thread for sarahel

So, sarahel, how are you? You have totally groovy contributions and ways. I, a rube, know nothing about you. ie are you a lady or a gentleman? Are you a mod or a rocker? Do you like seafood, or does it remind you of baby mice? Would you rather watch T2 or Total Recall? These are the things I wonder about you, sarahel.

kinda going through a midlife crisis right now. That life's calling thread is really apropos right now. I've basically been doing a particular thing for almost 10 years, and for most of that time I felt like it was improving/progressing, and now I feel like it's not, and I feel like throwing in the towel.

I'm female ... almost 35.

I love seafood, though I'm curious about anti-coagulating baby mice. I don't want to eat them, though.

T2 > Total Recall.

- how long have you been on ilx?
- east coast, west coast, no coast?

the kool-aid swallower & the keytar player

This is spooky because less than 5 mins ago I was wondering to myself - who is this Sarahel? All of a sudden she's posting all the time? It is mysterious. I'm glad that Abbie gets right to the pt.

The roof constitutes an introduction, sort of? Or the prompting of one.

ilx since January
west coast (6th generation Californian) except for a 4 year tour of duty on the east coast for college in Providence. I left Providence before the Olneyville/noise scene got going. I end up explaining this to people who ask why I didn't stay. The things they associate with Providence -- that I would ostensibly be into -- weren't happening at the time.

I am a fan of sarahel, because she gets into the spirit of things with a game enthusiasm and a spry levity. I will leave the catechism for others to compose.

sixth gen!!! wow. Are you mad abt the whole budget thing?

... brown?
... risd?
other?

feel free to not answer, if you don't care to share biographical info

I find LJ fascinating because he seems like a fictional character created by some bored middle-aged person as a creative exercise.

(you know that was him in that pic you mentioned in the other thread, right?)

Does it ever frustrate you that people call country matters by his initial or HI DERE by his first name (Dan) and 1000x other similar things? Did ILX have a learning curve for you?

She's also fabulous at compliments of unfathomable desirability :D

xp elmo - the first one. I was the first person in my California-bred family to go to college outside of California. My grandmother thought it was frivolous, because there are plenty of good schools in California. She later changed her mind once she realized that it would give her another excuse to travel.

xp abbott - the budget thing - this shit keeps happening. It happened 10 years ago. I don't know when/why the state got so dysfunctional. I was less surprised by Prop 8 passing than my friends that had moved to CA from other places.

xp enbb: it makes me grateful that I'm old ... that message boards were for the most part text only when I was in college.

xp abbott: I'm one of those dorks that likes to read the archives of boards I'm on. But yeah -- definite learning curve.

I know 2-3 ilxors irl and one of them suggested I join.

I have to say I'm shocked and amazed you aren't a long-term regular posting under another name!

which one, dare I ask?

is that a xp to me or dan?

ha to you

I'm one of those dorks that likes to read the archives of boards I'm on
<3<3<3

(btw the "likes to read the archives" thing is prob why I thought you'd been around forever)

wait, velko is that yr wife?

xp dleone. btw ilxor Milton Parker is pretty cute irl.

milton parker is a total cutie!

other attractive ilxors include elmo oxygen, dan perry, and luna.

<3 ilxor milton parker! and his music.
say hi.

he sent me marissa mp3s.

gygax! (rip) was also a total hottie
xxpost

Milton P is totally cute but I sort of confuse him w tipsy mothra, because they're sort of cute in the same way.

Oh I have a question now: do you share Dleone's predilection for far-out progressive awesomeness?

Milton kinda looks like he could be my bf's older brother. I don't want to embarrass MP any further - he's kinda shy like that.

xp dleone and I have some similar musical interests -- his band is pretty good. We both like Magma.

(I'm curious if you know any of the people I knew who went to Brown now!)

it's possible! I had kinda a bad reputation there ... nothing too significant or noteworthy ... but still, to the point where I sometimes hope that people don't remember me. I met a former classmate at a professional event, and he fortunately did not remember who I was.

Most of the folks I know are computer ppl: 4D4m Sm1th '97, Chr1st1 4nd3rs3n '97 , G30rg3 K31th '95-'96 (also a big Irish fiddle dude)... There was also a dude named D4n J0hns0n who was in my high school class who went there on a running scholarship to study engineering (he was '95) and a pre-med cellist named L1s4 M1lls ('97). (There are others I was introduced but I'm blanking on names now; one I think was named B3tsy Hurd and I think she was '96...? And maybe Sc0tt R0l4nd '97? Plus a ton of other computer guys I haven't seen since like 1999.)

Oh yeah, this dude named J0sh Br0wn, I can't remember if he was '96 or '97.

(I used to live with G30rg3 and 4d4m, which is how I met all of these people.)

xp Dan: fuck - 4D4m, L1s4, and Sc0tt were all housemates of mine. Sc0tt, his now-wife, me, my bf at the time and another housemate all did shrooms together on the 4th of July once. We played Boggle waiting for them to kick in.

hahahahahaha TINY TINY WORLD

lol world is small

american academia zing

We both like Magma.

<3 <3 <3

Oh I totally need to get into Magma, yeah.

De Futura = one of my favorite songs ever.

holy shit dan i went to high school with one of those dudes!

oh wait

american academia zing

― thank you, flipper, for nickelback (country matters), Tuesday, July 7, 2009 9:32 PM (3 minutes ago)

lol we have more people in our academic circles than you have populating your tiny country

Horseshoe and daria-g also went to Brown, IIRC.

so did my cousin

does your cousin post to ilx

the Brown Alumni Magazine without fail contributes to feelings of inadequacy and insignificance. It's kinda like women's magazines that make you feel unattractive.

no my cousin is "successful" :/

seriously - the last issue featured a story about an attractive blond woman who predicted the financial crisis.

but max you are successful, at being rad

max is an ilx success story.

