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― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 24 March 2006 01:34 (nineteen years ago)

Hey there.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 24 March 2006 01:35 (nineteen years ago)

NICK/SARAH: DO YOU KNOW A RED-HEADED CHICK NAMED FROM COLLEGE????

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 02:22 (nineteen years ago)

reboot

NICK/SARAH: DO YOU KNOW A RED-HEADED CHICK NAMED [STACY] FROM COLLEGE????

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 02:23 (nineteen years ago)

Re: the other thread:

I've never managed to get my }nd{et...nts rating up enough to get an account to give, but then I don't seed stuff that isn't there.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 24 March 2006 02:40 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, we know Stacy. She was roommates with my good pal and former bandmate. We run into her every few months.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 24 March 2006 02:59 (nineteen years ago)

does anyone know some bar/club called neo? my friend wants to go. she says its a goth club, but they have 80s/newwave nite tonite which sounds somewhat appealing and almost offsets the "goth club" part. i dunno. is it fun?

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 24 March 2006 03:04 (nineteen years ago)

I like the name of this thread. If only it were true. It's supposed to snow tomorrow.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Friday, 24 March 2006 03:09 (nineteen years ago)

The secret to torrent sites like #it (as much as I've figured out) is to be able to leave your computer running as long as possible to seed things, and to figure out what multiple other people want, and when. In other words, be a part of the community. Which can be a real pain in the ass, like I said! :)

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 03:14 (nineteen years ago)

She is friends with (one of) our singer(s)!

btw: we're making posters I think. we were thinking FFs @ 10pm SHARKS @ 11.30?

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 03:15 (nineteen years ago)

Also download anything popular that just got uploaded, whether you want it or not.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 24 March 2006 03:18 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa! So I'm gonna get to see two bands with 3 Chicago ILXors on the 8th? I'm super excited.

(psst... dan... could I get an invite? it's okay if not. da phi ma at gmail dot com, without the spaces... sorry if it's irritating)

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 24 March 2006 03:22 (nineteen years ago)

Not a problem, man. I've got a bunch. (hint to anyone else who is curious)

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 03:26 (nineteen years ago)

sure invite me. login (not gbx) at gmail.

technically, you'll see 4, I guess. my roommate lurks like a motherfucker.

btw: should I see batman begins or lord of war???

i've seen batman begins, but i loved it.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 03:28 (nineteen years ago)

Batman begins is the only one I've seen.

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 03:33 (nineteen years ago)

NOT HELPFUL, DAN

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 03:34 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, wait: what about "Firefly/Serenity"? Seen those?

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 03:34 (nineteen years ago)

I'm just sayin'

xpost: Yes! I was doubtful at first because of the Buffy connection, but they turned out to be pretty good in the end.

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 03:35 (nineteen years ago)

H'm.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 03:37 (nineteen years ago)

I'm curious! (I know I'm only tangentially chicago-thread but I'm alright.) I love teh torrents but haven't done 1ndie torrents - but i have been keeping my computer on all day lately, so perhaps i should give it a go... email is email below. You are great :)
xpost!

Batman Begins is good the second time too. Lord of War, from the 5 minutes I've seen of it, looks slick - I've been meaning to see it - I only hope there are many many explosions. Serenity was good!

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 24 March 2006 03:37 (nineteen years ago)

Hi guys. My week is going well. I bought sheets today. My bed is all pale green and lavender with stripey pillowcases and a flowery pillow sham that brings it all together. I have never owned a sham before. These are uncharted waters.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Friday, 24 March 2006 03:51 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I am nearly finished with the mixes I promised some people weeks ago.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Friday, 24 March 2006 03:51 (nineteen years ago)

Hey Kenan, how's the job?

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 03:52 (nineteen years ago)

Not what I expected. Nothing ever is. Funny how the companies with the worst websites are the ones most resistant to change. (I guess that makes sense, actually.) I installed Firefox on my machine the first day, and the admin uninstalled it after I left that day. Weird. I am without any proper development tools, and apparently they want to keep it that way. Whatever. I am laying low. No need to make wakes right off the bat.

Oh, and I have to learn some ASP pretty quick. I am depressed about that.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Friday, 24 March 2006 03:56 (nineteen years ago)

I am losing touch with the cool people already! Quick -- recommend me some records! What's that band Nick was taking about the other night... I really should write these things down. It had a funny name. (But considerably better than Wolf Parade.)

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Friday, 24 March 2006 03:59 (nineteen years ago)

Totally makes sense about the web sites. Also, fuck ASP.

xpost: I don't know, AIDS Wolf? I've been listening to Wilderness a lot lately.

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:02 (nineteen years ago)

The Archer Prewitt album? I have that.

Ooh... I just followed The Jesus Lizard with Fiona Apple on a mix. It works very nicely. I am impressed with myself.

My new favorite web page.

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=77:12051

"explore by..."

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:04 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks for the invite, Dan! jeez, they're a bit intimidating on there... Must be brave.

Your sheets sound awesome, Kenan. I have never owned a sham either.

And I can't believe none of you are seeing Destroyer with John right now.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:08 (nineteen years ago)

Phil, Neo on Thursday nights is fun, or at least it was consistently fun week to week a few years ago. Other nights are more straight-up goth and/or industrial, but Thursday nights combine people who were around for the first wave of new wave with younger folks, all in the spirit of misfits-and-geeks-of-the-world-unite that spawned the original new wave and goth movements of the 80s (there's a sweeping statement).

There's one guy who used to be at Neo every Thursday night - a Latino fellow in a white starched shirt and black pants, who did what I'm guessing were flamenco moves - very formal but energized raising his hands above his head, genuflecting, kneeling in praise, etc., so that he turned these 80s songs into intense spiritual matters. Watching him "act out" these songs made them seem like "O lord, when you're big in Japan" or "O lord, you spin me round like a record".

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:10 (nineteen years ago)

The one time I went to Neo, I got kicked out.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:13 (nineteen years ago)

For what, pray tell?

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:14 (nineteen years ago)

I threw a barstool at somebody.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:14 (nineteen years ago)

That'll do it, eh? How's a skinny goth going to defend himself against that?

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:15 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks for the invite, Dan! jeez, they're a bit intimidating on there... Must be brave.

You're welcome! And don't worry, upload anything that got an 8 or above from Pfork and those people will eat it up. Then your ratio will be sky high.

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:15 (nineteen years ago)

No, I'm kidding. One of the people I was with had a fake ID, and they threw us all out.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:16 (nineteen years ago)

But -- funny story -- I walked into Rite Liquors on Division the other day, you know that shitty place? It's one of those desperately sad bar/liquor store combos. Anyway, I'm standing in front of one register, and the cashier is at the other register, and this homeless guy is in front of him. And suddely, out of nowhere, the clerk yells "Get the FUCK out of my store" while shoving the homeless guy with full force onto the floor and into the bar behind him. So the homeless guy is yelling, "I ain't did nothin' to you!" and he picks up a barstool and goes after the clerk. The chair falls to the floor in the scuffle, but now they're really fighting, and the homeless guy has a death grip on the clerk's ear, and finally one of the drunks in the place grabs the homeless guy and chokes him off the clerk, and the clerk regains his balance and grabs the homeless guy and literally drags him out the door and throws him in the street.

I only wanted cigarettes, but I got a hell of an adrenaline rush as a bonus.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:21 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, so the clerk comes back in and calmly rings me up with blood streaming down the side of his face. That was the cherry on top.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:26 (nineteen years ago)

I think I will visit the nice Lebanese men on Wood Street next time. They're so polite.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:28 (nineteen years ago)

Wow.

Only violence I've seen in a liquor store was on...what's the place near Chicago and Ashland, a little west of Flo? With a big ramp entryway into the store? Big neon sign outside? Saw a guy half-nelsoned on the floor of that ramp once.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:31 (nineteen years ago)

Rothschild's.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:32 (nineteen years ago)

That's another one of those bar/liquore store combos. I'm telling you, there oughta be a law.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:32 (nineteen years ago)

KENAN FOR COUNTY BOARD PRESIDENT

Sorry, I'm kind of drunk.

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:35 (nineteen years ago)

Man, I can't even imagine what the bar scene in Chicago was like before Daley came in with his big pushbroom and closed half of them. Must have been some rough nights in this town.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:37 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, I'm kind of drunk.

All right! HIGH-FIVE

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:39 (nineteen years ago)

http://webcastor.hrs.psc.gov/ehrp/wbt/Images/MGRtraining.gif

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:41 (nineteen years ago)

That's what I actually look like.

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:41 (nineteen years ago)

I'm drinking a bottle of wine right now

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:43 (nineteen years ago)

i'm winning, btw.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:43 (nineteen years ago)

What kind of wine?

Rothschild's. I was thinking Chesterfield's and knew that wasn't right.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:46 (nineteen years ago)

does anyone know some bar/club called neo?

Funny, I was right across the street from Neo tonight and asked Jesse if he wanted to go with me. He said no. If I'd known you were thinking about going, Phil, I would've called you.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:46 (nineteen years ago)

TWO BUCK CHUCK

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:47 (nineteen years ago)

Rothschild's. I was thinking Chesterfield's and knew that wasn't right.

Also not to be confused with Cambridge's, Montclair's, or Lucky Strike's.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:48 (nineteen years ago)

And I can't believe none of you are seeing Destroyer with John right now.

I'm not even at the Destroyer show!

Ahhh! You make me feel guilty for not going! But Jesse called and said he and Jeff and Jenny were going to a bar after work, and then to Hema's Kitchen (my favorite Indian restaurant in Chicago) for dinner, and no one was going to Destroyer with me, anyway, so I ... well, I guess you know what I did.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:49 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.hausnummern.info/fotos-a/pall-mall.jpg

Where do particular people congregate? I think I may have been there once, but found it rather stuffy.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:50 (nineteen years ago)

"Since 1899" -- which also, not incidentally, is when this pack was designed.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:51 (nineteen years ago)

Who wants to have a drink with me right now? I'll drive anywhere. I don't really want to be at home right now, since I was s'posed to be at a show, anyway.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:51 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sooo tempted. But I have to be fresh tomorrow. Not for anything in particular, just because I wasn't especially fresh today, and I don't want to make sluggishness a habit.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:52 (nineteen years ago)

er... I mean, I'm trying to break the habit of being sluggish. Who am I kidding.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:53 (nineteen years ago)

No Destroyer??

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:53 (nineteen years ago)

No! This is what I'm saying!

But he'll be back for Pitchfork Fest, which I guess I can reveal now because the show is over.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:54 (nineteen years ago)

i'm already drinking!

xp THE INSIDER

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:55 (nineteen years ago)

gbx, plz to drink with me?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:55 (nineteen years ago)

Too tired or I would, J.

I'm no typography freak, but I like that Pall Mall font.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:55 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not gay, but that Pall Mall pack has a hot ass.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:56 (nineteen years ago)

mebbe. i'm watching a movie.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:57 (nineteen years ago)

movies are for suckers.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:58 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, well.

in other news: i want nothing more than to go to africa right now.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:58 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not gay, but that Pall Mall pack has a hot ass.

Don't make me open photoshop.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Friday, 24 March 2006 04:59 (nineteen years ago)

xpost back to the motherland, eh?

Richard Attenborough has a lot to say about Africa. I was watching him say it earlier tonight. He has so many interesting things to say.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:00 (nineteen years ago)

Yes. Back to the motherland.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:02 (nineteen years ago)

For instance -- I never understood what happens to butterflies and moths when they go into a cocoon. I always thought they just sprouted extra body parts. But no -- it's much better than that. The entire fat little caterpillar body disintegrates and turns into a nutritive goo, and the basic genetic components start all over again and grow from scratch. They don't tell kids this stuff. I guess it's hard to explain to a child that caterpillars turn into goo.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:04 (nineteen years ago)

gbx, i am breaking into yr house right now.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:05 (nineteen years ago)

no yr not!

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:05 (nineteen years ago)

I was right across the street from Neo tonight and asked Jesse if he wanted to go with me. He said no.

Nor would he dance in Urban Outfitters.

I bought one of these today and it makes me unreasonably happy:

http://www.createforless.com/InterchangeData/images/2/200211162256006b2002-0405-0134.jpg

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:06 (nineteen years ago)

haha Jenny that's awesome! I haven't seen one of those in years! Makes me want to call my grandmother.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:08 (nineteen years ago)

That's pretty unreasonable.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:08 (nineteen years ago)

Richard Attenborough

Gah! Of course I meant David.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:09 (nineteen years ago)

That's pretty unreasonable.

Well, she is dead.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:09 (nineteen years ago)

I meant the happy part, but whatevs.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:10 (nineteen years ago)

I just remembered where I heard of Neo. A really creepy co-worker used to go there to get laid. He was super-snobby about wine and food, but would try to be a buddy-buddy guy's guy and talk about getting pussy at Neo.

John, I would totally drink with you but I'm stuffed and sleepy.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:10 (nineteen years ago)

I drink alone, yeah, with nobody else.
Yeah, you know when I drink alone, I prefer to be by myself.

Now, the other night I lay sleeping,
And I woke from a terrible dream.
So I called up my pal, Jack Daniels,
And his partner Jimmy Beam.

And we drank alone, yeah, with nobody else.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:12 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I think I'm gonna go to the liqqqqquor store in a sec.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:13 (nineteen years ago)

Cool! Here's hoping you see a good bumfight.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:13 (nineteen years ago)

I am drunk.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:13 (nineteen years ago)

Who wants to have a drink with me right now? I'll drive anywhere. I don't really want to be at home right now, since I was s'posed to be at a show, anyway.

im thirsty

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:13 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, I'm going to the liquor store, too!

COINCIDENCE

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:14 (nineteen years ago)

i ended up not going to neo... but i could def get a drink or two

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:14 (nineteen years ago)

You're all a bunch of rotten alcoholics. It's Thursday, fer chrissakes!

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:14 (nineteen years ago)

Phil, I think the moment has passed.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:15 (nineteen years ago)

IT'S FOR CHRIST'S SAKE THAT I'M DRINKING. RED WINE, DUDE.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:15 (nineteen years ago)

I'll have to settle for masturbation tonight.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:16 (nineteen years ago)

Phil, I think the moment has passed.

but its only 11:15

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:16 (nineteen years ago)

I bought 5 bottles of 2-buck chuck (3 bucks here).

It is pretty crappy, but I have had far far worse wine for $6-10, so if I just want to catch a buzz, this is the stuff.

I think the key is to stick with the white b/c then you at least have a nice cold beverage on your hands and the cold helps take off the edge of badness.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:16 (nineteen years ago)

11.21 over here.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:16 (nineteen years ago)

i'd rather not be writing press releases like im supposed to be

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:17 (nineteen years ago)

though i had a bottle of wine with dinner. i went to rezas with my parents.

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:17 (nineteen years ago)

writing press releases blows.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:17 (nineteen years ago)

I also drank red wine. Barely half a bottle, but now I am sad and horny and mostly sad. And drunk.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:17 (nineteen years ago)

JOIN THE RED WINE DRINKERS CLUB, GEEZ.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:18 (nineteen years ago)

I AM SO THERE.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:19 (nineteen years ago)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Chicago, IL -- Phil wants to get a drink.

###

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:19 (nineteen years ago)

FYI: pay-per-view is exactly why i'm never getting a credit card.

xp STOP THE PRESSES

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:19 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan's fiancee and I talked quite a bit about wine last night. I think I convinced her to come to town w/ J. for one of the occasional Saturday-morning wine auction tastings.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:25 (nineteen years ago)

Stop being boring, dudes.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:37 (nineteen years ago)

yeah this sucks. ive been reduced to spinning around my mom's office with cutcopy "saturdays" on repeat. drinking a bottle of SPRING WATER.

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:38 (nineteen years ago)

That's dissapointing, phil, especially the water part.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:39 (nineteen years ago)

I'm listening to CAN, and not yet drinking whatever it is I'm still about to go get from the store.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:40 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, I wanna know how Madison was, Eric! From YOUR perspective.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:42 (nineteen years ago)

holy crap, but I"M listening to CAN. But not going to the store.
xpst

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:43 (nineteen years ago)

WHAT ARE THE CHANCES.

Now I'm going to the store. Next: MORE HBO

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:45 (nineteen years ago)

I'M GOING TO BED TO WATCH THE DEER HUNGER NOW..

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:46 (nineteen years ago)

ok, so thats it? last call? anyone? anyone? simons? big chicks? that gay sports bar? rainbow room or whatever its called? tgi fridays?

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:47 (nineteen years ago)

The Deer Hunter is going to be on tv here on Friday! The CHANCES!
Montreal-Chicago space-time vortex!!!!

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:47 (nineteen years ago)

arent you supposed to be at love is all?

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:48 (nineteen years ago)

i don't know where any of those places are. 'cept rainbow room, and that place is WHACK.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:48 (nineteen years ago)

Phil, why weren't you there when I was in town two weeks ago?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:51 (nineteen years ago)

that was last night. but i didn't go. b/c of lingering laryngitis. and hanging out with friend talking about wierd stuff like retirement savings. haha. Love is All will happen again.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:51 (nineteen years ago)

simons is on north clark and like foster in andersonville. big chicks is on sheridan i think? the gay sports bar might be a myth, but i think i remember having hot wings there once.

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:51 (nineteen years ago)

I know where all of those places are! But I am in ...

Gay sports bar = Crew = next to Green Mill

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:52 (nineteen years ago)

I don't go North.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:53 (nineteen years ago)

chris, because i had to go to austin for an internet conference! oh how fun it wasn't. how come you're not in chicago NOW? you'd go find this gay sports bar with me, no?

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:55 (nineteen years ago)

Well, no, probably not. But maybe. I am pretty drunk.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:56 (nineteen years ago)

I tried to convince Jesse to go with you but he is all about sleeping I guess.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:56 (nineteen years ago)

I was just next to Simon's when I went to the liquor store!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:57 (nineteen years ago)

oh you live in andersonville? i was just there for dinner. and parked in front of simons. come get a drink you lout.

who's jesse?

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:59 (nineteen years ago)

Uh "Daddy's Little Duder".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:02 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse is the new fag around here.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:03 (nineteen years ago)

There's a new fag in town and he's lookin' good.
There's a fresh flamin' face in the neighborhood.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:04 (nineteen years ago)

fine. i'll just get drunk at home and tell all my darkest most embarassing secrets to no one at all.

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:06 (nineteen years ago)

You can call me up and retell the train story if you want.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:07 (nineteen years ago)

oh thats nothing. whats a little facial between you, a hot iranian, and a trainful of chinamen?

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:08 (nineteen years ago)

tell all my darkest most embarassing secrets to no one at all.

Phil, that's what the Internet is for. I'm not going anywhere.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:09 (nineteen years ago)

IM GOING TO HANG OUT WITH YOU GUYZ TOO

on this thread at least.

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:10 (nineteen years ago)

Aww. You are cuet.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:12 (nineteen years ago)

ATTN GBX: http://chicago.craigslist.org/muc/144720595.html

Free recording studio time for advanced college course

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:13 (nineteen years ago)

And now to bed.

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:13 (nineteen years ago)

(Did anyone see last night's Colbert Report with its long list of Chicago hot dog vendors?)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:13 (nineteen years ago)

i've been moving furniture and tearing up carpet all day. alone. and not getting paid. ughhhh

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:14 (nineteen years ago)

We were talking about that in the cab! Because we went right past Weiner's Circle.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:14 (nineteen years ago)

S, but in a cuet way, right?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:14 (nineteen years ago)

haha naturally J, would i even be able to in any other way?

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:15 (nineteen years ago)

Phil, that's what the Internet is for.

well... once i got arrested for shoplifting an anita baker CD.... and also i watched a taxi driver cum into his hands to get out of paying a $25 cabfare. i already mentioned the foot fetish movie on here i think. hm, these are tame. sorry.

your turn!

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:16 (nineteen years ago)

Anita Baker? For shame.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:17 (nineteen years ago)

J and S
sitting in a tree
pee oh ess tee eye en gee.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:17 (nineteen years ago)

Phil, you totally WIN.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:17 (nineteen years ago)

Can we rename this room 1995 AOL GAY CHATROOM?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:18 (nineteen years ago)

otm

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:19 (nineteen years ago)

and also i watched a taxi driver cum into his hands to get out of paying a $25 cabfare.

This is the sort of thing that I tend to imagine happens every day in Phil's world but never ever would happen in mine.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:21 (nineteen years ago)

Dear beer, I am drinking you.

http://www.csupomona.edu/~mdgodfrey/images/AnchorLibertyAle.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:24 (nineteen years ago)

not going to lie, i didnt enjoy the liberty ale very much

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:26 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, don't lie, that's good.

I think it's pretty good. I think I like the regular Anchor Steam better, but I have that in bars all the time, so this is what called my name at the store.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:28 (nineteen years ago)

This is the sort of thing that I tend to imagine happens every day in Phil's world but never ever would happen in mine.

oh afterwards he had a little pond of cum in his hands and he showed to me and asked if i liked it. i was sorely tempted to slap the bottom of his cupped hands so the jizz would go flying into his face - then run out of the cab into my building screaming the entire way, but his door was facing my building so he probably would have caught me and beat me up.

why am i telling you all this? clearly i have a problem with having to be the center of attention. are there drugs for this?

