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[alexsarll]

So here I sit in the library on a dismal day at the fag-end of a decade on which nobody quite seems able to put their finger, but a decade at the start of which I wouldn't have been sat writing anything like this, having been strictly a messageboards and emails boy. The post-christmas milestones have been passed; thank you to all who made my birthday, and I remain amazed that the Freaky Trigger pub crawl could find an OK and a great pub within minutes of where I worked for eight years but neither of which I had ever entered (and about how many viable post-apocalyptic Ant&Dec TV formats there are, but over that topic it is probably best to draw a veil). Which means now it's just about waiting out the last 36 hours. Back home, my CD player currently contains one of the first great albums of the previous decade, St Etienne's Foxbase Alpha (albeit in that most noughties of formats, the 2CD deluxe reissue) and a burned copy (the second most noughties format) of what may be one of the next decade's first great albums, the new one from Los Campesinos!. I have no idea what I'm saying here, I just felt the moment should be marked, even if it's not much of a moment.

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[publicansdecoy.livejournal.com]

Hope the birthday was good. Sorry I couldn't be there. See you in 2010 I hope.

-x-

[johnny-vertigen.livejournal.com]

I had completely forgotten about the 2CD

[johnny-vertigen.livejournal.com]

2CD Foxbase Alpha reissue even. Damned spaz fingers.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

The unheard stuff on the second disc isn't as strong as on some of the others (mainly dubious acid house experiments), but the sleevenotes are ace and it's great just to have a proper CD copy of the album proper.

[angelv.livejournal.com]

WHAT PUBS ARE THESE?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

The Pride of Pimlico, that estate pub near Pimlico library/station: better than it looks.
The Grosvenor, left at the bottom of VBR: lovely, and full of model ships and similar pub tat, plus pool table.