Friday Feels Fairly Fuzzy
Gak. Too much beer. Once more I stagger into work feeling fuzzy-headed and furry-tongued after a night of beer and song. It’s so fucking hard to concentrate on anything when you really just want to curl up on the floor under your desk and catch up on another six hours of sleep.
Tonight, however, instead of sleep, there will be podcasting and then a trip to the Withered Hand, Ish Marquez and Stanley Brinks gig at about eleven. And tomorrow we all get up nice and early and spend the whole day putting together Meursault albums. This involves screen printing front and back, folding the poster with the lyrics on it, applying a Toad stamp and an orange felt tip to the inlay card, and putting a barcode sticker on the back. Oddly, it is also going to involve watching Wales and Australia play at egg-chasing on the telly. It’s also going to take ages, but should be worth it in the end.
I forgot to mention a couple of gigs earlier in the week (like there weren’t enough already) but Sunday could end up panning out very nicely if you all do as you are told and follow my advice, which is this: potter along to the National Museum of Scotland for three o’clock, when The Pictish Trail will be playing a free set, then go to the pub for a couple of hours (there’s dozens within easy walking distance) and potter along to the Jazz Bar to see Candythief between about nine and half eleven. Candythief have a new album available and if it’s anything like their previous EP I will be absolutely delighted. So there you go – that’s your Sunday planned out for you.
As for Friday, however, there is still some serious business afoot: Five Friday Favourites, as pinched from GUT. It’s been very local on the site this week, so this would be a fine chance for all you lurkers to show the local gangs that you’re not afraid of them and get stuck in on your own account. Go for it – what’s the worst that can happen – public humiliation? Pish posh.
1. Favourite sweetie (in the candy sense, because of Candythief – nothing saucy please).
2. Best work-dodging tip for the terminally hung over.
3. Longest spell spent successfully on the wagon.
4. Soap of choice.
5. Coolest old TV program to search for on YouTube.
The Pictish Trail – I Don’t Know Where to Begin
Candythief – Junk
The Jam – All Mod Cons
The Zincs – The Moguls’ Wives
The Men They Couldn’t Hang – Hush Little Baby
1. black bullets
2. put your ear phones on tidy your desk
3. 15 years (from the age of 0 to 15)
4. Molten Brown Black Pepper Shower gel
5. Rockford Files or Quincy M.E.
1. Sour apple strips. So sour they make the roof of your mouth hurt after about three or four of them.
2. Coding your own website looks good – very technical so it must be work. Mrs. Toad has been known to march off purposefully with a bunch of papers, only to go for an hour’s nap in the disabled loos. Degenerate.
3. I think I managed a month or so, once. Ages ago.
4. Erm, erm… oh fuck it, whatever Mrs. Toad buys.
5. The Muppet fucking Show of course. Any and all answers that differ from this are WRONG!
Chutney.
1. M & M’s.
2. I would think not going to work would probably cover it.
3. Wagon? What wagon?
4. The 10 cakes of organic stuff I got at the Vic Market for $8 in Melbourne today. Bargain!
5. Early this year I had an obsession with the US version of ‘Who’s Line Is It Anyway?’ Colin and Ryan, what a pair of lads they are.
1. “I responded to his potentially fatal peanut allergy by holding him up against the wall and making him play Russian Roulette with a bag of Revels.”
2. Absolutely the worst killer hangover I ever had at work was when I was working in a reference library and was unfortunately timetables to be on enquiries on the public counter. I just sat there with my head in my hands staring at the desk looking like shit (and probably smelling none too good either) and nobody bothered me at all.
3. I stopped drinking when I was 15 and didn’t start again until just before I was 18. Not entirely sure why. Another attempt to be different, I suspect.
4. I do not have a favourite soap, I’m not really bothered, although (and I appreciate that this is a very different question) I still have left just the tiniest amount of Ice Blue shampoo from The Body Shop which they stopped making about five years ago – I bought litres of the stuff when I realised it was being withdrawn and there’s just a teeny tiny bit left. I have started to experiment with other minty shampoos but they’re just not the same, I think it’s the ‘memory sense’ thing – ice blue triggers certain very nice memory rushes for me.
5. Best find (helped by a friend) was ‘La Cabina’, technically not a tv show but everyone I knew saw it, it was that Spanish thing about a phone box that was on late one Friday night. I recommend it.
