Chicago: The 10.25 Percenters

I'm glad there was something appropriate in the image search results.

I did not get invited to the party that my boss's boss's boss threw this past weekend.

revolting!

The link in the old thread leads to New Answers! I clicked and went back a few times while figuratively scratching my head.

bleh (party)

I would prolly go to karaoke on the 9th, and I work with someone A knows who has expressed interest in the past, as well.

I just found out that an ophthalmologist that I went to last summer is married to Pritzker money.

weird, we were just talking about that (karaoke) on the bus last week.

yeah -- that's another reason i was trying to get it together, dan! she told me she really wanted to go.

let's say it's on then.

ps this will be at the HC.

That's a pretty fascinating read. There are quite a few architecturally "interesting" houses in that 'hood, I used to walk around there quite a bit when my wife lived near Dickens & Racine.

(xpost to jaymc's article)

apparently smog was playing in the pritzker pavilion at lunch today. sarah saw him

Damn, missed that.

Yeah @nn@ from Small Bar was hyping that the last time I was in there, she was going to go too. Wish I worked downtown.

Hey when is that Ex con saxaphone player show down there?

I'm probably going to go see Tortoise next week, since I missed them at the Bottle a few weeks ago.

aug 19 i think?

the show at LSA is on the 17th
so i guess it's monday the 18th

sarah:

Bill
Callahan might be my new back-up, if he takes his happy pills.

i wish i could catch tortoise sometime. i'm going to be in chi to play a wedding on on aug. 16th, probably won't have time to do much though.

guys

let's go to a bar and sit outside and drink after work some time this week, just like the good ol' days

how about friday?

or how 'bout this

I am going to go sit outside and drink after work on Friday, and if anyone reading this wants to come too, let's figure it out.

that sounds fun. i might have to work on set-up for NOTAPALOOZA but that shouldn't take the whole evening

Good idea, Dan. I think I can do that.

...developing...

let's go to a bar and sit outside and drink after work some time this week, just like the good ol' days

heh, i was just about to send an email to you two seeing if you'll be here friday.

Yeah, I will. Give me a reason to drink!

i may be going to six flags? it's in the works.

Can't make it this Friday, but karaoke's a good possibility...

I have a "date" this Friday; the fact is that my reason for continuing to see this guy is that I want to join his darts league. I'm not sure why he continues to see me, honestly.

"darts league"

"bull's eye"

"join"

"cricket"

"rubber-tipped barroom regulations"

"league play"

""date""

"know"

"continues"

"."

"Jesse"

news that probably benefits only me, at least among the folks reading this thread.

I occasionally ride the 49/x49. I discovered recently that there is an x54 Cicero bus. Might come in handy if/when I have to go to Midway again...

Hi.

If anyone has a piece of antenna cable that I can use to hook up my rabbit ears, I'd be much obliged, as I threw mine away in a fit of purging :(

Morning, chums.

i woke up with a big, bloody scratch on my nose. stupid cat.

hi guys

high

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i know i already posted this but everybody should come to this

Is there a start time? (when do you guys & prairie spies play b/c I will be coming from Bridgeview)

baby alright is a "supergroup" - members/associates of wilco, isotope 217, tortoise, the guitarist for beth orton/3dith fr0st, playing blues/soul songs

Suck that I won't be around for that (a theater co. I work with is going out to the woods to plan the next season). I like those Mathpanda guys, and the Spectacles, well, so good. (And that guitarist, 3mm3t, he's great.)

i can't find the schedule right now but i think we're playing earlyish (like second) and prairie spies are a little later

I saw Baby Alright at the Big Horse when they were called Boogie Band. Good show.

Indie Madlibs "I saw _____ at ______ when they were called ______"

isotope 217

I am going to guess this means Matt Lux on bass.

I would go, but I have tickets to Ravinia to see Gipsy Kings.

Ha, I was right.

baby alright is a "supergroup" - members/associates of wilco, isotope 217, tortoise, the guitarist for beth orton/3dith fr0st, playing blues/soul songs

sounds a lot like chestnut station.

now it looks like PS might be playing second and we'd be playing third

it's also the cd release show for the spectacles' album "home," which is sweet

any idea who plays drums in that band?

Bitney, apparently.

I saw Chestnut Station a long time ago at Record Emporium on Paulina. I really like in-store shows, where you can watch the band and listen and browse records all at the same time. I like the CD OK but really liked them at that show and another time at the Hideout.

Their EP is five songs that were on the marquee of the Chestnut Station movie theater (at Clark and Chestnut):
Born on the 4th of July
True Identity
Double Impact
Pure Luck
101 Dalmations

("five songs named after the movies show", of course)

i saw them at the hideout and saw them at the the metro. paul from moto played bass for them. 101 dalmations was the best song on that ep.

the soul band that i play in is a supergroup too, made up of people from bands no one cares about!

wasn't smog/bill callahan involved with chestnut station also?

oh i think i'm thinking of the "drag city supersession"

He was in the Drag City Supersession, another supergroup. When The New Pornographers started, I think their label used the term jokingly, and then it became the "brand" for that band.
xpost

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Last weekend this was in the window of the Beef 'n' Brandy on Michigan near Monroe.

isn't it on state?

It is. All of my facts on here this week are wrong. I just called Bob Hoskins in The Long Good Friday a 1960s Cockney hardman when he is in fact a 1970s Cockney hardman.

Have you (or anyone here) been inside the Beef 'n' Brandy?

from chicagoist:

No More Ultimate Nachos For You

Say goodbye to Bennigan's. The chain is shutting down restaurants nationwide, with the exception of independently-owned franchise locations. CBS2 confirmed that the Bennigan's at 150 S. Michigan, once dubbed the "busiest Bennigan's in the world" and the location where Michael Jordan met his now ex-wife Juanita, is among the ones closing.

xpost- no. it looks kind of down at the heels and i could find somewhere else to dine if i were dining down there.

i went to that bennigan's once, it was cold and rainy and me and the girl i was with were miserable. this was the only place open where i could get a beer and she could get melted cheese on top of everything.

I have been to Beef and Brandy. I think J/J/and I went there our first week here. It was OK. As you might expect.

songs i have to know to play at a friend's wedding in two weeks (it'll be my third wedding in that period of time):

Baby I Love You
Signed Sealed Delivered
Killing Me Softly
Let's Get it One
Rainbow (don't know what this means...Somewhere Over the?)
OverJoyed
Turn me On (????)
I'll be There
Cherry Cherry
Sweet Caroline
Crusin (i wish this was d'angelo but it's probably smokey robinson)
Your The one that I want (grease??)
Mountain of Love (?)
Melt with You
The way you look tonight (the standard?)

(i realize cruisin' is the same song, but i mean the version that the band does)

Rainbow in the Dark

Search and Destroy

alternatively, Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell

are these suggestions for wedding songs?

yep.

anything by g.g. allen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXzr5Ip4vP0

Rainbow could be "Rainbow Connection."

sarah and i are "djing" ben and amy's wedding

oh yeah, it's probably rainbow connection.

n & s's wedding was in my top 2 ipod dance parties.

d'angelo and another dude layering stevie wonder songs on top of each other: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeoQlUA6cV0

you're kidding right? people sing rainbow connection at weddings!??

also yes. i almost ripped my dress at n + s's wedding.

I played "Rainbow Connection" on an iPod at the last wedding I DJ'd. It was a big hit.

Willie Nelson does a great Rainbow Connection.

kevin those are bad wedding songs

that song seriously makes me want to cry just thinking about it
but i am emotional

and i know, i've played "you make me wanna love/fuck somebody else" at a wedding (groom's request)

kevin those are bad wedding songs

they're only bad if you have no sense of what good is.

I know I would be pretty stoked to hear Search & Destroy at a wedding.

I always thought Nick Cave's "Into My Arms" would be nice for a wedding. not necessarily the reception, but some part of the actual ceremony.

-- stephen, Monday, July 28, 2008 9:56 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

Eazy, didn't you perform this at Matt P's wedding? Or am I thinking of something else?

oh i might steal that idea for the dinner portion of ben's wedding (into my arms that is)

"Don't Marry Her, Fuck Me" - the Beautiful South

i'll take "phrases to avoid in the best man's speech" for $400 alex.

"Patio Set" - the Embarrassment
"My Best Girl" - Lucero

I did do "Into My Arms" at Matt P.'s wedding. And another time when I did that one, at a Hoot Night at Schubas, someone came up to me and said they wanted me to play there wedding, but I never heard back.

I was just thinking this past weekend how rich Kool & The Gang must be from "Celebration" and how that song is being played at thousands of wedding receptions every weekend.

"Cheater's Heaven" - Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments

jesus christ
there's a song i haven't thought about since college

but seriously i think you should play a 20 minute version of "jolene" because that would REALLY get the party goin

The 1970 incarnation of Chicago would be the best possible wedding band, esp. 'Make Me Smile'.

C'mon someone ask me to DJ a wedding, c'mon anyone anyone?

"Jolene" as covered by Strawberry Switchblade

Laurel, will you DJ a wedding? xp

Ohh, Chicago with Al Green.

YES have ipod will travel

today i saw a delivery car for catering with a subliminal penis on it
it was part of a shrimp's leg

maybe a lobster?
not sure.

some sort of crustacean phallopod

"...and that's why he walks with a limp."

they're only bad if you have no sense of what good is.

they're only bad if you're at a wedding

they're never bad is the thing.

okay

Oh, hey, JAM Productions bought the Uptown.

Hmmm. Not sure how I feel about that.

what does jam productions do?

they own the riv and the vic don't they?

Looks like tickets/promotion for concerts. xp that too!

