I almost lost it today with someone on the phone, such a rude and arrogant fucker. I especially enjoyed it when I told him that he’d be paying for the repairs on his vehicle rather than it being covered through his warranty policy (I’m a claims technician for people who aren’t aware of my vocation!). Chew on that Mr Rumbelow-Brown (made up name) you cheesy nobrot collector!
Still no swearing in the office though. C’mon!
No fines for me!!! And yes, I’m quite suprised to say the least!
We have work experience types in the office all this week; being true professionals we’re going to have a profanity-free zone enforced by a rather dubious looking swear box (it’s actually a drinking glass with a makeshift Mercedes-Benz banner around the rim, don’t laugh at the word rim because it’ll cost you a quid!).
Given how much I enjoy swearing (I believe it’s an artform personally), I genuinely don’t know how I’m going to stop bankrupting myself over the course of the working week, so I thought I’d take the brass band by the horns and blog my frustration here! Labiatastic.
If I make it through the week without spending a tenner I’ll be genuinely impressed, so, here goes nothing!
Fucking bollocky bastard rancid twatbags!
Is it just me, or does chicken become far more appealing aesthetically when grilled if you cut ‘gill’ style knife slits into it beforehand?
I’m on lunch at the moment using my colleague Kraig’s wireless dongle (Dongle sounds like an Australian sex toy doesn’t it?) via the laptop. Very snazzy. Although why there aren’t widely available free wireless networks in my area by now god only knows (yes, I know there’s too much money to be made by greedy providers).
Anyway, I spent last night fiddling with the latest mix of GIVE A LITTLE HELP following a prod from Alex; specifically trying to get to grips with bouncing tracks on the desk in order to free up extra recording space. I honestly couldn’t believe how simple the bounce function is on my Tascam, you arm the tracks, push record and off you go! ::insert an ‘I told you so’ statement from Alex here::
For those of you who aren’t familiar with ‘bouncing’ you basically combine any number of the tracks on the mixing desk (each track has an instrument, guitar, bass, drums) onto one or more tracks. This is especially handy if you are using an 8 track recorder like me and only find yourself with 2 tracks left to complete a song with. So for example last night I took 4 tracks including two guitars, two drum tracks (left and right channels) and consolidated them into just 2. That now leaves 6 tracks to put bass, vocals and other bits onto the mix with.
I’m also using the nanoverb effects unit to separate sound out a bit and pretty pleased with the result so far. I intend to concentrate on the mix again tonight and get the levels right, then I’ll throw it through Sony Soundforge to try and get something listenable onto the site. I’m determined to salvage the demo we did and get something decent out of it!
FREEDOM!
I’m a very big fan of Danny Kaye, George Formby and Will Hay…hence the title of this post 🙂
I think they all have two things in common, they were great, unique comedians and they seem to be a bit negelcted.
What do I like about their films? They’re good fun…usually pretty harmless, they make me laugh/smirk and the “good guy” always wins. There are no tits, no swearing and if there are any special effects then they usually involve lots of rope or a really dodgy backdrop.
Here’s a funky link, it’s Danny Kaye in the Inspector General – http://www.archive.org/details/the_inspector_general
Now all I’ve got to do is find some George Formby, Will Hay, W.C.Fields, Warner Oland…
Favourite films:
Danny Kaye – A Song is Born
George Fomby – Let George Do It!
Will Hay – The Goose Steps Out
I’ve just eaten 2 large plates of food down at the curry buffet in Croydon; my stomach is so bloated I think I’m having an Indian baby…..
Oh the irony?
I’ve really been looking forward to watching both the new Narnia film and the new Indiana Jones film.
Here are my incredibly infomative and useful reviews for the 2 aforementioned films.
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian – It’s ok(ish), drags on a bit, the story is a bit jumpy and the action is a bit flat.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – Hmmmm. Harrison Ford looks bored, the story is a bit poopy™, I found Shia LaBeouf to be a bit annoying and the film was generally dull.
So…I present to you something a lot more entertaining than Prince Caspian and Indiana HuntingforBones…
Ooooh, a bit of Antikrish research ensued this Sunday afternoon all because of my friend Beth’s status update on Facebook.
Beth said she wanted a monkey (assuming it was because a friend went to the zoo and not due to anything unwholesome), anyway, to me a monkey is £500 (my dad and brother also use these terms a fair bit) and after educating her on this I eventually pondered where the saying came from originally.
So, a bit of background. Various people from London (mainly working class) have different names for certain denominations of money, some get their meaning from cockney rhyming slang, for example, a fiver is a ‘lady’ (cockney rhyming slang for Lady Godiver), a tenner is a ‘cockle’ (Cock and hen = ten).
There are also terms for money which don’t have a link to rhyming slang, like a Pony (£25), a score (£20), and a monkey to name but a few.
Imagine how chuffed I was to find that the term ‘monkey’ and ‘pony’ all stem from British colonialism in India. How cool is that?
“The term monkey comes from British soldiers returning from India where the 500 rupee note had a picture of a monkey on it. They used the term monkey for 500 rupees and on returning to England the saying was converted for sterling to mean £500. The 25 rupee note had a picture of a pony on it, hence why a pony is £25.”
Nice one Beth, you monkey lover!
Absolutely genius. Love this so much, the kids expression is brilliant! Thanks to Brett for showing me this. It’s almost as good as Laurel and Hardy.
The Antikrish 
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