My uncle teaches at Brown.

My hair is brown, and successful.

thread about sarahel

my hair will successfully be brown for quite some time ... my family doesn't go gray very early.

all this talk of brown and no semiotics zings yet?

^^ that was my major btw - though they'd changed the name by the time I graduated.

i believe its called "symbology"

Modern Culture and Media, though you could major in Art-Semiotics, which I wasn't cool enough to do, because I was intimidated by having to take a studio art class and art history, because there were a lot of other students that had art history classes in high school, and I went to crappy public school that didn't.

Joining the esteemed company of Jon Spencer and Ira Glass.

and Todd Haynes!!!

the main dude in that band that did that gym equipment video that everyone was so keen on a few years back was in a class with me ... he was kinda arrogant and douchey. But then again, he was 19 or 20, so I don't want to make permanent judgments about the guy.

My first roommate in Chicago, who I found through the classifieds, was in a sign-language class with Laura Linney at Brown in the early 80s, said she was very sweet [/suzy]

― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Friday, March 6, 2009 2:38 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I was in a screenwriting class with one of those gawkermedia guys, and his screenplay idea was pretty lame, but he seemed like a decent guy.

wait, never mind, I'm confusing him with someone else. I think he was in that class, but I don't remember what his screenplay was about.

Tracer Hand also went to Brown and majored in MCM, I think. /jaymc

Oh, you're right. (Am looking at his CV presently.)

when did he graduate?

i think you just out you'd yourself
xpost

xp '96. His name's not really Tracer Hand, though.

xp - that was the year I graduated.

(E-mailed you, sarahel.)

I got your message -- dude lived across the hall from me freshman year.

same floor as Louis Malle's daughter and a recent MacArthur genius.

lol i stopped getting the alumni mag for some unknown, merciful reason.

I like the acrostics. I get really bummed when they don't have acrostics, and I've read about all the overachievers, and there isn't an acrostic to make me feel marginally better about myself.

Your alumni mag has acrostics??

yeah ... most of the time. I don't think there was one in the financial-crisis-predicting-attractive-blond-woman issue.

hahahahahaha TINY TINY WORLD

I love when bizarre stuff like that happens (something similar involving friends of friends came up at a party on Friday in SF).

Sarahel I avoid the alumni magazine conundrum by vaguely noting the arrival of each new UCLA issue and then instantly recycling it.

I end up reading the thing, because some of the articles are interesting, and also to see if anyone I disliked has died.

lol

probably by the time they die, I'll have forgotten I disliked them and only have a vague recollection of who they were. I'm just interested in the obituary euphemisms and omissions. I almost sent in a fake obituary for myself at one point.

Kill off your old identity and create a new one.

sarahel, is it Sarah El or Sara Hel?

u guys think u got it bad, my alumni mag had THE PRESIDENT on the cover

The University president?

The president of the Mormon Church?

nice try flabbot

nice fail ;_;

the BYU alumni magazine is less inadequancy-inducing but more boring.

idk bet theres a still a few ppl feelin envious of mitt romeny

but it's not a constant barrage of "this person saved the world," "this person is going to save the world," "this person could have saved the world if only other people had listened to them," etc.

welllll next issues cover:

http://www.i4m.com/think/jpeg/angel-moroni.jpg

not meaning this with any ill feeling at all, but speaking as someone often guilty of it myself, especially in bygone days, i feel you could do with a little more posting restraint...for your own good, of course...sorry if this sounds a bit harsh :)

Is it time for the backlash already? Time flies.

LJ go f yrself...sorry if this sounds a bit harsh :)

bad fuckin form Louis. if you are really a concerned citizen, why not PM someone instead of making it public?

i imagine this was one of those louiss-subconscious-desire-for-punishment-manifests-itself-oddly things

louis do you really think you are removed enough from past indiscretions to call out others for them? esp. since i'm pretty sure no one else was thinking this?

look a) people never pm'd ME when i was posting uncontrollably to every 'event' thread on ilx, they abused me pretty directly and b) miss el is overdoing it imo with the whole 'gotta have the final word' thing...the advice is friendly and constructive, not bitchy and antagonistic

i'm not naming others

louis for your own good i would advise you to stop

this is getting weird.

...

Can I ask that maybe this once we DON'T do this?

oh but dan its friday and i dont want to do any work

i don't want to back-seat mod but a nice, calming 3-dayer for LJ would staunch the flow right here.

oh, are you suggesting a ban?

did you know there is a self service way for this now?

oh shit i just suggest banned myself

i think i understand some of the sentiment lj is expressing, but this sort of thing is never ever a good idea. dont be offended dude, but im banning you from this thread.

uh banning lj, not the rest of yall

lj email me if you have an issue with this

it's a thread for sarahel so everyone but her should be banned from it

can you still read a thread when you're banned from a thread?

um ppl can post as much or as little as they want louis ffs lol

Yeah, I am a fan of sarahel and I will take you at face value as meaning this as constructive criticism, LJ, but giving unsolicited advice in public is just not the done thing.

Like I just did. Fuck!

Daily meditation, reiki massage and aromatherapy would really help you all in your day to day life. Just a bit of friendly advice.

not to continue this but i was looking at her recent posts and have no idea what lj was on about

Also you could all do with eating a bit less and doing some fucking exercise.

Me neither! I was like oh is there some terrible scandal happening but nothing AFAI can see. What a let down.

xpost

Some fucking exercise?! Take it to ILTMI.

(/ken c)

i love blur?

i think i understand some of the sentiment lj is expressing, but this sort of thing is never ever a good idea.