Hey car owners, what docs do I need (if any) to update my registration and get a new city sticker? I can never remember this shit and all city and state web sites are useless to me.

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pwnd me

(thx man)

my student in my citizenship class last night informed me that the pres and vice pres are jorge bush and dick chinny.

Man I am an idiot, how did I not find that? xp

better question, why do i have the city clerks office website bookmarked?

All that official civic business you do, duh.

I mean where else would we have gotten that parade permit?

pfffft, like i bothered getting a permit for that.

Jam buying the Uptown means that at least we will get to see the interior of the Uptown someday.

Anyway, it was a foreclosure auction and they were the only bidder. Glad it's not going condo.

i am going to kill whomever is at the copy machine.

It rained like a motherfrumper last night. And the Broadway bus didn't stop for me. So I ducked into Joe's and listened to a douchebag talk about how he sued a cab driver and ruined his livelihood.

Yeah, the power went out at my place so I sat and watched the storm for a while, then went and stood on the steps outside, got rained on, and watched biker after biker speed by with their heads down trying to get out of the rain. I think at that point I'd just stop and stand around for a while. The lightning was really cool.

i ran out of cigarettes yesterday so when i got home i took all the tobacco left in empty packs and rolled it in a rolling paper. there was a surprising amount of tobacco in the camel light packs, not so much in the dunhill or american spirits. then again those last two have much tighter draws so that's shouldn't be too surprising.

anyway, i only had one paper so i took the rest of it and put it in a bowl that amy left at my place and went out of my front steps and smoked the rest of the tobacco from that while hoping the cops wouldn't cruise by.

Ha!

There was an unbelievable thunderclap last night while I was at the bar - it was just one huge **CLAP**. About 5 minutes later there were fire trucks and cop cars barreling down Broadway. Could be a coincidence, I guess.

I saw a big truck yesterday that was stuck under one of those Metra bridges, on Rogers just west of Clark Street. The cab made it under the bridge, and it must've been going at a bit of a speed because the front part of the trailer was scrunched against the bridge, all this metal and insulation in a bunch. After a while, another truck backed up to the back end of the truck, and the stuff in the first truck was unloaded into the second. The bridge looked like it hadn't been touched.

i saw a truck get stuck under the bridge on harlem just south of lake street once. traffic was backed up forever so i asked the bus driver to let me off. when i got to the bridge they were letting the air out of the tires to see if they could back it up from under the structure.

that's a good idea

man i packed a lunch today but now a greasy diner lunch of like an omelette and hash browns sounds delicious

please don't get me started on breakfast fantasies again.

i'm talking about lunch

so it's ok

it doesn't help that i have a disappointing, thrown-together lunch - a cheese sandwich and some strawberries

Fuck. I think I may have to go to the ER. Recommendations?

I hurt my ankle and it's hurting worse and worse. My doc said it would be useless to see him b/c he's not equipped for ankle injuries. :(

Don't worry guys, I told him to go to UIC.

This weekend's weather looks like it is going to suuuuck.

were we talking about the difference between juicers and extractors here or was i hallucinating? could someone hip me to those differences?

uh, okay, i'm subbing with a different cover band tonight and this is their list of tunes that they do:

Roger Miller
King of the road
Dang me
Do Wacka Do
Chug-a-Lug
My Uncle Used to Love Me But She Died

Johnny Cash
One piece at a time
Folsom prison
I never Picked Cotton

Devo
Satisfaction

Duran Duran
Rio

Elvis
Viva las vegas
A Little Less Conversation

Cake
Mexico
Comanche
I will survive
Sad songs and waltzes
Stickshifts and Saftybelts

Elvis Costello
Radio radio
Alison

The Cars
Best friend's girlfriend
Just what I needed
Let's Go

Iggy pop
Lust for life

Dead milkmen
Punk rock girl

Rick Springfield
Jessy's girl

The doobie brothers
Black water

CCR
Lodi
Bad moon rising
Lookin' Out My Backdoor

Modern English
Melt with you

Motorhead
The Ace Of Spades
(Original or Extra-Loungy)

The cure
Just like heaven
Boys don't cry

James
Laid

Talking heads
Psycho killer

Simon &/or Garfunkel
Mrs robinson
Call Me Al
Me & Julio Down By the Schoolyard
50 Ways To Leave Your Lover

Herman's hermits
Mrs brown you've got a lovely daughter

White stripes
Pretty good looking
Hotel yorba

Billy idol
Dancing with myself

Elton john
Benny & the jets

Hank Williams
Hey good lookin'
Setting the woods on fire

Flaming lips
Jelly

Violent femmes
Please don't go
Blister in the sun
American music
Add It Up

Percy Sledge
Ugly woman

The george baker selection
Little green bag

Statler brothers
Counting flowers on the wall

Steve miller
The joker

Neil diamond
Sweet caroline
Forever in Bluejeans

Beatles
Oh blah dee
Why Don't We Do It In the Road

Ween
Freedom of 76
Learnin' To Live

Journey
Any way you want it
Lights go down in the city

Ah hah
Take on me

Belle and sebastian
Judy and the dream of horses

Groucho
Lydia the tattooed lady

Tammy Wynette
Stand by your man

Chuck berry
Slow down little jaguar
Thirty days
C'est La Vie

Tom waits
I don't wanna grow up

Bruce springsteen
Fire

Pixies
Caribou
Here comes your man

Pretenders
Brass in pocket

Lovin spoonful
daydream

Rod stewart
If ya think I'm sexy

New order
True faith

Split enz
One step ahead

Van Halen
Panama

Leo Sayer
You make me feel like dancin'

Pavement
Range Life

Sam Cooke
Another Saturday night

Billy Joel
Don't ask me why
You may be right

Loverboy
Working for the weekend

DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
Parents just don't understand

The breeders
Cannonball

Faith No More
Epic

Commander Cody
Hot rod Lincoln

Digital underground
The humpty dance

Willie Nelson
On the road again
Me and Paul

Cheap trick
Surrender
Hello There

Eddie money
Two tickets to paradise

Steve Martin
My Little Buttercup

Steelers Wheels
Stuck in the Middle w/You

Queen/David Bowie
Under Pressure

Bryan Adams
Summer of 89

Camper Van Beethoven
When I win The Lottery

Soft Cell
Tainted Love

Matthew Sweet
Girlfriend

Michael Jackson
Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough

Cat Stevens
There goes my baby

The Kinks
All Day and All Night

John Sebastian
Welcome Back Kotter

BJ Thomas
Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song
Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head

Looking Glass
Brandy

Van Morrison
Gloria

Tom Jones
What's New Pussycat
She's a Lady

Stevie Wonder
Sir Duke
I Wish

Misfits
Where Eagles Dare

Wilco
Heavy Metal Drummer

They Might Be Giants
Isranbul Not Constantinopl
Birdhouse In Your Sole

Theme to Barney Miller

Bob Dylan
The Man In Me

Daryl Hall and John Oats
I Can't Go For That
You Make My Dreams

Naked Eyes
Always Something There To Remind Me

AC/DC/Gangster Fun
You Shook Me All Night Long

Yo La Tengo
Grizelda

Kajagoogoo
Too Shy

Ramones
I wanna be Sedated

Harry Belefonte
Jump In the Line

INXS
Never Tear Us Apart

Outkast
Hey Ya

Huey Lewis & the News
Heart and Soul

The Replacements
Bastards of Young
Can't Hardly Wait

Paul Butterfield Band
Born in Chicago

Prince
!999

Jesus and Mary Chain
Head On

Joy Division
Love will Tear Us Apart

Soul Coughing
Circles

Junior Senior
Don't Stop the Beat

Primus
Tommy The Cat

Magnetic Fields
Luckiest Guy on the lower east Side

Blur
Boys and Girls

Gordon Lightfoot
Carefree Highway

Depeche Mode
Enjoy The Silence

Franz Ferdinand
Take Me Out

The Clash
Train in Vain
Rock The Casbah

R.Kelly
Ingnition (Remix)

Johnny Horton
Battle of New Orleans

David Bowie
Space Oddity

The Smiths
Girlfriend in a Coma

Ian Dury and the Blockheads
Sex & Drugs & Rock n' Roll

Reverend Horton Heat
Bales of Cocaine

Neutral Milk Hotel
Holland 1945

Unit 2 + 4
Concrete and Clay

Jerry Lee
Amos Moses
Eastbound and Down

The Zambonis
Hockey Monkey

After the Flood
Der Kommisar

Gnarls Barkley
Crazy

Waylon Jennings
Daddy That'll Walk The Line

Tom Petty
American Girl

Dave Dudley
6 Days On The Road

Bob Welsh
Sentimtntal Lady

R.E.M.
Radio Free Europe

Lionel Richie
All Night Long

Johnny Lee
Lookin' For Love

Wayne Fontana
Game of Fove

James Brown
Sex Machine

David Brendt
Freelove Freeway

Flying Machine
Smile a Little Smile For Me

Theme to Different Strokes

Ike & Tina
Shake a Tailfeather

Postal Servace
Such Great Heights
Teddy Thompson
Psycho

Manfred Man
Mighty Quinn

Justin Timberlake
Rock Your Body

The Temptations
My Girl

The Small Faces
Itchicoo Park

Bill Withers
Ain't No Sunshine

The Shins
Caring Is Creepy

Fireflies
Mason Jennings

The Byrds
Mr. Spaceman

Blue Oyster Cult
Godzilla

Rolling Stones
Mother's Little Helper

WKRP in Cincinatti

Dave Clark 5
Hippy Hippy Shake

Men W/Out Hats
Safety Dance

Kermit D. Frog
Rainbow Connection

Devandra Banhart
Long Haired Child

Howard Jones
Things Can Only Get Better

Sir Mix-a-Lot
Baby Got Back

Eagles Of Death Metal
I Only Want You

Kenny Rogers
The Gambler

Eddie Rabbit
Driving my Life Away

Billy Ocean
Get Out of My Dreams

Dead Kennedys
Let's Lynch The Landlord

Bee Gees
Jive Talkin'

Glen Campbell
Wichita Lineman

Theme to One Day At A Time

The Ace Of Spades
(Original or Extra-Loungy)

I would like to hear extra-loungy, please.

