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― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

Now I'm off to lunch. Play nice.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

I thought you had retired?

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

(from starting new threads)

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

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― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

boooooooooooo

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 6 April 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

I retired from picking album covers. But I'll try my hand at this new thing. Let's see if I'm any good at it.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

boooooooooooo

I said play nice! You get a time-out.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

I can boooo michael jordan if I want to. I booed him when he was on the jumbotron at the bulls game!

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 6 April 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

Really now. Why would you boo Jordan? Would you boo Santa Claus?

I have yet to find anything like a quick bite to eat between 12 and 1 downtown. There is no quick at all, only lines, and then more lines. You spend 20 minutes in line most places, and for what? A sandwich. A freakin' sandwich.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

The Oasis Cafe on Wabash near Washington, back of the jewelers' mart.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 6 April 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

Ah. Other side of the loop for me. I'm at Wacker and Munroe. I have the choices of Potbelly, which makes me a little tense, or Subway, which I settled on today, or any of a dozen places that are really expensive.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

I want to be having long, sit-down, expense account lunches that involve wine and veal. That's the dream. That's where I want to be headed.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

I've mentioned this before Kenan, but I used to temp at Wacker and Jackson, and in that building there is the Venice Cafe, which has decent pizza, calzones, salads, and assorted italian entrees at what seemed like decent prices. It's sort of a non-chain version of Sbarro's. They have booze too.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

I do not understand why office culture dictates that the women should every now and again bring in some really crappy grocery store brand "treats" for everyone to munch on. Everyone says it's nice, but it strikes me as almost rude. It's like, "Here. I went to the least possible amount of effort for these. Now tell me I'm great and considerate."

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

MY LOVE CANNOT BE BOUGHT WITH A FLOURY UNDERCOOKED LEMON TART.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, spare me the Entemann's doughnuts.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

I do understand the impulse, I guess. At my last office, there was a produce wholesale place a block away, and sometimes I would come in with $5 worth of fruit, which is enough for everyone. It always went really fast. Because, you know, who wouldn't like a pear? Man, I'd like a pear right now. To get the cardboard-with-icing taste out of my mouth.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

perhaps someone appreciates both the "crappy treats" as well as the thought and effort, no matter how small, that went into bringing them to work.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

No, it's nice, I guess. I know, I'm being crabby. (Too much sugar.) I guess my complaint really centers around the quality of the offerings. This stuff is... not good.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

It's the crap their kids won't eat.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

I like office treats. It's nice when you're dragging in the middle of the afternoon and lo and behold, there's a tub of cookies next to the printer.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

We get free cokes. That's awful nice. It's the perfect pick-me-up after lunch.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

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― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

Oh lord, Strictly Ballroom. That movie came out while I was in Australia.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

Why can't I remember that I don't like "wraps"? (Because I was distracted by the word "portabella," that's why.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

As did Romper Stomper. 91-92 was a banner year for Aussie cinema. xpost

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

What is it about "wraps" that you don't like?

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

Catching up:

I don't really like champagne all that much. Anything that is alcohol + sweetness + bubbles is generally bad news for my stomach, although rum & cokes have never been a problem. I'm thinking more like wine coolers or cider or drinks of that ilk.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

I like Entenmann's donuts!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

The tortilla. By themselves, flour tortillas are kind of disgusting. I can't really explain this, and I didn't used to feel this way until recently -- but esp. when you take a bite and it's mostly tortilla, yuck.

I could totally go for a muffin right about now.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

i love the occasional effervescent champagne drunk. it's been a while. last time was probably when i was in memphis, me and my friend chris split a bottle of bubbly in the record store. and chased it with jim beam. that was a long day.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

Man, last day at old job is getting weird. Neither of my bosses is here, so I'm effectively peacing out for them to come in and find me gone. And the other offer was so quick I can't even give two weeks' notice. Best thing about leaving though: not having to talk to/deal with the constantly condescending/crabby/tired African girl I work with. Not that the African part is SO important, but since I dislike her for valid reasons, I can then get irritated by her awkward syllabic stresses.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

when you take a bite and it's mostly tortilla, yuck

OTM. This exactly the reason I figured you'd give. Close second: when you take a bite and it's mostly dressing/mustard/whatever.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

jaymc otm about bites of pure tortilla. Especially when that part of the tortilla is a little bit moist and gummy. Blech.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

What's the practical advantage of the wrap, anyway? Is it just like a sandwich in convenient tube form? Were people really clamoring for this?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

Wow! This press release for a job-oriented talk really gets me going! Okay! Tell me all about it! I'm all ears!

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― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

J: a muffin or a , y'know, muffin?

Eeewww. I'm pretty sure that tortillas, as purchased, are basically half raw, and meant to be cooked or baked or whatev during food prep. This fact is completely unconcealable with corn tortillas which is probably why wraps etc are made with flour ones...but they're not much better.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, here are my thoughts on your catching up albums:

YES, BY ALL MEANS, CATCH UP ON THESE ALBUMS (in descending order of awesomeness)
The Stooges - Fun House (IMO, the best American rock album ever)
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions... (I prefer Fear of a Black Planet, but mainly due to nostalgia)
Fugazi - Red Medicine (my pick for their best)
Spoon - Kill the Moonlight (though it's only their fourth-best album)
Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I (I'm not sure how well this would stand up to someone who hadn't heard it before, I think nostalgia plays a big part on this one too)
Radiohead - Kid A
Ghostface - Supreme Clientele

DON'T BOTHER, THESE SUCK (in descending order of suckiness)
Modest Mouse - Moon & Antarctica (In the Lonesome Crowded West is their only album that I rate, personally)
Husker Du - Zen Arcade

I AM NOT FAMILIAR ENOUGH WITH THESE ALBUMS TO COMMENT
Jimmy Eat World - Clarity *
Ornette Coleman - Shape of Jazz to Come
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
Pink Floyd - Dark Side *
all Pedro the Lion and Death Cab (but esp. Control and Photo Album, respectively)
Leonard Cohen - New Skin
Jump, Little Children - Vertigo *
Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Interpol - Antics *
Gram Parsons - GP/Grievous Angel & Byrds' Sweetheart of the Rodeo
The Go! Team album
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Frames - For the Birds
Elvis Costello - Armed Forces *
Elliott - False Cathedrals
Bowie - Scary Monsters
Constantines - Shine a Light
Clem Snide - Soft Spot

* - I haven't heard, but I'm guessing based on unfounded prejudices that they aren't worth the trouble

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sorry, Dave, not Dan.

Fuck the tortilla haterz.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

If you work in the publishing industry and related fields and don't know what those are about, you're fucked and no seminar will un-fucked you.

xpost: those are Dave's catching up albums. But I like many of them too!

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

J: a muffin or a , y'know, muffin?

You ain't seen nothin' till you're down on the muffin.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't know it was possible to have not heard Dark Side of the Moon.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

We're not getting into another brawl about Husker Du over here, but DON'T LISTEN TO NICK. Zen Arcade is great. THE END. I'm not responding to any of those others because I don't have all day.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

I've probably heard parts of it here and there, but never the whole thing.

HOW WOULD I HAVE HEARD etc.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooourns

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

DON'T BOTHER, THESE SUCK (in descending order of suckiness)
Modest Mouse - Moon & Antarctica (In the Lonesome Crowded West is their only album that I rate, personally)

Boo. M&A is great. ("that I rate" -- what are you, Britishes?)

Husker Du - Zen Arcade

Yay!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

Nick, I actually know/have heard all of those albums, and part of my reasons for reassessing them include my nostalgia for them (yes, including Emergency & I).

I think End Hits might be the best Fugazi album.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

I like Kill Taker a lot, too.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

i was all set to echo nick's thought on fun house until i read the zen arcade thing.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

I think End Hits might be the best Fugazi album.

I agree.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

Otto and I are shaking our fists at you -- both of you! -- RIGHT NOW.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, yeah, I could totally make a longer list of stuff I haven't heard and need to. But I have heard all those albums.

xp: re: Kill Taker.. hmm, okay. I'll go back to it.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, you know, I don't think I've actually heard Red Medicine, though I've heard a couple of the songs -- so I am reserving judgment.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

I feel sick from that goddamn wrap.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

moon & antarctica was the one that totally killed any remaining interest i had in modest mouse. i thought it was a really limp album.

xpost- i did just actually shake a fist so as not to make a liar out of the milkmaid.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

WRONG, it's Red Medicine.

My new annoying thing to do in band practice is to imitate both Ian Mackaye and Guy Piccioto. I think my Guy is better than my Ian though. Sometimes Ben and I play fake Fugazi songs. He needs a bell though.

THIS IS MY BIRTHDAY PONY, THIS IS MY BIRTHDAY PONY

At least we can all agree that nu-Fugazi is better than old-Fugazi, except for probably Amanda and Otto (haw)

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

From amg, re:Kill Taker -- "It's probably Fugazi's least digestible record from front to back."

SIGN ME UP.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

So wait... Nick, you like Telephono better than Moonlight?

xp: re wrap... :(

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to hook up the cassette player so I can listen to Red Medicine.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

keep talking smack nick and i'll punch you in the ovaries.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

About as digestible as a wrap.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

The heavy-handedness of the non-concert/interview documentary footage from Instrument kind of cooled me on the Fu. Those "arty" shots can fuck off.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

*pow* right in the baby maker.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

No love for Steady Diet of Nothing or Repeater? I think Red Medicine is by far the weakest. Wild.

xpost: Count me in with the oldies! :) Although End Hits has a special place in my heart.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

Nick's favorite Spoon albums:

1. A Series of Sneaks
2. Gimme Fiction
3. Telephono
4. Kill the Moonlight
5. Girls Can Tell

Yes?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

Add Fugazi to the list of bands you could cover that would make me automatically appear at your show.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, for some reason I was thinking 4th meant 5th (i.e. 4 albums ahead of it).

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

Yes catch up on:

Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Gram Parsons - GP/Grievous Angel & Byrds' Sweetheart of the Rodeo

WRONG, it's Red Medicine.

NICK OTM FOR REAL. Except he's totally wrong about Husker Du and Modest Mouse.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

Son of a bitch. No posting end italic tags I guess.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

I see End Hits as an improvement on Red Medicine, i.e. it has less wonky (wanky/skronky) parts.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

And A Series of Sneaks is the only Spoon that I like* so nyah.

*But I like it so much it might make up for not liking the others.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

Also, 13 Songs and The Argument both have very special places in my heart. The sheer earnestness of the former inspires me in a way similar to The Minutemen (and you don't wanna get me started on them).

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

Whew! The lightning pace is really fun.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know that much about music.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

BOOOOOOOOOOO

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

Spoon - Kill the Moonlight (though it's only their fourth-best album)

This is madness. It's my favorite by a fucking landslide.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

boo hoo hoo

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

I will not be goaded into arguing on the internet about 20-some different albums at the same goddamn time.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

haha

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

OTM Jordan, although maybe only by a rainstorm for me.

xp: Aw c'mon!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

I like 13 Songs a lot, too.

You know what was the nail in my Spoon-love coffin? That Fitted Shirt song. I hate that song so much that I pretty much wrote off everything else after that. Plus I thought that album was a stone cold bore.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, John nailed my Spoon rankings. I like them all except Girls Can Tell.

I like Instrument! I think it's one of the better rock docs of recent years!
I haven't heard End Hits in a while.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

NO.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

Of the three I've heard (i.e., not the first two), Girls Can Tell is my favorite, I think. "Everything Hits at Once" and "Chicago at Night" are both awesome. (Okay, "Fitted Shirt" is stupid, I agree.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

Has anyone else seen the Jaguar commercial with "I Turn My Camera On" as the background music?

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

Girls Can Tell is fucking boring, and Fitted Shirt sounds exactly like Everclear, but they've gotten back on track since then, or I've gotten older, or both.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

JOHN, I FEEL YOU ON THE WRAPS. I had one from my normally excellent deli a few months ago and it was bland and vaguely sickening. I threw it away and haven't eaten one since.

My favorite Spoon albums:

1. Kill the Moonlight
.
2. Girls Can Tell
.
.
.
3. A Series of Sneaks
4. Gimme Fiction
5. Telephono

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

I kinda like Fitted Shirt.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

That's because you long for the days they used to say ma'am and yes sir.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

Or I just like odd times and have trouble buying shirts.

This thread reminds me that I've been meaning to buy The Argument for years, because it is my favorite out of all the Fugazi albums I don't own.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

I don't have a favorite Spoon album, since I they they're all spotty, and whatever, Spoon is kind of a mid-level band anyway. Nothing special going on there, just the occasional catchy tune.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

And because you're a dork.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, I tend to agree with you about Spoon. And I *heart* Jordan and don't really think you're a dork.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

I very much like Fitted Shirt. Some cool panned vocals in there.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

No, it's okay, I am.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

And I don't think I've found anyone to agree with me re: Instrument, so I feel a little bit crazy, but that fucker is too long!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan OTM. They could have put out about half as many albums and have had quite a legacy. There's a lot of filler there. But, there are some very good ones too.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

My Spoon list, if I had to make one, would resemble Jordan's. I put on "Telephono" the other day because it was in a pile of crap that I was trying to clean up, and remembered why it ended up in a pile of crap. It was like, "Well now, don't we wish we were the Pixies!"

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

Or I just like odd times

Do you mean like the antiquated days of yesteryear, or the fact that it's in 3/4?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, to turn the conversation away from dorky things like "rock and roll" and toward much cooler things like vitamins that you disolve in water and then drink, the buy-one-get-one competing brand to Emergen-C is NO GOOD. It's not fizzy, despite having the word "fizz" right there in its name.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

Um...both? But mostly the latter. Although I remember it being in 7 or something. Haven't heard it in awhile.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

I'm still convinced that ingesting mega-doses of vitamins leads to retroactive birth defects.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

I enjoy rock and roll, but Spoon bores me to tears.

I like generic CVS-brand Airborne.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

I've been trying to find this one kind of chewable vitamin C for years, because it tastes like (better than!) Sweet Tarts. Once I ate a whole bottle of them as a kid because they tasted so good.

um...xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

My fingers are fusing together into flippers as we speak.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

Man, Spoon is one of the first bands I remember playing nonstop for a while. I think we might actually be having friction based on the fact that I am the youngest.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

My fingers are fusing together into flippers as we speak.

thalidomide is NOT a vitamin.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

That's not what they told my mom...

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

I think we might actually be having friction based on the fact that I am the youngest.

That's it. Let's settle this once and for all. EVERBODY LINE UP BY AGE AND HEIGHT.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

Modest Mouse:
1. This is a long drive for someone with nothing to think about
2. The moon and antarctica
3. Lonesome Crowded West
4. How to build nothing out of something
5. Everything else

Fugazi:
1. Red Medicine
2. Steady diet of nothing
3. Repeater
4. In on the kill taker
5. Everything else

Spoon:
1. Kill the Moonlight
2. Series of Sneaks
3. Everything else

Husker Du:
Nothing.

I had matzo ball soup for lunch.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

I got EXFOLIATED last night.

I am HUNG OVER today.

I went to CLARKS ON CLARK.

I met my crush-boy, door-boy from Big Chicks there. He is still hot and still an ordinary Midwest dude. He is dating a bear who exfoliates him. He broke my heart.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

i don't think i'm the oldest or tallest but i wonder who's on my right and left.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

I think I might be the shortest.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

How can I be in the middle and at the end at the same time? (21, 5' 11")

Jesse: :(

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

Mandy Moore is the tallest. ;-)

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

i think sarah might be the tallest.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff! Did you get the matzoh ball soup from Ada's? Was it wonderful?

Dan f'n M is pretty f'n tall.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

You guys are dumb, Spoon are awesome. Just because they weren't particularly original or groundbreaking doesn't mean dude can't write a hell of a song. I agree Telephono is a little spotty, but Series of Sneaks and the new one are almost wall to wall hits (I think there's like one song on each I don't like (30 Gallon Tank and Was It You?, respectively)). I think the Kill the Moonlight love is a little weird because it seems like such an obvious transitionary album, and not really in a good way. There's some good tunes on there too though.

BUT I WILL NOT ARGUE ABOUT SPOON ON THE INTERNET.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff OTM re: Spoon and matzah ball soup.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

29 yrs; 5' 3.5"

I have never heard Spoon.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, at Ada's. I also got bagel and lox, so I ate too much.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

I'm 5'6" and 30

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

Nick, you started it!

30, 5'2"

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah is 5' 11'', so she's at most tied with Dave.

I think I'm solidly in the lower-middle range in terms of both age and height.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

31, 5'11"

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

Nick OTM re: being cool. Gimme Fictions!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

i'm 5' 6" and 19 years old.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

Kev, really?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

26, 6'.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not the youngest?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

(this is fucking stupid)

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

Nick is going to yell at us for comparing ages, since we do that whenever we see each other for some reason. But we haven't done heights yet.

I'm 27 and 5'8".

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not the shortest? ;)

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

Kev, really?

no, i'm closer to 5' 7"

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

Here's my wild guess at age rank:

Eric
Jenny
Kevin
Kenan
Amanda
Jesse
Laurel
Sarah
Kelsey
Julia
Dan
John
Nick
Jeff
Evan
Jordan
Jocelyn
Dave

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

I would happily eat Ada's mb soup and their low-fat junior chicken salad plate for lunch every day.

I'm 46 and 5'4.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

Jocelyn doesn't even post on here anymore, does she?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

the only one i figured to be older than me was eric. maybe. probably.

xpost, and uhm, nutsy i guess.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

Jay, you are unbelievable and I think that's just great.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not 46.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

I LOOOOVVVEEE Spoon. I think they're one of the best pop bands ever. There, I said it.

My Spoon preferences:
1- Telephono
2- Series of Sneaks
3- Kill The Moonlight
4- Girls Can Tell
5- Gimme Fiction

So, I guess in my eyes they've only gotten worse (but still not half bad!).

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know, Otto, you might be older than her -- I don't remember everything.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

Age (so far):

Kenan
Jesse/Amanda
Laurel
Jeff
Dave
Kevin (really?)

Height (so far):

Jeff
Kenan/Dave/Sarah
Jesse/Kevin
Laurel
Amanda

with Nick somehow in the middle of us all!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

I told you I was the shortest, Laurel!
5'2" in the heezy.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

The DM is much taller than i.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

no, i'm actually 33 and 6' 2".

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

Kevin (really?)

You realize half of his stories involve getting wasted at various bars around town? Either that's a really good fake ID, or...

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

Well, that was shot to hell pretty quick. Liars all!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

I am 28.
I am 5'11.
Otto, you're TOTALLY taller than me, right?
I mean TOTALLY.
xpost - See? I was right.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

Otto takes the prize for being old and tall.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

ILx -- height Vs. shoe size

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

Otto is a full foot taller than I am. (Remember that at the Joos show and don't stand in front of me!)

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

i lost both my legs below the knee in a gardening accident in high school, my height depends on which prosthetics i wear on any given day. my height ranges from 4' 10" to 6' 8" (i only wear those when i'm playing hoops).

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

Nick is 26. He will be 27 on May 15th. You should all start looking around for that perfect, meaningful present.

I honestly don't know how tall he is though... 5'8"?

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

I'm 56 and 30"

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

(Remember that at the Joos show and don't stand in front of me!)

i'm very aware of shorter people at shows. the girl i'll be with is only about 5' 4" or 5' 5" and her pet peeve was people standing in front of her.

with luck i'll find myself a bar stool and plant my ass on it while she soaks up the warm jooey goodness.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

28 & 6'5" (and worth the climb)

Aaaaand I'm going to go shoot myself now for making that joke.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

Shoe size: 9-1/2 (or so I thought, but when I bought 2 pair of shoes last week I had to buy 10's!)

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

I actually don't have legs though. That's all torso, baby.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

Take it to the shoe-size thread.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

That's okay, Dan -- people like you are the reason curbs were invented. Haha, xxp.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

Age (so far):

Kevin
Kenan
Jesse/Amanda
Laurel
Sarah/Dan
John
Nick
Jeff
Dave

Height (so far):

Dan
Kevin
Jeff
Kenan/Dave/Sarah
John/Nick
Jesse
Jenny
Laurel
Amanda

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

seriously though, eric's older than me right?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

I liked that joke, Dan! But I like all things tall.

I'm not 5'4" either. And Otto, when is your birthday? Because without the finessing measurement of months, we will never know who is older.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

1-11-73

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

And I think that might actually be right! Excuse my pettiness and easy amusement.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

Aw shit, Jenny! xpost

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

I'm pretty sure curbs were invented to keep cars from driving on the sidewalk.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

73? Wait. Am I 34?

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

I want to be friends with someone who's 6' 5". He could be my tall pal. He could beat up my enemies. I would feed him pretzels and steak! It would be great.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan is a bit of a young'n, if I'm not mistaken. Compared to the rest of us fogies, that is.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

Actually I take that back about the curbs; somewhere around the 1-foot difference, you need an actual flight of stairs.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

seriously though, eric's older than me right?

Yeah, he was born in August '70.

...

I didn't get the curb joke, either.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

Because I am not ready to be 34 until November.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

He could beat up my enemies. I would feed him pretzels and steak! It would be great.

you've obviously never seen the movie my bodyguard. it will end badly.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah is a few months older than Dan, by the way.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

I understand shorter people getting annoyed at taller people in front of them, as it even happens to yours truly sometimes, BUT (watch out! big rant!) I also think that if you get to a show earlier and are willing to stand up front by the stage through all the crappy opening bands, you deserve to be able to continue standing there to watch your favorite band without shorter people who came later making comments about your height behind you the whole time.