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:28 (nineteen years ago)

No one is complaining.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:35 (nineteen years ago)

i just got hit by a car.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:36 (nineteen years ago)

most annoying part(s):

(1) on the way to the liquor store when it happened. the 10 minutes it cost me, cost me the beer I was going to get from the store that closed at midnight

(2) broke my bike lock's key, which meant I couldn't even stop at Ronny's for a drink

(3) cops not wholly sympathetic

(4) my ass hurts.

(5) no idea if my bike is secretly damaged.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:37 (nineteen years ago)

(6) getting hit by the car, obv

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:38 (nineteen years ago)

well that certainly sucks

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:39 (nineteen years ago)

i wanna cigarette and a beer, ASAP.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:40 (nineteen years ago)

so dudes im really hungry, should i pay $10(inc tip) for a (very small but will definitely fill me up) pizza or what should i do!!! there's no other palatable warm cheesy food around

ps gbx me too but foodstop is dauntingly far away

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:42 (nineteen years ago)

fucka EBA's dude, but when it's all you've got, it's all you've got.

plus: breadsticks.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:43 (nineteen years ago)

oh man, that sucks. do you need an ass massage?

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:43 (nineteen years ago)

gbx, come to my house. i have cigarettes and beer.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:44 (nineteen years ago)

omg, ohno! that's crazy and awful. I hope you're okay.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:45 (nineteen years ago)

i need an everything massage. but mostly i need a beer and a cigarette. WHICH I WAS ON MY WAY TO GETTING, SO FUCK YOU R******O H*******Z, IL 732F956

xp i do not go north of irving park rd.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:45 (nineteen years ago)

rossario hernandez?

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:46 (nineteen years ago)

i want to know the story of gbx and nervous and how you met in the idyllic new hampshire countryside.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:48 (nineteen years ago)

Romeo Horowitz - that fucker hit you too?

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:48 (nineteen years ago)

Rodrigo Horowitz.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:49 (nineteen years ago)

for the first time in about a week i actually am happy to have housemates-- one left tortillas, one left shredded cheese, and one left pasta sauce. YEAH THATS RIGHT HOMEMADE PIZZA MOTHERFUCKERS. another one even left ranch sauce so i can DIP IT

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:50 (nineteen years ago)

j: gbx and i don't actually know each other. and we only have ONE mutual friend (according to popular college social networking site thefacebook)

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:50 (nineteen years ago)

who???

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:51 (nineteen years ago)

without looking, I will guess c4llie th0mpson.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:52 (nineteen years ago)

TELL THE STORY

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:52 (nineteen years ago)

gbx: otfm

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:52 (nineteen years ago)

I KNEW IT.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:53 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.bugsandstuff.com/pics/3480.jpg

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:57 (nineteen years ago)

i met gbx (that was you, right?) at my eviction party in brooklyn. i was super drunk and felt bad because i kept trying to feed him and his friends drugs. so so sorry about that

btw, i'd really like to meet someone named rodrigo horowitz.

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:57 (nineteen years ago)

nrvs: otfm

xp phil -- you successfully fed us drugs, btw. OFF A KEY, WTF.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:58 (nineteen years ago)

now i am angry, and venturing out once again.

WITH A HELMET.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:59 (nineteen years ago)

come ride up to the northside. we can smoke my dad's kool milds and raid the fridge for kimchee

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 24 March 2006 07:02 (nineteen years ago)

aww i wish thefacebook existed when i was in college! my brother totally looks up his hottie students on there.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 07:09 (nineteen years ago)

now i'm back. with a CIDER WTF?!

HBO HERE I COME

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 07:10 (nineteen years ago)

i don't understand. what is on hbo. i do not like to be remebered for touching penises.

― jaymcthony easton (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 07:12 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, i just fucking bought another payperview.

SO WHAT.

xp what u say jmz?

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 07:13 (nineteen years ago)

can i skip work if my ass hurts?

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 07:13 (nineteen years ago)

you may make exactly one butt sex joke. no more.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 07:14 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.AmITopOrNot.com

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 24 March 2006 07:15 (nineteen years ago)

i have reached the tipping point of my addiction to cigarettes where i have promised myself i won't charge them to my credit card any more. so i just collected $4.50 in QUARTERS and am about to go to the store. ughhhh my life

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 07:16 (nineteen years ago)

gbx i hope you bought a lot of cider at least

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 07:16 (nineteen years ago)

i didn't buy cigarettes! high-five!

I have 22oz. of 7% cider. two doublebags. basically.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 07:17 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.quizilla.com/P/prettyannamoon/1046409198_icturesJMZ.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 07:18 (nineteen years ago)

not bad gbx

in other news my mp3 player's battery is dead which means the walk to the store will be atrocious. CAST YOUR VOTES on whether i should:
a. suck it up and just go and be bored and cold on the way over
b. wait an hour (it's an allnight store) and then listen to sweet tunes while i walk

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 07:21 (nineteen years ago)

DUDE YOU CAN'T BE MORE THAN .5 MILES AWAY SUCK IT UP GAWD

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 07:24 (nineteen years ago)

blitz me a fucking cigarette

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 07:25 (nineteen years ago)

my camera's batteries are dead. but they don't seem to be charging. i plug the doo-hickey in, but there's no green light.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 07:27 (nineteen years ago)

I just read the last of the last thread. Nicholas: I use Limewire to d/l music.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 07:30 (nineteen years ago)

xp YEAH BUT SOMEHOW ITS LIKE A 30 MINUTE ROUND TRIP WALK BC I LIVE DOWN BY THE HOCKEY RINK (ps CANT BLITZ IM FUCKING PARKHURSTED)

jay: my mp3 player is at least lit up all blue and making a little battery charging icon. dont know if that's working or just faking it though

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 07:30 (nineteen years ago)

alright i'm done being a pussy i'm going to go. be back in 30, kids

ps but first i'm going to friend gbx on facebook

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 07:31 (nineteen years ago)

THERE YOU GO BUDDY NOW YOU CAN HAVE 20 DARTMOUTH FRIENDS
haha

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 07:32 (nineteen years ago)

why is gbx on facebook? he is not in college.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 07:33 (nineteen years ago)

someone needs to answer this for me. v. urgent. i am confused.

― jaymcthony easton (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 07:48 (nineteen years ago)

DUDE I WENT TO COLLEGE

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 07:51 (nineteen years ago)

btw, nrvs, thanks for the NON-INVITE.

jerk

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 07:55 (nineteen years ago)

what i totally invited you

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 07:58 (nineteen years ago)

MAYBE YOU SHOULD CHECK YOUR ALUM ACCT

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 07:58 (nineteen years ago)

wait can i get an ALUM ACCT? or am i too old?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:00 (nineteen years ago)

j you are like fucking ancient

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:01 (nineteen years ago)

(but i meant his dartmouth alum email acct)

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:01 (nineteen years ago)

e.sk000000000w@alum.darthm0uth.educacion

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:02 (nineteen years ago)

DOOOOD YOUR NOT SUPOSED TO POST EMAIL ADDRESSES BC SPAMBOTS

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:06 (nineteen years ago)

i think i had the option of getting an alumni e-mail account.

why don't you write him at

moc.liamg@ylwoks

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:07 (nineteen years ago)

well i didnt even write him i just think the facebook friend-request-notification thing would probably send it to that address

ps j ITS ALMOST YOUR BIRTHDAY DUDE

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:08 (nineteen years ago)

creepy stalker!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:09 (nineteen years ago)

POT KETTLE BLACK

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:11 (nineteen years ago)

NO IT'S ALL OVER THE INTERNETS.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:11 (nineteen years ago)

xp no i'm just bored on myspace and it tells me these things

GBX WHY WONT U B MY FRIEND :( :( :(

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:11 (nineteen years ago)

I THINK THERES A STYLUS FRONTPAGE FEATURE ON IT

"On Second Thought - jaymc's Birthday"

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:12 (nineteen years ago)

roffs.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:14 (nineteen years ago)

Friend Details
You are friends with Evan.

SCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:17 (nineteen years ago)

J. that book I mentioned on ILB, Powell's no longer has it on remainder, so I will not be sending it to you for your TOP SECRET BIRFTDAY.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:17 (nineteen years ago)

nervous, you are a treat

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:17 (nineteen years ago)

*high-fives all around*

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:18 (nineteen years ago)

(i dont fully understand why i am posting like i'm drunk when i'm actually not. but at least i've come to terms with it)

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:21 (nineteen years ago)

i love it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:24 (nineteen years ago)

Someone friend me on the facebook, I'm at UChicago and Dave Maher. Uh oh!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:27 (nineteen years ago)

I AM SUPPOSED TO BE DRUNK! WTF SIX PACK?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:28 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, who loves you?

My Morning Jacket - The Bear From their first album that I just bought.

My Morning Jacket - Anytime From their most recent, and best, album. I like to pretend that instead of "damn" or whatever he says at the beginning, he is whispering, "Dave..."

My Morning Jacket - Tyrone An Erika Badu cover. Better than both their "Rocket Man" and "Take My Breath Away" covers.

It was hard because I don't know your exact musical taste, but if you like none of these, I ask you to let me try with another batch of three. They have enough different eras/methods of production/kinds of songs, that I might not have covered it all with just these three.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

I am going to go see V for Vendetta tomorrow.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:33 (nineteen years ago)

And you are all asleep, apparently.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:33 (nineteen years ago)

Close to it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck, how come nothing makes me hiccup like jalapenos make me hiccup?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:35 (nineteen years ago)

I don't like jalapenos.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:37 (nineteen years ago)

j are you sure it's not the alcohol?

ps i have been delaying further carpeting work for more than 2 hours, i really should do that. fuuuuuck

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

i have never hiccuped from alcohol!

but i hiccup from jalapenos all the fucking time. i am eating jalapeno hummus.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:39 (nineteen years ago)

dude i'm going to be completely honest with you: that sounds fucking disgusting.

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:40 (nineteen years ago)

don't lie to me, either.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:40 (nineteen years ago)

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:41 (nineteen years ago)

straight up, now tell me, do you really want to love me forever? oh oh oh.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:43 (nineteen years ago)

sorry dude but you're caught in a hit and run

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:45 (nineteen years ago)

not to interrupt, but alcohol has totally been making me burp solid shit recently. i mean, very little chunks. why is this? is this a problem?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:45 (nineteen years ago)

i have a friend who used to wake up every morning after drinking even a little bit and vomit up pure bile. that's the closest i have to advice unfortunately

although actually are you sure it's not vomit?

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

do-do-do you love me, do you love me ... baby? do-do-do you love me, do you love me ... uh tell me baby.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:47 (nineteen years ago)

ps guys: don't ever buy turkish royals-- they taste like absolute shit. something very gross that i cant put my finger on

turkish silvers >>>> parliaments > turkish golds > special lights >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> a pipe filled with asshairs >>>>>> turkish royals

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

i'm just guessing on the asshairs, of course.

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

i feel sick.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:51 (nineteen years ago)

I am not asleep. No, no.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:53 (nineteen years ago)

alright, i have to go do this carpet thing. good night chicago

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:57 (nineteen years ago)

Ever feel like you just don't fit in anymore?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 24 March 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

Just kidding. It's just weird to read 200 posts on going out to bars at 5:30 a.m.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 24 March 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

You can say that again. And yeah, I was trying to say that I'm vomiting a little bit. It's so fucking weird. I don't really want to think about it anymore.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 24 March 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

dave, do you really only sleep 3 hours a night?

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

Dave is actually Tyler Durden.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Friday, 24 March 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

There's a new fag in town and he's lookin' good.
There's a fresh flamin' face in the neighborhood.

ALICE! She was just passing THROOO

This thread is ridiculous.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 24 March 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

Wow. You guys have been busy.

1) I've never heard this Tony Williams album, but I'd like to.

2) I suddenly cannot access ILX from home, at all, but it's fine from work. WTF?

3) Eazy, how was Lazy Jane's?

4) I had red wine last night too, at home, after having a few beers out with a friend and a shot of Jaeger that a biochemist from Ghana bought me. It was the INZINERATOR.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 24 March 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

Chicago does not fuck around! Go home around 11, come back the next day to thousands of new posts & one new thread.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 24 March 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

2) I suddenly cannot access ILX from home, at all, but it's fine from work. WTF?

Are you using ilx.p3r.net from home? Because that doesn't work for me anymore, at both work and home. (I had to switch to wh3rd.net)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

1) Blue Note reissued this Tony Williams record in the late 80s, but now it's out of print. I listened to it all the time before lending it to someone who didn't give it back long ago. Most of it's very outside and free, one song a little more hard bop, and then one song is about 5 minutes of solo free-jazz drumming, and that one's pretty great.

3) I liked Lazy Jane's a lot. They stopped serving breakfast at 11, and we all got there a few minutes too late to partake. (This is a coffeehouse/cafe in Madison.) But I had some kind of pork-and-carmelized-onions sandwich, and the gal at the counter gave me a scone because it was my first time in there. I'd go back, for sure.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

Is it reasonable to leave work early on account of my butt and ankle being kinda sore because of accident (but secretly because I was up late drunk dialing the internet and watching Batman Begins)?

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, you are leaving in how long? Two weeks? You got hit by a car! Go home!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

Bass - Gary Peacock
Drums - Anthony Williams
Piano - Herbie Hancock
Tenor Saxophone - Sam Rivers , Wayne Shorter
Producer - Alfred Lion
Recorded August 12, 1965 by Rudy van Gelder.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

Are you using ilx.p3r.net from home? Because that doesn't work for me anymore, at both work and home. (I had to switch to wh3rd.net)

I tried both!

Eazy, any idea if the bands made their radio show? Because I was like damn, if they're going to Willy St. at 11:00, they're going to have to speed the hell out of 94 to reach Mpls by 4:00.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

They made it somehow, leaving town at noon - no idea if they started late.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

They made it somehow, leaving town at noon - no idea if they started late on the air.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

I'm leaving work in a week!

I'll just ask if I can leave early, "to get to the bike shop before it closes." They'll probably just send me home at lunch.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

"to get to the bike shop before it closes"? How about to take care of yourself because you got hit by a car?

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

Btw, you guys: :) :) :) :)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

OH RLY

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

RLY?!?!!?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

you people crack me up.

something from maybe 100 posts ago...

(Did anyone see last night's Colbert Report with its long list of Chicago hot dog vendors?)

he mentioned demon dogs. i thought that place didn't exist anymore?

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

oh, sure, but I'm not hurt too bad. As mentioned at least a billion times during Chicago: Spring's "Drunk Period," my butt hurts. Well, tailbone. Kinda bad, but it's definitely no broken or anything. Just dinged. My ankle's sore, but it's been bothering on and off for a few weeks. My neck is slightly stiff, but now I'm stretching. Mostly I'm just tired and want to sit on the couch. And that has as much to do with staying up until 3am and watching movies as it does with getting hit by cars.

Not that I'll admit that to the brass, mind.

xps

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

Guys, please critique this webpage. It's my friend who is a genius musician/composer and is moving to Chi (Uk. village) in May. While it's cute that he was able to figure out how to make a website by himself and that he's all proud of it, it needs some help to get out of 90's frames-land.

What would make it non-embarassing? Invisible frames? Simple color and font changes?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, he mentioned Demon dogs, but he said it was under the Belmont el stop and still open. MOVE BACK TO CHICAGO STEPHEN AND RE-LEARN.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

Mein gott would I like to leave work. But sadly it is not to be. I'll amuse myself by spending my paycheck ordering bike parts and new lipsticks online!

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

oooo, lipstick.

how long can babaganoush keep in the fridge? it's all garlicky and so i can't tell if it's gone bad...

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

I second the leaving work discussion. I barely have anything to do and there are people I need to run around and do things with this afternoon.

xpost Okay, third or fourth, then.

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

so, I guess I can leave early...? I told my boss the whole story, but, because I talk to much, I basically ended up saying "yeah, mostly my butt hurts and I'm tired." Whereas, I could hahve just said: I have a headache. Eventually talk turned to the ins and outs of filing a police report, and....then we both just sort of wandered off (this was in the "hall" not his office).

???

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

It's IMPLIED, dude. You can go.

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

Next time shut one (1) mouth. For now, at 3pm or whenever go find him again and say "I finished x and y for the day, unless there's anything else I'm going to go home and ice my ankle. See you Monday!"

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

Julia, I've been known to keep hummus for 2 or 3 weeks, which I think it a little beyond. But it tasted fine and no ill effects.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

Chicago: Spring's "Drunk Period,"

I really like talking about the "periods" of threads like this. Very nice, Evan.

Did I mention that I am going to see V for Vendetta today. Also, I am going to sell Throbbing Gristle back and get Can and maybe Neu!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 24 March 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

I'm gonna wait for TW (coworker) to get in, make sure things are square with her (we've got a deadline very soon), and then go home at lunch.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

Are any of you going to the Pitchfork Fest this summer? They imply on the website that tickets won't be around much longer. Do you think they'll sell out soon?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 24 March 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

Hi. I wasn't drunk last night, but I will be drunk tonight at some point, most likely.

This just in!
* This is the GAYEST Chicago ILE thread yet, not that it's a bad thing (though the Man Pile song thread is a close second).
* Nick thinks I'm still too skinny, so I'm eating donuts at my desk.
* I'm just like a freakin' valentine today, I just realized (pink & red).

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 24 March 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

Nice work making fliers, gib. We'll make ours this weekend. Then our flier and your flier will have a flier-off.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 24 March 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

They imply on the website that tickets won't be around much longer. Do you think they'll sell out soon?

No. I don't see any reason why this year's fest will sell out when last year's didn't.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, let's say this: I do think that it'll be more popular than last year because it's acquired a reputation now, but not so popular that tickets will sell out a good four months before the show.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

are we cool for times, Sarah?

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

Your confidence is good enough for me. xpost

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 24 March 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

btw: Micron equals DOPE.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

BTW Kenan's right. I am Tyler Durden.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 24 March 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

Awesome. I should be getting my Ion back soon.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 24 March 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

So much more fun than the keyboard I've been using. KNOBS! SLIDERS!

And so much LOUDER.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

To those who have been INKED in Chicago: what tatoo shop would you reccommend?

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

Goddamn it, I cannot spell.

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

good question! I've been badgering one of my coworkers to design me a tattoo for EVER.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

The only person I know who has gotten one here says T@tu T@tu: "very good but very expensive."

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

Btw, you guys: :) :) :) :)
-- jaymc (jmcunnin...), March 24th, 2006 9:24 AM. (jaymc) (later) (link)

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
OH RLY
-- Jordan (jordan...), March 24th, 2006 9:26 AM. (Jordan) (later) (link)

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

RLY?!?!!?
-- The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (showdown@wormtown.com), March 24th, 2006 9:26 AM. (The Milkmaid) (later) (link)

YA RLY

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

glad that's been cleared up.

so, who's going to the FF show tonight? Other than the FFs? Most of Sharks will be in attendance. You know, to SCOPE THEM OUT, CRITICALLY.

also, kegs.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

I think I will be there. Electronic dance music is for the birds.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

YOU CAN SAY THAT AGAIN

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

that is cool, john, about the :) :) :) :)
oh you love electronic dance music cmon

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

JMZ ELABORATE PLS.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.quizilla.com/P/prettyannamoon/1046409198_icturesJMZ.jpg

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

O I C. I thought you were throwing "us guys" a couple smileys to brighten our day or something.

H5, dude

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

Times are fine, gib, though kind of funny. We won't play an hour and a half, just so you know.

Way to go, John!

So yeah. Tonight there will be bands and then djs, which means dancing.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

I know, originally I meant it to mock because I was getting hands slapped for calling him "Jay". But now I kind of like the JMZ best. (XP)

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

No, I just don't anyone who is going to Vitalic, except this weird sorta-hot but also close-talker girl that deej and I know who posts on the Sound Opinions board. Partying with the FFs and Sharks sounds like fun, though!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

Otto said he might stop by tonight too.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

Tonight there will be bands and then djs, which means dancing.

Fuck! Not a good day for my legs and ankles to be rilly sore, huh?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

So I have NOTHING to do at work today and I'm loving it. Then a coworker comes up and says, "Sarah, I have NOTHING to do today. Why don't we brainstorm on some sort of project we can do to tidy the office?" NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

xpost - John, you can jiggle and wiggle in a chair then.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

We won't play an hour and a half, just so you know.

How long, then? I was giving a bit of wiggle room for our recording guy to get set up, too.

WE'RE FLEXIBLE TO YOUR NEEDS.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

I dig the way you wiggle
You don't jiggle
Once you jiggle

http://www.mattscdsingles.com/acatalog/heavy%20d%20now%20that%20we%20found%20love%20remix.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

wtf does that line even mean?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

Ask the boyz

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

Also, "Heavy D" was a not too flattering nickname of mine from high school. I wasn't even fat!

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

i guess i'm going to the double door tonight w/ a couple of people from work. i feel old b/c i'm panicky about the lack of earplugs in my life.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

Guys, I just got an email from my sister. She's been in Africa for 2 months, and she and her boyfriend are currently staying in their own little bungalow beach house thing that costs $11 a day, and has this view:

http://static.flickr.com/52/117261131_a16f01c702.jpg

Seeing that, and then looking out at the semi-grey, 36 degree, snow likely day we have outside makes me so insanely jealous I just had to share.

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

in other news: i want nothing more than to go to africa right now.

-- gbx (in....), March 23rd, 2006 10:58 PM. (skowly) (later) (link)

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

....east africa, Dan?

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

Nope, west. They're in Ghana right now.

