Chicago: Shockingly Prompt

That should make for some interesting remix titles.

i think we already came up with names for like the next three records but i forgot them all. eric don't forget that you make music and albums too, don't give all the good names away

OK, I will write that record then. I may need a rock band to back me on the closing track.

Proposed track listing for next FFs record, based on one post from Kevin earlier today:

hidden track: noon on sundays.

4) Do not pull your jeans up over your knee as it is swelling. It will be difficult and painful to take your pants off later.

so you injured yourself while pantsless huh? i think we know who had the best weekend.

Here is the disco/funk band from that ILM thread: http://www.myspace.com/codebreaker

i have to take a girl who speaks no english on a date tonite. where do i take her? other than food

also, she doesnt really drink

Green Mill (Patricia Barber)?
Movie?
What language does she speak?

Cubs vs. Twins?
Stay home and rent a DVD with [French/Polish/etc.] subtitles?

i have to take a girl who speaks no english on a date tonite. where do i take her?

amanda's ESL class?

i'm just hoping to stay awake to watch memphis beat kansas tonight.

Or go to Chinatown and everyone can struggle together.

Green Mill (Patricia Barber)? hmm
Movie? not good if she cant understand
What language does she speak? spanish

-- Eazy, Monday, April 7, 2008 4:14 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Cubs vs. Twins? $$$ for 1st date
Stay home and rent a DVD with [French/Polish/etc.] subtitles? didnt get a chance to clean up my place, is currently kind of dirtbaggish

-- Eazy, Monday, April 7, 2008 4:16 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

How do you even HAVE a date with someone who doesn't speak English?

Some ppl here might be interested to know that Katie's roomie/cousin just got a new job at the Goodman Theater. (congrats 2 her!)

xxp find out her opinion on the location of the best tacos/tortas/burritos

Rolling Stones IMAX movie on Navy Pier.

What's the Goodman job?

How do you even HAVE a date with someone who doesn't speak English?

-- Laurel, Monday, April 7, 2008 4:21 PM (9 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

http://assets.cambridge.org/97805215/36554/cover/9780521536554.jpg

deej, is this the waitress??

How do you even HAVE a date with someone who doesn't speak English?

-- Laurel, Monday, April 7, 2008 4:21 PM (Monday, April 7, 2008 4:21 PM) Bookmark Link

some things transcend language, i.e. deej is packing some SERIOUS heat.

http://comprendogame.com/comprendologomain.jpg

xp to EZ: some kind of marketing/pr I think

deej, is this the waitress??

-- Jordan, Monday, April 7, 2008 4:23 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

si

yeah, i recommend green mill. last time i was there we watched this blazing chick in the front row make out with her not-so-attractive boyfriend for like an entire set. crazy.

xp, nice

i kind of want to do something fun ... and active? pool maybe? ping pong? i dunno.

on the other hand green mill is east = near lake which is fun for walking and bullshitting*

*with esp-eng dictionary

air hockey

se habla (un poco), deej?

(obv I am quite rusty)

i speak less spanish than she speaks english

I totally enjoyed using Spanish last week. I was in kind of an enviable position, though, since I was able to bullshit in Spanish to a waiter, cab driver, or tour guide, and then if I didn't understand their response, Krista would just translate for me. We had a tour guide at Machu Picchu who spoke only broken English, so we said "go ahead and do it in Spanish." She spoke pretty slowly and clearly, so I actually picked up the gist of most of what she said, which was nice.

maybe i should get a girlfriend who speaks spanish to go on this daet with me

going to language school in Mexico for ~3 mos. is one of the top options on my list of Things to do with my Severance Package

threesome w/translator

i have to take a girl who speaks no english on a date tonite. where do i take her?

amanda's ESL class?

-- chicago kevin, Monday, April 7, 2008 9:16 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

yes
or i could accompany you and translate, $25/hr

(threesome NOT INCL)

how much more would that be?

joeks, not always funny.

well, it's depend.

I'm imagining Deej and his chica on a couch, Amanda in an armchair nearby translating.

well, it's depend.

classic!

honestly, assess her english abilities.
i'm curious.

could she: disagree with you if you said something she didn't agree with?
could she: speak in a string of 3+ sentences?
could she: tell a story in the past tense?
could she: talk about hypothetical situations?
could she: make joeks?

if so her command of the english language far out strips my own.

where is she from?

Guatemala

could she: disagree with you if you said something she didn't agree with? depends how clear i am in saying it
could she: speak in a string of 3+ sentences? hmm
could she: tell a story in the past tense? hmm
could she: talk about hypothetical situations? hmm
could she: make joeks? yes

How late is the zoo open?

zoo break-in is a good daet activity

her name isn't jenny, is it? (just wondering, because if she were my student i would flip OUT)

more questions:
does she use must/can/could/would?
does she use past/present/future?
does her vocabulary extend past what she needs for work?

if your answer to any of these questions is "si" i think her english will be ok for your date. she probably could use someone to practice with!

Deej (pointing): Rhino.
Chica: Rhino.
Deej: Polar bear.
Chica: Oso polar.
Deej: Penguin.
Chica: Pingüino.
Penguin: Haga su movimiento, hombre.

por favor

does she use must/can/could/would?
does she use past/present/future?
does her vocabulary extend past what she needs for work?

maybe

we'll find out tonite lol

her name isn't jenny, is it?

noep

THANK GOODNESS
then she is not the student who wrote about the "nice bitches" in guatemala.

;_;

well, have a lovely date. buena suerte.

gracias

Take her to Old Timers and we will all be there and pretend not to know you, and give you thumbs-up when her back is turned to us.

how do u say 'booty' en espangol

just, yknow, curious

derriere sobroso

Sat
Apr 12

Rain / Snow Showers
Rain / Snow Showers

42°
35°

40%

42°F

Sun
Apr 13

Rain / Snow Showers
Rain / Snow Showers

45°
35°

30%

45°F

Which Resorts Have Snow?

fuckingggggggg

I was hoping I'd come back and there would be no more snow. ;_;

i have to take a girl who speaks no english on a date tonite. where do i take her?

amanda's ESL class?

-- chicago kevin, Monday, April 7, 2008 4:16 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

I LOLed.

colette, you said somethings toward me earlier today but I can't remember what they were, but I remember that you said them, so I am going to respond: "OK!"

John - welcome home! Can't wait for the pics.

Today was nuttarifically busy. It started at 9:10 and ended at 5:30. And it's going to start again as soon as coffee is done brewing tomorrow.

Last night I dreamed an Onion article. It could have been titled "Local woman is generally worthless despite always being busy." Her son mocked her in a sort of almost-cockney English accent b/c she played piano: "Right," he said, "that's really been relevant since the time of Liberace." He pronounced "Liberace" with a flat "a," as in "cat."

hey, i think my wrist pain is due to playing too much super nintendo over the past two days! that would be great, b/c even though i have fun games, it's way easier to stop playing snes than it is to stop playing drums.

Ha.

Hey, I just noticed Rob Mazurek is playing at the Green Mill this weekend. Anyone interested? His band includes some of his old Isotope 217 bandmates (Jeff Parker, Matthew Lux, and Dan Bitney), as well as flutist Nicole Mitchell, trombonist Jeb Bishop, vocalist Damon Locks (of the Eternals, and one of the emcees at the Pitchfork Fest last year), and a drummer I've never heard of named Avreeayl Ra. Just that lineup alone sounds awesome.

Hm, I might. I think Damon Locks was involved with some of the LFTR PLLR recordings that I am very fond of.

i might be interested actually.

how'd the date go dude?

is that friday or saturday? on saturday i'm going to the spectacles show at ronny's, but i might be interested if it's on friday

It's both. I don't think I have a preference.

i think i would go if everyone else goes on friday

i guess i basically already said that

I never saw if anyone responded to it or not, but I realized my post yesterday in the old Chicago thread could have really been misinterpreted. Just to clarify for the zero people that care, but I wasn't suggesting I was concerned about the neighbors stealing wireless signals from me or anyone else. We've heard stories from other neighbors about them being invovled with some pretty heavy scam stuff, and with all the antennas and shit sticking out of the laptops on their cars I'm concerned that there is something a little more sinister going on.

