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OK, so we're still sober, but that will change soon.

two episodes of tiny house hunters later and we are setttttttt

i love critiquing people

yay wine

Could go for a drink right about now.... Doing an exam right now.... It is very much killing me.....

M says we should wish you "good luck"

Do you know where to get some Ttongsul?

yeah

M is, like, drunk right now. We were on the floor for like half an hour.

So, any updates on your spiral into extreme inebriation?

I have a question. But haileblaineisgood and Labe, Son of Nat were first so I'll ask mine when you've answered theirs.

Things are better now. We went for a walk and came back to watch Bob's Burgers.

What's your question, John?

I was (professionally) interested to know yours and Bubs's beverage of choice at the time but it's not really relevant now.

Anyway----it's great to see young folks getting together. Give Bubs my regards. :=)

You're speaking to him. :) Hope you've been well, John.


P.S. Red wine merlot

Silly me. I should have realized. Great choice of beverage, although white wine is closer to my heart (possibly in more ways than one).

This was cool. There's nothing to beat a spot of friendly inter-forum repartee. :=)  

I have a little advice to give to you all:

Don't drink half a bottle within two episodes of Tiny House Hunters.

I assume this is u-m speaking this time, lol. I get the impression Bubs wouldn't be fazed by half a bottle of anything, and certainly not while watching tiny people hunting for houses.

And I've just discovered where your (current) signature is from: "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa", a short story by Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend. 

I watched Bob's Burgers a couple times.  Won't make that mistake again.  I really think most modern / hip comedy has passed me by.  I kinda feel that way my father did when I really got into The Simpsons, and he didn't get it. 

John, I thoroughly enjoy the fact that you looked that up. Unfortunately, there's only a few copies of that book in existence. siiiggggghhhh.

We both got a little messed up, but I was a lot worse. I ended up laughing on the floor a lot.

I've seen chunks of the text online but do you know if the whole story is online anywhere?

I recall seeing Peter Gabriel guesting with Vampire Weekend on the song "CCKK" and getting a bit embarrassed about singing his own name!

And if you can't get messed up on your own floor, where can you get messed up?! Great to exchange a few words with the man himself yesterday.   

I'm (Bubs) still around, John. What have you been up to?

I'm also happy to have talked with you again.

Hi Bubs. What have I been up to? When I'm not working, I post here and at "my" other MB (where Cool Cool Water also posts). I read stuff at the PSF----lots of tips for new music over there, for which grateful thanks to all concerned. I trot out the occasional palindrome. All exciting stuff. Oh, and recently I spent 12 days in Scotland, including the Outer Hebrides. Amazing.

All the best. :=)

It's us again!

hello

Hi guys.

Good luck with tonight's binge.  :lol

And tell Dudders to stop whining, lol.

:P

'Twas not a night of intoxication of the alcohol kind...

Cue in Sid Sharp and his merry men playing an extended version of the instrumental break on "Don't Talk"... ;=)

Hmm... is that said in the same context as posts in this thread? http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,24122.0.html :P

Not at all! That string interlude is about as heavenly as it gets----nothing to do with booze. :hat 

Reminds me of how much I love the instrumental version of that song. I could get lost in those strings.

john, you are greatly missed on the Pet Sounds Forums, and I am unable to PM you on these boards. I (and many others) would enjoy conversing with you more!

I've decided to turn on the PM feature again. Give it a try some time. It should work by rights. 

While you (and/or Bubs) are here, may I wish you (u-m) a happy 21st birthday! (Again---see the "What Are You Listening To" topic.)

ask anything, say anything.  I dropped a bit of Italian ice on my comma, period, and space bar............ it now goes wild like that.........., it's mostly bummin' the . stroke...and sticks....................................then stops, but causing a trail of ..............................dots.  sugar and water becoming glue. 

I thought of reviving the Opps! thread for this, but maybe shouldn't go there this late at night...  the dots are getting less sticky!  I'm sitting here at midnight eating another ice, I'll try to be careful. 

Anyway, didn't notice the other day when undercover-m and Bubs were celebrating her Birthday.  Happy Birthday, undercover-m!-a few days late.
21.  What a gas.  Was that the reason for the drinking?  Hope you two had a good time!   love -Will

Enjoy that italian ice! It's rather warm here where I live, so that sounds lovely right now.

While my birthday is most definitely a cause for celebration, that wasn't quite the reason why we popped open a bottle of red that night. I would recommend looking at your messages on the PSF to find the answer to that, Will...

Thank you for the birthday wishes. It's been a pretty wonderful last couple of weeks.

I withdraw my question. Will you accept this? If answer is yes, say nothing.  :3d

M, I checked up and it wasn't VW Peter Gabriel was guesting with but Hot Chip, who do this cover of "CCKK":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uhi2_oBdXM

@halblaine: are you referring to your question about Ttongsul? At any rate, we don't care what kind of questions you ask :D.

To john: I totally forgot that existed. Yeah, Koenig simply name drops PG in that song.

Now that I think of it, there really aren't any guest vocals on VW songs. Maybe some borrowed African beats and background choirs, but nothing beyond that as far as I know.

This truly outlandish track is for M and Bubs, lol:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY1sBXjl0s8 

Hey Undercover.....just saw this ditty of a thread !!   nice !!   just a reminder....   41 days until Brian Wilson

Hey there!
That seems so soon! I'm thoroughly looking forward to it. Perhaps it shall be another opportunity to meet SS'ers!

All is going well on the Bubs/M end. Haven't been (too) drunk since that one regretful wine night...

hello, everyone.

Hi, M. May you and the captain continue to open musical doors of all shapes and sizes. :=)     

Hey guys. Couldn't help but think of you when I heard these lines from Adam Marsland's "Happy Face":

"And if you can't get off the floor
That's what the alcohol is for"  :lol

http://www.adammarsland.com/happyface.html

Wait, what? What have I got to do with Bubs & Undie's drunk thread? Open musical doors, eh? Listening to Solange's new one a the moment. A Seat at the Table. Unless you meant literally musical doors. Perhaps little cymbals or bells hung on strings! My uncle and aunt had a beads-on-string kind of door in their house when I was but a lad. I'm guessing it was a '70s thing. (If I remember it, it was probably the early '80s, but nobody ever accused them of being with the times.)

Not "Undie"----please! Not here, anyway. ;D

Cap'n, you and Mari have pointed me towards lots of interesting new (and not so new) music, both here and across the road. That's all I was saying, in my usual convoluted way.

Big fuss about A Seat at the Table in the Netherlands too. The Knowles sisters have largely passed me by----my loss, no doubt...   

For what it's worth, I think the Knowles sisters have probably two of the top 5 albums of the year.

I appreciate this post.

Listened to a bit of Solange today. I'll probably listen to it more later.
I did watch Lemonade about a month ago and enjoyed it.

throw ur questions at us

or just be entertained, i dunno

how's everyone doing

Are you guys on the piss again? Well, it's a question, isn't it?! :lol

I'm fine. I left the band I was in (after 17 years!) and feel all the better for it. :=)
 

neither of us were drunk; i was pretty blazed and felt like reviving this thread, though.

Good for you; I'm glad it's benefited you. What's next for you, then? More free time?

Hi Mari. Yes, more free time, the energy to do one-off things with music (I'm playing at a book launch next month) and maybe later something online with others, if I can get my head wrapped round the technology involved.  ;=)