In sum, that is my pet peeve. Even when I stand towards the side/front, I inevitably hear some girl behind me whispering mean things. And then suddenly all the short girls seem to morph into this big mass of meanness behind me.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

phew, i hate being the oldest anywhere. though it happens with increasing regularity.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

i'm picking up what you're putting down sarah.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

Age (updated):

Eric
Jenny
Kevin
Kenan
Jesse/Amanda
Laurel
Sarah
Dan
John
Nick
Jeff
Dave

xpost No I have not. And I will never show him that movie either, so we can remain in perfect bliss forever!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

the girl i'll be with is only about 5' 4" or 5' 5" and her pet peeve was people standing in front of her.

And her turn ons are men who open doors for her. And her turn offs are people who are mean to animals.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

I also hate it when short girls push their way in front of me as if they deserve to be closer to the stage. If I wanted to be in the back of the room by the wall, I would have set myself up there.

Many a show has been ruined for me because of my height.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, okay, I will just say that KtM is not a transition (to what?) but the APEX OF CAREFULLY SCULPTED ROCK MINIMALISM. But I AM NOT ARGUING ABOUT CAREFULLY SCULPTED ROCK MINIMALISM ON THE INTERNET.

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

That was why I really enjoyed the one time I dated a girl who was 6" - all the other bullshit aside, it was really cool to be able to kiss without bending down.

xpost to Sarah: OTfuckingM. You should meet my friend Adam Rolland. He is 6'6" and has a great rant all lined up about tall people down front at shows.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't get the curb joke, either.

For making out without a milk crate.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan OTM, and tall people OTFunny

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

And her turn ons are men who open doors for her. And her turn offs are people who are mean to animals.

actually her turn ons were people named kevin she didn't live with and her turn off were people named kevin with whom she lived.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

Why would you make out with a milk crate? That sounds uncomfortable.

And now I join Dan in lame joke prison. But I will be ordering in for pretzels and steak.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

Also btw, Jesse is a few months older than Amanda.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

Man, Now I'm all worked up over nothing. Big Breaths. Big Breaths. Here we go.

xpost - So funny, but sad.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

(May '75 vs. Aug '75)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

Don't be sad. I'm happy with my milkcrate and bodyguard.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

Additionally, when I was 8 I had surgery that, if my doctor is to be believed, stunted my growth.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

Age (updated):

Eric
Jenny
Kevin
Kenan
Jesse
Amanda
Laurel
Sarah
Dan
John
Nick
Jeff
Dave

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

Btw I'm 24 and 5'8".

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

Tall people you can have the front of the venue but just don't wear big hats in movie theaters!

Okay, I did the math. I'm 33. I will turn 34 two months before Otto. Phew.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

Now all we need is Jenny's height and a way to differentiate between the slashes and we're good. Or wait, we need Eric's height too.

ope. xpost.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

A hilarious story from my housemate:

so yesterday on the train i was doing the normal standing around aloof listening to headphones when suddenly this girl tapped me on the shoulder. i turned around all surprised (she was pretty hott), smiled (because of the hottness), took off my headphones and said smoothly "how can i help YOU today?"
she replied,
"you've been standing on my foot"
...
i had to move to the other end of the train

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

So far my age predictions are right. The only person I'm really not sure about is Julia -- she seems like she's older than me but not by much.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

Haha! Awesome, Dan.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

Please note I'm putting a moratorium on OTM's. There is no way that so many people can be so on the money in one day, it's just not possible.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA at Dan.

The worst part is that I'm laughing at dear old Dan taking off his headphones and smooth talking a stranger on the train. HA!

Jeff totally OTM re OTM.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

Julia is right next to me, just four months older.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

Four months older than YOU?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

What if a sombrero is part of my heritage?

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

The worst part is that I'm laughing at dear old Dan taking off his headphones and smooth talking a stranger on the train. HA!

That was his housemate's story, though.

xpost, yes, impossible as it seems!

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

Age (with Jordan and Julia):

Eric
Jenny
Kevin
Julia
Kenan
Jesse
Amanda
Laurel
Sarah
Dan
John
Nick
Jeff
Jordan
Dave

Height (who are we missing?):

Dan
Kevin
Jeff
Kenan/Dave/Sarah
John/Nick/Jordan
Jesse
Jenny
Laurel
Amanda

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, it wasn't me (although I have no trouble imagining it happening to me) - it was my equally tall, equally awkward housemate. xpost Thanks Kenan.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

What if a sombrero is part of my heritage?

seriously. i mean those of you that know me know that my turban is part of me.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

What if a sombrero is part of my heritage?

hahaha

I wear a stovepipe hat wherever I go. It's my religion. Me and my kind worship Abe Lincoln.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

awesome, let's line up by age!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

How about NEAR the money?

The nice man I took home last night was 6'4". Can you imagine? And he was black. Can you imagine?

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

So we're just missing Eric and Julia for heights, and no idea if Jenny's is right or not.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

Your little bottom boy, Jesse?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds like a big bottom man.

BIG BOTTOMS
BIG BOTTOMS
TALK ABOUT MUDFLAPS MY GUY'S GOT 'EM

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

Just make sure it's a short-crowned sombrero, Seniorita Johnson.

For the last time, Jesse is the bottom. The catcher. The receiver. The wall socket. The fuck-ee.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

EXCEPT for recently, J.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

THE BIGGER THE CUSHION
THE SWEETER THE PUSHIN'

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

Dave -- you can definitely slot Kelsey in between Sarah and Dan. Sarah's birthday is in Sept. 77, Kelsey's is in Dec. 77, and Dan's is in Feb. (?) '78.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

I cannot be labelled. I'm not bottom man, I'm not a top man, I am something that you'll never understand.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

That totally rhymes and is an awesome rap song.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

And further more, I would die 4 U.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

xpost It's Prince. Paraphrased.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

Age (with Kels):

Eric
Jenny
Kevin
Julia
Kenan
Jesse
Amanda
Laurel
Sarah
Kelsey Minnesota
Dan
John
Nick
Jeff
Jordan
Dave

xp: Aw man! I know that song too. Obviously not well enough (or the verses at least).

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

Dave, if you know more about Jesse's sex life than I do... I am truly sorry for the burden that you must carry in this life time.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

Where's Evan today? He ought to be in this line-up procedural, too.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

Also, Jesse, I thank you for the Robyn the other day. I haven't listened to anything else for DAYS.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny, I guarantee you I don't. I just happen to always read every g-damn (thank you American Dreamz!) post of these threads.

Laurel, that was me a couple of months ago.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

I met her on Monday, twas my lucky bun day
You know what I mean
I love her each weekday, each velvety cheek day
You know what I mean

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

I'm still the shortest person here.

As far as being irritated that people stand in front of me at shows, I guess it's that I have smelled thousands of armpits and been elbowed in the boob (and face) so many times that it just seems like not that big of a deal to let a short person stand in front if it's just one, solitary, non-bitchy short person. (me)

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

Non-bitchy is the key. I'd let you stand in front.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

i've been out being a NORMAL PERSON since i'm no longer required, contractually, to sit by the computer all day.

...i fall squarely in the middle of the line-up, i should think, both age- and height-wise.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

And then I discovered Annie. And I was never the same.

xp: the delivery is just too good...

"You know what... I .. meeean."

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

Good for you, Evan. Don't get bored!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

So today the People's Energy guy came to light the pilots and he sure enough looked into my bedroom and saw Tom, the 6' black dude lying NAKED ON MY BED. I LOLed.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

"lucky bun day."

John, you are crazy for not liking this movie. There, I said it.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

the bigger the waistband
the deeper the quicksand
or so i have heard...

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

Also, a lot of people can see straight over my head, whereas I cannot see through your torsos.

Not liking Spinal Tap seems impossible to me. I still laugh at the Stonehenge scene, even when I think about it.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

Stop wasting my time.
You know what I want.
You know what I need.
Or maybe you don't.
Do I have to come right flat out and tell you everything?
Gimme some money.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

I agree.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

"or maybe you don't"
hahahahahhaahah

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

Don't get me wrong
Try getting me right
Your face is ok but your purse is too tight

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

I would say Christopher Guest and Best in Show in particular is partially responsible for my decision to actively pursue improv.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

Not that we were talking about BiS at all.

all the way home *all the way home*

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

Waiting for Guffman > Best in Show

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

nope.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

FITE

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

C'mon, Guffman is the best movie of all time.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

I agree with Dave. Surprisingly.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

(250 new answers in just under 3 hours. Good job team!)

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, any link to the buddyhead review of your friend's album available? I can't find the review section of the site. I'm excited to hear this.

xp: nope. no it's not. It's good, but Christopher Guest's character is so much better in Best in Show.

haha, Jeff, surprised you agree with me or suprised about which movie you like better?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

However, Fred Willard is best in Mighty Wind, which is a very key piece of my enjoyment of that one. Probably the weakest.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

I agree with Jeff.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

He's not OTM though.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

The Guest character is better in Best in Show. So warm and sweet and dumb. And Parker Posey is unbelievably great. "BUSY BEE! BUSY BEE!"

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

harlan pepper.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

Best in Show was Courtney and my first date.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

"Pine nuts, White Macademia Nuts, all natural Red Macademia Nuts."

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

One reason why Guffman is better than both Best in Show and A Mighty Wind is that most of the characters frequently interact with each other in a cohesive group -- even though there are the talking-head interview segments as well, there is less of the solitary focus in the latter films, where characters are followed separately before meeting up in the middle. The only parts that feel off in Guffman in this regard are the David Cross and Paul Dooley U.F.O. monologues -- although Cross's is pretty funny.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

I searched up and down for the review, but couldn't find it. Also, he appears to have changed the name of the "band" to simply "Windmill." xxxpost

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmm... okay.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

Also, "bastard people" = the Ralph Wiggum of Guffman = the not all-that-funny line that nevertheless gets quoted more than anything else

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, so Sayjal (remember Sayjal?) she got a call back for a Sonic commercial, and get this: she got PAID for a call-back.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

No, I don't remember Sayjal. Who on earth is this wonderful creature?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

Wow! That's awesome. Sonic has some kinda good commercials, one of which featured the best improviser in Chicago (and another good guy from IO).

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

I do. She's cute. I've met her twice.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

I know, I was kidding.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

She's that girl who got a call-back for a Sonic commercial. And got paid for it, which is wacky. (I guess it is their way of generating material for the commercial without hiring expensive writers--get improv people to do it and pay them each a couple hundred bucks and then use actors for the actual commercial.)

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

Oh. Ooops.

Hey, Jesse - when is your birthday in May? Two of my very very bestest friends were born in May 1975 on the same day and I want to see if you were also born on that day.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

But I do have one question: What is Sonic?

http://www.acmi.net.au/experience/images/img_sonic_hedgehog01.jpg http://www.internationalbasketball.com/logo-nba-SeattleSupersonics.gif http://www.rres.ccs.k12.nc.us/images/Businesses/sonic.gif

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

May 12

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

one of which featured the best improviser in Chicago

Who are you considering the best improviser in Chicago? TJ Jagodowski?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

The latter (restaurant).

Also, Jesse, where does Sayjal improvise?

xp: Yes. Do you take exception?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

I am so fucking lazy. I am sofa king we todd did.

I don't want to go to work even though I'm barely working this week. I have the next 2 days off and I only worked 1 shift on Tues. asdflj;asldf;lks a;ljks ;ljk s;oi jfo;i uw

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

Sayjal improvises at Comedy Sportz and other places. Her team is American ....something.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

I feel you.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

I've actually never seen him perform -- I was just curious. I figured that's who you meant, since everyone else talks about him so highly.

Btw: C4n4st4 is going to be on the Late Night Late Show at IO on June 10.

And: Do Sonics even exist within a 100-mile radius of Chicago?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

Does she still show at the belmont playground?

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

Sayjal improvises at Comedy Sportz and other places. Her team is American ....something.

Not American Dream? Those are my peeps. They perform at IO.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, Sayjal.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

Her choice of self-starting music is approved, but music that starts upon opening web pages still sucks in general. Don't click that link, Kenan.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

May 12
They're on the 26th, but I have good feelings about the number 12.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

I would love to see Sayjal perform someday. Let me know if you go sometime, Jesse.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

Don't click that link, Kenan.

I'll click it after I turn my speakers off. Thanks for the hedz up.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

AMANDA ARE YOU FER REALZ?? LE 26 IS MINE, TOO. But in 1976, alas.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

May 26?!?!? NO WAY.

Fucking no WONDER I like you!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

May 26 is a very special date. VERY SPECIAL! Also the birthday of Diomedes Diaz, Colombian vallenato singer.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

She is cute. Does she like younger men? :-p

John, remind me about the late late night late time show as it gets closer. Also, I think TJ's great, but I just wanted to see if you had someone else better that I should go see. Also, TJ's 2-man show is only $5 at IO on Wednesdays. And the other guy is great too. Was in Groundhog Day AND Curb Your Enthusiasm.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

Her choice of self-starting music is approved

What is that, Crooked Fingers or some shit?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

Also Stevie Nicks!!

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse: May 12
Malcolm X: May 19
Laurel: May 26

Word.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

i have no idea why but i've had santa claus by the sonics stuck in my head all day.

best christmas song ever.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

Stevie Nicks? No WAY. A magical date indeed.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

you guys are old, btw.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

It's appropriate as Santa and Sonic were both mentioned.

xp: hahahahaha, OT...um, I agree, Evan.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

Screw you, kid.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

yes but i make up for that by being outrageously immature.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

:( There goes my Mandy connection! :)

otto: Word.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

I would say it's the best non-cover CF song. (That cover being "When U Were Mine.")

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

Screw you, kid.

seriously, he'll be crying in his milk when we're living on fat street off our aarp discounts years before he will. WE'LL SEE WHO'S LAUGHING THEN!!!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

[i am not trying to start a fite it's just that i am NOT OLD call me back when i'm 67 and still complaining about not being able to see at shows]

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

Really? I thought I didn't mind Crooked Fingers, but that was pretty terrible. (Sorry Dan and Amanda.) :(

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

Whatever, screw you too.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

Meh, you like Waiting for Guffman and hate eggs. :)

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

actually, i am old. my body has really been deteriorating the past couple years and i'm still living like i'm 23. bound to catch up with me sooner or later and all signs are pointing to sooner.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

I feel Otto's pain. I'm still trying to do crazy shit like stay up late. It doesn't work for me like it used to.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think any of you are old. I think of you as anchors, strong as rocks washed upon a shore, which is life, made of gravel and old broken bottles that once held sweet nectar only the natives could truly enjoy because they were born with the equipment to acquire such a taste, a taste more beautiful than a rainbow made of mushrooms.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

the staying up late i can handle, it's what i'm doing in those waking hours that are nails in the coffin.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

hippie

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

I was just trying to see how far I could stretch a metaphor. I think I could have done better.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

Oooh, let's rank the Chicago thread by most to least hippie!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

I'm living like an old person now in hopes that I'll still be able to party in 20 yrs.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

a taste more beautiful than a rainbow made of mushrooms

This will be a track title on my first electronic album, which will be called The High Man In The Castle.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

I'm living like an old person now in hopes that I'll still be able to party in 20 yrs.
HIGH FIVE

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

The CJ, apparently, does not do much fact checking:

Saturday night with The Sharks

Chicago Journal contributing writer M4x Br00ks is not only a feature-writing fiend, he can tear off some mean power-pop guitar riffs. Brooks and a scruffy band of pals who graduated from Dartmouth College last year, now holed up in Logan Square, have dubbed themselves The Sharks and penned a bunch of wry, rough-around-the edges tunes that go nicely with cheap beer and ill-advised decisions. They’ll be opening for Fake Fictions at Ronny’s, 2103 N. California Ave., on Saturday, April 8; the show starts at 9:30 p.m. Word on the street is that Ronny will be roasting a pig in honor of the Sharks, so bring napkins.

And stay tuned, there may be other draws:

"My roommate might be tying an alleycat bike race that ends at Ronny’s into the evening’s festivities," Brooks said in an email late last week. "A totally insane comedian friend of ours may be MCing, but that’s not nailed down yet. These are all late-breaking developments." Sounds like rock and roll to us.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

Help me - I have no speakers. What CF song does Sayjal use on her myspace page?

Oh man, I don't want to hippie rank! Because I'm so not a hippie but I engage in so many dreadfully hippie practices that I'm sure I'll end up on top.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

i have a feeling that i'm a shoe-in for top hippy.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

The Sharks
Fake Fictions

Huh.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

I will repeat myself yet again: FUCK I wish I could go to that show!!!11!1`1``

xpost "New Drink for the Old Drunk" - and I think John needs to hear it on a real stereo and/or live before confirming it is shitty.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

No, Kelsey wins the hippie contest, hands down. I'd like to think I'm very near the bottom of the hippie list.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah I was going to say gbx and Nutsy and maybe Kelsey.

xpost -- Kenan, have you ever met Evan??

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

i'm so far at the other end of the hippie spectrum you need some special light bulb just to see me.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

And John doesn't match his socks, so he's a strong contender for the #2 spot.

Kenan, have you ever met Evan??

'Course. He's on the list, no doubt.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

And John doesn't match his socks, so he's a strong contender for the #2 spot.

You people know me all too well. This is creepy.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

Otto is a Hell's Angel.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Phish once.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

I am moving to MONTANA to be closer to CAMPING and SKIING and POT. I am about to prepare a mug of MISO.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

I am very much not a hippie.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

nah, i don't have the belly.
i was involved in a robbery perpetrated by the hell's angles once.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

Miso is good. So is skiing and pot. Camping is a tent too far.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

Kelsey and I are like the same person when it comes to hippie-similarities. And if we're taking past practices into account... I'm fucked. I sold grilled cheese on Dead tour for Christ's sweet sake. And homemade dresses and crocheted hats at Phish shows.

I didn't shave my armpits until right before Jeff and I started dating. And most then because Jeff and I were about to start dating.

New Drink for the Old Drunk is my favorite CF song. It's probably one of my top 50 favorite songs of all time. It speaks to me.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

Evan: Downhill, cross-country, or telemark?

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

I need some friends with a nice boat so I can go water skiing. That shit is mad fun.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

No one has ever called me a hippie.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

Also, ever go winter camping? QUINZEES, BITCHES

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

Downhill, tele if i can afford it.

also: i haven't worn any kind of deodorant/anti-p since 11th grade. i once went 6 months in college without using shampoo (showered every day, though)

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

i would looooooooove a grilled cheese sammich right now.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

xpost: Badass. Tele is where it's at.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

I 100% concur about water-skiing.. Pot is cool, and I have been known to shower infrequently, but I think the latter at least can fall into some other sort of classification other than hippie. I'm probably about 30% hippie. Maybe less.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

xp dan

Yeah, but sooooo tiring. I'm mostly interested in it because the boots are more comfortable and easier to walk in.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

i would looooooooove a grilled cheese sammich right now.

That will be $2, kind rainbow brother.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

I've never been skiing in my life. I don't really like "the outdoors." I do like grilled cheese, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, also, for about six months in the mid-90s I lived in a car with three other people.

I hate skiing. Gawd. And snowboarding. And yes, I've tried them both enough times to know my mind on the subject. Hate.

Hate.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

i regularly pay $8 for grilled cheese at the bar i frequent. i just love them so.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

Firmly in the middle of the hippie spectrum. Now? NADA. But when I lived in Michigan, pretty damn crunchy hiking activist. What the hell happened? OH yeah, I moved to the city.

I'll pass on the pot but see you on the camping.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

I used to tele some back in the day when my old roomie had a spare set. I downhilled from about age 10 and did cross country since before I was born. Tele is the sweetest just because of the freedom of terrain that you can cover.

xpost: That's it guys, I'm dragging you to the UP and throwing you outside in the woods. :)

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

I like camping a lot. I used to have a good selection of gear but I've lost it all over the years. I don't like camping in winter, though. I'm not that hardcore.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

If you pay $8 for grilled cheese, it better taste better than a rainboe of mushrooms.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

Or have some mushrooms on it.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

it's actually nothing special. but after a few pops melty cheese and french fries sound so goooood. mmmmmm.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

I'm taking you all to Whitehall for jet skis and water skiing!!

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

I enjoy the outdoors, camping, shower infrequently, rarely shave my legs, eat health food, have been known to wear patchouli deodorant and burn incense and STILL I'm not considered a hippie. How does that work?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

What is IO, John? (re: nasta)

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

...and singing around campfires in the woods and lots of hugging...shut UP, I am NOT a hippe.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

Water skiing looks way scary. I enjoy campfires and hugging too.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

I'm taking you all to Whitehall for jet skis and water skiing!!

Hooray! It's going to be a wet and wild summer.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah, formerly Improv Olympic.

I have an idea. Let's line up according to geographical origin, west to east.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

Water skiing looks way scary.

I suppose it depends on how you feel about planting your face in the water at 40 miles an hour.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

I feel extremely averse to that.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

you're about the range of terrain, dan, but that's why i'm going to invest in an randonee setup when i get out west.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

Let's line up according to geographical origin, west to east.

Dan will have to stand on my head.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

Crooked fingers really sucked that time I saw canasta open for them and Delgados. I could see how that would taint his taste.

The records are awesome though.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

xpost I think you should be on top, for practical reasons.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

I could see how that would taint his taste.

I won't say what I thought this said at first.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

It's insane, this guy's taint.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

I thought he was fine when we played with him, actually. And my brother had a CF album that I remember being not too bad.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

Does it taste like a mushroom rainbow?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

Real-time eavesdropping. Guy-in-a-tie on the cell phone at the cafe table next to me: "I can't understand what he's saying - he talks like he's got a mouthful of crap."