1. Haribo Tangfastics
2. Stride purposefully around the office carrying a piece of paper.
3. Erm.. Monday?
4. Dallas
5. Wile E. Coyote and Roadrunner cartoons. Pre-1965
1. Fruit Salad. Once again, for the irony more than anything.
2. Um, I’m just going to finish this report from home.
3. Probably about a month. Would have been a while ago, mind.
4. I don’t understand the question.
5. I’m aware that Space Ghost: Coast to Coast is not an old TV programme, but this clip features Pavement playing in a cartoon studio whilst a retired super hero/talk show host tries to interview Goldie Hawn.
Or Reeves and Mortimer.
1. fruit salads. retro sweet shop beside my work. magic.
2. stay off or adopt mrs toads approach. have done that before also.
3. about 3 months a couple of years ago. felt better than ever but decided I couldn’t be sober around drunk people as they annoyed me. I’m guessing i’ll be back on the wagon after february though for some time.
4. It’s got to be the stuff they use in Teuchters….come on Dylan, you have to remember the soap in there? Remember, Shonagh was ripping us cause we were sitting smelling our hands after bathroom trips. Failed to get the name though.
5. I don’t really use you tube but if I had to then it would be for Magyver.
1 Wilson’s Original Champion Toffee
2. Do “research” online. As I am doing now, so it definitely works. Though I’m not hungover so much as thoroughly bored of work.
3. A couple of months now, actually.
4. Thursday Plantation Tea Tree Skin Care Soap. Words cannot describe how good this stuff is. It seems the Aussies have a reason for existing after all.
5. The 90’s Batman cartoon with Mark Hamill as the Joker.
Chutney.
Dear, you will be CLEANING all weekend. I just got back from Godblessmerka and the house is a tip. Mirror ball still cool though.
1. Soor plooms, midget gems (Lions Original only) and sports mixture, all gallas.
2. See disabled toilet above. For those who like to plan ahead, the best trick is to somehow secrete your coat nearby so you have a pillow. The truly luxurious option is making a wee fluffy bed with a couple of packs of paper towels on the floor too. Not eco friendly granted, but needs must.
3. A month. Sometime. I think?
4. Coconut soap – smells like holidays
5. South Park and chewin the fat. Set phasers tae malky!
you ok Matthew?
Gallus. Gallas is a moody Arsenal tantrum-merchant.
now you’re just trying to confuse our cousins
The Muppet Show. Fucking felty genius.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yvHWyvexZA
I make a cracking peach and red onion chutney to go on ham as it goes (proper gammon slices not wafer thin 50 sheets for a £1 ham)
Chutney.
Have you seen your new pin spot for your disco ball, Mrs. Toad?
It makes everything twinkly.
1. sports mixtures, not the ones that you can buy in the supermarket but ones from a big tub in a shop that always seem to be run by a slightly creepy old man that shouldnt be selling stuff to children.
2. go to the pub
3. 4 nights is probably a record
4. Eastenders
5. Johnny Fucking Briggs…. legend, http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lP5u8b1L9LA
Euan, it wasn’t so much the soap but the moisturising lotion..
After me and you had been to pay a visit a few times each there was so much of the stuff collected on the door handle that it was impossible to get any purchase on it to open the door!
Smelled lovely though..
1. those chewy/gelatin heavy Alphabet/Letter sweets that you get in 39p or 3 for a pound bags
2. it all depends on your working environment, so not all things will work for all job types: here I can either (a) “visit” the RnD department (which is tucked very far away at the back of the building), (b) look for something in the warehouse (with a £1mill worth of 1200 different product types on our shelves – not mentioning the thousands of surplus to requirement goods – that could take me hours), (c) call up a friendly colleague or contact =for a chin wag(preferably overseas as this may result in you having to set up a skype call to save costs & that then looks & sounds much more like work), (d) offer to be the sandwish/chip shop monkey & walk to either – BUT the best way I’ve found to cure a hangover is not have one in the first place – get yourself some Vitamin B1 patches (Boots sell them as insect repellent patches) & put one on each arm an hour before you go out & you’ll be right as rain in the morning whatever quantity or concoction of alcohol you pour down your throat.
3. 6 months (2004)
4. Silvasan silver ion anti-microbial (military issue) soap
5. Moonlighting
1. jelly tots
2. i sit at the very back so can dodge away and no-one is any the wiser. Bonus.
there is something wrong with my computer. Sorry.
