Four fried chickens and a Coke: Chicago part 7

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And some dry white toast please.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 04:15 (twenty years ago)

The old thread:
An October sort of city: Chicago part 6

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 04:16 (twenty years ago)

Here's a sunset.
http://giganticmag.com/images/ilx/sunset.jpg

And here's an alley.
http://giganticmag.com/images/ilx/alley.jpg

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 04:30 (twenty years ago)

I like the alley pic a lot.

Well, Nick and I went exploring in Lincoln Square last night. At first, it was really exciting. Then we crossed Lawrence and it was ugly. Then, we went crossed back over and it was nice again - lots of little cafes, a couple record stores, a cheap movie theatre... But I don't know. It seemed like everyone lives in either cool/bizarre victorian houses or rents an apartment in a huge, ugly complex. Then there were a handful of trendy condo buildings. Plus, I started to worry that we'd feel too isolated out there, especially in the winter.

So I don't know. I doubt we'd be moving there really soon, but maybe... I need to explore more neighborhoods.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, the alley pic is great (very Batmannish!).

The band decided to rent a full-size van to go down to O'Hare tomorrow, so I don't need to worry about O'Hare parking fees after all.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

very Batmannish!

Exactly what I had in mind. I think I'm going to see it again on IMAX soon.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

i remember driving from my mom's house to sonotheque, and driving down lincoln ave the entire way, because my friend is afraid of expressways. anyhow, it seemed like every other building was a new condo development under construction! especially around sulzer library.

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

That's cool.

Paunchy, have you been to see the Linc0ln park place? When we first came up to chicago, we stayed at nick's friend's apartment in lp, which was nice, but also very very pricey.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

i'm still trying to figure out why you're moving.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

You mean Paunchy, right? I don't want to move. I'm completely in love with my apartment. I'm just hoping I'll magically find something cheaper and not so bad.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

yes, i mean paunchy.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

You guys can call me Kenan if you want to. :)

The LP place fell through. It's looking now more like a studio apt. at Irving Park and Lakeshore Drive. Right on the park, big old apartment building. I haven't seen it yet.

Why I'm moving is hard to explain. Jessa and I are fine -- better than ever, actually -- but I need a place of my own. A place for my stuff. Somewhere where I can keep my CDs meticulously alphabetized and no one will ever touch them but me.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

I have space issues. It's true.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

You mean like...?

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005QJDU.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

Last week chicago summerdance was cancelled, which was hella lame. This week there's not an ominous cloud in the sky, and Jeff Mills is the DJ. I'll be there. Other folks should check it out too (south grant park by harrison.)

pictures from around chi-town!

Last year's summerdance w/ dj bad boy bill:

http://www.crankhole.com/albums/album96/IMG_1010.jpg

It was pretty awesome

http://www.crankhole.com/albums/album96/IMG_1005.jpg

On the El, I think this is at Roosevelt:

http://www.crankhole.com/albums/hotinthecity/jordan.jpg

Pete Rock @ Sonotheque:

http://www.crankhole.com/albums/album78/IMG_2877.jpg

― deej.., Wednesday, 22 June 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

Hmm, i didnt think of this but is it not kosher for me to post pictures of random people on a public forum? If the moderators think its inappropriate, feel free to delete.

― deej.., Wednesday, 22 June 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

i think it's prob. fine.

unfortunately, david, my band practices every wed. night, so i can't make too many of these. i have specifically requested off for superpitcher, tho!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

kenan, i think getting your own place is a v. good idea.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

I want to go to Summerdance but I keep forgetting and riding my bike on Weds. and I don't want to ride it back home after dark, especially all the way from the park.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

get some lights!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

NIck, I could drop you off somewhere near there tonight and you could catch a bus home?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

whoa!

at sonotheque:

Fri Jul 08

BIZ3 & PUMA PRESENTS LADY SOVEREIGN

BIZ 3 and PUMA present... LADY SOVEREIGN and guest djs (t.b.a) 21+ $10 cover 10 pm http://www.ladysovereign.com/ Taking over the UK is 18 year old Lady Sovereign who is already bouting with the best of them. She just signed a huge world wide deal with Universal and is down musically with the likes of Basement Jaxx, Obie Trice, Dizzee Rascal, The Streets and D12. A tiny 5 foot 1, she delves out the beatdown on the alternative microphone with witty lyrics and a flirtatious cheekiness that brings to mind no other. Her music is the current sound of inner city estates in the UK, obvious influence taken from popular dance movements such as grime, garage, jungle, ragga, hip hop and r & b. America has not yet seen anyone like of Lady Sovereign. This will be part of a limited 8 show U.S club date tour followed in 2006 with the debut album and a full stage tour. Don't miss what will be a historic event.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

Awesome!

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

DELVES OUT THE BEATDOWN ON THE ALTERNATIVE MICROPHONE

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

In my continuing band search I've gotten a couple bites. Anyone ever heard Hunting Stories or The Record Low?

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

Because I don't want to d/l mp3s on my work computer...

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

nope, sorry.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

Hunting Stories is a better name, go with them.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

lincoln square is boring and you probably won't have much luck finding something cheap enough to make moving worthwhile.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

i don't think it's that boring. i mean, compared to what? you talk about how great roscoe village is -- i think they're actually very similar 'hoods.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

roscoe village is prettier because it doesn't have western avenue. it just feels nicer to me. but yes, demographically and in other ways they are very similar.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

i find the presence of a wide, ugly avenue with mcdonald's, etc. a real blight on a neighborhood. it's the reason i didn't like living near broadway in edgewater.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

oh and also:

http://shes.aflightrisk.org/images/8.jpg

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

I'm going to find out this afternoon what kind of a neighborhood I'll be living in. I'm trying to get ahold of the super so I can actually see the apartment today. Either way, I'm going to ride up and take a look at the building, the hood, judge the distance to work, etc. Like I said, the building is a high rise overlooking Lake Shore. It's one of the buildings you can see when you're sitting at Wrigley Field.

I'm nervous, and I don't know why. I'm getting a good deal on the place, so even if it completely sucks I'll probably take it anyway. I hope it doesn't completely suck. I hope it has some kind of a view. I hope it's not the size of a closet.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

My friend got an apt. in wrigleyville. it sucks. I mean, the actual apt. is ok but living in that neighborhood would drive me nuts.

― deej.., Wednesday, 22 June 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

The title of this thread makes me hungry.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

Well, it's Wrigleyville only technically. I've found that once you get east of Halsted, there's a very different feel to the neighborhood. Quieter, not so much Cubby bullshit, no WOOOOOing on the street. I'll think of it more as Lakeview.

But I could be totally wrong. I'll see.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

if you live east of broadway and north of belmont, it should be ok.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

yeah, I knew people that lived around Irving Park and Broadway (like the Sheridan stop) and it felt more like Uptown, with Wrigleyville only lingering.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

uptown without the SROs and homeless shelters, though.

also you'll be close to a number of specialty supermarkets. if you like to cook. well, even if you don't like to cook, you'll still be close to them, but they won't be of much use to you.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

http://www.wackypackages.org/stickers/91_topps/11_front_yuppie_chow_small.jpg

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

is anyone going to the vic tonight to see joanna newsom?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

also you'll be close to a number of specialty supermarkets. if you like to cook.

I like to attempt to cook. It usually works out better than I had planned, but then ocassionally much much worse.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

how much are tickets to see joanna newsom? presuming they are still available.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

wait--tomorrow as in thursday? oh boo, i have to work.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

I think Irving Park is around the technical line for "Buena Park!"

Added advantage: easy access to Marigold Bowl / IHOP.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

there are some weird greenwich-village-like meandering streets in "buena park." i've never figured that out.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

Also: weird seemingly-lost uptown Holiday Club, and creepy-weird Nick's across the street -- open late, guaranteeing fistfights between rabble spillover from other, incompatible bars.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

Fuck Marigold Bowl. I think it closed, anyway.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

There's always a couple of interesting restaurants near the Sheridan stop. There's one called Rick's that gets consistently good reviews (though I've never been), and also a Nueva Mexicana place I can't remember the name of, which I liked. There used to be a Tibetan place there, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

the sheridan stop: the "fogotten" red line stop

(at least, that's how i think of it.)

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

i liked it when the red line had the A and B trains.

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

I think I've eaten at Rick's, actually -- I wandered in for something quick, not realizing quite how nice it was meant to be. I ordered something cheap and appetizerish and it was still super-delicious.

What was wrong with Marigold? I mean, I mostly just liked that there was horror-karaoke and an IHOP across the street -- that and the argument I had with the shoe-rental guy when he said Steely Dan was real music and now everyone just "pushes a button, like Howard Jones" -- so possibly I'm insufficiently engaged with the nuances of the actual bowling part.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

i liked it when the red line had the A and B trains.

wait, phil, how old are you? didn't they discontinue that system in the mid-1980s?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

Walking around in Lincoln Square we came upon this weird place where the El line, just west of the brown line Western stop, comes down to street level, and there are these barriers that come down to stop cars like next to the real train tracks. It was quaint! It seemed like some tiny whistlestop town, just for those two blocks.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

ah, the mysteries of the northwest side!!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I wouldn't know about the actual bowling part. That's the problem, N. I went there two times and both times ended up sitting in the bar for at least an hour and a half without being able to get a lane. What was particularly galling one of the times was that we'd go up to the guy in charge and ask him how far down we were on the list, and he'd say, "Oh, you're next, don't worry, just a few minutes" -- and then he'd blatantly call someone else's name. We approached him more than once before figuring he was just being a dick, so we left.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, N/A -- is it right after the Western stop that it does that? I haven't ridden past the Western stop myself, but I have noticed when biking or driving around the Ravenswood Manor area that the track is like that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

Cute, but slightly annoying when traffic gets backed up on Kedzie because of it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

i like that chicago has tracks that run along the street, it means chicago has a fully replete transit system!!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

yeah!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

it's like sim city!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

wait, phil, how old are you? didn't they discontinue that system in the mid-1980s?

nah, they had it until sometime during my freshman year of high school, which was like 1994. i had to take the 84 peterson to bryn mawr, then take the Red B train north to howard street. then take the evanston express purple one to noyes. to high school. it took forever.

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

why do i not remember A and B lines being around in 1994? i guess it's all the crack i was using back then.*

* may be a fabrication.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 23 June 2005 03:49 (twenty years ago)

Call it all off. That place was such shit, I could rant for days. I will restrain myself and only rant briefly. It was about 320 square feet -- small even for a studio. It was disgustingly dirty, and I can't believe they allowed it to be shown in its current state. The last tenant apparently never cleaned anything ever. The bathroom fixtures were covered in unidenfiable funk. The kitchen was not only not a kitchen (which you expect from a studio) but totally gross, as bad as the bathroom. The fixtures were slimy to the touch, discolored, and roughly one month away from growing barnacles. The apartment was on the second floor of a seven story complex, and the one window looked out on the "courtyard," which was so small as to seem like a vertical tunnel with five stories above it. Thus, the apartment gets no light, ever, at any time of day of in any season. The grout around the twenty-year-old air conditioner was black with mold. The tub was full of dripping green corrosion from neglect of the metal frames of the shower doors. The carpet was twenty years old, dark blue, stained, and pulling away from the wall. It was, hands down, the most disgusting apartment I have ever seen. The $650 a month rent for this is rape. This landlord is a slumlord asshole rapist for charging that. You couldn't pay me to live in this place.

Ok, so that's part one of the story. Part two is that I went to an "open house" right after I got home from that ordeal, and the place was great. Ok, maybe "great" is not the right word. It was $600 a month for a place as big as Nick and Sarah's place. Huge. That makes it great. It's in some disrepair, but nothing so bad as to make me call it a slum. It has scarred hardwood floors, a leak in the kitchen ceiling, and two very strange, very small, apparently useless rooms that are painted sky blue (both of them!) that I will have to find some very creative uses for. Catbox comes to mind. All in all, though, including the mystery rooms, it's about 1000 square feet. The kitchen is so big that it needs some kind of center island to be able to cook in it. Otherwise it's go waaaaaay over here to the cabinet, then wayyyyy over here to the stove. The bathroom was clean and relatively large. The living room and bedroom are almost one area, divided by a large doorway and a curtain (which I may take down because it's ugly), which is fine for one person. I was looking for a studio, after all. And here's the best thing: it's on Hermitage on block south of Division. It's the same biking distance from work as I ever was. Only now it's virtually across the street from Nick and Sarah. It's Wicker Park, I guess you could say. The location is killer. And the price!

Here's where I may have fucked up. I signed a lease. I gave her $200 down, because that's all the cash machine would let me take out, with a promise to get her the other $1300 by Friday. (She wanted a month and a half rent as deposit, but she does not check credit, which may be worth the extra money. Plus she said she "liked" me.) I need to come up with $1000 I do not have in less than 48 hours. First I will ask my boss for an advance. If he balks, I will ask my dad. My dad owes me big, and he knows it. But can he get the money to me in time? Will I have to ask my girlfriend, who I am moving (slightly) away from, for the money? We're still together and still cool, but Jesus, that would be weird. I'm going to have to call in every favor I have coming to get this apartment, and some I do not.

Oddly, I have loved this building before. There's a picture on my blog of what would be my front window. Weird.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 23 June 2005 04:56 (twenty years ago)

kenan, i've e-mailed you.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 23 June 2005 05:04 (twenty years ago)

SO you have. I have done the same.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 23 June 2005 05:21 (twenty years ago)

kenan, i've paypaled you $4,500--to cover the deposit, plus a housewarming party with strippers.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 23 June 2005 05:34 (twenty years ago)

You tease. You hvae done no such wonderful thing.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 23 June 2005 05:46 (twenty years ago)

Mind if I skip the strippers and just keep the rest? I need $3500 quite a lot, yo. Who doesn't.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 23 June 2005 06:10 (twenty years ago)

What is this "skipping?" ha ha

That apartment sounds awesome. I wish I could have found it! But anyway, yesterday when I got home, finished locking my bike up, and made my way into my back door, I was thinking, How could I ever leave this place? I really love my apartment now. So I'll just have to cut corners some other way.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 23 June 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

.$600 for 1000 square feet????

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 23 June 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

Kenan that place sounds awesome!!!

I say you start collecting something random and have one of the sky blue rooms be your ______ room.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 23 June 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

We have some crappy, probably obvious, things going on in our apartment - cabinets aren't aligned, tacky mirrored closet doors in the bedroom are always off their track, we can't reach the light in the 2nd bedroom to change the bulb, wood floor is destroyed and creaky, toilet is black and always wasting water - but I still love it. I wish I were more of a handy person. Then I wouldn't have to just deal with a lot of that stuff. No, I take that back. I wish Nick were a handy person. I'm lazy anyway. ha ha

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 23 June 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

the biggest prob I have with my apartment is that the bathroom seems to like to grow mold all over it, but that seems to be the case w/ a lot of bathrooms.

also I wish we didn't have a fluorescent light in the kitchen, i hate fluorescent lighting

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 23 June 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

sarah, you and nick have a much nicer place than anyone our age should be allowed to have!

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 23 June 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

kenan, if you don't get the money, leaf's apartment is available august first. the ceilings are the lowest things ever but it's in roscoe village & it's a great one person place.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 23 June 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

Yay, now I can always go over to Kenan's house and bug him to burn me cds of music I don't have! ME ME ME!

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 23 June 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

Thanks, phil! I just wish I had money to make it even nicer.

Kenan, You know this means you'll have to have parties at your house sometimes now.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 23 June 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

What do you guys think is the most generic north-red line stop ever? I vote Thorndale.

― deej.., Thursday, 23 June 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

living near your friends is great.. in the past 6 months all my friends have moved so we are all like 5-10 minutes walk from each other (and one is across the street, even) and it's great for BOOZIN'

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 23 June 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

Hooray for daddies! Hooray!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 23 June 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

Why didn't I think of asking my dad before? I mean, he's my DAD.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 23 June 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

Ok, so, the apartment is mine. I will have to clean the stairwell. It's filthy. I will have to clean a lot of things.

$600 for 1000 square feet????

It's the biggest $600 apartment you've ever seen. It might actually be bigger than 1000, counting in those weird little rooms.

Other features:

The oven. This is the '57 Chevy of ovens. It's a double-wide, with two doors, one for the oven and one for the broiler. Eight knobs on the front. A griddle in the middle of the top surface, about 9" by 6". And decorated like... a car. It's so fifties, it's hilarious. And if I like, I can run a small restaurant off of it.

Th downstairs place. It's not even in my apartment, but I still consider it a feature. It has a full-sized DJ booth and dancefloor. The place is the size of freakin' Sonotheque. And it has a DJ booth! Raised! Enclosed! Overlooking the dance floor! A real, honest-to-God DJ booth!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 23 June 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

Also -- Craigslist is the world's cheapest furniture store.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 23 June 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

Kenan, You know this means you'll have to have parties at your house sometimes now.

Oh, it absolutly means that. But lemme get some furniture first.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 23 June 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

Would it be recklessly irresponsible of me to include this is my moving expenses?

http://chicago.craigslist.org/fur/80465906.html

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

Never mind. I'll just buy it. I want it too bad to deny myself. Sometimes you just have to be recklessly irresponsible for the sake of art.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

Hey, am I all alone here or what? Where are you bitches? I'M HAVING CRISES OVER HERE.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

Dude, I could paint that, and I will, for $50. THAT'S A SAVINGS OF 20 DOLLARS.

I met JuliaA for realz last night.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

YOUR FIRST NAME IS NOT WASSILY, THEREFORE YOU CANNOT PAINT THAT.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

http://eightpawsclipart.myfauxpaws.com/images/elmer/elmers1.jpg

OOOH, YOU WASSILY WABBIT!

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

hmmmmmmm!

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

I don't understand that. Is it a private or public space?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

It's someone's apartment, empty now but taken, I think. Hopefully taken by someone who knows what HAS to be done with that space.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

I wish it was Phil's apartment. That would be perfect. I would never sleep again.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

Time for me and Nick to get our DJ collective going!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

OOOH, YOU WASSILY WABBIT!

You, sir, are a rube. A RUBE, I say.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

Hopefully taken by someone who knows what HAS to be done with that space

uhoh. i hope you're not really unlucky and it turns out your new neighbors are really really into trance. or drum & bass.

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

I like drum and bass well enough. Or I did in 1993.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

btw, can u find out if its going to be empty/available to rent one night between july 15th and july 25th?

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

I'll ask once I find out who to ask.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

Oh, jaymc, the FF's are playing at the Ice Factory with Crap Engine on Aug. 13th and I volunteered you and me to DJ the afterparty. I don't know if they'll take me up on it though. I'll let you know.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

You need to sit down with Crap Engine and have a serious heart-to-heart about the fact that they're called Crap Engine.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

"We need to talk. Have a seat. We're very worried about you and your terrible band name."

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

Every time I look at the title I want KFC.
Kenan, I was also reading something the other day about a recycling site,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chicagofreecycle/,
where everything is free and you just pay shipping on nice things people don't want anymore. I have no idea where I read this or why, but it seemed like a good idea.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

Crap Engine is a terrible band name but a really good band.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

Jocelyn, it does seem like a good idea, but it's no place to buy something like a bed. If they're thowing something like that away, that means I don't want it, either.

I believe I will also purchase this:

http://chicago.craigslist.org/fur/80465867.html

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

Purchasing used IKEA furniture makes me nervous. The stuff doesn't hold up very well as it is.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

Crap Engine is a wretched name.
I wouldn't want to buy a bed on there either. I wasn't sure what kind of furniture you needed. But you should see some of the stuff rich students throw away here when they move out.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

For $50, I'm not going to bitch. If I can put a computer on it, put clothes in it, and have a glass of water next to the bed, I'm a happy guy.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

My desk is from ikea, but it was the only solid wood one I could find in the store. Particle board is the DEVIL.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

I'll be picky later, ok? I promise.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 23 June 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

Oooh, yeah, I'd love to DJ, thanks, Nick!

I should see Crap Engine, too. I've always hated the name. I saw half of their set once and thought it was okay, but that was probably a year and a half ago, at least. And I like Justin.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 23 June 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

okay okay. need help moving? Moving in the dead of summer is the DEVIL.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 23 June 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, it is. I'm having trouble getting in touch with the landlord to get the info about where I can mail the check. But once that's settled, it's on.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 23 June 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

I've changed my mind, granville is the official Most Generic Red Line Stop (north side).

― deej.., Thursday, 23 June 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

Jeff! Yes! I would love some help moving. And you're in luck -- I have very little to move. A bed (which I just bought off Craigslist), maybe some ikea furniture if I'm lucky, one small stereo cabinet, and the rest is electronics.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 23 June 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

Granville is pretty generic, yeah.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 23 June 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

Would anyone want to rat sit for me over the 4th of July weekend? I can pay you . . . but probably not a ton. Otherwise, I think I'll just have them boarded for a few days. I'm worried it'll be too hot & too long of a weekend to leave them on their own.
Jaymc: if I need to board them, would it be possible to either borrow your car or have you take me to the boarding place?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 23 June 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

yeah, what does it mean to board them?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 23 June 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

i just pay something like 8-10 dollars a day & this pet store keeps them caged & makes sure they get food & stuff. it'd probably be air conditioned.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 23 June 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

I'd do it but my cats would hate me for hanging out with rats. I'd like to meet them though.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 23 June 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

I'm impressed there's somewhere that will board rats. I would love to take them to my apartment, but, um, that could have tragic consequences.

Kenan, I'm jealous you're buying all that stuff off craigslist. I look at the furniture listings on there constantly every day, even though I'm in no market to buy anything! I especially yearn for all the mid century furniture that shows up on there.

I can help move, but I'm wussy.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 23 June 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I'd be afraid of keeping rats in our apt. with our cats too.

Kenan, I can help with moving too, as long as it's not Sat. or Sun., when we'll be out of town.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 23 June 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

Do you need any china? I have some old plates in the basement I'm not using that you can have.

― Seven Kittens In a Cheerleading Triangle (coco), Thursday, 23 June 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

Maybe so, maybe so. I have not yet taken full inventory of what I don't have.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 23 June 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

I am coming around to understanding that Daft Punk Homework may actually be the best record I've ever heard. It's taken years to admit this to myself.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 23 June 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

It's pretty good, but I'll have to back the ILM hive mind in saying that Discovery is even better.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 23 June 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

I love when I don't know what I should listen to next, and then someone says something that makes me feel like I NEED TO LISTEN TO THAT IMMEDIATELY.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 23 June 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and I agree with Nick.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 23 June 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

Homework is so perfect, it breaks my heart.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 23 June 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

Makes me want to listen to Negative Approach.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 23 June 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

I'm loving Chicago today.

