The Happy RANT THREAD!!!!!!!

[Orbited insanitarium]

That's all great to hear, Orbited. Nice work!

Thank you! Much appreciated!
I have a better recollection of yesterday now. Athough, it's *yawn* 1.30am in the morning and I don't think I can muster up a lengthy powerpoint presentation-esque writeup.

Better take a quick glug of Dreamy Sleepy Nighty Snoozy Snooze, before visiting the land of nod.

[Alvin]

lichen and green moss
gentle rain on old building
vinyl crackle-pop

[Alvin]

I purchased a Eurorack Synth module from Facebook marketplace and when I met the guy to pick up the item I told him his name was familiar but I wasn’t sure where from. Turned out he is one half of my favourite local experimental music duos (who I hadn’t seen live yet, I’d only followed the music via CD and Bandcamp so I didn’t know what they looked like). Not only did it give me a chance to explain how much I like what they do and share my music, it sounds like I’ll get some free rare CDs in the post and now I know where they put on gigs (a really cool venue I wasn’t aware of before). Really a happy accident.

[A_Northern_Soul]

Pop group Boards of Canada have a new alum out soon, the sun is shining and summer is around the corner.... and despite everything else going on, maybe things are going to be alright?

As well as a summer of BoC, I'm calling it now - this is going to be The Summer Of...

2 negronis in the sun before dinner
red label Peroni
linen trousers
The Bee Gees (pre-disco AND disco era)
going on holiday and enjoying crisp flavours and unpronounceable lager that you can't get at home
Italo disco
fancy olives (the Perello ones with the chilli in the middle)
big walks
mangoes
finding cool rocks
being in water as much as possible
The World Cup (while it risks being a horrible one in many ways, it's still the World Cup)

[Negamuse]

I took part in the national speed jigsaw competition. I didn't come last.

This is my year of saying "yes" to things wherever I can and this was one of the things I said yes to.

In fact, in a 24 hour period I did that and saw a screening of Labyrinth with all the music (except vocals) being provided by a live band.

And you know what? It was joyous

[llydia]

Pop group Boards of Canada have a new alum out soon, the sun is shining and summer is around the corner.... and despite everything else going on, maybe things are going to be alright?

As well as a summer of BoC, I'm calling it now - this is going to be The Summer Of...

2 negronis in the sun before dinner
red label Peroni
linen trousers
The Bee Gees (pre-disco AND disco era)
going on holiday and enjoying crisp flavours and unpronounceable lager that you can't get at home
Italo disco
fancy olives (the Perello ones with the chilli in the middle)
big walks
mangoes
finding cool rocks
being in water as much as possible
The World Cup (while it risks being a horrible one in many ways, it's still the World Cup)

red label Peroni, as well as The Bee Gees? Foreign beers of nice quality. Fancy Olives, Italo Disco and COOL pet rocks? Are you like the coolest dude from the 70s who found a time machine? That's a level I aspire to attain one day in my later years...

For me, my summer will be filled with Ayuascha and the TB-303 and some funny little coloured dots. My first on Aya time! I'll let you all in on what its like.

[A_Northern_Soul]

red label Peroni, as well as The Bee Gees? Foreign beers of nice quality. Fancy Olives, Italo Disco and COOL pet rocks? Are you like the coolest dude from the 70s who found a time machine? That's a level I aspire to attain one day in my later years...
.

Haha! I will *absolutely* take that.

[fujee]

That beer you have on holiday when your partner is getting ready for dinner. That's the good shit right there. Ideally with a newspaper on the balcony in the sun.

[A_Northern_Soul]

That beer you have on holiday when your partner is getting ready for dinner. That's the good shit right there. Ideally with a newspaper on the balcony in the sun.

Ah man! YES! The balcony beer while the other half gets ready is one of THE greatest beers.

Other contenders:

- The train beer (cans from the wee M&S in the station; perfection...)
- The airport pint (It costs £8! It's 8:00am! Who cares?!)
- The 1st post-work pint on a sunny Friday
- The 3rd post work pint on a sunny Friday (the 2nd doesn't really count - its basically a continuation of the 1st; the 3rd is the gear shift)
- The unpronounceable holiday lager that probably tastes like dirt if you drank it at home.
- the straight-after-some-manual-labour beer. (trimmed the hedge? Best get some cans on the go...)
- The "we've got time for one?" beer before you're due somewhere else. (something is going to happen or you need to be somewhere in 20 minutes - a gig, a restaurant booking, a train, a football match - "we've got time for one?")
- Waiting to pick up a takeaway ("would you like a Cobra while you wait?" - Yes. Yes I would).

[fujee]

Hard agree to all of this.

[Negamuse]

I have a beer fridge and all it has in it are weird fruity sour beers from Edinburgh's Vault City brewery.

Sat out on my garden sofa, drinking a beer that tastes like a can of Sprite. I'm in heaven

[Mexicola]

Just back from dropping clothes to my daughter that she forgot for her weekend with her mum. Hit up the butchers on the way home. Proper smoked bacon, maple and chilli sausages, black pudding, eggs and hash browns cooking while I sit in the sunshine drinking good coffee in my back garden with skylarks chirping away. Nice.

[fujee]

Gardening is pretty great, isn't it? We spent all day yesterday digging a bed and planting some bits. Very satisfying to see it all come together, although the aches and pains from digging is reminding me of my age.

[A_Northern_Soul]

Gardening is pretty great, isn't it? We spent all day yesterday digging a bed and planting some bits. Very satisfying to see it all come together, although the aches and pains from digging is reminding me of my age.

See - I like the *idea* of gardening; but the actual execution - not so much. I don't like the fact that I have to cut the hedge AGAIN.

When we moved into our current place the garden was beautifully maintained; it was a retired couple who lived there and the garden was what they did; that's what kept them occupied (to the point where the interior of the house was badly in need of doing up). We moved in with (at the time) a toddler and a baby and a house to do up, so the garden got neglected. The kids have since DESTROYED it by playing football on it - lawn chewed up, hedges bashed to hell...

[fujee]

I took part in the national speed jigsaw competition. I didn't come last.

This is my year of saying "yes" to things wherever I can and this was one of the things I said yes to.

In fact, in a 24 hour period I did that and saw a screening of Labyrinth with all the music (except vocals) being provided by a live band.

And you know what? It was joyous

Love this. I am shockingly bad at jigsaw puzzles!

[Mexicola]

Inserts punchline about going to pieces in the final..