Happenings: Veiled Delays

[coalescent]

I think I've decided that Sunday evening gigs are a good thing. They're social, but they don't go on too late and if you necessary you can just stand there in zombie mode and let the music wash over you. And when you get back, you can have toast. Tonight I was back at the Zodiac with Mike to see Delays (no 'the,' despite what that URL would have you believe).They were great, a bit like what you might get if you raised the unnatural offspring of Ash and The Byrds in an environment littered with early-nineties synth samples. Even money says they'd sound incredible playing in the open air at some sunny summer festival. This despite having a keyboard player whose only special skills seemed to be looking like this but dancing like Kevin the teenager. Support was from The Veils, who turn out to offer significantly less sub-Placebo pointlessness than you might expect from some of their promotional photos, and in fact were the best support band I've seen for ages.

All this at the end of a weekend spent, in the main, convalescing from an irritatingly persistent bout of the flu. After three nights of going to bed at 9:30 I think I've bested it, though, and I have at least made good progress on the reading front. I've now read three-and-a-half of the Clarke Award nominess, and should easily finish the fourth by Wednesday, so I won't feel like a complete fraud. Maul was good, and clever, but not great; although given that I have to discount Pattern Recogntion (on the grounds - and believe me, it causes me physical pain to say this - that even John Clute can't convince me it's SF) I'd have to say it's the strongest of the nominess that I've read so far. Any which way is going to be an interesting result this year, it seems.

(The icon change comes because, beautiful as it is, I got a little bored with the Alethiometer, and because I've also been kickin' it old-school style down home on the umta range. Expect it to last until that final episode airs on Sky. Sniff.)

Comments

[immortalradical.livejournal.com]

social, but they don't go on too late and if you necessary you can just stand there in zombie mode and let the music wash over you.

Niall = OLD.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

No, Niall = convalescing. Or did you not get that far? :-p

[ajr.livejournal.com]

I have to say, I really like the new icon. Much, much more than I liked the Alethiometer icon.

[immortalradical.livejournal.com]

Oh, I did. But I still felt like calling you old.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

I suppose that in the light of your callow youthfullness, I would seem old. But for future reference, I prefer the term 'experienced'.

...No, wait, actually I'm not sure that I do.

I shall consider the correct terminology for you to use and get back to you.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Really? Any particular reason?

(And IIRC credit goes to the lovely despotliz. Although it may have been the lovely hawleygriffen. They have both icon-ed me up in the past, anyway.)

[immortalradical.livejournal.com]

Niall. You have now turned to defining yourself. This means you have utterly and irrevocably fulfilled the Prophecy that Niall will eat himself.

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

Minly due to your complete lack of competence at cropping a picture to a 100 x 100 square than my artistic talent. :p

New journal layout++

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

There was a prophecy?

Great. 'Cause they always go well.

[snowking.livejournal.com]

Why is everything coming out in italics?

[ajr.livejournal.com]

Really? Any particular reason?

On a scale of one to ten, it looks SO DAMN COOL. :)

[immortalradical.livejournal.com]

Get ye to a definery.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Minly due to your complete lack of competence at cropping a picture to a 100 x 100 square than my artistic talent. :p

So I know how to outsource. Sue me! And hey, it's not like I even know what image manipulation software this crazy OS has, anyway...

New journal layout++

Hurrah! The despot seal of approval!

(Apart from the broken tag of doom upthread.)

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Dan screwed up his tags. Sigh.

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

The tightpanted one forgot to close a tag somewhere upthread.

[immortalradical.livejournal.com]

Is it my fault that your silly lay-out carries tags over to other comments?

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Well, there is that. Also, his nose comes off. :)

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Not at all. It is, however, your fault that you can't write basic HTML. :-p

[snowking.livejournal.com]

Bit of shit layout then

[snowking.livejournal.com]

GIMP!

I speak of the image manip package obviously.

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

Yes. Had already given seal of approval before display of tightpanted foolishness. Darn.

[immortalradical.livejournal.com]

Actually, I can't type. There's a subtle but distinct difference.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Surely a reference-y?

(I wonder if this will make all the downthread comments normal again?)

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Look! I have fixed it!

This is really going to confuse anyone who reads this thread in the morning, isn't it?

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

Anyone looking at this in the morning will think there's a big interesting thread of comments, and find this. How disappointed they will be.