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     spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 902 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hi! in Grand Master stylee, I say "What's up for the weekend"?, in the way he says "What's up Money!?" within the groove of The Message. So, what are all you guys up to this weekend. I personally am doing some recording. It'd be nice to know what ye all are getting up to now! Have a great weekend whatever ye all doing!! Sorry, came over all American...been watchinig loads of Starsky this week see! | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 300 Registered: 07-2005 |
Was going away to see friend but in a fit of inertia have cancelled it. Will go out for Lunch tomorrow at a place called the Inn at Whitewell which is an old hunting lodge in the Trough Of Bowland, quite beautiful country side east of the M6 motorway NE of Preston and north of Blackburn every body whizzes past upto the lake/Scotland and misses this. The Pub serves great food quite gamey with a great wine list and real ales. You can actually stay over night and have real peat fores in your bedroom ( we did this once) but you have to book about 6 months in advance.I also wnat to get out for a run and chill at home. Hope the recording goes well spence | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 301 Registered: 07-2005 |
After the meal I forgot to say we'll head in to CLitheroe which has one of the best wine shops in the north.Burns. | ||
| John B. Member Username: John_b Post Number: 44 Registered: 10-2006 |
Work for me, Saturday and Sunday. The highlight will be cooking up a nice dinner for the family Saturday night. Which makes me wonder - what does the board listen to over dinner. I can hardly imagine The Fall to go down well with a decent meal, unless its meat galore... | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 8 Registered: 10-2006 |
Taking the Mad Beagle for a long walk in the suddenly snow-covered local hills - (is there a Beagle element to the Gobetweens music, or is it just David Nicholls & me?) - hitting the wine bar round the corner for some heavy Sicilan red and a selection of smelly cheeses, finally getting round to the three Jacques Brel DVDs I just bought... Wow, people are allowed to listen to music at dinner somewhere?? My mother-in-law insists we watch the Channel 5 news (she loves Berlusconi) just in case there's a tragic killing she hasn't got all the details of... | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1085 Registered: 05-2005 |
F*ck off Spence !! (just joking mate - I'm working nighshift Sat/Sun - double bugger) | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 52 Registered: 05-2005 |
Eat Y'Self Fitter! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 903 Registered: 05-2005 |
heh heh! Mid post response! Jerry lovely, am gonna find me that pub squire!! John if Birminghma school of Business School or whatever it was called doesn't go down to well, try Erik Satie... Staurt, blood hell mate 3 Brel DVD's, that's commitment! Kev, sory mate, shoulda known... C Gull, nice  Cheers guys, look forward to othr posts. Love this, it makes me feel good to hear people esp when other msgs are opinions/experiences, this is actually happening, great! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 700 Registered: 03-2005 |
On Sunday I put on my old car guy hat and take a 1961 Lancia Flaminia convertible to the only old car show I like, an annual one in the San Fernando Valley devoted solely to French and Italian cars and artfully designed to segregate the rich dudes with their Ferraris and Lambos off into their own little corner while the rest of us have fun. On Saturday I prepare for said show by fiddling with the car. Wish I was recording, Spence, but the next two songs in gestation simply aren't ready. I'm not too sure I'll listen to the Fall while eating but most things I like work just fine. However, believe it or not, I find I actually enjoy the lovely sound of silence pretty often. I tend to read while I eat. Stuart, your plan for Sicilian wine and smelly cheeses sounds really good to me. And surely Jacques Brel is just the accompaniment for such a meal. Yes, I kinow . . . . killings on Channel 5 news. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 838 Registered: 04-2005 |
Randy, do you have any pictures of your Lancia or other cool old Italian cars online? I'd be very interested to see your collection. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 63 Registered: 08-2006 |
I'm hosting a singer-songwriter night at my local watering hole. Five songwriters, and each takes a turn playing an original tune, around and around, 'til the end of the night. It's good fun, but I'm an early riser, and my band played a fundraiser last night, so two 2 a.m. nights is going to play havoc with my system. I'm guessing the rest of the weekend will be pretty quiet... | ||
| Wolfgang Steinhardt Member Username: Berbatov Post Number: 13 Registered: 09-2006 |
Randy, the guys maybe awful but today a beautiful Miura parked right in front of our shop - I was tempted to burn all the damn old books behind me and steel it. If it's still there tomorrow I'll do it and head down to Lago Maggiore... with a Jovanotti mix-tape and my ellbows in the breeze. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 299 Registered: 04-2006 |
