Yesh, indeed.

g.man wrote:

Yesh, indeed.

I'm just amazed.. Speechless.

Coopers Green wrote:

Elmlea wrote:

How terribly clever.

Sarcasm?  Unless of course you mean that because of the fact that the character is known as 'The Hand' which I've actually only just copped onto... Christ – apparently I'm dense AND clever!

No no, I was actually replying to the post before yours, about electronic cigarettes.

G.man getting down to some P Funk????

I knew he was a Funkdapus

Hahaha, I did have a good chortle about that today.

...in other news...
bags all packed and up with the lark tomorrow morning to head up to T in the Park. Hopefully we'll get a dry day tomorrow for the rig, but the weather for Saturday and Sunday looks like wrath of God stuff.

The good news is once again I'm in the King Tut's Tent, so at least it won't be raining on me when I'm working, but the bad news is that once again the tent is situated at the foot of the compound and will doubtless be flooded again. Last year it was like the Somme, this year I shudder to think.

Feeling quite jaded about it all this year. I used to really look forward to this job, and once there I do generally enjoy myself, but any excitement is now long gone. I guess that's just what happens when you've done it as many times as I have. This is compounded by the bill in the tent being absolutely fucking rank this year (looking at the entire bill, it's fucking woeful on every stage. If the Roses weren't there the promoters would be struggling for business).

I think that New Order may be playing the tent on Friday night, but we're not covering any bands that night so we will probably be long gone. This would bother me more were it not for the fact that Peter Hook is no longer with them. Hooky is new Order as far as I'm concerned.

Saturday I've got various fuckers I've never heard of, then in the evening Amy MacDonald (who I like) and bloody Clavin bloody Harris headlining for the umpteenth time. Really, can we not just play in one of the five thousand other times we've recorded him?

Sunday is dire. The one ray of hope is that we're getting an early bath and not covering the final two acts, Nero and Skrillex. The trick will be to get our gear out at lightning speed before they come on so we can get the fuck out of Dodge before the sun sets.

Beeb are putting us up at Tulliallan Police college again. That's reasonably good news, however their breakfasts are among the worst on the planet. Still, free bar every night when we return. Can't say I'm to fussed about that either. It used to be a great social with a lot of mates you don't see often, but looking at the crew lists there's hardly anyone there I actually know anymore. Ho-hum.

roll on Monday

g.man

Cheers Pea.

*fires distress flare*

g.man

g.man wrote:

Beeb are putting us up at Tulliallan Police college again. That's reasonably good news, however their breakfasts are among the worst on the planet. Still, free bar every night when we return. Can't say I'm to fussed about that either.

Amazingly, when you're there it's best to fill up as much as you can at breakfast because, barring Friday lunch, it's the best meal you can get there.  (They get more for food per prisoner in the jails than they do per cop at police college.). Which bar do they let you drink in, g?  And which building is your room in?

I'm in Tantallon B, mercifully on the ground floor. They don't let us use an actual bar Andy, we take over the assembly hall and set up a bar/buffet in there.
I'm in fucking agony this morning. Can't bend my left leg at all now. It's just taken me forty minutes to put a sock on my foot and now I've got trousers on I've just discovered that its virtually impossible to sit on the toilet.
Painkillers sadly are doing nothing, and it's now chucking it down outside.
I'll hobble over for breakfast shortly, and after that I've got the rest of the morning to work out how the fuck to get a pair of waterproof trousers on.

pure hell this

g.man

Tantallon is the nicest we've got. At least Auntie isn't scrimping as much as she could. I once waltzed with a resuscitation doll on the stage of that assembly hall.

And, yeah, icepacks and anti-inflamatories. And if you're taking a lot of them, anti-diarrhoea pills too.

Stuck in traffic now.

what fun

g.man

Just one more day.

*sigh*

g.man

Jesus Wept is my new official overused phrase of 2012. 

Lollingly used mostly by people who would define themselves as atheists. 

Lulz.

FUCK OFF

Ok. But surely the connotations behind it are religious - the concept of Jesus weeping is tied into a religious figure feeling physical pain, that's why the statement has its power?

Or is it just Jesus from down the road in Mexico?