A dreadful conversation in my apartment

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As I sat glumly watching some bad movie on DVD, my roommate and several of her friends entered and began sitting around the table in the kitchen, drinking Heineken and talking loudly about music and other topics. I'm not saying the following quotes are right or wrong, I'm just presenting them here for all to enjoy.

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"I'm not saying you can't like Wilco because you're not from Chicago, I'm just saying I appeciate what Tweeeeedy is saying more because I'm from there."

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"It's like trying to compare Ryan Adams and Bruce Springsteen."

"Yeah, seriously, you just can't."

"Ryan Adams is just SUCH a genius and Bruce is white trash."

"Yeah, straight up."

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"I can't believe Reagan died, how sad is that?"

"Really sad. He was one cool dude."

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"I saw Jet and the Vines. OH. MY. GOD! Best live show I've ever seen."

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"Oh this is so funny. Last weekend Nikki and I were bored so we went over to her boyfriend's house and took turns making out with him, it was so funny."

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"Have you ever heard of Grandaddy? they're like Radiohead but not, you know?"

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"Baby Jessica is so sad! I heard she can't walk and has to use braces like Forrest Gump, isn't that sad?"

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"Ass sex is so dirty!" (followed by silence)

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Jeff Tweedy is from St. Louis.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

So did you say that last one to shut them all up?

― Sengai, Monday, 7 June 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Gear, you need to keep your roomate around for entertainment purposes, kind of like people who own capuchin monkeys.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

it was part of a larger conversation, the silence was from my roommate and her best friend and me.

I will say that there's nothing more annoying than sitting around listening to a conversation about Wilco and have people refer to "Tweedy" by his last name only. Tweedy Tweedy Tweedy! Can't they just break up already?

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I regret to inform that there will only be several more months of excruciating entertainment, as I will be moving hopefully no later than Sept 15.

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I only want to hear the word tweedy uttered in conversations involving fall fashion.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I tried to tune it out, but I kept hearing it. "blahblahblahTweedyblahblahblahblahTweedyTweedyblahblahblahTweedygeniusTweedyblahblah"

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

1. I knew this was a Gear thread.

2. I had an uncontrollable spasm brought on by trying to hold my laughter in the net cafe.

3. Nikki's boyf is a lucky man.

4. Hang out with Girls Aloud fans and you can hear the same Tweedy spiel except with added "Cheryl" before each "Tweedy".

― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I only want to hear the word tweedy uttered in conversations involving fall fashion.

Or:

http://www.nd.edu/~colldev/subjects/irish/tweety.gif

(hope that wasn't too Jon Williams.)

― nickn (nickn), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Tweety and the Donald

http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/1999/120299/donald-chris.jpeg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Those people sound awesome.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh man, Gear's post is just like an episode of Daria (with Daria replaced by a mention of buttsex).

― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Have you ever heard of Grandaddy? they're like Radiohead but not, you know?

This should be quoted on the print ads for future Grandaddy releases.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

1. I knew this was a Gear thread.

Same here.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I really don't know how you keep from walking right up to these people and shitting on their laps, Gear. I wouldn't be able to help myself.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I really think the quotes speak for themselves.

"Gear, you need to keep your roomate around for entertainment purposes, kind of like people who own capuchin monkeys."

OTM.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

"Ass sex is so dirty!" (followed by silence)

At which point you should have said, "Yeah. Smell the couch."

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I was sitting on the couch at the time, sadly.

http://photos.friendster.com/photos/12/57/337521/3195888237370l.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I really don't know how you keep from walking right up to these people and shitting on their laps, Gear.

Cause his roomie's the ass monkey, obv.

― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:16 (twenty-one years ago)

poo-flinging is the only rebuke an ass monkey understands.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Any Which Way You Can disproves this theory.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't believe I am asking how, but...how?

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't it obvious?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

(Actually, I don't know what she is talking about either)

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Sondra Locke and Ruth Gordon are a crueler and more effective method for rebuking monkeys.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe?

