Friday Has to Learn to Go to Sleep
Fucking typical. We spend the day recording with PAWS for the split 12″ I’ve been going on about so much recently, and then I spend two or three hours getting preliminary mixes together for them before heading up to their show at the Electric Circus.
Then, because I am a fucking idiot, I come home and start faffing about with the mixes. Never mind your actual judgement, your hearing actually changes when you get drunk (I think you perceive the upper registers far less, but I’m not sure, it could be the other way around) so mixing music is a pretty stupid thing to be doing.
I don’t think I did much damage of course, mostly because I didn’t really change much, and also because I have found the bit in Logic where I can rewind to an older version of the file, but I did sit up until half three in the morning mostly just because I am so excited about the record. Muppet. It’s a good thing to be this excited of course, but given how shite I feel this morning I am not sure it was the best way to express it.
Anyhow, I dearly wish someone could be made to go and fetch me coffee. Sometimes these basic personal maintenance tasks seem so completely unreasonable – maybe it’s a hangover from being either a student or a child, but I honestly think that the sink could be overflowing at the moment and I couldn’t be arsed to get up and stop it flooding the house.
So, please do de-lurk, answer the following five stupid questions, and then waste what little productive time there is in your average Friday afternoon by fannying around on the internet with us.
1. What do you get so obsessed with you stay up far too late doing it?
2. What is the one trivially simple task you really can’t be fucked with when you’re having one of those ultra-lazy moments?
3. Back to basics snack you could really do with at the moment.
4. If I offered to buy you any album at all right this minute, what would you choose?
5. If you could obliterate all your responsibilities this afternoon, and be entirely free to do as you please, how would you spend it?
1. Films and telly shows on DVD. I can never be bothered during the day, but will stick something on at 2am, then end up sat watching stuff till the sun comes up.
2. I’ve not yet gotten to the point when I can’t be bothered going downstairs to piss, thankfully. Eating sometimes. If left on my own I’ll end up making dinner at midnight because I can’t be arsed going to the kitchen.
3. Bacon.
4. The new Leonard Cohen.
5. Sitting on my arse, doing nothing. Since I have no real responsibilities, that’s what I’ll be doing anyway.
1. It used to be Championship Manager. Then it was video editing. Now it is endless tweaks to perfectly good mixes. Because I am an idiot.
2. Basic personal hygiene seems to end up on this list an awful lot.
3. Cheese on toast. Just. Can’t. Be. Arsed.
4. If I offered to buy myself any album at all right this minute, it might just be umm.. I don’t know actually. It might be nice to spend some time browsing a second hand record shop and be surprised by something though.
5. Probably spend a couple of hours browsing in a second hand record shop, meet Mrs. Toad for a wander around town (assuming it were a little nicer out) and then perhaps come back here for some tea and spend the evening reading and listening to music. In fact, why the fuck don’t I just do that.
1. Mixing too, it takes fucking ages and exists in it’s own separate time zone.
2. Any household chore.
3. When hungover, I like Chicken Rice – rice made with chicken stock instead of water. It’s like a hug from a meal.
4. New Brendan Benson
5. Making lots of very loud noise. Possibly on the cymbal I agreed to give away last night.
Jim, I have the same problem with movies. I won’t watch them all day, but will stick one on at eleven at night and then watch three more afterwards. Because I am a fucking idiot.
1. faffing about on the internet eg trying to find the cheapest possible train/plane ticket to somewhere I might vaguely want to go to. I’ve actually had to ban myself from using the interweb late at night as it makes me too wired.
2. getting dressed
3. curried beans on toast. Instant Proustian rush. Or maybe a Toast Toppers. Does anyone remember those? Do they still exist?
4. The “new” Tom Waits, which I still don’t seem to have picked up. Too much sitting around in my pjs, obviously.
5. Well, I’m getting a train to Newcastle at 5, so I’d pop up into the New Town and have some excellent tea and cake in Leo’s Beanery, and then wash it down with my Special Drink (an espresso marguerita, if you’re buying) in the Basement on Broughton St before heading up to Waverley and pouring myself onto the train.
