Saturday, October 25, 2003

posted by chriszanf , 3:22 PM Þ 

Can antibiotics make you even iller?

I think so! They seem to sap some energy from me and make me sluggish and sad. I wonder why? I would try to make sense of it but I really shouldn't pretend to be a doctor.

That audiophile article was HILARIOUS. There is definitely a difference between people who listen to money and people who listen to music.
posted by Barrie , 8:34 AM Þ 



Went to a friends tonight and they had brought a couple of Nigerian films made by Famsota productions/ Famous Otakponmwen that they found in a bargain bin for £1 each. I've never seen one before and would recommend seeing one for the experience. All the dialogue is not spoken but shouted and they have the funniest titles and story lines. One that they brought was called 'The Virgin Prostitute' in which a woman hears of a potion that makes men impotent when poured in their drink and the rest of the film is her doing exactly that.
posted by chriszanf , 4:24 AM Þ 
Friday, October 24, 2003

Can antibiotics make you even iller? I've just had the worst week for AGES in terms of black, craggy depression, fatigue, horrible tastes in my mouth and general pessimism of the highest order. Nearly everything I normally do has left me cold, all my food tastes horrible, I can't work very well, and I do not feel the most useful person in the world.

I DO feel a whole lot better than I did this time last week, but I can't help thinking these flipping antibiotics are not really my friend.

** slides off the face of the planet and down into a sticky pool of goo **
posted by captain davros , 10:23 PM Þ 
posted by captain davros , 10:19 PM Þ 
posted by chriszanf , 9:01 PM Þ 

Audiophiles aren't into listening to music, playing it, dancing to it, or any of the things you are supposed to do with it - although oddly enough they also aren't into objective reality, hard facts, critical reasoning, or any of the left brained activities that one would suspect people who can't dance would be interested in.
posted by Josh Carr , 7:40 PM Þ 
posted by Alun , 2:35 PM Þ 
Thursday, October 23, 2003
posted by Alun , 10:27 PM Þ 

posted by Josh Carr , 2:53 PM Þ 
posted by captain davros , 1:48 PM Þ 
posted by meau meau , 1:30 PM Þ 

Did anyone else see this programme last night?

It was funny to see Mark giving arms dealers a lift to the arms fair held at Docklands, in a minibus and then pass a bucket round to collect 'alms for Iraq'. I've never seem so many people take such an avid interest in their shoes at one time. The 'Gulf sale' signs outside the Rafidain bank was pure genius!

And then the 'Arms dealer bingo' on the DLR...
"So we’re gonna have people going round now with the cards, its 50p and eyes down on arms dealer Iraqi bingo!”
" And the first number out now is ...all the legs…sixty. …There we’ve 46 – all your cluster bombs, 46. …
Number 7 – ak47"
posted by chriszanf , 12:02 PM Þ 

While people think my city has a hockey team or something, actual cool people there are making wicked water power solutions and do the most advanced diabetes research in the world. Go Edmonton!
Too bad our art community sucks.

Maybe the water electricity could be the kickstarter for the Free Energy MEG.
posted by Barrie , 6:13 AM Þ 
posted by mary13 , 3:00 AM Þ 
posted by Claus Eggers , 12:41 AM Þ 
Wednesday, October 22, 2003

I was about to write that I say that on ThinkGeek yesterday, but then
posted by Claus Eggers , 8:32 PM Þ 

posted by Irdial , 7:48 PM Þ 

BUZZ! SUNN!! YEAAAHH!! *puts volume to 11, brains come out of ears*

And I'm pretty sure Bush has no divine right at all. What is wrong with these people? Are their brains the size of peas?
posted by Barrie , 5:20 PM Þ 
posted by Alun , 4:12 PM Þ 

posted by Josh Carr , 2:35 PM Þ 

The latest Wire kept my attention whilst ill. Some great writing on Miles Davis, and interesting pieces on Basic Channel and Peaches. And a 30-track CD. All mixed in with some liberal doses of pretentious codswallop. Nice 'epiphany' of John Cage's book, Silence. Has anyone read it?
posted by Alun , 2:13 PM Þ 

Illness... me, meau2, cap'n, alison... what is this, an internet virus?


[sorry]
posted by Alun , 1:57 PM Þ 

posted by Mess Noone , 1:35 PM Þ 

A Norwegian woman setting up shop as a witch has been awarded a government grant worth 53,000 kronor ($7,500; £4,500).

Lena Skarning, aged 33, was given the money because her business plan - according to officials from the regional development fund which gave the grant - was "pretty reasonable and well thought out". Her business, Forest Witch Magic Consulting, will tell fortunes, teach magic tricks at corporate seminars, and offer potions and creams to cure for problems ranging from sleeplessness to bad habits.
A condition of the grant is that she has promised not to try any spells that might hurt anyone. Ms Skarning acknowledged that the success of the Harry Potter books might well have helped her gain official acceptance, but said there was one essential difference. "I'm the real thing," she said. "I'm Norway's only state-backed witch."
Habitually dressed in black and with a white cat, Ms Skarning said she had been a "nice witch" for 13 years. But she said she had only recently come up with the idea of applying for the grant after she attended a seminar on entrepreneurship. "I'm an ordinary witch who came up with an original business idea," she said.