2b. I did have a friend that was temping but had no idea what his job was so for a month he just shuffled paper around on his desk until his review where he was told he was doing a fine job. He quit shortly after.
3. One horrible month
4. Don’t care
5.sunset beach
i’ve just been for my lunch….had a strong coffee for afters…….now i’m feeling a little anxious
1. Maoam Stripes
2. Work from home then fill in Friday questionnaires on home PC
3. I’ve never stopped drinking, but I did stop getting drunk around 17 years ago – only two lapses in that time. I know – how uncool….
4. Brookside
5. Hill Stree Blues – “lets be careful out there”
Ricardo are you a little cuban porn star?
Now that, Ricardo, is from a different universe! I’ve never seen that program before, or even heard of it. Genius! And do you mean Sports Mixture before the bastards took the licquorice one out? That was a fucking travesty.
no venezuelan
definitely, and before they made them too soft – they used to be made of stronger stuff, we are setting the kids up to fail now.
But you are a pornstar? Tom, where the fuck did that question come from?
Exactly. What’s wrong with society today? Poofy Sports Mixture, that’s what!
it just popped into my coffee addled brain
Still in the early stages, amateur shit y’know, bit of solo work, this n that – i’m really just trying to get an agent at the moment…
Ah, Johnny Briggs… we’ve used the theme tune a number of times, Toad. There’s something rather comforting about the belly swell brass in it.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eOFRIWx5F9c&feature=related
is it me or is this just a little too werid
Are spending your afternoon surfing vaguely inappropriate children’s television?
kinda
makes you wonder who ricardo is. i wonder who he is………..
i think you know mr thesteinbergprinciple, if that is indeed your real name…
is it Honest Harry?
Not as weird as this:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=krXP_TUZqsk
“I like to do everything boys and girls like to do….”
i’m pretty confident that i’ve worked with you in the past……so to speak.
i just became me again. i’m even getting confused with this double personality shit.
worked with? as in the porn industry?
if you are who i think you are, will you be going along on sunday? be good to catch up and discuss your latest movies.
“i just became me again”
in my old student days I would have had a field day with this
What the fuck is going on?
Can we go and get drunk yet?
yeah….where?
1. Cherry Cola bottles by the bucket
2. When I used to work on the Tesco deli as a young’un I used to go and have a nap in the fresh flower chiller….happy days.
3. 6 whole weeks. Was a total lightweight after though.
4. Soap? ewwwww it gets stuck in your nails!
5. Chocky, I laugh so much now as it used to really scare me
that clip is just wrong, but whats just as weird is the comment left on youtube by 2012 Mustang – Its youtube – probably not the best place to disclose such a thing
aye, i’ll be there.
i’m off to the pub now.
see you sunday richie, tom, bart and whoever else is coming through to the weedge for the Glasgow leg of Gimme Shelter.
although – tom and bart i will see tomorrow night at the caves.
Rhian you’re not admitting that you don’t wash, are you? That’s a bit strange, even for the Welsh.
i’m going to the pub also…..so there
I do wash, I just dont like to think about soap as it freaks me out. I prefer the term shower gel…much better
soap makes your hands all weird.
thought you were off to the pub
Again, Euan, that’s the moisturising lotion.
I am still enjoying this:
“I responded to his potentially fatal peanut allergy by holding him up against the wall and making him play Russian Roulette with a bag of Revels.”
from the 5th comment.
As to you lot discussing toiletries – ugh. Freaky. You’re men (most of you) just stop it.
waiting on a mate. they won’t leave til 4.
the moisturising lotion was amazing. you know it. just admit it Dylan, there’s nothing to be ashamed about.
Woody Allen, no?
Oh maybe Bart. I have the habit of assuming that if it is even slightly amusing, then it probably has nothing whatsoever to do with Woody Allen.
Noted.
“Well I’m standing on a corner in Wilmslow, Arizona.
Such a fine sight to see!
It’s a girl, my Lord, in a flat-bed Ford,
Slowing down to take a look at me…”
For fuck’s fucking sake, Dylan.
What?
Euan quotes the Wave Pictures and this is the best you can manage?
My brain’s fried, been a mental week and that’s a great song for a Friday afternoon.