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

If Gear has the opportunity to fling Ruth Gordon's corpse at his roommate he should do that too.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

That sounds like my idea of fun.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Mmm, dessicated bodies.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I feel the need to say that Jeff Tweedy is actually from Belleville, IL, sorry I'm such a pedant.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 7 June 2004 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I am going to come over and kick your roommate in the ass.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 7 June 2004 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)

although it's true that making out with Nikki's boyfriend is fun.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 7 June 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Me too! FAP!

xpost

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 7 June 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha funny xpost!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 7 June 2004 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Belleville H.S. beat my high school in the state football championship in 1993. JEFF TWEEDY CAN SUCK IT.

oh wait, maybe that was Belvedere H.S.? ah fuck football.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 7 June 2004 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember. And oops was the team's shining star. He coulda been somebody.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 7 June 2004 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

One can't fully appreciate the absurdity and annoying factor that was added to the situation with that group's collective fashion sense.

i.e.

http://www.eveprime.com/images/portfolio/hipster.1.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 7 June 2004 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Your roommate reminds me a lot of this one random stranger I made out with once and really regretted it later on when I actually talked to her.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 7 June 2004 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

You don't live in L.A. do you?

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 7 June 2004 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Shit, I AM LA.

(ie no)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 7 June 2004 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

You are LA, though.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 7 June 2004 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I think they're kinda OTM about Grandaddy tho

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Monday, 7 June 2004 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

they're kinda off their fuckin' noggin about Grandaddy as well

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 7 June 2004 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a tragedy about Baby Jessica, too.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 7 June 2004 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Everyone is right at least once in their lives.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 7 June 2004 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

My roommate seems to stick to her usual circle of guys anyway, and they're all a cross between Lenny Kravitz and Jason Mraz in style and personality.

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 7 June 2004 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got a fever which may or may not explain how hard this thread is making me laugh.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 7 June 2004 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

they're all a cross between Lenny Kravitz and Jason Mraz in style

Gear, come to the FAP this Saturday. We will buy you a drink. We will hex your roommate and her friends. We will show you the way to the light.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 June 2004 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Everyone is right at least once in their lives.

Although in some cases it's a matter of blind pigs and acorns.

BTW, Gear, was your roommate ever aware that you were in the house during the Anal Event of 2004?

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 7 June 2004 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Surely the whole thing was that Gear intentionally walked out of his room to see them when he couldn't take their antics anymore!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 June 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

The thread of doom -- poor Gear knew that assplay was considered by the time of his second post.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 June 2004 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm having a "fancy-a-Guinness" thing at my place sometime, look for the posted signs with the event's initials and directions.

Saturday I will be partying and enjoying the nightlife of a distant city of sin!

and my only wish re: Assplay '04 was that I walked out sooner and saw slightly less. which wouldn't have been as funny I suppose

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 7 June 2004 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Saturday I will be partying and enjoying the nightlife of a distant city of sin!

SIN. Well we'll raise a glass anyway.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 June 2004 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

i.e. Tarzana xpost

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 7 June 2004 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread makes me glad to be alive.

― Fr4ncis W4tlingt0n (Francis Watlington), Monday, 7 June 2004 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

the only one of these that bothers me is the bruce springsteen one, because they used the phrase "white trash."

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Heineken be make some crazy shit come out a people's mouth.

― TOIMEBOT, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

these threads are really nabisco's theory of the "narcissism of small differences" brought to life. with butt sex.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

that'd be Freud I think

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

can we have Gear!'s apartment be named, like, an ILX National Monument or something?

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 00:29 (twenty-one years ago)

"Trucker Hat Guy Analed Here"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 00:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd really want the statue to look something like this, though.

http://imnh.isu.edu/digitalatlas/geog/rrt/part4/chp9/images/rrp77c.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.oneangrygirl.net/images/bud.jpeg

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Gear! ought to be secretly taping this shit and putting it up on slsk for us all to enjoy.

― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

haha @d@ml OTM

I just wandered in from a night out and found yet more strange hipster fops in Urban Outfitters tees in my living room on my increasingly despairing couch, which I really believe is making a desperate attempt to break all the laws known to science and man and literally shout out "burn me!" Anyway, they were sitting around watching Rock Bodies on VH-1 and marveling at Nick Lachey's physique. Although it was noted by one young lady that "his arms are too big for me".

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 06:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't help seeing this thread as the initial rumblings in a Secret History / Basic Eight-style "group of friends joke about plotting murder but things get horribly real when Gear!'s roommate is found brutally deaded"...

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 09:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Do these people sound like they could pull off a trip to the laundrettte, let alone murder?

― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 09:36 (twenty-one years ago)

i can actually believe Jet put on an acceptable show, but the Vines? worst live band i've ever seen, and i gather i attended one of their most together shows

― the surface noise is one of tremendous importance to connoisseurs of histor (ele, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 09:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Barima, I was talking about US as the would-be murderers!

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Barima's comment still makes sense in that context!

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Gear, how did you end up rooming with this winner?

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

i think he explaisn that in the buttsex hijinks thread.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Just in case I didn't mention it, the story goes like this:

Feb 2003, Adam Green show at Spaceland in Los Angeles. I was invited by some friends to check him out, saying I probably wouldn't like him aside from "Jessica", a true statement) but it was cheap. And so I went. The opener of all people was the dreadful Jesse Malin, and most people were there to see him. After Malin finished his set, Green came out and played to a mostly empty room. After he finished, my friend Mikhail began darting around trying to talk to an amazingly beautiful girl, my friend Sam went off into a corner and sat down, and I went to the bar. This girl (future roomie) came up to me and started babbling away, asking me how old I was, because she had a bet with a friend. I said 28, we started talking music.

Possible warning signs off the bat:

- despite name-dropping The Magnetic Fields, Yo La Tengo, and other very very good bands, she admitted that "emo is a real guilty pleasure for me, tee hee" which I would have taken as "I love emo omg" if I wasn't so drunk.

- she was there to see Jesse Malin and not Adam Green.

- she said that while she was an actress, she "wasn't Hollywood", "never drank", "was just a regular girl", and "loved to read". Which of course meant "I'm not Hollywood, but I'm trying!", "I drink constantly!", "I'm insane!", and "I carry around copies of Glamorama but don't read them!"

we talked for awhile and exchanged numbers and figured we'd hang out. We didn't hang out for awhile, then we finally did sometime closer to summer. We got along well, she really wasn't too bad at that point. We talked about getting a place, just because we got along reasonably well and both wanted to live in a better area. So we agreed to find a place that we'd sign a year lease for, and almost immediately I realized she was a chameleon who presented whatever side would show her in the best light to whoever she was around. So I never saw the side that I see every day now, until it was too late. Now I have to deal with Ryan Adams blasting in my living room at 4am, dishes piled up everywhere, her friends parking in the parking spaces of other people who live in the building, my roommate getting drunk and flashing passerby at the corner of N0rt0n and G@rdner, and trucker hats + emo emo emo all the time.

Ultimately it's my own damn fault, I have no one to blame but myself. I should have made sure!

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

You suffer for our entertainment. And on that level we thank you. Beyond that, ESCAPE.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I KNEW THIS WAS A GEAR! THREAD I KISS U MAKE FIELD RECORDING PLZ

http://www.clubbang.net/05-15-04/BANG-04.JPG

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

haha that's sort of funny because she just got the Morrissey CD after "I heard on 103.1 omg I didn't know he was so good". I told her I knew that back in '88, which didn't do anything other than make me feel really old.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

how old are you? how old is your roomie?

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Does she go here?:

http://www.rachelleb.com/images/photo_friday_urban.jpg

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

AH YES SHE DOES, she's a UO nitemare.

