'. Time for bed.
 
 
The Strobe
23:23 / 19.10.02
evening all.

My college bar (normal closing time: 11.30pm) has just begun to throw people out. I wasn't meant to get pissed at all. I'm not really, but I am fucking tired. Which is why I'm up late. Just checking in. As per usual.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
23:30 / 19.10.02
I'm still getting over the fact that Rita Tushingham appeared in the *film* of "The Leather Boys".

Night night, K-C C - see you tomorrow.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
23:43 / 19.10.02
Well having watched Queer as Folk USA (cringe) I have moved on to the internet and euro-dance music videos on late night MTV. I'm living the life (darling can't you tell?)and I haven't gone back to Cardiff for reasons too obscure to explain but they're something to do with anti-freeze.
 
  

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