I was hunting through some old CDs yesterday, trying to track down something that may appear later this week, when I came across a few little things that made me smile:
- Flossie's description of Bulimic Hippos, played on a Hungry Hungry Hippos board, but without marbles.
- Some RealAudio copies of Lauren's stint on the Evening Session back in 1999 (missing one day because Tom phoned up from Gabs to ask for help on a computer problem and using my machine crashed the encoder (STILL BITTER, TOM, FOR NUMEROUS REASONS! hehehe).
- And then, there's this. Encoded in room A14 of St. Anselm Hall on a Sunday afternoon on a struggling P166MMX, this is a feature that really should be resurrected for cd:uk: Lauren's Lingo (in MPEG-4 video).
Excellent! I actually remember seeing this, and any lingering doubts I had about Lauren's TV career progression were immediately wiped out when she linked from that Royal Trux/Chicks reference (which was true, apparently, although nothing ever got released) to a performance from Westlife. Good morning, pop kids. Then there was the show that started with an unbilled interview with Ute Lemper, and the one where Lauren's Lingo was a load of injokes about A&R men...
If only I had been a hellraiser at university - I might have set the video more instead of getting up on Sunday to watch Planet Pop. As it is, not even that clip exists on my videotapes anymore. It's quite sad.
Heh, I remember that A&R one. Plus! Lauren walking down the streets of Manchester trying to flog copies of Be Here Now! (thankfully, I was in the lecture theatres of Manchester the day she filmed, because I imagine my reaction to being accosted by Ms. Laverne trying to sell me a CD outside the Arndale Centre would have been amusing enough for it to be shown on TV. And I have had enough embarrassment by TV for a lifetime)
Also, for about a month, I had the only Chicks fansite on the net (according to AltaVista anyway). My plans to become the next BSX/DK/KG faltered when I a) didn't tell anybody about it, b) forgot about it for the rest of the semester, and c) came back to it in the summer and realised it was rubbish.
I was blinded by Pinky And The Brain references, I know…
My living god.
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Fair enough :)
But what are the *other* reasons?
I don't know whether to be horrified…or go and buy a mobile phone. I think I'll stick with horrified. Toodle-pip!
You all went to Gabs one night and promised to get me when you were going, AND YOU DIDN'T! :)
(there is a tragic but vaguely amusing postscript to that, as I was stopped the next day in the street by someone who said she was sorry that she missed me in the bar. When I hadn't been there! *mumblesgrumbles*)
Aside from that, though, I've got nothing 8-).
Ugh.
Meanwhile, was it another Flossie who came up with the Bulimic Hippos line? I'm sure I'd have remembered it if it was mine. And probably re-used it at every given opportunity.
Back in the misty days of the Kenickie mailling list, yes, those halcyon eGroups days. And just before Scott made a purpose/porpoise gag. Memorrrrrrrriessss!
(my video archive skills suck. But my mail archiving practices are scary. Almost everything since 1997. Just in case one day, I really want to re-read what I sent from the Kilburn Building on a Thursday afternoon in 1998 (at a guess, it would be: "So, Odeon tomorrow? That's fine by me!").)
If it helps, you're not the only one to look back at the past and rue missed chances.
When we were yoooung!
Thinking back, it's Friday nights I miss the most; sometimes it feels odd that I no longer see a film a week.
(close second, obviously, the ER/Ally McBeal TV nights where Phil would yell 'POOR!' for an hour. And of course, dinner can never be forgotten. Dolphins, politics, various quotes from Titanic, the Northern Charms of Dr. Boswell, and Patrick! Oh so quiet to begin with, but good with a cutting remark when required (plus he also allowed many a goth joke, I seem to remember).)
Ah, that video clip makes me feel all warm and smiley.
Agh, the one mobile phone thing sample i clicked on makes me want to cry. In a bad way.
And weren't Royal Trux producing that Chicks album, or am i misremembering?
Ah, Slems dinner.
Hmm.
Ah, Slems dinner time. You forgot (or omitted) the chip manoeuvre and Phil's thoroughgoing addiction to sauté potatoes! However, had completely forgotten Phil's (and consequently my, for a while) overuse of "POOR!" at any opportunity. It may have to stage a comeback.
Oddly enough I overheard a conversation on the tube today that included the word "regale". I grappled with it for some fifteen minutes thereafter, but couldn't banish from my head the line: "Perhaps you could join us for dinner tomorrow night, to regale our group with your heroic tale."
I also had forgotten the use of "POOR!". In my defence ER had started its decline to mediocrity.....
Hurrah! How's things, Phil?
And I have two words for everybody:
"Vegetable Medley"
8-)
I think that's called "John Wells". I hate The West Wing now. Ian, did you hear about Studio 7 On The Sunset Strip, Sorkin's and Schlamme's new TV project? Check it out:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117931024?categoryid=14&cs=1
I'm two from the end of Sports Night, and I'm sad about that.
I've got two more words: BEEF OLIVES!
Oooh. I'd heard about that, but didn't realise they were quite so close to pulling it off. And Felicity Huffman! Never let be it be said that Mr. Sorkin has people which he'll cast over and over again.
*flashback to the beef* Eww.
"QUICHE? QUICHE?!"
Rob, I did a little digging, and yes, they were producing, according to this interview from the Wire five years ago.
Did any copies escape into the wild, I wonder?
I think we can safely expect Josh Malina, but what about Ted McGinley*? ;)
In the spirit of fairness, we should also mention the ever-popular lasagne. And the turkey schnitzel. Apparently schnitzel means a thin cut of veal. Who knew? Also that soup, the red one, with the herbs in.
And, of course, the cheesecake.
/waves to Phil/
*Speaking of TM, did you see the wearing-my-shirt moment coming? I was totally floored. Genius.
One of Chicks is now in a band called The Radio who are made indie-Spectorish waves in Ireland. Are there possibilities in a big list of late 90s pop-punk acts now travelling different furrows? One of Period Pains and two of Gel are now in Pure Reason Revolution, for one.
THE RED SOUP OF CHAMPIONS!
The shirt moment floored me too. I think I spent the whole of that day just watching and watching episodes in my dorm room ;)
It's all fun and games until the Fluffy reunion tour begins…
And Ian, Patrick? Who am I forgetting?
As spoken by many, although of course, not least, young Tony.The odd capillary perhaps...
Patrick Skelsey: tall, skinny, black hair possibly dyed, pale skin (whence the goth jokes), glasses. Very quiet except for the occasional good-natured snark.
Tony piling Phil's plate with chips - stone cold mealtime classic.
And hey, 24 comments! Is this a record?
Was he a year or two below us? Maybe he arrived following the Moore/Boswell quest for freedom in th 3rd year?
And the Tony memory I was referring to didn't take place in the dining room - think one of the last nights of the 1st year, famous for (amongst others) the interface of your knife with someone's wrists, Phil's experimentation, and... Tony's chips moment.
It's probably up there - I think a couple of entries got into the twenties while I was at UNC. I should invoke nostalgia more often!
Hmm, Tom, I think you might be right, putting a mockery to the Warden's criticism that our table was a closed clique ;)
Clique, us?
Long live (quasi-) intellectual snobbery.