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― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

Wow. Now that's a homosexual album cover.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

I love the dude who's hanging on the other dude.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

Notice I didn't use the large image this time.

Pray away the gay.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

I was up until 4:30 a.m. mixing last night/this morning, and then I was woken up at 6:30 by a thunderstorm and a possessed cat.

I slept from 6:15 am to 8:00 am. What do I win?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

Is that guy in the middle wearing a shirt made out of a quilt?

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

I slept exactly 8 hours, then I woke up and drank espresso. AWAKE.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

what were you doing up so late, jaymc? you win a prize when you tell us.

the truth.

i slept for 7.5 hours, as usual.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

I slept from 6:15 am to 8:00 am. What do I win?

I will buy you a coffee the next time I see you.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

I'm looking forward to hearing bits of the new album this weekend, jaymc.

I'm listening to it at work right now! Unfortunately, mastering had to be pushed back a week, so you'll hear the unmastered versions of the songs. I still think they sound good, though. But as Matt said the other day, mastering is basically just like pressing a big "BETTER" button.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

I sort of had a rough night, not worth really going into, except I got drunk, got into a fight with someone close to me and then didn't really feel like going to sleep. I do this to myself too often, though. Not the drunk/fight part, but staying up until unreasonable hours on a weeknight.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

Tomorrow I have to rent a car and drive to Manitowoc, WI for a boat show. Three hours each way. I rented the mid-size with the CD player, of course. I'm way more excited about the driving than I am the boat show. Maybe I'll stop in Milwaukee for lunch.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

You should buy a boat, you know, on a whim.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

Listening to the album right now is kind of interesting, because there are new lyrics on like five songs that I'm hearing for the first time.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

It would be funny if all the songs were about you, vaguely hidden but not very well. "Oh you had a lovely beard, until you shaved it off, you are so hot playing keyboard over there..."

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

I toyed with the idea of growing a winter beard the other day, but then realized that I was just too lazy to shave. It happens like that. First I grow a beard, and before you know it, I haven't taken out the trash in a week.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

(xpost) Haha.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

Kenan, that Klosterman piece is indeed awesome, I may have to read the book.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

I have an extra copy of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, if either of you want it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

I keep getting random songs stuck in my head this morning. Most recently it was a combo of My milkshake's got all the boys in the yard and It's all about the he-said, she-said BULLshit!. Let me tell you, they don't mix together very well, even in my head.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

that's weird -- whenever i hear the mister rogers theme song it always ALWAYS segues into "hey jude" at the end where he says "won't you be my neighbor, neighbor NEIGHBOR NEIGHBOR AAAAAAAAAGGGGGGH"

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

I have an extra copy of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, if either of you want it.

I got mine right here. Give it to Jordan.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

Sweet! I'll trade you a mix cd for it if you want.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

Sure!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

Is that your real e-mail?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

Do any of you own City of the Century? We watched the first disc via netflix and will probably get the second one tomorrow, but I told myself I'd cancel netflix then, which would leave the 3rd disc...

I loved the espresso this morning! And I'm so glad we're using our espresso maker because I have 6 tiny cups for it I never get to use. When my mom and Hev come to visit, I'm going to ask Nick to make it again so we can at least use 4 of the cups at once.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, it's my real e-mail, J.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

City of the Century is pretty readily available as a video rental. Isn't it fun? I love those DVDs. I've seen them twice and now I am a bottomless pit of Chicago trivia.

I'm feeling kind of confrontational, today. I am definitely not getting enough sleep and it's now catching up to me in the form of...

TOTAL BITCHINESS. And also hypersensitivity. Yeah! I am FUN TO BE WITH!

I think I'll go pick some fights on the internet.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

That was what I was like yesterday, pulla, but there is hope for you because I'm in an almost annoyingly fantastic mood today.

I guess I could probably check out the last CotC at Cockthruster or something. I don't think they have it at my local place (n0rthc0ast).

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

pulla! Tee hee.

Specialty Video has it, but I don't know if there is one of those around where you live.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

Cockthruster?!?!?!

...

Oh wait, I get it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

Today is one of the rare days that I leave iTunes running for all to hear (quietly). I just stepped out of the room for two minutes, and when I came back "Get Me Off" by Basement Jaxx was halfway done playing. I think I turned purple. I pray no one noticed.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

"Get Me Off"
[heavy breathing]
Give your body to me
Give your body to me
Let your body be free, free
Your body, your body with me
[continuing heavy breathing]
Give your body to me
Give your body to me
Let your body be free, free
Your body, your body with me
I want to undress you
Wanna caress you, (wanna caress you)
Don`t wanna be coy [barely audible] (coy hoy)
It's time to get me off
I want to undress you
Wanna caress you, (wanna caress you)
Don`t wanna be coy [softly] (coy hoy)
It's time to get me off
Come on baby, thrust me, trust me, get me off
You're my poison and I cannot get enough
Come on baby, thrust me, trust me, get me off
You're my poison and I cannot get enough
Get me off
Get me off (get me off!)
Get me off (games, games) (get me off!)
Get me off (get me off!)
Get me off
Get me off (get me off!)
You got to get me off!
Give your body to me
Give your body to me
Let your body be free, free
Your body, your body with me
Give your body to me
Give your body to me
Let your body be free, free
Your body, your body with me
I want to undress you
Wanna caress you, (wanna caress you)
Don`t wanna be coy [normal volume] (coy hoy)
It's time to get me off
I want to undress you
Wanna caress you, (wanna caress you)
Don`t wanna be coy
It's time to get me off
Come on baby, thrust me, trust me, get me off
You're my poison and I cannot get enough (take it)
Come on baby, thrust me, trust me, get me off
You're my poison and I cannot get enough
(take-take it, take it)
[louder] (take-take it, take it)
(get me off, so good)
[heavy breathing]
Give your body to me
Give your body to me
Let your body be free, free
Your body, your body with me
The music's pumpin and I wish you'd do the same to me
I (come on, you know you can do it, you know you wanna do it)
You`re so freaky, treat me, make me come
Oh baby baby please (give your body to me)
You got to get me off
([male] get me off)

It's time to get me off
[heavy breathing]

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

I like how the lyrics show where the heavy breathing comes in.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

baked goods!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

Speaking of music, baked goods, and racy lyrics, the title to this thread has put "Hot Freaks" by Guided by Voices in my head.

I met a nondairy creamer she was exclusively laid out just like a fruit cake with a wet spot bigger than a great lake she took me to the new church and baptized me with salt she told me LIQUOR I am a new man. HOT STREETS!

(But really, HOT FREAKS!)

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

hoooooooooooooooooooooot STREETS!

this one is on the house.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

this one is better than ever.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

I have a sudden urge to get really drunk.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

Oh no wait, that's just my normal urge.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

And I thought I was sleep-deprived!

I was trying to figure out how to get out of an unofficial department lunch today, because I'm too tired to make awkward conversation among co-workers, but then realized that it was rescheduled for NEXT WEEK. Hooray!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

Nick - Check it out - One of the fliers you made back in richmond is on gigposters:
http://www.gigposters.com/posters.php?poster=46083#
complete with comments!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

That's pretty dope. I just looked up Canasta, and lo and behold, the one poster they have is for our show this week:

http://www.gigposters.com/posters/51007.gif

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

OH WOW! That's like one of my favorite fliers I ever made, and it was for one of the WORST SHOWS EVER. I set it up myself, at this restaurant that was just starting to have shows, and was excited because it was my band, Sarah's band, and our friend PJ's band, but the bartender and waitress just kept yelling at us to turn down. It was horrible.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

It's a pretty sweet flyer, too.

http://www.gigposters.com/posters/46083.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

"Flyer"? "Flier"? I never know.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

Here's another cool old flier of mine. Someone else colored it in and blacked in the tooth though.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

I'm assuming that show sucked too, since it was at Nanci Raygun. God, Richmond shows all sucked pretty much.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

I wonder why the FF flier I submitted to gigposters never got posted.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

flier - poster advertising something
flyer - thing that flies.

Fleer - manufacturer of balls (?)
fleur - flower
flayer - someone who flays, see: J. Dahmer

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

Today is awesome. My boss didn't get in until 11, was on a phone meeting until 11:30, and then left for a business lunch at noon. Yeah. I have done nothing at all today.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

Time for an encyclopedia entry, Amanda.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

Fleer is/was also a baseball card brand, although they were never that popular. Not like Topps or even Donruss.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

I can't see the Canasta flier, even if I go through gigposters.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

Hey look, the first of Maddie's wine columns has gone up here. I like it (please ignore the not-so-great web design and the fact that the thing obviously used to be a wrestling site)!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

I was feeling ashamed for not knowing that "flier" was correct (in the same way I felt ashamed for trying to advance to second on that ground-out in the 9th inning the other day), but then just looked it up in Webster's 11th:

flier also flyer \'fli(-e)r\ n (15c) 1 : one that flies; specif : AIRMAN 2 : a reckless or speculative venture -- usu. used in the phrase take a flier 3 usu flyer : an advertising circular

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

Also curious: "flied" is only acceptable as the past tense for "fly" in the baseball context "flied out," as in "Neifi Perez flied out to the center-fielder for the second time today."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

I can't see the Canasta flier, even if I go through gigposters.

That's weird. It shows up just fine on this thread for me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

xpost - right! baseball cards! not balls. i knew it was close, but not right.

also, stop feeling ashamed, jaymc! it's a waste of time. maybe i should be more ashamed than i am. who knows. i'm certainly wrong a lot.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

My shame is half in jest.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

only half?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

There are some things I feel like I should know, however, like spelling and baseball rules. Also, I watched Jeopardy! with my dad a couple weeks ago and I got frustrated because I didn't get very many right. (Don't tell Hstencil: we have a long-standing bet on Trivial Pursuit that's yet to be tested.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

i'm embarrassed for being so grammatically flip when i'm supposed to be a professional at that sort of thing. that merits a droplet or two of real, honest shame.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

I can be very cavalier about my ignorance of things like personal finance and cars and tools and current television shows, and previously I'd have said, well yeah, the difference is that I don't care about those things, but I wonder if that specific flippant tone I use is really just masking an insecurity, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

Like: "See, I don't know anything about cars, BECAUSE I DON'T CARE, not because I'm not smart enough." This is kind of my approach to all of my lawyerly friends explaining incomprehensible legal stuff to me: "WHATEVER, SOUNDS BORING."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

The "things i should really know but don't" was the reason i started the encyclopedia. the middle ages? i know NOTHING about the middle ages except for i think that's when the Smurfs were roaming the forest and men wore a lot of grey. Druids? They were like monsters, but they were people. I don't know anything about anything.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

Francisco Pizarro. We learned all about him in school year after year. What do I know about him now? NOTHING. He conquered places and peoples. He had a large boat and probably wore a cape and knee socks. He probably also had long curly hair.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

One thing I do know, however, is how to do phonetic and phonemic transcription using the IPA. That has to count for something.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 18 August 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

Things I know enough about to bore Amanda and John to tears if I sensed the slightest interest and conversational opening:

1. The middle ages
2. Law

xpost: To me that counts for everything.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 18 August 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

You know about the Middle Ages? We have lots of talking to do. Is that when fairy tales came about? Did women all have long hair and wear cone hats? Did you work at a ren faire restaurant like Tim Treadwell?

Seriously though, I'm interested. Tell me something.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 18 August 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

My work is hell. HELL. At least I'll be earning my money.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 18 August 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

Uh-oh! Do tell! Will it be hell-like forever or will it get better when it's not your first week?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 18 August 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

Fake Fictions got a little blip of a mention in the Chicago Reader that came out today, for our show at the Hideout next week. The bands we're opening for got a lot of coverage, so that's cool, maybe some people will show up.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 18 August 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

My friend is going to study Medieval Studies in grad school. She's told me all about DaneLaw and the Elvish derivations of Welsh words or whatever and once I found her sunbathing while reading Beowulf. That's pretty much all I know about it.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 18 August 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

jocelyn, your friend sounds sexy! i meant to ask -- did you have a pleasant/fun birthday? how's the quarter century so far?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 18 August 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

thunder in the south loop!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 18 August 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

haha!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 August 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

ooh more!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 August 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

Oh man, I am crashing.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 August 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

jaymc - it sounds like someone's tickling you.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 18 August 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

Medieval (or, if you are the Don Q Inn "mid-evil") randomness for Amanda: Well, let's see, Henry VII broke with the Catholic church and started what is now the Church of England just so he could divorce his first wife (Catherine of Aragon and mother of "Bloody" Mary) and marry his second (Anne Boleyn, mother of Queen Elizabeth I), whom he eventually had beheaded for, among other things, witchcraft.

Toward the end of his reign, Ivan the Terrible, first tsar and autocrat of all Russia, begged Elizabeth I to let him move to England and live at her court but she snubbed him because Russians were pretty weird back then. For example, fashionable Russians during the time of Ivan the Terrible would blacken their teeth because big, white teeth were only for "blackamoors and monkeys." Oh also, female Russian nobles had a lifetime of being literally locked up in a few rooms to look forward to, starting right before puberty when they were put away to avoid teasing the boys up through marriage (which involved the women being symbolically beaten with sticks by her new husband) when they are taken out only for fucking, until death.

The pointy hats were part of 15th century fashion insanity (along with the two-horned hats) popularized by Mary of Burgundy and so were part of a fashion trend known as "Bergundian." Here is Mary herself sporting the pointy hat look.

However, the Burgundian period of fashion insanity had nothing on the even more insane Elizabethan period, which is often characterized by men wearing amusing puffy shorts and giant lace collars the size of serving platters.

xpost to Jeff: I'm sorry your day is hell! Call me on your lunch break!

xpost to Jocelyn: Your friend does sound sexy and very impressive. I am more of a late middle ages into the Renaissance gal. It's a lot easier.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 18 August 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

jenny recommend some good general entertaining medieval history books please. Not heavy history, light and trivial.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 18 August 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

jenny, you are truly the best. i want to know all of the most appalling things, like did they lock up their children and scrub their skin off with wire brushes? Stuff like that.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 18 August 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

wait if i was being tickled, why would i say "ooh more!"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 August 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

because you LOVE IT

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 18 August 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

oh do i now?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 August 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

that's what i heard

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 18 August 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

Nick: I like Alison Weir for Tudor and Elizabethan England. Henri Troyat and Robert K Massie are good for Russian history. I know I have a few more at the house that I can't remember. I've mostly read about Russia and England, but am moving on to France next and will let you know if I like any of what I end up reading.

I don't find any of those books particularly heavy but they might be kind of dry to someone who isn't really interested in the subject (I say that so if you read them and hate them you won't hold it against me, and also because I'm afraid you'll read them and find out how very boring I am inside). For something really trivial and light, historical fiction isn't too bad. Phillipa Gregory has some occasionally woefully inaccurate but extremely entertaining books about Elizabethan England, including The Other Boleyn Girl and The Queen's Fool.

Similarly, I would like recommendations for books on the early middle ages, 10th - 13th century. All I've got on that period is vague recollections from undergrad midieval history and lit classes.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 18 August 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

sorry ... ahem ... i had to scamper off to another thread.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

Holy shit, I meant Henry VIII, not Henry VII. Sheesh.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

Work is hell because of the call volume, and I'm not even having to solve problems yet, I'm just listening in. I still need more training though.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure that once you get used to it and are all trained up and know what's going on it will be a lot easier. Probably not stress-free, but maybe kind of exciting! When I did phone customer service stuff, the good thing about being really busy was that time at work would just fly by. It was rather exhausting, though.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

You all talk about such funny things! You should read yourselves!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

Funny ha ha or funny strange?

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

i just read the excelsior thread and almost peed myself when i read the one where someone was asking for "maneater, by the band haulin' oats."

that's an eggcorn! see more here: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

jeff- i don't play tennis, but dan does. he's looking for someone to play with in a non-serious semi-regular fashion. i am not that person. are you that person?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

In Jeff's absence I will be so bold as to say: he is probably that person. Jeff's been looking for a tennis partner since we moved here. And I am definitely not that person.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

We should arrange a play date.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

I want to leave work now, but I have an hour and a half left. I really shouldn't complain because I've hardly had to do ANYTHING at all this afternoon, but the rain has stopped and it looks pretty outside.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 18 August 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

yes, I'm game. I hope he likes losing. OH SNAP.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 18 August 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

I want to play RACQUETBALL with someone, even though I'm horrible.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 August 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

(I'd rather play air hockey though)

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 August 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

this lady just emailed me some photos to use for their ad and one of them is labeled "sexterior"

ha.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 18 August 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

I love raquetball, but haven't played it since college.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

Sexcellent, Amanda.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

Two times on the racquetball. Know a place to play in town that isn't prohibitively expensive?

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 18 August 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

Aw fuck, I'm working late tonight. And there are tornado warnings.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

I just got a company-wide e-mail reading "Take cover. Now." !!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

Tornadoes are always anti-climactic.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

Hey Fake Fictions, have you ever thought about doing the Ramones thing and going by Nick Fiction and Sarah Fiction? It seems like that was the hot thing to do in Milwaukee for awhile.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:38 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm, it's kinda nice having Chicago all to myself.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

I'm at work, too, Jordan. You're not alone.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

Actually, I'm doing the most boring work I could possibly be doing. I'm waiting for things to print. Takes forever, but you can't walk away from it.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

Yep. That's what Maddie's doing right now as well, waiting for a huge document to print. She was going to drive it to the airport so it could ship to a potential customer in time, but you know, tornadoes.

Hey, wait, so your computer is right by the printer? That's not so bad.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

Well, it's bad trying to print a full-color proof of a magazine on an HP inkjet. Cheap bastard won't buy a real laser printer.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

Printers are lame.

I think I'm beginning to truly hate computers. I have to work with them all day, and now I want to throw my home laptop against the wall because it's suddenly fraught with firewall and spyware issues that I can't seem to shake.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

Tornadoes are always anti-climactic.

Jeff's house blew down around him when he was 19 or 20. He was in the closet!

I had an interview for a scholarship (Jeff has a job now so I probably didn't get it but that's okay) at the D4ley C3nter. Because I am foolish, I completely forgot that the DC is a courthouse (despite my interview being held in a judge's chambers) and showed up 20 minutes early with my backpack, which contained... and a Leatherman tool! So I tried to go check it but the "dangerous item check" was closing and wouldn't take any more dangerous items! The security guard told me to hide it, but that seemed way shadier than I wanted to be moments before I had to pitch a case for my commitment to social justice and financial need to some judges, so I went outside and gave it to some dude because throwing it away was just so very wrong.

Farewell, Leatherman Tool. You've been with me for nearly ten years, across this great country three or four times, and at one point were my only kitchen implement besides an old frying pan and some stolen plastic forks. I hope that random dude uses you in good health.

Then I had to walk blocks and blocks to an attorneys office in my blister-making interview shoes only to find that the worker I was supposed to be supporting didn't show up. YARG!

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 August 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)

Jesus did anything I just posted make any sense? I need some serious sleep.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 August 2005 00:21 (twenty years ago)

I think you insinuated that your husband is gay, but other than that...

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 August 2005 00:26 (twenty years ago)

I was in the closet! I wish I had my terrorism survival kit at the time.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 19 August 2005 01:08 (twenty years ago)

Speaking of closets, Kanye West is now an Official Friend of Teh Gays as reported by my favorite blog D-Listed.

Also, who said Carrot Top was her BONE OR BARF boy? Because, um, EW.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 August 2005 01:34 (twenty years ago)

The magazine is finished. I just got home. I have to go to two boat shows tomorrow. Another 12 hour day, at least. And my boss, who promised me vacation pay yesterday, spent the whole day today slowly and slyly renegging on the deal, adding more hours to my work week next week, until it became clear that he does not intend to pay me for one minute that I am not in the office. This is on my one-year anniversary of having worked there. I do not get vacation time at this job. That's just the way it is.

*sigh*

Wish me luck. I have to get up at 7 and drive for three hours each way.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 19 August 2005 01:52 (twenty years ago)

Kenan, that Klosterman piece is indeed awesome, I may have to read the book.

It's having kind of a funny effect on me. The more I read, the more I become convinced that Klosterman is a close spiritual cousin of mine. (Please forgive the dumb sentimentality between the lines of that statement -- it's very late.) He writes about playing the Sims, and his reaction to it as a a game and as art, rejecting the former proposition but accepting the latter. Yeah, me too. And I don't play video games, either. And then a long missive on watching "The Real World," which is much more interesting than it sounds, and cites Roger Ebert at one point. And then -- gasp! -- an essay appreciating Billy Joel.

His words: "He's not great because he's uncool, nor is he great because he 'doesn't worry about being cool' (because I think he kind of does). No, he's great in the way that your dead grandfather is great. Because unlike 99 percent of pop artists, there is absolutely no relationship between Joel's greatness and Joel's coolness."

My words, from an ILX thread that this essay inspired me to look up and that I was surprised to find that I had posted on, way back in '03: "At leat Billy Joel doesn't distance himself from his material -- he always honestly comes off as exactly the schlub that he is."

And then I thought of karaoke night, and how my first introduction to Jordan was my earnestly singing "Vienna" in his face, much to his and everyone else's bafflement. "What's he singing?" Jordan said to someone. No one knew. You people don't deserve the seventies.

And while I will never share Klosterman's love of Kiss -- in fact, I think they're real shit -- I can't think of any of my friends who get Van Halen the same way I do. Chuck gets it completely.

But none of this is to mention the writing, which is sloppy at times, but always insightful, or at the very least thought-provoking. Dude can write. I'm only on page 93, but I already prefer this book to Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung. That's high praise.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 19 August 2005 04:54 (twenty years ago)

I already prefer this book to Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung

I should qualify this. Bangs is a much better writer, but somehow a missive on the shittiness of James Taylor is not as close to my heart as a rant about how crap Coldplay is.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 19 August 2005 05:23 (twenty years ago)

But Coldplay is good.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 August 2005 12:21 (twenty years ago)

Okay, sorry, that was bait!

I like several Coldplay songs quite a bit, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 August 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

Coldplay is yellow!

It's Friday! It's Friday! la la la la la
It's Friday! It's Friday! la la la la la

It's so gorgeous outside.
40 year old virgin comes out tonight.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 19 August 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

Good morning everyone!

1. I realized last night that Tim Treadwell reminds me of John Denver.

2. I had a dream last night that Kenan was David Copperfield (the character, not the magician) and it seemed oddly accurate. He's the most picaresque among us, I guess? Is that the right word?