BBC
posted by meau meau , 12:52 PM Þ 

Bleaugh,

Just back in work after a week off with a chest infection. I had a miserable 4 day session in the middle of it spent on the sofa lunging with satan's most powerful coughing fits and windmilling swathes of kitchen paper to alternately catch evil secretions and mop my feverered brow. Thankfully the righteous torpedoes of antibiotics have begun their attack...and I am back.
posted by captain davros , 11:36 AM Þ 


He put his poison in me
posted by meau meau , 10:43 AM Þ 
posted by Alison , 8:51 AM Þ 
posted by Alison , 8:50 AM Þ 

meau - you infected me
posted by Alison , 8:07 AM Þ 

meau two, a hot bath with epsom salts would be a good thing for you. of course, plenty of water afterwards.

i have been periodically reading the confessions, they are more interesting every day. far more depth and insight. fascinating!

shame i have nothing to confess ... (smiles and looks sideways)
posted by mary13 , 4:14 AM Þ 
Tuesday, October 21, 2003
posted by chriszanf , 4:37 PM Þ 

I am on the up (floating away in the breeze). I have immense empathy for lonely old people at the moment. Flu twice in a month - I'm usually never ill (it's been years).

this looks interesting
posted by meau meau , 4:27 PM Þ 

The flu is awful! Hope you get well right quick. Lots of fluids.
posted by Barrie , 3:56 PM Þ 

Get well soon meau.
posted by chriszanf , 1:18 PM Þ 

It's amazing how much sweat you can produce when sleeping, I awoke and my upper half was drenched - twice. it can't be healthy must be this damned flu. Honey, lemon, ginger, nice soothing music (The Hafler Trio Cleave: 9 Great Openings). At least I'm getting hungry again.
grouphug is fun
posted by meau meau , 12:14 PM Þ 

A friend recommended 'discogs.com'. Anyone have any experience of it?

No not yet - but a friend of mine says the same as your friend, have you tried shopping via gemm?
posted by Alison , 11:20 AM Þ 

isn't dave clarke a moron?
as a dj he surely is!
posted by Alison , 10:31 AM Þ 

how can one live with no love and physical intimacy? the skin must get so cold....

the skin does get cold. like it's dead or something. omfg goth omg
That site is fascinating. I find the most interesting passages to be the ones about unacknowledged or unfulfilled fetishes. They're big problems, so to speak.
Sometimes the site gets repetitive though - to know their are so many sentiments exactly the same as is each other... it's kind of scary.

eBay is funny. There are many, many bidders who do not accept 0 or 1 transaction users. That cruddy Dave Clarke is why.
posted by Barrie , 5:46 AM Þ 

how can one live with no love and physical intimacy? the skin must get so cold....

Alison, I got engrossed in those confessions the other day and the saddest thing was how many were like that.

'Same story, different words'.

check the bid history

Does that happen a lot on eBay? I don't really use it but do want to sell off my old vinyl [mainly fillers,etc]. A friend recommended 'discogs.com'. Anyone have any experience of it?
posted by chriszanf , 1:58 AM Þ 

Check the bid history, Ken.
posted by Claus Eggers , 12:36 AM Þ 
Monday, October 20, 2003

what the fuck? that dc LP is going for that much? i'd gladly part with mine for that price. why is that one so much more than the other copies going on eBay?

i'm confused. isn't dave clarke a moron?
posted by Ken , 10:44 PM Þ 

those confessions are SO interesting...
like this person:

I have such an intense anticipation of rejection and opening up emotionally that I have basically accepted the fact that I will live the rest of my life alone. What is scary is that I might not actually mind that much.

Poor thing - how can one live with no love and physical intimacy? the skin must get so cold....
posted by Alison , 8:55 PM Þ 
posted by Claus Eggers , 7:09 PM Þ 

the best rapper coming out of the states

Crispy New Freestyle

http://www.angrynakedpat.com/network/icf/index.php
posted by Josh Carr , 6:49 PM Þ 

"Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention."
Auguste Escoffier

Well here is the mans Potage Parmentier (I am making the soup for dinner - and it smells so good)


3 Big leeks, chopped finely - steam them in butter
add 750 gr cubed. potatoes (3 big baking ones would do it) and 1 liter stock (chiken or veggie)

When the potatoes are soft, mash the soup with a whisk and then through a strainer

add cream and maybe some butter

granish with chopped chives.

Easy!
posted by Alison , 5:33 PM Þ 
Sunday, October 19, 2003
posted by Claus Eggers , 5:50 PM Þ 

"I don't really think about anything too much"
posted by Alun , 10:40 AM Þ 
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