I always love Daft Punk.

― Rabbits Wearing Hats (coco), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

there is a friendly albeit kind of icky diner just off of the granville stop.

n/a and sarah, you have one of the nicest and friendliest apartments i know! i think the cats help, though.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

they counterbalance that awful, unfriendly human couple who share their space.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

Nah, it's the couch.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

And speaking of which, I could really use a couch. Next month, I think, next payday. Where does one procure such a thing? I've never bought a couch before.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

there is a friendly albeit kind of icky diner just off of the granville stop.

I've actually found them to be decidely not friendly, which is why I stopped going there.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

We want to get rid of our couch. But that would require getting a new one. It's such crap.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

KENAN, DON'T TAKE THEIR COUCH, IT'S A PEE-TRAP!

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

I have an extra couch, but unfortunately it doesn't have cushions. I'm not sure that helps.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

I have heard the couch pee story. I laughed a lot.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

Not the pee couch story, the PISS NAZI story.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

Dude, beware of gay Mexicans. I've always said that.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

http://photos1.blogger.com/img/259/1387/640/Chicago%207-04%20(111).jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

I like zam zam on Devon. Spicy. (thats where I ate tonight. Discovered that chaat is sort of like potato salad, except with more ingredients. And more spice. And "Naan" is bread.

― deej.., Friday, 24 June 2005 05:08 (twenty years ago)

I like zam zam on Devon. Spicy. (thats where I ate tonight. Discovered that chaat is sort of like potato salad, except with more ingredients. And more spice. And "Naan" is bread.)

― deej.., Friday, 24 June 2005 05:08 (twenty years ago)

That posted 2x for some reason. my bad.

― deej.., Friday, 24 June 2005 05:10 (twenty years ago)

mmm, indian food.

are you all ready for karaoke tomorrow?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 June 2005 06:37 (twenty years ago)

to the sound of "ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL!?!?!"

"ARE YOU READY FOR SOME KAREOKE!?!?!?!"

Who spells Kareoke correctly, John or myself? I'm guessing John.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 24 June 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

Sunny to partly cloudy and very hot. Winds from the SW at 12 mph. High: 97° F RealFeel®: 100° F

I'm disappointed chicago

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 24 June 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

it's karaoke i think. which may be different from how john spelled it, i didn't scroll and check. it's a spelling i remember because it doesn't really make sense to me. hope you guys have fun tonight...

i am so so so so so so glad i have a/c now.

― juliaaa, Friday, 24 June 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

This thread made me acquire Homework. Thank you.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 24 June 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

Yay!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 24 June 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

RealFeel®? That really sounds like something that should be associated with a fleshlight.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 24 June 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

The forecast calls for really hot pussy today. Like, near 100 degrees. Pussy fever.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 24 June 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

The Chicago area, already struggling with one of the worst early season dry spells since the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s, was hit with seven hours of 90°-plus temperatures Thursday. O’Hare Airport’s 93° high at 2:46 p.m. was the city’s hottest in two years.
The heat intensifies Friday, and the record high of 97° in 1988 may be on the line. That reading is a far cry from the cool 70° recorded a year ago. Of 28,065 daily high temperatures on the books at Midway Airport since observations began at the site in 1928, only 249 have been 97° or higher.
Violent storms swept northern Minnesota at the periphery of the blazing heat Thursday. Radar scans put cloud tops at 55,000 feet as 70 m.p.h. thunderstorm wind gusts hit Zimmerman, Minn. Large trees were downed in 66 m.p.h. storm gusts in St. Paul.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 24 June 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

25 years ago and you'd have had a job writing lyrics for a new york disco producer.

xpost

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 24 June 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

eew, 100 degree weather sounds grodey

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 24 June 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

It is. It is.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 24 June 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

Hey Mandee, I was just reading about Greeley, since I got a copy of Fast Food Nation at a yard sale for a buck last weekend.

Movies currently in the theaters that I want to see: Land of the Dead, Rize.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 24 June 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

If anyone's around to see this:

CANASTA show TONIGHT. Empty Bottle. We go on at 11 pm.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 25 June 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

Even though Jordan is out of town, I would like to thank him profusely for recommending House on the Rock as a road trip destination. All I can say is...fuck, wow. INSANITY. Best. Road. Trip. Ever. Every single one of you need to go to House on the Rock.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 27 June 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

Will do.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 27 June 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

That link doesn't really express the insanity.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 27 June 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

What kind of insanity are we talking about here?

― dan m (OutDatWay), Monday, 27 June 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

Hey, I'm going to need to use up a couple of favors for moving this week. Nick, if I could bother you to help me get my computer and stereo and speakers and stuff moved some weeknight this week, that would be great. Just little stuff that'll fit in a car. There won't be much driving involved. And then Saturday I'm renting a truck and moving everything else, and volunteers for that bit of saucy fun will be rewarded in some as-yet-undetermined way. And with love.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 27 June 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

My schedule this week may or may not be particularly busy this week depending on one particular piece of news which I hope to hear about today. But even if I am busy this week, I should be able to help you move stuff pretty much any day except Thurs. We'll chat.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 27 June 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

I'll help! I'm excited about your new apartment, Kenan. Yay for having a neighbor. :-D

Nick took a million pix of our weekend. I told him he should start a flickr account just for our mini-road trip.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 27 June 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I have to get a computer in there before Friday so they can hook up my DSL. And I have to get a stereo in there as soon as possible because shit's pretty boring when you don't even have music to listen to. Who wants to clean and paint without tunes?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 27 June 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

GodDAMMIT. That's exactly the sort of place I want, Kenan.

(...anyone know where a guy can sublet a room for the month of July? My job starts on July 15th and, being in Mpls, it's been difficult to find a place. Plus I've been in NYC pretending to be an artist and unable to properly search and destroy apartments. I went to phil's eviction party! I think there was a smoke machine!)

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 27 June 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

no, someone let out the fire extinguisher in the stairwell.... it sucked cleaning it up. :( thanks for coming, btw. i was really wasted so sorry if i threw up on you

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 27 June 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

Has anyone else noticed that Int0nation has no re-entry? That sucks so fucking hard.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Monday, 27 June 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

that does suck. i wonder why.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 June 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

Thanks for the invite! I, too, was wasted. There's a 50/50 chance I puked in your bathroom.

xpost: no re-entry is the suck. bastards. ...is there any chance that this is selling out? Should I get my tickets now?

(they're doing it so you have to stay in and buy their food and their beverages and stuff. I bet they don't let you bring bag lunches, either.)

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 27 June 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

I was really looking forward to going over to my housemate's office to soak up some A/C (and other things) when the day got really hot (and you know it will.)

― dan m (OutDatWay), Monday, 27 June 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

The day(s) of Intonati0n, that is.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Monday, 27 June 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

giboyeux, it won't sell out. Scott P. from Pitchfork told me that. Originally, they weren't even going to do advance tickets.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 June 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone want to go see Donna Summer at Taste of Chicago tomorrow? I think she goes on at 5:30. My office is right in the thick of everything, so I was just gonna pop on by after work.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 June 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

giboyeux, it won't sell out. Scott P. from Pitchfork told me that.

EXCELLENT.

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 27 June 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

When are you moving again, giboyeux?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 27 June 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

ASAP, basically. My job starts on July 15th and I'm in MN. I only found out I got the job a week ago and then had to go to NYC for all this film stuff. I've got places to stay in Chi, but it'll suck starting my new job while I'm couch-surfing at my dirt bag friends' house. Ideally, I'd get a sublet for July; this would give me time to apt hunt, get settled into Chi generally, and would synch nicely with my expected roommate's arrival in early August.

Unless of course I were to find a large studio apt in Wicker Park for 600/mo. Bastard!

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 27 June 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

sorry k3nan, i have to work saturday. but good luck!!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 27 June 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

i just realized that i haven't had real fried chicken in like 10 years - i have had CHICKEN FINGERS i'm sure, though.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Monday, 27 June 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

I haven't had any kind of chicken in... 11 years!

It will probably be a million degrees during Intonation and they'll have mist shelters you have to pay to use. Bastards!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 27 June 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

I've been bitching about the Intonation no re-entry thing with my friend this afternoon. We've decided it's going to be like an 8th-grade dance. The chaperones will make sure that everyone dances at arm's length, couples will be allowed to hold hands but there will be NO making out tolerated.

We're not afraid to call your parents, young man!

― dan m (OutDatWay), Monday, 27 June 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

Brief self-promotion: Fake Fictions at Empty Bottle this Saturday. Dudes.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 27 June 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

Niiice.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 27 June 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

Good work!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 June 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

OMG, you guys. What should I wear? No, seriously.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 27 June 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

Daisy Dukes?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 27 June 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

FUCK. Foiled again. I'm going to MI this weekend.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Monday, 27 June 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

Hmm... I don't have any shorts period. Also, it seems like the only thing that goes well with Daisy Dukes is a confederate flag bikini top, but that's much more Nashville Pussy than Fake Fictions.

It would be fun to have some short shorts though.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 27 June 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

It's impossible for me to wear pants in the summer. I have to wear the thinnest, lightest shorts possible. And even then I pull them off as soon as I enter any indoor environment.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Monday, 27 June 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I've been a sweathog lately, too. If I lost just five pounds, I think this problem would subside.

Maybe sweating is a good way to lose five pounds? This problem will work itself out!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 27 June 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

Well, also, since I'm a girl, it's socially acceptable for me to wear skirts everywhere, so it's not like I just wear pants all summer long.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

no re-entry? wha?? and of course i live in the upper peninsula. i mean, rogers park. boo. i think there should be more public booing of things we disapprove of and no re-entry gets my heartfelt BOO!

as for the motherscratching heat, i have worn a skirt (almost) every single day for the last month or so. stick with cotton.

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

So now that the lineup and times are out, we're probably not going to show up on saturday till Four Tet, and leave before Tortoise so we can go to L's going away party. Sunday all day though.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

You know, I just might do the same on Saturday. Except I def. want to see Tortoise.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

Man, Chicago ILXors are such indie fuxx.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

I haven't even really looked too closely about who's playing. My only must-sees include Les Savy Fav (because they are awesome) and the Go! Team (because I am curious). Other than that I'm just along for the ride.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm.. I really want to see AC Newman at 2:45.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

I thought I was moving on Saturday! Don't forget about me. I'll be well and truly fucked if you do.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

I'm real curious to see what Will Oldham pulls in the DJ booth.

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

Nevermind. Not the same Saturday.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

Well I really want to see The Wrens and Broken Social Scene.

xxxpost

― dan m (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

I'm sorry. I'm losing my shit over here. Too. Much. Stress.

I'm updating my resume today because when I came in this morning my boss was on the phone calling around for people to do web design. As if he's not aware that that's my job. I mean, what the fuck? He didn't ask me! The really weird thing is, I don't think he's trying to be mean to me. I think he genuinely doesn't understand why that would hurt my feelings. I think he's a sociopath.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

I think Crap Engine is a great name for a band.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

FYI.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

You're wrong.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

;-)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

Nuh uh.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

Jenny, you so crazy.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I really want to see those bands too, dan.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

dont miss outhud and the hold steady too!

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

You guys have talked me into going to this. It sounds like too much fun.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

I was in Chicago yesterday! I spent the whole day at the ALA convention at McCormick Place. Let me just say that Connie's pizza is teh suck. I ended up with three totebags full of free books and posters and I won 2 tickets to some Art Institute exhibit. Now my back is killing me.
I am going to Madison this weekend and will try to convince A. to make a side trip to House on the Rock. My parents went there in 1977 (I know because my mom is pregnant in the photos) and it was really odd looking back then too, had more just plain creepy stuff.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

jocelyn, believe me when I recommend that you reserve at least 2 1/2 hours, preferably more, to see the House on the Rock.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

did u see barack?

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

I am driving to Chicago in 15 minutes.

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

Wee haw!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

...am I going to hit ugly ugly traffic? (i'm approx. 6hours away)

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

I think ugly traffic is inevitable here.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, but if you don't get in until 7, you'll miss the worst of it. It still likely won't be fun, though.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

thanks for the heads up nick.
No I didn't see Barack at ALA, I was only there on Monday. I heard I missed seeing the Fonze, though. I did see Jon Sciezka, Leo & Diane Dillon, and Mike Thaler though. I missed Mo Willems (Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!) which I was sad about.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

what exactly is happening saturday with four tet and tortoise? is this like a free outdoor thing?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

http://www.intonationmusicfest.com

It's not for another couple of weeks.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

not that anyone asked, but i'm looking forward to seeing what the go team can do live, what will oldham does in the dj booth and what the hold steady sound like outside. everything else sounds good too. what sort of food are they going to have available -- does anyone know? i'm hella fussy about my food and i was hoping to bring a picnic or something, assuming they won't let us back outside...

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

The only thing I'm taking in is vodka.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

It seems unlikely they'd let you bring any food or drink in, TLD. That's why they won't allow reentry - to make you buy their stuff. (Also, I guess to prevent people from sharing tickets/passes.)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

Also to be dickholes.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

do you think there will be familiar area restaurants with booths or some creepy dude (or dickhole) with $10 mounds of shaved chip-chop ham? not that anyone really knows the answer to this, but i file this under "things i would like to know about the first inaugural into-nation festival before it happens"

i'm making a bad first impression with all of my fussing about food, but it is a concern. (coughs)

also -- has anyone received their tickets yet?

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:ZRuucVEyV4UJ:a.im.craigslist.org/yY/cF/hvnAaIVLtdIFurV7ua7ktstjRbH4.jpg

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

dont forget the afterparty at rednofive. free entry. i think some sort of free booze from 10-11:30 or so.

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

I'm sneaking magic juice in.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

We haven't gotten our tickets in the mail yet.

Sarah and I both took Mon. off so we can go to Phil's party.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

the hideout is having afterparties, as well.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

That is going to be an insane weekend. Fri night: Nueva Cats at Hideout, Sat and Sun days: Intonation, Sat night: L.'s going-away party, Sun night: Phil's party.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

Who is L? Who's going away?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

L3af.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

So no one I know. Ok.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

Sarah and I both took Mon. off so we can go to Phil's party.

OMG awesome!! i didn't think anyone would actually do that! extra drink tickets for nick and sarah!

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:ZRuucVEyV4UJ:a.im.craigslist.org/yY/cF/hvnAaIVLtdIFurV7ua7ktstjRbH4.jpg

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

Who is that and why do you keep posting her picture?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

So no one I know. Ok.

You said hi to him at the wedding last weekend!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

that looks a wee tiny bit like me, but only when i'm totally incensed and fussing maniacally about my food.

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

actually, this is a little more like it:

http://tinypic.com/6h0nlu.jpg

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

Fetching.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

what can i say. my blurry photo killed the other thread, so i had to work some peculiar magic on this one.

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

You said hi to him at the wedding last weekend!

I swear I have never heard of this person.

Who is that and why do you keep posting her picture?

I don't know, and just so you'd ask.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

(xpost) i missed your blurry photo.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

Kenan, are you being stupid? Kelsey's boyfriend.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

the hideout is having afterparties, as well.
whats going on at there?

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

I'm not sure. All the website says is "Intonation Fest Afterparty."

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

OOOOOHHHHHH!

*smacks forehead*

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

I'm not sure. All the website says is "Intonation Fest Afterparty."

uhoh.

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

"uhoh" like that means it'll be lame, or that you'll have competition?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

the latter. wonder who's dj'ing.

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

just sayin' hi.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

all this talk about intonation makes me wish i was brimming with hip-ness & had considered going. i think four tet & tortoise would be lovely.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

Hi, Kelsey.

Is anyone doing anything for the 4th?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

i'm going to delaware . . . so i'm going to miss your show! poopsticks!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

Driving back from Michigan.

xpost - missing the show, too... :(

― dan m (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

i get to be in a wedding that lasts three days and requires four different outfits. in ohio, the heart of it all.

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

I've been to Delaware. More times that I care to admit.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

i don't mind delaware!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

I think Rednofive and the Hideout have very different crowds.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

I like scrapple. And the beaches are okay, but I don't really like beaches. I've mostly only been in the winter though, and Rehoboth Beach is dead then.

xpost jmc, yeah, the rednofive pictures were funny, let's find the most tan, bleached teeth, clevage showing girls we can and put them on our website.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

i've never met anyone younger than 50 that likes scrapple.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

I think Rednofive and the Hideout have very different crowds.

the guy in chicago who helped me set this up said that rednofive is sort of corny hos and jocks on weekends, but every other night its not bad. great soundsystem though. and its open til 4am.

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

Me and Jenny both love it. We have her parents bring us a cooler full of it everytime they drive to visit us. I could eat it every day, if only it was healthier.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

I've never actually been to Rednofive! But I mean, I think of it as a dance club, and the Hideout is a little wood-paneled house where you can hang out in shorts and drink beer and see someone like Nora O'Connor perform.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

i'm booked for the 13-20 of july.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

as in booked a flight?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

where is union park, what is it like, and can we eat it?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

as in booked a flight, yes.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

sweet. you can stay with me on any of those dates, if you need to.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

Union Park

Doesn't say how it'd taste.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

Looks to be green line accessible. I hate driving. Unless someone is driving me.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

wow that's totally the west side! i bet there will be more jews on the west side for this festival than there have been in 70 years!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

there was a pitchfork festival 70 years ago?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

er, should i explain my joke, or was that a joke building on my joke? um ok my joke was that the west side was a jewish neighborhood until the 1940s/1950s.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

well that wasn't the joke but it was the background to the joke.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

at first i had trouble parsing your sentence, and then i got it, but decided to make a joke, anyway.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

I think I'm gonna leave work a little early and try to catch Donna Summer.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

Scrapple Machine would be an A+++++++ name for a band.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

Sun night: Phil's party.

Wait. You're having ANOTHER party in a DIFFERENT city? Can I come to this one, too? I won't puke in the bathroom probably.

― giboyeux (skowly), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 03:26 (twenty years ago)

so is this inundation or consternation or whatever thing sold out?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 04:15 (twenty years ago)

giboyeux, it won't sell out. Scott P. from Pitchfork told me that. Originally, they weren't even going to do advance tickets.

-- jaymc (jmcunnin...), June 27th, 2005 2:30 PM. (jaymc) (later) (link)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 04:28 (twenty years ago)

thanks

-- Amateur(ist) (amateurist@gmail.com) (webmail), June 29th, 2005 5:33 AM. (Amateur(ist)) (link)

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 04:31 (twenty years ago)

Wait. You're having ANOTHER party in a DIFFERENT city? Can I come to this one, too? I won't puke in the bathroom probably.

yeah, im throwing the chicago launch party of this website i work for. its on sunday july 17th. justin from outhud & jamie from xiu xiu are dj'ing dance party. and also working on one more dj, which would be great if it worked out. but if not, maybe one other. you should come! free booze from 10-11:30. and it goes until 4am.

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 04:59 (twenty years ago)

Sooooo, who's coming to the show Saturday? Huh huh huh?

I've had too much coffee this morning.

You know who is annoying me this morning? People who walk in to our office talking on their headpiece cell phones. Ok, so it was just this one guy. But how was I supposed to know he was listening to someone via a tiny chip in his ear? I'm like, "Good morning! You can go ahead and sit down in the conference room while you wait. Would you like some coffee?" And he makes this dumb face. Then, a moment later I notice him talking to himself and figure it out.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

I have a feeling I'm going to be talking to myself a lot on ILX today.

I have Slant 6's "Soda Pop Rip Off" stuck in my head. Anyone know that song? (other than my bf)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

I know that song. Takin' me back.

And I'll do my damndest to be at the show Saturday. I hope I'm not too wiped out. Probably won't be... I don't have *that* much stuff.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

i know that song! i listened to that album in my beat up 87 honda civic all the time...until i crashed it. i saw slant 6 at a moose lodge in kent, OH that same summer. i wish i could be at your show, but the wedding beckons. 7 bridesmaids, of which i am the Head Bitch.

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

speaking of that slant 6 show and weddings, two of my favorite people in the world met at that show for the first time, didn't remember it and then got married 6 or 7 years later. sarah, you thought you would be talking to yourself a lot? lookit me!

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

Man, everyone be gettin' hitched.

Handymanda, Is your real name Amanda? That's what I imagine by looking at your email addy. Anyway, are you coming to the Intonation fest?

Awesome, Kenan. BTW, what color are you going to paint your new place?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

Yes, me llamo Amanda. Yes, I'm going to Intonation. Also, recently hitched.

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

I'm missing the show, too... will be in lovely Traverse City, MI with my lovely gf.

Also, I've never heard Slant 6. Are they like Tribe 8? Weird.

xpost

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

I think I've heard Slant 6. I don't remember. For some reason, I associate them with Tuscadero. Maybe they were next to one another on a mix tape I got once.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

They were a DC girl punk band back in the day - lots of short, poppy, somewhat creepy sounding songs.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

sarah, i just posted a comment on your blog about not being able to make it to your show. i'm really bummed.

in other news: i used what is now my favorite shaving cream last night for my legs & pits. it's l's & it's made for shaving your head, but it works so well on legs & armpits! i don't know what it's called, but he bought it at walgreens & it looks like a stumpy water bottle that people use for bicycles.

i also rambled too much on "me & you & everyone we know" & the sex addict thread. why is it that posting personal stuff to mostly anonymous people is so frickin' easy? is it the same as telling your life story to the person next to you on the airplane? is there a syndrome for that phenomenon?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

No, I think it's different. My mom has that real life syndrome. The best was when she asked a male cashier at a health food store/co-op if they had anything good for this STD she had at the time. She went on and on about her symptoms. When he turned red-faced and was completely unhelpful, she started asking the customers. Meanwhile, my teenage sister and I were like, "um, we'll meet you in the car."

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

Wow.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

kelsey, I was so annoyed at the price of razor blades (not compatible with my budget), that I ended up buying a packet of really cheap disposable ones last night. There's nothing quite like fresh razors for shaving.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

Have you considered waxing? It's more costly upfront, but it'll save you time & money down the road . . .

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

x-post - I always thought that sounded painful. I think shaving is actually kind of fun if it involves taking a long bath and getting really sudsy.

Anywho, My mom gets it from her mom.