Anyway, just needed to clear that up even if no one cared, I realized that my previous post could have made me look like a real asshole.

it definitely sounds sketchy ... seems like it would be pretty easy to call the non-emergency police number to get them to send a car around to check out what the dudes are up to

sounds like a HOMELAND SECURITY issue to me

you should heavily imply that they are terrorists

My pants were ON when I sprained my knee!!!
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxpost

What a horrible start to the day. One co-worker's husband just went to the emergency room with chest pains, another just left because her father is dying.

Hope all you chilxors are okay.

All my teeth just fell out and I realized I was late for a math test, but I'm only wearing underwear!!

that green mill show sounds fun.

Jon - I didn't used to mind people using my wireless signal, in fact I purposely removed the password protection because I would want someone else to do the same for me. The problem was was only unsecured signal in the area and it got to the point where I kept having problems with losing access or having slow-downs, so I had to use make it secure again. A couple of days after I did that, my neighbor began taking his laptop to the 2nd floor landing where he found another signal. I find him there many evenings and early mornings. I'm tearing his family apart.

Heh. I just can't figure out why these guys go sit out in the cars outside though. On an average evening, sitting anywhere in our house, I can pick from 9 different signals besides ours and all but 3 or 4 of them are completely unprotected. I'm actually more of the mind that they are trying to intercept credit/debit card transactions from the Home Dep0t around the corner.

friday i will be at town hall pub for cheap time/c0c0coma. cheap time was last in town for my birthday and i remember exactly zero from their set. i will not drink two bottles of champagne this time around however.

where is town hall pub?

Boystown.

(The first time I was there I saw a horrible white reggae band, while one of the band's friends passed around an e-mail list. I'd be curious to know how many fake e-mails they got that night.)

(Also, I was there that night because it's the default after-show bar for folks who do improv at the Playground.)

my friend carrie works there, on wednesday's they either have bands or talent shows and friday's they usually have bands. last time i was there was for dan the f@n's birthday party? that was both the debut and swan song of l's big muff pedal as someone walked off with it after their set.

also:

Order Date  	Status  	Ship Date  	Payment By  	Confirmation No.  	Shipment Tracking

4/2/08 	Shipped 	4/3/08 	PayPal 	

five days later and still no tracking number? what's the point of having a tracking number if the shipment arrives before the number does?

OK, I'm an idiot. The Rob Mazurek shows at the Green Mill were last weekend. I got confused because I picked up a Reader yesterday but forgot that it was last week's edition.

nooooooo

In decreasing order of relevance to the conversation:

1) The Town Hall is Belmont Burlesque Revue's standard after-show bar...although we tend to go to Parrot's if there is a loud/shitty band playing.

2) Speaking of BBR, (begin shameless plug), this month's performance on April 26th will be fairly fantastic. In addition to my number, which celebrates all things dairy, a great performer will be coming into town from St. Louis. Sometimes she makes giant martini slip 'n' slides.

3) Apropo of nothing.... http://mrdeadworry.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/061013_wcs_otter_02.jpg

i'm disappointed about that green mill show and i wasn't even going to go.

that animal looks like what i imagine a young wilford brimley to have looked like.

I can see it. Though, m@ttttttttt and I felt he must be decidedly British...I think with a Cockney accent.

nope. looks like a philly truck driver to me. maybe fishtown.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2003/2398942794_ee40f5dec8.jpg

katie, how'd you hurt your knee? is it better today? also, what does a martini slip 'n' slide involve?

kevin i forgot to ask yesterday - was it just me or did the singer from stnnng strongly resemble buddy hackett?

i can't recall. it was packed when i got there and i was far from the stage. had i known about a resemblance i surely would have wormed my way up to the stage.

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=4816491&albumID=32919&imageID=19942471

http://entimg.msn.com/i/150/Movies/Actors2/Cronyn_Phot66727128_150x200.jpg

oh dang

it's not a perfect resemblance but there are some definite similarities

I made a Muxtape playlist, but I'm gonna have to wait until I get home tonight before I can upload the tunes. The theme is: VOCAL HARMONIES.

I need to finish my first quarter mix, it'll probably be too long for a muxtape though.

Colette...I sprained my knee getting ready to go biking. Not actually biking, mind you...just during garden variety preparation.

The martini slip 'n' slide involves Mimi Le Yeu making a giant martini over a large tarp while dancing about to fun music. She's charming.

easter was a few weeks ago but whatever

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2052/2319392816_4c1d1c134d.jpg

That made the rounds at work a couple days ago, pretty funny.

apparently supposed to be zombie peeps

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2143/2354951050_43362ed478.jpg

i think i should be looking for a martini slip 'n' slide in my next apartment. sounds good.

spilled salad ;_;

that video of those florida teens beating that girl is bananas. kids are fucked.

Yeah, that's pretty sickening. Moreso considering that they set it all up just to upload the video to YouTube.

I'll wait for the Larry Clark version.

I'm in the package room of my apartment building, borrowing the wireless signal from 3arly to B3d. Not intercepting sex-positive feminist traffic.

two things:

1) i was listening to a song from that she & him record and something occurred to me. this sort of sounds like a sweet chorus of mice. once i pictured a bunch of cute muppet mice singing, it suddenly grew a lot more appealing to me. try it.

2) email from student (i was sick): "i hope you fill butter!"

in the old country that's how they announce a vendetta.

that reminds me, i need to stop by the store on the way home and fill butter!

seriously!

we are good enough to advice deej about his date
but not good enough for post-date scoop?

B-

i meant advise

D+ for me

maybe the date is still happening wink wink

maybe she kidnapped deej and is pulling out his toenails one by one wink wink

sorry i've got something in my eye

he totally posted last night and I asked him about it, but no response

i can't imagine why anyone wouldn't want to post the details of a possible romantic relationship on a public internet forum

it seems like a great idea

otm

he's probably afraid the zingers'll get ahold of it

i am not that nosy
just want language-related progress report

yeah, but if you're going to post questions about where to go you could at least say "we went here, it was good" or "we took your advice, you suck. fill butter, watch your back"

fill gumbo

amanda, i'm imagining him writing down all your questions and giving her a little exam in the middle of the date. this makes me giggle.

maybe he doesn't understand english any more

pues, dime en espanol

I am liking this newish Mae Shi album.

we mutually delayed daet which is good because now i can clean my apt. :D

i fear no zingers

which is good because now i can clean my apt.

hope springs eternal.

Vendetta is one of the only words from Cosrsican to make it into English.

Rob never sleeps. Tomorrow night at the Hideout:

Immediate Sound Series
presents
two sets with
Mazurek / Drumm / Stein / Herndon
Rob Mazurek cornet
Kevin Drumm electronics
Jason Stein bass clarinet
John Herndon drums
DJ sets
Vandermark Soundclash Right Place at the Right Time - A Survey of ESP records
Immediate Sound

if that started at 8 and ended at 9:30 i would be there
something tells me that is not how they do

"immediate sound"

http://www.chicagomag.com/images/2007/December%202007/arena_bomb.jpg

hey dudes sarah got a new job

also LOL my mom is on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqo9IM6bvu8

momtube

Why is the middle of the word "Heartbeat" blurred out? Is the slogan really "The HeFUCKCUNTCOCKbeat of the Community"? It's Ashville... there's probably a pot leaf in the middle of it.

Also "my mom is on youtube" is definitely one of those sentences that could herald something really upsetting.

Also - YAY SARAH JOB!!!!

And finally: Fill butter = lolzzzzzzzzzzz

i couldn't tell if it was blurred out or if those letters were actually physically missing from whatever sign they were filming?

Congrats, Sarah! Which is the lucky business?

Yes, congrats, Sarah!

Meanwhile, I made a muxtape:
http://seaworthy.muxtape.com/

Sarah - tell us IN CODE what your new job is. Or email us. In code.

I hope it has better duties with better people for better money than the last one.

@irl1ne St3ward3ss?

http://www.pitchfork.tv/node/324

Pixies documentary.

Apparently you can only view it for free for 1 week only (at least legally, from that source).

The video includes footage of their 3rd night at the Aragon, when the drummer messed up and continued to play for a long time after the end of the song ("Something Against You") was finished and the others had stopped.
Kim Deal's reaction is outstanding.

hooray for sarah's new job! i echo the "better duties for better pay" wish.