A minute later:

"One question: mustard. Do you want packets or the barrels? You ordered celery and carrots, and what's the next item? No, there was some item in between there, sounded like roasted red peppers or something. [Pause.] Do you want to do the whole thing again? OK, buddy, let 'er rip. [Pause.] OK. [P.] OK. [P.] OK. [P.] OK. [P.] There you go - cucumber seedless - that's all I didn't get buddy. I put a pickup in for a case of parsley. [P.] OK. [P.] OK. [P.] OK."

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

I love shit like that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

It's insane, this guy's taint.

That episode is coming up on our Mr. Show dvds, I'm so excited.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

"And three Uncle Ben's rice. Fresh raspberries? No, OK. Raspberries are out of there. OK. Finito. Thank you, Filipe."

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

My Hippy virtues:
* vegetarian
* love reading Organic Style magazine for free at Barnes & Noble
* love health food stores
* have the most hippy mom in the planet
* have been to drum circles (but couldn't find my power animal?), been under hypnosis & past life regression, been to see fortune tellers and palm readers, wore solely hippy clothes for a couple of years in high school (even the dangly earrings), and loved new age music for a while
* care about the environment, animals, that sort of thing
* am all into peace and life is beautiful, etc.

Anti-hippyness:
* am extremely extremely wasteful (ie: What's this?? Can I throw it away?)
* I don't always buy organic. I'm not made of money.
* I shave whenever necessary in the summer months mostly
* I don't use homemade cleaning products

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

The hippy thing is really vague and undescriptive, since there's really no such thing as a proper hippy anymore. Except for maybe Evan. I think we should be ranked in order of who has the most funk.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think I have any hippie virtues, besides helping make some consumables at home that most people buy (beer, pizza) and listening to a few bands that hippies happen to like (Medeski Martin & Wood for ex.).

Hey, do you guys remember that crazy hippie girl from the Green Mill? She was crazy.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

I am 100% funk-free. Whitest girl in the world, yoohoo over here. In fact, I'm on my way to the world's whitest dance class where there will be NO movement of the trunk of the body whatsoever.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

(xp) Don't you fucking say anything about...

wait who are you talking about?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

Laurel, I think he meant funk like odor/grodiness.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

I thought she was just really drunk. I have no idea what her recycling habits are.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, maybe not as white as clogging to sped-up country western tunes.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, work here... OFFICIALLY OVER!!!

I'm off to get one of those good egg/sausage/pepperjack/salsa spread bagel things I love before an improv rehearsal.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

Is there a High NRG mix of "Achy Breaky Heart"?

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

No, Dave, I meant funk. It can be ranked thusly:

Q: Of these songs, which are you most likely to listen to twice in a row?

a) Wichita Lineman
b) Smoke on the Water
c) Rock the Casbah
d) Thank You (Falettin Me Be Mice Elf Agin)

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not very hippyish.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

I never thought I would hear Achy Breaky Heart and Hi-NRG in the same sentence.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

My bad! Rock the Casbah. What's my score?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

i think there need to be more than four choices. not that i have any suggestions.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

I might say "Rock the Casbah," too -- even though I don't generally love the Clash. But I like the Clash when they go disco.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

Dave, you score "Pretty Funky For A White Boy".

You too, John.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

though a seems like the clear choice. (not really)

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

I think we should be ranked in order of who has the most funk.

*pushes glasses up*

Um, I believe that would be, um, me.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

I love "Witchita Lineman," and I'm positive I've listened to it twice in a row at some point.

Um, I believe that would be, um, me.

This much is true.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

John, I'm talking about the really short girl in the hippie hat who was standing by the table talking about Umphrey's McGee and how they're the best band in the world and they just fuckin' jam out these twenty minute tunes. I believe Nick addressed her directly as "crazy girl".

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

Sunshine of Your Love vs. Stayin' Alive vs. Iko Iko vs. It's About That Time

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

Woah.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

It's not listed, but I choose "Shotgun" - that song has been stuck in my head all day.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

I don't remember this girl, but perhaps I was distracted. ;-)

It's not listed, but I choose "Shotgun" - that song has been stuck in my head all day.

The Junior Walker song? That's pretty tight.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that one.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

It's About that Time - funky but too jazzy and inconsistent to be a dancefloor jam

Iko Iko - what version are we talking about here? Wild Magnolias, Cindy Lauper, Dr. John?

Stayin' Alive - surefire dancefloor hit, probably wins (despite burden of Travolta)

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

I was thinking of the Dixie Cups version on the soundtrack to 'The Big Easy'. (Cyndi Lauper does one?)

This is more a "What Type of Funk Do You Prefer?" question instead of "How Funky Are You?" - but it's the same question, which song would you most likely listen to twice in a row.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 6 April 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think I know the latter two choices.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

Look at this man. He has no dignity.
http://i2.tinypic.com/t6772w.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

I'm thinking "Stayin Alive."

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.aisz.hr/Rock%20website/Pictures/travolta%20pulp%20fiction%202.jpg

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

If you ever see 'The Big Easy' soundtrack at a yard sale or the Village Thrift, it's worth getting. Dixie Cups, plus Aaron Neville 'Tell It Like It Is', an appropriately cheesy love balled by Mr. Dennis Quaid, and (one of my favorites ever) 'Savior Pass Me Not' by the Swan Silvertones.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 6 April 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

Yup, she it after the Dixie Cups (whose name I always forget).

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

I was talking about the guy on the far left.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

did it, rather

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, wait, I do know "Iko Iko" -- I didn't know that song had an actual name. And I didn't know the name of "Sunshine of Your Love" until just now, either. I looked up both of them on YouTube. But what's "It's About That Time"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

I prefer Iko Iko as performed by the girls in Satisfaction.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't know that song had an actual name

Actually, it's on the new MDBB album under its original name, "Jockamo".

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I mean, it's practically a folk song.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

You have a point. Still...

[knowitall]

It's not totally ancient, James "Sugarboy" Crawford wrote it in the 50s, he just got screwed on copyright and never got any royalties (partly why it's been recorded under a bunch of different names).

[/knowitall]

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

His grandson Davell is a bad dude btw, he sings gospel and r&b and sounds just like Stevie when he wants to.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

xpost This happened to black musicians all the time in the early days of recording.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, see, I didn't know any of that. It's always just sounded like a jump-rope song, or like "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" (a/k/a "Wimoweh" or various other names). I couldn't have told you of any notable recordings of it -- I just know the song, somehow.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

Sure, I've only heard the original recording because I looked for it. It's really just a Mardi Gras Indians chant, like all the ones that the Meters made songs out of (wait, have you listened to the Meters yet?).

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

I want a drink.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 6 April 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

Has anyone been to Oldtimers at 75 east lake? Supposedly it's a dive.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 6 April 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

(wait, have you listened to the Meters yet?).

Eep, no. Although someone needs to give me some Booker T. soon because that article is coming up.

I want a drink, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sorely tempted to go to Oldtimers for a drink right now and then come back to my desk in an hour so I can sign out.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 6 April 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

423 posts in six hours is no small feat, you guys. I'm prouda you all.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

I haylped.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

You were a key player, as usual. We appreciate your efforts. As a matter of fact, I think we should give Amanda a raise.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

It's about time. Now I can feed Junior AND Carl more than once a day!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

And Junior and Carl are the names of your... what?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

I posted this on another thread where it was way off topic but I am posting it again here because it's one of my all-time favorite Letterman top ten lists.

Top 10 Least-Known Norman Rockwell Paintings - December 21, 1987

10. "A Boy's First Manicure"
9. "The Old Hobo's Infected Foot"
8. "The Circus Geek and the Cub Scout"
7. "Caught Touching Himself"
6. "Sniper in the Mall"
5. "Sweetheart of the Cell-Block"
4. "Christmas at the Hair Club for Men"
3. "Andrew Wyeth Nails Helga"
2. "Bad Clams"
1. "Turn Your Head and Cough"

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

I like it because it takes a little work. It's not funny by itself, but if you imagine the Normal Rockwell paintings being described -- hilarity.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

Dogs. My two dogs.
That list is pretty funny. I like the one about Helga. My parents had a book of those paintings and it always annoyed me.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

i cant believe you people made a ranking of your heights and ages.

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 6 April 2006 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

do SAT score and vertical leap next

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 6 April 2006 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

I like the one about Helga.

"Caught Touching Himself" is so classic. And "Bad Clams." Imagine the rich Rockwellian hues!

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

I met my up sis and her bf at a shitty sports bar called (I think) Demon's Den right by the downtown DePaul campus. They had $2 beers though, and were playing Coldplay.

(massive xpost after I talked on the phone for half an hour)

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 6 April 2006 23:04 (nineteen years ago)

and were playing Coldplay

Is that a plus? I'd pay $3 a beer to not have to listen to Coldplay.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 23:07 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I forgot that "Wichita Lineman" was a Meters song. I don't know if I've ever heard it properly, but I might like it better than "Casbah," which is not my favorite Clash by any means.

John, I will YSI the Booker T/MGs greatest hits I have later tonight. Probably much later. Woo, skippable Friday classes! It's only 15 songs, so I don't know if it's good enough, but whatever.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 6 April 2006 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

What? Dude, "Wichita Lineman" is a Glen Campbell song written by (the great) Jimmy Webb. Like they say on tests -- don't guess if you don't know.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 23:25 (nineteen years ago)

which is not my favorite Clash by any means

Nor mine, but it's the most accessibly funky, and it is a great song. "Armagideon Time" is way deeper, and "This Is Radio Clash" is better to dance to, but I went for the middle.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Thursday, 6 April 2006 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

Something funny just happened:
I'm trying to find something to do in my class on Saturday so I was listening to a TAL episode and the introduction had just ended. They were going to talk about some kid's life in California, blablabla and then BOOM, the intro guitar squeal to "Jailbreak" almost blew my ear off and I was like "Wow, they're really starting this one off with a bang." And then I realized that I had the iTunes arrow backwards and it had gone to Thin Lizzy and not This American Life.

I didn't think that sounded right. Also not sounding right: The Meters doing "Wichita Lineman."

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 6 April 2006 23:42 (nineteen years ago)

Oldtimer's is a weird bar. The bartender was very well endowed, called everyone baby and gave out lots of shots. She must get great tips.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 7 April 2006 00:25 (nineteen years ago)

I did not get a shot, but I tip okay already.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 7 April 2006 00:26 (nineteen years ago)

The bartender was very well endowed

This at first made me think you were staring at some dude's package.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 00:46 (nineteen years ago)

if it was that obvious, then I certainly would have been.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 7 April 2006 00:47 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, who wouldn't?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 00:55 (nineteen years ago)

Playing Coldplay wasn't really a good or bad thing, it was just kind of strange given the environment.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 7 April 2006 02:55 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm... what am I thinking of then? There's some Meters song with a railroad reference in the title, I think. I'll give the song title when I get home onto my own computer. In other news, I am an idiot.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 7 April 2006 03:01 (nineteen years ago)

Stop Making Sense is pretty much perfect.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 7 April 2006 03:03 (nineteen years ago)

I can't get Stop Making Sense through NetFlix. It is not available.

Does she still show at the belmont playground?

That is Open Court, which is where anyone can play. Her team at the Playground is called American Stinger.

John, we can go see her sometime somewhere.

Oh, John, do you want to go to dinner this weekend at Green Zebra before Dresden Dolls or FF?

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 7 April 2006 03:38 (nineteen years ago)

*crickets*

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 7 April 2006 03:54 (nineteen years ago)

Potentially before FFs. I want to see how things shake out with the girl. I'm seeing her tomorrow night.

Oh man, though: so I was driving home from band practice just now and decided to fill up my tank before I got on the expressway. When I got back into my car, it wouldn't start. Battery dead. I panicked at first but realized I was at a gas station, so I just started asking random motorists if they had jumper cables. (I should point out, perhaps, that this was in a mostly black neighborhood just on the edge of Oak Park.) Eventually this dude named Mike took pity on me. He didn't have the cables, but he'd help me out if I found someone who did. Luckily, we found a guy who had not one but two sets of cables and who sold me his extra set for $10. And Mike was able to jump my battery just fine, which was fortunate, because he kept saying to me, "Man, if it's the alternator, then here's what we'll do -- we'll push your car as far as it needs to go, just to get it out of the way, onto a safe street, then I'll take you to wherever you need to go tonight" and I was like "Uhhhh, let's hope it doesn't get to that point." I guess I'm naive, because after my car was running for a while, he stood outside my window expectantly, and I said "Man, I really appreciate it, thanks so much," and he kept standing there, and I said, "Do you want some money?" and he said, "Look, see, I did all this work for you and my wife's in the car and she's late for work and..." So I felt stupid. I gave him $10 and he suggested that wasn't enough, so I gave him another $20. Whatever. He totally helped me out, and I'm home now, thank God.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 04:18 (nineteen years ago)

...daerest FFs: is there anyway i can get an mp3 of "we could destroy you", like, right now? Sharks pretty much

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 7 April 2006 04:32 (nineteen years ago)

....not sure why ILx cut off my post.

Sharks pretty much [NON-HTML BASED "HEART"] that song, and would like to listen to it, like, right now. We promise to buy the album IN REAL LIFE.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 7 April 2006 04:34 (nineteen years ago)

I am definitely down with being up for dinner before FF. Fuck that girl, I'm your dinner bitch.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 7 April 2006 04:59 (nineteen years ago)

Good night, thread. See you in a few hourssszzzzzzzzzzz.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 7 April 2006 05:32 (nineteen years ago)

Dub Trio/Gogol Bordello was a fucking awesome show. Too bad M. and I got in a fight afterwards because I mentioned that it GB is dub/reggae/dancehall influenced, same as after the bellydancing show. Whatevs.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 April 2006 05:34 (nineteen years ago)

agh, chicago, so drunk, have neglected you despite the lllove. some south american guy helped me halfway home after i felll off my bike. made it rest of way w/ own faculties. all is well. want to read thread. can't. s'all'right.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 7 April 2006 06:19 (nineteen years ago)

Rrrobyn, a summary: We made lists ordering ourselves by age and height and attempted to do funk as well. John hates Spinal Tap. Nick hates Zen Arcade. We all love Christopher Guest movies and quote them a lot. Everyone has a different favorite Spoon/Fugazi album.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 7 April 2006 06:32 (nineteen years ago)

Eerie moment of tonight: Hearing "Wichita Lineman" in the movie I just watched, Tarnation. I wasn't a big fan, but it was interesting. Here's my impression...

...beautiful, atmospheric, Sigur Ros-type song plays....increasing static...AH!...static/song....AAH!..AAAAAHHH!!....beautiful song... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!.... slow fade

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 7 April 2006 06:34 (nineteen years ago)

hahahahaha. i like C Guest movies. Waiting for Guffamn is superb. want more video games. have old tv. decent computer that doesn't want videogame taintedness. YET STIll.
hearts,
robyn

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 7 April 2006 06:45 (nineteen years ago)

Me:
5'8"
shoe size women's 10
age: just turned 31. january, end.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 7 April 2006 06:54 (nineteen years ago)

Um... I was right! The Meters do (a version of) "Wichita Lineman." It's on Struttin'. Don't worry, this is just a link to the blog, where I have posted this song, the Booker T. & The MG's Very Best Of I promised John, and a much-needed DISCLAIMER, thanks to Fluxblog. Now hopefully HE doesn't sue us over copywrite issues.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 7 April 2006 07:00 (nineteen years ago)

You're tallerrr than most of the girls, so watch your back at shows. That's anotherrr thing we discussed.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 7 April 2006 07:01 (nineteen years ago)

haha, watch my back??
i am careful, i know my height. sometimes i pretend to be a tyrannasaurus though.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 7 April 2006 07:04 (nineteen years ago)

It makes me happy to know that.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 7 April 2006 07:06 (nineteen years ago)

haha. get on aim. poemabtevrything.
or not. i shld probly not pretend to be chigago.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 7 April 2006 07:08 (nineteen years ago)

Done.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 7 April 2006 07:09 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, the new Flaming Lips album is cool! It's quirky and not all enormo-space poppy. I'm down.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 7 April 2006 07:30 (nineteen years ago)

Catchin' up:

John is right, Waiting for Guffman > Best in Show. BiS seems really shrill to me. Though he's wrong about hating Spinal Tap. If you love Spinal Tap and haven't seen the DVD, do yourself a favor and check it out, it has probably the best special features of any DVD so far: the commentary and the full music clips are especially great.

Jesse: May 12
Nick and Brian Eno: May 15
Malcolm X: May 19
Laurel: May 26

Sorry we missed your distress call, gib. I'll post the old, self-recorded version of WCDY on the CHilx blog so you'll have it in case of an emergency.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 April 2006 09:28 (nineteen years ago)

Hey john, come jump our car now.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 7 April 2006 11:11 (nineteen years ago)

Stupid mentor's reception is OVAH! Wheeee! There ends my extra curricular obligations for the semester. Oh, except for scheduling elections so I can be sure to vote myself out of office.

Um, I would very likely listen to "Wichita Lineman" more than once (Glen Campbell version). As a matter of fact... I am positive that I have done exactly that.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning thread. Let's eat a bagel, okay?

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

Hi. I'm at work. I feel like Amanda or Sarah.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

So I guess some dumb band remade the Don Henly song "Boys of Summer" and instead of saying that, on the road today, they saw a "Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac" they sing about seing a "Black Flag sticker" and my 24-year-old co-worker had no idea what that meant and I ended up giving a mini-lecture on 80's LA punk rock to all the law clerks. And then I felt oooooooold.

Oh, he'd never heard of the Circle Jerks, either.

No bagel. I ate toaster waffles and a cold (but cooked) turkey dog.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

Schumacher Rev Polarity Booster Pack
http://autozone.com/images/products/scm/scmps-250a003.jpg

Get one of these. They are a life-saver. I paid $40 for mine. You charge it for 24 hours, stick it in the trunk and next time you get a dead battery, you're home free. Invaluable.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

Cold toaster waffles sound awful. I'm eating a plain bagel w/ cream cheese mixed with goat cheese w/ cranberries.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

Tarnation was terrible, btw. Okay, that's unfair. There were a couple of really amazing scenes, which I can't totally remember now except one is when he's 11 and being theatrical on camera and another with his mom in the present-day that shows just how nuts she really is. But the greatest thing about those scenes is that Caouette just lets them play out on their own, without edits, so they have the same dramatic intensity as Bibi Andersson's monologue about her sexual adventures in Persona or Zooey Deschanel's monologue about how she got her scar in All the Real Girls. Whereas the rest of the movie is a jumble of quick cuts and title cards and pointless attempts at interpretation. I wonder if I'd have liked it more if it was just Jonathan Caouette's Home Movies.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny: that new "Boys of Summer" cover is by The Ataris. It's not bad -- I only wish they hadn't covered it so that I could've nominated the song for C4n4st4 to cover. I really fucking love "Boys of Summer," but it's too soon (Ataris version was maybe 2001?).

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

I pick Smoke on the Water from the first set and Sunshine of Your Love from the second set. What do I get?

John, You are ONE OF US!!!

I'll be having a Strawberry Spirutein smoothie with real strawberries thrown in once I get to a stopping point with my work this morning. mmm...

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

I've posted this early before, but I was usually in my boxer shorts at the time. :-D

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, the reason I'm here is that I have to leave at like 3:45 to go play on WLUW. If you're listening, we'll be on between 5 and 6.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

I loved the part of Tarnation that John mentions.

Dresden Dolls tonight! Holy cow, I just looked at the tickets and they say 11:30!?

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

I'm here way early too. I'm going to try and leave early this afternoon so I can go and get back in the car and drive north until the late hours of the evening/wee hours of the morning. FUNZONE

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

That was crazy fast. I ordered this scanner 2 days ago on Amazon and picked the free shipping option and it's already on its way to my house. Unfortunately I work so I will probably miss the shipment.

Date Time Location Event Details
Apr 07, 2006 06:29:00 AM NORTHBROOK - HD IL US Out for delivery

Apr 06, 2006 04:29:00 AM NORTHERN KENTUCKY KY US Departure Scan

Apr 05, 2006 06:16:00 PM NORTHERN KENTUCKY LOCAL KY US Shipment picked up from seller's facility

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

I loooooooooove "Boys of Summer". My dad and I went on a roadtrip one summer (long story) and it must have just hit because it was on every station, all the way to Florida.

Same breakfasat always. Man bagels are good.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't read the post, I just saw john say that Tarnation was terrible. I MOTHER FUCKING AGREE. it may have been one of my least favorite films ever. Now i'll read the post.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

Half the movie is a power point presentation!

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

I left Tarnation with mixed feelings, but the more I think about it, the more I think the positive feelings were from his appearances as a little boy. He was an amazing little performer. I actually forget the premise of the rest of the movie.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

My dad and I went on a roadtrip one summer (long story) and it must have just hit because it was on every station, all the way to Florida.

I have a distinct memory of the two songs that played the entire time my family drove to Toronto in 1987: Madonna's (not Robyn's) "Who's That Girl" and Steve Winwood's "Back in the High Life." I was 8. My dad made up lyrics to "Who's That Girl" that contained the line "She looks like Aunt Anita" (my mom's aunt who passed away last year).

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

hey chicago! just catchin' up . . .
I'm 5'5" & John had my bday right. I'm 28, slotted to turn 29 in December.
I too like Waiting for Guffman better than Best in Show. Sorry I wasn't around to back you up on that, buddy.
Jenny's right about our present form of hippiness & totally correct about her winning hands down for her past.
I'm usually quite confused about what defines a hippie. I mean, in college, it was the kids who had dreads & smoked a lot of weed & worked on the recycling crew. There was maybe a month in college when I smoked a lot of weed and I never grew dreads nor did I work on the recycling crew. But, I do recycle & just yesterday I cleaned my kitchen & bath tub with Borax & Dr. Bronners. I also live with a guy named Leaf.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

Man bagels

There's a joke here somewhere. Where's Kenan?