1. Watching horror films that I’ve already seen a million times.
2. Changeing the cat litter. An unpleasant whiff of piss usually stirs me from my haze.
3. Dry roasted peanuts. Gimme.
4. Zen Arcade by Hüsker Dü. I’m relucant to pay twenty quid for it but want muchos badly.
5. On a train to York, watching DVDs and mentally preparing myself for a gay stag do where I will be resplendent in pink. Oh, wait…
1. Computer games, doesn’t matter what one. Thankfully I’ve grown out it.
2. Peeing, resist and resist until things get urgent.
3. Crumpet.
4. Modest Mouse: Interstate 8. It’s a perfect ep, so disappointed to find out it’s “collectable” and has a price to match.
5. Get some sleep before Friday night starts. Can you catch up before hand?
4. Or, yes, maybe the new Leonard Cohen too. I’d be interested in giving it a listen.
Oooh yes, buttery crumpets, good call. So easy to pop in the toaster, and so tasty.
And so easy to burn to a cinder if you try and cook them under the grill and forget all about them. As I have a habit of doing. Because I am a fucking idiot.
1. I signed up for Netflix so lately it’s all been about Arrested Development and season one of The Thick Of It.
2. Getting up
3. I just had a peanut butter and banana toasted sandwich, otherwise it would be a peanut butter and banana toasted sandwich.
4. The Leg on vinyl
5. Go for a haircut, which I might just go and do.
1. Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri
2. Washing dishes before re-using them.
3. Right now I’m regretting a Mexican burrito, but my typical can’t-be-arsed meal is a tin of vegetable curry with cheese on toast.
4. Graham Coxon’s new one.
5. Lying in bed in mild discomfort as my lunchtime burrito has its way with me. Possibly while watching the third season of Deadwood.
1. watching the news
2. washing myself
3. just had it, pork pie
4. The new Frabbit one
5. go sit in the park, read, call a friend, go to the pub, get drunk, go to bed.
How long can you possibly watch the news in one sitting? Doesn’t it repeat itself pretty much every hour?
yeah, but i still go on watching it……it’s like some weird form of meditation
No more monotonous than playing Championship Manager I suppose.
1. I am finally reading the Steig Larsson Millennium series, am now on second book and I probably should put that down earlier and go to sleep.
2. Vacuuming
3. Sod the snack, I need a strong coffee
4. Well, I’d like to hear the eagleowl debut LP and the third Meursault LP, both of which I assume you probably have heard, but failing that, I think Leonard Cohen and Graham Coxon would be on my list, too
5. Either drinking coffee or sleeping, I suppose the two kinda cancel each other out. Riffling through the second-hand vinyl at Avalanche, or something like that
it Toad has heard the eagleowl album, then i’m punching Bart!
1. I can obsess over a lot of thing which keep me up late at night & it can just vary from night to night. Last night, I was on the internet hunting for a large cork board… for about 4 hours.
(& replaying the KC&JH & the Withered Hand record, coming down from their show last night)
It can be plowing through a book – or Football Manager – or TV seasons – or, or, or.
2. Opening mail.
Letters can lay around here for a good while before I am bored enough to look through anything. Which is why I am now fully Direct Debit, or I would miss bills a lot.
3. Soft boiled eggs & toast.
Ah, childhood…
4. I’m am too good to myself when it comes to records – so I buy everything I am vaguely interested in listening too without much thought. So it would have to be something upcoming – The new RM Hubbert.
5. I would listen to this new Withered Hand song over & over for quite some time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue3uIRSuN6k
While studying the Argentinean Under 21s on Football Manager for some new superstars.
(*This might be what I am actually doing today anyway, Joyous Joyous days off*)
1. Watching football.that doesn’t kick off until half 1 and finishes at 5am.
2. Talking to my flatmates.
3. Cheesy pasta.
4. I’m going through a phase of listening to lots of The National so High Violet on purple vinyl.
5. If I could blow off the responsibility of not being a dick to my flatmate with chronic fatigue I’d sit all afternoon playing guitar really fucking loud.
