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http://www.stuckismphotography.com/images/larry/lips.jpg

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

Ouch

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg300/g324/g32485heog3.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse. Ew. Fucking ew. That's awful. I can't look at that for the next week. Ew. Bad Jesse. Bad.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I had called this thread, The Torch is Passed, but whatever. I just woke up.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/d/d6/200px-Rio_cover.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

I would have preferred a picture of a big cock or something.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

It's about acceptance. Acceptance of hairlips and acceptance of new threads.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.jahsonic.com/Lips.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

wow, john is busy.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

I'm all for the acceptance of harelips, but that's gross.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/51/Rstones2.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.art.com/images/-/The-Rocky-Horror-Picture-Show--C10034746.jpeg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

It's really too bad I can't find a picture of just Shane MacGowan's lips and teeth.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

There was a guy named John who had a wooden eye. He was very shy about his condition; his friends tried to get him to get out of his shell and start dating but John was resistant. After a lot of encouragement they convinced him to go to a dance.

At the dance JOhn was too bashful to talk to any girls until he noticed a girl with a harelip who was also being a wall flower. He mustered all his confidence, approached her and asked, "Would you like to dance?" The girl was flustered and stammered, "Would I?! Would I?!" John became enraged and screamed, "HARELIP! HARELIP!"

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.windowsmedia.com/img/prov_u/300_80/00044006305622_800x800.jpg

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't the harelip considerably less disturbing than the gelatinous, sticky-like-fly-paper lip gloss? That shit looks worse than canned cheesecake cherries.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

It's a bad, bad combination.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

It's just not disturbing enough on first glance to make me really want to study it, after which I am COMPLETELY DISTURBED.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't the harelip considerably less disturbing than the gelatinous, sticky-like-fly-paper lip gloss? That shit looks worse than canned cheesecake cherries.

I actually really love the lip gloss, and it's maybe why I'm not as grossed out as everyone else.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

I tried the ILM YSI thread, but I think I'll ask here too. Anyone have the song "Am I Wrong" by Keb' Mo'? My friend thedavefalls thanks you in advance if you do!

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

(But I love it precisely because it's so canned-cheesecake-cherries-like. It's such a luscious shade of blood red.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder if there is hairlip fetish pr0n.

I'm not searching for that, either at work or in the privacy of my home.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

I regret nothing. I took a risk and stand by my decision. I consider it an intriguing well beyond its original shock value, which is something we need to move beyond.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

I'll bet there is.

I love canned cheesecake cherries, but that is not doing it for me.

xpost: Just give us all a little bit of time. It's going to take some adjustment, but if it's important to you, then it's important to me too.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

John "REALLY LOVES" cherry-red lip gloss? WHA?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

Is that an album cover? If so, from whom?

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder if there is hairlip fetish pr0n.

I harelip is usually part of a cleft palate which would mean 1 extra orifice...oral-nasal penetration, anyone?

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

Also,
http://yambra.bitacoras.com/imgpost/shane%20macgowan.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

Although let it be known that I lurve the Pogues.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

THANK YOU AMANDA! My hero.

Oh, and me too.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

I even have his "autobiography."

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

How do we not have any Star Trek pics on this thread yet?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

John "REALLY LOVES" cherry-red lip gloss? WHA?

My defense here is complicated.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/38294

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

I know I'm just an honorary Chicagoan (per jaymc), but Jess and Roundups remind me of that scene in The Fly where Jeff Goldblum pukes all over his food and then innocently says, "Oh I'm sorry, that was disgusting, wasn't it?"

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of things laquered and totally over the top, am I the last person in the World of Music to hear that album by Robyn the Swedish blonde??? BECAUSE I LOVE IT. I'm going to buy it today/tomorrow after hours but if anyone wanted to YSI it to me FUCKING NOW I'd be most appreciative.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

How do we not have any Star Trek pics on this thread yet?

This is a thread with the theme Sexy Cheiloschisis

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

You mean Kenan, right?

xxpost

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 3 April 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

Laurel, that is a good album. Mostly for the singles, though, as far as what's lasted for me.

pixel, I've never seen The Fly, but I can only assume that said scene could possibly be the story of my life. (Not really.)

― Jeff Goldblum (Dave M), Monday, 3 April 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

(hello? ysi, please? there is not enough konichiwa bitchaz in my life.)

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 3 April 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

OH, I think I can help. Give me a few min, Laurel.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 3 April 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

How do we not have any Star Trek pics on this thread yet?
This is a thread with the theme Sexy Cheiloschisis

I know, that makes the promising thread title so much worse.

Holy shit, I just got a raise! Like, a $150/month raise!!!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 3 April 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

I think a lot of us on this thread love the Robyn album! At least me and Jeff and Jenny. Kenan turned up his nose at it when I played it for him at my apartment once. I can YSI when I get home, but it looks like other folx can help you out earlier.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, congrats!!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 3 April 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

This may be too big to post.

http://www.movieforum.com/people/actors/jacklemmon/images/hotb&w.jpg

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 3 April 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

What's up, moneybags! Congrats.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 3 April 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

Nice, Jordan. Mo' fine wine fo' the fiancee.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 3 April 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

xpost--that's a great raise.

I disagree that a Star Wars themed thread is "promising."

Laurel, I'm sending now.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 3 April 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

How have I never seen Some Like It Hot? The saxophonist in the back-right looks vaguely like Kirsten Dunst.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

Star Trek, duder.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 3 April 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

It's a graet movie, but kind of fractured... like 2 or three movies jammed into one. (xpost)

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Monday, 3 April 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/39/122756646_d721de2fe5.jpg

BTW

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 3 April 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

Way to go, Jordan!

And that flyer is fucking awesome.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 3 April 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

Woo hoo, Jordan!!!

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Monday, 3 April 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

CONGRATULATIONS TO JORDAN! Ally is a sweet girl -- where's the honeymoon?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

Sharx/Ficciones... I'm there.

xpost Hahahaha...

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 3 April 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

I'm so pissed I'm missing that show. I'll be glad to see my sister home from Africa, but damnit! Why couldn't it have been next week?!?

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 3 April 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

is that 9:00 pm show or 9:00 pm doors?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 3 April 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

....://s49.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2XSXSFRFUDUPX1W5RWD6O5A5TS = Robyn

Star Wars, Star Trek, whatever. It's all noise.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 3 April 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

I recommend Some Like it Hot. Racy. Zesty.

I will be at the FF show. I took the whole weekend off b/c I'm burned out and I need rock therapy.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 3 April 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks guys. I would buy drinks if it were feasible.

Star Trek: Classic or Dud?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 3 April 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

Today a notion was reinforced: my actions have no consequences.

When I moved into my apartment 1 year 6 months ago the gas was on already so I just used it. Then last week it went away, so today I called to get it turned on and put in my name, expecting some kind of monstrous bill for past usage. But the nice lady in NC told me that I was free and clear and would have gas service on Thursday.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

Oh great.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

Courtney tells me that it is swelteringly sweaty hot in NC. She said yesterday that it was around 90 and humid.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

No gas bill for 1 1/2 years??? That is amazing.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

Courtney, Courtney, Courtney.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

Delta Delta Delta

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

I was initially grossed out by the pic because it looked like her lip was cut in a terrible accident and healed that way. But now that I understand it's a congenital defect, I am not so bothered by it.

xpost: FUCK NC. FUCK IT RIGHT IN THE 90 DEGREE HUMIDITY HOLE. I'll take this miserably semi-cold rain any day. ANY FUCKING DAY.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

This is weird.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

Courtney, Courtney, Courtney

Now John, you're BOTH pretty!

xpost-- all I had was a gas stove, so it would not have been terrible terrible.... I even asked the nice lady if she had a record of past usage that I might owe. I TRIED to do the right thing, but Jesus didn't want it that way.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

GOD. 90 degrees in April. I do not miss the weather in the US south, that's for damn sure.

xpost: Not that weird. If it was an injury, it would involve terrible pain and that is upsetting to me because terrible pain hurts terribly. If it's congenital, well, maybe it involves terrible pain, I don't know, but it's not a terrible pain I can empathize with, having never experienced anything like a cleft palate, plus it would probably be terrible pain of a more chronic and consistent nature rather than the shocking and horrifying terrible pain of suddenly having your lip split like that.

PLUS if it healed that way, you're looking at someone who suffered a terrible injury and then was unable to receive medical treatment and so there would be a component of mental anguish above and beyond the mental anguish of having your lip split open violently.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not saying that being born with a birth defect like a cleft palate is better or less painful, physically or mentally, than suffering a violent mouth injury, mind you. I'm just saying that I have a lot of empathy for the latter and no real emotional understanding of the former. Hence, once I can look at a picture of without getting the heebie jeebies, and one I cannot.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

Plus you've got a split nether lip, and that's not so bad.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

Shut your gaping, cavernous asshole, asshole.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

JB -- it's weird to me, after reading that, that your main criterion for being grossed out by something is whether or not it seems PAINFUL. Rather than the usual kind of aesthetic disgust that something looks WRONG or a fear of the abject or something.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

Also critical theory fans: I couldn't remember the word "abject" just now, so I googled "kristeva + shit."

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't "abject" an adjective?

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

THE ABJECT, abjection (Kristeva): Our reaction (horror, vomit) to a threatened breakdown in meaning caused by the loss of the distinction between subject and object or between self and other. The primary example is the corpse (which traumatically reminds us of our own materiality); however, other items can elicit the same reaction: the open wound, shit, sewage, even a particularly immoral crime (e.g. Auschwitz). Kristeva posits that abjection is something that we must experience in our psychosexual development before entering into the mirror stage, that is, the establishment of such boundaries as self and other or human and animal. Kristeva also associates the abject with the maternal since the establishment of the boundary between self and other marks our movement out of the chora.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

That reminds me, I hit myself in the lip with a vacuum cleaner yesterday.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

WHAT reminds you? You probably could've made that post at any point on this thread and it would've fit in, more or less.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

Hm, well, dictionaries disagree, but it's not like it's TOTALLY UNHEARD OF for a critical theorist to repurpose words for their own needs or anything.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, put some lip gloss on it.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

suffering a violent mouth injury

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

Will do. Half of my upper lip was all puffy, but I have thick-ass lips anyway so it didn't really show.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

...for a critical theorist to repurpose words for his or her own needs or anything, that is.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, well, Kristeva has a specific meaning in mind when she uses "the abject" (or whatever the Frenchified equivalent of said term is, since that's what she was originally writing in) -- but I also don't see how it's that much different from saying something like, "That new scarf of yours has a hint of the ridiculous about it."

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

I'll grudgingly accept this as the new Chicago thread, but only if Jesse can be restrained in the future.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny OTM re: repurposing words

Welcome to a large chunk of my college instruction. God DAMN those people annoyed me after a while.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

I really prefer to think that John's critical theory post reminds Jordan of hitting himself in the mouth with an appliance, because that's how critical theory often made me feel. Or like the vacuum had been stuck down my throat and sucked away my soul.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

I believe Jesse should be restrained in the future for fun as well as practical purposes.

http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/exhibits/quest/images/restraints.jpg

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.lovesickcorrectiveapparel.com/images/restraints/cuffs/Cuffs3.jpg

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

Keep your funky fantasies re: Jesse to your self, boyo.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

Restraints, Jeff & Jenny style

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

Funky? No, no. Not funky. Just me being a top and Jesse being a bottom. With maybe a hint of punishment. Everyday stuff, really.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

Gross.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

You know he craves punishment. C'mon, it's written all over him.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/23/24994767_49ffd5b35a.jpg

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

Sweet. Was that the one with the shackles or not?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/23/24995849_b58e342ff1.jpg

Aye, there were shackles.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 3 April 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

You can see one of the shackles dangling from an eye bolt on the bed post.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny, why do you guys go to redneckvilles for your getaways?

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

Ah yes.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

(Jesse, I'm going to guess cheap living and cheaper booze)

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

So uh I hadn't looked over this way for a while, and all I have to say is "eep."

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan throws a hot dog down a hallway like you can't believe!

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

Close enough, Jordan. We can't afford to go anywhere else. Plus one or the other set of parents is always nagging at us to come visit so we end up using any avaialble PTO for family bullshit.

My family actually believes this is a vacation, since they live at the beach.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

Also, our last two for real vacations were to Chicago and we live here now so we don't know where else to go.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/36/121578243_ccda492b98.jpg?v=0

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder what I was laughing at.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

You weren't laughing. I was under the table.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

.......

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

Don't make me laugh like that anymore. You're going to get me fired.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

We were all thinking it, but John had to say it!

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, I took that picture.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

BTW, the way I found this thread's pic was by googling "disorder."

I think Jeff is right though, and we should stick with CuteOverload pics.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

Or bondage pics.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

http://us.st11.yimg.com/store1.yimg.com/I/fap_1881_6581127

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

(xp) Or you know, we can combine the two:

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:-_cW1VtL269uxM:home.arcor.de/jenzzz/_Media/art/trevor.gif

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

update on the mexican hardcore/pilsen little league fundraiser from one who was there:

"You all missed a killer show!!!!!For the record nobody got shot, but a fight did break out, free pool, b.y.o.b., HUGE CIRCLE PITS for all the bands, walls being smashed(literally!), power going out after ever I Attack song while punks we're still dancing and singing along!!!where were you fucker!"

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

Uh, hi dere.

That poster is kickass, Fixions!

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

the way i was feeling saturday i'm glad i missed it.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

did you guys finally give up on the other thread, then? it's amazing how much you all post, it's crazy hard to keep up.

to answer sarah's question, we're meeting caterers because toby and i are (probably, almost certainly unless my parents continue being really annoying) going to get married in chicago next summer.

so will anyone else be at the canasta show monday week? i feel like you guys are my slightly-too-cool-for-me friends of friends i had in college and am both scared and excited to meet you.

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

This one:

http://www.comedy-zone.net/pictures/images/naughty/rude010.jpg

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

(xpost) Pshaw.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, seriously. We're not that cool.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

Colette, you have to remember we post to an Internet message board all day and night. We are not "cool." (I am still trying to figure out how to break this to K. -- she already knows that I met Nick and Kenan "online": the horror).

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

I will go to at least one of the C@n@st@ shows, if only to prove that I am not too cool for anyone.

EZ, you're opening that one (the 10th), right? And the last (24th?) one features J and N DJing afterwards? Do the FF play at that one as well?

xpost what they said

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

(Congrats on the engagement, btw!)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

Who got engaged? Colette?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

fuck you guys, i'm so cool i shit ice cubes.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

I'm so hip I am having difficulty seeing over my pelvis.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, Colette. I feel like I mentioned this the last time she dropped by -- but I've always wanted to meet her because she's from Kalamazoo!

There's a splash page on the C@n@st@ website where we've put up the poster for the Schubas shows. So that should answer all of your questions.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

Yep, I'm playing on the 10th. Hopewell's getting a lot of attention too - it should be a good night altogether. I'm a little nervous, which is a good feeling.

Mo' swank than the dude who didn't know the girl he liked was a dude.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

Or the dude he liked was a girl, and he was a girl, not a dude. A rushed swank pun, and I turned it upsidedown.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks J. The top of that design kind of reminds me of the Hartford Whalers logo! And that is a good thing IMHO.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

(xpost) Always should be someone you really love.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

john, i just typed that. Exactly that.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

ihttp://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/fox_searchlight/boys_don_t_cry/hilary_swank/boys.jpg

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.emerchandise.com/images/p/FTR/pdCOFTR0004.jpg

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

This has been a very odd thread. I told you -- something in the air today.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

I want more kissing.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

Kissing is like that.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

In thread, or in life, J??

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

Life. I don't care about you people anymore.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

I want more kissing.

i'd vote for you if that was your platform. "More Kissing" beats the hell out of "A Chicken In Every Pot".

spring....

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

http://image22.webshots.com/23/2/61/30/197526130SxlNDW_ph.jpg

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

Silly me, I imagine the answer is "both". (XP hahaahahahaha)

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

"so not gonna happen"

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

Snuggling. Snuggling is key.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

The kissing vs. snuggling debate rages on!

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I am all for both.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

this is one area where multitasking should be encouraged.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

(I am still trying to figure out how to break this to K. --

Just tell her it was myspace, normal people are cool with that.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

I might be at the Monday C4Nasty show, since Tuesdays and Thursdays are my free days. Colette, I felt the same way on Friday meeting Eazy, jaymc, and Gilbert O'Kenan. They were nice. Don't worry. I still have yet to be punched out by Jesse, though :-).

re: vomit, Dave = The Abject, apparently. You are all welcome for the reminder of mortality/materiality.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

Does anyone want to go to the Black Rock tomorrow @ 8 to hang out with a bunch of poetry nerds I don't know?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

Free days!!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

= No classes! Being a senior! Yay! It is sunny out!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

I never had free days, even when I was a senior. :(

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

Live vicariously through me!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

Does anyone want to go to the Black Rock tomorrow @ 8 to hang out with a bunch of poetry nerds I don't know?

Man, I don't know that I would walk out of my living room to hang out with poetry nerds that I do know.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

I'm at a campus coffee shop, and there are so many different looking people around me. Particularly (un)interesting is the dressed-all-in-black-with-HEAVY-black-eyeliner fashionista girl sitting across the room from me. She is a funny sight in front of the uber-sunny window.

xpost: Jenny, one day I will propose an event so good you will have an orgasm where you sit. I'm not pretending that day is going to come soon, but it will come! (sheesh, pun intended I guess)

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I am all for both.

Typical John sentence.

Dave, you make your invitations sound so tempting.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

She is a funny sight in front of the uber-sunny window.

Go offer to shut the shades for her, lest the sun char her delicate white skin. I'll bet she'll sleep with you.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

Are you sure it's not Wednesday night, Dave? That's hott poet's night at the Black Rock:
http://www.recroomers.com/

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

Dave, you make your invitations sound so tempting.

Haha, yeah. I will say that the last time I went to the Black Rock, I ended up starting a big bonfire under the Addison brown line stop, resulting in a run from the cops.

