| Find another race |
[Nov. 20th, 2009|11:17 am] |
Oldschool Prodge :)
ahhhhh, now that's proper music.
Forgot it had a pisstake of Altern8 in that video! :D
Good times! |
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| Sennheisers |
[Nov. 20th, 2009|11:03 am] |
THEY'RE ALIVE!
My beloved Sennheiser HD25 headphones broke last weekend, when I was trying to finish They Keep On Coming, so I had to mix it on a pair of Sony "look mah, i'm a DJ" things that I bought to look cool in clubs for travelling because of their padding, but which sound crap (all BOOMY BASS, no clarity).
They're sonically wonderful, quite affordable, enclose strongly (which diminishes spill from the backing track while recording vocals) and comfy to wear all night, but their achilles heel is that the leads often go crackly.
I've had this pair about 6 years now, and I suspect the leads needed occasional wiggling after about 2 years, up to the point where last weekend, one side flaked out so much I wiggled it and the fucking pin snapped.
I still ADORE these cans (6 years of drunken studio use, gigging, DJing, etc - that's nae bad for £140) but i was fucking pissed off and couldn't afford a new pair this month, which means a much diminished music-writing experience until I got a new pair.
Fortunately, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) samoth had run into a similar problem a while back and bought me a new cable when he ordered one for himself, which I'd forgotten about! (thanks, man! and thankya to Mr Eris for posting it me!)
After fitting the lead, everything's back to fucking perfect (and no breaky connections).
Money saved, working headphones, fucking bliss.
Good start to the day :) |
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[Nov. 20th, 2009|08:38 am] |
Corben just figured out his first Blue's Clues by himself :D
I hadn't been watching and he keeps going "a choo-choo there! a CHOO CHOO THERE!!"
Then Steve sits down and shows his clues are a box, a cone and a sound (a train sound, as it turns out) - and Blue wanted to sit in the box and make the train noise using the cone like a megaphone (a bit contrived!), but yes, indeed, they did want to play at trains.
Am quite proud of the little bugger :)
I found his drilling equipment the other day... |
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| (no subject) |
[Nov. 19th, 2009|08:04 pm] |
Well, damn, one good thing happened today: Blair is NOT president of the EU council.
Regardless of how much of a figurehead role that would have been, it would be fucking galling to see the smug, evil bastard leering out from every damned front page for another bunch of years.
Off you fuck, war criminal scum. |
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| Pirate Finder General |
[Nov. 19th, 2009|04:35 pm] |
This is UTTERLY fucked.
A source close to the British Labour Government has just given me reliable information about the most radical copyright proposal I've ever seen.
Secretary of State Peter Mandelson is planning to introduce changes to the Digital Economy Bill now under debate in Parliament. These changes will give the Secretary of State (Mandelson -- or his successor in the next government) the power to make "secondary legislation" (legislation that is passed without debate) to amend the provisions of Copyright, Designs and Patents Act (1988).
What that means is that an unelected official would have the power to do anything without Parliamentary oversight or debate, provided it was done in the name of protecting copyright.
[READ MORE]
[edit]: Please do repost this, tweet it, facebook it, just plain MENTION it to people.
People have to fucking know what they're trying to pull, there has to be some kind of a backlash. |
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| well, piss. |
[Nov. 19th, 2009|11:35 am] |
the crap thing about dozing off talking to kirsten is that when I wake up in the morning feeling all happy, she's not there, lying next to me.
i love that woman like mad and missing her is driving me up the wall. |
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| farmville |
[Nov. 18th, 2009|03:40 pm] |
I've only just realised why people build a little cage in the center of their farms in Farmville.
Given how I'm a games programmer, my embarrassment at this is quite high, though not as high as my embarrassment from actually playing the fucking thing up to level 25.
That said, Geoff Echo, hard-man of international industrial superstars, Modulate, is a level 31 whoopsie, whereas Scott from the New Slaves is only level 16.
I bet Reznor's got a massive industrial fucking SPACE FARM. |
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| (no subject) |
[Nov. 18th, 2009|03:17 pm] |
Steve's learning to juggle on Blue's Clues, and he just said:
"Woah, Blue - do you think I'm ready to practice with two balls?"
Oh, Steve, how could you?
Watched another episode earlier, in which he was doing a (not bad) impression of David Attenborough (while going out to look at nature)... I thought you dirty, filthy Yank Bastards didn't use our man Attenborough, King of Nature Programs, and instead over dubbed him with Sigourney Weaver or fucking Xzibit or something.
"YO, DAWG, I HERD U LIEK DOGS SO WE PUT SOME DOGS IN THIS DOG!!"
- Xzibit, Life on Earth, Canine Pregnancy special.
So yeah, are you disgusting, hideous Septics aware of Attenborough?
ANSWER ME. |
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| you kids, with your floppy discs and your dot-matrix printers and your cha-cha-cha |
[Nov. 18th, 2009|12:08 am] |
Didn't drink tonight.
Quite wanted to.
(not angry, not upset, didn't want to write music, it's just been a long day and I sleep in the same room I've been working all day, so it helps to delineate work from non-work)
But didn't.