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

i am going to cry re: that picture.

must resist urge to blow surprise student loan money on running away to warm place. must.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

Where in E. Africa? That looks lovely.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

Oops. Nevermind. West. I desire a trip to Burundi, so I can flash my mad Kirundi skillz.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

*note: I have no such skillz.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

What's she doing over there? Chillaxin' or workin'?

xp can you speak !kung?

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

!no.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

I think tehresa's sister is currently in ... Senegal, maybe? K College study abroad, woo.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

a friend of mine did his study abroad in Senegal. Mostly this just mean smoking weed.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

who's ready to get crunk'd & eat cake tomorrow?!?!?!? huh?!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

Let me put it this way: I found a marching band hat in the trash at work today, and SOMEONE is gonna wear it tomorrow night if it's the last thing I do. [note: it's not dirty]

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

Chillaxin and workin'. She and I are only about 2.5 years apart, so we have a lot of mutual friends. Some of these mutual friends are in or very recently left the Peace Corps in Ghana, Togo, Benin, etc. Additionally, her bf knows a lot of these people too (from college, long story.) So they're visiting them.

Anyway, they've spent time volunteering at hospitals, schools, and with some arm (Forest Managment? that's what the bf does) of the Ghanaian government. Also, lots of hanging out on the beach and at secluded rainforest waterfalls and such. All of this was done very cheaply, all things considered. Need I repeat that I'm jealous?

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, speaking of study abroad -- Renee thinks it's weird that I use the term "foreign study" interchangeably with "study abroad." And she has this habit of saying things like, "Oh, he's a guy that Calvert met on ... wait, what do you guys call it? Foreign study??" And I'm like, "Sure. Or study abroad. Whatever. It's the same thing."

Tell me I'm not nuts and that "foreign study" isn't just a Kalamazoo-centric expression.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, never heard that. Foreign study?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

Also (on the weed smoking tip) she told me they went to a "Rasta Beach" in Togo. I'm sure that was entertaining.

xpost: Makes sense to me.

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

yeah foreign study wtf? study abroad.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

Look, I'm not saying I use "foreign study" exclusively -- in fact, when you get right down to it, I'm probably more given to saying "study abroad." But you guys seriously have never heard "foreign study" as a perfectly acceptable variant?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

It makes sense to me, like I said. But it does kind of surprise me that they'd use a word like "foreign" in these PC times we live in.

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

never heard foreign study either.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think it's used officially. Or at least not anymore.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

Although the mission statement of the International Students Organization has this: Another function of the ISO is to help prepare Kalamaz00 C0llege students for foreign study.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

I am very sorry to tell you that I have neither heard nor used the term "foreign study." I agree with the yooper about the non-PC of using "foreign." Sounds like a Kalamazooism to me.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 24 March 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

Where's Maria (the original, not Tessa Sciarrino or Scott Seward's wife) these days? Because look what I found at her school.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

I guess Dartmouth calls it foreign study too, now that I look at it.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

oh duh: we just called them FSPs. Which, obv, stands for foreign study program.

i still said "study abroad" though.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

Those un-PC liberal arts schools. What's this country coming to?

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

Arcane college acronyms are kinda funny. In mixed company, I usually refer to my "senior thesis" -- but among K alums, it's my "SIP" (Senior Individualized Project), pronounced "sip."

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, I totally revived a 2001 thread about Maria just so I could ask her what the preferred term at Williams is.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

Was she like 14 then?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 24 March 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

Something like that. She was in high school.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, got poxyfuled while trying to respond about acronyms. My school was crazy for them - buildings, majors, pary houses, etc.

All joking aside: the new Computer Science building was/is the Center for Integrated Learning Information Technology. CILIT. That was a popular one. They actually renamed it "Rehki Hall" but the damage had already been done.

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

I can't even fathom what kind of hideous, mortifying truths would be revealed if there had been internets when I was in highschool. It's bad enough that there are photos of my 1988 self-cut asym.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 24 March 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

OMG I'm having a salad for the second day in a row. I'm going to DIE from healthfulness, had to offset that with some cross-cut fries & mayonnaise.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 24 March 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

Hi. Here's a funny email I got today from my friend Charlie:

This takes a few minutes to follow, but I promise,
it's worth it. Go here:

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/redamerica/2006/03/pachyderms_in_the_mist_red_ame.html

Anything look familiar? B3n D0menech is the Washington
Post's new conservative blogger. (They don't have a
liberal blogger. But anyway.)

B3n D0menech, some of you may recall, went to William
and Mary when we were there. He worked at both WCWM
and the Flat Hat with me. He's 24.

Actually, I believe N1ck @mmerman and P3ter M@ybarduk
had some sort of beef with him - D0menech wrote an
article about M@ybarduk in which D0menech basically
made up details of M@ybarduk's story for poetic
effect. Anyway,

Now go here:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/3/23/181857/404

Apparently D0menech is a serial plagiarist, and
bloggers are now finding and linking to examples of
his plagiarism FROM HIS DAYS WRITING REVIEWS AT THE
FLAT HAT. He'd literally rip entire sentences of his
Flat Hat review of a film from a review of the same
film published at Salon the week before. The proof is
right there in link after link. This is incredible.
I'm REALLY glad I didn't follow the Flat Hat's
encouragement to become an editor, or else I probably
would have been partially responsible for some of
these.

Notes from Nick:
1. If you comment on this, please google-proof the names.
2. Peter was the bass player in the band Sarah & I were in in college, but I think the aforementioned article was probably about some sort of political activism he was involved in.
3. The Flat Hat is W&M's school paper.
4. I only vaguely remember the supposed beef.
5. I don't really remember this dude, but I remember his name.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 24 March 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

The Ben Domenech plagiarism flameout

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, sorry, just saw that.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 24 March 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

comeuppence

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, so this Buona Terra place you goes are always yammering on about: would it be good to take someone on a (completely hypothetical, of course) second date?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

YES YES A THOUSAND TIMES YES

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

"goes"? I mean "guys."

"big coon ... big coon ... oh God no, I am so, so sorry."

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

Is she a vegetarian? [Is one a vegetarian or simply "vegetarian"?]

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 24 March 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

1. It's pretty small
2. Yummy in your tummy pasta
3. Lots of good wine specials
4. Cramped little tables for footsie and/or handsie - if you're into that

xpost They have a lot of veggie-friendly dishes, as well.

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

I'm a mark for the place, what can I say.

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

To Amanda: she's not. She has a weakness for el pollo. [Haha, that's an interesting question. I've heard and used both variants, but it seems like the historical trend in similar constructions is away from the "a" inasmuch as it has the effect of essentialism.]

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

absolutely, john.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, I remember when the prospect of dating someone who wasn't vegetarian was kind of a turn-off for me, but shit, beggars can't be choosers.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

Interesting. I'm glad that's not a major problem for you. I've dated some vegetarian dudes and while I don't have any problem at all *not* eating meat, sometimes it felt weird because I wanted to have a meat dish but I also didn't want to gross him out.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 24 March 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

As a vegetarian, I can vouch for Buona. Also, I love Piazza Bella on Roscoe. YUM! And ROMANTIC!

Either, Amanda...

Kelsey, Who is playing at the Double Door tonight?

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 24 March 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

As a vegetarian

This is a good example of why the "a" persists, for phrases like this. Incidentally, Camille Paglia is the queen of these sorts of introductory appositive phrases.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

Remind me to revive Ronan's birthday thread when I get home tonight.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

whoa, i haven't read mcswny's in years. it was kind of nice.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, I know, I was 'bout it 'bout it in like 1999-2001 and still read it fairly regularly for a couple of years after that. I actually remember when the site started, and there was only a week's worth of content on there, and half of it was Dave Eggers writing under the pseudonym Lucy Thomas. I don't even remember how I found it -- I guess I followed a link from somewhere. I was in the Lancaster University library at the time, reading that along with Salon.com and the Stereolab message board.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

AMANDA!!! YOU MUST WEAR THE HAT!
I'll be drunk & playing harmonica & speaking in chinese since my chinese-conversationalist-partner-in-crime will be there.

sarah: the n4tional.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

KELSEY - YOU WILL WEAR THE HAT!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

haha, yes! 99-01, totally. + the salon.com. swap Stereolab board for Belle and Sebastian listserv though. of course...
xpostang

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

I first heard Belle & Sebastian when I was in the UK. I borrowed If You're Feeling Sinister from this cheeky little kid named Damian who also let me borrow his acoustic guitar sometimes when I was going crazy at not being able to play music. The girl across the hall was named Nikki and she lent me PJ Harvey's Is This Desire? right after it came out. She was v cute and stylish, with like pink hair and silver pants. Quite coincidentally, my dad and I ran into her in Manchester over winter break on our way to a Chris Ofili exhibit.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

AWESOME!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

Also: THERE WILL BE CAKE!!!!!

. . . someone has a birthday & will be attending the party! (it's not me but someone else 'round here . . . )

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

Ronan lives in Ireland...?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

jmz, get 20% more famous, collect such paragraphs, let me title (in)appropriately, send to mcswny's.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

I will contradict my recent Lollapalooza statements on fests and say I wish I could come to the Pitchfork thing in July, but I will be tapped out from Seattle-Portland probly. I miss Chicagoans.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

Hi Dr. M -- do you miss the city or the people?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

i was still working 2 jobs during the intonation last year and got off the green line at ashland at around 4 pm both days. on the saturday i was waiting for the northbound ashland bus with a bunch of other people. along came a group of about 6 people or so walking 6 wide down the sidewalk. it narrows a bit when you get off lake st and onto ashland by the bus stop. this girl walks into this mexican dude who was waiting for the #9 and instead of appologizing to the guy she turns to one of her friends and says "god, people who just stand on the sidewalk are so rude! didn't he see us coming?"

it was priceless.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

Is Soulseek worth bothering with? It looks pretty complicated to install on a mac, but I'm intimidated by indietorrent's rules.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

Good Lord, so am I! I don't even know what "seeding" is.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

Well, both, jaymc. Esp Wrigley, Big Chicks and the Neofuturists. And that ungodly humid ex-bowling alley club?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

I tried repeatedly to get slsk to run on my iBook, with minimal success. I just don't have the patience for all the X-windows emulation bullshit that came along with it. If there's a version now that doesn't require that, it might be worth using.

IT's rules are a pain, for sure. But compared to other torrent sites their stuff always downloads really fast, is free of viruses/other crap, and there's constantly new and leaked and rare stuff on there.

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

And that ungodly humid ex-bowling alley club?

fireside? ex-club bowling alley now. or sometimes-club, usually bowling alley.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

Read the FAQs carefully, and ask the mods if you're not sure about something. The "Support" forum is very good, too. You'll get it! xpost

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

I'll email you about it Dan - I don't want to bore anyone. I really REALLY do not understand how that site works.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

again: ssX, dudes, for slsking on mac.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

Do people still use limewire?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

I use Limewire exclusively. I'm not really interested in Soulseek. It seems too easy.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

I used Limewire for a time, but got sick of it.

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

Because I could never find anything I really wanted, and always found lots and lots and lots of stuff I didn't want. Also, some of the stuff I downloaded was of dubious quality.

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

Nick, this slsk client for Mac is great -- easy to install and set up. xpost -- in other words, gbx OTM.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

nostalgic for the fireside bowl is something i will never be. (super x-post)

yesterday, i drove down the PCH, stopped off at the shake shack, had a date shake while watching the sun go down over the pacific, and i was glad to be in california.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

Slsk is very hit and miss as well. The only cool stuff I've gotten has been through browsing the files of people I know.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

Exactly, though, Dan. If I'm going to be doing something illegal, I prefer having some constraints on me.

Hi Mark. Yeah, I don't miss the Fireside, either. What was that show we went to there where the sound was perfectly awful?

Also: date shake?!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

What was that show we went to there where the sound was perfectly awful?

all of them?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

I just tried to download ssX but it won't work because we're running 10.2.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, Otto. No, we (Mark and I) saw Blonde Redhead there once, and I thought it was pretty good. But then we were back for some other show -- I want to say like Enon maybe? -- and I was like "this really sucks."

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

Is this the self-same Shake Shack?

http://education.ucdavis.edu/~wagner/projects/frs002l_w05_public/frs_images/Wight_04.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

that's the one! it's kind of the middle of nowhere, right in between 'crystal cove,' which is a sort of state park with all kinds of trails. a 10 minute drive from campus!

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

J, if you're looking for constraints, IT is the place! I understand, though, that it's not for everyone. You will not find anything from an R|AA label there.

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

(xp) That does sound pretty awesome, then. Kickin' back, drinkin' a shake, watchin' the ocean.

― Steve Shasta (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

That does sound totally dreamy.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

an R|AA label

I don't understand this. Aren't all labels part of the R|AA?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

Nope, hence "Indie."

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

john, so only following your dating sporadically, thru this thread, i missed one crucial detail: how did you meet this woman?

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

Aren't all labels part of the R|AA?

no.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

Huh? The R|AA only deals with major labels? That sounds strange to me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

how did you meet this woman?

She was at Jordan's show at the Green Mill.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

I bring people together.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

john, you should come out to california.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

For example, when Suffrin' Stevens' latest got released, it was banned from IT because even though it was released on an indie label in the US, a label that was partially owned by a major released it in Europe. That was all it took for them (the IT ppl) to want no part of it.

multiplexpost: It doesn't only deal with majors. Epitaph is a good example. There was a big brouhaha on the IT forums not too long ago about this.

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

Epitaph is a good example.

Haha, I was just about to post this:

Your search returned 19 records. Records 1 to 19 displayed.Artist Title Cert. Date Label Award Desc. Format Category Type
OFFSPRING SMASH 08/08/94 EPITAPH P ALBUM GROUP Std
OFFSPRING SMASH 08/08/94 EPITAPH G ALBUM GROUP Std
OFFSPRING SMASH 12/05/94 EPITAPH M (3) ALBUM GROUP Std
OFFSPRING SMASH 03/31/95 EPITAPH M (4) ALBUM GROUP Std
OFFSPRING SMASH 07/10/95 EPITAPH M (5) ALBUM GROUP Std
OFFSPRING IGNITION 01/22/96 EPITAPH G ALBUM GROUP Std

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

john, you should come out to california.

It's my next priority after Montreal.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, I'm lost. What is IT?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

Ohhh ... IndieTorrents?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

Your search returned 3 records. Records 1 to 3 displayed.

Artist Title Cert. Date Label Award Desc. Format Category Type
HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS THE SILENCE IN BLACK AND WHITE 07/14/05 VICTORY RECORDS G ALBUM GROUP Std
TAKING BACK SUNDAY WHERE YOU WANT TO BE 07/06/05 VICTORY RECORDS G ALBUM GROUP Std
TAKING BACK SUNDAY TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS 09/19/05 VICTORY RECORDS G ALBUM GROUP Std

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, sorry. Those "in the know" usually type #it, which is a little too nerdy even for me.

xpost Yeah, another reason Victory sucks!

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

So IndieTorrents exists mostly to avoid R|AA scrutiny, then?

The irony is that I often download indie/obscure stuff from message board YSI threads, or from friends, and then go to Limewire to download the mainstream fare.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

I would say it exists outside of R|AA scrutiny. They don't want anything to do with R|AA-related material, and will ban you if you try to upload it.

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

Your search returned 2 records. Records 1 to 2 displayed.Artist Title Cert. Date Label Award Desc. Format Category Type
PHAIR, LIZ WHIP SMART 03/13/98 MATADOR G ALBUM SOLO Std
PHAIR, LIZ EXILE IN GUYVILLE 05/06/98 MATADOR G ALBUM SOLO Std

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

(Did these get added to the database after Matador teamed up with Capitol?)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

wots in Montreal?

i'm off to get a bite...

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

But if you have a pre-release copy of, say, the new X|u X|u or Br0ken S0cial Scene record, then you will find many friends there. (Both of which were up weeks, possibly even months before they were released.) xpost again

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

People are in Montreal. I'm going there in late April/early May.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

I'm still not quite sure I understand.

Your search returned 4 records. Records 1 to 4 displayed.
Artist Title Cert. Date Label Award Desc. Format Category Type
NIRVANA BLEACH 02/27/95 SUB POP P ALBUM GROUP Std
NIRVANA BLEACH 02/27/95 SUB POP G ALBUM GROUP Std
POSTAL SERVICE GIVE UP 03/10/05 SUB POP G ALBUM GROUP Std
POSTAL SERVICE SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS 06/30/05 SUB POP G SINGLE GROUP Dig

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

Where are you getting these results from?

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

www.riaa.com/gp/database/default.asp

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

Hm. I dunno what to tell you. IT has its own "R|AA Radar" that you can put the info from a record you're not sure about into and it will tell you whether it is safe or not.

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

Has Funeral gone gold yet? There are no results for anything on Merge.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

OINK

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

INVITES

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

Is it invite-only? I don't understand how I would have anything that any of the people who use these sites want and don't already have...

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

I got invited to OINK, but I can't keep up with it. My ratio is for shit.

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Lightning Bolt at Fireside Bowl on a hideously hot night in '01, and between the sweat and their playing-in-the-crowd-shtick, it was at least memorable.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

I was just free-associating. I know nothing about OINK except that there was a big hullabaloo on ILM a while back about "OINK invites."

I don't like programs where you have to share with other people. Most of the file-sharing lawsuits have targeted people that have disseminated files rather than merely partook. On Limewire, you can just turn off sharing.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not going to get into it here, but bittorent gets around that rather elegantly.

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

so as long as we're on the topic, what would I use to make a torrent file?

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

A bittorrent client.

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

Like this one.

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

rrrobyn, get one cellphone

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

ah, okay - i use shareazz@ as a bitt0rrent client. i guess i'll dl @zureus/bitt0rrent. thanks!

i so WANT a cellphone. TEXTING WORLD>

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

I am NOT talking about bittorrent on the internet.

Because it's boring.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny! Hi! How's the tooth?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I don't know that you have to d/l a new one. I figured every client had the ability to produce .torrent files.

xpost: It certainly is!

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny has to download a new tooth?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

Spooky Tooth.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man, internet dentistry. THE FUTURE IS NOW

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, there's a new Spike Lee movie?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

oh, i found something called 't0rrentaid' for making things. harddrive hates me right now so must clear some space first before proceeding with the world of ind1etorrent... OKAY, I won't talk about torrents on the internet (in this thread) anymore! :)

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

Not a joint, Jordan?

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

Spooky Tooth.
Doesn't anyone get my joke?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 24 March 2006 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

Spooky Tooth
http://www.fantasma.com/tours/gallery/images/spooky_tooth_400.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 24 March 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

No, this one doesn't look like a joint to me.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 24 March 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

It seems like the Spike Lee movie has been deliberately marketed as a regular movie instead of a joint.

HEY! This is last-minute - because it wasn't confirmed until now and I didn't want to get people to come to a show that I was shut out of - but I'm playing at the Hideout! Early tonight! As in from 6-8 p.m., along with Carolyn Mark - a pal of mine from Victoria, BC who sometimes plays with Neko C. as The Corn Sisters - and JT and the Clouds.

Happy Hour! Come down! Very soon!

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 24 March 2006 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

Never heard of 'em Amanda. Sorry.

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Friday, 24 March 2006 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

Oh well. There ends the classic rock joke cycle.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 24 March 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

My ratio on OINK is great. Over the holidays they have ratio free downloading and you're able to get your ratio real high.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 24 March 2006 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

I've figured it out. It's not ilx that's up and down all the time. it's the p3r address.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Friday, 24 March 2006 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

Indeed.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 25 March 2006 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

well... they're both still kinda squirrelly. But this makes me feel better. They haven't blocked the address from me at work, it just keeps timing out.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Saturday, 25 March 2006 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

Friday night WOO! It has a whole different meaning when you've worked all week. To me this evening, it probably means napping. Still. I have had a stressful week, yo. I once saw a chart of the most stressful events in a person's life, and "new job" ranked just below "death of a parent."

I talked for a moment with Annie, two cubicles down from me. She's as much for a website redesign as I am. Not turning the whole thing over to CSS and the DOM and an Apache server -- just making the damn thing make sense. Every page on this fucker is an infinite list, and you have to use ctrl-f to find anything on it no matter how well you know the site. Customers call all the time because they can't find what they're looking for. It's a problem that's obvious to everyone but the programmers, who don't want anyone touching anything for fear that they'll have to do more work. It's classic, really.

But anyway, I have at least one ally, and probably more than I know. I'm happy.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Saturday, 25 March 2006 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

EVERY LINK ON THE WHOLE WEBSITE OPENS A NEW WINDOW. I'll leave you with that thought. Just imagine it.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Saturday, 25 March 2006 00:27 (nineteen years ago)

Hey: is there a cover for the FF show?

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 25 March 2006 00:43 (nineteen years ago)

You have to show your nipples.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Saturday, 25 March 2006 00:46 (nineteen years ago)

That's the Ice Factory way. It's underground, yo.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Saturday, 25 March 2006 00:46 (nineteen years ago)

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 25 March 2006 00:50 (nineteen years ago)

It's like $2 right? for a cup?

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 25 March 2006 00:51 (nineteen years ago)

It's like you're going to a party in someone's basement. Yeah, don't worry about bringing much money.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Saturday, 25 March 2006 00:59 (nineteen years ago)

I saw V for Vendetta this afternoon. Here is my report:

1) Natalie Portman has hair for most of the movie. Nice hair. This was a pleasant surprise.

2) Not enough explosions.

3) More fights than I expected. Nice.

