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colemanSILVER Member
big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom


Posted:
i'm trying to get into changing this intro from time to time - at the very least to keep the music and films bit 'up to date'.

smile



name: cole[man]

sex: male

age: 27



location: i live in a veritable castle in leytonstone in east london with my beautiful girlfriend ubblove

i used to go to lots of workshops but i have to admit, its a fairly rare occurance these days.



your favourite website/s: this one is okay wink jugglingdb.com, contactjuggling.org, okayplayer.com, spherculism.com, playfestival.co.uk, magicbunny.co.uk, gettyimages.co.uk, toolband.com, airside.co.uk...



toys: i play poi and juggle balls. every now and again (like most people i think) i pick up other toys but am worse at all of these than i am at the keeping balls in the air thing - 97531, drop, drop, drop, drop, drop.



been twirling: since may 2002.

i could do the basic stuff (just a fwd and rev 3bt weave and a fwd butterfly) back in nov 2001 but then went and did a snowboard season in the alps and forgot everything.

when i came back, i discovered one of my best friends had learnt loads!

so summer 2002, i was in the lucky position of being around wikid poi people every weekend and having a friend acting almost as a personal tutor during the week.

big love and respect to jonny moohaahaa and fairie cath for all your patience, effort, guidance and days and days of playtime! hug

i began learning to juggle in august or september of 2002.



recent manipulation trends: been playing with one and two 4" stage balls quite a bit whilst wiggling bits of my body, learning to juggle 5 balls all over again, 3 ball body throws, getting confused about antispin, balancing things on my head and spinning a ball on my finger.



occupation: db admin and layout & design (similar to a porn star, just in an office). i work for a small, law firm in their information and research department. i also handle all of the firm's dtp, digital publishing and commercial print. aerotech toys aren't cheap and since my body won't ever make me rich, i have resorted to something a little more conventional smile



hobbies: bammy ubblove , this stuff, music, collecting things (i'm very bad for this) and boarding (although my skating is now non-existent due to me being crap and it hurting too much so just snow when i can afford it).



music: i like pretty much all of it. current playlist includes TOOL, RADIOHEAD, THE ROOTS, D'ANGELO and JEFF BUCKLEY, (and the rest) wayne shorter, a perfect circle, billie holiday, jill scott, joni mitchell, saul williams, john coltrane, soad, dj shadow, roy hargrove, 4-tet, edith piaf, cat empire, faith no more...



movies: recently seen... old boy eek team america, the last samurai, the ladykillers, the eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, shaolin kung fu master, jackie brown, shrek 2, shogun assassin, midnight express, lotr, seven samurai & magnificent seven double bill, kill bill 1 & 2, confessions of a dangerous mind, eraserhead, princess mononoke, a beautiful mind, pay it forward, adaptation, waking life.

favourites... shogun assassin, requium for a dream, anything by lynch, kevin smith or the coen brothers or anything written by charlie kaufmann.



books: recent... hiding the elephant, illuminatus trilogy, philosophical investigations, a book on nlp, shogun, oracle night, peter cook '...only twin', the curious incident of the dog in the night time, lord of the rings trilogy (first time ever - it didn't disappoint!), the complete winnie-the-pooh collection, of mice and men, vurt (again), chocky, brave new world, dune, falling out of cars, alice's adventures in wonderland.

favourite authors... jeff noon, iain banks, robert anton wilson and comic/graphic novel writers that only fanboys like me have ever heard of (brian michael bendis, j. m. staczynski, kevin smith, alan moore, greg rucker, brian azzarello).



tv: was invented solely to distribute the league and the boosh to the masses.



favourite colour(s): both of them - black and white smile



favourite number: three - its magic don't ya know?

i never had a favourite number until last year so i thought i may as well put it up here with the rest of the useless information.



cole

and a quick note about that orange 'grumpy' face on the top of all my posts - i'm not mean or unhappy, nor does it suggest that i'm angry in every post i make.

i just think its cooler than the regular pin-in-a-post-it message icon. and it makes it easy to spot my own posts cos it rarely gets used by anyone else. and its orange and black.

cole





and now for posterity's sake, my old sig list:



the original guru quote:

'its often easier to give advice,

than it is for a person to run one's own life'



the art lift:

if i am who i am because of who i am

and you are who you are because of who you are

then i am who i am and you are who you are

however...

if i am who i am because of who you are

and you are who you are because of who i am

then i am not who i am and you are not who you are



on the brink of war:

the horror



is that dave?:

you're myyyy wiiife noooooooooow...



confusing nix? with some bill hicks:

"here's tom with the weather..."



cryptic or just argumentative?:

a windmill in a fountain is like a spoon in the matrix...



its always a good idea to learn to swim:

mom's gonna fix it all soon.

mom's coming round to put it back the way it ought to be.



cassette boy's jewish doctor:

"you're dead.