Yeah, I agree. I think that Louis honestly probably meant well but just went about it in the wrong way. :-(

ILX popularity is such a fickle mistress...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpYEJx7PkWE

I would like to thank Sarahel for keeping me entertained by posting in the morning UK time when Brits are all selfishly doing freakin' work. Silly LJ.

what happened? I am confused.

this is sort of counterintuitive but possibly a good general rule: if you want to let someone know in a polite/friendly way that you're bothered by something they do, it might actually be better to go off-topic and say it on a thread where they're actually doing it, rather than starting a separate discussion, because the latter seems a bit ... dramatic

^^ haha I think that was an example of me not exercising the kind of restraint LJ is calling for

lol cept i was about to be all 'nabisco otm' but i couldnt' bring myself to do it so i didn't but oh look now i did. maybe i should exercise some restraint.

new board "I Love Exercising Restraint": y/n?

Jesus don't you ppl ever know when to stop?

xp everyone is banned from it

well, it did get my attention. But I honestly would like to know if there are specific instances LJ could point to. I did get a bit overenthusiastic in the past couple days -- late night manic energy when I couldn't sleep, in some cases.

new board "I Love Exercising Restraint": y/n?

― Lisa Simpson = a fictional bitch (HI DERE), Friday, July 24, 2009 8:13 PM (13 seconds ago)

we already have ILTMI which covers that and other topics tho

oh wait you mean the not sexyual kind

shd've bumped her birthday thread imo

wait, now I'm really confused. I have a birthday thread? I've only been on ilx for like 6 months.

happy birthday, sarahel!

thanks, but it's in November!

happy birthday!

it's been a really rainy fall here so far!

my halloween costume was SWEET, though

thanks, could some mod unban LJ from this thread ... you know, as a birthday present?

yeah I did that already but I don't know if he knows

can u ban user lamp from the blazblue thread so he stops gloating?

I just want to know whether he feels that I'm posting too much in general, or that my posts are lame, or feels like I'm attacking him.

he might feel like you're overshadowing him

"i'm the one who doesn't exercise restraint around here! hmmph!"

sarahel, i wouldn't ruin your birthday like that if i were you

Have I ever told you harbl that I <3 you? Your contributions to that ILTMI thread moving thread were awesome.

haha what

thanks :)

harbl and sarahel should probably post more if anything since they actually make sense

sarahel, i wouldn't ruin your birthday like that if i were you

Maybe it's because I'm new here, but I actually like him. He seems like a bright, sweet kid that has had to learn some lessons the, er, hard, way. Though in that people you had sex with poll, he made a post about me that crossed the line, and I so I crossed the line, and was a bit meaner than I'd like to be.

hi sarahel! basically nothing but <3 for your tude and i am sorry if i caused any consternation, it was a silly and jarring way to put it but basically yeah i saw a few of my own overposting habits in some of your posting lately and thought i could possibly lend a word of advice...it was above and beyond my station as i now see...and i can only declare that i wouldn't do it to/for someone i disliked. specific examples? well...it's not so much individual posts as density (and yeah, i'm guilty of this too quite a lot)...i think on the WDYLL thread you threw a coupla jpgs in that were a bit off-topic and there was another one this morning where you were trying to find innuendo in everything (possibly the ppl you've had sex with thread yeah)...these aren't annoying per se (and sometimes hit the mark big-time) but there have been a few examples where you've shoehorned things in where they er don't need to be...i mean actively responding is a good thing but some things are maybe best left unsaid...no probs with your posts on an individual basis mind, and i still stick by my words of fandom above! now before i dig myself any deeper, i offer a conciliatory handshake and a tip of the hat. never will i 'call someone out' on barely-significant grounds like this again!

no i think everyone loves him- i was just kidding around. lj is ilx's honorary younger brother

Hey S, I have a q - have you been reading ILX for a long time? I ask because you seem to reference things a lot that happened years ago but said you've only been here 6 mo? Not a criticism btw - just wondering.

I just don't want to end up going out like Bimble.

not remotely in any danger of that iirc, you need to girl up and start respectin' the bauhaus a bit more

xp enbb: I've been reading ilx for a little longer than I've been posting ... but I'll read archived threads and follow links to old threads to get a better sense of things that have gone on.

Bauhaus >>>>>>>>> Culture Club.

Merry Christmas, ILE!

Ah cool. That makes sense. :-) At first I thought you were someone old with a new un.

sarahel, you live in SF, right? (or am I misremembering that?)

thanks, matt! oh that means it's almost time for my birthday, too!
xpost

and enbb's!

No I'm just someone old that's new to ilx.

xp- SF for 1 year, currently Oakland for the past 11 years, 12 years, if it's actually November.

x post - YES BIRTHDAY ALMOST TWIN.

<3 <3

did I get OTT on that arts admin thread?

Is this our first time-warped thread?

there was the one where the dude was looking for an ibm mainframe from 1972

but I'll read archived threads and follow links to old threads to get a better sense of things that have gone on.

You may not be surprised to know that I did that at first, too.

I think we maybe need to move over to a new parchement, this one's getting a bit long.

no one read the arts admin thread except me and tza and i for one thought it was great!

see that's what I was confused about with the posting too much allegation ... I went a bit hogwild on that, and the things-in-buckets thread that I started, in order to restrain myself from posting pics of things in buckets to other threads, and the innocuous placeholder thread that evolved into me & kenan discussing edits to the Charles Whitman bio on wikipedia ...

Fwiw, sarahel, you should have seen me on the photos of writers thread. I was inhabited by demons!

seconded on the arts admin, you guys were both v. helpful

arts admin thread*

maybe we should start a new board: i love arts administration

NYSCA: C/D

we could take over one of the moribund boards, at least.