I've also often thought that someone could do a great lounge cover of "Head Like a Hole."

(I'm hearing a swing beat.)

richard cheese hasn't done that already?

You know, I've never actually heard Richard Cheese. It's the sort of thing I would've been all over ca. 1996-97, but he came a few years too late. A

Anyway, it looks like he does "Closer" but not "Head Like a Hole."

Listening to Cheese now, he sounds a little too ... shticky? I mean, Steve and Eydie's "Black Hole Sun" and Mike Flowers Pops' "Wonderwall" were great arrangements, with a sly wink instead of a supersized one.

*sung with a sly wink...

Percy Sledge
Ugly woman

Another one to cross off the wedding setlist.

van halen's panama and roger miller's chug-a-lug are tricky songs!

you have to know ALL OF THOSE SONGS?!?!?!
jesus

pretty sure "i don't wanna grow up" doesn't have any drums so you're good to go with that one

that is too many songs

also
haaaaaaaaaaaaa
Bob Welsh
Sentimtntal Lady

That's some live-band karaoke-esque shit, is what that list is.

obv. i can't know all these songs, but the gig does go from 7 - 11. i think it's kind of a townie bar so i've been told that we're going to stick to "country, oldies, and 80s tunes" for the most part...of course i'm most familiar with the 90s and modern pop stuff!

i've moved on from fantasizing about going out for breakfast to fantasizing about making breakfast. i think i'm buying a double griddle this weekend.

i've been wanting to cook all week but have no time! i've got extra sauce and jalapeno chicken sausage waiting in my fridge, but tonight's going to be another eating out night.

i think i know where i'm going for lunch friday.

wow, that beat on the devo version of 'satisfaction' is fucking crazy.

that bbq place sounds dope

I got confused and wound up at Rush ER. My boss gave me $30 for the cab ride - it reminded me of Arrested Development, "How much could a banana cost? $10?"

The cab cost $8 with tip.

back when i had insurance through the federal government, my doctor was at rush. i liked that you could browse the docs there with pictures and bios and office hours. i chose the oldest, craziest looking doctor based solely on the premise that an old crazy guy would overmedicate me if i insisted on it.

Ha.

Man. I was in the ER in between a woman with a terribly infected middle finger. I got to hear her cries as they gave her shots and "broke up the pockets of infection" with a hypo. She sounded like a nice girl.

On the other side was a guy in the midst of a sickle cell anemia "crisis" (apparently this is the term - "how long have you been in crisis?" they asked him) which is apparently extremely painful.

In radiology, after taking Norco, I went to sit on the stool, which seconds before I watched the tech remove - and fell flat on my butt.

Then I left my shoe at the hospital.

Weird - I had never heard of Richard Cheese before today and then I opened a new Myspace friend's page and his Baby Got Back was playing.

Also- the first full sentence in the above post is messed up, I now see.

the devo version of 'satisfaction' is one of my favorite cover songs ever

so i know most of you said you can't make it to the NOTAPALOOZA show on saturday, which is cool, but before the show starts, like at around 4:00, there will be a BBQ at the same location which will also serve as a going-away shindig for gbx/ev@n before he heads off to med school for the next 26 years. bring your own stuff to BBQ and drink if you decide to come

fuck, i just realized lolatthelosers will have grant park closed tomorrow. i was planning on doing some book reading/iced coffee drinking/people watching there tomorrow. i guess i'll hit lincoln park?

Ouch. Glad I'm not going this year.

awesome friend and former thursday night bartender is coming back for it so that tempers my hatred of said fest.

Hit the Dawghaus in Berger Park, Kevin. The 147 will get you right there from the Loop. It's right on the water and quiet.

i was more interested in the people watching aspect as the book i have isn't really doing it for me. a librarian friend said she had a book she thinks i'd dig, maybe i'll give her and hubby a call tonight.

Dear Medici croissant: I love you.

-DPM

I would like to attend Lollapetc. as there are bands I know and like in it, but as I age, my tolerance for mobs of people gets lower and lower.

Also, it's gong to be the sort of weekend for sitting inside with both A/C units going. 73 degrees at 7 AM today, wtf.

speaking of bbq, i got incorrect on a full rack of ribs + fries at the gig last night. that was the best part of the night.

73 degrees at 7 AM today, wtf.

yep, at division and damen at 7:02 is was 78 degress. wtf?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-getting-aroundjul31,0,304953.column

good news for j/v/c?

yay!

Bell's beer headed back to Chicago

By Jim Kirk | Tribune staff reporter
9:44 AM CDT, July 31, 2008

Bell's Brewery Inc. beers are headed back to the Windy City nearly two years after the company pulled its brands out of the Chicago market following a nasty dispute with a distributor.

Comstock, Mich.-based Bell's Brewery on Thursday announced new distribution agreements with Central Beverage Co., Schamberger Brothers and Skokie Valley Beverage Co. that will mark the return of Bell's brands in Chicago beginning Friday.

Bell's, makers of Oberon Ale, Bell's Amber, and Kalamazoo Stout, left the Chicago market in late 2006 after a fight with its distributor at the time, National Wine and Spirits Inc., which had sold the rights to distribute the Bell's brands to another distributor, Chicago Beverage Systems. Illinois state law basically forbids beer companies from jumping to one distributor to another without a buyout or some other agreement. Instead of paying, Bell's owner and co-founder Larry Bell decided to pull his brands out of the state even though the market accounted for more than 10 percent of his sales.

At the time, the battle drew national attention and headlines. Craft brewers like Bell have complained for years that state laws favor distributors and mass brewers while hurting small brewers' ability to grow, especially in big markets like Chicago. But few have taken as dramatic action as Bell by abruptly pulling out of a key market.

Larry Bell risked litigation when he returned to the Chicago market in 2007 with new brands under a different label. He may face more of a showdown with the return of the Bell's brands, observers here say.

"I love Chicago and there's no big city I spend more time in,'' said Bell, a native of south suburban Park Forest. He added that he doesn't believe he will face a court battle when the brands return to area bar taps.

Executives at Chicago Beverage, which is owned by Rosemont-based beverage and foodservice giant, Reyes Holdings, could not be reached early Thursday.

jk✧✧✧@trib✧✧✧.c✧✧

Hm I guess that means the imported minikeg of Oberon I've got on the shelf at home is slightly less exotic.

BTW, someone needs to have a party so I can bring that thing out.

or you could have a lost weekend.

other trib news, jesus h christ...

Prosecutor: Bellwood man ran over and killed biker to avoid accident report
He faces 14 years if convicted of reckless homicide

By Art Barnum | Chicago Tribune reporter
11:35 AM CDT, July 31, 2008

A Bellwood man deliberately ran over and killed a motorcyclist in an attempt to avoid filing a police accident report, authorities said Thursday.

Frederick Griffin, 29, rear-ended Frank MacNaught's motorcycle in west suburban Addison on Sunday evening, said Assistant DuPage County State's Atty. Brook Locke.

McNaught, 33, of Lombard, attempted to get Griffin to stop and wait for police so that a report could be filed. "Because he (Griffin) has a lengthy police record, he decided not to stop," Locke said.

After Griffin pulled away, MacNaught followed him to a nearby intersection, where he pulled in front of Griffin's vehicle and pulled off the license plate, Locke said.

Griffin drove away again, eventually pulling his 1995 Ford Explorer into a driveway in the 800 block of Iowa Avenue in Addison, where he was again confronted by MacNaught, who wanted a police report made.

"He (Griffin) threw the car into reverse, running over the victim, who died a short time later of a skull fracture and blood lost," Locke said.

Judge Elizabeth Sexton set Griffin's bond at $750,000 Thursday morning on a charge of reckless homicide. Griffin, 29, of the 500 block of Geneva Avenue, Bellwood, was arrested Tuesday. If convicted, he faces up to 14 years in prison.

Locke said Griffin has numerous arrests and convictions on his record for driving while his license was revoked or suspended and that he has served prison time twice for retail theft.

nice. i would hate to live in a city without Bell's (sorry, west and east coasts).

xp, holy shit

Surreal Kentucky Fried Cruelty ad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XguozFJxXRg

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-getting-aroundjul31,0,304953.column

good news for j/v/c?

I suppose. Although I haven't been on the Edens in three months now. I've finally discovered an alternate route that may not be a whole quicker, but is much more scenic and less annoying. But hopefully that means that more people will trickle back to the Edens and speed things up on Green Bay Road north of Evanston.

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Fri Aug 1, 2008

WHOOT!!! Later in the month:

Thursday Aug 28th
at Permanent Records

Free Show 6PM

* Nobunny
* Johnny and The Limelites

Next month

Wednesday Sep 10th
at Schuba's

* James Jackson Toth
* The Dutchess And The Duke
* tba

and HALLOFUCKINGWEEN!!!

Friday Oct 31st
at Bottom Lounge

* King Khan & BBQ Show
* tba

loving the dutchess and the duke album

yeah, so f'ing sweet isn't it?

* James Jackson Toth

lol Roger Adultery

i don't know who james jackson toth is.

he is roger adultery, who was banned from ilx for being all kinds of racist. also he is "wooden wand" who put out a bunch of boring psych stuff on jagjaguwar and other labels

They reviewed King Khan and the Shrines on Sound Opinions -- it sounded pretty cool, actually.