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

and yes, the DD show is a late one. I'm going straight home and sleeping till 10.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

I think manpile should only be allowed to eat man bagels.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

Oh Jeff, you're going after all?

Jenny and I would like to do dinner before the show.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

I also live with a guy named Leaf.

Haha.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

Yes. and I'm not going to dinner. I'm napping.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

Dude.

Also, if anyone has "She's a Bad Mama Jama," I would be SUPER GRATEFUL for a blog post of it. Was it you, Kenan, who was talking about it some time ago?

Yeah, it was. I wish I'd checked this when I woke up, and I would have sent it along. Now I'm at work, and musically crippled.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

Leaf & I actually watched Waiting for Guffman a couple nights ago!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

"Er, uh, not wear 'em in the show?"

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

Just for the first act, it's 1840.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

"Oh oh oh oh oh ... the glasses!"

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

i was thinking about how i have certain relationships where we quote from a particular film . . . you & i quote Guffman, Durno & I quote Arrested Development & Aleks & I quote Anchorman or Elf.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

Contrary to public opinion, I can't see very well. I also have a lazy eye . . .

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

I quote Guffman with so much regularity, it's sorta sick.

"Pssst, girl talk."

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

(xpost) ...which these prescription glasses ... help correct!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

John is right, Waiting for Guffman > Best in Show. BiS seems really shrill to me.

You two are all alone, out in the wilderness. You better huddle for warmth.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

Kelsey is with us, though!

Actually, I do have some girl talk, Kels ... if you're on Gmail.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

The Meters version of "Wichita Lineman" is surprising because it exists, but otherwise deeply unremarkable.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

Also, like everyone in my band is on the Guffman wagon, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

xpost to myself Not that it's bad! It's too good a song to ever be bad. It just sounds like some dudes covering a song they like and not doing much with it.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

I find myself reaching for the word "unremarkable" a lot when reviewing singles that I give a 5 out of 10 to.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

Not only do I think it's the worst Guest movie, I actively dislike it.

Having said that, I don't remember much of it right now, but I remember disliking it. A lot.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

You're out of your mind.

The first time I saw it (what's up, Woodfield Mall, 1997) I thought it was funny. The second time I didn't like it much at all and wondered why I thought it was so funny the first time. The third time, I was like, oh shit this is funny. And then it got progressively funnier upon the fourth, fifth, and sixth viewings, as I started to notice things I hadn't noticed before. (Like the ashtray in Corky's apartment full of really long cigarette butts. Really great detail -- he's totally the kind of person who takes two puffs and then gets digusted with himself and puts it out.) It's probably peaked for me, but it's still hilarious. "God, I wish I was in the show!"

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

I am willing to admit that having done amateur or high-school theatre may boost one's enjoyment of the film.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

Corky is, IMO, a far less brilliant invention than Nigel Tufnel. Far less.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

I am willing to admit that having done amateur or high-school theatre may boost one's enjoyment of the film.

I think you got it right there. I first watched BiS and WfG back-to-back with a few people who had done high-school theatre and a few who had not. Opinions on the movies were split down those lines. Personally, I give the slight edge to BiS because I really like dogs, but find "dog people" more hilariouser than "theatre people." But only slightly.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

Probably the funniest line that may not be funny at all for people who haven't done high-school theatre: "All right, now half of you sing 'nothing ever happens in Blaine' and half of you leave off the N and sing 'nothing ever happens in Blay."

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

I don't get it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

I am willing to admit that having done amateur or high-school theatre may boost one's enjoyment of the film.

And likewise, being intimately familiar with late 70's-early 80's hair bands boosts one's appreciation of Spinal Tap. I hear you, j, when you say they're "easy targets," but it's more than that. All of the projects from this group of people find ways to be affectionate about the objects of their ridicule, and Spinal Tap is no exception. Perhaps you don't see the movie the same way I do because you have never unironically loved Led Zeppelin or Van Halen or Slade or such shit. (Actually, none of those are shit.) Dude, it's about people who LOVE BEING IN A BAND, and it doesn't matter if it's a shitty band or a failing band or a band that's an imitation of 1000 other bands. They're not very bright guys, but they're nothing if not sincere. And that's funny on top of funny.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh. I just found out that someone chalked homophobic messages all over my college's campus, just in time for the local Gay/Bi/Transgender group's annual pride week. Cowards.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

(xxp) Well, it's only really funny in a "funny cuz it's true" way, as in I totally remember doing that in choir and musicals.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

Corky is, IMO, a far less brilliant invention than Nigel Tufnel. Far less.

he based tufnel on eric clapton. david st. hubbins was based on david coverdale.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

i will perhaps agree that guest's character in BiS is one of the best. so understated & wonderful.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

I know. So sweet! You just want to hug him and feed him soup.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

john, where's the girl talk, bro?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

I want to watch both of these movies again now.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

last night when i was listening to a record i flashed back to the spinal tap lyrics that were being posted here and realized any tap song could be on a m.o.t.o. album unironically.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

john, where's the girl talk, bro?

Check your e-mail, girl.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

A record recommendation for anyone: Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller). I just got it, had never heard it, and was fucking floored. You jazz fans would be particularly interested.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

The only M.O.T.O. song I know is "I Do the Dip When There's Cum on the Dance Floor."

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

yuck.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

I've never heard a Beefheart album.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

Oh goodness. You really must. BUT -- despite what people will tell you, don't start with Trout Mask Replica. It's a very difficult listen, even for a Beefheart album. I'd recommend Mirror Man or Clear Spot for starters.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

who cares about the starving people that
that you see on the street each day
who cares about the starving peoople that
that you see on the street each day

i wanna dance dance dance dance dance to the radio-ah

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

There's only one line from one movie that I quote:

"WHAT ABOUT PROM, BLAINE, WHAT ABOUT PROM?"

That's it.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

I'd like to hear more Beefheart, actually. I was against him for a while because I bought Safe as Milk and didn't much like it, but I burned Lick My Decals Off, Baby from someone recently, and found that I enjoyed it much more.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

"WHAT ABOUT PROM, BLAINE, WHAT ABOUT PROM?"

At first I thought this was another Guffman reference (I was all like, "19th century settler Blaine Fabin went to prom?") -- but then realized it was Pretty in Pink. (Right?)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

i forget what hilarious line i only caught for the first time . . . i wish i could remember.
i watched hustle & flow for the first time, though. "Is a pig's pussy pork?"

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

YSI?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

(kidding)

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

xp - Yeah. I have this part of my brain that neither recognizes nor remembers lines from movies. Like, never.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

Lick My Decals Off is a great one.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

I don't generally, either, Amanda. But that's because I rarely see movies more than once.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

Search the song "Nowadays a Woman's Got to Hit a Man", from the title on down. So great.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

Will do.

Hey Sarah, did the FFs re-record WCDY for the new album?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

i used to be able to quote extensively from dazed and confused.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

I'm only good for "Bring it On," I'm afraid. And "Ronin."

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

There's dialogue in Ronin? I thought it was like one long car chase.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

Heeeeeeyyyyyy would any of you kind folks with a car consider swinging by Argyle and Winnemac on Saturday afternoon and giving us a jump? We have jumper cables and know-how. All we need is a live battery.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I could probably do that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

I can quote liberally from "Half Baked." Please don't take this as an indicator of my overall personality, but more an indicator that I wasted a lot of time for a couple of years. Also, Dave Chappelle is my man-crush.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

"what do i think? i think you oughta ditch the two geeks you're in the car with now and get in with us. but that's alright, we'll worry about that later. see you there."

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

"that's so cold. i mean, we're sitting RIGHT HERE."

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe everyone knows already, but Mamet wrote Ronin under a pseudonym.

Mamet screenplays are about all I can quote.
"And that check better be like gold, missy, because you owe me the money."

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

i'll bet she's pretty cute once clean all the shit off of her.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

dominant male monkey motherfucker.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

I quote from movies a lot. I've had Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade memorizes since childhood and referencing it is almost an involuntary action at this point. Other than that, I don't know, it's a moment-to-moment thing.

I do use the "That's why they call it ____" line from Heist a lot.

xpost, Eazy WHA?!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

i think what everyone in this car needs is some good old fashioned visceral experience.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

Why does my Launchcast station keep trying to make me listen to Oingo Boingo? Did I do something bad?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, John! I will work out details with you using an alternative form of communication.

Quote from my professor: Someone in 1890 couldn't have predicted AIDS, the cold war, Paris Hilton...

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

i seem to have a brain incapable of remembering quotes from just about anything.

unironically loved Led Zeppelin or Van Halen

it makes me sad that people would love these bands ironically.

xp haha paris hilton

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

I just remembered -- sometimes I quote Sheriff: "See that Jessica? That's turkey droppins. A turkey made that."

"That's old beer in there, that's old beer."

"Historically, the nudist colony has. not. been. a. problem. Historically."

But those are all things that real people said, and also I've seen/heard those lines like 100,000 times. Sheriff quotes are amusing to exactly four people: me, Dan and two of our friends from NC.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

slater-san! how's it goin' man?
fixin' to be a lot better...

(the "fixin' to be a lot better" line became code for me and some friends a decade ago)

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

raise up

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

Otto: enough.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

never.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

Dazed and Confused is a pointless movie. Not boring, but decidedly pointless.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

you're in luck because with the exception of wooderson's "gotta keep livin'" soliloquy and the thing the teacher says about the bicentenial i don't really remember any of the movie.

i should own that.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

(Hey, 'manda, I'm all for Sheriff quotes - keep bringing 'em. What about a 'Sheriff' pinball machine, incorporating all of the major vignettes?)

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

Dazed and Confused is a pointless movie. Not boring, but decidedly pointless.

two things:

1. i disagree.
2. so what? i mean, does everything need to stand up to critical analysis? can't anything just be fun for fun's sake anymore?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

i can totally see quoting from sheriff.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

IMDB verifies the Mamet/Ronin thing. That makes some of those lines make a whole lot more sense.

Oh! I quote Cannibal: The Musical! too frequently.

"ABE LINCOLN!" (attacks)

"That's very interesting. That's very interesting. That's very interesting too."

"Wait, are you singing mixolydian scales or something?"

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

EVE WAS WEAK!

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

"I was sitting in the tree stand and then next thing I knew I was on the ground, and I was bleeding profusely."

"Does anybody have. any. cash so that we can get some insect repellent? Ain't no sense everyone gettin' eat up by red bugs."

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda, why can't I rent Sheriff from my local video establishment yet?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

I agree with Kenan on Dazed and confused. With the exception of one quote:

Wooderson: That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

I'm down with the Sheriff quotes, manda.

Jordan, yeah, we rerecorded it. I don't know what version Nick put up on the blog though.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

YES. I was waiting for someone to post that quote. That is the only role that I can stand Matthew McConaughey's ugly mug in. xpost

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

Also, Ben Affleck is great in that movie.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda, why can't I rent Sheriff from my local video establishment yet?
Well, the distribution deal is in the process of being worked out, but it's sort of a long road from festivals to television to DVD. D. could self-distribute, but that takes a lot of time and effort that I don't know that he/we has/have. He's sort of a one-man show (no business partners, no one to do the wheelin'-and'dealin') and it's taking a while to decide what the best deal would be in the long run and he's sort of looking for a permanent "home", like a record label but for movies. It's in the works though!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

that line was the worst of the movie.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

That's the only line I know from the movie, since I saw it like 12 years ago.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Where is Jesse and why aren't we quoting Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf right now?

Never mix, never worry!

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

Who is going to see Brick this weekend?

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

When will I learn that if I want to see new Netflix movies, I have to return old ones first?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

Or Double Indemnity. Or Cape Fear. Or Night of the Hunter.

It's a hard world for little things.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

And he ain't no preacher, neither!

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

ChilllDREN.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

OMG Kenan that reminds me of an EMF song I used to make fun of all the time back in like 7th grade.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

Another great photo caption from Ebert:
"Linda Cardellini and Donald Sutherland in 'American Gun,' another film with the word 'American' in the title."

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

Linda Cardellini is looking good now that she doesn't have to wear that army jacket any more.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

"There are things you do hate, Lord. Perfume-smellin' things, lacy things, things with curly hair."

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

I do honestly believe that's one of my favorite movies. Maybe because there's no other movie to compare it to. It's such an odd duck.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of curly hair, can I just say: my hair looks GREAT today.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

And it thmells good too.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

thmellth?

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

I don't understand. Was that a gay joke?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

JJ, photos please!

Also Evan, shaved head evidence? Are we doomed to wait in vain?

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

JJ, photos please!

Oh man. I had my camera in my bag all week -- except I took it out this morning. Not that I'd be able to upload anything onto this ancient machine, anyway.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

i really really want to move (which i will soon, yay) and get away from my neighbor who has decided that he wants to be really good friends with me (regardless of what i may think). he's the guy who has decided that we are close enough that he should give me nicknames, although we have met all of twice.

he called me "babe". i told him not to call me babe. he said something teasing about what, i wanted to get all formal now or something. yeah, dumbass, that's Madame Royal Bitch to you if you don't want to call me by my given fucking name.

i'm a fairly easygoing person--i don't usually dislike people this strongly. this really bugs me.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

Oh Julia, embrace it. And carry a tire iron.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

This is the Salesman, right?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

If I meet him, and catch him calling you "babe," I'm probably not going to be able to resist clocking him.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

Just a heads up.

Maybe I should not meet this fellow.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, Kenan, want to come to the deli with me sometime?

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

i was walking not even a block to the middle eastern bakery when this happened:
a 92 bus pulled up at the stop on the corner & another bus, maybe a 144, was pulled up behind it. the 144 was marked "north garage" & was, predictably, empty. the bus driver of the 144 honked at me once I'd walked pass & opened his doors & flagged me over. the nerve! i rolled my eyes at him & kept walking. wish i could've had a kenan for clocking that guy!!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

xpost You just name the time. I'm always up for deli.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

the thought of physical violence is a soothing one.

i have at least trained him that it is inappropriate to just stop by, especially first thing on a weekend morning. oh i hate this guy.

xp oh that would be such a joy if you could punch this guy for me. but that would mean i would have to see him again, which i'd rather avoid.

yes, this is the guy who talked about how he used to be a salesman, and i told him i could totally see that. he took it as a compliment, which isn't exactly how it was intended.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

Julia, if you need someone to give him a bitchy look, I'm really good at that.
[cue fat beats]
I glower like I just ate something sour, like I spilled a pound of flour, like I'm dressed in some clown suit worn by Angela Bower.
http://www.serienoldies.de/images4/wer_boss_angela.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

A bunch of TEENAGERS called me "ripe" on my way home last week. First of all, I'm old enough to have given birth to some of them. Second...second...I CAN'T EVEN DECIDE WHAT SECOND IS. IT'S A LONG LIST.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

(xp) Is that MC Paul Barman?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

Nope, it's La Lechera BITCH. It's an original.

(that's why it's so bad)

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

the bus driver of the 144 honked at me once I'd walked pass & opened his doors & flagged me over. the nerve! i rolled my eyes at him & kept walking.

This reminds me of the David Cross bit about the garbageman who has a philosophy about yelling at women. "You might yell at 100 women and get 99 no's, but that hundreth woman... likes to fuck on a pile of trash."

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

A bunch of TEENAGERS called me "ripe" on my way home last week.

hahahaha where to begin.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

You should totally record as La Lechera.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

Jesus. I can't keep up.

BUT: Guff > BiS, obviously. But Spinal Tap's better than both.

Dazed and Confused = classic, fuck the haters.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

All right, me and Nick and Evan and Kelsey in the forest together. Not a bad crowd.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda, you are a hip-hop goddess in the making.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

You think I lack decorum?
You think I'm gonna bore em?
Got mo' shit on yo' face than Mister Rick Santorum.

LA LECHERA IN DA 773

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

(Hey, 'manda, I'm all for Sheriff quotes - keep bringing 'em. What about a 'Sheriff' pinball machine, incorporating all of the major vignettes?)
-- Eazy (chicagoflaneu...), April 7th, 2006 10:07 AM. (Eazy) (later) (link)

I want to post this to the ILEpitaphs thread.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

I bought a CD this morning. From Starbucks. I know, I can hardly believe it, either.

But it's SO AWESOME! Sixteen tracks of prime Jackie Wilson! I have no regrets.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

"Reet Petite" is the happiest song ever sung. I can prove it with a pencil and paper.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda, We should have a rap battle sometime.

My latest dirty south hip hop song involves screaming WHO WANTS A PUSSYWILLOW? over and over.

sample verse:
Here comes my Kitty Kitty
Meowin' for sumptin' to EAT
With these big eyes beggin'
DADDY, Where's da beef?

And... so-on.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh. That's a rough rhyme.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

Soon afterwards, Nick came up with a new hip hop song for our crew called SPEEDBUMP, which involves screaming SPEEDBUMP over and over.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Oooh, I know I have Jackie Wilson comps at home. I'll have to rip them & add to my soul list cos right now I only have "Higher and Higher".

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

that reminds me of the Missy Elliott song where she says something about 'runnin' down my kitty litter' . . .

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Also, Snoop Dog makes appearances on both songs.

xpost - that's Lil Kim, Tater.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

Or at least Lil Kim has a song all about playing in her kitty box, her kitty box. It's pretty gross if you are familiar with real kitty litter boxes, but it DOES start off with a Shocking Blue sample.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

It's pretty gross if you are familiar with real kitty litter boxes

um... I don't think that's what she was getting at.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, Sarah you would win --
1) I'm no good on the spot
2) I don't want to have to insult you and call you names and talk about your cooter
3) You write songs, I don't, therefore you've already won.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

The terrorists have not won, however.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

Sample:

http://static.flickr.com/7/7312881_e04182ae92.jpg?v=0

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

Not shocking blue though.

Cat.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

Ed is more awesomer, IMO.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

I want bretzel! Fuck everything, I'm going to get bretzel. Then I will have a bretzel sammich and Jackie Wilson begging me to say I will and I'm wearing my Chucks and my awesome Miles Davis t-shirt and OH! this is the perfect day. I really couldn't be happier.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, I'm assuming by rough you mean good.
I know that's not what Lil Kim means. DUH. But it's still not a very good image.

Wanna lick get a taste of the dip, in my kitty box
Wanna play for a day dad-dy? In my kitty box
Wanna lick get a taste of the dip, in my kitty box
Wanna play for a day dad-dy? In my kitty box
(My kitty box, my kitty box, my kitty box, my kitty box)

Some cute lines from this song include:
Boys holla when they pass me, call me and harass me
They love me cause I'm nasty, but classy

and:
I'm in heat like a cat, I'm in heat like a cat

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, I'm assuming by rough you mean good.

I mean, you is hard. I had no idea.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

Rough rugged and raw.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

Bretzels will change the world.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't "kitty box" redundant?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

Wanna lick get a taste of the dip, in my vagina
Wanna play for a day dad-dy? In my vagina
Wanna lick get a taste of the dip, in my vagina
Wanna play for a day dad-dy? In my vagina
(My vagina, my vagina, my vagina, my vagina)

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

That is more appealing to me, despite its artless wording.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

But you don't have a vagina.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

Not of my own, no.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

I can't think of a less appealing place to have sex than a litter box.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

What if it's fresh litter, un-sullied by kitten crap?

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

lol @ "kitty box"

jc +1

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure Lil Kim has a room-sized litter box with a bling bling scooper.

Oh, Kenan. You don't know the half of it. I have all kinds of rhymes. It all started innocently enough with my middle school raps. First, I learned the words to Parents Just Don't Understand in grade school. Then I started putting pencil to paper...

xpost - Still gross. It would get in all the wrong places. And be painful against the skin.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

Still, OW. And they say beach sex is dangerous.... (XP haha)

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

My only rhyme for 2006 had been:
I like my hip-hop and my bacon
Canadian

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, you're right. Sorry, I get into this "what's grosser than gross" mindset sometimes.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

Just catching up, but Kenan has said more things I agree with than I can possibly recount at the moment. But you are definitely right about the Meters cover of "Wichita Lineman," and everyone is right about Tarnation being an abomination. Oh, and the movie I quote the most from is either Swingers or The Big Lebowski.

"Calmer than you are, Dude. Calmer than you are."

xp: That reminds me, Dan (just 'cause you posted, not what you said), but this campus has been having a lot of problems recently with miniature hate crimes. Mostly just nasty messages, but it's pretty lame. The worst to me, which was actually supposed to be a protest of the armed forces, was the kids who dressed up like Nazis and stationed themselves next to the Army recruiters in the student union (who were recruiting for like a 6 week summer leadership program) and started to tell people to join the Nazi party. They were trying to "draw parallels" between the Nazis and the American Armed Forces in Iraq. I was pretty pissed. These are the kind of people who blame the waiter for their food being undercooked.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

"What's grosser than being gross?"

"Ice gross!"

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

Not to be a jerk, but it's not Lil' Kim. It's Missy . . . on The Cookbook album, but I can't remember the song. That's hilarious if both Missy & Lil' Kim talk about their kitty litters.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

Here it is . . . it's on "Meltdown"

" . . . He got that magic stick that make my little pussy quiver
Juices runnin like a river slowly down my kitty litter . . ."

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

What really kills me is that if Tarnation is such an abomination, why has everyone seen it? Why does it have a sweet distribution deal? WHY WHY WHY????

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

You're not a jerk, Tater. Right after I posted that, I recognized the line.