unfortunately i did not go to see nina nastasia tonight. the concert starts around 12:00 p.m. that is too late, because i have to get up early tomorrow. my son plays football/soccer and i have to bring him to the football/soccer ground. but that would not be the only football/soccer event of saturday: in the afternoon we will visit a 1.st league game. berlin - nuremberg. we got reduced tickets via my son's school. on sunday i will try to recover from this saturday by going skating. heh, what a spectacular weekend. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1076 Registered: 03-2006 |
Watching college football, Season 2 Lost episodes on DVD, and political coverage; seeing the Borat movie; cooking Shrimp Creole (decadent and delicious Southern dish); and hitting the beach, if it's not too cold | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 66 Registered: 08-2006 |
You got a recipe for that shrimp Creole, LK, or do you just improvise? If you have anything written down, I'd love a copy. It's cold up here in Chicago right now, and that sounds like just the thing to make as I watch University of Michigan victimize Ball State tomorrow. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1078 Registered: 03-2006 |
Being a southern boy, I pretty much improvise, Rob, but here's a recipe you couldn't go wrong with, as its from a restaurant in Lafayette (the famous Heart of Acadiana): http://www.gumbopages.com/food/seafood/mould-shr-creole.html It's hard to mess up (hey, I can cook it, so that tells you something), as it's just a bunch of shrimp, butter, tomato sauce, onions and green peppers, served over rice. The website that's from is actually a pretty cool one for all things Southern and all things New Orleans...the guy who runs it actually curated the best N.O. music box set I've ever heard, called, "Doctors, Professors, Kings & Queens -The Big Ol’ Box Of New Orleans". Highly recommended, if you have any interest in that style of music at all. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 67 Registered: 08-2006 |
That's a great site - thanks! I love N.O. food, and I love N.O. music - 'Fess, Toussaint, Ernie K. Doe. Last time I was there, I found a used, two-disc collection called "The Minit Records Story." Haven't seen it before or since, but it's amazing - all those old, largely Toussaint-penned tunes. It has the original version of "A Certain Girl" - I'd only heard Zevon's version, and actually though it was his. Are you from N.O., LK? | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1079 Registered: 03-2006 |
The area - I lived mainly in Baton Rouge, an hour away... Allen Toussaint is the shit. Both as a producer and artist. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 69 Registered: 08-2006 |
LK, you ever seen a guy named Geno Delafose? I know his father was a famous Cajun musician. I was in NO in '98 and a friend and I wandered into the Rock and Bowl our first night in the city. Geno was playing, and it was one of the most mind-blowing sets of music I've ever seen. Everyone was dancing - you know, that distinctive Canjun style - and the band just kicked ass for, like, three hours. I've seen him a bunch of times subsequently, and he's always great, but there was something about seeing him on his native soil. Magic. Oddly, his records don't capture how good he is on stage. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1080 Registered: 03-2006 |
Hey, you were lucky to have gone to NO while it was still NO...I've been back since Katrina and it just isn't the same. I never saw Geno, but have been told he puts on a great show. I have, however, been to the Rock N Bowl many times and I don't know if it's possible for a human to have a better time (lots of drugs and Charlize Theron would have to be involved) - incredibly fun. That's lucky, too, cuz I don't think it's still there. A friend of mine used to rave about something they held there every year round the time of Jazz Fest called "Ponderosa Stomp", which was a rockabilly, twangy surf guitar kind of festival. I recently read that Ira Kaplan was a big fan of it. I never made it to it, and now alas, it's moved to Denver, I think. Btw, I saw a quote someplace recently (don't remember by who) that said musical artists are either great live or make great records, that you very seldom get the two together...Probably true... | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 70 Registered: 08-2006 |
The Rock N Bowl is GONE? Ah, hell. I guess the city it called home is gone, as well. Perhaps my favorite American city, because it always seemed so not-American. That may explain why the federal government didn't see fit to save it. It makes you want to puke... | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1082 Registered: 03-2006 |
Sad, isn't it? Maybe it'll come back. People gotta bowl. It's almost as strong as the urge to rawk. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 914 Registered: 05-2005 |
LK you are correct, save for Television, who are as great live een now as they were when they constructed Marquee Moon. Jazz bands are the best players on record and live. | ||
| John B. Member Username: John_b Post Number: 45 Registered: 10-2006 |
Stuart, yes we can listen to music because my mother-in-law lives 500kms away. maybe I should get a life - looking at the cars, winebars, shrimp creoles, beaches, songwriter contests etc.... The only one I don't envy is Andreas, the weather is too lousy here to enjoy football in the stadium. I went to see Hamburg play Porto Wednesday, it was freezing cold and the game was rather awful as well. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 71 Registered: 08-2006 |