I haven't had a chance to listen to your muxtape jaymc, but that run of Field Music > Fleetwood Mac > Midlake looks really good on paper.

the word "muxtape" is really unpleasant

wtf is a muxtape

what i know:
not a tape
not on paper
is a barfy-sounding word

i don't really know what it is exactly either but based on context i think it's a website that lets you upload songs (up to 12) to create an online mix that people can download? i don't really understand why you'd need a special website for this though, seems like you could just upload a full mix to YSI or your own server or whatever

hm. ok. i have trouble committing to this word.

Like everything else web 2.0 (beta), there're probably social network/marketing underpinnings to the site (nb I have only looked at it briefly).

i don't think you can download, it's just a nice interface for streaming. i like it.

oh see i didn't even realize you could stream the songs, that makes more sense as a useful function

i am listening to john's muxtape now

:( No one cares about Pixies rockumentary.

NO ONE

people were talking about it here...Anticipate Pitchfork.tv

i saw that documentary like a year ago, jesse, i bought the dvd for sarah when it came out

If the Pixes are going to be around, I'd rather they just make some more records.

(btw new Breeders album omg)

as someone who likes the pixies but isn't as obsessed with them as some others (ie sarah) i thought it was kind of dull. i mainly liked the stuff about kim deal because she is the coolest person in the pixies

yeah the new breeders album is great. i don't get pfork dissing title tk though, i thought that album was great too

CHALLENGING MUSICAL OPINION: i would generally rather listen to the breeders or the amps than to the pixies

i don't really know any pixies songs, and i don't know who the amps are, but i sure did love that 'cannonball' song!

the amps are kim deal's other band that she had while kelley deal was busy being f'ed up on heroin. they only put out one album, which is like a more raucous, drunken version of the breeders, and is great

ha, jaymc, have you seen this thread?

random UP real estate link:

http://www.c21-nca.com/propertydetail.aspx?id=1036098

I post this because 1. it's T0mas' sister and brother-in-law's house, 2. it's around the corner from my parents' place, and 3. it is incredibly cheap for what it is.

ugh, why do real estate agents have to be such assholes?! i emailed someone about an ad on craigslist, asking for a nearby intersection so i could see how close it is to where we want to be. she wrote back saying basically "you idiot, i give you enough info on the ad to figure it out," i wrote back saying "um, that wasn't very nice, and by the way all you say is "close to harvard", which doesn't mean jack" and then she wrote an abusive email about how i want to go find the apartment and knock on their door and piss off the owners. crazy much? i hate that crap like that gets me all riled up, but there you go.

here's the ad, in case you're interested. way too expensive, but looked better than a lot of the nasty places near campus, so i thought it might be worth looking into...
http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/fee/634701138.html

in real estate agent speak "near harvard square" could mean anything from mass ave & brattle street to framingham.

ha, jaymc, have you seen this thread?

That link didn't work...?

it's on ask chaki

kevin, that's exactly what i told her...i've had several people say "a short walk to harvard law!" and it's south of MIT on the river. go figure. i honestly don't understand what made her so mean to me, i sent a generic and pleasant email in the first place. scary thing is that she runs her own agency!

ok, i know i'm being dumb, but how do i get the muxtape thingy to work? i clicked on a song, it looked like it was downloading, and then nothing. what am i doing wrong?

It doesn't download. It streams. Just click on the first song, and turn your speakers on. If that doesn't work, then it may be a bug with the site, as the result of all the traffic it's been getting.

ah, it looked like it was going to stream and then just didn't...i'll try later, i guess!

try restarting your browser?

scary thing is that she runs her own agency!

i'm guessing no one can stand working with her.

like, it's a one person organization.

ACTUAL SCIENCE TERM: Peanut-Shaped Bulges

good band name

Knockwurst-shaped bulges.

Dan - that house makes me want to pack up and move to the UP right now. Damn good deal. It'd be a long-ass commute, but... hmmm...

I know people who work for eng/arch companies up there! ;)

So tempting. We've kicked around Ann Arbor before, but I don't know if the fiancee would go for that far north.

Quite frankly: I wouldn't. ;)

I enjoyed the documentary (couldn't finish it b/c it was bedtime when I found it). I was struck by how completely ordinary everyone in the band seemed -- not in the way that a documentary on say Madonna might show her farting or checking her email, but in the sense that they seemed like plain old folks (Kim hanging out with family, doing crafts, Frank Black driving a Cadillac (weird), exploring a corn maze, and being fat and shirtless, Dave Lovering doing metal detecting and magic) most of the time, but sometimes playing wildly popular and influential music.

this is the impression i have of the pixies just from the few live videos i've seen (like on that one coachella dvd).

Hey, just hypothetically, if I were to say that American teams were in the Canadian Football League from 1993-96, would you assume that they played the 1996 season?

yes

i would assume so but i don't think they actually did? wasn't '95 the last year?

memphis, san antonio, and .... birmingham or mobile or something? they tried to move one of the franchises to shreveport iirc but folded instead?

Yeah. The thing I was working on said "blah blah the inclusion of American teams in the CFL (1993-96)." I corrected it to say "1993-95." My editor changed it back and said the decision to eliminate the teams was not made until February 1996. And so while technically true (there were American teams in the CFL for the first two months of 1996), it just seems so misleading, since they never actually played during the 1996 season.

I've never really been one to be against things like communism, socialism, and the like, but US-based CFL teams seem to me to be one of the biggest threats to our 'Merican way of life that I have ever heard of.

wait until toronto steals the buffalo bills. they're playing two(?) games in toronto next year?

Oh we can invade them, that's fine. The poor Bills, though! My uncle Dan is probably ready to shoot himself.

enjoy.

yeah, john i think that sounds really misleading, especially if there weren't any games in 96 at all and it was just that they belonged on a technicality...

another actual science term: Twenty-three new ultra-cool subdwarfs

subdwarves

awesome hardcore band from cincinnati, put out one 7" on the byo label in '82 or '83.

Believe it! Every conceivable person, film and creature in the entire TROLL 2 universe will be converging in NILBOG ITSELF (that’s Morgan, Utah for you no-good reality-dwellers) June 27th – 29th, 2008 for an unprecedented and never-to-be-repeated onslaught of FILMS, FOOD and GOBLIN FUN from Nilbog and all over the world! This isn’t a convention… it’s 1000% ABSOLUTE TROLL 2 INSANITY!

looky

nooooooooo

oooooooooooooooooooh
myyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
gooooooooooooooooood

I talked to my editor about it; he remains steadfast, which is fine: that's his right. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't the only one who found that weird.

i don't know who cindy & bert are but i wanna party with both of them.

Just sent this email to my boss:

J - Your friend Booger called. He has an extra Sox ticket, but since you're in AZ, nevermind.

booger?

http://www.luminomagazine.com/2004.10/spotlight/nerds/images/booger/booger4.jpg

my first thought as well

Heh, I got excited when I saw that Curtis "Booger" Armstrong was going to be on an upcoming episode of The Riches.

curtis armstrong was so great as booger, the character was so irredeemably objectionable and he played it perfectly. he's awesome in everything he does. i think he deserves a place in the steve buscemi parthanon of actors who make everything they're in better just because they're in it.

that's a very emo picture of booger

I think of that guy as Tom Cruise's unshaven friend in Risky Business, not unlike Judge Reinhold's unshaven friend in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. I think those guys turned into Richard Price.

I'm trying to make a muxtape and realized that iTunes has been turning my CDs into MP4 files, which are incompatible with the mux. But I'm working on it.

something smells deliciously like peppers in the office.

Probably my cheesesteak sandwich.

Dan is wearing Eau des Poivres Verts cologne.

Sweet, we're opening for the Lem0nhe@ds at the Abbey Pub.

pls tell evan d that i used one of his songs to teach perfect modals in my esl class

Nice, J. I didn't see until today that you've got that AMC gig, too.

My first muxtape.

Nice, J. I didn't see until today that you've got that AMC gig, too.

Yes, both bands peaked in popularity in 1993 or so. We'll be opening for Soul Asylum next.

Well, they're both a chance to reach people who don't read or follow current music but like what they like.

also people who probably have real jobs

maybe

"real jobs"

Oh, I didn't mean what I said derisively at all -- I just thought it was a little funny. I mean, I'm on my way out anyway, so I don't care all that much.

on your last day you should do an a cappella rendition of "ain't goin out like that" by cypress hill

in fact, everyone should do that on their last day of anything

ha, i know dudes in mpls who have played in dave p1rner's bands. it sounds like he is still living pretty well off that SA money and starting bands when he feels like it. also he's produced some records in new orleans for some pretty cool local musicians.