4) I probably wouldn't watch it again, unless on DVD with about half of my attention on it.

5) We are living in the End Times, people! Freedom! Destroy the powerful! Other stuff!

6) Fun to watch, but the twists and turns were not really that suspenceful (sp?) or involving.

7) My first girlfriend is kind of boring. And I'm pretty sure she thinks I'm nuts.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 25 March 2006 02:06 (nineteen years ago)

Good evening.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 25 March 2006 04:05 (nineteen years ago)

Hey fags and faggettes: I'm just getting home! It's 2 am CST, which is rather late considering how sober I am.

Work was madness, in a good way. I made $5,000 tonight which should help me cover my tax bill.

On break I went to Walgreens to buy shampoo and some guy was screaming at a cashier. Then someone called him a dick and he followed the guy out of the revolving door and tried to fistfight him outside. Then he yelled at the crosswalk lines, I think.

On the train tonight a bunch of .... duders? got on at Addison--if you know Chicago, they were just the sorts of young men and blonde women who would get on at Addison. Anyway, some young mad-drunk hipster mocked them incessantly, crossing her eyes saying, "I'm duuuumb! I'm SO FUCKING DUMMMMB!"

Then the train stopped at Wilson. And it is probably still there. Again, if you're familiar w/ Chicago, you know that Wilson St. redline stop is where a little bit of hell seeps up through the earth's crust and makes trains stop so I have to walk home through the detritus of humanity.

After 10 min. I gave up hope that the train would ever move again and as walked out and past the cars with open doors one of the Addison dudes happened to lean out of the door and hork a bronchial oyster that hit my shoe. He was horrified and I was understanding.

I started down the stairs to the street but I had to turn back and step aside for the 6-10 firefighters with stretchers who were talking about someone who was on the last car who was unconscious. I don't understand why they had to walk 3 abreast so that I could not pass when they were in no real hurry.

The bonus feature tonight was the yuppy white dude (with the wedding band) who caught sight of a cute woman, hit her up and before 2 stops had passed, was making out with her as they both stood/stumbled by the doors. My friends from work noted that the two seemed pretty coked up, so obviously had Fate's blessing.

I enjoy Chicago immensely.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Saturday, 25 March 2006 08:15 (nineteen years ago)

Hi. The Ice Factory tonight was smokin'. Fake Fictions rocked, per usual, and then ohmygod the dance party: I'm talking "Hip Hop Hooray" (Naughty by Nature), "Tennessee" (Arrested Development), "I Can't Wait" (Nu Shooz), "Motownphilly" (Boyz II Men), "Jump" (Kris Kross), "Me Myself and I" (De La Soul), etc. It was kind of sick.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 25 March 2006 08:41 (nineteen years ago)

Good night.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 25 March 2006 09:04 (nineteen years ago)

Good luck.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 25 March 2006 09:05 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, did you really make $5k in one night? Because that's outstanding.

We watched Good Night and Good Luck last Wednesday and then watched All the President's Men (can I get a witness for how unbelievably handsome Robert Redford is? DAMN) and now I'm like FREAKING OUT because listen, our current president has done MUCHA MUCHA WORSE than McCarthy and Nixon and no journalists (with the sort of exception of John Stewart, and he's a fucking commedian for christ's sake) has the chutzpah to bring that shit to the people the way Murrow and Woodward and Bernstein did. And I'm so angry about it! SOMEBODY STEP THE FUCK UP!!!!

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 25 March 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, I'm trying, but who the hell am I? Nobody listens to me. I'm some wack job with a sign, a loud mouth, and half a law degree. In the extras of GN&GL George Clooney talked about how, after the Tet Offensive, Cronkite stepped out from behind his desk and, pointing to a map of Vietnam, said "For it seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate." This was unprecedented - both getting up from the desk and making that kind of editorial statement.

And journalists said these things because they felt like the American Way of Life (TM) was being threatened by bad men in office making stupid decisions! But now, this bad man in office has convinced people (including my family, alas) that questioning the decisions of the powerful, regardless of their deadly, mean, or stupid consequences, is the real threat to the American Way of Life. And citizens and journalists are buying it and aren't saying shit and here we are.

SORRY EVERYBODY. Just feeling a little ANGRY and AGITATED today.

That should make Kelsey's party fun...

Oh, and HAPPYBIRTHDAYJAYMC!!!!!

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 25 March 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

I had the same feelings after seeing GN&GL. Citizens and journalists are saying shit daily, and Bush's approval ratings are only in the 30s, but Murtha and Cindy Sheehan and the others get de-legitimized or drowned out so quickly now.

― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 25 March 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

hey were just the sorts of young men and blonde women who would get on at Addison

ROFFLE

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Saturday, 25 March 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Also, this one's for you, jaymc:
http://www.thegrandpaw.com/images/Dog%20Birthday%20Corbis%20ValuPak%2011554691.jpg
Happy Birthday!

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Saturday, 25 March 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.easyontheeye.net/albums/sugarcubes/brithdayfirstbig.jpg

― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 25 March 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

Having spent the past few days in Chicago, I feel I can finally post sometihng on one of these threads.

STREET PANTIES

That is all I have to say.

― joygoat (joygoat), Saturday, 25 March 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

That was mostly for Dan, the only person here (this thread, not Chicago or the Internet in general) that I know.

― joygoat (joygoat), Saturday, 25 March 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.rallye-kanazawa.com/label/label_img/juniorboys-b-jacket.jpg

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Saturday, 25 March 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

http://carbonsilicon.info/uploaded_images/mick_birthday-720227.jpg

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 25 March 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

ihttp://www.caketoppers.co.uk/graphics/18397158-item-60th_happy_birthday.jpg

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 25 March 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

Aw, nuts. Here:

http://www.caketoppers.co.uk/graphics/18397158-item-60th_happy_birthday.jpg

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 25 March 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

http://img.epinions.com/images/opti/a3/64/65479440021357644044_500X500-resized200.jpg

― Juulia (julesbdules), Saturday, 25 March 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

My ears are ringing badly. I did permanent damage last night.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Saturday, 25 March 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

Wait Wait Don't Tell Me is really lame this morning.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Saturday, 25 March 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.orlandoweekly.com/sb/48894/Grizzly%20Man.jpg
"The poet must not avert his eyes." OKAY.
Happy Birthday, John, you are awesome.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Saturday, 25 March 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

Jaymc I am making you a birthday CD full of songs that are not very cool at all. You will get no cool points from these songs. That is the theme.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Saturday, 25 March 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

Is there any Gordon Lightfoot on it?

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 25 March 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

haha YES THERE IS.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Saturday, 25 March 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

Also, Rick Nelson.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Saturday, 25 March 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://armzrace.com/images/FMillerRipOff.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 25 March 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

(I can get to ILX from home again!)

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 25 March 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

Huzzah!

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Saturday, 25 March 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

OMG Jim Croce! I'm going to be ashamed of this CD forever. It will turn you into a pussy instantly.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Saturday, 25 March 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

my head hurts a bit, but my foot hurts more

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 25 March 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't that the way they say it goes? But let's forget all that.

― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 25 March 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, it still breaks my heart. She ran off with his best friend! Man, that's gotta sting.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Saturday, 25 March 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, you know what's a good song by Gordon Lightfoot? "Beautiful." Oh man. That song.

Thanx for the bday wishes, you guys!

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 25 March 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

how long did you guys stay at the factory?? looked like you were still chuggin when i left.

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 25 March 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

It's amazing how hardwired these songs are in me. I haven't heard "New York's Not My Home" since I was, like, 15, but I know every word. It always makes me think of Midnight Cowboy, even though that's not the folky AM hit featured in the movie.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Saturday, 25 March 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

I left maybe a half hour after you did, gbx?

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 25 March 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah and I left at 2:00, leaving most of our equipment at the Ice Factory. It's nice to be able to do that.

Thanks for coming, guys, it was a blast. You guys are all insane. I would not want to face those Sharks in a dance-off, they are vicious on the dance floor.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 25 March 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, if I hadn't mentioned before, The Fake Fictions kicked my butt last night. Nick shredded, and Sarah's voice has become some Corin Tucker-like force of nature. I think it may have been Sarah that damaged my hearing. But in a good way.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Saturday, 25 March 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

ah so.

INDIAN FOOD FOR BREAKFAST

xp FFs were a treat!

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 25 March 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

Um, hey Kenan? Would you maybe make me a copy of that mix, maybe? If it doesn't distract from the specialness of it being for John? You're tapping into the vein of AM Gold that runs straight to my heart, and it's making me misty.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 25 March 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yes! I think I may jettison the 80's stuff and call the mix "AM GOLD." But OH! Lindsay Buckingham.

I really should be saying goodnight.
I really shouldn't stay anymore.
It's been so long since I held ya.
I've forgotten what love is for.
I should run on the double . . .
I think I'm in trouble.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Saturday, 25 March 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, that stays.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Saturday, 25 March 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, who loves you?
My Morning Jacket - The Bear From their first album that I just bought.

My Morning Jacket - Anytime From their most recent, and best, album. I like to pretend that instead of "damn" or whatever he says at the beginning, he is whispering, "Dave..."

My Morning Jacket - Tyrone An Erika Badu cover. Better than both their "Rocket Man" and "Take My Breath Away" covers.

-- regular roundups (daphim...), March 24th, 2006 2:32 AM. (Dave M) (link)

Are you my daddy?

Thanks! I'm downloading it now. Umm...what's an .rar file?

ILX was not working for me at all yesterday except for a little while at home.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Saturday, 25 March 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

I'm spending the noon hour loving Antony and the Johnsons.

Also, BEST CURE ALBUM: The Top.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Saturday, 25 March 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

Umm...what's an .rar file?

Winzip will handle it. Never fear.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Saturday, 25 March 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

That Antony and the Johnsons album really is something special, isn't it? There ain't no two like it.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Saturday, 25 March 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

CHILX QUICK I NEED HELP PICK AN ELTON JOHN SONG FOR ME I CAN'T DECIDE

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Saturday, 25 March 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

ROCKET MAN

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 25 March 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

No. Tiny Dancer.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 25 March 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

NO NO NO NO

Your Song

That one. Definitely.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 25 March 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

I was thinking, do I go big and obvious with "Rocket Man" or go a little subtler with maybe an album track off of "Madman" or "Yellow Brick Road"? Ah, decisions.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Saturday, 25 March 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

Umm...what's an .rar file?
Winzip will handle it. Never fear.

-- Joe Polniaczek (fluxion2...), March 25th, 2006 12:31 PM. (kenan) (link)

ha ha, my first reaction was to immediately put it in the trash. like a jerk. but i pulled it out and dusted it off.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Saturday, 25 March 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

Tiny Dancer.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Saturday, 25 March 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

What the hell is "Rocket Man" about, anyway? Maybe ILM has an answer for me in the archives.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Saturday, 25 March 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

She packed my bags last night pre-flight
Zero hour nine a.m.
And I’m gonna be high as a kite by then
I miss the earth so much I miss my wife
It’s lonely out in space
On such a timeless flight

And I think it’s gonna be a long long time
Till touch down brings me round again to find
I’m not the man they think I am at home
Oh no no no I’m a rocket man
Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone

Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids
In fact it’s cold as hell
And there’s no one there to raise them if you did
And all this science I don’t understand
It’s just my job five days a week
A rocket man, a rocket man

And I think it’s gonna be a long long time...

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 25 March 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

Let's see... alienation, distance, isolation...

I'm think it's either about drugs, or the lonely life of a rock star, or the lonely life of a rock star who takes a lot of drugs.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 25 March 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

Can you hear me, Major Tom?

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 25 March 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

It's all a bit prosaic, isn't it?

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Saturday, 25 March 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

"Boy, the weather on Mars sure does suck."

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Saturday, 25 March 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

But Bernie's lowpoint has to be "Rollin' like thunder / Under the covers"

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Saturday, 25 March 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

I would say that Candle in the Wind is the lowest of the low. But that is as much for the music as the lyrics. Gawd I hate that song.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 25 March 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff, stop posting.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 25 March 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

I have this thing for the line "rollin' like thunder/under the covers." That and some from that song "Runnin' Against the Wind" and "I guess that's why they call it the blues."

Anyway all of these reminded me of a month and a half where I had no mommy when I was 8 because she went to visit family in Mexico and had issues with her visa and for some reason the family radio was playing a lot of AM Gold. BOO. HOO.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Saturday, 25 March 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff, stop posting.

-- Jeff. (poopoopo...), March 25th, 2006 12:59 PM. (Jeff) (link)

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Saturday, 25 March 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

"I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues" is a much better song than the less successful Elton John singles from that time, like "I'm Still Standing" and "Nikita" and whatever that song is with the video with all the different rooms in the same building, something, like ABC's "When Smokey Sings", that has some nostalgia for old American r&b but with none of the oomph or ahhh of those songs.

I was thinking about Jim Croce "Operator" on the way to the coffeehouse and how the guy is going through all this anxiety just to call and let his best friend and his ex know that he's doing OK. I'm thinking of Miles making that phone call from the restaurant in Sideways.

(Saw Sideways for the second time the other night and had a lot of different thoughts about it. My friend who watched it thought that the sequel should show Miles teaching his eighth-grade students.)

― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 25 March 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

(Sideways, by the way, is the total nightmare of what any of us guys will be like in 10 years if we let our denial and compulsions get the best of us.)

― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 25 March 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

yes.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Saturday, 25 March 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

I keep listening to "Garden Party" over and over. What a great freakin' song. "I'd rather drive a truck."

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Saturday, 25 March 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't seen Sideways yet, for just that reason.

I kind of accidentally filed Maddie's tax returns twice...is that going to be a problem? I would hope that the government would be smart enough to figure that shit out. Um.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 25 March 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

"Someone saved my life tonight".

Also, Billy Joel.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 25 March 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

You know what's a great Billy Joel song? "Vienna" on The Stranger. But for an AM Gold mix, the title song would be appropriate.

― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 25 March 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

Psychic Ills

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 25 March 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

Just go find a bunch of cheap synths and see what their preset songs are and go with those.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 25 March 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

Also, do you believe the children are our future?

Because, somewhere out there, beneath a clear blue sky, someone's thinking of them and loving them tonight.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 25 March 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

All I have to do is think of songs I've threatened for my band to cover where everyone has responded in complete and abject horror.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 25 March 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

"Vienna" totally makes the cut. I love that song.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Saturday, 25 March 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

(I apologize for posting boring-ass shit, and not knowing any of the songs you dudes are talking about)

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 25 March 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

Gooood moooorning! Okay, afternoon. I went for an early bike ride + brunch and thought my day wuz off to a productive start but now I'm incredibly sleepy. And Jenny is on IM but she's "away" right now, whatever THAT means. So let's see...

Congrats to you FFs on what sounds like an awesome showing last night. I am sorry to be missing all the good times this weekend, up to and including Kelsey's Big Night and the natal day of my favorite NYC subway line. MWAH

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 25 March 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of the total nightmare of what any of us guys will be like in 10 years if we let our denial and compulsions get the best of us, we just watched "The Squid and the Whale." Vicious! Though I guess that's more like 20 years, hopefully.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 25 March 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

That's another one I haven't seen for similar reasons. I don't feel like I need to see a realistic cinematic portrayal of divorce, you know?

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 25 March 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

i had a good time last night right up until i sat in a pool of beer on the washing machine. i had to walk home with a damp ass. you may (or may not) be surprised at what a buzz kill that is.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Saturday, 25 March 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

I wouldn't really call S&tW a realistic portrayal of divorce unless your dad is one of the most obnoxious, pretentious people ever (beautifully played by Jeff Daniels). It's a true black comedy: very uncomfortable and very funny.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 25 March 2006 23:54 (nineteen years ago)

As promised, as a celebration of us getting DSL, here are some songs I've been enjoying a lot lately.

"Bad Education" by the Blue Orchids

"Ageing Had Never Been His Friend" by Love is All

"Peaches & Cream" by 112 (This is the song we were talking about at Simon's the other week - it's great.)

Note: the first two are m4a files, so I don't know if you can play them without iTunes. Peaches & Cream is an mp3 though.

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 26 March 2006 00:01 (nineteen years ago)

Heh, Nick - scary and true (Squid/Whale).

― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 26 March 2006 00:13 (nineteen years ago)

Yay DSL! Yay Peaches and Cream!

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 00:19 (nineteen years ago)

haha you're right. This is a great song.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 00:21 (nineteen years ago)

I couldn't believe you guys hadn't heard it - it was huge on the radio when it came out, at least in Virginia.

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 26 March 2006 00:48 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, my mix is done, perfected, and delivered with as little irony as possible. I don't have a printer here, so John and Jenny will get a naked disc. This is the tracklisting:

1. Rick Nelson - Garden Party
2. Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown
3. Jim Croce - Operator
4. Gilbert O'Sullivan - Alone Again (Naturally)
5. Jackson Browne - Doctor My Eyes
6. Dobie Gray - Drift Away
7. The Allman Brothers Band - Blue Sky
8. The Marshall Tucker Band - Can't You See
9. Seals and Crofts - Summer Breeze
10. Cat Stevens - Wild World
11. The Stone Ponies - Long Long Time
12. Carole King - So Far Away
13. Billy Joel - Vienna
14. Elton John - Harmony
15. Jim Croce - New York's Not My Home
16. Joni Mitchell - Chelsea Morning
17. Gordon Lightfoot - Beautiful
18. The Doobie Brothers - It Keeps You Running

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 01:25 (nineteen years ago)

MARSHALL! TUCKER! BAND!

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 26 March 2006 01:49 (nineteen years ago)

And it's all for you!

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 01:55 (nineteen years ago)

In thanks, I give you:

(I Always Feel Like) Somebody's Watching Me and

Roxanne's Revenge

SEE YOU IN LIKE FIVE MINUTES.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 26 March 2006 01:00 (nineteen years ago)

i can't get to those on yousendit, they give me errors, grr. and i was just using ysi and it was working fine!

i am listening to gnarls barkley--crazy

― Juulia (julesbdules), Sunday, 26 March 2006 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

I love that Gnarls Barkley song, OMG. "Smiley Face" is pretty good, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 26 March 2006 07:36 (nineteen years ago)

John beat me to posting on here.

John would not accompany me to Clark's on Clark.

John was Drunk.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Sunday, 26 March 2006 07:40 (nineteen years ago)

RIYL Gnarls Barkley:

Chicken Lips, "Without Sound"

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 26 March 2006 07:40 (nineteen years ago)

John pissed off or offended Rachel.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Sunday, 26 March 2006 07:41 (nineteen years ago)

No, I didn't. We hugged goodbye very amicably. I just said I didn't think there was anything wrong with that dude coming to the back and eating our cake. It's not like we were eating it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 26 March 2006 07:42 (nineteen years ago)

I have an electric litter box, and every single time it runs (10 min after CPO Brenda Waterbed visits it) she scrambles with the eagerness of a crackhead after a rock in the carpet to GO SEE WHAT THIS MAGICAL BOX IS DOING WITH HER CLUMPS OF PEE AND SHIT! She runs, knocking over anything in her way, stares at the rake arm as it moves and then when it's still again, often goes back in for a quick follow-up pee.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Sunday, 26 March 2006 07:46 (nineteen years ago)

xpost--- she was calling after you to talk to her, but you were ignoring her or didn't hear her and she got pissed and went out the side door.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Sunday, 26 March 2006 07:46 (nineteen years ago)

Electric litterbox? I don't understand.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 26 March 2006 07:49 (nineteen years ago)

Electric litter box. (mine was certainly not this expensive!)

I wanted a cat for years and my one non-negotiable condition was that if I had a cat I would spend the money on an automatic litterbox, because I know that I am bad about scooping and I don't want my house to smell.

The box works great and makes all the difference in the world. No complaints. But it is a little noisy.

(WTF? is this epinions.com?)

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Sunday, 26 March 2006 07:52 (nineteen years ago)

Huh. That's convenient. I don't understand pet ownership.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 26 March 2006 07:54 (nineteen years ago)

"The litter box's infrared sensor detects waste deposits and rakes them away 10 minutes after your cat departs the litter box. Super quiet motor uses a low-voltage AC adapter (included) or batteries"

Super quiet, hell!

Also, it does NOT sense waste; it senses that something has interrupted the electric eye's signal.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Sunday, 26 March 2006 07:55 (nineteen years ago)

What don't you understand about pet ownership?

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Sunday, 26 March 2006 07:55 (nineteen years ago)

s'up chicago

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Sunday, 26 March 2006 07:58 (nineteen years ago)

rrrobyn!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 26 March 2006 07:59 (nineteen years ago)

I like the picture of the electric litter box, because that looks just like my kitty. Except my kitty is better, because she has little boots. She's in my lap now. She smells like a cat, which is kinda nondescript, but at least it's not smelling like a dog. I have kitty fever. I am going to have to get another kitty soon.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 08:00 (nineteen years ago)

Jaymc, are you listening to Gordon Lightfoot? I will be crushed if you are not.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 08:01 (nineteen years ago)

so want to read above thread issues
can't

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Sunday, 26 March 2006 08:01 (nineteen years ago)

I just mean, I've never had a pet, even when I was a kid, so I just don't really understand all of the investment people put into their pets. Renee was telling me today about a guy we know who has a dog that might have to have one of its eyes removed, and she was like, "Awww, imagine what [friend's name] must feel like. He must be so heartbroken." And I was like, shrug. I know this makes me a terrible person.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 26 March 2006 08:02 (nineteen years ago)

Thought of the evening: Heineken is nasty shit. It doesn't just tase bad, it smells like pee. How can anyone drink this crap?

