Comments on: Five Festival Farkleberries

By: Dylan

Dylan — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:21:31 +0000

I know what you mean about cramming songs onto mixtapes, Boyhowdy.

It was years before I realised the song Chewbacca by Supernova was more than about a minute long, after a mate had included an – ahem! – edited version to use up the last couple of inches of a tape he did for me..

By: boyhowdy

boyhowdy — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:08:26 +0000

I know it’s not Friday anymore, but I’m catching up, so sue me:

1. I’m a teacher; work social events are a bit desperate, really, and who wants to hang out with a bunch of people whose primary claim to their vocation includes a) a desire to spend oodles of time with zit-faced teen and b) a tendency to believe that people care what you have to say, and c) a honed ability to blather on about what something means.

2. Scalding, but I stay in them until they’re warmish.

3. No, but then, having just come from a folk festival where the newest thing was “chambergrass”, which a friend dismissed before he even heard any as “classical music for old hippies”, my whole sense of dismissal is a bit skewed.

4. Grapes. It’s like Mitch Hedberg said about rice: sometimes, you just want a thousand of something.

5. Best mixtape ever: I once tried to fit 50 songs on a ninety minute cassette tape. Took bloody forever, and the girl didn’t seem to care much for it; guess nerd-dom wasn’t cool yet then. Also the most frustrating thing to listen to ever.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:07:46 +0000

Tim, in Scottish you could well be called a ‘swearty bastart’ and that would actually work, on these shores.

By: adam

adam — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:25:32 +0000

1. Splendid. I’ve been working in my current school for nine years so I now know who keeps booze in their classroom for the morning of the last day of term party day, who is likely to skip off at break for a swift half or so, and who to team up with to walk around at the end of the do finishing off all of the half empty glasses left on the tables. The problem is remembering to take a clean shirt in with me in the morning to change into after I’m sick all over what I’m wearing, and anybody else who happens to be near me on the train.
2. So hot that you have to run cold in and stand right under the cold tap to avoid serious injury – a monkey bath, yeah?
3. Anything with ‘post’ at the front of it.
4. Cherries, peaches (nicer than nectarines, fuzzy, mmmm). most things, really.
5. I like my ‘first one for years’ from about 1993 which I blogged around this time last year, a song a post for a month or so, although there was one from 1999/2000ish which I made three versions of over three successive nights in order to get it just right. It was one of ‘those’ mixtapes. It didn’t work.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:14:08 +0000

‘sweart’? How on Earth did that happen? I meant sweaty, obviously.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:50:45 +0000

1. Bad, I got in a fight the last one I attended. They were all cunts though, so…
2. Warmish, I hate the feeling of a sweart bath.
3. Probably, but my mind is a blur today and devoid of inspiration.
4. Not sure, I really like most fruit. Erm, pineapple, maybe.
5. Was for a girl names Lynsey I went out with in secondary school. It had a good cover.

By: Tart

Tart — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:12:14 +0000

Love you so much, darlin xoxo

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:14:34 +0000

Seen. That. Coming.

Tart wins.

By: Tart

Tart — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:43:56 +0000

Academic social events are excruiating and make one reconsider the ivory tower as a place of employment and consider it’s place in history as torture chamber.

Baths are gifts from the divine and proof of god’s love for us no matter the temperature.

I’m quite enamored of the “pussy hurts” genre I must say, although you must have seen that comming

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit (what can I say? You all bring out the best in me! GIYF if you’re too young to get the lovely reference to my autobiography)

mixtapes are fucking difficult to make and yes, bring the most pleasure to the maker. But I do take a bit of pride in my latest one wherein I managed to tickle the fancy of not only the recipient but also his guest whom I also adore by including a rather rare and unknown track by one of their favorite artists still brings a smile to my face to think I’ve pleased them a bit, silly tart that I am! xoxo

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:23:42 +0000

1. indifferent, at best, except when I worked in Fopp and they were quite good. About the only job when we didn’t end up talking shop, ironically.

2. warmish

3. I still think MOR is pretty damning, smacking as it does of Bland bland blandzzzz

4. Apples, though six months ago I would have said bananas

5. My car tape, which includes Stereolab, Yo La Tengo, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, M.I.A, ESG and Aretha Franklin. All from vinyl and made in…2006. Seriously. My Polo was registered in December 2004 and fitted with a tape player.

(oh, and 17 seconds will be back and up and running when someone finally takes responsibility for messing up my IP).