Minneapolis is full of those dudes: P1rner, Westerberg, Semisonic guys. Get in, one hit, get out, bam -- chillin' in your forties.

oh, apparently he moved to new orleans, which would explain it.

xp

Radio host Eddie Trunk said in an episode of Vh1 Classic turntables that Dave was a songwriter he marveled.

make less nonsense, wikipedia.

"Charging to Get In" is going to be my Mpls one hit that gets me a house on Lake Calhoun while keeping a studio down here.

(studio apt)

it sounds like he is still living pretty well off that SA money

i'll bet. there's a guy in town who has been in some really really terrible bands for over a decade now (selling nowhere near the number of records soul asylum did) and i was ASTOUNDED when he casually mentioned how big the check from BMI was. apparently there's a depressingly large amount of money in bad, cliched, almost unlistenable punk rock.

ooooooooh what band what band(s)?

http://us.ent1.yimg.com/images.launch.yahoo.com/000/010/924/10924888.jpg

Or maybe a band name with a ferret-like animal in the name?

Thats what I was thinking! (ferret-like)

But I like them a lot, when in the right mood.

I've never heard them, but know one guy in the band who turned into a playwright/actor, and he's all right.

Or maybe a band name with a ferret-like animal in the name?

close, VERY VERY CLOSE, but they weren't even as big as them.

I like thinking about stuff like this. Like, how well off are the dudes in A1ka1in3 Tr10? They've never really gotten as popular as they've threatened, but they seem to pack houses and pop up on MTV every other single.

I would think that medium rotation at Urban Outfitters or Starbucks would pay something decent. I thought about this when seeing The Magnetic Fields, and how Merritt must do OK with his bit of movie work.

i'm reading this book, (actually this book) and they talk about how the bands were just barely ekeing out an existance and how tough everything was. then there was an interview with one guy talking about how his band only sold 10,000 copies of their record as opposed to some other forgotten bunch of slobs who'd sold 25,000 copies of theirs. those numbers blew me away.

A1ka1in3 Tr10

always makes me think of

http://www.clevelandskyline.com/Detroit_Al_Kaline_d22_large.jpg Trio

lol yesterday i emailed someone trying to get the opening slot for a different band that peaked around 1993, not going to get it though

i used to have an AMC album back in the day, it was ok, mainly i like mark e1tzel's voice and the fact that he called his solo album "i'm caught in a trap i can't get out because i love you too much baby." oh and AMC had maybe the best song on the No Alternative comp

xp Also one time while waiting for them to finish crying into their mics at a show I got hit in the face with a pizza box thrown overhand frisbee style by some dipshit fan of theirs. Bent the shit out of my glasses and cut my forehead. That bastard was lucky I never found him.

was it at least a full pizza box?

Nope, empty. An empty Hungry Howie's box.

that's cold

I saw E1tzel play solo once in a tiny room and he was OK. He did some song that was about a cross-dresser in Ohio or streaking or something, I can't remember.

Oh, here it is:
Mark spoke about his song Patr1ot's Hearts, which interweaves imagery of a Columbus Ohio gay strip bar with the events of 9/11 and remarked that it was an anti-nationalist song and that he knew that with independence approaching that was a controversial concept in Scotland.

Oh, and here it is

Holy crap. Sarah wins at the jobz game.

$$$?

I don't know. But it sounds like she gets good Bennies.

Oh yeah, I totally did not offer my congratulations to Sarah! CONGRATULATIONS 2 SARAH!

she gets benzedrine??!?

congrats!

My intuition is that her job is going to be like a more functional Bluth family.

I'm just waiting for one of you to open for The Toadies. I am so there when that happens.

DO YOU WANNA DIE???? DO YOU WANNA DIE??? DO YOU WANNA DIE???? DO YOU WANNA DIEEEEEEEEEEEEE??????

Guess what chumpettes? I got my passport. Let's get the fuck out of this shithole country!

there was a great thread about 'hunger strike' by temple of the dog on the omg secret board today, it basically devolved into me, jordan and mr. que talking about drums

Hmm, rock lottery.

crazy, the new roommate album is on luisterpaal. probably a bunch of ice factory dudes all over this record

Guess what chumpettes? I got my passport. Let's get the fuck out of this shithole country!

Nice! I was shocked when I checked the progress of my application online and saw that it was already processed and my passport should be on its way to me. If I do indeed get it on the April 15th date they are estimating, that will be just over two weeks.

honestly, i find few things as wholly comforting as the combination of a little money in the bank and a valid passport.

crazy, the new roommate album is on luisterpaal. probably a bunch of ice factory dudes all over this record

Wow. Miles Raymer wrote about Roommate this week. Photo of the band includes Gerard (who is called the band's "engineering and aesthetic guru"), Justin P., and Seth.

the thing is ... the little bit of that album i listened to ... was not very good. i could never enjoy that dude. but good for FP bros

apparently he had like a top ten hit in Belgium or somewhere weird off of one his earlier releases, maybe that's why it's on luisterpaal

this weather is making me depressed

this soul band i'm in is bad for my health, every wednesday night is now tacos -> rehearsal -> beer -> fries, chips, cheese curds -> cheap beer -> karaoke.

come play in chicago

in my back yard

ok

actually it would be great to get a chicago gig with this band or the country band (the self-helps), but we would have no draw obv.

i agree with nick, this weather sucks. although if it actually snows this weekend, that will probably suck more.

i went through a phase in college when i carried my passport around with me all the time, "just in case." i never had to use it (didn't have enough money then to just drop everything and fly somewhere) but it was a nice feeling.

Would anyone be interested in TT tonight?

carrying around my passport sort of terrifies me because i think i'm going to lose it.

Me too. I walked around Peru with a fannypacksecurity belt around my waist.

pix pls

Well, part of what made it not a fannypack was that it was hidden, underneath my clothes.

i feel less worried about that now that i have two, but the fact that i also have a husband now means i'm probably less likely to just dash off (although he does carry his passport around as it's his only ID)

jaymc, i will probably want a drink but probably in my apartment wearing something warm. like a duvet. i know it's a lot warmer than it was all winter, but i've been freezing every night, had to get out the hot water bottle again last night!

I could probably be convinced to have a drink this afternoon.

do you mean this afternoon the convincing could begin or the drinking could begin?

i haven't been going out on schoolnights anymore but after being tempted with those upper 60s temps earlier this week and having it back to the 40s and rainy i think a beer or two may help my outlook.

Hey I thought you had nothing but disregard for the rules of the English language? xp

also, we're overdue for a 70 degree day.

xpost, BUSTED.

I would follow that link, but I don't want to get sucked into the world of weather blogs and all of their infighting.

should i?

hot tub trade for pa or drums

hahaha I have an old Tama set back home that might be worth 400, hmmm...

Anyone ever been here before: http://www.mannysdeli.com/ ?

i think we ordered food from there at my last job, i got potato pancakes, which were good

43°
Wind: East 21 mph
Light Rain

Could be worse:
Winter storm warning posted for much of Minnesota, meaning treacherous winter conditions are likely/imminent, Blizzard Warnings in effect far northeast (Duluth) and southwest (Pipestone)

Precipitation should fall as mostly snow (some ice/rain possible this evening, even thunder/lightning). Heaviest snow/ice falls overnight, at the rate of 1"/hour at times...roads will be very treacherous. 6" possible by rush hour Friday morning

Sarah started her new job today.

I'm obssessed with Sarah's new job.

I should start a blog about it. And about Courtney's.

I know nothing about Sarah's job. I guess I could, you know, ask her about it.

some of us are going to "moxie" this evening. for those of you inclined to drink.

There is some drinkenplans for Moxie in Wrigleyvile tonight.

xp

Tonight at Moxie:

Greek Letters on Your Jacket??

GET HUGE DISCOUNTS ON JAEGER BOMBS!!!

Damn too bad matt lost that Sig Pi hoody.

(not really true)

The actual special is:

Date Rapist?? Free shots to the lady of your choice!!

gah. rape joke kills thread. i apologize.

why don't you blog about it

http://jessekehr.googlepages.com/home

ok, considering that bar is close enough that i could actually bring my duvet, i might actually want to come hang out with you guys! what time?

6:30, I think.

cool, sounds fun.

should we put bets on how many days sarah will work at her new job before posting here?

my money's on wednesday next week

that makes sense, but friday afternoons can also really draw people in...

