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having been off work with flu for four weeks I've watched a lot of TV and DVDs - can't remember what in the first couple of weeks but has included Matrix trilogy, House series 4, Babylon 5 series 1, the Dark Knight, Hellboy 2, The science of sleep, the colour of Magic, X-Files new film, Narnia - Prince Caspianplus lots of crap on TV....

The X-Files film I think they could have done as an episode and it would have been fine - but not a film, too long and not complicated enough....I thought the Darh Knight was great, it went into the story and values quite deeply. Prince Caspian film had no character development at all.

Thanks for the information.

In the UK they seem to go for anything between £176 and £255 normally (I even saw above £300 as RRP). These were £115, which happened to be my limit and they were going fast, so I ordered them - I wanted a pair, will let you know how they sound compared to my current dynamic set up....

Just seen I could have got the Rodes for £115 too, nevermind

We'll we have not had a cold winter in some years - even frost is not as hard as it used to be.....I worked for a number of years in forestry and everyone said the same, need a good cold winter to kill off the bugs.....

I believe there were a couple of cold ones in the early 60's and 1946-47 was also particularly bad. In North wales in the 46-47 one people were able to walk across fields over the hedges as the snow was so deep, many farm animals died. Food parcels were dropped on cut off villages by the air force - some cars abandoned in december were not picked up till about March. Some snow drifts were 20 feet deep...

This is of course in the southern UK, Scotland and Northern England do get a lot more snow - but I think they were even harder hit in the years I mentioned.

My thoughts are with you too.

I put 'X' on as I had not listened to it for a long time and enjoyed it.

I noticed the latest version has a 26 minute version of George Trakl. Mine has the original 5:25 long piece - what's the long version like as the original is one of my favourite tracks on the album?

I do like the papyrus script. I find it slightly mysterious, aged, weathered, non linear.

Despite any current popularity and overuse I'll keep using it as, like the Hypnos font for Hypnos, I think it is now part of my creative signature....and thanks for the covers thumbs up 9dragons.

I did use a different font on a self released CD entitled 'Visiting Berlin' which was my first attempt at rhythmical and melodic music in recent years (see - http://modulatoresp.proboards84.com/index.cgi?board=serenpublic&action=display&thread=1827 )

I used Photoshop to get a picture of my Supernova synth into the typeface...

This link should work

http://www.myspace.com/oophoidrones

cheers
Pete

Just seen the last few posts - and this link works for me and the original one does not - but it looks the same......

since my last post one of the collaberations I coyly mentioned has become more formal when Oophoi mentioned it on his new MySpace page. http://www.myspace.com/gianluigioophoigasparetti

So I am excited to say the album is called 'Martian Chronicles' and is inspired by the book of the same title by Ray Bradbury. Currently we are swapping sounds/music and seeing how our explorations take us into the uncertain, twisting and parallel story lines of the book.
 

after passing my diploma in 1999 Iworked in a provate residential care home for almost 10 years. Had lots of training, but only when I came into the public sector and started training there did I remember how good learning can make my head 'hurt'. I think that's the difference between training/learning that just keeps the boxes ticked and training/learning that really pushes the mind into really really thinking....

Not sure how it is biting here, I don't want to spend money, but have to just to keep things going. Odd expenses like car repair bills hitting harder than before. We took out a loan just before the credit crunch, mailnly to consolidate credit card bills arisen out of 3 years of living on one wage and to some extent my music equipment (though almost everything is second hand) - would hate to try and get one now - and the £900 pounds a month mortgage someone offered us about two years ago would have killed us at that level, let alone now they are bouncing up quickly. Lenders want even 30% deposit !!!!!

I work in a hospital as a social worker - trying to ensure people are safe to go home and don't clog up the beds by staying too long - two other people joined since I started so not too worried about last in first out - but even with a couple of people less as experienced recently with illness makes the job very hard work, so would not enjoy any lay offs here.

Lots of service and manufacturing industries suffering, though in entertainment it seems to be hit or miss - cinemas still going strong. We are seeing an increase of £1 shops - selling I suspect, stock from bankrupt businesses.

Wood burning stoves are doing well, as are the logs for them as the increase in gas and electric bills scare people.

I saw recently on the BBC website a list of businesses doing badly or well in the new environment - made for interesting reading.