John, you should get a kitty. Then you would understand that fuzzy things that love you are handy to have around the house.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 08:03 (nineteen years ago)

Another thought: I think one of the reasons I like you guys is how easily any of us break into song. Any song, for any reason, no matter whether we know the words or not. Songs are good things. Songs, and also kitties.

― Joe Polniaczek (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 08:06 (nineteen years ago)

Grolsch is even more peeish.

I knew I would get on here and find out about some element of our live action night that I missed out on in person (i.e., Rachel and John's tiff/nontiff).

― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 26 March 2006 08:08 (nineteen years ago)

I am tired of the Joe screen name. I will try out a new one for a while.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 08:08 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sort of like that. I tend to not anthropomorphisize my pets (though it's hard when you have a pet that speaks English in your own voice)too much. I don't think of non-human suffering as equal to people's suffering. I figure that if my pet goes without food for a few hours beyond his/her regular feeding time, it's still WAY better than how they would live in the wild (or in the case of domesticated animals, ferally) where they would spend all day looking for food that might be insufficient.

Non-humans adjust to their conditions a lot better than humans.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Sunday, 26 March 2006 08:10 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck you, Kenan.

― Biz Markie (jaymc), Sunday, 26 March 2006 08:11 (nineteen years ago)

The appropriate answer is from Mamet's Speed-The-Plow: "Fuck me? Fuck me in hell, pal. Fuck me in hell."

― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 26 March 2006 08:13 (nineteen years ago)

I would respond, but I'm just confused.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 08:14 (nineteen years ago)

"Everybody needs money. That's why they call it money."

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 08:15 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and I should add that my thoughts on animals is informed by my father's old-country German Midwestern side of the family's ways. I have helped my dad home-neuter our tom cat, which was interesting (you tightly tie cobblers' thread around the nuts).

My dad tells me that when the barn cats would have kittens (it was 1920, and spaying/neutering was unheard of), his mother would hold the cats by the body and bash their heads against the side of a building or rock. I don't think I could do this, but at the same time, I don't think it's horrifying as most people I tell this to do.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Sunday, 26 March 2006 08:15 (nineteen years ago)

Dude. That's pretty fucking horrifying.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 08:16 (nineteen years ago)

But who am I to talk. I have beheaded a chicken.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 08:17 (nineteen years ago)

"Everybody needs money. That's why they call it money!"

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 26 March 2006 08:18 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, your dad is old.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 26 March 2006 08:21 (nineteen years ago)

I don't understand people who don't get the "everybody needs money" joke, and apparently there are a lot of them. Type-A pricks, the lot of them.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 08:23 (nineteen years ago)

Dude. That's pretty fucking horrifying.

But who am I to talk. I have beheaded a chicken.

I don't remember if I have personally, but when I lived in Oregon we used to kill our chickens on a chopping block at the top of a long-ish hill. The hen would run down the slope and then spin-out its life at the bottom. I remember being absolutely delighted by the show. (I was 5-1/2 when we moved from OR). I think this is more of an indication of my essential personality than of the beheadings' effect on my current personality.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Sunday, 26 March 2006 08:27 (nineteen years ago)

The fact that we beheaded them on a hill is interesting because we could have very easily (or even more conveniently) have killed them on a flat part of the yard. But we didn't--we lopped their heads off where they would provide maximum FUN. We did it on the FUNZONE, if you will.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Sunday, 26 March 2006 08:29 (nineteen years ago)

We didn't have a hill, but we did have a chicken yard, and a chopping block, and once grampa let me swing the axe. Grampa was a sweet old guy who would never hurt anyone. I think he just wanted me to understand what goes into making a chicken dinner. The lesson certainly stuck.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 08:29 (nineteen years ago)

(xp) I won't.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 26 March 2006 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

More people should kill thier own meat. It's kinda bad ju-ju not to. If you're going to eat an animal, you should have some kind of relationship to it. Anything less is to disrespect the life that was given, however small the brain.

I sound like Ted Nugent.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 08:31 (nineteen years ago)

You know, when I feel bad about eating meat (which is more often than you'd think), it's not because I feel that meat is murder. It's because the relationship Americans have with food is tres fucked-up, and with meat more than anything else. We don't even think of meat as "animals" anymore. When I was a kid, the prayer at the dinner table always included a special shout-out to the animal that gave up everything so we could have some protein and vitamin B.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 08:37 (nineteen years ago)

Am I the last one awake? That makes me sad.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

Alone again. Naturally.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 08:40 (nineteen years ago)

I'm awake. I just want to have a clean conscience about my churrasco.

― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 26 March 2006 08:40 (nineteen years ago)

no dude

― Mrs. Fishpaw (unclejessjess), Sunday, 26 March 2006 08:40 (nineteen years ago)

I just want to have a clean conscience about my churrasco.

Say a little prayer.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 08:41 (nineteen years ago)

Whenever I wake up
Before I get my fried chicken on
I say a little prayer for you

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 08:44 (nineteen years ago)

I worked with a relatively smart guy (around 22 years old, and at a restuarant) who asked if pork and pig was the same thing. He was honestly unsure. Had he been dumb I would have been less surprised, but he very innocently exhibited the disconnect between food-meat and the source.

― Mrs. Fishpaw (unclejessjess), Sunday, 26 March 2006 08:44 (nineteen years ago)

Homer: Are you saying you're never going to eat any animal again? What about bacon?
Lisa: No.
Homer: Ham?
Lisa: No.
Homer: Pork chops?
Lisa: Dad, those all come from the same animal.
Homer: Heh heh heh. Ooh, yeah, right, Lisa. A wonderful, magical animal.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 08:47 (nineteen years ago)

Had he been dumb I would have been less surprised

Your criteria for "dumb" may be different from mine.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

I think of myself as a very well-informed meat consumer. I doubt I will ever be (a) vegetarian, but I consciously limit my meat intake. If I'm at a place where I think the seitan or tofu will taste way better than the chicken or fish, then I go for the vegetarian option. Or if I'm at Dunlays (on Clark or on The Square) then I get their incredible veggie offerings. But if I'm at a steakhouse or Italian beef place I get the meat. If more people would strike such a perfect balance as I have, then the world would be awesome.

― Mrs. Fishpaw (unclejessjess), Sunday, 26 March 2006 08:53 (nineteen years ago)

I have never went to a pub and ordered a big fuck-off salad before tonight. This tells me two things: 1) I am eating better than I used to, and 2) I like the Edgewater a lot.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 08:57 (nineteen years ago)

have never gone etc. Grammar.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 08:57 (nineteen years ago)

But if I'm at a steakhouse or Italian beef place I get the meat. If more people would strike such a perfect balance as I have, then the world would be awesome.

I think you're on to something, all joking aside. I feel like I'm close. If I can cut hamburgers and meaty pizza toppings out of my diet altogether, I'll be a lot closer. But what of deli meats? I don't know if I can stop eating deli.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 09:00 (nineteen years ago)

I think baby steps are in order. Maybe if I cut out of my diet all meat that doesn't taste that good to being with, I would eat a lot less meat.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 09:03 (nineteen years ago)

begin. to begin with. oh my. it's 4 am, isn't it?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 09:03 (nineteen years ago)

I'll eat what I want to, but usually with the realization that what I'm eating is a beast that was once alive. Really, every time I eat meat I think about the animal that died to feed me. I'm not a fucking hippie, and I don't think that my awareness of the source of my meat snack absolves me of my unfair place in the food chain, but it helps me to choose non-meat foods sometimes and is better than oblivious consumption.

― Mrs. Fishpaw (unclejessjess), Sunday, 26 March 2006 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

Dear Kenan,

You should have just gone with me to Clark's on Clark and then you would have been my cool accompaniment at a gay bar rather than another douche on the net like me.

Love,

me.

― Mrs. Fishpaw (unclejessjess), Sunday, 26 March 2006 09:11 (nineteen years ago)

You an Clark's on Clark. Jesse, please understand -- we like you, and we even accept your rude browbeating because you can also take rejection very well. But Clark's on Clark is a faggy shithole.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 09:13 (nineteen years ago)

Some would argue that it's a shaggy fithole.

― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 26 March 2006 09:15 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 09:16 (nineteen years ago)

I'm trying to remember the text of Jesse's letter to the bar, scrawled on a napkin. Something like:

Please fuck my butt. (No fats or femmes.)

-Me.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 09:18 (nineteen years ago)

it is actually 4:20 here. so i'm outta here.

― Mrs. Fishpaw (unclejessjess), Sunday, 26 March 2006 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

WEEEEED.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 26 March 2006 09:23 (nineteen years ago)

Your mix is coming along, Jesse. Bitch, and ye shall receive.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 09:23 (nineteen years ago)

OMG John's still up! The man who has been drinking for almost 12 hours now! I'm impressed.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 09:24 (nineteen years ago)

EVERYONE AT THE SAME TIME.
TIME ZONE IN EFFECT Though.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Sunday, 26 March 2006 09:24 (nineteen years ago)

Does anyone here like the Wolf Parade album as much as I do? I think it's fucking fucking fucking great.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 09:25 (nineteen years ago)

Oh! Another high point of the night -- John and Jesse trading impressions of Antony and the Johnsons, both of which were painfully awful.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 09:26 (nineteen years ago)

They are from here.
xpost to wolfing bands

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Sunday, 26 March 2006 09:28 (nineteen years ago)

Wherever they are from, they are brilliant.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 09:30 (nineteen years ago)

John just sung me some Antony.
it was something. a thing.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Sunday, 26 March 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

It is a thing. In that it does verifiably exist.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

john called you and sang??? oy.

Does anyone here like the Wolf Parade album as much as I do? I think it's fucking fucking fucking great.

Me.

Also, listening to Arcade Fire.

― Mrs. Fishpaw (unclejessjess), Sunday, 26 March 2006 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

They are also from here.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Sunday, 26 March 2006 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

john called you and sang??? oy.

it's a little thing called skype. you wouldn't understand.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 26 March 2006 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

we skyped mutually and then there was singing.
xpost!

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Sunday, 26 March 2006 09:38 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, they're from the same scene. I love that Arcade Fire album, and what I notice about both bands is that they both took me a while to get into. The Arcade Fire album was at first so emotional that it upset me, and I didn't want to hear it. Slowly I warmed up not to the album, but to my own acceptance of it. The Arcade Fire was not exactly a difficult listen, but it did take me a few run-throughs to hear what they were doing.

Montreal is turning out some serious shit. And, as John tells me, there are also nude breakfasts.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

rrrobyn, i swear, i am not just coming for the nude breakfasts.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 26 March 2006 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

the john doth protest too much.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 09:44 (nineteen years ago)

hehe, nude food service and emotional indierock are what mtl is built on. rocksolid.

i know what you mean though, k.

someone told me tonight that they hated Destroyer. i was sad. because that someone is cute and i like most other things about him. OHWELL. it's a little thing though, i've decided.

The Gnarles Barkley song is great.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Sunday, 26 March 2006 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

i mean i know what you mean about arcadefire. john's protest aside.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Sunday, 26 March 2006 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

i gotcha.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

Here's another Gnarls Barkley song (for the CHILXYSI thread): "Smiley Faces"

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 26 March 2006 09:56 (nineteen years ago)

I did not expect to fall asleep at 9:30, nor to wake up at 4am.

Coming onto this thread and reading Jesse whine about how no one would go to C on C with him, though, I should have put money on.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 26 March 2006 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

That Mamet line is my favorite.

I like the first Gnarls Barkley song too, thx!

Cam burned me the Wolf Parade record and I don't like that, or Arcade Fire.

I'm not sure if I "like" Heineken, but the festival my band played at in Switzerland was sponsored by them, and we made a practice of liberating cans from the backstage areas (since we were mobile and didn't have a stage ourselves, and drinking for free is cheaper than NOT drinking for free). The final estimate was ~ 700 - 900 cans over the course of ~ 10 days.

(I haven't drank much H. since)

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

There needs to be an automatic lock on this thread between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m.

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 26 March 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

It's like...night and day.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

let's pull them pants up now
it's time to dance somehow

ugh, i am tired, i was forgetting how to do the most basic of html commands.

now listening to 'smiley faces', thanks jaymc! i was listening to 'crazy' last night like it was winamp crack.

also...there was cake? people were not eating it? how can this be?

though i suppose copious quantities of booze might not go well with cake....

― Juulia (julesbdules), Sunday, 26 March 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

There was carrot cake - I did not partake.
There were pints of beer - those I did hold dear.

Re: MTL bands. In 2002 I saw both The Dears and Sam Roberts play small shows at SXSW - loved 'em both. Roberts so small it was a room of about 5 of his friends - played first on a day of bands hosted by NXNE in a fancy little mansion - the circa-2002 Dears was intense and suspenseful (still with a cello; pre-shredding guitar). Felt much more hit and miss about the Dears since (and their recordings more miss than that), but Sam Roberts, he beat Oasis at their game.

I know both are mainstream up there - I relly like 'em, though it might be different if I was hearing them in the Jean Coutu all the time.

― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 26 March 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

1 There needs to be an automatic lock on this thread between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m.

2 It's like...night and day.

1 You think? 2 Really?

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Sunday, 26 March 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

Have you heard of the megabus?

I don't see any hidden costs or memberships fees or anything. $2.50 RT tix to Minneapolis??? (The only city worth visiting on that list, if you ask me. Though I'm curious about Detroit.)

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Sunday, 26 March 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

http://megabus.com/us/assets/photos/megabus_and_passengers.jpg

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Sunday, 26 March 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

It's like a bus, only moreso!

Good morning Chicago. I stayed up way too fucking late.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, your mix has Guns N' Roses and Black Sabbath on it. This is because I think highly of you.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

i actually woke up at 8am, and then went back to sleep until now.

this place is a total drunk trap.

― gbx (skowly), Sunday, 26 March 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

cool
hurry

a request: burn me a cd of paul's boutique.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Sunday, 26 March 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

I just re-arose myself.

Great to meet everyone last night!

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Sunday, 26 March 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

a request: burn me a cd of paul's boutique.

I'll have to download it first, but that's not a bad idea anyway. Haven't listened to in in years.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

Hi The Dan Martin! Very nice to meet you as well. You're super.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

i'm gonna get a haircut today. BUT WHERE

― gbx (skowly), Sunday, 26 March 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

DO IT YOURSELF

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

i would, and i have, but most of the real estate is in the back forty and hard to get at.

― gbx (skowly), Sunday, 26 March 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

I can use YouSendIt, too!

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

DO IT YOURSELF

Were you talking to me? I don't have the magical download capabilities of some of you bittorrent freaks. Please have mercy and dl and burn for me.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Sunday, 26 March 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

I was talking to evan. Ralex, duder.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

haha relax

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not UNrelaxed, I was just wondering. Oh, well maybe I got a little scared, but I'm fine now.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Sunday, 26 March 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

There there.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

I'm maxin' and ralexin'.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Sunday, 26 March 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

I got groceries.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 26 March 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

I'm about to go pick up a pizza. A PIZZA WITHOUT MEAT ON IT.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

Coming onto this thread and reading Jesse whine about how no one would go to C on C with him, though, I should have put money on.

I just don't understand why so many people left so early! I got there at 11:45 and Amanda was going out the door!!

It was a Sat. night and no one wanted to play and I got worked up. What's happening to us? It used to be that my friends wouldn't go out until around 11, and now look what's become of us. Have we as a people in this post-9/11 world forgotten how to party?

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Sunday, 26 March 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

I'm about to go pick up a pizza. A PIZZA WITHOUT MEAT ON IT.

Why no meat?

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Sunday, 26 March 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

Because of pigs.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

It was an unusual Saturday night, but as Eric observed, it was actually a lot more fun once the crowd left. No offense to anyone in the crowd, but I'd rather sit in a relatively quiet place and have some laughs with a few people than be AT A BAR, if you know what I mean.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

Because of pigs.

What?

I'm just saying that 2:00 came fast and that an after-hours bar was in order. INSTEAD WE GOT ONLINE for shit's sake!!! Can you say lame-o?

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Sunday, 26 March 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

While we're talking lame-o, let's talk about pestering everybody to go to Clark's on Clark every three minutes.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

I'll go. What is it?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Sunday, 26 March 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

And Jesse, don't think that because I've been away due to travelling (that's right, I'm back in Chicago!) I've forgotten about wanting to hear your thoughts on the MMJ.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Sunday, 26 March 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

I'm including myself in that lame-o, by the way. It didn't have to be Clark's, but it just happened to be the most convenient place.

All I'm saying is that I don't understand why people went home when we still had a couple of hours of wakefulness in us. And we definitely had some drinking to get accomplished.

Also, what about the pigs?

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Sunday, 26 March 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

Clark's is the 4 am bar that is very close to my house. It's a fairly seedy gay bar. They're trying to spiff the place up though. They've stopped playing porn, to start.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Sunday, 26 March 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

I am dying to know about the pigs.... Are you suggesting that meat is actually pigs? Since when do you care about pigs?

I really am curious about how human flesh tastes.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Sunday, 26 March 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.eathufu.com/home.asp

― gbx (skowly), Sunday, 26 March 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

I asked my family over dinner a couple of months ago what the pig-pork, cow-beef equivalent of humans would be. I thought it would be a fun, light conversation. Instead, I was put on trial and completely appalling. I still don't know the answer.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Sunday, 26 March 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

xpost: almost, but not the substitute. what would THAT be called?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Sunday, 26 March 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

I actually have no problem with Clark's on Clark as a bar. I don't care that it's a shaggy fithole at all. It's just that whenever you want to go there is after I'm already super-drunk and dead-tired, and drinking more is the last thing I want to be doing. I mean, I'd started drinking at like 5:30!

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 26 March 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

I forgot about hufu!

I know John....but these are the hours I keep.

Let's you and me go out to dinner soon. Friday is the only night I'm free. Wow, how did I get so busy?

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Sunday, 26 March 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

Does anyone here like the Wolf Parade album as much as I do?

ME.

Heineken is dreadful, terrible, terrible beer. Rolling Rock is worse. Grolsch is also bad. I have always thought that it was a green bottle/light struck thing, but the http://beeradvocate.com/news/stories_read/527/ says it's not. The Beer Advocate says it's because I don't have the beer palate to handle hops. But I disagree. Also, one of my favorite beers, Peroni, comes in a green bottle.

Therefore, Heineken, Rolling Rock, and Grolsch must just taste like ass.

QED

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 26 March 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

I like hops, but I don't consider those very hoppy beers for some reason.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

gbx what is ur band's micepace page

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

those are like the opposite of hoppy beers. get one purple haze

myspace.com/thesharx

― gbx (skowly), Sunday, 26 March 2006 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

Two haiku I wrote while kicked out of my apartment for America's Next Top Models:

Jazz quintet's van broke
I suggest a taxi but
Upright bass won't fit

***

The banjo student
Plays "Foggy Mountain Breakdown"
Over and over

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 26 March 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

That first haiku is so poignant and true to life.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

I downloaded Matt Chamberlain's album off iTunes yesterday. It's great, it's like drum tone pornography. I'd YSI something but it's all protected and shit.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 26 March 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

I need a passion in life. I either want to be an amazing juggler, or an amazing crumper.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 26 March 2006 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

What's a crumper?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 27 March 2006 01:13 (nineteen years ago)

If anyone's interested, I have a free student show at Second City next Sunday. It won't be more than an hour and a half total (only 1/2 an hour of me, though), and it's free! I can't guarantee that your mind will be blown, but it should be pretty fun.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 27 March 2006 01:15 (nineteen years ago)

Both of Nick's poems are great.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 01:25 (nineteen years ago)

I still don't understand why getting $$ from both my day job and my band screws me on tax returns.

(sorry to return to the ass-boring of all boring-ass topics)

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 27 March 2006 01:26 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff, any chance you can YSI some of that Dresden Dolls stuff?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 27 March 2006 01:27 (nineteen years ago)

uno momento

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 27 March 2006 01:45 (nineteen years ago)

GUESS WHAT! I also met The Dan Martin! A delight! I do apologize for going on and on about your baby face.

We may have gone home early, but I had a great time all the same.

I'm wondering if April 15 is the right night for karaoke since I might be going to Milwaukee that night with (my) Dan...we're not committed to that date, are we?

I have some photos I have to upload soon. They're not too exciting, but they are a fair representation of what our corner of the bar looked like.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 27 March 2006 01:49 (nineteen years ago)

I had no idea about April 15 and karaoke. I'd be down with that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 March 2006 01:55 (nineteen years ago)

Listening to Kenan's mix right now. I already had the Carole King song and G. Lightfoot's "Beautiful" but the rest is new. Well new-ish. Like I realized that I totally know "Summer Breeze," and it's awesome.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 March 2006 01:57 (nineteen years ago)

Does it make you feel fine?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 27 March 2006 02:02 (nineteen years ago)

Do any of you Lightfoot fans have "Sundown?" And if so, can you YSI?

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Monday, 27 March 2006 02:05 (nineteen years ago)

I like the mix too.

However I HATE Dobie Gray - Drift Away.

Good thing it's followed by the awesome Allman Brothers song.

DD YSI almost done.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 27 March 2006 02:13 (nineteen years ago)

"Sundown"

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 March 2006 02:14 (nineteen years ago)

Wow! I owe you a beer.

