Re: O Brother (was Re: Buffy musings ...)

2001-05-12 Thread Piers Cawley
Nathan Torkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Piers Cawley writes: I'm trying to work out if I was bowled over by 'Go to sleep pretty baby' because of the song or the visuals... Ob Porn: You can see a nipple and curve of a breast through a wet shirt if you look in the right place.

Re: Movies (was Re: Buffy musings ...)

2001-05-12 Thread Piers Cawley
Nathan Torkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greg McCarroll writes: And while we are on the old films chestnut, my current recommendation is 'O Brother, where art thou?', excellent film. I loved it. I've seen it twice. Of course, I'm a bluegrass music nut. Bluegrass is okay, but I

Re: Traditional music (was Re: Movies (was Re: Buffy musings ...))

2001-05-12 Thread Piers Cawley
Nathan Torkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greg McCarroll writes: I think `man of sorrow' will be a good ambassador for bluegrass Yup, it is. I'd just like to add that I saw it performed by the real band (i.e., not George Clooney lipsynching) one week ago. It was bloody brilliant. I

Re: Movies (was Re: Buffy musings ...)

2001-05-12 Thread Piers Cawley
David H. Adler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 08:55:16AM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote: On the subject of music (despite the Subject: of movies) ... anyone here into trad. Irish instrumental music? [raises hand] Actually, Celtic in general, more than *just*

Re: Irish music (was RE: Movies (was Re: Buffy musings ...))

2001-05-12 Thread Piers Cawley
Cross David - dcross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Nathan Torkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 3:55 PM On the subject of music (despite the Subject: of movies) ... anyone here into trad. Irish instrumental music? Well, I prefer stuff with lyrics, but enjoy

Re: Irish music (was RE: Movies (was Re: Buffy musings ...))

2001-05-12 Thread Piers Cawley
Matthew Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave Cross: You sound like the kind of person who would really enjoy the Cambridge Folk Festival Or, indeed, the Holmfirth Folk Festival: on this weekend for all your real ale, finger-in-ear, set-in-summer-wine-country needs

Re: Movies (was Re: Buffy musings ...)

2001-05-12 Thread David H. Adler
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 05:37:24PM -0400, Piers Cawley wrote: David H. Adler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 08:55:16AM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote: On the subject of music (despite the Subject: of movies) ... anyone here into trad. Irish instrumental music?

Re: Traditional music (was Re: Movies (was Re: Buffy musings ...))

2001-05-12 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On 12 May 2001, Piers Cawley wrote: I prefer trad English. And I really prefer trad. English vocal, preferably without instruments... I thought I saw someone who looked like you with the Morris Dancers last monday :) /J\

Re: Traditional music (was Re: Movies (was Re: Buffy musings ...))

2001-05-12 Thread Dave Cross
At 22:36 12/05/2001, you wrote: I prefer trad English. And I really prefer trad. English vocal, preferably without instruments... Known amongst many of my friends as The Ballad Of God Knows Who[1] Dave... [1] Part of an affectionate classification of folk music into just two styles: The

Re: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-11 Thread Lucy McWilliam
On Wed, 9 May 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: And while we are on the old films chestnut, my current recommendation is 'O Brother, where art thou?', excellent film. Oh yes. Truly fantastic. Must buy the soundtrack album. ah yes, and the soggy bottom boys' `hit' is particularly good

RE: Irish music (was RE: Movies (was Re: Buffy musings ...))

2001-05-10 Thread Matthew Jones
Dave Cross: You sound like the kind of person who would really enjoy the Cambridge Folk Festival Or, indeed, the Holmfirth Folk Festival: on this weekend for all your real ale, finger-in-ear, set-in-summer-wine-country needs http://www.riceholm.demon.co.uk/ -- matt | CHOPS

Re: Irish music (was RE: Movies (was Re: Buffy musings ...))

2001-05-10 Thread Nathan Torkington
Dave Cross writes: Some names there that I don't know, but will be checking out. I bet the Green Linnet compilation is good. Oh yes. That's what I used to decide which artists to buy. Another CD arrived yesterday, a Rounder compilation of 1920s recordings of trad. Irish musicians. I was

Re: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-09 Thread Neil Ford
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 06:34:18PM +0100, Dean wrote: PS Do we have any news on the YAPC::Europe talks that were recorded? The video tapes are with a friend of Jo's being encoded. However they've been in that state for a while :-) so maybe it's time to check their status. I'll report back.