3. I'm wearing this horrible outfit today that makes me feel like a 13 year old boy. I also bear a resemblance to the 40 Year Old Virgin.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 August 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

lalalalalala!
I watched Buckaroo Banzai last night and I forgot how bizarre it is.
There was a giant fire at 2:30 in the morning in town and one of my favorite restaurants was involved. I hope that the owners can recover, as they are really lovely people. I drove by on the way to work and it looked like Stalingrad in 1944.
xxxpost-I really like the Alison Weir books too, Jenny, esp. her one on Richard III and the princes in the tower. I haven't read them in a long time. I read a really interesting book in college called "The Ties that Bind" about the misconceptions we have about the medieval British people's attutude toward children. (MYTHS: That they considered children miniature adults, that they physically punished them a lot,that they weren't affected by grief since death was so common)
I had a dream last night that I was being harrassed by Gaza strip settlers (outside the local Catholic church) and one of them was Jordan but he was actually a spy for the Cindy Sheehan people.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 19 August 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

Haha!

Fires and Jews...that's ironic, because this morning Maddie was talking about Nazi tornadoes.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 August 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

Did everyone catch up on his/her sleep?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 August 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, I slept like a rock. 10:30 - 7:30, it was great.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 August 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

Psst...I uploaded one of the new mixes so the other guys in my band could put their two cents in, you guys can check it out if you'd like. Any thoughts you might have on the mix are welcome (and any thoughts on rushed fills, etc. are not). It's I'll Be There.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 August 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

My pants were too tight this morning. What a depressing way to start the day. At least it's friday, and I got PAID today. My first real check in a year. It's good to be going up.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 19 August 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

Can't listen to music at work, sorry.

I bought the Weir book on Henry VIII last night at Myopic, but it might be a while before I read it because I went on a book shopping spree: In addition to the Weir book, I got "Ways of Seeing" by John Berger, "The Cold Six Thousand" by James Ellroy, and "At Swim Two Birds" by Flann O'Brien. Plus I had another book ("The Dictionary of the Kazars"?) which I bought before that I still need to read.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 19 August 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

What's a nazi tornado?
I got The Historian from work, which is all about Vlad the Impaler.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 19 August 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

Nick, Check your email. Also, look at the FF photo page please. When I pull it up, it shows ben playing drums on top of every pic but he says it's fine on his computer...?

Kenan, He at least pays for the rental car(s), right? Are you going to be around this weekend or will you be at boat shows?

So is anyone coming to our house Sunday afternoon?

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 19 August 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

I listened to it Jordan -- it sounds good to me! I don't know nothing about nothing, but I liked it. It was a nice way to start this loverly day!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 August 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

I'm not sure, Jocelyn, but I believe they're very small and hide behind doors.

(I don't think jokes made before 8:00 am translate to the post-coffee world)

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 August 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

Also, look at the FF photo page please. When I pull it up, it shows ben playing drums on top of every pic but he says it's fine on his computer...?

Maybe he means that yes, it's him in every pic, but that's fine.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 August 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

Sarah -- despite my efforts to find out what's happening this weekend, I'm still totally unsure. Dan and I are thinking of painting the bedroom, but that might require more dedication than either of us can muster. I want to get some projects done before school starts again though. More than anything, I want to have fun before school starts. I've been having a lot of fun lately though, so maybe I should be happy with what I have. So count us as a maybe for Sunday afternoon.

Has anyone ever played Fireball Island? It's pretty fun. Semi-violent board game that involves eruptions and marbles and killing your opponents over and over and over again. If we come, I could bring it?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 August 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

You guys play a lot of games.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 19 August 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

I know. It's pretty nerdy, I admit. I haven't even told you about the other games we have. They're WAY nerdier.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 August 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

Do tell. The only games we have are scrabble and trival pursuit. And we never play them, because we're always doing works on computers.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 19 August 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

Well, if you must know. We like to play a series of German games that involve building your own personal empire by laying tiles that build castles, roads, rivers, farms, etc. It's the Carcassonne series. We also play cutthroat cribbage. It's nice to have something to do that involves two (or more people), their brains and no screens or electronics of any sort. We took it to Montana on vacation and it came in handy.

I was skeptical at first, but now I'm completely won over.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, I slept like a rock. 10:30 - 7:30, it was great.

8:30 - 7:30. What do I win?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

Sarah -- despite my efforts to find out what's happening this weekend, I'm still totally unsure.

*cough*

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

Man, 11 hours of sleep is great! I feel so alive!!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

I'm glad!

I was sour puss for about an hour because I found out I won't get reviewed at work until I've been here a year, but then I decided - with Nick's help - to just get over it. It's Friday.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

I got The Historian from work, which is all about Vlad the Impaler.

I have a book on him that seemed to be highly regarded on Amazon and I couldn't finish it. I kept having to re-read passages four or five times to actually get what I was reading. I really wanted to read it because it gave a lot of Eastern European/Holy Roman Empire history and I'm sketchy on that.

How is The Historian? Perhaps I will read that instead.

I caught up on sleep! Eight blissful hours. And Sarah, as long as I work hard tonight, I think I will finish my paper and then I'll only have one reading assignment left so it looks good for coming over on Sunday.

And I could definitely use a beer.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

We like to play a series of German games that involve building your own personal empire by laying tiles that build castles, roads, rivers, farms, etc.

Are you talking about Settlers of Cataan?

Jaymc, I now retract the coffee I was going to buy you.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

Have any of you played North American Rails, or any of the other Rails games?

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

OH and I really want to play cribbage. I've only played once but it was a ton of fun.

Does anyone here know how to play pinochle? Jeff and I are rusty, but I think we could remember how to play pretty quickly. Also, I have a book.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

I think The Historian is more in da Da Vinci code vein, but I wanted something thrilling yet not too dense.
Settlers of Cataan is fun! My friend Monica really likes it. She is currently developing a strategy game based on the fall of the Roman republic, and I told her I would be a tester. I found this game in my mom's basement the other day as I am helping her prepare for a garage sale wherein you build massive pipe systems and then you can put "leaks" in your opponents system, and then fix them with little metal wrenches.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

Jordan - It's not Settlers of Cataan -- it's Carcassonne. Look at boardgamegeek.com for more exciting, nerdy information. I like it because it only requires 2 players. There aren't a whole lot of games that 1) are fun and 2) only require 2 players. Well, I mean, like board games. Heh.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

Jaymc, I now retract the coffee I was going to buy you.

I just like the idea of being aggressively competitive about sleep.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

There's been a lot of Trivial Pursuit going on at our house lately, replacing our default game of Scrabble. When we played TP, I used to always win, but lately it's been evening out, so either I'm getting dumber or Sarah's getting smarter or both.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

I've decided I need to have people over more often.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

I like board games way too much, although I never play them (mostly because Maddie hates to lose and ends up throwing the pieces at me). We both love Settlers though, the online version is great. I'll check out Carcassonne.

Jaymc, maybe you should start a Sleep League.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

We will go eat Ethiopian food someday, then hang out at your pad.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

I also like the idea of reincorporating jokes 24 hours later. Ho ho! I wish I still did improv.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

I want to join the sleep league. I think I have Gold Medal Sleep Championship potential. I have demonstrated great sleepleticism my whole life.

Sleep and beer are two of this life's greatest things. Sex and burritos are pretty good, too.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

Also, Kenan needs to have a party.

I would like to nominate coffee and second beer - uppers and downers! woo hoo!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

I want to learn how to play skat.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

Sex > beer + burritos > sleep = the proper way to run an evening

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

jordan has the order right.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

Vary from that order and I'm not responsible for the consequences.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

All you relationship motherfuckers can suck it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

Isn't skatting what the jazz cats/daddies do?

scoopidee bop bop dowee dowee dobee do - SCRIBBITY BOPBOP!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

Jaymc, you can still have sex without being in a relationship! Also, you can still have burritos!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skat

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

I know, Sarah, but not easily! (Re sex not burritos.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

You can also be in a relationship and not have sex! Like, when you both work 50-60 hr weeks!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

Sleepleticism is not my forte. I sleep lightly, but regularly.

Jaymc - having people over is better than going out because you never need to GO anywhere! We have the liability of having two dogs, so not everyone wants to come to our place. :(

I just remembered part of my dream!! I met Amateurist! It was midnight and I walked into this church and he was about to give a speech and he saw me and (although he has never acknowledged my presence in real life or the dream) he told me to join him in the pulpit to read this sad goodbye letter. Then he cried and said that he was sorry to have to go, but that it was something he had to do, like the Von Trapps.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

I read that as sex is greater than beer + burritos is greater than sleep. I don't know, I would rate sex above beer, burritos and sleep, but not beer and burritos abouve sleep. I'm old.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

There were some people at this party earlier this year who were REALLY into card games and were even inventing one! I think jaymc knows them. I've forgotten their names because I'm a biiooootttccchhhh.

B-but you're in a band, jaymc! Work that angle!

If > signifies priorities, then...
For me:
sleep > sex > beer > burritos

I'm not really big on burritos though. They always taste good for a few bites and then gross me out.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

I originally meant ">" to designate order, but I think my post holds for priorities as well. I'm kinda picky about burritos though, and I do love sleep.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

I think jaymc knows them.

Oh yeah, that's Aaron. And his girlfriend Sarah. But Aaron is the one who was inventing the game. He's also how everyone knows Badresa, because they went to high school together.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

I rate sex way way way above burritos, beer OR sleep. Geez. Burritos? What's so great about burritos? Now, start talking about mangos and I'm in for the argument.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

B-but you're in a band, jaymc! Work that angle!

I tried this when we played Schubas last month, but she wouldn't even accept a ride home from me!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

I obv. rate sex above sleep because, well ... never mind.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

Although wait, what do we mean when we say sex?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

Jaymc, my friend in Brooklyn thinks you're cuuuute. She saw the kickball photos. She has a masters in phenomenological psychology.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

Oooh! I like phenomenological criticism, does that count? Even if it's a term I've made up?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

I would suck at a sleep league, since I pretty much always sleep exactly 8 hours. Do I get points for accuracy?

If anyone else is still looking for a job, might I recommend www.indeed.com? It's a search engine for jobs, and it searches Monster, Craigslist, all those sites, all at once. It's awesome. I just applied for three jobs.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

Although wait, what do we mean when we say sex?

Well, when two people love each other very much...

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

xpost - Yes, that counts.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

Ha, Jenny. I'm not drunk enough to clarify what I mean.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

I have magic sleepy pills. I still only get around 6 hours a night.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

I'd like to start going to the gym in the morning. But I'd have to get up at 5:30

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

YOU FUCKERS YOU:

WE NEED YES OR NO ANSWERS FOR IF PEOPLE ARE COMING TO OUR HOUSE OR NOT ON SUNDAY, SO WE CAN KNOW WHETHER TO BOTHER CLEANING THE FUCKING HOUSE OR NOT. SO FAR WE HAVE:

Jenny: Maybe, leaning towards yes

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

IF YOU CAN'T/DON'T WANT TO COME, JUST SAY SO, NO HARD FEELINGS DUDES.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

I can't. (again)

― dan m (OutDatWay), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

I would like to come -- I don't know if we're going to be painting the bedroom or not. Leaning toward no, but not for lack of wanting to visit.

I suggest we get to planning Sarah's birthday party -- that will give me a date to look forward to.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

YES NICK YES.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

Yes Nick yes I said yes

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

You should clean anyway, JUST IN CASE.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

why does chicago ilx get all yessed out

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

as you already probably know, i wish i could!

settlers of catan is great. i play on jsettlers lately, but there was this other great site that i was playing on (though it's mostly bots rather than people), that was much less buggy. it's down now though.

i'm told i need to learn to play carcassone, which i'm probably misspelling. the only game i actually have is scrabble though. a friend of mine is buying blokus at gencon this weekend, which seems like it would be an interesting game to play in person, i just play it obsessively online.

yay board game geekery.

― juliaaa, Friday, 19 August 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

is it true jaymc got sonned by a wite kid after an ilx beef?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

but there was this other great site that i was playing on (though it's mostly bots rather than people), that was much less buggy. it's down now though.

Do you mean that university server that it started on? I played on that ALL THE TIME in college, but I haven't played Settlers in over a year. Only when I googled for it today did I find that new site and see that the only one is down (the dude had to graduate eventually, I guess).

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

Sarah - don't you want to plan your birthday party? Let's start by choosing a date. Before or after the actual birth-date? (9/6 is on a Tuesday)

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

It would have to be after because her dad is visiting before and during.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

ok, so the weekend of the 10th? does that sound good? are we bowling? house party? renaissance party? vlad the impaler party?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

LETS HAVE A RENAISSANCE FAIRE. I'll roast a stuck pig!

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

Well, I will have family visiting 8/25 thru 8/29. Then my dad comes to visit 9/2 thru 9/7. So I guess after it is!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

My very first gig at age 14 was at a pig roast.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

this might be a good time to attempt to book the delilah's party room?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

THERE WILL BE NO PIGGIE ROASTING AT MY PARTY. Also, no pig neck-slicing like in the City of the Century disc 1 - even if it is Chicago-riffic.

I seriously doubt I could gather up 50 people to come to my party (with regards to Delilah's), especially on short notice.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

LETS HAVE A RENAISSANCE FAIRE.

HUZZAH! We can have a tofu roast!

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

I grilled some mean tofu last weekend! And I still can't stop talking about it!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

Hot Streets!

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

Maybe we should wait until winter for a ren-fair so we can all dress in velvets.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

I don't even know you people.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

Cool treats!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

Seriously, first it's weirdo world-takeover RPGs and now it's ren-faire garb. No thanks. I'll be on the Noise Board if you need me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

I have been to a ren faire. I have been to a sci fi convention, too.

The ren faire was a little more fun because I got a giant turkey leg, although at the sci fi convention, somebody in a kingon suit actually asked me how I felt about interspecies dating. AND I AM NOT MAKING THAT UP.

I have a pretty gold dress that would work as a ren faire outfit, too! HUZZAH, jaymc! HUmotherfuckingZZAH!

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

I have been to geeky conventions, obviously.

One of my friends got laid at Ren Fair. She had sex with the dude at the knife-throwing booth out in some field, on his cape (this was like ten years ago).

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

SEE JOHN???

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

I'm not here anymore.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

Snobbery is punishable by public shaming in Renaissance times, Jaymc.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

(Meaning us showing up at your show dressed head to toe in Ren Faire gear and shouting your name between every song.)

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

haha

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

"Hark! Harmonious, exquisite music from our master's own, dear hands!"

"Play it, Lord John!"

Then one of us will faint. Probably Jeff.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

I hate you so much.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

;-)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

(curtsies)

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

Holy crap. I just can't keep up.

...I just skimmed through and saw Settlers mentioned. YES. My roommates and I are crazy for Settlers (Cities and Knights, especially). 4-5 games a week.

Also, Hot Doug's: OMFG.

― giboyeux (skowly), Friday, 19 August 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

I have yet to go to Hot Doug's. I hear they have veggie dogs.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 19 August 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

They do! I just went for the first time...well, my co-worker picked it up.

I had a Chicago dog and a Wild Boar Dog w/3 pepper jelly and goat cheese.

!!!

― giboyeux (skowly), Friday, 19 August 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

Crazy!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 19 August 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

OMG

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 August 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

I mean, wow. I must go to this joint immediately.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 August 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

I appreciate that they have veggie dogs, but they're no better than any of the veggie dogs on the market.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 August 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

Specials today at Hot Dougs:

The Game of the Week
Cognac-Infused Smoked Pheasant Sausage with Raspberry Mustard Cream and White Truffle Cheese
$7.00

The Mike The Intern (Today's Celebrity Sausage)
Quarter-Pound Jumbo Hot Dog with Cincinnati Skyline Chili and Shredded Sharp Cheddar Cheese
$4.50

Other Specials
Artichoke and Kalamata Olive Chicken Sausage with Artichoke Tzatziki and Feta Cheese
$6.00

Veggie Corn Dog
$2.00

Three-Chili Wild Boar Sausage with Hot Pepper Jam and Goat Cheese
$5.75

Hot Doug's Hamburger Sausage with Chipotle Ketchup, Caramelized Onions and Quattro Formaggio
$5.00

Mushroom and Asiago Chicken Sausage with Porcini Dijonnaise and Toma Piemontese
$6.00

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 August 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

(That's in addition to the usual hot dogs, brats, sausages, etc.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 August 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

Yes, yes you must go. Next time you come to Chicago we can go.

The cook their french fries in duck fat. Duck fat! That's like something they would do at a RENAISSANCE FAIRE!

xpost: I wonder if their veggie corn dogs are the kind that you can get in a green box at the grocery store.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 August 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

that pheasant one sounds so tasty. Wild Boar Dog!
I had wild boar at a hungarian restaurant once and it was gooood.
I think getting laid is the reason a lot of people go to renfairs. And Gaming conventions.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 19 August 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

I wonder if their veggie corn dogs are the kind that you can get in a green box at the grocery store.

i.e., the kind that are currently sitting in my freezer?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 August 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

That makes me wish I ate meat. :(

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 19 August 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

i can't help but think that i would enjoy these meats/meals more thoroughly if they were not encased in a tube.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 August 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

the tufts university one? i know the guy who maintains it, and he's in chicago for the summer. he's promised to reboot it when he goes back to boston in a couple of weeks. it works great, but the server doesn't accomodate many people like jsettlers does.

― juliaaa, Friday, 19 August 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

That makes me wish I ate meat. :(

I know! I don't often think that, but in the case of Hot Doug's, I do.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 August 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

This place is like the Ian's Pizza of hot dogs. I think I'm in love.

xpost, yes, we will go, Jenny.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 August 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

Sort of like when I go out to breakfast at places that have really awesome-sounding omelettes, and I'm like "that sounds fucking delicious, except for the egg part" (I'm not vegan, I just think eggs are disgusting -- but I think we've covered this).

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 August 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

Online settlers would destroy my life.

FWIW: Mike the Intern is friends with someone at my office. He's actually some dude that works at a _____ firm (i don't knw). He took a week off work so he could "intern" with Hot Doug. Just for fun. I think that's pretty great.

I think I'm in love.

Me too. And it's close to my house! Sort of!

― giboyeux (skowly), Friday, 19 August 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

Hot dogs are like the #1 meat I miss the most. It's weird.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 19 August 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

That is weird. I don't miss hot dogs at all -- never really liked them to begin with. I just like all the fancy fixin's at Hot Doug's.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 August 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

Ethical question: do hot dogs not count as meat, because they are just made of weird scraps of things and chemicals, or are they MORE than meat, METAMEAT perhaps, because they probably contain multiple meats within one hot dog?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 19 August 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

God, that's exactly why I don't like hot dogs, and I can eat a venison steak with the best of 'em. Multiple meats in a tube? Ew.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 August 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

I like encased meats because they are often smoked. Smoked meats are the ones I missed the most as a vegetarian. Smoked provolone or mozzarella cheeses provided some relief, but not enough.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 August 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

mmmmmmm smoked cheese. yum. i missed bacon when i didn't eat meat.
i just accidentally saw jude law's penis.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 August 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

"accidentally"

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 August 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

Hot dogs are and have always been GROSS. My only exception: Corn Dogs. I never ate hot dogs growing up, but I would eat a corn dog with ketchup on it. Now I sometimes eat veggie corndogs, but without ketchup.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 19 August 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

Smoked things are good, agreed.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 August 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

i enjoy the veggie corndog, but it's nothing compared to cheese-on-a-stick, which is basically a swiss cheese corndog without the dog. they had them at cedar point, the best amusement park in NE Ohio and the world. take a hunk of swiss cheese, dip it in cornmeal batter, fry the hell out of it.

yummmmmmmmmmm.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 August 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

are they MORE than meat, METAMEAT perhaps, because they probably contain multiple meats within one hot dog?

yes. hot dogs are one of the most disgusting kinds of meat, unless they're really good ones like those ones listed above sound like.

i'm generally repulsed by processed meat products. except for hamburgers.

xp that cheese corndog thing sounds great...fried cheeeeese, mm.

― juliaaa, Friday, 19 August 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

As much as I like the concept of metameat, when I give in to my hot dog craving I try to go for Kosher all-beef dogs, and I cling to the illusion that they are relatively high-quality.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 August 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

i just accidentally saw jude law's penis.

I accidentally saw his penis four or five times yesterday.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 August 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

funny, i had that problem too.

― juliaaa, Friday, 19 August 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

How are turkeydogs? Any good?

I have a love/hate relationship with the idea of a huge cheesestick on a stick.

OMG! I saw it too! Weird!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 19 August 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

So... is anyone else excited about the 40yrold virgin movie?? huh huh huh?

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 19 August 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

Are we going to go tonight Sarah? Should I get tickets in advance online?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 19 August 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

I want to go! I thought you didn't want to go on opening night??

In other news, I am bored, so I just played this really lame game with myself which involved me looking at my watch to see where the second had was and then trying to guess when it had been exactly a minute... and I only did it once and got it perfectly on the mark! I mean, the second I looked back down it was hitting the 60s mark without any counting. BOO YA! Now what do I win?

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

I do that sometimes when I'm pumping gas -- looking away and then trying to guess the price, based on the rate of increase.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

BOO YA! Now what do I win?

You can have jaymc's coffee.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

It's too late in the day for coffee! It will keep me up all night!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

That's OK - It's FRIDAY

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

We are going to the 9:00 show of The 40-Year-Old Virgin at Webster Place, if anyone else feels like coming. Oh wait, you're probably all too busy watching WERNER HERZOG MOVIES. Oh snap.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

Oh wait maybe this is a "date." In which case you guys probably shouldn't show up.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

I'm not in Chicago NOW, anyway.

I will keep a record of this and buy people coffee as prizes for various trivial accomplishments the next time I'm in town.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

If it's a date, I won't bother changing out of my heels.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

The rest of my co-workers are going to have their big meeting in a PARK with ICE CREAM, but I have to stay and finish something by the end of the day. It is to weep, I know.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

And it's so nice outside too! (Here anyway)

Quick rant follows. I'm not upset, really, at all right now. I'm ecstatic that I only have an hour left until my weekend begins. So, I guess this is just an aside. Also, I'm sure I've brought this up before: BUT ANWAYS...
What is the deal with co-workers? Every single time we order food, someone points out that I'm vegetarian. Get over it already! I mentioned this ONCE when I first started just because someone kept pressing me, asking why I wouldn't get a meatball sub, or something like that. When they asked me why I'm vegetarian, I said something to the effect of, "Oh, you know - peer pressure in high school. It's been over 10 years now and I don't miss it anyway, so..." Then I tried to change the subject. But now when we all eat together, inevitably, someone says, "Did you know Sarah is a vegetarian?" which leads to the usual teasing, followed by everyone making defensive statements about not being vegetarian (like: I rarely eat red meat anyway OR that tofu stuff is gross). WHO CARES!

Now I'm back to being happy about the weekend.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

And there's a mouse in the cube next to mine!

It's cute, but the girl is totally freaked out.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

paper bags are really good for catching mice. i kid you not.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

Add to that to my general dismay with the lack of interesting conversation among coworkers. it always devolves into "this is what i like, but you like this, but so-and-so, she likes this other thing" and then everyone agrees and keeps chewing on their pizza or whatever.

this new lady has a lava lamp (!!) on her desk and yesterday the goop inside it looked like an angry red alien fetus. so i said so. her response was "oh yeah, it takes a while to warm up, it sure does."