GOD TOLD ME."



ever had a watch up your ass?:

"If any of you people disagree, I loathe you. I despise you. If I ever meet you in person, I'll smash your brains in with a f***ing bat. Then we'll see who doesn't like hot dogs."



karma:


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the end of the beginning:

silencio...



*never* become a performer:

"i felt so strongly that I belonged in that triangle that I started sleeping in it - you can imagine what this did for my home life..."



beware the renaissance gentleman:

"on the contrary george of asda: you will tell us... everything."



boo! shhhhh...

"i'm gonna snap your nose off and toss it at a vicar..."



why do we even bother to be here:

how they survive so misguided is a mystery.

repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability,

to lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here.

EDITED_BY: coleman (1178054280)

"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood


colemanSILVER Member
big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom


Posted:
i wrote a nice reply.

and swiftly lost it ubbcrying

i might have another go in a bit...


cole. x

"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood


NYCNYC
9,232 posts
Location: NYC, NY, USA


Posted:
Written by: coleman


Written by: NYC


And anything of his you hear on MTV is soggy crap.




what like [Old link] for example...?
that got rinsed on mtv which makes it crap apparently, but you thought it was great - which way you gonna swing next nyc...? wink





1) Mosh is played on MTV.
2) I've never seen anything but crap played on MTV.
3) I like Mosh.

Therefore, you conclude that I like crap.

Which is TRUE! biggrin I do like many things which I'd readily admit are crap. I like many mainstream, overplayed, overhyped crap... but that doesn't mean that I don't still think it's crap. AND that doesn't mean that some of Em's other stuff isn't crap.

I feel like you're ticky tackin' my sentiment which always makes me grumpy. If I misquote what year Tupac got shot, it doesn't make him any worse of a rapper.

Are you or are you not suggesting that UK Hip Hop is on the same magnitude as US Hip Hop?

Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]


BamBamPooh-Bah
1,810 posts
Location: London


Posted:
smile

A kiss blown is a kiss wasted, the only kind of kiss is a kiss tasted.

I'm a woman. We don't say what we want, but we reserve the right to be pissed off if we don't get it. That's what makes us so fascinating and not just a LITTLE bit scary.


mechBRONZE Member
Carpal \'Tunnel
6,207 posts
Location: "In your ear", United Kingdom


Posted:
your giving out lots of smiles miss b, have one back at ya smile

Step (el-nombrie)


colemanSILVER Member
big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom


Posted:
this is my re-constructed message with the this extra first bit and a middle bit added in reply to your last post.



just so we don't descend into the ramblings of madmen, the things i think you are arguing are:



- hiphop is american by default and people that build on the culture overseas are, in actual fact, diluting the culture by claiming to be part of it. [the purist argument]

- uk hiphop (if we can call it that wink) does not produce material of comparable quality to that that the us artists produce.



if i'm wrong on either of these, please ignore whatever i have to say from here on and go put on 'paid in full' and follow it with 'run come save me' ubbrollsmile



and i'm not sure what ticky tackin' is but i don't like making you grumpy so i'm sorry for doing it.

if it was my eminem-mtv logic argument then i think i get ya but i wasn't trying to piss you off or suggest that your accuracy with facts has a bearing on his stature as an mc.

what i was saying was, if an artist produces some quality stuff but at the same time produces tonnes of commercial crap then that is what i would label a dilution of the culture.



phew! much more of this and i'm gonna have to retitle this intro 'HSAN' wink



= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =



yep, the uk are crap at football too - what's your point? wink



"For every UK Hip Hop element, I can name two American elements that are better. And so can you."



if you mean for every good british rapper, dj, b-boy and graf artist i can name two better american ones then you're probably right (with the exception of graf but that's only because i'm not into any american painters other than the godfather futura).



but most of those 'better' artists do not produce quality any more (see jay-z as an example of someone that i think was super talented but lost his inspiration somewhere along the way).

hiphop in america is over 25 years old whereas it is less than 10 in the uk so you have so many more artists.

the same thing is apparent when you consider that america is huge and as such, your point above applies both ways - for every british artist i can name ten american ones that are worse.



