Chicago: She Wrote The Route

Sexual Perversity in Chicago?

is that some mamet shit?

xp

http://www.organictheater.com/Organic/news/history/images/sexual_perversity.jpg

It's actually bastardized Mamet, from About Last Night, but I couldn't find the original opening online. I just remember the original line is "so tits out to here so."

Oh, here we go (quadruple post, I know): original opening.

Having seen neither, I had no idea that ALN was adapted from SPiC.

is that movie any good? does it sound like mamet?

lol Yak-Zies

apparently i just saw this guy filming on the streets of evanston:

http://www.janicegarner.com/images/john_corbett.jpg

he was in sex and the city and my big fat greek wedding and is apparently in the baby on board movie with heather graham, which is probably what he was filming. i didn't see heather graham though. i didn't recognize the dude but my coworkers did.

Also in Northern Exposure! But you were ... overseas.

I haven't seen About Last Night[ in forever, but I bet it would be fun to watch for all of the location shooting. Rob Lowe wakes up from his fling with Demi Moore and asks her roomate, Elizabeth Perkins, "Where's breakfast?" And Perkins says, "McDonald's, Belmont and Broadway." That kind of thing.

this album cover is never not funny to me.

http://us.ent1.yimg.com/images.launch.yahoo.com/000/031/795/31795726.jpg

eazy, i like doing that too. last spring i netflixed a bunch of shot in chicago movies to see what the landscape was like 20/30/however many years ago. that's also why i always pause when i see the opening or closing (esp. closing) credits to "good times". the end shot of the merchandise mart with no buildings taller than it in the frame is nuts. or the shot down chicago avenue (i think) near the pj's that ends with the hancock being the only visible building.

ooh, where are they filming in evanston? i might go for a stroll...

Willie Colon cd from the 60s that is fire. It's one of those two trombone salsa bands and it is dirty as hell.
luv u willie

this one is another favorite of mine, but i love celia
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51P4M671P5L._AA240_.jpg
i got it at reckless in the goddamn dollar bin

nice. i don't even know what the one i've been listening to is called.

i propose that from here out the dollar bin at reckless only be referred to as "the goddamn dollar bin at reckless".

collette, they were out on the corner by le peep, a couple of blocks east of your office (i think)

I object to this thread title on the grounds that it will encourage loose morals in today's youth.

good thing we're all too old/grizzled/corrupted to really worry about that, huh

And that's not the only thing that'll be loose... OH!

I'm here all week.

I would like to direct a charity reading of Sexual Perversity in Chicago with the following cast: Bernie (Kenan), Dan (Dan), Debbie (Amanda? Sarah? Collette?), Joan (Jenny).

Dan M as himself

I think doing a play reading would be really fun. All the fun of acting without having to worry about physicality.

Or seven of us can read Glengarry.

i will play the mcdonald's

i will play the steak knives

i will drink the glenfiddich.

nick, can you be steak knives if you're a vegetarian?

We should read it at my place, to ensure we get the totally authentic Chicago soundtrack of the el train roaring by every few minutes.

I was walking by Ollie's, the bar near my place and Kenan's, and I saw that it has a NOTARY PUBLIC sign in the window. So if you want a drink and have some contracts to deal with, you're set.

it is not 48 degrees yet
what gives

Wow, I didn't see this week's forecast 'til now!

friend in austin told me it's been in the 70s and the trees are BLOOOOOOOOMMMMINNNNGG!!!!

shit, remind me to buy some claritin.

i recommend zyrtec -- it's otc now!

woo otc zyrtec. you should drug yrself sometime and then you and ez could come over for lunch some afternoon maybe.

i also have the el train soundtrack if my windows are open. happily, it's much less extrme than k's place.

john corbett dated a girl i went to elementary school with. she showed up on a chicago thread a long time ago because she was one of the babes of conde nast or some such bullshit.

zyrtec? will check it out.

she showed up on a chicago thread a long time ago because she was one of the babes of conde nast or some such bullshit.

Wait, what?

Was it A1m33 Sl0@ne?

no more movie stars in evanston, at least near le peep.

wow is it nice out there, though!

no, it was one of the others, j1ll d3mling. amanda was making snarky remarks about her hair, which i found amusing, because she'd been a popular girl with always-perfect hair back when i knew her.

i made a snarky remark about someone's hair?
more than one?

i feel bad now

Oh wait, I thought you meant someone who *posted* on the Chicago thread!

And now that I remember it, A.S. didn't even post, she just e-mailed Jenny and said she wanted to host a party for us, wtf.

So if you want a drink and have some contracts to deal with, you're set.

Oh, I love that sign. It's so... Chi.

Dirty old town.

I am also a notary. Buy me a drink and I will notarize your contract!

oh, don't feel bad, amanda.

anyone know when they're dying the river?

saturday at 10:45 (i just looked it up for my visitors from london). parade at 11

xp to juuuulia - hey, i would love to lunch, btw, but my schedule these days is terrible. so many meetings! i never get around to eating lunch before 2:30 usually.

i hope the river dyeing doesn't hurt the otters :-/

well they do dye it with ottercide so....

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
http://www.mcn.org/1/rrparks/fortross/images/otter02.jpg

yep, then they skim the river, throw all the otter corpes into a giant wooden vat, press them and make ottercider.

"please don't ferment my mama"
http://www.turtletrack.org/Issues01/Co10202001/Art/sea_otter.jpg

1. Dan is right - law is fucked up b/c we drown ourselves in paper. Get me out. (Both my arms are resting over paper, and my enormous desk is more than 80% covered in paper, and it's all necessary in one way or another. The less relavent stuff is

I think the paper just got him guys

hahaha

LOL

Dan, show me how to quit paper.

Oh shit!!! what the fuck.

I just answered my phone and it is Jesse asking, "What just happened?"

See if you can fit it on the paper
See if you can get it on the paper
See if you can fit it on the paper
See if you can get it on the paper

haha

jesse, there are a lot of links for "paperless law office".

I keep meaning to post this but other funnier things keep happening:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51P4M671P5L._AA240_.jpg

omgomgomg I bet that is AWESOME.

OOpps. I don't want post this b/c what happened earlier is much much better.

1. Dan is right - law is fucked up b/c we drown ourselves in paper. Get me out. (Both my arms are resting over paper, and my enormous desk is more than 80% covered in paper, and it's all necessary in one way or another. The less relavent stuff is on the table beside me.)

2. I need to make myself a notary. My application is one of the papers on my desk.

My boss said to John a few minutes ago, "I spend half my workday trying to get rid of paper!"

i've never seen the green river thing, and am pretty excited about it. i will raise a glass of ottercider to you, amanda!

the image of jesse drowning in paper reminds me of "cathy" again, with stuffed in boxes and an "ack!" coming from somewhere in the back...

Wow, thanks for the info, Jenny!! I am going to print those pages off in triplicate!

xp to Yenny - It is! Totally awesome.

That was Jordan, not me, but since I made the "print out that information on paperless law offices and make copies for all the lawyers" joke to you on the phone, it's okay.

ALSO - all bartenders should have to be notaries, and when I am mayor of Chicago, I will make that a prerequisite.

I bet that'd make a lot of bar arguments easier to resolve.

jenny's in the pocket of the notary concern.

This is weird. I think they're spying on me!

One of the partners-to-be just called from downstate and said, "Do you guys have a scanner? You do? OK, b/c it will be easier to scan and email us (filings) than mail them. Thanks."

jordan, is the album you have "el malo"? he looks totally badass in a goddamn turtleneck on the cover

http://www.muzikifan.com/images2/malo.jpg

jenny's in the pocket of the notary concern.

Consarn you!

i need to go to home depot on the way home. there is no convenient way to get to home depot.

i suppose that's by design, when you have enormous big box stores you need to put them on enormous plots of land. and if these enormous plots of land were easy to get to someone would have already put something there.

also, i need a nap.

My mom just emailed me encouraging me to run for governor! I will tell her I already have notaries on my team.

We were sitting at the dinner table Sunday after you called. PopPop said, "Did I ever tell you the plan I have for Jen? She's already started it. She has a job with the State. Now she needs to get a job in the Attorney General's office, and eventually become an Attorney General. From there it's an easy jump to the Governor's office. I think Jen would be a good Governor for Illinois, don't you?"

I replied, "I think she would be an excellent Governor Dad, but she inhaled."

MomMom interrupted and said, "Inhaled what?"

Terry (stepfather) said, "That doesn't mean anything anymore. That's like a badge of honor. Look at Obama. I say she should go for it!"

"Well, okay," I said. "I'll tell her."

Go for it Jen!

I love you!

Mom

Also, my grandparents discussed my drug use at the dinner table. ;lkajsdfl;jasd

ALSO: Kevin, there is a Home Depot on Halstead just north of Clark. It's still not necessarily convenient to you, but it's CTA accessible. And it's not on an enormous plot of land.

There is also one on North near the river.

i think the only time my parents discussed my drug use at the dinner table was the year i got blackout drunk the night before thanksgiving and left a loaded bong in the center of the dining room table.

if i'd been able to get out of bed i'll bet that centerpiece would have made for some interesting conversation.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhahahahahahaha

yeah, i was going to the one on north ave but was unawares of the one on halstead. the only problem with the one on north is that the bus heading west will be PACKED with commuters to the point where i may not be able to squeeze on.

no amanda, it's not. i'm listening to amazon clips trying to figure out which one i have, and while i haven't found it yet, every single one of his albums so far sounds amazing!

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51F1593C7RL._AA240_.jpg

Unless there's another Home Depot I don't know about, it's south of Clark, actually. (Or at that point, they're more parallel.) It's right next to Guitar Center.

ugh, i hate that fucking guitar center.