Lest you regret your lifestyle choices, John, let me reassure you: my glamorous songwriter night has left me with the mother of all hangovers and a nagging case of late fall ennui. It's overcast in Chicago, cold, one of my dogs threw up all over my newly cleaned carpet this morning, and I'm thinking about suing whoever makes Jameson whiskey. If that makes you feel better about a non-action-packed weekend, it should. Is 10:30 a.m. too early to take a nap? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 703 Registered: 03-2005 |
Yuck. Cycle it out Rob. Glug a bunch of water, if you can do so without throwing up. Kurt, the website for the show is http://www.franceanditaly.com/ Whoever takes their photos must not like Lancias because I didn't notice any in a quick scan of their galleries, but there are a lot of cool cars there. I'm planning to take my own camera so I can rectify that a bit but at the moment, no I don't have any photos of my cars online. At least I don't think so. I was once in an excellent little indie shop in Pasadena and they started playing something that just knocked me out. I asked who it was and it was Geno Delafose. I bought the CD, "That's What I'm Talking About!" It does seem like the sort of music meant to be experienced live. I only went to NO once, in 1990. It was indeed one of the few US cities that escaped the usual American blanditude. It seemed like the greatest place to be a slacker. I wanted to quit my job and buy a cheap place in or near the quarter. BUT I wasn't there in the summer. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1083 Registered: 03-2006 |
Rob, I feel your pain, having tied one on, too, last night, at a barbecue. And, also having the liability of having consumed possibly 5 lbs. of pulled pork, I am in somewhat raggedy shape. I just couldn't stop myself - I haven't really found good barbecue in OC yet, so it'd been a long time since I'd had some really good charred animal flesh. There's tons of great Mexican food out here, sushi, Pacific Rim,etc., but not so much the barbecue. I lied, but not intentionally. I HAVE seen Geno. Randy's description prompted me to look up that album, and I immediately recognized him, given his distinctive look. And yeah, he is great. In La., it's all about the dancing and usually something on the order of half the crowd is dancing if he's playing. And that whole Zydeco thing is huge there. That's what threw me off. Since you saw him in NO, I thought he was one of those classic Soul/Jazz characters there are so many of in that city, people like Kermit Ruffins (who's a jazz trumpeteer in the Louis Armstrong mode and who also cooks barbecue for the crowd before gigs)...I gotta say, you two Rs, it's a pleasure to have folks to talk to about other types of music than the usual postpunk, indie, etc...not that there's anything wrong with that kind of music. Randy, that car show sounds like a hoot, and if I didn't have something else going on I think I'd head up there to check it out. Back in the day, you could BUY apartments in the quarter for a song and renting was even more of a breeze. I don't know how Katrina has affected the market, but it can't have had a positive effect. You, of all people, probably wouldn't have a hard time in NO in the summer, being used to LA. When we were in Hollywood for Yo La Tengo it was hot as hell. Bright too - what is it about the glare there? Is it caused by the proximity to the mountains? Walking down Sunset at about 4:30, we thought we'd wandered onto the surface of the Sun! | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 841 Registered: 04-2005 |
Thanks for the link, Randy. Some beautiful machinery there! By the way, I went to the Pacific NW Historic Races in the summer, which was spectacular (though not as big as the event at Laguna Seca, of course). One of my favorite cars of the day was a gorgeous '67 Lancia Fulvia. I'll have to see if I got a picture of it; if so, I'll email it to you. In other weekend news, since we're on the topic--after work last night, I stopped by Sonic Boom CDs and had a leisurely browse through the used bins. After reading all the love for the Fall on this board, I was keeping my eye open for something by them (they didn't have the "50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong" comp in the new section), and discovered a used copy of the "4584-4589 A-Sides" comp, which basically covers the Brix era. It's great! I realize it's a wimpy way into the band, but it only makes me want to explore much more of their vast catalog. You guys were right about the Fall. Also, I picked up a used CD by Of Montreal, thinking it was something else. I get them mixed up with Boards of Canada, so it was the latter I thought I was buying--sort of electronic/ambient/techno stuff. But that's not what Of Montreal is. I guess they're an Elephant 6 offshoot. Luckily, I had heard and liked a couple of songs by them. And the CD ("The Sunlandic Twins") is quite good, reminding me just a bit of Flaming Lips but with better singing and less clutter. It was an accidental find, but a good one. Anybody else here listen to Of Montreal? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 705 Registered: 03-2005 |
