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Hope your well |
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aw same2u broseph! i'm all caffeined up and ready for another exciting night of posting at xlt |
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lol excellent, I got some milk from tescos before so Ive got coffee if I want it. Hows things with you Belb, things going well I hope, hope your cosy and well treated were you are |
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will tunemx sell our passwords to the russian mafia? will tibbar return to get tubgirl'd all over again? find out soon on Zilty Uncovered |
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yeah i'm fine man, they mostly just let me do my thing here. i'm the only one who stays up late so i get nobody hassling us |
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sounds nice enough! got music, got caffeine, got internet access! |
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yeah it's cushy as fuck compared to the last place, i can smoke at any time of day or night which keeps me (relatively) sane. they're short staffed most of the time too so the jumping-through-hoops you have to do as part of the "recovery" is being quietly shelved. suits me fine, i'm not sure i could watch another presentation on healthy eating |
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I had to do a healthy eating course about 15 years ago, it was a bit patronising, it was watching a middle aged woman cooking a curry |
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we just had to watch an old video somebody had taped off bbc3 and then answer questions at the end. the woman doing it had been a primary school teacher and believe me it showed |
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oh dear, I used to stay up late and watch the open university "population distributions of medieval Europe" or something like that |
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did you ever watch the bbc2 schools programmes that used to be on in the mornings in the early 90s? the headmaster (named michael jackson, lol) at my old primary school taped the oxygene-style music and used to play it as we all filed in for assembly |
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yeah I probably did I remember the channel 4 schools music really well I loved it |
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cool that's a new one on me, nice synth wash. i've looked all over youtube for the one he played but i can't find it, it was like smartprice jean michel jarre though. used to mildly hypnotize us all |
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if you're into all that schools programme vibe the dvd of look around you with peter serafinowicz is worth picking up just for all the bonus features |
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oh yeah I like that program and that era of school programming it replicates. it had a certain atmos that's hard to describe, I guess boards of Canada, their very early stuff is the closest |
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yeah the incidental music off series 1 of look around you was being passed off as boc on kazaa at one point. it's listed on the dvd as being by "gelg" oddly enough but it's nowt to do with me |
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current status: goddamn fucking family my aunt died, after a drawn-out drama decline courtesy of alzheimers. her husband, after a point, absolutely did not want to deal with it; started being borderline abusive. my mom and her other sister spend ages on the phone bitching, but not actually doing anything. a week or so ago she gets a bleed in her brain; she's not waking up. she dies. my mom is freaking out, not because of the loss of her sister, but what is she going to do with the dog when she flies out to florida? who can she borrow a suitcase from? she's going nuts trying to book a flight with two day's notice, coordinating with my other aunt from that branch, so they can rent a car together, because the place, after you fly to florida, is a fucking mile and a half from the airport. as they are just getting this nailed down, my cousins casually text her, oh we moved it to thursday. they are flying back thursday; all the plans are now trash. my sister is called in because my other aunt is in hysterics and my mom is Officially Done With This Shit. the two of them are burnt out ant they say: ok, no, we're not coming. instead, we're going to plan something in NYC where we all grew up my role in this is relegated to listening my mom rant for 45 minutes on a hedset, saying things like "yeah" "yeah" "uh-huh" "oh jeez" "that's awful" and so on. there are so many obvious questions on my mind: why are you blaming my uncle and cousins when all you did was complain to each other on the phone? why didn't you take charge of this funeral shit in the first place, being a lot closer to my aunt? but mostly: why not florida? hope it gets destroyed by a hurricane next week. tired of hearing complaints; get wrecked. |
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*hour and a half |
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sorry to hear about your aunt. Family issues can be very stressful, my gf has a 98 year old grand mother who is is being fobbed off by her aunt for her dad and mother to deal with while she spends the money and goes on holiday |
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the fucker of it is i want to just scream "you're all behaving like shit, fuck off and stop slagging each other off" as well as "mom, i know you were talking similar shit about me when my life was chaos and now that i hear you talking about my (other, still alive) aunt like that i don't even begin to know how to reply" but of course i can just say "yeah" "yeah" "oh, that's awful" my cousins, her kids, i hear, are conservative trump sorts. i try to think of something i can do; my brain asplode. at least i have a good track going with some jungle samplez |
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oh harsh man, sorry to hear all that. alzheimer's is a fucker though, she's best off out of it, just robs people of their personality, dignity, everything |
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yeah its hard to keep out of a situation like that that you don't want to be in, good that your music is an out let new ceephax set with loads of new tracks here guys |
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alzheimers is strange. she would remember things from twenty years ago, but also tell people to have some cash in the drawer and later accuse them of stealing it. the last proper conversation i had with her, over a year ago, lasted a while. i mentioned an apple II and she was talking about apple II shit from twenty years ago but didn't retain memory of that conversation for later. knowing this, i deliberately prompted her for old memories, and they came out readily. very strange |
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yes its very odd, my gfs other grandmother has it, we asked her what year it was and she said 1973 and she can have full blown conversations with people who aren't there, its very bizzare |
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as you say long term memory is retained much better, she remembers something that happened 70 years ago, but she doesn't even remember if she had lunch that day |
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also she cant communicate she is in pain she just grimaces now |
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the first track on that ceephax sounds like an instrumental remix of |
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(not to be drag us back onto mid 90s eurocheese again) |
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it as if your your memory simply stopped, one day. everything up to that point, sure, fine. past that, connections kind of stop happening in a gradual sense, leaving the overall network in a strange, increasingly irrelevant sort of freeze-frame |
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