Driving & Diving
Apr. 9th, 2009 09:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shermaramaOne of the nice things about UCL is that they think the Easter weekend starts on Thursday and goes on til Tuesday, so I'm on holiday already. I have, however, managed to arrange matters so that the holiday won't contain much rest. Chris is already on his way to Egypt for a week's holiday with his family, so I've signed up for a long weekend diving. The first thing this will involve is trying to fit three people and a lot of diving gear in my little car this afternoon and then driving all the way to the pointy bit of coast south of Weymouth. It should be a fun weekend, but probably not a restful one.
One of the things I'm taking with me is my new phone, which I bought second-hand off ebay and which doesn't seem to have been a bad buy. Every modern phone has its little imbecilities, I think, as a result of trying to be too clever, but the ones this one has (an LG Renoir) are more tolerable than the ones my previous one had (a Samsung G600). Like, now when I take the memory card out and put it back in, the phone doesn't need telling all over again that it's got a memory card and it should save photos and videos to it. And that memory card is much bigger; I've got the 8 Gb one that comes with the phone in it now. That's enough to hold about a fifth of my music collection as mp3s, which is handy as that's about as many of my CDs as I've managed to rip so far, and more usefully it passes the threshold, for me, of being usable as a random music player. The 1 Gb in my previous phone could only hold a handful of albums and never the ones I wanted at the time, so I just didn't use it that way, and I can't be doing with carrying round half a dozen separate bits of electronics, and now I don't have to.
One of the two other people I'm taking to Weymouth is a dive club member I don't think I've met before, but he's just down the road and needs a lift so it'd be churlish not to. But since I spoke to him on the phone the other day I've been a bit concerned. 'Very important question,' he says to me, 'what sort of music equipment have you got in the car?' And he asked me what sort of music I listen to and I said sort of mostly rock stuff, and he said he'd put some music together, and this makes me worry. Is he a banging choons type? Or will he have carefully assembled an mp3 player full of chart tat and stuck some Kaiser Chiefs and Kasabian on because 'they're rock, aren't they?' I mean, there's a definite driver's veto in force in my car (usually because I'm the most musically opinionated person in the car and also driving it) but I'd hate that to be a sore point. We are going to be spending several hours in the car each way and there's the rest of the weekend and stuff and I'd like to be polite and all but if he puts shite on I won't be having it. The problem is, I'm not sure I've got anything more sociable to offer as an alternative. Last night I attempted to tweak the music on my phone so it would contain some sort of reasonable mix of stuff I like (there was no way I was taking any of the Clutch off) and stuff that someone who doesn't know my sort of music at all would still have possibly heard of and be prepared to listen to.
So. Here's what you get out of my music player on random as a result, in the form of the now-traditional first-lines quiz, which I've never really been able to do before on account of not having the equipment. As in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
editor 's recent version of this, where the first line contains something that's in the song title, I have replaced it with the name of a well-known war-time politician. Also I had to skip quite a lot of instrumentals, apart from one which I couldn't resist because it claims to be an instrumental and plainly isn't. Here you go:
1. You're not the prettiest girl in town, I'm not the only boy with sullied clothes and a solemn frown
2. Somebody buy the man a cocktail, somebody buy the man a car
3. Silence, something about silence makes me sick - got bykhalinche
4. Hey old man in woman's shoes I wonder if he knows I think he's crazy - got (more or less) bykhalinche
5. A nice place to fight in the summer, a nice place to fight in the winter
6. (Ready?) (Watch yourself) Hey man, I'm going to fuck this shit up - got byironlord also asw909
7. Born in a manger, you're getting stranger every day - got byjennywooyay
8. Dear Winston Churchill, I wrote to explain, I'm your biggest fan - got byabigailb
9. Uncle Punchy, it's Flanagan, I just got paged. You guys page me and then put the answering machine on? What sort of half-ass screwball operation you running over there, Punchy? God damn it.
10. They say possession is nine-tenths, well we possess mind vents
11. A heart of stone, a smoking gun - got byjennywooyay
12. Electric flashing Cadillac lady, you're kind of pushy but I love you baby, yeah
13. I thought my resolve was too hard to be broken
14. A million years ago, I head down the road
15. Pull up my pants now the camera crew has gone - got byjennywooyay
16. Spread the word around, the rat is leaving town
17. Running faster than I ever have, evading sharks of the sky
18. I read the news today, oh boy - got byjennywooyay not ruudboy
19. Yeah, 1998 and the blues is back!
20. When they kick at your front door, how you gonna come? - got byultraruby
One of the things I'm taking with me is my new phone, which I bought second-hand off ebay and which doesn't seem to have been a bad buy. Every modern phone has its little imbecilities, I think, as a result of trying to be too clever, but the ones this one has (an LG Renoir) are more tolerable than the ones my previous one had (a Samsung G600). Like, now when I take the memory card out and put it back in, the phone doesn't need telling all over again that it's got a memory card and it should save photos and videos to it. And that memory card is much bigger; I've got the 8 Gb one that comes with the phone in it now. That's enough to hold about a fifth of my music collection as mp3s, which is handy as that's about as many of my CDs as I've managed to rip so far, and more usefully it passes the threshold, for me, of being usable as a random music player. The 1 Gb in my previous phone could only hold a handful of albums and never the ones I wanted at the time, so I just didn't use it that way, and I can't be doing with carrying round half a dozen separate bits of electronics, and now I don't have to.