Re: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-09 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Jonathan Stowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, 8 May 2001, Nathan Torkington wrote: ... I wonder how hard it would be to get Faith or Charisma Carpenter Ah you caught me when I was on the train with this. Sorry for causing it to get posted twice :) i'll remind you that by the

Re: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-09 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: At 18:10 08/05/2001, Nathan Torkington wrote: ... I wonder how hard it would be to get Faith or Charisma Carpenter or one of those other minor characters to do a meet'n'greet at TPC. I suspect they're hard to dislodge from LA, but it might still be

Re: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-09 Thread Dean
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 08:49:30AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: I'm interested in going to YAPC, is London PM going as a group or is it all just ad-hoc? which YAPC? Y::E i assume? Yep YAPC::Europe, with the recent success of the New York trip i was being (maybe ;)) optimistic about more

Re: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-09 Thread Nathan Torkington
David H. Adler writes: 1) Charisma isn't really minor anymore, being second lead in Angel. True. And after the bikini scene, she's a bigtime star. BIG time. BIG. If you know what I mean. Yowzers. 2) Get Willow. Dammit. I'll see what they cost. It might be prohibitively expensive to get

Re: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-09 Thread Nathan Torkington
Dean writes: Does any one know if ORA will be selling a compilation of the papers again after this conference? We will. Nat

Re: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-09 Thread Damian Conway
I wonder how hard it would be to get Faith or Charisma Carpenter ...to do a meet'n'greet at TPC. No idea. But it that idea falls through, I bet you *could* get a pony! ;-) Damian

RE: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-09 Thread Dean
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:20:36AM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote: 2) Get Willow. Dammit. I'll see what they cost. It might be prohibitively expensive to get anyone who's cute. Get Willow then ;) Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon

Re: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-09 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Dean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 08:49:30AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: I'm interested in going to YAPC, is London PM going as a group or is it all just ad-hoc? which YAPC? Y::E i assume? Yep YAPC::Europe, with the recent success of the New York trip i was

Re: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-09 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Damian Conway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I wonder how hard it would be to get Faith or Charisma Carpenter ...to do a meet'n'greet at TPC. No idea. But it that idea falls through, I bet you *could* get a pony! next you'll be trying to flog slices of the pony and when we want to go and

Re: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-09 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Nathan Torkington ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: 2) Get Willow. Dammit. I'll see what they cost. It might be prohibitively expensive to get anyone who's cute. Well Willow should be well within budget then. 3) Get the editors to come. Maybe I can convince them to hire me. :)

RE: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-09 Thread Cross David - dcross
From: Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 9:22 AM On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:20:36AM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote: 2) Get Willow. Dammit. I'll see what they cost. It might be prohibitively expensive to get anyone who's cute. Get Willow then ;) /me slaps Dean.

Re: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-09 Thread Jonathan Peterson
And while we are on the old films chestnut, my current recommendation is 'O Brother, where art thou?', excellent film. However I here Momento is a very good film as well. Oh Brother should be subtitled. Don't expect to understand the dialogue for the first 30 minutes until you are used to

Re: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-09 Thread Robert Shiels
- Original Message - From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] And while we are on the old films chestnut, my current recommendation is 'O Brother, where art thou?', excellent film. However I here Momento is a very good film as well. I've just ordered this actually from

Re: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-09 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Wed, 09 May 2001, you wrote: * Damian Conway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I wonder how hard it would be to get Faith or Charisma Carpenter ...to do a meet'n'greet at TPC. No idea. But it that idea falls through, I bet you *could* get a pony! next you'll be trying to flog slices

Re: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-09 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Piers Cawley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And while we are on the old films chestnut, my current recommendation is 'O Brother, where art thou?', excellent film. Oh yes. Truly fantastic. Must buy the soundtrack album. ah yes, and the soggy bottom

Re: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-09 Thread Piers Cawley
Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Piers Cawley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And while we are on the old films chestnut, my current recommendation is 'O Brother, where art thou?', excellent film. Oh yes. Truly fantastic. Must buy the

Re: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-09 Thread Mike Jarvis
Wednesday, May 09, 2001, 3:54:53 AM, Jonathan Peterson wrote: And while we are on the old films chestnut, my current recommendation is 'O Brother, where art thou?', excellent film. However I here Momento is a very good film as well. JP Oh Brother should be subtitled. Don't expect to

Re: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-09 Thread Martin Ling
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 09:21:41AM +0100, Dean wrote: I'll see what they cost. It might be prohibitively expensive to get anyone who's cute. Get Willow then ;) It's big, slippery, and is frequently sighted in rivers and IRC. And it's comin right atcha... Martin

Re: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-09 Thread Martin Ling
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 09:25:23AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: and while i'm on a roll, how about the fact that TV license vans are actually mind control devices sent by the government which is in fact controlled by scientologists who are using the vans to reduce peoples IQ to the point

Re: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-09 Thread Lucy McWilliam
On Wed, 9 May 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: * Piers Cawley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And while we are on the old films chestnut, my current recommendation is 'O Brother, where art thou?', excellent film. Oh yes. Truly fantastic. Must buy the

Re: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-09 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Lucy McWilliam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, 9 May 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: * Piers Cawley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And while we are on the old films chestnut, my current recommendation is 'O Brother, where art thou?',

O Brother (was Re: Buffy musings ...)

