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by Obfleur » Wed Jun 14, 2006 9:24 pm
I'm going to Hultsfred Festivalen for three/four days now.
I know that nobody cares
But I'm gonna see The Strokes live and that rocks.
Also, I won't shower for at least four days, which always a great feeling.
Hope everyone else'll have a great weekend as well.
Can't believe I'm still here.
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by Predabot » Wed Jun 14, 2006 9:32 pm
Muahaahaa!

Prepare once more for the pictures of an enebriated tent-living flaxen-haired zombie!
We wouldn't want it any other way.

Ahhh... this brings me back.. to the first year I saw a Hultsfreds-thread, my first year at Transfans... 'Twas the golden age, lads.
Hah, I haven't showered for 2 weeks.

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by Guest » Wed Jun 14, 2006 9:41 pm
Yeah, but that's not due to being festivalised.
Damnit, Ob, I'm too old to be shocked like that!
Next time you post a topic with that kind of finality in the subject, you'd best really be leaving, or I'll go to Sweden and hunt you down! After convalescing for a few weeks first.
Have fun having fun!
I, myself, will be spending a couple of hours of Friday night in a tent, followed by a few minutes (x several) being launched into the air in a glider before dawn's early light reaches the ground.
No hard rocking going on there, though.
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by Brendocon » Wed Jun 14, 2006 10:25 pm
Have fun, Obbinator!
Predabot wrote:my first year at Transfans... 'Twas the golden age, lads.
No, I think the "golden age" finished just before you joined...
Hah, I haven't showered for 2 weeks.

I can't even act surprised.
Grrr. Argh.
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by Guest » Wed Jun 14, 2006 10:32 pm
Brendocon wrote:Have fun, Obbinator!
Predabot wrote:my first year at Transfans... 'Twas the golden age, lads.
No, I think the "golden age" finished just before you joined...
Sandwiched between the 'dark age' and the ongoing 'green age', wasn't it?
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by Aaron Hong » Wed Jun 14, 2006 10:49 pm
Rebis wrote:Brendocon wrote:Have fun, Obbinator!
Predabot wrote:my first year at Transfans... 'Twas the golden age, lads.
No, I think the "golden age" finished just before you joined...
Sandwiched between the 'dark age' and the ongoing 'green age', wasn't it?
I thought this was the blue age?

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by Guest » Wed Jun 14, 2006 11:08 pm
Aaron Hong wrote:Rebis wrote:Brendocon wrote:Have fun, Obbinator!
No, I think the "golden age" finished just before you joined...
Sandwiched between the 'dark age' and the ongoing 'green age', wasn't it?
I thought this was the blue age?

The Blue Epoch.
Previously, there have been two Grey Epochs and a White Epoch.
The Dark Age was the most recent of the Lower Grey Epoch, the Golden Age was the oldest of the Upper Grey Epoch, and there have actually been two Green Ages: The Lower Green Age being the most recent of the Upper Grey Epoch, and the Upper Green Age being the current and oldest of the Blue Epoch.
All this only glances the surface of the TransFans Era, btw.

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by Best First » Thu Jun 15, 2006 7:57 am
Have fun Tampon guy.

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by Legion » Thu Jun 15, 2006 12:52 pm
au revoiur mr tampoon!
Predabot wrote:my first year at Transfans... 'Twas the golden age, lads.
and yet the smell lingered still.
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by Best First » Thu Jun 15, 2006 1:47 pm
Brendocon wrote:
No, I think the "golden age" finished just before you joined...
if not at that exact point
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by saysadie » Thu Jun 15, 2006 9:02 pm
I could have sworn I'd replied to this last night... Oh well.

Bye bye Ob! Have fun! BRING ME BACK A PENGUIN!!
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by Ozz » Thu Jun 15, 2006 10:06 pm
Obfleur wrote:But I'm gonna see The Strokes live and that rocks.
I saw today Axl Rose and Sebastian Bach live. [/bragging] That. Was. Awesome.
Hope your gig will be at least as cool as mine.

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by Obfleur » Sat Jun 17, 2006 5:13 pm
Thanks everybody - hope everyone had as fun this weekend as I did
The Strokes were awesome.
Pharrel was a big surprise.
Babyshambles gave me an experience I thought I'd
never get to see.
Pete Doherty was really ****** up on drugs and what not and did some crazy **** like
throwing his borrowed guitar right into the audience,
Later when he got the guitar back it was untuned, so he just threw it on the floor (thus breaking it), and took the other guitarist guitar and mashed it up a bit. He also trashed a couple of microphones, fell of the stage (and couldn't get up again) and spat water on the camera crew, etc etc.
The whole thing was like a light version of Kurt Cobain.
Can't believe I'm still here.
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by Brendocon » Sun Jun 18, 2006 10:55 am
Ah, good old Comedy Pete. Leading by example, as ever.
He's like a Lucas & Walliams version of Iggy Pop.
If only he'd spent less on drugs and more on actual post-production on the Babyshambles album.