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

Sarah, I don't understand why both of your jobs here in Chicago seem like they've been staffed by total rubes.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

I mean, we're in Chicago! At neither of my jobs have I been the only vegetarian in the office.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

The people at her first job were rubes. These people just have too much money.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

Too much money to be able to comprehend a vegetarian diet?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

there haven't been any vegetarians in my department after laura left. they treated her like a curiosity too. not meanly, just annoyingly.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

The people at my last office were, for the most part, old, downtrodden (like the lady whose husband of 30+ years was openly cheating on her with their alcoholic daughter-in-law or the warehouse worker who'd been with the company 10+ years and was making slightly more than minimum wage), midwestern (part of this involves eating lots and lots of meat - including hanging sausages from the warehouse ceiling), and clueless. They were worried about me the whole time because I live in the scary hood Wicker Park and can't possibly be getting enough protein to survive.

The folks at this office are young fancy pants (ie: they come from "money," get mani/pedis pretty regularly, and have Prada purses). They sort of look down on vegetarianism the way most high-class chefs do.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 19 August 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

(part of this involves eating lots and lots of meat - including hanging sausages from the warehouse ceiling),

Would they just, like, take a bite out of one as they were walking by?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 August 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

hahahah. they were downtrodden...and hungry.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 August 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

Other companies would send them huge sausages as Christmas presents. It was this thing.

Reasons people hate vegetarians (a shortlist):
1. They are picky (specifying things to the waitress at a restaurant)
2. They are rude (not eating meat served to them or at least making the host reconsider what to serve at dinner)
3. They think they're better than you (you know they must be shooting you evil looks for being such a ... murderer!)
4. They are political (any second they might say something about chicken's rights or some bullshit!)
5. They like tofu (It's weird!)

Thank you. I'll be here all week.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 19 August 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

Also:
6. They are damn hippies
7. They hate the baby Jesus

DUDES! I get to leave here in 7 minutes!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 19 August 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

WHERE IS EVERYONE, I AM BORED

So our house on Sunday: jaymc, maybe jenny (and Jeff?), and I bet we could get Kenan to come over too. Why don't people get there around 3:30 or so?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 19 August 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

there's a chance i/we might come, but i'll let you know saturday. is that alright?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 August 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

I am here but only for 3 more minutes. Then I will be lurking outside your office building.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 19 August 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

ha, Not yours, Amanda.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 19 August 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

I don't look down on vegetarians, but I admit to feeling sorry that people such as yourselves miss out on so much food that I love, esp. seafood.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 August 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

I never liked seafood, even when I ate meat. So nyah nyah nyah.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 19 August 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

I like the possibility of being 70% vegetarian. It's like being "a little bit gay."

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 August 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

My office is staffed with vegetarians and people who eat meat but feel really, really, really guilty about it. Except for the Polish Community Outreach Coordinator who is like, "Meat gives me strength! RAR!" and feels no shame because she's Polish and all the meat makes her impervious to culinary criticism.

I don't feel sorry for vegetarians. It's a lifestyle choice, not a terminal disease, and if a vegetarian person wanted to eat a hot dog, he or she could eat one and it would be okay.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 August 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

Word, J-Dawg.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 August 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

I love meat.

I don't know what I'm doing sunday, it all depends on how much homework I get done.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 19 August 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

I might go see Grizzly Man early on Sunday and in that case, I would stop by at Chez Fiction afterwards? (btw, I really like the idea of calling yourselves Nick Fiction and Sarah Fiction, as was suggested on TITTWIS, I think.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 August 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

Hey Amanda, I didn't realize before that the Sufjan Stevens show was in September. I thought it was coming up in the next week or so. As such, I totally want to go, and we're going to buy tickets.

Which night were you going to go again?

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 20 August 2005 02:21 (twenty years ago)

I should check out Grizzly Man, my friend was recommending it to me. He said it was his 2nd fav. doc ever, after American Movie!

Anyway so I say this like every weekend and don't do anything about it, but what are people up to saturday? I'm looking for shit to do. That is all. (I may just end up at this Opaque project party)

― deej.., Saturday, 20 August 2005 05:19 (twenty years ago)

I think American Movie is mean and stupid, but see TEH GRIZZLY MAN thread for my thoughts on it. It's brilliant.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 20 August 2005 05:41 (twenty years ago)

Chicago: Wet Streets!

I love watching it rain out my window.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 20 August 2005 06:01 (twenty years ago)

Would Amst. post to an Iowa thread? Where are his women and his books? Dilettantish no more?

― youn, Saturday, 20 August 2005 06:43 (twenty years ago)

I think he's busy.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 20 August 2005 07:08 (twenty years ago)

Thanks for caring about us, youn!

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 20 August 2005 09:09 (twenty years ago)

OKAY FUCK THAT WAS LOUD.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 20 August 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

I bet that was the same one we heard.

Hey Nick and Sarah, when we come over on Sunday night, can I use you guys? I mean as models. I need to take some shorts to illustrate a scene in a storyboard. Just for positioning, angle, composition, no acting or dressing needed. Would only take a few minutes. Please? PLEASE?

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Saturday, 20 August 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

Ooo that one scared the cats. Fucking air and water show.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 20 August 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

Funny that they do it every year, since from where I sit it's nothing but noise pollution. Chicagoans hate this event.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 20 August 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

Tofu is not weird, it's just not a good meat substitute. I have none of the complaints about vegetarians that you cite, but I do have one: they have no palette. Hell, I wouldn't kick someone out of bed just because she didn't like smoked brisket (which is growth on my part, there was a day when I would have). But I LOVE food, I love lamb and pork and a great piece of meat in any of its forms, because making great meat requires skill if not art. A great pulled pork sandwich is a sublime thing. It's simple, it announces its flavor at the outset and lives up to its expectations throughout the sandwich. And meat-veg-starch is the classic format of the meal, and when each part is done well and plays well with the other parts, it can be an amazing sensual experience. Vegetarian meals can be good, too, but they require more care, more preparation, more attention to detail because the meal is missing an element.

I don't think vegetarians are bad or wrong. I think they're like people who don't like anal sex. You have your reasons, I'm sure, but you don't know what you're missing. And if you think you *do* know what you're missing, you've never had it done right.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 20 August 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

Also, I love all you Chicago vegetarians, and I apologize if that was offensive in any way.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 20 August 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

And fo course my post ignores the fact that the reasons you may be vegetarian have nothing to do with the flavor of the meal. That's valid, but it's also my point. I don't just think that vegetarians restrict their diet for resons that I don't agree with, I think that they eat for different reasons than I do. And I am convinced that eating for pleasure is important.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 20 August 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

OK, I'll stop now. I've probably pissed you all off something awful.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 20 August 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

fuck you dude

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 20 August 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

i eat for pleasure all the fucking time

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 20 August 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

I love meat. I'm about to go get a big bowl of pho.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Saturday, 20 August 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

I love you like deli pastrami, Kenan (at least when your aesthetic hardlining lines up with mine).

We're going to get some deli supplies now and make some spaghetti from scratch, I think.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 20 August 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

A refutation of Kenan's meat rant:

1. Tofu is not a meat substitute. It's a food, and a very versatile one at that. The cultures that brought us tofu often combine it with meat in a number of different dishes. Just because tofu happens to contain protein and come from a plant doesn't make it a "meat substitute."

2. Meat-veg-starch is the classic formulation of a meal in some parts of the world, but it's by no means the only way to eat dinner. Vegetarian meals are only missing elements to people who insist that the only way to eat is within the very narrow confines of a meat-veg-starch meal structure.

3. I don't think smug meat-eaters who can't find enjoyment outside of meat based-meals are bad people. I just think they come across as unbelievably condescending and just plain ignorant when they insist that their extremely limited view on what makes a proper meal is superior to someone else's chosen eating habits.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 20 August 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

BUT HEY NO OFFENSE INTENDED!

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 20 August 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

Jenny! Be nice!

I like meat, like I said, but I can go long stretches without even realize that I haven't been eating meat. But, I don't think I could live with out the occasional burger, beer, and fries.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Saturday, 20 August 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

Sorry Kenan. I was much too nasty in number 3. I don't think you're smug, just misguided. Probably from all that meat impacted in your colon.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 20 August 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

you weren't nasty at all. just right.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 20 August 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

ok later dudes, i'm going to sound-check. (and btw kenan i'm not mad, i just think you're full of shit. love ya, tho!)

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 20 August 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

HOLY SHIT GUESS WHAT? I finished writing my paper. I still have to proof read it, but pfffffbt that's nothing. This means we're definitely coming over tomorrow, Nick and Sarah, if you'll still have us.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 20 August 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)

I hug you all.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Sunday, 21 August 2005 00:18 (twenty years ago)

I hug you, too. (Also, I ate meat for dinner. But it wasn't very good. But that's not meat's fault.)

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 21 August 2005 00:32 (twenty years ago)

Kenan, are you drunk?

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 21 August 2005 00:35 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, we just listened to your voicemail. It's okay dude!!!!!!!!!! Don't sweat the small stuff. Are you going to n&s's tomorrow?

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Sunday, 21 August 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)

At least, I think I knew what you said, you were mumbly.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Sunday, 21 August 2005 00:40 (twenty years ago)

I zm mumblhft.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Sunday, 21 August 2005 01:26 (twenty years ago)

word.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 21 August 2005 06:51 (twenty years ago)

Ok, so it's 4:30 in the morning, and I have been awakened by drunks. I can't see them; they are not outside my window. Near as I can tell, they are in some nearby alley. The speech is punchy and staccato, and I can only make out the occasional very loud word. "Dude!" or "Yes!" or "Ouch!" (the girl says ouch -- God knows what they're doing to her). Usually this kind of thing does not go on long enough to make any difference, but they've been out there for ages.

Anyway. I am a sanctimonious prick about food. I'm sorry. Hot Pockets are really good, though.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Sunday, 21 August 2005 08:34 (twenty years ago)

Who wants to get together, buy a $25 metal grill, and smoke a brisket for 14 hours? I'm hungry.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Sunday, 21 August 2005 08:41 (twenty years ago)

And I miss Texas.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Sunday, 21 August 2005 08:41 (twenty years ago)

Ooh! Can we take oue shirts off, too? Shirtless BBQ. Ah, I miss those days. In Austin, I had a big backyard, and we had a fire pit, and we would all sit around the fire and nearby we would cook things and drink from kegs and such. There was always a party. One night we had a crawfish boil, and sat up all night eating ugly little crustaceans and throwing their remains on the ground. The ants loved us. Not little sugar ants, either -- big red fire ants. It all seems so romantic in retrospect.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Sunday, 21 August 2005 08:53 (twenty years ago)

Chicago Public Radio in the middle of the night kills me with its greatness.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Sunday, 21 August 2005 08:56 (twenty years ago)

From Howlin' Wolf (expected) to Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac (not so expected). They have charmed the pants off of me. Look! I'm not wearing pants!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Sunday, 21 August 2005 08:59 (twenty years ago)

Are you going to n&s's tomorrow?

I have no excuse not to. So I'll see you all tomorrow? Will we be shirtless?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Sunday, 21 August 2005 09:04 (twenty years ago)

I'm all alone here, and I knew I would be. Here's a quote:

"Everything passes away -- suffering, pain, blood, hunger, pestilence. The sword will pass away too, but the stars will remain when the shadows of our presence and our deeds have vanished from the earth. There is no man who does not know that. Why, then, will we not turn our eyes toward the stars? Why?"
--Mikhail Bulgakov

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Sunday, 21 August 2005 09:16 (twenty years ago)

Hm. I need sleep. Another quote:

"Depression is not just a lot of pain, but too much pain can compost itself into depression. Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on thin air, growing despite its detachment from the nourishing earth. It can be described only in metaphor and allegory. Saint Anthony in the desert, asked how he could differentiate between angels who came to him humble and devils who came to him in rich disguise, said you could tell by how you felt after they had departed. When an angel left, you felt strengthened by his presence; when a devil left, you felt horror. Grief is a humble angel who leaves you with strong, clear thoughts and a sense of your own depth. Depression is a demon who leaves you appalled."
--Andrew Solomon

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Sunday, 21 August 2005 09:39 (twenty years ago)

I loved that Andrew Solomon book. It was part of the reason I decided to go back to school for my current course of study.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Sunday, 21 August 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

it's such a great book. it's the best thing i've ever read about depression.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Sunday, 21 August 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

Dudes I haven't read this thread but our home internet isn't working so if you're planning to come over this afternoon please call us at home.

― nick a, Sunday, 21 August 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

i called you. you remained silent.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Sunday, 21 August 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

We weren't talking about babies. We were discussing the ethical and logistical ramifications of freezing a fertilized embryo and having it implanted in your great-grand daughter, thus making the child her own grandma.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Monday, 22 August 2005 11:46 (twenty years ago)

OMG, I drank all N/A's beer.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Monday, 22 August 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

We wanted to get rid of the beer before my family came. Now we're thinking it would be funny to just leave all the beer bottles by the kitchen trash (how many do you think there are? At least 18...).

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Monday, 22 August 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

Oh, many, many years ago
When I was twenty-three
I was married to a widow
Who was pretty as can be
This widow had a grown-up daughter
Who had hair of red
My father fell in love with her
And soon the two were wed

This made my dad my son-in-law
And changed my very life
For my daughter was my mother
'Cause she was my father's wife
To complicate the matter
Though it really brought me joy
I soon became the father
Of a bouncing baby boy

This little baby then became
A brother-in-law to Dad
And so became my uncle
Though it made me very sad
For if he was my uncle
Then that also made him brother
Of the widow's grown-up daughter
WHo of course is my step-mother

Chorus
I'm my own grandpa
I'm my own grandpa
It sounds funny I know
But it really is so
Oh, I'm my own grandpa

My father's wife then had a son
Who kept them on the run
And he became my grandchild
For he was my daughter's son
My wife is now my mother's mother
And it makes me blue
Because although she is my wife
She's my grandmother too

Now if my wife is my grandmother
Then I'm her grandchild
And every time I think of it
It nearly drives me wild
For now I have become
The strangest case you ever saw
As husband of my grandma
I am my own grandpa

[chorus]

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 22 August 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

Just posted this on ILX dreams thread but:

This is what happens when you drink a lot of beer with ILXors right before you go to sleep: I dreamed that jaymc, jeff-PTTL, pullapartgirl, and I were in a Jurassic Park-esque theme park, filled with dinosaurs. Jaymc and I were walking and we saw this pack of dinosaurs that looked kind of like the raptors from the movie, except covered with fur that made them look kind of like doberman pinschers. They made us nervous, but apparently I was aware I was dreaming, because I told jaymc "If those things start to chase us, I'm going to wake myself up." Jaymc agreed that this was sensible.
-- n/a (nu...), August 22nd, 2005 8:49 AM. (Nick A.) (later)

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 22 August 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

I was honestly surprised we drank it all, considering the extra beer me and kenan brought.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Monday, 22 August 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

We are true warriors of the night. How was Gold Star?

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 22 August 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

Wow, sounds like you guys had fun. Sorry I had to miss it. We painted our bedroom and it looks really fancy now. I cleaned. Dan kicked my butt at several games. It was quiet. Also, we saw the 40 Year Old Virgin and it reminds me of The Jerk. I consider that a good thing. Here ends the conclusion of Boring Things I Have to Say Today, Morning Edition.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 22 August 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

I love the Jerk!

Goldstar was fine, we only had a couple of beers there and then talked about ejaculation.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Monday, 22 August 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

Sorry I had to be lame and kick you all out. I wish we could have hung out longer.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 22 August 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

Hi Chicago!

Dudes, I had a pretty crazy weekend. I fell off a moped, drank beer at breakfast, made pasta puttanesca, went up to Devil's Lake, and got engaged!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 August 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

The beer was this, I was only obeying the label:

http://www.ratebeer.com/beerimages/14956.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 August 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

WOO! Go Jordan! Congratulations!!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 22 August 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

Congratulations on falling off a moped!

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 22 August 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and uh, for getting engaged too. Yeah.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 22 August 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

Thanks! I actually don't want to make too big of a deal about it. It's kind of surreal, and I'm not sure if I have to go around telling all of my friends/family or not. I'd prefer to just let news travel on its own, but I don't want people getting all "dude, why didn't you tell me?" mad at me.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 August 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

But seriously, have you guys ridden mopeds? It's a lot harder than it looks! It's weird not having your feet on the sides for balance like on a bike. Granted, I was drunk, and my drunk friend kind of forced me to give it a shot ("c'mon, it's easy"!). So of course I wiped out within 10 feet and got my shit all scraped up, and broke a couple of lights on his older brother's scooter. I did have a helmet on, though.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 August 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

i was the same way. i let it sit in for a day and didn't tell anyone, then i told some key friends and everyone else just found out. no one is going to get mad at you, unless your family and friends are fussy and unreasonable. something tells me they're not.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 22 August 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

did you propose in any sort of romantical fashion? was it planned beforehand or an act of whimsy?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 22 August 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

xpost - not about riding a moped, about being engaged. i don't think moped riding is for me, considering that i can hardly walk through a doorway without colliding with one side of it.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 22 August 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

ugh. I stayed up too late and talked too damn much. After Gold Star, I called John and we talked for another... hour maybe? I would have kept talking all night, but some people have to work.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 22 August 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

The breeze coming through my window is occasionally kinda chilly. I love that.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 22 August 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

unless your family and friends are fussy and unreasonable. something tells me they're not.

Haha. Uh, well, half of my family is pretty cool and reasonable, and the other half is NOT.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 August 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

Wow. High today of 73! That's not very summery.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 22 August 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

it's nice to have you back, kenan. i mean that.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 22 August 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

I thought it was pretty romantic! We went up to Parfrey's Glen near Devil's Lake on Sunday, and I'd been thinking of making my move there for a couple weeks. There's lots of good nature, and we hiked on the trail which basically runs alongside a shallow creak with sheer bluffs on either side. Very Lord of the Rings-ish.

When we got to the end of the trail (which is a very anticlimactic little waterfall), Maddie took the initiative of scrambling up the slope past where the marked trail ends, even though LEAVING THE TRAIL IS PROHIBITED AND SUBJECT TO A FINE! So we ended up in a secluded forest with sound of chirping chipmunks and the waterfall, all sweaty and smelling like bug repellant, and I had the ring in my manbag. I worked up my nerve, and then afterwards we chilled up there and tried to let it sink in before scrambling down the muddy slope and surprising the tourists.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 August 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

Oooh I am getting tired. WOOZY even. I think I was still kind of drunk this morning and now it's wearing off.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 22 August 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

oh jordan. that's sweet. was she surprised?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 22 August 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, she was. Weirdly enough, I'm pretty sure that she thought I would never actually ask her.

i was the same way. i let it sit in for a day and didn't tell anyone, then i told some key friends and everyone else just found out.

That's good to hear, Amanda.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 August 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

that sounds perfect. getting proposed to in nature sounds kinda dreamy. way to go, jordan!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 22 August 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

I want to be proposed to! Why is it still the man's job to propose?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 22 August 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

Actually, what I really want is to be Jerry Hall's love slave.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 22 August 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

I want to be Jerry Stiller's love slave. Who's Jerry Hall?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 August 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

I would have kept talking all night, but some people have to work.

I called in sick and slept in.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 22 August 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

I want to be Geri Halliwell's love slave.

Okay, not really, just joining in.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 22 August 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

I don't want to be a love slave, though I do want to be able to dance like Britney in her "I'm a slave for you" video. I know, that's SOOOOOO not 2005. Whatevs.

But anyway, YAY, JORDAN! Have you talked about dates yet?

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Monday, 22 August 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

Errr, Sarah, they're getting married, so it's probably a little late to start dating.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 22 August 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

No no no, I think we're going to just hang out at this stage for awhile. We haven't seriously talked about where, when, who, or how yet. No rush. :>

xpost, har har

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 August 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

Elope, trust me.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 22 August 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

We want to! That's all we ever talked about before yesterday. Maybe after we tell our families we'll be able to judge how seriously anyone would be upset by that.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 August 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

I'm all about having a nice proposal story. That park looks beautiful.

One of my sisters will be married a week from tomorrow. I know I've brought that up several times. I'm just still sort of in shock. She's just a baby! (23)

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Monday, 22 August 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

Wow, that is young! This is the sister in France?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

Sarah - What happened with your friend and the car accident, by the way? I was thinking about the tollbooth employee with the warts yesterday and I remembered her accident.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

Who's Jerry Hall?

Former wife of Mick Jagger, now has a slutty, addictive reality show called "Kept" where she auditions hot men to be her kept man.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

I called in sick and slept in.

I kinda called in sick, too, not that I had work today. I had big plans to go to the movies, but I don't have the motivation. It's just so goddamn PLEASANT to sit here in my chair and feel the slightly chilly breeze coming through the window while I read a book about depression, browse the internet, and listen to NPR (I'm not happy unless I'm really, really distracted). This is my kind of therapy.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

Wow, so you actually COULD be her love slave!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

My thought exactly. I'm probably not hoe enough, though. She tends toward beefcake meatheads.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

hot, I meant. Not hot enough. Maybe not hoe enough either.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

I didn't call in sick but I got a reprieve, as my boss decided not to come in today, so I've done nothing but play on the internet and eat shortbread cookies. At lunchtime, I sat outside, drank a La Croix sparkling water, listened to the Skatalites, and read my James Ellroy book. It was pleasnt.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

Jordan: Dude, why didn't you tell me?

― Camtron (Cameron), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

Mmmm... hoes.

http://www.state.sc.us/forest/tree%20planting%20hoe.jpg

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

Very funny, Cam.

(Chicago, this is my best friend Cam. Cam, Chicago. Cam lives in Milwaukee and I e-mailed about the engagement thing first).

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

Hello!

― Camtron (Cameron), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

Hullo.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

I was in Milwaukee Friday. It was... not very nice. And the poorly labelled freeway exits wasted a lot of my time. Upside: the public radio station was playing this hilarious set of songs in praise of being drunk, just as I drove into the city. I felt like I'd really *arrived* in Milwaukee.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

But what do I know? Milwaukee could be fabulous for all I know. Tell us about it.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

i almost drove through milwaukee yesterday on my way back from minneapolis, just to change things up a bit. i think the madison route is more straightforward. i said hi to you very quietly, jordan.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

Welcome, Cam! Jordan has told us nothing about you! :-D

Amanda, Yes, that's my sister in France. She was going to come back this month to go to grad school in Virginia, but now she's staying in France. Thanks for askin'.
Also, my friend, Sarah, is fine. She was just shook up about it and her car was more than shook up, but that's ok considering. Needless to say, the road trip was cancelled, but she decided to use that vacation week to just hang out and enjoy being alive.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

Hi Cam.