I am thinking...1 month? Nick, what do YOU think?

what'd you guys have for lunch? i really disliked the bread my sandwich was on (too chewy), but since we made it i can only complain so much. decent cheddar and tomato chili jam on it, though.

Ham and cheese with a side of haircut.

ew

omelette with bacon-spinach-cheese and some tortilla chips on the side

i am still hungry

i had a mushroom pecan veggie burger (worse than it sounds, it was kinda mushy) and a small salad. i'm trying to live off all those fries and chips i ate last night.

ooh, lunch omelette.

Ew. xxxxxp

I brought a sort of salad:

Iceberg (for a change of pace)
grape tomatoes (yum)
zucchini
yellow squash
orange bell peppers (SUPERYUM)
chicken
Italian dressing

my lunch satisfied my monster salt craving though
it had vulcan hot salt on it too

that sounds like an actual salad

i don't know what vulcan hot salt is but it sounds amazing.

Tuna-cheddar sandwich from Cosi, w/baby carrots.

I bought some of that Vulcan Fire Salt, but I never have occasion to use it! I tried it on microwave popcorn, but it didn't mix well with the flavoring that was already on there. I think I need to make my own plain homemade popcorn.

Oh, sometimes I put it on cucumbers.

http://www.thespicehouse.com/spices/Vulcans-Fire-Salt

i reached into my bag and found i left the sandwiches i made last night at home. so i figured i'd do ONE MORE manuscript before i went and got something to eat. almost 90 minutes later i'm going to do that now.

http://images.allrecipes.com/images/23739.jpg

Just use it any time you want to add some flavor and some heat. It is so all purpose, that we envision it as a table condiment, right next to your salt shaker and pepper mill.

Hand mixed from: Salt, Louisiana Chile Mash, Garlic, Habanero Chile, Shallots, Tellicherry Pepper, Lime Peel, Pimenton de La Vera, Picane, Cumin, allspice and Vinegar.

i put it on all sorts of stuff, but like it best on potatoes, eggs and popcorn (not microwave, yuk) AND CUCUMBERS!

I said "sort of salad" b/c it was really light on the lettuce. But yeh, it was a salad.

I need to remember just how delicious red, yellow, and orange bell peppers are. So sweet, and not so vegetal.

hmm, i think everyone else had nicer sounding lunches! i think a lunch omelette sounds great, except if i made one at work it would have to be in the microwave, which turns it to yuck.

"ew" -- ya'll are getting soft

i should get some of that stuff, although i really don't use that much salt at home. just on tomatoes and potatoes, really.

salt on eggs seems weird to me? hot sauce, yes, salt, i don't know.

yeah, microwaved eggs seem kinda gross
i have lunch omelettes like 3x a week
(i usually eat lunch after i get home from work, which is usually in the 2-3pm department)

re: eggs
i am overcoming a lifetime hatred of eggs, so i have to douse them with salt and pepper and hot sauce/salt to get over my hatred of them. eating them more regularly helps, but there is still no way i could eat a hard boiled or sunnyside up egg unless you pay me $$$

i want to like the egg, it's just taking me a while

i had scotch eggs last weekend. A+. i want to have scotch eggs on a biscuit drenched in hollandaise sauce.

hot salt on oven fries = A++++

popcorn (not microwave, yuk)

I've never made homemade popcorn, gimme a break. I don't really like microwave popcorn, but for some reason I have a few bags in the pantry. I think I've had them for like 6 or 7 years.

i made you guys a "muxtape"

http://na.muxtape.com/

i think we've talked about this, but you can improve your microwave popcorn by just buying normal popcorn (ie in a jar, not in a chemical bag) and popping it in a brown paper bag. then add your own salt and olive oil/butter/hot sauce/whatevs. it tastes so much better and healthier.

it's mostly twerpy power pop with some other stuff thrown in (i had forgotten about the sun city girls song that kicks things off and it's so beautiful)

amanda, i'm kind of like you on the egg thing. i went through several years of being unable to eat eggs and have only recently been getting into them again. i can say that the deviled eggs at the violet hour are so tasty that i can scoff them down even though they look very eggy.

jaymc - no hard times
many breaks!

you can make your popcorn however you wants

Brown paper bag, that's it? I know Kelsey used to pop corn on the stove with some kind of aluminum catching-device over a pan.

i use a pot with a lid

yup, brown paper bag. changed my life.

handymanda has a lid of pot?

You know, my family did have a countertop popper when I was a kid.

i got one of those air popper things as a wedding present, i like it a lot. i love love love parmesan popcorn, can eat it till i make myself sick, unfortunately.

i've done that too, but got sick of the cleanup.

for lunch i had:

avocado with ginger sesame soy dressing
gouda and generic triscuits
vanilla ice cream topped with toasted sesame seeds

nick wins at lunch

popcorn gives me a stomach ache. i rarely eat it these days unless sarah gets some at a movie and then i pick at hers

^^^ johnny gourmet

eugene fancyfoodz

i am about to go downtown to meet sarah after her first day of work so we can go look at a couch at macy's

amanda, combine the two into gino gourmet.

also i'm pretty proud of my "muxtape" given that i didn't really plan out the song selection ahead of time

There is this aged-cheese popcorn that is the best I have ever had. This is it.

nick, that sounds like a great lunch! also, i used to think that popcorn gave me a tummyache, but finally worked out that the "butter" at movie theatres was actually what was doing it, and i'm fine with stuff made on the stove or air popped and real butter added.

xp-- eazy, that looks so good!

Ooh la la, Prescott Popcorn over here.

speaking of gino, i am a fan of gino's north -- no affiliation to other chicago ginoses. the bar looks like a 60s hotel bar and is really small and they have pretty good super thin crust pizza.

the bar looks like a 60s hotel bar and is really small and they have pretty good super thin crust pizza

hey! i like bars! i like thin crust pizza! where is this place?

granville

outside: http://firstcity.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/ginos.JPG
inside: http://static.px.yelp.com/bphoto/hWpTWPdRp4HXkMab7fqiKg/m

i put the powers of google to use. i'm never up that way. but i'll keep it in mind the next time i'm on the red line.

Is that by STANDEE'S?

that place looks cool. i'm up for going there sometime.

amanda and dan, are you coming for drinks tonight?

mmmm super thin crust

it's right there by the el stop on granville

i am not coming to drinks tonight because i have dancing class. i have mixed feelings about that, but so be it.

It's just east of the Granville stop. xpost

I've got dinner at the Parthenon tonight, can't make it to TTs.

I think I decided to boycott Standee's a long time ago because of some waitress who kept ignoring my table. Still, great facade:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/213/482688981_918a8ee078.jpg

muxtapes 4 all! http://fugexlac.muxtape.com/

I'll probably be out for a beer or three to-nite.

i'll probably stop by rainbo on my way home as i have to walk past it on my way from the train anyway.

hey would anyone be up for a karaoke party at the HC on may 3?
i am trying to welcome my friend to chicago in the proper fashion

xxp ps that mae shi track rulz

(by announcing her party to the internet)

i have a going away party and there's an awesome show at beat kitchen on the 3rd.

anyone else?

FFs have a show? c-nasty have a show? ez has a show?
i thought this could also be "sarah gets a new job" party and also, why not,our first annual beltaine party? what if this is our last chance to karaoke with colette?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!!!!

maybe i should email about this.
never mind. i will have to check with friend to see what she thinks.

Salt on eggs is an absolute must. Like cereal on milk and sugar in Kool-Aid. I think Jordan is salt-averse!!

i am free on the 3rd, and would like to do karaoke again before we move.

dan, can you get katie to come now that we've figured out all sorts of random connections?

I'm all good for the 3rd.

That works. Our Lem0nheadz show is two days before that.

I can't believe I forgot to put Kings of Convenience on my muxtape.

Actually, there's probably a bunch of stuff that would've worked better if I were to think long enough about it. But who cares. I might make another one that's just about sweet jams.

i liked yours, john. i listened to it like 3 times on a loop yesterday. today i wanted to listen to rap so i'm listending to westwood's podcast on radio 1 and really digging it, but have saved all the other muxtapes for later.

Thanks, C.

no probs, thanks for sharing it! i wasn't sure about the first song at first, but when it comes after the last song it sounds much more natural.