I HAVE ALREADY DECIDED WHAT YOU WILL BE LISTENING TO ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND IT IS NOT THE EAGLES.
Okay. Simple straw poll amongst whoever’s still online and hasn’t gone to the pub…
Eagles, Take It Easy. Good song for a Friday.
Yes or no?..
…
chutney snowball
1. Favourite sweetie (in the candy sense, because of Candythief – nothing saucy please).
Anything licorice, salty Swedish/Dutch versions are the best.
2. Best work-dodging tip for the terminally hung over.
Falling to the floor in pretense of fainting spell, used that one more than once in my waitressing days. Yes it works but does allow nasty co-workers to assume you’re pregnant or drug addicted or both.
3. Longest spell spent successfully on the wagon.
too long, oh god, too long…
4. Soap of choice.
LUSH’s Karma, yummmmm and yes we bought our first bar of it in Glasglow so happy memories of it too.
5. Coolest old TV program to search for on YouTube.
Matthew, I concur, only the Muppets can be cool! Well done, sir!
Wow, I have seriously come in late to this particular party.
1. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. Chocolatey peanut-buttery goodness,yum.
2. Drink fuck-off huge cup of strong coffee with milk and sugar while making random doodles and hoping my German teacher is merciful and doesn’t call on me. Or just don’t go to class at all and curl up in bed with a novel instead.
3. Three weeks back in March, when I had a total of 8,000 words to write and wanted all brain cells on battle stations. Man, the victory pint of cider tasted awesome.
4. Anything vanilla scented. Mmmmm, delicious.
5. I’m with Dylan; I spent a lazy morning looking up my favorite ones from childhood. “What’s Opera, Doc?” is still hysterically funny.
I sometimes get comments on these threads on Sundays, Sarah, so I don’t think you’re doing that badly. However, come around here boasting about have the option of simply not going to class is downright mean-spirited.
Tart, they must have thought you had a medicine cabinet like a pharmaceutical lab, for fuck’s sake.
1. Joseph Schmidt truffles. not that i’ll be having any of those anytime soon. (1 small box thereof = 1/4 of week’s grocery allotment in our new budget. bluh.)
2. As a teacher… show a video. We all sleep. It’s peaceful.
3. erm… that time tart threatened to leave me if i didnt quit getting shitfaced all the time… i think i was scared sober for quite a while after that, but it was like, 1993 so i dont remember how long.
4. “snowcake” by LUSH. smells of almonds, only sweeter and fluffier…
5. i don’t have the attention span to watch a whole tv show on youtube. i just watch political satire, obama speeches, and stupid pet videos.
p.s. i was very disappointed about ricardo. i thought i was falling in love.
p.p.s. tart, chutney snowball? thats disgusting!!!
Yes, I think disgusting just about covers it.
You mean you were disappointed that Ricardo wasn’t actually looking for an agent to further his porn career? Yes, it was a bit of a let-down.
No song by the eagles has ever been, or ever will be, a good song.
For any day.
ever.
well, he just seemed so funny and sweet, and you know, i was gonna make him feel welcome here and all (even tho i’m a bit player myself)… i’m no agent but i was gonna offer to do some work with him in his new career, that sort of thing… i’m always up for making a bit o’ porn. tart, should i tell them where they can see some?
p.s.
Absolutely.
Sorry, Matthew. (But seriously, how can you not love that song for a Friday? I mean, it’s not all obscure and indie and cool, but, c’mon… it’s so Friday).
um, i know this is out of place here, but i just read the comments on the anti-consumerist-christmas-pro-drinking-in-front-of-the-telly-with-friends post…. (after being harassed by Tart for like three days to read it…ok, ok, it was fuckin’ hilarious, i admit!) and i was afraid if i commented there C&B wouldn’t see it, so, here’s my comment to C&B….
C&B, we used to live in NYC… it’s one of the best places in the world for Christmas…so anyway, one piece of advice: i know they’re expensive but you absolutely must see the Rockettes’ Christmas Spectacular. 5 and 8? you MUST. seriously. i’ll cry if you don’t.
that’s all.
See? Meatpocket gets it…
(Thank you!)
Bollocks to Meatpocket.
I think Meatpocket would prefer a nice juicy clam than a serving of sweaty bollocks dear.
Oh, she’s a greedy bitch, she’ll take both, I can assure you! Kind of you to look out for her tho, M’am xoxo