Bodast

It's not a very deep wonder, I'll admit it, but I do always wonder how many of my car could park bumper to bumper between two consequetive telegraph poles on the (grass next to the) dual carriageway. It passes the time.

hattrick.org

hmmmmmmmmmmmm

Baby, I love myself.

Msn? Private message?

EDIT* Actually, I'm interested to see how this budding romance pans out.

But it was too late. They had disappeared into the secret realms of the private message, to hum snatches of Get 'Em Out By Friday to one another and study TGV timetables away from the amicably disinterested masses of ab-music.

Too right. What better basis for marriage is there than geographical location?... That and (going by user profile) a mutual love of Genesis.

Better be prog era Genesis only otherwise it'll never work Bodast.

Good lord Genesis '67-'77 is my life. Though I have grown to enjoy the bursts of Phil Collins' crooning that always seem to appear for four or five tracks on RTL2. Really though, are you from Aberdeen? What are you doing in France?

59 represent!! It's me, you and Tony Koumbware.

Five-nine, 'til I die

No shit!

You two should get married!

Leave me alone, Phil Collins! I think he might really be The One!

I'm glad at least one person knows who i'm on about!!

LILLE???

Who are you? I live in Valenciennes!

Beer dehydrates the skin, man!

Weights and girls, yes.

White wine spritzers and Pride and Prejudice!

Look at Keira Knightley... she must weigh like 90 pounds.

No way.

WAY.

But she's soOoOoOoOoOo prittyful!

I'm sure Lush or the Body Shop would have one.

http://www.lush.co.uk/products/Brazened_Honey_3063.aspx

Same, I will not be around but it's an ace idea! Nice idea to put it on.

Yes, it's so much more expensive to get here than Tokyo.

Well, yeah. I would love to see them again. But many people probs travel a longer way than Aberdeen->London to see them in Tokyo.

We could always start up a tribute (or... Faust-inspired) band called Fauxt.

http://www.faust-pages.com/music/jeanherve/JH_LMC_fastened60-60.mp3

I suppose so....just make sure you do a better job of looking after him than you did at that party in '73!

*awaits karma-style death by lightning*

Oh my, the bad taste!

At least he's highly unlikely to get ill.

X-(

Hmmm......

Ooh can I have a job at your festival, wheeling Robert Wyatt and entertaining him and bringing him refreshments?

Anyway, here's mine. It would be held here: 5013′N 1223′E or thereabouts.

Main stage, set in 1971

Genesis

Magma

Caravan

Spring

Bodast (reunion)

Norman Haines Band

Second stage, set today!

Sportfreunde Stiller

Opeth

Faust

Anajo

Wow, it would be ace.

Bugger

Any reason why?

I believe the reason was that it would have been uneconomical for them to come all the way up here.

PM me or rite here...

CDs 4:

Delays - Everything's the Rush

Jimmy Eat World - Futures (2CD)

Bill Evans - Sunday at the Village Vanguard

Wire - Pink Flag

Bill Hicks - Rant in E Minor

Van Morrison - Astral Weeks

The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free

Nirvana* - Forever Changing (An Introduction)

Rooster - Rooster

System of a Down - System of a Down

Kano - Home Sweet Home

Delays - Faded Seaside Glamour

*Your 60s pop psych friends, not Kurdt and co.

CDs 2:

(hed)pe - The Best Of

M. Craft - I Can See It All Tonight

Pretty Things - Latest Writs/Greatest Hits, the best of

Maximum System of a Down, the unauthorised autobiography

Rick Wakeman and the New English Rock Emsemble - Out There

These ones are singles/promo things and for free in case anyone wants them:

The Stills - Changes Are No Good

Leya - The Dream That Money Bought

The Kills - The Good Ones

Dr. Dog - The World May Never Know

Deftones - Hexagram

Simple Kid - Truck On

Happylife - The Way You Hate Me

Delays - Lost in a Melody/Wanderlust with videos

Longwave - Wake Me When It's Over

Anthony and the Johnsons - You Are My Sister

Dogs - Tarred and Feathered (What a Bad Boy!)

3 Doors Down - Here Without You

R.E.M. - Animal

The Webb Brothers - Ms. Moriarty 7"

Radio 4 - Absolute Affirmation 7"

The Ordinary Boys - Maybe Someday 7"

Belle and Sebastian - Step Into My Office, Baby 7"

I just almost peed my pants rereading this... I saw Faust last week and Jean-Herv sent his apologies about the cancellation.

A little cute very soft toothbrush is nice for brushing dust off the stylus.

Well, the cuteness is optional.

I really liked the last book I read by Camus called The Outsider, but he went mad with this one I'm trying to read. Mad.QUOTE]

The Outsider is probs my favourite book though I've only read it once, I was thinking about reading some more by him but I might not after all!

Today I finished The Closed Circle by Jonathan Coe (good but not as good as the prequel) and now I think I'll read Fathers and Sons (Turgenev) or a French book I found on my bookshelf which appears to be about a train. Or something else? Oh.. but first I think I'll read the Great Gatsby so I can help my little sister with her PSU.

I love it when term ends and I can read whateeever I like.

63. It's in the 7 times table.

I don't feel the need to "define my identity", I am me. If you're "choosing your own identity" then you're not being yourself.

If you want to be someone else go ahead, but it's not going to change who you are, only who other people think you are.

Okay.

I was trying to make general statements but to explain my own point of view, I never stayed in the same country for that long a time when I was growing up, so I feel a part of all of them but at the same time not a part of any of them (= no national identity?). Then when it comes to football I consider it solely as entertainment and thus don't care who anyone supports and how anyone addresses his/her team.

By "choosing an identity" I simply mean building your identity/personality/life through the decisions you make, and not anything more planned than that.

It's an unspoken rule because no-one thinks it needs to be said. How anyone can use "we" without being that nationality, being brought up in that country or having a parent from that country is beyond me, and most people I would suspect. Where is the connection between "you" and "them" that you can use "we".

I think associating yourself with a nation/culture/team is part of defining your identity, and that everyone should be free to choose their own identity, simple as that tbh. I can see your point but I just don't believe it myself.

How can it be contrived to base the national team you support on your nationality?

Sorry, I didn't mean that... I think it's contrived if there's an unspoken rule that the only team you can call "we" is the one from the same country as you, in that, like I said above, if I did that to the Scottish team, it would feel strange despite being Scottish.

I was supporting Switzerland in the Euros, purely on the basis that I lived there for a few months last year. I drew the line at calling them "we" though.

Well, there's a difference between supporting a team casually/for one tournament, and supporting it for years and years. Tbh I'd feel weird calling the Scottish team "we" because I don't follow them, I don't really care how they do and I'm not familiar with any of their players or tactics etc. so it seems kind of contrived to me to base it on nationality.