Jenny, she looks more like she wants me to open the window and light her a cig.

xpost.. I thought I said Wednesday. We are totally talking about the same thing. 2nd anniversary of the rec room.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

tomorrow

Yeah, I meant Wednesday.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I'd rather meet a girl who wanted to go get a cheeseburger right about now.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

Goth girls totally eat cheeseburgers.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think she's really a goth. More of a constant dresser-upper. And today she chose this look. I think I've seen her around campus with a cowboy hat, i.e. uh oh!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

When goths flock at Dennys and Perkins and Friendlys at 3 a.m., that's what they're eating.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

Goth Collective Nouns:

an angst of goths ... a band of goths ... a bleakness of goths ... a brood of goths ...a canticle of goths ... a clot of goths ... a corset of goths ... a cloud of goths ... a cortege of goths ... an eclipse of goths ... a flock of goths ... a flourish of goths ... a gloom of goths ... a glower of goths ... a mope of goths ... a pose of goths ... a pretention of goths ...a rapture of goths ... a ravish of goths ... a scene of goths ...a shade of goths ...a shudder of goths ... a snoot of goths ... a shroud of goths ... a suicide of goths ... a sulk of goths ... a thick of goths
- by Rebecca Blood

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 3 April 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

Urban Dictionary
1. waffle goth 7 thumbs up

You know those weird gothic kids who hang out at places like Waffle House, IHOP, and Denny's in the wee hours of the morning? That's exactly what I'm talking about. See, a friend and I recently discovered exactly WHY goths are so attracted to these places.
"WAFFLES. THEY'RE SO FUCKING SPOOKY. Why didn't I see it before?! I mean, have you ever looked at one of those mofos? Pure. Anguish. Their brief lives are pain. They've been simmered in a hot pan or iron quite possibly burnt, only to be consumed by the consumer MACHINE, yo."
Waffles are therefore obviously a symbol of gothic culture.
Frat guy 1: "Hey man, last night was awesome! I need to get some coffee before I try to go to class. Maybe some breakfast, too. Denny's is still open, right?"
Frat guy 2: "Nah, man, that place is full of waffle goths, let's go to Bob Evans."

by hrcquirk Springfield, Ohio Aug 13, 2005 email it

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 3 April 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

haha, jenny

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 3 April 2006 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

haha, both of you - Waffle Goths!

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 3 April 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

When Goths Flock

When goths
flock
at black rocks,

the sidewalk is
unsafe
for strangers.

Take this
braided
stalk and walk

away. Away
from
my heart

and let's never
speak
of cheeseburgers again.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 3 April 2006 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

One step closer to that thesis.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 3 April 2006 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

And since I can't get honors no matter how good it is - grades :( - I can just turn in any old crap!! :-)

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 3 April 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

Now I'm singing "When Goths Walk" to the tune of "When Doves Cry."

I have an entry for the "Most Manipulative Email in the World" contest:

"i want to watch basketball at a bar tonight, but i fear i have no friends to drag along- yourself included"

Nothing in the world works to make me add someone's name to my Shitlister profile like that kind of crap.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 3 April 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

So but Dave, the legend at my law school* is that if one graduates from UofC, grades don't matter because you have a degree from such a presitigous university. Is that not so for undergrad?

*which has recently clawed its way up into the second tier of the US News and World Report rankings, but still isn't like top 50 or anything.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 3 April 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

Well, that's what they told us too, and I think it would definitely hold true in the academic world, i.e. if I ever (god forbid!) end up going to grad school of any kind. As for non-academic sector jobs, I have NO IDEA. I assume it would really depend on the employer and his/her previous experience with U of C grads (apparently the career center, which I work for, says that some employers find U of C grads to be impractical/out of touch with social situations, which is pretty much the opposite of who I am, so that's good, but still funny) and/or recognition of the name at all. As in, is he/she aware that it's not a state school. Personally, I think I have enough other stuff going for me that I won't have to rely on name recognition to get a job (I hope!). But the short answer is: I don't know.

Can we please keep referring to Revengespace by completely different names? I like that.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 3 April 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

In my experience with post-undergraduate employers, nobody ever EVER asks what your grades were. Ever. Also my undergrad grades sucked and it only took me ten years* of self-esteem eroding dead-end jobs to go back to school! So really, no problem.

*Okay, about five years of that, off and on, was spent in various states of intentional under- and un-employment.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 3 April 2006 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

Hope!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 3 April 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

I'm looking at apartments on cr@igslist. It is really fun.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 3 April 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

Everyone in Chicago will be impressed by a degree from the U of C.

We filled two booths at Perkins--
after Rocky Horror--
One waitress served the plates--
The other was the pourer.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 3 April 2006 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

What could be more Dickinsonian than "After Rocky Horror"?

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 3 April 2006 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

Everyone in Chicago will be impressed by a degree from the U of C.

Christ, sometimes I'm surprised by how people react to me working there! I'm a glorified accounts receivable department. Ok maybe that's a little much, but still, I slacked like mad in college too and honestly I feel kind of lucky to have this job.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

Hi. I would like to meet Colette but I don't think we'll be at the Canasta show on the 10th, because we're going to the one on the 24th, because I am DJing after. With John.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 00:37 (nineteen years ago)

http://img415.imageshack.us/img415/9431/611tg.jpg

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 00:56 (nineteen years ago)

http://img415.imageshack.us/img415/8904/722ul.jpg

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 00:56 (nineteen years ago)

black rock, huh. say 'hi' to goldie.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 01:05 (nineteen years ago)

Story there?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 01:17 (nineteen years ago)

he's the bartender, and his name is goldie. i don't know him very well, but the rest of my pals do. he's been to my house to watch Lost.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

Goldie sounds like the name of a dog or a fish. Does he looks like a dog or a fish?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 01:27 (nineteen years ago)

Does he look like a chihuahua with a minature flying squirrel on his head, maybe?

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sorry, Jenny, those totally deserved to be recognized....

WWWWTTTTFFFFFF!!!!???!!!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 01:45 (nineteen years ago)

those dogs look...alarmed.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 01:46 (nineteen years ago)

http://metropolis.japantoday.com/tokyoclubsbars/318/goldie.jpg

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 01:46 (nineteen years ago)

Chihuahuas always look alarmed.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 01:47 (nineteen years ago)

Are they yours?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 01:49 (nineteen years ago)

look at those little apple domes!!!!

goddamn i miss my chi.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 01:52 (nineteen years ago)

can you hot link from myspace?

http://myspace-759.vo.llnwd.net/00045/95/72/45672759_l.jpg

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 01:57 (nineteen years ago)

These dogs look cute and not annoying like I normally assume chihuahuas to be.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 02:02 (nineteen years ago)

Yo GBizzaX, have you ever gone to Streetside? What else is cool in this area?

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 02:02 (nineteen years ago)

weird -- went to the Streetside for the second time just the other day. For lunch. Decent pizza. Only one other experience there, at night, and I wasn't there long. they have a DJ sometimes.

other than that: taqueria moran is good, but not as good as it used to be -- they got a liquor license a few months ago, and tacos went from 99 cents to 1.75. BUMMER.

Ronny's: cheap, quiet, free pool, COPS is always on, and killer rock bands play there like, all the fucking time now.

Um. Other than that? I usually hang out down at the Clipper, which isn't really Logan Square proper, or in my living room.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 02:23 (nineteen years ago)

No, they aren't mine, but I would love to have a chihuahua one day. One with a precious little scrappy doggy face like Otto's dog has.

I do have three beloved http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeff/11132830/.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 02:24 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, those are cute! Are your cats friendly, because I really like friendly (read: dog-like) cats. Aloof cats make me mad. And it is totally the scrappiness that set's Otto's dog apart.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 02:26 (nineteen years ago)

Cats. That last link should read "cats."

The orange one and the brown tabby are very friendly. The black one is a little flighty around strangers, but once she's used to you she'll walk all over your head and MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 02:28 (nineteen years ago)

And she's got a great name.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 02:31 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse named her, actually. Ed's full name is Radical Edward. I'm sure there are some nerds around here who would find that clever and endearing.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 02:33 (nineteen years ago)

As long as we're sharing, I am in love with my parents' dog (uh... I mean brother... :)....)

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 02:37 (nineteen years ago)

Even though she's not a small dog. (Yeah, that last picture is my little bro... he's cute too.)

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 02:43 (nineteen years ago)

Is she a Golden Retriever?

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 02:44 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, she's gotten a little fatter since those pictures, but she is still under 2. She's super quiet but still really playful. One of my favorite things she does (for attention, I think) is to rub one of her shoulders on the ground and just kind of twist around in that position. She can be alternately 1) curious, 2) pensive, and 3) playful. She is bad to sleep with, though. She hogs the bed.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 02:47 (nineteen years ago)

I just watched Good Night and Good Luck. People used to smoke more than they do these days.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 03:26 (nineteen years ago)

taqueria moran

Oh man, you're preaching to the converted here. OTM about their price hike.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 03:41 (nineteen years ago)

"ü"

This is the symbol that Washington Mutual's website uses on tables to indicate "This service available." As in:

Platinum Checking Free Checking Hardcore Checking
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Free Checks ü

Use of ATM ü ü ü

Free Fisting ü

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 03:58 (nineteen years ago)

Well, thanks a lot, ILX, for changing my brilliant formatting work.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 03:59 (nineteen years ago)

Goodnight ILX, you tease.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 04:44 (nineteen years ago)

Happy sunny Tuesday Chicagoans, I've got a question for you. I'm moving to the Ash1and/Augusta area in less than two weeks and I was just wondering if anybody could give me any tips on hidden (or not so hidden) treasures in the area - bars, restaurants, shops, whatever. I've lived on the north edge of W1cker Park for the last year, so I'm pretty familiar with the Milwaukee/Damen/North area but I'm ashamed to admit with working out in the burbs that I didn't make it south very often (except to hit up the Empty B0ttle or Artur0's for my favorite burritos in the city). Anyway, suggestions for enjoying the new 'hood would be greatly appreciated.

― jonviachicago, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

beachwood inn at the corner of beach & wood is good for a cheap beer. club foot is two blocks west of ashland on augusta and is a late night favorite for all. some people dig the california clipper at augusta and california but except for monday bingo i'm not sold on the place. tuman's at chicago and leavitt is my after work bar. gold star on division is where i go when i don't want to run into anyone i know.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

It's too bad that the squirrel/dog wasn't in Jesse's kitchen for the bird/cat/lobster photo shoot.

Is it cool to enjoy kissing your significant other of going-on-8 years? Because I'm all about that these days.

Hello, jon. I second club foot! I especially love it though when hardly anyone else is there.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

Is it cool to enjoy kissing your significant other of going-on-8 years?

very cool.
my former significant other is coming back to chicago in 9 days (eep!) for the silver jews show next weekend.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

Is it cool to enjoy kissing your significant other of going-on-8 years? Because I'm all about that these days.

Hey Sarah, let's meet in the Loop today. So I can kick your ass.

Sincerely,

Guy with only one tounge in his mouth

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

Can anyone shed some light on the reason that grapefruit is the only citrus you eat with a spoon? (Well, not including its close relative the pummelo.)

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

I'm moving to the Ash1and/Augusta area in less than two weeks and I was just wondering if anybody could give me any tips on hidden (or not so hidden) treasures in the area - bars, restaurants, shops, whatever.

Yeah, that's Nick and Sarah and I's hood, too. There's lots of stuff. Off the top of my head, there's Dusty Groove records at Ashland and Haddon, just north of Augusta. There's Hilary's Urban Eatery on Division just east of Milwaukee. There's Andy's Deli on Division just east of Ashland (they have the hottest French mustard ever!). And there's... help me out here, guys.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

haha "I's." Should be "Nick and Sarah's and my."

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

Club Foot! That's on Augusta just east of Damen.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

isn't andy's west of ashland?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

Hilary's closed, didn't it? Or was that just temporary?

Btw, Evan/Dan: I've been to Streetside -- an acquaintance used to DJ there (maybe he still does, haven't seen him in a while). Not a bad place to hang out.

Also re squirrel/dog: Does anyone want to guess what this is?

http://static.flickr.com/40/123185904_b52cc217e5.jpg?v=0

(Or, you know, Mark if you're lurking -- if you want to shed light on your junior-high home-ec projects...)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno, Jesse, but I'll bet it's something to do with the Victorians. They were super into silverware for overly specific things.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

isn't andy's west of ashland?

That's what I meant.

And Hilary's is very much open. It's a hot spot.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, and Kevin, you live right around there, too, right?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

Hilary's is reopening in the fall closer to the Ashland/Division intersection.

WTF, Kenan, are you sure? (about Hilary's??)

Flo is also delicious. It is a kind of upscale mexican influenced brunch place (they have dinner too, but I've only had brunch there) on chicago.

John, that is OBVIOUSLY George Washington the Squirrel.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

Nick was just asking the same thing about grapefruit yesterday. Then he was saying something crazy about oranges being the only fruit you can eat without too much work. I was like - but what about apples??! And oranges make your hands sticky!!

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, you guys are right.

"Hilary's closed February 27. Owner Hilary Farrell tells us she's taking a much-needed vacation after 10 years, but she is planning to relocate the eatery to a new address (1630 W. Division Street) this fall. Check back for additional updates."

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

And oranges make your hands sticky!!

Yes, but with the advantage of making them smell like oranges.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

I peeled a grapefruit this morning and have suffered no ill effects. I think maybe the spoon method helps you avoid the stringy inbetween sections.

The Reader said Hilary's was closed.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

John, that is OBVIOUSLY George Washington the Squirrel.
Not a bad guess!

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Yes, I just said that.

But 1630 W Division is a much better address -- it's moving just west of the Ashland/Division/Milwaukee intersection, instead of just East of it. So it's moving to the more chi-chi side of the street.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

hey chicago! i'm not a minnesotan!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

Kelsey! How's it treating you?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

i moved a month ago but i'm still in the ukrainian village. i went from augusta & western to thomas & leavitt.

oh, now that's it's almost spring again caffe gelato on division just west of division is open again.

has anyone ever been to mad man records? everytime i pass it i mean to go back but i always forget. it's in a basement on division just west of either ashland or paulina. i'm always on my way someplace else when i pass it and have yet to go back.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

KELSEEEEEEEEEEE

I hafta work today, guys. Work lots. Otherwise after two nights out in a row I will collapse if my attention so much as wanders. Open betting pool now on how sparing I can actually be w/ my ILXing.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

and oh shit, innertown pub on thomas & damen has free pool.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

Yes! You should go there, otto. It's great. And the old man is nice. And he has a big fat cat who sprawls himself across the record bins. It's a very tiny place, but cute and you kind find some good stuff. (All vinyl)

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

Not a bad guess!

Wait, so what is it then?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

hey chicago! i'm not a minnesotan!
Why not, Kels?

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

Colette, I doubt we'll be at that show. When else will you be around this weekend though? I'm guessing you won't be in town for the FF/sharks show?

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

has anyone ever been to mad man records?

All the time. It's full of crap, but like any place that's full of crap, there's some gold, too. I got a couple Queen albums there, and Sly and the Family Stone's Greatest hits, and a two-record set of Louis Armstrong and the Hot Fives. I could also have bought some Clapton or Wings or some shit, had I been so inclined.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

good, i think. living with someone is a change & right now it feels like i'm visiting. like i have vacation time to use up & so i'm hanging out until i have to go back 'home.' but, leaf took me for a walk around a lake i fell in love with. the air is cleaner here & i can hear nature & stuff.

did i really type 'not a minnesotan?' i'm cracked out. i think i meant to say i am nearly one or something. anyway, i am here.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

Well this answers the question I was just typing.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

i don't think i'll be doing any record buying in the near future. my beloved workhorse, the beogram 3400 may be down for the count. i press play and it doesn't play. the motor still works, if i press the turn button the platter spins but pressing play doesn't do shit. i've got another b & o, a beogram 5500 but the tone arm is broken on it. need to get my turntables fixed.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

So regarding the Pitchfork Festival.....Who amongst you is going, for how many days, etc? I think I'm going to buy 2 day passes today (though last year the will-call line was 30 min long and box office line was non-existent.)

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I just walked right in after a 3-minute line at the box office. Bit of a false timesaver, those advance tickets.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks for the suggestions, I'm looking forward to the move. I did know of Dusty Groove and that newer dance-oriented vinyl shop (forgetting the name).

I've been to Mad Man a couple times, but that place is really hit or miss. It's a neat little shop, but you really have to do some diggig to find the gems as some of it can be more than a little overpriced for used vinyl. I think he was asking $10 for a weathered looking ELO album last time I was there.

I'll be going to the 'Fork Fest for both days, Futureheads and YLT convinced me.

― jonviachicago, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

re: turntables -- I have a nice old Kenwood that needs a new needle. That's not the problem, though -- I just traded receivers with a friend of mine because she has more records than I do, and her receiver is so new that it has no phono input. Obnoxious. Surely there's some kind of adapter or something. You can't just plug a turntable into a regular input jack -- you can barely hear it.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

you need a pre-amp paunchy stratego.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

How much is that going to run me? Can I get one at a pwn shop?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

How much is that going to run me?

depends what you get.

Can I get one at a pwn shop?

it's been my experience that you can get anything at a pawn shop.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

Ticketmaster, NO!. Drop the $6 per ticket surcharge! Bad Ticketmaster!

Dresden Dolls:
$16 per ticket
+$6 surcharge per ticket
+$2.50 online delivery per ticket
+$tax
----------------------
$51.78 for 2 tickets!

=WTF

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

ha ha

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

Eat it, ticket buyer!

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

And why did you do online deliever when you can do will call for free?

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

Impulse.

That 2.50 per ticket was negligible, except as a part of nickel and diming. The $6 is what blows.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

Wow. That's pricey.

One of those pricey tickets is mine, right?

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

Is it cool to enjoy kissing your significant other of going-on-8 years?

Haha, Nick kisses girls. That's so gay.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

Is it cool to enjoy kissing your significant other of going-on-8 years?

haha Sarah, it's better than cool. It's awesome. It's an accomplishment.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

So I rode my bike today, and it made me feel cool. I was all about the bike lane on Milwaukee. And then when I got to work I popped the front wheel off and locked it to the rear wheel and the frame, and I felt all like Bicycle Guy, even with my relatively dinky made-in-Taiwan road bike starter kit.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, are you on line? Get on AIM. I've got some bitching to do.

Kenan - are you wearing your helmet?

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

It's awesome. It's an accomplishment.

(OTM)

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

I need to make a dry run biking to work soon.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, how many bottles of wine would you get for a reception with 30 people?

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

Wow. Well, about 4 (full) glasses to a bottle, so 7.5 bottles if they get one glass each.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

Half a bottle per person?

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, why didn't you just go to Metro and buy tickets there so you could avoid Ticketmaster altogether? They sell them at the record store next door.

Kenan doesn't have a helmet. He should get one.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

Somewhere recently I read you should order 1/2 bottle for each person, but that's assuming there will be a bit of drinking going on, not just a sip here and there in between bites. xpost!

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

I'm glad you're enjoying the new bike, Kenan!