Ed/Chutters, no, I’ve not actually heard either of those yet. More’s the pity.
Mark, we have a pile of unopened letters going back six months or so. I assume if it was urgent someone would phone me.
I still want to hear the new Withered Hand EP, which is imminent, so I might bump that above Leonard Cohen and Graham Coxon…
you’ve seen the new video released today Ed?
This, Ed:
1. loading tunes on to my mp3 player
2. Texting
3. Big fuck off bar of chocolate
4. The delux vinyl version of the up coming Twilight Sad album, thank you.
5. Go for a long run, itching to get out and let off some steam today.
1. reading. when i get into a good book the time just disappears.
2. hanging up my clothes after I’ve washed + dried them
3. cinema popcorn
4. The Dirty Projectors. I saw a video of theirs ages ago, loved it, but never caught the name. then yesterday it appeared in my facebook stream. gagging to get a copy now
5. either sleeping or drunk. can’t decide which
That EP is mail I will open quickly.
Hoped that he’d debut a track during his set last night, but no such luck.
Heart Heart is cracking.
Looking forward to the Caves launch show.
Favourite Son, we are dreadful at laundry as well. Every stage in the process seems too much like hard work. We can leave it accumulate on the floor for ages, leave a washed load sitting in the washing machine until it goes stinky, leave dry washing on the hangy thing forever, and even leave clean, dry and folded stuff sitting on our guest bed for weeks.
I fucking hate laundry.
i am prone to hanging the washing to dry and just taking it off the clothes horse as i need it. lazy as fuck, but rather less hassle
1. Writing blog posts mainly
2. Getting dressed
3. Monster Munch -either Flaming Hot or Pickled Onion, not those nasty beef ones though
4. Can you please buy me the new Twilight Sad album on 12″ please?
5. I have done exactly this, so I am now sitting in my joggies watching Return of the Jedi. Sadly I don’t have any Monster Munch though
1. I also used to stay up late playing the easier but similarly addictive Premier League Manager. Now it’s more likely to be finding old compilations of songs I used to like by bands I’ve since forgotten and going “whoa, I TOTALLY forgot about this!”
2. Getting ready for bed. I often stay up quite a bit later just because I can’t be arsed to brush my teeth.
3. Sausage rolls. Always. I only eat them at Christmas and when desperate maybe twice a year because I have a lot of beer to squeeze into my attempts at being healthy.
4. Withered Hand album from 2009, or more recent EPs because I keep forgetting to buy it except when I’m in shops that don’t have them.
5. I’d go home and listen to some music to rinse the work from my brain while getting changed, then meet Dunc and his mate in the Brew Dog bar for some strong yet tasty booze.
Peenko, have you locked the baby in a cupboard or something? How did you manage that one?
Matthew, it’s surprising how long actually going to bed can take, even after deciding that you are going to do it right now!
1. Looking up stupid facts on the internet. My current one is staying up til 4am reading about Nibiru, the brown dwarf star that’s supposedly hiding behind the sun and is going to crash into us and end the world on 21st Dec 2012. You heard it hear first music fans.
2. Lifting the toilet seat
3. Microwaveable Kebab
4. that Clean George IV one
5. Recording and drinking Beer (doing that this evening, much rather be doing it now)
Nibiru sounds like your new Death Metal band.
Nibiru sounds like some odd foreign version of Irn Bru.
I am aware of the new video doing the rounds – but wanna hear the whole EP!
Thanks for posting it again, though…
given my age i find it increasingly hard to stay up late!
dont know
crumpet and marmite
The new mark lanegan lp
Exactly what i’m doing now having tea and cake in a cafe mmmm
Crumpet and marmite? You bloomin’ weirdo.
Good call on the new Mark Lanegan though, I am really looking forward to that as well.