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Monday, 27 March 2006 02:15 (nineteen years ago)

DD://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3UQ6Z157L31FA3PXI8A6U1GKPQ

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 27 March 2006 02:16 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man, now all I need to do is find the C0nstantines' cover of "Sundown" and my life will be complete for a little while.

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Monday, 27 March 2006 02:26 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks dude.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 27 March 2006 02:47 (nineteen years ago)

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 03:00 (nineteen years ago)

There's a guy that always plays Summer Breeze in the subway station at Washington.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 03:01 (nineteen years ago)

Ron Sexsmith does "Sundown" too. I think it's the uncool song cool Canadians can love.

Played in a poker tourney at a cool recording studio on Chicago Ave., then watched the Sops in Wrigleyville, sharing the hour with Ms. Stella Artois.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 27 March 2006 03:03 (nineteen years ago)

She came on the bar three times in one hour.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 27 March 2006 03:05 (nineteen years ago)

um...

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 03:07 (nineteen years ago)

The beer - arrived - on the bar. It's kind of funny.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 27 March 2006 03:09 (nineteen years ago)

I'd better stop posting now.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 27 March 2006 03:10 (nineteen years ago)

However I HATE Dobie Gray - Drift Away.

Wha? Why?

Perhaps you are constitutionally unable to get lost in his rock n' roll.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 03:11 (nineteen years ago)

That line about coming was in iambic pentameter, by the way.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 27 March 2006 03:16 (nineteen years ago)

Don't think so. It's not iambic.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 27 March 2006 03:21 (nineteen years ago)

/DORK

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 27 March 2006 03:22 (nineteen years ago)

./../././/

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 27 March 2006 03:25 (nineteen years ago)

It just occurred to me today that EZ are Eric's initials, and that's why he's called "Eazy." I just never thought about it.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 03:41 (nineteen years ago)

i like this gnarls barkley.

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 27 March 2006 04:29 (nineteen years ago)

everytime i look at ilx there are like 5000 new messages on this thread. why dont you all just start an IRC room?

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 27 March 2006 04:31 (nineteen years ago)

THE MAN'S GOT A POINT.

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 27 March 2006 04:34 (nineteen years ago)

I likee the Gnarls a lot. Cee Lo Green is a soul machine.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 04:45 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - for posterity's sake. a chat room is ephemeral.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 27 March 2006 04:50 (nineteen years ago)

...especially since much of the third shift is forgotten by most of its contributers anyway.

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 27 March 2006 04:53 (nineteen years ago)

Forgetting is a beautiful gift.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 04:55 (nineteen years ago)

THANKS BEER

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 27 March 2006 04:57 (nineteen years ago)

Really, though, what's with the name Gnarls Barkley? Is that supposed to be funny? It's just weird.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 05:00 (nineteen years ago)

you can always log your chats, i guess. is anyone going to go see peter hook & "little martin" dj on tuesday? is little martin martin moscrop from a certain ratio? but its the same nite that JD from le tigre is dj'ing that lesbo night

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 27 March 2006 05:07 (nineteen years ago)

I agree. Like, we get it dude, it's like Charles Barkley BUT DIFFERENT. Kind of limits any sort of long term viability, I'd think.

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 27 March 2006 05:07 (nineteen years ago)

ILX is prettier than IRC.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 27 March 2006 05:08 (nineteen years ago)

I'm still in a Gordon Lightfoot mood. THis is bugging me:

If you could read my mind love,
what a tale my thoughts could tell.
Just like an old time movie
about a ghost from a wishing well.

Really Gordo? Jusy like that? I must have missed that movie.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 05:09 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0713662018.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
THE MOVIE.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 27 March 2006 05:13 (nineteen years ago)

See, I was unaware that wishing well ghosts were any kind of known thing. It doesn't get any better in the next line, either:

In a castle dark or a fortress strong
with chains upon my feet the story always ends.
And if you read between the lines
you'll know that I'm just trying to understand
the feeling that you left.

One would need to do a lot of reading between the lines, I imagine.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 05:16 (nineteen years ago)

It's also possible that I do not possess a poetic enough soul.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 05:17 (nineteen years ago)

IR...C?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 March 2006 05:24 (nineteen years ago)

Beats the hell out of IRS. Or IRA, for that matter.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 05:26 (nineteen years ago)

I just did Googled Gordon Lightfoot to see if he was still alive, and holy shit, he's still touring! He's be round these parts in September.

21
Madison, WI
Overture Center

23
Aurora, IL
Paramount Theatre

24
Milwaukee, WI
Pabst Theatre

LITE ROCK ROAD TRIP! WHO'S WITH ME?!

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 05:30 (nineteen years ago)

...especially since much of the third shift is forgotten by most of its contributers anyway.

ha, 3rd shift.

i'm on the clock right now.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 27 March 2006 05:32 (nineteen years ago)

Gordon Lightfoot!!

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 27 March 2006 05:33 (nineteen years ago)

IR
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yeah, not as pretty as
IL
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Destroyer was GOOD. It hurt me a little in my heart.
Mag Electric Co was also good.
I hope Sunday night in Chicago is good.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 27 March 2006 05:33 (nineteen years ago)

i'm on the clock right now.

< EASTWOOD VOICE >
We're all on the clock, kid.
< /EASTWOOD VOICE >

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 05:35 (nineteen years ago)

i wish my life were sadder and harder, then i would feel like i was alive. like if i were in a war or something. oh well.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 27 March 2006 05:37 (nineteen years ago)

i'm half-drunk and on the clock right now. chatting with an extremely sexually frustrated old friend of mine from high school.

Newsflash, apparently: 23, virgin, living with parents in small town MN = DUDZONE

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 27 March 2006 05:38 (nineteen years ago)

"I realised that there was no half-way house between non-existence and this rapturous abundance. If you existed, you had to exist to that extent, to the point of mildew, blisters, obscenity. In another world, circles and melodies kept their pure and rigid lines. But existence is a curve."

- Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 05:40 (nineteen years ago)

That quote was for Jesse, BTW. There's nothing holding you back from feeling titanically miserable. Remember that.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 05:43 (nineteen years ago)

i wish your life was sadder and harder. then i would feel very happy. oh well.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 27 March 2006 05:45 (nineteen years ago)

feelin' fine.

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 27 March 2006 05:46 (nineteen years ago)

Misery ROCKS.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 27 March 2006 05:47 (nineteen years ago)

i wish you all were dead.

i'm sorry, i didn't mean that.

i meant, i wish you were all dying. but i wish your pets were dead.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 27 March 2006 05:48 (nineteen years ago)

We are all dying. How many times do I have to remind you of that. Ain't none of us gonna live forever.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 27 March 2006 05:50 (nineteen years ago)

My pets are also dying. Day by day.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 05:51 (nineteen years ago)

"The ovarian world is the product if a life rhythm. The moment a child is born it becomes part of a world in which there is not only the life rhythm, but the death rhythm. The frantic desire to live, to live at any cost, is not a result of the life rhythm in us, but of the death rhythm."

- Henry Miller

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 05:52 (nineteen years ago)

Cioran next!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 27 March 2006 05:53 (nineteen years ago)

"The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death."

-EM Cioran

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 27 March 2006 05:54 (nineteen years ago)

Man, the Dresden Dolls are lovely.

backstabber! hope grabber!
greedy little fit haver!
god, I feel for you, fool…..
shit lover! off brusher!
jaded bitter joy crusher!
failure has made you so cruel….

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 27 March 2006 05:54 (nineteen years ago)

Damn, Cioran must be awesome at dinner parties.

"Life inspires more dread than death-it is life which is the great unknown."

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 27 March 2006 05:57 (nineteen years ago)

That is amazingly true.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 05:58 (nineteen years ago)

("have been"; he's dead now)

Seriously, K., check that page out, and get yourself some of his books.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 27 March 2006 06:01 (nineteen years ago)

I like this one: "All commentary on a work is bad or useless, because whatever is not direct is nothing."

Which really raises more questions than it answers. How does one act directly?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 06:02 (nineteen years ago)

Reminds me of: "The man who confesses his sins, his crimes or his misdeeds is never the same as the one who committed them." - Henry Miller

And of course: "Between thought and expression lies a lifetime." - Lou Reed

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 06:02 (nineteen years ago)

HOLD ONTO YOUR PANTS IT'S AN OL' FASHIONED QUOTE-OFF!

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 06:05 (nineteen years ago)

Seriously, K., check that page out, and get yourself some of his books.

Can we trade? I'll read some Cioran if you'll read some Julio Cortazar. (If you haven't already.)

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 06:07 (nineteen years ago)

But behind all action there was a protest, because all doing meant leaving from in order to arrive at -- in other words, every act entailed the admission of a lack, of something not yet done and which could have been done, the tacit protest in the face of continuous evidence of a lack, of a reduction, of the inadequacy of the present moment. To believe that action could crown something, or that the sum total of actions could really be a life worthy of the name was the illusion of a moralist. It was better to withdraw, because withdrawal from action was the protest itself and not it’s mask.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 06:10 (nineteen years ago)

I heart me some Cronopias y Famas. (And I actually haven't read any Cioran [yet].)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 27 March 2006 06:29 (nineteen years ago)

I love borscht.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 06:48 (nineteen years ago)

Guys, I am very drunk and at a party right now. I am in the room separated by hippy beads, even though the guy whose workroom this is is the total opposite of a hippy. A girl named Jessica peeked in here and I decided to go to www.jessica.com, which was nothing. And then I laughed at the fact that there was an amateur porn link from it, and she left. I think I might be HORRIBLE with girls. And though you might read this and think I am amazingly well-spelled for a drunk person, well... I am very VERY drunk. I want to be with Jessica. Um... I have nothing else. It's Sunday night, and I have a 9:30 class. AAAAhh!!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 27 March 2006 07:44 (nineteen years ago)

Oh dear. As usual, it's Monday, 7AM and I am at work.

Kenan -- "Sentimental Lady" is by BOB WELCH. If that song weren't so utterly monotonous I would consider singing it at karaoke. (They have it, you know. I know this because I wrote it down in my purse-book the last time I was there.)

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 27 March 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

I used to have some hippy beads. Tasteful, wooden ones. Jeff made me get rid of them when we moved in together.

Purse book! I think I have one of those. Would that be a small bank book that you carry around in your purse just in case?

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

bLank book, not bank book. I haven't had a bank book since I was a kidlet.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

Hey look: http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-imm27.html

Thousands rally over weekend
Protests raged across the country over the weekend, led by more than 500,000 people who marched through downtown Los Angeles on Saturday in one of the largest demonstrations for any cause in recent U.S. history. Marchers also took to the streets in Phoenix, Milwaukee, Dallas and Columbus, Ohio.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

How about that! I mailed my students' letters to Jan S. and Barack O. and I hope that someone from their office writes to thank me.

Yes, that blank book I keep in my purse in case I have a thought that needs to be remembered at some point. I have a little list of possible karaoke songs going now. "Somebody's Baby" is on there.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 27 March 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

As in the song that Stacy Hamilton loses her virginity to in Fast Times at Ridgemont High?

Man, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4848834.stm. Unless he was talking about abortion or same-sex anything. For somebody that legal people are always saying is so "smart" he sure is a shit bag.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

Hrm. That linked text is supposed to say something like, "I couldn't dislike Scalia more after reading that article."

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

Yep, that one. I always liked that song, but it might be a little bit long...it's fun to sing though.

Shitbag is right.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 27 March 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

"Sentimental Lady" is by BOB WELCH

The 1990 American League Cy Young winner?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 March 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think so...
"Sentimental wha?"
http://www.soulwalking.co.uk/%A5Artist%20GIF%20Images/Bob-Welch-99.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 27 March 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

The last pitcher to record over 25 wins in a season?

http://members.aol.com/eadufoster/bwelch-1.jpg

I have my fantasy baseball draft tonight, and I am doing a crash course in who's hot/who's not today, since I've barely paid attention in the off-season.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 March 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

Is that guy's leg made of rubber?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 27 March 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

No, that's baseball, darlin'.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 March 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe he also has a rubbery leg. It's part of what makes him such a special pitcher. I always wondered what Bob Welch's other songs sounded like, if they were as airy and light as "Sentimental Lady."

― The Milkmaid (The Original "Sentimental Lady") (The Milkmaid), Monday, 27 March 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

Pictures pictures I want pictures
Of the parties that I missed:
Kelsey's farewell and Fake Fictions...
And our Johnny's birthday kiss!

-sung to the tune of "Hungry Hungry I am Hungry" out of the Dr Seuss Songbook

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 27 March 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

My photos are not great since I barely budged from my chair while I was at the party -- the room was pretty crowded and I only got up to 3-hole-punch the recipes and distribute the binders. I'll have 'em up on my flickr page sometime in the next couple days.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 27 March 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

How do we find Rachel and get her to send her pics? Eric did a lot of playing with her camera, too.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

I can email her -- will do, Magoo.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 27 March 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

NOTE TO JOHN AND KELSEY:

In the recipe I contributed to youse two, it calls for something like four teaspoons each of cumin, ground coriander, and chile powder. I made the recipe last night (because bringing it to the party gave me a sweet potato and black bean burrito hankerin') and while I didn't measure those particular spices, I am fairly sure I didn't use four teaspoons. If I had to quantify it, I would say two - three teaspoons each.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

Hey guys, looky. I thought this might be fun. Since we're all about sharing and whatnot: http://chilx.blogspot.com/

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 27 March 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

I can give you the password and username and we can all post. Not all at the same time, but whenever. It could be fun. Or it could be too much work.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 27 March 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

Say it like James T. Kirk:

BLOOOOOOOOG!!!!

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

I will contribute recipes for pizza dough and sour cream pancakes.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

Go for it -- did you get my email about the username/password?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

Hell fucking yes.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

Thank you, Internets, for coming to my party!!!

I realized yesterday that Amanda brought a 3-ring binder to the party!!

I cried a lot this weekend.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

Can I cross-post recipes from my own blog onto the ilx blog?

Also, I was thinking about Kenan's discussion of Gordon Lightfoot lyrics, mostly because I was listening to David Bowie this morning and got caught on the gorgeous absurdity of the opening lines of Moonage Daydream: "I'm an alligator/I'm a mama papa coming for you./I'm a space invader/I'll be a rock and rollin' bitch for you."

And I thought, don't try to make sense of the rock and roll, for that way lies madness.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

You can post anything you think that the rest of us would enjoy! Anything at all. Know what I want? That Bourgeois Tagg song, "I Don't Mind At All." Do you have that song, Jenny? I think you were the only other person who remembered it that last time I brought it up.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

i don't pay much attention to lyrics generally...and then i end up thinking that such-and-such song is so upbeat and happy and it turns out the lyrics are about death and despair and abandonment or something. but it's such cheerful despair. or sometimes there's tones of sadness, but the sadness is somehow soothing, and so i hear it as comfort, as something relatable, and then the song is about something horrific.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

I like songs that are about something terrible, but end on a redemptive note, either lyrically or musically. The example I can think of right off the top of my head is Built to Spill's "Carry the Zero." It's a break up song, but the end just soars and I'm like YEAH BREAK UP BECAUSE IT'S AWESOMEEEE!!!!

Amanda, I saw that album in a record store in Springfield and I almost bought it but then I didn't. I don't have the song, but that sounds like something I could find on Limewire when I'm at home on my own personal computer. I will look!

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

That's my favorite BTS song for that very reason! Also the same reason I love that Lavender Diamond song -- she starts off singing "You broke my heart" over and over and the end is just a huge burst of majesty. It's just like that. Totally not pathetic.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

That is clearly the best record store ever -- you were right!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

I mentally classify those songs as "Standing on a cliff in the wind with arms outstreached, pwning the world" songs.

But now that I type that, I get a visual of that guy from Creed and I'm even more angry that they exist.

I will check out this Lavender Diamond song. That is an excellent recommendation. I know there are more songs like that - I have a little playlist in my head but when I try to remember it, I get a RUNTIME ERROR. That would make a good mix - soaring, epic, redemptive songs.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

Built to Spill's "Carry the Zero." It's a break up song

Yeah, see, this is my favorite Built to Spill song, too -- but I had no idea it was a break-up song. It just totally rocks.

Julia's mention of happy-sounding songs that are nonetheless despairing and horrible makes me think of a lot Jim O'Rourke's solo vocal material -- it's all jaunty and upbeat and orchestrated a la Bacharach or Van Dyke Parks or whatever, but the lyrics are totally misanthropic. Which is in itself kinda funny.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

Yes! Like the one about "Listening to you reminds me of a motor's endless drone, and how the deaf are so damn luck." Or something. Fucking genius.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

Lucky!

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

Like "Come See About Me"

"I've given up my friends just for you/my friends are gone and you have too" but it sounds like the sort of song you could do the pony to.

Then again, in my world, every song is a song you can do the pony to.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

I mentally classify those songs as "Standing on a cliff in the wind with arms outstreached, pwning the world" songs.

But now that I type that, I get a visual of that guy from Creed and I'm even more angry that they exist.

hahaha nooooooo

i keep meaning to put a collection of songs together that make me especially happy, but i'll start throwing some stuff on winamp and then get distracted by something else i want to listen to and delete the whole thing by accident. i really need to get acquainted with itunes playlists, but lately most of my learning-energy seems to be dedicated to boring stuff that i have to do.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

By the way, in case no one has dared to click on it, that "so apparently political discourse..." thread contains discussion relating to immigration reform, clearly evident from the thread's title.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, see, this is my favorite Built to Spill song, too -- but I had no idea it was a break-up song. It just totally rocks.

Ditto. I think maybe I knew it was a break-up song, but mostly I knew it was kickass.

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not knocking your want
to carry that home

took it with you
when you moved and got it broke

found the pieces
we counted them all alone

didn't add up
forgot to carry a zero

I can't be your
apologist very long

I'm surprised that
you'd want to carry that on

count your blemishes
you can't
they're all gone

I can't see your response
putting them back on

like they're waiting for your guard to fall
so they can see it all and you're so
occupied with what other persons are
occupied with
and vice versa

and you've become
what you thought was dumb
a fraction of the sum

yeah, you've become
yeah, you have become

a fraction of the sum
the middle and the front

and now it's coming back
hasn't it come too far?

I was trying to help but I guess
I pushed too hard

now we can't even touch it
afraid it'll fall apart

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

The last four lines are my absolute favorite. I get little chills even reading them.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

i just like screaming along in the car.

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

"a fraction of the sum"?

ALL THIS TIME I thought it was "reflection of the sun." That blew my mind. I have bad ears. Probably from screaming too much in the car!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

to Evan: Me, too! Me, too!

You know, not driving hardly at all has impacted my enjoyment of music somewhat. There's no longer a safe space where I can really belt out songs without worry. The Dresden Dolls is just begging for sing along (she's got my favorite kind of voice to emulate - she's in my range and she does a lot of little warbles and hiccups and sqeaks) and I haven't had a private moment where I can safely make an idiot out of myself.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

OTM. All my best listening gets done in the car.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

(and best/worst singing)

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

"Carry the Zero": big fuck-off major-7th chords!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

great reigning sound song about being in love with someone who doesn't love you anymore. greg cartwright has a gift for writing really touching songs that don't fall into the trap of being cheesey or cloying. that whole record of out-takes (which the following is from) is amazing.

She said our love was a long lost cause
And she asked me to drive her home
Then she confessed to her deeds of undress
While I cried on the telephone

If she wants me
She can find me now

Well she spends all her time as a schoolteacher
And she gets her pencils free
She says she don’t have no time
To stop and think about me

But if she wants me
She can find me now

Barkeep says this party’s ending
It won’t help you to keep pretending
It will be alright tomorrow
Well you know it won’t be alright tomorrow.

She finds me here crying in my own beer
I asked her to hold my hand
She looked at me long and hard
Like some painting she didn’t understand

But if she wants me
She can find me now

She can find me now.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

The place for singing with impunity: I call that "the shower." I sing like a mofo in the shower.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

I was singing in the shower the other day and Jeff told me to be quiet.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

Oh please. Who's he, the Fun Police?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

"Sorry officer, no one at this residence called the Fun Police. You must have made a mistake."

(note: I've been mocked for singing in the shower too, but it hasn't stopped me.)

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

The mere thought of people belting out their favorite songs in the car has made me cry on more than one occasion.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, he was sleeping so I guess I see his point. Although he had earplugs in. And I wasn't that loud. And it was early afternoon.

Also, the car is usually the best place people of our economic status have to sit in the sweet spot of a sound-proof or sound-muffled enclosure surrounded by (hopefully) good speakers. Earphones are nice, but I enjoy music more when I feel like I'm floating around in it, rather than having it piped directly into me head.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

The mere thought of people belting out their favorite songs in the car has made me cry on more than one occasion.

I suddenly see Amanda in the Michael Stipe's roll in the Everybody Hurts video...

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I cried more.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

The mere thought of people belting out their favorite songs in the car has made me cry on more than one occasion.

not being able to sing in the car might be the only thing i miss about owning one. oh, wait, and going to the grocery store.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

OH ROLE FOR CHRIST'S SAKE

Nobody wants to be in Michael Stipe's roll. Ew.

John, come here. I will give you something to cry about.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

I am in no position to mock anyone's singing. Especially naked singing.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

no car has definitely brought my music appreciation down a notch. ditto not having a bus commute or full days of skiing (headphone appreciation).

also, just in general, iTunes has spoiled music a bit. mostly be destroying my attention span. at least in the car, I'm going to sit through the whole CD, or skip here and there. w/iPod and iTunes, I'm CONSTANTLY changing it up, to the point where i'm not even listening anymore.