It's so sunny out. I'm wearing a springy outfit (even a floral skirt!) but it's not good enough. I want to be OUT IN IT.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

Get one barrel! WHOO SPRING BREAK

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

Get thee to Trader Joe's.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

I always buy tickets online, I never go by venues unless I'm going to venues.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

...and I felt all like Bicycle Guy, even with my relatively dinky made-in-Taiwan road bike starter kit.

Isn't that great? Aside from the fact that I'm a) cheap and b) too impatient to LEAVE my bike with anyone, THAT is why I do my own upkeep. Even when I'm shooting myself in the foot. Smart? Maybe not -- but FUN.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

A balthazar is a bottle the size of holds 16 regular bottles - 12.0 litres. That should do the trick and look spiffy. Just don't be the one who pours.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

KENAN GET A HELMET.

I'm trying to order booze for an event through school and university catering services, which we are required to use, charges fucking OUTRAGEOUS prices for wine. $10/bottle for the cheapest wine. WTF???

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

Alright, alright. I'll get a helmet. Fine. *huff*

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

I always buy tickets online, I never go by venues unless I'm going to venues.

Oh, I do, too, for the most part -- but then I don't complain about the Ticketmaster surcharge when I know I can easily avoid it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

OHM ME TOO. we're brothers!!!

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

Well, we don't HAVE to use university catering, but the only way we can use student org money is to go through university catering. If we want to pay out of pocket, we can use anyone we want.

What a fucking ripoff.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

Work can eat a big fat dick.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

No Two Buck Chuck, huh?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

Pop quiz. Who was the original hip hopper?

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

Cab Calloway.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

James Brown

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

Fatback band.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

Last Poets

Kool Herc

um, Bill Cosby?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

Haha I think you could make a very good case for Cab Calloway!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

All wrong.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

the Easter Bunny

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/g/gilscotther_revolutio_102b.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

That cover rules so hard.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah, Sarah, Sarah.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

http://img183.exs.cx/img183/6537/scotty9tl.jpg

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Jalal Mansur Nuriddin

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah, you have made my morning.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.homeschoolzone.com/pp/images/easterchi.jpg

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, Jenny, if you're getting your own wine and want something other than 2BC, try the Wine Discount Center - it's on Elston just north of Wabansia (Hideout turnoff) - great great deals. www.winediscountcenter.com

I was listening my old tape of Prince's The Black Album last night - this thing is perfect.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

I've got some scattered Black Album mp3s, but not the whole thing. :(

Hey, keyboard doodz, I got my Alesis Ion back last night and played around with it for four hours straight. Didn't even eat dinner. It's KICK-ASS, I just needed some alone time to figure it out. Definitely not trading it in for a Micron.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

I want a cool keyboard. :(

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

I think you'd really like this one, though it's not good at 'real' sounds (piano, organ, strings, etc.). I think I originally got it off ebay for three bills.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks for the tip, Eazy. It really depends on a number of factors, including how much time I have and whether I have to carlessly transport wine for 30 people from point A to point B.

Last Poets connection: I went to college with a nephew of one of the Last Poets.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, actually, my keyboard is pretty good at "real" sounds, which is why I got it. But I think it'd be really fun to play around with some powerful synth sounds.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

That's pretty cool, Jenny!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

Why, yes -- yes, I have been a little bit hostile to people on the phone today. Indeed I have.

You want me to "tone it down"? Oh, sure. I'll do that right away. You betcha. Mmmhmm. No problem. I WILL "TONE IT DOWN".

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

So, our dryer has been broken for the last week and a half, and the landlord gave us a key to an empty apartment so that we could user the dryer there.

Yesterday, Maddie left a load in the dryer during the day, and at night it was GONE! I had to fish her clothes out of the dumpster because they cleaned the apartment to show it.

xpost, TONE IT DOWN THEIR THROATS

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

I'm overheated.
Amanda, Sometimes my own cheerful answering-the-phone voice annoys me.

Jordan, that makes me angry.

Hmm...I think I might get these chairs.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

Start speaking in your best man-voice, A. That'll be "toned down."

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

ANGRY WEASEL
A self-portrait post, by The Milkmaid
http://dnr.state.il.us/orc/wildlife/virtual_news/images/long_tailed_weasel/lt_weasel_frontal.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

LOLRLS. And feisty, by the look of that tattered ear. If it were, say, Friday and you were, say, someone else...I'd suggest drinking your lunch. But as it stands...maybe some deep breathing? A cookie?

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

I am talking to my sister, in Ghana, via Gmail chat. I shouldn't be so stoked about this because it's not all that new, but damn it's cool!

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

There is a liquor store across the street...

But you're right -- that's not really "me." I think I will have a cookie and snarl at anyone who tries to cross me. DO NOT CROSS ME, BITCH.

Dan, that is really cool.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

Warm weather makes me want to sit in the sun drinking frozen margaritas all day (and eating chips & salsa).

Nick likes those chairs "just fine" which might not be good enough to buy them.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

But you're right -- that's not really "me."

Maybe you should have a talk with the Amanda in the mirror.

Go ahead. Make that change.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

Next thing you know you'll be hearing about how I lock myself in my bathroom for days with a crackpipe, some Bud, some rock and a heap of sex toys. NO THANKS!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

Feel good. Shamone.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

WOO!
Nanana nanana nanaaaaaananana.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

I'll take the beer and sex toys off your hands, then, thx.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

Have you seen those photos of Whitney H.'s bathroom? I'm not sure you want 'em.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, but I do.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

make that change

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

I love you guys.
Here is a sweet baby weasel to prove it:
http://www.gowerbirdhospital.org.uk/images/Gallery/images/1121-33-baby-weasel-in-hand.jpg.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

Have you seen those photos of Whitney H.'s bathroom?

Link???

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

Make that CHHHHAAAANNNGNGNGNENEE!

So what do you guys think of those chairs, huh huh huh? I've decided Nick probably won't be excited by any chairs, so maybe I should just get them anyway... I guess I've basically already made up my mind. ha ha

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

whitney houston drug den: http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=whitney%20houston%20bathroom&sa=N&tab=wi

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, Dan, I found this the other day:

http://www.digmo.com/taste/story.php?ID=11209

“The mysterious meat in the sandwich might be seasonal. I think it has something to do with excess of meat or pork at a certain time of the year,” says Konnor Ervin.

Ervin, the lead singer of Columbia rock band Dr. Woo, is a self-proclaimed McRib fan. Ervin, who eats a lot of McDonald’s food, says if the McRib were a permanent menu item at McDonald’s he wouldn’t eat it whenever he goes to McDonald’s. As it is now, when the McRib is around, that’s the only sandwich he’ll order.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

Dear Lord, the McRib is BACK!

Here is that site I was telling you about that makes the random McRib references. It's pretty funny in its own right: http://www.buddyhead.com/sprucedgash/ (apologies if you hate Buddyhead, they're dicks.)

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

"Dr. Woo"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

... lock myself in my bathroom for days with a crackpipe, some Bud, some rock and a heap of sex toys.

Two for four, Amanda. Try again? (Y/N)

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

The McRib is just a shadow of a sandwich I once knew.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

I know! I kinda like it. Like in the book "High Fidelity" the band that Barry joined was called "Barrytown." Which prompted arguments. "You can't be name Barry and name your band Barrytown!"

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

PS re baby weasel: SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

What chairs are these, Sarah?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

right now i wish i was eating a mcrib in biscayne bay, where the cuban children sleep all day.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

I like me some tree shrew.

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~nhi708/classify/animalia/chordata/mammalia/primates/treeshrew.jpg

It's the proto-mammal. This is the little guy that was hanging around when the dinosaurs were still in office. All mammals come from a creature like this -- monkeys (check out the ears), cats, dogs, bats, everything. (Thank you again, David Attenborough.)

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

(Otto -- it's where the cuban gentlemen sleep all day.)

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah, I think the chairs are pretty great! I like to imagine them placed slighty askew in front of a fireplace, with you and Nick taking a chair each & stroking assorted cats. The image keeps sliding back and forth between "cottage in the cotswolds" and "Dr Evil Fake-out".

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

dang, am i crazy? am i high? have i done all i can do? are you with me doctor?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

That little shrew looks tired! He got bags under his teensy eyes! Little man's not getting enough sleep up in the tree! SO CUTE. I love animals whose noses extend further than their chins/bottom jaw. It makes them look xxxxtra cute.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

I think Stephen Jay Gould talks about the recessed chin in his essay about the physiognomy of cuteness.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

Next case in point: baby wallaby.
http://www.suprmchaos.com/wallaby_083105.jpg

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I see the chairs. They look comfy, if a little grandma's house-ish.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

Ha! Really? I should read that. It doesn't apply to people though, does it? It doesn't for me.

WALLABY GOOD GOD.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think the tree shrew is cute.

http://72.224.21.212/epub/pbride/pbimages/fswamp.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

Here's the Gould essay.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

The chairs are totally grandma's house-ish. In fact, part of the reason I like them is that there were two quite like them in my great grandmother's house. (In fact, she had LOTS of wonderful pieces and said I could have them when she died because I talked about how I loved them so much growing up, but in the end everything was sold and I didn't get any - GRRR! Sadness!)

Anyway, screw it. I just emailed the guy to go take a look at them tonight.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not buying anymore furniture until I can finally get good stuff.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda, I just read your email, and I realize I might be coming in a bit late on this, but this would be a perfect time to bust out the Wu-Tang if you had already downloaded it. Then you could tell them to "BRING THE MOTHERFUCKIN' RUCKUS" between shouting about how your glock bursts, how they will leave in a hearse, and how you've did worse. Just sayin'.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Let me know when you do. I want some furniture. I have so little.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not buying any more furniture until I don't live with anyone else's pets, since apparently one of roommate's cats peed on my sofa over the weekend because roommate went out of town and cat got mad. Fortunately I'm not married to the sofa but Y'KNOW??

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

i think i may have to give up my blue crushed velvet chair. i've had it forever but i don't really have a use for it anymore. but that chair's been with me for so long i'd feel disloyal selling it.

i wish i had a storage space at my new place.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

Prairie Dog, anyone?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/83/Prairie.dog.600pix.jpg/200px-Prairie.dog.600pix.jpg

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

Laurel, this is why I keep my laundry behind closed doors. I never know when my little pee pot is going to get pissy with my dirty clothes.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

P.S. That Gil Scott Heron album cover is mad fuckin' dangerous. Reminds me of one of my favorite album covers by one of my favorite musicians of all time:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002IIL.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

This is the little guy that was hanging around when the dinosaurs were still in office.

I really like that you used "in office" here, K.

xp: Laurel, that's some bullshit.

Also, the Wallaby has been the g-d cutest so far.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

Ahhhhhh, I can't wait to bust some sucka's cranium while yelling about my glock. I might not be online much more today since we're moving floors at work and I have to pack up all my shit (not much, really) and scoob on down to my new grey cube.

Bon voyage, brothers and sisters.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

Laurel, I thought you lived by yourself now?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, Shx/FFs, did you ever answer the question about whether it's show or doors @ 9. Because my improv classmate just sent the invitation for his housewarming party out (that I'm kind of obligated to go to), and it starts at 8. So if I could get there right at 8 and stay for about 45 minutes and still make it to the show before either band went on, that would be my dream date!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

I think y'all should just buy some ferrets and be done with it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know that the term "doors" would mean anything at a place like Ronny's. But I cede to the Shx/FFs on this point!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

john: there's a slim chance that I may sell my micron upon leaving chicago (as I won't be in a band anymore ;_; ;_;). i'll let you know.

xpost: what point? i haven't been following.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, now I see: door at 9pm.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

Not by self, sadly -- I traded a problem roommate for a quite nice one, that's all.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

Evan, what time do you foresee Shx going on?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

n_n

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

By door I mean "when it starts to cost money to get in," though, presumably, middle-aged Hispanic gentlemen from the neighborhood will get a buy, since they're not there for the bands? What's the policy on that? Also, nick, because I'm too lazy to call: did Ben adequately answer your questions via email?

xpost -- depends on when FFs finish, really. Flyers have been saying 9ish/9.30ish (dpending on who made 'em), but I'm assuming FFs will start later, to reap a bigger crowd (confirm/deny). We don't want a lot of downtime between sets, so, spitballin', let's say Shx are on at..11ish??? I really don't know.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

Damn! I always forget the exact day/time Savage Love is updated online, so I get my hopes up on Monday night/Tuesday morning, when it's really Tuesday night/Wednesday morning.

Also, update on my honors status: I did the calculations last night, and if I basically ace everything from here on out, including all the classes I have incompletes in, I can still qualify for honors. This is a bit frustrating as I feel like it just gives me something to fail at (yeah, backwards thinking, I know), but we'll see. At least I know that if any of my incompletes become B+'s, I can stop worry about it a little bit.

Also, re: buddyhead, I used to have a black T with pink lettering on it that said "Homophobia is Gay." It was pretty great. It made me some friends.

xp: for some reason, I thought Shx would be on first, so Nick/Sarah, if either of you can give me a ballpark for when you think FFs will be on, that would help. Also, does anyone have good CTA directions to Ronny's, esp. from the North Red Line stop (where I'll be).

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, and Dan, McRib still makes me think of buddyhead, so it's funny that you link there.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

Also, does anyone have good CTA directions to Ronny's, esp. from the North Red Line stop (where I'll be).

If I were you, I'd probably just take the North bus to California and then walk (or take the California bus) five blocks north.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

It would make sense for FFs to be on first, yes, since they're a real-deal, established, talented rock and roll band. However, they've graciously let us go on after, because we're recording a live, uh, album(?)/demo/whatever. Basically, they're nice.

As far as directions: Ronny's is 2-3 blocks south of the Cali Blue Line stop. i have no idea how to rode bus in chicago, thoguh.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

It amazes me that so many people in Chicago are all "how do I rode bus" or just otherwise avoid it. The bus system is really helpful!

The other day, I needed to get to Chicago/Milwaukee/Ogden after work, and usually I'd just take the Blue Line (Clark/Lake --> Chicago), but I wanted to go to the downtown Whole Foods first. So I walked up to Whole Foods and then took the Chicago bus westward. Simple. I've also taken the Clark bus back and forth from the Landmark Century Cinema quite a few times.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

oh i don't doubt it, j! I just shot bike all the time, and haven't gotten acquainted with CTA beyond the odd trip out to OHare on the Blue Line.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

I rode bus everyday now. In fact, I just discovered that the X29 is a good alternative route home because it goes to Union Station and I can hop on the Blue at Jackson.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

btw, J, this DFW book is a total treat, huh? The review of Garner's usage guide was particularly entertaining, if only because of the short section where DFW dissected both overblown Academic English and ridiculous Ad Speak, two of my least favorite "sub-dialects."

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that's a great essay -- I'd read it when it was first published in Harper's, but it was nice to return to it. I get Bryan A. Garner's daily usage tip in my inbox every morning!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

it's nice to have time to read again. my brain has been dying on the vine for the last, oh, two years I think.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds like something I'd get into. When was it published in Harper's?

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe four years ago?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

Damn. Before my current subscription. To the internets!

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

Reprinted here -- although the book version is expanded, of course. I like when Wallace has footnotes that are all, "I might as well just say this, even though it's a tangent, because the magazine's going to cut it anyway."

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

On one hand I agree with strictly defined usage rules, but I also see the need for language to evolve. You let either side get out of hand and we have problems.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

Holy shit, Dub Trio is playing with Gogol Bordello this week. I am there.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

Ev, I wasn't trying to imply anything with my order question, "talented" blah blah. By the way, how did the NW app ever turn out?

And speaking of shows/public events, I have a couple that I'll remind people of when they become more current. Both of them happen 2 weeks from this weekend, i.e. April 21 & 22. Friday, the 21st, I have my stand-up debut down here in Hyde Park. I have never tried stand-up before, and I am really pumped about it! I don't expect to really continue down this path, so this will likely be one of the only times I do this. I have only done improv before, so this will be a change. As far as my style goes, well, I'm still thinking about how it's gonna go down, but I can guarantee there will be a de-emphasis on "jokes." Like more stories and stuff. It will be a short set, 15-20 minutes probably, but it is free and we can get drinks after.

Second, that Saturday, April 22nd, I will be participating in an acoustic/coffee shop reading/show. I'll be reading my poetry, and I'm required to have a draft done by then, so it should be pretty great. I am really excited, and I really get into giving poetry readings (i.e. have been known to sing before and I might have to whip that poem out again for this occasion). This will also be free, and it is also in Hyde Park.

Then, I'll have another 2nd City show in May. So yeah, shameless self-promo, and since it is shameless I don't apologize, but I hope I have pitched these better than my average "Wanna go see [blank] that I'm not really pumped about?"

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

Btw, looks like that Dub Trio/Gogol show is at the Metro this Saturday, but you'll all be at Shx/FFs, so nevermind.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

"OH I GET IT, YOUR RACISM IS IRONIC!"

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

"I HATE MYSELF I HATE MYSELF I HATE MYSELF"

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

I've been watching a lot of Wonder Showzen/Kids Show (on YouTube).

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm... I don't know what time fictions will go on - maybe closer to 10?

I propped open the front door again. Niiiiiiccceeee...

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

Check this shit out:
Tomorrow at 2 minutes and 3 seconds past 1, the time and date will be 01:02:03:04:05:06 - this has never happened before and will never happen again

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa. That is blowing my mind.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

Dude.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

That's pretty cool. Thanks for the info, S.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

What about 2106? Or 2206, 2306, etc etc etc?

(Sorry, had this discussion the other day and the same thing came up.)

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

It will NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN, DAMN IT.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

N E V E R A G A I N !

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, sorry! :)

Personally I'm looking forward to 12:34 05/06/07.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

I count down the days until 07/07/07.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

june 6 of this year.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

D-Day.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

4:56 on 07/08/09

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

shaving my head v. just a normal haircut.

anyone?

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

666 was a common phone prefix where I grew up. Satan's children all have to grow up somewhere, after all.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

Tone it down, Amanda.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know about shaving entirely, but I can see the close-cropped look working for you, gbx.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

Shave that shit and run around yelling OI.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

Shave it, gib, just for kicks. I'm getting my hair cut/colored by a different stylist this Saturday because I'm CRAZY OUT THE ASS.

Also, I'm going to see those chairs tonight because... so-on so-on.

I guess I prefer 07.07.07 because I'm so saintly.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah, are you going to see Leann?

You'd think they would disallow 666 from existing, like buildings without 13th floors.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

i generally only shave my head during times of existential crisis (like, say, now), so it seems apt.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think I've ever seen a picture of gbx.

I was thinking about buzzing it because I'm not happy with my hair lately, but I'm going wait for that until I'm hardcore balding.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

POST PIX PLS.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, John.