Once, in middle school, I begged my grandmother to take me to the grocery store because I needed some, *cough cough*, feminine hygiene products. When we got there, I said, you wait here, I'll be right back. My grandmother asks if I know where they are. I say, it will only take a minute. I run off. When I get back, I find her in the middle of the cookie aisle standing next to a guy who looks only a little older than I was shelving things on a ladder. She waits until I'm right beside her to ask this guy where they keep the pads. Then she asks me what kind I use. I ignore her. Then she says, "Sarah, this guy goes to the same school as you! And he plays in the band!" She was totally trying to get me hooked up. Meanwhile, the poor guy was really embarassed. Ugh.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

that's horrible!!! i would have been mortified! my only experience remotely similar to that involved me buying pads at the grocery store where this guy i had a crush on worked. he was working that day, but he seemed to be at some other corner of the store. i was making a beeline for the cash register when he came swooping down the aisle with an aisle-length mop. i think i threw the pads behind a toilet paper display & fled. the same guy asked me if he could borrow a pencil in chemistry class & i handed him a tampon, not realizing it was a tampon, until i noticed he was staring at it for a few minutes. i then snatched it back, gave him a pencil super quick & said, "sorry. you probably didn't want that pencil."

i feel like i'm a dead ringer for those YM embarassing story things.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

What's it like being hitched, Amanda?

One of my coworkers got married pretty recently. The whole time I've worked here she's been stressed out about wedding preparations. Then apparently a million things went wrong and she was a Bridezilla the day of the wedding. Now she comes in every morning all red in the face (she had an allergic reaction on her honeymoon) and pissed off looking.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

OTOH, two of our Chicago ILXor friends recently got married and they seem very happy.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

That's why huge, complicated weddings seem like a bad idea to me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

I think I'd be pro small wedding if I ever get hitched.
What was yours like, Amanda?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

well, i never thought i would get married either...but he asked. we had been living together for about 3 years, together for 4. i was surprised. we got married in that little church on north right by the el crespo convenience store. it was my parents, his parents and his sister. and her creepy ex-husband. it lasted about 10 minutes. short, sweet. i hired an organ player who played "march of the queen of sheba". i wore a dress that once belonged to someone's great aunt. we spent the night at the drake (!!) and then went home to our dogs the next day. six months later, we had a huge party (78 people) at reza's in andersonville with dinner and whatnot. it was grrrrrreat.

married life? same as before, only with more legal benefits. i recommend it.

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

ps -- small wedding = no stress at all. not buying a dress helped. my friends were a little miffed that they weren't invited to my wedding, but we had the party and that was way more fun. the night before the big party we had a pre-party party in the upstairs room at delilah's. that went well because all of the friends got to see each other (and us) and hang out before the official wedding party party.
translation = we drank more beer and our parents weren't there.

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

that sounds cool, amanda.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

it's hard to branch out and meet new people when you're married though. that's sort of weird for both of us. i'm pleased to meet you guys though...i'm optimistic.

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

ours was about as small as you can get, and the reception only had 31 people, including us.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

If 1. I ever get married and 2. have any say in the matter it's going to be small weddding, BIG party.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

amanda, why is it any different when you're married as opposed to just being in a LTR?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

also, how ever did you find us?! just curious :)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

crafty sleuthing. lurking. waiting. pouncing. hehe.

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

If 1. I ever get married and 2. have any say in the matter it's going to be small weddding, BIG party.

Totally. Most people only really want to go to the party anyway. Everyone wins.

― giboyeux (skowly), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

What should I do in Chicago today? Other than find a place to live, that is.

― giboyeux (skowly), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

x-post -- about the difference...

as for LTR vs married, i was prepared to be perfectly happy with LTR. then he proposed. i guess what it comes down to is that i don't have much of a family, and now i have him. he is my family. we're related. we have the same name. i have someone to cook for. that makes me happy. that's pretty much it.

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

late this afternoon you can do the bird with morris day and the time for free, in grant park?

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

Donna Summer yesterday was kind of fun, but it was so hot and there were swarms of people, munching on things and smelling like sweat. I began to have second thoughts about going to Lollapalooza.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

xpost N&S

We are sort of/kind of/maybe planning at coming to the show on saturday.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

What should I do in Chicago today?

Find an air-conditioned place. Munch ice.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

Here comes my weekly post recommending ppl check out summerdance.

the end.

― deej.., Wednesday, 29 June 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

Find an air-conditioned place.

Done and done.

― giboyeux (skowly), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

jay - is it any consolation that i'm having second thoughts about going to lollapalooza too? i bought the ticket on a whim, when i was angry about doing mandatory overtime at work and was determined to spend my extra money recklessly. but now i think about the sweat and the people and the influence of perry ferrell (who i saw at o'hare once) and i just don't know anymore. i'm still gonna go, but man. it kinda sounds like a drag.

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

Hmm.m.. This makes me really glad I couldn't afford tix.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

on the other hand, i think they allow re-entry...that makes up for it. i haven't gone since 92 and for some reason i decided that this year was the year for me. it was dinosaur jr that did it for me.

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

not that i was trying to make anyone feel bad -- just trying to convince myself that i still want to go.

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

it's not working. i'm still apprehensive.

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

Dinosaur Jr. was the only reason I even considered going. Even now that I sort of can afford tickets it's still too expensive. That and I'd probably die in the heat. I went in '94 and that was almost too much. Now that I'm 11 years older...

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

I don't know why I ended that with an ellipsis. I really have nothing more to say.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

A lot has changed in those 11 years, Dan.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

there's a question: where were you 11 years ago? Summer 1994.

me? i was in northeastern ohio not really enjoying the second semester of my first year of college. i really dug pavement, afghan whigs and sebadoh and was working at a video store where some weird dude stalked me because of my employee picks. i also went to see slant 6 at a moose lodge.

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

It's true. A lot has changed.

In 1994 I was between my sophomore and junior years in high school. We went to Lollapalooza in Dallas, TX where a friend had recently moved to go to college. I was stoked to see the Beastie Boys and The Breeders. It was hot as FUCK, there was a violent-ass thunderstorm in the early evening, and it was one of the first times I smoked weed. Oh, and we discovered the Pharcyde that day. Good times.

Also, Dallas fucking sucks.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

Also between my sophomore and junior years of high school. Suburban Chicago. I was only barely getting into indie rock and I wouldn't actually see a live show for the first time until Lollapalooza the following summer. I hung out a lot with my friends Ryan and George, esp. since George could drive and had a car. Went to see a lot of random movies: Wolf, The Crow, Natural Born Killers, Forrest Gump, The Shadow. Sometimes went to the pool that Ryan belonged to. Took a family road trip in August to Quebec. Wrote poetry. Stayed up late and watched Letterman and Conan.

Spent two weeks at the Illinois Summer School for the Arts, where I studied creative writing and befriended a trio of hip punk/goth girls. Heard PJ Harvey and Sonic Youth for the first time. (Actually, I'd heard "Bull in the Heather" on the radio but had never heard anything else until one of the girls lent me Experimental Jet Set.) Danced with them to "Bizarre Love Triangle" (New Order, not Frente!, which was getting airplay that summer). Let them dress me up.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

I suppose 94 must have been peak time for me to be an angsty now that you mention "The Crow" & all those other films. I was probably angry & hopeful all at the same time. I think I probably started musically branching off on my own, it's when I got way into Eric's Trip.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

"an angsty teenager" is what i meant to say.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

I was at Lolla in 1994 as well, in Houston. I was living in Austin, btwn first and second year of college. I also really dug Pavement, Afghan Whigs and Sebadoh. And a lot of other typical indie staples. And I worked at a coffee shop. And I smoked a lot of weed. And was a sex addict.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

Funny. I was on the cusp of smoking pot & getting drunk for the first time & I'd lose my virginity two years later.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

Kelsey! Love Tara was totally one of my favorite albums then.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

i went to issa in 1991 but i think i slept through it all because i don't remember a thing. except that the floor above us in the dorm was full of kids in some kind of "forensics" summer program.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

one of them had a minor threat t-shirt IIRC.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

How old is everybody here? Am I still the old man? It's nice that manda seems to be my age.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

I will come to chicago if one of you put me up.

― c/n (Cozen), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

whatta deal

― c/n (Cozen), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

Dude! I have a nice new air mattress and a virtually empty apartment.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

i went to issa in 1991

Whoa! Really? I was there in '93 and '94. Crazy. What did you "study"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

Coincidentally, I am wearing my ISSA t-shirt today, which is now 12 years old and threadbare.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

Funny. I was on the cusp of smoking pot & getting drunk for the first time & I'd lose my virginity two years later.

I was such a sweet, naive young'n in high school. I will say, though, that my first sexual experience was in Sept. '94.

I'm 26 now.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

Summer of '94: Also between sophmore and junior years of H.S. My family was moving from New Delhi, India back to suburban Maryland. After school let out, I stayed in India with my dad for a month or two (while my mom and sis went ahead to the US) because I had a good-paying summer job with the embassy and wanted to hang out with my friends before never seeing them again. India in the summer is very fucking hot, so we swam a lot, or stayed inside and watched movies. Since I was just staying with my dad and since I was seeing a lot of my friends for the last time, my dad let my curfew relax so I stayed out late a lot more.
I am 26.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

I was 13 in '94. I, too saw the Crow et al. I listened to Frente!, not New Order. I went to my first Edgefest sometime around that time (maybe the next summer?) and saw Iggy Pop and went crowd surfing. I got really, really into Trace.

Someone, please, give me a place to live.

― giboyeux (skowly), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

what about this?

http://chicago.craigslist.org/apa/81611279.html

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

I turned 11 in May '94. I was in 5th-6th grade. Played basketball every day (wasn't shorter than everyone else yet). Had just moved to Chicago from VT. Got caught shoplifting at a local grocers, guy let me go cuz he felt bad because i felt bad and didnt want my mom to know. Listened to hip-hop on headphones under the covers at night. Also random pop-house like "Short dick man" (radio-edited as "Short short man") and Ace of Bass. Mostly hip-hop though - heard Pharcyde, Gang Starr, Dre, Snoop, Domino, etc. Taped tons of tracks off the radio. Went to 6th grade. Got glasses. Played Magic cards for a little while. (I was 11, guys). Beat the rich kid at Magic on my 11th birthday party. Met my best friend.

― deej.., Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

haha I played magic cards too, I wouldn't have remembered that if you hadn't mentioned it. Except I turned 19 that summer. I took summer classes at college and worked also. I stayed in an air-conditioned dorm and everybody visited because nobody else had air-conditioning. I remember hearing "Keep 'Em Seperated" all the time. Oh also I started working at the college radio station, I forget what I liked there. And that was the summer of the OJ chase. I didn't know who OJ was, my boyfriend had to explain, and since I didn't watch movies or football, it wasn't terribly helpful.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

I remember hearing "Keep 'Em Seperated" all the time.

Oh yeah. And Green Day. Woodstock '94. I remember hearing "Self-Esteem" (the second Offspring single) for the first time on a radio station near Ithaca, NY, while we were driving back from Montreal. Also NIN, "Closer." Stone Temple Pilots, "Interstate Love Song."

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

i'll be 30 in august. which means that i am officially, as of this moment, 29. that summer was a big summer of show-going for me too -- i saw sebadoh, pavement, afghan whigs and gbv. i think...it might have been the fall. later that fall i saw paul westerberg, dinosaur mascis, sebadoh, rodan and sugar. i guess i'm sorta old.

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

i don't mean that i saw "the fall" i meant the season. i didn't like the fall until i was well past 20.

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

Man, "Self Esteem" was all over the place that summer. We made fun of it a lot because the guitar part sounded like that one Nirvana song.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

http://chicago.craigslist.org/apa/81611279.html

Nice! I'm supposed to be living w/a friend of mine, tho...

― giboyeux (skowly), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

We used to have this art teacher who let us play tapes we brought in during class, and one time I brought in the Offspring and when it got to the part in that song about driving where he lets off this string of profanity, she got all grim and stopped the tape. There's a similar story involving the same teacher and my friend's NWA tape, but in that instance, we weren't dumb enough to try and listen to the tape in class, but she came by, picked the case off the table, and started reading the song names. We thought we would get in trouble but she ended up deciding it was society's fault, not ours.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

I'm 27 now.

At the start of 94, I was living in Greenville, SC. I was a junior and had made LOTS of close friends that year. I was broken hearted when, once again, we had to move. I'd only been there since September.
At my going away party, one of my closest friends, a boy, declared that he loved me. GREAT.

So, as soon as school ended that year, my mom and sister and I rode in a huge UHAUL across several states to Shreveport, Lousiana. We went from living in teeny tiny apartment to a huge house we were renting in a sort of bad neighborhood along with 3 cats and a big dog.

That summer, I listened to a lot of U2 and Smashing Pumpkins, while watching thunderstorms from my "sun" room bedroom and crying a lot.

I didn't go to any shows. That was before I ever went to any, with the exception of going to see Toad the Wet Sprocket a couple of years prior.

Then I was in for a huge culture shock when I started school there for my senior year.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

I had forgotten about Self Esteem. I remember being at ballet workshops for a portion of summer 1994, and seeing Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction, Speed, The Crow, and that's when my friend Em and I really got into music, reading Spin all the time and making mixtapes of Nirvana, Vaselines, Pearl Jam, Velvet Underground, Ramones, Sebadoh, etc. and searching bookfairs for old records and lots of bad fantasy novels. David Eddings, anyone? We also watched SNL a lot and I got braces.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

Hey, I'm going to a seminar about BLOGGING now.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

...in Chicago.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

she ended up deciding it was society's fault, not ours.

You were a young suburban punk.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

This was in New Delhi!

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I totally went to see Speed the day after I got the worst sunburn of my life from the Warren Dunes in Michigan and so all I wanted to do was sit in a cool room all day. (I went to the dunes with my high school choir. I think that was the day that Ryan told me I looked like TV's Rob Morrow, partially because of the way my sunglasses were perched on my nose. Also, on the way home, I held hands in the car with Stacie, three months after we'd technically "broken up." This was probably a harbinger of the aforementioned September.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

I actually used to feel like the summer of '94 was a big turning point in my adolescence. Maybe I still feel that way, I just haven't had occasion to dwell on it lately.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

I had a crush on a 15-year old exchange student from Denmark named Martin M!kkelson. First real crush, I think. He let me sit on his lap on the way to Pizza Hut once.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

HOTT

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

I had the art teacher that let us listen to tapes, too. I distinctly remember bringing in "worse" and "worse" albums to see where his breaking point was. I was suprised when NIN didn't do it, but I think it was finally some rap music that did... can't remember exactly.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

when i did a slide show in my high school photography class i used "oscillating wildly" and no one was impressed. i thought for sure someone would recognize it. they didn't. they thought it was soft rock. dumbasses.

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

15-year-old Jaymc rants about the increasing homogeneity of alt-rock radio

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

I was so lucky at 15 because that was the year that the college station in my town switched from being dorms-only to FM broadcasting. In a town where there were ~4 radio stations, they were playing Fugazi, Breeders, Sonic Youth, crazy scary metal, and everything in between.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

when the alt-rock radio station in my hometown was born, they played "it's the end of the world as we know it" nonstop for 24 hours to mark the shift in format. we had a radio intercom in the hallways and between every class all we heard for an entire day was that song. this was 92? i think? it was weeeeeeird.

i used to write in my diary about the replacements pretty much nonstop.

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

Oh i forgot about NIN. I was in love with them & so pissed at the success of downward spiral. i felt like all the posers at my school sucked even more. i wrote a lot of high school poetry & focused on making friends that didn't go to my school. i wanted out.
i think i went veggie right around this time. my dad wanted me to eat chicken once a week for protein & i started lying to him & telling him that i ate it at school.
my brother & i started to get along again.
it's so funny to me, but i was so typical. i felt atypical at my school b/c i was so different from everyone there. it's interesting thinking about this time as the groundwork for what was to come.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

In the summer of 1994 I was 14 years old. My family took a vacation to Milwaukee and I listened to Depeche Mode during the entire trip (we drove). I would sit and pretend to be asleep but really I’d imagine that I was like, married to Martin Gore and stuff. When we got to Milwaukee my family had to do all sorts of businessey things (my dad’s company had a convention there). We stayed at the Marks Plaza which at the time I thought was super classy. My sister and I saw these same teenagers throughout our stay, whom we nicknamed Khaki, Lone Skater and Terry. Terry and Khaki had a brief week-long romance. I bought yet another Depeche Mode tape at a Milwaukee mall as well as some sparkly platform jelly shoes.

That summer I also went to music camp in Breckenridge. I didn’t get into the best SAXOPHONE QUARTET and cried to the counselor until they let me into the best group. I had roommates and we lived in a condo – totally roughing it! Also all the food was catered. I really wonder, that camp must have been fucking expensive. I was spoiled. I remember we had cable tv, too, in our condo, and we watched MTV and I saw the video for “Boys and Girls” and my best friend April Cech said Damon Albarn looked like this skater d00d I had a crush on. There were these older boys at music camp who were like 16 or 17 and in a band, and I thought they were impossibly HOT 2 TROT. Their band played at a dance on the last day of camp and I tried to start a mosh pit.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah when I was home sick from school I would watch The Box, which played all kinds of rap music! I thought it was awesome. We got the Vanilla Ice comeback song (I think it was called "Roll em up" and he wanted to sound like cypress hill) and my friend bobby had a cypress hill t-shirt with a fat jay on it, i remember wondering why a 6th grader was allowed to wear that. Anyway, also saw that "Dre Day" music video, vids for "G Thang" and "Gin and Juice" and "Juicy" and Wu-Tang (Wu tang SCARED me). Eventually bone thugs were big too. I remember this girl wrote "Thuggish ruggish bone" on her desk in 6th grade. I also remember she was feeling up her own boob and I saw her and she made fun of me for being a geeky white boy caught staring. Oh those 6th grade glory years. Shit was about to get BAD. 7th grade through 10th were pretty fucking rough. But 6th grade was still fun.

― deej.., Wednesday, 29 June 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

i love threads like this.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

I also listened to my downward spiral tape all the time. I had become veggie the previous year, but decided that January 1, 1994 would be my official start date to remember.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

'94 was the only time i saw NIN in concert. hole & marilyn manson opened. my mom was horrified by marilyn manson when i brought their cd home (i was borrowing from a friend). "cake & sodomy? kelsey! do you even know that that means?!"

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

i like threads like this too. i thought i didn't have a lot of memories of '94, but as it turns out, the more others post, the more i recall.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

I don't remember anything from 1994, other than that was the year I started high school. I was amusical and generally uninteresting. Growing up in the sticks will do that to you.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

but jeff, i grew up in the sticks!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

1994 was also the year that, because of having older friends, we had buyers for fireworks from the Ojibwa reservation down the road. Yeah, we blew a lot of shit up that summer.

xpost I grew up in the sticks too. But it is a university town so that kind of cancels it out.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

aren't you glad you mentioned slant 6, sarah? that's where the 1994 started rollin', at least in my brain. the summer of the moose lodge and the video store and seeing shows in cleveland with my new friends. good times.

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, I also remember the HUGE debate that erupted on the bus to the YMCA (I went to the YMCA after school program when I was 10 - more on that in a second) about Ini Kamikoze and whether he was saying "worrrrrd up" or "murrrrrderer" in the chorus to that big song of his.

YMCA after school was hot shit. The best days were fridays, because we had free days to just hang around; there were three guys in charge, Dave, Frank, and Sammy. Dave and Frank were black and Sammy was puerto rican and to be honest it was a great experience I think for preventing stereotypes about young afam males in my life, particularly since I had just moved to a v. diverse area from one that was mostly white; responsible, young, hip dudes who got to play video games with us, talk (responsible) trash, play basketball, listen to WGCI, etc. and made sure we didnt get involved in drugs gangs etc. (gangs were actually a much bigger problem in my area then...I remember we had anti-gang education and everything.) We'd go swimming on Tues. and Thurs., we had to do our homework, we hung out. Before I went into 6th grade, a couple kids told me that at the middle school I was going to go to, I was gonna "get jacked." I said "so?" and one of the kids said "you don't care if you die?" I was scared. haha. good times. Of course the middle school was mostly fine, although my flirtation with magic cards ended when my magic cards DID get jacked from my gym locker.

― deej.., Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

in delaware? Doesn't compare, my hometown had a population of 400 people, and I don't think it's grown that much in 25 years.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

I tried out for the basketball team in 6th grade and didnt make it. Everyone else grew tall. I didnt. The end of my non-pickup basketball career.

― deej.., Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

While we're talking about 6th grade, I coerced my friend/babysitter into buying me Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me and then when I listened to it, I thought it was a little scary, like Flowers in the Attic. I wore out the songs I liked (ie the non-scary ones) and fast-forwarded through the rest.

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

I remember reading Flowers in the Attic summer of 94.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

In 1994 I felt like I was really alive and that, the older I got, I would only become less and less "me" - and that I had to fight that mysterious force.

I also remember stepping on a bunch of slugs in just my socks on my way out the back door. Welcome to Louisiana!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

In 1994 I lost my diary on my college campus.

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

jeff, i guess my town had about 3 or 4 times as many people. the pop. wasn't more than 2,000. in michigan, not delaware.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

Kelsey, forgive me if I've asked this before, but where are you from in MI? I'm from H0ughton.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

Carson City.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

H0ughton = Michigan Tech?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

Carson City... wow, a town in MI I've never heard of.

And H0ughton pretty much does = Michigan Tech. Without it there wouldn't be much there.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

Not to be confused with Houghton Lake. Damn trolls.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

carson city is halfway between lansing & grand rapids & more between st. johns & greenville.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

I think I win the elder award on this thread...

Summer of 1994 I had just graduated from college with a degree in English Lit. I worked at the Sunoco A+ MiniMarket on Elton Road in Newark, Delaware where I stole a lot of cigarettes and gave away a lot of hot dogs and fountain sodas to my friends. I was dating the bass player in a hippy jam band (I know, I know) and would go on road trips with them a lot to such exotic locales as State College, Pennsylvania and Baltimore, Maryland. I think I was listening to a lot of hip hop (Freestyle Fellowship and New Kingdom were big that summer) and PJ Harvey and Dinosaur Junior and I vaguely recall a Pink Floyd phase that consisted mostly of Meddle but mostly I recall realizing it was okay not to like the Grateful Dead even though a lot of my friends did and trying to get back in touch with my indie rock roots, mostly out of spite. I was a habitually intoxicated, world-weary, cynical slacker with no idea what to do with the degree other than sit around and drink and complain about things. The movie Clerks was popular among us. I eventually broke up with the bass player and moved to California. I have still, to this day, never see The Crow.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

Or seen it, for that matter.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, Jenny, I forget that you're a couple tyears older than me. Or that Jeff is five (!) years younger than me. I guess I kinda split the difference between you.

