Friends and Executioners

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry5LNJLHzDo

spare carter

[Nov. 12th, 2009|03:02 pm]

maxrael

Thanks to a 'friend' who bought me a ticket and then decided she can't go, if anyone's interested, I have a spare ticket for Carter USM playing their 3rd and 4th album's in their entirety on Friday night at The Forum in Kentish Town… album 3 being their chart topping pop album '1992 - The Love Album', and then the sharp contrast of the much more heavyweight album 4, -'Post Historic Monsters' (my favourite Carter album which pulls the rare trick of managing to be brutal and horrible, yet positive and hopeful all at the same time as it deals with consumerism, alcoholism, suicide, child abuse etc).

I can maybe also get tickets for albums one and two (which probably most people would consider their 2 absolute 'not-a-bad-track-on-them' classic albums) at Brixton Academy on Saturday night if anyone's interested…
I've turned them down for myself because a) I've seen them play a lot of this stuff at the previous reunions (though admittedly i do long to hear them play 'An All American National Sport)', b) I'll have my equipment from the XYK rehearsal during the day c) after The Pixies, i'm worried that i just don't enjoy gigs any more

Let me know asap

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[Nov. 12th, 2009|07:01 am]

mythworker

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18:08 RT @BeaucoupKevin The Modern Nativity Set is.gd/4SUUU #
21:12 "[Wes] Anderson is clearly taking a stand against the strained realism ("so-called realism") of digital animation." bit.ly/22Jg9d #

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DC Update

[Nov. 12th, 2009|07:20 am]

kylecassidy

[	mood	\|	accomplished	]
[	music	\|	cars driving through the rain	]

I had this book about the Beatles when I was a kid and there was a photo in it of Paul standing around outside the Magical Mystery Tour bus and the caption said "Paul, waiting for the magic to begin." I don't know why that sticks with me, but it's one of those things embedded in my head. Waiting for the magic to begin. The truth, a lot of times, I've discovered, while making parenthetical asides so I can use more commas, is that while you thought you were waiting for the magic to begin, the magic was already happening.

So ... Tuesday I went to Washington DC to photograph three Supreme Court Justices, it was basically 12 hours of prep and setup for 30 seconds of actual shutter button pushing. I did get to listen to Justices Breyer, O'Connor and Kennedy talk for an hour and a half or so beforehand about Thurgood Marshall, cases they'd agreed on, cases they hadn't, all of which was pretty nice. I've photographed all of them before on several occasions, so the initial awkwardness that's sometimes there was gone but Justice O'Connor's husband, ill with Alzheimer's for twenty years, had taken a turn for the worse and she left quickly to get on a plane and go to the hospital to see him. I'm left powerfully impressed with her ability to deal with his illness for so long and with such strength -- with her ability to function in the face of such adversity, to talk with colleagues and have your photo taken and simply move from one place to another. She watched her husband of half a century slowly forget who she was and then watched him fall in love with another woman in the same assisted living center, and then watched him fade completely. John O'Connor died the following afternoon at the age of 79.

Flags were at half staff to honor the victims of Ft. Hood, but I'm now reminded that people go through powerful and tragic losses every day, and some of them deal with it with incredible grace and determination. I wish I had a flag for them.

I spent most of Tuesday taking photos with my iPhone waiting for the magic to begin, but really, it was already there.

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spacking and me.

[Nov. 12th, 2009|12:51 pm]

I'm about to go out, take Corben out for a kick around the park (whether it's me, him or the ball that gets mostly kicked is as yet undecided) and say "bollocks" to dieting for a little bit and buy me and Corben some ice-cream.

I shall then spend the afternoon watching Blue's Clues, which is some of the best TV in the entire universe, and when corben goes, listen to lots of comedy while getting my dayjob sorted.

Thankyou and sorry to lots of people for being worried about me.

To anyone who would criticise or chastise me: I have the equivalent of a part time job with my nipper and a high-pressure, intellectually exhausting main job, neither of which I can, or do shirk.

If you see me spack out, drunk at 5am it's because I get up at 8am, look after the bairn till 3pm, get some food, start my dayjob at 4pm, then invariably have to work until 10pm (or, as it was yesterday, 11:30pm). Then, I get to choose between doing something for MYSELF or sleep.

And yes, I drink, yes, this is often counter-productive, and yes, I work on that.

There are only so many things a person can keep together and I'm stretched too far, with very little support, so from time to time, I fall to pieces. The worst this invariably gets is my having a drink and getting fucking angry or upset about things on the interwebs. Boo hoo.

I think that's a perfectly rational response to a frankly unreasonable universe. I have a lot on my plate, I deal as best I can and most of the time I win but sometimes I do not.

On that note, it's very much time for ice-cream, because today needs turning round.

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Panic Happening

[Nov. 12th, 2009|12:33 pm]

markeris

I`m considering going to this tommorow evening - http://www.guerrillazoo.com/panic-exhibition/

But have decided that this *isn`t* one of those things I`ll happily go along to by myself. Does anyone fancy an adventure?

