dreadnatty
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What Music are you listening to at the moment ?, by dreadnatty on May 5, 2015 1:44:40 GMT 1, Just saw that Coach has 14,999 posts. Wherefore art thou? I miss you.
Just saw that Coach has 14,999 posts. Wherefore art thou? I miss you.
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Black Apple Art
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What Music are you listening to at the moment ?, by Black Apple Art on May 9, 2015 8:07:14 GMT 1,
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South Bound
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What Music are you listening to at the moment ?, by South Bound on May 9, 2015 14:55:47 GMT 1, Can't go wrong with the Beastie's "Shake Your Rump"
Can't go wrong with the Beastie's "Shake Your Rump"
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What Music are you listening to at the moment ?, by wishingiwaslucky on May 10, 2015 3:22:41 GMT 1, That pleasant high pitch buzz, not sure when it comes or goes, but only troubles me when im alone...maybe its friendly.
That pleasant high pitch buzz, not sure when it comes or goes, but only troubles me when im alone...maybe its friendly.
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dreadnatty
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What Music are you listening to at the moment ?, by dreadnatty on May 12, 2015 1:40:59 GMT 1,
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dreadnatty
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What Music are you listening to at the moment ?, by dreadnatty on May 18, 2015 21:15:59 GMT 1,
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chads007
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What Music are you listening to at the moment ?, by chads007 on May 21, 2015 20:18:13 GMT 1, Love this. Getting Me through feeling rough
Love this. Getting Me through feeling rough
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What Music are you listening to at the moment ?, by sixftjellybaby on May 27, 2015 10:16:59 GMT 1,
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coller
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What Music are you listening to at the moment ?, by coller on May 29, 2015 23:17:35 GMT 1,
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coller
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What Music are you listening to at the moment ?, by coller on May 29, 2015 23:19:01 GMT 1, I've been doing the below. Still waiting for the London Symphony Orchestra to cover 'Insane in the Brain.'
I've been doing the below. Still waiting for the London Symphony Orchestra to cover 'Insane in the Brain.'
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What Music are you listening to at the moment ?, by Coach on Jun 9, 2015 22:13:11 GMT 1, Been quite on this thread!
Regina Spektor - the theme to Orange is the new Black - new series starts on Netflix soon - can't wait!
Been quite on this thread!
Regina Spektor - the theme to Orange is the new Black - new series starts on Netflix soon - can't wait!
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What Music are you listening to at the moment ?, by Coach on Jun 9, 2015 22:15:03 GMT 1, Wtf is wrong with me? Why won't my vids embed? Is it because Ive nicked my lad's Mac? Blah!
Wtf is wrong with me? Why won't my vids embed? Is it because Ive nicked my lad's Mac? Blah!
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What Music are you listening to at the moment ?, by Coach on Jun 9, 2015 22:23:26 GMT 1, New fave band - God Help the Girl - if you like Belle and Sebastian, you will love this.
And there's a film by the same name, which is smashing.
New fave band - God Help the Girl - if you like Belle and Sebastian, you will love this.
And there's a film by the same name, which is smashing.
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What Music are you listening to at the moment ?, by Coach on Jun 9, 2015 22:27:13 GMT 1, Been quite on this thread! Regina Spektor - the theme to Orange is the new Black - new series starts on Netflix soon - can't wait!
That's it! I give up!!!!!
Been quite on this thread! Regina Spektor - the theme to Orange is the new Black - new series starts on Netflix soon - can't wait! That's it! I give up!!!!!
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What Music are you listening to at the moment ?, by searchandrescue on Jun 9, 2015 22:37:49 GMT 1, Regina Spektor is awesome Coach, love begin to hope
Regina Spektor is awesome Coach, love begin to hope
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Ottomatik
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What Music are you listening to at the moment ?, by Ottomatik on Jun 20, 2015 23:09:12 GMT 1, THIS! Having listened to this album and a fan since Leisure - probably my favorite album
Just got tickets to see them in NYC Oct 23!!!!! Sooooo Excited!!!!!
