| JunkStock Benefit Tonight in SF |
[Jul. 11th, 2009|09:35 am] |
5 Cent Coffee will be having a fundraiser for Junkstock this Saturday July 11th at the Plough and Stars in San Francisco. Come support Junkstock and hear the musical stylings of...
Vagabondage
5 Cent Coffee
Kelly McCubbin the Ukulele Apocalypse
Liquor Cake
Just Henry
and more!
$5 door (all proceeds go towards Junkstock 2009)
21+
Vagabondage will also be playing at Junkstock on Saturday, July 25th -- a completely FREE event in Golden Gate Park!
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| Moustache |
[Jul. 11th, 2009|05:04 pm] |
We're all wearing false moustaches. As you can see.
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| The horror begins |
[Jul. 11th, 2009|03:16 pm] |
My little brother had raided my facebook and made ten masks of ME in a REALLY ATTRACTIVE POSE (my "dee face")
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| Oh christ, here we go |
[Jul. 11th, 2009|01:33 pm] |
Departing for a date with destiny! (by which i mean "alcohol poisoning"
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| In memory of the recently Departed |
[Jul. 11th, 2009|10:27 am] |
Work is becoming an amusing list of "things to do", mainly system installs although I have to turn out a procedure document for closing down mailing lists. They run about 30 at work, for all different departments and interest groups. Apparently, lepidopterists are too busy chasing butterflies to actually use their computers and as such one of the lists has had no traffic since it was started and the 'owner' wanted it closed. Delete the list and dispose off the bodiesmail aliases. Think I'll need to check through on a load of the list aliases as some of them may be missing. Oops!
Along with those there's the "amusing" task of geting an open-sourced apache webserver running with open-sourced PHP and coolstack MySQL. Damn thing keeps trying to use the wrong compression libraries. -L's, -l's, -R's, LD_LIBRARY_PATH's, LDPATH's, CC_OPTS', --with-zlib's, --with-zlib-dir's.. none of them seem to make a difference. Check the pcre/crle path, the library path.. nothing! Frus.. frus.. frus... frustration!
I'll get it sorted. Oh yes I will! :)
Anyway, EoD, jump on the toob, get back to base, have a quick spritz in the shower to wash the travel sweat off and then just recline. Now, there had been an inkling of an idea to sample Departure but subsequent to the shower/recline my energies started to desert me. I posted a comment to attest to the same on FB and prepared for a QNI. Shortly after that posting La Saucia messages me about being trapped in a vortex of suck watching a load of pigs intestines rotting on the TV. So together, we hatched a plan, a cunning plan, a cunning plan as cunning as a cunningly cunning fox that has just graduated from cunning school. Ok, we decided to go to Departure.
So, off to Mornington Crescent tube, meet up with La Saucia and take the short hop, skip and a jump down to the Elixir Bar. LS was surprised when I told her it was free in as she'd reckoned that it'd probably be charging door tax. No, free in so we could go, see what it was like and if it wasn't "what was expected" could leave with no real cost. Got there, got in and hear a nice mixture of stompy old school industrial and the bouncy school of EBM (the stuff that came out before EBM just became a cause of repetitive headaches). Exchange 'howdy's with a few (No Psyche. You're hair isn't really "pink". It was probably just the colour wash of 'that' photo, mm'kay? :) ). Self and LS found a place to sit, chat and imbibe alcoholic unctions.
During the course of the evening, various people came and went. It was nice to see Clive again as I haven't seen him in a while. Saucia brought up the subject of militaristic world domination a few projects that may be in the pipeline and also raised the idea of a trip out to Berlin at the start of September. She's thinking about making a group thing out of it so if anybody's interested just holler OK?
Now a real plus point (for me) about the staff at the Elixir Bar was when I asked them what bourbons they served. Expecting the rote answer of "Jack Daniels"[1] imagine my pleasure when the person serving pointed out that they had Maker's Mark and Woodford Reserve. Result! \O/ It is becoming an exceptionally rare event to find people who don't reply 'JD' when you ask for 'bourbon'. Big plus point.
Musically I think Departure was a pleasant veering away from the stock oompa-oompa "breakbeat/beat matching" pool of suck that a lot of the "electronic" nights seem to be. It also worked out as quite a busy night. Well done to the Departure team for scoring the venue and putting it all together.
So, after beer, champagne cocktails and a few bourbons the night wound down to end and we quit out. I left Saucia catching up with a friend of hers and joined ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) elijahtc, combat_kitten and others (probably from the 'Holloway Massive') for the hike up the street to central sCamden wher we all went our separate ways, or rather I jumped on a bus while they just dithered. *grin*
ION, regardless of what certain sources may say... Happy birthday to Big Ben, who first made themselves heard to the world 150 years ago.