North, south, whatever. Directions are for suckers.

You can spit on Guitar Center on your way in to the Home Depot. Also, that Home Depot is like the number two cruising spot in Boystown. It seems our Jewel is number one.

WOO!

Whither Cariboy?

Google maps shows the north Halsted Home Despot as being in Bridgeport.

Google Maps can't understand an "N.," apparently.

I don't know, John! Probs in the top ten, at least.

hmmmm, i could go record shopping on my way back from boystown. of course, i could go to reckless on milwaukee on my way back from home depot on north.

i will go to north avenue then burritocize myself.

There's always the Elston one, too, but no bus on that street (which is pretty weird, I've always thought).

that's like north of damen? prolly around leavitt or oakley?

er, that is, if i took the damen bus i'd walk north on elston.

i wonder if the mom & pop hardware store on western & augusta would have deadbolts?

I'd hope so!

Call and ask!

Nick is pro'ly at that Guitar Center right now.

Where do you go to burritocize, K?

Send them an email, then follow it up with a fax and a paper copy, with a courtesy copy to the Home Depot and one more to Jesse. Plus a copy for your file.

hey, where the fuck do i have to go to get replacement fluorescent bulbs? home depot?

CC Jordan, too.

Don't think I can fit it on the paper
Don't think I can get it on the paper
Go ahead and rip up, rip up the paper!
Go ahead and tear up, tear up the paper!

I got my fancy bulbs at walgreens.

Like, compact fluorescent bulbs or the big tube kind? Or some weird kind? If it's the first, the grocery store; the second, any hardware store; the third - WHO KNOWS?????

tried that. :(

xp the big tube kind. i'll get my ass to a hardware store.

Are you talking compact fluorescent? They sell them pretty much everywhere now. The big tubular lights, I'd say, would require going to a real hardware store.

xp !

xxp well that solves that

there's an ace hardware across the street from the sears tower apparently. i will go there first.

Where do you go to burritocize, K?

now that it's no longer regularly below zero i've gone back to la pasadita. the north west one. why there are three locations on the same block i'll never know. i can see one on either side of ashland but why are there two locations next door to one another? anyway, the beauty is in the simplicity, just steak, cilantro, onions, and a flour tortilla.

They explain the three locations thing in the Check Please episode they're featured in. IIRC it had something to do with not being able to expand the first place, so they got what was convenient? Can't quite recall.

dang, i never saw them on check please!

Me and Dan know about fluorescent light bulbs. HIGH FIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i know for a fact the hardware store on augusta and western has those. it's a weird little place, i think they buy odd lots of stuff because in addition to regular hardware stuff they'll have in the window things like a service for 8 dinnerware set or a 386x pc.

Guys know where I could get a 386 PC? I really want to play some DeathTrack.

xp OMG

WTF??????

uh, yeah, check like that hardware store just north of augusta on the east side of western ave. if you hit retro wash you're too far north.

I kid, I'm just bored over here. DeathTrack was the shit, though.

kevin and dan MIND MELD

spooky

I kid, I'm just bored over here.

SAME.

haha.

speaking of great trombone playing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgJSOHiqzoc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3LqoCie8Ow

Kevin, you can get a burrito as big as your head just down the street from the Home Guitar Center Depot.

i don't want a burrito as big as my head. if i wanted a huge burrito i'd go to flash taco and get one of those monsters that are the size of a can of tennis balls.

i have a feeling that me not measure the thickness of my door is going to come back to bite me in the ass tonight.

1 3/4"

if that's an industry standard i'll go with that. seems about right?

it came from the internets

ok, this is seriously wtf-sville. 69 years old? kinda awesome.

awwwwww <3

also, she kinda looks A LOT like my mom.

http://a872.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/78/l_db44827593e59164cd7bab474710d217.jpg

VP?

OMG! That's even better than your Obama/Clooney suggestion!

Still, I mean:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2006/04/28/PH2006042800593.jpg

I feel some Barry/George slash fic coming on...

Wait. No I don't.

I missed a rollicking conversation about the Homo Depot.

I have only this to add: there when you buy lumber they don't cut it for you as at any normal HD. No. Instead they point you toward a cutting area, furnish you with a variety of hand saws and mitre boxes, et cetera, and you cut your own goddamned wood, like any butch homo should know how to.

The problem with all this is that there are apparently people who are not so handy with the mitre box, as evidenced by the wallowed out guides.

Also, the there was only one saw that looked like it hadn't been used to cut concrete.

i gave t@nk noodle another try last night because i had a bad day.
instead of being adventurous, i got plain old beef pho, nothing weird or square or spongey.

it was really really really good! in fact, since i got it to go, i could arrange it how i wanted -- they give you the beef raw in this little baggie and then you can reheat the soup and add the meat as you like. i just put a few slices in and it was just enough. actually, the portion was like WAY too big, but now i have lunch today. anyway, it was nice to assemble it myself and inspect the meat before i put it in the soup. A+! that place has redeemed itself after my terrifying, oily orange meal.

ps biked to work today
heeeeeeeeeeeeeeey

what lovely weather
i don't expect it to last

actually, i got the vegetarian spring rolls, and they had square tofu in them, but that is not scary.

Last night we went to Zennooooodles for sushi, but when I said Avocado sushi, for example, the waitress would say, no no Avocado Maki. So I wonder if vegetarian 'sushi' is always called 'maki' and never called 'sushi'??

I am doing pretty well this morning because I managed to make a mix for my sis for this weekend, dump off two bags of clothes at the Arc, and buy some lunch at Jewel, and still make it to work relatively on time. But then I got aggravated because so far at work this morning I've done things for both the other office and a couple of chores emailed to me by this new guy who is leasing space on our side. He even had me handwrite an envelope for him! So I went straight back to my boss to tell him and my boss's response was, "Oh, that's ok. He can do that." Blargh, me maties.

Zennooooodles

is this the place on north and.... wood? te amo zen noodle!

i got my new phone yesterday and have been trying to activate it ever since. i was on hold for 20 minutes last night (after my deadbolt debacle) and they hung up on me. website was timing out all last night and is doing the same now. i fucking hate sprint.

Amen.

I also <3 zen noodles. I'm glad your phone finally arrived, but yes, what a PITA!

So I wonder if vegetarian 'sushi' is always called 'maki' and never called 'sushi'??

As far as I know, maki is a kind of sushi. Maki refers to the rolls:

http://www.sushisushi.co.uk/images/rolls/maki2.jpg

As opposed to, say, nigiri:

http://www.japanlinked.com/about_japan/images/nigiri.jpg

ok, since it was timing out this morning i was getting really frustrated. then i put on my thinking cap and realized an organization as backwards as sprint probably requires IE as a browser. sure enough i fired it up and the page loaded. of course once i entered the required information sprint STILL couldn't activate my phone so i'm web chatting with them and something is fucked up. i'm on hold over the internet now, 12 minutes and counting.

fuck this company.

Ok, I would like some more maki, please.

xpost. That gives me something akin to empathetic road rage, Kevin.

yay, new phone is active.

Fuck Sprint. Fuck Sprint for their Eternally Renewing Contract®. Every time I make any sort of change to my account, my contract renews for 2 more years.

John is correct. "Sushi" means "with rice," "maki" refers to the rolls, and "nigiri" is the slab of whatevs over the rice rectangle. I don't think you were wrong to say avocado sushi, Sarah, and I think the waitress was being a little pedantic, but whatever. These things are important to some people.

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Go vote for Sample in this contest and I can win a free kitty wig.

sample looks very distinguished in that photo.

debonair even.

This is how Kitka has performed in 184 battles:
* Won: 70 (38%)
* Lost: 100 (54%)
* Drawn: 14 (8%)

But all our kittens are winners really...

;_;

I know! She's all like, "Haaayyyyyyyyyyy..."

Aw... Kitka is great. Who cares what people think about her? Did you enter her to win a kitty wig?

no, i think if i put her in a wig she would probably chew through all of my computer cables in revenge or something.
http://kittenwar.com/kittens/146304/

Oh yeah, Sample is not going to like her wig, but that is a problem for another day.

Kitka is super cute! People were probably voting against the picture, because it's blurry, and not the cat, who is excellent.

I stopped in at Garcia's in Lincoln Square last night to get a quick bite and was served a burrito the size of my head. Since they also served me chips and salsa while I was waiting, I made it through about an ear's worth and took the rest home. But it was tasty, and the servers were friendly, and it cost me all of five dollars.

i had my cooking date/not-date last night. soooo much curry. i think i'm going to try making it this weekend, i just need to pick up some coconut milk and spices.

so yesterday i had my regular morning coffee + a second cup of (overly strong) office coffee + a coke in the afternoon and i spent the day buzzing on caffeine, and it was nice and i got a lot of stuff done. then i woke up still feeling caffeinated this morning but still had my regular coffee and i feel kind of insane, but in a good way. but what i'm wondering is when i will crash and burn

i bought a deadolt at the ace hardware on adams across from the sears tower then walked across the river and to the blue line at clinton. when i got home i found out that not only were the screws to the old strike plate rusted in place but one of them had the screwhead sheared off. so rather than replacing the entire fucking door jamb i wound up jerry rigging the new lock so that the bolt slides into the old strike plate. it involved shimming the bottom of the lock and now my kitchen counters aren't even but having a locking front door took precedence over even counters.

Hey, I'm going with my friend Nell to some potentially interesting performance art maybe? tomorrow night, and anyone's welcome to join.

Is the technology that allows us to reach anyone also pushing us away from ourselves? Is the creation of personal online propaganda enabling the elimination of actual life experience?

i'm just going to say "yes" to both of these and stay home dicking around on the internet.