I'm sure I've told this story before, but about 2.5 years ago, I came up with the perfect summer rap called ICEY HOTT. It was sort of a tribute to the great album "Notorious K.I.M." which I was still appreciating and a follow up to a song I came up with the summer before where I was "the Summer Blockbuster, the anti-lackluster, Kickin' out the jams like a lyrical dustbuster."

Anyway, I was so proud of it that I threw my rhymes down for my mom and sisters in the car one day when we were all visiting. I thought they would think it was cute and kind of funny. Instead, they were silent for a while afterwards. Then I think eventually my mom said, "So, you wrote that?" and then one sister was like, "Sarah, that song is gross."

I didn't think
Do you wanna touch my icey hott?? was that bad. Although I guess the song also had grunting in it and some swear words...

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

That's hilarious!!! Nothing like testing the family with a little icey hott . . .

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

Who is going to see Brick this weekend?

After reading Ebert's reviews, I don't know whether I'd rather see this or Lucky Number Slevin. Both got qualified praise, but I don't know if I can pass up Ben Kingsley playing a gangster called 'The Rabbi'.

Friends With Money doesn't sound good, but seeing Catherine Keener, Joan Cusack, and Frances McDormand together does.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

Watch it Sarah, you might have some straight thugs on your tail if you take that too far...
http://www.shinydonkey.com/images/gallery/stuntaz.jpg

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

Where is the icey hott located again? It's been a long time since I took biology.

LOL DAN

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

The anti-lackluster!

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, awesome Sarah!

Amanda, I totally agree. The trailer for Tarnation totally billed it as a mother/son story, when it ended up being mostly about the son.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

I think the reflective safety pants add just the right touch. That's how you know he's straight ballin'.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

The main fault with Tarnation for me was that it had the potential to be fascinating. He just didn't have enough archival footage to make a full film. Hence the stupid fucking powerpoint during the whole thing. Oh and the bullshit touching his mom's lip and cuddling at the end.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

YES! The end. Weak.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

re: Beefheart, Kenan was right about Mirror Man. "Kandy Korn" is the jam!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

I am right about everything. Always.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

No, you were wrong about one thing. The message I left on your answering machine was not when you were sleeping. It was when you were in the bath.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

Oh.

Wait... how do you know that?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.cooperindustries.com/images/binoculars.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

haha

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

Because you called me back several minutes later and said that you had been in the bath and had slipped while trying to pick up the phone. I didn't leave you any other messages after that night.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

anyone going to the record fair this weekend? I thought I might drive down there on sat if I can get the car working and don't have to spend too much money on it.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, you can leave me messages anytime. You will not be held responsible for any injuries.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

i think i'm going, yeah

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, that's not what I meant, K. Just that there were no subsequent messages left while you were sleeping.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

My work week ends in three hours. I feel this is a fact well worth noting.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

Mine too!

By the way, big ups to me this week = I think I've gotten 6+ hours of sleep every day this week. This has been a goal of mine for a couple of months now, but I always seem to slip up somewhere along the line.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, I've been getting around 6 hours as well and it's starting to wear on me. I need that good 7 or 8 to keep going.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 April 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

Good job, John.

My work week ends in 3 hours, 14 minutes.

I think we might go see TY for smoking instead because it's playing at the Davis, which I think is cute. It reminds me of small town theaters from my childhood.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 April 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

I don't like the Davis because I'm too spoiled by surround-sound and stadium seating.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

Stadium seating is an unhappy thing.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

This is real seating:

http://www.debevec.org/Campanile/Production/Pictures/shrine-inside.jpg

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

What's wrong with stadium seating? No one's head is ever in your way.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

Attn FFs: a certain band you're opening for next month is on the front page of SPIN.com today!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

The seats kind of suck there, but it's cheap, the concession stand folks are friendly and don't hate their jobs, you can find parking, you don't have to buy your ticket online hours ahead of time to get a seat, it's mostly an older, more well-behaved crowd, and, well, it's more date-like.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 April 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

you don't have to buy your ticket online hours ahead of time to get a seat

I think I've only done this like three or four times in my life. But then I tend to go to movies in the afternoon, or on weeknights.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

That's great, Sarah. I must go there sometime.

John, stadium seating isn't a bad idea, I don't guess, but the reason it exists is not to keep people's heads out of the way, it's to make movie theaters squattier and more compact so they can cram more theaters into the godforsaken multiplex. It's how I usually see movies, and iut can't be avoided, but I really do miss going to see movies and getting a sweet seat right behind the balcony rail.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

I have 24 hours until the end of my workweek. Praise [insert chosen deity].

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 April 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

Balcony?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

You kids have never sat in the balcony! I tell ya, the world has changed, and not for the better.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

What band is on spin.com?

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 April 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

I have! But then again, I grew up in a place where 2 out of the 3 theatres in town were built in like 1920. xpost

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 7 April 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

I think the only time I've sat in the balcony to watch a movie was when Koyaanisqatsi played at the Chicago Theatre with live orchestra score.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, there was a big old moviehouse in Austin that did this Summer Movie series, bunch of old movies, and it would be 100 degrees outside but you could go sit in the balcony and watch a movie and have the air conditioning blast on you until you were freezing. And then go back outside, all refreshed.

The theater in Houston that shows the "art movies" has a balcony, too, and I lived there all through high school.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

That's awesome (@spin). L1z armschlong wrote mean things about one of them in this week's article. I figure it can only help them.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 April 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh. I left my Reader at home. What did she say? And about whom?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

What band? I looked at spin . com and didn't see anything, but I'm at work and didn't look very hard.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 April 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

it's Office.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

Oh. I did see that. I just didn't know who they were. Thank you, O'Sully.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 April 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

I thought it was 'nasty or something and got excited because I know rock stars.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 April 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I just read the Liz thing online. Er1ca invited me to the lesbian night at Funky Buddh4 L0unge about a year ago. She said if I went, I might get weird looks, so she gave me her number and said just call me and I'll make sure they let you in. Haha.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

I thought it was 'nasty or something and got excited because I know rock stars.

What the SPIN thing has taught me is that we really need a well-connected manager. Which is kinda sorta in the works, actually. Someone's interested in us, at least.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

Erica the drummer? I want to hang out with lesbian band chicks!

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, but since when are you all up on Off1ce, K.?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

Since I found out they're the next big thing. I read it in Spin.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

(Do you really need to googleproof "Office"? I doubt they're the top match for that word, anyhoo.)

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

I think office in itself is googleproof.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 7 April 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, kenan.

office office office office.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 7 April 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

All the google proofing makes this feel like a chatroom in 1994.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 7 April 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

No, but what about "Ch1cag0 + Er1ca + lesb1an + drumm3r + Off1ce + Sp1n"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

Googleproofing didn't exist in 1994 because Google didn't exist in 1994. Anyway, I never saw anyone do it until like three years ago.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

Bye everyone! Have a good time at Ronny's tomorrow... wish I could be there. See ya at the NASTY show on Monday.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Friday, 7 April 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, but it's essentially l33t talk, which was rampart in 1994.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 7 April 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

rampart isn't the word i was looking for, that doesn't make sense.-

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 7 April 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

I barely knew that the internet existed in 1994. I sure didn't use it.

Rampant?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 April 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I wasn't aware of l33t until three years ago, either. And I spent quite a bit of time in AOL chatrooms in 1995-96.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

I used the internet in 1994 to connect with other young men who wanted to take Liz Phair up on her offer of sexual favors.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

oh, sorry, L1z Ph41r.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

Did you even have Internet access in your hillbilly shack in 1994, Jeff?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

Did you even have pubes yet in 1994, Jeff?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

Quit picking on my husband.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

So cute.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

I had dial-up aol, had to dial long distance so it was ass expensive.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

I had a dream last night that I was throwing a bottle of water at some creepy sexual predator dude (after strangling him and attempting to throw him down the steps) and in the process, I punched Jeff in the butt and woke him up, who woke me up when he yelled "What did you just punch me for?" Which turned out to be good because we had both overslept.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

i used to be on local chicago BBS' when i was in junior high and HS. are any of you guys local chicagoans, btw?

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

Nope. But my first internet message board was an Urge Overkill board and I got in trouble for talking about non-UO things since it was 1997 and they weren't releasing any more albums.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

I want pancakes and eggs.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

are any of you guys local chicagoans, btw?

I was just wondering about this yesterday. I am. Amateurist is, though he's no longer on this thread. But few others are. I don't know where Julia and Otto are from, originally -- though I know Julia lived in Boston at one point.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

I'm from Teeeexas.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

Just skipped the entire thread to ask: John, would you recommend "Rip It Up and Start Again"? Is it mostly dry rock history stuff or does Reynolds digress alot (never read anything by him)? I have trouble with lots of rock books because I've read too many of them, is it worth it?

I won my office's NCAA bracket somehow (mostly by being almost perfect in the right-hand side of the first round somehow) and the prize was a $50 gift card to Borders. Feel free to recommend me other things to read.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

what HS did you go to, jaymc?

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

I'm as much "from" Chicago as I am "from" anywhere.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

Why do you think I've read Rip it Up and Start Again? I haven't. I don't read very many rock books at all.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not. I was born in ol' Virginny. I've only lived in Chicago going on 2 and a half years now.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

I'm from California via Oklahoma via Ohio.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

Feel free to recommend me other things to read.

save it until december for when my book gets published! i could use the 30 cents or whatever i get from royalties

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

Why would John have read that? COME ON!

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

Phil -- I went to Bolingbrook H.S. (southwest suburbs represent).

Other ILXors originally from the Chicago area:

Oops
Gear

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

I could have sworn you said you were reading RIUASA?!?!?!? I am fucked up, sorry.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

No no, Sarah, haha, actually I've been wanting to read that book. It's just funny that Nick assumes I already have, despite the fact that I've said boo about it on ILX.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

i went to hs in h1nsdale, omg (though i don't like to admit it). my parents still live there. i lived on both coasts though, and in colorado as well, growing up.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1905277555
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1576122190
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004U2NL

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

I took the SAT IIs in Hinsdale, I think. I don't remember if it was at South or Central. Also spent a lot of time at the art theater there, which did not have a balcony but was in most other respects a nice old-time movie theater.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, Nick. You should upload those pix of Lucy to your flickr page. Please.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

(those were my book recommendations, by the way.)

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

i love the theater there! i used to go there lots. i'm not sure what became of it, they were going to close it down but i thought they managed to save it. they used to have a local college prof come in once a month to lead a discussion after whatever they were showing, usually classic/foreign/art film stuff. my parents had mentioned a film group at the public library, so the theater might be really gone now.

i went to central.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

(Jessa actually got a free copy of the Naughty Spanking one, and let me tell you -- the content is every bit as awful as the cover. Totally roffley. More fun than reading Anais Nin in a funny voice.)

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L33t

This is WAY tooo comperhensive.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I think the theater is gone. Only place to see art films in the western suburbs now is the Glen Art. (Kelsey and I saw a couple films there in 2000.)

they used to have a local college prof come in once a month to lead a discussion after whatever they were showing, usually classic/foreign/art film stuff.

Oh, I totally went to these. I embarrassed myself by asking a rambling question about Taxi Driver and 70s cinema when I was 18.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

i could never bring myself to say anything, really. but they had cookies!

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

I would like cookies.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

it's amazing that i am still capable of doing massive volumes of work when i have to. it's also amazing that i waste so much time that i frequently have to work at a frenzied pace.

oh, and i'm originally from massachuesetts.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

I just devoured an oatmeal chocolate chip cookie from potbelly.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 April 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

I had an oatmeal raisin cookie and a muffaleta for lunch, mmm.

In less than three hours, my work week will be over and I will be practicing how to rock!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 April 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

i did not have lunch today. maybe that's why i spelled massachusetts incorrectly.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 7 April 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

OMG you guys. The bass player from office has the same bass as I do (in the same color!)! Will this be as bad as showing up to a party wearing the same dress??! OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I can't NOT have lunch. I'd pass out. I'm just... wussy that way I guess.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 April 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

In approximately 1.5 hours I will be off work and heading home to take a nap so I can handle my rock and roll weekend without dying.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 April 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

BTW, does anyone remember what ally/tom's wedding thread was called? The one with pictures?

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 April 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

What a dumb morning. I woke up at 10:45. I was scheduled to be at work at ... 10:45. Fortunately my cab driver was absolutely insane on Lakeshore Drive.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 7 April 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

Hip Hip Hooray etc.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

You mean, he was insane on LSD?
*sigh*

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 April 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

i'm pretty damn hungry but what i really need is a smoke. i haven't had one in hours.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 7 April 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

The boss just left for a WEEKEND TRIP to Dublin to see a soccer match.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 April 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

I first had written, he was crazy on LSD, but then I changed it.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 7 April 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

I also cannot not have lunch.

The Onion AV Club this week lists some artists that are sure to be the hot, hip stuff of '06. Anyone familiar?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 April 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

Access to the URL: http://www.avclub.com/content/node/46995 has been denied.

(Your request was denied because of its content categorization: Music/Web Radio.)

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 7 April 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

who's on there?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 7 April 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

I don't like Art Brut. He'll be at the pitchfork fest.

As will the M's. I like them okay.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 7 April 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

Of the seven, I've only seen one play (the M's). I have an mp3 of art brut at home thanks to Nick. I haven't heard of any of the others.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 April 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

So I have recently given up on a friendship so I have an open slot in my speed dial (my phone only allows 9 speed dial numbers). So who's it gonna be? Are YOU cool enough to be on my top 9?

I already have, Jenny, Jeff, Sayjal

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 7 April 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

Otto: the M's and Psalm One.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 April 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

(sorry, I meant to specify that two of them are from Chicago)

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 April 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

What the SPIN thing has taught me is that we really need a well-connected manager.

This is right, or a publicist - you guys are in the right spot where it would be a very very smart move.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 7 April 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

I have been thinking about hiring an agent and a publicist.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 7 April 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, have you, uh, been to the Pizza Hut buffet recently?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 April 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.nigeldennis.com/stock/images/mammals/species/lemur/25463.jpg
I like to move it, move it

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 April 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

more dancing lemurs

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 April 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.albertvisage.com/images/jpg_med/MAM-LEM-031.jpg

Hey, how's it goin?

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 April 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

That's one chillaxin' lemur.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 April 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

the first lemur looks like a cricket pitcher.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 7 April 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~rodeime/lemurs/Sifaka_sit.jpg

Ohhhhmmmmmmmm.....

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 April 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah, here's the thread: hip hip hooray to ALLY AND TOM on their magical wedding day!!

― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 7 April 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

i said, WHO WILL BE #9 IN MY SPEED DIAL? IT'S ONLY 8 EASY STEPS FROM THE COVETED #2

(#1 is voicemail by default)

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 7 April 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

The fact that their fur doesn't completely encircle their skinny little limbs is weirding me out.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 April 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

me: my scanner is here

me: i know that because I JUST HEARD IT CRASH INTO MY DOOR!
then i heard the scampering of fedex feet.
Jen is typing...

Press Enter to send your message.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 7 April 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

What do you think lemurs think?

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 7 April 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

lemurlemurlemurlemurlemurlemur

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 April 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

Want food. Want sleep. Want lemur sex. Want food. Want poop. Want sleep.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 April 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

They all look like they JUST REALIZED something.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 7 April 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

Shut up Jordan.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 7 April 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

Fine, here's my real answer:

Tonight you've gotta leave that nine to five up on the shelf
And just enjoy yourself
Grooooove
Let the madness and the music get to you-hoo
Life ain't so bad at all
If you ~~lemur~~live it off the wall

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 April 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

ta ta

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 April 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

Oh the mental image of lemurs singing "off the wall" is pleasing to no end.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 April 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

I'll bet they have nice falsettos.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 April 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

I bet they're ticklish.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 April 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

They look like they have really cute armpits.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 7 April 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

I can see why a cat would pee on a scanner. It makes the same noise as the electric litter box.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 7 April 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

Haha. I would love to get an electric litter box.

I'm out, have a good weekend y'all.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 7 April 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

The electric litter box is the only way to go.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 7 April 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

Are The Editors really going to be big in 2006?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Friday, 7 April 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

The picture of The Black Angels was taken at Conan's Pizza, home of the $6 pitcher of Shiner Bock. FYI.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Friday, 7 April 2006 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

Part of why I want to have a baby is so that I can do things like this is my very own home:

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6952/2092/320/DSCF0019.0.jpg

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Friday, 7 April 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

Gross.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Friday, 7 April 2006 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

cuet.

hey, what can anyone tell me about Big Buildings? Thinking about going to the Hideout tonight, but want to know if it's worth the money.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 7 April 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

EXTREMELY IRRITATING: SOUND GUY JUST CALLED AND SAID HE WASN'T ABLE TO GET 16 TRACK RECORDER AS PROMISED WHICH SORT OF FUCKS OUR RECORDING SITCH.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 7 April 2006 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

Hideout show should be good. Nice guys in the band; Monika K. just gave them a rave rave in the Reedur.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 7 April 2006 23:07 (nineteen years ago)

I like Big Buildings, some them about a year or so ago, good solid rock band, nothing fancy, but well-crafted songs and unpretentious sound.

I had a good day. Worked until 12:30, went to free pancake house lunch with coworkers, bought awesome comp of British DIY bands from the '70s and '80s, read the Onion, bought three books for $2 (after redeeming gift card) at Borders, ate Mexican food with Sarah, went to see "Thank You For Smoking" (which was good, not great, but it was such a relief to see a new comedy that wasn't stupid).

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 8 April 2006 02:32 (nineteen years ago)

Now Sarah's asleep so I guess I'll read or something.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 8 April 2006 02:42 (nineteen years ago)

Hey Nick, want to help me out with something? It would involve listening to music.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 02:43 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, where is everybody? I'm bored and awake and it's Friday.

My building is being torn down in four months.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 02:45 (nineteen years ago)

Can't take you to a frat party every Friday, K.

― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 8 April 2006 02:48 (nineteen years ago)

I demand satisfaction!

Also, a beer. I demand a beer. Who wants to go get a beer with me? Just a quickie. I'll buy one for whoever indulges me.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 02:49 (nineteen years ago)

(I've got two versions of the master for the new D1gdown record here. The only difference is that one has 1.5 db less low end than the other, and I have to decide which is the one to go with. It's not a huge difference, but I wouldn't mind another set of ears if anyone wants to A/B a tune)

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 02:50 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to see the Dresden Dolls.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 8 April 2006 02:50 (nineteen years ago)

I just woke up, I like naps before shows.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 8 April 2006 02:51 (nineteen years ago)

I hope it's an all-nude revue.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 02:51 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yes. I just called you. Forgot about that show.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 02:51 (nineteen years ago)

I paid $16 for the ticket! and I better see some cans.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 8 April 2006 02:54 (nineteen years ago)

Or at least some can-can.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 02:55 (nineteen years ago)

No beer, huh? Alright, then. I'll just be sober. *pout*

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 02:56 (nineteen years ago)

I have beer! It was a three-beer rock rehearsal earlier, and I just kept going.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 02:58 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, I'm happy to listen to the mixes but I don't really have good ears. I can't really hear subtle differences in sound, and a lot of times my preferences for good album sound don't seem to gibe with those of the general population. But sure, send them if you want another listener.

Kenan, I'm around and a little bored but I don't really want to leave the house. It's gross out there. So I think I'll skip on the beer.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 8 April 2006 02:59 (nineteen years ago)

I am going to CALI CLIP w/PALS.

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 8 April 2006 02:59 (nineteen years ago)

I can tell you know I'll probably prefer the bassier version, I like bass more than most people (you can tell on the FF stuff that I mixed, I totally overdid it on the bass).

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 8 April 2006 03:00 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I'm a little bored, too. There's action downstairs, but I don't feel up for it. The music is annoying tonight. Straight-up noise, and not the kind with guitars that I like. Just asynchronous nerve-jangling electronic sounds, the kind designed to try your patience.

Cali Clip is a cool joint.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 03:01 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not really bored; I'm kind of tired but I don't want to go to sleep yet so just vaguely restless. But I think I'll go read for real now.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 8 April 2006 03:03 (nineteen years ago)

Where's John? John is always up for a beer for no reason.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 03:05 (nineteen years ago)

I downloaded the "Chef's Dead" episode of South Park, and the Family Guy one, and they both kinda suck. I'm so disappointed. "Trapped in the Closet" was so great, but now they're getting too defensive and self-referential.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 03:07 (nineteen years ago)

Here's one version:

http://s38.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=206UF06O7KHQE18XUETU46IGFF

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 03:15 (nineteen years ago)

My kitty is teh cuet, you guys.

http://giganticmag.com/images/ilx/dobs3.jpg

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 03:17 (nineteen years ago)

Here's the other:

http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=23IV64GFQA2I33R3JN6B6AZTZ2

I'm mostly interested if you can tell the difference and if you think the level should be higher (since I'll have an opportunity to tweak things tomorrow).

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 03:19 (nineteen years ago)

That is a cute cat. With an accusing gaze.

Tonight finally got to see the "Tibetan Monks vs. the Rich Fat Kid Camp" episode of Mr. Show that I remember from years back.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 03:21 (nineteen years ago)

Here's another.

http://giganticmag.com/images/ilx/dobs4.jpg

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 03:25 (nineteen years ago)

She has big eyes! And wittle white boots!

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 03:28 (nineteen years ago)

Big belly too.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 03:30 (nineteen years ago)

It's extra fuzzy!

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 03:32 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/43/122650930_29c18faf85.jpg?v=0

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 03:34 (nineteen years ago)

Poor thing.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 03:47 (nineteen years ago)

Didn't see your beer query 'til now K. - was hanging out in the living room with two visitors to town - a gal from Portland and a guy from the UK who was looking up all his UK friends' bands on MySpace - they all sound like Violent Femmes. Good to have visitors in the house.

― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 8 April 2006 04:21 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah. It is.

The music downstairs stopped and everyone went to another party. I was going to go, but... no.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 04:22 (nineteen years ago)

they all sound like Violent Femmes

Many do. Many do.

That first VF album is a singular piece of art. No album has ever so completely captured the preciousness, the pretentiousness, the anger, the sexual frustration, the self-righteousness, and the unapologetic cluelessness of being 15 years old. It's the most adolescent album ever made, and it it timeless.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 04:27 (nineteen years ago)

it is

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 04:27 (nineteen years ago)

I just saw Thank You for Smoking tonight, and had a very similar reaction: like, not love. Also: Chipotle! Ommmm... carnitas of the gods!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 8 April 2006 06:06 (nineteen years ago)

i just cut myself.

OUCH

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 8 April 2006 06:22 (nineteen years ago)

I am the proud recipient of one 12" Chicago style pizza, featuring sausage and jalapeno peppers. So good.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 06:32 (nineteen years ago)

(And it better be, for what this fucker cost.)

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 06:32 (nineteen years ago)

Three pieces of Chicago style pizza = I am going to lie down now and listen to the sound of myself getting fatter. That's right, it's actually audible.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 06:45 (nineteen years ago)

I'm back yall.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 8 April 2006 06:55 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse did not go to clarks.

I'm so disappointed.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 8 April 2006 06:55 (nineteen years ago)

I'M the one who is disappointed.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 April 2006 06:59 (nineteen years ago)

Also: no cans

But: war pigs.

And!: Jaques Brel cover

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 8 April 2006 07:03 (nineteen years ago)

Me putting snow on my first dog.

http://static.flickr.com/39/124940043_c0eeaf7ca5_o.jpg

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 April 2006 07:05 (nineteen years ago)

Garlic

http://static.flickr.com/37/125033481_26d2e477dd.jpg

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 April 2006 07:12 (nineteen years ago)

I just put garlic on the scanner, and got this high quality image.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 April 2006 07:13 (nineteen years ago)

Aw. Little Jesse was so cute!

What went wrong?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 07:22 (nineteen years ago)

As though through alchemy, I became this:

http://static.flickr.com/34/125036065_6664379487.jpg

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 April 2006 07:25 (nineteen years ago)

Technology has failed us.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 8 April 2006 07:26 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.georgehernandez.com/h/aaBlog/2005/media/10-13_JarHead.jpg

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 07:27 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/8/10971681_46dba58c62_o.jpg

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 April 2006 07:29 (nineteen years ago)

I'm so wide awake I could fucking come over and knock on J/J's door.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 April 2006 07:30 (nineteen years ago)

Damn the red bull. Damn it straight to hell.

What are you idiots doing drinking red bull and vodka, anyway? THat's not a fucking drink.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 07:32 (nineteen years ago)

Whiskey neat. That's a drink. And you can go to bed after, too.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 07:33 (nineteen years ago)

me: jeff, here's some money, buy us drinks
jeff: here's your red bull and vodka

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 April 2006 07:33 (nineteen years ago)

everything is a drink

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 8 April 2006 07:34 (nineteen years ago)

this boozy suzie is a despondant debbie.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 April 2006 07:35 (nineteen years ago)

Not... socks. Socks is not a drink.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 07:35 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to go twist my dick around to see how far back it goes. And maybe stick it up my ass for some reason.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 April 2006 07:36 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/652462/2/istockphoto_652462_glasse_socks.jpg

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 8 April 2006 07:40 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.makeoutclub.com/htdocs/profiles/images/boys/humanxperiment.jpg

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 07:42 (nineteen years ago)

xpost haha

I prefer socks on the rocks. 'Cause it rhymes.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 07:43 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff, why are you up on the internet and not hanging out with me in person? I'm boo-hooing.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 April 2006 07:43 (nineteen years ago)

What else it new, crybaby?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 07:44 (nineteen years ago)

I took 2 Tylenol PM and I think I'll go watch either the end of CHUD or season 6 of the Simpsons.

I want pastries!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 April 2006 07:44 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/53/125040446_b3cd5c258a_o.jpg

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 April 2006 07:45 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/53/125040446_b3cd5c258a.jpg

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 April 2006 07:46 (nineteen years ago)

Did you take that? I have pics from the top of the WTC, too. It was quite a view.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 07:47 (nineteen years ago)

let's see them, cooze.

yeh, i took that.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 April 2006 07:47 (nineteen years ago)

They are in the posession of my gramma. It was her camera. Going to New York with your gramma, I have since found out, is nowhere near as much fun as going to New York without your gramma.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 07:49 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/42/125041100_acd84e7e34.jpg

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 April 2006 07:49 (nineteen years ago)

Crotch full of duct tape. I was tripping on the dirtiest acid ever shat onto blotter.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 April 2006 07:50 (nineteen years ago)

Wait a minute... are you gay?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 07:51 (nineteen years ago)

That was in N. Wilkesboro, NC, I'll remind you. In the foothills of NC. I think that makes the image extra special.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 April 2006 07:52 (nineteen years ago)

I just watched Just Like Heaven, with Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo, who is my man! My main goal in that movie was for Ruff to fuck the Katrina chick. Did not happen. I am rum falling asleep. Kenan is right about Red Bull and vodka. WTF is that shit all about? Since when did Red Bull taste good, period? Now socks, there's a drink.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 8 April 2006 07:54 (nineteen years ago)

BTW, young Jesse = extra cute.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 8 April 2006 07:54 (nineteen years ago)

Since when did Red Bull taste good, period?

Man, I know. It never did. Never ever. Period.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 07:55 (nineteen years ago)

I'm fed up.

All I want is a rum and coke followed by a danish with a cold glass of milk. Grrrrr.

Dresden Dolls were great. War Pigs was great.

I first typed 'Ward Pigs'

Mark Ruffalo = yum.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 April 2006 07:56 (nineteen years ago)

Agreed, Jesse. I was drinking rum and diet pepsi (first with vanilla, followed by regular). I know, I am a diabetic freak.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 8 April 2006 07:58 (nineteen years ago)

Ruffalo is especially yummy in Collateral, with the short short hair and the fruity little goatee.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 07:59 (nineteen years ago)

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Sections/Newsweek/Components/Photos/Web_Exclusives/040810_040816/040811_CollateralRuffalo_vm.standard.jpg

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 08:00 (nineteen years ago)

In other news, I plan to reveal my crush to the girl I have had an enormous crush on for the past few months within the next week. All I need is to hang out with her alone, in person. There are so many odds stacked against me, we'll see how it goes. All I absolutely NEED though, is to be able to let her know how I feel. Sorry to get all mushy.

xp: Why do I not remember him in Collateral?
xp: hmmm.....

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 8 April 2006 08:00 (nineteen years ago)

I think I like the scruffy Ruff better.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 8 April 2006 08:01 (nineteen years ago)

I first saw him in In the Cut and he was delish.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 April 2006 08:04 (nineteen years ago)

I want to continue talking about him, but I have nothing else to say. I want to be him, maybe. In the way I wanted to be Ethan Hawke for so long, except Ruff is so much less pretentious. I am listening to Gene Pitney. He is incredible. How did I not hear him before he died?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 8 April 2006 08:11 (nineteen years ago)

You Ruffalo fans should see XX/XY if you haven't already - good relationship movie all around.

― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 8 April 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

that movie is well done, but holy shit depressing.

i was in a kind of bad mood when i saw it and thought, oh, yay, relationship movie to cheer me up. and then i saw it and lost faith in humanity for a little while.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Saturday, 8 April 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

You should have watched Just Like Heaven instead. Speaking of which, I just woke up from 6 hours of really intense Just Like Heaven-esque supernatural style dreams. I seriously feel like I've been brought back to life after dying or something. So many people without materiality walking through walls and stuff. It's a woozy weird feeling. Probably has something to do with the ridiculously high blood sugar I woke up with as well. Diabetes: It's like a drug experience all its own.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 8 April 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not diabetic (yet) but I do have blood sugar issues -- ask Julia about what I'm like after a piece of extra-sugary pie. And I can definitely attest to blood sugar messing with your sleep. I have to treat sugar and simple carbs like caffeine -- nothing even close to bedtime, or my sleep will be all wonky.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

I had dreams based on The Godfather. There was unbelievable violence in my nightmares.

After the movie-dream there was a stupid "analysis" portion of the dream where a voice-over said how full of juxtaposition and contrast the dream had been--a clip came on in which a sunny beach was shown followed by the same beach covered entirely in melted candles and clouds.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 April 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

High blood sugar mostly affects one (i.e. me) in a woozy way. As in, I have slept through classes and work because of high blood sugar. As in, it makes me less likely to wake up. Low blood sugar is a faint feeling that leads to feeling very awake (when I am asleep and have low blood sugar it usually wakes me up... I am lucky) but very still. As in, I just want to sit down, although what I really need to do is get something with fast-acting carbs (orange juice, soda, etc.). It also makes me very hungry, which is kind of a nice feeling, 'cause I need to have food but I also really enjoy it. This leads to overdoing it quite frequently, which just means I have to end up giving myself some insulin (which is easy because.. hello! insulin pump). But it's not healthy from a non-diabetic/eating proper portion sizes perspective. Lesson 1 has now completed. Please turn the tape over for Lesson 2.

xp: haha!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 8 April 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Lesson 2: It is interesting that low and high blood sugar often have very similar effects, e.g. blurry vision. When I was first diagnosed, I would often not know which I was experiencing until I actually tested my blood sugar. I have gotten much better at telling by now, but every so often I still can't tell. Fascinating!

For Lessons 3 and 4 please send $19.99 in check or money order to the following address....

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 8 April 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan... Mama Jama please!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 8 April 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

Ah! If only there was an XX/XY torrent, my life would be complete.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 8 April 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

I'll look for Mama Jama. It's not in my iTunes library, so it's somewhere in this huge folder of random crap.

I wanna give a big shout out to Upgrade Cycle Works on Chicago and Milwaukee. Nicest hippies in the world. Fixed my flat for free, gave me all kinds of advice about the bike, and loaded me up with some essentials, like a pump, a helmet, and an allen wrench. (How did I ever ride a bike without an allen wrench?) I feel better. I do need to get new tires, because yes, when you buy a cheaper bike, they're going to skimp on some things, like tires, pedals, and the saddle. Actually, the saddle that came with the bike was so shitty that the bike shop replaced it before they sold the bike. BUT... I did not get a bad bicycle. The nice man with the big beard and the tattoos on his neck uses the same bike for doing the whole messenger thing. It's got a great, light frame and great components. And if you have that, everything else can be dealt with.

One thing I am beginning to realize, though -- riding a bike around the city all the time is a high-risk activity. You don't need a helmet because you *might* crash someday, you need a helmet because you *will* crash someday. Apparently if cuts, bruises, and skinned elbows are not for you, you should find another mode of transportation.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

Hi sorry I was not available for beerz last night. I was having beerz with the girl instead.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 8 April 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

You are quite forgiven. How's the girl?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

Very well. She just left.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 8 April 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

Oh my. Well then.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

John's got a giiiiiirlfriiiiend...

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

I notice that many (most even) people I see on bikes do not wear helmets. This includes messengers. I would think that helmets would be required by the employer.

A guy I work with--who is around 50 and a pretty serious alcoholic--rides his bike home from the Loop to Edgewater (6000 N. Glenwood) after work. Well after a couple bottles of wine after work. The other day he called in because he had been in a hit and run but didn't remember any of it except that the police told him that he had been hit by a car. He doesn't wear a helmet of course.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 April 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

She just left.

woo woo!

Are we going to Green Zebra tonight or what?

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 April 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

Tonight is the FFs/Sharks show, fool.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

Dave -- Bad Mamma Jama is up on the blog.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

:) :) :)

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

I know, Kenan. We were going to go out for dinner before the show. Butt out, butt-insky.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 April 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

(xxp) It's possible to do both, of course.

Although my main concern right now is that my car won't start.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 8 April 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/47/125236521_5d8544da8b.jpg

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 April 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

me at age 24+

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 April 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

oops, not +

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 April 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

O I C.

I will not be joining you at the Zebra. I spent money already today.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

YOU WEREN'T INVITED!!!

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 April 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

i'm sorry. that was mean. and true.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 April 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

You're such a bitch. I'm good enough for Clark's on Clark but not a trendy restaurant, eh? Afraid I'll embarrass you?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

Just for that, I'm showing up at the Zebra drunk as hell, and I'm going to fart a lot and call you "buddy" while slapping you on the back.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

Self-portrait with mantis in my hair. On infrared film (note the white leaves in the background.)

http://static.flickr.com/46/125239233_f43412d050.jpg

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 April 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

kenan, on the way out don't forget to shout "nice seeing you again and good luck beating the child porn charge." loud enough for everyone to hear. always a classic.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Saturday, 8 April 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

"fart a lot." It's funny because you said "a lot." As though minor amounts of farting would be acceptable.

Everyone is welcome if we go. 'Cept Kenan.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 April 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, you should post some of these to the "What Do You Look Like" thread. Starting with the one where you're drooling on the scanner. That cracks me up.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

My scanner is really great. The Auto Color Restoration function works like magic. I have faded photos from the 70's that look completely life-like with the click of a button.

Conclusion: Best

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 April 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

(thanks again ILX for fucking up my post)

My scanner is really great. The Auto Color Restoration function works like magic. I have faded photos from the 70's that look completely life-like with the click of a button.

Conclusion: Best < $100 I ever spent.

On the down-side, looking through a huge box of photos is not always fun. Some memories are good, but some are embarrassing and depressing. There are parts of my life recorded on film that I'd just as soon skip over. Ugh.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 April 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

Conclusion: Best < $100 I ever spent.

I didn't know they were that cheap! Very cool.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

I have work to do, but I do not want to be doing work. It's sunny out and my bike works again. I want to grab my camera and go to Lincoln Park.

Life is hard.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

I am marvelling at this bicycle pump. I never had one this cool when I was a kid. It's all small and light and has a little flip-out foot stand and a hose and a built-in pressure gauge and it inflates to 120psi. The things they can't do with aluminum and plastic, I tell ya.

I know. I'm lame.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

The scanner was on Amazon for $98. Free shipping. I had an Amazon certificate from Coinstar for $25.

You can get the same on at Best Buy for $95.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 April 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

roadmorph

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 8 April 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

That's the one.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, my funk thanks you! My memories of this song have to do with it being a key track on a comp my little brother got from the EMP in Seattle that we listened to in my young uncle's black Mustang while driving around the hills of Seattle. Good times.

I'm eating junk food. Blech!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 8 April 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

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― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 April 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

Not only is it a great jam, it has those R. Kelley style lyrics that make you go, "Does he realize how funny this is?" I mean, it's so artless. There's nary a metaphor in the whole song. The girl is just FINE, and there's no other way to say it.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.christianshirts.net/images/designs/small/ppwaj150.gif

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 April 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

ugh. Jesse, why you gotta depress us all?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

Oooooo I want to post something in response to the Jesus abortion slogan (shirt? sticker?) but even I think it's too offensive for internet semi-permanency. However, I will tell you all in person later.

Jesse, I still think there's something very attractive about you with long hair. Now, in person, I like you better with short hair - especially the way it's cut right now. But I think I would have had the hots for you when you were a youngster with longer hair.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 8 April 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

And yes, I'm about to schlep three weeks worth of dirty clothes to the laundry mat because the washers in our building are STILL BROKEN.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 8 April 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

Three weeks is nothing. I've done the "buying socks and underwear so I don't have to do laundry" thing so many times now that I have about three months of socks and underwear. And undershirts. I am a laundry camel.

Downside: I have to haul about 40 pounds of clothes six blocks down the street every time I want to do laundry.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

Also, and I've mentioned this before, socks are cheap, and there's nothing like putting brand new socks on your feetsies. I buy socks for fun sometimes. Like, to treat myself.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

I really should get some kinda little cart for laundry. Something with wheels. Because it's a vicious circle -- I don't do laundry that often because it's a huge expenditure of physical energy, and it's a huge expenditure of physical energy because I don't do laundry that often. And I'm going to throw my back out someday if I keep this up.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

My work week is finally over!

(Just wanted to post that before I don't look at the computer for at least 36 hours.)

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Saturday, 8 April 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

Congrats, Amanda. Have you decided on a plan of inaction?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

What's your philosophy on undershirts? I used to detest v-necks because they look so stupid on their own, but I think I might have to buy some to wear under other t-shirts.

NB, I've only recently adopted the practice of wearing undershirts. I used to be a single layer dude.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

I usually just go with any ol' t-shirt, which I have a ton of, but I have proper undershirts, too. The wife beaters don't seem to serve much purpose, since they don't trap armpit sweat. Plain white t-shirts are much better.

I have not developed a preference for neck shape.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

I like regular white tee's in regular and v-neck style (although I have none of the latter) because they make me feel like Jack Kerouac.

You're totally right about those lyrics. "viewin' her anatomy"...

Raise your ! if you're going to the Shx/FFs show tonight.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 8 April 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111one

Okay, off to the laudry place or else I will be showing my (.)(.) and my (|) at the show tonight, since I have nothing clean to wear.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 8 April 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

Huh, that was supposed to be a butt. It came out looking rather yonic. I guess it works either way.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 8 April 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

You would be showing your cooter, too, so it still works.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.christianshirts.net/images/designs/small/lovinggod150.gif

A little busy, isn't it?

xp: gross. funny. grunny.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 8 April 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

Also, big ups for using the word "yonic."

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

Also, !

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

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http://www.christianshirts.net/images/designs/small/closet150.gif

http://www.christianshirts.net/images/designs/small/badname150.gif

= pure hate. Self-righteous Christians like this should spend less time making "clever" expressions of hate via t-shirts and more time um... helping the poor, giving shelter to the homeless, you name it.

http://www.christianshirts.net/images/designs/small/satanvote150.gif

OH THAT'S WHO IT WAS!!! Thanks so much for clearing that up for me.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 8 April 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

Hey guys, you know what? Stevie Wonder is fucking awesome. Nobody told me I would be jammin' until the break of dawn.

xpost In defense of the little dude who's coming out the closet, he is inarguable straight. Some might even call him "stick-like."

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha, so true!

No shit about Stevie Wonder! Songs in the Key of Life is the jam!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 8 April 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

i'm behind. i'm watching hellboy but i took a break because it started skipping. and i really wanted to see if i was right about one actor's voice (i was. i love imdb).

also, just seeing jeffrey tambor's face makes me laugh, though his character seems like a minor serious whatever kind of character. arrested development has conditioned me to find teh funny where it is not.

You don't need a helmet because you *might* crash someday, you need a helmet because you *will* crash someday.

i have probably told the story several times of my brother in law colliding with a pickup truck while biking (dumbass driver's fault, not his). he flipped over the hood, left a head-shaped dent in the windshield, and slid down the other side, wile e. coyote-style. his helmet cracked in two (and it takes quite some impact to do that with an expensive bike helmet), but his only injury was a chipped elbow. my sister's gotten hit while biking too (helmeted, uninjured). i was hit while rollerblading once, but in a minor way, and most of the biking i used to do was trail riding, so i don't have dramatic car stories.

in short, glad you bought a helmet, k.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Saturday, 8 April 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

Me too. I am especially glad that I bought a helmet that matches my bike.

I was looking at the helmets, and beardy that hippie guy said to me, "You understand that these are one use only, right?" I thought for a second that he was joking, like you can only wear it once, like a condom. But no, what he meant was that once it's absorbed an impact, you have to buy a new one. I thought it odd that he referred to this scenario as a "use."

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, i would think it preferable not to crash every time you ride a bicycle. though i've seen (and had) some really pretty bruises.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Saturday, 8 April 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, I forgot Jeffrey Tambor was in Hellboy.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

doors are scarier than cars.

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 8 April 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

ugh, I hate owning a car.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 8 April 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

You want to talk about depressing, look at the religion section at Borders. A good 90% of the Christianity-related books are "devotional/inspirational," which isn't really scary in itself until you look at the Islam-related books and realize a good 75% of them are basically "OMG MUSLIMS ARE SO EVIL AND ISLAM IS INNATELY EVIL AND THEY'RE COMING TO KILL US!!!!"

See also: The preview for the 9/11 movie that they showed before "Thank You For Smoking" (a comedy!) last night - "Flight 93," which they seemed to be framing as a standard action thriller. I expected Bruce Willis to jump out and start shooting people. I wanted to throw up and stab people. Though it did make the preview for the fucking awful-looking Adam Sandler movie that came right after it relatively bearable.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 8 April 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

Nick, were we in the same theatre last night? River East @ 9:45? I thought that Flight 93 movie looked so bad as well. "This is a story that needs to be told," etc. It seemed to take the premise that if the movie was filmed in realistic-looking, non-Hollywood-style video and they all spoke in soft voices, then we would all understand the gravity of the situation and not think of it as a commercial venture.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 8 April 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

I'm can't wait to vote pro-choice like Satan. Thanks, Christian t-shirt company!

Spin Cycle laundromat on Broadway is a very nice, large, clean, well-lit, and nicely apportioned laundromat with pleasant attendants, plentiful folding tables, and enough seats. Also, somehow, miraculously, for the first time in all my lifetime of laundromat experience, this was the first time I've been in a public laundry facility on Saturday afternoon and not been confronted with a ton of crying children. Amazing!