Any other arts admin people have to deal with the Cultural Data Project? They just introduced it in California last year (think it started in PA), but I know they're starting it in other states, as well.

followup:
ts: nysca vs dca

lj is ilx's honorary younger brother

haha I was going to say "cute puppy that occasionally makes a mess" but this is better, since LJ is far from dumb

no joking this is like praise from caesar <3

I for one welcome our new arts admin overlords.

jaggermeister, OBN! j/k

Careful, nabisco, you know how Caesar ended up.

et tu, lj?

so would LJ be doing the stabbing or the elegy?

mr que you post too much plz desist

suck it, limey

http://lolpuppy.com/cute-puppies/wuv.jpg

l-r: Que, LJ

those puppies are cute.

http://www.laartgirls.com/blogs/tk/archives/post-342195-1134356422.jpg

lois jabber otm

oh good it's ed bradley

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/7403/ohtehnoessu7.gif

I don't think I understand the internet anymore.

Fates, we will know your pleasures:
That we shall die, we know; 'tis but the time
And drawing days out, that men stand upon.

why is buttsecks in my thread?

it is suprise buttsex

^^ actually girl in buttsecks pic, looks like someone I went to college with. She had 44FF boobs and would sleep with one under her arm.

It was one of the results for "wuv" that I seriously had to talk myself out of using for my Que/LJ post but still could not resist posting. The image itself comes from the show Bleach, which is great and does not actually have any Buttsecks???? captions.

How many ages hence
Shall this our lofty scene be acted over
In states unborn and accents yet unknown!

thanks for your restraint HI DERE--also thanks for thinking of me and LJ when you find scary gifs of surprise buttsex

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01357/ADAMS0203_1357955a.jpg

mom-el just emailed me to tell me she had a dream that I was really depressed and wanted to know if I wanted to go on vacation. She's really keen on emailing in all-caps and using the urgent red exclamation point.

that's kind of adorable

also: i would just like to add that i'm on the side of STFU-LJ on the earlier issue. sarahel is A+. oakfap sometime when i'm not feeling totally antisocial.

yes! oakfap.

she is A- but then I am a stern judge

;-)

lj, you know i have <3 for you, but you are SO WRONG

lj v que much more like this, imo

http://images.topix.com/gallery/up-CO4RMS2TI65JA02O.jpg

she is A- but then I am a stern judge

I'm okay with an A-.

it's ok just1ne; all is patched-up, forgiven, and given an A++ rubber-stamp of approval, never again would they take for granted the gift of reading one anothers' posts <3

maybe a straight A if we're not gonna get carried away

please don't get carried away ... I think that's where the troubles started.

i think it was YOU who got carried away, B+ woman

uh-uh, I wasn't the one who suggested the other party have sex with another ilxor!

it's too soon to joke, but velko is a very handsome ilxor as they come so i'll graciously retract that one. :)

I think we're even.

Yes. Night!

Actually ... if I were to get an Ulver album, which one should I get?

sarahel, you never included your email address in the webmail that ya sent me-- so i can't give you the lowdown on j0seph l3ase.

also, you live in oakland? or the City?

i missed the convo-- oakland....

well, we should try to cross paths at some point?

Wait, is this how Louis hits on women?

Jesus don't you ppl ever know when to stop?

― Pancakes are one of my favorite ways to party. (ENBB), Friday, 24 July 2009 20:14 (Yesterday) Permalink

If you have to ask....

Btw i am also curious as to how LJ hits on women. I haven't read "the game" but I wonder if this tactic might be found somewhere within in.

sarahel - well my favourite album of the decade is 'blood inside', so that one. but all of them are worth it.

nick - you got me sussed. back to the drawing-board.

xp table: sorry, I thought you could just click on my display name and reply.

I'm female ... almost 35.

Same here. Except male, obv. Are you another Scorpio freakshow?

I love this thread.

sarahel, is it Sarah El or Sara Hel?

― ian, Tuesday, July 7, 2009 7:37 PM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Was just thinking this

xp kenan: that is my astrological sign, yes. Some of my best friends are also Scorpios, including my better half.

My first name ends in an "h" ... some "Sarah"s are really touchy about people omitting the "h" ... I was when I was much younger, now I really don't care if someone gets it wrong. In high school choir, there were two other Sarahs, so we were called by our first name and last initial, and I was "Sarahel."

good day sarahel

Sarahel, recommend me something awesome to listen to that you have been enjoying of late.

I've been liking Absu a lot, and Koenjihyakkei. Flying Luttenbachers have been one of favorite bands for several years now.

awesome thankig u

The latter band also did a great cover of "De Futura" by Magma. Unfortunately, the album is out of print. I'm sure it's online somewhere, so if you download it for free, you can do so with a clear conscience.

testing bookmark function

did it work?

yes!

!

It's the first time I've used that feature. I wanted to figure out how it worked. I felt dumb that people had posted on this thread yesterday, and I didn't notice, because I was too busy over in the milk aisle.

bookmark function has destroyed my personal life tbh

is milk aisle bookmarked T

xp kenan: that is my astrological sign, yes. Some of my best friends are also Scorpios, including my better half.

A scorpio-scorpio marriage sounds both awesome and anxious. I learned to stay away from those people a long time ago. :)

(I'm a Scorpio-Libra cusp, btw. October 23.)

I thought that's what v1agra was invented for?

xp kenan: he's a Scorpio/Sag cusp. I'm square in the middle of Scorpio, but with a Leo moon and Aries rising. One of my exes was a Scorpio-Libra cusp -- he was a real piece of work.

As am I.

What a piece of work is a man! How overbearing in conversation, how intolerable in vanity!

I felt very proud to be his first ex-girlfriend that he was on speaking terms with post-breakup.

we were close friends first, and the relationship really should have stayed that way, tbh.

I have a couple exes that still like me ok. I have a few that really, really don't.

no interest with being friends with exes

It's always better to get out before they hate you deeply.

before me, he made not-speaking-to-his-exes a matter of principle. When I found out he was getting married (years after we broke up), I was pretty shocked. He had trouble getting close to someone and not becoming seriously contemptuous of them.

really do not agree with that principal, reason they're exes afaics

meant to say disagree

double negative yo!