Upcoming shows I want to see:

The Juan Maclean @ Empty Bottle, 9/5
Cut Copy @ Metro, 9/17
Mountain Goats/Kaki King @ Park West, 10/13*
Fujiya & Miyagi @ Bottom Lounge, 10/25

*Kr is leaving for a business trip the next day, but otherwise this would be a good show for us to see together, since she wants to see the MGs and I want to see KK.

i don't know who roger adultery was. i remember seeing the name but i don't read many threads. i think d&d would be awesome at schubas.

He also posted as Manalishi, fwiw.

oh, well, manalishi, of course.

http://www.doctors-orders.co.uk/greenman.jpg

tripppppyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Dudes and Dutchesses- Riddle me this: Is there a bar in Chicago with outdoor seating that has very decent girly drinks and isn't too pricey? I need to get a bday party plan pumpin'.

http://chicago.citysearch.com/roundup/38840

any place SHOULD make you girly drinks no matter where you go. unless you're at some bucket of blood, shot and a beer place.

Similarly, http://www.timeout.com/chicago/articles/restaurants-bars/42691/beer-garden-guide-2008

I would suggest the Blue Line except as far as I can tell their outdoor seating is... under the Blue Line.

yeah, i'll bet any of those places on north ave or milwaukee probably make good girly drinks. swing by the old neighborhood and scope them out!

oh, and the blue line tap's outdoor seating area is situated next to the porta johns that have been set up while they're doing track/support work on the blue line. they've been there for about two months and i haven't seen anyone sitting out there all summer. bummer for them.

i just went out to fix my nic fit and it's POURING! fuck!

Sarah - how about Moxie - do they have outdoor seating?

i'm no expert obv., but that moody's joint i went to had sangria and margaritas and that big ol' patio.

Yeah wtf is going on outside. I just stood up and it's all dark.

Strange, it's not raining here.

It's sunny and cool.

i love it when stereotypes come to life.

whew.

xpost. goddamn it, i got here at 8 this morning meaning i can leave at 4 and was hoping to enjoy a beer outdoors. fucking rain.

oh, well then i'm going to the west loop for a beer.

Oh shit - it actually is cool! 70º!

xp

fuck, i brought no jacket. i will be cold(er) and wet.

What stereotype?

I liked M0xie but I feel like it gets too crowded and loud there. I think I know where it will be. Now I just need to pick a date... Maybe back to my Labor Day weekend plan...

stereotype was a hilarious email.... maybe not hilarious but i'm operating on about 4 hours sleep and it struck a chord.

anyway, I'M OUTTA HERE!!!! i'm going out for breakfast tomorrow, can't wait!

NICE!

I have made a short list of contenders for my venue. I think I should go to each one this weekend and scope out the scenes.

Hey, remember that time I had a birthday party that involved at least four different locations? Good times.

I GOTTA BONUS BONUS BONUS

I'M GONNA OWN A BED SOON BED SOON BED SOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BONUSA;LKJSDF;KALSDJF;LKJ

HOLY
SHIT

I read that check wrong. I missed a zero.

wow

a good zero or a bad zero?

I did not see that extra zero.

I cannot believe this. This is the best thing that's ever happened to me at a job.

I'm sorry - I don't know if I'm being tacky or gauche by talking about money, but my eyes kind of bugged out of my head for a second.

YAY, Jesse!

So now will you stop complaining about being broke? ;)

For a while.

I'm going to buy a pound of weed with this money and turn it into profit.

Sarah: girly drinks + garden: both a healthy walk from your home: Wit's or the Bad Dog.

Way to go, Jesse. Let's hit the casino.

I saw "Wooden Wand" once at the Empty Bottle. Um...

I'm going to buy a pound of weed with this money and turn it into profit.

Let me know how that goes for you. Ahem.

Monday:
High: 96°
Low: 78°

Oh man...this is going to be a tough weekend and early week for Jenny and me. At least we'll have something to talk about!

So, on the Red Line today we got to Lawrence and sat there listening to delay announcements for a while. I stuck my head out the door and just as I did, a guy lurched out of the car ahead of us, moaning and sort of howling, covered in blood from his head to his belly. He stumbled, took one step down the stairs, and his legs went out. He tumbled out of sight - when I reached the stairs, he was about 1/2 way down, trying to get up. People tried to help him, but he said he was OK and crawled away from them. I have never seen so much blood!

hi from boston, you guys!

jesse, that's really gross, do you know what happened to get him all bloody?

sarah, what about chaise lounge? i've never been there so i don't know how horrible the people are, but i think it specializes in girly drinks outside.

Hi colette. I have no idea, beyond the obvious, the hole in his forehead.

Grody.

Thanks for all the ideas, guys.

Good morning. When I left the apartment this morning, Nick was in bed with the laptop. MBN!

i am still in bed with the laptop

Jesus. Between Jesse's story and that Canada beheading, I'm not looking forward to taking public transportation.

Jesus. Between Jesse's story and that Canada beheading, I'm not looking forward to taking public transportation.

OTMFM. The four hours of walking from my apartment to downtown and back every day will do me good!

Yikes. That story reminds me of the time my sister came to visit, and when I met her at the train station a girl mis-stepped out of the train and compound fractured her ankle x_x

:(

i think my cat is a vegetarian

i'm watching regis and kathy lee while i work

no public transportation required to work from home

http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/hsh/777950178.html

I think I'm funna buy this.

that is a gas gril!

Hey dudes, are we still drinking after work? I worked late a couple days this week so I could leave here by 5.

i would like to but i don't know if sarah is up for it

I'm still up for it, though I'm at a bit of a loss for places to go. The Loop seemed kind of Lollapacrazy this morning. Somewhere along the Blue line or Diversey would be awes.

What about the Green Eye? Huh? Huh?

It's decided: I'm going to take a shower at work. I'm dying.

i like the green eye

Yeah, I'd be fine with that, too. I was trying to think of a place where we could sit outside, but nothing is coming to mind except Village Tap.

Green Eye has sidewalk seating, but it's along Western kind of under the train tracks.

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/funny-pictures-come-to-the-dark-side-says-bald-cat.jpg

man the price is right is a trip

drew carey = a dick

these people are nuts though

i will now be liveblogging this entire episode of the price is right

Hahaa

keep it up

EL of C4n4st4 drives a car that was won on The Price is Right. Her brother-in-law was on the show and won it, but he lives in midtown Manhattan and has no use for a car, so he gave it to her and her husband.

That was nice.

I would be up for drinking mebbe, but I'm getting my hair done for the rest of my life, by which I mean a few hours at least.

you'll be done by like 5 or 6 though?

Not 5, maybe 6. It depend.

I was tired last night when I said I wanted to do nothing tonight. Right now I am in the mood to hang out. Unfortch, I am at work.

now i'm going to liveblog this episode of green acres

I am playing on mygazines.com.

i let a powerful, powerful hangover ruin going out for breakfast this morning. my eggs were runny which is a huge turn-off for me. and the waitress never refilled my coffee! wtf? she refilled amy's but i got nothing.

does anyone know how many oranges it takes to get, say, 8 ounces of fresh squeezed orange juice? because i think that may be my favorite thing in the world. i will buy a device to make me juice.

i love anything muppet related:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21OH0wlkfbc

i love anything M.O.P. related

i treated myself and made eggs and chicken sausage for breakfast this morning

"They werent susposed to be totally sync up, just close enough for your suspension of disbelief to create the image that they are raping."

Did you guys ever decide where you're drinking? I (and maybe Jenny) am/are thinking about a drink.

I think Green Eye, at Armitage/Western.

Hmmmm.....

They expanded their inside seating, so we don't have to fry on the sidewalk if we don't want to.

http://soe.ucdavis.edu/ss0506/grosst/pictures/green_eye.jpg
http://www.truthdig.com/images/eartothegrounduploads/armitage.jpg
http://www.cinematographers.nl/GreatDoPh/Films/HighNoon1.jpg

Work nap is delicious.

so fucked up

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/01/wisconsin.shooting.ap/index.html

i think i took a waking nap! i was in a meeting fighting to keep my eyes open for ten or fifteen minutes, and then all of a sudden i was refreshed like i had just woken up.

What time are you guys planning on getting to the bar? I can leave pretty much any time after 5.

I'm not sure, but I'm probably leaving here within half an hour. Might hit the gym up pre-bar, we'll see how I feel.

hey dudes

i can be at the bar around 5:30

by myself

Jesus. Just heard from a friend that he waited in line for two and a half hours to get into Lolla before saying "fuck it" and selling his ticket to someone outside the gate.

loll

You know, I'm kind of not surprised. There were SO MANY people crowded around Jackson and Michigan when I was heading home.

so i know everyone pretty much said they can't come to the NOTAPALOOZA fest tonight but just one last thing - it's going to be awesome. this is a swank loft space with a rooftop deck. pure class.

Lolla fucked up my cab ride.

Ikea was breathtaking.

you fuckers missed it. most fun show of the year.

anyone want my media pass for tonite? if u get to my parents house near the 90/94 jct like real soon, you might be able to get there in time for NIN or Kanye...

Andy Rooney was magnificent tonight. He held forth regarding the ludicrous practice of adding flavors to things: "My theory is that hazelnuts are cheaper than coffee beans, and that's why they add them to coffee." And he lifted the veil from our eyes on the matter of fat- sugar- and preservative-free products, when he said, "Why should I have to pay more when it contains less of something?"

At some point his face took on a sour scowl that makes him look sinister.

Hi. I don't have a boss all week.

Is anyone going to see Tort0ise over lunch today? I don't even know what they sound like.