Funny story...
So, this one time I'm talking my mom on the phone and I mentioned something one of my sisters did and she interrupted me and yelled, "(youngest sister's name here) is CRAZY OUT THE ASS!!!?!?!?"

I waited for her to calm down. Then I said, Actually, I was talking about (other sister who doesn't get in trouble as much)...

She says, Oh.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

I think this might have been discussed on the last thread, but do the Shx have a webiste or anything with some samples? I've enjoyed the FF's stuff on that site and am hungry for more local muzak. Thx.

― jonviachicago, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/39/112732251_2ad489d242_m.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

File --> Retrieve Image

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

i used to shave my head then let it grow for 3-4 months then shave it all off again. i went 16 months without shaving it last september. if you go to my myspace profile there's a picture of me in memphis with the long hair. as it is i think i've only had 2 haircuts in the past 22 months, i'm due again.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

HOLY GOD!!

I just got a job offer from Pitchfork to write news for them at their office(s). PAID! Part-time, but still.... This is so much better than reviewing resumes (worth the $1/hr. pay cut), and totally solves my problem of hating work.

AAAAAHHH!

xp: Shaving your head during times of existential crisis is TOTALLY KEY!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, Gbx, you look cute there! Don't shave your head.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, Jay -- I just meant that if GBX shaves his head he has to provide evidence. But that'll do.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

Tomorrow at 2 minutes and 3 seconds past 1, the time and date will be 01:02:03:04:05:06

No it won't. It will be 05.04.2006 13:02:03. Which is not as mind-blowing.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

Oh Laurel -- that was for Jordan's benefit!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

sharks do have a website, yes, but it's chock-a-block with shitty recordings. which is why we're having a "pro" (robble) record our show on Saturday.

thesharx dot com

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

Gbx, maybe you could just keep the helmet on??

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

Way to poo on a party, Kenan.

Also, GBX, will shaving your head require shaving the helmet off, 'cause that could be painful, depending on how it is attached.

haha, xpost.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

13:02:03

How do you know she didn't mean 1 AM?

P.S. You are a Euro-weenie.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

Okay ahem: Shx and FFs need to decide whether they are THE Shx and THE FFs or just Shx and FFs. Because both bands' websites use THE -- but in conversation you tend to shy away from it, even going so far as to say it's not there.

I have spoken to both of you about this already, so I'm just being a bitch right now.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

SHOCKAH. ;)

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

Haha

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

i remember watching the first live aid on tv. marilyn mccoo (i think) was an announcer and they came back to air before she was ready. the satellite feed picked up her frantically asking if it was "ULTRAVOX" or "THE ULTRAVOX". i remember thinking, lady, it's 7 am on a saturday, nobody is gonna care.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, I was surprised that the flyer did not use "the".

I just looked at the other opening band's site (ZOX?) for the Gogol show, and it referred to "the Dub Trio", which seems wrong even though "the John Cunn1ngham Trio" is commonplace.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

The answer (for the? FFs anyway) is that we are mysterious. Are we The Fake Fictions? Are we Fake Fictions? Does anyone really know for sure?

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

Nick uses The most of the time.
Ben believes The destroys the graphic design element.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

I use or don't use The depending on which personality I am at the time.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

In fact, that's one of the only ways to tell the difference between the two personalities.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

Haha.

Re: graphic design, you can put the "the" in, like, 4 point font and no one will care. It's just there for accuracy. You could make it a game, like some Where's Waldo shit.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to start a band calle The Marilyn McCoo.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

holy crap! stolen from gapersblock.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

Nutsy Squirrel and the Marilyn McCoo.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

i prefer "the marilyn mccoos"

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

whoa. WHOA. That picture is a photoshop creation? That's astounding!

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

it never ceases to amaze me how there are people with talent and patience far beyond what i can even imagine.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

I just read this commencement address by David Foster Wallace (linked from Kid Kameleon's blog). It's good. I've read a lot more writing about the dude than writing he's done. Is he perhaps a better essayist than novelist?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

Estimate for times on Sat.:
9:00 doors, brews, chilling
10ish (the) FF
11ish (the Sharx)
midnight brews, wilding
1 gayboys post on ILX

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

He uses too many footnotes.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

I enjoy DFW. Infinite Jest seems to be one of those "you either love it or you hate it" books, I enjoyed it quite a bit. His other fiction, I read a very long time ago but seem to remember also enjoying. Enjoy.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

No footnotes in speeches! Is he perhaps a better speechwriter than essayist?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

1 gayboys post on ILX - HAHAHAHA

I think Infinite Jest is our one book in common, Nick.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

Infinite Jest seems to be one of those "you either love it or you hate it" books, I enjoyed it quite a bit.

What if it's one of those "you read it when you were 17 and gave up because you were impatient but then figured that you could pick it back up at 23 and do better but still found it maddening and gave up at the exact same place you gave it up at 17 and have always harbored this deep resentment related to that book and to the cult of its readers, who talk about what a brilliant masterpiece it is, which naturally makes you feel insecure about your own aesthetic and intellectual capacities" books?

FWIW, I think he's a better essayist than a fiction writer.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

I have to say, that harelip is starting to look normal to me.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

John, didn't you read the lobster book?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

Yes! And A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, which is great!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

jaymc OTM. and me too, Laurel

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

(I also say this having read all three of his short-story collections, though no other novels.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

I think I will read the lobster book. I did consider the lobster over the course of an excellent PBS documentary one hungover morning at Cam's house.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

Gib, I'm listening to the Sharks demos now and I think they sound pretty good! The only major problem is the vocals being too quiet, but other than that they sound great and lo-fi.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

Songs are dope too. Consider me a fan. Though two of the mp3s on the site didn't seem to work anymore.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

John, I feel the same way about Giles Goat Boy as you do about Infinite Jest up until the reader resentment. I tend to resent John Barth, instead.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

n/a and sarah-- so your show is this saturday? unless my parents and i have a really big fight later this week (i'd give it a 45% chance at the moment), we have to be in kzoo celebrating parental birthdays on saturday night.

i'll be in chicago on friday night hanging out with some folks, and picking toby up at midway the next morning, driving back to michigan. we'll come back to chicago monday morning and leave tuesday sometime. so if you'd like to get drinks/coffee/bagels/donuts or something on tuesday instead of meeting up at a gig, i'd be up for that. (i would still go to gig in this scenario, obviously)

ooh, ooh, and we're probably getting married 07/07/07. just because we like the date! can you tell i'm marrying a math geek?

xpost-- damn, you guys post A LOT! is it easier to keep up when you're all in the same time zone?

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

damn, you guys post A LOT!

We're all SO LONELY :)

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, I was at Quimby's today and the FFs/Sharx are front and center.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

I want to get married on 7/7/7!

And divorced on 8/8/8!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

You're gay.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

Was it the black & red flier? There wasn't really anywhere to put it so I taped it to the bottom of some other fliers very precariously and I assumed it would have fallen off by now.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

I don't really know where to put fliers anymore.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

Existential fliering crisis?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

when i get off the blue line at division i always read the fliers that are on the plywood on the west side of ashland/milwaukee intersection. i tend to ignore them anyplace else, don't know why.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

I hate posting fliers. That's why I could never be a successful musician.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that's my stop, too. And a great place for fliers. I keep wanting to steal the cool ones, but they really stick em on there.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

It's one reason I'm not a successful musician. I'm afraid that now that I'm in a new, hungry, hard-working rock band I'll be required to go fliering again. :(

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

Please don't steal fliers.

I routinely lie about how much I have fliered.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

Haha.

Going out drinking and passing out handbills is more fun than fliering. Especially in winter.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

Please don't steal fliers.

No, I mean, even after the show's over, you can't get the fuckers off. Someone should invent a magical adhesive that stops being stick after the show date.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

OH MY GOD There's going to be a Chicago XXX AND Chicago is touring with Huey Lewis and the News.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

"Fliering" is one weird lookin' word.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

What I like about FLIERS is that they attract attention of the folks that might be interested, whereas HANDBILLS are usually thrust upon people.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

xposts

I posted some of our low-budge jacques cousteau fliers today, at Hard Boiled, Boulevard Bikes and No Friction cafe. I had one up at Quimby's but if got supplanted by the white awesome one, then that's great.

To clear things up: Sharks, just, for the band. if however, you'd like to refer to the group of people that comprise the band, you may say THE Sharks, because each of us is, individually, a Sharque, and it would be foolish to refer to us collectively without an article.

thanks, nick! the reason they're lo-fi and quiet is because they were recorded with mono mic plugged into a computer. Hence, the live EP we're hoping to get out of Saturday's show.

btw, otm about late night gay boy posting.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

want to get married on 7/7/7!
And divorced on 8/8/8!

-- Casuistry (chri...), April 4th, 2006 10:05 PM.

that's the general plan.

wow, i seriously love huey lewis. i feel like we must have talked about this before. i think chicago people will only know me as the huey-loving girl from kalamazoo. i'm doubting chicago/huey lewis will do an international show, though.

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

Going out drinking and passing out handbills is more fun than fliering.

I am doing this tonight at Schubas.

I think I like passing out handbills better, too, because you go to one place and you get rid of dozens in like 20 minutes instead of having to drive all over the godforsaken city for several hours and then not knowing whether a certain store will even allow you to put one up, and wondering whether you should ask the dude behind the counter or if you should just put it up and then there are people coming out the door and you're down on your knees with the tape all twisted around your sleeve, etc.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

You know how a lot of small stores/ pr groups/ bands will leave stacks of handbills/postcards in store windows? Well, one time I was at North Coast looking at the fliers and this little girl (6 maybe?) comes in and says, "Excuse me." So I moved aside. Then she said, "Excuse me, but were you looking at this?" I shake my head. So then she proceeds to pick up ALL the stacks of handbills. She felt me staring and said, "You see, I collect these. I like them a lot." Then she left.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

(Fliering in Wicker Park is probably a lot easier, though -- but that's not my assigned turf.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

Hi fucks, I'm back.

If anyone desires my company tonight, I'm available for Fun*. My NetFlix in today's mail: C.H.U.D.

*My definition, not yours.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah, that is !!!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

From a flieee's point of view, I guess I prefer fliers than I can ignore to having handbills shoved in my face. However, I do like the handbills left in stacks in record stores & clubs so that I can put it on the fridge and not forget about shit.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

*My definition, not yours.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

What is YOUR definition? They might mesh!

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

Restraint.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.comparestoreprices.co.uk/images/unbranded/h/unbranded-hannibal-lecter-mask.jpg

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.fotosearch.com/comp/IST/IST171/BP1887.JPG

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.thelunatick.com/ems/images/Dscn2250.jpg

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

ew. hairy crack.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

Do you know what I did in law school today? I watched clips from the Dave Chappel show in one class, and then I ate free lasagna and listened to a Venezualan Supreme Court Justice talk about Hugo Chavez. That's pretty neat, I have to say.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

Haha. What was the relevance of the Chappelle show?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

It's in my critical legal theory class. We're talking about identity and markets and the law, and about how Title VII is less a law about discrimiation but more a law about assimilation (if you say, "You're fired for being black," you have vioalted Title VII. If you say, "You're fired for wearing African tribal clothing," you haven't) and we watched a clip about "keeping it real" where Dave C. plays a black guy who graduated top of his class and got a great corporate job when, after a meeting, his white boss says, "All right, bro! Give me some skin" and there's a pause while Chappel narrates about deciding whether to let it go or keep it real. He choses to keep it real to hilarious effect.

At the end of the clip, he throws his wings up and yells WU TANG and I nearly peed.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, nice. I need to get some of those Chappelle dvds.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that clip was pretty fucking funny.

So today, I came home after the Venezualan supreme court justice thing because I'm sick and playing hooky from my night class. So far I've watched a show about samurais, a show about Vlad Dracula, and now I'm watching Martha Stewart. She's making a pie with a woman from Court TV! This is the best hooky day EVER!

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

Did anyone want to go to a NAMBLA meeting tonight? I read in the Reader that they're convening at the YMCA on Chicago and then moving to Kaiser Elem gym later on for the boys' tumbling competition.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, I'm really starting to feel the tension you were talking about yesterday.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

I am successfully calmed down thanks to getting off work ONE full hour early today. Whuzzup.
85% of Wu primer d/l'ed. About to kick it on my PORTABLE CD PLAYER.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

That's right, a CD player that you can move around from one place to another, a CD player so small that it fits in my purse. THAT'S RIGHT.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I'm outta here again. Enjoy your evenings, y'all.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

An iPod? I don't understand.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

No, my iPod broke. I'm kicking it old-skool.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

Amander or Dan f'n M or whoever... where is the spice store you kids like so much? Jesse needs some Hungarian paprika.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

The Spice House! On Wells or in Evanston. thespicehouse dot com

They have SEVERAL different kinds of paprika!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, I'm really starting to feel the tension you were talking about yesterday.

I didn't have any tension today, at least not until I got a flat on the way home (shit wheels!) and got a call from my landlord as soon as I walked in demanding to know where the rent money is (I mailed it, and dude it's the fourth, relax) and where all the stuff that was in the hallway is (in the garage where it belongs). That stressed me a bit.

But it was a great day at work -- my boss really wants me to redesign some things on the site, and loves the redesign of the email newsletter I did, and acknowledges that the IT department is the biggest obstacle in getting anything done. So I feel like I have an ally in my boss, and that's a good feeling.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

The Spice House is awesome. Here's a hint fellas: girls love gift boxes full of exotic spices.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

Indeed.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

That's pretty awesome about the boss.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

ALL girls? Really?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, because all women are the same. Exactly the same.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

Girls who like spices, anyway. Many, many girls. If your girl has ever cooked for you, it's a lock.

I didn't know there was one in Evanston. The one I know is on Wells between Division and North.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

He needs sweet paprika.

Note: This girl would love a gift box full of exotic spices.

Hell, I'd love a gift box full of different types of paprika.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

The one in Evanston is on Central Street, between the post office and the Subway. I never knew there was one in Chicago until you guys started talking about it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck, I'm going to miss the start of Gilmore Girls. Bye!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse just called me, but I can't go out tonight because the new issue of Bookslut has to go up. Wah.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

hair: gone

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

pic pls.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

I've gotten spices for Maddie and for my stepmom, it was a smash hit both times.

Kenan, you new bike has a busted tire already? Weak.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

I have BAND PRACTICE tonight. With MDBB, for the first time in a YEAR.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, you new bike has a busted tire already? Weak.

Weak is exactly the word. Weak tires. I'm going to have to buy new ones, I can see already. I mean, I went cheap (an equivalent bike with the Trek brand name on it runs about $1200), and I guess for that someone is going to skimp on something. I think I founf out what they skimped on.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

kenan, if you want a good deal on some new tires, email me and i'll give you the website of my parents' bike shop-- i should be able to get you a good deal if you see anything you like.

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I was wondering why such a new bike would bust a flat like that. That is really good about your boss, too, especially considering the seeming horrors of the IT department. Also, am I out of the loop for not knowing what Bookslut is (i.e. what is it?)?

I'm at the record store playing Asteroids Deluxe against the regularest regular here.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

Also... Butterfinger Crisp = BRILLIANT!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 23:07 (nineteen years ago)

I know OF bookslut, but not bookslut personally. I think it's bookslut.com, but I don't care for sure. J/K!!!! I do care! GOTCHA!

I'm debating the merits/downsides of drinking a few beers at home alone while watching C.H.U.D.....

I could really go for more spices. I am planning on cooking up a batch of goulash. I wish I could have some delivered right now.

What is paprika, really? And what is curry? I know their flavors and I know their processed appearance and qualities, but from whence the powders and pastes?

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 01:20 (nineteen years ago)

I know OF bookslut, but not bookslut personally. I think it's bookslut.com, but I don't care for sure. J/K!!!! I do care! GOTCHA!

Seriously guys. Google much? It only gets about 15,000 hits a day. I'm quite sure it's the top match.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 01:22 (nineteen years ago)

Also, am I out of the loop for not knowing what Bookslut is (i.e. what is it?)?

To answer Dave's far more polite question, it's a site of book reviews and author interviews that are a little outside the mainstream. It has a flavor for literary fiction and comics. The blog is still the best literary blog going. And I'm the webmaster. (I keep trying to redesign it, but... time...)

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 01:34 (nineteen years ago)

No disprespect intended. I respect bookslut and enjoyed their/its/her interview with Annie Proulx.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 01:46 (nineteen years ago)

That was John D. He's good.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 01:49 (nineteen years ago)

I love you Kenan, and I'm sorry we quarreled.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 01:55 (nineteen years ago)

I am BORED.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 01:57 (nineteen years ago)

heh. We did not quarrel, dude. You took a big shit everywhere (are we talking about a minute ago, or everything Jesse in general?), but your real friends already know that that's par for the course. Just like my real friends know that I'm an oversensitive, angry little fucktard. 'Saul good.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 01:59 (nineteen years ago)

for indian curry, btw, you need garam masala.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 02:02 (nineteen years ago)

I'm a little bored too. I'm going to do my internet research and then go watch the CHUDs do their thing. I wish I had someone to sodomize and then snuggle and watch the DVD with.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 02:07 (nineteen years ago)

What's your phone #, Jesse? I don't have it. I should. The email address below works, as always.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 02:12 (nineteen years ago)

Or you could just call me.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 02:14 (nineteen years ago)

I don't really know what to make of your asking for my number right after what I just said.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 02:15 (nineteen years ago)

HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU THAT I WANT TO TIE YOU DOWN AND FUCK YOU

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 02:16 (nineteen years ago)

I feel weird. I'm lonely in a way I usually am not when I'm alone. What's going on?

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 02:17 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan: GET IN THERE.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 02:19 (nineteen years ago)

LAKE SHORE DRIVE SEASONING

BACK OF THE YARDS GARLIC PEPPER

ARGYLE STREET ASIAN BLEND (!)

BUBBLY CREEK EFFERVESCENT EXTRACT (EXTRA PUNGENT)

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 02:32 (nineteen years ago)

These are spice blends that are offered at spicehouse

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 02:32 (nineteen years ago)

Goddammit, I just made a 2 hour long trip to a Walgreen's way the fuck away from me for what turned out to be no reason at all. FUCK TEH DIABETES!! All that panc bullshit.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 02:56 (nineteen years ago)

What were you going to buy?

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 02:57 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, I think the major problem is that Jesse wants to sodomize, not be sodomized (unless ambiguous agency is implied). And you want to TIE HIM DOWN AND FUCK HIM, not BE TIED DOWN AND FUCKED BY HIM. I mean, since when did everyone start believing that giving is indeed better than receiving? Is this a grown-up thing?

xp: Insulin/Blood Sugar Test Strips (I did buy them, but it turns out I could have gone to the Walgreen's two blocks away instead of going to the one in East Asia.)