My contempt of people is constantly being tempered by my need for them. So you make choices.

I think he probably just grew up, honestly. Some of the emails he's sent me about his wife, definitely seem like the contempt thing hasn't gone away, but I think he genuinely does love her, and I hope it works out.

I think part of his appeal to me was that he was more fucked up than I was, and I wanted to "help." The first time I cried in front of him, he told me, "I liked you better when you didn't have feelings." I should have ended things right there, but I was romantic and 20 years old.

The first time I cried in front of him, he told me, "I liked you better when you didn't have feelings."

Whoa. Ok, I'm not THAT much of a piece of work.

what's fucked up is i think he sounds awesome in that story

I can be a cold-ass motherfucker, but that's extremely mean-spirited.

I mean, if your crying girlfriend doesn't soften you up just a bit, you may be hopeless.

At the time, I liked me more when I didn't have feelings. Also, girls crying was kinda a weird turn-on for him.

when ppl cry for relationship-related reasons, I just get really suspicious and don't really believe them entirely

I don't know how your username sounds, when I look at it, it's all

SA http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/2371/rraaaarrltrans.png

The crying wasn't related to the relationship. Someone had written something mean about me in a campus publication. At the time, I wrote for another campus publication that regularly made fun of other students. So, I felt like I couldn't actually complain about the treatment. It still made me upset, though.

when ppl cry for relationship-related reasons, I just get really suspicious and don't really believe them entirely

That's pretty psycho. Yeah, Rorschach seems about right.

there are people that cry as a means of manipulation, but most of the time, they're genuinely upset.

I dunno, when it comes to relationship i've been with guys that were all about talking about their feelings, which generally gets me v. eyeroll unless you have some real current issues anyway, but never really gave any evidence of having feelings in any other way, and despite their words were really calculating, and I always feel like I'm the opposite, i'm sincere about stuff I just don't want to have to talk about it, you know, ever.

my most drama filled relationship was basically a lot of going through the motions on both ends i think

i'm sincere about stuff I just don't want to have to talk about it, you know, ever.

Talking about it is a skill I have acquired over time, to be sure. Ok, I kinda relate to that.

I think the thing for him, was that the crying was simultaneously affecting and he was also suspicious of it. He was definitely a product of boarding schools -- where it seems like kids perfect bullying, manipulation, and fucked up behavior towards one another a lot more than at schools where they go home to their families every day.

xp Surely I still conceal more feelings than I reveal. But there are practical reasons for that. I'm given to having intense feelings about anything and everything, and that's no way to go through your day.

yeah boarding school will fuck you up

I just try to remind myself, when I feel really intensely about something, that we're all going to die. It helps.

the school I went to still had boarders when I started going there an they were all total psychopaths, whenever they got into fights it was vicious too

At one of the boarding schools he went to, one of his best male friends got raped by a resident assistant.

some of us boarded and turned out ok

Good for those people. Your point being?

perhaps i shouldn't go for comic irony in every post...

is that what that is? XD

my point is that my ex had some seriously fucked up shit happen to him, that I generally forgave him a bit of psycho-ness.

I could never demand forgiveness of my psycho-ness, but lord knows I appreciate it.

ur squeeze isn't your therapist impo

I was also emotionally fucked up and 20 years old so I found his psycho-ness attractive.

xpost Your therapist won't forgive you, either. Not their job.

what if you're dating your therapist?

kinda liked this thread more when it was Sarahel knowing awesome music stuff and being quick on the uptake

I'll quit posting about my ex-boyfriend's fucked up youth. I've probably forgotten half of the details at this point.

I'll stop posting altogether. Friday night.

people to see, drinking to do ...

okay, here's a question:

not wanting to get into too much detail, but -

I was recently contacted by a reporter for the local paper who wants to write an article about a business I and my partner operate. The main focus of the article is one aspect of our business, that my partner manages. Motivated partly by jealousy, as well as a desire for the article to present a better picture, I mentioned another aspect of the business - the part I manage. The reporter was not aware of this aspect of our business. This aspect is not properly licensed, and we received attention from the City government about it, and we are officially "not doing that anymore." There has been a bit of criticism from the arts community of the City government for cracking down on these activities. The paper that this reporter writes for is one that City government officials actually read, as opposed to alternative weeklies, which list these activities in their paper.

I'm trying to figure out the best way of handling this. Do I play it safe? Do I tell the truth and try and make it a political issue?

not a pot club in anticipation of one obvious question.

It took a while, but I've figured it all out.

what I should do, or what my real name is?

Oh, I don't know what you should do. Just the specifics of the situation.

I guess I would ask, though, what sort of ramifications would there be if the city found out? Could the city shut down the whole business? Force you to pay a fine? Or would you be able to say "sorry, won't happen again" and then carry on as usual?

(The business sounds rad, btw.)

king of research

it's one of those things ... I've gotten plenty of advice about the whole thing ... which goes back about a year and half. Lots of people saying to make a political issue out of it, garner a lot of community support and effect change, etc. Lots of "We're with you all the way." But, these people aren't me.

in answer to your questions: I don't know what they would do. They could declare it a public nuisance and shut it down. The potential fines, if they choose to go that route, are probably less severe than were we to have continued the other unlicensed practice that is obviously illegal, though the City of San Francisco tends to turn a blind eye to it when engaged in by non-profits like ours. However, the City of Oakland does not.

We made a serious attempt to try and get licensed, and it just wasn't feasible. The process involved a series of judgment calls on the City's part, none of which went in our favor.

oh you are that Sarah

just reading this thread now, so strange connecting your real life and online personas. okay anyway hi

& best not to tell anyone about it, the bay area could not stand to risk losing what you do for the community

so don't tell ANYONE

it was good seeing you the other night, btw.

nice to see you too, international freakout so much more the party since moving to oakland

I think I got seriously dehydrated from the smoke machine ... I forgot how much of a treat Crazy L1sa is ...

