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Steve Howe... a few other musicians. Went past Milan Baros in the airport but we were on opposite horizontal-escalators so by the time I had recognised him, suspiciously eyed his enormous companion (bodyguard?), taken in his solemn expression and decided it would be best not to disturb him, he was already far far away anyway...

I didn't find it funny, sorry. It is perhaps partially saved by the descent into that surrealish flipping between pie and diarrhea here and there with abandon towards the end, but up til then I didn't feel it had any allure.

Funeral for a Friend - it was probably pants but it was my first gig except for big'uns, so I was too busy taking things in to pay attention to the music.. The Grim Northern Social, Nov 11th 2003 - the start of a long obsession... Focus gig there was really cool too. [edit: Yes, I remember it still - heading outside with my friend and spotting Thijs van Leer near the ticket office - I froze... I stared at him. He stared at me. I stared at him. Then my adrenaline arrived, I ran away with a mumble/hiss of "That's him!"]

Ffs! Where else are they playing?

Yummy yummy!

Hey that's true! I always try to speak Czech to people here and there, I had a long conversation with a bouncer at Snafu once, and Petra at the Tunnels lent me some Czech books, but otherwise a lot of them are kind of busy working and don't want to talk to me... plus their English is so good it's easier to default to that. That's why it's good going to north Bohemia because people's second language is German which I can hardly speak at all.

Maybe I should spend the year trying to define cool with the ultimate aim of publishing a coffee table book of 'cool' pictures. "Fat and Beardy" by Steven Dedalus on the front cover.

Travis Del Amitri Deacon Blue Mediocre-but-pleasant pop-rock, mmm.

Well that was the planned meaning...

Finntroll/Amon Amarth in London earlier this year was a lot of fun

Hmm. Well for the second time in this thread I'd like to extend my apologies, and this time they are at least semi-sincere because, although it doesn't particularly matter what persona I present online, I'd rather not be seen as exactly that student type. Sorry if I come across as obnoxious/a bit of a dick, it's juvenileness and the reason I don't write blogs. At the same time, c'mon, I'm 19, I have to do the year abroad anyway, and I'm going to pursue cool at the same time like my life depends on it while I have the chance. (Provided cool = riding trams for days on end and comparing past participles in Moravian and Bohemian dialects, which is what I will be doing if I can't figure out a goddamn plan!) Don't you remember being young and carefree?

Although I find it heart-warming that you feel you know me well enough to make assumptions about me from a couple of posts (couple of words??) on here, I feel you've misconstrued my wishes... and although I plan for the year to gratify me (well, I've been given twelve months in which I'm still tecnically at uni but in which I can do, to a degree, whatever I want; of course I want to have fun) and will probably be a somewhat egotistical in doing so, I'm looking for suggestions that might potentially make it less vacuous (and leaving the interpretation of 'less vacuous' up to my ardent readership). Maybe I should have explained that in the thread title _

Howja mean?

By the way, I really like this idea (I had a vague idea of going to Northern France/Lille area anyway so it's quite close). What's the public transport like in the French speaking area as a whole, do you know? I was in Hasselt and I was really delighted, but I believe it's run by the mayor of each place. (?)

We don't need you, we love Stripey.

My deepest and most sincere apologies. I would write a long defence of my worldliness detailing all of the splendid appreciation of other countries that I have already completed, but I feel it would be wasted on someone who evidently doesn't realise that 'cool' has an enormous range of meanings and could be substituted for various more literary words, but is appropriate, thanks to its versatility, for a casual discussion on an internet forum which is dominated by young people who use it here and there with abandon to express all manners of positive attitude, (or, for that matter, someone who deigns to send me "back to college" when he himself/she herself doesn't know that 'grow up' is not a hyphenated verb). To the others, thanks for your ideas - WOW! - they sound really cool.

Oh not so fast, don't forget the evidence for the defence! "Lmao! jager song is the best thing ive heard it too long hahaha nice one!!! xxxx" "ahahahahah the jagermeister song is hilarious!!!!! im sat almost in tears of laughter lmao" "my fav part is theres a moose a moose aboot this hoose. well scottish like." "that jagermeister song is too funny! hahaha lol awesome song, plain awesome." "MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Just heard the jeger song!!!!!! Best song i heard in a long time!!!" They are also propa cute.

Well hai, I just discovered I have to tell my tutors tomorrow/soon what my plans are for my year abroad (2008-09) - the only rules are that I have to get fluent in my two languages (French and Czech) and I'd prefer at least some employment stuff so I can.. uh.. pay for a room and stuff, though if I make a case for something original they'll give me some cash. And I don't want to spend the whole year in Prague and Paris. So far I have: Work for a couple of months at Disneyland Paris (try to get promoted to a dressing up position) Do an internship at Prague Radio (they sometimes get to interview interesting people: actors who are filming thereabouts, politicians etc.) Try to get a job at Ceska Televize (next year Smicer is doing Czech Rep's Premiership programme, I might get to make him coffee...) Emm... au pair... a course at a university somewhere. Any inspiring suggestions? Thanks in advance

Oh cool! I might come. Turns out they're also playing near the Czech/German border just on the day that I need to figure out which route to take from Czech Rep to Germany as well. Hmmmmmmmm

If Scotland beat Italy I'll uh... learn how to play something on my bass (a big step since I've hardly picked it up since I bought it). (If Slavia win their next two CL matches and Sevilla lose their next two... I'll learn how to play a whole album's worth, read the entire works of Michel de Montaigne, and not wear the same pair of pants two days in a row until the final. And if they win the final I'll wear the same pair for a whole week to celebrate (but if they lose I will too, to celebrate the end of this abstinence.))

Glad to hear it, I'll have to come see you guys some time. I just seem to always find that I'm not in Aberdeen. ?( Yeah, you should see what you can sort out. I'm sure you could rouse some interest in those ruffian friends of yours Let me know if you will be anyway, it should be an ace weekend!

Yeah... must have completely passed me by. I'm sure now I know about it I'll notice. Sounds pretty strange and rubiss tbh.

How it goes? I don't know it.

:| feelgood movie 1. A movie that makes your lip tremble, eyes well up and makes you really wish you hadn't gone to see it on your own, and simultaneously glad you went to see it on your own so you don't have to feign nonchalant unmoved-ness when the lights come up.

Oh my mum recommended that too. Think I'll read it when I go home.