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 8 April 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

Hooray! See you all tonight.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 8 April 2006 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

No, we went to the Davis Theater in Lincoln Square.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 8 April 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/45/125379774_1c9a01e1d8.jpg

That's me schlepping all the laundry down the road today.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 8 April 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

i just got back from the record fair in pulaski park and scored the first electric chairs single. goddamn these are 3 great songs.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Saturday, 8 April 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

took a chance on some mid 60's garage band from chicago and the a side to this is fucking KILLER! wow. i've played it 3 times and gonna spin this thing again. fucking primitive as hell but it sounds like a party. goddamn.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Saturday, 8 April 2006 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

Looks like they changed the name of that movie from "Flight 93" to "United 93." For whatever reason.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 8 April 2006 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

Hey guys, just checking in from the Yoop. I went out to the lake (Superior) today. MAN IT WAS COLD. I think living in Chicago has made me into a bit of a wuss in the tolerating-real-cold department. There's still some snow on the ground, remnants from the 3 feet they got in one day back in early March. The first flowers are starting to poke through the ground in places, though. Kind of an interesting contrast.

I'm off to the newly-expanded local microbrewery to enjoy TWO DOLLAR PINTS. There are some things to be said for living in the middle of nowhere.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Saturday, 8 April 2006 23:23 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, that's the standard price for a beer there, not happy hour or anything...

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Saturday, 8 April 2006 23:23 (nineteen years ago)

Also, and I've mentioned this before, socks are cheap, and there's nothing like putting brand new socks on your feetsies. I buy socks for fun sometimes. Like, to treat myself.

ME TOO! I buy underwear for the same reason.

Kenan, you should buy a wheelie grocery cart. The one that sells for $35 in other stores sells at the Persian grocery in Andersonville for $18. Truly a bargain.

Jenny-- why did you not go to the laundry I go to? It's not quite as nice, but they have free drying. And it's closer.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 April 2006 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

Today I helped John and Jeff's cars were dead so I helped them out.

Here's me later helping John get his motor running again.

http://static.flickr.com/48/125355783_efa2531280_o.jpg

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 April 2006 23:51 (nineteen years ago)

i went 5 for 6 on the 7"s i got at the record fair. and the tokyo electron lp is KICKING MY ASS!!!

fuck i'm going back tomorrow.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Saturday, 8 April 2006 23:55 (nineteen years ago)

The digital camera photo is better. :)

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 8 April 2006 23:57 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/48/125412582_7e9258c456.jpg

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Saturday, 8 April 2006 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

There's a hair in this photo

http://static.flickr.com/42/125413300_1320ffcf81_o.jpg

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Sunday, 9 April 2006 00:01 (nineteen years ago)

John looks so happy in that picture. But perhaps also like he's not taking the oral pleasures very seriously. I mean, he's on the phone! What are you, Paris Hilton? Bitch, pay attention!

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 9 April 2006 00:20 (nineteen years ago)

Haha. Jesse looks like he's passed on in John's lap.

I watched a History of Violence tonight. William Hurt was funny.

Finished the remaster of the record, so now it's done-done and I can commence never listening to these songs again.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 9 April 2006 04:03 (nineteen years ago)

where's the after party?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Sunday, 9 April 2006 05:50 (nineteen years ago)

THE AFTER PARTY IS AT MY HOUSE, GEEZ. YOU WERE INVITED!

― gbx (skowly), Sunday, 9 April 2006 06:04 (nineteen years ago)

night of the living dead boys on the turntable, tanqueray and tonic in my glass, other things in the air... I'D SAY THE PARTY IS AT MY HOUSE!! ?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Sunday, 9 April 2006 06:50 (nineteen years ago)

WRONG

― gbx (skowly), Sunday, 9 April 2006 07:09 (nineteen years ago)

There is an after party which you have foresaken in order to post on ILX?

John and Dave and I went to Clark's for a minute. Whilst there I experienced two-fold horrors of awkwardness resulting from a period during which I was a one night stand king. Then I left. The end.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Sunday, 9 April 2006 07:27 (nineteen years ago)

Don't fuck with me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 9 April 2006 07:27 (nineteen years ago)

John, come here. I need you to fuck. With you.

(what happened was that John "took a walk" and opened a seat for a one-nighter dude to come and say hi to me and Dave. I forgot his name for a second and then it got awkward, and more so when the dude said, "Well, JESSE, it was GREAT to see you." I totally know his name though. His name is also John.)

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Sunday, 9 April 2006 07:32 (nineteen years ago)

John Cuntinhand just called me with the request that I not fuck with him.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Sunday, 9 April 2006 07:32 (nineteen years ago)

I meant it, too. You are such a tease.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 9 April 2006 07:35 (nineteen years ago)

(|)

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Sunday, 9 April 2006 07:35 (nineteen years ago)

The King of One-Night Stands rules alone.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 9 April 2006 07:36 (nineteen years ago)

My big mistake was trying to make introductions as Mr. Jaymc walked around carefully studying the pool scoreboards. I should have stuck with "Hey man, what's going on? Nice to see you, dude."

One time I got in trouble for forgetting the name of my boyfriend of 4 months when making introductions. Similar situation, late at night and a number of jiggers in me.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Sunday, 9 April 2006 07:45 (nineteen years ago)

Pool scoreboards?

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 9 April 2006 07:46 (nineteen years ago)

you stumbled to the chalkboards where players keep their pool scores and STARED at it. then you walked to the seating island and stood looking around for a while.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Sunday, 9 April 2006 07:50 (nineteen years ago)

Huh. :/

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 9 April 2006 07:50 (nineteen years ago)

Then you muttered something about this not being your beautiful house, or your beautiful wife, or something.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 9 April 2006 07:55 (nineteen years ago)

Funny, because Sharx covered "Burning Down the House" tonight.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 9 April 2006 07:57 (nineteen years ago)

badly

― gbx (skowly), Sunday, 9 April 2006 08:04 (nineteen years ago)

Tom Jones does "Burning Down The House".

― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 9 April 2006 08:18 (nineteen years ago)

There aren't too many Talking Heads covers, are there? Simply Red does a sort-of bombastic "Heaven".

― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 9 April 2006 08:20 (nineteen years ago)

I hope you didn't leave Dave behind at C's on C.

― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 9 April 2006 08:22 (nineteen years ago)

STRANDED.

― gbx (skowly), Sunday, 9 April 2006 08:23 (nineteen years ago)

Sharks are so good. I'm going to wear my Sharks shirt 2-day. I just woke up to do work and I feel more drunk than I did last night.

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 9 April 2006 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

Talking Heads Coverography! (Staple Singers?!)

I wish I was still asleep.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 9 April 2006 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

So did the show end up getting recorded?

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 9 April 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

The Sharks portion of it did. We declined on account of being sick of recording.

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 9 April 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm.... somehow, instead of ending up at the Argyle Red Line stop, I ended up in jail. WHA HAPPENED?!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Sunday, 9 April 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

Apparently, having your credit card declined when trying to pay for a taxi is a crime. That they don't just issue you a ticket and a court date for, no. That would be too rational and leave the police force free to focus on REAL FUCKING CRIMINALS!! Instead, you have to go to jail. While being berated by everyone in sight because apparently now being somewhat drunk is a crime as well. Sometimes, I fucking hate my life.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Sunday, 9 April 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

after drinking that cheap-assed no name gin all night i have a jfk hangover. and my god my eyes are absolutely on fire.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Sunday, 9 April 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan has disappeared from our couch. He'll never make varsity now.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 9 April 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

ha ha. varsity.

xpost-the cops gave you shit for being drunk? what made you choose a cab?

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Sunday, 9 April 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

also--- "JFK" hangover: at first I figured you meant the airport, but I guess you mean the president. But why? Was he a drunk, or is it because you feel like you just got shot in the head?

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Sunday, 9 April 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

jfk hangover = feels like a large portion of the back of my skull has been blown off with a high powered rifle.

i think i'm ready to walk to letizia's for coffee.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Sunday, 9 April 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

I got a call about 1 hour ago about a supposed brunch. What happened?

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Sunday, 9 April 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

dave, going to jail sucks, sorry dude.

― gbx (skowly), Sunday, 9 April 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

I am not dead. I did not vanish. I woke up early and didn't want to be sitting in someone else's living room watching their TV all morning.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 9 April 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

Hi. Hungover.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 9 April 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, when I couldn't find the Red Line stop, I remembered you telling me to take a cab. Even though I had no money, I figured something would be worked out.

Oh yeah, and I was harassed like it was my job last night. The female cop who came up to the taxi and immediately started yelling at me told me I was drunk and when I agreed and asked her what was illegal about that, she told me the problem was that I had been being belligerent all night. She also told me I had been yanking the cab driver's chain for half an hour and that I wasn't giving anything straight to her either. Apparently, not yelling back made me non-compliant or something.

Then a male cop (a University cop, no less) told me to step out of the cab when I was still on the phone calling friends to try and get me some money (which they had told me to do). I told him I was still on the phone, and he got angry, so I stepped out. I was still leaving a message on someone's voicemail when they started to cuff me and act like my being on the phone was an act of resistance. So this U-cop pushes me against the cab and starts cursing at me violently. It's like these cops are not trained to talk to someone who's accused of anything. Someone makes a complaint and that person's word is taken as gospel. Once they've decided to arrest you, there is nothing you can do to resist or halt the process. And god forbid they actually treat you civilly when you are cooperating with them.

Thanks for the commiseration, Evan. I liked the Sharx version of "Burning Down the House" last night.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Sunday, 9 April 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

Otherwise (and yes, it's a big otherwise), I had fun last night. It was nice to meet the fools I hadn't yet and see the infamous Clark's on Clark as well. And starting now, I am going to be blaming the bad luck of last night on the Malort. Thanks, Chicago, you cocksucker!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Sunday, 9 April 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

Dave, your lesson from this adventure is: don't travel 18 miles away from home without enough money for a cab to get back.

Dear Sharks,

You are good! I liked your show. Please play somewhere with better ventillation soon.

Love,
Jenny

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 9 April 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

I don't understand how you didn't find the Argyle el. You follow Argyle till you get to the station. If you walk into the lake you know you've gone too far.

Evan is furry.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Sunday, 9 April 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

Fuzzy, I meant.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Sunday, 9 April 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

Jail? Shit dude. That's no place to wake up in the morning.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 9 April 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/41/125869223_9b48a48357.jpg

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Sunday, 9 April 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

Congrats, Amanda. Have you decided on a plan of inaction?
-- Gilbert O'Sullivan (fluxion2...), April 8th, 2006 2:23 PM. (later)
Ok, so it's only been 24 hours, but I didn't even look at the computer at all after I posted here. Last night I made dinner, D. and I went to a friend's birthday party and were in bed by 12:30.

I really am sorry I couldn't make it last night -- sounds like it was a rip-roarer. Maybe I can hear the live recording of Los Tiburones at some point. I'm just no good at going out anymore. My life kinda sucks -- time-wise, I mean -- but it's fixin' to clear up within the next 6 months. I hope.
I'm glad I didn't have to look up "tiburon." I actually remembered it!

Ok, off to do a take-home exam. I am not excited about this AT ALL.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Sunday, 9 April 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

I'm glad I didn't have to look up "tiburon." I actually remembered it!

Weird. J, J and I were just talking about this.

In other news, I WEIGH 168 LBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (I'm 5'6", remember?)

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Sunday, 9 April 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, I am wearing your hat.

I feel like there's a rule that our apartment must always contain at least one Kenan hat.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 9 April 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

I remember as a teenager hanging out with a semigoth friend in downtown Minneapolis and him not having bus fare to get back to St. Paul and not knowing how he was going to get home to Osseo (yes, life then was just like the Hold Steady says it was), and I remember thinking then the same axiom Jenny just shared.

― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 9 April 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

the St. Paul there was extraneous - he was trying to get to the northern suburbs.

― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 9 April 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

This is why I like the fact that I can always walk home. It might take hours, but I always have that option.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 9 April 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

In other news, I WEIGH 168 LBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (I'm 5'6", remember?)

Is that a lot or a little?

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 9 April 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

this tokyo electron lp is killing me. i made out like a bandit at the record fair this year.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Sunday, 9 April 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

i got a moby grape record and a devo record.

― gbx (skowly), Sunday, 9 April 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny, enjoy the hat. I'm sure it looks great on you.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Sunday, 9 April 2006 22:24 (nineteen years ago)

When I was in college we lived next door to an old man and his old wife and their hugely, amazingly, morbidly obese 40ish year old son who was so fat he was nearly immobile and on nice days he would sit out on his front steps and talk to us, but he'd never look at us, he'd always stare far away across the playground that was across the street. Legend has it he had taken too much acid, but in hindsight, I'll bet he was schizophrenic and on one of the old-school, intensely sedative anti-psychotics. He collected vinyl and one of his favorite bands in the world was Moby Grape. Once we invited him over to listen to my roommate's band in the basement and he smoked some pot and seemed to have a good time. We called him Big Mike.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 9 April 2006 22:54 (nineteen years ago)

Is that story in reference to gbx's records or Jesse's weight?

OH SNAP.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 April 2006 00:42 (nineteen years ago)

I meant to post these earlier.

http://giganticmag.com/images/ilx/ffs_rock.jpg

http://giganticmag.com/images/ilx/nick_god.jpg

My pictures of The Sharks didn't turn out very well.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 10 April 2006 01:32 (nineteen years ago)

dude, nick and sarah, you should have told me that you guys were coming to champaign!

i would have had someone do a little write-up on your concert.

i will at least make it a "preferred" event in the entertainment section of the school paper down here

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Monday, 10 April 2006 01:53 (nineteen years ago)

I liked the space a lot, too. There was something grand about it, in a garage band kind of way. It helps that it actually used to be a garage.

http://giganticmag.com/images/ilx/ready_to_rock.jpg

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 10 April 2006 01:57 (nineteen years ago)

hello chicago, i'm in michigan!

since i'm on dialup at the moment, i haven't been keeping up with the thread, but wanted to pop in to say i'll be in chicago tomorrow, yay.

i've got a temporary cell phone, the number is 269-873-0658 (number will die soon, which is why i don't mind posting it here). if anyone wants to get ahold of me or toby to make plans, feel free to call whenever. or email to my gmail address. we'll head to schuba's after our tasting is finished if we don't hear otherwise.

see some of you tomorrow!

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 10 April 2006 02:05 (nineteen years ago)

I like that photo.

And I'm using the exact same kit setup in my rock band.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 April 2006 03:02 (nineteen years ago)

i also like that photo.

chicago: recommend to me a decent turntable. surely you've all got one.

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 10 April 2006 03:07 (nineteen years ago)

Check ebay. Look for direct drive. Don't pay too much unless you're a dj.

This is what I have. It needs a new needle and a pre-amp.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 10 April 2006 03:22 (nineteen years ago)

only problem with ebay: i don't even know what to search for, you know?

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 10 April 2006 03:30 (nineteen years ago)

Brands are good to look for, because it's easier to get parts for big brands. Kenwood, Denon, Technics, JVC, Pioneer, etc.

Search: turntable direct drive

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 10 April 2006 03:34 (nineteen years ago)

Just -- my biggest piece of advice is that all you need to do is play some records, don't buy a new turntable. They're ass expensive and you don't need all the shit they've got going on. Buy a nice piece of an old 80's hi-fi system. Built solid.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 10 April 2006 03:37 (nineteen years ago)

I've been wondering if Chicago has something equivalent to Circle Stereo in Austin. That place was old hi-fi heaven, and I bought two turntables there while I lived there. Even the first one I bought, the belt-driven JCPenney model from, like, 1980 was so well restored that it is still in operation, in my ex-girlfriends apartment. I paid $80 for it. If Chicago has a place like that, find it and then tell me about it.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 10 April 2006 03:42 (nineteen years ago)

if any of y'all are flickr friends with me, you can now see the picture of someone you may have been curious about. :)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 April 2006 03:57 (nineteen years ago)

168 lbs is more than I've ever weighed. I must say, I think I'm wearing it well. I want to lose 10-15 lbs. Or trade in fat for muscle. Despite Chris Piuma's opinions regarding visible muscles.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 10 April 2006 04:07 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not yer flickr friend yet... I don't think. Who are you on flickr?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 10 April 2006 04:07 (nineteen years ago)

I was just poking around on the internet about this turntable that I have, and it turns out that it's heavy as hell because the plinth (the base of the turntable itself that all the gear and the spinning parts sit on) is an actual slab of marble. I know they don't make 'em like they used to, but shit.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 10 April 2006 04:10 (nineteen years ago)

I am eating a surprisingly lower calorie meal. Sauerkraut pierogies with prosciutto. The pierogi contains nothing but kraut.

The prosciutto I bought today is German. That seems kind of weird.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 10 April 2006 04:13 (nineteen years ago)

Who are you on flickr?

Take a wild guess.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 April 2006 04:13 (nineteen years ago)

Gotcha.

She's so so pretty, John. You should kiss her a lot more.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 10 April 2006 04:18 (nineteen years ago)

Today at work before we opened we had the sound tuned to a 80's and 90's mix station. I had forgotten how great L.L. Cool J is. (Mama Said Knock You Out.)

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 10 April 2006 04:20 (nineteen years ago)

I had forgotten how great L.L. Cool J is.

For shame! LL is fucking awesome. I mean, when he's awesome, he's awesome. And when he kicks sex rhymes, he's hilarious. And "I That Type Of Guy" is the bestest, most ridiculous song of its type ever. "I'm the type of guy / Leave his drawers in your hamper." Oooooh! No he di-in't!

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 10 April 2006 04:22 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, who are you on flickr?

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 10 April 2006 04:22 (nineteen years ago)

The ranks of those of us who are not kissing on pretty girls is shrinking rapidly.

xpost -- giganticmag. It hasn't been updated for, like, a year. I put all my best photos on http://giganticmag.com/photos.php

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 10 April 2006 04:24 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny, you're right of course. I still don't think I deserved to be sent to jail. It's like the CPD hasn't heard of a fine and possibly a court date.

Jesse, I don't know either. All I know is that I walked until it dead-ended and took a right. Maybe I was blinded or something. Anyway, I'm just fucking glad it's over. I never want to see a cop again in my life.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 10 April 2006 04:25 (nineteen years ago)

Someday I will actually learn to take good photos. For now I just like the documentation.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 April 2006 04:26 (nineteen years ago)

How am I your friend and not seeing this photo?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 10 April 2006 04:27 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, I don't know either. All I know is that I walked until it dead-ended and took a right.

You were drunk, but I'll forgive you for that. The street continues about 100 feet away. It just takes this very slight jag at Broadway.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 10 April 2006 04:28 (nineteen years ago)

Even so, you can SEE the el tracks while standing at that very intersection.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 10 April 2006 04:29 (nineteen years ago)

ihttp://mail.google.com/mail/?view=att&disp=emb&attid=0.1.0.1.0.2&th=10a7fe12ac5c0522

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 10 April 2006 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

shit.

Dave-- I don't know what you're talking about. The street jogs over about 3 or 4 yards at Glenwood and again at Broadway. I think we can blame the booze.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 10 April 2006 04:31 (nineteen years ago)

I think we can blame Dave's drunken desire to not have to deal with trains and buses. Which I can also understand. But dude! Don't get into a cab you can't pay for!

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 10 April 2006 04:33 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I know I know. Definitely the booze it sounds like. Can we lighten up on me a bit, though? I know I shouldn't have done it. I still shouldn't have had to go to jail for the night. And either way, it's not helping my desire to either explode someone or curl up in a ball and hibernate.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 10 April 2006 04:37 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I agree, jail is way too much. It does sound like you were fucked around by cops.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 10 April 2006 04:39 (nineteen years ago)

http://betterpropaganda.com/images/artwork/Let_Us_Never_Speak_of_It_Again-Out_Hud_480.jpg

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 10 April 2006 04:41 (nineteen years ago)

Horrible cover, excellent album.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 April 2006 04:44 (nineteen years ago)

I did a night in jail once, too. For a hot check I had written two years prior that I never got any notice about because I had moved. A hot check for $22. And I had a small bottle of gensing powder in my pocket that the cops were suspicious about, took it to their little cop drug testing kit that they keep in their cars (apparently), and it came up positive for speed, even though it wasn't. And by the time the actual, professional lab had analyzed the powder and determined that it was perfectly legal, I had spent a night in a cell (not just a holding tank) and they had called my mother and told her that her son was selling narcotics. That was a bad night indeed.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 10 April 2006 04:44 (nineteen years ago)

I've spent 2 nights in the pokey and a few hours one day as well. I used to get arrested a lot. Sucks when you actually get to the point where you're dressed in the orange jumpsuit and orange flip-flops because it really clashes with my coloring. I do better in earth tones and green.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 10 April 2006 04:54 (nineteen years ago)

Sucks when you actually get to the point where you're dressed in the orange jumpsuit and orange flip-flops because it really clashes with my coloring.

hahaha I know! The only time I've been in jail, I got the full drug dealer introduction. I mean, except for being convicted and sent to state prison. Still, bad news.

The ranks of those of us who are not kissing on pretty girls is shrinking rapidly.

Before I go to bed -- I feel it's time to make clear that I am not among those ranks. I have been kissing on Julia for a good while now, and she is terrifically pretty, and I'm not at all sure why we've kept fellow Chilxors guessing for so long. I'm awfully, awfully into this girl, and I don't care who knows it. I never really did. I guess maybe it's just fun to have a dirty secret?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 10 April 2006 04:57 (nineteen years ago)

Yay! Hooray! John, she is cute. I may not be kissing on any pretty girls at the moment, but as I said, I told the one I cared about how I felt. So I am still making myself vulnerable, i.e. I am not a complete emotional cripple. Just waiting for the right person. And I know I will most likely not find her at frat parties. :)

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 10 April 2006 05:03 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh. I'm going to bed. Work was unbelievably busy tonight and I have to work in the morning.

Apparently I chose the wrong weekend to take off and rock and roll as we broke the record for head counts on both Friday and Saturday--shifts I gave away in order to see the Dresden Dolls and Fake Fics.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 10 April 2006 05:09 (nineteen years ago)

You fool!