I am drinking a fancy pants odwalla beverage. It tells me to "Drink up, You Flaxy Thing." It is making me feel a little better, even though I just hand addressed another envelope for random dude.

Write the addresses with your left hand and they'll stop asking you to do that.

I had a temp job that I really, really resented and had to sign a bunch of letters for my supervisor and I did it with my left hand intentionally trying to make the signature look as retarded as possible totally out of passive-aggressive spite. This was the supervisor who asked me if I was "good with my alphabet" before she assigned me super challenging filing duties.

What kind of jackass doesn't brown the baby before adding it to the stew?

Take that, Anne Geddes!

I was coming here to post that.

I will instead bitch about work (I actually like my job): sometimes I hate having to do stupid shit at my work. It sucks when I have to do stupid shit at work.

Oh wait. Did that sound like I was mocking Sarah? I wasn't mocking Sarah. Not at all.

Nooooo, I wasn't mocking her. Why would I mock her?

I'm going to go back to playing with reams of paper now.

I usually like my job, but that doesn't stop me from bitchin'. I realize I'm the lowest on the totem poll and everyone would rather I do the stupid shit than use up the precious time of the much higher paid employees, but it doesn't make doing everyone's dishes any more fun for me.

It is really obnoxious that you have to work for random dude.

At my work the attorney who rents from us (who I have never met) sometimes asks me to fax shit for him or call a messenger for him, to which my boss said, "He doesn't sign your pay checks," which basically meant that if I felt like I was being taken advantage of, he could be stopped.

We won't have to worry about him in a month or so. (He's going to be executed.)

FYI I made a moderator request to delete that image since I realized that I hotlinked to it and it's hosted on the server of somebody who probably cares about things like hotlinking. Just so you know!

I can't believe you have to do dishes.

great there goes my joke xp

I do dishes (in the dishwasher). The cleaning lady is supposed to do it, but she only comes every other week now, so it's on me. Meh. A few coffee cups is not terrible for a while until I get my assistant.

So I was clicking around on myspace yesterday checking to see if some preggers pals of mine had had their babies yet. I noticed that some of my old DE peeps had pages that I had not seen before so I clicked around to see what they were up to and damned if like every half-assed local bullshit band that these people were in back in the day (by which I mean more than ten fucking years ago) hasn't recently put up a myspace page. I just want to shake the shit out of all of them. I mean, sure, still be in bands, but these bands 1) weren't that great to begin with, either in terms of musical talent OR success; and 2) broke up in the mid-90s! MOVE ON, OKAY???? It is embarrassing.

Also my stupid ex bf's band, which sort of led the charge of terrible 90s DE bands getting back together, might be coming to Chicago to play which makes me kind of nauseated. I think Sarah has seen a pic of this ex - he was a filthy bass playing hippie and now he is a chiropractor.

And like some of the people who weren't in bands are still using their old dumb Dead Tour nicknames!!! GET A JOB YOU ASSHOLES, AND I DO NOT MEAN BLOWING GLASS FOR A LIVING.

filthy bass playing chiropractor

Also - move out of Delaware! There are 49 other perfectly good states you could live in. Just for a year. I swear it will be good for you.

There are a large number of my past associates still based in MI with similar myspace pages.

None of my past acquaintances have Myspace pages. And none of them come up in Google searches. That seems strange to me.

You know, living in the same place where you grew up is fine. Lots of people do it and there is nothing wrong with it. But these people are just so clingy about the past. We had a fun time and we were all CRAZY and WILD and TOTALLY COOL and pretended we were ROCK STARS and stuff but it was just pretend, you know? Basing the rest of your life around six to ten years during which you were in/hung out with local musicians and engaged in record-setting substance abuse just seems like an empty existence to me. And it's not even like I feel a sense of loss of potential, because a lot of these people were not real bright to begin with, not to mention after years of intoxicating habits. It just seems so stunted to me.

But who am I to judge. Even though I am totally judging.

i WISH old bands i used to be friends with had myspace pages. if i found a myspace page for the family or the remotes i would be so happy

Me too!

Not bands, as the only bands I was ever in were HS pep bands.

Jesse, Are you really getting an assistant or was that a joek?

FWIW, we have a dishwasher here too, but people leave - for example - tea bags in cups, plastic spoons in mugs, oatmeal in tupperware, leftover salad in bowl, etc etc... Yuck.

Fortunately the Williamsburg Rock City page is still up, including photos of the band sarah and i were in in college

Last updated: 03.26.02

Well, I thought I would have to, until it became clear that I would no longer be in charge of accounts billable (thank. fucking. christ.), so now prossably not, but we'll see after the merger. I would much rather work overtime and quit The Chum Bucket than have an assistant. Though I'd really rather have an assistant AND work overtime. But that's not likely.

i found a guy on facebook the other day in one of my high school's facebook groups which i am too scared to join because everyone seems to have Life Stories and mine is less...typical.

this guy was a (finalist) contestant on the bachelorette, because he had severe social anxiety and he figured that being on a reality show was the ultimate challenge. then he went on oprah and wrote a book and stuff. he looks like a fucking male model, with all these hunky-hunky publicity photos. he did not look like that in hs. i didn't know him that well in hs, but still. it's WEIRD. i alternate between finding it amusing and disturbing.

I kind knew a guy like that in HS. He was kind of ugly and awkward, but I saw him years later and he was drop-dead hot. He was never on Oprah, but he had all sorts of accomplishments, starting with fighting our little tiny hick high school to take his 28 year old

I kind knew a guy like that in HS. He was kind of ugly and awkward, but I saw him years later and he was drop-dead hot. He was never on Oprah, but he had all sorts of accomplishments, starting with fighting our little tiny hick high school to take his 28 year old boyfriend to his senior prom (failed because there was a rule against more than a 3 year age difference between student and their date). Anyway, I hated him and wanted to be him.

That keeps happening, and I don't know why.

it's the PAPER

i just noticed on flickr that one of nick & sarah's cats looks just like one of jenny's cats. and both look like my original childhood cat.

I don't know... some of the DE people have formed new bands, which is awesome, and some of the bands are still together (which although I might personally believe to be unfortunately, obviously they have enough of a following to still be around in some cases 18 fucking years which is also pretty awesome). It's just that these old bands aren't together any more or they are trying to get back together and relive their glory days, which as far as the bands go, in hindsight were not very glorious. It's half nostalgia, half self-delusion. These are the same people who are still going to the same bars and telling the same stories...

Okay. It's fine. I'm over it. I am!

At least until the exbf's band announces a show date in Chicago. BLECH.

Man, this new Snoop is pretty fun. He's totally turning into Prince. Now all he needs to do is learn how to play guitar.

I'm waiting for Jenny to have a midlife crisis and move home and reform the Mustard S3eds.

Hey, can anyone identify the instrument at 2:07 of this video? It's like a synthisopranosaxophone.

Man, this new Snoop is pretty fun. He's totally turning into Prince. Now all he needs to do is learn how to play guitar.

You're not kidding. It's not just that Charlie Wilson is doing hooks for him, but "Cool" totally sounds like it could be a Gap Band song.

Exactly! "Cool" was the song I was thinking of, but its also the crazy genre experiments that are teetering on the edge of brilliance/stupidity (i.e. "My Medicine") and the working of r&b into more and more songs. He's just not giving a fuck about what "Snoop" is supposed to be at this point in his career, and I think I really like it.

I believe it's a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EWI";>EWI</a>.

EWI

"cool" is great.

Oh nice - thanks, Jordan.

This thread title keeps making me think of "She Runs the Ride" by Mock Orange.

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LOL!

clearly he is trying to save a child from drowning in her petticoat

Ha!

I heard this on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, but I guess some Harlequin author got busted for lifting huge passages from an article about FERRETS and stuck them in the middle of her book in the form of post-coital banter. Clearly quality control is a high priority!

So apparently no one has told Potbelly that "tuna salad" means not just tuna from the can, kitty-style. If I'd known, I would've asked for some mayo or something.

Hey, is anybody planning on going to Pitchfork? I know it's early, but Jeff was wondering.

Also, plain tuna out of the can w/o mayo is nasty. Blech.

i'm guessing we'll go for at least one day (saturday) and maybe the others depending on who gets added. i don't know if i can take all three days again, i'm getting too old for this shit.

Weird. I've had their tuna salad before and it was like regular tuna salad. Maybe someone fucked up.

If you ever get it again, it's good with hot giardinera on it.

Nick, Your never allowed to say you're too old for something, since I'm older.

YOU'RE

I'm probably going. It looks like a bunch of Stylus writers will be in town.

ain't no party like a stylus writers party

They'll have to announce some more appealing acts before I think any harder about going.

i'm going to corner m1k3 p0well and reminisce about the central Virginia indie rock scene of 2001 to 2003.

Odds on the National playing? Anyone?

I think we'll probably end up getting three day passes, but I have made it clear that if it sucks or I get grumpy, I'm out of there. I am making it clear right now, too. IS THAT CLEAR?

I would be pretty pleased if The National played.

I think I remember wanting to see one of the bands listed so far... Anyway, I always have fun in the sun (more so the shade) with the junk food and overpriced lemonade and snippets of bands I've always wondered about.

xpost I would pleased as punch.

I can't type/write/talk.

Pleased as punch, Sarah would be.

Here is a sad tale: I was listening to "Apartment Story" the other night and it made me think of Ed the Cat and I cried.

Yes, I'm pretty sure Mike P. will be in attendance.

Sorry, Jenny. :-(

In happier news, I have 500+ shrink wrapped Krakatoas at my desk. I'm listening to one now.

Ooooo when can I buy one????

Thanks for asking! See here.

Sarah, I'm going to the office where you applied for that job.