I posted that first song on Fluxblog a while back, lol.

jesus christ that taco thread has me jonesing for a burrito so goddamn bad. i don't care if it's pouring, i'm getting a burrito when i get back to the village.

HI DERE AWESOME EMAIL OF THE DAY:

Hors d’oeuvres and an open bar will complement the festivities.

Ahahaha I was going to ask you what that was from and then I checked my email. We should go dude.

yeah, i had to check twice to even see if i got put on there by mistake. fuck it, we SHOULD go then bust when they start handing out the awards or whatever.

down a couple of quick vodka sodas then get all "HEY, WHERE ARE THE LITTLE SMOKIES? YOU GOT ANYMORE LITTLE SMOKIES??!?"

THIS IS A FANCY UNAVERSITEE, THERE HAVE TO BE SOME LITTLE SMOKIES!!!!!!

i think we should definitely pronounce it "li'l smokies".

yeah, the taco thread is making me want tacos for dinner even though i've been eating tacos 94/7 for the past week or two.

i made tacos for dinner!

chicken in sofrito-type sauce
avocado
tomato
onion
lime
queso fresco

i bought tacos, came home, and watched 30 Rock. it was like a dream.

I went to Greektown and had some kind of "family dinner" which basically meant all of the components of a sandwich (bread, meat, eggplant, garlic paste, cheese) served as separate dishes. Opah!

i feel gross

too many tacos?

not enough tacos

how did those long islands turn out for you crazy kids that went that way?

Were you not there for the outcome? Mine went down my hole and Jeff's went on his lap (Jenny's doing).

I feel like purest shit.

i went to la pasadita last night, it was raining hard when i got out, by the time i got to division and wood it was a dounpour, parts of division were completely under water. by the time i got to damen & division i went into rainbo just to get out of the rain. i stayed for two beers and went home.

i left as you were starting on them. i think that drinking those things after other cocktails is pretty much guaranteed to leave you feeling like shit, but i'm still sorry you feel bad. was jeff upset or relieved that his went in his lap?

Jeff's went on his lap (Jenny's doing).

i hope was this intentional (like a slow motion "noooooo, don't drink it").

yeah, capping things off with a long island is kind of a classic bad idea.

i capped things off with some kind of shot that tasted like butterscotch pudding

sounds delicious

a buttery nipple?

i don't know, they were giving us free drinks and i requested "some kind of shot"

it was tasty but i don't think it mixed well with my other drinks. i can't wait until i'm done working so i can go lie down

free drinks are good, but dangerous.

oh, did they end up charging $3 for those big glasses they used when they ran out of small ones? or were they more expensive?

i can't wait until i'm done working so i can go lie down

pretty much the impetus behind me not going out on school nights anymore.

do we owe anyone money? i don't know how much our food and drinks were and we basically just all the cash that was in our wallets

aw man, my crazy neighbor from when i was in college died. i actually had a crazy across-the-hall neighbor named cosmo! he would rock out on organ and guitar all the time without knowing how to play a damn thing. he also bought weed from my roommate and would come over asking for "thin quarters", because his got stuck in the washing machine.

No one owes more money. We were pretty drunk, so we just paid it. Who knows.

i can't wait until i'm done working so i can go lie down

-- n/a, Friday, April 11, 2008 10:21 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

seconded. all in favor say "barf."

i don't feel so bad, but i suspect if i'd had to get up as early as nick, i probably would.

I feel pretty good you guys, which is weird since I don't usually drink the hard stuff.

black flag hair timeline.

I'm maybe a little groggier than usual, but no big whoop. I mostly had beer, though.

Jordan, I thought at first that the obituary writer's name was a joke (Dav1d M3dar1s??).

xxp hahaha Henry = Manson

Wow. I rewally don't feel well.

ha, yeah, that is an actual writer for the free weekly here.

the drummer is FEELIN' it.

i like that guy. but this guy is my favorite drummer on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9Wv8ema8lY

oh hell no it is NOT going to snow tomorrow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZUsBaIKNS0

jordan -- it is going to snow tomorrow, it seems. Sometimes it snows in April, come on, Prince told us that.

Those there is a temptation here in the middle of april to simply become numb to the weather, to expect nothing and want for nothing and have a cold, hard exterior and no feelings.

"Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know."

"It snowed today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know."

Shit, sometimes the snow comes down in June: Vanessa Williams told us that.

Also, if you're going to kill Arabs, that seems not to be as frowned on as it once was.

tooooonight:

http://www.intheredrecords.com/media/covers/itr152_cheaptimeminiWEB.jpg

whoops, forgot the caption:

Jeffrey Novak's newest three piece outfit. Fourteen songs clocking in under a half hour of glam-inspired pop punk. Watch for them on tour with Jay Reatard this Spring.

here:

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a88/roebots/CheapTimePoster8x10.jpg

Great poster.

No way I can post now -- the new cheery and colorful spring harvest of zits has just come in.

I'm way too old for this. :(

-- kenan, Sunday, April 6, 2008 5:32 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Link

gross

I just remembered a girl I had a crush on in 6th grade. She sat in front of me in gym class. She looks like this now:

http://www.spock.com/i/nm1lNaUX9/Andrea-Consalvo.jpg

Also, this website seems kind of creepy, even though all it's doing is collating information from Google and other various places.

yowza xp

Results 1-10 of 5617 -- ah, relative anonymity

you were a prescient 6th grader.

I know!

Haha, this just goes to show how easily distracted I am at work. I'm editing stats for St. Vincent and the Grenadines, so I went and cued up my iPod to the St. Vincent album, and then I noticed that the Prime Minister's name is Ralph Gonsalves, which reminded me of the girl from 6th-grade, since her last name is similar. And now it's 15 minutes later, and I haven't gotten past the first paragraph.

her eyebrows are intimidating.

where would you guys recommend eating near the empty bottle? we've probably got under 2 hours for dinner and a car, and i don't know that area at all. i guess they have their own cafe, is that any good?

I wish I had chicken tenders. I would smear hummus on them.

bite next door is ok. i haven't been there in years despite living around the corner. feed on chicago and california is great. adobo on division and damen is always a treat. there are other places on division that have a high jag bag factor that i've never bothered to check out but that doesn't mean they aren't any good.

maybe jesse can tell you about a tavola.

go to handlebar at north and ... somewhere between leavitt and western

I just had the blandest salad ever. I went to Dunkin' Donuts afterwards just so I could taste something with flavor.

there's a sushi place next to adobo that's supposed to be good too but i've never been.

the best possible worst case scenario: you stop at picante and eat burritos in your car.

the worst worst case scenario: you corner the tamale guy at the bottle.

I am dipping my zucchini in hummus.

a tavola is pretty great, but kind of pricey if you're not doing it as a special occasion.

Those are all good recommendations. I think if I found myself in the area, I would go to Feed, just because I really liked it the one time I was there and it's super-cheap. I've eaten at Bite and Handlebar multiple times and thought they were both decent but not amazing.

Crust is great, too, if it's not too crowded.

I would not recommend Su-Ra Korean Restaurant.

bite will be a mad house if there's a show however.

Is this for the Caribou/Fuck Buttons show?

All these one-syllable restaurants.

Yeah it's like a new trend or something.

Ha, and I was going to mention Treat, too, but decided it was too far from the EB.

I want to name a restaurant "My Father Touched My Butthole!"

wait wait wait.... IRAZU!!!!

maybe i'll go to irazu.

i'm supposed to go to some photography show at a gallery in the west loop but i don't want to.

thanks for all the suggestions, guys. i'm going to look at menus and stuff now.

yeah, it is for that show, john. we were originally going to take dan up to the hopleaf, but the soundcheck got pushed later so i think it's too far away.

Dan ... Snaith?

I'm in Caribou now

No, no, the Internet is connecting the dots for me.

i haven't been in caribou in a decade.

http://pix.epodunk.com/locatorMaps/me/ME_2068.gif

Cari-booooouuuuuuuuuuuuu.....

hey! i was just coming to say that.

i am going to listen to that song now.

http://pix.epodunk.com/locatorMaps/pa/PA_14181.gif
http://pix.epodunk.com/locatorMaps/il/IL_262914.gif

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/26/56449695_ff4296df41_o.jpg

who is that ^^ ?

me shithead

with caribou antlers

i like what you've done with your antlers, it makes you look like a totally different person.

boooo, epodunk uses "acquinnah" instead of gay head for the the town on cape cod.

me shithead

-- La Lechera, Friday, April 11, 2008 2:59 PM (Friday, April 11, 2008 2:59 PM) Bookmark Link

ha! i was all, "she looks really familiar...."

i admit that you haven't seen me in like a year, so you're forgiven

i would post this on LOL but i think it's only funny if you know amanda and kevin. also it may only be funny if you're me:

who is that ^^ ?

