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"Michael!"

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by John_Brainlove

There's someone who lives on my road called Michael. He lives on the the second floor of a big old town house opposite mine. I've never seen or met him. How do I know he's called Michael? Because once, maybe two, sometimes 3 times a day, there will be one of a variety of people standing outside his front door, should "MICHAEL!" up at his open window. This could be 8am or 3am, and has in the past led to a barrage of "FUCK OFF!"s from my neighbours, but nothing seems to deter them.

Question: should I make a note that says "MICHAEL - BUY A FUCKING DOORBELL" and stick it on his front door?

John_Brainlove | 08 Oct '07, 17:27 | Send note | Report this | Reply

get a gravestone engraved with "Michael"

and stick it on his lawn

2 birds, one stone - deterrent and threat


+ Smiley face sticker

= best comedy threat ever.


OMG

I TOTALLY HEARD THIS WHEN I STAYED AT YOUR HOUSE

it was really annoying, i was tired :(


yes

yes you should

but his stealth visitors might catch you?


:-S

They scare me. With such a reckless disregard for social convention in city living, what else might they be capable of?


bf

Is he a crack dealer? Just leave an anonymous tip off to the police. Problem solved


^lol


..

I'd go for "MICHAEL IS DEAD, SORRY".

Then won't get any more visitors, that'll show him.


i'd vote for this

maybe dribble some fake blood over his windowsill, just to convince them.


dont leave a note

go over and shout it


even better

shout it from your own window. and then hide.

all day long.

like putty shelbarn


That would be funny.

Alas, I have not the inclination.


indeed


DAN, DAN... DAN.......DAN, DAN, DAN, DAN

..................................DAN!


what?


I thought this was going to be about

Blur's Modern Life is Rubbish.


oh my god

i'm so glad you posted that, it's the first thing that came into my head when i saw this thread, i'm glad it's not just me being stuck in a 90s timewarp, as per


I thought this was going to be about

Blur's Modern Life is Rubbish too.


Who is it?

You should do it anyway


See if you can guess.

It'll be fun!
Clue, and then guess.
Then more clues.
Really, it will.
Come onnnnn, play.
You will?
ace.
I'll give you a clue.
Diane Abbott.


Is Michael a drug dealer?

wouldn't you feel bad if he was hard of hearing or deaf?


shouting a deaf person

wouldnt be a very smart thing to do


I don't think so.

I mean, it's usually an old woman, and it's hardly the most discreet dealing in the world if he is.


you do live in dalston though :D

it's his granny then? That is weird. There's nothing you can do unless you want to be that person that puts a note through the door saying they are disturbing your sleep etc?


Maaaan

I hate that person :(


It's possibly his gran I guess,

but there are a load of different guys that do it too.


mmmm. It's a toughie

Diane Abbott?


Does Micheal sell drugs?

he sounds like a drug dealer.


i said this

and got slapped down by Brains. I thought this was most likely. This is what happens with drug dealers. People go to their houses and shout their names eventually because they are the most elusive of creatures.


:D

I knew what this was about before I opened the thread


Fucksake.

Some guy is doing it right now.


I'm gonna come down to london

follow the trail of the audible "micheal"s, then find your house.

Then I'm gonna stand there all night shouting "JOHN!.... JOHN!....JOHN!"


Call the police from a payphone and inform them

that you've seen a bearded man in traditional Arabic dress walking into his flat carrying a Kalashnikov.

Problem solved faster than you can say Jean Charles de Menezes


No.

Michael sounds cool.

I wish people shouted out for me in the street.


This has been happening

for the past THIRTY MINUTES


i love this thread


I love you

.. (both)


is he

a beautiful dance whore?


I'm glad

other people mentioned the Blur thing earlier on. That's all I have to say.

MICHAEL!


wank song


it is.

goes on for two minutes too long, like everything else on the second half of Modern Life.


Ummmmm . . . .

Chemical World
Sunday Sunday
Oily Water
Villa Rosie
Coping
Turn It Up


counting

Chemical World/Sunday Sunday as the end of the first half.

Coping's a good song. The rest of it is turgid. I've never understood DiS's love affair with this record, it's palpably nowhere near as good as Parklife or Blur.


It's my favourite

I love it so, so much.

Mainly for Colin Zeal and Villa Rosie, I think. Each song is brilliant.


I don't know if it's my favourite

Probabably Blur Blur is but it's absolutely amazing.

And I'm so glad they put the extended version of For Tomorrow on the 'best of' even if they only put the regular version of 'There's No Other Way' on there and NO Chemical World at all :(


Best Of's NotFTW

Blur are one of a few bands where I want to own t'albums.


I've got all the albums

AND the Best Of (mainly for the live CD, cos I was there).


And Pop Scene if you have the US version like me

Also Advert OWNZ! Or is it Commercial Break? The one before Sunday Sunday.


I can hear it perfectly

in my head.


:D

That happened this January when I stayed at yours!

Me and Cat woke up about 4am to hear it.

MICHAEL!

What a cunt.


slowwwww


Shut up

you massive wang


sounds like a drug dealer to me

not called michael though. that's just a code word to put them off the scent.


this happens

outside my block of flats all the time. it's not michael though. either jim or nina. or pat. PAATTT.


Shout out the window

"SHUT UP!"

That works for me...

I contacted environmental health about it at one point, they asked for my details, and his, and I chickened out in case he's some mad dog killer dealer psycho.


I'm scared

theres a lot of them. whores, crackheads etc. The most hilarious one is the really drunk guy, who I shall call gerard. He was outside for about an hour, screaming. He does adventurous shit like attempting to climb drainpipes when he cant walk.


HE'S BEEN BUSTED

for dealing crack and has been evicted.

Happy days!


it's a good ending

but does ron howard really need to be involved?


MICHAEL!


^ this

i love this thread





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