I am super excited to hear the new CD. I really liked the new songs (new to me, anyway) that I heard at the EB. As I've said, it is really refreshing to be friends with people in bands that are actually GOOD. I promise I will not go on the internet in 2018 and complain about the FFs having a Myspace page.

Damn, I think I'm out of town that weekend for wedding planning stuff.

Where are your priorities, man???

What stage of planning are you at, Jon? Threat level orange?

Jesse, spy on whomever she hired and report back if he/she is doing a good job or is too distracted by the low wage and lack of bennies.

Reaching that. The wedding's not until June, but we're reaching the stage where we are getting into details - wedding party dances, food, wine, that stuff. The most stressful is the planning of the actual ceremony - picking out the readings and songs we want, we're rocking it 100% DIY with the garden wedding though, so it will be very personalized.

Nice!

In retrospect, I think one of the readings we had might have been a little off, but Nick got to pick one, so... ha ha

Bennies???

Just kidding. I liked it. But it was weird.

BENEFITS

Benny Hinn

Get down with the lingo.

Bennies are uppers, right?

No benefits??? WTF is the deal with up-with-the-people types being the worst to work for?

We were encouraged this weekend looking at the garden and getting an idea of the capacity, we were a little worried about getting everybody in but it will totally work.

Anyway, enough boring wedding talk. I really want to hear the new FFs album too!

which one are you talking about sarah? it rings a bell but i can't remember.

Sarah needs bennies in order to work.

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The thing is, I'm not bored by wedding talk, but whatevs.

Jesse, Originally there was a benefits package, but when I tried to negotiate for anything at all more than she could give me, she was like, "Ok, well if we cut out the health insurance then..."

jon, don't sweat the ceremony. (i mean, it's important but don't prepare too much)

we did all DIY including an online-ordained reverend rabbi, and wrote the ceremony for him and our two speeches the day before. it helped focus my energy into doing something useful and important.

Dude, you asked...
"Cave Dwellers"by A. Poulin Jr.

I've carved a cave in the mountainside.
I've drilled for water, stocked provisions
to last a lifetime. The walls are smooth.
We can live here, love, safe from elements.
We'll invent another love that can't destroy.
We'll make exquisite reproductions of our
selves, immortal on these walls.

And when
this sea that can't support us is burned clean,
when the first new creatures crawl from it,
gasping for water, air, more wondrous and more
wild than earth's first couple, they shall see
there were two before them: you and me.

My sister Hev's complaint when I emailed them the two readings was, "The first one I get, but the second one might come across strange, you know, for one of your sisters to be talking about being in a cave with you and reproducing."

I ignored her, obviously.

Yeah, which reading? I think I know because I remember a discussion about it but I forgot. XP THANK YOU.

N&S's wedding was so nice. It even prompted Jeff to express some regret that we'd gone to total no nonsense route - he said if we were going to do it over again, he would be okay with a wedding like that. That is high praise, considering the source!

No benefits??? WTF is the deal with up-with-the-people types being the worst to work for?

L!ng and I talk about that a lot w/r/t our former employer and their crappy treatment of their employees.

But the reading is supposed to be about the love of the couple, not the love between the reader and half of the couple, right? So that would make it totally okay.

Yeah, I wouldn't necessarily assume that the reader of the poem is the same as its internal narrator.

I know. I was mildly concerned about the line referencing the earth's first couple considering, you know, THE RELATIVES, but at some point I made a decision to not care so much what they would think.

That poem reminds me of Jenny's pre-set text message: "Can't live like this here."

Anyway, Jon, I'm sure it will all be very lovely.
What day in June?

For the family's sake, probably a better choice than "Love: Beginnings" by C.K. Williams

They're at that stage where so much desire streams between them,
so much frank need and want,
so much absorption in the other and the self
and the self-admiring entity and unity they make --
her mouth so full, breast so lifted, head thrown back
so far in her laughter at his laughter
he so solid, planted, oaky, firm, so resonantly factual
in the headiness of being craved so,
she almost wreathed upon him as they intertwine again,
touch again, cheek, lip, shoulder, brow,
every glance moving toward the sexual, every glance away
soaring back in flame into the sexual --
that just to watch them is to feel again that hitching in the groin,
that filling of the heart,
the old, sore heart, the battered, foundered, faithful heart,
snorting again, stamping in its stall.

we did all DIY including an online-ordained reverend rabbi, and wrote the ceremony for him and our two speeches the day before. it helped focus my energy into doing something useful and important.

Thanks, that actually is encouraging for me. We did the online-ordained thing, my fiancee's best friend.

"fiancee's best friend's partner." that should say. Her best friend is the matron of honor.

Let me tell you a little something about dry cleaning chemicals -- they are harsh. Yesterday I was feeling saucy, so I put on a shirt without an undershirt. My skin wasn't irritated generally, but my nipples... oh, how to delicately proceed with this topic? Let me just drop some words and phrases in. Pain. Stinging. Fire. Ouch. Want to crawl out of my skin. Feel like I'm going mad. Dear God make it stop.

I went home and scrubbed up and today wore a proper undershirt, and I'm good as new. But... lesson learned the hard way. :(

I'm reading that post as if Laurie Anderson were narrating it.

Some people pay good money for etc., etc.

Haha, I can totally hear that as a track on The Ugly One With the Jewels.

EZ, we spent hours at the library browsing through love poems. Almost all of them were either overtly sexual or depressing.

Hey, Jenny, speaking of hats on cats, I'm going to try these for my kitties after the move.

the other thing about the ceremony is that if it's just you guys and the officiant, and you're not particularly religious, there's not that much to say. if you have people doing readings, there's those, but a basic civil ceremony is actually really short and simple.

we did a basic civil ceremony, with a bit he read from the goodridge case (about how stupid it is that gay people can't get married, but said much nicer than that) as pretty much the only "reading". we had our siblings bring us the rings. ceremony was maybe 5 minutes? (sarah, you might remember better)

after the ceremony, we both gave a toast which was more free form. i had a poem in mine, but it was only about 1 page double spaced all together. we both liked that format better because it was more casual and we could read off a sheet rather than trying to memorize anything.

we got really good feedback from people, who said it was intimate and romantic, plus nice that it wasn't too long. of course, it was my wedding, so they're not really going to tell me how much they hated it, i guess!

let me know how that goes. kitka doesn't usually scratch stuff up, except when she does (ie she leaves the couch alone, but will occasionally decide to tear up my comic box or shred a magazine).

xp

That sounds really great colette. We're trying to keep it really non-religious for us as well. We're trying to work in some creative friends and family - my fiancee's brother is a spoken word poet so he will be doing something and another friend will be singing whichever Lauryn Hill song uses a passage from Corinthians about love in it.

Ours was also non-religious, though the officiant did throw in one God Bless or something.

And for the record, colette's wedding was indeed short and sophisticated.

Has anyone been to Terragusto? Small Italian place that serves fresh, homemade pasta and mostly local ingredients. I've been curious about it for a while, so I'm meeting my mom there tomorrow night.

Haven't been, but I want to now!

Let us know what she's like!

jaymc, we've been there. it's decent. i think the meat options were a bit better than the vegetarian ones, but it was all pretty good. didn't knock our socks off, but it's better than your average italian place.

I walked by it last night and read the menu and class lists in the window. Always sounds like it's pretty fantastic, though I realized recently that I don't think I appreciate Italian food as much as other kinds.

Hey guys, I got nostalgic and made a punk mix -- mostly of stuff I love from years gone by but a few newer songs too. If you want it, it's here:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/bggauu

Jesse has put those on Brenda.

I just realized my mix is malfunctioning b/c I did the track names wrong, oh well.

Those = ???

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I have put those on her. They work well, but they fall off too quickly.

Sarah, I went to that office and it's v. v. different from my office, and probably more like where you and most others here work. Well...actually maybe not, now that I consider where most of you work (Dan, Jenny, Katie, Kevin, Sarah) -- it's all wood and carpet.

Yeah, where I work it's all 70s and despair.

Speaking of work, my boss made a donation to the Chi Animal Welfare League in memory of Ed! That was really fucking sweet of her.

You don't know 70s despair til you go to my workplace(s)!

Speaking of, I am working on my pronunciation section and found this tongue twister, but it doesn't seem appropriate for class, somehow

What did you have for breakfast?
- rubber balls and liquor!
What did you have for lunch?
- rubber balls and liquor!
What did you have for dinner?
- rubber balls and liquor!
- rubber balls and liquor!

i mean, honestly. rubber balls and liquor? i had enough trouble explaining why it's important to pronounce the word "erratic" with the appropriate vowel sounds last week.

Not to mention explaining why she has balls.

i know! rub WHOSE balls, now?

Amanda: the Willie Colon album that I have been rocking to is called COSA NUESTRA, from '71. It is awesome.

What did you have for dinner?

Willie, colon.

EZ, what do you have to say about the current production of Who's Afraid of VA Woolf?

Jesse, don't mess with Willie Colon. He will cut you.
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I spent half a day the other week trying to re-ink this damn stamp. Finally I gave up and brought it back to the boss saying it's hopeless. Ink was EVERYWHERE. Yesterday right before I left, he came up to me with the same stamp and was like, Try your hand at this again, Sarah. DOH! So now I have black hands again, not that there is anything wrong with having black hands.

Jesse, the important question is WHAT COLOR NAILS DID YOU PICK? Also, are you good at clipping kitty nails? Jenny, are you? I might need tutoring as I never ever do it.

My office is spankin' new, but is not in a high rise. It's just one level with a small storage floor above.

I got clear, because that's all PetSmart had.

Why are you having trouble inking a stamp pad??

I don't usually??!! I don't know. It's one of those self-inking stamps. I think it's a little improved this time around, but I'm having a hard time getting all this f'n ink off my hands and fingernails. I'm a chimney sweep I am!