Also, I am very immature. I LOVE being very immature.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

Also, that Freestyle Fellowship album still holds up. "Cornbread" comes to mind.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

I agree! I still like the New Kingdom record, too. I think it was Heavy Load. Their subsequent releases were disappointing, however.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

hey guys -- i'm signing off for today. i'll be back to attack on monday. have a great weekend/show/barbeque/moving/fireworks/watering your plants/whatever you're doing this weekend!

viva 1994!

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

Photos of Nick & Sarah Wisconsin road trip 2005, including many dark and blurry photos from House on the Rock.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 30 June 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

Thanks to this thread my gf and I are talking about doing to the House on the Rock. So, thanks guys!

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 30 June 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

Ha - you went to Little Norway too!

I went to House on the Rock & Taliesin a couple of years ago. Stayed at the Don Q in Dodgeville, which is cheap and has loads of character.

Did you visit any state parks, by any chance? Those are nice, too. Oh - I also went to Mineral Point during that trip.

― fake tan (dymaxia), Thursday, 30 June 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

doing = going

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 30 June 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

(But there's a good chance there will be some "doing" going on as well... ifyouknowwhattImean.)

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 30 June 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

You mean you gonna put it in her butt, right?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 30 June 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

Has the corpse flower bloomed yet? If not I may get to see it this weekend.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 30 June 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

Well, we will be in Wisconsin.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 30 June 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

http://www.winterhouse.com/blog/wisconsin.cover.276.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 30 June 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

So yeah, I'll yell "GO PACK!" in the midst of it all.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 30 June 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

I don't know if the corpse flower has bloomed yet or not. The greenhouse was closed, because it was Sunday, but we snuck around the outside looking in the windows until we found it and then I snapped the pic through the windowglass.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 30 June 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

We didn't go to any state parks. Our itinerary was:
Mt. Hoeburn (for the mustard museum and the trolls)
Little Norway
House on the Rock
Madison

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 30 June 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

i think the corpse flower bloomed already. sadly.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 30 June 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

Where do people in Chicago go to see fireworks on July 4th?

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

your mom.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

(make of that what you will.)

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

navy pier I've heard is good.

Especially if you can view them from the top of the hancock.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

the problem with navy pier or anywhere downtown is that the commute back is hell, with tons and tons and tons of drunk people competing for spots on the el. i'd recommend coming up and seeing one of the suburban fireworks displays. or watching the chicago fireworks from the south side.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

yeah the only fireworks i've seen in the last five years was out in the suburbs. oak brook, maybe? i don't remember. it was at some country club that my aunt and uncle belong to.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

1. Go to Wisconsin this weekend.
2. Buy fireworks at any of the 1000s of roadside stands/gas stations/street dealers.
3. Return to Chicago.
4. Blow shit up.*

*Be ready to run from police.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 30 June 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

actually nick et al, the evanston fireworks are really nice. you watch them from northwestern campus on the lake. if you want to come up for that i can show you around.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 30 June 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

actually i just realized (as soon as i hit "submit") that i have tentative plans for fireworks-watching.... but i'm not sure which night. will report back.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 30 June 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

OMG me and Jenny are going to the house on the rock the weekend of July 9th AND we are staying at the Don Q Inn. We are such followers.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 30 June 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

Way out by the Shedd Aquarium is a very nice place to see the fireworks, and avoid the hideous grant park/taste of chicago crowd.
I road my bicycle down there last year, and afterwords got to head home via lake shore drive, as it was closed to traffic.There was an exiting moment when the cars began merging back onto the drive unexpectedly.

― Arachne, Thursday, 30 June 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

the woodwork, i tell you.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 30 June 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

Corpse flower bloomed yesterday : (
We should have had a House on the Rock FAP!

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 30 June 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

I am unreasonably UNREASONABLY excited about the house on the rock and the themed hotel room.

Also, I want to see fireworks and will happily go to the suburbs or the top of the 'Cock or the south side. Or your mom.

Whatever.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 30 June 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

Believe me, jenny, you can't POSSIBLY be unreasonably excited about House on the Rock. I don't want to create any overly high expections, but the House on the Rock is like staring into the eye of God and will change your life forever.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 30 June 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

I need to go here so bad like.

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 30 June 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

Ohmygodican'twaitohboyohboy!!!!!

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 30 June 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

Now I really want to find my parents' polaroids to see how things have changed.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 30 June 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

I want to find your parents' Polaroids, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 30 June 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

I don't know what that means. I think I'm feeling randy from all the other threads today.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 30 June 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

you know, biking down the lakeshore isn't a bad idea for the fireworks. I can run over drunk assholes with me bike, and I bet the view is fantastic from some of the more northern beaches.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 30 June 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

one year, i'd been in milwaukee for the day on july 4, and we were driving back just as it got dark. there were fireworks, some close to the highway (what is that, 94 i think?), some far away...we saw lots and lots of fireworks displays on the way home. it was pretty cool.

― juliaaa, Thursday, 30 June 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

I can run over drunk assholes with me bike
Jeff is irish today! Or scottish! I'm not sure!

I love fireworks. I haven't heard of this Don Q place. It sounds intriguing. I will do some serious detectivework online. We ended up just staying with my friend Sarah in Madison.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

OMG! The Don Q inn looks CRAZY!

This room comes with people:
http://www.fantasuite.com/Rooms.asp?LocationID=2&RoomID=37

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

i think jeff is cockney rather than oirish.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

That's the ticket.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

He's a chimney sweep, he is.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

Ha!
Another themed room at the Don Q inn called the Swinger:
http://www.fantasuite.com/images/dodgeville_swinger.jpg

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

that looks... problematic.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

that wallpaper means trouble

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

sexy trouble?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

I won't tell jenny which room I reserved, except that it's not the "blue" room, or any room that I deem potentionally dangerous.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

Hey. Question, Chicagoans: so I'm looking at an apt in Pilsen tomorrow. Big, converted warehouse space... yay? nay? I drove around down there yesterday evening and it looks pretty fantastic, although the drunk Mexican guys on the corner looked at me and my roommate askance.

Apparently it only takes 45 min on the Ashland bus to get up to my office (which is relocating closer to the loop anyway).

...or should we just stick to the UkV, which is closer to (a) people we know and (b) bars, venues, etc.?

― giboyeux (skowly), Friday, 1 July 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

(sorry to keep pestering y'all....also: anything going on in Chi tonight that I should know about? Shows? Anything?)

― giboyeux (skowly), Friday, 1 July 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

um... i'm staying home and watching a henry fonda movie.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 1 July 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

I'm going to get sauced.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 1 July 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

I think tonight will be pretty quiet chez n/a & McLusky. We're having band practice and then resting up for the BIG SHOW tomorrow night.

I don't know much about Pilsen but it has the reputation of the next hip neighborhood, where all the artsy kids are moving now that Wicker Park is too pricey. Logan Square is kinda the same deal. Ukranian Village is nice though.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 1 July 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

I'll be having band practice for that show Saturday night.

You know though, gib, Nick & I were talking about exploring Pilsen sometime this weekend. In fact, I think I saw that warehouse space ad on craigslist.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 1 July 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

You know though, gib, Nick & I were talking about exploring Pilsen sometime this weekend. In fact, I think I saw that warehouse space ad on craigslist.

...I saw it in the Reader (i'm a local now!). Haven't checked craiglist today, surprisingly enough.

I've been looking at Logan Square, too. I bet the food's better down in Pilsen, though.

― giboyeux (skowly), Friday, 1 July 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

there is a good argentinan (argentinian?) restaurant in l.s.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 1 July 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

Probably. Though Lula's is in Logan Square. Mmmmm. I need to go back there.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 1 July 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

duh. "argentine."

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 1 July 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

I've seen both "Argentinian" and "Argentine."

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 July 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

Actually, I'm not sure what I'm doing tonight. I thought about maybe going to see War of the Worlds! I like drinking, too. I don't know. Probably not a late night, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 July 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

Yahoo has a news story on how travel this 4th of July is going to break a record for the most travel ever on a 3 day weekend in the US. I'm so glad I'm not trying to fly anywhere - or drive for that matter.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 1 July 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

...I was thinking Land of the Dead, myself.

― giboyeux (skowly), Friday, 1 July 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

Me too, giboyeux. Maybe on Sunday.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 1 July 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

I'm thinking Howl's Moving Castle .

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 1 July 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

Greetings people of Chicago.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 1 July 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

Greetings, Thermo.

I'm thinking that too, jocelyn.
Also, Rize or whatever that movie's called.
Basically, I want to sit in a dark, cold theater eating popcorn. I'm not very picky.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 1 July 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

Oh, Rize, yeah, I wanna see that, too. Land of the Dead sounds great, but I shamefully haven't seen any of the first three films.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 July 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

Excellent - I have established communications.

I shall be visiting your exotic city next month and wish to learn your strange customs and language. Also, recommend me some cool places.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 1 July 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

We're going to the Hop-em-up Leaf around 7:30 if anyone wants to join us.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 1 July 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

it was a fun night, we ended up at the beach

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Saturday, 2 July 2005 06:51 (twenty years ago)

Jeff ran away from the cops.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 2 July 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

anything of interest besides fireworks going on in the city tonight?

― john'n'chicago, Monday, 4 July 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)

has anyone been to the basebar at hardrockhotel and can tell me what its like?

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 4 July 2005 00:38 (twenty years ago)

...so, my roommates and I just got an enormous apartment in Pilsen.

I'm relieved, excited and semi-apprehensive about being far away from the "action." On the other hand, I'm paying $375/mo and living in a palace. So, uh, fuck the haterz.

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 4 July 2005 01:05 (twenty years ago)

Hey, Sarah and I took the train to Pilsen this morning, and then walked from there to MAGNIFICENT MILE, yes, to Michigan and Chicago. We are insane. I don't know how many miles that is, you figure it out.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 4 July 2005 05:09 (twenty years ago)

From 18th Street, that would be 3.25 miles.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 4 July 2005 05:39 (twenty years ago)

$375/month!!!!!!! for a palace!!!!!!!!!!

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 4 July 2005 09:19 (twenty years ago)

Like you wouldn't believe. It's MASSIVE and well-appointed.

We're looking at a back-up 2200sqft place today that'll cost only $450/mo.

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 4 July 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

That's just nutty.

My apartment is depressingly empty. But I have some records. And a cat. Maybe I can't ask for much more than that right now.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 4 July 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and the Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, seventh edition. Now that I have somewhat great freedon to spend money injudiciously, I expect to get a lot of use out of it. Pretty exciting.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 4 July 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

I'm at work. I've had 8 hours of sleep......

.... in the past 2 days. So tired. I met jaymc thurs! he was nice.

― deej.., Monday, 4 July 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

One of the nicest.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 4 July 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

Is that 3.25 miles as the crow flies? Because I'm pretty sure we walked further than that. We took the train to 18th st. station, walked down 18th st. to Blue Island St. (?), walked up Blue Island St. (not very attractive) to Taylor, walked west on Taylor a few blocks to see "Little Italy" (I think we missed it), to Racine, north on Racine to Jackson, east on Jackson to Greektown (where we stopped for a nice lunch), further east on Jackson to Michigan, stopped in Millenium Park for a while, then north on Michigan to Chicago, where we caught the bus home.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 4 July 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, you probably walked four or five miles. Which, as if you didn't know, is a long-ass way to walk.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 4 July 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

My cat is in her trauma/adjustment period. She's under the stove. This caused me a good ten minutes of panic earlier when I couldn't find her. I was looking for holes in the ceiling that she could have escaped out of. (There were none.) And the windows all have screens. And then I looked behind things, which took all of 90 seconds. But no, under the stove.

I'm just worried that she's going to come out of there black as night and greasy. We've had that problem before.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 4 July 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

Oh, the cat! Which one is yours?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 4 July 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

(Hi djdee! Sorry for drunk-dialing you on Saturday night!)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 4 July 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

Oh, the cat! Which one is yours?

The wittle orange one. The good one. Not the evil one.

Honestly, each have their drawbacks. The evil one is, well, evil. But the cute one has a habit of keeping you awake or waking you up at six in the morning walking around crying for no discernable reason.

And they each have their strengths. The evil one is only evil in front of company -- she sweet and loving as soon as everyone leaves. And the orange one will jump into anyone's lap, which is impressive to guests. Also, she's very furry. Furry is good in a cat.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 4 July 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

Um... until you notice you have dust bunnies in your apartment that consist of nothing but cat hair. That's where furry is bad. But it's the price you pay, I guess.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 4 July 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

haha whoa i didnt check my messages! Hahaha yeah hollywood grill! I was actually at sonotheque then (yes, again) with some friends so i wasn't getting reception. Wild.

― deej.., Monday, 4 July 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

Wild? Not checking your messages is not wild.

But the Tito Bandito at Hollywood Grill was kinda wild. And really good. Any meal you can break a runny fried egg yolk over is okay by me.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 4 July 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

I've only had a cell phone for a month! To me, not checking messages is like totally crazy lol-style shit.

― deej.., Monday, 4 July 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

Oh, you know what? Shit! I haven't given anyone my new phone number.

773.278.8243

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 4 July 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

281 330 8004

― deej.., Monday, 4 July 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

that's not the one i have?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 4 July 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

Actually that's mike jones' number.

― deej.., Monday, 4 July 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

"281 330 8004, hit me up on the low cuz mike jones is bout to blow!"

― deej.., Monday, 4 July 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

oh haha!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 4 July 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

"Puttin it down baby. Jyeah!"

― deej.., Monday, 4 July 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

http://www.murderdog.com/april05/mikejones/CoverMike%20Jones45.jpg

ok i'm done.

― deej.., Monday, 4 July 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

Just call me, you bastards.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 4 July 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone want to do something kinda low-key tonight? E.g., hang out at our place, watch a movie (I'd let someone else pick, we all know my track record with picking out movies for all of us to watch), go somewhere that isn't a bar or very far away, go home early, etc.?

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 4 July 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

Yes, yes I do. I just ordered a pizza. I you like, I can pick it up and bring it over.

That would make me pretty happy, actually.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 4 July 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

my friend is trying to convince me to see star wars ep. 3. Neither have us have seen it. Worth it?

― deej.., Monday, 4 July 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Kenan! You are in *here*, hiding from the TTWISers!
How are you?

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 4 July 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

giboyeux:
you may already know this, but everyone i know who lived in the mongo warehouse conversions got blindsided with heating bills come december - february. not to say the amount of space for the price isn't worth it, but if you haven't already call the gas co. for last year's bills at your new address. they'll let you know if it's worth it to get on the flat rate monthly plan. the extra $$/month may be better than having to wear sweaters indoors whilst still forking out for multi-hundred dollar bills.

― john'n'chicago, Monday, 4 July 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

i'd be up for a home-movie night. nick, give me a call. i have a few dvds and stuff that i haven't watched, in case you might be interested...

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 4 July 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

Kenan! You are in *here*, hiding from the TTWISers!

I live here.

How are you?

Good! I miss all of you, though. Orbit is one of my favorites.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 4 July 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

Manana.

I biked to work today. Chicago, slow down! I rode so close to this one car (by accident) that it was like we were dancing.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

The Sloan show Thursday is $18 - and that's before all the stupid online fees if I wanted to buy my ticket ahead of time. *boo hoo*

Lady Sov. @ Sonoteque is $10 Friday. Just so's you know.

I couldn't figure out where/when the ZZZZ show is.

This shows update has been brought to you by Sarah Johnson.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

i too biked in today. at the intersection of wacker and wells, i had the green light on wacker and this pulled up on wells, looked right in my eyes then pulled straight out in front of me. i had to swerve out way out into the center lane to avoid him. as he passed me, he yelled something at the window at me. when i caught up to him by the orleans light, i stopped by his window and asked him what he said. as he lit a cigarette and stared straight ahead, he told me "When you get a set of license plates and a city sticker, then I'll share the road with you."

― john'n'chicago, Tuesday, 5 July 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

nice attitude. people like that make me feel like a misanthrope.

also, i'm back from ohio and i have 12 mosquito bites on my feet. the wedding was nice. my legs (still) hurt from dancing. how was the show? did i miss anything exciting?

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

I love it when people think that because you're on a bicycle, you're trying to take their car away.

Lady Sov. @ Sonoteque is $10 Friday. Just so's you know.

I was thinking of going to that, and then I went to her website and it resized my browser window. Not in any smart way, either. It made it fullscreen without checking what position the browser window was in, so it just went wayyyy over the edge of the screen, and it took me a good 30 seconds to even find the edge of the window to fix it. Pissed me off somethin' good.

So I'm not going to that show. Someone should tell her that she just lost a potential fan because her website does this stupid inconsiderate shit.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

Hey Chicago! I was sad that I couldn't see your city when flying into it the other day (I was sitting in the middle of an eight seat row).

I'm glad Nick & Sarah enjoyed House on the Rock.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

ZZZZ isn't playing until the 23rd, Sarah. It's at the Empty Bottle. We need to update our show calendar, there's a lot of stuff going on this month.

Amateurist, I didn't see your post in time. Sorry. Sarah and I ended up going to see Land of the Dead and then hanging out with jaymc and Kenan at Gold Star Lounge for a little bit.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

Also here is the first of wave of my tour photos assault.

I assume a paid flickr account would be well worth the money?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

Jordan I'm sad I missed you! I did not get to House on the Rock due to Adrian's computer breaking and his mom having to spend lots of time fixing it:( But we did go to the fireworks and eat local ice cream and see Howl's Moving Castle (subtitled!)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

Kenan, that's a dumb reason for not going. But I presume you were just looking for an excuse not to go.

I had fun last night, you guys. I shouldn't smoke, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

This weekend was kind of weird. Apart from hanging out with ILXors on Saturday night and Monday night, I was pretty much alone all weekend. Parts of that were nice. But I also just hung around the apartment for too long, feeling unmotivated.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

Sweet! I am 99% sure that you saw How's Moving Castle about ten feet away from my office (in Westgate Mall).

We must hang out the next time you are in Madison, Jocelyn.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

I, too, rode my bike to work today. It was fairly uneventful except I decided this morning to try and raise my bike seat, despite being somewhat mechanically inept and knowing nothing about bikes. I failed to raise my seat, and then when I was riding, it kept tilting forward or backward depending on how I shifted my weight. I think I loosened a nut that needs to be retightened.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

By the way, welcome back, Jordan!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

I did! And I must say that the Octopus Car wash sign is the coolest thing ever. I am so sad that I didn't get a picture.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

John'n'chicago, I think it's ok to hate some people. I mean, some people totally deserve it. WTF?!

I've noticed that cars turning left don't really like to yield to bikes going straight. At least, they don't like to slow down for me at all. OTOH, it was the perfect temp for biking this morning.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, this weekend felt kind of weird to me too, though it was fun. Up until Sat. night, I did little except get ready for the show and think about the show. Then Sunday, Sarah and I walked like a million miles, as detailed above, then crashed in the evening and were lazy. Yesterday I spent money I don't have on CDs, movies, and food.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

xpost
I mean, I could have died, but at least I wouldn't have been gross and sweaty when the ambulance showed up.

Jordan, I'm ready to see more pix of your trip! You might not need a paid flickr account. As you can see on mine, that I share with Nick, we have a zillion photos on there and it's still a free account.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

(xxpost to Sarah re temp:) Really? I was thinking on my way to the train, while watching other people biking, that it would've been TOO HOT. But I prob. go to work later than most of you; maybe it was cooler earlier.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

It was supposedly in the low 70s on the way in, only getting up into the low 80s this afternoon. I check weather.com every single day. Compared to all that 90s shit that was going down, it was blissful.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

Really, Sarah? I think my photos must be huge, because when I uploaded the fourth one it said that I had used 26% of my space.

I think tonight I will go through the two cards worth of pics I took and put up the good ones.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

yeah, i just kind of looked at him, like, huh? did you just say that?

i dunno, it was the kind of unpleasant eye opening experience i need to have every now and then. like, people just don't care that you're totally unprotected out there.

― john'n'chicago, Tuesday, 5 July 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

But I presume you were just looking for an excuse not to go.

Not at all! I was looking for an excuse TO go. And then... bam! Bad, bad web design.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

I failed to raise my seat, and then when I was riding, it kept tilting forward or backward depending on how I shifted my weight. I think I loosened a nut

I love this out of context. Even in context, it's pretty funny.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

John, With drivers like this I would have pulled in front of him and driven as slowly, in the middle of the road as I could. You can't reason with these people so just claim the road for yourself.

― ZAZAZA, Tuesday, 5 July 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

yeah, i did do that with a UIC campus bus once. the driver literally almost ran me down. he didn't care about me, his job, going to jail, etc. this was *after* he nearly took off my head with his side mirror. nowadays, i'm just trying to minimize exposure to traffic so as to avoid someone (including myself) making a really bad snap judgment that puts me in the hospital (or worse). it really sucks, cuz i love riding my bike more than just about anything.

― john'n'chicago, Tuesday, 5 July 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

i saw a horrible confrontation between a motorist and a cyclist not too long ago. motorist tries to run biker off the road, cyclist whacks hood of motorist's very expensive car with his lock and dents it pretty badly, motorist becomes enraged, cyclist pretends to get hit by motorist and appears to hurl himself on the ground, a crowd gathers and fists are pumped. i left after that. this occurred right in front of the billy goat on van buren.

people are scary.

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

did they do the whole thing in an incredibly stylized choreography of abrupt gestures and occasional freezes?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

did they do the whole thing in an incredibly stylized choreography of abrupt gestures and occasional freezes?

That movie sucked, mostly.

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

Man. Gary, IN smells worse than Chicago does.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

Why does it feel so hot outside today?

Hi Chicago.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

Hi Jeff. It feels hot in my office, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

Really? It's coolish outside right now (well, sort of).

...remember that time I said I had a huge apartment in Pilsen? No longer. Roommates decided it was too far from work/friends/etc. Back to square one.

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

My stomach is bothering me. I drank too much last night, but had a good time. Looking forward to friday. Hope to meet more of you. haha we should go to the h-wood grizzill afterwards.

― deej.., Tuesday, 5 July 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

What's happening friday?

I'm going to be enroute to dodgeville.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

Man. Gary, IN smells worse than Chicago does.

Gary, IN smells like a combination of refineries and urine. Or maybe that's just because we stopped to pee in a filthy gas station right next to a refinery. Regardless, it stunk.

When Jeff and I ride bikes in traffic, I make him ride behind me because I can't stand to see him almost get creamed by cars over and over and over again. It's stressful!

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 00:14 (twenty years ago)

I make him ride behind me because I can't stand to see him almost get creamed by cars over and over and over again. It's stressful!