Also, it is CRAZY OUTSIDE.

This is where we played on Saturday:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3045/2731782940_b73220254b.jpg?v=0
(you can see the hideout through the window)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3165/2731782952_f131c83231.jpg?v=0

I am so jealous of anyone working downtown today. I really, really want to go see T0rt01se.

The weather was insane this morning, I had to actually pull off the road in Northbrook to let it calm down a bit - I couldn't see anything out my windshield.

Hi Chicago! My wife and I will have a 5 hr layover in Union Station between trains next Tuesday -- do you guys recommend anything in the station or nearby for breakfast/lunch? We'll be there between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m., assuming no late trains.

there's some "famous" 24-hour diner right outside the station

I was planning to see Tortoise, but not if this rain keeps up.

this place:

http://chicago.metromix.com/restaurants/traditional_classic/lou-mitchells-west-loop/135215/content

i have never eaten there

Yeah, that place is supposed to be good. Also, Greektown is about a half mile west of Union Station, if you don't mind walking. Lots of options there.

I have had much, much better days.

Already? :-(

Are you at the nu job, K.B.?

So wish I could've been at the loft party. I had a great weekend, but I did learn something: if anyone feels like any food options have been lost by last week's closing of Bennigan's, all they have to do is go to Michigan City, IN. Bloomin' onions, the whole lot. One guy in our group was trying to eat healthy and ordered hummus and pita bread from the appetizer list, and the pita bread arrived deep-fried.

I'm in my favorite neighborhood predominantly lesbian coffeehouse, and they're really blasting Rush this morning.

Rocky Hardy, you can do a lot with a five-hour layover at Union Station -- you'll be two blocks from the Sears Tower and the rest of downtown. You could walk or definitely cab it to the Art Institute. You could walk across downtown to Orange, depending on the time of day.

Lou Mitchell's is good (it's open 24 hours??), though I've only been there once.

If the weather is good, Wishbone in the West Loop could be a good 20-minute (?) walk and meal.

I'm at the new job. Which is great. This is a non-work related terrible day.

http://joshreads.com/images/07/07/i070723ziggy.png

lol

I'm in my favorite neighborhood predominantly lesbian coffeehouse, and they're really blasting Rush this morning.

Oh man, I don't know what's wrong with me today, but that sounds like the most awesome place to be right now.

Are you talking about P@use? Or K0pi?

So wish I could've been at the loft party. I had a great weekend, but I did learn something: if anyone feels like any food options have been lost by last week's closing of Bennigan's, all they have to do is go to Michigan City, IN. Bloomin' onions, the whole lot. One guy in our group was trying to eat healthy and ordered hummus and pita bread from the appetizer list, and the pita bread arrived deep-fried.

2x, we are really spoiled here. Every time I go home my parents want to take me out to dinner but there's only one place in town I can really get into eating at anymore -- not to say it's all Bennigan's but it is mostly crap.

Yep, P@use. Nice place whenever it's not overcrowded.

I'm not a snob about fried foods and all, but the place we went to was nothing but fried food. I had the roast beef au jus.

I'm gonna go check out Tortoise now...

I think I'm wussing out because of the rain.

Not really complaining here, but I thought it was going to be 94/5/6 degrees outside, and now it's raining and in the 80s? Damn it, I did shorts laundry in preparation for that!

and now it's raining and in the 870s?

I'm certainly not complaining.

Why is a band playing during mid-day in the Loop?

It's every Monday during lunch for several weeks this summer. See here.

ah crap I am going to miss the Ex

Are they playing with Getatchew Mekurya? I saw them in Amsterdam last fall and it was a great show.

yes

Friday
79 63
A stellar day with abundant sunshine, comfortable temperatures and low humidity. Northeast winds 10-15 m.p.h.

Bless you, Tom Skilling. I hope you're right.

Later dudes! Drop a line if you're ever up MPLS way.

bye dude. sorry we didn't get to do a "real" goodbye the other night (ie with hugs and crying) i was too tired and had to go eat an omelette at the golden angel

take it easy, e

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37dBq_4TsZI&feature=related

^rulz

it's okay. i'm sure i'll be down sometime this fall. then we can cry all over the goddam place.

Show was pretty good, or at least what I saw of it. (15-minute walk to Millennium Park, plus stops at the bank and Chipotle meant I only saw about 35 minutes).

They played:

It's All Around You
Monica
In Sarah, Mencken, Christ, and Beethoven There Were Women and Men
Eros
I Set My Face to the Hillside
Glass Museum
[something I didn't recognize ... new?]
Crest

I wish Youtube URLs indicated content.

you're bitching about the link I posted aren't you

No, I didn't click it.

I'm just saying in general, it would be convenient.

Fact: Youtube relies on Flash. I was surprised to learn this, which I did when Jenny lost Youtube capabilities when she got a new computer at work. That's a major handicap for goofing off.

http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=264510ca-2170-49cd-bad5-a0be122ac1a9&p=1

interesting analysis of the changing demographics of the place we call home

Good read, thanks.

AT 811 PM...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO
WAS LOCATED NEAR LOGAN SQUARE...MOVING EAST AT 41 MPH.

Is everyone OK?

We are, though I can't say the same for several of the arboreal residents of our block.

(no, not chipmunks. there were several large trees and big branches down.)

I was at Broadway and Belmont and saw all the power north of there go out.

Mine was flickering. Thank Christ it didn't go out b/c I'm in no mood for BS.

Kr and I were huddled near the door, listening to news radio.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3075/2733771675_df8cd8b4dd.jpg?v=0

well, at least we're not on the texas/louisiana border instead

hi chicago
i was in wisconsin all weekend and now i have 500 mosquito bites
school is about to start (in a couple of weeks)
that is all of my boring, boring news

i start school....tomorrow!

my school starts in 3 weeks minus 1 day

i ordered books last night $$$$$

hey you should check with dan to see if he has any you could buy
he might?!

I haven't decided where to have my party yet.
Hi, Amanda.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3029/2734458958_f04f6e5a22.jpg?v=0
http://www.flickr.com/photos/r_grace/2733630249/

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3157/2733630249_be1a9d08e6.jpg?v=0

thought you guys might enjoy those

Is everyone OK?

-- Jesse, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 01:31 (12 hours ago) Link

my building got hit by lighting. fucking scary.

There were two really close strikes to our house, including one that almost made me hit the deck. I definitely hunched down instinctively, couldn't believe the power didn't go out.

There were a lot more large branches/whole trees down than I could see last night. Also the street under the viaduct next to work is all flooded.

hi, i was in portland over the weekend at a wedding on the beach where Goonies was filmed.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3191/2734923823_a04e99a91b.jpg

Kevin, what was it like? Did the power go out?

Last night was incredible. So beautiful, all that violet (and violent) lightning.

Dan's walk over trees reminds me of The "storm of the century" back in 1994 that blanketed the east coast in snow in late March I had to walk about a mile at night to get home (I shredded a tire on a curb, then hitched a ride with some rednecks who only took me partway home). The power was out everywhere and there were utility lines criss-crossing the road, which I could only make out with moonlight.

whoa

xpost

Kevin, what was it like? Did the power go out?

remarkably, no. i had the lights off and it lit up my apartment like there were thousand watt foot lights in there. the thunder was louder than imaginable. it also set off the smoke detectors in the three apartments in the building. it hit a flagpole that my landlady has, or now had, on her balcony.

The "storm of the century" back in 1994

Ha, I remember that. I think there was heavy snow in Alabama, too.

My lights flickered a few times last night and the power went out for about five seconds while we were watching Weeds.

oh! and it smelled like brimstone!

or at least what i imagine it to smell like, sulfurous.

Here's a shitty picture of the sidewalk outside of our apartment this morning I took with my phone while briskly walking. What it doesn't show is all the downed powerlines mixed into the branch -- the branch of death.

http://brutalkitten.org/media/img/storm_sidewalk.jpg

Yeah or the giant branch hanging from a twig above your head to the left.

this is two blocks away from me, down the block from the inner town pub.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/photo/2008-08/41438752.jpg

so glad I parked by the little trees

Your scenario is more death defying and your picture is more clear. WTF phone.

xxp: Oh man, I had no idea.

i thought for sure the big tree in front of my place would get hit. the hospital across the street from me, being the only building in the 'hood over 10 stories got hit a couple times. lighting rods work.

dang, i didn't see anything like that around us

racist hurricanes avoiding north center for logan square

pffft... tornado? you think they all look like hurricanes

Winds of 94 m.p.h. were reported at the Harrison-Dever Crib, about 3 miles offshore in Lake Michigan.

sweet

i just read that and had to look up what the fuck a crib was.

it's the thing that surrounds and protects the intake shaft for the water intakes in the lake.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/graphic/2008-08/41437936.jpg

dang, i didn't see anything like that around us

-- n/a, Tuesday, August 5, 2008 10:26 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

yeah, my friend had to stay over in portland last night because his (all?) flight to chicago was canceled. sucks.

I saw a plane headed to O'Hare at around 10 or 10:30 PM, while the lightning was still continuous, and I envied the passengers. In a way. In a way, not at all.

those are good rocking pictures, nick.

thanks. i never take my shirt off in public but it was super super hot and it was basically all friends and i was feeling the love vibes.

there are some crazy shots of the storm on chicagoist right now.

http://chicagoist.com/attachments/Margaret%20Lyons/2008_8_5.twinkle.jpg

Whoa. Very nice!

http://chicagoist.com/attachments/Margaret%20Lyons/2008_8_5.grey.jpg

Those pics really show how purple the lightning was. I have never seen lightning quite that color before.

Check yer emails.

oh lord.

what the hell shit is biblical right when i leave

so they restarted the Cubs' game after the first delay? Nuttiness.