Also, clear is la-ame.

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Sarah, use alcohol to remove ink. If you don't have rubbing alcohol, use hand sanitizer. If you don't have that, use Everclear. If you don't have that, distill some alcohol from your lunch.

Ha ha I think there's some vodka in the freezer here at work. I'll try hand sanitizer first though.

No plea bargain for now for the Chicago cop who beat the bartender.

Moving with a swiftness that marks a shift in policy
Moving with a swiftness that marks a shift in policy
Moving with a swiftness that marks a shift in policy
Moving with a swiftness that marks a shift in policy
Moving with a swiftness that marks a shift in policy
Moving with a swiftness that marks a shift in policy
Moving with a swiftness that marks a shift in policy
Moving with a swiftness that marks a shift in policy
Moving with a swiftness that marks a shift in policy
Moving with a swiftness that marks a shift in policy

Oh man.

WHAA?!?!?

WHAT'S TAKING YOU SO LONG IN THERE?
woman sits on toilet seat for 2 years

(just for reference. such a weird story!)

<begin rant> if one were to receive an email at 9:50 a.m. requesting copious amounts of fundraising/financial information that must be sent to the finance department by 4:00 p.m. that same day, so that said finance person can "merge this data into letters and fedex them to our auditors for receipt by tomorrow for us to be in timely compliance".........is it fair to assume that finance has presumably been AWARE of the need for this data for quite some time now. That, perhaps, it would have been possible to give me more than 6 hours advance notice? <end rant>

Dan, I just posted that. But I didn't indicate what it was, so mea culpa.

Yes, Katie. Now get to work.

Jesse, I know you just posted that. I was indicating there were two separate threads on the matter, as is ILX snark-custom.

Katie, it's <rant> and </rant>. And you should be looking for a new job.

And, would it hurt if finance didn't get their information in time, because, you know, their request is kind of unreasonable?

One might think that, dan, but sadly the request by the auditors is what matters, and was reasonable. I just learned that they received this request from the auditors a while back, but just looked at the letter yesterday. Ok. Seriously done now. Someone post a cute puppy picture.

xpost: they=finance

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Sheriff: Woman sat on toilet for 2 years

omfg Does David Byrne know about this?

True Stories 2: Kansas

I WANT THOSE HUSKIES or whatever they are.

The word "huskies" always reminds me of jeans I wore in 5th grade. :/

Sadly, they will get much, much bigger in a rapid hurry. :(

The dogs, I mean. Maybe jaymc's jeans as well, but that's not what I meant.

That's okay, I like medium-to-large dogs.

That shed. A lot.

You guys! Omg you guys. You'll just never guess. I have...

ZITS!

It seems that constantly blowing your nose for four months, which causes irritation and dryness, which causes me to apply lotion to my nose, all of this adds up to some oily messy teenager stuff. Any more pimples and people are going to start whispering behind my back about how they wish I'd wash my face, already.

Huh. I like small dogs that behave like cats.

After our show in Ypsilanti, I slept in a 12-year-old boy's bed (NB: the 12-year-old boy was not there) that was covered in dog hair. I haven't worn the sweater since; I think I'm going to get it dry-cleaned. Also, just getting ready for bed was a chore, because the dogs were yapping and pouncing and I had to close the bedroom and bathroom door every time I entered and exited.

Huh. I like small dogs that behave like cats.

Moi aussi. These little guys are totally my speed:

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OMG come here and sit in my lap!

did you try one (1) lint roller?

The malamutes I have met have all been really chilled and nice dogs despite being huge. They kind of have this attitude like "You know I'm cute, and you know I could rip your throat out, so why don't you just pet me b/c I'm really not a bad animal." And then they lean on you and almost make you fall down.

did you try one (1) lint roller?

I thought about that, but it would still have doggie germs on it.

Must share:

Woman calls and says she's lost on her way to our office. "My car told me to get on the Eisenhower and now I'm lost -- I'm in a strange neighborhood, and it's all BLLAACK! I know Libby doesn't have her office here."

I had to guide her in, but she would. not. listen. I asked, "What street are you on?" and she said, "I'm putting 'Jackson' into my GPS and it's not working! There are all these people, and they're looking at me!"

Finally, we get her to Jackson, and she won't get off the phone. She said, "Oohhhh...I told my husband he should come with me. This is why I live in the suburbs."

So angry, you guys.

So I assume you had the one black person in your office meet her at the door and introduce him/herself?

yesterday i was waiting outside of sarah's office and this old guy asked me if i knew where a drugstore was. i kind of explained where cvs is in relation to sarah's office. then he asked me if i knew where steamworks is. i didn't know.

xxpost Yeah, it's always doubly amazing when someone feels so totally justified in their racism that they share it openly. The worst I've seen: white cab drivers. They just open up to other white people apparently. "So, we both hate Arabs, that's a given. So let me tell you a story about this dumb dirty..." etc.

I thought about that, but it would still have doggie germs on it.

hahahaha

kenan why are you racists against white cab drivers?

this is what i meant to say: kenan why are you racist against white cab drivers?

WHY THEY GOTTA BE WHITE?

OMG the coup de grace of all astonishing racist cabbies was this HUGE fat white guy who, without my saying a word to him apart from my destination, started going on and on about how black people steal white jobs -- a point of conversation at least 30 years out of date, even for a redneck. He liberally sprinkled his sentences with the N-word. I had no response to it whatsoever, and I don't know many people that would. Then we're stopped at an intersection, and a couple of young attractive black women crossed the street in front of us. He immediately shifted down and revved his racist engine for maximum racist acceleration, and starting talking in may-as-well-have-been pornographic language about how hot they were. I had to double check the floor of that cab before I got out to make sure I hadn't left my jaw there.

I've found the same thing with cabbies, especially when going through Cabrini Green.

Oh, my redneck uncle uses the N-word freely and also used to have kitschy '70s paintings in his downstairs bathroom of topless black women. Not sure how my aunt ever abided that.

Nick - haha. Was he hitting on you? He was on the right street, at least, but way too far south.

Uh...so this client came in and said, "I can't find the documents I was supposed to bring. I know I put them in my car, but they're not there anymore! The valet only had my car for a second, that wasn't enough time to steal them!"

The thing is...I've parked where she parked, and at that time at least, they did NOT have valet service. I mean, does it look like it would?

Man, I SO hope someone stole her car.

kitschy '70s paintings in his downstairs bathroom of topless black women

I can't say that I have ever seen such a thing. What does kitschy mean in that context? I mean, that's a little more than, like, ironic Mexican Jesus candles.

Is that the same client as the "it's all BLLAACK!" woman? xp

Yes. Man, if there were 2 in one day....

the old "valet" bit

Why the fuck would someone steal a copy severance agreement???? Did you staple money to it?

maybe he was just a santana fan?

http://bluestormmusic.com/store/images/santana_abraxas.jpg

Yeah, something like that, but without as much other stuff.

"it's all BLLAACK!"

This makes me think of Grandpa Simpson saying, "You mean SEEEEEEXXX? I had SEEEEEEX. What's so unappealing about hearing your elderly father talk about SEEEEEEX?"

I know exactly what jaymc is talking about, there are a couple of them hanging above the bar at Inner Town.

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photoshop

I want "it's all BLLAACK" to become a meme of some kind.

I was just thinking, what if I had been black? She doesn't know me, I could have been black, and she felt comfortable saying that over the phone.

a;lkffsad

STOP!
Stand there where you are
Before you go too far
Before you make a fool out of love
(STOP!)

Amirite, ppl?

It is best summed up in what Spitzer's brother, Daniel Spitzer, a neurosurgeon, told The Wall Street Journal: "If men never succumbed to the attractions of women, then the human species would have died out a long time ago."

http://www.star-telegram.com/245/story/527481.html

"If men never succumbed to the attractions of women, then the human species would have died out a long time ago."

I want to try out this line at parties and bars.

Grr. Worst headline yet: Callgirl who cost Spitzer's career

Oh ffs, leave her alone.

Not only does the headline directly imply that she's the one to blame, it's also a grammatical mess.

"I just don't want to be thought of as a monster," she said. "This has been a very difficult time. It's complicated."

-- Hillary Clinton, following the Samantha Power flap

she's not ugly, though.

If you have ever seen a non-edited version of The Shining, there are a couple of pictures similar to what I think John is describing in Dick Halloran's Florida residence.

The word "huskies" always reminds me of jeans I wore in 5th grade. :/

I too wore huskies in fifth grade. Chubby kids UNITE.

Chubby kids: UNTIE.

I'm still patiently waiting for someone to join me in adoration of Erasure. Come on! I promise, it doesn't make you gay. Much.

This Mormon kid I was friends with in high school was really into them.

Crazy! I lived next door to a Christian fundie godbag wingnut my freshman year of college and she LOVED Erasure until I told her that they were gay, at which point she roundly denounced them and went back to listening to Amy Grant or whatever. She also refused to let my mother use the phone in her dorm room when my phone line was on the fritz for some reason. What an asshole.

I have never been a big fan of Erasure, although their big single is really catchy and I am generally pleased to hear it.

Yeah I never had the heart to tell him they were gay, I figured he was either blissfully ignorant and/or OK with it.

Oh, I told this woman on purpose, with the hope of making her unhappy.

I understand this pharmaceutical product is known as "Yazoo" in the US.

Jenny, which big single? There are like three dozen giant fuck-off hits!@$!

"their big single" = ?

I'm guessing this is either "Oh L'Amour" or "A Little Respect," although you could also make a case for "Chains of Love" and "Always."

That you give me no reason
Why you make me WORK SO HARD
That you give me no
that you give me no
that you give me no
that you give me no... something...

That one.