Instead I had a bath and am going to read some scifi (Neal Asher - Shadow of the Scorpion) while listening to my Heart of Gold drone loop, with the fan on, the light off and the room full of pulsing LEDs.
I may make a brief sojourn into Twitter and IRC to briefly call everyone cunts, for I am A GRUMPY OLD MAN OF THE FUTURE.
No, i'm not Warren Ellis, he's THE Grumpy Old Man of the Future. I see him down the allotment, sometimes, mind. Pissing up my shed wall and digging up my fractal runner-beans.
Anyway, get your avatar off my lawn. |
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| nag nag nag |
[Nov. 17th, 2009|11:15 pm] |
Hmmm, nagging me every day to upgrade to the new AVG 9.0?
What a great reminder!*
... to replace AVG with Avast.
* That, and your convenient tendency to believe that cracks and patches no other AV thinks are viruses are lethal threats. Ta-ta, you fucking nuisance. |
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| Borderlands |
[Nov. 16th, 2009|03:41 pm] |
Just picked up Borderlands for the XBox 360 and gave it a quick hour's play before work... liking it! Slightly reminiscent of Fallout3 (a bit RPG, a bit action, fairly post-apocalyptic) but with multiplayer options (by christ, I'd sell my cock for multiplayer F3).
If anyone wants a buddy for a multiplayer session, give me a poke :)
(I'm DeathBoyUK on XBox live) |
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| THE DEMONS KEEP ON COMING |
[Nov. 14th, 2009|07:19 pm] |
DeathBoy - They Keep On Coming
did not expect them
and still they came
hit the dancefloor running
barely got away
never look behind you
wasting moments while they gain
get inside and slam the door
try to tranquilise the pain
you'll realise that you're undone
with demons having all the fun
there are monsters grinning outwards from
the space behind your eyes
Impossible, now, to console
Tell yourself you're in control
the dissonance demands
a very special sacrifice
I really do not give
a single mother-loving fuck
if you approve or disapprove
well, I've got something you can suck
And now there's only just one drug
that's still effective to me
and I've got only one vein left
remaining open to receive
Once more unto the bleach, dear friends
Shave your head and make amends
A little makeup, we can shake-up
Tell your dealer to hit me hard
We've rode the comedown to the end
we've seen more life than you can comprehend
Hold your fucking head up high
Tonight, baby, we're all superstars
When the beasts are getting close
and they're scratching at the door
you stop and lick your wounds
I tell them "give me fucking more"
They call us "out of control"
but we were never more alive
they break a fingernail
Use ours to hold onto our lives
Once more unto the bleach, dear friends
Shave your head and make amends
A little makeup, we can shake-up
Tell your dealer to hit me hard
We've rode the comedown to the end
we've seen more life than you can comprehend
Hold your fucking head up high
Tonight, baby, we're all superstars
There's no point in running
'cos the demons keep on coming
hand-grenades and heart-attacks
they've got their hooks inside your back
When your vision fills with cracks
when you wake up, it's all black
you know there is no going back
and all the future's broken glass
We can get there if we try
Bleeding, glistening and blind
and if we fall and if we fail
I'd sooner fight than fucking die |
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| rain |
[Nov. 14th, 2009|03:42 pm] |
Today, I shall mostly be rocking my "bedraggled wolverine" look.
oh yeah. the mess behind me is what the weather's done to our garden and gazebo.
My hair was a minor casualty. |
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| Hell FUCKING yes. |
[Nov. 10th, 2009|02:34 pm] |
IT IS WITH SOME CONSIDERABLE FUCKING PLEASURE
THAT I JUST BOUGHT SOME FUCKING SIZE 36 JEANS
AND FIT INTO THEM WITH MILES TO SPARE.
Almost tried some 34s, but didn't want to spoil my jubilation
This is as opposed to the horrifying size 38 that I had been for the last three or four fucking YEARS, and which sickened and disgusted me to realise I had become. This monstrous waist and circumstance led to my having to spend the intervening time like a kind of fucking sartorial leper, hobbling from shop to shop, buying jeans because they HAD some size 38s, not because I liked those particular jeans, begging shop assistants to just kill me and put me out of my trouserial misery.
Yes, indeed, ladies, gentlemen and sexual man-leopards from the planet Zorbon Prime (with your high-bandwidth, testicular internet connections) - there is now, very tangibly, slightly fucking less of me to love.
If you ask very, very nicely, you may lick me.
LICK ME.
LICK ME NOW. |
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| rage |
[Nov. 10th, 2009|12:27 pm] |
Frustration is:
When your super-cheap, super-convenient USB and VGA KVM switch FINALLY arrives on the slow-boat from hong-kong, realising that you don't have a spare VGA lead.
FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU... |
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| The Box. |
[Nov. 9th, 2009|10:40 pm] |
| [ | Music |
| | High Energy - The Box | ] |
Probably need to get this Hellraiser fixation out of my system sooner rather than later.
I just opened my LJ client to find the unposted phrase:
What's your pleasure, sir?
If I didn't know that it was ME that left that there for ME, having been too drunk, beligerent or just plain weird to not actually post it, I might be quite spooked.
Don't appear to have set my desktop to THE BOX, so that's a winner.
3 movies down, 4 to go, I think. |
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