It's obvious to me that what's going on is that Allah is punishing Chicago.

I'm at Jules' place, since I have no power. My building is in this little 2-block island of no power, and all around me people are enjoying the benefits of magical electricity. It's frustrating. Doubly so since ComEd will not commit to any time that anything will be back up, and the automated phone message makes a point of using the words "several days." Grrrr.

^^ yeah, and if it's only a two block island that will be far down on the list of 250,000 people w/o power right now.

kinda handy being on the same grid as the hospital and being two blocks from the com ed building on western. very little delay when we have lost power.

xpost That did not escape my thoughts. :(

I saw that dark two blocks on my way home last night and was planning to walk to the Green Mill if my power was out.

Any interest in a BYOB/BYOThai Thirsty Thursday on my roof this week? Weather should be nice.

Thai! I love it.

Yeah, my poor dark two blocks... I walked all around it last night and this morning, and there's no trees down, no apparent damage to anything, so my guess is that a transformer just got fried, and it shouldn't be too hard to fix. But that doesn't mean it's going to be a ComEd priority, as Kevin points out.

If any of you guys might want a (probably lowish-paying) job writing about Chicago places in this style, let me know. (My friend who's an editor in NYC asked me about it.) Or we could all sit around, have a few beers, and knock these things out, put them under one pseudonym.

Aw, that sounds fun, Eric. Nickster and I have a show that night though at the EB.

any ideas on how to get white sox tickets for a good price? is a ticket broker the way to go? stubhub?

dunno but the red sox are in town next weekend. i think i'm gonna go down there and if the scalpers don't want too much i'll buy. if they do i'll go home.

Any interest in a BYOB/BYOThai Thirsty Thursday on my roof this week? Weather should be nice.

C'est possible.

all the brokers seem to have similar prices, which are not really much cheaper than ticketmaster. weird. stubhub seems to have better prices and options at this point

hmmmm, perhaps i'll check that out.

though also having trouble finding three tickets together on stubhub for the cheaper prices

sarah's dad is coming into town next month, he likes baseball. the white sox are playing the angels that weekend so they'll probably lose but it would be fun anyways

Eric, that sounds really fun. I don't know if I can make it though - I have something going on every night of the week except Thursday. This 9-5 stuff is a double-edged sword.

Oh, I was going to CB2 at North and Clyborn, but they were closed due to power outage - it was weird b/c it seemed like only that little strip mall was w/out power.

electrical casualties of yesterdays storm, my receiver and television.

i am entertainless.

So your tv is totally dead?

Maybe Dr. Morbius can fix it.

I sometimes wish we didn't have a tv, but then I remember that we watch netflix dvds on there about every other day. I very rarely watch regular tv though.

Hey, guess what? I like Mad Men.

I'd like to see that show. Kr is notoriously discriminating about movies and TV, but she saw someone from the show on Charlie Rose, and now she's 'bout it 'bout it.

it's kind of cheezy but also highly entertaining

i would watch it for the clothes alone. i haven't watched it, but i would.

today 4 vehicles almost plowed me down on my way to work. unacceptable!

tv is emitting a high pitched "WHHEEEEEEEEEEE" noise. dispalying a snowy picture. receiver = totally dead.

i watched 'hannah and her sisters' for the first time last night. lol @ young lewis black and dude from law & order!

I love Mad Men.

A couple of years ago I bought an HDTV and didn't hook it up to a surge protector (I owned the protector, but it was in a drawer somewhere); we had a storm, and it got fried. Fortunately it was under warranty and I got it replaced, but when I moved I once again plugged in the TV to the wall and left w/out the surge protector. Again fortunately, it survived the terrible storm.

this was thoroughly documented on ilx, i think

Oh god. I will shut up! (blushing)

hehe
don't shut up
i just have an embarrassing memory

i don't know why the receiver wasn't plugged into a surge protector. i know it used to be. i think i may have switched to an extension cord when i rearranged my living room and put the stereo on the other side of the room.

You're like a female John Cuntinhand.

xp

Kevin - Take this opportunity to upgrade?

wait I never heard that story

j/k

The epilogue or moral or something is that I now know that I should have never bought that HDTV, but instead saved my money for a flat-panel LCD. My current TV is incredibly heavy and not that wide.

Of interest to the "ladies" in the crowd:
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=8444

"Slovenly" "Drab" Unkempt" "Slatternly" "Blowzy" --many adjectives come to mind to describe most women who wear jeans....

But usually these women are alone and don't look happy. Often they look angry and confused. Usually they are talking on a cell phone or listening to their ipod.

AGH
this reminds me of an exchange i had with the roided out dude who works at d3von market

him: (while packing my groceries) "i didn't recognize you"
me: (joking) "why, because i'm wearing a dress?"
him: "yes."
me: (silence)
him: "this is why european women are beautiful...they know to wear dress."
me: "...i'm grocery shopping"

I can still remember a young woman I saw five years ago wearing a frock.

i'll bet there's a story that involves a restraining order somewhere in there.

jesse, that henry m@kr0w fella is has a tin foil hat for every occasion. no group escapes his crackpottery.

though i did dig this:
http://www.henrymakow.com/bushsignal.jpg

i have a $40 amazon gift card from that wedding, what should i get?

(i also received a complimentary 1 yr subscription to playboy)

Is being given playboy really a compliment? ha ha

It's ice cream social day in the building! WOO HOO!

ha. playboy is lame, but the groom works there.

Were there any bunnies in the bridal party?

I can't believe I'm having ice cream for lunch. This is crazy insane.

did you guys know that the pineapple express (new seth rogan stoner movie) was directed by david gordon green?

yes

to nick

no

to sarah

i didn't know that and it's kind of weird. we might go see that movie after work today

that movie is for retards.

You know you have a Scramble problem when:
You realize you've started 13 different games and you keep refreshing, hoping someone will play so you can take a turn.

I can't believe I'm having ice cream for lunch. This is crazy insane.

I just went to get a sandwich at Cosi and found out that they are giving away free ice cream sundaes in the lobby of 203 N. LaSalle. So of course I got one.

I already e-mailed this pertinent information to Jenny.

You realize you've started 13 different games and you keep refreshing, hoping someone will play so you can take a turn.

I do that with Scrabulous/Wordscraper.

I will take my turn soon, though, Sarah! I don't really like to play it at work because I can't minimize the window if someone comes by my cube. Or I mean, I can, but then I'll lose, haha.

Also, the DGG factor definitely ups my interest in Pineapple Express.

Mine too, but I already wanted to see it because I like me a silly movie.

I SUPPOSE most people have to do actual work at work. It will suck having a boss again next week!

that movie is for retards.

-- chicago kevin, Wednesday, August 6, 2008 6:46 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

this is because i called old style shitty, isn't it

old style is shitty.

i the wgn guy's review (dean richards?) and it looks absolutely retarded.

neither of the reviews i've read have been particularly positive, but the preview made me laugh and i like rogan and franco. plus i think the 5:20 show might still count as a matinee at the davis, so i'll probably get $5 of enjoyment out of it.

i'm looking forward to it

wgn guy said it was a comedy for the first half then it just wasn't funny at all. like it stopped be a comedy on purpose.

what's his real name again? i looked for it on imdb and couldn't find it.

this is a choice quote "I don't necessarily think 26-year-old white guys are that interesting. So why would I want to make another movie about their coffee shops and romantic pratfalls?"

why? for the BIG PIMPIN $$$$$ that's why

ha, who said that?

I'm guessing DGG.

ddg otm, i'm not that interesting.

david dordon green

yeah, it was dgg quote.

has he erased his real name from the interweb? wasn't it something like cody banks? (not that bad, but not "david gordon green")

don't get me wrong - i don't dislike the guy. i like all of his movies that i've seen. i just thought that quote was funny.

I am taking a facebook break. Hi.

sup

I am pumped for going to see a movie, even if it got bad reviews. I love the Davis, movie popcorn, walking to the movies, previews, and paying matinee prices.

40 minutes til go time

I miss playing word games on facebook, guys. I miss it so much. Is it ok if I cry?

not yet! hasn't it only been like 5 minutes?

I have a difficult time shooting in places that are not alive. I like the chaos and uncertainty of practical locations. Stages are boring and stuffy; it's like being on an airplane too long or in the pouch of a marsupial.

^^^also DGG

Being in the pouch of a marsupial sounds cozy to me, not boring... but that's just me.

Is this fishy or maybe ok?
http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/tix/785207253.html

could be legit, i saw some tix on stubhub around the same area for around the same price for a different series.

Looks fine to me. I have bought concert tickets over Craigslist before with no problem.

dang, i think i found a phono amp on craigslist. hopefully it hasn't been sold in the last three days.

Tomorrow is EZ's bday!

"I don't necessarily think 26-year-old white guys are that interesting. So why would I want to make another movie about their coffee shops and romantic pratfalls?"

i pretty much agree with this is the thing. lately i've been irked about tv/shows movies about teenagers more though. and also bands writing songs about being teenagers. teenagers are dumb and greasy.

stop glorifying teenagers, they are pretty much all terrible people

i agree with it too! i just thought it was amusing since he has a new movie and it is about two 20-something white dudes and their pratfalls.

Whatever comes next for Mr. Green, it is not likely to be an immediate return to painfully intimate dramas. He recently finished collaborating on the script for a remake of the phantasmagorical 1977 horror movie “Suspiria.” He’s also working on an Arctic submarine adventure and a pilot for an animated series. He and Mr. McBride are planning a “medieval comedy with dragons.” And — lest anyone doubt the depth of his taste for the lowest of ’80s subgenres — he’s working on a remake of the Kenny Rogers race car movie “Six Pack.”