One of the two other people I'm taking to Weymouth is a dive club member I don't think I've met before, but he's just down the road and needs a lift so it'd be churlish not to. But since I spoke to him on the phone the other day I've been a bit concerned. 'Very important question,' he says to me, 'what sort of music equipment have you got in the car?' And he asked me what sort of music I listen to and I said sort of mostly rock stuff, and he said he'd put some music together, and this makes me worry. Is he a banging choons type? Or will he have carefully assembled an mp3 player full of chart tat and stuck some Kaiser Chiefs and Kasabian on because 'they're rock, aren't they?' I mean, there's a definite driver's veto in force in my car (usually because I'm the most musically opinionated person in the car and also driving it) but I'd hate that to be a sore point. We are going to be spending several hours in the car each way and there's the rest of the weekend and stuff and I'd like to be polite and all but if he puts shite on I won't be having it. The problem is, I'm not sure I've got anything more sociable to offer as an alternative. Last night I attempted to tweak the music on my phone so it would contain some sort of reasonable mix of stuff I like (there was no way I was taking any of the Clutch off) and stuff that someone who doesn't know my sort of music at all would still have possibly heard of and be prepared to listen to.
So. Here's what you get out of my music player on random as a result, in the form of the now-traditional first-lines quiz, which I've never really been able to do before on account of not having the equipment. As in
editor 's recent version of this, where the first line contains something that's in the song title, I have replaced it with the name of a well-known war-time politician. Also I had to skip quite a lot of instrumentals, apart from one which I couldn't resist because it claims to be an instrumental and plainly isn't. Here you go:1. You're not the prettiest girl in town, I'm not the only boy with sullied clothes and a solemn frown
2. Somebody buy the man a cocktail, somebody buy the man a car
3. Silence, something about silence makes me sick - got by
khalinche 4. Hey old man in woman's shoes I wonder if he knows I think he's crazy - got (more or less) by
khalinche 5. A nice place to fight in the summer, a nice place to fight in the winter
6. (Ready?) (Watch yourself) Hey man, I'm going to fuck this shit up - got by
ironlord also asw909 7. Born in a manger, you're getting stranger every day - got by
jennywooyay 8. Dear Winston Churchill, I wrote to explain, I'm your biggest fan - got by
abigailb 9. Uncle Punchy, it's Flanagan, I just got paged. You guys page me and then put the answering machine on? What sort of half-ass screwball operation you running over there, Punchy? God damn it.
10. They say possession is nine-tenths, well we possess mind vents
11. A heart of stone, a smoking gun - got by
jennywooyay 12. Electric flashing Cadillac lady, you're kind of pushy but I love you baby, yeah
13. I thought my resolve was too hard to be broken
14. A million years ago, I head down the road
15. Pull up my pants now the camera crew has gone - got by
jennywooyay 16. Spread the word around, the rat is leaving town
17. Running faster than I ever have, evading sharks of the sky
18. I read the news today, oh boy - got by
jennywooyay not ruudboy 19. Yeah, 1998 and the blues is back!
20. When they kick at your front door, how you gonna come? - got by
ultraruby ![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2009-04-09 08:57 am (UTC)I am all excited now. I NEVER get answers to these things.
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Date: 2009-04-09 09:14 am (UTC)11) Banquet by Bloc Party
15) Alan Is A Cowboy Killer by Mclusky
18) A Day In The Life by The Beatles
A load of the others ring a bell but I refuse to Google to confirm my suspicions because I have MORALS.
I have an LG Renoir too, aka the "is that an iPhone? No? Oh forget it then" phone. I quite like it. Though microSD cards make me nervous. I say we bring back floppy disks personally.
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Date: 2009-04-09 09:18 am (UTC)I reckoned it'd be you who got the SFA and Mclusky...
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Date: 2009-04-09 09:34 am (UTC)i've found it quite reasonable when being given a lift by someone i don't know that they state rules, since people's cars are like small countries: things like No singing, No back-seat driving, No eating crisps, or whatever it might be. is better than sitting there getting cross.
have fun with the diving!
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Date: 2009-04-09 09:38 am (UTC)I think him thinking music is a Very Important Question is a good sign, not a bad one. People who are into banging choons aren't generally actually passionate about them, are they? I foresee a joyful car journey full of mutual music geeking. Have a good time!
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Date: 2009-04-09 11:16 am (UTC)On the return journey, they got to hear the Yelletubbies album that I bought *specially*.
And sang along.
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Date: 2009-04-09 11:23 am (UTC)Strapping Young Lad - All Hail The New Flesh
9. Uncle Punchy, it's Flanagan, I just got paged. You guys page me and then put the answering machine on? What sort of half-ass screwball operation you running over there, Punchy? God damn it.
Clutch - and it's off Jam Room. I'll get it in a minute...
...Super Duper!
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