1. Watching season 1 of “The Walking Dead” on Netflix
2. Putting on pants.
3. Peanut Butter Cup.
4. Vinyl copy of “Attack on Memory,” by Cloud Nothings. You have my mailing address, I believe.
5. I refer you to my answer to question #1.
Erin (baby) is at the child minders still, as Daddy Peenko had the day off to go a funeral.
Jedi’s just finished and I’ve barely watched any of it as I have spent the afternoon pissing about online.
1. Reading blogs. Somehow a few minutes always extends to hours.
2. Answering the phone (Thank G for caller ID).
3. A slice of pizza, preferably from NYC.
4. I’d love to get Hello Saferide from a few years back or I Heart Caliifornia by Admiral Radley. I keep meaning to order them, but never do. Lazy.
5. Finish up season 4 of Lost.
Totally with you on that whole thing about the time it takes to actually go to bed.
Honestly, the number of times I’ve been nicely dozing off on the sofa at a reasonable bedtime, and decided “Right, I’ll ride this little wave of drowsiness straight into bed”, then by the time I’ve stood up, turned everything off, faffed about getting stuff ready for the morning, got undressed, got into bed, only to finally think “Fuck – I’m wide a-fucking-wake now!”….
1. Learning or writing riffs for songs
2. Taking out the trash/recycles. Drives my wife f’in crazy
3. Always could eat cold cereal dry or granola.
4. tUnE-YarDs – whokill pls. Been digging what I’ve heard from them on year end lists etc..
5. having a drink and playing guitar
1) Having sex with my girlfriend/hand
2) See above
3) CHIPS AND CHEESE
4) Guided by Voices – Alien Lanes on vinyl. It’s my favourite album ever and I don’t have it on vinyl….*opens up Amazon*
5) On the toilet, on ‘lunch’ at work right now and have a touch of the Darren Fletcher’s today. Imodium’d to the max.
God, I’m full of smutt today.
1. Reading… I’m one of those people who ruined their eyes by reading with a too dim light after I was supposed to have gone to bed.
2. properly hanging up the clothes that I don’t have to wash once I wear them once (dresses that need to be dry cleaned and slacks fall into that category).
3. popcorn with salt and butter
4. Just go ahead and pick something you’re really into. Expand my horizons.
5. Ideally read. Practically, rewrite my personal essay for grad school application a third time.
1. What do you get so obsessed with you stay up far too late doing it?
cliche maybe, but listening to music. oh. and watching series.
2. What is the one trivially simple task you really can’t be fucked with when you’re having one of those ultra-lazy moments?
ironing the laundry, i think it’s the worst one of all the house chores.
3. Back to basics snack you could really do with at the moment.
“ntakos”, dried bread with tomato & olive oil & oregano.
4. If I offered to buy you any album at all right this minute, what would you choose?
something by midlake most probably. vinyl of course.
5. If you could obliterate all your responsibilities this afternoon, and be entirely free to do as you please, how would you spend it?
i’d definitely stay home and watch series. and after that listen to some more music from all the blogs in my reader.
The room with the loudest speakers has no clock in there….it’s always a late night disaster..Spotify makes it worse
Talking to anyone
Minstrels
The cure live album that’s just been released
I did and spent it playing in the snow above Grasmere….result
STU….do you want that busker du album on cd or vinyl? If its cd you are welcome to mine as I haven touched it in 20 years.
Matthew the bad news is you’ll never grow out of staying up till stupid o’clock …there is no cure
Tpm but only to correct busker du…….bloody predictive txt Husker….that’s better
Despite being very tired and needing to be up early tomorrow I’ve spent the last 45 minutes on youtube watching Wall Of Death / Circle Pit videos that all seem to be set at a particular German metal festival. Puts all these twee folky shows I go to into perspective, really.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EORH8Nx6FHU
Tons of man-on-man fun seem to be had by all.
I think I like Busker Du better actually.
Ed, go to sleep for fuck’s sake, those videos are just weird!