Whatever. Riding in front is WAAAAAAAAY easier and less stressful cuz you're not staring at someone's rear wheel the whole time. Selfish!

― giboyeux (skowly), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 00:17 (twenty years ago)

What's happening friday?

LADY SOVEREIGN. At Sonotheque. I'm going out to a Mexican place for dinner, so when I get there, I will hopefully be full of margaritas.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 03:46 (twenty years ago)

I'm all over this.

...where, exactly, is Sonotheque?

― giboyeux (skowly), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 03:55 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, sorry, I didn't see you had posted this on both boards. But yeah: 1444 W. Chicago.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 04:06 (twenty years ago)

It's like one friggin' degree in my office today. I'm drinking hot chocolate and thinking about Christmas.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

Um, Nick and Sarah, I don't suppose you guys know of any cheap recording studios in Chicago?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

jaymc probably knows more than us.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

Oh shit, I forgot about John, sorry!

So, um, jaymc, I don't suppose you know of any cheap recording studios in Chicago?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

How cheap?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

We would only need 2-3 hours. I'm thinking maybe $50/hr or thereabouts?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

I think the place we recorded at was $25/hr, if I'm not mistaken. At any rate, it wasn't any more than $50. If you're looking to record soon, you could probably get a weeknight there without much difficulty. (Weekends are probably booked for a while.) It's definitely not a big hi-tech studio or anything, and I'm not sure what you need, but it might do the trick.

http://www.northbranchstudio.net

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

Cool, thanks! I'm sure it would be fine, the only requisite we have is that it has to have a room big enough for seven or eight dudes to record live. Unfortunately, we also would have to do it on a Saturday afternoon, most likely.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

Hey, did I mention that John Malkovich was hanging around in the international terminal of O'Hare when I left for my trip last week? He was wearing saddlebags and has a huge mouth.

(the website with Chicago movies that Sarah linked in her lj made me think of it, apparently he was in town filming a movie called 'Drunk Boat')

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

Jordan, here's another one. $30/hour. We thought about mixing here: http://www.perishablerecords.com/clava/clava.html

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

i know one of the guys, aaron, who runs some studio called ice factory. not sure how much it is though. its in a big garage'y/warehouse'y place, i think

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

As for the seven or eight dudes: it would be tight but doable. I mean, we have six people in our band.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I forget that the Ice Factory has a studio. I'm not sure how professional it is, although the Velvetron stuff sounds really nice. I bet it would be cheaper than almost anything else, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

http://www.fprecords.com/ (click on "studio" on the sidebar)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

Ice Factory website is www.fprecords.com. They are nice dudes and the Crap Engine album sounds good but they probably don't have as much recording experience as the places jaymc is linking too and they probably mostly deal with rock bands.
xpost

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

Awesome, thanks. The other option would be to get someone to record the live show at the Green Mill, if any of these folks do remote work.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

My interview went well today. I hate wearing a suit. ESPECIALLY a suit in the summer.

Also, Kelsy, Northwestern called me today! They want me to come in for another interview.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

Nice!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

(I'm not sure, I think Kelsey may still be in Delaware? Or is otherwise just getting back.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

(Bitch don't answer my calls.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

uh, not to be weird but... n/a do you work in the loop? and if so, were you on the streets today wearing a green Carlsberg beer t-shirt? cuz, if you weren't, then someone who looks a lot like was.

okay, sorry. that made me feel like a weirdo.

― john'n'chicago, Wednesday, 6 July 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha! No, I work up in River North and I'm wearing a pink and white H&M dress shirt and slacks. Just for future reference: if they're wearing anything with a beer name or logo on it, it's not me.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

It was probably Greg Dulli.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

looks a lot like *you*, i meant.

i'm glad i didn't walk up to this guy all like, "n/a? nick? john'n'chicago! ILM!"

― john'n'chicago, Wednesday, 6 July 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

That guy sounds hot.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

...hey: is anyone going to that Hunches show tonight? I know exactly zero about them, but the Reader recommended it and I'm bored.

― giboyeux (skowly), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

So yesterday we got a hot tip that the new Maggie Gyllenhal/Will Ferrell/Dustin Hoffman flick was filming near our house, so we walked literally two blocks south to Thomas and there was a big film crew and trailers and shit set up. It looked like they were going to be filming inside one of the houses, they had black sheets over the windows and doors, and there were a bunch of monitors and people out on the street. We stood out there and watched for a while, but nothing was really happening yet, it seemed pretty laid back so I guess they were still prepping. We did see trailers with Gyllenhal's and Ferrell's characters names on them, but no celebs.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 7 July 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

Maggie Gyllenhal is second only to Joan Cusak in my celebrity crushes.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 7 July 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

They're probably filming there again today, you could go stalk her.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 7 July 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

And then challenge Peter Sarsgaard to a duel by slapping him with a glove.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 7 July 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

It's been great with all the US Celluar adverts on the El, it's Joan Joan Joan all the time. PLUS the guy who is the the commercial with her, the one where he is on the bench with ton of other people trying to get a cell phone signal, tends bar at Simons. But he hasn't met Joan. Stupid magic of film. Joan Joan Joan.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 7 July 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

She just seems so... sensible.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 7 July 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

I like her too, but the TV commercials are annoying. Maybe it's her voice?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 July 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

I'm pretty sure I've told this story before, but when I came up to Chicago to find us an apartment before we moved up, I looked at this shitty garden apt. in Wicker Park and the realtor guy told me that Joan Cusack lived in the area. I now know that he was totally bullshitting me. I pass that apartment a lot and it always makes me think of Joan Cusack.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 7 July 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

Chicago, Work is boring this morning.

Who is going to the Sloan/Canasta show tonight? Huh huh huh?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 July 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

I've determined that Joan Cusack lives on a higher plane of existence. No one has actually met The Joan, even if I follow here, I will never reach her.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 7 July 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

Maybe you can get photoshopped in with her some day.

And who all will be at S0noteque tomorrow night?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 July 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

Sloan Cusack

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

"If It Feels Good, Do It"

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 7 July 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

OH no.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 July 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

Isn't Sloan the best name ever? It makes me think of the character from Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 July 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

Maggie Gyllenhal is second only to Joan Cusak in my celebrity crushes.

Please put Joan Cusack out of your mind, please. And as for Gyllenhaal, I have an ample replacement for you:

http://www.mirandajuly.com/photos/images/mjuly_white_web.jpg

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

Ugh, that picture is creepy.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 7 July 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

joan c is married to one of the highest-ups at my place of employment and last year she came on our summer boat cruise. she didn't dance, which was a uuuge disappointment. she might have been there this year too, but i couldn't make it.

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Thursday, 7 July 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

that's right, summer boat cruise.

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Thursday, 7 July 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

MBN

(must be nice)

ha ha

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 July 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

Sloan always makes me think of the second guitar player in my high school band, Chris Sloan. We would only refer to him as Sloan, Sloanie or sometimes SLOOOOAAAAAAAN.

The word "Sloan" starts to look really funny when you look at it for too long.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

I still hate Joan Cusack. I feel like I should like Miranda July, but she kind of irritates me. I like Maggie Gyllenhaal, though!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 July 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

it's nice to have a boat cruise, but much nicer to have a raise.

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Thursday, 7 July 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

Agreed.

Also, I decided, based on just one cruise, that I hate cruises and don't really want to go on one ever ever again.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 July 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

try being on a boat trapped for three hours with 300-some of your drunken coworkers. i didn't go this year. last year someone karaoked prince's "pussy con+rol"...the scandal! it was awesome.

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Thursday, 7 July 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

ha ha

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 July 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

I just tried to call Nick and one of his coworkers answered the phone. I was so shocked, all I could say was, "Um, wrong number!" and slam the phone down. I'm so immature sometimes.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 July 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

omg that's a great karaoke song!

i don't "get" joan cusack

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 7 July 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

jaymc!! You will cease to exisit for 16 minutes!!!!

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 7 July 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

xpost

sarah next time you call you'll have to disguise your voice

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 7 July 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

Ugh, that picture is creepy.

I'm sorry, nick. I don't think we can be friends anymore.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

Uh-huh, Am.. And I'll have to make up some story about having a headache. And I'm a horrible actress! Horrible!

Paunchy, I must say I'm not attracted to that photo either.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 July 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

Paunchy, I must say I'm not attracted to that photo either.

WTF? I have an erection right now!

Granted, that may be for other reasons. Like, I'm touching myself.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

i don't "get" joan cusack

Yeah, I mean what is it? That she's WACKY! She might be funny if she weren't so goddamn OVER THE TOP. ALL. THE. TIME. Also, she's not that attractive, either. Also, she sounds like can't actually talk. It's like she's overenunciating all the time to correct a speech impediment or something.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 July 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

yes.

neither am i attracted to miranda july. also her movie was totally bleh.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 7 July 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

maggie gyllenhaal is still cute though. last i checked anyway.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 7 July 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

Miranda July is the new Maggie Gyllenhaal. She is. That's all I was trying to say.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

I AM MAKING DEFINITIVE, INARGUABLE STATEMENTS THIS MORNING. DO YOU HEAR ME?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

we're trying to say that you are wrong. also, you suck. also, your electricity bill went unpaid and we're shutting your lights off.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 7 July 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

Sorry. I've been up since 4:30. Makes me feel drunk or something.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

Is Miranda from Chicago?

Why, Paunch?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 July 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

Four fried chickens, a coke, and some dry white toast sounds like a really gross meal to me. I mean, maybe fried chicken, a coke, and a biscuit...

I'm lonely! Talk to me!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 July 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

http://www.strawberrylady.com/lonely/lonely.gif

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 7 July 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

Why, Paunch?

Because I left 91.5 on the radio while I slept, because it's the best jazz station in Chicago, and maybe in the country. But it's also NPR, so in the wee hours, the news reports started, and something in my brain went, "WHAT??" And I never went back to sleep. I did have a beer at about 5 to try to make myself go back to sleep, but that just made me a little drunk and then I cried a lot.

I had a rough morning.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

Joan is not about the comedy, the wackiness, the voice, the bravado or anything like that. I believe she is attractive, but not too attractive. The kind of attractive that you just want to surround yourself with all the time. She just seems so sensible! No suprises from her, you would always get what you expect. It's a comforting feeling. Joan, call me, please?

PS. Jenny has a similar crush on John, so I'm sure we could work something out.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 7 July 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

THREE WAY! YES!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I thought you meant John Cunningham.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

Cuuuuusack

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 7 July 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

Let's not hurt jaymc's feelings now. Let him dream.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

Should I be bothered that my full name is on here -- in such a sordid context, no less? I'm trying to decide.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 July 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, sorry.

But really, it's not like everybody doesn't already know your full name.

But still, sorry.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

miranda j is the daughter of my friend's former employer (a publishing house in SF) and she told me that mj's parents are 1) crazy and 2) heir to some sort of hotel fortune?

can anyone confirm or deny this?

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Thursday, 7 July 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

I've never heard of Miranda July. I will search and see if she is crush worthy.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 7 July 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

I don't find this "Miranda July" attractive at all.

I do find fried chicken attractive, though. We've perfected our oven-friend chicken recipe at home through careful trial-and-error.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

I find Mirand J desperately hot.

I do not like sex with oven-fried chicken. Or at least I can't imagine I would.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

That picture is creepy.

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 7 July 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

The picture is a little creepy, maybe. I can also totally see why Kenan has the hots for her.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 July 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

OH, i thought that picture was Maggie. They look similar.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 7 July 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

Is this better?

http://www.mirandajuly.com/photos/images/mjuly_suit_web.jpg

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

http://www.spex.de/web/pic/news/424049ce1d15b.jpg

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 7 July 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

(xpost -- OR IS IT?) Well, of course I love the androgyny. Nice.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 July 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

xpost

Crazy blue eyes! And little tiny freckles! And a suit!

You're all wrong except me.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

Jeff, is that Ellen Allien again?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 July 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

Yes it is, who I think is especially hot because she has Jessa's nose.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

This thread has gone right down the crapper.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

Four fried chickens, a coke, and some dry white toast sounds like a really gross meal to me. I mean, maybe fried chicken, a coke, and a biscuit...

I just noticed this post. Sarah, that's what Belushi orders in The Blues Brothers. Four fried chickens -- WHOLE CHICKENS -- and a Coke. And his brother Elwood wants dry white toast. That's why one's fat and one's skinny, see? Haha.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

I can't say I'm a fan of Maggie.

On the other hand:
http://www.osud.cz/cs/img_clanek/1129_senay2.gif

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

I think I'm going to go get a Coke. Maybe even CHERRY.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

My sister in France just saw the sequel to Auberges Espagnoles and said it was really good.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

I have a lovely naked lady for you to look at. Her name is Ludivine Sagnier

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

See? I totally win.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

I've heard stories about the guy here who looks at porn while working. I don't want to be lumped in with that guy.

Or I guess I could make a Fark-esque comment and say: "OMG post SFW pics plz!!!!11@"

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

I told you she was naked, dude. What did you think you were clicking on?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

no I think the guy in the photos does.
xpost

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

It was Dirty Pretty Things that made me fall for Audrey. I'll have to check out Auberges Espagnoles.

xpost: Oh and I didn't click... I'm waiting until later.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

http://www.leninimports.com/newman2.jpg

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

Didn't we talk about Ludivine Sagnier on another thread? Did Je4nne bring her up?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

paul says: "can you guys be a little classier? please? there are ladies in the house."

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

I know the movie title probably doesn't mean Spanish Eggplants, but I keep thinking that.
Yeah, I think it was Je4nne.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

You know who has some nice Spanish eggplants? Penelope Cruz.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, I just wanted to make that joke.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

i laughed.

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

Paul Newman's young face is as nice as anyone's breasts. Don't act like we're the big pornographers.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

It's the airbrushing methinks.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

BTW: are you in Chicago, Ms. Landlord?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

yes, i am in chicago. (the name's amanda...remember? an elder stateswoman?)

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

Manda! Yes, of course. My age. I remember now.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

i wish i had more scary joan c. stories, but all i have to say really is that her husband seems like a nice guy, he wears pink shirts and is quite boyish, for a professional man-type man.

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

I saw someone yesterday downtown wearing a pink shirt and walking with Joan Cusack. Was that you, Nick?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

I love men that are boyish.

xpost - NICK!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

Last night I went to this place called Dannys, it was pretty awful. I mean, the music seemed pretty cool and it didnt seem horrible a place itself but it was PACKED and it was a MILLION DEGREES. Also had a rather awkward exchange with a girl i'd met a few days before that I didnt expect to run into. On the whole, rather weird and lame night.

― deej.., Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

I think Ludivine is beautiful. However, I saw a couple of movies she was in where she was younger and then Swimming Pool directly afterwards, so I was a bit shell shocked. I feel like she's too young to be considered sexy, but maybe that's why.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

I've had good times at Danny's. I've had crowded, noisy, opressive times at Danny's. Like any bar, really. Xpost

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

I love men that are boyish.

You're in luck, because you know me. When I'm freshly shaven, I get carded for cigarettes.

xpost

I hate Danny's. Now I don't feel so alone. That's some kind of hipster Mecca lately.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

I always forget about Dannys. We went there when we came up to Chicago to visit. Where is it exactly? I remember thinking it was pretty cool, but also really loud. And there wasn't anywhere to sit down.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

Just off Damen on Dickens. A long-ish walk from my place.

I prefer Quenchers or Rich's (or "the Corner" or whatever it is they're calling it now) because, if anything, they're way closer to me.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

The other night after our oink oink incident, when I ran to the Lakeview Lounge I really enjoyed it. I could spend hours in there really. It's all I could ever ask for in a bar.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

(xpost) Danny's is on Dickens and Damen. (Dickens = just north of Armitage.) Yeah, I like Danny's okay, but it does get WAY TOO CROWDED a lot of the time. Avoid it on weekends.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

Jeff, were you there for Nightwatch?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

Danny's may well be one of my first stop when I come back. I usually went during the week, or Sunday night. Sunday's great, no one's there, so you can sit at the bar and chitchat with the bartenders. Friday is better than Saturday though if you have to go during the weekend.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

Face it, though, you're a HIPSTER.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

I was there because it was the closest bar that was open when I ran from the beach. But yes, Nightwatch was there.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

That's what I meant.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

i don't know about that, i'm feeling decidely less hip these days. (x-p)

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

but point taken.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

Sorry to hear that.

http://photos.friendster.com/photos/52/99/1669925/11429165041319l.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

Ever get that "not-so-hip" feeling?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

i'm feeling decidely less hip these days

This may mean you're less hip, but it may mean you've actually gotten MORE hip. There's nothing hipper than an art-school loner who doesn't feel hip.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

Ever get that "not-so-hip" feeling?

Yes. But I only bring it up when I'm walking on the beach with my mother.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

Here, try some of this:

http://www.wildsageskincare.com/images/rose-hips-scar-oil.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

Man, I just listened to the entire original Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy* radio program on mp3. Some guy in my office was sharing it over the intranet...

"I am so hip I am having difficulty seeing over my pelvis."

*Does listening to this make me hip, or does it make me nerdy? Or both?

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

I've got big hips, which isn't hip. It's hip to be hipless.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

i'm so unhip i don't even know what/who Nightwatch is. i thought it might be a variety of worm?

also, in a contradiction of all that is and isn't hip, i have small hips but am clearly not at all hip.

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

I'm listening to Whiskeytown. Is that hip now? I'm also going to eat chips and salsa. That has to be hip.

xpost, nightwatch is a bar band at the Lakeview Lounge in Uptown.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

i'll never have a boyish figure, either, sarah.

p.s. hi mark.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

It's hip to be hipless.

Yeah, but DAMN YOU GOT SOME CHILD-BIRTHIN' HIPS.

No I'm kidding. I haven't noticed you having big hips. Face it -- you're skinny.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

Am I bad and wrong for not having noticed Kelsey's hips either? Am I not a hip man?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

I thought it was a movie.

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

i hide them.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

did anyone else ride their bike in today that feels like running dumb errands with me?

dumb errands include:

stopping at the crate & barrel outlet and/or CB2 to find cheap picture frames.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

I AM, THOUGH. I AM A HIP MAN. I'M HIP LIKE THIS:

http://giganticmag.com/images/ilx/Beck_hip.jpg

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

DAMN THAT'S SERIOUSLY HIP.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

I wish I would have, so I could! But also, I'm not allowed to go in crate & barrel or any of their sister stores. It's a stupid rule in my stupid budget I made for myself.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

I want to go shopping with the girls. I miss my bicycle.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

This blog gets the Nightwatch experience right, with the exception that Raul looks like David Crosby, not Jerry Garcia.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

To set the scene, the Lakeview Lounge is north Chicago. Really far north Chicago.

Really? Really far?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I just read that, too. OMG it's north of Wrigley Field.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

I like girls with big hips more than hipsters.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

For the record, there is no such thing as "really far north Chicago." There's only Evanston.

There is, however, really REALLY far south Chicago.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

Indeed.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

Hey Kelsey, do you see my post up there? Laurn called me and asked me to come in for an interview again on MOnday.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

never been up to rogers park? [motto: "so far north it's a little bit colder up here" ]

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

i'm only saying that because it feels like it takes an eternity to get anywhere. (i live in rogers park)

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

Rogers Park is still south of my favorite movie theater! They have a big lounge and awesome movie posters and serve beer in the lobby!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

Guys... guys. We should totally make this an outing. We'll go see a movie at the Century, and have beer beforehand.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

jeff . . . that's probably b/c her assistant moved up to the job you applied for & now lauren needs someone! that'd be great if you got it this time around!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

kenan: leaf wants to see land of the dead.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

. . . and i'd need a beer beforehand to watch it!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

hi chicago

kenan I had a rough night, too, a friend phoned me in the wee hours of the morning from london and simply said, "you'd better turn on the news, london is in trouble this morning" - then he hung up (he's quite strange, though)

aeeee.

anyhow, sarah, my boss always answers my phone for me if I am away and if my sister phones me, she hangs up, too

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

xxpost Me too. I totally want to see that.

Nick's seen it, but he can go see it again. It's a zombie movie. He's such a sucker for that shit.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

(xxxxpost) It's relative, I guess. I'm in Andersonville, so I never think of Rogers Park as being that far north. I think Kenan's point, though is that while Chicago extends 9 miles north from downtown, it extends like 15 miles south. So the South Side can feel very far away from the rest of the city.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

you mean the theater in evanston with the bar? my favorite theater is the super cheap one on sheridan near loyola, where you can get in for $5 to a first-run movie (with a student ID) it kinda sucks though. we saw land of the dead there last weekend. it was =eh=

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

xxxpost I thought you guys were talking about Nightwatch the Russian vampire undead movie that's coming out soon that I keep seeing ads for.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

...does Andersonville feel really far? Or does the Red Line make stuff close? Seriously. I'm still apartment hunting and I'm sort of going crazy. CRAZY.

xpost: me too

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

Hyde Park (where I work for those who don't know) feels pretty far from where I live (Logan Square). Especially when I'm in the bus-to-train transfer zone.

And Hyde Park isn't nearly as far south as the city limits.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

Additionally, I'm thinking of smoking a joint when I get home today. It's been a while.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

Andersonville has never felt that far away for me. I mean, it does take me 50 minutes to get to work (which includes walking to the el and waiting for the train), which might be longer than some folks' commute, but I never feel isolated or anything. I think part of this is because neighborhoods on the North Side are better connected to one another, so it's not like I have to go through long stretches of industrial wasteland or strictly residential zones to get there.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

Andersonville doesn't feel far north to me, and I don't really feel like I'm isolated from other places on the blue or brown line either.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

the old man and i used to live near damen and western and when we moved it was both liberating (no hipsters! less vermin!) and seemed really far. but it's been a while, so we're used to it.

i think living on the red line is actually not all that bad. rogers park has tons of affordable (and quite large) vintage apartments.

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

I'm all for visiting Century AND drinking, but I don't really want to see Land of the Dead again.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

So the South Side can feel very far away from the rest of the city.

Here's the thing: The Museum of Science and Industry, which we've all been to, Hyde Park, U of Chicago, etc, are at the 5000-6000 blocks south. This is the same number of blocks south as Andersonville is North. And there's another 50-60 blocks south of THAT.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

I would totally see it again if I could drink beer during the movie. Maddie and I had a couple beers beforehand and we both agreed that it helped, and that it's going to be an awesome dvd to watch while boozing.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

xpost Ok Sarah. They have 21 screens, if memory serves. Surely there's something we can agree on.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

http://spacefinder.chicagoreader.com/movies/sts/showtimes.html#Century_12_and_CineArts_6

options

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

Sadly, I've seen almost all of that.