I should have stayed home today, even though I have no good reason to have done so. The weight of how much I dislike this job is making my chest feel hurty. Like I'm short of breath. At least I have a mango to eat.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

she decided to use that vacation week to just hang out and enjoy being alive.

Hooray for doing nothing!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

I liked what I saw of Milwaukee a lot! Granted, we only saw like one little neighborhood but it seemed very relaxed and artsy and nice. We went to a cool coffeeshop (Fuel?), played a house show, wandered around. Then we had to stop through again a couple of days later because our drummer left his cymbals there, and we went to a hipster craft shop and played with a kitten. All in all, I had a very positive experience in Milwaukee.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I should never judge a city by what I see from the freeway.

I loved driving into Chicago at dusk, though. The skyline is incredible every time.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

Congrats to Jordan and Maddie!
http://www.buyersmls.com/comics/Wedding.jpg
(okay, maybe it won't happen like this)
Are you going to be in Madison next weekend?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

Well that's the problem with Milwaukee. It's easily accessible if you have a good idea of what to do, and know someone who lives there that has a grasp of the city.

Personally I love it, Riverwest (where I live, and where Fuel is n/a) is my favorite neighborhood, but I'm told I'm prejudiced about that. Also it seems like it's one of the only hoods that has something going on all the time, not just during the day (downtown), or nights (Bayview and the rest of the South Side) although that may have more to do with the unemployed punks being bored than anything else.

― Camtron (Cameron), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

what you want to do, sorry

― Camtron (Cameron), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

Haha, thanks Jocelyn!

I assume you're going to be in Madison next weekend? Maddie will be here, but unfortunately I will not (figures!). I will be playing a wedding in the boundary waters of Minnesota.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 August 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

Lakeview Lounge is closing.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 22 August 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

< /Vader >

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 22 August 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

:-(

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Monday, 22 August 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

Shit, that really does suck. And that article says that they already closed. No last hurrah for us. So sad.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 22 August 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

x-post
I don't know if we will be up next weekend or Labor Day. Adrian's Mac is totally fuxored so he was going to get his mom to fix it, since she does that sort of thing.
I drove through the boundary waters of MN recently, it's quite beautiful, but riddled with BLACK FLIES.
And congrats to Auntie Sarah too, for being an Auntie.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 22 August 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

RIP Nightwatch. I will sorely miss the way you FUCKING SHREDDED through the guitar solo to "Reelin' In the Years."

Maybe Nightwatch will live again. Maybe they'll find another club. Someone start a campaign!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 22 August 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

Gapers Block says the Lounge is not actually closed yet but probably will be VERY shortly.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 22 August 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

hmm. the sun times says that it's already closed...

http://www.suntimes.com/output/entertainment/sho-sunday-lakeview21.html

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 22 August 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Oh, just noticed the Gaper's Block blurb was from Friday, so yeah, it's probably closed now.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 22 August 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

And congrats to Auntie Sarah too, for being an Auntie.
Wait - was that to me? I'm not an Auntie. But I will be a sister-in-law soon.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

I'm spending the afternoon downloading really shitty late-70's music that for some reason I'm nostalgic for. Kenny Loggins, anyone?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

It's surprising how many people on Soulseek have this crap on their drives. Thank God for ironic hipsters.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

I recommend Firefall!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

how bad is it to not attend the wedding of a close friend b/c the cost of travel & probably food (once there) is just more than you want to spend in one weekend? how bad is it if this is a close friend?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

didn't realize i pointed out the "close friend" thing twice.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

How far away is it?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

i've had to do this before...and taken a lot of shit for it. still though, if you can't afford it, you can't afford it. it's not the end of the world.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

i don't know what's worse: the shit i took for not attending person x's wedding OR the shit i took for not inviting person y (a friend of person x) to my reception/party.

either way, it's between you and that person. maybe you could make arrangements to share a hotel room or something like that, so the cost is reduced.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

You might have heard I run with a dangerous crowd
We ain’t too pretty we ain’t too proud
We might be laughing a bit too loud
Aw but that never hurt no one

Come on virginia show me a sign
Send up a signal I’ll throw you the line
The stained-glass curtain you’re hiding behind
Never lets in the sun
Darlin’ only the good die young

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

nothing soothes frazzled nerves like billy joel. i need a day off BADLY.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

Some folks like to get away, take a holiday from the neighborhood...

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

A guy just came in the office, supposedly because he needed directions somewhere, but then he started asking me if I own any pets. It turns out he is a holistic K9 consultant! I have his business card. Does anyone need a consultation?

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

it's in portland, maine. i could fly into boston for about $100 less, but then I'd have to buy a bus ticket. there's also the cost of food & stuff, which can add up when you're feeling all whimsy & in a town you love.
i want to go, i'm just really stressed about the money.
plus, i'm trying really hard to save up enough $$ to move to minneapolis & a $300-$400 weekend is a hefty chunk of change (and i'm guessing that range is the minimum I'd end up spending).

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

is this like a best best friend?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

is it fair to say that we used to be?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

Sarah I completely misread "she's just a baby" as "She's just had a baby" So you are not an Auntie and I am foolish.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

things have been kinda sketch for the past few years. i think i considered her a "best" friend for longer & then her actions made me think that it was stupid for me to feel so close to someone who never returns my calls.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

xpost- yeah, i understand. childhood best friend, high school, college? have you been close friends for more than 10 years?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

college. we met our sophomore year. i've been graduated since 2000. so, 8 years?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

i totally had a similar situation with a friend who wasn't returning my calls. we had been friends since we were 7 and i considered her my sister, but she wasn't really that into it. i was heartbroken and then i drove 9 hours and went to her wedding (which i was not invited to participate in although i was invited to attend). at the reception, the DJ played "in the still of the night", which we lipsynched to in 6th grade, and she and i slowdanced (!!) and she told me she asked him to play it for me. i cried. i was glad i went.

while this story is insufferably sappy, i have to say that it was worth it to go to her wedding even though i was heartbroken that she didn't really want to be my close friend anymore.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

I say bag it, that's a long way to expect someone to go for a wedding.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

Just send your regrets, Kelsey. I'm sure there will be plenty of close friends' weddings in your future. I went to the wedding reception of my first best friend ever. We were really really close until my family moved away when I was 11. We still kept in touch for a while, but gradually grew apart. She stayed in the same town where we were born, went to the local college, loved nashville music and our church, and was marrying a guy she met at said college. My family got invitations because we used to all hang out. My Dad was best friends with her dad before he died (not my dad, her dad). Anyways, the reception was really bizarre, held in this huge hall in a hotel. I only got to speak to her for like five seconds to say congrats because she was very busy being the bride. Most of the time was spent being hugged by a million and one old ladies who I didn't remember and who knew me when I was so little they could carry me around.

In summary, don't feel like you have to go. I'm sure that your friend will have plenty of other people, not to mention her own family, keeping her company on her wedding day.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

for me, it's very similar. we met in college & both felt this instant Connection. It was magical. We were just smitten with each other. After college, we stayed in touch sort of. I moved to Portland, ME (where she was) to attend a program & we connected a bit again. That was in 2002. Now we're in this weird space of friendship. For a long, long time, she wasn't returning any of my calls. Then she came to visit. She stayed with me, I threw a party for her. It was nice. It was stressful for me b/c I was on a deadline for a freelance radio story I was working on, so I was a little frantic. So she stayed with me & never, not once, made time to hang out with *just* me. No, "let's at least grab breakfast," nothing. I'm still a little hurt by this. She also borrowed my car, saying that she'd get it back to me by 3:00 (i had to go to the radio station by then) & I didn't HEAR from her until 7:00. in some ways, i feel like going to her wedding would help our relationship. on the other hand, i'm tired of getting my hopes up for her.
i'm also really stressed about the money fact & can't stop thinking of it as money that would take me that much closer to mpls, which is where i really want to be right now.

whew!

long xpost.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

So, don't go!

You mean she stayed at your place more like it was hotel than as though she was staying with you?

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

yipes. tough call. i think you should go with your gut.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

I'm going to be in Minneapolis tomorrow through Thursday, for work. I guess that doesn't really help you though, Kelsey, sorry. That's the reason why I won't be posting though.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

Kelsey, your story makes my heart hurt -- I had a bad visit with a good friend a few months ago and it still smarts. I can see how you wouldn't want to give up on her but that you're not really being given a convincing reason to keep trying.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

sorry, amanda! i didn't mean to make your heart hurt. the situation hurts my heart terribly, though.
i'm also having trouble hearing what my gut has to say. i feel like if i talked with my mom about it, she'd tell me to set aside the hurt feelings & just go. she'd probably sprinkle in some talk about how i won't regret going but i might regret not going.
it's making me feel all torn up about it & i need to make a decision soon!! otherwise i won't even have a choice b/c tickets will be so spendy.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

jordan, i'm completely jealous. give my love my love . . .

where are you staying?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

if you go and have a good time, even for an hour or two, you probably won't regret having spent the money. if it's fear of wasting the money that's keeping you from going, i say go. especially since she was so dear to you. [then again, i would just put it on my credit card and pay it off in $10 installments for the next 18 years. i can hardly advocate that kind of spending.] can you talk with HER about it?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

I'm sorry to hear about your dilemma, kelsey. I'm sorry I have no advice. No advice would be sufficient here, I'm afraid.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

doesn't it seem like the time i should have talked to her about it has passed? unless you mean talking with her about the financial dilemma?
sorry to be a thread hog for all yer advice, by the way.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

I'm staying at a hotel in Roseville, and working downtown at Abbott Northwestern hospital. I may end staying a night at Erik's (the sousaphone player from my band) house, since he lives blocks away from the hospital.

Where does Leif live?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

he lives in uptown. & it's actually the hippie version: leaf. his full name is CRAZY hippie (sp@rr0wl3af w1nt3rgr33n)

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

wow, that's a big-time hippie name. i wanted my mom to call me sparrow when i was 10 or so.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

WOW!

That's hippielicious.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

he doesn't go by sparrow b/c it's more of an homage to a baby that died a stillborn.
his siblings also have poetic names:
there's blu3b3rry m0rn1ngsn0w & bran n1ghtra1n.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

bran fucking nighttrain?!!?! That sounds like the nastiest case of the shits that could ever be. What on earth...

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

Kenan! That's no way to talk about the man with the most googleable name on ever.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

Your search - "br4n nightr4in" - did not match any documents.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

i bet when he googles himself he doesn't put "fucking" between his two names.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

Your search - "jordan fucking cohen" - did not match any documents.

Good point.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

yikes. will his name show up now that it's in here without the numbers? i don't want that . . .

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

he would have to be the sort of person who would not only google himself, but google himself with "fucking" between his names. that doesn't seem likely. does it?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

not that one, the one that jocelyn posted.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

oooh. i see. can the mods change that sort of thing?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

I'm sorry! I don't think it will show up as I think we're deindexed.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

sorry to point a finger at you!! i just get nervous about that kind of crap. like anything bad will happen, but still.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

I shouted for the mods.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

hi!

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 22 August 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

hi!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 22 August 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

i feel silly for caring . . . thanks jocelyn, & teeny!!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 22 August 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

Oh man, the first day of classes was not fun with me all headache-y and addle pated. Also, I forgot how to take notes and pay attention in class. Also, I have 92 pages of reading to do tonight. Jesus fucking Christ.

Kelsey, I'm sorry that you have this dilemma. If I were you, I would probably not go and just let this friend contact me if/when she wanted to rekindle the friendship. But I am the sort who will drop a relationship at the first hint of rejection (sort of a break up with him before he dump me kind of thing) so only pay attention to me if you want justification for not going, and not if you want real advice on how to heal the friendship.

JORDAN this is great news! Congratulations! Jeff and I did the same thing about telling people we were engaged (it didn't help that the "proposal" went like this:

J - So we're moving to Chicago.
J - Yeah.
J - Do you think we should get engaged then?
J - Good idea!
J - Let's go to the thrift store and pick out some sort of ring-type deal.

so it's not like I had a diamond or a story or anything) so don't sweat it. Plus, when I told my mom her literal reaction was a sort of distracted, "Oh, okay." It just seems like one of those things that if you're being in the least bit non-traditional (like not rushing out to get engagement photos taken and publish an ad in the paper), people don't know how to react and it's easier to just let the info disseminate.

Anyway, I know you don't have any concrete plans for the ceremony, but from what little I know of Maddie, your wedding is going to have mad style. Also, she's beautiful and will make a stunning bride. But you knew this already.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 01:41 (twenty years ago)

And now! We have the ultimate prize for marriage. PARTNER HEALTH INSURANCE BENEFITS. It's awesome. I'm going to save so much money by having insurance that actually covers things.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 02:01 (twenty years ago)

I'm getting new glasses!

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 11:32 (twenty years ago)

Yay! I want new glasses! What kind?

I wish my frenchie sister would learn the time difference. She called me on my cell at 5am this morning. I totally freaked out because the last time someone called my cell in the middle of the night it was to tell me my grandmother died, so I always think the worst when I wake up to the phone ringing. So I didn't get to the phone in time. Then I ran smack into the bedroom door trying to go out into the kitchen to get reception to check my voicemail. I thought it was just dark because it was night, but it turned out I was so out of it I had my eyes closed. DOH! Then she left me this mysterious message saying she needed my advice on something...

How is everyone today?

I'm excited for you, jordan!

j & j, you need to make up some really fantastic proposal story if you ever have kids. I think it should involve singing and dancing in public.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

Man, I want a jingle.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:55 (twenty years ago)

I'm getting new glasses too! (well, in two weeks)
Yeah, tell Maddie she wants to wear some outlandish outfit for your wedding. Like white go-go boots with an a-line Mary Quaint dress.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

Chicago, where are you? It's sleepy outside (and in) today.

x-post. Oh, hi there, joce. I didn't see you!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

I interviewed for a job yesterday that looks fun, interesting, is music-related, and has a lot of potential growth potential...and pays $8 AN HOUR AND IS PART-TIME. ARRRRRGH. Frustrating.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

I thought it was just dark because it was night, but it turned out I was so out of it I had my eyes closed.

Haha, I have done this!

I am having a good morning. One of Maddie's co-workers gave her a plate of zucchini bread for her FIANCE yesterday. If I knew there were free zucchini bread in the deal, I might have done this a long time ago.

We still haven't told parents, but we went out to meet some friends who moved to NYC last year and we told them and had a nice toast. There was a deal on $2 bottle microbrews at this bar last night, it was fucking fantastic! They had a huge cooler of awesome beers, I felt like a kid in a liquor store.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

potential growth potential

Nice.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

don't be so potentially hard on yourself.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

I interviewed for a job yesterday that looks fun, interesting, is music-related, and has a lot of potential growth potential...and pays $8 AN HOUR AND IS PART-TIME. ARRRRRGH. Frustrating.

when i moved here i interviewed for a job that sounds like this one at drag c1ty and i was all convinced i got the job and then i didn't. it had the same perks and same awesome pay.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

two more things:

Nighttime construction on the el when it's right outside of your window is not cool! Especially when they didn't warn us about it or anything! It sounded like an alien invasion.

And today is my 30th birthday.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

HaPpY bIrThDaY!!!

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it's a birthday cupcake!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

HIPPIE BROTHDAY!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

it looked a lot better before it got smashed together!!! i don't know why it didn't keep my spaces in!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

i like cupcakes. and broth. thanks guys.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

Happy birthday, Amanda!

http://covers.cdbaby.com/b/l/bluesguy3.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

Nothing says "birthday" like Sandy Hickey and Kool B.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

so are you doing anything special? if i worked near you, i'd totally treat you to lunch.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

well, i've been doing special things for about a week. thursday dan and i are going to see alasdair roberts. today i'm hoping the people at work don't notice. i don't know what i'm doing for lunch.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

i feel kind of droll.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

i just wrote an email to my boss about my salary. i found out what my increase was today & it's nothing more than the standard cost of living increase! even though my title hasn't changed, i was under the impression i was promoted. i have a hard time being confrontational & moreso being confrontational in a professional realm.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

First img srch result for "droll":

http://www.dqshrine.com/dq/dq1/droll.jpg

Also:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1335000/images/_1337569_david_new300.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

Kelsey: YOU GO GIRL.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

i feel like it's a big step for me in non-passivity!

p.s.
is that a word?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

B-E AGG-RESS-IVE!

who extracted d. duchovny's eyes?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

Good for you, Kelsey. That shit is hard to do.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

words like droll are weird b/c they never sound like their meaning to me.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

So, I have to drive to Minneapolis in a rental car with two co-workers today. One of them is pretty cool, he's a team lead and listens to post-rock, but I believe he's going to be working on his laptop for most of the drive. The other guy doesn't drive as far as I know. Apparently that leaves it to me to drive and choose inoffensive cds to listen to.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

I love droll! It sounds like what it means if you say it like "droooooolll".

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

TWIN INFINITIVES

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

Sarah got annoyed with TWIN INFINITIVES yesterday. It's great!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

you should put on the smooth jazz station and see what your coworkers have to say about it.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

maybe it's just too close to "troll"????

music for co-workers, eh? i guess oldies are usually a good default. everyone knows all the words & they're "light."
once you get into the city area, tune into 89.3. it's awesome.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMANDA!!

I am back at work today and ready to get shit done.

I'm composing an e-mail about the last edition of Squeezed next month, inviting people to perform.

Some people are trying to convince me not to put it to rest, but you all know how I feel about it. Maybe I will do it again someday, but irregularly. And when I know I can make it AWESOME each time, instead of watching dumb singer-songwriters play in front of crowds of five people.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

Do you mean I was using twinfinitives, Nick?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

No, I was suggesting that you listen to the Royal Trux album "Twin Infinitives" with your coworkers. It was a joke. Because it is an amazingly irritating album.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

I was wondering what twin infinitives were, and if they were like split infinitives.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

Ha, okay.

I made one other business road trip a few months ago, and it made me suddenly realize how abrasive a lot of my music is (even stuff that I don't think of like that, like brass band or Jay-Z or drum n' bass mixes). At least it's abrasive through the ears of shy Pakistani software programmers.

xpost, me too!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

Hello! I'm sorry - I've been distracted by family crisis emails.

I'm starving today! I had the rest of the granola with some yogurt for breakfast, but I was shaking at my desk a few minutes ago, so I went next door and bought a chocolate chip muffin. It is now in my belly, but I'm still hungry.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

*rubs eyes*

Morning all. Happy Birthday, Amanda. I stayed up until four for no reason at all, unless it was to take a stupid online IQ test where everyone seems to be scoring about the same thing anyway. I want to sit around naked all day, but it's chilly in here.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

Hey Sarah -- now it's time to start planning your party, for reals.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

No work, Kenan?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

Not that I would ever want to stop you from sitting around naked at work.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

I do believe it will be happening Saturday night, September 10th. That's what I have figured out so far.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

Is there anything in particular you would like to do/eat/drink/wear in celebration of the day? I mean, aside from a cone hat?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

Tassels

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

And only tassels.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

pasties? pastries?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

Instead of beer, I want frozen girlie drinks.

One thing I really like doing is eating mexican food while drinking margaritas. One good place for that is Cafe Tapatio's, but it's a tiny place and we wouldn't be able to hang out there for too long. Then we'd have the problem of transporting everyone elsewhere. Unless... is that near the bowling alley you like, jaymc?

I wouldn't be opposed to wearing pastries.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

Tapatio is the one at Roscoe and Ashland, right? To get to the bowling alley I recommended, you'd go straight up Lincoln (which is right there) fourteen blocks. So not exactly walkable, but not far.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

That sounds like fun! Nothing goes hand-in-hand like margaritas and bowling. I have my own bowling shoes, you know. I'm a terrible bowler, but I have my own shoes.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

What about Rique's? Would that be closer/more do-able?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

I wouldn't be opposed to wearing pastries.

They go straight to your thighs, anyway.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

Riques would be about the same distance, but straight east rather than southeast.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

Clearly this is our best option if we want a place near that bowling alley.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

They have pretty chairs.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

We just want to be sure to go to a veggie-friendly Mexican place, because a lot of them aren't. That's why Tapatio and Rique's were mentioned.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

What do you mean by veggie-friendly? Places that have interesting vegetarian options besides the usual veggie burritos/quesadillas/etc.? Or places that don't use lard in the beans?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

I mainly mean someplace that has something besides lame refried beans+lettuce+cheese in EVERY SINGLE VEGGIE OPTION. Even just the option of black beans would be a plus. But Tapatio has the awesome potato quesadillas mmmmm.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

We should just go to Tapatio, then, and carpool and/or split taxis up to Lincoln Square Lanes.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

yeah -- tastiness is more important than proximity!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

COOLNESS. I wonder if Tapatio takes reservations.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

i bet they do, if you can guarantee them a table of 10 or something, a table that will be The Big Bucks.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

I would not say no to potato quesadillas. Not even if they don't have meat in them.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

I'm pretty sure they do reservations. Restaurant Club went there on Valentine's Day 2003.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

I'm starving! Is it my birthday yet?? Oh, wait, no. It's Amanda's.

This should be fun. Parties at our apartment are soooo last year (and, um, earlier this year). We would definitely need to check with Tapatio's. Maybe they'd let us reserve the little back room or something?

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

can i ask what little presents you've been getting, amanda?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

oh suuuure:
* Muppets Season 1
* The Passion of Joan of Arc (Criterion edition)
* Songs of Whaling & Sailing
* Richard Buckner "The Hill" (which is a 34 minute song version of Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology)
* flowers from my parents
* GBV Bee Thousand director's cut (vinyl)
* beautiful necklace with a giant rose on it

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

are your nerd alarms going off yet?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

Songs of Whaling & Sailing

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

are your nerd alarms going off yet?

haha Not even close. My nerd alarms go off when you get seasons of Buffy on DVD and Robert Jordan books. Not that there's anything wrong with that, either. I think I'm more of a nerd than you are.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

I know I'm not really a classic nerd. I'm more of a spaz.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

I'm still cold! The high today is 75! And there's nothing in the ten-day forecast above 84. Hooray! The punishment is over! Until it gets as cold as a well digger's ass!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

I love being at home. This is the best week of my life.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

aren't you glad you didn't run away to bangkok? there's hardly any kenny loggins there. did you know that he got married in the nude? he's a dedicated nudist. i think i read that in parade magazine.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

(xpost) Conversely, I'm so glad I'm back at work. Sometimes I can't deal with myself when left to my own devices. Yesterday was sort of a black hole.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

God bless Parade magazine. For your Howard Huge cartoons, Marilyn vos Savant columns, photo contests, and tributes to All-American high-school athletes, I salute you!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I also can't get enough of their teenagers-on-being-teenagers column. I read about Kenny L. on the back page "celebrity interview."