I am guessing that is A Little Respect. I am pretty sure I would know Chains of Love if I heard it, but I am less confident about the other two.

And speaking of Yaz the band, I don't like them.

Actually, I think the first Erasure song I heard may have been their cover of "Take a Chance on Me" which was huge with the lol drama nerds my freshman year of high school.

Pet Shop Boys > Mid-period Depeche Mode > Yaz > Culture Club > Frankie Goes to Hollywood > Late-period Depeche Mode > Bronski Beat > Erasure > early Depeche Mode

Jenny, why you brake my big gay heart?

Pet Shop Boys > Mid-period Depeche Mode > Yaz > Culture Club > Frankie Goes to Hollywood > Late-period Depeche Mode > Bronski Beat > Erasure > early Depeche Mode

^^^i'll take music that i don't know for $400

My JW friend in middle school was way into them!
Somewhat bizarro religious sects love Erasure?

LOL I hung out with all the freaks. My friend that was way into Yaz ended up being a mercenary in Iraq.

ooo... Pet Shop Boys vs. Erasure... I've sat in on that argument more than once. I'm a centrist, myself.

My dorm neighbor was in Campus Crusaders for Christ and every year they did this totally offensive "persecution week" thing where half of the participants would pretend to be Romans and the other half would pretend to be Christians and then there were rules and stupidity about trying to discover who was what. I was sitting in the common room one day (probs smoking - HOW ABOUT THAT, EH?) and she ran up to me and asked me to hide her bible because the Romans were coming!!!!!!lkasdlkasddkdkd and then the Romans came and I totally sold her out.

xp - There's an argument about which I have no opinion aside from: no

Let me revisit Yaz's discography to make sure I still feel that way, Kenan. Hold please.

New Order >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> everything Eric listed.

Totes.

Highlights of those bands:

"I'm in Love with a Married Man" > "Never Let Me Down" > "Only You" > "Church of the Poison Mind" > "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" > "I Feel You" > "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) [oops I meant The Communards, not Bronski Beat] > "Senseless" > "Just Can't Get Enough"

i'll take music that i don't know for $400

You have to remember, Eric was a stylish teenager living in a downtown Mpls. high-rise in the mid-80s.

"You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)

I thought this was by Sylvester?

Hence I bought this sight unseen (though through good word-of-mouth from friends):

http://cdn.last.fm/coverart/300x300/1423559.jpg

This is not how my high-rise home in downtown St. Paul looked.

xpost - yeah, The Communards covered it. Their originals weren't as good.

New Order >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> everything Eric listed.

Oh, sure. New Order is in the heavyweight division, though. They'll never fight welterweights.

my high school friend made me listen to "upstairs at eric's" in her bitchin camaro, i did not like it

My stoods brought in food today (part of a write-a-recipe assignment I gave them...strategically...hehehe) and WHOA did I eat it

I had

three flautas (chicken)
two tostadas with hot sauce, guacamole, beans and cheese
one piece of flancocho (flan with cake on top)

Actually, Matt P. just gave me his slightly scratched copy of the Pet Shop Boys singles collection (he replaced it with a new one). I haven't dug in yet.

Alright, "Don't Go" is okay but I have some serious negative associations with Upstairs at Eric's, the origin of which I can't even fathom except that it was a very popular record when I was in high school.

I made a Depeche Mode Personal Greatest Hits mix that was one side of a 90 minute tape and contained every single DP song that I like, all of which I totally freaking love to this day. The rest of their catalog I am totally indifferent/hostile to.

xp - I know, but I am like a huge New Order fangirl of massive scary proportions so I had to get that out there.

nice work (both the eating and tricking the students into making you lunch)

xxxp Iiiii want that luuuunch

hehe
you know it

"Try It (I'm in Love with a Married Man)" is a cover of a Bobby Orlando song, but it's the best PSB song: great dance single, lyrics that could be by Cole Porter. It's on Disco 3, which is very very good.

JEALOUS OF MEXICAN FOOD

i'm not gonna lie
it was some of the goddamned best mexican food i've had in a long time. the hot sauce was HOMEMADE!

It's always weird when XRT plays "Situation" and "Blue Monday" sometimes. I sort of understand "Don't You (Forget About Me)" because it's veering close to something like Echo and the Bunnymen or Midnight Oil, which are prime XRT fodder. But you hardly ever hear anything so unabashedly synth/dancey on that station otherwise.

the hot sauce was HOMEMADE!

omg

I made a Depeche Mode Personal Greatest Hits mix

Your own ... Personal ... Greatest Hits.

THE TIME HAS COME
TO SAY FAIR'S FAIR
TO PAY THE RENT
TO PAY OUR SHARE
http://www.fast-rewind.com/legendbilliejean1.jpg

fair is fair!

shit
that was supposed to be
http://www.geocities.com/actresses_on_screen/pictures/the_legend_of_billie_jean_tv_picture_020.jpg

"Church of the Poison Mind"

oh now I'll have that in my head all afternoon. Kinda happily, though.

I would put Culture Club in the blue-eyed soul bin, though. Next to George Michael. (Have you heard "Freedom" lately? Amazingly perfect Motown single.)

freedom '90 = A++++++

yeah -- i asked her how she made it and she said
chiles (maybe scotch bonnet? i don't remember the exact kind of pepper) + 2 cloves garlic + tomatillos and probably a little water or vinegar-- and keep all the seeds (of the pepper) in! it was hot.

Your own ... Personal ... Greatest Hits. + Billy Jean, The Legend Of = LOL

xp - FREEDOM is such a good song! Like one of those, "HOLY FUCK this is such a good song" good songs.

Flan with cake on top is just about exactly what I need to keep on living this afternoon.

well i will have all of the recipes
will email to you!

LOL old people

this is a nice version (unplugged): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1AxS37_4m8

We tried to make flan the other day; it didn't turn out so well. The carmelized sugar stuck along with the flan itself to the bottom of the bundt pan. :/

But still tasted good, rite?

I WANT THIS MEXICAN FOODS.

oven heat too high maybe? it probably needs to cook slowly at a lower temp in order not to burn

i have no idea though, since i have never made it

^^typical knowitall ILXOR post

many many xposts: XRT played "Cuts You Up" by Peter Murphy the other day and 1991 came flooding back to me in a way that kinda knocked me off-balance. It was... odd.

Wham's "I'm Your Man" is a good Motownish song.

I was having trouble piecing together all the spices I needed for curry in the store yesterday, so I copped out and got bottle of sauce:

http://www.seedsofchangefoods.com/images/our_foods/simmer_sauces/madras_pkg.jpg

So I guess I'll start out just making rice and adding meat & veggies to this, and do the real thing next time.

Sometimes George Michael really seems like the white Prince.

It's a warm spring day, which means it's time for spicy Mexican food and 80s pop.

But still tasted good, rite?

I dunno. Kr insisted on throwing it away. It was for a dinner party.

Caramelizing the sugar was itself a challenge: we got it right only on the fourth try (we tried different pans, stirring it vs. not stirring it, low heat vs. high heat, etc.).

Hey! Why wasn't I invited?! Everyone knows I like food! j/k

Well put, Eric.

I am so excited about going to hang with my mom in sis! I leave right after work. :-D We will be having a spa day tomorrow, going to see a movie (pro'ly Boleyn), and eating at some fun restaurants.

in should be n'

oh! oh! (Sorry, I swear I'm almost done.) "Everything She Wants." There's another one. And maybe goes on that list of soul songs that are weirdly paranoid, like Nick and I were talking about a while ago. The song is basically, "Noooooooo She be stealin mah money!" Surely there are steps he could take, if it's really that much of a concern. Maybe they just need to have a talk, you know?

Or maybe it's an 80's thing.

Definitely. When George M. sings "I don't know what the HELL you want from me!", it's as convincing as "Billie Jean"

a haaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaa
doo doo doo
la la la la laaaaaaaaaaaa

was that the song that went "WHAM! WHAM!"?

Totally! I was just thinking of Billie Jean! In that the vocalist in both cases convinces you of nothing so much as that he's coming unhinged.

FAIR IS FAIR
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2007/april25/gifs/BJK.jpg

Peter Garrett is pretty cool.

Totally! I was just thinking of Billie Jean! In that the vocalist in both cases convinces you of nothing so much as that he's coming unhinged.

And that they're been framed in a paternity case when in fact they weren't really in the running.

Does anyone own the Sugar and Poison soul-music compilation? Xgau's review makes me curious.

I think there've been a couple of ILM threads about it, too.

RELATED: here is a video of a walrus dancing to "Smooth Criminal"

http://loadup.ru/video/view/?id=v3263307402

the come-ons are edgier in the psychological sense, beset by an anxiety smoover grooves muffle

??

Anxiety Smoover Grooves Muffle

is that a muppet?

OMG CUET METERZ BROEK BY WALROUS

This is the thread where you ask for help in parsing one of Robert Christgau's sentences.

Whoa that looks AWESOME, john! If you can find it, I'll be your best friend.

It is 56!!!

David Toop - Sugar and Poison Soul Ballads CD

"3. Stevie Wonder`s "Creepin`"."

heh. I podcasted this song a couple months ago. My heart is already won.

I just made my first conference call at this job. It was w/ Jenny and Leslie, discussing buying theatre tix (Who's Afraid of VA Woolf).

I thought you guys already saw that?

Oh Sarah, it's like how you can never step into the same river twice.

But I thought you saw it and didn't enjoy all the yelling in person?

Are you going to VA Woolf this weekend, J and J?

You are very wrong Sarah. Very, very, very, VERY, VERRRRRRY RONG!

No Eric. We're going for the closing show, a matinee on the 30th.

Bbut I thought..?

I'm sorry Sarah. For today it's hard, but some day you will grow to accept this. And you'll be a stronger woman for it.