Are u seeing them in LA? Tickets went on sale this morning. Oct 20 @ Hollywood Bowl
THIS! Having listened to this album and a fan since Leisure - probably my favorite album Just got tickets to see them in NYC Oct 23!!!!! Sooooo Excited!!!!! Are u seeing them in LA? Tickets went on sale this morning. Oct 20 @ Hollywood Bowl
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Chrisp
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What Music are you listening to at the moment ?, by Chrisp on Jun 25, 2015 20:55:03 GMT 1,
Leon Bridges 25 years old can't catch my hat. Better Man is a top track!
Leon Bridges 25 years old can't catch my hat. Better Man is a top track!
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Stender
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What Music are you listening to at the moment ?, by Stender on Jun 25, 2015 21:11:47 GMT 1, .
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dreadnatty
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What Music are you listening to at the moment ?, by dreadnatty on Jun 29, 2015 23:45:51 GMT 1,
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What Music are you listening to at the moment ?, by Deleted on Jul 3, 2015 21:23:21 GMT 1, Get your dancing shoes on Bitches........
Get your dancing shoes on Bitches........
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met
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What Music are you listening to at the moment ?, by met on Jul 12, 2015 1:11:56 GMT 1,
For those who haven't yet seen the 2009 promo film directed by Toby Dye for Paradise Circus (with Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval on vocals), it's well worth a watch. But perhaps not at the office:
For those who haven't yet seen the 2009 promo film directed by Toby Dye for Paradise Circus (with Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval on vocals), it's well worth a watch. But perhaps not at the office:
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What Music are you listening to at the moment ?, by Deleted on Jul 12, 2015 11:00:47 GMT 1,
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What Music are you listening to at the moment ?, by Deleted on Jul 14, 2015 21:48:01 GMT 1,
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What Music are you listening to at the moment ?, by davievegas on Jul 17, 2015 22:06:12 GMT 1,
This is the funniest video I have seen in a LOOONG time.
This is the funniest video I have seen in a LOOONG time.
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What Music are you listening to at the moment ?, by Deleted on Jul 25, 2015 9:26:58 GMT 1,
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met
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What Music are you listening to at the moment ?, by met on Jul 28, 2015 18:14:10 GMT 1,
A few months old, but still makes me laugh.
Visually, I find Die Antwoord to be the most exciting and progressive band of the moment.
And Yolandi Visser is such a great rapper — although in fairness I'm easily seduced by the Afrikaans language and accent.
A few months old, but still makes me laugh.
Visually, I find Die Antwoord to be the most exciting and progressive band of the moment.
And Yolandi Visser is such a great rapper — although in fairness I'm easily seduced by the Afrikaans language and accent.
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What Music are you listening to at the moment ?, by met on Jul 28, 2015 20:02:11 GMT 1,
If any of you are open to audiobooks, the first novel by George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, is worth a listen. Excellent narration by the late Patrick Tull.
Note that the book has some occasional and rather manifest antisemitic or homophobic remarks — an effective reminder of the period in which it was written (published in 1933). As a separate heads-up, on this particular platform, the interspersed YouTube advertisements were a source of annoyance for me; they need to be skipped over every seven minutes for the first hour, becoming much less frequent afterwards.
For those who are familiar with Paris, the early reference to the rue du Coq d'Or is apparently a depiction of rue du Pot de Fer (bordering on rue Mouffetard) in the Latin Quarter, where Orwell stayed in a hotel in the late 1920s.
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Here's an extract from Chapter 14 which I found amusing, partly through a sense of recognition, having done my time in the service industry many moons ago:
Thus everyone in the hotel had his sense of honour, and when the press of work came we were all ready for a grand concerted effort to get through it. The constant war between the different departments also made for efficiency, for everyone clung to his own privileges and tried to stop the others idling and pilfering.
This is the good side of hotel work. In a hotel a huge and complicated machine is kept running by an inadequate staff, because every man has a well-defined job and does it scrupulously. But there is a weak point, and it is this—that the job the staff are doing is not necessarily what the customer pays for. The customer pays, as he sees it, for good service; the employee is paid, as he sees it, for the boulot—meaning, as a rule, an imitation of good service. The result is that, though hotels are miracles of punctuality, they are worse than the worst private houses in the things that matter.