I can really relate to Season 3 of The Wire ...

i figured it out too--just wanted to say good luck w/everything.

thanks! Part of me was offended that this reporter had no clue about _that stuff_ considering she writes a nightlife column. On the other hand, it's probably for the best, and as most of what we do serves a niche audience, does it really matter? Still, I was kinda dumbfounded that professional journalist lacks the instinct to perform a google search or look at our website.

this is all very mysterious and intriguing

considering you live in a foreign country, I wouldn't have a problem with you knowing particulars, but I'd like to humbly request that names of people and entities not appear on ilx. I'm partly here to escape from this stuff.

i know tho

xp

oh, don't worry, I may be a little tipsy but I'm basically 100% in favour of not bringing this into a public realm

but I am about to embark on a jaymc-type quest of knowledge. possibly. mostly 'coz i am a fan.

you can always message me through ilx ...though, I just realized that a google search for my first name and last initial and my city of residence, puts me in the first page of results ... oh well.

this is a surprisingly tough OPO

actually it's only on the first page if you put the name part in quotes.

lol yeah because there's only one sarahel on the first page and she looks a bit too dilapidated and lawyery, no offence to her and her esteemed practice

i did find some restaurant reviews i assume to be yours tho

uh i think i've worked this out

how dare you accuse me of being a yelper!

also i have definitely found u

I'd almost forgotten I wrote for that site ...

is british google strange or something

oh lol you are the mystery yelper, excellent, the net is closing in o_O

I am not the yelper ...

ah ok

so that other article just below is yours...crazy animals huh

still doesn't offer any more clues as to this shady business...more digging perhaps

imo this is getting kind of creepy guys

xp - hey, if you're gonna study journalism, you gotta get used to doing research ... when I'm looking for info on someone associated with an organization or entity or publication, I generally check to see if there's a staff listing.

I honestly don't mind that much if people know who I am, I just don't want my professional affiliations spelled out on ilx.

fwiw i just found you and your business :P

congratulations!

it is an awesome business no lie

also i am normally pretty good at this research lark...i found and facebook-friended DJ Mencap armed only with the knowledge he'd put on a certain band in a certain city...anyway enuff crepe (altho it isn't really crepe let's be honest, it is all <3)

i still have no idea, even with all these clues

oh look, a flickr stream

yeah ... my outdated artist's resume is out there somewhere too ...

suddenly, everything was deconstructed and demythologised

sorry about that ...

how best to approach a story whose formatting can be described as 'inscrutable at best'

as a reader or writer?

haa, don't worry, the latter isn't a problem...youtube audio clips interspersed with website text interspersed with home-delivered leaflets

regarding yr story, i get that my assumptions abt narrative are being deconstructed or whatever but like where's the start

l0u1s jagg3r

which story? the l1ve journ@l one?

haha yes that one!

(sorry i am abt to sleep...if i ever ruin yr thread again with mental overposting just gimme a polite word)

that one isn't much to do with deconstruction or anything ... it's a fairly straight narrative, only the live journal format makes it all backwards.

you can always message me through ilx, send email, etc.

Damn that LJ! Oh wait I was supposed to be hitting the hay.

the story began as an attempt to sublimate the diaristic impulse, which is why it's on that site.

Guys just get a room and get it over with already ;-)

(kidding, of course!!!)

yay boobs are back!

lol :D

They're dancing!

there was this video art piece I saw once that was pretty much a close up of boobs in a tight t-shirt jiggling along to a Michael Jackson song. It was projected on the wall, so they were quite large.

ha!

it was the only video piece in the exhibition ... sponsored by Altoids.

someone messaged me about an hour ago, and I have no idea who it is, so I can't reply

it's meeeeeeeee

this is like one of those 3-D magic eye things that i can never see, no matter how hard i look.

Stevie - messaged you.

So Louis, you're just nocturnal now?

Not quite! Don't expect a great deal of me between 5 am and midday tho

I actually went back and read some of that story ... it's pretty workmanlike, and something, very much like a diary, where the real audience is myself. It did make me feel better realizing that half of the annoying people that inspired some of the characters, I really don't have anything to do with anymore.

in response to the last question on the mod req forum thread, she was the singer in the original recording.

! that is awesome...i do trust she regarded her efforts with the utmost fondness

she did ... another friend, the one who wanted the Slovenian Babies was totally in awe of her when she found out she sang the Most Unwanted Song

you have groovy connections...do you know anyone else involved in this brilliant project? and for serious, the moment 4:16 into the Most Wanted song more than justifies not only its existence, but also that of all terrible adult-contemporary smooth-jazz ever

No, I don't ... I was familiar with the work of the conceptual artists who commissioned it, which is how I came to hear it.

Well, that you feasibly had the services of that soprano for a reconstruction is adequate awesomeness for me. A true vocal pioneer.

I hadn't actually discussed it with her.

For a while I was working on a project where I would make "America's Most Wanted Movie" (composed of existing clips, as opposed to filming a new one), but it ended up just being a power point presentation about the project.

No, we or somebody MUST make the Most Wanted and Unwanted movies!!!

instead of surveying people, I compiled results of other surveys to come up with a list of 100 movies, and then my bf patiently helped me fill out surveys of attributes of these movies ... hundreds of hours ... we didn't end up watching all 100 ... I think we did 91 of them. Most of the ones we didn't do were Disney movies.