March 30, EZ. Wanna come with?

Actually, Sarah, you're right, but my relationship with live productions of WAOVW is like the relationship between George and Martha - painful and probably ultimately soul destroying yet comforting and irresistible.

In contract to the last VA Woolf, this will have yelling in a 30-seat theater as opposed to a 1,500-seat one.

Yeah, I think I can join you guys on the 30th.

Will you be calling to reserve your own ticket or should I reserve four?

I'll reserve it -- seats are general admission, so we should be fine. We could have breakfast paninis at Flourish beforehand, if you like.

I like breakfast a lot, Eric.

Or Jenny, Jesse, Leslie and I could just have a few drinks and act out the play ourselves. Leslie and I will be the young bookish couple.

you guys are so classy

i'm hungry

what to do

what to do

eat some food

eat some food

http://www.austinchronicle.com/binary/975ca148/arts_exhibitionism-21275.jpeg

http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/wiacrev/data/images/V46/reference/WAR0460402301r.jpeg
Lots of still photos from productions around the world of this play.

Stop me if you've heard this before.

In college I wrote a little poem. Here it is:

Du Calme
by Jesse K.

Du calme!
Du calme!

I love that top photo.

LOL @ Honey and Martha. Esp. Honey.

http://www.royalexchange.co.uk/images/production/vw3_large.jpg

Depth-of-field works well with theater photography vs. the portrait-type photos that most theaters do.

I have reserved the tickets. There is no turning back.

Um, the guy taking the reservations asked how I knew about the play and I said a friend who knows a lot about theater told me and he asked me who and I told him, Eric. Was that okay? I hope so, because you can't unring a bell.

Why did you say that?

Yeah, it's all good. I know them through the work I do, so that's all I'll say about it on the Internet.

Okay good.

Candied bacon ice cream

guys where can i buy a cheap bike this afternoon? it's biking weather

craigslist?

do people actually say the word "butthurt" out loud or is that something that people say on the internet but not in real life? i can't imagine saying that aloud. then again, i would not use it in writing either. i was just wondering.

xp i got mine on craigslist.

but i want a bike NOW

steal one

Pawn shop?

I do not care for the term "butthurt," in print or verbally.

Butthhuurrtt would be more onomonpeic.

I don't like it either! At all! But people seem to be using it with increasing frequency, at least here. I dunno. I was just wondering because it's such an unnecessarily graphic adjective.

Nick, be patient and you will get the right bike and not spend too much money.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/shakespeares_sister/shakes2/killer.png

bacon chocolate chip cookies:
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5427876

those ppl were trying to open a place in logan square but the storefront-renting-whatever didn't work out.

Dear Paul Deen,

Why u so crazy?

Hugglez,
Jenny

so even though i love the birthday party albums and the grinderman album, and i really like the newest nick cave/bad seeds album, i have never really explored the nick cave back catalog beyond the greatest hits album. this morning i was thinking i should listen to some of the earlier bad seeds albums, so i go on allmusic to find out which are the ones they recommend. but they give every single nick cave album before 2003's nocturama either four or four and a half stars! way to be helpful, allmusic.

i like tender prey but that is the only one i have

Does anyone happen to know if the Evanston Public Library is tied in with Chicago's system? I was looking at the music collection there last night and it's absolutely dreadful, far worse than even the one they had ten years ago out in Mount Prospect. I tried to ask a librarian about ordering through the Chicago system, but she seemed pretty clueless for actually working there.

i feel like someone said something to me to the effect that it was tied in with Chicago, but as i can't remember who said this or when or if it even really happened i wouldn't take my word for it.

based on the evanston public library page, it looks like they aren't tied in to the chicago system, but they do have this:

Evanston Library borrowers also have easy access, via the library catalog, to most circulating items in the collections of 22 other public libraries through EPL's membership in the Cooperative Computer Services consortium.

from this page: http://www.epl.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=87&Itemid=51

Ah, thanks. I was checking out their site myself, but I keep getting distracted by a damn ringing phone. Its going to be a looooong day.

you could also pop down to the chicago rogers park branch if you want to order something directly through CPL
it's at clark and...farwell? don't remember, but it's not far from the gym. four or five blocks? they have a little parking lot too.

Cool, I'll have to check that out, thanks. The Evanston library is really nice and great for books, a little disappointing in the multimedia section though.

all the nick cave albums blend together for me since i only heard them through maddie (she's a huge fan). but i remember 'let love in' being good and i liked the last one (abbatoir blues/the love below or whatever).

Did anyone else click on Jenny's link? If not, do so.

Isn't that a Luther (Vandross) Burger?

It is a Luther Burger taken even further -- it has bacon and egg on it.

Like I told Jenny, it's a cry for help.

The donuts are going too far (or not far enough).

HAPPY PI DAY, NERDS!

I can feel my arteries clogging just looking at the picture of that thing.

I wonder if the Pi Day song that my high school physics teacher played in class exists on the internets somewhere?

We actually get free pie today, because it's a nerd company.

What are people doing this weekend? Kr and I were thinking about maybe having another GAME NIGHT on Saturday.

Ooo... game night. I don't think we have anything planned. I'm going to do a shit ton of laundry tonight and then take two Advil PM and sleep for at least 12 hours. Jeff has an orientation for his externship tomorrow morning. I don't know what he is up for socially, but I will find out.

What I really want to do today, much more than I want to work, is find a nice quiet bar with a big window and get my slant on. I can tell it's spring; my all day drunk-want is kicking in hard.

Jenny OTM re: day-long drunk. Walking out to lunch yesterday made me want to hit a beer garden in a bad way.

here's a willie colon track to share the love:

sonanda despierto

it's not one of the super-hot ones from cosa nuestra, but it's got some heavy trombone.

(it's from "el juicio")

Oh poo it's an iTunes formatted file, isn't it? Ich habe iTunes nicht at work.

YOU GUYS i want to go out to a bar with all of you tonight. sarah is out of town which would make me the odd man out at game night (but i would probably come anyways)

i would drink with jenny this afternoon but i am going to DIVERSEY ROCK AND BOWL with my office

so i want to drink with jenny (and everyone else) this evening

I'm going to do a shit ton of laundry tonight and then take two Advil PM and sleep for at least 12 hours.

no you're not.

Kates and I were gonna go have a beer or two after work, you're welcome to join.

I am going to see Wilderness on Sunday but that's all I've got planned.

I am sad that game night has become a perceived couplesy thing.

But Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick I'm so tired and I have no clean clothes.

They closed down an excellent neighborhood deli a couple doors down from the laundromat and are supposed to open a sports bar there, which I wish to fuck they would do because my life is pretty much complete aside from having a bar next door to my preferred laundromat. That would solve all the problems.

I really, really want to go see Xiu Xiu tonight, but honestly I'm very lazy. I love seeing live music once I'm there, and while I'm at a show, I think MUST REMEMBER TO DO THIS AGAIN! But it's the getting there that is so hard. Grr.

Everything couples do eventually becomes a couple-y thing. Esp when they be allus smooching and petting each other's hair.

Haha, I don't think I've seen any of the Chicago couples do that.

I prefer to pet animals and smooch Jeff's hair.

Actually it does seem out of character! xp hah

What I was saying above, was, will someone come to Xiu Xiu Show w/ me? Pweez?

I thought that show was actually quite convenient to public transportation? Or in the middle of the lake, one.

It is near the Red Line. But I have never gone to a show alone, and it's a monumental effort to go to a show even with someone.

i think i'm still going to see Eighth Blackbird for free at the cultural center on sunday afternoon, if i'm not scared off by st. patrick's day revelers

jesse i might go see xiu xiu with you

do it nick.

I'll make it soooo fun for you.

are you going to pick me up in a car and drive me there?

are you going to pick me up in a hovercraft and hover me there?

are you hovering to hover me up in a hovercraft and hover me hovercraft?

i'm excited it's friday

hoovercraft

I like when Nick gets punchy on the internets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hovercraft_%28band%29

I'll pick you up on a great rumbling train which will move us there with such great velocity that I will call it the Red Line, for its swiftness makes the tracks glow red.

if you actually divert the red line to pick me up at my house, then i will go see xiu xiu with you

Oh.

Tix are only $12.

http://www.cjshoppingmall.com/images/hoover_vacuum.jpg

I was listening to Hoover the other day.

damn it dan i downloaded your punk mix but i keep forgetting to put it on my ipod so i can actually listen to it

i just ordered a rice cooker, because i made terrible rice last night.

Solution: boil-in-bag.

that sounds too close to my cooking-for-jews debacle (boiling pasta in ziploc bags).

Rice cookers are awesome! Boil-in-bag rice is not an acceptable long-term solution.

Meh. It's rice.

I bought some kind of amazing rice mixture from Trader Joe's. Wild, brown, white, etc. That was some good shit. It was par-cooked.

xp to nick: put an album name on it or something b/c the tracklist is probably f'd up

Jordan did you have to boil pasta in a plastic bag to shield it from a pan that was not Kosher?

i knew it was time for a rice cooker when i was considering walking down the street to the vietnamese place just for a side order of rice.

yes jenny, exactly. it, uh, didn't work out very well.

so i have to hang around evanston until 2:30 so i can give people a ride to bowling, i wonder if i should try to see a movie? or is it too nice outside? maybe i'll just have a long lunch and get some coffee and read

go steal a bike

Kates and I were gonna go have a beer or two after work, you're welcome to join.

@6:30, small bar in the square btw

sounds good, i love small bar ... i'll try and make it

i'm going to go eat some fucking pad thai

what do normal bands do when someone bails on a gig the night before? scramble for last minute subs, cancel, or play without that person?