I'm 29, she's 24 I think. After she bought me a tiny Ikea file drawer(?) for my birthday, for her birthday I bought her a used Arlo CD, because they're kind of emo.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

UO = HOT TOPIC FER 20SOMETHINGS!!!!

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Am I the only one who thinks the first half of the quotes (up to the Jet and the Vines one) are stupendously awful and make me reconsider my blind love for the human race, while the rest are really quite cool?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

They're all pretty stupid and awful.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I was about to say.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I'd love those last four quotes if I heard them from a bunch of fellow students during my freshman year of high school but coming from a group of mid-20s makeoutclub.com wannabes I'm not so sure.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

WHAT DOES BABY JESSICA HAVE TO DO WITH MAKEOUTCLUB

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

ironic statements ending with "omg how sad" + ridiculous hats + emo + buttsex = everyone on makeoutclub.com!

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

"Oh this is so funny. Last weekend Nikki and I were bored so we went over to her boyfriend's house and took turns making out with him, it was so funny."

I'm all in favour of Larry Clark films being acted out in my flat.

"Have you ever heard of Grandaddy? they're like Radiohead but not, you know?"

Neatly expresses my ennui re: both.

"Baby Jessica is so sad! I heard she can't walk and has to use braces like Forrest Gump, isn't that sad?"

I've never seen Gump and I don't know Baby Jessica, but it does sound kind of sad.

"Ass sex is so dirty!" (followed by silence)

Sometimes these things need to be said.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

http://ocijasaju.host.sk/img/sombrero.jpg

"THANKS MAKEOUTCLUB"

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Baby Jessica just graduated from high school.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I wonder if she likes Bonnie Prince Billy?

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Or burritoville for that matter?

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm all in favour of Larry Clark films being acted out in my flat.

You are REALLY tempting fate here.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.weht.net/WEHT/Baby_Jessica.html

'Baby Jessica' doesn't Stuff

It's hardly as bad as that horrible October in 1987 when 18-month-old Jessica McClure fell down a well in Texas.

But her parents are still furious that some people think that "Baby Jessica," who's now 18 years old, has turned into a pin-up model for Stuff.

In their May issue, the mischievous editors at the lad mag did a spoof of People's "Where are they now?" feature by depicting "Baby Jessica" as a scantily clad knockout.

The magazine avoided a potential libel problem by identifying its busty, red-haired model as "Jessica McClain."

But the real Jessica's mom, Cissy McClure, says her daughter didn't appreciate being morphed into a bimbo.

"She was just so hurt," Cissy tells us. "We're all just really upset."

Stuff deputy editor Dan Bova, who got an angry call from Cissy, says the magazine meant no offense.

"I think it was obvious that it was a parody," he says.

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I cry for Baby Jessica.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

You have just suggested a new Andrew Lloyd Webber musical and for that I must hurt you.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

"A TRUE STORY" by GEAR!

INT. WEST HOLLYWOOD APARTMENT - NIGHT

ROOMIE: What's that CD?

ME: Some CD by Bonnie Prince Billy I've always wanted to get.

ROOMIE: Oh kewwwl what's she like.

(pause)

ME: She's okay.

the end

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

gygax! why are you so grumpy?

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Everybody's Baby [see acting credit #4]

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Can I have a few drinks first?

mulyiple xpost

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Here, check this gygax.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

"who is this Jacques Jamm?"

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

"He is not blessed with great pace but more than makes up for that with his tireless running up front."

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

that is great, especially "tireless runner" as that was my forte in my competitive athletic days.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

OMFGGGGGG GHAGAASGA

http://www.470mbogo.com/vgg/i-scare-adrian.jpg

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Who the fuck are those cunts?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Something of a surprise selection in the squad, Gygax has made his name with the Swiss Under-21 side and only made his full debut as recently as March.
A midfielder or forward, the 22-year-old is an uncompromosing presence with a sweet left foot which he puts to good effect with accurate crossing from out wide.

He is not blessed with great pace but more than makes up for that with his tireless running up front.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

22-year-old!!!!!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to go on a date with @da@ml and gear!.