― regular roundups (Dave M), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 03:00 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, South Asia. Or maybe Chile by Kenan's view of Chicago.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 03:00 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse is a bottom. I thought we'd established this.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 03:00 (nineteen years ago)

I really don't want to go back to Schubas to hand out flyers -- but I also couldn't stand the idea of sitting in the bar for three hours before the show let out, either.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 03:01 (nineteen years ago)

Consider my qualms unqualmed, then.

xp: fuck it.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 03:02 (nineteen years ago)

N.B. (to Walgreen's vignette) It is awkward to have to keep reminding myself I am a minority on the South Side in order to stop myself from belting out lyrics like, "YO WHAT I DID WAS WACK BUT YOU DON'T GET A NIGGA BACK LIKE THAT" or "NIGGAS RUN AROUND WITH THE FAKE FROWNS, SELL 'EM ON EBAY."

― regular roundups (Dave M), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 03:10 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse is a bottom. I thought we'd established this.

I am, mostly, but the last guy I hooked up with was my little bottom boy. He actually was not little, but for some reason I was OK with that.

You're going back to Schubas?

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 03:16 (nineteen years ago)

I have to hand out flyers. Fliers? Flyers.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 03:17 (nineteen years ago)

Handbills.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 03:17 (nineteen years ago)

Take me. Or not, I don't know. You decide.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 03:18 (nineteen years ago)

Update: Eff the Black Rock, I'm going to a free preview of American Dreamz tomorrow night. *sigh* Mandy Moore....

― regular roundups (Dave M), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 03:22 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah fuck it, I'm going to bed.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 03:52 (nineteen years ago)

BORED AGAIN

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 03:54 (nineteen years ago)

Duuuuuuude

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 03:55 (nineteen years ago)

POT PLZ>

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 03:57 (nineteen years ago)

I took pills. And now I'm really going to CHUD it up.

Bye.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 03:58 (nineteen years ago)

I took chicken wings & beer.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 03:59 (nineteen years ago)

I shouldn't have thrown away that diphen.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 04:00 (nineteen years ago)

I also drank beerz in a classroom tonight.

Jesse, that reminds me of the time a high school friend of mine (who is now a film dude in Chicago) made a C.H.U.D. sequel over a weekend.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 04:01 (nineteen years ago)

Taking a CHUD break. There's a ladybug on my desk.

What's a diphen? diphenhydramine? That'll just put you to sleep.

My parents have a serious ladybug problem in the cold weather. Gypsy moths were killing whole forests and lady bugs were brought in to eat the moths' eggs. Now when it's cold the ladybugs make their way indoors. At any point in the winter there are dozens of ladybugs on the ceilings. When you pick them up they secrete a stinky liquid.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 04:48 (nineteen years ago)

Played cards w/ engineers, was up way up, then humbled in a single hand (to back to where I started - not losing much).

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 04:49 (nineteen years ago)

That's not very lady-like. xpost

― regular roundups (Dave M), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 04:50 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't see it mentioned upthread, but I was skimming. Paprika is, I believe, peppers. I think "paprika" is just Hungarian (or somesuch) for "pepper".

Is it 1am, then?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 04:51 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, it's 1, why do you ask?

Paprika is in fact peppers, but from what wikipedia said, it's a certain variety or something.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 04:55 (nineteen years ago)

I want to see Chicagoans represent here.

Especially those of you whom I haven't met in person.

Phil-Two is cute.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 04:56 (nineteen years ago)

And gay.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

gay as the day is long

― Jeff. (Jeff), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

I met Phil-Two, he had kimchee.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

Phil-Two is adorable like tiny Asian schoolgirl and yet completely filthy. How's that for a recommendation?

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

I met Phil-Two. While I like the Hold Steady in part because I identify with their past-tense, half-nostalgic/half-stunned realizations of what life used to be like during the party-party-party days, Phil-Two likes Lifter Puller for their present-sense, generally oblivious but slightly reluctantly aware party-party-party anthems.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

I posted in the last or the one before WDDLLN thread with the angry pointing picture. I haven't changed or done anything interesting that's been digitally captured since. I'm not going to force it, you know.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

What I am trying to say about Phil-Two is that we are the living Yin and Yang of Craig Finn's music.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

Racist.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

Pffbt.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

That's silly. I love Koreans. And ancient Chinese metaphysical symbols.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

http://dt2.prohosting.com/70s/adulttv/calgon.au

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, wait -- so are you saying Koreans don't have secret manicure techniques handed down through generations? SHIT.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

That's silly. I love Koreans.

haha

"I have friends who are Korean!"

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

There's a new lady in the cafeteria, and unlike the other guy, she actually knows what "over easy" means. It mean, "These hashbrowns are shit without egg yolk smeared all over them." She gets it. Hooray.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

GBX, for your sake I wish I had checked ILX late last night.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

Am I all alone in watching the number of posts to this thread and hotly anticipating starting a new one so I don't have to be disgusted everytime I want to say hi to you all?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

Somebody back me up here. Remember: if there's one rule around here, it's that you don't have to be nice to Jesse.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

I'm actually fascinated by the opening image, K, and it's starting not to look unusual/grotesque at all. It can stay, for all I care.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

you know you're not. i believe this is my first post to this thread.

that pic still bugs me...

― Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

It reminds me of the Seinfeld where Jerry is dating the woman who looks good in certain light and bad in other light.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

It reminds me of Wes Craven's "The Hills Have Eyes."

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000002576.01._SCLZZZZZZZ

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002576.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.woopop.com/albumcovers/Warrant%20-%20Cherry%20Pie.jpg

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

As time goes by, what bothers me most about the opening picture is all the foundation she's wearing. Also, the Wild Cherry cover I think shows that non-cleft lips can look kind of creepy in certain contexts, too.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

You're all so tolerant. You're the kind of people who, when you go to shake someone's hand and it turns out to be a two-fingered flipper, you think to your self, "Oh! Well that's ok!" instead of, "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!"

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

One of my good friends' older brothers blew most of his hand off with a pipe bomb when we were in 7th grade. They actually attached one of his toes as a new finger (his thumb survived)! So, yeah I guess you're right.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, isn't that a funny position for you to be taking, considering yr observations on other matters?

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, whence this sudden delicacy? :)

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not saying that you actually should scream and run in horror.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

I have images turned off, so it's all the same to me.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

If I turn my images off, the terrorists have won.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

If you turn images off, you'll miss pictures of CHIHUAHUAs with MINIATURE FLYING SQUIRRELS on their heads! That's unamerican, boy.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

I really am not bothered by the image at all anymore. It is just interesting to me.

In my senior year of HS my best friend was a flipper girl with 2 fake legs! She had no legs from the mid-thigh down and she had 1 big finger and the other side of her hand was a transplant of her former big toe onto her hand. She called it her toe. I shit you not.

What's really weird is that I never thought she was weird.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

MGSDFK, I listened to the new scott walker on the way to work. It's frightening.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1889307033.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I still click on 90% of the image links anyway. I turned them off reluctantly after I got scolded re: bandwidth on my work computer.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

the way the photograph is presented--so carefully made up, the bright goopy glossy lipstick strongly emphasizing the lips--it frames and accentuates the, uh, deformity. not that it wouldn't be plenty noticeable otherwise, but the composition of the picture adds to that considerably.

to me it looks like an injury, and it looks painful, though it's obviously healed now. it bugs me. it's a deformity that isn't in the context of a full face--there's no feeling of a person, just of arrrrgh ow ow ow.

it's something that you might want to respond to matter-of-factly in rl circumstances, but the picture dares you to REACT.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

I also have images turned off, but that's because of a horrible incident at an old job involving ILX and a penis so huge and throbbing and sticky that it took me entirely too long to figure out what it was. Then I freaked out and turned off my computer.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah gets all descriptive.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002GWB.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

"sticky"

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, actually re the orig image: the obvious care paid to the lippy, and the sexiness of it despite disfigurement, is working on me. I'm starting to find it attractive in its own right and not "damaged" or etc...just different. Is that totally cheesy?

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

No!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

xpost I'm just saying it was messy and disorienting.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

"Sticky" will do.

I applaud the choice of thread image if for no other reason than as a social experiment.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

If it had been an unadorned harelip it would have either seemed clinical and gross or more exploitative of me to have posted it. As it is it is an interesting image b/c it treats a malformed set of lips as regular lips by slathering them up with sexiness. It didn't take long for me to get over a feeling of shock and start just thinking, wow, that's too much make-up.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

I never thought I'd defend the Calgon commercial, but suddenly I realize this morning - it's just kind of being true to life - the owner is just having fun with the racist stereotype instead of avoiding it, messing around with the customer.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

Phew, John. Because I felt like a PSA posting that. (XXXP)

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

"Messy and Disorienting" would be a great title for a sex book.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

"messy"

Huh. No better!

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

Hi guys. I'm on a different floor of the same building now. I have images turned off too.

Are you all convinced that this is an actual harelip? I'm not.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

Messy, Deeply Disappointing, an Expenditure of Calories and Disorienting.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

What's the "Calgon commercial"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

Do you remember the detergent commercial where the white dude asks the Chinese dude "How do you get your clothes so clean, Mr. Lee?" and the Chinese dude goes, "Ancient Chinese secret!!!" because Chinamen are good at laundry?
http://dt2.prohosting.com/70s/adulttv/calgon.au
-- Nutsy the Squirrel (rabbitrabbi...), April 5th, 2006.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

Messy and Disorienting" would be a great title for a sex book.

some dude tried to sell me a sex book while i was waiting at western & van buren for the #49.
"it's written by a woman but it's FOR MEN."
no thanks i said
"hey, i thought i knew it all too. until i read this book."

that made me crack up.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

ancient chinese secret is also the title of a song by my favorite boston punk band of my youth, the showcase showdown.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

And the "showcase showdown" is the final round on The Price Is Right in the same era as that commercial, fits just right.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, so is Calgon a kind of detergent? I vaguely remember this commercial.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

Calgon, TAKE ME AWAY.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

It's like bath salts. It comes in a box. Or it came in a box, like Mr. Bubble.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

YES! I'm not saying that I wouldn't have a moment of shock, and I hope it doesn't sound like I'm being self-congratulatory on my tolerance for oddities, but yes.

I HAVE seen some things that I couldn't look at though. Once I was arrested and the guy in the holding cell with me had a growth on his face that was as big as 1/2 of his face. I had my cell phone on me (because I was in a cell!) and I made a call. He asked to use it and I ignore him completely. He got right up behind me and pressed his body on mine and murmured, "That's fine, bitch. (He was handcuffed to a rail on the wall.) Inside I was SCREAMING.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

This was at the Eagle?

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

Jessss...e?

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

Calgon was both a bath salt AND a laundry detergent.

That's an interesting analysis, Eric. I shall ponder as I ride off to the loop for some dental trepanning.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

I think I might've told you guys about the guy in the tollbooth on the way to Madison whose entire body (including face and arms) was covered in bulbous warts of varying sizes. After he handed me my change back, I revulsed and threw it on the floor.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

Jessss...e?

Um....yesssee?

I think it's funny that I got called "Bitch in jail."

(this was in my younger days)

xpost....No Eric, if anything this would have been at the Cellblock.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

GBX, for your sake I wish I had checked ILX late last night.

por que?

The most disgusting thing I've seen in real life was an integral component of my former employment, and something I've discussed at great length on this forum already.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

Oh nuthin', Jesse, it was just a general expression of borderline disbelief. Sorry, am super groggy today and kind of dizzy. And not in a funny, blonde way, rather in the "inner ear possibly FUCKED" way.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

Ooops, I meant "Bitch" in jail.

This was in my younger years.

Also, w/r/t Phil-Two, I'm glad to hear that he's filthy. I don't know enough filthy fags. And he's got a real pretty mouth.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

Calgon had a hell of an ad agency, between "ancient Chinese secret" and "Calgon, take me away". Both beautiful ads, memorable 30 years later. The thing that doesn't come across in the audio file is that the "my husband! here's his ancient Chinese secret" is spoken to the camera by his wife, a completely accentless Chinese-American woman (she's thoroughly modern and American) - which just emphasizes that her husband is messing around with racist stereotypes instead of perpetuating them.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

And he's got a real pretty mouth.

Oh, and when he giggles and covers it ineffectually with one hand? Soooooo cute. I really hope Phil doesn't mind that I'm pimping him out -- I don't think he will.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not very easily grossed out except by extraordinarily bad hygiene.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

por que?

'Cause I had the cure for boredom you were looking for.

(Let's just watch that get taken way out of context!)

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

a friend of mine is coming to town next week and i have no clue as to what we're gonna do aside from hang out at my place and go to the silver jews show. she asked if there was anything i'd wanted to do in chicago but haven't done yet and i can't think of anything.

what do you fellas and ladies do when entertaining visitors from out of town? she lived here for over 6 years so we've both already done the touristy crap.

holy cow! i just looked at the calendar and realized she comes back one year to the day that she left chicago! weird!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

Drink.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, I'll be at that Silver Jews show.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

My foodie friends always want to head up to Argyle and/or Devon streets to go to the crazy little grocery stores and restaurants.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Act like a tourist, not in the Navy Pier sense but in the sense of picking up the Reader and going through it thoroughly and finding a few things to take a chance on.

Or bum around downtown Oak Park.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

What really grosses me out:

missing noses

facial warts or out of control moles - why would you not get the marble-sized mole removed???

missing eyes

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, I'll be at that Silver Jews show.

cool, look for me. i'll be wearing a pin that says "MOVE OVER BACON". i'll buy you a drink.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

Or bum around downtown Oak Park.

we may end up doing this as we lived there for a number of years and might go see some friends and former neighbors who still live there. but those plans haven't been cemented yet. it would be nice to go back to new pot, only MY FAVORITE RESTAURANT IN THE WORLD again.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

Get some shirmp at Lawrence's.

Go on the architectural boat tour.

Go to the aquarium.

Go to the Green Mill and hear some jass.

...and thus my knowledge of Chicago is exhausted.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

There is nothing crazy about being Indian, you jerk. xp

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

Ok! I'll be the short one with brown hair. I'll TOTALLY stand out in the crowd. I'm going with two girlfriends and I have some other people I have to look for there.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

New Pot puts egg in their pad kee mao. Boo.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

you know, i don't think i've ever been to the aquarium! that will kill an afternoon! hopefully the weather will be suitable for bike riding. that will tire us out and lead to naps.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

What's wrong with that?

xpost to jaymc

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, I know lots of crazy indians. I mean LOTS. Like the guy on the left in this picture: http://www.flickr.com/photos/54797445@N00/103973967/

DUDE, eggs are absolutely key in dozens of Thai dishes. xxpost

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

i don't care if new pot puts ground glass in their pad kee mao as long as they keep making garlic chicken so delicious it buckles my knees.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

I'll try New Pot.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

It's so good you'll just inhale it!

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Personally, I prefer Pot Classic though.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

DUDE, while eggs are often found in pad thai, I don't think they're an integral element of pad kee mao, and if I order it without looking at a menu (say for pick-up), I don't think I should expect to find egg-snot all over my noodles.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, no dig on your taste man... But if this is something you've experienced problems with, perhaps it'd be good to request no egg in the future? Drunken Noodles is kind of known as a dish that is not made the same way in any two places.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

goddamn i'm totally jonesing for the cambodian chicken noodles from zen noodles right now. let's see, from here to there via public transportation is about 90 minutes. if i go there for lunch i can get back to work just in time to leave for the day.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

Especially when some places call it "Drunken Noodles" and confuse me!

Shoot, I forgot that our "848" interview was this morning. Anyone catch it?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, I would post on the WDYLL thread, but I am missing an eye, and the socket is filled with warts. I don't think you'd want to see.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

(xp) I mean we taped it two months ago, but it aired this morning.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

It's 11 already? What happened? I feel like I must have fallen asleep or something.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

i need to get out of the house.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

i need to get out of the house.

yes you do. you need to go here and bring me an order of cambodian chicken noodles. please. thank you.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

Go ride your bike to the Spice House in Evanston, bikeboy. Buy yourself some spices before you go to the mountains.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

Go for a rike bide. Haha, XP

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

can't. bike's in shop :(

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

Will someone please explain the appeal of T.I. - King to me. I listened to it a couple off weeks ago and I haven't heard such wretched mainstream rap in quite awhile. I never thought I'd say it, but I'd rather listen to 50 cent.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I didn't really like the single that everyone is up on.

I like 50.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

I just deleted 50 from my hard drive. LATER

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

I like "What you know" precisely because it is so shitty. That's the case with me and most mainstream hip hop, though. And they said irony was a dead scene! Pffft.

xpost

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I didn't really like the single that everyone is up on.

I like "What you know" precisely because it is so shitty.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

That's funny you say that, Jeff. I'm downloading it right now. I really like Trap Muzik, his second album, and I like the single off of King because of the crazy synth sounds and his swagger on it. I also think T.I. is a pretty great MC, for complexity and variation of flow as well as his ability to fully acknowledge some of his own contradictions. I think a lot of rappers present contradictions, but few acknowledge them as such.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

xpost IRONY, BITCHES. FEEL IT.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, the way he rhymes "that" with "that?" Genius.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

Come on FEEL it FEEL it.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

People say irony is a dead scene, but I don't know how many people believe it. I am fundamentally opposed to the kind of irony that = insincerity.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

I'll listen to it again, but something about the beat turned me off right away. Super stock sounds and everything at the same (loud) level, I think.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, guys. You can all stop holding your breath - I didn't end up buying the chairs. I looked at them, but decided they were TOO shabby.

I don't know what T.I.- King is, so I'm having my own conversation.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, the way he rhymes "that" with "that?" Genius.

What about the linguistic playfulness of "Fresh off the jet to the 'jects where the G's at"? And how he manages to stretch a rhyme over a whole half-verse? Viz: dude / few / cool / you / attitude / dude / tools / q's / fooled / tube / crew / news. Which I like because it takes on this hypnotic, slow head-nod feel when dropped amidst the regal-sounding synths.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

This is where my non-single-reviewing self shows. My first experience with the song was watching him lip-sync on Soul Train (hey, I didn't have cable at the time.) So I'm afraid the song is permanently colored by that first impression - and lip synching sucks (I hope we can all agree.) Next time I hear the tune I'll pay closer attention rather than just doing a stupid little dance and echoing the chorus.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

Also, rhyming words with themselves, like it or not, has become a par for the course technique recently. But I don't think the chorus to "What You Know About That" exactly qualifies as trying to rhyme, as its basically just a hook (.......... "That") with different beginnings for it.