Except... WAR OF THE WORLDS. I don't even want to see it, not for any good reasons, but come on. Slutty Spielberg movie! Cruise! Aliens! Best case scenario: it'll be Die Hard with a terrible, sappy ending.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

Batman Begins - sure, why not
Bewitched - heard it's bad, but would see it anyway
Cinderella Man - which one is this?
Crash - wasn't there already a movie called Crash about people who got turned on by being in car wrecks? What's this one?
Daily - no clue what this is
Herbie: Fully Loaded - maybe
Howl's Moving Castle - this looks good
Land of the Dead - been there, done that
Madagascar - no
Me and You and Everyone We Know - want to see that, but I know Kelsey's seen it
Mr. and Mrs. Smith - would see it - I'm a sucker for big stars
Rebound - what is this?
Rize - I want to see this, even though I've forgotten what it's about
Star Wars: Episode III--Revenge of the Sith - I'd see this too
War of the Worlds - I also want to see this.

What can I say? I'm easily entertained.

They must have good popcorn though.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

rize = krump til you drop!

can we have a dance-off in the bar afterwards?

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

rize = krump til you drop!

Kinda crap.

Worth it for the post-film dance-offs in bars, though.

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

Cinderella Man is the latest Russel Crowe/Ron Howard thing. Boxing. Sentiment. Does not require a big screen, if any.

This is a different Crash. I've seen it. Not bad, but meh.

Howl's Movine Castle is ok, but no place to start with Miyazaki.

I haven't seen Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Jessa loved it, like, inordinately. I could totally go for that.

The Star Wars movie is legendary crap. Unbelieveable crap. The only reason to see it is because without seeing it, you can't fathom how much crap it is.

I'm still voting for the Tom Cruise movie. He so crazy.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

what day are you guys going? Thats, erm, "totes" in my neck of the woods.

― deej.., Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

(yes xpost but I'm still posting it so eff all y'all)

Cinderella Man is Oscar-bait with Russell Crowe as a boxer, directed by Ron Howard.

Crash is like Short Cuts in its ensemble cast (big stars in small roles!) and intersecting storylines but it's about race and racism in Los Angeles. It was okay. I had issues with it.

Rize is the documentary about krumping and African American clowns.

Daily and Rebound = I have no idea.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

sin city is at the brew-n-view...

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

Deej, it's one thing to put African American slang in quotes, like "Hey, you guys I heard that new Tom Cruise movie is pretty 'fresh'" -- it's another to put Jessica Hopper slang in quotes.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

GIRLS ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE HIPS
THAT'S HOW THEY MAKE-A DA BABIES

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

I WANT TO SEE RIZE
THEN WE WILL MAKE KRUMPCAKES

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

My votes:

1. War of the Worlds
2. Herbie: Fully Loaded (But Digitally Breast-Reduced)
3. Rize
4. Batman Begins

I've already seen Crash and Howl's Moving Castle. The rest can bite me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

I AM BOYCOTTING HERBIE
BECAUSE WOMEN SHOULD BE HAPPY WITH THEIR BOOBIES
I MEAN BODIES

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

WAR OF THE WORLDS?
MORE LIKE BORE OF THE HURLS!

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

That doesn't even make sense.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

BATMAN BEGINS...
TO SUCK!

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

Krumping sounds awesome, but also I hate clowns.

I've never been to the brew n view, but I did see Spoon play at the Vic. But I think we should all have a FAP at Century first.

Boxing interests me about as much as golfing or moth balls.

I don't tend to enjoy ensemble cast/ministories that much.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE...
BUT IT MAKES CENTS
25 CENTS
WHICH ISN'T A VERY GOOD NET PROFIT
I'M HOLLYWOOD BOO HOO

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

1. War of the Worlds
2. Herbie: Fully Loaded (But Digitally Breast-Reduced)
3. Rize
4. Batman Begins

I'd see any of those. I'm easy that way.

x-post, Nick, you're losing your touch.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

Burned is one thing, but burned by your girlfriend...

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

I DONE DRANK ME SOME COFFEE

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

How is Saturday afternoon for everyone? Is there a bargain matinee at the Century?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

This is quickly turning into the equivalent of all of us standing around the video store, hemming and hawing and being like, "Hmmm, but Kenan's already seen that one." "Oh, no, no, don't worry, I'd see it again." "Are you sure?" "No, it's cool." "Maybe we should get something that nobody's seen." Etc.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

C'mon guys, where's the love for Fantastic Four?

― jocelyn's just kidding (Jocelyn), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

No. No. I have complete confidence that we will pick something by the end of the work day.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

"Hmmm, but Kenan's already seen that one." "Oh, no, no, don't worry, I'd see it again." "Are you sure?" "No, it's cool." "Maybe we should get something that nobody's seen." Etc.

Which is why we should see WAR OF THE WORLDS, because God knows none of us would ever see it otherwise. Also, remember, beer. You'll need beer, BUT YOU'LL HAVE IT.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

Burned is one thing, but burned by your girlfriend...

Well, Nick had me laughing out loud for every single post until the one about 25 cents. Maybe my standards are too high for him.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

i feel like this is the point where i gracefully step out b/c saturday i can't do it (romantic mechanations afoot!) & every weekend left in july is booked solid.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

Times for War of the Worlds, according to Amanda's linky:
War of the Worlds
Daily 11:15, 12:00, 12:45, 1:30, 2:00, 2:45, 3:30, 4:15, 4:50, 5:35, 6:20, 7:05, 7:40, 8:30, 9:10, 10:00, 10:30

I seriously doubt there's an actual matinee, in regards to price I mean. What is this crap with Chicago theaters being like, "Yeah, the matinee is the FIRST showing of the day.." when the first showing is like at 11am? Who the f goes to the movies THAT early?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

Kelsey, NOOOOOO!!!! (But I'm excited about your plans. Maybe a little too much! Also, some of us will see you around soon)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

I'd see batman again. Its great. You should all go see it. Maybe I'll show up. I'd see war of the worlds too.

― deej.., Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

C'mon guys, where's the love for Fantastic Four?

I have a friend who sends out movie-related e-mails to a group of us every so often (he's an online film critic), and earlier this week he asked what we thought the box office would be like for "FF." It took me a really long time -- through the context of other people's replies, mostly -- to figure out that that meant Fantastic Four. I really had no idea there was a Fantastic Four movie at all, much less one opening this weekend.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

Well "Fist Fuckers" is playing at a theater right outside of town.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

Ebert gives FF one bleeding star. He hardly ever does that.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

eek -- i just realized that those listings are only through TODAY...

are the new ones posted tomorrow?

― amandathelandlord'sdaughter, Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

why won't this thing let me post without logging in every single time? is my work computer trying to shanghai my fun?

― amandathedaughter, Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

but if it had angelina jolie in it, he would've given it 3.
xpost

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

hahaha

"You see one fire truck saved from falling off a bridge, you've seen them all."

Indeed, Rog. Indeed.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

That whole review is great.

"The Human Torch, to repeat, can burn at supernova temperatures! He can become so hot, indeed, that he could threaten the very existence of the Earth itself! This is absolutely stupendously amazing, wouldn't you agree? If you could burn at supernova temperatures, would you be able to stop talking about it? I know people who won't shut up about winning 50 bucks in the lottery."

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

Madagascar is great! I think you would like it Sarah.

We'll be out of state this weekend.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

Oh, that's too bad.

So me, John, Nick, Sarah, and... who else? Can we get some girls up in this bitch?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

Other girls than Sarah, obv. I never noticed her hips, but I noticed she's a girl.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

OH, yes! Don Q calls!

Ok, then. I'll see Madagascar. What the hell. But I'm not seeing the Shark movie. Or maybe I will.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

Well, you'll come, right, Amanda?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

i'm female...i might come. what time?

― amandawhocannotlogin, Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

Or we could switch it to a Sunday matinee. Then maybe Kelsey could come.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

what happened to war of the worlds?

yeah! sunday!! i might be able to get the old man to come too.

― amandaamandaamanda, Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

No, no. Jeff was just saying I'd like Madagascar. I think we're still planning on seeing War of the worlds.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

I'm tentatively in, but not female.

xpost: but I might be seeing Ward of the Girls tomorrow.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

Sure -- you can count me/us in. Sunday? For reference purposes, I'm 5'2'', smallish and have red hair thanks to L'oreal.

― amandacannotlogin, Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

I like long walks on the beach.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

Aw, I want to meet you knew folks. Don't get to crazy without me there.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

also, i like dogs, cooking and wearing aprons.

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

Oh, see, I like cats. We're not an eHarmony match, clearly.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

knew = new

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

"I met my husband, (insert cryptic screen name with bizzare characters here) on ilXor.com. ilXor.com gave me a personality profile that ensured a perfect match."

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

bizzare=bizarre

but you knew that

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

Why is it that when Tony Blair says "We will hold true to the British way of life," I hear "Village Green Preservation Society" in my head?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

god bless china clubs and virginity

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

so, about the movie -- we're going to a sunday matinee, meeting beforehand in the bah...yes?

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

Sounds good to me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

I have a party that I'd like to attend in the late afternoon, so can we make it early?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

So, can Kelsey come now that it's on for Sunday? huh huh huh?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

Damn. Sunday?

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

I had suggested we change it to Sunday so Kelsey might be able to go, but if she can't go then either we might as well go Saturday.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

Kelsey will be okay. She's got her man to keep her warm.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

Ok, should we move this back to Saturday, then? I'd prefer Saturday. So would Dan M.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

I love it.

also: god bless strawberry jam.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

Saturday is good for me, I don't think Sunday is. But don't let me fuck it all up. xpost

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

sorry guys!! i promise i'll make the next one!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

thanks for being so thoughtful to include everyone!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

We like you a lot.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

also: god bless chocolate

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

If I'm not too hung over I might be able to make it.

― deej.., Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

Ok, let's talk about TIMES.
11:15, 12:00, 12:45, 1:30, 2:00, 2:45, 3:30, 4:15, 4:50, 5:35, 6:20, 7:05, 7:40, 8:30, 9:10, 10:00, 10:30

How's 3:30? (oh, yeah, I just remembered the times are only good for today. Maybe we'll have to have this discussion tomorrow) But around 3:30?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

On a completely unrelated note: Starting tomorrow it is illegal to talk on your cellphone and drive, at least without the hands-free dealie. People who can't fucking hang up and drive are pissed.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

Awesome! That's the best law I've heard of all week. I didn't know that was going into effect tomorrow. I wonder how effectively they're going to enforce it.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

Everyone in my office already uses headsets anyway. Except me, but I don't really care. I mean, I don't talk on my celly when I drive any more anyway.

In other news, If I had one of these, I would wear it in the kitchen every day. Never mind the fact that Nick cooks dinner.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

Is it tomorrow? I thought it already happened last week, and I have been feeling all sneaky for the last few days when I've answered my phone.

Actually, I got pulled over last night for speeding, but didn't get a ticket because I had no insurance on me and my plates were expired. You'd think that'd be a reason for getting a ticket, but I think the cop was exasperated at my excuses and just gave up on me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

haha Let him go, just another goofy white kid.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

Also, I am a cat person who enjoys dinner by candlelight, with a nice glass of red wine.*

(* Disclaimers: I don't remember having dinner by candlelight since I was little and we used the long-stemmed candles every night. Also, red wine gives me headaches most of the time, but I still like it.)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

You're so lucky, John! What a charmer! I've never been able to get myself out of a ticket.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

Girl, you need to whoop that boyfriend of yours until he eats with you by candlelight.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

And have him take tips from the undisputed master:

"When you and I go out to eat, I'm gonna pull out your chair for you to sit down. This simulation of methodical virtue shows that I respect you and know how to treat you right. And during our dinner together I'm gonna be whispering in your ear a sweet stream of compliments regarding your fall from grace. "Baby," I'll say, "your lips are like a luscious, red ocean of eternity in variance. And my lips will be like a boat upon that ocean." And any other variety of compliment."

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

ha ha What's that from?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

Gotta be smoove b.

― deej.., Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

from leaf.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

they sell aprons at anthropologie? no way.

― amandastillcan'tlogin, Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

amanda check your cookie settings on your browser, is this the only site you're having problems with?

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, smoove b.

I think my favorite line from him is, "I will also serve juice."

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

hahaha They're re-running an all-time classic:

"Why Do All These Homosexuals Keep Sucking My Cock?"

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

That's not smoove b, though. That would be a whole other dimension to smoove b.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I was suprised to see that one today while having lunch.

Now I'm hoping for a repeat of "Area Bassist Fellated."

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

ugh i am totally crashing and i still have to bike home
i would vote for batman 4eva over wotw, but i'll see either

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

I'm staying out of it at this point.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

wuss

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

let's let the magic 8-ball decide

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

I let balls decide enough things for me already.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

but are they magic?

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

Ooooooohhh yeah.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 7 July 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

Actually, I got pulled over last night for speeding, but didn't get a ticket because I had no insurance on me and my plates were expired. You'd think that'd be a reason for getting a ticket, but I think the cop was exasperated at my excuses and just gave up on me

this would never have happened to me.

― john'n'chicago, Thursday, 7 July 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

by which, i mean, the cop would not have let me go. s/he would have busted my brake lights and planted the weed on me.

― john'n'chicago, Thursday, 7 July 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

I was surprised, too!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 July 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

haha. "officer down!"

― deej.., Thursday, 7 July 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

All my brake lights are out apparently. Some old man kept trying to get me to roll down my passenger side window at a light. That's not very easy when you don't have a little button to push. And that's what he told me. What a pain.

In other news, Sloan (and of course, Canasta!) were amazing last night.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 8 July 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

My hair is short.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 8 July 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

My hair is the shortest it's been since I was like 12.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 8 July 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

It's weird.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 8 July 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

You sound oddly accusatory, Nick.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 8 July 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

but sarah likes boyish men!

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Friday, 8 July 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

I alternately feel like I look:
1. cool
2. a hipster (not cool)
3. a Marine
I think it'll look better in a few days once it doesn't look so "I JUST GOT A HAIRCUT!"

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 8 July 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

Pics plz!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 8 July 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

The people at my work are pretending not to notice.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 8 July 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

What time are people getting to Sonotheque tonight?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 8 July 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

you should go to big hair on roscoe!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 8 July 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

Amanda, someone else is having a similar problem with their login, if you want to read the details here: HELP

I'm only a moderator--I can edit posts but I can't get into the guts of the site--and I fear the issue may be beyond my capabilities. Probably the easiest thing would be to create a new login without the apostrophe and see if that works any better.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 8 July 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

Hey guys, I'm playing for a POETRY SLAM tonight! Good thing I already have a goatee!!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 8 July 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

It's cute. I think it's like ironic hipster.
But seriously, I like it.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 8 July 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

thanks teeny!! i'll try again, see what happens. maybe a new name would do me some good.

― The Landlord's Daughter (The Landlord's Daughter), Friday, 8 July 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

Show's at 10pm, yeah?

― giboyeux (skowly), Friday, 8 July 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

Yeah I think so.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 8 July 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

introducing my salacious new identity, the milkmaid of human kindness. this may be temporary...but so you, my chicago brethren know, this is amanda. rather, this is still amanda.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 8 July 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

I'll be there, hopefully. I have to convince my grime-aphobic friends to go.

― giboyeux (skowly), Friday, 8 July 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

cool amanda! let me know if the change fixes things, would you?

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 8 July 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

I'm going to have to cancel my weekend, in effect. The phone company screwed me, and now I have significantly less money than I thought.

I'll see you guys next weekend.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 8 July 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

that sucks! do you have SBC? i had lots and lots and lots of trouble with them when we moved about a year ago. i officially have a vendetta against them -- what did they do to you?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 8 July 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

Kenan, NOOOOO!!!!

I just discovered that I need to deposit $120 in my account today OR ELSE. I have everything. How can I borrow $1140 from family and boyfriend and still have situations like this?! ARGGH!H!H!H!LK! BLIMEY HOLY GOD ALMIGHTY FUCKING CHICKEN AND A COKE AND FUCKIN DRY TOAST SHIT DAMN FUCKIN FUCKITTY FFUCKMIESTER!

*sigh*

But, anyway, if you have $10 you should use that last $10 to see Lady Soveriegn. Oh, yeah. I forgot about the movie tomorrow too.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 8 July 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

I'll loan you $15, Kenan. It's no biggie, what with my cheap Wisconsin cost of living.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 8 July 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

I'll get there around 9:30 I think. jaymc will prob recognize me. See you all there.

― deej.., Friday, 8 July 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

I have everything.

Obviously, I meant I HATE everything. Or maybe that was my thankful/ cup is half full subconscious shining through.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 8 July 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

Money is for the bullshit.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Friday, 8 July 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

oh man, should we suspend our movie plans?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 8 July 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

that sucks! do you have SBC? i had lots and lots and lots of trouble with them when we moved about a year ago. i officially have a vendetta against them -- what did they do to you?

I've had ENDLESS trouble with SBC. My phone bill was over three times what they said it was going to be. I'm going to get to the bottom of this, but I've already spent an hour on the phone with them this morning with an unrelated problem, and I'm not going through that again right now.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 8 July 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

kenan, let me give you a tip -- i went totally 100% batshit on them to the point where they had to transfer me to the "calmdown" person, who refused to give me his name. if you can, complain until you reach a supervisor of some sort. they will do everything they can to stop you, but keep going! write down everyone's name and what time you talked to them. keep this paper handy. I spent probably 5+ hours trying to get my DSL/phone/whatever worked out and finally, it worked.

But I did smash the phone on the floor a couple of times...while the customer service guy was still on the line. I really lost it. tons of rage-a-hol.

you have my support against those bastards!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 8 July 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

Oh man, you should get Jenny to call for you next time this happens, she's excellent at getting her rage on. She called apple about how she had to lose the information on her .mac account after upgrading to tiger, and she talked them into sending us an airport express for free.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 8 July 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

Jesse went through a lot of crap with SBC, too, about his DSL service. Legally, public carriers about whom consumers have no choice are supposed to be held to a higher standard of service and support but THIS NEVER ACTUALLY HAPPENS because they have lots of money and can buy legislators and thus prevent anyone from actually holding them accountable, which brings us nicely back to the "money is the pits" sentiment, which I share particularly with Sarah, as I have found myself in a similar situation many times.

I finally decided that math, particularly in regards to money, does not work the same way with me as it does with the rest of the population, specifically banks and creditors. I mean, I would keep spreadsheets and very carefully track all my money and still overdraw my checking account every fucking month.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 8 July 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

I actually looked into identity theft on my debit card/checking account because my money disappeared so fast. Turns out a good chunk of my $ went to fees for paying bills online and by phone. Also, various city surcharges and one-time taxes take a bite that is hard to keep track of. Or at least it is for me.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Friday, 8 July 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

Also, I too have been fucked over by SBC, back in Michigan.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Friday, 8 July 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

That's what I'm talkin' about!

But anyway, it's Friday. And, like it or not, I'll soon be asleep and won't have to think about that stuff any more.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 8 July 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

Sleep. Where everything is free, including ice cream.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 8 July 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

and mangos. and one-on-one quality time with johnny depp.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 8 July 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

Legally, public carriers about whom consumers have no choice are supposed to be held to a higher standard of service and support but THIS NEVER ACTUALLY HAPPENS because they have lots of money and can buy legislators and thus prevent anyone from actually holding them accountable

actually, the Citizens Utility Board (http://www.citizensutilityboard.org) was founded to do just this. they do a great job at holding monopoly utility providers (SBC, ComEd, Peoples) accountable. when companies agreed to the formation of it as a condition of electricity deregulataion (i believe) they figured it'd be toothless. quite the contrary.

― john'n'chicago, Friday, 8 July 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

Phone companies are such fuckers. I have to deal with them sometimes at work and they're all surly bastards who don't understand the concept of credits and debits. They also like to bill you early when they haven't received your payment yet, so you end up sending them money for more than you owe and then they keep rolling it over instead of sending it back. This week has totally sucked. One of my coworkers went awol for 2 days without explanation and then the London bombing.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 8 July 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

So, where was your coworker in the end?

I need someone to come over to my work and shake me. I keep trying to shake myself to stay awake, but it's not cutting it. Thankfully, it will be lunchtime in 15 minutes. But also, I'm having pasta for lunch.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 8 July 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

"Helping estranged wife move" Just very weird and stressful.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 8 July 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

Excellent! I did not know about this group but I will bookmark that site for future reference. Thanks, pal!

I'm having a torta vegetariana(o? I'm trying to improve my Spanish language skills but IT'S NOT WORKING) for lunch. RIGHT NOW Y AYAYAYAYAYYAYYYY!

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 8 July 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

I've been skipping lunch lately. That's probably not a good idea.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 8 July 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

It's cheap, though! You'd think I'd be losing weight, but I'm not.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 8 July 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

Here's a tip for all you non-vegetarians: The Fatboy Burger at the Twisted Spoke. The place itself is pretty cheese, like some kinda faux-biker theme bar. But this burger... MAN. I recommend getting it with swiss cheese and grilled onions. Maybe some bacon. You can pile on all the extras you want for the same price. And the fries are totally heavenly.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 8 July 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

you what they say, eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper. for health!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 8 July 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

i meant "you know what they say..." oopsie.

that burger sounds goooooooooood.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 8 July 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

It's a whole half pound of goooooooooood. It's almost two good. You eat until your stomach hurts.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 8 July 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

two = too

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 8 July 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

The burgers at twisted spoke are good. Really good. And the bloody marys are fanfuckingtastic. Best burger I've had in chicago is at the Park Grill resturant at Millennium Park. Oh my. And you better get it rare to medium. I need to go back there.

Most overrated burger (and food in general) = Moody's Pub

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 8 July 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

Hi everyone. I stayed up late last night and decided to skip work today. Whee! The Canasta show was fun, I think we played well and had good energy, but I felt really self-conscious on stage for the first time in a while. Maybe it was because we were playing to such a large crowd of folks who had no idea who we were. At one point early in the set someone yelled out, "Where's Sloan?" Also, some of our stage banter embarrassed me. I feel like we need to have a talk about it, but I'm worried it won't go over well.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 8 July 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

I was probably going to get to Sonotheque at like 10 or so. I don't think it will be crowded at all, if the turnout for Annie is any indication. (I feel like they must be at the same level, popularity-wise.) There's supposed to be like three DJs before her, though. One of 'em is Johnny Herndon from Tortoise.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 8 July 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

Also, some of our stage banter embarrassed me

Haha, like what?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 8 July 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

I'm not sure I should say anything more in this thread, since the band's name has already been used and it could theoretically be discovered.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 8 July 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

At one point early in the set someone yelled out, "Where's Sloan?"

wow. thats incredibly rude.