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

Like 8 years ago.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

I like the lame celebrity gossip that is obviously written by publicists in the front of Parade Magazine.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

Though I am sincerely a fan of Marilyn vos Savant.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

those gifts sound sweet!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

Marilyn Vos Savant - who is she? How did she get so g-d smart?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

I like the lame celebrity gossip that is obviously written by publicists in the front of Parade Magazine.

Haha! I've always wondered about that: are there really people who are writing in to ask short, conversational questions about celebrities: "I haven't heard much about Brad Pitt lately. What's he up to these days? Gladys K., Waterloo, Iowa."

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

he's a dedicated nudist.

I'll always think of his first as a dedicated yacht rocker.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf600/f655/f65565dwslv.jpg

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

I just had a microwavable Vegetable Korma for lunch.

It went like so:
I had a lunch meeting with Vegetable Korma.
A few minutes into the meeting, I thought to myself, "Hmm... I don't think this is working out, but he's so colorful and so exotic. Plus, I wouldn't want him to think I was being prejudiced, seeing as how he's Indian..."
So I plowed on through, filled out all his paperwork, smiled as I shook his hand, and pointed him in the direction of the Board of Digestion.
As I feared, someone from the Board called me soon afterwards. She said, "I have a Mr. Korma standing at my desk. He says you sent him here."
"Yeah, so?"
"Listen, you and I both know he has no business being in my office. He's too spicey, for starters."
So I want to say, "You're such a racist!" but instead I say, "Won't happen again - sorry! I promise!" And she's like, "It's not going to happen NOW either..." But finally, after much arguing, she agrees to process his paperwork. THANK GOD!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

I forgot to mention that she noted SEVERAL TIMES that she had no problems sending Mr. Korma right back up to me. "YOU deal with him then!" she threatened.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

Songs of Whaling & Sailing sounds really interesting. I like traditional music.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

You have inspired me to eat something for lunch that is not bland noodles. Last night Anthony Bourdain was in Malaysia, where he ate this "breakfast" soup that made him sweat, and I got so hungry and envious.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

Actually, I just realized. I don't where to get food that will make me sweat around here.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

Songs of Whaling & Sailing sounds really interesting. I like traditional music.
Me too! I don't know much about Paul Clayton, who sings the whaling and sailing songs, but he's one of the 60s folk revivalists, though not in a Mighty Wind kind of way. I also realized it's called Whaling and Sailing Songs not the other way around. Oops. Dan and I are going to see Alasdair Roberts on Thursday and I hope to hear lots of lurid murder ballads.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

sarah! that's funny!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

Roffle, Sarah, roffle.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

Manda have you heard Kate Rusby? I think she's from Lancashire. I saw her in concert and she's very droll and talented.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

really? does she compare to shirley collins and june tabor? those are my favorite traditional female vocalists. (and shirley wins by a mile) i like dolly collins' accompaniment over anyone else's. i will check out kate rusby.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

I haven't heard Shirley Collins but she's much more energetic than June Tabor, and plays guitar as well.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

OMG - Shirley Collins is...I don't even know if a word has been invented to describe the way I feel about her. Is that your real email? I can YSI you a song. I would love to. It would be my pleasure to send you a Shirley Collins song.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

but spicy foods are the best in hot weather, they cool you off in the long run!

nb this may be pregnancy cravings talking but I think it's true!

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

i think it's true too, teeny! it forces your body to cool itself down.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

I've also heard that if food is too spicy the best thing to soothe your mouth is hot beverages, but this may be a rumor.
x-post my real e-mail is jocelynk@rlan@hotmail.com. That would be lovely!
I won't be able to listen to it until I get home though.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

who is shirley collins?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

WHO IS MIKE JONES?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

oh boy -- you got it, jocelyn. i'll choose one of my favorites!

shirley collins is an english traditional folk singer who has retired from singing but is still alive. when she was 19 she accompanied alan lomax on his trip through the american south collecting field recordings. her interpretation of traditional folk is nothing short of sublime, at least to me. she actually responded to my silly borderline stalker email and i want her to adopt me. i can post the link if anyone else wants to hear her.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

But seriously, guys, who is Mike Jones?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.folktrax.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/photos/136Collins,Shirley(Thomas).JPG

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

i'm interested!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

I've also heard that if food is too spicy the best thing to soothe your mouth is hot beverages

Milk. You gotta have milk.

I failed in my mission. I had jalapenos on my burrito, and tomatillo salsa, but it wasn't the red pepper hot I was looking for. Besides, jalapenos give you pepper poop much worse than anything else. Not that I really want to discuss that at any length, I'm just sayin'.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

I'm off to Mpls, see you next week Chicago!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

Bye, Jordan!

My food wasn't really too spicy, just not agreeable for some reason or another. It tasted fine though. I love spicy foods, especially jalapenos.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

i can't get YSI to work right now -- i'll try again later. i won't give up until i give the gift of shirley.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

MIKE JONES

http://server6.uploadit.org/files/xMamiix-mikejones_grill.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

shirley collins, in her youth:

http://www.stewartlee.co.uk/images/scrapbookcollins.jpg

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

I'd hit it.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

BANGO

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

Alright, here she is:
http://s48.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1E8HQB95BTOP21BRVVECHJYYQW

This is from Love, Death and the Lady. Oh, and guys? Don't talk about Shirley that way.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

I was just saying she played the bango.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

(as so)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

oh. sorry i didn't get the gioke.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

pigiocchio

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

Happy birthday, Amanda!

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

thankee jenny! aside from the fact that i'm at work today, it's been a rather good one. birthday, i mean.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

for the record, i HATE the phrase "i'd hit it" in this context. HATE it.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

HATE it, huh? Wow. I admit it's not as funny as it used to be.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

amanda, i can't listen to the song b/c my work computer doesn't read that audio format. i'll try once i get home though!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

yeah, you gotta have iTunes. If you iTunes on your pc, you can still hear it.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

i am downloading itunes as i type this.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

damn proprietary file types.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

yeah sorry about that -- i don't know how to change it into an mp3. i just imported the CD into itunes and that's how i have it electronically.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

electronically? i meant digitally. whatever. you know what i meant. computering is not my forte.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

Jenny, I thought of you this evening (apart from, you know, seeing you).

http://giganticmag.com/images/ilx/rampage.jpg

I have placed this image on my server, as I'm sure it will be useful in a variety of situations.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 04:37 (twenty years ago)

I think I especially appreciate the amateurish use of common Mac fonts.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 04:39 (twenty years ago)

Although I do wonder where the "2" came from. It's the "ACTION TWO NEWS" font.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 04:40 (twenty years ago)

I may be sucking the joy out of this. Sorry.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 04:41 (twenty years ago)

DUDES!

If you come to the show tomorrow night, you'll get to see my sister Heather (again?). My other sister (Leslie) will be married in less than a week! OMG OMG OMG!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

Did you all go out partying last night or something? Nick and I went to watch 6fu and hang out with jbdules.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

dan and i went to blind faith cafe and i ate mongolian seitan. it was excellent. kelsey said that their frosting was good (i had a vegan spice cake thingie) and boy, WAS SHE RIGHT! I've never had vegan frosting before, but I'll have it again!!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

also - can we talk about this Google Talk business? dan just talked to his friend in paris for free after downloading the program, which took 30 seconds. no special equipment needed. the headphones are the microphone? WTF?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

xpost
That's cool. Nick and I went there for brunch once and thought it was ok, but the dinner entrees looked alot more interesting. Plus, we were too full for dessert.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 13:03 (twenty years ago)

http://www.google.com/talk/

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

actually I'm going to go ahead and start a thread on it.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

Did you all go out partying last night or something?

No. I ended up hanging out and watching a movie with Jeff partly through misunderstanding, partly through his kindness and generosity. Long story.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

mongolian seitan, huh? that sounds amazing! i haven't been to blind faith in ages, but i sure am getting a taste for it at the moment!!
are either of you vegetarian? or just healthy dabblers?
have you been to indie cafe? or alice & friends? we should have an out-to-dinner fap or something . . . maybe even cheap thai that is a BYOB joint. i aim to be more social with chicago ILX.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

We're not officially vegetarian, but we don't eat a ton of meat. I like to keep my options open.

I gotta tell you guys, I am in a seriously glum mood today. Shit is just not going my way, I spilled Mongolian seitan all over my bag and pants, no one has called me about this job I applied for (and am totally qualified for) and I feel like all of my time sludging through work-and-school for the past 2.25 years has been one giant waste of time. I'm trying to look at the bright side, but all I want to do is sit on the couch, cuddle my dogs and watch Muppets.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

Waah boo hoo for me. The end.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

I am not happy to be at work. Stuck here until 5, even. Not stuck -- I have a key and I can leave, but I know my boss will be calling at ten to five to make sure I haven't left. He's not dumb (just crazy).

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps I will nap on his couch until 5, and answer the phone. There's no work to be done. But if I'm not here, I don't get paid for the day.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

I've been baaaaaad at work. Mostly I've been listening to bits of songs from different 1920's compilations. I think I found one I might get with my birthday money. It's a bunch of flappers - half of which sound like deep-voiced vixens and the other half of which sound like Betty Boop. I can't really explain this new obsession. I have a feeling I'll only need one album to feel satisfied. Then I can put it on in the evening when I'm wearing one of my vintage slips and pretend I'm one of them.

I'm going to spend as much time as possible today OUTSIDE. I mean, the front door is only seven or so feet from my desk, so it shouldn't be THAT hard.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

I feel nervous today. I don't know why. But on the train this morning I had a revelation that the Kelly Clarkson's Breakaway is a brilliant concept album that tells a narrative backwards through her successive singles.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

Also, I still think that the frosting at Blind Faith is teh suck, but that is just me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

Klosterman is wearing me out on high-concept readings of crap culture. A whole book of it gets wearying.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

I was glum this morning too, amanda, about similar stuff but mainly I think I haven't been sleeping enough. I feel a bit better now though, I've been doing mindless work and distracting myself.

kelsey COME TO SARAH'S BIRTHDAY PARTY and we will all eat food

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

coffee maker is broken
laptop is broken
no food at home
sleepy but too busy to sleep or relax
no new job ever

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

BUT I FEEL BETTER NOW I TELLS YOU.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

What movie did you see, Keeeeeennnnnaaaaan?

And yes, kelsey, you must come to my party!

Amanda, I'm sorry you are feeling glum. Cheer up, Charlieeeeeeee!!!!!

Jaymc, you should write about it on your blog, honestly (the Kelly Clarks0n stuff).

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

Klosterman is wearing me out on high-concept readings of crap culture. A whole book of it gets wearying.

I wasn't going to say this because you were so high on it earlier, but I agree. Are you reading the new one? I like Fargo: Rock City better than anything else he's done, because the whole book is focused on a solitary obsession, which then manages to skillfully weave in other tangents. Some of his output reads like, "You want a few hundred words on the significance of The Brady Bunch? Give me a few minutes ... okay, check this out."

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

i'm really looking forward to sarah's party. big time.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

As for Kelly C., this occurred to me because I'm reviewing her new single ("Because of You") this week, so I'll mention it on Stylus -- but it could probably use expanding upon.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

I can't hear the phrase "big time" anymore without thinking of Dick Cheney.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

when is it again?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

Sept. 10?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

Saturday, September 10th. xpost yes

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

dick cheney? i think of peter gabriel.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

Hey guys, I'm sneaking access during a lull at work (in Mpls). I watched the first half of Spider Man 2 this morning in the hotel and they have Caribou coffee here, so things aren't too bad.'

Sarah, that reminds me, a guy I know has a band in Milwaukee that sounds a bit like '20s music. I've only heard one of the tunes that's up here, but it's an old-timey tune with lyrics about zombies, so it's clearly awesome.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

(xpost) Oh yeah, good call.

I'm referring to the exchange in the 2000 campaign, at a rally in Naperville:

GWB: "There's Adam Clymer from the New York Times -- he's a major-league asshole."
DC (probably smirking): "Big time."

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

Sarah: re the 20s music: have you heard

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

whoa, that got swallowed ... I meant "have you heard The Ditty Bops?"

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, that's:

http://scarringparty.com/

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

xpost - oh yeah. i guess i forgot about that.

i have a "Hit Songs of 1928" comp and it's really good. it has "puttin' on the ritz" on it. sometimes nothing hits the spot like pre-rock popular music.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

http://www.boxofficeprophets.com/images2/peterboyle.jpg
Puddan Onn dehrissssssss
Sometimes I wish there was a big pre-1950 music revival, because that's the only kind of music I can sing, having a contralto voice.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

I really enjoy standards and feel like I have a pretty good knowledge of a lot of the Berlin/Gershwin/Porter catalog (plus Mercer/Arlen/etc.), but I actually own very few recorded versions of these tunes.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

Cheek to Cheek is one of my favorite songs ever.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

jaymc, I really like the Ditty Bops! I mean, I hadn't heard them before now, but they have all the songs on their album online, so I've been listening to them here at my desk. Sadly, though they are playing in Chicago a week from today, they'll be opening for Tori Amos. I mean, I don't hate Tori Amos but I wouldn't pay big bucks to see her. I want the Ditty Bops to come play the Green Mill or something. John, do you own the album? Do you like them?

Also, I like scarring party but not quite as much. It's like Tom Waits meets that Mr. Show sketch about battling ragtime singers.

Amanda, I just thought of something you could copy for me for my birthday! ha ha. I didn't get you JACK! I didn't even come to your party. :-( But maybe you could bring that comp and I could upload it to my i-tunes? Huh huh huh?

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

I'm glad you like them! I don't own the album, but Eric Z. is a big fan, and so I went with him when they played at Martyrs a couple months ago. They're very cute, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

i just find a singer i like and listen to her over and over. i like jo stafford and julie london a lot. mostly female singers. and lotte lenya, but she has a distinct appeal that's sort of different than the others.

i'll gladly make a copy for you, sarah. and maybe another mix too.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

What movie did you see, Keeeeeennnnnaaaaan?

Gates of Heaven

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

I remember seeing their name on a show flier at some point.

I just feel sort of bored with music in general right now, probably because I haven't had any money to buy all the latest cds. I think this means it's time to start developing some bizarre musical eccentricities.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

i just realized it's 1930, not 1928. but that won't stop you from liking it. it also has "falling in love again" by marlene dietrich.

this is the series: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/artist/glance/-/58214/ref=m_art_dp/104-2591368-6174319

(will someone tell me how to do that href thing?)

sarah, sounds like you're due for a trip to the library...

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, it's weird, I don't know very much about performers of standards. Most of my knowledge comes from having learned all these songs on the piano, so I mostly just know which composers and lyricists I like. And then the problem is there aren't definitive versions of the songs, because they've been interpreted so many times, so I wouldn't know what to get. (Except some of the showtunes you could go with original Broadway cast recordings, I suppose, but that mostly works with later stuff.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

Amanda: < a href="yoururlhere.com">what you want the link to say< /a>

Except without spaces next to the angle brackets.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

bless you thank you.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

That series looks good.

Here's a dumb question: How hard would it be for me to get a library card for the Harrold Washington? Is that the cd collection you were talking about, Amanda?

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

How hard would it be for me to get a library card for the Harrold Washington?

Do you not have a Chicago Public Library card at all, Sarah? Because if you do, you can use it at all locations, including the Harold Washington. If you don't, all you really need to do is show identification and proof of address, as I recall.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

One of the first things I did when I moved here was get a library card! I was so excited.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

it's the first thing i do when i move anywhere!

it's not hard at all. their dvd collection is vastly more impressive than their music collection, but there are plenty of goodies to be found in there.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

I don't have one! Nick scoped out the local library in our hood when we first moved here and reported back that it was horrible beyond belief, so I never bothered to get a card. But it looks so easy to get one for the big fancy library, so I'll do that stat!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

it'll work at all chicago libraries and you can get an extension added for the suburban libraries as well. i can check out stuff from the evanston library now that i have a special sticker.

maybe i should go to the library today to alleviate the pressure from the monster wall of glum trapping me down today.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

i can check out stuff from the evanston library now that i have a special sticker.

Totally. I actually used the Evanston Public Library WAY more often than the CPL when I worked up there. It was much easier to just pop in after work. It's obv. not as huge as HWLC, but it's still got a pretty big collection and it's way less of a nightmare to get around.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

And it looks like you can drop your books back off at your local public library, instead of having to take them back to HWLC...

Ok, so, remember how I have an especially snooty coworker (let's call her Snooty) who talks about how much money she has all the time? This is the lady who told the story about her mom asking her and her brothers and sisters if they ever wanted anything she didn't give them and then bought them all that crap? Well, anyway... Our boss is planning a vacation to Vegas in October for the office. He's paying for our airfaire and hotel accomodations, which I'm sure will be nice. Anyway, this one coworker of mine (let's call her Broke) just bought a new house and is scrambling to make ends meet right now. So she asks, Um, about how much money do you guys think I'll need for the trip not counting the airfare and hotel and stuff? And if I didn't gamble? She's obviously worried it will break her. So, Snooty says, Oh, at LEAST $500. You might as well not go if you can't come up with that much! This is a 2-night trip!

I almost punched her in the esophagus.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

I plan to go stay in the nice hotel and accept any free meals or beverages offered to me. If I get drunk enough, maybe I'll wear a sign that says something like WILL WORK FOR FOOD to piss off Snooty.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

Can I get an AMEN?!

It's pretty outside. I'm going to stick my head out the door again and act like I'm looking for something important and work-related in the parking lot.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

Fuck this, I'm going home. They're in the middle of a hurricane down there, anyway. What can they do to me? Call? Probably not evem a good chance of that. And there is NO REASON for me to be here.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

Have fun!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

Kenan, I sympathize with you re: yr work situation just about every day. So similar to mine in some ways and light-years different in others.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

I do too. In comparison, my situation is dreamy, but this won't stop me from bitching about a coworker or two.

Ok, so, BROKE just told me she probably won't go on the trip at all because she can't afford it. I said, It's ok! I'm broke as a joke, but I'm going! We'll just be around for the ride. If everyone goes off to a fancy club we can't afford, we can just hang out together! And she was like, Yeah, I can't afford it.

I mean, maybe she's right?? But it seems like it would be a better move for me with regards to office politics to go on the trip and just do what I could afford and spend some time in my hotel room watching cable than it would for me to just not go at all. What do you think?

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

Is anyone here interested in joining a food co-op? Our co-op lost some members (moved out of state, lost interest, etc) and we need to stock up to keep it viable.

Basically, it works like this:
- about every four weeks co-op members aggregate their grocery needs into an order sent off to a food distributor
- a week or two later, truck from distributor drops off aggregate order
- members sort the aggregate order into individual orders
- individual households come to pick up their order
- repeat next month

Some detailia:
- In the case of the co-op we're in, the distributor is UNFI, the same distributor that Whole Foods uses.
- The discount is currently 10% off retail based on the volume of business we do. The more members, the larger the order, the larger the discount.
- The delivery location is around Clybourn/North/Halsted.
- Members need to contribute their time in breaking down the order and, say, hosting a co-op meeting once a year.
- A lot of stuff only comes in cases. So you get like 48 rolls of toilet paper, which is already at a discount to retail cuz it's in bulk to begin with. These cases are often split among members (ie. you want 24 rolls of TP, i'll take the other 24).

There's more of course, but that's the gist. Sorry for the solicitation, let me know if you want more info...

― my name is john. i reside in chicago. (frankE), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

I don't at all envy Paunchy's work situation. However, I am envious that he's probably outside right this second enjoying the beautiful breeze. (xpost)

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

Even better. I'm INSIDE enjoying the beautiful breeze, and a beer, and news radio.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

Nice.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

Are you able to check your work voicemail from home, Kenan? Because that's what I would do just in case. But that's ME.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

I'm in class!

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

Fun! (Fun?)

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

Ah, how I envy going to class with a laptop. I never had that when I was in school. How that would have saved me from many a dull class.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, me too. At my old job, my sister used to play literati with me WHILE SHE WAS IN CLASS!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

I can't even imagine using the internet without cords, so using a laptop in class is like Star Trek-level crazy.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

xpost Especially since I kept taking bullshit classes that only sounded interesting on paper. "History of Rock and Roll." "Jazz appreciation." I was so excited about those, but they were, in truth, as boring as watching golf on television.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

did we go to the same college, kenan?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

University of Texas, Austin?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

nope. kenyon college, gambier, OH. but my classes in Latin American Modernist Poetry were riveting! RIVETING!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

i also took a class entitled "the fifties" where we analyzed TV dinners and i wrote a paper about the first issue of playboy.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

it was like chuck klosterman training camp

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

well, the culture the evolved -- or rather exploded -- immediately after WWII if one of the most fascinating parts of American history for me. It was when we were not only introduced to tv dinners, ugly utilitarian architecture, gas-guzzling cars, and the like, it's when we became *entitled* to such things. We still haven't gotten over the 50's.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

yeah, the class was all about that. it was interesting. my professor had dinner one time with arthur miller and marilyn. at least he said he did.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

Dinner with Authur Miller would be incredible. Dinner with Marilyn... well... no thank you. I'm sure that even at her most polite, she exuded a certain craziness that I have learned to fear in women. Self-involved + mentally ill + sexy. What could sex matter in that equation?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

Actually, Klosterman writes about Marilyn in his book, and relates her to Pamela Anderson, which is not as obvious as it sounds.

I dunno. I think ol' Chuck has a lot going on in his head, and some of it's brilliant, but he's not enough inclined to edit his ideas.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

The class was Criminal Procedure and we're talking about probably cause and fourth amendment stuff so yes, it was pretty fun.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

Hey I fixed our home computer so we can get online again! HOORAH ME!

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

Afternoon food review:

Andy's Deli, 1721 W Division St.

Be warned: this is not a Jewish deli. It it so far away from being a Jewish deli as to seem nearly anti-Semitic. It seems anti-customer, as well. They have no menu available, and no board behind the counter that even lists their meats. The meat and cheese case is not labelled in any way. And the employees are no help at all.

Upon walking in, discovering the lack of menu or lebelling, I finally gamely said, "I guess I want a sandwich." The woman behind the counter shouted at me. "You want HAM?!" For a short moment, I wondered what it was about me that looked like I wanted ham, and suspected some kind of anti-anglo discrimination.

"No," I said, "I do not want ham. I want pastrami. With hot mustard."

Another woman behind the counter scolded me for even suggesting such a thing. "A-a-a-a-a!" she said, like a schoolteacher shaking her finger at you. "Only regular mustard."

"Ok, fine. Do you have potato salad or coleslaw!"

She responded oddly. "NO! The coleslaw is over there."

I left feeling unwelcome, obviously. When I got home, I discovered that my sandwich consisted of this: stale rye bread -- not chewy, mind you, stale; lettuce and tomato, a pet peeve of mine from any deli sandwich; more cheese than meat, for maximum colonic hostility; salami when I had ordered pastrami; and the same hot mustard that I had been so sharply rebuked for asking about.

The coleslaw was excellent.

