We haven't finished with you yet
I have NO MONEY.
This is not true. I have heaps of money. Well, not heaps. Not enough for dragons to nest on, anyway, which is my kind of definition of heaps. But it is all owed to the builders, or going on boring things like bills and food for the month. So I am doing that well-known trick of people who are a) hard up, b) trying to diet, or c) both. I am taking a packed lunch to work. I hauled out my lunchbox last week and started to use it again. It's a relatively tasteful silver and black number, which carries a sandwich, a yoghurt and a small box of nuts/fruit. It can fit a banana, if the banana is the right shape. And, yes, it is a kids' lunchbox. I could either use a bigger handbag and cram it with ugly tupperware, or swing this as I walk to work. Which is cuter/stupider (del as applicable). I always meant to customise it, but could never decide what with, untill...
I remembered I had a Pipettes sticker from one of their gigs in the summer.
I think I maybe need to use a varnish spray on it to protect it a bit...
Sheer boredom induced by lack of good TV and lack of funds also caused me to get all homebuildery yesterday. I took apart an elderly orange velvet curtain which had been made of two lengths sewn together, cut it to size, hemmed it and hung it in my still surprisingly tidy room. If I get enthusiastic tonight, I'm going to use the offcut to make a cushion for the bedroom chair, as that is the only bit still in a blue/green scheme instead of red/orange. (It's true, all women do become their mothers: all that make do and mend as a kid clearly left an impact.)
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Some new mp3 blogs I am trying out, plus some recs of old favourites:
Another Form of Relief has a top 49 of 2006
I Guess I'm Floating, new to me
I Rock Cleveland, also new.
Skatterbrain is a fabulous as ever (but when will they release the fall/winter 06 mix as a zip?)
Spiked Candy, c'est ci bon!
The Torture Garden, no relation to the BDSM club of the same name (unless BDSM clubs are big on belle & Sebastian?)
Mod-ified Music, still bringing that 60s asian pop
Labels: home, music, the pipettes
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7:52 pm
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Monday, January 08, 2007
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Still on holiday
We spent New Year's Eve at FROG at the Kentish Town Forum. Apart from anything else, it's a walk of just about the right length from the flat. The venue is an old dilapidated cinema, still retaining a warren of back corridors and a balcony where a couple of unfortunate bouncers had to keep people from dancing right by the edge. One little backroom was playing different music to the main hall - at one point it was 60s J-pop (or sounded like it). Someone told me where to find a secret set of female toilets, so I spent zero time stuck in queues for the bog. The bands were The Rumble Strips (decent ska-lite stuff), The Young Knives (er, I don't remember, but I liked them best) and Larrakin Love (Pogues-lite darlings of the NME). The beer was total shite, though.
My bad gig photos continue:
I didn't get any shots at the Pipettes' Xmas party but the chap did, so I shall link when he gets around to posting them (ETA: ta-da!). The support were Misty's Big Adventure (great) and I spent much time marvelling at the expansion of The Pipettes, given that I first saw them in a pub back room. Here they had a full lighting rig, a strings section and a costume change between the main set and the encore (black dresses with sparkly detail). And, when they finished on 'All I Want For Christmas (Is You)' the audience was showered in 'snow'. It was an all ages gig, so I spent a fair bit of time spotting tenny fans, some of whom were not merely wearing the polka dots but had full replicas of Rosay's stage outfit. So cute!
Labels: gigs, the pipettes
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6:46 pm
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Monday, January 01, 2007
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Underneath A Winter Sky
I'm going to The Pipettes' Xmas Party!
This means lots of chaotic running about in the days before the 22nd making sure I have all the food together and visiting the family earlier than usual, lots of travel over the weekend, and doubtless lots of cursing over the Camden coldness. But it's the Pipettes' Xmas Party!
I am excited.
Labels: the pipettes
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Wednesday, November 08, 2006
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Take us to your planet
Take us, take us to your planet
Give us a mind and we'll scan it
Sell us a ship and we'll man it
Cos we mean it, uh-huh
There I was, settling on the sofa after a busy weekend in order to enjoy Torchwood (It's Captain Jack Harkness...and he's wearing the coat!). Ah, yes, the montage of the copper's mundane life: making cuppas in the station, patrolling the mean streets of Cardiff, breaking up a pub brawl to the sound of The Pipettes---
The Pipettes?
In Torchwood??
Never mind how Captain Jack is soooooo cool...the Pipettes! On the Torchwood soundtrack! Eep!
Labels: music, the pipettes, tv
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11:13 pm
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Monday, October 23, 2006
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Music of the Summer
I've just tweaked the sidebar, widening it so that I can put the last.fm 'recently played' chart on and dumping a set of links which weren't terribly interesting.
To generate some listings to test it, I'm playing one of my three albums of the summer so far. Three! That more albums than I buy in some summers. I was cautious about Lily Allen, in that "daughter of a famous person" way. Smile kept making me want to dance though, despite the opening being a close borrow from Night Nurse by Gregory Isaacs, so I grabbed a copy of Always, Still when I could. In my usual way of trying to sum up something as a cross between other things, I'd say she's a cross between The Selector and The Streets. There's still a little nagging doubt about some of her 'urban poor' lyrics, given her lineage, but it is almost impossible not to start dancing to LDN.
The other two albums are We Are The Pipettes by The Pipettes (well, obviously. Going to see them on the 3rd July in London. Hurrah!) and Victory for the Comic Muse by the Divine Comedy. And, yes, I will be buying the Lily Allen and Pipettes's albums on CD when they are released.
Labels: music, the pipettes, you dancing?
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12:18 pm
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Saturday, June 24, 2006
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No, I really ::heart:: the Pipettes
I've had the album since Wednesday (and will by buying it, never fear). And not only can I not stop playing it, each time I play it I like it more.
You know when you first get into music as a teenager, or proto-teenager. You've still got puppy fat and there is no way you're going to get into any real gigs. Hells, for me gigs were mysterious things my elder sibling went to in Coventry in his best mod finery. But you devour songs. You dance around rooms, singing along even if you have no singing voice, because pop music is great. That's what The Pipettes makes you want to do.
Labels: music, the pipettes, you dancing?
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Saturday, May 27, 2006
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