-- chicago kevin, Friday, April 11, 2008 7:59 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

me shithead

-- La Lechera, Friday, April 11, 2008 7:59 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

me shithead

-- La Lechera, Friday, April 11, 2008 2:59 PM (Friday, April 11, 2008 2:59 PM) Bookmark Link

vs.

http://www.akpress.org/images/cms/2250_popup.jpg

hahahaha omg i just found this amazon review that i wrote in an attempt to be funny (i have never sung this song to a disney store employee because i do not go to the disney store evar)

3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Me Johnson Car = Good, Pan-n-Scan = BAD! , January 15, 2005
By Amanda (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews

If I could stop singing "Me Johnson Car" for one moment, I would complain about the horrid pan-and-scan look of this movie...but I can't! "Me Johnson Car" is among the top Disney songs ever written, sung or produced and I'm very disappointed that a) no one in the Disney stores knows it when I sing it and b) it's not on ANY of the Disney song compilations.

Long Live Me Johnson Car!

the movie: THE GNOMEMOBILE

ha, that's a great photo, amanda.

john, dan s. and toby did their maths PhDs at the same place

oh the gnome mobile...

john, dan s. and toby did their maths PhDs at the same place

Yes, I gathered (from the Internet)!

you guys THE GNOMEMOBILE is the greatest movie ever made

Better than TROLL?

in the beginning they sing "me johnson car" and then at the end the same song becomes "the gnomemobile"

there is an extended animated sequence about the lack of female gnomes and what it is doing to gnomic mating habits

it is fantastically awful

is jerry's sandwiches good? i know people here have mentioned it...

I once had a very odd stranger go on for about 20 minutes how The Gnomemobile is a great movie and how he was so happy it was finally released on DVD, and if I had ever seen it, and if not I should come over and watch it sometime. All I could do was stare at him while reminiscing about my friend nicknaming her Dodge Minivan The Choudmobile.

Jerry's is very good.

The springs are under the plate for the vibrato, so you'd just need to find a bar. Where did all of the vibrato bars go, anyway? Are they partyin' with the single socks?
We may never know...

xp - hahahahahahahha
it is THAT GREAT
i am not that odd stranger

tonight: drink
tomorrow: rehearse, church gig, drink, eat
sunday: eat, rehearse

huh, i did not know that the bee gees wrote "islands in the stream".

What should I do tonight? If I hadn't gone out with y'all last night, I'd be itching to get drunk, but as it stands, I might be OK with staying at home and opening up that secret drawer in my coffee table, if you get my drift.

tonight: try and hang up posters in the rain, hang out with b3n
tomorrow: practice (not rehearse), put in second coat of paint in office, go to spectacles show at ronny's
sun: practice (not rehearse)

What's the difference between practice and rehearsal?

haha, i forgot about the practice/rehearse distinction.

xp

i just checked my e-mail and apparently the country band practices, but the soul band and the brass band rehearse.

it's like pop/pop, i think.

i guess personally i say "practice" for practicing by myself and "rehearse" for band stuff, but apparently "rehearsal" sounds too stodgy and conservatory-ish for rock bands. :>

I think our band usually says rehearsal, but I use them pretty interchangeably.

practice is for sports, rehearsal is for symphonies

yum. jerry's.

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huh, i made a muxtape, but i don't think it's working? can someone try out hotbeatz.muxtape.com?

Seems to work fine for me!

oh, nice. apparently muxtape doesn't work at all for me on my home pc, for some reason.

well, i didn't make out with anyone tonight, but i did get in a fight with a girl!

(it's cool, we're both black belts so we were just busting moves on each other out in the street. she knocked my glasses off.)

Black belt, for reals?

Well the weather sucks, but at least it doesn't look like my parents' block:

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well, i didn't make out with anyone tonight, but i did get in a fight with a girl!

-- Jordan, Saturday, 12 April 2008 07:08 (8 hours ago) Link

(it's cool, we're both black belts so we were just busting moves on each other out in the street. she knocked my glasses off.)

-- Jordan, Saturday, 12 April 2008 07:09 (8 hours ago) Link

Did you later go home with a guy?

hahaha. no, but i do have a bruise on my nose this morning.

Hey Chicagoites: what's happening tonight? I want to do something. Something inexpensive and deliriously fun-inducing.

wow, dan, that's crazy! i just couldn't live up there.

caribou and fuck buttons were very good, ended up having only a bit over an hour to eat so we went to jerrys, which was tasty. saw the last 10 mins of the fuck buttons, and then caribou, and then hung out with the smelly cat and then saw the first 20 mins of the fuck buttons' second show. it was cool that they managed to sell out a second early show with such little notice. oh, and andy from the fuck buttons has one of the most adorable english accents i've ever heard. the end.

jesse, i have no plans as i thought it was going to be hibernation weather, even though it's not that bad. we may do a field trip to hot dougs now for lunch, though.

oh shit! i should have gone to HD's! I have a car this weekend and i won't again for a long time. Bboo.

Hey Chicagoites: what's happening tonight? I want to do something. Something inexpensive and deliriously fun-inducing.

Spectacles (Jody W's band) are playing at Ronny's. EZ is the MC, apparently (don't know if he's playing as well). Nick and Sarah will be there.

Canasta is also playing at Schubas, opening for American Music Club. We go on at 10:30.

me shithead

That's the title of the infamous Asimov/Bukowski collaboration.

Yes, I'm emceeing and possibly playing at Ronny's tonight, under my drag king persona.

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Guess what guys? I'm gonna be there.

Man, that was fun. Turned into an hour of freestyling with a top-rate funk drummer and me on glockenspiel and then a 25-minute boogie-shuffle cover of "Night Moves" and then a punky song that went h-o-t-d-o-g HOTDOG! and then the bar patrons dancing to Day-O, complete with bananas.

Whoa. We left too early it sounds like. Sorry we didn't say goodbye Eric, but you were ensconced in your stage chair and we didn't want to interrupt.

Holy crap. I can watch Youtube on my phone! Also can find myself via GPS on Google Maps. My iPhone just waned considerably. I still hate Sprint though.

So the drummer from L1quid S0ul was a friend of the two rap guys (friends of Ben F., one lives in Costa Rica and the other in D.C.), and so after those guys finished their regular set (with pre-recorded beats and all very tightly rehearsed), Seth from the Ice Fac picked up a guitar and the drummer showed up and I took the glockenspiel, and that's when the show went way late.

Ronny showed up and was cool with it. I like that Ronny. I like his bar -- I had never been there before. I think the fact that the back room looks like a rec room in a community center makes it feel like less of a professional rock show with a tight 40-minute set and more of a place where anything can happen.

Thanks for making it out, you guys -- hope you had fun.

omg, l1quid s0ul, are those guys still around?!

From their Wikipedia entry, it looks like they're around in some permutation (the guy listed as their current drummer is the one who played last night). I saw them once years ago when they had a regular Sunday-night residency at the Double Door and a co-worker at the time suggested going.

I did the shortest freestyle in history: "I'm blowin' up like Juno/but I'm not knocked up."

Sounds awesome.

I just filed my taxes online for the first time -- mostly because my W2s are online and I don't have a printer -- and I think it went all right. I'm getting $24 back.

Apparently Turbo Tax had a meltdown last year that resulted in their refunding $10 million and the forced the IRS to issue a 48 hour extension for Turbo Tax filers. The problem was the glut of last minute filings. Apparently this year is going to be an even heavier strain b/c of the number of people filing to get their rebate.

In other news:

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I was at a wedding this weekend and I'm always interested to see what songs have been added to the list of "reception classics" or what gets the best crowd reaction. I think its fairly obvious that "Hey Ya" is destined to be played at every reception ever, as it was the only post 1995ish song played for the first four hours (during the last half hour or so the DJ delved into current stuff like "Low" and "Crank Dat (Superman)". Biggest crowd reaction of the night? Surprisingly, Rick Astley. It was a Rickroll crowd, apparently.