Totally gonna survey like 500 ppl asking 'what are the 3 things you most want/unwant in a movie' and then make a short film of each

It would probably work better (perhaps be more hilarious) if you had a longer more "scientific" survey.

n.b. if 'enormous big-budget outer-space sci-fi action CGI' crops up in either list then it's getting ignored

Oh, you mean, by asking different questions like 'what would make you leave a film early'/'what would make you see a film again'?

like:
would there be a small child in it?
what side of the law is the main character on?
what is the most powerful weapon used?
Is there full-frontal nudity?

What is the main character's weakness?

exactly ...like that.

some of my other survey questions:

What is the largest object thrown?
What is the largest number of people killed in one scene?

we got in a few arguments about whether something constituted "throwing" ...

Except I would take these questions and ASK them of my contributors regarding the ideal and the non-ideal result...

sure ...

How long between the principle couple meeting and winding up in bed?

I don't know if you should assume that it's a love story, and that there is bedding involved.

True. Or that it is a movie of mass killing, with throwing involved.

How many uses of bad language?

that was one of the problems/challenges ... coming up with questions that are relatively universal. But it's a different process if you're asking people vs. surveying existing films.

Well, yeah. You've gotta be pretty general when asking people what they want. Even to the point of 'on a scale of 1-10, how optimistic is the movie?'

also key is to have the answers be easily quantifiable ... like how would you translate a "7" on the optimism scale into a new movie, vs. do characters go shopping and what do they buy?

What animals are there in the film? Can they talk?

precisely.

the thing they did with paintings wasn't as entertaining as the song one ... but the American favorite painting was pretty classic.

Really hope they did a Kinkade of Hooters

http://emilypothast.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/most700.jpg

note George Washington randomly standing there ...

this is Finland's least wanted:
http://www.diacenter.org/km/fin/least.jpg

LOL they totally Kinkaded the shit out of it xp

Amusement within: Scientific Attempt To Create Most Wanted and Least Wanted Paintings (according to country)

LMAO at seeing the USA one and then the France one

oh wait

haaaaaaaaa

America is such a great country ...

China's is pretty classic ...

oh wait I just now realized that I know who sarahel is. hey sarahel.

hey there ... it took me a bit to realize I knew you too...

I'm trying to think if I have a party persona ... as opposed to me, only louder and more talkative

― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Monday, August 17, 2009 2:37 PM (2 days ago

okay, my drunk at party persona is definitely me + higher volume + faster tempo + more shit-talking + will continue telling the story until it's "totally hilarious" conclusion no matter who is listening or who is trying to get a word in edgewise ... could be worse

GQ has voted my alma mater the #1 douchiest college
http://men.style.com/gq/features/landing?id=content_10779

there are 24 more ...

lol @ 3 out of top 4 being ivy. usc should ahve been higher imo

I think the fact that Yale isn't in the list is significant

yeah usc is top 5 no doubt

are brown people really that douchey?

haha 'brown people'

hating on harvard is too easy, princeton more deserving of class-based ire. i don't have any neg associations re: brown other than ancient semiotics lolz. also dartmouth prob more worthy of random ivy hatred

dartmouth seems the most date-rapey of all the ivy league

I could see someone interpreting the "new curriculum" as douchey and its implication that "Our students are too good for general ed requirements." Honestly, that's half the reason I went there. Probably the douchiest class I took was statistics for social science majors where most of the class were preppy business majors, only the major was called something else.

hating on harvard is too easy, princeton more deserving of class-based ire.

Yale's pretty easy to hate on, too, which is why I think it's telling it's not on the list. Posh Ivy League school in the middle of a slum, and all that. George W Bush went there, ffs. I went to a party at Yale once, and it was douche central, it was called "The Pump and Slipper Ball"

i've had better experience with yalies but i went to school in the 80s (at a non-douchey ivy). school "types" do change somewhat over the years.

Penn, Cornell or Columbia?

I see but one non-douchey ivy among those 3

it is in a douche sandwich

yeah, they're all kinda douchey, no lie

i can't remember, does cornell get zinged for hotel management or agriculture programs, or both?

otoh, I'm on this regional alumni list, and some guy posted about wanting to sell his multi-million dollar home including a vineyard, and the posts in response were divided between polite accusations of douchitude and "he's just a guy wanting to sell his great home." All of the official alumni activities in the region seem seriously douchey.

cornell gets lots of sheep-fucking jokes.

princeton as the jockiest of the good ivies is by a long shot home to the largest concentration of douchebags on this coast

suicide rate is the big one lately xxp

http://www.t-shirtexpressions.com/ithacagorges/tshirts/large/05.jpg

what I did on my ILX vacation ...

http://www.tradertiki.com/wp-content/IMG/macadamiachichi.jpg

http://ak.imgfarm.com/images/fwp/myfuncards/Everyday/lg/WelcomeBackPooch.jpg

thanks!

and: http://www.ripten.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/rockband_drums.jpg

woo hello! am totally gonna respond to that mail at some point this weekend when I am not watching music, which will sadly (happily?) be 'not much of the time'. but yeah rock on and don't selfban again unless you have an A+++ reason

sarahel: recommend a restaurant in oakland/berkeley for us to try out tonight, one that has decent vegan options (please)

current options, by order of preference for tonight:
1. golden lotus (solely vegan vietnamese)
2. flavors of india (great indian but been going there a lot)
3. herbivore (would have to go to the one in berkeley, which is shit compared to the sf one)
4. pasta pomodoro on college in rockridge (but jordan eats pasta every day for lunch, so he'd rather not)

he does? no wonder he's fat.

<3

he's not fat he's ~BUILT~

now we're thinking of maybe going to souley vegan. sarahel have you been there?

I haven't ... I have eaten at:

Golden Lotus - pretty tasty, even to someone who eats meat and fish

Herbivore - yeah, some of their stuff in Berkeley location is good, but definitely not all ... I think I had some soup there (might have been lentil or split pea) that was great, and the polenta w/mushroom gravy is fine, though I end up adding plenty of salt to it. The cocktails are pretty great, though.

