h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hi ya, how were the big rides?

Fantastic
The big rides were big, fast, whizzy and over far too quickly for the length of time you were queueing for
Best ride - Nemesis. Sat in seats slung under the track, 4 loops I think and quite a long ride. Nicely fast enough with enough swooping corners and the like.
Most disappointing - Oblivion. Ok so you have this big drop and you do get a huge rush from going face first into the drop but from the point of release to stopping to come into the station is about 7 seconds. We had about 20-30mins queue for that. Good but not that good.
Silliest ride - Ripsaw. You get swung about and upside down. You're held upside down and lowered through a set of fountains. You will get wet but all in a fun and silly way. As you queue you can see it happening and you still say yeah, it's not going to get me that much but it does
The corkscrew is showing it's age - 21 - by being a lot more rattley and jarring than the newer rides (it's the one people came off rubbing their necks). The Black Hole is still very good, though it's been around a while it still works as you're in the dark for most of the ride. You get wet on the wet rides (log flume and rapids ride). The best was saved till last with the final ride being the tea cups before going back to the site to pick up the tents and head for home.

So how was your weekend?

God, not as exciting as yours

Friday night, a quick drink at a local hostilery to say goodbye to someone who managed to escape.... home to bed.

saturday, lazed about (god hates me this week - massive carbuncle of a cold sore cluster on my lips [yep, it's as horrible as it sounds] and i've got a presentation to give on wednesday - its doing things like that means i'll never love God) so couldn't face going out and meeting any members of the general public, so i stayed in bed and read Q. in the evening a pal came up and after talking through casualty we watched the usual suspects (cos she hasn't seen it - yeah, go figure!)

sunday, watched the old firm game (wayyyyy go celtic) then read the papers, while getting mashed on the grass my friend grew from the seeds my mum brought back from the 'dam.

dead exciting ....

the rides sound fun!

I could do with a lazy weekend to recover from this last one
I've not read Q for ages, is it still any good?

The rides are fun (if you like that sort of thing). The new one looks very good, where you're facing forward in a superman style type of flying pose.

I could do with an aderinlin filled weekend

I like Q, its good when you're hip and up with the latest bands hee hee. 15th birthday special, worth getting to see whatthe q readers as best album in the last 15 years .... any guesses?

flying like superman? are you in some sort of harness? all sounds a bit kinky

i've been dying to ask - have you heard the eels yet?

Nope, not heard the Eels new one yet. I did like your comments on it so I'll get it as soon as possible (probably next weekend) as I was away this weekend just gone

I think you must be in some sort of seat/harness thing for the new ride. No idea how it'll work till it turns up.

i got a bit excited (maybe you noticed?) i'm still pretty excited about it. poor wee mercury rev i played their album last, under any other circumstances i'd probably be raving about that, but i heard it after the eels. i hate when i help hype something, then all my friends think its crap....ah well....

it all sounds very kinky to me

So how does Souljacker compare with Rings Around The World as that was the last new album to blow me away.

i don't like comparing bands, but i think souljacker is much better. put it this way, i want to rush home just to hear it - i left the pub early on friday, for, among other reasons, just to hear it ... its THAT good.

so, any guess what the best album in the last 15 years as voted by the readers of Q?

I've seen the cover of the magazine and can't remember! Radiohead?

yep, ok computer ... its a good album, but the best one of the last 15 years? i don't even think its tbe best radiohead, that'd have to be the bends .... nah accounting for taste

What would you have said was the best album of the last 15 years then?

mmmmm.... i'll need to think about that ... i'll tell you tomorrow

Glad you said that, I need to have a think about it as well

have you thought about your favourite?

are you only allowed one?

Unless you want to come up with a top 3 (and no they can't all be number one).
ANyway I am having some trouble coming up with just 1 anyway. So far I've thought of Blue Lines by Massive Attack and The Orbs Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld as up there.
I'd probably go for Blue Lines as the best album though.

oh i'm torn, i'm really not good a plumping although a top three makes it slightly easier .... oaky .... i'd have to go for badly drawn boy, the hour of the bewilderbeast for the no3 spot ... (oh this is horrible) i think it have to be REM - automatic for the people - nightswimming - guarenteed to make me cry .... oh, oh, oh this is too hard... okay i'm going to plump for nirvanna, nevermind ... popularist choices? ...

and of course there's .....

Not populist choices at all. Blue lines surely is that
Interesting to note that the ones we came up with are both from around the same time. Does this mean we are the music we grow up to
Hmm I can't find the list online How near the top of the overall list were Nevermind and Blue Lines? A couple of genre defining albums both (if we want to get all pretentious talking about music again )

i grew up listening to the everly brothers, elvis and the eagles, i definately think i'm a product of my mothers generation when it comes to music... i like it mellow.

nevermind came in at number 3, blue lines was 4 or 5, i think. definately in the top ten. i think you're right about us being what we listened to. the 90's were my wilderness years; i've never actually heard blue lines, but nevermind seemed to penetrate though, glad it was that rather than jive bunny or mariah carey - could you imagine how pitiful my life could be

You'll probably have heard a few of the tracks from Blue Lines even if you haven't heard the whole album.

There's nothing wrong with mellow musicI think