Take cleanliness, for example. The dirt in the Hôtel X, as soon as one penetrated into the service quarters, was revolting. Our cafeterie had year-old filth in all the dark corners, and the bread-bin was infested with cockroaches. Once I suggested killing these beasts to Mario. ‘Why kill the poor animals?’ he said reproachfully. The others laughed when I wanted to wash my hands before touching the butter. Yet we were clean where we recognized cleanliness as part of the boulot. We scrubbed the tables and polished the brasswork regularly, because we had orders to do that; but we had no orders to be genuinely clean, and in any case we had no time for it. We were simply carrying out our duties; and as our first duty was punctuality, we saved time by being dirty.
In the kitchen the dirt was worse. It is not a figure of speech, it is a mere statement of fact to say that a French cook will spit in the soup—that is, if he is not going to drink it himself. He is an artist, but his art is not cleanliness. To a certain extent he is even dirty because he is an artist, for food, to look smart, needs dirty treatment. When a steak, for instance, is brought up for the head cook’s inspection, he does not handle it with a fork. He picks it up in his fingers and slaps it down, runs his thumb round the dish and licks it to taste the gravy, runs it round and licks again, then steps back and contemplates the piece of meat like an artist judging a picture, then presses it lovingly into place with his fat, pink fingers, every one of which he has licked a hundred times that morning. When he is satisfied, he takes a cloth and wipes his fingerprints from the dish, and hands it to the waiter. And the waiter, of course, dips his fingers into the gravy—his nasty, greasy fingers which he is for ever running through his brilliantined hair. Whenever one pays more than, say, ten francs for a dish of meat in Paris, one may be certain that it has been fingered in this manner. In very cheap restaurants it is different; there, the same trouble is not taken over the food, and it is just forked out of the pan and flung on to a plate, without handling. Roughly speaking, the more one pays for food, the more sweat and spittle one is obliged to eat with it.
Dirtiness is inherent in hotels and restaurants, because sound food is sacrificed to punctuality and smartness. The hotel employee is too busy getting food ready to remember that it is meant to be eaten. A meal is simply ‘une commande’ to him, just as a man dying of cancer is simply ‘a case’ to the doctor. A customer orders, for example, a piece of toast. Somebody, pressed with work in a cellar deep underground, has to prepare it. How can he stop and say to himself, ‘This toast is to be eaten—I must make it eatable’? All he knows is that it must look right and must be ready in three minutes. Some large drops of sweat fall from his forehead on to the toast. Why should he worry? Presently the toast falls among the filthy sawdust on the floor. Why trouble to make a new piece? It is much quicker to wipe the sawdust off. On the way upstairs the toast falls again, butter side down. Another wipe is all it needs. And so with everything. The only food at the Hôtel X which was ever prepared cleanly was the staff’s, and the patron’s. The maxim, repeated by everyone, was: ‘Look out for the patron, and as for the clients, s’en f— pas mal!’ Everywhere in the service quarters dirt festered—a secret vein of dirt, running through the great garish hotel like the intestines through a man’s body.
If any of you are open to audiobooks, the first novel by George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, is worth a listen. Excellent narration by the late Patrick Tull.
Note that the book has some occasional and rather manifest antisemitic or homophobic remarks — an effective reminder of the period in which it was written (published in 1933). As a separate heads-up, on this particular platform, the interspersed YouTube advertisements were a source of annoyance for me; they need to be skipped over every seven minutes for the first hour, becoming much less frequent afterwards.
For those who are familiar with Paris, the early reference to the rue du Coq d'Or is apparently a depiction of rue du Pot de Fer (bordering on rue Mouffetard) in the Latin Quarter, where Orwell stayed in a hotel in the late 1920s.
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Here's an extract from Chapter 14 which I found amusing, partly through a sense of recognition, having done my time in the service industry many moons ago:
Thus everyone in the hotel had his sense of honour, and when the press of work came we were all ready for a grand concerted effort to get through it. The constant war between the different departments also made for efficiency, for everyone clung to his own privileges and tried to stop the others idling and pilfering.