― mandee "lovejoy" wright, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.streetdrugs.org/Images/POOPERS.jpg

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

i meant @d@ml - clearly.

― mandee, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

As I am a daddy, this movie was hard for me to watch.

Shoot! The event was hard to hear about when it happened and I wasn't even a daddy then.

There are many views of this event and many levels on which to examine it.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.collectalotshop.com/images/fisherprice/bbears.jpg

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

freaky connection: wasn't will oldham aka 'bonnie price billy' in the baby jessica tv movie?

WILL WONDERS NEVER CEASE!?!?

― mandee "lovejoy" wright, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

he was! he was "CHIP" - whoever that is!!

― mandee, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I think he was the dad or something. Or a neighbor. Or some dude.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I think he was Baby Jessica's father.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

her mom was 18

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

we prayed for her everyday in catholic school

it was a HUGE DEAL

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

You were raised Catholic? Ah! The veil has been lifted from my eyes!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I think "Chip" was a fireman.

― mandee, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Even worse, I was raised Protestant but went to Catholic school.

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to go on a date with @da@ml and gear!.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

not on a date TOGETHER. Separately. Except schdeduled at the same time, so I'll have to make goofy excuses to leave and run around the corner to where date #2 is waiting.

― mandee, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

3 dates in one night...

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm so there! However one of us will meet Mandee, and the other will meet, er, "Sandee" your identical twin sister who wears a different jacket and glasses and her hair up (or vice versa)

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

The scenario in Gear's kitchen reminds me of an updated-for-the-00-decade version of The Dead Milkmen's "Bad Party."

"God I really hate these jokers. I can't Gene Loves Jezebel. If there is a god in heaven, I'm sure that band will burn in hell. Gonna shoot somebody if they don't stop talking about 'East Enders.'"

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

bah. "can't" should be "can't stand" in the quote above.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

'Gear's Kitchen' is the title of my next novel.

― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

"Gear' Kitchen" sounds like it should have been a Mary's Danish song.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

What's wrong with talking about Eastenders??

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I got no problem with it, but apparently the Dead Milkmen didn't like it in 1988.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

The fuxors, that was (apparently) a vintage year.

― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

heheh. I know bupkes about EastEnders.

I do know Gene Loves Jezebel though, and Dead Milkmen were spot on about them being a shit sandwich of a band.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm still waiting for a pic of the roomie. shurely she has a glossy available.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm so there! However one of us will meet Mandee, and the other will meet, er, "Sandee" your identical twin sister who wears a different jacket and glasses and her hair up (or vice versa)

Now.. this is just turning into an Archie comic, isn't it.

― mandee "killjoy" wright, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

She has a stackful of glossies in her room underneath a pile of Walkmen and Death Cab For Cutie CDs. I'll see what I can do. xpost

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

yes and wacky Mrs Doubtfire/Two Much-esque hijinks will ensue.

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Bonus if roomie's wearing a t-shirt with an emo band name/design on it (x-post).

― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

xxxpost but Will Oldham was in a John Sayles movie, which shores up what little acting cred he had left, thank God

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

he was in a movie with Chris Cooper, who was the closeted gay Marine in American Beauty. Yet more connections and completed circles!

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

nine months pass...

Any more?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 12 March 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

unfortunately I parted ways with my roommate on September 22nd 2004 around 3:37 PM and perhaps perversely in order to avoid her giving me a falsely enthusiastic goodbye hug I told her I'd be back the next day. She called "Okay!" from her room, whilst clutching a short man with glasses that I'd never seen before and looked suspiciously unlike the "boy" she'd been dating. I assumed I might hear from her at some point, because I might have owed her $5 on a utility bill, but that was that.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Saturday, 12 March 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

which was actually not techniaclly the last time I saw her, because that was a tale related previous, when she closed a door on me after a brief exchange. But this was the last exchange we had (I saw the short fella go into her room as I was moving stuff out).

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Saturday, 12 March 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

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