Rating: one out of five stars. Too angry.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:31 (twenty years ago)

xpost HOORAH NICK!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

Good morning. I love hot mustard. mmm....

My sister is flying in today! It's pretty outside! We listened to the Sparks during breakfast as we drank cappacinos Nick made.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 25 August 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)

Sarah, no! We listened to Sparks, not THE Sparks.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 25 August 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

My internet is still out at home.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 25 August 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

amanda, i have a couple of friends that went to kenyon. what year did you graduate?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 25 August 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

What day are the sufjan stevens people going to see sufjan stevens?

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 25 August 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

sarah -- i went to the HWL last night after work and took a quick looksie at their CDs and you'll never guess what i found!

slant 6!

how about that.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 August 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

i graduated in (ahem) 97.

we haven't bought our SS tickets yet, jeff -- have you? i think the 16th is sold out. only saturday 9/17 is available. i guess you haven't bought yours either?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 August 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

john--when did eric & geoff graduate?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 25 August 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

I graduated (college) in 99. Then I partied like it was 1999.

The selection sounds promising, Amanda!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 25 August 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

It's not bad -- you have to look at every single CD, in every single stack, but there's a lot of weird stuff there. A collection of songs about the assassinations of various presidents, lots of old (50s-60s) R&B and plenty of classical. Other stuff too. I just can't remember.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 August 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

john--when did eric & geoff graduate?

'93. i already asked eric if he knew amanda, but if she graduated in '97, they would've missed each other by a year.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 August 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

even if our paths had crossed, it's unlikely that anyone would remember me. i wasn't exactly a well-known personality around campus.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 August 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

You should have bought a boa constrictor and worn it around your neck. That would have gotten you noticed.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 25 August 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

Our internet is no longer out at home. Hooray!

PS I am Jenny posting as Jeff.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 25 August 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

Hi Jenny posting as Jeff.

I am very tired and at work again.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 25 August 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

I am downloading a Denny Vertigo album because of that thread. I hadn't thought about DV in years!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 25 August 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

Ok, can I share some high school memories with you guys?

http://giganticmag.com/images/ilx/leads_sm.pdf

(it's about one meg, nothing too bad)

Funny thing is, I remember writing these stories. The one about sports teams summer training got me into big trouble with the volleyball team -- later in the article, I imply that they're just a bunch of giggly girls. They wrote letters to the paper detailing the placing and severity of their blisters. And Roger Starr! Hadn't thought about him in years. Good teacher, really good guy.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 25 August 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, anyway, that was sent to me by my bestest high school buddy, who was editor in chief (I was "features editor" and the only one allowed to write movie reviews, since no one else had even the foggiest idea). You should see the schedules and instruction manuals we put together, which he also sent me. I can't believe we ever had that much motivation (Or were ever that good at anything).

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 25 August 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

i like the little accent mark over the first syllable of your surname in the smoking article.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 August 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I decided to get fancy at some point.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 25 August 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

Ok, here's something else to keep you busy: rock critic or serial killer?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 25 August 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

The only ones I recognized were Klosterman, Bangs, and Hornby.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 August 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

that picture of myra hindley freaks me out.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 August 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

Over the moor, take me to the moor
Dig a shallow grave
And I'll lay me down
Over the moor, take me to the moor
Dig a shallow grave
And I'll lay me down
Lesley-Anne, with your pretty white beads
Oh John, you'll never be a man
And you'll never see your home again
Oh Manchester, so much to answer for
Edward, see those alluring lights ?
Tonight will be your very last night
A woman said: "I know my son is dead
I'll never rest my hands on his sacred head"
Hindley wakes and Hindley says :
Hindley wakes, Hindley wakes, Hindley wakes, and says :
"Oh, wherever he has gone, I have gone"
But fresh lilaced moorland fields
Cannot hide the stolid stench of death
Fresh lilaced moorland fields
Cannot hide the stolid stench of death
Hindley wakes and says :
Hindley wakes, Hindley wakes, Hindley wakes, and says :
"Oh, whatever he has done, I have done"
But this is no easy ride
For a child cries :
"Oh, find me ... find me, nothing more
We are on a sullen misty moor
We may be dead and we may be gone
But we will be, we will be, we will be, right by your side
Until the day you die
This is no easy ride
We will haunt you when you laugh
Yes, you could say we're a team
You might sleep
You might sleep
You might sleep
BUT YOU WILL NEVER DREAM !
Oh, you might sleep
BUT YOU WILL NEVER DREAM !
You might sleep
BUT YOU WILL NEVER DREAM !"
Oh Manchester, so much to answer for
Oh Manchester, so much to answer for
Oh, find me, find me !
Find me !
I'll haunt you when you laugh
Oh, I'll haunt you when you laugh
You might sleep
BUT YOU WILL NEVER DREAM !
Oh ...
Over the moors, I'm on the moor
Oh, over the moor
Oh, the child is on the moor

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 August 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

I like how that transcription implies that he yells "YOU WILL NEVER DREAM!" instead of talk-singing it in that half-bored way of his.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 25 August 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

Damn you, now I must listen to the Smiths.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 25 August 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

I know! YOU WILL NEVER DREAM. I listened to this album a couple of days ago and then, to see that freaky picture of Myra Hindley, now I have to listen to it again.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 August 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

I opted for The Queen is Dead, actually. "If you're so clever, why are you on your own tonight?" So classic.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 25 August 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

It's so quiet here.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

Yeah. What's up?

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

(Obligatory quick plug/reminder: Fake Fictions at the Hideout tonight)

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

A que hora?

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

9:00. We play first, then some bands from Madison.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

I think after work, I might go buy a blazer, to wear to the show.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

The flyer that Ben made is on our website currently: www.thefakefictions.com.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

I have a funny story for you.

My mom used to be a teacher at my high school. She's still friends with some of the teachers there even though she (and most of them) retired. My health teacher, Judy, used to breed exotic cats. She recently gave all of her clothes away, stopped breeding cats and took up a new hobby.

Clay A!ken. SHe's now a "Claymate." She bought a new wardrobe, all for going to see Clay. She only shops at one store: Chic0's. Last night she dragged my mom and five other middle-aged teachers to see Clay A. My mom said it was torture and that if she could have chosen between cleaning the bathroom and attending that concert, she would have chosen the bathroom.
She also said that while she was at the show she smelled pot.

The end.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

I'm going to Chicago.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

I don't think I can go tonight. Serves me right for being mostly out of the ILX-Chicago loop for the past few weeks. Stupid having to do actual work at my real job...

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, N + S -- we already have tickets for another show...I'm sorry we can't make it.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

where be everybody?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

Alternating between working and being bummed.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

So far I only know of one person coming to the show and that's my sister. I hope people show up to see the other bands. It was featured in a couple of local weeklies.

That sounds like a cult, Amanda! Clay scares me.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, Judy is straight-up nuts. My mom said that Judy warned her "not to be hypnotized" by Clay's eyes. I think Judy has an obsession gun and whatever she points it at becomes her life's sole guiding purpose. Before it was cats. Now it's Clay.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

I hope that's not the natural progression.

Adam, When will you be here? Might I suggest September 10th?

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

I'm in berlin on September 10th!

I'll be there in, like, December.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

For Christmas/Kwanzaa/Chanakkuh?

I think I got one spelling right out of three there.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

2 I think. That's right, though. For CChristmus.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

I might be in Paris then, hanging out with my new french in-laws (ie: sister's new husband's family- she gets married in T minus 5 days).

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

You mean it'll be just me and Jaymc? What are we supposed to talk about? BASEBALL?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

where be everybody?

School is kicking my ass a little bit. I knew I'd be less active once classes started, but I thought I'd be more active than this.

Well, gotta go read some more! Tra la la la laaaaaaalskd&*(kfa;lsk$3o;iasdf

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

adam - you and jaymc can also argue about Indian food?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

I leave you with a very pleasant-looking photo of S. Stevens:

http://www.asthmatickitty.com/images/sufjanstevens/sufjan_bookstore.jpg

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

we can?

but he's like, a VEGAN or something.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

xpost - oh my. he has Baby Animal Face even when he's scowling. he looks like a scowling dachsund puppy.

yeah Adam, lotsa vegetarian Indian food. you guys can sample what Chicago has to offer and then argue about it. it'll be fun.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

okay, we'll do that.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

I might be here for xmas, I don't know yet. We can go get ETHIOPIAN FOOD and you guys can school me.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

It's JOHNMC that knows about Ethiopian food. I think he knows everything about there is to know.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

i wish i liked ethiopian food. but i just don't. i mean, maybe i should try it again.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

Adam HATES Ethiopian food. His loss!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

(You too, Kr4us.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

hehe. you called me Kr4us.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

Mmmmm.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

have you guys seen the music box schedule for the next two months? holy crumb! lotsa good stuff.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

if you can suggest a decent Ethiopian restaurant for me to eat a crisstmuss meal, I will gladly try it.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

lemme see if i can link to the pdf:

this is the music box pdf

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

Oooh, I wanna see 9 Songs and 2046.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

You should all consider seeing the Val Lewton films if you haven't: Cat People, I Walked With a Zombie, The Seventh Victim are the ones I've seen and they're all GOOD!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

9 Songs looks like the perfect date movie.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

is that the one where people actually DO IT in the movie?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

yes.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

I'm interested in 2046. I don't know anything about 9 songs. I was one of the feedback people during one of the initial viewings of Reel Paradise. I doubt any of my comments altered the movie very much...

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

yup. pre-tty wild.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

Basically, it has a) an interesting formal/structural conceit, and b) SEXXXX, so it's kind of tailor-made for me. Also, Michael Winterbottom directed it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

Where did you see Reel Paradise, K?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

I want to see I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

a friend of mine works with the production company.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

I don't need to see a movie to see REAL SEX because I got REAL SEX at home. BOOYAH.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

i'll see it in-between the times i'm getting real sex.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

nick, i think that's the first time i've heard you talk about sex.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

i feel like i want to buy a bunch of cds. okay, maybe three. where can i buy cheap new or used cds? will i burn to the ground if i peek into virgin records?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

The vast majority of the new CDs I've bought in the last six months have been from Tower.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

(Because there's one a block away from my office, and I can go during lunch.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

is it that Tower on a corner, with big glass windows? I've been there.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

I'm waiting to see 9 Songs in the privacy of my own home. Plus I heard it wasn't very good.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

Different Tower, Adam. This one is tucked in the middle of a street.

I also heard it wasn't very good. I'm still curious, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

tower?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

what's a fair price for cds these days?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

It's a record shop.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

hardy har har.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

I'm still curious, though.

you mean HORNY?

or are you just the biggest MICHAEL NYMAN FAN EVER?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

The Rudest British Film Ever Features Bands Playing

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

I don't have a problem with Michael Nyman. I once met a cute American girl in Rome who had a cassette dub of Michael Nyman on one side and Rachel's on the other. I wanted to curl up with her right then.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

you're so funny

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

Yes, well...

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

you don't know the half of it!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

That half I don't need to know.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

it's a very entertaining half.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

What half is that again?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

Michael Nyman's score for Michael Winterbottom's "Wonderland" is beautiful. Everybody should hear it.

Back to making fun of Jaymc.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

i hope i didn't just unknowingly imply something i never meant to imply.

xpost

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

is that the movie we saw in glen ellyn?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

Yes, it is.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

i hope i didn't just unknowingly imply something i never meant to imply.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

good luck at the show tonight, n+s! i hope your sister arrives safely. see you all tomorrow. ps - i think it's raining.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

I want to see I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE.

Me, too. Double date! Double date!

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 25 August 2005 22:50 (twenty years ago)

I've seen puh-lenty of movies with people having real sex. That structural conceit better be pretty great.

― xxavier (xxavier), Thursday, 25 August 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

Ah! I'm logged in wrong!

― xxavier (xxavier), Thursday, 25 August 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

XXPOSED!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 25 August 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and it has a bunch of rock and roll in it, too. Yeah, looks good.

Trailer has nipple in it.

http://www.contactmusic.com/new/home.nsf/webpages/9songsx25x01x05

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 25 August 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

I totally got hit on on the bus today. Beautiful, tiny little olive-skinned girl. She smiled sweetly. Said, "Nice shoes." I was wearing Chucks. I said, "Yeah, they never go out of style." Then I went back to my book, because I'm an idiot, and I'm afraid of chatting up strangers.

I'm going to have to ride the 6 o'clock westbound Division bus more often. I hope I see her again. I bet her kisses feel nice. Mmmmm. I'm warm all over. She was soooo pretty.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 25 August 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

I have internet back. yay.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 26 August 2005 01:45 (twenty years ago)

yay indeed.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 26 August 2005 01:58 (twenty years ago)

I'm on the phone with my mom. We've even talking for two hours. I love my mom.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 26 August 2005 02:02 (twenty years ago)

We've even = we've been

it's hard to type while holding the phone with your ear.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 26 August 2005 02:10 (twenty years ago)

Ok, I just hung up. I'm given to some thoughts. My mother is as crazy and damaged as anyone I know, but that's perfectly fine because EVERYONE I know is crazy and damaged. What's great is that now that I'm alone, and now that I don't have some (largely imagined) pressure to not talk to her for hours, I really enjoy her company. I think I always did, but I didn't always know it. And we need each other, because we're the two people who understand each other better than anyone else ever could. My mom is a riot, to tell the truth. She's hilarious. She breaks me up with her stories about the rest of her family, her insights about her friends, her insights about herself. I used to think that I got my brains from my dad, but I know the truth now. I got everything from my mom -- the intelligence, the likeability, the anger, the bitterness, the addictive tendencies, the mental illness. Everything, for better and for worse.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 26 August 2005 02:19 (twenty years ago)

Goodness. What a night. I just talked to my brother for another two hours. We spent one hour talking about baseball and one more hour talking about his realization that he's homosexual. It's the first time that I've felt as close to him as brothers are supposed to be to each other.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 26 August 2005 04:25 (twenty years ago)

Is he older or younger, Kenan? Does he live in Texas? Does your mom live there too? Oh, wait. They live in New Orleans, right?

My sister got here eventually. Her flight was really delayed, which sucked because then I couldn't meet her at the airport. But the show didn't end up starting until 10 so it was ok. The Hideout is so cute.

I want to see I walked with a Zombie. 9 Songs looks good, but I bet the book is better, if there is one. I love books about love and rock music.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 26 August 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

Today we're having a baby shower at work. I'm really excited because I have an almost unhealthy obsession with baby clothes. I bought this tiny T at Paper D0ll on Division with a little cartoon version of Maude the dog on it! If you've ever been in there, you probably met her. She's a pug dog.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 26 August 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

i recently gained a new nephew and i did some iron-ons on some onesies for him and they were SO SMALL. i can't believe a human fits into those things. what's everyone doing this weekend?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 26 August 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

What iron-ons did you use?

Well, my sister is here, as you know, and my mom gets in tonight @9:30. Tomorrow will be spent shopping and eating. Sunday will be spent shopping and eating.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 26 August 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

I made them on my computer at home -- your standard inkjet-transfer-iron-on dealie.

i don't know if there are Big Lots stores around here, but i used to find really good "wildlife" iron-ons there.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 26 August 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

I did the same thing with newborn t-shirts (and then embroidered the iron-on design) and it's true, they are TERRIFYINGLY small.

My baby (currently named 'squirmy') is about two pounds now and is just kicking the shit out of me, I don't know how something that little can kick that hard. It's fun though, it's like playing with him. Mr teeny was poking my stomach the other day and lil squirmy would kick back, it totally freaked him out.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 26 August 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

but that's perfectly fine because EVERYONE I know is crazy and damaged.

Yay!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

My Internet is down at home because I didn't pay my phone bill for an embarrassingly long time (oops), so I feel like I'm playing catch-up with ILX and e-mail now.

I'm also listening to the FINAL FINAL (mastered) version of the Canasta album right now on a super-secret web page. It sounds pretty good!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

what's everyone doing this weekend?

Absolutely nothing, except for laundry.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

Oh wait, and writing this thing about David Bowie.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

SUPER SECRET WEB PAGE

jaymc have you guys ever played with the Clyd3 F3d3ral? One of the dudes from that band was the sound guy at Hideout last night and was pretty effusive about our performance. I think they recorded an EP on that B@rry Ph1pps EP label thing.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

Weekend: hanging out with Sarah's family and buying Sarah's b-day presents

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

what i'm doing this weekend:
tonight: watching Georgy Girl (again) from my couch.
tomorrow: errands and then a wedding
sunday: shopping for clothes for Dan's new job (!!) and maybe stopping by a bbq.

i'm looking forward to some P&Q. i've had a headache for three days.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 26 August 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

I think we played with CF at the WLUW Holiday Sing-Along? Not that I remember what they sound like or anything.

How was the show, you guys? I'm sorry I missed it, but I was exhausted last night and couldn't drag myself out. I went to bed at 11:30, which is pretty effin' early for me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

It it so far away from being a Jewish deli as to seem nearly anti-Semitic

Haha, Kenan wins thread.

I am actually going to an Ethiopian restaurant for dinner!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 August 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

It was pretty fun, I love the Hideout. It's like the best bar ever. Only weird thing was they had a bunch of tables and chairs set up so everyone was sitting down while we played. But it was cool and the sound was good and I think we played well.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

The consequences though: I am dead tired, my head hurts, and my stomach is messed up (from eating half a thing of Super Nachos and then rocking out and drinking beer).

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

Super nachos rule, dude. So does beer. I guess you gotta pay the piper, but it was worth it, right?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

YES

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

I AM BORED PLEASE TALK TO ME

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

Kenan, have you listened to your jingle yet? I like it. "Our Kenan."

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

What should I do for lunch today? My usual lunch choices are:
Steve's (diner food)
Mona Lisa Pizza (pizza)
Karyn's Cooked (vegetarian, a little pricier)

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

I need to listen to the jingles. Now that our internet is fixed, I can, once I'm at home.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

Ebert didn't like 9 Songs.

Show rock concert, show sex, show icy wastes of Antarctica. Repeat eight times. That's essentially the structure of Michael Winterbottom's "9 Songs," a movie that marks an important director's attempt to deal with explicit sex. As an idea, the film is fascinating, but as an experience it grows tedious; the concerts lack closeups, the sex lacks context, and Antarctica could use a few penguins.

A few penguins! roffles

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

I like my jingle. I can't fail. Just like Rudy.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

I've been listening to "A Message to Rudy" by the Specials a lot lately. That song rulez.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

Hev (my sister) told me that a bunch of people were actually singing along (!). I couldn't really see anything from the stage, except for a couple of people dancing in their seats.

I FUCKING LOVE SUPER NACHOS.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

Karyn's Cooked is a lunch option for you? Bah, I'm jealous!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

xxpost I was thinking the Clash. What is it about Rudy and ska?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

In many movies, the first sexual encounter is earth-shaking, and then the lucky couple is magically in love forever -- or at least until the story declares otherwise. In real life, sex is easy but love is hard. Sex is possible with someone you don't know. Love is not. In a way, "9 Songs" is about the gradual realization by Lisa and, more reluctantly, by Matt, that there is not going to be any love and that the sex is therefore going to become kind of sad.

OK, I still might love this. That is exactly the emotional arc of Last Tango in Paris, my #1 of the 70's.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, it's just around the corner. They've got some tasty stuff (the sloppy joe is good) and they've got some kinda bland mediocre stuff ("steak" sandwich).

I think "Rudy" is just a ska slang term, like "rude boy."

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

I thought you meant

http://www.spun.com/amgcover/dvd/full/t0/77/t0774580bth.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

I've been listening to a lot of ska, reggae, rocksteady, and dub lately, but I still don't really know that much about it. I just go to Dusty Groove and point at something.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

I FUCKING LOVE SUPER NACHOS.

yes. I feel that. And I like that I know that we're talking about the same nachos.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

And when the night wind starts to blow upon my huarachos
It helps to think we're talking about the same nachos

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

I think I will go to Karyn's and try the "meatball" sub. Or maybe just get the sloppy joe again.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

i was going to vote pizza. i am leery of "meat", though apparently i was eating fake beef last night. which was fine because it was nothing like beef, it was really good actually.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

where did you get this so-called "beef"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

Man, I'm hungry.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

Well, yeah, like their "meatballs" are made from lentils, so it's basically like a lentil-ball sub, but I guess it makes it more fun to describe it was a meatball sub.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

Success! I have completed my goal, which I have been working on for the past three days of idleness. I have downloaded enough good, previously unseen pornography to fill a disc. The star of the show is this 30-minute, 250 meg thing that's... well, it's pure art. Maybe you don't need to know this, but it makes me happy. I reached a goal.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

i used to get lentil meatloaf all the time, i really like that stuff.

i got this korean style bbq takeout from alice and friends' vegetarian cafe, apparently it's run by some sort of weird cult who makes really good food, or so it seems from what i've had. i didn't realize it was fake beef until i saw it called that on the menu, i just thought it was good.

quite a goal, kenan.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

yeah, sorry. overshare.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

Cut me a break! I have no outlet! And I have a penis!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

"outlet"

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

nice, julia. i like alice & friends a lot. where are you? i thought you were out in westmont or something. but apparently not!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

naw, just amusing is all. (xp)

egg salad is just so very dud today. and i want pizza now.

i live in uptown now, moved a few months ago from the western burbs.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

Congratulations, Kenan!

I had some awesome Indian food in the suburbs of Mpls. And about eight million sandwiches at Au Bon Pain downtown. I may have pizza today.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

C1yde fed is good. I'm listening to them now - they have 5 full tracks up on their site.

In theory, porn sounds kind of fun, but I've never ever seen any didn't disappoint me, not that I've seen that much. I guess I prefer porn masked as artsy indie films.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 26 August 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

"outlet"

Yeah, I thought of that as soon as I hit submit.

I was talking to my mom about this, of all people. Thing is, not only do I not have a girl, I don't want one right now. Sex is messy. It's never simple. I can't do it without becoming involved. I just... can't. I hear of people who can, but I'm not sure I believe them. And involved is the last thing I need. Sex leads to emotional entanglement, even love, and I have enough grief right now, thank you very much.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 26 August 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

What I need is lots of platonic friends that I can call when I'm sad.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 26 August 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

We tried to go to Alice & Friends once, but it was on vacation, so we went to Indie Cafe instead. But someday, I'll make it to Alice & Friends.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

aaaaaaand I've killed the thread.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 26 August 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

Lots of porn isn't very good. Some of it is. Depends on your tastes, too, and how well you know your tastes in terms of seeking out the good stuff.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

most porn isn't very good. Porn by its very nature is bad. Even when it's good, it's the sexual equivalent of living on bread and water.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 26 August 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

i've never seen good porn, but i guess i haven't seen much.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 26 August 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

I don't know about that. I've never liked the idea of considering porn, or cyber- or phone sex for that matter, as inferior substitutes for the "real thing." They're different entities. I suppose I'm fairly anti-rockist when it comes to sex.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

(That was an xpost to Kenan.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

Also, I'm curious how we're using the word "good" in the phrase "good porn." There's some porn that I'm not sure is "good" but it's certainly "effective."