"Are you or are you not suggesting that UK Hip Hop is on the same magnitude as US Hip Hop?"



no, i'm not saying that uk hiphop is on the magnitude (or even on the same level) that us hiphop is.

i'm saying we ain't as far 'behind' as you've seem to have concluded we are just from your experiences of going to a gig in sheffield and spending a summer in scotland.

on many levels, especially djing, i would bet the uk scene is better than it is in a lot of american cities, and more importantly, i think british hiphop (unlike american hiphop today) holds dear the ideals that hiphop held when it was in its infancy (the first 15 or so years before it became truly commercialised).

our scene may be small, but it produces quality artists and products that we can be proud of.

'quality over quantity' represents the crux of my feelings on this.



your other argument was the purist argument and i'm hard against that.

i don't buy into the argument that hiphop is not an international culture.



if you consider that any hiphop outside inner city america is a dilution of the culture i think you're denying the influences that american hiphop has gained from the artists that experience the culture worldwide.



hiphop was born in new york city and it will always be at home there.

but babies grow up, they leave home and when they return, they have grown, developed and become more complete as a result.

you have to let go sometime...





cole. x
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"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood


colemanSILVER Member
big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom


Posted:
kiss and smile for me bammy

its nearly the weekend princess... biggrin


cole, x

"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood


NYCNYC
9,232 posts
Location: NYC, NY, USA


Posted:
I agree with everything you said.



I know that Hip Hop is very strong in the UK.



I also know that I absolutely missed all the hip hop in the UK despite my best efforts.



I know that the average quality of Hip Hop in the UK is better on average (what?) wait... no hear me out... because there is NO demand for BAD hip hop in the UK whereas BAD hip hop sells in the US. In other words, if you're going to produce Hip Hop in an environment that isn't begging for Hip Hop (Like the UK vs. NYC) then it better be good enough.



I'm actually often surprised how influential New York City is in the Hip Hop scene. If the NYC Subway authority had been more vigilant about repainting it's subway cars in the 70s and NYC radio stations had refused to play rap... Hip Hop would be a shell of what it is now.



Even today, if you measure the influence of just a single New York Radio station in the GLOBAL hip hop world, it's pretty amazing.



If Hot 97 doesn't play 50 Cent, there is no 50 Cent.



Also... on a different note... can you explain the lack of British representation on this?



It's a BBC site after all. Where all the UK hip hop at? wink
EDITED_BY: NYC (1107535418)

Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]


UCOFSILVER Member
15,417 posts
Location: South Wales


Posted:
worms.
methinks.
can.
Jon.
of.
opened.
has.
a.

wink

NYCNYC
9,232 posts
Location: NYC, NY, USA


Posted:
Vuja De

Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]


Dr_MollyPooh-Bah
2,354 posts
Location: Away from home


Posted:
not that I want to drag up the whole hip hop thing again, but Steve Lamacq this evening was all about the status of UK hip hop.
and you can listen to it again here

NYCNYC
9,232 posts
Location: NYC, NY, USA


Posted:
It's all written in British so I'm lost. Where should I click?

Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]


colemanSILVER Member
big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom


Posted:
either here or here (i can't tell which right now cos i don't have real audio here at work).

cheers miss molly smile


cole. x

"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood


Dr_MollyPooh-Bah
2,354 posts
Location: Away from home


Posted:
it's somewhere in the middle of his show though,
it was still on as I posted that last night, so most of the way through the show then and the damn bbc site is shonky and won't let me fast forward so I can't tell you what time point to skip to

sorry - not so helpful

NYCNYC
9,232 posts
Location: NYC, NY, USA


Posted:
But appreciated. smile

Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]


Helz BellzSILVER Member
lovin' it...
2,444 posts
Location: Bristol!, United Kingdom


Posted:
hug2

Live well, love much, laugh often...

Official O.B.E.S.E. cheerleader


colemanSILVER Member
big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom


Posted:
ubbrollsmile

hey princess hug2

how the hell did we miss you posting your 1000th post?!!??

here's some belated fireworks for ya wink


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and just cos its you, i found some pink champagne too:


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see ya tomorrow hug


cole. x

"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood


Dr_MollyPooh-Bah
2,354 posts
Location: Away from home


Posted:
can I share in the celebrations?
I seem to have missed my 1000th too rolleyes

colemanSILVER Member
big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom


Posted:
eek
eek

this much celebration is surely an excuse to break out the kossack dancer/frog on a unicycle party combo!