This is the good side of hotel work. In a hotel a huge and complicated machine is kept running by an inadequate staff, because every man has a well-defined job and does it scrupulously. But there is a weak point, and it is this—that the job the staff are doing is not necessarily what the customer pays for. The customer pays, as he sees it, for good service; the employee is paid, as he sees it, for the boulot—meaning, as a rule, an imitation of good service. The result is that, though hotels are miracles of punctuality, they are worse than the worst private houses in the things that matter.
Take cleanliness, for example. The dirt in the Hôtel X, as soon as one penetrated into the service quarters, was revolting. Our cafeterie had year-old filth in all the dark corners, and the bread-bin was infested with cockroaches. Once I suggested killing these beasts to Mario. ‘Why kill the poor animals?’ he said reproachfully. The others laughed when I wanted to wash my hands before touching the butter. Yet we were clean where we recognized cleanliness as part of the boulot. We scrubbed the tables and polished the brasswork regularly, because we had orders to do that; but we had no orders to be genuinely clean, and in any case we had no time for it. We were simply carrying out our duties; and as our first duty was punctuality, we saved time by being dirty.
In the kitchen the dirt was worse. It is not a figure of speech, it is a mere statement of fact to say that a French cook will spit in the soup—that is, if he is not going to drink it himself. He is an artist, but his art is not cleanliness. To a certain extent he is even dirty because he is an artist, for food, to look smart, needs dirty treatment. When a steak, for instance, is brought up for the head cook’s inspection, he does not handle it with a fork. He picks it up in his fingers and slaps it down, runs his thumb round the dish and licks it to taste the gravy, runs it round and licks again, then steps back and contemplates the piece of meat like an artist judging a picture, then presses it lovingly into place with his fat, pink fingers, every one of which he has licked a hundred times that morning. When he is satisfied, he takes a cloth and wipes his fingerprints from the dish, and hands it to the waiter. And the waiter, of course, dips his fingers into the gravy—his nasty, greasy fingers which he is for ever running through his brilliantined hair. Whenever one pays more than, say, ten francs for a dish of meat in Paris, one may be certain that it has been fingered in this manner. In very cheap restaurants it is different; there, the same trouble is not taken over the food, and it is just forked out of the pan and flung on to a plate, without handling. Roughly speaking, the more one pays for food, the more sweat and spittle one is obliged to eat with it.
Dirtiness is inherent in hotels and restaurants, because sound food is sacrificed to punctuality and smartness. The hotel employee is too busy getting food ready to remember that it is meant to be eaten. A meal is simply ‘une commande’ to him, just as a man dying of cancer is simply ‘a case’ to the doctor. A customer orders, for example, a piece of toast. Somebody, pressed with work in a cellar deep underground, has to prepare it. How can he stop and say to himself, ‘This toast is to be eaten—I must make it eatable’? All he knows is that it must look right and must be ready in three minutes. Some large drops of sweat fall from his forehead on to the toast. Why should he worry? Presently the toast falls among the filthy sawdust on the floor. Why trouble to make a new piece? It is much quicker to wipe the sawdust off. On the way upstairs the toast falls again, butter side down. Another wipe is all it needs. And so with everything. The only food at the Hôtel X which was ever prepared cleanly was the staff’s, and the patron’s. The maxim, repeated by everyone, was: ‘Look out for the patron, and as for the clients, s’en f— pas mal!’ Everywhere in the service quarters dirt festered—a secret vein of dirt, running through the great garish hotel like the intestines through a man’s body.
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Black Apple Art
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What Music are you listening to at the moment ?, by Black Apple Art on Aug 4, 2015 0:26:23 GMT 1,
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What Music are you listening to at the moment ?, by Coach on Aug 7, 2015 20:36:15 GMT 1, Recently, and I don't know why, I've been listening to the goth music that I was into in the early to mid '80's. And there were no better than Bauhaus.
This is great very load
Recently, and I don't know why, I've been listening to the goth music that I was into in the early to mid '80's. And there were no better than Bauhaus.
This is great very load
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