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If anyone in Dundee who owns an LJ is interested, the meetup.com event is happening tomorrow in the Balcony Bar (which is now known as Somewhere Else, but that’s a shit name and no-one I know ever calls it that). Details here. Proper post soon.

I grudgingly get out of bed this morning, traipse my way into work, plunk my stuff onto a desk in my team bay and go check my break times. Hmm, the sheet says I have paid leave today. That can’t be right; I have paid leave on Friday this week. Oh.. that’s next week. Bugger. Anyway, I’m away to bounce my way home. I’m wondering what I should do with the day, seeing that it’s not even 9am yet and feel I should make something of it. I’ll probably pop into the DCA on my way home. Any other suggestions?

Update: I went to the DCA but there wasn’t an exhibition on. So I went shopping! In Fopp I got a cheapo £3 synthpop/new wave compilation titled “Dawn Of Electronica” (tracklist, review) plus a copy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s The Social Contract (also £3) which I’ve been wanting to read for a while now. Currently I’m working through Thomas More’s Utopia. Then I went to Virgin and got “Modern Art, The Best Of John Foxx” (tracklist, review), on which music the music goes from raw yet powerful synthpop to new wave, then to new age and finishing off by returning to a more minimal sound with the electro hit Nightlife of a few years ago. And his lyrics are very good too :)

I’m feeling too lethargic atm to do a proper post, so here’s a quick round up of some things I’ve done recently.

Wednesday 23rd Feb: Went to Drouthy Neebors with to see the first Trans-Avant Electronic Collective gig of this year featuring Kill Science Now and BOX. To cut a long story short, the music of both was loud droning & distorted noise with some samples/loops thrown in for good measure. I really gotta buy some earplugs before the next T-A.E.C gig.

Friday 25th Feb: Went to a leaving do for a workmate then onto SiN. Listened to music, danced with glowsticks, had general fun. Spoke to properly for the first time. DJ Matt played Ulrich Schnauss’s ‘Clear Day’ for me! Matt; if you’re reading this, get an LJ :p

Saturday 26th Feb: Went ’round to to help with her with a computer problem then watched Short Circuit with her and . Headed to Cage afterwards where I got tipsy on a pint of snakebite and black that tricked me into drinking (honestly she did!). I really need to invest in getting inebriated at Cage to make it more bearable.

28th – 11th: Worked away as usual, not much else. Dum de dum.

Friday 11th Mar: Was expecting to do something enjoyable after a dull week. Ended up doing fuck all, getting more and more bored as the night went on. Felt I pissed a good friend off, not happy with myself about that. Went to bed at 6am after spending 8 hours alternating between hitting refresh on LJ and other news/blog sites and fixing my id3 tags.

Saturday 12th Mar: Up at 1pm. Went a wandering ’round Dundee city centre with and . Discovered the location DJ Matt gets his glowstick bangles from (the ?1 shop in the Wellgate). Later on I went to Cage as per usual. Some girl interrupted me while I was dancing and asked if I could teach her some moves, then proceeded to buy me a vodka and coke and tried to talk to me about music she liked. “My god” I thought, “she’s trying to pull me.” although she eventually backed off after I refused to hold her hand when we went back to the dance floor and I left her speaking to DJ Doug about something whilst I returned to sit by everyone else I knew. Simply put, I’m not interested in being with ‘just anyone’ right now. The Night on a whole was pretty shit. In hindsight I realise I can be too extroverted online and too introverted in real-life for my own good. Must work on that whilst taking a step back and lettings things occur in their own time. Afterwards I got a lift home from and her mum (who seemed great fun :).

Sunday 13th Mar: Upgraded from Firefox 1.0+ to 1.0.1. Managed to loose my extensions after following the manual install instructions (as the automatic update didn’t work) which was a bit annoying. Really need to setup a good rss feed aggregator, look into using del.icio.us for saving interesting links to and start tagging my entries.

P.S. A great pic of :)

I guess I should post something more about the electronic music night I mentioned in in a previous post. , and I have decided on the name Scope, and there’s a 36 min promo mix available for anyone to download here. Feedback is appreciated (download it now beatch!). Currently we are venue hunting for a pub that will host us, preferably on a Friday or Saturday evening.

• Hello Kitty crop circle
• 28 Days Later Screenwriter Pens Halo The Movie
• Boy, 4, drives mom’s car to video store and back
• Fry a vehicle’s microchips with microwave and slow cars to a halt – Does anyone remember the tv series ‘Bugs’ that used to be on BBC 1? I’m sure this was in one episode (the first of the second series iirc).
• <Tribs> Awww, there’s too many tits in Britain.
• “Click on any hue in the color palette and images randomly chosen from photo-sharing service Flickr in which that color dominates magically appear.”

P.S. Remember that story of the guy who died after receiving a sherry enema from his wife?

“It all started back when he was a child,” Warner said. “His mother used to give him enemas all the time, and he started to depend on them all the time.” She said he paid $1,000 to study colonics at a school and corresponded with other enema users on the Internet. Not all of his enemas involved liquor, she said. “He did coffee enemas, he did Castile soap, Ivory soap,” she said. “He had enema recipes.”

Link.