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Duncan

That seems reasonable, easily done.

What is you two are up to upgrade wise ? I'm trying to keep up a bit more these days.

Duncan

Can I suggest that we disable remote avatars, i.e. using a link instead of having to upload. Seems to function as a workaround to the size limits, e.g. iamjohnmarra Will do this if no objections. John's (and maybe Ryan's too) I can grab the images and resize them, and copy over. Really big images sp...

Duncan

One bat on its way. Cost was 11 quid, but about another fiver for postage. Seems very reasonable to me, and anyway I've paid. Did the baseball / softball equipment aquisition risk assessment preparatory meeting come to any preliminary conclusions about gloves by any chance ? Perhaps we can buy a hel...

Duncan

Looks good, I've put on a bid.

Do we need more than one bat ?

Duncan

I've got my own glove, so that's a start.

Agree with Ryan on the softball option.

Duncan

this one is different because it's ours

Duncan

The forest will lose every time.

Duncan

I'd be up for this.

Duncan

XTC. Name sounds like a late eighties acid house outfit, but nay, tis of the New Wave. Apparently I knew lots of their songs already (such as Making Plans For Nigel) without remembering the name. Anyway, inventive, punk influenced, quite poppy in a still interesting early eighties fashion, with some...

Duncan

Sorry, just got back from being away. Short I was after hasn't arrived yet though. No use I'm afraid.

Duncan

Days !

I thought for ages it was the number of times she'd had sex !

I did the sums eventually and decided that that was unlikely.

Duncan

Hello MB I'm very sorry, but I won't make it to the meeting tonight. I'm stuck MB with some work at college. I do however have a couple of films I'd like MB to show: Innocence by Lucile Hadzihalilovic (A strange and mysterious MB film about a girls' boarding school) and The Misfits by John Huston M...

Duncan

A diary with no Mondays ! Absolute genius !

Duncan

For years I've objected to the notion that we should have to write in the events book. It should be a given.

Duncan

Apologies, planning to come, but going to be late. Early Monday evening's not good for me atm.

Duncan

Just ordered We Are The Traffic and Red Light Go earlier this evening.

Not that we have to show them, but good to have.

Duncan

http://www.redlightgo.ws/

Icicle looks cool, but it's a bit of a tangent off The Bicycle Thieves, which would be great but not the most original.

Did I just make a bad pun ?

Duncan

I've started having a look here : http://uk.geocities.com/mikstar123/films.html One great double bill might be The bicycle Thieves and Pee Wee's Big Adventure, which apparently have the same plot. Saying that, I'd love to have a couple of short documentaries as well. Thinking of Red Light Go. Doc ab...

Duncan

I showed Lolita on April 23rd, as per the changed schedule. Was that not right ? Keep forgetting to pick up the DVD, so possible it's been played again since. edit : Looking closely, it looks like nothing was rescheduled for May 21st when it got adjusted. Unless one of the other Kubricks was assumed...

Duncan

Nice to see this thread alive and well. My latest contribution would be !!! or 'chk chk chk' for pronounciation purposes. Guitary stuff with a touch of psychedelia, and great great basslines. Got a song called 'All My Heroes Are Weirdos', how could you not. For obscurity show offery, Peter Wyngarde....

Duncan

New password sent out.

I've sorted Ryan's access.

Agreed ftp isn't ideal. Not so much problem with the limited user accounts, but we could do with getting the full access ones deactivated.

What's a good sftp / ssh client ? Thinking for Windows I'm afraid.

Duncan

I've got the Lolita DVD.

Duncan

I would ban plug in electric heaters and perhaps have a stock of old dressing gowns for people to put on. That's what I do at home to save on heating and it works great.

A little spartan perhaps, but that's reality now.

Duncan

It's in. Needs a mouse, keyboard and net connection. A switch and a couple of network cables would do. Anything spare at Infoseed ? We could also use another power bar. Machine is Windows atm. Should add Linux, run one normally Windows one normally Linux I reckon. It's got Openoffice, firewall, spyb...

Duncan

Bugger, I was having a go (unfruitfully) yesterday, wish I'd spotted this before. Will have another go tonight. In the meantime I installed Photoshop 7.0 so you can do stuff. Meant to mention earlier today of course. Tried to install Photoshop 9.0 (CS2) on the new machine, but the serial wouldn't wo...

Duncan

Totally agree with what's here, my only worry is possible loss of sound quality converting to ogg. Nothing against ogg, but it's always a issue coverting between compressed formats. My only experience is ogg to mp3 (to make stuff work on an ipod) and the result wasn't great. I think if we're backing...