He was supposed to direct A Confederacy of Dunces a few years ago (with Will Ferrell in the title role), but the project fell apart.

i think like 5 people have tried to make that movie, but it never happens. it's cursed or something.

Long article in last Sunday's NYTimes about DavidGG.

I bought season one of Mad Men (from Amazon for about $31.50). I'm four episodes in, and the thing is like a thoroughly satisfying novel. I especially loved the third episode, where Don Draper just gets drunker and drunker at his kid's birthday party. And I love how the first episode ends with a scene that puts Draper's whole life in a totally different context than what we've seen already. And, yeah, shot by shot it's beautiful. (Cameo by Kirsten Schall (sp?) as one of the phone operators.)

Anyway. Three ways to roll this week:
Tomorrow night: rooftop party (13 storeys above the ground; can see Navy Pier from Foster/Sheridan), 6-9 p.m., BYOB/BYOThai). (Address on my FBook page.)
Friday night: A good friend and one of the best writers I've ever known (up there with Dara Moskowitz) is doing a reading at the so-beautiful art-deco Fine Arts Building near Jackson/Michigan, as part of a building-wide open house. Worth going even just for the architecture. That's at 8 p.m., so I'll be there around then.
Saturday night: I'm playing a few songs sometime around 7:30-9 p.m. at a coffeeshop whose name I don't have handy, but it's on Morse in Rogers Park and called something like Coffee Connections or something with Coffee in the name.

also karaoke

Oh shit also karaoke

It's been a whirlwind week. Hey 'manda, I'm going to be directing a short play this fall at that theater near you on Jarvis.

I'm doing a happy hour thing with coworkers tomorrow, but if I'm not too blitzed afterward, I'll meander up to the rooftop.

hey! tell me when it is and we will go see it.

It's been a whirlwind week.

No shit, yo. Clocked at about 75mph in some places.

I'm just happy to have electricity! It came on at about 8:15 this morning, meaning it was out for almost exactly 36 hours.

OK I didn't bitch about it at all because really, what's the point, but our cable/internet is back on now, too, and I'm OK with it.

comma comma comma comma comma ad infinitummmm

I'm reading this book at the moment, and I think a few of you guys (at least) would like it (esp Kenan):

http://www.hachettebookgroupusa.com/features/twctte/twctte_022307/index.html

Heh. Yeah, looks... appropos. :)

My favorite photo I took of my little tiny blackout, from right out front of the building. My block: dark as sin. The next block up: feelin' fine.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3195/2738827209_6a85c1780a_o.jpg

xp Beyond the timeliness of the subject (hey, it applies to me too) the general sense of humor of the book is right up your alley.

we're playing at the EB tomorrow if anyone's into that

might be up for seeing EZ play before karaoke on sat.

saw pineapple express, thoughts are on that thread but i liked it

We saw The Dark Knight last night. I'm not sure why I even go see movies like that, other than so I can say I saw them: they're reasonably compelling for the first half, then descend into incredulity and one explosion after the other. I don't think I'm being snobbish, either: I really want to like what everyone else is raving about, but it just doesn't work for me.

I'm reading this book at the moment, and I think a few of you guys (at least) would like it (esp Kenan):

Oh man, I am trying to remember who recommended that to me recently. Thanks for the reminder, though. It sounded really good.

That book is published by my employer and written by someone that our Amanda knows! CONNEXIONS!

He had a story in last week's New Yorker, too.

I'm finally going to go see Wicked.

FINALLY

I'm not sure why I even go see movies like that, other than so I can say I saw them

Another ten years should take care of that (if you're lucky).

John, I think you go so that you can talk about how you don't get them.

Much like how Jenny and I want to go to Las Vegas so that we can justify hating it.

dammit all i TOLD you guys to read that book like a year ago. maybe more!
sheesh. it is good and i do know that guy! he's really really nice and smrt.

Eric, did you say Friday night is BYO night? Or tonight?

BYO 6-9 tonight
Fine Arts Building, room 921, tomorrow at 8
The Common Cup in Rogers Park on Saturday night 7:30-9

oh i know where that is-- the corner of morse and greenview? i go past there all the time but have never been in.

John, I think you go so that you can talk about how you don't get them.

No, no, I really wanted to like it! I guess with any big-budget movie like that, I go in hoping that I'll at least be visually impressed and riveted by the suspense, like I was with Michael Mann's Collateral, which I saw on a whim and was surprised by how much it wowed me. But after 90 minutes, this became tedious.

dammit all i TOLD you guys to read that book like a year ago. maybe more!
sheesh. it is good and i do know that guy! he's really really nice and smrt.

Oops, I don't retain things sometimes. In addition to picking up that book, I bought this, that I am going to read next.

SPOILER ALERT:

and then we came to the end has a funny "zeitgeist" moment that made me lol on the train

i loled several times when i read that book. it's really not what i normally read (ie, too ouch real and set too close to a mcdonald's) but i thoroughly enjoyed it.

i finished lush life (a+) and am now reading the new alexander hemon book which is ok

http://z.about.com/d/urbanlegends/1/7/Y/3/lioncut2.jpg

I'm getting this done to my kitty.

books that are described as nabokovian or authors who are compared to nabokov are inevitably disappointing to me

though in hemon's case it probably has more to do with his background than his writing style

you're getting your cat a helmet and boots?

which hemon book?

my friend amy had something similar done to one of her cats.

the lazarus project

i think another problem is the summer is making me dumber and i pretty much just feel like reading mysteries and thrillers

what's wrong with that
it's what i read 80% of the time

i dumb?

nothing really wrong with it. except minor guilt that i should be mentally challenging myself more and reading "literature" which is bullshit obviously but that knowledge doesn't really stop it

recommend me some good mysteries and thrillers, preferably not too embarassingly cheezy

genre fiction will not give you brain scabies

library school will cure you of this guilt, i think

i forgot about that, i wanted to read lazarus project. i was reading nowhere man when that was supposed to come out.

recommend me some good mysteries and thrillers, preferably not too embarassingly cheezy

-- n/a, Thursday, August 7, 2008 11:11 AM (Thursday, August 7, 2008 11:11 AM) Bookmark Link

here you go

Get that hard-nosed stuff, Richard Stark and early/mid-period Andrew Vaschss.

i like henning mankell (swedish mysteries, some are a little politically -the white lioness- and technologically -firewall- dated, but not embarrassing and not so much that it took away from my enjoyment) and i totally enjoyed three of the gorky park series on EZ's recommendation.

i don't like "small new england town lady with a ton of cats solves mysteries between cups of herbal tea" bullcrap, but there's good stuff out there.

mysteries and thrillers:

John le Carre, The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, etc.
Patricia Highsmith, Ripley series
Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, etc.
Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest

literary mystery-ish stuff:

Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red
Arthur Philips, Angelica

i want to read that new george pelecanos book too, and some richard stark once it gets reprinted.

xp

graham greene has some good ones too

laid back character studies about solitary women that also involve murders:

Patricia Highsmith, small g
Jane Smiley, Duplicate Keys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZSbC09qgLI

kitty.

tell me more about the gorky park books

i like highsmith alot, read a few of hers

i tried to read a le carre, don't remember which one, but just couldn't get into it

i've read a lot of the classic noir stuff like hammett and chandler but could probably stand to reread some of them

i'll look into the others

fuck this.
i wanna go home.
eric, come fill in for me.

it sucks not having peers.

i want to read more richard price books but they're so long :(

so much for the tribune's report that no one died in the storm the other night:

Shannon Fortune, 31, of the 2000 block of N. Whipple, was killed when a falling tree struck him during a thunderstorm on Aug. 4, at some point near 8:35 p.m. According to a police report, Fortune's fiancé left the home just after 8:30 p.m. to look for Fortune, who was expected home, and found underneath a large fallen tree limb north of their home. Fortune was rushed to Illinois Masonic, where he was later pronounced dead. Fortune succumbed to blunt head trauma.

there's a main investigator (renko) and in the original GP there is a murder in gorky park and then things happen...i would say it's almost equal parts crime procedural, character study and time/place/era interesting. you don't need to know tons about the kgb to enjoy it, nor is it all about political intrigue. there is a wee bit of romance, but not so much that it seems forced.

the movie sucks.

the second book (polar star) was as good as the first, but set on a boat. character continuity helps with renko, as he is still your main character. there are lots of new people though and a new setting.

i didn't actually finish the third one (red square) but what i read was good. it was years later, at the rise of the russian mob iirc.

i want to read more richard price books but i've read everything since clockers. anyone know if his pre-clockers books are worth reading? it seems like you never hear about any of them

I just read books. Some I like, some I don't. If I really like one I will read it over again a few times. I used to do that with pretty much everything I read but it got time-consuming. The last one I did that with was Trainspotting because of all the Sottish-talking.

that should be "Scottish", don't want to offend anyone there

we returned the movie clockers to netflix without finishing it, it wasn't very good

xpost
weird, i almost never reread books, even ones i like alot

i never read that because i was afraid of the time-consuming scottish talking. maybe i could handle it now.

i also rarely re-read books. hm.

It's just dis ting I do/did. I also used to read the shit out of the encyclopedia.

oooh i looooooooved "the little friend" by donna tartt even though it has not one but TWO of my least favorite stock characters in it:

(1) precocious southern country girl
(2) bevy of sassy old southern women who are related to each other

i still liked it.

i used to read the shit out of the AKC breed book.