2001-05-09 Thread Nathan Torkington
Piers Cawley writes: I'm trying to work out if I was bowled over by 'Go to sleep pretty baby' because of the song or the visuals... Ob Porn: You can see a nipple and curve of a breast through a wet shirt if you look in the right place. Nat

Movies (was Re: Buffy musings ...)

2001-05-09 Thread Nathan Torkington
Greg McCarroll writes: And while we are on the old films chestnut, my current recommendation is 'O Brother, where art thou?', excellent film. I loved it. I've seen it twice. Of course, I'm a bluegrass music nut. Nat

Re: O Brother (was Re: Buffy musings ...)

2001-05-09 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Nathan Torkington ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Piers Cawley writes: I'm trying to work out if I was bowled over by 'Go to sleep pretty baby' because of the song or the visuals... Ob Porn: You can see a nipple and curve of a breast through a wet shirt if you look in the right place.

Re: Movies (was Re: Buffy musings ...)

2001-05-09 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Nathan Torkington ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Greg McCarroll writes: And while we are on the old films chestnut, my current recommendation is 'O Brother, where art thou?', excellent film. I loved it. I've seen it twice. Of course, I'm a bluegrass music nut. I think `man of sorrow'

Re: Movies (was Re: Buffy musings ...)

2001-05-09 Thread Nathan Torkington
Greg McCarroll writes: I think `man of sorrow' will be a good ambassador for bluegrass Yup, it is. I'd just like to add that I saw it performed by the real band (i.e., not George Clooney lipsynching) one week ago. It was bloody brilliant. I think I even have a photo on the digital camera of

Re: Movies (was Re: Buffy musings ...)

2001-05-09 Thread Robin Houston
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 08:55:16AM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote: On the subject of music (despite the Subject: of movies) ... anyone here into trad. Irish instrumental music? I'm rather fond of Sharon Shannon. Does she count? .robin. -- select replace(a, CHR(88), replace(a,,''))

Irish music (was RE: Movies (was Re: Buffy musings ...))

2001-05-09 Thread Cross David - dcross
From: Nathan Torkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 3:55 PM On the subject of music (despite the Subject: of movies) ... anyone here into trad. Irish instrumental music? Well, I prefer stuff with lyrics, but enjoy almost any kind of Irish (and English) folk music. What

Re: O Brother (was Re: Buffy musings ...)

2001-05-09 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 03:42:49PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: * Nathan Torkington ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Ob Porn: You can see a nipple and curve of a breast through a wet shirt if you look in the right place. This is exactly the sort of thing that gives London.pm a bad name, I

Re: Movies (was Re: Buffy musings ...)

2001-05-09 Thread Simon Cozens
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 08:55:16AM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote: On the subject of music (despite the Subject: of movies) ... anyone here into trad. Irish instrumental music? Yes, very definitely. Unfortunately I don't play anything vaguely relevant, apart from the guitar. I'd *really* love

Re: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-09 Thread David H. Adler
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 09:28:38AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: * Nathan Torkington ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: 2) Get Willow. Dammit. I'll see what they cost. It might be prohibitively expensive to get anyone who's cute. Well Willow should be well within budget then. You

Re: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-09 Thread David H. Adler
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:20:36AM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote: David H. Adler writes: 3) Get the editors to come. Maybe I can convince them to hire me. :) Editors? This show isn't edited, it's live. Isn't it? No. Documentary. dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: O Brother (was Re: Buffy musings ...)

2001-05-09 Thread David H. Adler
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 03:42:49PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: * Nathan Torkington ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Piers Cawley writes: I'm trying to work out if I was bowled over by 'Go to sleep pretty baby' because of the song or the visuals... Ob Porn: You can see a nipple and curve

Re: Movies (was Re: Buffy musings ...)

2001-05-09 Thread David H. Adler
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 08:55:16AM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote: On the subject of music (despite the Subject: of movies) ... anyone here into trad. Irish instrumental music? [raises hand] Actually, Celtic in general, more than *just* irish... dha, saw Natalie McMaster a couple of weeks

Re: Movies (was Re: Buffy musings ...)

2001-05-09 Thread Doug Sparling
On Wed, 9 May 2001, Simon Cozens wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 08:55:16AM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote: On the subject of music (despite the Subject: of movies) ... anyone here into trad. Irish instrumental music? Yes, very definitely. Unfortunately I don't play anything vaguely

Re: Irish music (was RE: Movies (was Re: Buffy musings ...))