Duncan

Yeah, generic remote needs a code entered. Will require instructions for the remote and code for the player, likely from the web.

If someone posts the remote and the dvd player's details I'll have a look.
Or I'll get them in the cafe.

Duncan

Ejecting usually means it don't like the disc, so probably more than just the eject mechanism. DVD players are so cheap now that they're almost not worth fixing, although I do hate how disposable we (society) have become about things. On a more useful note, is the universal remote not still around ?...

Duncan

I've got the Chris Marker pair on VHS.

Duncan

Only just seeing this.

Need rather more than eight hours notice I'm afraid. We're not all online so often.

Duncan

I've got a machine almost ready to go for this, same spec as the existing one. Been sitting waiting for us to get cash which I guess we have now.

I'll finish it off.

Duncan

You know all anyone really needs is 1978 through 1983.

Maybe push 84 so we can have Hatful of Hollow.

Anyway, Gang of Four. Post Punk (but still quite punk) joy.

In particular, Return the Gift.

Especially for Jane and Dye,

"To hell with poverty, let's get drunk on cheap wine"

Duncan

were girls doing handstands admitted into the sanctum ?

Duncan

High time this thread was revived, despite the acts of idiot culture mess forum fascists mashing the Peoples' Forum into one long section. Anyway, Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids Amazing occasionally vocal, lots of instrumental electronica, with a dash of new romantic elegance from the early eighti...

Duncan

I'm sorry Danny, it wasn't intended to annoy particularly, and it wasn't even aimed specifically at you. It's just a statement of my distaste for such terms being applied to music, and my genuine reaction to it. I probably shouldn't make such sparse remarks, but, well, it's more fun than writing ess...

Duncan

Strange how uplifting can be so depressing.

Duncan

Happening this coming Monday (Feb 27th) I believe.

Duncan

http://www.themilkfactory.co.uk

Impress the girls / boys with those records that no one else has heard of.

Duncan

http://www.theforest.org.uk/events.php This Week Has Amazing Highlights THURS and Friday are AK Press Days with The Trouble With Music. Discussions on all that is crap with the music industry. Discussions on too much pop, background music and the possible dangers and greatness of downloading. FRIDAY...

Duncan

The highlight of the Forest's festival events returns, brilliantly mental. Straight from the culture wires... Hello everyone, another Dirty Husband gig announcement. We're honoured to be playing with The Mass, Lapsus Linguae and IX on Tuesday 8th November at the delightful Subway, Cowgate. Doors 7:3...

Duncan

I am at once impressed and unsympathetic

Try reading Orwell, maybe he mentions one or two places...

Duncan

Indeed, don't be so quick to assume.

Duncan

If you actually held up a bleeding finger and came out with that, I would be impressed. Remember kids, it's all smoke and mirrors, you don't actually have to deliberately cut yourself to do this, but if you manage to anyway you might as well get some fun out of it, especially if that involves freaki...

Duncan

Oh my God, am I the last to know !? New Boards of Canada album, out on Monday and you can listen to the whole thing right now at http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/evidence Going on a epic several day Scottish mountain crossing expedition next week, listening to this, does life get any better ? It'...

Duncan

Sons and Daughters Loved them live last year at Truck festival and finally got round to getting hold of the LP. It's great, go listen. Pretty girls and cool boys with exciting voices and pleasing guitars. Oh, and also finally bought my first Echo and the Bunnymen. Porcupine. Very much suits my curre...

Duncan

John Wayne references aside...

Duncan

Dada The Dadaists cultivated interesting performance techniques which were used in provoking the audiences into challenging their current ideals at the times of performance. Which, consequently usually meant attacking the circumstances of culture which had precipitated the coflict surrounding the Da...

Duncan

Absolutely, take it down. The paint drying is just a side issue. The bathroom was already a very interesting space and this has just taken it over. The whole notion of a 'free space' gets massively overused and it's not even really a term we used in the early days of the forest. People get to do stu...

Duncan

Mark, knowing you, you're probably being slightly facetious, but this is actually a very good idea. A Forest barbecue, make our Australasian inhabitants feel particularly at home, as we mock and butcher their accents, along with poor, defenseless, tasty animals to cook upon our fire. Let's make a ba...

Duncan

You're all mising Jon's point, and he's dead right. The forum is a great thing but it doesn't need a separate forum page for every possible topic. Just makes it more effort to find stuff. They would all naturally divide themselves into threads anyway. Needs flattened, too much hierarchy.

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