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 8 July 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

hey jaymc. . . i emailed you.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 8 July 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

Who is Sloan? I don't get it.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 8 July 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

Oh, now I get it. I'm stupid.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 8 July 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

since the band's name has already been used and it could theoretically be discovered.

Especially if your bandmates hire DETECTIVE NICK.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 8 July 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

Now that Nick's hair is so short, he can see and hear much better which should really help his detective agency.

It smells like cig smoke in here. Ugh. Where's it coming from? I'm ok with it smelling like smoke in places where you'd expect it, but not at my desk in my office.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 8 July 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I don't even know any smokers who would be okay with that.

I hear there used to be offices, buildings, even classrooms that you could smoke in. I can barely conceive of such a world, nor would I want to.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 8 July 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

The smoking ban took effect in Madison while I was gone! I only just now realized that I wasn't asked for 'smoking' or 'non-smoking' when Maddie I went out for dinner (at a pub) last night.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 8 July 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

I remember a professor of mine in college (attn kelsey: M4rigene Arn0ld) who talked about teaching in the 70s when there would be ashtrays stacked up on the chalkboard next to the erasers, and students would file in to class, grab an ashtray, and start puffing away.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 8 July 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, in bars it makes no sense, but if theys serve food, that's fine by me. There are still a lot of smoking restaurants in Chicago, and I don't much care for 'em. Ash and food do not blend well.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 8 July 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

and students would file in to class, grab an ashtray, and start puffing away

That's really gross. Also, I met half of my friends in college because we were banished smokers, and had to hang around outside the dorms all the time. We studied together out there sometimes.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 8 July 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

I think it will be weird for gigs. Smoke adds vibe, you know?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 8 July 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

I hear there used to be offices, buildings, even classrooms that you could smoke in. I can barely conceive of such a world, nor would I want to.

Seriously? There was a smoking area in my high school that students could use if you had a permission note from your parents (my mom would not give me one, the bitch). And while there was no smoking in the classrooms in undergrad, most of the desks still had little built in ash trays. ALSO you could smoke in dorm rooms, public areas, and the cafeteria.

One of my professors said that when he told his French brother-in-law that the law school had banned smoking, he looked at him as if he'd told him that all classes were taught by squirrels and said, "But surely not in the classrooms!"

Funny funny French.

NOTE: To my knowledge, none of my classes were taught by squirrels.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 8 July 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

can you still chomp cigars in a newspaper office? because if you can't chomp cigars in a newspaper office, i don't know if up is up.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 8 July 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

as far as i know you can't smoke in class in french universities!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 8 July 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

unless you are some superstar professor and can do whatever you want, that is. if you are a superstar professor you can probably fuck squirrels in class and no one would frown.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 8 July 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

SQUIRREL FUCKERS

http://www.faculty.umb.edu/stephen_silliman/P565e-Bourdieu.jpg http://bijou.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/derrida.jpg http://www.panopticweb.com/philosophy/philosophers/baudrillard-pic.gif

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 8 July 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

as far as i know you can't smoke in class in french universities!

This story was from a while ago, when they banned smoking in US law schools. Probably the late 80s.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 8 July 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

Foucault explaining how power relations are transferred through the act of squirrel-fucking:

http://www.maisonpop.fr/image/philo/2004-2005/foucault.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 8 July 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

More like squirrel fisting.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 8 July 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

(google result for "superstar professor")

http://chipandwalter.adiversions.com/images/fanart/fawful.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 8 July 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

this isn't about smoking, but my mom (a former middle school teacher) told me that she wasn't allowed to wear pants that weren't part of a "pants-suit" until the mid '70s. teachers? not being allowed to wear pants? that's obscene.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 8 July 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

I'm guessing Sarah and I will get to Sonotheque about 9:30ish, due to my penchant for being unreasonably early for everything. If you have never met us, Sarah is tall with wavy brown hair and I am shorter with a NEW HAIRCUT. I might wear a tie.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 8 July 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

RE: Not being able to wear pants. In 7th Circuit Federal Courts, right here in the great state of Illinois, women attorneys are prohibited from wearing pants. Some judges don't care, but if some of them want to be squirrel fuckers, they will make a stink out of it.

As such! My shitful legal writing professor made her female students wear skirt suits during our oral arguments and threatened to take two points off the grades (two points from an assignment worth five points to begin with) of any female students who wore pants to the assignment. This required me to go out and buy a whole new suit since the one I had already purchased involved pants.

Join me, will you, in wishing her ill.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 8 July 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

The firm I used to work for allowed smoking in the office, but only when one of our largest clients would visit, Phillip Morris. Those were dreadful days.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 8 July 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

Amen!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 8 July 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

did your professor perhaps utter the statement "i wear the pants here"?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 8 July 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

no WAY -- how can that be legal? w-w-w-wait, this is a law school professor? my brain just blew up. that ratsniffer can go straight to the fiery, rancid pits of hell wearing a bustle, a corset and her fat, buniony size-10 feet shoved into a pair of size-5 pointy heels. narrow size 5s.

(how's that? a firm telling-off? could do better?)

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 8 July 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

I believe what Focault is doing there is demonstrating the properr handling of squirrel nuts.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 8 July 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

did your professor perhaps utter the statement "i wear the pants here"?

NO! As a matter of fact, her rationale for requiring her female students to wear skirts was that she did not make the rules (meaning that she was required to follow the dress code in place in the 7th Circuit). I pointed out to her that since this a school assignment, not an actual court appearance, as the HEAD OF THE LEGAL WRITING DEPARTMENT she actually did make the rules, but she failed to see the logic.

The prof never, ever wore pants herself, always skirts UNTIL the day of my oral argument. She wore pants that day. I'm still deciding whether she did that just to mock me, since we had gotten into a pretty heated argument about the skirt thing. I think for my own sanity I have to presume it was just an amazing coincidence. Otherwise, I have an actual honest-to-God enemy and I'm not real sure how to deal with that.

And yes, thank you Amanda. That was quite nice.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 8 July 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

HOORAY! MY CAMERA CAME BACK!

They said seven to ten days. It's been four months since I mailed it to them. I thought I was going to have to sue them to get it back. Or that I might never see it again regardless.

But it's back! I think this calls for a large photo.

http://images-jp.amazon.com/images/P/B0002QNIEW.09.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

She's so pretty.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 8 July 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

people who follow rules solely because they're there and they're rules are total simps. who knows what else they would do if the rules told them to do it.

if you are forced by fate to have a nemesis, she sounds like a good candidate.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 8 July 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

xpost to myself

Pretty, and the shutter button is in the wrong place. And the TIFF mode is useless. And the images are noisy. And blah and blah and blah. One hell of a lens, though, and that 12x zoom really comes in handy. f2.8-8 ALL THE WAY DOWN THE FOCAL RANGE. Unheard of.

I shall do a camera dance.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 8 July 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

Jeff is picking me up from work in 50 minutes and we are off to Dodgeville!

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 8 July 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

I have so much respect for the photo-literate (i.e. not me).

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 8 July 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

Me, too. I used to think that my inability to take good photos was an equipment issue but it's totally just that I suck at taking photos.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 8 July 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

re: Dodgeville
BOo ya, pullapartgirl! Boo ya!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 8 July 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

i can't wait to find out what room you're staying in!!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 8 July 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

I'm afraid the House on the Rock will totally blow your mind, and you'll be an incomprehensible mess for the rest of your life. Like an acid casualty.

BE CAREFUL.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 8 July 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

me too. we're thinking of going too, now that i hear all of the hype. i vote for the medieval room, with the shackles!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 8 July 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

kinky girl.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 8 July 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

I'm afraid the House on the Rock will totally blow your mind, and you'll be an incomprehensible mess for the rest of your life. Like an acid casualty.

Like a character from Infinite Jest...

xpost: I would be pretty jazzed for the medieval room just on general principle. The shackles are just an added bonus.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 8 July 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

chant with me: medieval room! medieval room!

lord, i hope it has velveteen wallpaper. have you guys ever been to/seen photos of the madonna inn, in southern california?

looky!!! http://www.madonnainn.com/tour/137.asp

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 8 July 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

that place is so cool. of course, i've never been there, but a friend of mine has been there and she can vouch for the caveman room.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 8 July 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

But does it have SHACKLES?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 8 July 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

mm, i don't think it has shackes, but i think you can bring your own, um, props. but hell, you could bring props to the super 8 and it wouldn't be the medieval room. i wonder if it comes with costumes...

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 8 July 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps not, but it does have real Old English lamps from England...

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 8 July 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

"The Madonna Suite was decorated by incorporating the color schemes, furnishings, and basic ideas favored through the years by Alex and Phyllis Madonna. The huge rock fireplace, unique rock waterfall sink and shower in the bathroom, tones of reds and pinks, and the use of crystal all play a part in making this fanciful hideaway a favorite."

DO NOT hire Alex and Phyllis Madonna to decorate your house.

14 minutes to Dodgeville takeoff...

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 8 July 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

The Mini Maxi comes with free boxes of feminine hygeine products. Or at least it looks like a tampon ad from the 80s.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 8 July 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

Have fun, Jenny and Jeff.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 8 July 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

as the day comes to its inevitable close, i have to ask: have we suspended the movie plans? i wouldn't be completely heartbroken since we can meet up the following weekend at the festivoo.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 8 July 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

People are going to Sonotheque tonight? Then answer me these questions three:

1. Where is it?
2. What is it like?
3. What is this spot on my pant leg?

The last one is optional. I think it's residue from Bamee noodles.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Friday, 8 July 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

1. 1444 W. Chicago Ave., three blocks west of the Chicago Blue Line stop.

2. It feels a little nicer than most bars I go to -- there is sleek furniture and such -- but it was designed principally for the sound, and the crowd tends to be fairly unpretentious. You can wear whatever you like, you can get PBR, etc. It's also surprisingly small.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 8 July 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

I am currently looping 16 bars of the intro to "I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)" -- I could listen to this for hours.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 8 July 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

sonotheque was so nice!! though not so great for dancing

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 8 July 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

I like the steps. They're like another obstacle for dancing. They should put a jungle gym + Obstacle Course in the middle of the floor too.

― deej.., Friday, 8 July 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

i like taking photos and am pretty good at it, but for a long time my camera had a malfunctioning part whereby the image always ended up a bit canted. until i figured this out i thought maybe my eyes were a little irregular, because the horizon line in my photos would always be at a 5 degree angle.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 8 July 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

Oooh... I don't know. Should we suspend the movie plans?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 8 July 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

I mean, I'm totally ok with it. I'm all for saving money. We can have a special meet-up time the following weekend, at the festival?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 8 July 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

i was wondering if anyone was going to answer my question, or if you were chatting amongst yourselves, "should we tell her that we're not going and then go? should we just tell her that we think she's weird? she would never know if we just ignore her...yeah. let's ignore her. she was a little too into that medieval room. does she ever shut up?"

ooh, i just got caught writing here by a coworker. oops.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 8 July 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

I hope you typed that last sentence very slowly while looking over your shoulder at him/her.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 8 July 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

yup. and then i said, in a voice halfway between creepy and nice, "can i help you with something?"

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 8 July 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

who am i kidding. it wasn't nice at all. it was all the way creepy.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 8 July 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

...anyone have any Lady Sov (gmail, YSI, anything)? I like to be acquainted before I meet people for the first time, like.

― giboyeux (skowly), Friday, 8 July 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

http://s45.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1HVRN6CE0KDBU182I37NWW9KX9

that's not a churr, it's a cheh. see if that works. it's all i have.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 8 July 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

Sweet!

(...do you think the show will be any...different tonight what with the attacks and all? Her being from the LDN and all.)

― giboyeux (skowly), Friday, 8 July 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

giboyeux or dan m. or anyone else who I haven't met who comes to Sonotheque tonight: I'm wearing jeans, a dark blue shirt, and a tan tie. Introduce yrself.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 9 July 2005 00:52 (twenty years ago)

Hi guys. Tell me how it went. I'm sad to be home tonight. It's the Spanish show in Chicago Public Radio tonight, but apart from the Afro-Cuban rap, it's really quite shit. And that's bad, because that station usually keeps me good company. Good music and an occasional comforting voice. Tonight it's bad music and occasional Spanglish. I'm lonely.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 9 July 2005 04:47 (twenty years ago)

I hate my stupid friends that decided they didn't want to see the show. I would like to hear that it was totally teh suck, please. Even though I'm sure it was great.

― giboyeux (skowly), Saturday, 9 July 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

Um, yeah, it was pretty great.

At least I feel better about not being able to find you last night. It was packed, and I muscled my way to the front with deej for most of the show.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 9 July 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

Ummm it was ok. Lady Sovereign sounded awesome (really raspy and energetic) but Sonotheque sucks as a place to actually, you know, try and see stuff, especially when the person you're trying to see is only five feet tall and isn't on a stage. I was standing over by the couches and people kept standing on the couches to see better and then the bouncer guy would push through the crowd to tell them to get off the couches and then push back through the crowd, over and over again. But also I was just in a kind of pissy, irritable mood last night. Sorry we didn't really hang out after.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 9 July 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

So since movie plans seem to have fallen through, would people be interested in just coming over to our place (chez nous) tonight for some beers, music, and conversation? I realize this may be more intimidating for those who haven't actually met us before, but on the other hand, it would be cheap and would probably have cooler music.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 9 July 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

That would be totally awesome, Nick.

xpost Yeah, Sonotheque is built for DJs, not something you want to see with your eyes. Built well, I might add, but not for that.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 9 July 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

Nick, email me your phone # again. New apartment, different computer, no caller ID, etc.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 9 July 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

Yeah I had a great time but we were waayyyy up front. I wish I hadn't drank that much.

― deej.., Saturday, 9 July 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

Anyways if people want to come over, email me at naamme @ yahoo.com for address, phone no., etc. We're going to go out for a couple of hours but I'll check when we get back.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 9 July 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

Ok.

BTW: Nick, I'm completely overhauling my mix for you. Why make a rock and roll mix for Nick when Nick knows rock and roll way better than I do? Why worry about what Nick likes? Surely what Nick likes, Nick knows or has.

Go with your strengths, I say. So this will be a profoundly different mix.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 9 July 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

hey, thank you wholeheartedly for extending the invite...if dan (the old man) and i didn't already have plans, we would be able to stand awkwardly in the spot between your kitchen and the rest of the apartment and wonder what to say next.

(sigh) maybe next time. thanks though!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Saturday, 9 July 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

Plans have changed slightly...Ben (FF drummer) and Silas (FF fan and all-around-nice guy) are having a BBQ and outdoor movie tonight. They live next to each other on Hoyne. Anyone is invited. I think yr supposed to bring food to BBQ though.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 9 July 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

Hey, I'm having a couple people over to my place early in the night, but not sure what my plans are later. Maybe I'll call you.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 9 July 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

what sort of outdoor movie?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 9 July 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

If I tell you, you won't come.

(OK, it's "Joe Vs. the Volcano")

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 9 July 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

(OK, it's "Joe Vs. the Volcano")

!!!

Hott. My friend Jeff and I tried unsuccessfully to rent that a few weeks ago.

― giboyeux (skowly), Saturday, 9 July 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

If I tell you, you won't come.

this is known as the "inverted 'field of dreams' principle"

i think i am too tired to make it down to w.p. and back tonight, but let me know if you want to hang out another night...

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 9 July 2005 23:31 (twenty years ago)

I just went bike riding all over the place. Chicago is fun.

― giboyeux (skowly), Sunday, 10 July 2005 01:01 (twenty years ago)

I'm back.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Sunday, 10 July 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

...hey: is Working Bikes a decent shop? Can you get a good "deal" there? Or should I take my business elsewhere?

― giboyeux (skowly), Sunday, 10 July 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

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― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Sunday, 10 July 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

http://photos22.flickr.com/24975260_4c3ee2b04b.jpg

forget this one, homage to nick

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Sunday, 10 July 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

I love you guys.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 11 July 2005 00:59 (twenty years ago)

Working bikes is great. That's where I got this little number:
http://photos7.flickr.com/9217825_3a05ed6aec_m.jpg

I'm glad you had fun, Jeff!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 11 July 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

you should totally support working bikes. they're great on multiple levels.

jeff...those pictures are awesome!! i noticed that there are other fantasy suites in other cities & so a good portion of last night was convincing leaf that the one in MN would be worth a visit. they have a moby dick room!!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 11 July 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

Another thumbs up for Working Bikes. Yes, the bikes are CHEEEEEEP there. So you don't feel quite as bad if it gets stolen.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 11 July 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

I want to go on a road trip where I ONLY stay in fantasy suites. Also, I want to stay at the Love Shack.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 11 July 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

So, how are any of us going to meet up at Intonation? I wonder how many people will be attending? I've never been to Union Park.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 11 July 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

I know a ton of people that are going. We're going half the day on Saturday, and the whole day on Sunday.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Monday, 11 July 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

My gf, housemate, and several other friends from in and out of town are going. I'd sure like to finally meet you guys.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Monday, 11 July 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

I'm going with a bunch of ppl as well. Not sure what the schedule is...my buddy really wants to go see the Chivas/Real Madrid game on Sunday, but that's right when Diplo is playing.

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 11 July 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

Hey Jordan -- I know I haven't mentioned it recently, which means I understand if you've forgotten and have other plans, but tonight is the night my band is playing Madison. It's at the High Noon Saloon. We're opening for Nicolai Dunger and will go on around 10 pm. $8. Woo!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 July 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

Also, I am going to apologize right now if I don't get to hang out as much as I'd like with you guys at Intonation Fest. There are so many people I know who are going, including my brother, who's flying in from LA, and then all of the Pitchfork people, like scott pl. and Nabisco and "Nick Sylvester" and Amy Phillips, and then other random people, like Matthew Perpetua -- so I have a feeling I'll be running around quite a bit.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 July 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

BUT IT'S ALL ABOUT THE MUSIC, MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 11 July 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

I want to meet Nabisco, fuck all those other people. Like I said at the Lady Sov show, rock crit bubble gum cards.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 11 July 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

I want to meet Nabisco, fuck all those other people. Like I said at the Lady Sov show, rock crit bubble gum cards.

haha!

― deej.., Monday, 11 July 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I like robotsinlove too, I wouldn't mind seeing him.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 11 July 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

I'm going to be really busy talking to Nick anyway. HA! Actually, I am bringing my friend Sarah along.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 11 July 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

I want to meet everyone. Every single festival goer. Except that one. Oh you know that person. I think Robin is coming too. I don't know about Sayjal.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Monday, 11 July 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

Awesome. Me too. Except I don't know who that person is, so I can't comment on not wanting to meet that person.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 11 July 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

Somebody please find Nick a new job. K? Thx. bye.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 11 July 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

Hey, that's your job! No pawning off your job on others.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 11 July 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

I'm happy to meet just about anybody. I'm new to Chicago, new to this so-called "Windy City."

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 11 July 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

Wahey! I just dropped off a bunch of resumes at Independent Publisher's Group. Not applying for a specific job, per se, but they change the job listing on their site every week, and are always hiring for something or other. I thought it might work to preempt that. Maybe they need me and don't even know it!

Anyway, that made me feel somewhat better about my life. Not that anything has changed, but it's something. I had a long talk with a girl named Molly Saturday night, who told me what other people have been telling me over and over: I have to get a new job. I'm worth way more money than I make. Etc, etc. Of course all that's true, but finding a new job is frightening and difficult.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 11 July 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

I interviewed for a couple of jobs there before we moved up. I know/knew someone who works there. I didn't get hired (obv) but I think it was mostly because I wasn't living in Chicago yet. Seemed like a nice place.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 11 July 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

I wish I worked there. :(

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 11 July 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

I know/knew someone who works there.

Who? Who? I need contacts on the inside!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 11 July 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

Her name is K@si@ but I haven't talked to her in probably a year or so, and I'm not even 100% sure she still works there. I'll see if I still have her email address.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 11 July 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

just a friendly reminder:

Sunday, July 17th
Rednofive
440 North Halsted Street
10pm - 4am
Complimentary Cocktails 10-11
GIFTBAGS (i'll save you some... good stuff in there too.)

DJs:
Vito Roccoforte (The Rapture)
Justin Vandervolgen (Out Hud / !!!)
Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu)
Jordan Zawideh

maybe an afterafterparty too at some hotel room..

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 11 July 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

http://beta.bzzznex.com/userpix/188_356_l.jpg

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 11 July 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

did someone say they need a job? they're hiring at my place of employment, for two things:
1) production coordinator (boring, but you get to work with meeeeee and play on the internet quite a bit)
2) photo editor (for a major car-related website)

email me (handymanda at ameritech dot net) for more deets.

the rub? i'm going out of town for a funeral tomorrow morning, back Friday?

anyway, i'm depressed about this funeral, but write me if you're interested in finding out more about the job(s).

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 11 July 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

I emailed you, manda.

I hope I didn't offend jaymc upthread. I wasn't making fun of him but reading that stuff I wrote it kind of sounds like I am. I'm not very interested in rock critics but I understand it's different for people who are into that scene.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 11 July 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

Also sorry about your funeral, manda.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 11 July 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

Naw, you didn't offend me! Anyway, I'm not interested in Amy and Nick because they're rock critics, I'm interested in them because they're nice, cool people. The fact that they're rock critics just means we have something to talk about.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 July 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

i wrote back, nick. ps -- use the address i wrote back from, the other one is just for, uh, show. it works, but i don't check it.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 11 July 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

should we get a collection of cell phone numbers so we can meet up this weekend? i just finally got one and i'm eager to share it. i don't want to share it with all of the internets though...

who's the most organized? that person should keep the numbers.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 11 July 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

who's the most organized? that person should keep the numbers.

he's going to hate me for saying it...

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 July 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

I'll take the numbers, but I don't have a cell phone! But Sarah does, and I'll be with her, so whatevs. Email is naamme @ yahoo.com.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 11 July 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

ONE HOUR UNTIL I LEAVE FOR MADISON

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 July 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

(Jordan, holla back.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 July 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

I have Sarah and John's. Anybody else that wants to swap contact info just email me or jenny, jheath at gerousia dot com

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Monday, 11 July 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

I have manda's now. We are building a chain.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 11 July 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

just like the teachers on snow days...my mom was a middle school teacher and she was at the bottom of the teacher snow day chain. but we still found out before the news did. i guess now they probably just send emails.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 11 July 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

Whoa, people are just giving away jobs on this thread?! I need a job! I work hard, i have a degree in things.