(when i was like 10)

Yeah, that's about the right age for me too. Remember when I kicked ass at geography in bar triva? Yeah, that's why.

really? i liked the movie clockers. not perfect or anything, but i liked it (and thought it was identifiably price-y and proto-Wire after reading lush life). although lol @ seal soundtrack

books i used to obsessively reread as a kid:
1. "big secrets"
2. "the book of lists"
3. guinness book of world records
4. panati's extraordinary origins of everyday things
anything else that was basically just a collection of interesting factoids

#s 3 and 4 right here too

the soundtrack was a big problem for me with clockers, it was so obtrusive. just like grating emotional music mixed really loud through 70 percent of the movie. also just not as good as the book. it looked really good though - ie it was well shot and had a distinctive "look"

i almost never re-read books, unless it's some old nostalgic stuff where i want to see if it's still good.

(there are some exceptions, like i'm planning to re-read Dhalgren)

sarah got me "the new book of lists" a year or so ago, it's basically the old book of lists with a few new things thrown in. still fun.

i just got a weird message on my work vm from someone named "david" that said

"hi amanda, i'm interested in learning how to write one of your motorcycle courses"

what?

ie it was well shot and had a distinctive "look"

yet not excessively spike lee-ish, except for a few shots!

whichever version i got from netflix seemed like a really old edition, pretty bad picture quality + zero features.

as a kid i re-read embarassing fantasy and sci-fi shit

Wait I fucked up, I reread the Road more recenly.

I'm actually having trouble reading books at all anymore. This is because I only really read on the el, and too often I would rather read The New Yorker or do crossword puzzles instead. But I feel dumb because everyone on the Stylus board is always talking about how they're reading Faulkner or Henry James, and the last couple of books I've read are just random, okay-ish contemporary fiction, and it took me several weeks to finish them to boot.

oooh i looooooooved "the little friend" by donna tartt

I should maybe read that, since The Secret History was one of the last books I really loved, in a can't-put-down/almost-missed-my-stop way.

i go through reading slumps. i've kind of been in one recently, actually, except for all the richard price. but i've started a lot of books that i ended up not finishing or reading stuff i wasn't that excited about.

i don't really play video games anymore, because i'm afraid that if i do i will stop reading books.

first few months of this year i was in a reading slump, just doing crosswords and games.

literary rockism is just as menarded as regular rockism!

like what u like homiez

lol menarded

i used to read the book of lists as well. also, my parents had this that i read cover to cover.

jaymc you should totally read the little friend. her sense of pace/plot/character is impeccable. NEVER bored, NEVER insulted. (just like secret history)

Yay, Book of Lists. I think I bought that at the World's Biggest Bookstore in Toronto in 1987 and obsessively pored over it in the car.

I get really into the Most Populous U.S. Cities table for the almanac project I do here because that was one of my favorite tables in the 1988 edition of The World Almanac and Book of Facts.

whoot! too bad the saturday show starts at 2...

literary rockism is just as menarded as regular rockism!

like what u like homiez

I agree with this, but I guess I am holding out hope that I will pick up some literary classic someday and have a surprisingly awesome experience with it. (I gave up on both Pride and Prejudice and Blood Meridian recently.) Especially since a lot of what I like about books, movies, music, etc., is getting into all the extra-textual stuff -- criticism, message-board discussions, etc. -- and with the classics, there's a lot to navigate.

today in horrible chicago-area motorist news:

Bellwood man intentionally ran down boy with car, police say
Bail set at $500,000 for incident at Brunswick Zone in Woodridge

By Art Barnum | Chicago Tribune reporter
10:46 AM CDT, August 7, 2008

Bail was set at $500,000 Thursday for a Bellwood man accused of intentionally running down an 11-year-old boy with a car and dragging him in a parking lot.

Tiyon Tyson, 28, of the 3400 block of Warren Avenue is charged with attempted murder, aggravated battery of a child and aggravated battery following the incident Sunday in the parking lot of the Brunswick Zone in Woodridge. Tyson surrendered to Woodridge police Wednesday but had declined to cooperate with them and tell them the location of the car he was allegedly driving during the incident.

The child, who remains in serious condition at a hospital under an alias for security purposes, suffered road burns over 90 percent of his body, a broken rib and left arm and ear damage and had his spleen removed, said DuPage County Assistant State's Atty. Alex McGimpsey.

Defense attorney John Giralamo told Bond Court Judge Brian Diamond that he had been told the boy will make a full recovery.

Tyson and his former girlfriend, accompanied by the victim, were quarreling in the bowling alley's parking lot "when he intentionally hit and ran over two victims," McGimpsey said in court.

McGimpsey said that when the woman began to walk away from the situation, "the defendant got into his vehicle and sped backward, knocking the mother away and trapping the child under the car."

"Numerous witnesses saw the child being dragged over a median, and the incident was captured on a security camera," McGimpsey said.

The woman suffered a cracked vertebra and head injuries and was treated and released from a hospital.

McGimpsey said Tyson has a criminal record that includes several convictions for drug offenses.

Book recommendation: The Great Man, by one of my favorite authors, Kate Christensen. Not her very best book (The Epicure's Lament) but good nonetheless.
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Man-Kate-Christensen/dp/0307277348

I started this book on Sunday night and finished it last night. It's an essay about Susan Sontag and Pauline Kael's careers, and covers a lot of ground about writing style, high and low art in American culture in the past 50 years, and why some critics make us want to read reviews instead of actually seeking out the work they're reviewing. It's written in a casual, entertaining, and smart style. I would love to have written this book. I would not recommend it to those who might not want to read a critical book about critics and how criticism works -- you know who you are -- but if you like entertaining writing about thinkers, this one's good. (Bought it in the plummy sale section at Unabridged Books for $6 or so.)

If you want plot and entertainment, I've recommended them before, but Philip Roth's The Human Stain and Tom Wolfe's A Man in Full are as readable and satisfying as Richard Price.

The original idea for the film version of Clockers was to have Spike Lee direct the kid's story and Martin Scorcese direct the cop's story. That would've been something. Fresh is a better movie covering the same ground.

This review describes the book well:
Though both were Berkeley-educated single mothers, critics Susan Sontag and Pauline Kael could not have been more different on the page. Where Sontag’s tone was "formal and rather icy," Kael’s was "verbal bebop"; where Sontag’s diction was dense and meticulously worked, Kael’s was colloquial and straightforward. Former New Yorker editor Seligman, however, applauds both approaches and exuberantly celebrates his "reverence" for the former writer and "love" for the latter in this engaging book. Writing with a tangible joy that oozes from his first paragraph to his last, Seligman begins his paean to Sontag and Kael by documenting their controversy-filled rise to prominence as writers in the 1960s. A supporter—and later a critic—of "camp" and a dissector of Leni Riefenstahl’s fascist aesthetics, Sontag is the more criticized of the two, and Seligman spends a great deal of time justifying her ideological flip-flops and her comparatively unemotional response to 9/11. Kael, on the other hand, is a veritable goddess to Seligman. A late-comer to film criticism, she wrote her first review (of Chaplin’s Limelight) at age 32 and was decrying screen violence and declaring Orson Welles a monster for the New Yorker by 1968. Replete with emotional asides, textual excerpts and personal anecdotes, Seligman’s text often loses its focus. But what his stream-of-consciousness narrative lacks in organization, it more than makes up for in lyrical enthusiasm.

That book sounds great, Eazy. If I come over tonight, mind if I borrow it?

Philip Roth's The Human Stain

I just finished The Plot Against America and really liked it. That one's on the list now too.

Blood Meridian is totally a book I will reread. So much language to unravel.

I have read it three times.

The original idea for the film version of Clockers was to have Spike Lee direct the kid's story and Martin Scorcese direct the cop's story. That would've been something. Fresh is a better movie covering the same ground.

this would have been good, esp. since lee basically ignored the cop story anyways

in response to ernie and bert grindcore, muppets death metal.

I loved the language in Blood Meridian, didn't give a shit about the plot.

the plot is not the point.

(Yep, John, I've got the book here for you.)

I just finished The Plot Against America and really liked it.
ME TOO!
SISTAZ

squeeeeeeeeeeeee

didn't give a shit about the plot

There may as well not be a plot. Wait... is there a plot? Or did someone just cleanly slice off the top of my heuuurgh blood blood blood blood blood

Once you get past the impenetrable 1860s slang you get to find out what the plot is. Oh, I seem to have been shot in the back...

I've had this song stuck in my head for the past like 3 days

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22RfgBewkuc

Ebert OTM when he said that The Proposition is the closest he's seen to Blood Meridian on film. In other words, ugh, but wow.

(I... um... bought that movie on DVD. Gimme a break, I'm still in therapy.)

is there anywhere to get a jibarito near roger's park?

hmmm
not that i know of, since it's a puerto rican thing, right? there aren't a lot of puerto ricans up here.

maybe somewhere along clark has one. i can tell you that you can get pupusas at clark and touhy though.

they are sold at a PUPUSERIA

sorry broseph, that's a blue line thing

80 pages into Blood Meridian and it just seemed like the plot consisted of endless repetitions of the Kid traveling somewhere and then getting into a skirmish or some other dangerous situation that forced him to move on to somewhere else. The only thing at stake was his life (and we don't know enough about him to care about that). If not for the inventive language, I probably wouldn't have made it that far. I'd still like to finish it, though, just to prove it to myself.

...then again, i don't know roger or where his park is. maybe roger's park is humboldt?

wokka wokka

There is a place on Western somewhere near like Foster or something where you can get a jibarito. Not too too helpful, but just know that they exist.

80 pages into Blood Meridian and it just seemed like the plot consisted of endless repetitions of the Kid traveling somewhere and then getting into a skirmish or some other dangerous situation that...

oh jeez is this going to be like convincing you to play scrabble? it has different rules.

k, thanks. btw, i'm playing a wedding at Fitzgerald's next weekend!

i knew i would regret that apostrophe.