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, Otto, rolling a little cart down the street while listening to an mp3 player isn't quite the same. Unless you don't care if people think you're insane. Which, believe it or not, I kind of do.

I'm still album oriented on my mp3 player, but I do enjoy a good playlist or full randomization now and then, too.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

Last time I drove up to the Yoop I was fully belting out "Surf Wax America" like it was 1994 when I got passed by a vanload of kids who mocked my vocalization faces ruthlessly for as long as I could make out their faces... probably longer. I kept right on singing.

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

I got caught singing that song once too! By a coworker who passed me on the street. $10 says I was having way more fun than she was.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, Otto, rolling a little cart down the street while listening to an mp3 player isn't quite the same. Unless you don't care if people think you're insane. Which, believe it or not, I kind of do.

i was dating this girl over the winter and we used to make up lyrics and rhythms while waiting for the bus. i'm sure we looked like a couple of retards on day passes from the hospital but it was fun. i miss that.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

See, looking insane with a friend is one thing. The true test of mettle is looking insane all alone.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

The true test of mettle is looking insane all alone.

pffft, i don't need to open my mouth to do that.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

Hm, I still just play a playlist or whole album off the iPod while I'm doing other things -- the worst I can say for attention span is that I sometimes forward through a song I don't like...but I don't skip too much. Helps to have some other project like food prep or paperwork to keep from concentrating too hard on the tunes. And SPEAKING OF TUNES, Evan: you still haven't offered a single comment on that mix. Hop to it, boyo.

I DO miss driving + singing, esp belting out Carole King on the back roads. And I DO NOT need to cry any more than I already do. Which is a lot, because I am a useless, maudlin thing.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

A couple weeks ago Julia was talling me how much she liked "Hoist That Rag" by Tom Waits, and said something like, "It's fun." Then I sent her the lyrics:

Well we stick our fingers in the ground
Heave and turn the world around
Smoke is blacking out the sun
At night I pray and clean my gun
The cracked bell rings as the ghost bird sings
The gods go begging here
So just open fire as you hit the shore
All is fair in love and war

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

tee hee at Otto!

I don't know if this will show up, but our friend Michael is in the bottom left hand corner of this photo, featured in the Fashion and Style section of Sunday's NYT.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/03/26/fashion/26loft.xl.jpg

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/26/fashion/sundaystyles/26LOFT.html?_r=1&oref=login

It might want a log in, but you can go to bugmenot.com if you don't want to register.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, duh, Michael is the bespectacled fellow in the blue t-shirt, enjoying himself at a hip, underground NY loft party.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

Uh, solo drum concert?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

sorry Laurel!

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

The article said it was the Black Dice. I don't know if I've ever heard them, so maybe!

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

I just spent 90 minutes in a meeting that made absolutely no sense to me. The language of enormous wealth is quite alien to me. I don't know how to read a stock report. I don't understand the relationship between growth and value. I only learned today that Warren Buffet's company is called Berkshire Hathaway. BUT... something tells me I can catch up. Something tells me that being amazingly wealthy does not require you to be amazingly smart, and that stock sheets aren't half as baffling as they seem at first.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

No, I'd say being amazingly wealthy mostly involves being amazingly lucky and having amazingly wealthy family. Which is pretty much just being amazingly lucky.

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Monday, 27 March 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

I second the Sooper Dooper Yooper. Even smart people who set out to become amazingly wealthy succeed as much due to luck as to smarts.

My stepfather immediately comes to mind. He's a smart man who went through most of his life doing just what he's doing now when allasudden WHAMMO! He was in the right place at the right time and made a killing in the real estate market.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

And now he thinks that poor people are poor because they don't try hard enough.

But he always thought that. Now he just believes he has proof.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

One share of BKH today goes for about $89,900. 10 years ago, it was about $20,000 a share. Good return, eh?

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know doody about big money, but I do know that I made Rique's-style pico de gallo yesterday and it was goooooooooooood.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, I used to work in the customer service department of a bank (trust company, actually) and my particular client base were amazingly wealthy people with so much cash in their checking accounts that their balance would be swept into the stock market at night while everyone slept, and then put back in the checking account in the morning with whatever extra money in made. Or something. I didn't really understand it, but I didn't really have to because people that rich don't call bank customer service departments. They either have so much money they don't give a fuck, or they hire people like your office to take care of that crap for them.

XPOST: Rique's style pico de gallo is delicious and dead simple to make and I should be eating some right now!!! *Homer Simpson-esque drooling noises*

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

Hey: high of 55 on Weds. - high of 61 on Thurs - 59 on Fri.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, good movin' weather.

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

I can get down with that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

Ya Mo B There

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

I am hung over and have missed/am missing two of my three classes. It's the first day.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

What happened to those papers you had to write on that Saturday? Did you barrel through and write them?

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

Where you movin'?

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

Movin on up, to a deeeeluxe apartment in the Squaa-haare.

Ok, deluxe is a bit of an overstatement. But it's nice. And comes with free weights - for liftin'!

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

They either have so much money they don't give a fuck, or they hire people like your office to take care of that crap for them.

And yet, they still pinch pennies. Just on a higher level. When this company holds a conference, people go nuts for the special discounted hotel rates we get them. Only $379 a night. Imagine the savings!

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

I said it before, when I discovered a battery operated vegetable peeler in the kitchen of an ex's fabulously wealthy father and I'll say it again:

Rich people are funny.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

But not "ha-ha" funny.

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

Except Bill Cosby.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

Well, a battery operated vegetable peeler is kind of "ha ha" funny, doncha think, pard?

So, Dave, how did it go with the girl?

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

a battery operated vegetable peeler

What? I thought fabulously wealthy people had Mexican-powered vegetable peelers.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

This was in his (giant, spectacular) vacation home in Sun Valley Idaho where we were staying for a few days without the pater familias. I imagine his Mexican domestic support staff were back in his Chicago penthouse apartment where he spends his working days.

The dad did come to the vacation house at the tail end of our visit, though. We were all making dinner together and at one point he turned to me (I was chopping vegetables or something) and said, "Jenny, when you're done there, clean out the fridge for me."

Luckily, the ex stepped in before I could get to the dad with the knife.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno, a battery-powered peeler, in my book, is one of those pointless, doesn't-matter-'cause-I-piss-money-away-in-my-sleep kinds of purchases. more like "makes you think" funny.

Plus, anyone who really cooks would see it as something overcomplicated and just waiting to break. Also, what Kenan said.

A battery-powered carving knife is a pretty sound investment, btw. If you eat lots of turkies and roasts.

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, vacation home! Well, I can see how one would not want to overstress oneself with vegetable peeling while on vacation.

Did you get to try it out?

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

We have an electric carving knife. We don't eat a lot of turkeys and roasts, but when we do, the electric knife allows me to totally destroy the beautifully meat prepared in like, a quarter of the time it takes me to ruin everything with a regular knife.

I actually feel the same way about the scourge of battery operated/electric tooth brushes as I do about electric vegetable peelers, but Jeff stands by his Sonicare. I think humans are setting themselves up for the most spectacular failure possible by relying so much on machine-operated tools for our basic living needs.

(Ha ha, I originally typed "batter operated" tooth brushes. Gross!!!)

xpost: No. I think the batteries were dead, which makes it even worse!

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

"beautifully meat prepared"

CRACK I AM ON, YES!

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

HEY OFFICER JERKS, DID YOU KNOW THAT WHEN I AM SITTING AT MY DESK EATING LUNCH AND READING THE NEWS THAT I DON'T WANT TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT WORK???

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

Is this your last week? What a wonderful feeling. THEY CAN'T HURT YOU NOW!!!

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

I think humans are setting themselves up for the most spectacular failure possible by relying so much on machine-operated tools for our basic living needs.

Yes, but it's not toothbrushes that are the problem. Most of us begin our workday by getting into a big steel box and quickly rising into the sky without ever questioning how or why this happens.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

James Burke talks a lot about this. His advice: if electricity ever goes away, you better learn how to use a plow.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

B-b-but our teeth will fall out!

I was freaking out a little (not much, just your garden variety "oh god the human race is TOTALLY FUCKED" freakout) this weekend because I realized that I have no idea how to repair a simple machine, like a lawn mower, or how to build anything or use most tools, be they manual or power.

When the End Times (tm) come, I'll have to throw my lot in with a collective who needs someone that can sew on buttons so I can get my mechanical needs met.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

Not that I'll be doing a lot of lawn maintenance when the apocalypse comes (not that I do a lot of lawn maintenance now), but you know what I mean.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

I will have almost no skills to offer whatsoever. Most people won't.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

Re: Cannibalism and the apocalypse
You have my permission to eat my body for food when the apocalypse comes. I'm no good at anything and I might as well be put to some good use. Also, I'm pretty lean and taste like chicken.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 27 March 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

Lean is not what you want. You want marbled. No gristly Amanda sirloin for me, thanks.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

Dudes. I will be at the Empty Botella tonight because Renee needs company while watching the guy she is dating-but-should-really-have-broken-up-with-by-now-and-she-knows-this-even-but-whatever-she-can-do-what-she-wants play with the Matthew K3rst3in Band (now called Br1ght0n MA). FYI, in case you want to come.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 March 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

If it comes down to wilderness survival, dudes, we will form a pack most probably headed by Evan and we'll put the people with soft/tech skills in the middle of the stockade. As long yr willing to learn new things we'll all be cool. K, was it you that was just saying people should hunt their own food, anyway? HERE'S YER CHANCE.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 27 March 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

If it comes down to wilderness survival, I will be dead within two days.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 March 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

Could go the opposite way, John -- you might discover that when you really get down to it, you want to live more than you DON'T want to do other things. See, isn't this fun to speculate about??

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 27 March 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

John will be dead within two days.

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 27 March 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

Thank you.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 March 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

Do you think John is marbled enough?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

*looks at John, and he turns into a pork chop*

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

Probably, his grain intake is pretty high what with all the beers and such.

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Monday, 27 March 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

So you're saying I have a drinking problem.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 March 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know, are you finding yourself unable to drink when you want to? If so, then yes, you have a problem!

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Monday, 27 March 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

But wait, the only time I actively DON'T want to drink is when I'm feeling hungover from previous drinking. Otherwise it's more just that I have things TO DO that aren't best accomplished under the influence so I have to hold off.

I know that sounds terrible but I actually probably only drink between 1-3 nights a week, and not necessarily heavily. But I do love that state.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 27 March 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I'm the same way, Laurel. I drank this weekend, but I never got devilishly shitty like I have in the past. And weeknights are suddenly a really bad choice. So my drinking is under control by way of necessity, which I figure is enough, as long as it's under control.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

I made a lengthy hell of a to-do list last night after watching TV at the bar with Ms. Artois. It's scary to think that alcohol might actually improve certain skills, like brainstorming.

The Bottle show should be fun tonight - might make it there. The Gossip show on Thursday night should be, um, hella fun.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 27 March 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

I just imagined trying to make a to-do list while high on weed. Haha.

Speaking of which, pssst, anyone got a hook-up? Or do I have to wait until I go to Canada next month?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 March 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

I drink at least 1 beer every night.

I bet that I am also deliciously marbled, and will allow you all to start investing in shares of myself.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 27 March 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

Ooooh... On the Chilx YSI tip:

http://s45.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2C9R9NQ966ZS90WHK3IS3BMRO7

This is both Wi|derness albums. Jeff and I were talking about them a little on Saturday night. I was passing them along to a friend and figured some of y'all might be interested. I'm really bad at describing musicks but this is sorta post-punky, with reverbed-to-hell My Bl00dy Valentine style guitar and "overblown" (you'll see what I mean) vocals. Took a couple plays to grow on me but I've been hopelessly addicted to this for about a month now.

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

What a perfect item to post on our chilx blog!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of YSI...Jaymc, how about that T.I. track? Pretty please?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

Those Kevin Shields googlers can be a real pain.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

FUCK

I dropped the ball.

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, I'll e-mail it to you, okay?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

I have a feeling the blog is not going to work.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

(Only because it's mainstream hip-hop, see.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

Is that the song from "@TL?"

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

Not sure. It's the first single from his new album, King. I wouldn't be surprised if they did cross-promo with the movie, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I forgot something ... :) :) :) :)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

Is that you bouncing up and down with happiness again?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

That's whenever she e-mails me. Second date set.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

"Whatchoo know 'bout that?" - that's the song I'm thinking of.

New screenname, in keeping with the UP theme. I should have been born a Finn.

Awesome, J!

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, sorry, it's "What You Know."

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny, who is the girl? Do you know something I don't know? Please tell me.

As for the papers, I got an extension 'til sometime this week or next.

Amanda, can you give me the username/password for the blog. I really like the idea. Should be fun.

Okay, I'm off to an acting class so I can at least make 1 of 3. I should eat to take away this headache too.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks for the YSI, Jesse! I am so pumped about these things now, free music! I refuse to download any AM GOLD though. Fuck that.

Maybe I'm just being contrary, but I really like the new Liars album. It's pretty, without being wimpy and emo.

Only one of my three coworkers who came to the FF show on Friday said anything about it. He sent me an email saying it was fun. The others just ignored me. I hope I freaked them out. I think maybe they were expecting something ... tweeer?

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

I like the new Liars record.

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

Dave, I'm assuming Jenny is talking about this post of yours, haha:

I am very VERY drunk. I want to be with Jessica.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

a modern classic.

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

I laffed.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

I should put the new Liars album on sometime and just space out and read a comic book or something and not really listen to it that closely. Listening closely is kinda unrewarding.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of YSIs, thanks Dan, for the Wilderness. Your description has me excited. Also, I might try to get a student job as an editorial assistant over at the Press. We'll see.

Where is Jesse and does he like My Morning Jacket?

Okay, I swear I'm gone now.

xpost: HAHAHAHA, oh man. That was just some random girl at the party I was at last night who paid some attention to me when I was at the computer posting on ILM. She was cute, maybe too cute for me :(, but I got nervous and she didn't pay attention to me after that. It was just a passing thing that makes you wistful in the sort of "I wish I had a girl that pretty" way. Wow, I really did not remember posting that.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

Here's a tip: don't post to ILX while you're at a party. :-)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

And I say this as someone who used to say to his last girlfriend, "Oh, can I please just check ILX one more time before bed?"

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

Oh geez. I'm off to class -- see y'all later.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, it was more like her saying, "You're not checking ILX, are you?" "Uh no ... Okay, maybe."

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, of course you're right, John. I knew this at the time as well.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

gbx plz to unban me from noise board kthx

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

John - don't know if you saw my post on the IMM thread but there's a Microkorg used cheap at Music-G0-Round right now. Don't remember how much but it seemed like a good deal - maybe like $200?

They also have a Dr. Sample for $100 that I was tempted by.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 27 March 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

from the boston globe business blog, apple is creating an ipod ad for display in google maps in remote australia.

http://www.boston.com/business/blog/filter/ipodaussie.jpg

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 27 March 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse was posting about hot dogs last week and it got me on an ill-advised dog kick. I got some Best's Koshers and I've been boiling and then tossing 'em George Foreman for a couple minutes. Sooo good.

(btw I posted on blog)

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 27 March 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

but there's a Microkorg used cheap at Music-G0-Round right now. Don't remember how much but it seemed like a good deal - maybe like $200?

Ooh, where is this so-called Music-G0-Round?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 March 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

My mom was waxing rhapsodic about her Geo Foreman Grill last night at dinner.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 March 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

hey nick, is there somewhere I can get a Smokey amp in Chicago?

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 27 March 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

I hardly ever use it anymore, but it's good for the dawgs or some quick bacon.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 27 March 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

Music-Go-Round is in Milwaukee, just north of the Damen/Milwaukee/North intersection. The only thing is, sometimes they take stuff on consignment but have to hold it for a couple of weeks before they can sell it (apparently a new law) so although it was out, it might not officially be for sale yet. So you should probably call first.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 27 March 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

The place for singing with impunity: I call that "the shower." I sing like a mofo in the shower.

I got out of the habit b/c my bathroom shares a wall w/ my neighbor's bathroom and his living room and I neither want to make him endure my singing nor do I want to face him after he has heard my singing.

Wait...that apartment is empty now!! But still, I don't want to get in the habit. Unless Courtney were to move in....

I really miss music in the car. And singing.

Where is Jesse and does he like My Morning Jacket?

I have not yet had the courage to listen to them. I ripped 3 of their CDs though and will listen soon.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 27 March 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

I'm having my service-industry weekend today! I've worked like a little bitch for the past 5 days in a row and today I treated myself. Went to Rhapsody with a friend where another friend bartends. Had a mimosa, apps, strip steak, wine, muscat, champagne and then coffee. Delicious, and I only paid for the steak. Then a day at the spa where I got the attendant to chew my toenails. Then I came home and petted the cat, fed the bird Cheerios and now I'm off to dispense justice to workers. Then Sayjal's birthday fun.

Life is good.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 27 March 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

What am I talking about? I had flap steak.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 27 March 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, Jordan, are you in Wisconsin or is that Eric? Who's the one in Milwaukee (I think it is)? I HAVE NEVER HAD A HOT DOG FROM A CHICAGO HOT DOG STAND. I want to get on a kick, but I need a tourguide or something.

Class was very good. I made it on time (for once!). And I'm excited to listen to the Wilderness.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 27 March 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

I want to get on a kick, but I need a tourguide or something.

No, you need a hot dog stand.

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 27 March 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

"how much is it worth to u for meNOT to tell m**** r***** your phone number if she asks? she's in chicago for the week"

Who is she referring to?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 March 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

A very irritating neighbor lady who would probably DEMAND that she take me to dinner. Which is NOT something I want to do.

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 27 March 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

gbx plz to unban me from noise board kthx
-- jaymc (jmcunnin...), March 27th, 2006 2:49 PM. (jaymc) (later) (link)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 March 2006 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

What I meant Evan was that I need some sort of guide to which stands to hit up.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 27 March 2006 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

I am in Wisconsin. If I was in Chicago, or even Milwaukee, I could just go to a hot dog stand.

(I have on occasion snuck into Sam's Club to get a kosher dog.)

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 27 March 2006 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

(...THEY'RE WATCHING, JOHN)

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 27 March 2006 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

Last time I was coming back from Lawrence's Fried Shrimperies in Chicago, I saw some dudes with a makeshit hot dog stand on a deserted street corner at 3:30 am.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

MAKESHIFT

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

Last Friday night I had a few pieces of shrimp from whatever that shrimp house is on Division next to Cabrini Green, courtesy of someone who brought a bag of them to the Hideout - not bad. I mean, bad, but not bad.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

haha Jordan you shouldn't have corrected that typo and then we would have all just thought you were clever.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

gbx, but I don't think they really care, do they? I haven't actually done anything.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

Eazy, have you been to Lawrence's? It would make me sad if you ignored the best shrimp-related establishment in the midwest, and possibly THE WORLD.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, I'm going to the gym, peace.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't, Jordan, but now I'll check it out.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

I ate flap steak.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

Um, guys... I don't get/like Wolf Parade or The Decembrists or even have more than a passing "like" of The Arcade Fire. I'm returning home to take another crack at the new Destroyer album, but why am I dissatisfied with these things? For all of the people who seem to make each of these bands into just another bandwagon, it seems like there are just as many people who get a fuckton of pleasure from these bands. I just mostly listen to old bands to discover what apparently everyone else already knows. Like The Minutemen and Loveless. But I feel like I'm missing something!!! Kind of. The amount of missing out I feel varies hourly. I have hopes for Wilderness, though, and I do love me some My Morning Jacket.

Okay, sorry for that.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

The ultimate hot dog pilgrimage is to...

HOT DOUG'S.

As someone who is genetically incapable of eating more than one hot dog per year without gaining an automatic 50 pounds, I can't really recommend any other hot dog stands.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 23:00 (nineteen years ago)

I ate flap steak.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 27 March 2006 23:02 (nineteen years ago)

You just keep listening to Wolf Parade until you love it, Mr. Man.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 23:03 (nineteen years ago)

Is "flap steak" anything like "folds of femininity"?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

You have to pick and choose with the D'ists.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 27 March 2006 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

See, I don't much care for My Morning Jacket. I don't think you're missing anything, necessarily. You just have your own tastes.

Also, you are getting old.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 27 March 2006 23:07 (nineteen years ago)

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Press Enter to send your message.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 27 March 2006 23:07 (nineteen years ago)

Is "flap steak" anything like "folds of femininity"?

Not really, in my experience. Though in my daily life folds of feminity are rarer than the flapsteak I ate.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 27 March 2006 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

So last night I had a dream that I went to labor law and I was really worried because I hadn't done any of the reading. But it turns out that we were covering a David Foster Wallace story that was really a Flaming Lips song and I totally had already read the material. I volunteered to talk about it, but there as a train running past the classroom and nobody could hear me. The prof moved us to the auditorium next door, but an oboe player and a bassoon player were practicing on stage and nobody could hear me in there, either.

Translation: I didn't read for class and Jeff was really snoring last night.

(We actually did go over material I'd already read so I totally lucked out.)

