Howdy, fellow Steamers and fans of Steampunk/Dieselpunk and alternate era England. I've a quick question. Since I'm a collector of fine and rare brews, ales, and teas. I'm wondering how many people are interested if I do a few reviews here for those items and post them as well as those who sample the same items.

My first choice list of items to review are of course English/Irish/Scotch Teas (Earl Gray and similar) and its history.

As well as various ales and other beverages both alcoholic and non-alcohol for those who wish to add another items for Steam related events.

Please feel free to let me know if I should persue this for fellow Steamers to enjoy.

For the record, NCIS had been in contact with me prior to their airing the infamous "Steampunk" episode.


The wanted to license our (Abney Park) music for the background of that club scene because they had heard we were "the" Steampunk band. For their main goth character they license a lot of Collide, and KaRIN is a friend of mine so it was easy for them to get a hold of me.

Bare in mind, they know "goth" because they have been researching it for years for there Character Abby, but they are all outsiders even to that scene. When they showed me the part of the script that described the Steampunk scene, and it suggested coffins and shit for the background of the club. I offered to talk with the set designer, and costumer, and I suggested moving the location to The Edison...but they said they were already out of time and out of money. They said they wanted to do the Edison, but it cost too much. I get this, The Kniting Factory charged G4TV $20,000 to film us playing there for our episode. Thats a metric shit-ton of money, and this was a brief scene.

I haven't seen the episode (don't have "TV"), so I still don't know what it was like, or if they used any of our music, but I've heard it was as "off target" as I feared it would be. ...but honestly, I don't think its a big issue. "Hippies" were painted pretty stupidly in the late 50's early 60's. Grunge rock is STILL painted pretty lamely by mainstream media - yet Hendrix, and Pearl Jam certinly weren't hurt of this portrayal. I think subcultures never really get painted well outside their own scene. Lets face it "outsiders" would be "outsiders" if the totally got it.

It is a bit odd though, since NCIS really does care about authenticity, and takes a lot of effort in their "Abby" character to make her an authentic goth. They told me they really were trying to get Steampunk right (which is why they called me) but they just didn't have time or budget to make the course corrections after talking with me, and I get that (it was only a few weeks ago that they talked with me, and they had only called me for music).

Lets not forget that EVERYTHING in the world is done by a small group of people doing there best. Even TV shows. If they had a second change to do this, or more money, I'm sure they would have hired Jake Von Slat for sets, Anachronut for costumes, and filmed it at the Edison. They did their best given their limited time, knowledge, and budject.

Ian, James and I were very excited and pleased to be contacted by the BBC to do a quick interview on Steampunk for their technology programme. I was afraid how they would make us come across but I think its not turned out too bad at all.
Taking part are;
Ian Crichton aka Herr Doctor.
James Richardson Brown aka James Sydian.
Amanda Scrivener aka Professor Maelstromme representing Brute Force Studios and Professor Maelstromme's Steam Laboratory. Corset the presenter is wearing http://www.bruteforcestudios.com
Please follow the links

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8376028.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8383183.stm

Anyone else who got 50 ribbons for the search stamps today?

2009/12/03 03:32 Search Stamp 50

Or did I miss something and there's a campaign going on?

Hi there,

as I'm in bento-fever now, here is today's bento:



It's leftover smoked salmon with rice, nicely shaped vegetables and some fruit. The white cream in the middle is creamed horseradish for the salmon.
In the lid are some smarties.

Now I'm waiting for some items to get shipped so I can improve the look of my bentos a little more like the cute ones that can be seen around here.

( more pictures )

Does anyone know where i can find this Dress ?
It be a lot of help if anyone knew and could tell me where i can find this Dress,
Ive been searching forever, and Would really like to own it.
Maybe you have seen a dress very similar .

__________________________________



Help is much appreciated.

So. My laptop likes to fuck with me and anything internet lately, but things are mostly normal until I visit Poupée. That is, things slow down incredibly and things that need 'on-screen loading' (you know, with the little ladybug-window) sometimes don't even work at all. I sometimes can't comment, I get display-glitches and adding friends seems like the worst crime I could ever commit that needs to be totally prevented. Sometimes, nothing loads at all and I have to close the whole browser to be able to enter poupee again at all. It usually also slows down other websites, too, parallely or afterwards. The "clear the cache"-credo does not help either, usually only for, like, ten minutes or something until everything is back as before.
I'm not sure if it has to do anything with Java/Flash, the masses to load, IE*, my laptop or something very differently, so I thought I might ask if someone has experienced this before or if someone has an idea what the problem could be.



*I personally doubt that, since the page works well on other PCs with extremely old browsers, too...

Hi everyone, I have been working on a new, stricter system that we can use in the future for banning buyers/sellers who are negligent or who turn out to be scammers. I'm posting this here so you guys can give me feedback on the procedure; please take the time to read and comment with any advice, etc.

Also of note, we are introducing new sales_comm only moderators this week. They will be sleepingapple and chocomimi. Please give them a warm welcome and be courteous to them should they have to remind you of any community rules. I will add them on as moderators on Friday. :] I believe more new moderators are still going to be added once we have heard back from those prospective parties.

( New banning procedures for sales community activity. )

I just want to remind everyone that there are OTK Slouchy Boots as one of the items for the incentive. Don't miss it because it will not come back after this month!! Since I know that the majority of people adore this style of boots when it was only knee high, I'm pretty sure that people will like it when it is OTK. I missed the brown ones previously already and I sold my black ones for 20rb way back then. *facepalm*

See them worn here.

You can check out the other items here. But they aren't that interesting imo. XD
PS. I don't know what the 10th and 20th stamp presents are.