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Art in Crypt

[Nov. 12th, 2009|12:20 pm]

morbidfrog

Planning to return to one of my fav exhibition space...the Crypt and right next door to work…(as long as survive the day at work...)
Private view tonigth 6-9pm, (also doubleing up as a LVG monthly meet)

Through a glass darkly
November 10th – 12th 2009
Opening times Tuesday & Wednesday 12 noon – 6pm
The Crypt Gallery, St. Pancras Church, Euston Road
London, NW1 2BA
Featured artists: Riffat Ahmed, Lola Bunting, Nicholas Brown, Maria Elvorith,
Emma Smith
Performances by Riffat Ahmed: 7:20pm, The McCarricks: 7:45pm
Curated by Maria Elvorith
http://www.cryptgallery.org.uk/

Dark and captivating, “Through a glass darkly” alludes to the idea that our understanding of this world will never truly be clear until we reach an end; until that point, we perceive life only through a fogged lens.
A selection of emerging and talented young artists explore and illustrate this idea through the varied disciplines of photography, video, painting, mixed media installation, music and performance art, all situated within the evocative setting of The Crypt Gallery.
Intricate models placed inside the walls of the gallery and beyond the viewer’s grasp speak of our dreamlike perception of reality. Photographs capture fragile and misty moments in forgotten places around England, while delicately painted nebulae and star clusters surrender unnerving truths to the attentive, revealing another dimension to the experience.
With ethereal sound and light bending and traveling throughout the gothic passageways, mysterious narratives painted in classical baroque style ask us to reconsider our initial interpretations and perceptions of this world, as the dawn and dusk of human mortality are explored in provocative physicality.

Dog mask naked men dancing, flowery dresses and where is the key…

[Nov. 12th, 2009|12:11 pm]

morbidfrog

That was my Tuesday night at the Coliseum(where we joined Iain, Markus, Heather, Alan)…the first act…was opera (and not ballet as I thought) and mainly consisting of 2 singers singing about keys…give me the key…no...give me the key...in proper impressive operatic voices…it was Bluebeard Castle and not as bloody as we had hoped…some very good play with light and dark and a fairly eerie tale but very slow… easily forgettable and I guess we expected a lot more from such a storyline.

I actually much prefer the second part, the Ballet of Rites of Spring…maybe the surreal aspect…lots of men dancing, rutting… dog and hare masks, very men much hunting in pack meet Wickerman …then they got naked...then they put on flowery dresses…must be pantomime time even in ballet :), definitely not a pretty dancing ballet, oddly enough I feel like every recent ballet been to does involved men and their underpants…Spartacus, Dorian Grey…interesting for Simon first ballet. And they smoked on stage…ballet dancers smoking!!!! it was much faster paced...different but not amazing.

Due to my cold I had to wait for the big orchestra noises to sneeze or make funny noises which was hard work…resulting in feeling even more run down and spending most of yesterday in bed…waking in time for a lovely dinner with friends but this was medicinal as it involved ginger :)

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[Nov. 12th, 2009|09:34 am]

hello universe.

no, i'm not dead.

nor has my attitude changed, but i'm remarkably resilient to nihilism.

should get that tattoed on my balls, actually.

anyways.

you don't have to phone the morgue, i'm still abusing livestock.

xx

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[Nov. 11th, 2009|03:28 am]

end of line.

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kill your fucking self

[Nov. 11th, 2009|03:28 am]

Born from my recent interaction with humans that I hoped to adore and who, typically have many more things to do each day than me, I have returned to a very singular opnion of the world.

There is no point in being here.

In the short term, I'm going to think about whether or not it's more morally correct to leave Corben alone, to avoid exposing him to my own massively toxic mind-set, to genuinely attempt to kill everyone I've ever met, or to continue to be a drone-creature/wage-slave.

I think he'll survive, and I genuinely see nothing worth holding onto in life.

That'll fucking learn you.

I`m bloggin this. I`m bloggin that. And fuck it, I`m bloggin that too.

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[Nov. 12th, 2009|01:43 am]

markeris

I`m terribly sorry dear reader, I`ve singularly failed to assume that you give the slighest shit about anything I have to say for a while. And yet in the distance, why, yes, if I`m not mistaken, I can see jumped up little shits tweeting, genuinely beleiving that there is a single other human being that will ever exist at some point in the duration of the human race, and all species that supercede us perhaps finding the historical record, who give the first fucking shit about the state of their fucking kitchen refurbishment.

And I realise dear reader that I have become a dinosaur, drifting in a field of loneliness and self loathing, blind to the wonders of the internet, and how you all mig.......MEMEMEMEMEMEMMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMMEMEMMEME

At some point soon, I should probably write up Japan. I totally failed to write up Norway last year mind you, so don't expect anything as given. Although I know Mog likes it when it put words to her pictures so perhaps. Perhaps.