I'll have a case in point for lip synching being totally awesome in 3...2...1...

― regular roundups (Dave M), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

Here.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

(Please note the clear plastic pants of the bass player and Prince's hilarious answers to Dick Clark's questions.)

― regular roundups (Dave M), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

But I don't think the chorus to "What You Know About That" exactly qualifies as trying to rhyme, as its basically just a hook (.......... "That") with different beginnings for it.

OTM.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

There is no point you could make that would convince me that lip synching does not suck.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

Rockist.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

OOOOH this kitten's got claws! :)

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

But seriously, is there anything more contrived and crassly commercial than sticking some act up on stage and turning them into a third-rate mime?

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure there is, but it just really annoys the shit out of me.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

What about air guitar?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

Seeing T.I. do air guitar would be kind of awesome.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

You can't put a price on air guitar.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

Dave will appreciate this: I like when I get the same pleasures from ILX as I do from doing improv -- e.g. the reincorporation of my "racist" post earlier as "rockist" now.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, ILXprov!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Also, in true amateur improv fashion, the improviser (jaymc) ends up being the only one who remembers the thing he is calling back to (just saying I had to do a page search).

― regular roundups (Dave M), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, I do think lip synching is lame. I guess I'm just impressed that in the clip I posted, it does not matter what Prince is doing, because he makes whatever it is looking fucking brilliant!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

Aaaaand scene.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

Come on guys, show me jazz hands!

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

iJazz Hands (a photo thread)

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

*jaymc runs across stage in sweep edit*

― regular roundups (Dave M), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

"Wonderwall" just came up on my Launchcast station. How on Earth was this song a hit? It's bleeding awful! That voice! That nasally bleat! You just want to kick him in the nads!

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

I like both the Mike Flowers Pops version and the Ryan Adams version.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

(Although the Ryan Adams version is also kinda funny because he takes it even more seriously than Oasis does -- but it's chillingly pretty.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

I don't mind that song, really. I actively like "Don't Look Back in Anger".

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I guess it's not a bad song. But Liam. Kicked. Nads.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

What is sort of surprising is that it was a huge international hit. HUGE. My host sister in Colombia had to translate it for her English class. (I know, nice assignment, but I wasn't the teacher, so whatever.) She also had to translate "Gangsta's Paradise."

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

You know, it's really amazing how many people don't know that Gangsta's Paradise is based on a Stevie Wonder song.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, it really comes up more often than you'd think.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

You know, it's really amazing how many people don't know that Gangsta's Paradise is based on a Stevie Wonder song.

"based on". You know, in that Will Smith way.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

I was being generous.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

This made my morning:

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060330/REVIEWS/60323008

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

TALK ME OUT OF OR INTO THIS

I found a good price on a scanner at best buy. I have a lot of photos I'd like to put on Flickr.

____ Yes, Do it!

____ No, Save your money

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

― Jeff. (Jeff), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, that's a tough one. You may want to talk with a professional about that. Do you have a therapist you can trust? Do you feel you can go to God with matters of this weight?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sorry. I don't know what's wrong with me. I need some lunch.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

Totally OTM about the Stevie Wonder thing. That really irritates me, and did so more actively in high school when I was even more into Stevie Wonder. I once played Songs in the Key of Life during photo class while we were enlarging/developing and one of the moronic skater kids heard "Have a Talk with God" and was like, "Hey man... separation of church and state... you can't play this in school." Sort of jokingly, but still.

Ooo, the beginning sample of the first song on King gives me chills. Also, I'm pretty sure I am a HUGE Just Blaze fan.

xp: Hahaha, "Have a Talk with God"

― regular roundups (Dave M), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

missing noses

JESSE did you watch... I don't know what it's called. The show with that tan guy who was all coked up for awhile. Inside Edition maybe? anyway, last night it had a segment about a woman with NO NOSE and a guy who molded her a new one and I watched the entire shitty program just for that one part.

He also made an ear for a little girl born with only one ear.

Now I'm going to read all these posts so I can tell you a FASCINATING story about by dental hygeine.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

I've heard your fascinating story already.

Hey Jen: should I buy the scanner?

I think I should. My biggest qualm is that it will take up space.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

When "Gangsta's Paradise" was a hit, I didn't know it was based on a Stevie Wonder song. A year or two later, I listened to Songs in Key of Life for the first time (I think it was one of the few pop/rock records my parents owned on vinyl) -- and I was like, "Wait a minute..."

I think you should buy the scanner so I can scan a picture of 15-year-old me dressed up like Robert Smith.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

He also made an ear for a little girl born with only one ear.

My dad does this.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeh, we talked about that one time didn't we? Jenny said she would buy a scanner just to see that pic?

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

Yes.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

dude / few / cool / you / attitude / dude / tools / q's / fooled / tube / crew / news

See, I think that's neither clever nor original and is nothing that I think TI should be applauded for. It's just kind of... lame.

Now, as for finishing a hook with the same word, I think that can be great as long as the next to the last words rhyme. My very absolute favorite example of this is in the Clipse remix of Milkshake where every line in the first verse ends in "nigga," like:

Yeah nigga,
I wear Billion Eight, not Air nigga
It's like five hundred for a pair nigga
See you fallin out your chair nigga?
Dont stare nigga

I like that very much with absolutely no irony whatsoever.

xposts: Jesse, no because it will break or catch fire or eat the bird or something.

xxpost: Evan... really? That's cool.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

Oh wait, no get it for the jaymsmith picture.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny, I'd like to hear about your dental hygeine.

Kenan, I think I posted about that review way upthread, I love it. You should read the Slither one too, it continues his "mea culpa, my grades are bullshit" theme.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

See, I think that's neither clever nor original and is nothing that I think TI should be applauded for. It's just kind of... lame.

Really? I think it's a huge challenge to rhyme the same sound twelve times and not only have it make sense but maintain flow as well. Eminem can be pretty good at this, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

I have to side with John on the dude / few / cool / you / attitude / dude / tools / q's / fooled / tube / crew / news debate as well as add, for Jenny's sake, that I think even the words before all those words rhyme. So there!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

OHHHHHKAY

So I went to get a cavity filled and I said, "I have a head cold but I think I'm on the upswing so I'm okay" and she said, "Okay, I have something to discuss with you about your x-rays" and I got nervous and it turns out I have tartar between my teeth that is viewable on an x-ray and that means I need a deep cleaning and have I ever had one before? I said, "I don't think so" and she said, "Oh, if you had one you would remember. I'd like to do it today while your mouth is already numb" and I said, "Oh, shit" because that means PAIN IS A'COMIN'.

So I started to freak out but got myself together and determined that I had sufficient funds for the copay and enough time before class and that I wouldn't be so emotionally tortured that I couldn't go to class and work after and I said, OKAY GO FOR IT and she leaned in to numb my mouth for the novacaine and she said:

I'm not going to do this today.

And I said, "THANK GOD, but wait, why?" and she said that I have "puss-y tonsils" (how do you spell that without making it 'pussy'?) and that she was going to wait two weeks and do it then.

So I went to Ada's Jewish Deli and had matzoh ball soup because I'm sick!

The end.

Oh and I asked if I could just get everything done at once and she said, "Oh god no!" and now I want some valium or something because, um, SKEERED.

xpost: Comparing someone to Eminem is not the way to win me over. In addition to finding his entire schtick and persona objectionable, I think Eminem is by far the most overrated lyricist and MC possibly EVER.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

My favorite ex. of what Jenny's talking about is Beanie Sigel's verse on that Roots tune.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

But Eminem is white and has made great inroads in a place where whites have had a hard time. He stood up to the (black) man.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

And I've heard TI and it just sounds like so much unoriginal rap radio sludge. Maybe it has moments of interest, but they are overwhelmed by the minutes of uninspiredness.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

I like Eminem. Sometimes a whole lot.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

Dentists are cruel.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

My plan for the day is decided!!!

Shower, pet cat, pet bird, drink another Diet Coke then:

1. The Spice House (Chicago)
2. Best Buy
3. Gym
4. Yoga

BEST DAY OFF EVER

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeh and in between BB and Gym, Starbucks. I'm just as bougie as I wanna be.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

She was really nice about the whole thing, and I appreciated not having to undergo the stress of some horrifying dental procedure on top of being ill and also being stressed about this stupid reception I'm supposed to be organizing for tomorrow. I'm mostly just scared about sitting in a chair and enduring an hour of mouth agony. And my next appointment is scheduled on a day that I have class and work afterwards, so it's actually not like I can wonk out on pills and just glide through the experience.

Jesse! Buy me something from the spice house!

Also, there is a vitamin store on Wabash and Jackson that is having a buy-one get-one sale on a competing brand of fizzy vitamin drink additives a la Emergen-C.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, a word of advice if you get the scanner, don't let your cat pee on it, K?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder what constitutes a "deep cleaning". I go in for my cleaning next week, and he did tell me to take a bunch of painkillers before and after (and for the next couple of days).

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

I am having a moment of unsettling clarity. I am realizing that no matter how much I like Eminem, I like Fiona Apple more. This comes as something of a shock to me.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

Deep cleaning involves getting under your gumline and doing the decalcification with the vibrating prod.

xpost re. cat pee: do you speak from experience, Jordan?

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

Hey Jordan, since we're talking about teeth, how is your relationship with the gap between your front teeth? Kelsey said hers was rocky and she used to hate it.

I fucking LOVE gaps btw front teeth. Robin's cousin and I were talking and she said that a gap is one big critereon for her next man. IT's SUPER AMAZING, if you ask me.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

God, Beanie Sigel is great! Not a big Eminem fan, though, but not for his rhymes. Mostly for the cadence he adopted on everything he did around the time 8 Mile came out, and probably still does. I guess it was just overuse of the dactyl ( ` u u), but damn if it wasn't annoying.

I don't really have a problem with rap radio, and I don't know when that changed. Weird.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

I think it had something to do with this past summer (intro to Wu-Tang and living with a roommate who pretty much listened only to rap) and winter (when I bought a fuckton of stuff like Clipse and David Banner). Weird how you can just decide to get into something.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

Does anyone know who does that song that goes "Every since I can remember I've been poppin' my collar, poppin' poppin' my collar, poppin' poppin' my collar"?

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

No, but that might explain a txt I got the other night.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

I think I may be getting a deep cleaning then, we will see.

The gap and my teeth in general used to bother me as a kid, and I wouldn't show my teeth when I smiled, but I got over it. I'm pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's teeth (and I love Maddie's crooked ones).

Re: cat pee, yes. :(

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Nick, think Grammy winners.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Three 6 Mafia, yo.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

OSCAR winners!

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, why didn't you just carve a Chiclet to fit the gap and cover it?

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

That's what I meant.

Jordan, why didn't you just carve a Chiclet to fit the gap and cover it?

Where were you when I was 12, Jesse?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, it's Three 6 Mafia? I realized on the way home today that part of why I like that song is because the first dude who raps sounds like the Kevin McDonald character from Kids in the Hall who talked like "Please pass the milk-ah...Can't have cereal-ah...without the milk-ah..." (no one but Sarah will know what I'm talking about here, sorry).

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

WHAT ME, WORRY?

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

BELL BIV, DEVO-AH

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

YES

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

major xps: yeah, Jen, it is pretty cool. my dad, as a surgeon, is about 50/50 between boob jobs and little kid disfigurements. And, also, sorry, but it's difficult to overrate Eminem as a lyricist. Lately, sure, he hasn't impressed, but his older stuff is untouchable.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

Nevermind Best Buy. I just remembered that I have Amazon money from Coinstar, so I bought it there. Here's the one I chose. Good reviews. Should arrive in a week or so. Actually, it probably will not arrive, but rather I'll wind up picking it up from those cocksuckers at UPS.

John, get ready for some cock-scanning action!

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

Like most KITH sketches, it doesn't really READ funny, but:
http://www.kithfan.org/work/transcripts/three/milka.html

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

xpost-- I think it is plausible that Jenny is prejudiced against Eminem becasue he's white.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

(how do you spell that without making it 'pussy'?)

D.F. Wallace ruminates about this issue at one point in the new book.

Also, there is a vitamin store on Wabash and Jackson that is having a buy-one get-one sale on a competing brand of fizzy vitamin drink additives a la Emergen-C.

I fucking love this place and am sad I don't work around there anymore.

No, but that might explain a txt I got the other night.

Hahaha! What can I say, I was drunk, it was 3 AM, I was at a frat party.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

This version I downloaded doesn't have the verse I'm talking about, so maybe I heard the remix with Project Pat.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

My next album will be titled "Pussy Ruminations".

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, why didn't you just carve a Chiclet to fit the gap and cover it?

Where were you when I was 12, Jesse?

It's just common sense.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

Uh, guys? Is this for real?

http://www.spellingsociety.org/news/media/spellingbee.php

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

People be havin' too much time on their hands.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

wasn't col. mccormick an advocate of simplified spelling?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

A cousin of mine went to an elementary school where they taught "simplified" spelling, which is not only dropping letters, but replacing many of them, as in "sirkle." All this accomplished was turning out an elementary school class whose lot in life was just a little sadder than it had been before. As if Lumberton, Texas isn't bad enough.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

I like that the movement's leader is named "Kuizenga". HELLO DUTCH AND TOO MANY SILENT/MISLEADING LETTERS.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

xp - It's a vishus sirkle.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

Grandpa jokes in the house.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

U CAN'T 4S A WHOLE LAYNGOO-IGE TO CHANJE AUL OF A SUDDEN!

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, my bros in Y0ungblood Brass Band need an opening band at the Empty Bottle this summer. Anyone want to do it or know of a band that would be interested (and a decent draw)?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

This is really weird and ill conceived.

http://www.spellingsociety.org/aboutsss/leaflets/whyenglish.pdf

Apparently there really is a movement to "update" English spelling. The reason given here is nothing more than "because spelling in English is hard." Well, no shit. But there's no mention of the fact the suddenly changing the spelling of hundreds of words would complicate matters, not simplify them, and that this would do nothing to address the problem of tortuous English grammar. English is a difficult language, period. Suck it up.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

"Vishus sirkle" looks like Lithuanian.

A couple things:

1. Last night, I saw someone that I went on a couple dates with three years ago, as well as someone that had a huge crush on me in high school.

2. :) :) :) :)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

3. Someone needs to give Kenan an op-ed column. :)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

NO.

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

English is a difficult language, period. Suck it up.
This the name of my Level 6 syllabus. HOW DID YOU KNOW?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

Haha Jon, now's the time you choose to pop up on this thread?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

Someone needs to give Kenan an op-ed column. :)

An advice column. My first piece: "Preventing Yellowing."

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

Crimeny!
All I want to do is WALK to the library! Sadness!

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

that reminds me, i need to talk to lisa about hooking me up with a library card. i don't have a state issued id that says i live in chicago.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

You don't need one! Just a photo id and two pieces of mail with your CHicago address on it.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

The mail must be postmarked within the last 30 days too.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh, I am totally lying over e-mail about the fact that I didn't flyer that show last night...

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

You're going to hell, you know that.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

You told us about the show. That's kinda, sorta like fliering.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah. Why did he have to ask me about it, though? I'm better at lying by omission.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

HE KNOWS.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

well damn, i guess i just need to check my mail.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of which, y'all should come to one of the Schubas shows if you weren't already planning on it. We had a pretty small crowd the other day, and we need to get some more people in the door over the next few weeks.

At next week's show (the 10th), Eazy will be opening, with several members of C4n4st4 backing him up. (I may bring out the clarinet on a song, we'll see.) Also: ILXor Colette will be in attendance, and she is friendly and pretty. :)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

OH yeah! The first Nasty residency date was Monday night! How did it go other than that? Was the crowd really so small or was he just being paranoid? I've seen the posters (which look awesome, by the way) for this month ALL OVER THE PLACE. Also, I heard an add for it, complete with Nasty background song samples, on WLUW.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

ad, not add

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

Why do I get The Vines Newsletter in my inbox?

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

ewww

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

I know.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I don't know what we should expect for these shows, but we only had around 25 people there. And Matt was hoping to have more like 50-75 per show. Hopefully, we'll get some press this week or next, which will boost turnout -- technically speaking, this week's show wasn't officially a Pract1ce Space show, since K. Stoltz headlined. I think it went okay otherwise, though...

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

I'm listening to a band that sounds like Mighty Mighty Bosstones but in Spanish. They're called Dr. Krapula. Hahahahaha.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

This is the band that the 0ptimistic is playing our first couple shows with. I like their name. Someone listen and tell if me they're any good.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, was it you that was telling me about C0ugar? I was reading The Wire for free at Borders last night and they had a live review in there. I was impressed.

I just fliered the shit out of the Damen/Division and Division/Milwaukee/Ashland intersections. Hopefully they will stay up for at least a few hours before being ripped down/covered up/rained on.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

I was reading The Wire for free at Borders last night and they had a live review in there.

Oh, that's cool. I think I will read that for free myself. Btw, it looks like C0ugar is opening for Y0ungblood at the Bottle show next month.

Tonight is TACO NIGHT.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

Also, WTF with giving fliers to places that take your flier to put up themselves even though you both know that they won't put it up but will instead throw it away as soon as you're out the door (HI PENELOPES, OVERLY TRENDY CLOTHING STORE WITH PRIME FLIER WINDOWS).

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

(ALSO RECKLESS BUT I WON'T HATE CUZ I KNOW EVERYONE'S ON THEIR FLIER SPACE JOCK)

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

Do the trains get fliered?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

(probably a stupid question)

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

Like inside of them? No.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

No. The CTA will shoot you on sight.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

Noted.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder -- if you stick a flier up on the train really good with some homemade flour and water paste that never comes off no matter what you do, do they retire that train car?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

It's called "littering" when you put up fliers on the train.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

I suppose it's littering when you do it anywhere.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

BTW: Webster's says when referring to "advertising circulars," it is usu. flyer.

http://lynncoins.com/87%20Fleer%20Updated%20Set.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

"circulars"??

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

I keep wanting to steal some of the ads from the train. They're just pieces of paperboard slipped into those little slots, you know? What would happen if you just grabbed a cool ad (like, for an art exhibit or an Adult Swim cartoon) and walked off the train with it? What am I so afraid of? It's not as if the other passengers are going to chase me down and tackle me. "That's CTA property, Mister! I'm making a citizen's arrest!"