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rockin smile

hug hug


cole. x

"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood


Dr_MollyPooh-Bah
2,354 posts
Location: Away from home


Posted:
eek

wow!

hug

Helz BellzSILVER Member
lovin' it...
2,444 posts
Location: Bristol!, United Kingdom


Posted:
Thanks honey!! And that particular brand of pink champagne is my absolute favourite!

Cheers everybody, and here's to a great w/e.

beerchug

hug

Live well, love much, laugh often...

Official O.B.E.S.E. cheerleader


mechBRONZE Member
Carpal \'Tunnel
6,207 posts
Location: "In your ear", United Kingdom


Posted:
ill seeyou abd cole on sunday sweetie

ill give you a call tomorrow late in the day to sort out arangments?!?!?!?!?

Step (el-nombrie)


UCOFSILVER Member
15,417 posts
Location: South Wales


Posted:
Hello Cole.



hug



I have a snowboard for my Xbox now biggrin



and I will be bringing foilage to Falmouth. ubbsmokinvegas



and you said you wernt doing much in March wink





I hope you had a great time at the NJC.



Ping?

colemanSILVER Member
big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom


Posted:
pong biggrin



[editing this post now to add bits but had to make sure i got that pong wink]



man, that juggling convention was sooooooooo good!

great juggling space, tonnes of workshops, loads of friends and an awesome show.

i wanna go again!



turns out i'm doing loads in march now - saltimbanco, synergy, chemical bros, falmouth...



april is good though smile



today is a good day because i am alive (in all the good ways smile), its spitz tonight and my digital camera should get delivered at some point and will be waiting at home for me tomorrow... bounce2 spank ubbangel devil bounce2



to anyone who reads this, may your day be blessed with smiles and extra kisses biggrin kiss kiss





cole. x


EDITED_BY: coleman (1110278708)

"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood


UCOFSILVER Member
15,417 posts
Location: South Wales


Posted:
ubblol



edit: i dont want kisses from Sonesh eek



edit: You are doing the Chemical Brothers? umm (you know what Im barking at)
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sunbeamSILVER Member
old hand
1,032 posts
Location: Madrid, United Kingdom


Posted:
ah thank you

i've got two things to add to this discussion - marmite and nutella are both wonderful and not mutually exclusive

marmite on crumpets or toast
nutella on crepes or just on its own

and that's all i've got to say about that
sunny day to all sunny

"I don't take drugs. I am drugs" - Salvador Dali

sunny


ValuraSILVER Member
Mumma Hen
6,391 posts
Location: Brisbane, Australia


Posted:
hug2 kiss

TAJ "boat mummy." VALURA "yes sweetie you went on a boat, was daddy there with you?" TAJ "no, but monkey on boat" VALURA "well then sweetie, Daddy WAS there with you"


colemanSILVER Member
big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom


Posted:
Written by: Valura



I have a great mosterisuer for ya cole.... hmmmm smells like a chupa chup... I might just have to send some to bammy for you...



*cheeky grin*






umm ubbcrying wink kiss hug2



[i probably would have eaten it by mistake at some point anyway wink]





so yesterday i went home and there was this waiting for me:



bounce2 bounce2 bounce2 bounce2 bounce2 bounce2 bounce2 bounce2 bounce2


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bounce2 bounce2 bounce2 bounce2 bounce2 bounce2 bounce2 bounce2 bounce2



now i just have to figure out how to use it.

and get a padded bag so i don't break it.

and a bigger card so i can take more than 4 photos before its full ubblol



expect my gallery to get very full, very fast biggrin





i watched ghost dog again last night.

it f*ckin rocks.

it has a slick story with a slant, a ridiculously well suited soundtrack, great characters and one of the best looking brindle stafs i've ever seen ubblove

i might even watch it again on friday (whilst doing my nursey bit ubbrollsmile).





cole. x

"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood


sunbeamSILVER Member
old hand
1,032 posts
Location: Madrid, United Kingdom


Posted:
wow nice camera.

i'd like to draw your attention to the following newsflash [Old link]

"I don't take drugs. I am drugs" - Salvador Dali

sunny


colemanSILVER Member
big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom


Posted:
cool biggrin kiss kiss


cole. xx

"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood


mechBRONZE Member
Carpal \'Tunnel
6,207 posts
Location: "In your ear", United Kingdom


Posted:
cole (without sounding bigheaded) would you like some tips and tricks for taking kick ass shots when you come up on saturday?

i can explain some of the ways i get mine if you like?

will your cam do a manual zoom whiel exposing?

Step (el-nombrie)


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