[1] Please note: Jack Daniels is NOT a bourbon. It is a charcoal filtered sour-mash whiskey ( American spelling, though not the official spelling. Go figure!). They even say that JD is NOT abourbon on some of their promotional material. |
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[Jul. 11th, 2009|10:56 am] |
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Gah, months of PC nightmare fixed for apparently a grand total of less than 3 weeks. Motherfucker. Suspect part less than 2 months old. Feel surprisingly calm considering. Drinking at Reptile later. |
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[Jul. 11th, 2009|10:08 am] |
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Arepas in the grill, more coffee brewing (well, maybe not 'brewing' , it is an espresso machine but hey). Only glitch is the house full of strangers sleeping in corners, courtesy of ![[info]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) jamesknight's sub-tenant. Lesson in Gospel Oak in a little while, lesson in Stoke Newington a little later, a few things to do around the house, probably Reptile tonight.
Sue's birthday drinks and Departure were all good last night. Took a few pictures at Sue's do in Garlic and Shots, but none at Departure. Had fun, though.
The news headlines are still as depressing as ever. The world doesn't look too bad outside, though. Here we go. |
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[Jul. 11th, 2009|02:03 am] |
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four looks edited, 25 to go lol ... |
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| still feeling ok |
[Jul. 10th, 2009|08:33 pm] |
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lacking sleep this week. still planning on going out tonight and doing some drawing, maybe dancing and some drinking too. busy weekend, tortoise tomorrow and possibly a party, then year to live on sunday followed by another party... see if i can keep up. |
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| motoGP laguna seca 2009 |
[Jul. 10th, 2009|04:21 pm] |
so since i've been a total loser these past few weeks
i avoided going out
which also means i missed out on a lot of things
for instance Round 8 of the MotoGP weekend at Laguna Seca.
usually at luguna i' over at turn 2 for the start and then cruise over to the corkscre to watch that a bit before walking over towards start finish.
but this time, it's all about trying to hunt down videos online after the fact - which is totally lame.
oh well.
motoGP.com has got a nice vid of lorenzo and his huge highside. oof!
but here's a video with part 1 (in italian)
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| glass designs |
[Jul. 10th, 2009|03:15 pm] |
A few years ago I had an idea i wanted to see put into latex.
I ended up talking about it to laura from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) vex_clothing and she came through brilliantly.
they feature stained glass patterns based off of frank lloyd wright and charles rennie mackintosh designs
the collection has never been shown together although a couple years ago there was an attempt to show to pieces at the SF FetishBall.
that totally fell through.
in any case, there's now a featured gallery over at the website
www.vexclothing.com
go take a lookie loo!
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| vex and FLW |
[Jul. 10th, 2009|03:07 pm] |
A few years ago I had an idea i wanted to see put into latex.
I ended up talking about it to laura from vex_clothing and she came through brilliantly.
they feature stained glass patterns based off of frank lloyd wright and charles rennie mackintosh designs
the collection has never been shown together although a couple years ago there was an attempt to show to pieces at the SF FetishBall.
that totally fell through.
in any case, there's now a featured gallery over at the website
www.vexclothing.com
go take a lookie loo!
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| Blah... |
[Jul. 10th, 2009|08:53 pm] |
So, is Ray Bradbury as bad a story-teller as The Ray Bradbury Theatre would suggest? Because I've yet to see an episode of that show that didn't make me want to slap someone. Talk about anticlimax. Every time. And I don't think it's intentional, either. Now the Twilight Zone... they got it spot-on. That's how you make spooky sci-fi, Mr. Bradbury.
Srsly... when it comes to stupid endings, I would put Ray Bradbury and M. Night Shyamalan about on par.
Um... yes. But anyway... I was wondering if there was anything I should be bringing to Azkatraz in the way of English sweeties. Sherbert Lemons, I'm assuming, are a given, but is there anything else? I only have 3 more shopping days. :D |
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| LatexGirlsHD |
[Jul. 10th, 2009|10:12 am] |
During my last visit to London I got to shoot a few videos with LatexGirlsHD wearing latex - of course.
There are some behind the scenes styled shots of me putting on hoods and stockings (without added sound for the fetishists that enjoy the noise that latex makes!)
Lots of hoods and stockings actually (all latex!)
Just do a search for 'kumi' to find the ones with me in them!
;-)
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contemplative