Grrr. Argh.
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by Obfleur » Sun Jun 18, 2006 6:32 pm
Brendocon wrote:Ah, good old Comedy Pete.
He (and the rest of the band) missed their flight to Switzerland last night.
So they went out in Stockholm and went to a club (Debaser) and said "Hey. Let us play here. All we want is beer!"
Pete laid on his back and sang most of the gig. He also fell of the stage and injured his back.
He started trashing the place and refused to stop singing, so a couple of bouncers had to wrestle with him for a bit. The manager of the club also cut the power.
Pete got thrown out - he then decided it was a good idea to take off his clothes and just walk around half naked in the streets chasing after girls.
Can't believe I'm still here.
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by saysadie » Mon Jun 19, 2006 4:08 am
Wow.

Just-wow.
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by Predabot » Mon Jun 19, 2006 12:30 pm
Obfleur wrote:Thanks everybody - hope everyone had as fun this weekend as I did
Pete Doherty was really ****** up on drugs and what not and did some crazy **** like
throwing his borrowed guitar right into the audience,
Later when he got the guitar back it was untuned, so he just threw it on the floor (thus breaking it), and took the other guitarist guitar and mashed it up a bit. He also trashed a couple of microphones, fell of the stage (and couldn't get up again) and spat water on the camera crew, etc etc.
Sounds Fan-tastic!

Glad you had a good time, Robinhó.

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by Obfleur » Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:00 pm
I pooped in my tent!
When finished I left the tent door open, and then started to imagine what would happen when the sun had cooked the turds for twelve hours, two days in a row.
Info: I slept in the car with my two mates.
Can't believe I'm still here.
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by snarl » Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:03 pm
Doehrty is a ****.
He'll be dead soon, few will care.
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by Obfleur » Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:31 pm
I don't care for him - but I think it's "fun", in lack of better words, with someone who stirs up controversy (as long as he doesn't kill somebody) in a "rock and roll fashion".
Can't believe I'm still here.
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by snarl » Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:32 pm
I find him nothing more then a ***** musician / tiresome controversy courting ****.
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by Best First » Mon Jun 19, 2006 2:25 pm
snarl wrote:I find him nothing more then a ***** musician / tiresome controversy courting ****.
i concur.
its all very well making amazing music and being a ****.
but making crap music and being a **** just makes you an even bigger ****.
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by spiderfrommars » Mon Jun 19, 2006 2:34 pm
He has talent. In his current state it's virtually impossible to display that tho.
But Dirty Pretty Things might indicate that Carl was the talented one. Dunno.
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Hah, I haven't showered for 2 weeks.
Why?
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by Pissin' Poonani » Mon Jun 19, 2006 2:42 pm
Best First wrote:
but making crap music and being a **** just makes you an even bigger ****.
And once again, our music discussions end up on Stings' doorstep.
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by Metal Vendetta » Mon Jun 19, 2006 3:46 pm
spiderfrommars wrote:But Dirty Pretty Things might indicate that Carl was the talented one. Dunno.
I actually met Carl Barrat once, and told him he was the real talent in the Libertines and that Pete was a **** before my friend wrestled my drunk arse away.
Carl seemed to be agreeing with me

I would have waited a ******* eternity for this!!!!
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by Predabot » Mon Jun 19, 2006 4:10 pm
spiderfrommars wrote:Why?
I live like a complete hermit, and there really hasn't been any social reasons to keep the personal hygiene in months?
Even less now that I've got a spring-break.
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by Shanti418 » Mon Jun 19, 2006 5:01 pm
I'm still stuck on the whole pooping in the tent thing.
Best First wrote:I thought we could just meander between making well thought out points, being needlessly immature, provocative and generalist, then veer into caring about constructive debate and make a few valid points, act civil for a bit, then lower the tone again, then act offended when we get called on it, then dictate what it is and isn't worth debating, reinterpret a few of my own posts through a less offensive lens, then jaunt down whatever other path our seemingly volatile mood took us in.
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by saysadie » Mon Jun 19, 2006 9:17 pm
Predabot wrote:spiderfrommars wrote:Why?
I live like a complete hermit, and there really hasn't been any social reasons to keep the personal hygiene in months?
Even less now that I've got a spring-break.
Ew.

Just-ew.
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by Brendocon » Mon Jun 19, 2006 9:23 pm
Predabot smells and is socially stunted.
FACT.
spiderfrommars wrote:He has talent. In his current state it's virtually impossible to display that tho.
Yeah. There's some decent music buried under the feedback and wankery somewhere... the BabyShambles album could have been half decent if they'd actually bothered finishing it...
DPT album's a lot better.
Grrr. Argh.