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

Weekend:

Friday: Happy hour with some law school friends to discuss why we are still in law school because wow! This week was a humdinger!

Saturday: Dinner party at my friend Nora's house.

In between, study study study!

So I have this serious teacher crush on my Admin Process teacher and I realized today that this is because he is a slightly chubbier, more Constitutionally literate version of my main homey Craig Finn. If the Hold Steady wrote songs about the separation of powers and the non-delegation clause instead of beer, drugs, and the Midwest, my professor would be the lead singer.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 26 August 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

jenny -- i'm sorry to hear that law school is kicking your ass, but you're so constitutionally sound that i don't think it could break you, like, ever.

i don't know much about porn, but i do know that the flowers on my desk (that i got from my friends for my birthday) are extremely sexy. they're lilies. they're strong and fragrant. this may be slightly too provocative for the 1pm set, but the stamen is actually producing a bit of clear, odorless goo. suffice it to say that they're very sexy flowers and i feel weird having people look at them on my desk.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

There a lot of girls on this thread.

quite good.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

Yes, we're almost like the Noise Board in that regard!

I think it's Sarah, Jenny, Amanda, Kelsey, Jocelyn, and Julia.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

Karyn's was tasty but I forgot that the service there is so slow that I end up getting my food 15 minutes before I'm supposed to be back at my desk and I have to wolf everything down really fast and pay the bill at the same time.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

(cf. John, Nick, Kenan, Jeff, Jordan, Amateurist, dan m., giboyeux, Todd?) (I am prob. forgetting someone, and they will slap me.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

I think it's Sarah, Jenny, Amanda, Kelsey, Jocelyn, and Julia.

Such lovely names.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

imagine these flowers, only more, i don't know, voluptuous.

http://www.flowerdrop.net/images/homepage/singlespecies/lilies-big.jpg

i apologize for the explicit images.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

cor

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

That's a bit of alright.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

Maddie and I went to get her ring re-sized over lunch, so we ended up going to Atlanta Bread Co. I had half a chicken cordon bleu sandwich and a bowl of pretty decent clam chowder, and then I drew a replacement ring on her finger with a blue pen.

xpost, Amanda is dragging this thread down into the gutter yet again.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

I don't think I've ever heard you sound as English as you did just then, Adam!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

The flower is very ... yes.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

Hooray for Jordan!

xp I'm from England!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

nick,
is brett's still around? that was usually my go-to place when working at the gallery, even though it was overpriced. have you ever gone to that weird indian/pakistani (men's only) restaurant on the corner of orleans and chicago?

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

I generally find porn boring, annoying, or so offensive to my feminist sensibilities that I start ranting about the objectification of women even when I don't want to. I'm not saying that there isn't pron that won't bore, annoy, or offend me out there, but given my general reaction to what I've seen, I'm not knocking myself out sifting through all the crap to try and find something that I like.

Well, actually, I partially take that back. While I'm not convinced that sites like Suicide Girls are the feminist solution to porn, I generally find the photos there pleasing. I also have found some amateur stuff to my liking. But the airbrushed stuff and most videos are very distasteful to me.

I'm also a little creeped out by this Adam person right now.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

robots in love

See, I knew I'd forgotten somebody.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

Adam is not creepy! He's stayed at my apartment!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

I'm only creepy on ILX.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

While I'm not convinced that sites like Suicide Girls are the feminist solution to porn, I generally find the photos there pleasing. I also have found some amateur stuff to my liking. But the airbrushed stuff and most videos are very distasteful to me.

Well, then, we partially agree. Professional porn is the worst.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

But you know, Jaymc kenan and n/a are ALL on this thread and they're way creepier than me!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

Adam is great! Like porn!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

But you know, Jaymc kenan and n/a are ALL on this thread and they're way creepier than me!

Oh well that's not saying much...

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

JUST KIDDING!!!

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

indian/pakistani (men's only) restaurant on the corner of orleans and chicago?

I feel like you've mentioned this to me before, but I don't remember: is it a cabbie hangout?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

Yes, we (your friends) are all creepier than Adam.

I have eaten at Brett's a couple of times but I don't like it. Very few veggie options, and their grilled cheese is much drier and more expensive than the one at Steve's. I have also eaten at BABA PALACE (the weird cheap taxi driver Indian restaurant) a couple of times but I am intimidated by it, especially the ordering process, and never know what to get.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

Is it really "men's only"? Is that even legal?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

yes, cabbie hang out...i was trying to find the name....there's another place called Zaiqa, but i think that's a bit further north on Orleans.

Baba Palace--that's it!

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

men's only? How do they enforce this rule?
I think I would only find Adam creepy if he was wearing that giraffe mask, naked.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

It's not men's only, I ate there with a woman once.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

yeah, what's that all about? how do you know if something is a taxi driver restaurant?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

I liked Brett's veggie options, their egg salad and chutney on dark bread is pretty tasty, if you like that sort of thing.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

kenan, you can call me when you're sad.

anybody can, actually

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

Egg salad is nasty.

You can tell it's a cabdriver place because there are usually 20 cabs parked right next to it.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

I've seen Zaiqa, it's right next to my work, but it looks even weirder than Baba Palace. There are at least two other cabdriver Indian/Pakistani restaurants in this general area, one another block up Orleans from Zaiqa and one over by the Moody Bible College.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

I think I would only find Adam creepy if he was wearing that giraffe mask, naked.

That was just for a movie!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

(also, aside to Jordan eating clam chowda-are you and your lovely betrothed going to be in Madison Labor Day weekend?)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

i agree about egg salad. major yuck. in my world, if it's made of eggs, it's not salad.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

Yes, Jocelyn! At least for part of it. I think we're going to Milwaukee on Sunday to freak out my parents (i.e. break the news).

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

So is there a ring? Sorry if I missed this info.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

I just remember your "anonymous" posting on the subject.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

Maddie and I went to get her ring re-sized over lunch, so we ended up going to Atlanta Bread Co. I had half a chicken cordon bleu sandwich and a bowl of pretty decent clam chowder, and then I drew a replacement ring on her finger with a blue pen.
xpost, Amanda is dragging this thread down into the gutter yet again.

-- Jordan (jordan...), August 26th, 2005 1:25 PM. (Jordan) (later)

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

ZING!

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

Oh no! I am creepy AND DUMB.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

"Dumb"? That's what Americans say, right?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

Hi Adam

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

Hello, old chap.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

I just remember your "anonymous" posting on the subject.

Haha, oh yeah!

Here's a very blurry picture of it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

Wow! It looks cool!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

Friday: Happy hour with some law school friends to discuss why we are still in law school because wow! This week was a humdinger!

can i go to this? where is it? email the info to my work address

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, Jordan, that ring is super-duper cool. She has pretty hands too.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

A brief story - The ring place was meant to adjust my ring and they screwed it up, meaning that I got married with a different ring to the one I chose! I eventually got my real ring two days later and shouted at the manager of the jewellery store.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

You did not!

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

I did too!

I don't like shouting at customer service people because I feel like my father. Actually, I don't like shouting at all.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

Wow!

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

Did he give it to you for free, then?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

The ring in that picture looks suspiciously like a band-aid. Is it camouflaged?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

Wow!

well, you tell a more interesting story then!

Did he give it to you for free, then?

hell no. We got a $50 voucher which we gave to my mother-in-law.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

I wasn't being sarcastic, I can't imagine yelling at someone in a store.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

oh. right.

you're so hard to read

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

It was a two-for-one thing.

I'm not trying to be show-offy about the ring, but I think it looks cooler than that picture suggests. I'm sure she'll take a clear one when she gets it back.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

You *should* be proud of your rings!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

I remember telling my mum I was getting married. She cried.

I think she was happy, though.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

I'm proud of the blue ink ring, because I made it all by myself.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

I just got to spend an hour looking at newborn baby clothes... and a newborn baby! Thanks to richie rich mom and all her richie rich friends, I think she already owns everything in Baby Gap.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

I have a toy bear from Baby Gap. I love it.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

Not to change the subject, because I love talking about rings, but:

Something weird happened today at lunch: I was eating tacos at Chipotle and reading the cover story in the Reader. Suddenly, the music they were playing, which was uncharacteristically difficult to hear, started to sound really familiar. I realized within 10 seconds or so that it was one of the songs from the Ball of Wax* soundtrack! Ha! How about that! I don't know whether we should be flattered or offended.

*Ball of Wax = movie that my Dan made, soundtrack written and performed by E. Bachmann.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

A woman here just had a baby and she was in labor for 20 HOURS. Is that normal???

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

ps - i don't really love talking about rings, although i wasn't *not* enjoying reading/hearing YOU guys talk about rings.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

sorry!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

Why would you be offended that they were playing the music, A? That's cool!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

Your husband has an IMDB entry!

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

when i told my parents i was getting married they looked at me with DOUBT

i would look so stupid with an engagement ring, my hands are RIDICULOUS

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

I dunno, I'm not really offended...it's just weird because they're owned by Mcdonald's and the song sounded really ominous and weird in the setting of Burritoville.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

my hands look like old lady hands.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

Your husband has an IMDB entry!

He even gets to be "D4niel Kr4us (I)."

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

when i told my parents i was getting married they looked at me with DOUBT

when did this happen?????? oh wait I think I know

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

You are/were getting married, Mandee?

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

I think my mum also cried because I said " I am getting married and LEAVING THE COUNTRY FOREVER".

Then I opened a bottle of champagne. Pure class.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

He even gets to be "D4niel Kr4us (I)."

that's because he's #1!! whoop whoop!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

Then I opened a bottle of champagne. Pure class.

Did you spray it on her?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

Here's my friend J.T. Mu3ller's IMDB page. He's a really nice guy, he lives in Chicago and works on movies.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

I always feel like everyone else on ILX knows way more about each others' personal lives than I do.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Is that ring an antique or did you design it? It looks a lot like an antique ring in my family, which is a gold dragon with blood red ruby fangs and emerald eyes. I am very jealous that my brother gets to inherit it. We used to have other nice stuff too, but WWII took care of all that.
Jordan-do you and Maddie want to meet up on Saturday and maybe go see The Bros. Grimm or something?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

This kid played Little League with my brother. (Folks! is to my knowledge the only major motion picture partially filmed in Bolingbr00k.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

I think I only heard about Mandee's past engagement recently.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

Hey! Hook me up with yr movie people, I need a crew! my last movie only featured me and Sarah and we were also both camerapeople and I also edited it and lit it and tried to compose the soundtrack. but gave up and used a Devendra song.

Actually, I need actors more than anything else.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

Also - music people give me your song,. tx.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

Adam I will make you some music, just tell me what kind of stuff you want. Give me key words: "dreamy," "diaphonous," "sleazy," etc.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

Adam, my band's album is just completed. Should I send you a copy? (Or tell you about the super-secret web page where you can download mp3s?)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

I would also be in your movie if I lived in the Bay Area.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

Ignore jaymc, I will make music ESPECIALLY for your movie. You don't want his "baroque pop" nonsense and humbuggery.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, that would be awesome, Jocelyn. We may be meeting her dad for brunch that day, but that's it.

Is that ring an antique or did you design it?

Neither! It was made by a woman in town, I just saw it and thought it was really cool (and then paid cash money for it). It's twisty and has a big garnet and a little sapphire.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

Or wait - do I sense the long-awaited jaymc/n/a COLLABO?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

This would all be great! I have an idea for a movie I want to do after we get back from London. I need music like M83 or like
"Läuft...Heist das Es Läuft Oder Es Kommt Bald...Läuft" off of Faust IV, like a long synth drone. Key word "dissonant"

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

my hands are SMALL, but not SLENDER, kinda like a 9 year-olds hands or something -- grodey

yeah adam you know about me

adam! i want to be an actor!! hire me!!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

please, I need actors so badly too. send people. Also a camera person wuld be nice. The rest I can do. I can't pay but I will make food.

xp - I can't visit Colorado, I'm afraid of heights.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

I suggest we do a Harold Budd/Brian Eno thing, with jaymc playing keyboards and me "playing" effects.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

Oh yes I was also thinking Eno! Do you know The Big Ship from Another Green World? Like that.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

Actually, Jaymc you would be a good actor, I think.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

Adam I would act in your movie if I lived in this "Bay Area."

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

Have you ever...trod the boards?

xp Where were you all when I lived in Ohio?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

I just googled my band's name - well, duh, of course because I do that all the time - and came across a porn site! Does that mean we've made it?

I'm ready to go home now. There's too much crap on my desk.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

Adam, do you seriously want his e-mail? He mostly does sound recording and mixing.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

Adam, I have acted before, in a variety of productions both comedic and dramatic. I also have extensive improv experience.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

I would love to meet a sound guy but I'm not really going to be in Chicago! :(

Also he has an IMDB page! He is a pro and I wouldn't want to waste his time!

xp knew it

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

I'd ask some of the Bay Area ILX people to be in my movie but they're all old and jaded. I was going to shoot some back projections for Kyle's band but I didn't get to it in time.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

I know someone who rents out weapons and props for movies and does stunts, but he lives in Seattle : ( (we're not being helpful, are we)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

yes, you are.

One day, I'll have an IMDB page. Maybe.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

Oh wait, my girlfriend (er, FIANCE) is an actress! She was in an AVANT GARDE play last year, and would probably work for food. Except I don't think we could come out to California for longer than a weekend.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

Here is my acting CV:

Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1992)
The Russian Intruder in See How They Run (1993)
Joe Cable in South Pacific (1994)
Glenn in Rumors (1994)
Tito Morelli in Lend Me a Tenor (1995)
Lt. Brannigan in Guys and Dolls (1996)
Woodrow Wilson in Joe Hill (1996)
John in Mystery Spot (dir. Holly Hughes) (1997)
Dad in WASP (1998)
Bob Dooley in Tough Choices for the New Century (2000)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

oh wait, there I am:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1952667/

xp - shall I move to Chicago?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

You played someone called TITO MORELLI???

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

John in Mystery Spot

this sounds like a stretch

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

Yes you shall move to Chicago.

Jaymc, seriously, do you want to record some "incidental" music mostly for fun but also we can send it to Adam to use in something if he wants? I don't have to do effects, I can play guitar or percussion or something.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

Okay, the last play I was in was Dracula senior year of high school. But I was Mina Harker! I got a fake communiun wafer burned into my forehead!

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

this sounds like a stretch

Well, it was a performance piece. I was basically playing myself.

Yeah, Nick, I'd be into that!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

Adam, Please shoot some back projections for my band. k thx bye.

No, not bye yet. Hi.

I WANT TO GO HOME! YARGH ME MATIES!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

Also, re Tito Morelli: it was a farce about a production of the opera Otello that goes horribly awry!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

You could totally send me some music that I could just cut some random images to. That is always so much easier to do than with a song I know well or whatever.

But don't feel like you have to.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Adam, Please shoot some back projections for my band.

What do bands have as back projections these days?

I should find the email that described what Kyle wanted!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Adam - a word of advice - try not to use SAG actors. it creates hoops you don't want to jump through.

Also, i was "Girl" in the Music Man, Akron, OH 1987.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone wanna hang out with me tonight?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

I want to, but instead will be hanging out with Sarah, her sister, and eventually her mom. Sorry.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

try not to use SAG actors. it creates hoops you don't want to jump through.

Yes, I found this out when I lived in NYC. You have to sign their little form and they have lots of rules.

But I got some good actors. my two leads were both in (TINY) parts in Copland and Donnie Brasco respectively.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

jaymc: Does Mystery Spot have anything to do with the tourist trap of the same name in MI?

― dan m (OutDatWay), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

i was never in any REAL productions but i played a really convincing (ahem) bernard butler in a recreation of a suede video my sister and i made in 1994

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

FACT - I am in a *real* Suede video!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

Dan: yes but only tangentially. It was a performance piece created and directed by H0lly Hughes, and written in collaboration with the cast (i.e., us), about family vacations. She had selected that as the title before we started writing the show, inspired by said tourist trap (she's from Saginaw, originally), but it didn't really work its way into the script.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

Adam, no you're not.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

adam, spill - and don't LIE, I HAVE THE DVD AT HOME I CAN CONFIRM

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

A REAL Suede video? Do tell!!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

I made a diagram to show a suggested recording set-up for the jaymc-n/a soundtrack project:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/naamme/dia.jpg

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

jaymc: Interesting. I've driven past that place 1000 times it seems, but never stopped. Why be a tourist when you're already almost home?

― dan m (OutDatWay), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

n/a: Sweet. I don't know anything about recording, so that'll have to do.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

It needs some sound lines coming out of the speaker.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

Do I know any Suede songs? I think I heard one recently and was like oh dude, I totally know this song, but now I don't remember what it was.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

Would the 8-track then be mixed on the computer?

I want to be in a video!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

Did Suede do This is a Low or was that Blur? I remember liking Suede in my college radio days, but I never owned anything by them.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

i dunno jaymc, they were my favorite band when i was a teenager

um... they never had any hits or anything

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

sarah that was Blur

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

okay.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

ive been an anglophile for a long time apparently!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

i had their first album -- with Modest Mickey on it?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

i had their first album -- with Modest Mickey on it?

It's weird when I suddenly discover the origins of ILX posters' names.

"The Drowners" is apparently on my iPod.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

I had one of their albums too, I think the first one, because I lived in INDIA and you could buy cassette tapes of new albums for $1.50 so I bought anything that looked interesting.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

Metal Mickey! It was Metal Mickey. Sorry.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

"Metal Mickey" (SHE SELLS MEAT??)

well she's show showing it off then
the glitter in her lovely eyes
show show showing it off then
and all the people shake their money in time

she sells heart, she sells meat
oh dad, she's driving me mad, come see

we shake shake to the trumpet
and through the slippery city we ride
skyline swine on the circuit
where all the people shake their money in time

she sells heart, she sells meat
oh dad, she's driving me mad, come see
?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

adam what was metal mickey, the television program, like? it sounds scary

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

she's a BUTCHER!!!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

i don't know why i sold that cd. i liked it.

ew! a butcher! a lady butcher?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

I am so confused. Also, listening to "The Drowners," I can now hear the Suede song I'm thinking of, in my mind. Except it sounds very similar to "The Drowners," so now I wonder if I'm imagining things.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

i am dying to think of the song jaymc is thinking of!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

Did you talk about it in any of your innocent and thoughtful teenage diaries?

xxp

Homosexual II - I'm in the US video for The Drowners. I have said this on ILE many times before. So are about a hundred other people (including a friend of Gareth's).

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

Oh, it's "Metal Mickey"!! I just listened on Amazon. Apparently it was #7 on the Modern Rock chart in the U.S.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

(Obviously, I don't know lyrics at all, or else I'd have recognized it here.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

This is Metal Mickey. He is ahppy robot that I loved as a child

http://www.tamie.org/metalmickey.png

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

I'm also prominently in the video for a bad song by a b-list britpop band, but I'm not saying which becuase I look SO bad in it.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

It's Menswe@r, isn't it?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

5ive?
This discussion of Metal Mickey and a completly different one on the Noize board remind me of how much I love SWEENEY TODD.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

It's Menswe@r, isn't it?

No, but I used to "hang out" with Menswear in CAMDEN.

god britpop is so embarassing now.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

This was the album I played a lot.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, that's actually pretty good. I didn't actually ever really like Suede. I was in the video because I joined the fan club...becasue of a girl...:\

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

and the answer to the obvious question is "no"

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

I don't know what the obvious question is!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

Was she a butcher?

(that's the only one i could think of)

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

I never had a brit-pop phase. :(

THINGS THAT HAVE MADE FEEL LIKE AN IDIOT TODAY:

--Getting all pissed off when the Anthony Hamilton live cd I bought over lunch wouldn't play in my car cd player, and then realizing that it's a DVD (but it was in a cd case in the cd section of the store!).

--Getting all freaked out over a $75 charge on my debit card going to somewhere in New Jersey today, because I forgot that I had just paid my cell phone bill online.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

I never really had a britpop phase either, just a Blur phase.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

i've had plenty of brit-pop phases, but it probably peaked in high school. then again, it was the late 80s/early '90s.

i've been an idiot my whole life, though.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

I had a very small Brit-pop phase in 1994-95. Basically, I really liked the first Oasis and Elastica albums. But I also bought a Sleeper single and an Echobelly record. And liked the Supergrass song that was in Clueless.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

i've been an idiot my whole life, though.
-- The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (handy_manda@yahoo.com), August 26th, 2005 3:51 PM. (The Milkmaid) (later)

We will have none of that thank you.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

I don't know what the obvious question is!

This thread is really different, isn't it? I think I get it.

Jaymc-one of those bands is the band you are searching for.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

Haha, I remember excitedly asking my friend Chris in high school if he liked "British music." He said, uh, no, not especially.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

Was he a noise dude?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

I heard a song I liked on Minneapolis's kick-ass public radio station. It was pretty spare, with a funky drum beat, really loud electric bass that kinda sounded like the part from Led Zep's "Ramble On", vocals, and what sounded like a melodica. Is it possible that this was Blur?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

Adam, please tell me it was Echobelly.

No, not a noise dude -- well not yet (he later did make some entirely digital noise compositions!) -- he liked hip-hop and indie rock. He liked Grand Royal-ish stuff a lot (Beastie Boys, Blues Explosion, Luscious Jackson).

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

If it had a melodica, it could have been Gorillaz or something.

it wasn't Echobelly.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

Then it must've been Sleeper, because the rest of that crop is A-list.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

Your search - "sleeper video" "adam levine" - did not match any documents.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

the guessing games are over now. Let's just be cool.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

hi chicago & all. happy friday!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

hi kelsey! how was yr training session?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

I don't think it was Blurillaz because it was all clearly live playing. Even if it wasn't Blur, it kind of made me want to get the last Blur album because I imagine it sounds like that.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

Happy Friday, kelsey!

I'm soooooooooooo tired.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

Aren't you all supposed to be going home now?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

No, it's only 4:15. I don't leave until 6, anyway.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

45 minutes

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

I was more of the Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Inspiral Carpets, etc Britpop variety. I also had a Morrissey wall in my room. I bought the first Electronic album when it came out.

Who's Sleeper? Echobelly? I must have had my head in the sand during those years.

