offal wrote:

burun wrote:Kramer is a Nikon guy. Hmmm. That says a lot.

Can you explain this comment to the non-camera-knowing-about folks? I feel like it's probably a good observation and I hate not knowing what it is.

*suddenly feels dirty for owning an original One-Touch*

I have given up smoking, again. This is about the fifth time in four years, and every time I manage to quit for about two or three months before starting again. Got to break the cycle.

It seems harder than ever this time, it's been a little under 24 hours and I already have a headache and a sick feeling in my stomach.... bleurgh.

Good luck, Simmo!


Yesterday I had easily the most enjoyable day of 2008 so far. First I biked to out of town forest (about 20km) where I played badminton with my friends, biked back home, worked for 2hrs and biked to the verge of the forest again, when we had a camp fire. It is no nice to bike in the sun and warm temperatures! And finally leave the coat at home! And wear shorts! Spring time, you rule!

For breakfast I had a roll with roast pork, apple sauce and stuffing in it that was left-over from a garden party yesterday.

Since inappropriate breakfast foods is almost always a better, tastier breakfast than traditional fare, I wonder how it is that we arrived at toast and cereal?

I drove from Florida to NY this weekend, I-95, in a big-ass box truck the likes of which I have never wrangled before. It was stressful and intimidating but I needed the $$$ and I wanted to challenge myself. I've never been south of Philly before so it was a lot of new shit all at once. Fly, Ringo, Maiolo, sf07, Nerbs, I thought of you all while passing through your states but I didn't have the means to contact or the time to visit you. Maybe next time.

Why does Georgia smell so bad? Seriously, it smells like stinky rotten shellfish. Does her peach need washing?

I stayed in S. Carolina one night, and when I asked people where the nearest bar was (looking to score weed) they looked at me like I had 3 heads. Don't they call them "bars" down there? Some kid asked me for a "case quoter" and I was confused until I realized he needed a quarter for his 25 cents so he could get tire air.

There seem to be as many country radio stations up nprth as there are down south. Weird.

I bought some fireworks, woo.

I'm also not smoking. I don't like to call it giving up because that seems like setting myself up for a spectacular fall like I had in February. Having not smoked for six months I started smoking on holiday and have been chaining it ever since. Back on rollies.
But now I'm not smoking. Good.
Also just got back from ex-Coil keyboardist Thighpaulsandra's studio which is the remotest, rainiest place in the world.

Neuloveyou wrote:I'm also not smoking. I don't like to call it giving up because that seems like setting myself up for a spectacular fall like I had in February. Having not smoked for six months I started smoking on holiday and have been chaining it ever since. Back on rollies.
But now I'm not smoking. Good.

Good luck! I'm gonna need it. Well, actually it's got nothing to do with luck but never mind.

Neuloveyou wrote:Also just got back from ex-Coil keyboardist Thighpaulsandra's studio which is the remotest, rainiest place in the world.

Skegness?

simmo wrote:

Neuloveyou wrote:Also just got back from ex-Coil keyboardist Thighpaulsandra's studio which is the remotest, rainiest place in the world.

Skegness?

Zing!


(totally seconded, I worked in Butlins there when I was 16. It was a haven (lol) for people hiding from the police/sun)

It's actually the other side of Carmarthen near a little village called Herob. Awesome studio and loads of fun getting to it.
Plus it really concentrates the old mind being holed up in the middle of nowhere. Very reasonable rates too. Thoroughly recommend it to anyone. Especially those who are into vintage synths, of which he has quite a collection.

http://www.aerielstudios.co.uk/

Boombats wrote:I drove from Florida to NY this weekend, I-95, in a big-ass box truck the likes of which I have never wrangled before. It was stressful and intimidating but I needed the $$$ and I wanted to challenge myself. I've never been south of Philly before so it was a lot of new shit all at once. Fly, Ringo, Maiolo, sf07, Nerbs, I thought of you all while passing through your states but I didn't have the means to contact or the time to visit you. Maybe next time.

Why does Georgia smell so bad? Seriously, it smells like stinky rotten shellfish. Does her peach need washing?

I stayed in S. Carolina one night, and when I asked people where the nearest bar was (looking to score weed) they looked at me like I had 3 heads. Don't they call them "bars" down there? Some kid asked me for a "case quoter" and I was confused until I realized he needed a quarter for his 25 cents so he could get tire air.

There seem to be as many country radio stations up nprth as there are down south. Weird.

I bought some fireworks, woo.

I-95 is close to the coast, and it's spring, so there's a riot of all sorts of things waking up. That and the smell of paper mills, man, that's a stinky part of the state. I don't get down there much until the heat of summer has pretty much boiled all the funk off.

"Case quarter" is an odd colloquialism, innit? You must have been WAY out in teh country. I haven't heard this in a number of years.

AND, asking for a bar getting an odd look: In the part of the south where people ask for a case quarter, folks don't drink in bars that much unless they're honkies tonking. Everyone else drinks in living rooms, where there's a nice coffee table for chopping meth (if redneck) or combing seeds and stems out (if they're everyone else). OR they drink in cars. Either way, a young black person asking for a nearby bar is only slightly more normal in the rural south than if you had asked for directions to "a haberdashery." You would have been better served more likely just asking someone where to get a sack. If the person you're asking isn't older than 55 or wearing a brown uniform, they'd set you right most likely.


And no more driving through Georgia without calling, right? I had a cancellation at the studio and it was a dead boring weekend.