Mandatory opener: "Celebration". "Play That Funky Music". Interesting about Astley.

Neither of those two were played! The DJ was actually pretty good at avoiding the cliches - no line dancing, no Chicken Dance, no "YMCA".

i made curry again last night, turned out much better this time. partially because i wimped out and got a rice cooker.

Rice cookers are not wimpy. They're smart. At least you don't do what I do and use boil-in-bag. (I know that's lame, but it's no muss no fuss defined.)

late in the game but:

What's the difference between practice and rehearsal?

-- jaymc, Friday, April 11, 2008 5:07 PM (Friday, April 11, 2008 5:07 PM) Bookmark Link

i'll go with mike watt's definition of you practice a craft and rehearse and act.

an act.

brain did not join the body at work today.

krakatoa is on pandora now. i'm trying to manipulate it so we get compared to bands i like

you know what's awesome? me too's sunday night noir. peter gunn is fucking smooth man.

Know what's not awesome? Today. WTF is going on? Spent about 28 hours between last week and this morning finishing up a permit set to send in for a client, client calls this morning with "a few revisions" and I have to scrap it all. Then get an e-mail, the girl who was giving us tickets to tonight's Cubs game backed out. Fuck today.

boo, that stinks, j/v/c! it's monday here as well, one of my bosses is back and somehow all the emails they've sent me in the last 4 days haven't gone through. not my fault, but not easy to do the work they've sent via email, either. sigh.

on a happier note, who's up for drinking saturday evening? felicity will be in town, and would like to meet all you guys.

if possible, would be great to do somewhere not a million miles from my house since we're doing some shopping near there beforehand. but also need to avoid the likely cubs-game fans that will be everywhere. ideas?

if possible, would be great to do somewhere not a million miles from my house ... but also need to avoid the likely cubs-game fans that will be everywhere.

not possible.

uh, what time saturday? my friend tends to the bar at a place on north clark that i'll probably be at anyway.

Since we were talking about it the other day: The Hungry Brain.

The tickets were for tomorrow night's game, not tonight. But still, I'm pretty bitter about it.

Just don't cling to guns or religion as a result.

Hey speaking of tickets, a few of us are planning on tailgating the Fire game Sunday, if anyone's interested.

Ugh. I hate how impossible it is to see the Cubs. I've tried every night game for the next two months and, no matter what section I go for, it's impossible to get two seats next to each other. At this point its only single seats.

having grown up a red sox fan i am completely used to this.

Yeah, I imagine its even worse in Boston. But I feel like most of the people at Fenway were there to actually watch the game, not a gaggle of sorostitutes hogging seats so they can pick up guys with absolutely no interest in watching the game on the field.

so you never been to fenway is what you're saying.

i need to go to more baseball games!

Ha, obviously I never have. Is the frat contigent as bad there? I wouldn't have imagined that.

boston is pretty much a giant college town. that's why it's a great place to live until you pass 25.

I knew it was a big college town, but I figured that maybe they had a better caliber of sports fan.

as morbs often points out, there's a difference between sports fans and people who go can afford to go to games.

Where's Stormy Davis when you (don't) need him?

Morbs very much OTMFM with that one.

Fire games are cheap, guys!

And instead of frat guys, there are little kids and their moms!

And people with drums and horns! How can you not like enthusiastic fans with drums and horns?

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How can you not like enthusiastic fans with drums and horns?

the only thing i would like less is angry people with knives and guns.

Knives and guns are exciting!

especially in the hands of angry citizens.

angry people with drums & horns = best of all worlds (and some of my favorite bands)

Angry people, somewhat less so.

xp hah

The drums and horns and singing is infectious. I sang "Chi-ca-go Fi-re ole ole ole, ole ole ole" in my head for a good chunk of Saturday.

sunday i woke up early and made a gigantic breakfast then contemplated going out for afternoon screwdrivers and instead listened to records and watched the cubs game. pretty fucking good sunday if i do say so myself.

That sounds awesome. I still have "We all wish for a team of Carraghers, a team of Carraghers, a team of Carraghers" to the tune of Yellow Submarine stuck in my head from a Liverpool match three weeks ago.

We all wish for a team of Cuauhtemocs, a team of Cuauhtemocs, a team of Cuauhtemocs.

jon, have you checked craigslist? in my manic ticketbuying spree, i accidentally bought tickets for a night we already had tickets for something else, and i sold them for face value on craigslist (only had one email, as well, so demand wasn't high at all) i think we have something like 9 games lined up here and in boston. i may well be sick of baseball by september.

hungry brain sounds fine, so does kevin's mystery bar. whatever works for the most people.

dan, i really would like to get to a fire game, but sunday we're going to see the cubs (sorry jon) this sunday.

xp I bet you had to look up how to spell that.

No! All joking aside.

colette, any idea what time this is going to happen?

I can be anywhere any time after about 7 on Saturday. I heard the roads are all torn up so seriously considering taking the train from the North suburbs.

i probably won't be around then. you guys have fun!

Wed 70°F | 47°F

yessssss

dang, i should go north:

Mon
Mostly Sunny
43°F | 31°F

Tue
Clear
58°F | 41°F

Wed
Mostly Sunny
65°F | 49°F

Thu
Chance of Storm
65°F | 49°F
Chicago Weather Forecast and Conditions Illinois (60622)

the high won't be as high but the low won't be as low. must be due to the discharge from the abbott labs facility.

This has been making me chuckle inwardly all day: "CHOCOLATE, CHOCOLATE, CHOCOLATE! AACK!!"

:)

I can be anywhere any time after about 7 on Saturday. I heard the roads are all torn up so seriously considering taking the train from the North suburbs.

I can vouch for this, all N-S roads in and out of the north suburbs absolutely sucks right now. No matter how "back road" you think the route may be, I can promise you - it'll be backed up this summer.

This has been making me chuckle inwardly all day: "CHOCOLATE, CHOCOLATE, CHOCOLATE! AACK!!"

Cathy?

Chocolate Rain?

30 Rock liz-as-cathy joek

lol just watched that

plus the even-more-awkward-than-usual office episode

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kPuJRFnzrg

That Office was hilarious. I've been hoping for more of that awkwardness recently. Apparently all the "lolz Creed is creepy! Stanley hates working! loz" people hated it.

chocolate chocolate chocolate. that will NEVER get old. oh Cathy...when will you ever lose some weight?

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Horrible.

I just started watching The Office, Season 1. I love all the awkwardness.

The last ep. of The Office was what a sit-com remake of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? would be like.

does that mean you liked it?

That's great. It wasn't until I watched a few episodes in a row that I realized how dark that show is.

sup

jaymc, are you talking about US or UK?

lol, my country band is billing our first gig as a free dress rehearsal (not practice)

sup deej

US. I'd seen UK a long time ago but haven't seen more than three or four episodes of the US version. The UK version was dark, too, I guess I'm just impressed that the US version was able to retain that quality.

dear barack obama campaign,

while i applaud your efforts, i know where to find you if i choose to donate to you. seriously, you don't need to email me every day between 2 and 3 p.m. asking for money. if i have some scratch for you i'm sure i can get it to you. please. thank you.

kevin

Chocolate: shoes for the mouth.

i think the US version moves away from the crushing bleakness of the UK one and gets more fun after the first season.

file this tribune headline under "more than one, i'll bet"

Cougar in Wilmette?
Wilmette put on cougar alert

Two weeks after several reported sightings in North Chicago, four Wilmette residents say they saw one.

The photo of the Pope in today's Tribune makes him look a whole lot like Robert Blake in Lost Highway.

appropriate of nothing but dennis hopper was on last nights episode of "naked city". apparently there are 8 million stories in the naked city. you'd think with that many the show would have stayed on the air longer.

What's stupid about "shoes: chocolate for the feet" as an analogy is that while I'm sure that some shoes feel good or look good and therefore make people feel indulgent, shoes in general are more or less a necessity.

kev, only a few dozen of the stories met early '60s broadcast standards.

the British one is the DARK Office, right? even the personnel in the US one say so.

also, if the receptionist and the awkward dork stud with the bad haircut hook up before the very end of the US series, it's a candyass sellout.

I listened to the commentaries on the disc I watched, and they said that Ricky Gervais had advised them against doing the scene in the pilot where Michael fake-fires Pam, since he thought that it made the character too malicious and he had regretted doing the same thing with David Brent.