― deej.., Monday, 11 July 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

I could really use some one to come clean our apartment. I will pay you twenty-five american dollars.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Monday, 11 July 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

I really could use 25 American dollars.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 11 July 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

Does everybody have my new number already?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 11 July 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

Nevermind. I just mailed it to a bunch of people.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 11 July 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

pullapartgirl - I would like my own set of keys and a couch on which to crash when i'm drunk and far from home.

― deej.., Monday, 11 July 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

We can talk. Do you like cats?

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Monday, 11 July 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

You can have the piss couch.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 11 July 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

you should make your own mid-evil room!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 11 July 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

I will have to stop at the hardware store to get chains and craft paint. Also, I will have to hire an entire club's worth of smokers to hang out and smoke in the room for ten years. (The Mid-Evil Room was a little stinky.)

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Monday, 11 July 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

I smoke real good. Can I come over? Will there be beer?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 11 July 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

what you really need to complete the mid-evil room is a set of stocks. that would add immeasurably to the exciting, stinky ambiance.

ihttp://www.loyno.edu/~MidAges/stocks.JPG

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 11 July 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

I used to live in Colonial Williamsburg, so stocks were a big part of my life.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 11 July 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

I have been to Colonial Williamsburg. Kind of a lot, now that I think about it. My grandparents were suckers for that place. Nick, were you employed there as a Colonial Tymz Reenactment Specialist?

Kenan you can come over any time, and there is often beer, but I was kidding about the smoking.

Stocks are a good idea. I might get little dragon costumes for the cats, too.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

I figured out what my problem with SBC was. This afternoon, on my doormat, was a DSL modem. I did not want one of those, and I told them so. Then I called back ten minutes later to confirm that they had heard me correctly. They assured me that DSL had been cancelled from my account. ASSURED ME. And then they mailed the fucking thing anyway, and tell me that my account will continue to be charged for DSL until they receive the modem back from me.

Meanwhile, I'm on the slowest dialup connection ever. My life is pain.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

Opening at my work:

Departmental Job Title Book Designer
Type of Position Staff
Division Press
Department 56745-Press-Books Division
General Summary

Design approximately 35 book projects per year. This includes the interior and jacket design of monographs in all disciplines, trade books, and illustrated books in art/architecture, science, and anthropology.
Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or two years of experience in art/graphic design required; monograph, trade, and illustrated book design experience with portfolio of typographic and illustrated text and jacket design examples strongly preferred; knowledge of Macintosh platform required; significant knowledge of Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress, Adobe PhotoShop, and Adobe Illustrator required; up-to-date knowledge of current typesetting and graphics arts processes required; excellent typographic sense and skill required; strong conceptual and design ability required; ability to work creatively within limited budgets required; high degree of organization and the ability to handle a number of overlapping projects required; excellent interpersonal skills in relating to peers and superiors required; excellent written and verbal communication skills required. A cover letter and resume are required to be considered for this position.

Work Location Campus - Hyde Park
Work Schedule Full-Time
Hours/Week 37.5
If other than regular hours (M-F, 8:30-5:00) please detail Regular
Benefits Eligible? Yes
Pay Frequency Monthly
Pay Grade E-28
Pay Structure Non-Union (non-IT)
Pay Range Depends on Qualifications

Just in case, y'know, anyone's interested.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

I also have been to Colonial Williamsburg.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:50 (twenty years ago)

First time I ever saw Airwolf on TV. I think I was like 3.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

I've applied to tons of jobs on the uchicago website, but on the ones that say do you have a college degree, I check no, and it automtically lists me as not having the correct qualifications. Is there a person I could send my resume directly to?

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

Alright, here's what I did: I cracked. I just hooked up the DSL modem. What the fuck. Seems like I'm paying for it one way or another. And it's half the price of a cable connection. And it's pretty fucking fast. I won't get those 600k/sec bursts like I used to, but those were just bursts anyway.

FINE, SBC! ARE YOU FUCKING HAPPY?! YOU WIN, ALRIGHT!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 11 July 2005 23:24 (twenty years ago)

Jeff, why don't you just tell them you have a college degree? I have college degrees on my various resumes that I do not have. UChicago may check, but the vast majority of employers only want to see credible work experience. "I went to college for this, but ended up doing this instead."

And if they ask again, tell them that college is a fear-based swindle.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 11 July 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)

i once knew a girl who got a job writing for a wire service without a college degree. she just said that she had one. apparently, it's that easy. it's not like anyone asks for your transcripts or anything. my college experience taught me a lot about latin american poetry and literature, beer, smoking, not very much about boys, and how to use the word weltanschauung. and some other stuff. NONE of which is useful to me except when i want to flash around a word like weltanschauung. which i am probably misspelling.

i'm trying to distract myself from the funeral proceedings, in case you wondered why i'm here. again.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 00:22 (twenty years ago)

hi mandy

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 00:26 (twenty years ago)

I do know people for whom the college experience really mattered, and whose credentials rest on it. They're all doctors, lawyers and teachers. I don't think I know anyone other than a doctor, lawyer, or teacher who ended up doing what their college degree says they can do.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 00:28 (twenty years ago)

Oh, ok, I know an engineer. But that's it.

Point is, EVERYONE is lost nowadays. You're almost supposed to be. Work experience is everything.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 00:29 (twenty years ago)

yeah, but what if the work experience i have is scattered and pathetic?

(hi kenan)

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 00:41 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, my work experience is far and above anything I could ever have learned in college, and once people interview me, they realize that I'm not a dumb kid without a degree that just lucked into a job.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 00:42 (twenty years ago)

jeff, that's when you say that you went to Large University X and they'll never know whether you did or not, because no one asks for transcripts. worst possible scenario, you don't get the job, but that could happen WITH a college degree. ask me. i know all about not getting jobs. i'm an expert.

i interview poorly because i'm sort of a spaz.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 00:44 (twenty years ago)

once people interview me, they realize that I'm not a dumb kid without a degree that just lucked into a job

OTM

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 00:49 (twenty years ago)

i interview poorly because i'm sort of a spaz.

Yeah, me too. But you learn. You blow enough interviews, you start to get the idea.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

i guess i'm starting to realize that...i usually feel like i need medication before a job interview. now that i'm almost done with school though, things are getting better. grad school has done wonders for my professional self-esteem.

but MAN, have i blown some interviews. one time i came home and writhed around crying/wailing on the floor for a good two hours. that's how bad it was. this stage lasted about 2 weeks.

ps -- best thing about unemployment? watching free movies from the library ALL DAY LONG.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 00:57 (twenty years ago)

I'm not even sure where I should apply for jobs. I have a history degree, and I forget what weltenschaaung means!

― deej.., Tuesday, 12 July 2005 01:30 (twenty years ago)

deej - your weltanschauung is your world view! weltschmerz is world pain. my favorite word of all time.

i have a degree in international studies (latin american lit/politics/language) and i work in customer service.

also, i know nothing about German.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 01:43 (twenty years ago)

Hey phil can I come to your party? My anti-social friend M!gue1 won't be with me this time.

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 02:51 (twenty years ago)

sure of course you can. bring lots of friends. my boss will kill me if nobody comes :(

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 04:43 (twenty years ago)

I wish I could come, Phil, but I've used up every absent-from-work excuse I can think of.

Then again, I hate this job...

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 04:51 (twenty years ago)

well you dont HAVE to stay until 4am or to the afterparty. come anyway! it'll be fun, i hope.

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 05:45 (twenty years ago)

I went to college in Colonial Williamsburg.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

WHHAAA???? SO DID I!!!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

WHUUUUH!>?!?!?!?!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

You damn elitists.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

where's john? did his show go well last night?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

by the way . . . did the movie gathering happen? what'd you all see?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

if anyone is interested, i think leaf & i are hanging out at ginger's ale house to watch the tour de france tonight. probably a bit after 7.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

p.s. chocolate soy is delicious in my (your) morning coffee.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

nothing kills a thread more than kelsey typing to herself.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

Maybe John is currently being held captive by Jordan's retarded potato.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

should i ask what that even means?! sounds insane!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

We did not get together for a movie, because multiple people couldn't make it. But Kenan and jessa and Sarah and I went to our friend Ben's house and BBQed and watched "Joe Vs. the Volcano" outside.

Where is Ginger's Ale House? Is it far away?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

nothing kills a thread more than kelsey typing to herself.

Oh, you have no idea. There are many, many things that kill a thread faster than that.

Witness this, the deadest thread in ILX history.

What is the worst thing that ever happened to you?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

Ginger's is on Ashland & Grace. It's just a little pub. Sometimes it can have a sports bar sorta feel, but nothing over the top, really. They have really good curry fries.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

Hah. I'm here. I got home at 4:30 am last night. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZz.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

jesus kenan. thanks. that was awful. is that woman a regular poster on here?

john! how'd it go?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

Everyone at Ginger's is English or Irish, I have decided. They all talk about Franz Ferdinand and wear green Carling jerseys.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

xpost Never seen her before or since, near as I can tell. Googler, probably. Just someone with a story so awful that even the yahoos who always respond and say "Oh, that's too bad" or "HUGS!" are totally silenced.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

I hate to be a bitch here, but the language in that story gives it away as a "fake". It's a little too pornographic.

― VM 9001 (dymaxia), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

(xxpost) It was a very strange show. Parts of it I think we played really well and energetically, but my keyboard also kept cutting out for the first four songs (we didn't get a proper sound-check); fortunately, they were all mostly songs where I play bass parts and not lead lines. The crowd seemed small but into it -- then again, I have no idea what sort of crowd to expect in a town like Madison.

We tried to go to the State Street Brat House afterwards, but the kitchen was closed, so we went to Ian's Pizza instead, which was pretty tasty -- and I don't know why Chicago doesn't have a pizza place like that: open late, with a million different varieties of pizza. Good stuff.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

Also, our waitress at High Noon was v. v. cute.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

it did seem that way to me, too. xpost

john: wait till you visit me when i move to mpls . . . you've gotta try galactic pizza. it's amazing.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I am curious about that! Another thing that was disappointing about the show: Jordan and Haikunym couldn't make it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

Why did I post to the atheist thread? Answer: I had too much coffee this morning. One of my cousins has started emailing me again (I was holding steady in the "black sheep of the family" position). He did, however, suggest twice in his last email that I go to church. He means well, right?

Does anyone here have normal relatives that they actually get excited about visiting?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

yes . . . i do! case in point, i share with you exhibit A: cousin alison . . .

A. http://photos22.flickr.com/25467557_2c1de793f7.jpg

and, here's her later that night:

B. http://photos22.flickr.com/25467556_b2687a1675.jpg

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

I like visiting my aunts and uncles, and my remaining sane grandma, and my cousins if we cross paths. We're all pretty normal, but pretty spread out.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

sarah, i like hearing about your history. i find it fascinating. i grew up going to church every sunday, but nothing was really enforced. i think my parents believe, but not so hard that they force it on their children. i wonder, though, if they now wish they'd done it differently. i think my dad might. dunno. anyway, i just find fundamentalist christianity so interesting. not spectator sport interesting, but genuinely interesting.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

Sarah and I could easily have a long coffee sometime and talk about our wacko Christian families.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

Kels, when you say your dad might wish he'd done it differently: in which direction? Enforcing it more or less?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

i think enforcing it more.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

fuck. i just read the london explosions thread. i am welling up in my cubicle.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

-- Jeff-PTTL (poopoopo...), July 11th, 2005.

Jeff, the only thing I can say is get a hold of the Books Division Design Manager... You can probably find his/her name on the Press web page.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

Additionally, there is an Editor's Assistant position open. n/a, weren't you looking for something akin to that? I'll copy over the listing if you want.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

Sarah, I liked your post. I should stop drinking so much when we hang out so we can actually talk about stuff. Also I'm glad you don't think drunks are going to hell any more.

My best friend is a Baptist who loves Jesus in a way that lets her honestly believe that there is a hell where unsaved people will spend eternity but that it's also okay to do a lot of meth and sleep around a lot as long as you are repentant at some point before your death. It's fascinating. I just assume she'll eventually come around. Which is probably what she assumes about me, too.

I get excited to visit my grandparents and my aunt and my mom and stepfather but I see them very rarely. If I saw them more often, I would probably not be as excited, especially in this Post 9-11 World wherein my stepfather has gone from being a reasonable if fiscally conservative libertarian type to a 100% Bush Supporter At All Costs No Matter What Happens I Will Never Ever Ever Admit Any Policies of the Current Administration Are Even Slightly Misguided Ever. It's tiresome.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

dan, if you could just email it to me at naamme @ yahoo.com, that would rule, thanks. Am having serious job/career crises the last couple of days, seem to come in waves.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

What are the second-tier colleges/universities in Chicago that have grad programs? The places that aren't "the best" but are solid? I don't think my grades/GPA/papers are hot enough to get me into an awesome school but I think I'm going to end up having to go back if I want to ever do anything but mindless office work.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

I think my brain is just blocking out the London bombing thread stuff. I can't think about it right now. Selfish, I know, but necessary.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

me too.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

UIC maybe?

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

Nick, check yer email.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

I think my brain is just blocking out the London bombing thread stuff. I can't think about it right now. Selfish, I know, but necessary.

Me, too. I don't think it's selfish (it's not like there's anything you can actually DO), it's normal. Once I learned that everyone that I knew personally in LDN was ok I sorta withdrew a bit. This whole Liz thing is really upsetting, though. I think I've been too busy with moving and stuff to really engage with it.

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

Glad your show went well, jaymc. The last time my band played at the High Noon, the crowd was a lot smaller than I expected too but it was still fun. Like I said, I was planning on going but got sent to Minneapolis for work, helping out a hospital who just went live on our software.

I'm so glad you made it to Ian's! You're right, they're open late, cheap, and I love being surprised by what kinds of slices they've put together that night. Ian is my nu-pizza god.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

I did see a good show last night, though, Dr. Mambo's Combo at Bunker's (in mpls). It's a bunch of PRINCE alumni and it's such a cool scene. Bass/drums/guitar/keys and FIVE SINGERS, and they throw down like it's not a Monday night bar gig. In fact, as far as I'm concerned, here are the main reasons to visit Madison and Minneapolis:

Madison -- Ian's Pizza

Minneapolis -- Mambo's Combo on Monday nights

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

Jordan have you ever been to the Persian restaurant (Caspian?) by the movie theatre on campus? It looked really good but was closed when we tried to go...

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

KelC - Does Alison have any openings for another cousin?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

well, both her & my brother are single . . . so there's opportunity for family growth in DiltsCo.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

(we're also big on "honorary" family members)

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

I should start posting ads looking for new members for my fake family.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

Do they have anything like that on craigslist?

In other news, I'm really looking forward to my long weekend (Intonation plus Monday off to rest).

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

I wish I could take Monday off. But I basically took yesterday off, so it ain't going to happen.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

You won't believe what I just got into trouble for. Offering to mail a copy of the magazine to the man who gave us the entire content for one of our feature stories last issue. Sounds like a reasonable request, doesn't it? It's not so much that my boss doesn't want to mail him a copy, he just doesn't want *me* doing it. "Let K@ren [his wife] handle that. We can't just mail a copy of the magazine to everyone who asks." What he's saying is, you're not competent to make those kind of tough calls, Kenan. You might cost me a buck fifty. He actually said, "We can't afford it." You cheap bastard!

I've never sent off so many resumes in one day in my life.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

We'll get everyone from ILX working at the UofC Press yet!

(Out of curiosity, Dan, which editor is looking for an assistant? It's not TDB again, is it? I completely-randomly ran into EBD and her husband while walking around Manhattan the other day, and it got me thinking about how the Press might be doing these days.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

Would that suggest that people in that position quit/are fired or that they move on up in the company?

I want to listen to some James Brown and get on a good foot.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

You sure? The good foot? You sure you wouldn't rather have...

http://www.cottageviews.com/album%20covers/Badfinger%20-%20The%20Very%20Best%20of%20Badfinger.jpg

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

I'm not sure which editor it is... See, I work in Journals and the opening is in Books. The opening was listed on the intranet jobs page and I saw it while lusting after the book cover design job... I'm sure I could find out who's hiring if I nose around a little bit. But who to ask?

― dan m (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

What did you do at the Press, Nabisco? (I'm assuming you no longer work here)

― dan m (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Jocelyn, I've never been to that restaurant, and frankly I'm shocked and disappointed with myself. I'll have to ask Maddie if she's been there.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

Hey, I've got a few ninnyish alleged "family" members I'd like to donate, if anyone's interested. Perhaps if you don't take to them, they'd be useful for lab experiments or breeding....

― VM 9001 (dymaxia), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I moved two years ago -- I was in books publicity. Dunno about the journals side, but I found it a terrific place to work, and I kinda regret not being more, let's say, "engaged" with the position while I was there.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

Hey Kenan, can I have your job when you get a new one?

I'm playing the waiting game now, after two interviews.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

am NOT arguing about the Simpsons on the internet.
-- n/a (nu...), July 12th, 2005 3:25 PM. (Nick A.) (later)
-- n/a (nu...), July 12th, 2005 3:26 PM. (Nick A.) (later)

-- n/a (nu...), July 12th, 2005 3:27 PM. (Nick A.) (later)

-- n/a (nu...), July 12th, 2005 3:28 PM. (Nick A.) (later)

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

haha

Sure, Jeff. I'm not sure you want it, but you can have it. Maybe bossman will take to you better than he did to me.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

Actually, you should know something: the guy is a complete looney. Looney, I say. As in, tunes.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

OMG Badfinger!

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

NB can I meet like all of you this weekend?

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

Yup. Email me yr cell no. at naamme @ yahoo.com, apparently I'm in charge of trying to get everyone together at the fest.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

Which should be interesting. "Yeah, we're...in a field...I'm waving my arms...can you see me?"

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

Fortunately, Union Park isn't *that* big.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

Hoorah. I, too, would like to meet the Chicago massive.

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

I'll be the one wearing shoes.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

I don't know if it's too early to talk about the next possible event but I am so excited about this I want to TELL THE WORLD:

The Shining is playing at the Gene Siskel Film Center for $9/$7 student on Friday, July 22 at 7:45.

WENDY. GIVE ME THE BAT, WENDY.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

Guess what? Guess what? I was walking down the street to get dinner (tacos!!!) and I saw jaymc right there on the very street! In person! It was totally cool.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I've done that a couple times. Back in the hood.

I may be seeing a lot more of all of you if I get this job in Evanston. Meaning that I'll be stopping by and bugging you on the way home to avoid rush hour. And hanging out in the old hood. Having Middle Eastern food and such. Could be ok.

But man, that's going to be some kind of shit commute. It takes me 20 minutes just to get to the red line from here, much less Evanston.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

I'm watching the all-star game.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 23:28 (twenty years ago)

Also, I have tickets for Cubs/Giants on July 27th, day game, and I'm trying to decide if I really want to go. Bleacher seats because I was hoping at the beginning of year to catch a Bonds homerun and then throw it at his head. Doesn't look like that is going to happen though. I hate sitting in the bleachers otherwise, hurts my back.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)

Also, these are the last tickets I have, unless I try to get some more.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)

Like jaymc above, I just read the london explosions thread and am struggling with my composure. Christ.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 00:02 (twenty years ago)

Kenan, how do you get to the red line? Can you get to the purple line instead and go eXXXpress?

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 00:05 (twenty years ago)

Probably the fastest would be Metra, which stops at Davis Street. Bus to the Metra stop, then Metra. But that would cost me almost six dollars each way.

So I guess it's the blue line to the red line, the up. Damn this loop-centric setup.

Not that I have the job, or am even sure I want it.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

the up = then up

My keyboard is old, sticky, and on the floor.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 00:08 (twenty years ago)

But GODDAMNIT, I HAVE A RELIABLE HISH-SPEED INTERNET CONNECTION. It's not all bad.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

And yes, hish speed is quite rapid.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

Wow. That's pricey. Metra must have a monthly pass or something, otherwise how do all these assholes manage to take a hish speed train to work every day?

To get outrageously hypothetical, if you were offered the job and you decided you'd like to take it you could bargain for a Metra pass as one of your benefits.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 00:16 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I could. That's true. "I don't need dental. Gimme a Metra pass instead."

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 00:21 (twenty years ago)

Teeth are overrated.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 00:22 (twenty years ago)

The one time I ran into jaymc on the street it was somewhere random like in Lincoln Park. And I acted weird because I get disconcerted when I unexpectedly run into people I know. So if I ever randomly run into one of you unexpectedly and I act weird, don't take it the wrong way, that's what I always do.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

Once Jeff unexpectedly ran into me and my friend Nora on the train and he got disconcerted and acted weird. And we're married and stuff.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

Down with teeth! I'm going for the Billy C0rgan look (with regards to my teeth only).

Is the All Star game baseball?

We should all wear our ILX thongs to Intonation so we can identify each other.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

kenan, do you know about yourcta.com's trip planner? it's helpful.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

Do you think it's time for a new Chicago thread?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

How to identify a very very rich, white Chicago businessman:
* His face is really more orange than white (due to sun exposure)
* If he's talking as he enters a room, he's not talking to you, but to someone via a tiny cellphone that appears to be implanted in his ear Matrix-stylee
* He refers to the person he is meeting by his/her first name, even if they've never met before. If possible, he'll use a nickname. None of this Mr. so-and-so or full name business.
* To drink he would like coffee (black) or water (bottled)
* The first thing he says to another businessman is that he just fly in that morning or the night before from some exotic location - where he was GOLFING
* Businessman number 2 responds by saying he either goes there all the time and maybe even has a summer home there or was just there a couple of months ago
* He looks like he has makeup on
* If he's balding, he compensates for that by growing the rest of his hair out and pulling it back in a sleek ponytail

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

I going to talk (type) quite a bit today, so watch out.

I'm worried I'm missing summer in Chicago because I'm tired all the time. When I wake up, it will be winter. But I guess maybe I'll wake up for this coming weekend.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

Do you think it's time for a new Chicago thread?

Yeah, 1200 messages is plenty, I think. We don't have to outdo the Dave Matthews thread EVERY TIME.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

I think we should just start calling the threads Chicago 1, Chicago 2, Chicago 3, etc., as an homage to the band.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

And I acted weird because I get disconcerted when I unexpectedly run into people I know.

I'm actually the same way.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

Our Beautiful Machinery: Chicago part 8

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

Holy cats, I didn't realize we were close to 1200 posts already. It's only been three weeks!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

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