That's an interesting observation Hardin. Usually the glare is backing off somewhat by 4:30 but it is hideous at 3:00. I've made a 30 year habit of being indoors during that time of the day. What is especially interesting to me is that you noticed it and it is apparently different than in OC. I always assumed it was a function of proximity to the Pacific, our spot in the latitudes and urban heat lsland effect. Theoretically, OC should be virtually identitical on those points. Maybe our higher population density still yields more light-reflecting smog here. Hardin, you weren't too far away from a place to get pulled pork when you were here. There's a little dive called "The Pig" on La Brea near Melrose that serves up reasonably decent cajun food. The gumbo still doesn't quite hit the spot though. My personal musical mainline is geeky white-boy guitar-based music with the Go Betweens residing right square on the epicenter. But my tastes radiate out into all sorts of things, certainly including old school soul, a certain amount of jazz, some of the older country music before it became a "brand," ska/rock steady/reggae, folk, classical and definitely old trashy rock and pop from the 60s. I think most of us have tastes that wander off the indie postpunk reservation. Kevin is clearly VERY knowledgable about reggae; he leaves me in the dust on that score in nothing flat. Padraig has exhibited a great interest in some of the less well-illuminated corners of the soul scene and well you, Hardin, seem to listen to just about everything. Speaking only for myself, some of us are too dim to take things in that quickly. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1086 Registered: 03-2006 |
All I can say is, we thought we had done permanent damage to our eyeballs, even with sunglasses. It got to be comical after awhile - we couldn't see shit and it took about an hour and a couple of beers at the Ca. Pizza Kitchen to recover. I just feel validated that you recognize the phenomenon, even if our times for it don't quite jibe. My friend Amy, who was with me, is from OC, too, and she was having the same experience. I don't know what it is, because we're just 40 miles away, but if you were on the beach here at around the same time of day, it would be bright, but more benign, not "scorch your retinas, fry your optic nerve" glare-y, like that. It's not like that in Altadena either, where my girlfriend lives. Maybe it's smog, maybe it's the buildings of Hollywood. The price you pay for all that glamor, man. The Pig, eh? I'll definitely have to try that. It was so easy to get up there, logistically speaking - with that H'Wood at Highland complex, parking is a breeze, and cheap - I plan to head up there a lot more often. The eclecticism and open-mindedness of this particular group of people is one of the things that makes it such a great place to be on the Internets...With the addition of Rob and Allen, who cover that .0001% of music we were missing, I think there is probably an expert in virtually anything you could name posting here. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 706 Registered: 03-2005 |
Kurt, I used to have a pair of Lancia Fulvias. I had a standard factory-bodied 67 coupe and also a rhd Zagato-bodied 68 Sport that I bought from a lady who had emigrated here from the UK. They were both rust-buckets due to their respective histories but they were also the best cars I ever owned but the 67 coupe finally just got too clapped out and the some unknown person in Hollywood went at the windshield to the Zagato with a baseball bat so I had to move on to somewhat less-dependable and much less cool newer cars. Glad to hear about your discovery of the pleasures of the Fall. That will keep you busy for a long time and impoverish you very nicely. | ||
| John B. Member Username: John_b Post Number: 48 Registered: 10-2006 |
That does indeed sound terrible, Rob. I am trying hard (with a 50-50 success rate) these days not to get majorly drunk when I go out because I dread the day after. It starts with this awful taste in the mouth when you wake up and ends with a massive headache in the afternoon. The only thing that seems to help me is toast with marmite, soup with a lot of salt or a trip to McDonalds. whiskey would kill me, beer hangovers at least as awful, the only drink that seems to work for me is red wine. The brightness factor is non-existant here, though, its been raining for the last 12 hours or so. Well I guess Hamburg is not OC... Sunday greetings to the board | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 72 Registered: 08-2006 |
You're smart, John. Generally, I'm a real early-to-bed type guy, but every now and again I play out with my band and find myself far on the dangerous side of midnight, usually with too much booze close at hand. It's a dangerous combination, because the later it gets the fewer inhibitions I have. Last night was considerably mellower. I ordered in Chinese, watched "March of the Penguins" and fell asleep at - no joke - 8:30. The life of the party has left the building... | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 302 Registered: 07-2005 |
As a follow up the weekend was different to what I was expecting didn't get to the Inn at Whitewell, by the time saturday morning came aorund we all just wnated to chill around he house.By sunday felt I needed some action had a trip to Manchester browsing for some Ski gear and Dinner at Wagamamas. |