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

circular = "a paper (as a leaflet) intended for wide distribution"

I know, I've only really ever heard my grandma say this, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

xpost to myself Well, I guess what would happen is that I would take it home and put it in my closet, because putting it on the wall would be stupid, because people would come over and think, "Hey, you steal stupid ads off the train. Aren't you lame." And so it would all be for naught.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

jaymc, you did flyer/flier/leaflet. so well you have TWO PEOPLE FROM LONDON, one who is actually ENGLISH coming to the show. yay.

sarah, that library story is weird. if there's such a huge demand for the services, why don't they ask for volunteers from the community to help and make everything happen more quickly?

i'm not done packing for my month-long trip yet. and have been drinking wine to 'encourage early sleep' since i have to get up at 4 to get an early flight. and i heard it's snowing in boston, so perhaps i should rethink the sandals...

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

NICK I KNOW THAT POPPIN' MY COLLAR SONG.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

Glad that's worked out.

OH GOD, so you know how my office is in a mall? Well, I went out in the hall to call a potential new landlord, and there was mall smooth jazz playing, and then they put me on hold, and I had a DIFFERENT smooth jazz song playing into the other ear! Fuck, I should call Lewis Black.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

What am I so afraid of? It's not as if the other passengers are going to chase me down and tackle me. "That's CTA property, Mister! I'm making a citizen's arrest!"

what i would be worried about are the plain clothed cops who ride the train (yes, they are there, i've seen them in action many times) busting you for defacing public property, theft, whatever. can you imagine how f'ing moronic you'd feel to be arrested for stealing an adult swim ad?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

I totally wanted to take this herpes public service announcement ad on the train last year. It featured a guy talking on a cell phone saying "Man, I'm really glad I got that herpes test" (I'm paraphrasing, I think, but that was pretty much what it said.) That shit cracked me up for some reason.

That KITH skit reads like listening to the Fall lyrics (-ah).

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds like the beginning of some horrible prison buddy movie.

A man with nothing better to do than get arrested for stealing an ad off the subway and finds FRIENDSHIP in the most unlikely of places: a holding cell.

[clank]

Let's Go Downtown,
starring
Star X
and Star Y

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, Jordan, I was at Wishbone for dinner last night, and we showed up maybe 45 minutes before they closed, and I swear the smooth jazz that they were playing got progressively louder as we were eating, to the point where I wondered whether they did that to subtly encourage people to leave.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

DOUBTLESS.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, that herpes ad was hilarious. I feel like we talked about it before... COULD IT BE?

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

WOULDN'T BE THE FIRST TIME

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

There were a lot of syphillis test ads last year, IIRC. Syphillis -- now that's hilarious.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

Thufferin' thyphillith.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.chicagoist.com/images/2004_08_syphilis-thumb.JPG

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe it was syphillis and not herpes. At any rate, some std.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

No, I'm pretty sure it was herpes. I remember the ad, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

It was herpes for surepes.

Or per stirpes!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!

That's only funny if you have taken a property law class. And then it's still more sad than funny.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

LeSeur peas?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny (or "Jen Jen" as I like to call you), you're awesome.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

Thank you, Johann, as I like to call you.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

I like to call you all different things. I know you as Shecky, Sleepy, Fruit Loop, Baxter, Mu-Mu, Lassie, Assy, and Frank.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

I hope I'm Fruit Loop, Kiki.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

who's assy?

― Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

My dad calls me Johann sometimes. And when he wants to be fancy, it's "Johann Sebastian John."

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

I used to have mice named Blinky and Fridge.

"Johann Sebastian John" is a pretty hilarious dad-like thing to call a son.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

We should do well at next Monday's Practice Space - I should be bringing in about 25 folks. And it'll be a good show. And I'm pulling that Joanna Newsom cover out of retirement with full arrangement.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

Joanna Newsom + Tears for Fears LIVE IN CONCERT

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

we'll see if this works.

http://static.flickr.com/43/123915732_ae60e9941d.jpg

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.bknkids.com/images/propertyimages/street_sharks.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.polarblairsden.com/toysactionfiguresstreetsharksrox01.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

Half shark-alligator, half man....
Half man, half shark.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

not as cool as HAMMERHEAD

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

Awwwww my critical legal theory class prof said that she had hoped I would be in another of her classes next semester (I am not because she's not teaching the class that I need to take that she usually teaches). That is a nice thing to say!

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

I hope I'm Fruit Loop, Kiki.

Oddly, you're Frank.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

The Spice House was ALL THAT.

I bought 1 person something and for myself:

Sweet paprika
half-sharp paprika
peppermint leaves
crystalized ginger
lavender
cilantro
chives
blue cheese powder
cheddar powder
bay leaves

I spent only about $20!

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

What did you buy me? Do you want to go to Binny's Beverage Depot tonight?

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

NO! Well, yes, but I'm going to yoga.

I didn't buy you anything. or did i?

My next purchase there will be pure wasabi powder which is supposed to be milder and different from regular wasabi which is cut with horseradish.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

Are you buying wine, Jenny?!

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, sir. I have been informed that I will be reimbursed by the dean for one reasonably priced case of wine purchased out of my own pocket.

I have no idea what I'm doing so I would love recommendations. I've been asked to mix up reds and whites - so I don't really want all one case of the same stuff.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

i've always gone by pretty labels and interesting countries of origin. and, of course, price.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

For a reception it doesn't really matter. Just go cheap. Personally I'd go merlot and sauvignon blanc (b/c it's harder to fuck up merlot and cheap chardonnay tastes like oak juice). It's free wine, so no one's expecting too much.

Why are you going to Binny's? You could get 2 buck Chuck at TJ's.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, seriously

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

I do the same as Julia. Or I just buy beer.

I think I'm going to Binny's because it's straight down clark and I can't remember how to get to TJs and Jeff is not available for driving me tonight.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

But I'll go to TJs. I really don't care. Maybe that's what I'll do. WHO KNOWS WHO CARES I DON'T WANT TO DEAL WITH THIS AT ALL, ACTUALLY.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

Just go to Binny's and get reimbursed. There's this great wine called "Dom Perignon" that you should buy and turn in a receipt for. And invite me to that reception.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

"reasonably priced"

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

Champagne is overrated.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

You suck.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

Go down ashland until you get to Grace, take a left, go through a few stops signs and TJ's will be on your left.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

That Champaanicnege we had at Catch that time was fantastic. Unfortunately Jesse failed to mention that it was ass expensive before we started downing it. I'm sorry he had to die that day.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny, if you've got your car, try the Wine Discount Center on Elston near the Hideout - better prices and selection than Trader Joe's, great finds, great prices.

Or if you're at Binny's: Castle Rock (all varietals), Chateau La Paws, Rosenblum Vitner's Cuvee, Rock Rabbit (Syrah and Sauvingnon Blanc).

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

kenan you're so fucking wrong about champagne that i want to spit.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

"reasonably priced"

A reasonable price for 1998 Dom seems to be around $140, so if you find it for that price or less then go for it!

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff's wrong -- take a right at Grace!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

The '96 Dom is the classic one; it was about $95 on release, much higher now, I think. I had the '98 at the Wine Discount Center before Christmas - didn't stand out among all the other Champagnes.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

expost-- that was White Star.

Champagne and sparkling wine is neither over- nor under-rated. It is rated just right: yummy. I love it because it smells like homemade bread that has been sitting on the countertop just long enough that it is going to be inedible the next day. Like yeast.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

Gruet's Blanc de Noir is pretty great for the price. Ditto Cristalino (which shouldn't run you more than $10/bottle, if I'm not mistaken. Pretty sure I got it as cheap as 7.99 back in CO).

xp a friend of mine recommended that champagne, more than any other wine, should just be stocked as a regular beverage. just keep a cheap bottle of sparkling wine in the fridge for, like, when you're thirsty or something.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

I want some mufuggin Champagne now.

The problem with sparklers is that they go down fast, like soda. Last time I had some I was attempting to share it with someone and by the time she finished 1/2 of her glass I had downed the rest of the bottle.

I think it's the bubbles that make it go bye-bye so fast.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

which is why you should stock it like soda!

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

xpost gbx----

I would agree but for the facts I just stated. If I kept around as a regular beverage I would drink it like a reg. beverage.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

I don't get what's so great about champagne, either -- but I've only ever really had it on NYE.

I don't like soda.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

I am only getting reimbursed because I said that $150 for 15 bottles of wine through the university's catering services was obscene and we couldn't afford it so it would be HILARIOUS if I bought a bottle of champagne the same price as all the wine I refused to buy because it would be too expensive.

Jesse, tell yoga I said hi and I will be there soon when I don't have pussytonsils and can afford another bunch of classes.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

xpost again!

If I stocked it and drank it like soda I'd be eternally smashed or hung over.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

I don't get what's so great about Champagne either (captilize that, Mr. Encyclpedia Brittanica). But I know there's something I love about it.

I've had sparkling wine and Champ. that has been meh, but it's not hard to please me with decent bubbly and if I get something that smells like old bread then I will orgasm all over myself.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

Has anyone tried the sparkling Shirazes that are suddenly ubiquitous?

I bought one but drank it after going out so I have no clear recollection of it. I will buy another but it's over my wine budget ($25 a bottle--not outrageous, but not everday drinking prices either).

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

Ahhhh champagne

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

the shark band pics made me think of this guy:
http://www.originalalamo.com/images/jabberjaw.jpg

cava (spanish sparkling wine) is so cheap here that we actually keep a load in the fridge and drink it whenever. i was shocked at how expensive it is over there (you can get nice stuff on sale for £4, and if you carry it back from europe, only about E3)

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

Capitalizing "champagne" is stupid. Do you capitalize "martini," too? Webster's 11th uses lowercase for both.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

I think I am going to go buy a bottle of wine now.

I'M UNEMPLOYED.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

Cheesy Sharks: An Appreciation Thread

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

I've seen Phil really actively loving Champagne.

xpost-- It's a region's name and it's a proper name for a product of that region. You capitalize Froot Loops, so why not Champagne? Besides, even if it weren't a proper noun you should do it for the same reason you capitalize "He" when referring to God.

Champagne is good because It sparkles in my tummy.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

Champagne is very specifically from the region, they have a trademark (and successfully sued yves saint laurent who named a perfume 'champagne'). the US is the only country that doesn't have to follow the rules about calling sparkling wine champagne.

i should have taken a photo before our surprise engagement party when we had about 50 bottles of champagne/cava in our fridge. it was a beautiful sight.

sheesh. i have to get up in 4 hours to go to the airport. who can fall asleep at 12?! i should drink some cava!

xpost, of course

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

I think I am going to go buy a bottle of wine now.

I'M UNEMPLOYED.

Did this just now happen?

xpost colette-- anyone who is not an asshole will not call their vineyard's sparkling wine 'champagne'. So the US is a good place for that rule to not apply, I guess.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

what? no, i've been unemployed for a few days now.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

The bubbles will lift away the pain of unemployment. And also accentuate the joys of it.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

You capitalize Froot Loops, so why not Champagne?

Because Froot Loops is a specific product made by a specific company, whereas champagne is the generic name for a beverage made by any number of different companies/vineyards. Yes, it does come from Champagne, but the word has taken on a life of its own by now.

(A better argument would be to say that it's akin to French fries and Swiss cheese -- although honestly, I'd be inclined to lowercase those, too.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

jess, yeah i was reading in a wine guide that generally american 'champagne' is way lower quality than the sparkling wine from similar states, since they're basically trying to trick people. i guess if you think you can get champagne for $2.99 on sale at meijer you deserve to be tricked, though.

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

champagne makes me happy and giggly. whiskey makes me talk too much. vodka makes me dance. sparks makes me vomit. beer makes me bloaty. wine makes me sleepy. i think champagne is best

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

(Webster's lowercases "french fry" but caps "Swiss cheese.")

(What about "martini" though? I think The New Yorker still capitalizes it -- even though no one's actually sure of its origin, they just think it might have come from someone named Martinez.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

The bubbles will lift away the pain of unemployment.

"pain"?

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

It is a controlled name. It deserves capitilization to distinguish it from impostors. Fine, you can use say 'champagne' but it is NOT Champagne.

I am not talking about the general rules of capitalization. I'm talking about Champagne.

xpost
colette, how do you know about Meijer?

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

Because she's from western Michigan, fool!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

Oh.

My cat plays a game with herself-- she pulls food from her food bowl into the water bowl and then fishes a piece out and eats it. When the water is clear of food she does it again.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

that's a fun game!

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

Ditto Cristalino (which shouldn't run you more than $10/bottle, if I'm not mistaken. Pretty sure I got it as cheap as 7.99 back in CO).

yes! this stuff is fantastic! well, not fantastic, but for $8/bottle, its amazing.

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

most def.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 22:24 (nineteen years ago)

hi phil. we've met.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

Same goes for Burgundy. France has strict agricultural and geographic standards for what can be labeled Champagne and Burgundy - and the names reflect those standards and the quality they imply.

Roederer Estate is a great sparkling wine, made in northern Cali by the same folks who make Cristal - it goes for about $17 and is delicious.

For Jenny's budget: 5 Cristalino, 5 Castle Rock Cabernet, 5 Cartlidge & Brown Chardonnay (all from Binny's).

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

Pomeray POP.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

champagne

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

burgundy

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

hi phil. we've met.

yes, you should have come hang out last time i was in town! the lesbo party was hilarious. but i think i might come back for a weekend in april since a couple of my friends are going out to DJ so I figured it would be funny if they stayed at my parents house and they cooked korean food for us.

http://img.coxnewsweb.com/B/09/95/16/image_716959.jpg

cans of sofia are kinda fun. but not so tasty. if you're in ny and try something on at marc jacobs, they have cans of sofia in the changing rooms, so you get drunk and buy $1400 jacket.

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

Hey! I forgot that Binny's and Sams offer something like a 10% discount for a case, so that saves you a little more.

Here's a good mixed case:
2002 - Castle Rock Merlot
2002 - Castle Rock Syrah
2 2003 - Castle Rock Cabernet Sauvignon, Alexander Valley
2004 - Castle Rock Sauvignon Blanc, Lake County
2004 - Castle Rock Zinfandel, Sonoma County
2 Cristalino Brut
2 2004 - Cartlidge & Browne Chardonnay
2 2004 - Chateau La Paws Cote du Bone Roan

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

$5 bottles of Moscato D'Asti w/orange juice on a Saturday morning = classic

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 23:14 (nineteen years ago)

Our car wouldn't start.... So it's either the cheapest possible from Buy Low or bus to Binny's and cab back.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 23:24 (nineteen years ago)

shitty.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 23:25 (nineteen years ago)

Oh shit. Wednesday is singing troupe night upstairs. It's a bunch of women who get together to warble tunelessly at the top of their voices. My neighbor has just started in on her scales. It's like nails on a blackboard. Well... no, it's not quite that bad. It's like having half a dozen M4riss4 M4rch4nts upstairs.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 23:28 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sorry to jump back to this, but um...

"Enuf is enuf. Enough is too much".

"Our odd spelling retains words like cough, bough, through and though. This increases illiteracy and crime. Fix it and you fix a host of problems. We want to fix it."

"Indeed, many children just give up on school altogether as a result. The prisons are full of people with literacy problems."

This is just too much. I mean... seriously.

Eric, you did a pretty good job of selling me on the show via email, but you could have saved yourself time and space just by saying, "Joanna Newsom cover."

xpost: Is it Sacred Harp/Shape Note singing, 'cause I fucking love that stuff when it's done by a BIG group of people who can do it well. Done poorly, of course, I can imagine it's horrendous.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 23:32 (nineteen years ago)

I got... some wine. Bi-Low was very nice and also gave me a 10% discount. I got a Sauvingnon Blanc and two different kinds of red wine that aren't merlot or cabernet.

The next time I need wine, I am picking Eric up and taking him with me.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 23:52 (nineteen years ago)

You should have bugged him today, while he still has the van.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 00:07 (nineteen years ago)

What did you get what did you get Jenny?

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 6 April 2006 00:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3494/635/1600/rachelmoby.jpg

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 April 2006 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

That's not what I got, that's just a funny picture. I'll look next time I get up and post it before the night is through.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 April 2006 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

That's moby and... who?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

That makes me think -- has enough time passed that I can appreciate "Play" again? I hardly remember all the commercials it was used for, and it's a damn fine record.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 00:20 (nineteen years ago)

Also: I'm getting used to the picture at the top of this thread. When this ordeal is over, I may not thank Jesse, but I will have found peace.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 00:22 (nineteen years ago)

rachel ray?

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 6 April 2006 00:24 (nineteen years ago)

There is a quiet dignity in your statement, Kenan.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 00:26 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.absalom.com/mormon/images/yin-yang.gif

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

NEWSFLASH!
(Hopefully this will go over better than the job announcement no one seemed to care about.)

My poetry professor from fall quarter is nominating me for a poetry prize! She is a totally awesome lady with AMAZING connections and mentors (friends with Creeley, studied with Duncan). This is the best possible incentive I could have to finish my thesis! I wish I knew what the cash prize is, but beggars can't be assholes, so I guess I'll just wait and see.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

OOh. Ok. Yeah -- "Play" is still good. Took me a while to find it. It's not great, but it's good. The blues and soul samples are tiresome after a while, and were old hat even in 1999, but check out the Gwen Stefani version of "Southside" again. Pure irony, pure joy. ("Love and darkness and my sidearm...") And "Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad" is his most successful attempt at being moving. Solid record, says I.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 00:58 (nineteen years ago)

And despite relying heavily on someone else's song, "Run On" is still brill.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 01:00 (nineteen years ago)

Don't take phil wine shopping with you.

http://myspace-420.vo.llnwd.net/00628/02/47/628217420_l.jpg

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 01:04 (nineteen years ago)

look at those bags under my eyes

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 6 April 2006 01:11 (nineteen years ago)

"Play Two" or "Re Play" or "More Play" - whatever the B-sides compilation is called - is really good, maybe better at this point because the songs are less familiar.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 6 April 2006 01:15 (nineteen years ago)

My run-in with Moby gives me an idea. A list.

Albums I Need To Pull Out Of The Dustbin And Listen To From Beginning To End, Because I Once Loved Them Dearly, But I Feel I Need To Reasses:

Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation

Bob Dylan and the Band - The Basemant Tapes

The Clash - London Calling
(note: I am almost certain I still love this record incredibly, bit it's good to check)

Old 97's - Too Far To Care

The Amps

The Black Dog - Spanners

Etc.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

TFTC is still AWESOME

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 6 April 2006 01:20 (nineteen years ago)

Time Bomb, Barrier Reef and Melt Show would be great karaokee songs.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 6 April 2006 01:21 (nineteen years ago)

I will find out right now.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 01:21 (nineteen years ago)

"I got a timebomb / In my mind mind, mom..."