Next weekend will be just as good, though, if not better. Warm weather brings out the leave-the-housey and the spendy in people.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 10 April 2006 05:13 (nineteen years ago)

See, now THIS is spring. You guys were all jumping the gun three weeks ago. March != spring. Neither does April necessarily. You really have to wait until it's nice out to get really excited about it. And that forecast is NICE.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 10 April 2006 05:18 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, a little wet, but still very nice, considering.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 10 April 2006 05:19 (nineteen years ago)

Mmmm.. that is more like it.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 10 April 2006 05:23 (nineteen years ago)

GOOOOOOD MOOOOOORNING! I proudly hold down the early morning Monday shift, having migrained it up yesterday (whuzzup head pain and nausea) and gone to sleep at 9:30.

J - Your girl has very nice eyebrows, but I can hardly see much else. When are we allowed to meet her?

One more thing, before I actually get to work: remember how I suggested that we do karaoke on April 15? Well, that doesn't look like it's going to happen for me. See, I have to go to Milwaukee to be Dan's assistant and set up mics or something, so I won't be here and I rilly rilly want to be here for Karaoke Nite #3. If you guys wanna go, I understand, but consider postponing on my behalf. Just consider it.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 April 2006 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

Wait a sec -- there she is! She's very cute. And she looks so happy too. That's adorable.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 April 2006 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

I had a small bottle of gensing powder in my pocket that the cops were suspicious about, took it to their little cop drug testing kit that they keep in their cars (apparently), and it came up positive for speed, even though it wasn't.

It probably didn't. The police, they lie.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 April 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

I just got an e-mail from MySpace saying "Michael would like to be your friend." I was really hoping it was my dad. But no, it was some random dude I've never met.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 April 2006 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

my dad is on myspace and he's friends with a BABE

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 April 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan: :) :) :)

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 April 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

In other :) :) :) news, my bandmate Elizabeth just got engaged this weekend. Which is awesome, because I like her bf a lot. But half of the band is now engaged, wtf. (And Ben's actually been married once before.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 April 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

SHE DID?!?!?!!?!?!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 10 April 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

Yup, she told me last night at EZ's place! Jeff proposed on Friday night on the beach in Michigan.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 April 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

That's sweet.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 April 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

that's just great. i know she's wanted to be engaged to him for a while. they're a lovely couple!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 10 April 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

She's so cute, John! But you know, it made me laugh out loud to look up and see your flick icon beside her, even though I've seen it a million times. ha ha

Also, Congrats to Elizabeth!

Jesse, How old were you in the duct tape photo? High school?

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Monday, 10 April 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

john, have you read lindsay's livejournal? she has a bunch of those collaborative poems we wrote together. . . .

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 10 April 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

It probably didn't. The police, they lie.

Why would they do that? For fun? I mean, the reason I was pulled over was for having one headlight, and the reason I was driving was that I was moving a few blocks away, and had all my worldly posessions in the car with me. Like, everything. My poor little Mazda was bursting with stuff. They impounded my car, with all my worldlyu posessions in it, and this ended up costing me a lot of money. Because the cops lied? Why? That's SO MEAN. What the fucking fuck?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 10 April 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

I ran my first race yesterday! A 5K! My time was decent, especially considering that I haven't been training AT ALL for the past two weeks. I ran it in 30:36!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 10 April 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

Todd, Did Nick email you? We haven't known about that show for very long. It was sort of last minute. Can you recommend a decent, inexpensive hotel in the area?

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Monday, 10 April 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

Kelsey is an athletic Goddess!

I rode my bike to work this morning, and I notice that when I do that, I tend to make something of a spectacle of myself when I get into the office, what with the wheezing and the coughing. Breathing that much is bad for me, I have decided. I will try to ride without breathing from now on, as to not unduly tax my lungs.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

I'm probably going to go for a ride today too . . . I'm excited about it.
Also: I'm very glad you got yourself a helmet!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

chicago: recommend to me a decent turntable. surely you've all got one.

my beloved workhorse, the beogram 3400:
http://www.beoworld.co.uk/products9/beogram3400.jpg

and the currently injured beogram 5500, on the disabled list with a broken tone arm mount. i need to get to decibel and get her fixed.
http://www.beoworld.co.uk/products/beosystem5500c.jpg

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

Decibel? Do tell.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

In the duct tape photo I was about 23 or 24.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

I hadn't heard of Beogram. Those look fancy. I like Kenwood & Pioneer.
You should visit a thrift store further out of town where record players probably aren't priced like antiques.

I got to work 30 minutes early today, so now I'm booorreeddd.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

I've been getting a lot of random requests from Myspace. Including some dude from Chicago, so they're not all fakester solicitations for porn or something.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, you looked sketchy with your one head light, your bad check, and your worldly possessions. They probably figured you had something to do with drugs, maybe some personal use pot, and that you would be willing to turn on a larger supplier. So they figured they would tell you that the powder tested positive in the hopes of scaring you into giving up some actual information. They might also have been so sure about your habits that they decided to take the ginseng into the lab for a more accurate test.

But cops are not your friends and cops lie. That's the hard, cold truth. And they can lie - cops can tell you anything they want to tell you. That's why if it looks like you're getting arrested, SHUT YOUR MOUTH and don't say anything other than, "Am I free to go?" and "I would like to call my lawyer." Ever.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

I so do not want to go to work. Which is pretty pathetic considering that a. I go to work at 10:45, b. I work for 4 hours, c. I've hardly worked at all recently and d. I'm German.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

Oh! DeciBel.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

You're also Mexican, so it balances out.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

A friend of mine has a pair of these inexpensive DJ turntables, I like them and I'm sure one would be fine for home listening.

I've got an 80s Technics, but it's been broken forever. :(

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

Also, congratulations to E! Being married to dudes named Jeff rocks.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

Come on, Jesse. Are you a MexiCAN or a MexiCAN'T?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

beograms are made by bang & olufsen, makers of high end audio equipment for decades. the 3400 is my everyday friend and is probably close to 25 years old. the 5500 i from '88 i think.

i will never be able to afford new b&o equipment but i can always dream. the b&o homepage.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

We've got a turntable that we bought at Best Buy maybe? It wasn't very expensive and it isn't anything fancy, but then again, neither are we. Nor is our audio equipment.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

CDs are better. digital supremacy.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

my ex-girlfriend used to nanny for some trustfunders in ann arbor when she was in college, the dude gave her his b&o when he bought a new stereo system. it was one of the first linear tracking turntables, it had a laser that read the grooves so that you could skip to a particular track on the platter. it cost big $$$ in the late '80s when it was brand new. i think it got stolen from her apartment in ypsilanti or when she lived in boulder.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

So, you know that big immigration rally? It really was the beginning of a movement. There has been stuff on the radio about rallies in other states almost every day since the protest in Chicago, or there has been stuff on the radio or in the paper about the immigration bills in congress. And today I heard a clip from an organizer in Texas talking about how they were going to use this momentum to continue to rally around issues of working people in general, and not just immigrants, like a living wage and health care.

Whether the rally in Chicago started it all or just happened to be the first manifestation of a groundswell of immigrant rights adigation, I don't know. Probably the latter. But even I am surprised as how big this movement has turned out to be, and how strong and continual the agitation has been. Good job, US immigrants!

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

I'm MexiCUNT.

I just bit into a moldy strawberry.

― WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot (unclejessjess), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

Nice work on the blog post, Jenny. That song reminds me of riding in the car on Saturday with Kenan adjusting his ass in my lap.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

hope it works out for them.
and i hope there's still a country worth coming to in two years.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, speaking of Stevie Wonder (you know, 10000 posts ago) I don't suppose anyone's heard that album? I didn't even bother checking for it, but I heard three songs yesterday that are fucking HOT! Who woulda thunk.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

john, have you read lindsay's livejournal? she has a bunch of those collaborative poems we wrote together. . . .

OMG awesome, I forgot about those! It's really interesting to read them (nearly 6 years later) and not have any idea whose lines belong to whom.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan -- Hotter Than July is his last really great album. Find it.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

Hotter Than July is on my Amazon Wishlist.

Kenan, you looked sketchy with your one head light

Hey, come on try a little
Nothing is forever
There's got to be something better than
In the middle

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

I used to feel that CDs were better, but with the portability and ease and immediacy of mp3s, I now like vinyl better than cds, because it fills a need that it not being met with purely digital music - material solidity. Plus cover art. Plus, I don't know, I just like records. They are so square and record-y.

Kevin - I hope it works out for all of us - if worker issues really do get the same attention that immigration does, we could all benefit. I think we'll still be around in two years; I'm less optimistic about a ten year projection, however.

(Did anybody else read the report about Iran and get that good old Russian/US cold war nukephobia nausea? Jesus. Talk about a throw back to childhood terrors...)

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

I have a turntable that Mark gave me, but I don't have a stereo system to use it with.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

I hope those aren't lyrics from the Wallflowers song.

Oh yeah! I've definitely heard of Bang & Olufsen. Faaaannnccccyyyy.

I wish I had my grandmother's old stereo. It had that feature where you could have a second record ready to drop when the first one finished playing.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

I hope those aren't lyrics from the Wallflowers song.

Of course they are. I had to google for them, though: the only thing I remembered was "blah blah blah Independence Day something something."

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

It had that feature where you could have a second record ready to drop when the first one finished playing.

Also known as the Extra Special Record Scratching Feature. Very handy for scratching the shit out of your records.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

Sadly, I saw them preform it in concert. It's ok. It's over now. Big breaths.

Did everyone see the silly pic of Lucy on the McLusky cat thread?

Thanks for killing my dream, Kenan!

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry. That was too snarky. But seriously, that's why they don't make those anymore.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

I like Hotter than July! But seriously, there's at least three great funk tracks on the one from last year. One of them has a big faux-dancehall beat, one he plays drums on, and the other Prince plays on.

Sure, the rest of the tracks might be schlock, but I've got to get the ones I heard off iTunes.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I thought you were talking about... nevermind. I will check out the new one.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

I think we'll still be around in two years; I'm less optimistic about a ten year projection, however.

if we can make it to the end of the current administration i'm hopeful of a voter revolt. i've never been more concerned than i am now.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

But seriously, that's why they don't make those anymore.

yeah, i remember that from my folks old turntable. i think that god ditched after there was a flood in our basement and all my dads old 78's and jazz and r&b records from the 50s got destroyed. wish those were still around, i wouldn't have to keep blowing money at record fairs.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

uhm, god had nothing to do with it. i think that GOT ditched after the flood.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

I've only heard one song from the new Stevie Wonder -- it's the single, called "What the Fuss" -- but it was pretty good. I think it's the one that Prince is on.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

What's that hotel in Champaign/Urbana that's like a castle or something? You guys (Nick and Sarah) should stay there.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

if we can make it to the end of the current administration i'm hopeful of a voter revolt. i've never been more concerned than i am now.

AGREEANCE.

Also, God might have flooded your basement in an attempt to wipe out some sin that he left over after the Genesis deluge. HE WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS. Also, I lost a shit ton of great records that I loaned to a friend who was DJing a party when that basement flooded. Floods are to records what fire is to the Scarecrow.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

God might have flooded your basement in an attempt to wipe out some sin that he left over after the Genesis deluge.

i'm pretty sure it was the housing development that went up the prior year that affected the water table where we lived. there used to be a creek that got filled in and when the spring thaw came all that melting snow had to go somewhere. it wound up in the basements of my folks house and our neighbors. my parents still live in that house, they said the back yard filled up with so much water last fall that a pair of ducks started nesting there.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

oh, and who did i meet saturday night? i still don't have a handle on real life to ilx names.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, so you'd met some before, but...
Jenny, Jeff, Jesse, John, Kenan, Dave, Nick, Sarah

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

I am Sarah. ha ha

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

if we can make it to the end of the current administration

The alternative being...?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

Today we'll be having Oberweiss milkshakes to celebrate a coworker's birthday (!).

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

i know who john=jaymc, kenan=whatever name he's using now, nick=n/a, sarah=sarah. jenny=? jeff=? jesse=?

vee dee (perhaps my favorite band in chicago) is playing a free show at the bottle tonight.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

it's the single, called "What the Fuss"

Yep, that was definitely one of them. The brass band's going to do an arrangement of one of these tunes.

I've got one crate of vinyl at home that I never listen to. It's 90% jazz and funk records that strained from my dad's stash and 10% hip-hop/electronic stuff that I bought during the two months in college when I was into vinyl (and it shows - Autechre, DJ Shadow, Talib, etc.).

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Today we'll be having Oberweiss milkshakes to celebrate a coworker's birthday (!).

man, the one thing i miss about living in oak park (or one of two things since i miss new pot too) is having easy access to a strawberry shake from oberweis. but there's one on milwaukee ave. now so it's not so bad.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny is now "Safety First," Jesse is "WhisktyTangoEtc.", and Jeff is mostly absent.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

I'm marginal, so you may have to wait a while before you meet me.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

You are not marginal. You are U+K.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

eric z. (perhaps my favorite band in chicago) is playing an almost-free show at Schubas tonight.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny = Safety First/Nutsy the Squirrel
Jeff = Jeff./Jeff-PTTL
Jesse = WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot/Daddy's Little Duder
Dave = regular roundups

You also met Evan = gbx/giboyeux

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, listen to Eazy.

C4n4st4 and Eric Z. at Schubas tonight! Get there early, cuz Eric's going on at 8 pm. I'm playing clarinet with him on a couple of tunes. Also: C4n4st4 is debuting our cover of "Everybody Wants to Rule the World." So dope.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

jaymc (perhaps my favorite local clarinetist) is playing on two songs tonight.
-xpost, damn

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Vee Dee has a lot of Em Pee Threes on their site, I see.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

I'm Jenny! I was NUTSY THE SQUIRREL for a little while. I also had on a nametag on Saturday that said, "Safety First." I liked it so much, I changed my ILX name, too. You may remember me from such conversations as, "Why you remind me of people I know from Delaware" and "Why ChiILXors play pool like developmentally disabled children."

Amanda you are not marginal in the least! You're busy. But you're very important to me.

Dear Canasta and EZ - my rock and roll weekend is over and it's back to the margins with me. I would really like to see the show, though. I'm sad inside my feelings area. xoxox, Jenny

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

dang, that's right i forgot about gbx, sorry. i just like to be able to put a face to the words is all.

i haven't been to the vee dee site in ages... is cleveland outerspace on there?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

John is the Sidney Bechet of the Chicago indie scene.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

Awesome. I once dated a girl who was obsessed with Benny Goodman. (She also played clarinet.) For Christmas, she gave me a Benny Goodman CD.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

Nope, Otto - http://www.veedeechicago.com/audio.php

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

Why ChiILXors play pool like developmentally disabled children."

seriously. i played like the biggest developmentally disabled child (or, y'know, drunkest adult) and still managed to vulture two games on technicalities. i love playing pool. i'm so aweful at it. it's the same reason i love bowling. my little spaghetti arms aren't cut out to bowl but it's a ton of fun. i'm gonna make my ex-roommate go bowling with me this weekend. she'll be here in 81 hours! wheeeee!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.ekathimerini.com/kathnews/photos/05-01-06/05-01-06_64852_1.gif

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

flashes of her is the best one on there.
her eyes is probably my favorite now that i think about it. but cleveland... is sorta different from the rest. more proggy/psyche than most of the other songs. but they've all got a heavy mc-5 influence.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I don't mean EMOTIONALLY marginal. I'm present in the hearts of men, women and small animals the world over. In person, though, good luck catching me unless you're my coworker, an ESL student, a grocery store employee, or my neighbor.

Tonight, for instance. I would love to go to a show, but I have class. Granted, class doesn't last til midnight, but I've been up since 5 -- getting up at 5, going out at night and then waking up at 6 the next morning just doesn't work for me. So I stay in the outskirts, and in the fringes, on the edge and off the avenue. If you want me, you can find me...

Haha -- does anyone remember that song?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

All my pool games go like this:

Me: "Nah, I don't want to play, I really suck."

Whoever: "C'mon, it's cool, I suck too."

...

Whoever: "Wow, you really do suck."

My partial left-handedness really factors in, I can never even remember which hand I shoot with.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

Haha. You're right, Woody Allen is a much better comparison.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

Hey it's Easter this Sunday! And you know what that means!!!!

It's time to LOL @ Yul Brynner's funny hat:

http://ffmedia.ign.com/filmforce/image/article/656/656197/heston-yul-10commandments_1128630908.jpg

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

I LOLed.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

I'm trying to think which band should write a song called "It's Time to LOL at Yul Brynner's Funny Hat." Out Hud? Xiu Xiu?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

getting up at 5, going out at night and then waking up at 6 the next morning just doesn't work for me.

i'm out of bed at 5:15 every monday through friday. you've got to want it.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

One more group of people who are likely to see me in person: fellow students in class tonight. Although I had a dream that I completely forgot to go to class, then I went to my professor's office to apologize and caught him sleeping in a recliner in his undiepants. Then I realized that it was 6AM and that's why he was in his skivs.

Otto, like I said, it doesn't work for me.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

You must have superhuman energy reserves.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

no, you just get used to doing things.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

Otto lives a rock star's life. I, like Amanda, cannot. I can manage on less than five hours of sleep two nights in a row if I must but I am an emotional and physical wreck as a result and need excesses of sleep for the next three nights to get back to normal.

I'm an eight hour a night girl, although I would prefer nine or ten.

Mmmm... sleep.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

I'm happy when I get six.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

i usually don't remember my dreams but i had one right before my alarm clock went off this morning. i was in bed with a friend of mine and i asked her how work was, she said "it was slow all morning then got really busy towards the end" which was exactly what she said to me saturday afternoon when i asked her how work was. then she got up out of bed and went to the living room. i got up too and even though i left the bed seconds after she did the living room was empty. then the alarm went off.

not bad enough i'm not getting any in my waking hours, i've got to strike out in my dreams too.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

I'm happy when I get six.

way too easy.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I live in the Yukon and have two dogs.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

See?
http://www.nfyukon.com/IMAGES/cabine_ete_plein_ecran.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

why does some cottage cheese rock out & other kinds suck? it's a fucking mystery.

carl looks like he's, um, changed, in that photo, Amanda.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

Some summer I'll head up to Dawson City.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

way too easy.

I don't know what this means. Did you read my post the other day about how I'm striving to get six hours of sleep a night? (Or 30 hours a week, however it balances out.) This has been a challenge for me, since I have a slew of bad habits that have prevented me from getting to bed on time. But I am trying now, because I really do feel happier and more productive when I'm rested. I just need to keep reminding myself of that in the wee hours of the night.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

The first day that I only get five or six hours of sleep, I'm ok the next day. I can usually even avoid napping. But the next day, if I don't get my eight hours, I'm a pile of poo. Seven hours for two or three days in a row is barely -- BARELY -- livable. I'd rather not push it, though.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

i never get more than 7 hours of sleep. a few days in a row of going out will wear me down (last week or two weeks ago i went out 6 of 7 days and was a f'ing mess) but once in a while is livable.

john, "i'm happy when i get six" and way too easy... me and my boss have this running joke where we can take seemingly innocuous statements and tag on the line "sounds like my prom night" or a variation of that. it was the first thing i thought of when i read your post. yes, mentally i never got past age 14.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

I value my weekends too much to spend them catching up on the sleep I missed during the week. Saturday and Sunday mornings are good times to be relished, not slept through.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

(At least, that's the philosophy I'd like to adopt. Beer and rock and roll can and often do complicate this.)

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah, by the way, for the clarinet of Jaymc.

I'm back from a weekend at the coast. It was overcast and awesome. Then we stopped by the Tillamook cheese factory and came home and I made vegetarian poutine. It was... curious. Now I need to shuffle off to school.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I get about 7 a night consistently and I'm tired (but not debilitatingly so) all the time, but I make it. It's just that I can't pile on smoky bars and booze and whatever on top of not getting enough sleep. I've kicked whatever bad habits used to keep me up at night, so that's behind me. Now it's mostly obligations that keep me up til 11 or 11:30 and back up again at 6 the next morning.

PS -- Kelsey, that's actually a magical photo of me in the future, when Carl has a new friend. Somehow the future has me wearing socks and sandals, and I just don't see that happening, unless I'm outside drinking my morning coffee or something.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

Poutine... isn't that french fries covered in cheese curds and gravy? Or something?

Amanda, the socks and sandals happened because you live cut off from humanity and you forgot that it's not okay to do that.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

Tillamook cheddar on big, hearty fries -- sweet blue heaven, you know how to make me leave early for lunch.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, Could you please email me a few of the ff pix you took? PUHLEASE??

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, sure, Sarah. Once I get home tonight, I'll load up your inbox.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

Yay!

This morning has gone by so quckly. It makes me happy. And perhaps after work today Nick and I will shoot more hoops for dishes.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

chatty cathys.

I ran my first race yesterday! A 5K!

If you did this in Mpls, then I'm pretty sure my sis was also in that race.

Thanks for all the turntable info, DUDES, I'll see what I can put together. Nothing fancy, obviously. It is pretty hilarious, though, when you start perusing the audiophile pages. Dudes talk about 3k turntables and 10k electrostatic speakers like nothing, and how you'd have to be a drooling moran to listen to mp3s.

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

i kinda sorta know a guy who has a stereo set up that cost him $26,000. he knows he has a problem.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

Can any human ear really appreciate $26,000?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

New thread?

Chicago: Storm at Sunup

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

Listening to music is okay and all, but it's not THAT much fun. Not $26,000 worth of fun.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

must be nice to have that kind of money to blow on a stereo.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

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