Christmas tree ornaments are in today's bento. Read about it here.

This just popped up in my inbox, so I thought I'd share.

( Lookie, Harry's all grown up! )

Kicking off my 12 days of cookies with these lovelies!
More at my blog HERE

I have to ask since the holidays are upon us or nearing. What is on your Lolita wishlist?

Hey LJers,

I just wanted to let you all know that we are going to be performing some mogilefs maintenance over the next few days. We will be upgrading our current version to latest stable as well as changing some db config information to better handle the amount of files we are currently hosting. This shouldn't cause a big impact on site stability, but you may see some minor delays with userpic / scrapbook images appearing or other requests associated with our mogilefs. We would love to not have that happen, but unfortunately with some of the steps we need to take we have to cause a delay with images. I figured this was a better solution than taking down all of LiveJournal because well lets face it, we all need our daily LJ fix ;)

Thanks,

Because a late raffle is better then no raffle at all!

The stop time will be 4:45 pm New York time for those following.

So lets have a raffle!

A great way to earn ribbons and have some fun the more people join!

I will choose the number with a random number generator and post a screen cap so no one thinks I'm being unfair.
And everyone else who entered and didn't win has to comment on the winners item within 48 hours- this is an honor system, so please be fair!
Plus I will give 10 comments to the winner!

Time Limit: 1 Hour 30 Minutes@ 02:00pm New York time
If you post after 1 Hour 30 minutes you are not considered a participant.
Schedule: Sun, Tues, Thur: 12:00pm Tokyo time- Mon, Wed: 03:15pm New York time

To participate:
*Post a Link to you’re an item in your closet. Please post legal items only.
*Make sure to include your number in the subject line in chronological order so we don't have repeats
* Reply to your comment with 'Done' when you finish commenting the winner

So lets have some fun!

Congratulations #1 Bulgocrazyi!

Hey girls,

does somebody know how the sizes of minky-shop are? Are they comming out normal?
And what's about the calfs of boots? Are they very small??

Thank you!!^^

I was going to buy some jewels today... and i saw this
"We apologize, but the current time we stopped to buy Jewel"

someone knows whats happening? Oo

thanks ^^

First Post and First outfit that I'll be posting...
I was going to post a few outfits but the pictures are on the other computer which has been taken over by the mother.

( 1 Outfit )

Hi guys ^___^
I decided to make handmade Christmas card this year, but I've never made them before. I was thinking about embellish them with satin and some ribbons and buttons. Now my question is: how the hell can I fix the fabric and the buttons to the base of the cards that's made of cardboard without making a disaster?
Thank you very much for the help *bows*, have a nice day ^____^

If you had 100 shells to use, what would you do with them?
Or if you had a large number of shells before, what did you do with them?

a) Sell them and get a guaranteed 500 ribbons
b) Throw them in the shell spring
c) Do 50-50 of the above
d) Save them for some future event...?


Last time there was shell rain I collected 100 shells, but it's been over a month now and I've just let them sit there, unable to decide what to do with them... I thought it might be fun to hear what shell savers tend to do with a huge number of them. :O

It's time for shell hunt again!
Post a link or an alt to your item.

Have fun!

from Solvang, California

[68] Merlin BBC + Bradley&Colin (The Real M&A)
[20] Glee



here @orangelusik

Colin Morgan just announced on Paul O'Grady that series 3 is to be made next year!!

I found the com. last night while clicking links ... So i thought instead of just lurking - i'd intro myself :) lol




Name</em>: Poet
Nickname: Poe' , Mumbles , Flapjack
Age: 20
How long have you've liked deco-den? Fascinated for a few years :)
How did you find out about deco-den? A magazine my mom got me one xmas - i wish i could remember which one :( She order'd it from Japan,a few really :( I wish i still had them :/
List some of the things you've decorated: Nothing yet,I just got the new iPod Gen5 .. i saw a clear case @ the store & i was like "OMG .... I need to get some stuff to deco it!!" lol .. i said it aloud & a few people looked @ me strange ^-^ haha
Picture of your latest decorated objectt: I come empty handed :( I feel so lame & a shamed.
But once I get my clear case for my ipod & ds (which is the red&black,my mom won in @ busch gardens and gave it to me,so i had no part in picking the color) I will post pictures. I pinky promise ^-^ </span>

Ps. I know of Full Moon & strapya-world and a few Etsy.
I have a Micheal's in town,but it really sucks :( I'll be lucky if i could find the stupid cell phone charm cords x-x'

But has anyone ever gotten things @ AC Moore?? Just Wondering.. Here in town we just got one,I've only gone there to get painting supplys and leave,never took the time to look around. LOL

I feel like I'm asking SOOO many questions :( I just dont want to have to drive 30 mins to AC and find out they have crap for a selection. lol

pss. im sorry for not having anything :( uhg. like i said - i feel lame :/

Project Title: Leopard Capelet
Project Start Date: 11/30/09
Planned Finish Date: Same Day
Actual Finish Date: 11/30/09
Did you make changes from original plan? Originally was gonna do just one tie. Also been wearing it to the side stead of opened down the middle.
How happy are you with the result? 100%! Can't wait to make a Kuro outfit to match! Unfortunately all I have to pair it with right now is a kinna retro-y looking outfit. Sure does inspire me to use up that black kona cotton that's been sittin around. XD



( Pic heavy as always )

I'm going to look at a very lovely apartment on Friday and I'm very excited! But, I want to be prepared and I want to ask lots of questions.

( Here's what I've come up with so far... )

Any thoughts, anything to add?