2001-05-09 Thread Nathan Torkington
Cross David - dcross writes: Well, I prefer stuff with lyrics, but enjoy almost any kind of Irish (and English) folk music. The CDs on high rotation right now are: Brendan Begley, We Won't Go Home 'Til Morning Green Linnet Artists, Green Linnet Records: The 20th Anniversary

Re: Irish music (was RE: Movies (was Re: Buffy musings ...))

2001-05-09 Thread Dave Cross
At 16:56 09/05/2001, you wrote: Cross David - dcross writes: Well, I prefer stuff with lyrics, but enjoy almost any kind of Irish (and English) folk music. The CDs on high rotation right now are: Brendan Begley, We Won't Go Home 'Til Morning Green Linnet Artists, Green Linnet Records:

Re: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-08 Thread Leon Brocard
Nathan Torkington sent the following bits through the ether: ... I wonder how hard it would be to get Faith or Charisma Carpenter or one of those other minor characters to do a meet'n'greet at TPC. I suspect they're hard to dislodge from LA, but it might still be worth a try[1]. I'm

Re: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-08 Thread Piers Cawley
Nathan Torkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... I wonder how hard it would be to get Faith or Charisma Carpenter or one of those other minor characters to do a meet'n'greet at TPC. I suspect they're hard to dislodge from LA, but it might still be worth a try[1]. I'm tracking down their

Re: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-08 Thread Lucy McWilliam
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Nathan Torkington wrote: ... I wonder how hard it would be to get Faith or Charisma Carpenter or one of those other minor characters to do a meet'n'greet at TPC. I suspect they're hard to dislodge from LA, but it might still be worth a try[1]. I'm tracking down their

Re: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-08 Thread Dean
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 06:20:33PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote: I wonder how hard it would be to get Faith or Charisma Carpenter Charisma Carpenter!!! That's a really silly idea. I like it! Despite the fact I won't actually be there. Ditto, it works out a bit much for me to both spend

Re: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-08 Thread David H. Adler
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 06:26:15PM +0100, Dean wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 06:20:33PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote: I wonder how hard it would be to get Faith or Charisma Carpenter Charisma Carpenter!!! Of course, Eliza should be finished with Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back by then...

Re: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-08 Thread Dean
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 01:28:07PM -0400, David H. Adler wrote: Of course, Eliza should be finished with Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back by then... Not sure what Charisma's doing outside of the Whedon Axis. She was supposed to be in a film called The Twins but that was supposed to have

Re: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-08 Thread Dave Cross
At 18:10 08/05/2001, Nathan Torkington wrote: ... I wonder how hard it would be to get Faith or Charisma Carpenter or one of those other minor characters to do a meet'n'greet at TPC. I suspect they're hard to dislodge from LA, but it might still be worth a try[1]. I'm tracking down their agents

Re: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-08 Thread Dave Cross
At 18:26 08/05/2001, Dean wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 06:20:33PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote: Whilst we're (kinda) on the topic, can I have a reminder of who's going to yapc. I'm still umm-ing and ahh-ing over whther I can afford it (us phud students suffer for our science). I'm

Buffy musings ...

2001-05-08 Thread Nathan Torkington
... I wonder how hard it would be to get Faith or Charisma Carpenter or one of those other minor characters to do a meet'n'greet at TPC. I suspect they're hard to dislodge from LA, but it might still be worth a try[1]. I'm tracking down their agents now. Nat [1] or it's the NyQuil talking

Re: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-08 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Dave Cross wrote: At 18:26 08/05/2001, Dean wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 06:20:33PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote: Whilst we're (kinda) on the topic, can I have a reminder of who's going to yapc. I'm still umm-ing and ahh-ing over whther I can afford it (us phud

Re: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-08 Thread Dave Cross
At 21:59 08/05/2001, Jonathan Stowe wrote: On Tue, 8 May 2001, Dave Cross wrote: At 18:26 08/05/2001, Dean wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 06:20:33PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote: Whilst we're (kinda) on the topic, can I have a reminder of who's going to yapc. I'm still umm-ing and

Re: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-08 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Dave Cross wrote: At 21:59 08/05/2001, Jonathan Stowe wrote: On Tue, 8 May 2001, Dave Cross wrote: At 18:26 08/05/2001, Dean wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 06:20:33PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote: Whilst we're (kinda) on the topic, can I have a reminder of

Re: Buffy musings ...

2001-05-08 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Tue, 08 May 2001, you wrote: The organising committee are trying to get the details of the dorms in the school. These will be a) very cheap and b) very close to the venue. I dont want to stay in no steenking dorms :) wishful thinking ahh .. what a stroke of luck .. I appear to be