ANYWAY

Since Japan I`ve continued having adventures, as calendered on the other place (1)

My memory fails. I`ve had my guts pulled out of me in a Victorian mad scientists laboratory hidden in the secret catacombs of a semi legally squated complex in the centre of Bristol. I`ve braved the depths of an old abbatoir, as lovecraftian writings spilled over into reality signalling the endtimes. And solved a cunning riddle and been let into a secret bar whilst this happened, having to order drinks from the mute barman with a big stick. I`ve been rowed through a supercollider made of balloons whilst professional physicists properly answered my question of how many neutrinos can dance on the head of a pin. I`ve been stood in the kitchens of Hampton Court Palace, shouted at by the Royal Physician for making a dogsdinner of Anne Boleyns poultice. I`ve been received as a guest of the Umbrella Corporation and had to leave abruptly when test subjects reacted violently to the serum. Via a carpark. Full of zombies. I`ve been loaded into the back of car for a tour of London at night only to find myself in an underground carpark hosting a vampire festival. I`ve been taken on halloween to a druids alter in ancient mines to have the lights turned off and left to find my own way out. And I love this shit. I really really really love this shit. And you can shove your fucking kitchen refurbishment up your fucking arse.

(1) if you need to ask you haven`t been paying attention. But ask anyway.

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From Twitter 11-11-2009

[Nov. 12th, 2009|02:01 am]

nevla

10:30:42: anyone good with ubuntu? spent all last night trying to get wireless. Can connect/browse router, but not webpages. maybe manually enter DNS?
14:44:02: managed another 10km run today slightly slower than last time at 50:20, but still respectable. Legs don't work now.
16:02:23: okay - had to give in and take Ibruprofen. Calves have seized. Will have to lubricate them with beer tonight. Hmmm...beer
16:57:40: it's taken me until 4pm to actually get back to the work i was in the middle of yesterday, and now i have some meeting to addend. Argh!
16:58:08: see! so annoyed am i that my spolling goes out of the windom

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Spats!

[Nov. 11th, 2009|08:18 pm]

meiow

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I'm mystified at myself. I have fabric, I have buttons, I have a sewing machine. I've been lusting after spats for almost a year now, yet have not taken the couple of hours it probably would take to figure out a pattern an make a pair for myself.

Heck, I know leatherworking, I've got leather, and I've got a leather needle for my sewing machine.

Instead, I spend my time browsing Etsy.com and finding spats to lust after (like these or these).

*rolls eyes at self*

I'd knit some, but somehow all the knit ones just look like overly-decorated legwarmers to me. :P

By golly, this will be remedied this weekend. Perhaps while

timswar is firing up the grill on Sunday (poke poke).

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Twitter Spitter

[Nov. 11th, 2009|06:02 pm]

forrestblack

22:28 #epitafios is just a one of the best shows I've seen on TV. Thank you HBO On Demand. #
22:35 @Kitt69 "The researchers could only speculate why the females would want longer-lasting sex" *snicker* #
13:33 Hey, Wilshire Beauty is out of the shade of Special Effects heir dye I need. Who knows where else in Hollywood stocks Special Effects brand? #
13:42 RT @TairrieB Happy Veterans Day! bit.ly/25Jdsr (message with Zakk Wylde playing the national anthem at a Los Angeles Kings game) #
13:47 You know what I'd be getting RT @LAWeekly What would you order? Death Row Last Meals: Cheeseburger & Fries bit.ly/1n2XND #
14:04 @catalyst_echo Looking for Pimpin Purple. Even called HT and they said they don't carry Special Effects, only Manic Panic. #
14:16 @catalyst_echo yeah, I have that too. I like the candy grape smell, but that isn't really the ideal objective with hair dye. #

140 Character Updates

[Nov. 11th, 2009|08:01 pm]

geektrix

( You are about to view content that may only be appropriate for adults. )

when shall we three meet again?

[Nov. 12th, 2009|12:30 am]

bitbat

in thunder lightening or in rain

in this instance not Maid, Mother & Crone but...
Maid, Crone & Mother in the Resolution on All Hallows Eve

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[Nov. 11th, 2009|07:04 pm]

meiow

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I do hereby publicly declare my intent to poke at my husband until he fires up the grill one last time. The poking shall begin now, and will continue until he has caved in (probably Sunday afternoon).

-poke poke poke- in Tim's direction.

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Turing

[Nov. 11th, 2009|11:16 pm]

markeris

So. You`re all a bunch of bastards. And the play was FANTASTIC, not really site specific in any way beyond a good play in a jaw dropping location, and like I say it was FANTASTIC.

I blubbed like a little baby at the end when he put the apple in the cyanide, in a way I don't think I have since Bambis mum died.

Network Maintenance: Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 04:00-06:00 UTC/GMT

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[Nov. 11th, 2009|02:00 pm]

lj_maintenance
[dwell]

On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.