Hi Kelsey!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

Milkmaid, I am guessing you are in your late twenties/ very early thirties.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

I just turned 30 this week, thankee.
You're so right.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

I think Sleeper was like the poor woman's Elastica. I liked Echobelly partially because the lead singer was cuet:

http://www.ear.fm/Encyclopedia%20E/echobelly.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

I liked Morrissey, too, but don't really think of him as "Britpop," exactly.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

I used to really like Garbage & Portishead.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

Does Garbage count? Shirley Manson is Scottish, but the rest of the band is American, I thought.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

WHO CARES THIS IS CHICAGO

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

http://www.interpunk.com/itemimages2/39888.jpg

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

I'm going to my first Mexican wedding tomorrow.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

Madisonian!

xpost - BUTCH VIG VS STEVE ALBINI! NEVERMIND VS IN UTERO!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

I'm so happy I partially inspired the NOISE BORED (GAY) MUSICAL THREAD.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

jordan,
the thing you heard in mpls sounds like a description of Clinic, who use melodica on every song.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

good call, mark.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

the training thing was okay, thanks. i am only at my desk for 2 1/2 hours today. You'd think I'd buckle down & do shit since I'm actually getting a little stressed about my work. But no. I can't seem to buckle down one bit.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

the one really nice thing i'm proud of this week is the fact that i lifted three days. usually i only really do two, saying (to myself) to do three.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

i'm trying to figure out where i'm at (i.e. feeling social vs. feeling hermity) so i can make a little plan for myself this evening.

right now i feel like undoing all the good from the lifting & eating crap, smoking & downing a bottle of wine.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

oh, and with regards to the porn conversation upthread....i am so mixed up about the whole thing. sometimes, some porn (nothing too glossy & fake booby) really turns me on. sometimes, the EXACT SAME stuff pisses me off. i'm not consistant with how i feel about it. sometimes i feel like i ought to hate it & sometimes i just hate it. other times i like owning the fact that it kinda makes me hot. granted, photographically speaking, i have yet to find a photo of a man that does the same thing to me as a photo of a woman & i wish this man photo existed. i wish more than one did, actually. that said, it's nothing i'm interested in enough to really dig around for.
wrt movies...i've seen a total of three in my life. one was recommended to me by the video store clerk (i asked him, it wasn't creepy). it was HOTT. i got slapped with a late fee.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

i can do those things with you!!!

(xpost smoking & drinking wine, not watching porn)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

watching porn with you would really make me quite uncomfortable.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

one idea that was tossed around was that leaf & i would go & see the exact same movie tonight (but in different cities) & then it would almost be like a date.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

We should all get together and critique Kenan's BONER JAMZ '03 CD-R. That would be uncomfortable.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

well, yes, that's why i'm not suggesting it. i did give you my suicidegirls pwd, tho.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

"TOO MUCH PENIS, NOT ENOUGH VAGINA...C+"

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

you did? i've never used it.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

the thing is, actually looking at a bunch of photos & making comments would be entertaining, i think. it would probably have to be some other set as to not inflict judgement on kenan's tastes. it would go down easier with beer.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

you did? i've never used it.

i've since changed it, anyway.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

5 minutes dudes

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

here's to them moving fast...

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

amen

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

I have heartburn now, I think from having to eat my vegetarian sloppy joe so fast.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

I'm also a little creeped out by these chicago people right now.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

I GET TO GO TO O'HARE 2NITE

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

i ate 1/2 a donut because it was there & it's friday. it was good yet gross at the same time.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

Adam join our PORN TALK

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

OK bye guys

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

ooh, that made me feel skeevy, like i have "a case of the Mondays."

i'm looking forward to Amanda's Hermit Night at Home. I can join the porn talk from there.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

because we're tossing porn passwords around like candy?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

bye

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

Creepy would be if I told you what my Suicidegirls pwd actually was.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

Creepy would be when my wife comes and MURDERS you for allowing me access to this inappopriate material.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

i've eaten a lot of candy today. coincidentally.

i have to carry these porny flowers home on the train. it's going to be awkward.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, Adam, but [CONTROVERSIAL MODERATOR EDIT]?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

WHAT?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

Your password is probably "keyboardguy1979" or something.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

Haha!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

im kinda sad we arent talking about britpop anymore

its obvious adam was in a OASIS video

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

I was not.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

Also, I have never been to this "Suicide Girls" site.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

It's basically just snuff films, you wouldn't like it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

Creepy would be when my wife comes and MURDERS you for allowing me access to this inappopriate material

I'm planning to base my marriage on a strong pornographic foundation!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

It's basically just snuff films, you wouldn't like it.

how do you know?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

It isn't actually snuff films.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

Right, it's HIPSTER GOTH SNUFF FILMS.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

I'm really bored! :(

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

I have reports to write, but I'm so bored I can't face doing them.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

http://www.suicidegirls.com
http://www.suicidegirls.com
http://www.suicidegirls.com
http://www.suicidegirls.com
http://www.suicidegirls.com
http://www.suicidegirls.com
http://www.suicidegirls.com
http://www.suicidegirls.com
http://www.suicidegirls.com
http://www.suicidegirls.com
http://www.suicidegirls.com

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

I am at work!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

Also my name is Adam not Jaymc.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

Jaymc Sucide Girls

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

(that was for google)

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

does anyone have a 1-800 number i can call?

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

Actually I've only ever looked at SG like once, someone in my band gave me their password. It didn't do much for me (except for the snuff obv.).

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

any random toll free number?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

1-800-ILIVEINDENVER

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

1-800-IAMMANDEE

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

sure

when i was a kid the greeley library had a number you could call and listen to a scratchy, barely audible record over the phone... i found it massively entertaining

also the summer of the free 1-800 number for OK SODA was memorable

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

1-800 HELP4PETS is good.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

actually, I like 1-800-FANDANGO

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

Haha, awesome.

I'm going home (well, home for a couple of hours, and then off to play a wedding in the wilderness near Canada!) guys, peace.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

bye!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

no fair, the home office had their power go out at like 1pm and everyone GO TO GO HOME

shouldn't that fun friday afternoon treat be extended to the people in the satellite offices?

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

in a perfect world, yes.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

i meant GOT to go home, of course

you know

im at 1-800-FANDANGO now

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

Re Suicidegirls: some of the photos are just really well-shot, and some of the sets are very creative. And a few of the girls are pretty, too. One of my favorite recent sets involved a girl who looked a bit like Kate Winslet and some artfully placed sushi. I doubt any of you will be able to access this without being logged in, but maybe?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

okay 1-800-fandango sucks

you have to TALK - i hate those automated services where you talk instead of dial, i feel really DUMB

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

I'm not clicking on it!

I don't like Winslet anyway.

sorry, mandee

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

how many of you are getting tired of indie boys talking about how miranda july is cute?

... "i don't really like the kind of girls normal guys like, like angelina jolie.. i fancy MIRANDA JULY"

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

the only one i've heard say that is KENAN HEBERT.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

Mandee, I just emailed you about how bored I am.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

I don't really know who Miranda July is. Sarah saw the movie, she liked the kids.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

oh i've heard it loads of times already

not from kenan yet, though!!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

kenan just posted a pic of m. july on a chicago thread recently & was like 'hubba hubba' and we were all like 'hmmm she looks kind of sickly.'

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

You can pretty much get Kenan to say anything about anything.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

true.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

i mean, her hair is cute!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

hi you two. how is life in the mountain and pacific time zones?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

boring.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

I'm waiting to leave work, go home, buy groceries, watch Netflix, sleep.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

What are you doing? How's your weather?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

Me? I don't know. I was hoping to maybe hang out with Kelsey tonight, but she hasn't decided if she wants to hang out or not. I'm fact-checking an obituary of an Italian fashion designer right now. The weather around noon today was absolutely gorgeous -- sunny in the 70s -- but it looks like it may have gotten slightly overcast since then.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

im sitting here, worrying about traffic :/

whats your plan for the weekend jaymc?

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

I have no plans except doing laundry and grocery shopping! And writing an article. Maybe I'll do that tonight if nothing else happens. I'd feel pretty lame, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

Also I want to go record-shopping at some point this weekend. I think tomorrow, because I also have to return a microphone to a friend of mine who works in Wicker Park, so I will combine the trip.

I wanted to get my hair cut this weekend, but my stylist wasn't able to fit me in until next weekend. My hair is getting too shaggy.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

my friend's band is playing tonight but i don't have any money and I'm feeling ANTISOCIAL!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

I had a fancy haircut in an edgy salon the other day. There was revolving art of the walls and I had to take off my shirt and wear some sort of weird apron. Very strange.

I'm fact-checking an obituary of an Italian fashion designer right now.

that sounds actually fun!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

I'm running a Texas newsletter report.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

im creating a press runlist for a BROCHURE i need to send to the printer on monday

WOOOOO SPREADSEET

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

update:newsletter report generated.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

OK, you all went home, I get it.

But remember - On Monday morning, when you come back to this thread, I'll be ASLEEP!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

i am here!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 26 August 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

I's 5 for you! go home! the traffic!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

its going to be so awful

i'm waiting until 5:30 i think

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 26 August 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

I have to ride a little train to get home! And try and read my book while people jostle me!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

I'm just about to leave.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

bye jaymc!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 August 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

bye!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 August 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

SSEE YA JAYMC

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 26 August 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

I know everyone already went home and everything, but remember those flowers I was telling you about? I decided to take them home. When I got home, after a lengthy snooze on the train, I saw that I had smeared yellow-orange dust ALL OVER MY FACE AND NECK. And clothes. There was a big glob of it between my eyes too, so it sort of looked like I meant it.

Nice bronzer!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 26 August 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

I just found out that one of my best friends in the world is moving to Chicago in like 6 weeks. I'm happier than I've been in a while.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Saturday, 27 August 2005 00:59 (twenty years ago)

Since I can't post at work, you guys post too much for me to ready. I do skim however.

I like porn.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Saturday, 27 August 2005 01:16 (twenty years ago)

Jeff, please tell your wife I'm not creepy! thanks

also, good for you!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Saturday, 27 August 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)

She thinks you're great!

She gets the crème de la crème of creepy dealing with me and kenan.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Saturday, 27 August 2005 01:22 (twenty years ago)

Also, we're going to the saturday sufjan stevens show. Who else is going to be there?

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Saturday, 27 August 2005 01:23 (twenty years ago)

not me, but thanks. Enjoy King of Comedy, it's one of my favorite movies!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Saturday, 27 August 2005 01:26 (twenty years ago)

Jaymc vouched for you. Official verdict: Not creepy.

Johhhhhnnnnnnn we're going to the Hopleaf if you are still feeling lame and have nothing to do.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 27 August 2005 01:30 (twenty years ago)

word up, chicago. i am druuuunk.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Saturday, 27 August 2005 07:59 (twenty years ago)

kenan and jaymc = my dawgs

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 28 August 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

i am at an internet cafe!!

still no internet at home yet.

i am supposed to be "researching" "bowie."

last night i had drinks with the voice of wbez mornings: lisa l@buz!

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 28 August 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

Chicago:Hot Streets!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Sunday, 28 August 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

good morning peoples. jaymc - you had drinks with lisa l@buz? no WAY. i met carlos hernandez g0mez once and he was a total spaz. we did not have drinks but he told dan and i to "look him up" at the billy goat on michigan ave. because that's where "all the journalists hang out."

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 29 August 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

Good morning.

I had such a great weekend! My mom made me birthday cake and bought us groceries and some stuff from Target (including a french coffee press) and painted my toenails bright red. My sister made a little video of her August which included shots/footage of our weekend taken on her digital camera (including a fuzzy FF show) and teased my mom with me. I got to do lots of shopping and eating. And and and I got so many awesome birthday presents!

NICK GOT ME A CAR STEREO!

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Monday, 29 August 2005 12:58 (twenty years ago)

woohoo! that sounds like a good time. what else did you get?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 29 August 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

i really do not like carl0s h3rnandez g0mez. when i interned at the station, he stared at my boobs the ENTIRE LENGTH of our conversation. it was ridiculous. also: he thinks he's too cool for school.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 29 August 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

yay for birthday presents!!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 29 August 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

haha, i was just about to tell the gomez boobs story and then i saw you already posted it!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

Happy Birthday, Sarah!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

actually, nick, can our musical side project be called "the gomez boobs story"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

i am kidding.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

I'm in a musical side project with Chuck tatum and another mystery person. We're called "Bald Baby Afro".

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

My mom got me Maybe Baby perfume & jeans that fit. My sister got me a forever 21 shirt and a little bag from Paper Doll with Maude on it - I'm using it to carry my lunch to work for now on. My dad - or at least the bday money he sent - got me a turquoise sweater and a black swingy skirt. This is all detailed on my blog for your viewing pleasure.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Monday, 29 August 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

that reminds me, adam, i once made my brother a mix tape entitled "barbecue for biracial babies."

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

what does that have to do with that?

I wish people bought me clothes. Jeans that fit!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

Happy birthday Sarah, it sounds like you had a fun weekend.

The last few days have been crazy for me, I don't know where to start. However, I do know that my next rock band is going to be named Dot and the Matrices.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 29 August 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

Tell us!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

Chicago smelled nice when I went back. Is it using a new shampoo, maybe? After getting off the highway, the first familiar sight was, as always, Hilary's Urban Eatery, which made me think: do people really ever eat there? Or does it just exist, maybe? Is it beyond mere "business?" Also: why do lots of kids in Wicker Park look like they just came from Brooklyn? They didn't before. They need to maintain their Chicago stylez.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 29 August 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

Ha! CHI ILX represented at HUE after Day 1 of Intonation.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 29 August 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

My SO gets coffee and food at Hilary's Urban Eatery because she works around the corner. I've never been, but I wouldn't be adverse to trying it out.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Monday, 29 August 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

Well, I drove up to my sousaphone player's parent's cabin in Spooner, Wisconsin on Friday. His dad made us hamburgers at two in the morning. Then we drove up to the boundary waters (at the Minnesota/Canada border) the next morning and took a flat-bottom boat to an island where the wedding gig was. It was such a weird combination between wedding-mode, camping-mode, and gig-mode. Also, nstead of a wedding cake, they had a Ben & Jerry's ice cream bar. It was an open bar without a bar tender, just infinite bottles of whiskey, scotch, wine, and beer where you just grabbed whatever you wanted and drank it straight.

We played three sets and I got completely trashed. At some point I felt horrible was ready to crash in our cabin when there was some noise about playing an afterbar IN ANOTHER CABIN. It was some weird summer camp shit. Our snare drummer was lying in bed in his underwear, and he woke up, put his sandles on, and started hiking down the trail. That inspired me, so we went and played a vulgar and sloppy after set.

Next morning, we left and found the coolest breakfast place ever. They make and sell Dork Clothing and clever liberal bumper stickers there. I had awesome fried walleye for breakfast. Then we drove 10 hours to get home and tried to reach friends in New Orleans on the phone.

Now I'm torn in way too many directions at work, between a ton of work to get done, worrying about New Orleans, my head spinning from relationship stuff, and normal Monday morning unmotivation.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 29 August 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

why do lots of kids in Wicker Park look like they just came from Brooklyn? They didn't before. They need to maintain their Chicago stylez.

Got to certain shows in SF and you will be depressed by the strange fake-(LAST YEAR'S)New York thing everyone seems to have going on.

xp wow!

What's a sousaphone?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

Nick and Sarah just had brunch at H.U.E. the other day!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

Hilary does her business in secret, when I'm not looking. Cold Comfort does its business in my mouth.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 29 August 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

xpost - Didn't they? I left before that, but I remember that's where they were heading. The hipstery in WP is completely out of control, at least for my stomach. It's like they have to raise the hipster quotient in order to compete with the yuppies and everyone's just raising the ante, one legwarmer/latte at a time.

Also: I had a great time at the Mexican wedding and danced so much that my feet are STILL crippled. I even danced to "Gasolina."

Jordan -- your weekend sounds like mad fun.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 29 August 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

Ev@n M0rgan underwear pix, pls.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

Sousaphone:

http://www.flutterbydesign.com/funstuff/tubaphil.jpg
http://www.jazzascona.ch/pic/2005/07/1122047152/contest.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 29 August 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

xpost - kelsey, i agree with you about CHG. he seemed like he was on uppers or something.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 29 August 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

Ev@n M0rgan underwear pix, pls.

Ha, I wish I could provide them! I saw plenty of people (including the hott bridesmaids) snapping pics, I'll have to try and track some down for posterity.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 29 August 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

I love HUE! All kinds of people eat there.

Also, I am comfortable in my hipster hood! I wish I were 10 years younger, because then I'd appreciate it more. But I don't wish that it were 1995, because then I'd probably be too scared to live there.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Monday, 29 August 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

not that this has anything to do with chicago, but i tried to go on a 60 mile bike trip this weekend, along the Santa Ana River. my friend managed to get two flat tires; unfortunately, we only had one spare tube and no tire irons. so we had to call another friend for help at about mile 40. there was a really strong sea breeze on the return trip, so i didn't mind too terribly having to stop.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Monday, 29 August 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

that sounds like fun, m.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

it was fun until the bit about the flat tire(s). the best part of long bike rides is eating afterwards. everything tastes better.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Monday, 29 August 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

Nick's bike tire has... issues. He's replaced the tube and tire and added air a bunch of times and taken it to get repaired... So I don't know what the deal is, but I want to ride bikes with him.

That sounds fun, robots.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Monday, 29 August 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

i stopped riding my bike when it started to fuck up my arm/shoulder. :(

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

You look appropriately Chicago-hip, though, Sarah. I kept seeing W.P. kids who looked like they'd made special trips to Brooklyn to observe and import their styles and accessories, which was a little bit sad. There were even people in NYC-specific items, like A-train shirts and such. Though they could have been NYC expats, I suppose, what with everyone all into moving to Chicago these days. (Which, yeah, expect an influx: everytime I'm in a bar here someone goes on about how he or she's been thinking about moving to Chicago. At first I thought I just noticed it more, but no -- it's all the rage now.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 29 August 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

My friend Nick B@rtell is moving to Chicago next week! He's one of the saxophone players for Digdown, although I think he played on the night before you guys came to the gig. He's staying with his sister until he finds a place to live and a band to play with.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 29 August 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

like A-train shirts

How tacky. You gotta get an F train shirt.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 29 August 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

Of course, the L train is a swell train and I don't want to hear you indies complain.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 29 August 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

expect an influx: everytime I'm in a bar here someone goes on about how he or she's been thinking about moving to Chicago. At first I thought I just noticed it more, but no -- it's all the rage now.

I don't worry about sullying the purity of the city or anything. Let New Yorkers move here. New Yorkers are fine individuals.

Still, I wonder what the rage is about. Did they hear about Millenium Park or something? It's nice and all, but instead of the bean, there should be 40-ft bronze likeness of Will Smith, and it should be called Willenium Park.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 29 August 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

Hey -- has anyone here ever been to Gulliver's? It's on Howard, maybe two blocks west of Western? It's purported to be "America's most beautiful pizzeria." So we went there on Saturday. And I have to tell you guys, if you've never been there, that it's AWESOME. The ceiling is covered with chandeliers, like 50 per dining room. There are three dining rooms and an outdoor seating area. There are these oooold booths and tons of antiques plastered all over the walls and every available surface. It claims to be the North Side's original destination for deep dish pizza, and I can confirm that it was pretty tasty.

I would like to propose a mid-winter FAP there because it's the coziest, warmest place I've been in a good long while.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 29 August 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

Weird. Lisa L@buz mentioned that place to me the other night, because I was telling her about Grizzly Man and how Timothy and Jewel had met at a Gulliver's Travels-themed restaurant. I've never been there, but in the wake of the cozy red booths of Calo being converted into a more upscale Italian dining experience, I've been looking for an old, dimly lit pizzeria.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

(I swear, I wasn't trying to name-drop. At first I couldn't remember who had mentioned Gulliver's to me, but then I did.) (I have been curious about Gulliver's for a while, though, cuz I always pass it on the way to Target.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

That's weird! This place must be seen to be believed. We had driven past it a zillion times before too and we just decided to go in on Saturday. The pizza was good, and I'm not even really that into deep dish. We had a small cheese-and-mushroom pizza that came to $10 and it was enough for two of us for lunch. Huge menu too. It would be a good place to go on a date. They;re open til 1AM. No servers in costume though.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

I want to hang out with Chicago Public Radio people! How much do I have to pledge? What membership level is that?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

It's one of the perks of a) being friends with a guy who works in the fundraising department at WBEZ who b) happened to be walking past Huettenbar the other night and saw Lisa in the window several minutes after c) I called his girlfriend (Elizabeth of Canasta) asking if they wanted to hang out.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

I'd pick Gulliver's for Restaurant Club this week, but no one will want to come that far north.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

I went to an old dimly lit pizzeria in Chicago for my bachelor party. I can't remember the name.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

I feel like punching Acr0bat Reader in the balls! Other than that, I'm still doing great. I just had a slice of my birthday cake mom made!

I like chandeliers. I don't like deep dish pizza, but I guess I should give it one more chance.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

OMG you guys, have you heard about Galactic Pizza in Minneapolis? They deliver your pizza in little electric cars and SUPERHERO COSTUMES!!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

I feel like punching Acr0bat Reader in the balls!

do it!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

Kelsey talks about Galactic Pizza all the time!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

Re: Gulliver's:

They have thin crust too! You can get thin crust IN the pan! I don't like deep dish either, since it's usually gross, but this wasn't gross. I'm not going to tell you that it's the BEST pizza I've ever eaten, but it's worth going there for the atmo.

They have a HUGE round table that looks like it's from 500 years ago and probably seats 10-12 people. Maybe we could reserve that sometime and have a huge Northside FAP. (It's pretty convenient to 90/94 too, if anyone wants to come down from WI)

What's Restaurant Club?

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

I thought you'd ask.

(Please ignore weird photo of me on the front page.)

(Actually, that doesn't really do a good job of explaining. Basically, some friends of mine had the idea to go out to dinner every Friday night, and invite anyone who wanted to come via e-mail. Each week a new person would pick a new restaurant to go to, with the idea that no restaurant would ever be repeated. 280 weeks later, here we are.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

We sorely need a new thread.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

Chicago 13

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

Did somebody say The Ditty Bops?

Jesus, I know ALL of you!

I won't even say what I was googling to end up at this page at 1 a.m. on a Sunday night.

― Flaneur, Monday, 5 September 2005 04:45 (twenty years ago)

you mean you weren't googling "ditty bops"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 September 2005 07:52 (twenty years ago)

Results 61 - 70 of about 549 for "ditty bops" porn. (0.07 seconds)

Chicago: Hot Streets!
jaymc, I really like the Ditty Bops! I mean, I hadn't heard them before now, ... In theory, porn sounds kind of fun, but I've never ever seen any didn't ...
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― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 September 2005 07:53 (twenty years ago)

Yes, yes, I found this on the way to the Ditty Bops "fan fiction" sites.

But, back to business:

Canasta cover art should identically mimic the "Hot Streets" cover, with (left to right): Megan, EL, Jaymc, Colin, Priest.

― Flaneur, Monday, 5 September 2005 08:40 (twenty years ago)

P.S. I guess I could look this up, but are there "band fiction" sites?

― Flaneur, Monday, 5 September 2005 08:46 (twenty years ago)

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