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

That is an awesome dream, especially this part:

a David Foster Wallace story that was really a Flaming Lips song

Kenan, I'm only 21!!!! :o

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 27 March 2006 23:14 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse is a fucking moron who can't figure out how to make numbered lists in MS Word.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 23:14 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse is a dumb bitch who can't figure out how to use a computer mouse.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 23:16 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse is a complete idiot who poops on the floor by accident.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

I bought a new mouse today. But before that I ate a delicious slapsteak.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 27 March 2006 23:23 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse is a hopeless retard who poops on his computer mouse and wipes with flapsteak.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 23:24 (nineteen years ago)

Come over to my desk. I have slacks-steak for you.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 27 March 2006 23:26 (nineteen years ago)

Best part of this exchange:

Jesse: HAHAHAHAHA
Jenny (in another room): HAHAHAHAHAHA
Worker Justice Boss: Are you two laughing at the same thing or was this just a simultaneous outburst?

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 23:27 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny: Well, Jesse just pooped on the floor by accident...

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 23:28 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny just----oh man.

Jenny just came by my desk and told me that she was going to the secret pooping bathroom (the only somewhat private bathroom in the place). She walked out and I typed "Jenny just..." and then she returned to catch me typing.

Now she is making water sculpture in the bathroom that is in the very middle of the offices and that is echoey and unventilated. It's like taking a shit behind a curtain.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 27 March 2006 23:31 (nineteen years ago)

Lapsteak? Mississippi Lapsnake?

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 27 March 2006 23:34 (nineteen years ago)

There is no good place to poop in the land of Worker Justice.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 27 March 2006 23:34 (nineteen years ago)

I just had salt for dinner: gorgonzola ravioli, with prosciutto, in pesto, topped with parmesan.

kickass!

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 00:11 (nineteen years ago)

You should eat flap steak. I did. I ate flap steak.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 00:19 (nineteen years ago)

WE KNOW

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2005/03/16/FDG2BBNBS01.DTL

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

gorgonzola ravioli, with prosciutto, in pesto, topped with parmesan.

oooooh

I just ate Triscuits and homemade hummus for dinner.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 00:34 (nineteen years ago)

I made kale soup. It was good. Actually that might have been lunch. We'll see!

Also I drank wine. Whee!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 00:36 (nineteen years ago)

One day trendy restaurant menus might list flap steak frites, or porcini-dusted flap meat. And all of us steak fashion victims will eat it up.

It was listed at Rhapsody as Flap Steak Frites. And I did eat it up. I ate up the Flap Steak Frites.

It was relatively tender considering where it's cut from. It had really really really long muscle fibers. I've never seen anything like that before.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 00:40 (nineteen years ago)

And it was inexpensive. Around $14!

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

I ate a bagel with egg and sausage and pepperjack cheese and salsa sour cream sauce from the student union coffee shop.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

It was around $4.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 00:42 (nineteen years ago)

I want mussels.

What's that bumper sticker all about that reads, "Eat Bertha's Mussels"?

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 00:52 (nineteen years ago)

fabulus mussels.

it's just a bumper sticker saying that you should eat Bertha's mussels, from what I can gather.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 00:53 (nineteen years ago)

i mean, as opposed to other mussel places.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 00:54 (nineteen years ago)

Is it a restaurant? I've seen it across the country.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 00:59 (nineteen years ago)

This thread has gotten ~~weirder~~ harder for lurkers to follow, with the new cast of characters. You guys are like a tv series where everybody changed from Dick York to Dick Sargent.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:02 (nineteen years ago)

hey Guys where do u partye in HCIago!!

― GOJIRO-SAN (skowly), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

It's funny that you have to be registered in order to post on this thread, especially when you are a joker like Evan. Joker.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:10 (nineteen years ago)

The noise in these threads has increased in the last couple of weeks.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:11 (nineteen years ago)

and not NOIZE.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:11 (nineteen years ago)

You do? I just didn't log out.

BACK TO MUSICAL APPRECIATION:

"I'm beginning to be dissatisfied with the idea of CDs, the way they make all music so available to us, the way that all musical experiences are supposedly able to be shrunk down to fit this little plastic disc. I'm beginning to think it should be as difficult to hear music as it was in the Middle Ages. Imagine just hearing a concert once a month, how amazing it must have sounded!"

-eno

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:11 (nineteen years ago)

I'm in favor. At least for a month.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:13 (nineteen years ago)

I made lentil salad with spinach and potatoes and it was delicious but not very attractive to the eye. Also we ate it while it was still warm, I think you're supposed to at least let it get to room temp but what the fuck. Also there's lots of leftovers so I'll have some cold for lunch tomorrow. Also last night I bought Kids in the Hall season III so we've been watching that, what a delight! Also I don't like Arcade Fire and I'm unreasonably prejudiced against Wolf Parade, Decemberists and My Morning Jacket because they are too popular, which is not a good character trait. Like I was at the library today, looking at William Faulkner novels and I was going to check out As I Lay Dying, or maybe it was Light in August, but whichever one it was, I suddenly realized it had an Oprah's Book Club sticker on it and I couldn't bring myself to check it out, so instead I checked out Absalom, Absalom! and I brought it home and read like 8 pages of it and was like, what the fuck, there's no way I'm going to finish this. So instead I starting reading this biography of Alan Turing, not the new one you may have read reviews of, but an old one, but it's pretty good and the cover design is very '70's but the best part is one of the quotes on the back talking about how good the book is, but then it's like "it's so fascinating that I even read through the dense technical parts," or that's the gist at least, but I thought it was funny because you never really see anything remotely negative in a book jacket quote.

xpost, I'm starting to agree with Eno, but more in relation to easy downloadability of music. After like four days of DSL I'm starting to think that I shouldn't have this much easy access to music. It turns it into (even more of) a sport.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:13 (nineteen years ago)

...mp3s are ruining music. for me. making it easier to find new, great music, sure. but ruining the listening.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:14 (nineteen years ago)

xpost a few back---i am partially to blame.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:15 (nineteen years ago)

In another way, though, that Eno quote is total b.s. Easy portability of music in many ways increases, not limits, the variety of musical experiences.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:15 (nineteen years ago)

giving up music for a month would be difficult!

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:15 (nineteen years ago)

I've given up purchasing music for a month, but not listening...I don't think it would be fun, or even very rewarding, actually. And I don't think he's really advocating that.

I feel like everything's already been said about the pitfalls of easy music downloading, but that doesn't make it any less true: e.g., music having to be more immediate to make an impression, the loss of the concept of an album, etc.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:17 (nineteen years ago)

Eno isn't talking about the variety of experiences. He's talking about, I think, the intensity.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

nabisco otm. i'm going out.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I'd disagree with that too. You could be a theoretical Middle Ages dude and go a month without music and then go to a concert, but just beforehand, your kitchenmaid serves you an undercooked grouse and you're in a foul mood and the concert is totally unintense. And you could be an indie dude with an iPod who listens to music incessently and one day the sun is beautiful and there's a nice breeze and that new MY MORNING JACKET ALBUM HITS YOU JUST FUCKING RIGHT. Basically, I don't think there's necessarily any relationship between frequency and intensity. I think Eno's just being a crotchety old man (who I love intensely).

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:23 (nineteen years ago)

I definitely went through a singles phase and I think I really missed the flow of a good album. This would explain why the most listened to album on my mp3 player lately has been Ziggy Stardust. Also, full-length recordings that work as albums tend to be the ones that I listen to for the longest amount of time. Single-release oriented recordings might really grab me and I might go through obsessive phases, but after awhile I get bored and start listening to David Bowie again.

Nick, As I Lay Dying is my favorite Faulker book, so you probably wouldn't have liked it anyway.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:29 (nineteen years ago)

(and frequently)

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:29 (nineteen years ago)

Thing is, I don't think Middle Ages dudes could have gone a month without music. I mean, church, work songs, etc.

Kierkegaard, I think it is, wrote a famous essay about his famous piece of music, which was a particular opera (I forget which), and, you eventually realize: He has only heard this opera three times in his entire life. And won't get to hear it many more times than that. That's... different.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:33 (nineteen years ago)

God, Ziggy Stardust is so fucking good!

I hope I haven't been the only noise Jeff was talking about! It definitely says something about me that I always take statements like that to be directly about me. I have some sort of nu-ILX guilt, even after being around for more than a year.

Does anyone want to see Harry and The Potters here in Hyde Park on Wednesday? We could go to the pub in the basement of the building after, and it's only $3 for the show. Anyone?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:33 (nineteen years ago)

Chris, are you talking about "The Immediate Erotic Stages" from Either/Or, where K. discusses Mozart's "Don Giovanni"?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:41 (nineteen years ago)

Nah, it's all the dummy little duder. Shut up Jesse.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:42 (nineteen years ago)

You have to pick and choose with the D'ists.

This is totally true. Good Decemberists songs: "The Engine Driver," "The Gymnast, High Above the Ground," "Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect," "Leslie Anne Levine," "The Sporting Life."

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:44 (nineteen years ago)

Dave, sounds about right. I haven't read it, just read about it.

Also "Red Right Ankle", "The Legionnaire's Lament".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:46 (nineteen years ago)

This might make me a bad person, but I don't want to go see a band called Harry and the Potters.

Odalisque is my v. favorite D'ist song. V. FAVORITE. That's one where the music is a little creepy and the lyrics are kind of creepy and then you listen closely and it's like WTF, D'ists????

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:48 (nineteen years ago)

After like four days of DSL I'm starting to think that I shouldn't have this much easy access to music.

I agree with this, but I don't necessarily think that my listening is being ruined. It just doesn't seem ... right.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:48 (nineteen years ago)

they've come to find you odalisque
as the light dies horribly
on a fire escape you walk
all rare and resolved to drop

and when they find you odalisque
they will rend you terribly
stitch from stitch til all
your linen and limbs will fall

lazy lady had a baby girl
and a sweet sound it made
raised on pradies, peanut shells and dirt
in the railroad culdesac

and what do we with 10 baby shoes
a kit bag full of marbles
and a broken billiard cue? what do we do?
what do we do?

fifteen stitches will mend those britches right
and then rip them down again
sapling switches will rend those rags alright
what a sweet sound it makes

and what do we do with 10 dirty jews
a thirty-ought full of rock salt
and a warm afternoon? what do we do?
what do we do?

lay your belly under mine
you're naked under me, under me
such a filthy dimming shine
the way you kick and scream, kick and scream

and what do we do with ten baby shoes
a kit bag full of marbles
and a broken billiard cue? what do we do?
what do we do?

lazy lady had a baby girl, and a sweet sound it made

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:49 (nineteen years ago)

I just wiki-ed it. I have never read any Kiki, although he sounds the most interesting of the ones I haven't read yet.

xpost to Jenny, yeah I know. I just kind of threw that out there with no qualifiers, but I read somewhere that they were pretty fun. I have no excuse, but um... pub afterwards. It's a nice pub. Also, you are not a bad person.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:51 (nineteen years ago)

Listen! As long as free, easily accessible broadcast radio continues to suck, illegally downloading music is not just a past time. It's a fucking mandate. Music wants to be free, brothers and sisters! XFM is just another way to try and marginalize the people and give those already in power an even tighter grip on our information. And entertainment. Infotainment, even.

xpost: Thanks, Dave. And no offense to you. But if you do see this band, maybe suggest to them they change their name to something less reminiscent of what a bunch of junior high school teachers who play in a band for shits and giggles on weekends might call themselves.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:51 (nineteen years ago)

"The Immediate Erotic Stages" from Either/Or, where K. discusses Mozart's "Don Giovanni"?

"The Immediate Erotic Stages" = "Say Yes"?

http://www.lo-fi.dk/lofi/images/cover/elliottsmith_eitheror.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:51 (nineteen years ago)

I guess I didn't mention that they play songs based on the books. They do that. It could be very bad.

xpost: huh?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:53 (nineteen years ago)

Downloading music, and lots of it, is the only way for the people to regain control of the airwaves. Clearchannel leases the airwaves from the government for the USE AND BENEFIT of the public. Or at least that's how it's supposed to work. And until they start getting their act together and working for our BENEFIT and not their BANK ACCOUNTS, I say we do whatever we have to do to bankrupt the entire industry.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:53 (nineteen years ago)

But if you do see this band, maybe suggest to them they change their name to something less reminiscent of what a bunch of junior high school teachers who play in a band for shits and giggles on weekends might call themselves.

Haha, this reminds me of the Rock Bottom Remainders, the band featuring Dave Barry, Stephen King, and Amy Tan.

I just completed my fantasy baseball draft! I am excited: I have Roy Oswalt, Dontrelle Willis, Miguel Cabrera, Carlos Delgado, both Giles brothers, etc. This probably won't interest anyone on this thread.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:54 (nineteen years ago)

I guess I didn't mention that they play songs based on the books.

Oh dear god no. And listen, I like Harry Potter books. A lot more than an adult probably should. As in enough to pre-order. But I probably haven't wanted to not see a band this much since Kevin Drumm came to town a few months ago.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:56 (nineteen years ago)

I went to Reckless yesterday and bought three new CDs and three used CDs. Among the new ones I bought were albums that I've had on my hard drive for a couple months, from before they were even released. I took them home and dutifully put them on my shelf, where they'll probably stay for a good long time without me ever picking them up.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:56 (nineteen years ago)

That's exactly what they want you to do, John.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:57 (nineteen years ago)

I quit playing fantasy baseball a couple of years ago. It was such a time suck, I would spend hours and hours each day researching and reading box scores. There is no way I would have time for that these days. My team logo was awesome though:

http://static.flickr.com/1/31846_7b4b24733f.jpg?v=0

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:57 (nineteen years ago)

The problem is, the albums I really want to hear, like the new Sparks album, I can't find online with Poisoned. So instead I end up downloading a bunch of Arthur Russell, which is ok but bores me after a while.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:58 (nineteen years ago)

One of my fears is that I will one day find myself in a band of lawyers with a name like "The Unintentional Torts" or "Equitable and the Estoppels" or something else equally embarassing.

xpost: I fully endorse Jeff's decision to pursue hobbies other than fantasy baseball.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:59 (nineteen years ago)

Nick, I'll YSI the sparks album, uno momento.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:00 (nineteen years ago)

Ohhh, I want to hear a bunch of Arthur Russell.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:01 (nineteen years ago)

It was such a time suck, I would spend hours and hours each day ~~researching~~ posting and reading ~~box scores~~ other people's posts.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:03 (nineteen years ago)

Man, the entire Internet is turning into one big YSI thread. If you've ever looked at the Sound Opinions board, half of it's like "Post YSIs of newly leaked albums on this thread." The Stylus staff board has gotten a lot more YSI-happy in the last couple months, too -- most of the albums I've acquired in 2006 have been from there.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:03 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny, I want you to defend the ethics of illegal downloading from a legal standpoint. Renee (who's an attorney now) was skeptical about clicking on a YSI link that I e-mailed her, because the firm she works for has been dealing with some file-sharing cases and it's put the fear into her.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:05 (nineteen years ago)

But I probably haven't wanted to not see a band this much since Kevin Drumm came to town a few months ago.

I don't know what made me think this would be so fun and such a good idea, but you have effectively eradicated almost any such notion from my mind. Note to self: Acceptable bands to propose CHILX outings for include Love is All and Destoyer. Unacceptable bands include Harry and the Potters. :-)

xpost: Do you write for Stylus?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:08 (nineteen years ago)

Yes sir.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:09 (nineteen years ago)

i bought 2 CDs yesterday!

holiday - "cafe reggio"
hot chip - "over and over"

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:09 (nineteen years ago)

(xp) Which is ironic, because I don't know that much about music.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:10 (nineteen years ago)

Here's what I bought:

*Belle & Sebastian, The Life Pursuit
*Destroyer, Rubies
+Stereolab, Fab Four Suture
Can, Future Days
Talking Heads, Fear of Music
^Aaliyah, I Care 4 U

* the albums I had downloaded months ago
+ bought more or less out of fanboy obligation
^ this is the album with all the hits on it, including the one I mentioned a couple days ago, although unfortunately the rest of the album doesn't measure up

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:12 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, I'm going to the Empty Bottle. See ya fuckers.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:13 (nineteen years ago)

I buy lots of records.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:13 (nineteen years ago)

+Stereolab, Fab Four Suture

whats this??

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:13 (nineteen years ago)

Arthur Russell, a couple of the dancier ones because I think the more ethereal ones are kind of dull though John might like them:

http://s54.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=18WTPKRJ6T5G40LZ88SRHCZNOQ
http://s54.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0NRNDTKMMKXVH012JODSJSNMLA

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:15 (nineteen years ago)

(xp) It's ostensibly a collection of singles, but all of the singles were released just a few months ago on, like, rare import vinyl, so it might as well just be considered a new studio album.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:16 (nineteen years ago)

Fab Four Suture is a singles collection, I think. As part of my job I have to do a google news search several times a day that includes the word "suture" so I've been getting lots of cd reviews accidentally.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:16 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks Nick! I don't have those Russell songs ... all right, now I'm really leaving.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:17 (nineteen years ago)

JMZ, T0dd Burns went to my high school and was two years ahead of me.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:18 (nineteen years ago)

I like buying/dl'ing fewer albums and listening to them more.

Provided they're really good.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:19 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, Dave, that's not true! You can propose an outing to see any band you want! I just might make fun of them real hard if their show is based in any part on children's books. Even beloved children's books. (Also, the anti-Kevin Drumm comment was a little loving snark at Nick and Jeff, who actually like that horrible noize.) But note that I am most certainly NOT making fun of you.

John, I don't think I can defend downloading music from a legal standpoint. Not because it's not defendable - I think it might be, or at least I think I could make a good argument about why the law that makes it illegal is no good - but because I don't know anything about copyright law.

However, law firms are by nature little hives of paranoia so it's no surprise that Renee's bosses get a little queasy at the thought of potentially illegal file sharing. One of the attorneys where I work got his panties in a twist when one of the clerks called a government agency to find out some information instead of just unearthing it on their website. He said you NEVER call the government unless he says it's okay. NEVER.

So... yeah.

I would really like to know more about the file sharing cases, though. Are they defending or prosecuting?

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:21 (nineteen years ago)

You're gone now. I will have to wait until you come back DRUNK AS GOD from the EB and post some nonsense back and forth with Evan and Jesse and Chris to find out the answer to my question.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:22 (nineteen years ago)

Heh.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:28 (nineteen years ago)

Here are my two favorite songs by the Octopus Project, whom I like a lot.

http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2PQ7WILPAK9I11ZIMC6SVH4X5Q (dancey!)

http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1N0F7HSFUKVBC2RWN21CDAXT3K

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:32 (nineteen years ago)

SPARKS://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1L2HYOHG80AE503XUSHS1WCY1O

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:35 (nineteen years ago)

I agree with Jenny. You guys only think downloading stuff is weird because you haven't been doing it for years and years.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:37 (nineteen years ago)

The last cd I bought was music from the Backyardigans.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:38 (nineteen years ago)

Hey Nick or Sarah or Evan - you should put your upcoming show on the CHILX Events on Upcoming so I can respond that I'm going and get an email reminder. Dudez.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:39 (nineteen years ago)

...and here's my favorite cut from next-level jazz group Tied & Tickled Trio:

http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2K5EVYZPT6SWU28V5XDY8A701E

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:39 (nineteen years ago)

Scary thing Jeff just said to me:

You know what would be a bad name for a girl? Journey.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:40 (nineteen years ago)

"Drunk as God" is a funny thing to say. I will start saying it directly.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:40 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny, I knew you weren't making fun of me. I was just poking fun at myself! Also, OTM about John, and the phrase, "DRUNK AS GOD" has now entered my personal lexicon. Why is it that when I am drunk on here it is always alone?

haha xpost

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:41 (nineteen years ago)

Journey would be bad. Very bad. "Harry" or "Frank" would be better than Journey. Those could be new chic lasbian names, but Journey is right out.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:42 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, a girl named Harry would be pretty damn bad, too. Even for a lesbian.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:43 (nineteen years ago)

The girl named Harry could perchance meet the boy named Sue, and they would find they had a lot in common.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:46 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, I need to go to bed. I think I'm being funny. That's the first sign.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:48 (nineteen years ago)

Journey is either from New Jersey or Texas. She smokes Virginia Slims Menthols and drives an IROC-Z.

I think you're being funny! That's the second sign.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:50 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.queermusicheritage.com/JAN2003/Phranc.jpg

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:54 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks for Sparks, Jeff.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:55 (nineteen years ago)

This thread has so many posts it's doing this thing where when I refresh it shows me a weird split screen of the top and bottom of it. So, if I may... Chicago: Is The Soul Machine.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:56 (nineteen years ago)

Mission accomplished--Sayjal's birthday was a happy one. We skipped going to Electric Six's concert, but wound up going to a gay bar gay bar gay bar anyway.

We went to Crew where the mystery of the Sox Playoffs night was solved. I was cut off not for anything horrible, but because, "You just weren't making any sense."

I have an important question: how do you send a whole folder of files via yousendit? It is only letting me send 1 file at a time.

Thanks.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 06:17 (nineteen years ago)

"Drunk as God" is a funny thing to say. I will start saying it directly.

Amen. Was that a Jenny original?

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 06:25 (nineteen years ago)

ihttp://www.johnnyr.com/images/SYBW2006-03-27.gif

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 06:27 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, I just told you there was a new thread.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 06:28 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, I just told you there was a new thread.

I had already posted this, dickball.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 06:50 (nineteen years ago)

re. Drunk as God---it seems like an outgrowth of drunk as a lord, no?

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 06:51 (nineteen years ago)

Shut up, Jesse.

Also: you need to .ZIP your files to send them all at once.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

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