I can't imagine that happening in my band, but if it did, we'd probably scramble for a last-minute sub, assuming there was an ex-member of the band (Jeff, Ben, Brendan, Charlie, Megan) who could fake their way through a set. Matt is very big on never cancelling (a lot of his approach comes from the perspective of someone who used to be a booking guy himself), and our songs are too dependent on each instrument and the interplay among them to be able to pull off playing without someone, at least without lots of practice.

We always, always, make the gig, no matter who's on it. And we do have a pretty extensive pool of subs. But I think it makes everyone in the band feel like any gig is optional, and sometimes it's a pain in the ass.

if one of us "bailed" we would have to cancel, for pretty obvious reasons

i mean i guess we could get a substitute drummer if necessary but that seems like it would be stressful and awful and kind of mean.

but i'm sure it's different in a "professional" band

so you would never play a show with another drummer?

xp ha

that it would be "mean" is pretty adorable in a way, i mean i understand what you're saying but that's so different from any band i've ever played in.

doing it for the love v. doing it for the $

I realize that's not entirely the case but it's pretty close.

well i think it's different for us. when sarah and i were looking for a drummer, we were basically looking for someone we could be friends with and get along with, not necessarily someone who is an awesome drummer. since the purpose of the band is basically for us to have fun, not make a living off of it or anything, it wouldn't make sense for us to pull in an emergency sub to play a show. but i understand that's not how most bands work

Re "how most bands work": I have some additional thoughts on this, but I probably shouldn't say them in a public forum.

i don't really think it's about "doing it for the $" but more about trying to constantly build your reputation and keep getting more successful and well-known and progressing, instead of just playing the same venues with the same bands for no money forever, which i can totally understand. but i've worked to readjust my view of being in a band as just being a hobby, where it's something i do in my spare time to have fun and be creative, not something where i'm ever going to make any money or quit my job about it. this might be "giving up" but also it's let me enjoy being in a band a lot more

Can Jehovah's Witnesses eat shellfish?

Do they love Erasure?

I just had free wine at Macy's and I have a little buzz, but not enough of one and I bet I'm going to be really tired and sad in about a half hour.

nah. most of the bands i'm in are for the love, but we're not trying to do it for free, either.

i know guys in chi. who make a really strict division...they play in these "jobbing bands" that play covers and make $$$$ doing corporate and private events, then they do jazz stuff that they love and don't expect to make any money from. my situation is right in the middle...i play with bands i love, but do some sell-out gigs with those bands sometimes.

Jesse's singing me a song that goes:

You don't have to knock, you live here
UH UH

Now it goes:

You don't have to work, you live here
HUH? HUH?

i had peanut butter pi and pecan pi.

Tonight should I a) go see the new Gus Van Sant movie, or b) go see School of Language at the Empty Bottle? I'm sort of interested in the latter because I haven't been to a rock show (that I'm not performing at) in months, but I also haven't even heard that dude's album. I just know he's from Field Music.

that movie looks kinda emo, i would go to the show.

lol you should come see the beatnuts

I think I own a Beatnuts song or two from one of Kenan's mixes?

where's that show, deej?

If one of my band members bailed, I would recruit someone sitting at the bar to fill in.

I heard Xiu Xiu for the first time today ("Fast Car") and it bugged the hell out of me. But, kind of like Cocorosie, it's so deliberately a manipulated recording that I would be a little curious to see how they work live.

wowowowowowowowowow one of my friends is in deeeeep shit

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080312/NEWS06/803120336

oh shit!

You guys should go see that performance thing I linked to a few days ago, the Anatomy Collective. I see 100+ plays a year for my work, and this is the only show I've seen that explores the two subjects that will be the legacy of the 2000s: Internet/identity and debt.

That sounds neat, but I'm working late tonight and won't even get home until 7:45. :(

where's that show, deej?

-- Jordan, Friday, March 14, 2008 3:20 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

subterranean

xp Maybe Sunday, though...

Oh wait, never mind. It's only through Saturday.

Goofy photo of R.E.M. on DeRo's blog.

that reminds me, if i'm totally lame and don't go out tonight, i have to remember to watch the bad plus on conan.

So what's this about Rachel Ray being at SXSW?

Hey, I had lunch at Hot Doug's today.

I had:
The Game of the Week
Goji Berry Pheasant Sausage with Warm Michigan Cherry Relish and Butterkäse Cheese

And my dining companion had the exquisitely named:

The Ashley Dupre (Today's Celebrity Sausage)
Fresh Mint and Garlic Lamb Sausage with Anchovi Aioli and Doux de Montagne Cheese

That sounds "not safe."

Feedback With Rachael Ray
Saturday 3/15 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Beauty Bar (617 E. 7th St.)
Listen Records, Watch Entertainment and Everyday With Rachael Ray come together to bring you Feedback...a feast of hot bands and tasty foods, hosted by America's favorite cook and indie music lover, Rachael Ray. Join us at this merging of great food and even better music with performances by Autovaughn, The Ravonettes, The Cringe, Scissors For Lefty, The Stills, and Holy *&%$. DJ Efren "Pedro" Ramirez from Napoleon Dynamite will be DJ-ing inside. Drinks on us and lots of Rachael's Tasty Recipies. Open to all SXSW badgeholders

i wonder if rr has read this: http://peterhcropes.blogspot.com/2008/01/where-rachael-ray-lives.html

America's favorite cook and indie music lover

Huh.

out of all the lovers of indie music, she is America's favorite.

out of all of those who both cook and love music, she is America's favorite.

A friend of mine works at Whole Foods and said that there was a run on the Voges bacon chocolate bars after Rachel Ray mentioned them on her show, and that the same thing happens whenever she gets excited about a product they carry.

She is Not My Favorite.

I have a thoroughly unjustifiable crush on Rachel Ray.

i wonder if rr has read this: http://peterhcropes.blogspot.com/2008/01/where-rachael-ray-lives.html

Between that and this, it's been quite a day for fiction involving real-life celebrities.

Soon I have crept around to the back deck and I see the small husband, an Italian fellow, walk delicately into the large dine-in kitchen. Rachael is there and, away from the cameras, she wears Mickey Mouse clothing from head to toe. Even her house slippers have things on them which make it clear they are a Mickey Mouse product. She stirs a large pot of something I cannot see clearly; I hear her tell the little husband that it is her "Astronaut Turkey Smackers." I do not know how something called a "smacker," or meant for astronauts, can be prepared in a large pot. It seems that outer space demands special, careful foods. I feel lost. The husband, too, has the same feeling. He sneaks off to the driveway and takes a big sip of Amstel from a hidden place in the back of the third PT Cruiser. He has done this before.

Wow! Why don't I read more of this?

it's an achewood blog btw

Printed both for the train ride home.

Someone on the Stylus board said re the Esquire piece, "fuck, Prince would say this shit's too purple." Which made me chuckle, but c'mon:

The food's come and Jack's sucking on a lamb bone like it's pussy meat--because Jack is always proving something, like, You played a gay cowboy, hooray, but I'm J. J. Gittes, I'm Jimmy Hoffa, I'm the devil. I'm the motherfuckin' Joker. I want to warn you about some shit.

Priceless.

I'm sitting here at the Mirö Cafe, and I've got a pen in hand and the New York Times Monday crossword. I've heard guys with Woody Allen glasses say that Monday's crossword is cake. Bullshit. Maybe it's because I'm not American, or maybe I'm not smart enough, but Monday is fucking impossible. I hate Mondays.

So I sit there with the pen, it's a Universal Studios pen, and instead of the right answers I just write each letter of my daughter's name in every box. Here it's a Matil. There a MatildaMat. Then just a tilda.

Soon the whole box is consumed with the letters of her name, and it's an artwork unto itself. I stare at it for a long while, until finally I see I've got all the right answers after all.

o_O

That current issue of Esquire also has a long profile of Clooney, in which the reporter surfs the Internet with him. The article says that one website they find offers Obama/Clooney t-shirts, but I have not yet found this site.

http://www.cafepress.com/buy/george+clooney/-/pv_design_prod/p_2306730.116563628/pNo_116563628/id_18229082/fpt_/opt_/c_666/pg_1

Oh, thank you. If I had a band I would make everyone wear those.

<3 <3 <3 small bar

OK, so Game Night is happening again at our place tonight. Everyone's invited.

We have Taboo, Trivial Pursuit, Scattergories, Scrabble, Pitctionary, and maybe a couple others I'm forgetting. But feel free to bring a game of your own. (Like, Courtney should def. bring Catchphrase.)

Show up around 7:30 or 8. BYOB. Call or e-mail for directions.

(I think so far Jenny, Jeff, Courtney, Nick, and Lindsay are coming...?)

yeah i'll be there

Hmmmmmmmmmmm

Xiu Xiu or games? XIU XIU OR GAMES????????

Or just stay home....?

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/37/81382195_33091ba597_o.jpg

We have Catchphrase; Courtney has Apples to Apples.

There are a lot of not couples going to game night JUST FYI.

"Large Enough to be Efficient Small Enough for Any Crytpo-Faggot Looking for Discreet Anal Play."

OMG HAHAHAHA

"...reach the Vital Spot to such good purpose."

Oh my.

Tonight is Julia night, so I can't come -- let me know a day in advance, and next time I'll be there. I like games.

Randomness:
I was listening to RadioLab yesterday -- you know, that pop science show -- and they were talking about a study I had heard of which seemed to conclude that people with a larger capacity for self-deception tended to be more successful and happier. And then this morning I was listening to Big Daddy Kane rapping about how totally awesome he is for the length of an entire album, and I thought, "That's how you do it. That's one happy motherfucker."

Have you listened to any Erasure today, Jenny? I don't want people to go around spiritually impoverished for lack of POP.