Yeah, this is a great album. Start to finish. It all came rushing back to me in the first few notes.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 01:24 (nineteen years ago)

I have the set of field recordings (Alan Lomax, Sounds of the South)where Moby took some of those samples from and I've listened to it way more than Play. I had that before I heard Play and that might be why I like it more. Not that anyone cares.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 01:24 (nineteen years ago)

Not that anyone cares.

Oh, don't say things like that. Any post on this board ever could accurately end with those words. It's irrelevant.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 01:27 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha

"She's gonna kill me / And I don't mean softly"

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

I am fully and gleefully interrupting the warbling session upstairs with this record.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 01:29 (nineteen years ago)

Does Nick know about this Old 97's record? He'd fucking love it.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 01:35 (nineteen years ago)

I know -- I think I've had that conversation where I bring up the original field recordings so many times that I felt like I had said it already. I have said it, but it felt petty to commit it to writing ONE MORE TIME. But since I don't believe I've ever said it here, I guess you're right.

Anyway, it's worth every penny, that box. And you know who accompanied Alan L. on that trip through the American South?

You know who?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 01:35 (nineteen years ago)

Shirley Collins, that's who.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 01:35 (nineteen years ago)

I do not know who that is.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 01:37 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, you should! She's got my favorite voice of any female singer ever. I've YSIed some songs to you guys before but I got the impression that no one ever listened to them since no one responded with the proper rapture. I heard her voice and immediately bought the first thing I could find and THEN wrote an embarrassing rhapsodic review on amazon.com because I didn't know where else to turn.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 01:40 (nineteen years ago)

Do it again! Maybe we just need prodding. never underestimate our laziness.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 01:42 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to post both her and Jean Ritchie singing the same song ("Nottamun Town", whose tune you will recognize) to the blog. They both make me shiver.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 01:43 (nineteen years ago)

Shirley - English
Jean - American

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 01:44 (nineteen years ago)

Aw man -- YSI problems. I'm going to email them to you, that's how much I want you to hear these. You can maybe post them for me from your own server?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 01:45 (nineteen years ago)

sure.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 01:45 (nineteen years ago)

PS -- I am not drunk. I just love Shirley and Jean.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 01:48 (nineteen years ago)

OK, all sent. I'll compose a little blog post and then you can add the songs? Pleeease?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 01:51 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not drunk, either. But a thought: at their best, Old 97's do to country what The Pogues do to Irish folk music.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 01:53 (nineteen years ago)

Downloading you now, Frank.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 01:55 (nineteen years ago)

Yaaay.
Kiki - I've saved a little insufficient blog post to be posted when you get the songs on your server, IF you get the songs on your server that is. You don't have to if you don't want to.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 02:00 (nineteen years ago)

Of course I will do my damndest.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 02:04 (nineteen years ago)

Very good. Sleep well, and soundly.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 02:09 (nineteen years ago)

goodnight.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 02:09 (nineteen years ago)

Rachel Ray?

Phil, please! Those are bags? You're packing light.

Why is your (new) battery dead?

I'm at Sayjal's watching Love Actuallly.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot, Thursday, 6 April 2006 02:13 (nineteen years ago)

"Tim" From the Office is in Love Actually!!!!

― WhiskeyBoy, Thursday, 6 April 2006 02:21 (nineteen years ago)

It's not new, it's a year old. I don't know why it's dead, and quite frankly I'm just going to forget about it for awhile and not deal with it.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 6 April 2006 02:22 (nineteen years ago)

RACHEL FUCKING RAY YOU ASSHOLES XPOSTS!!!

Is it Sacred Harp/Shape Note singing, 'cause I fucking love that stuff when it's done by a BIG group of people who can do it well.

Yes, ditto.

BORED AGAIN.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 6 April 2006 02:58 (nineteen years ago)

dear dan: POT. EFF.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 6 April 2006 03:15 (nineteen years ago)

Tonight I drank champagne at Sayjal's house.

http://static.flickr.com/42/124041125_19c210fa6d_o.jpg

― WhiskeyTangoFishpot, Thursday, 6 April 2006 03:29 (nineteen years ago)

Phil, please! Those are bags? You're packing light.

ugh, those two days were pretty ridiculous. that photo was like halfway thru. anyhow i just polished off a bottle of cava and am now munching on baby carrots...

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 6 April 2006 03:33 (nineteen years ago)

btw if you guys are looking for fun this week, my pals are DJing:

april 15: smart bar. james f%^&ing friedman & james murphy
april 24: funky buddha. jacques renault. max pask. freeform five

i might come to town, but maybe saving my flight voucher for either vice or pitchfork or lollapalooza

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 6 April 2006 03:34 (nineteen years ago)

not that anyone ever hangs out with me when im in town

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 6 April 2006 03:36 (nineteen years ago)

shut up phil.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 6 April 2006 03:55 (nineteen years ago)

BORED

I'm sending you she-male hookers with my mind right now. Whatever they are, they certainly aren't boring. DON'T WORRY DAN SAVAGE SAYS SHE-MALES ARE A STRAIGHT-IDENTIFIED MALE FANTASY, so play away.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 04:06 (nineteen years ago)

ok :\

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 6 April 2006 04:06 (nineteen years ago)

OR listen to this Ghostface song about spiritual enlightenment through underwater journey that I just YSIed to Amanda.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 04:07 (nineteen years ago)

Also, if everyone really is just lazy, here's my last prod...

I GOT A JOB DOING SOMETHING I REALLY LIKE SO I CAN QUIT MY CRAPPY ONE AND STILL GET PAID!

I GOT NOMINATED FOR A PRIZE FOR BEING GOOD AT SOMETHING I LOVE!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 04:09 (nineteen years ago)

BTW American Dreamz is a sweet movie. It's just clunky and awkward enough to be really lovable. It's well-written and well-acted. Mandy Moore (well, my idea of her) is my dream girl, and Dennis Quaid (also Willam Defoe) is a laugh riot. It's super up-to-date (in an almost eerie way), and the "this president is OBVIOUSLY George W. Bush, oh and here's a chief of staff who is OBVIOUSLY Dick Cheney" shtick was actually pulled off, despite the possibilities for massive liberal-baiting humor. That aspect was played down and they even (briefly) addressed the idea of conflict in the Middle East in an honest and thoughtful way. It didn't even portray all Arabs as terrorists, which I was worried it might. Also, some mocking of Matisyahu in a roundabout way, which will get me every time. Especially when the actor parodying him played a fairly large role in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (esp. season 6). Okay, my review is over. If anyone wants to see this movie and feels like they have no one to see it with because their friends are idiots, I will pay to see it again with you.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 04:15 (nineteen years ago)

I like your idea Kenan.

Albums I need to revisit for various reasons:

Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
Ornette Coleman - Shape of Jazz to Come
The Stooges - Fun House
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
Radiohead - Kid A
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions...
Pink Floyd - Dark Side
all Pedro the Lion and Death Cab (but esp. Control and Photo Album, respectively)
Modest Mouse - Moon & Antarctica
Leonard Cohen - New Skin
Jump, Little Children - Vertigo
Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Interpol - Antics
Husker Du - Zen Arcade
Gram Parsons - GP/Grievous Angel & Byrds' Sweetheart of the Rodeo
The Go! Team album
Ghostface - Supreme Clientele
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Fugazi - Red Medicine
Frames - For the Birds
Elvis Costello - Armed Forces
Elliott - False Cathedrals
Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
Bowie - Scary Monsters
Constantines - Shine a Light
Clem Snide - Soft Spot

And yes, that is in roughly backwards alphabetical order. This is for my own archival purposes, mostly. Apologies for not just creating a Word doc.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 06:00 (nineteen years ago)

Attention: The YSI Crew

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 6 April 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

Probably smart.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

A guy in the cafeteria just referred to drinking at home as "a home game." As in, "You're eating a lot of starch there. Did you go out last night?" "Nah, it was a home game. Just as dangerous."

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

Starch, eh?

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 April 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

Phil, I would love to hang out with you more but you always seem to do things that are hard for tired old people like me to stay up late enough for. Don't any of these "DJs" ever play from like, 7 - 10? I could manage that, even with a morning class.

I want to make an announcement here: With God as my witness, I will not be on the board of the d3p4ul w0m3n's bar ass0ciation chapter next year. If you hear me say that I will, remind me of 8:40 am on April 6 and how many people I want to strangle right now and how busy I will be next year with work and a clinic and if that doesn't work: dart in the neck.

Thanks.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 April 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

OH AND DAVE

People miss posts. It happens. I mean, I quoted Dr. Octagon up there and nobody picked up on it. Tragic. I am honestly happy for you for the award and the job (but honestly, the big bold caps make me want to not respond just out of spite). Anyway, poetry award! Good stuff.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 April 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

It especially happens when there are 1000 new posts by morning and 3/4 of them are about arcane capitalization rules.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

And 1/1000th of them feature the gorgeous Rachel Ray at what looks like an art opening.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

Shampain

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

the gorgeous Rachel Ray

Not so much in that photo, though.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

Gorgeous? She's cute at best. She looks like someone who was popular in high school.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

I'm torn by that picture. It's a "bad" picture of her, but somehow that makes it one of the most attractive ones I've seen.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

She looks like she's been licking the cake batter a little too much.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

Well, it's kind of that she's cute instead of gorgeous that makes her gorgeous. Dorm monitor style. I don't want to overstate the case, though.

Hey, I just saw this over on ILM:
I'd not really been paying much attention to ILM for the past, well, couple of years. Having recently started paying more attention to things I've noticed this whole YSI thing and I'm not really very comfortable with it.

It is now forbidden to post links to downloadable Copyrighted music files on ILX without explicit written approval from the Copyright holder.

I ask the moderators to delete any such links or filesharing-oriented threads.

I am sorry. I know how great it must be for all of you to enjoy what you've been enjoying, but I am simply not going to put myself in a position where I am potentially liable for any kind of legal repercussions. Take it somewhere else.

-- Andrew (n...), April 6th, 2006. (4 trackbacks)

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno, I don't think of Rachel Ray as "gorgeous", but then she's not the kind of pretty I like (which is funny, because I'm sort of that type, too, so OF COURSE I don't like it). She's an annoyingly-voiced perky little muffin with chipmunk cheeks -- if you like that kind of thing then HIT IT.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

By the butter rolls.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

And she has ALWAYS looked like she's been hitting the cake batter, because she is SHORT and NOT A WAIF and HEY, when you're under 5'4" there are only so many places to put that stuff.

Apparently I am all about the riot act today. Maybe I can use that steely determination to get some shit done around here.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

She looks like she's been licking the cake batter a little too much.

Exactly.

(nb I've never seen her show, just pics)

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

Rachel Ray may be pretty, but she's so fucking annoying and her shows are based on such utter bullshit (30 minute meals if someone else washes all your vegetables and does all your dishes and 40 dollars a day if you tip my like fuckig 89 year old grandfather, for fuck's sake) that she can go straight to hell and fuck herself.

Yes OTM Laurel, HIT IT. No, literally. Hit it.

oooo and OTM about short ladies and cake batter, etc.

And Jeff, I'm giving you the wife look about what you're thinking of posting about Rachel Ray. I'm not saying you can't post it, just know that somewhere I'm sitting there give you the wife look.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

xp - Yeah, I saw that too. Doesn't really affect me much, since I don't frequent YSI threads or even know what people are asking for 7/8 of the time but I am worried that I haven't posted that thing about "for listening/appreciating purposes only" on our blog. I have to admit that I don't know how to do that. I only know how to create a post. :(

"perky little muffin" hehe. Laurel, you're the best when you're in this mood.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

Spam title of the morning: "Exhaustively midget".

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

Let's talk about Nigella Lawson again, instead.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

I won't comment on how attractive I think Rachel is, but I think she has some of the better cooking skillazz of the 2nd string of chefs with those 30 minute shows on food tv.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

The Rachel Ray re-mix goes "Put you on the counter, by the EVO..."

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, Jenny & Jeff. Oh gawd, I suppose us shorties are lucky SOMEONE likes perky muffins or we'd be awfully bored on a Friday night. But yeah, LAY OFF THE CAKE BATTER COMMENTS, OKAY? I know she looks hefty on tv in comparison to actresses chosen for having the hips of athletic 14-yr olds but I'm sure Ray is actually thinner than the "average" and perfectly fit and I don't wanna hear about it.

Besides, I follow her recipe for vodka sauce.

Hmm, XXXX (or so) P

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

EVO 2.0

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I mean, she's hardly hefty.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not saying another fucking word.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

this girl i'm kinda crushing on has some serious child birthing hips going on. she texted me last night to go to club foot but i didn't hear it and slept right through it. DANG!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.h5.dion.ne.jp/~nado/record/realbig.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://video.fosfor.se/nutrigrain-feel-great/

This is what made me laugh this morning. Yeah, it's a NutriGrain ad.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

Rachael Ray is teh cuetness.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

But Jenny OTM about non-30-minute-meals.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, it's a NutriGrain ad.

That's gloriously strange.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

She's an annoyingly-voiced perky little muffin with chipmunk cheeks -- if you like that kind of thing then HIT IT.

Yeah, see, I've still never seen her outside of ILX -- but this type has traditionally been one of my weaknesses.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

"Wonderwall" just came up on my Launchcast station. How on Earth was this song a hit? It's bleeding awful! That voice! That nasally bleat! You just want to kick him in the nads!
-- Gilbert O'Sullivan (fluxion2...), April 5th, 2006 12:19 PM. (kenan) (later) (link)

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

I like both the Mike Flowers Pops version and the Ryan Adams version.
-- jaymc (jmcunnin...), April 5th, 2006 12:22 PM. (jaymc) (later) (link)

Those covers are now on the CHILX blog.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

Awesome.

I think the woman is the funniest part of that commercial. She really wants lots of babies.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

I can't watch the video at work. :(

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, the woman is totally the funniest. Like really scary in a way that makes me think she'd be a fun person to hang out with in real life.

(but honestly, the big bold caps make me want to not respond just out of spite)
Yeah, mucho apologies for that. I was just feeling needy, I guess. Thank you for being patient with me, and may I just say...

BLUE FLOWERRRRSSSS....

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

Supersonic Bionic Robot Voodoo Power

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

RE: Rachel Ray, her body type is actually kind of my style (i.e. thicker, i.e. Laurel OTM about celebrities with the hips of athletic 14 year olds). My problem with her is that she looks too much like one of the brunette volleyball players trying to be like the blonde non-athletes/cheerleaders at my high school (i.e. a little too tan, maybe too broad of shoulders, and a look on her face). And this is not to say I have any problem with brunettes. In fact, I've only dated brunettes, but not of this type.

xp: Doo-Doo (X 1000)

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

When will the bank just realize that YES I KNOW MY ACCOUNT IS OVERDRAWN and NO I AM NOT GOING TO PAY FOR IT ANYTIME SOON.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

i didn't mean it, phil.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

CHILX BLOG, I COMMAND THEE TO WORK

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Btw, I listened to that T.I. track again this morning and I liked it better, esp. the buzzy saw wave doubling the bassline. I think the problem is that it's not a flashy track (at least as far as the rap goes), so it doesn't stand up very well to tons of hype.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

THANKS

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

That should have been an xpost to myself

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

Yooper bedroom pop on the blog for those interested...

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

Can't. Keep. Up.

Anyway, GREAT BIKE ATTACK FLYER, gib.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

I have a bottle of champagne (real thing from trip to France) on top of my fridge. Should I keep it in the freezer or are you just supposed to put it there right before you know you're going to open it??

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

Cool, Dan, I will dl tonight.

The 0ptimistic starts rehearsing tomorrow, which is cool, but who has band practice on a Friday evening? Honestly.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

I've always been against Fri or Sat night band practices, though I know other bands that do it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah I am no bubbly expert and I'm sure someone around here is, but I think you're supposed to keep it mildly cool and dark (aka "root cellar") until prior to serving, then cool by immersion in a bucket of ice water (something about the way the heat is conducted out by that method). Beyond that, I really couldn't say.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

Friday night is when shit HAPPENS. Even if I don't go out until later on (or at all), I'm going to be in a good mood and I want to meet Maddie at home and make a nice dinner. Oh well, I guess I'll try to lobby for change.

I listened to Cats Not D0gs (the band we're going to be playing shows with) on mice pace this morning. They sound really good in kinda of a throwback Nirvana kind of way.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

I tried having band practice this Friday night, but it didn't work out.

John's right - best to store the bubbly (or any wine) in a dark place where the temperature is the most consistent - like the back of a closet. In the back of the fridge wouldn't be bad, unless you kept it there for years, in which case the vibration might hurt it.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

hey, so what night is the ff/shrx show? friday or saturday? i didn't see any flyers between damen/north and my place yesterday.

oh, and nick/sarah/anyone who might know; some friends of mine from lincoln will be in chicago memorial day weekend and are looking to play a show sunday. thus far they haven't had any luck so i suggested perhaps ice factory but don't know who/how to contact them. any help?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

John's right

I said nothing of the sort! That would've been far too practical of a comment for me. (You mean Laurel.)

By the way -- remember how we were talking about Coolio vs. Stevie Wonder? I found this bit on my high-school journal blog (which I updated today):

So check this out. I'm sitting at home, writing up my psychology notes for the final, right? and I'm listening to the 33 record of Stevie Wonder's "Songs in the Key of Life." I'm on what must be the fourth side (it's a double album) when these stringed instruments kick in, at first only vaguely familiar, and then my God! It's "Gangsta's Paradise" right there on the record, thinly disguised as a ditty called "Pastime Paradise." Okay, forgive me if you knew that Coolio copped off Stevie, but it was a shock to me.

This was in December 1995.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Haha Eazy, aren't you in a band of one?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

And young jaymc was never the same again. xpost

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

OMG I just found a comment on that blog from a girl I knew in high school who wrote in to say that she had changed her mind about Tricky a year after she said she didn't like "Black Steel"!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

Usually a band of one, but Monday I'm playing w/ violin and piano (both courtesy of 'nasta) and on electric guitar, and I'm guessing that's how I'll record the next batch of songs this year.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 6 April 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

Cool.

(get one drums!)

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

So last night? I got EXFOLIATED.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Thursday, 6 April 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

I wish we'd had more time to fully arrange the songs, but I demo-ed them solo electric this week.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 6 April 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

Otto, the FF/sharks show is Saturday night.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Thursday, 6 April 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

otto: show is Sat.

and, w/r/t Friday practice: we've got one tomorrow! evening, though, followed by partytimes.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 6 April 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

cool, i may or may not be there. which, i guess, i could say about paris too.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 April 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

We'll always have Ronny's.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

It is time.

Chicago: It's De-Lovely!

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

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― qd3n1FhelZ, Monday, 17 April 2006 00:52 (nineteen years ago)

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