Neither me or the bf are vegan (he's vegetarian, I was vegetarian briefly, then spent about 8 years as vegetarian + fish, and am now back to eating meat), so I'm not super knowledgeable about vegan restaurants. I do have several friends who are vegan, and off the top of my head - places the vegan friends like to eat besides those mentioned above:

Manzanita Restaurant (i think it's also macrobiotic or something) - on the Oakland/emeryville border
Lanesplitter's on telegraph will make vegan pizza
Rudy's Can't Fail Café has a good number of vegan options
Fellini's in Berkeley will make things vegan for you if you ask (fairly pricey - we'll go there for special occasions like birthdays and such or the periodic "romantic dinner")

Have you considered Ethiopian food as an option? I think the vegetable dishes are vegan. There are plenty of yummy Ethiopian places in Oakland.

<3 you jordan

dartmouth seems the most date-rapey of all the ivy league

― velko, Friday, August 28, 2009 5:27 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

:(

jokes bruv

My worst roommate at Brown - who actually helped me get over a particularly vicious bout of self-loathing freshman year by being even more loathsome than I found myself to be - had a bunch of friends at Dartmouth. They were pretty much wealthy preppy types that liked to ski and drink a lot.

liked to ski and drink a lot.

:-/

the people that i know who went there are extremely preppy and conservative (not conservative politically, just people without anything remotely "alternative" about them). but nice!

^^ yeah, that's pretty much what her friends were like ...

those people were def legion, but all my friends were outdoorsy types and dirtbags and the like

I don't want to imply that I believe everyone who went to Dartmouth was like that ...

yeah we read about that macrobiotic place, it seemed a bit much. the vegan soul food place was... interesting. ytth loved it but i thought it was meh. but then i've never had real soul food either. he digs ethiopian but i feel like it's probably too spicy for me. also i am the world's worst/fussiest eater :/

the vegetable dishes in ethiopian food aren't all that spicy ... it's the meat that is.

i've never thought of the meat as overly spicy, either!

I think I've only had ethiopian food w/meat a few times, the dishes with chicken and fish weren't very spicy, but the beef was fairly spicy.

ok i might be using the wrong word to describe what i mean - i don't mean hot, i mean... too much flavour? or something. gahh. my brain is retarded today.

I think the vegetables are fairly mild - in both senses - milder than those in Indian food, in general.

the lentils + tomato salad w/ jalapenos are always really spicy. the meat is usu very spicy too i think. still the best food ever though, prob

it is usually a little salty, too, which might be the overpowering spice/feel you're getting, j.

I think the beef and lamb are usually the spiciest.

i don't know if i would like it vegan though--it's all made with tons of butter

i mean i would not like it w/ a substitute which is what i'm assuming they do. veg oil or something.

is it? I have no idea how it's cooked ... I just assumed it was cooked in oil.

nope all the stew-ish dishes have clarified butter. i like to read recipes in my spare time lol

I eat out or get take out too much ... I should do more cooking.

vegan ethiopian food is really good... a place in LA made vegan dishes, and it was w/oil instead of butter. i think that justine would have a problem with the bread more than anything else, since it's so yeasty and sour tasting. pungent, almost.

yeah, it's something you either really like or don't, I think.

I think you need some NZ banana-shaped banana candies, Justin333.

i need some sage and blu cheese ravioli from the italian restaurant i used to work at :(

that sounds really good ...

that sounds really good ...

― what happened? i am confused. (sarahel), Monday, September 7, 2009 2:21 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark

i do not like the idea of blue cheese in ravioli :(

Awww, I like blue cheese in ravioli a lot because it has enough flavor to compete with really flavorful sauces.

it is a ricotta-filled ravioli served in a SUPER AMAZING RICH blu cheese, sage, parmesan cream sauce. it is heaven in a plate.

but yeah rock on and don't selfban again unless you have an A+++ reason

thanks ... let me know if anyone wants to see anymore "vacation" pictures ...

Social Security annual statement came in the mail today - "guess what, we'll run out of money the year you retire! ... but, uh, we'll figure out some way to pay you at least some of what you paid in."

sarahel has made some pretty funny posts in the last three days

I'd like to commend Whiney on his recent display names

what happened to ol girl?

lol do you really want to know

i mean, she went from being totally omnipresent on the board to not posting at all, from what i can tell -- j/w

was kinda going for the closing-my-eyes-and-hoping-it-went-away approach myself

i was just wondering where she went.

she's fine.

meanies

hope she's ok, hope she comes back.

Been wondering this for a while. Her departure was so sudden.

Yeah, did something happen? I hope she comes back some day.

She's fine.

i was just wondering where she went.

― forksclovetofu, Thursday, April 1, 2010 5:10 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark

maybe scour the archives and bring up what you find there in an inappropriate and overfamiliar way?

^ha

yeah she's fine, just chilling away from ilx for a bit (aside from one amusing bit of sockmanship)

miss her but like ilx is a poison sometimes maybe.

texting with her about Godard thanks to amateurist

agree with plax (mvp for biggest bs of the 00's, btw)

also I just have to log off and bike home already

texting with her about Godard thanks to amateurist

what?

hope she's ok, hope she comes back.

― Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Thursday, April 1, 2010 2:22 AM (2 months ago)

i'm fine.

it's nice to see you, sarahel.

<3 estela - i keep thinking about your 6 billion people comment re: the ex-bf and it never fails to make me LOL

<3 i know first hand it is an effective cheerer-upper.

GIRL WHERE YOU BEEN AT.

Stevie! I think I might actually be visiting NYC sometime this fall - late september, maybe - between my jobs and volunteer obligations, it's been next to impossible to go anywhere in almost 10 years.

Hey Sarah,

Sort of a long shot, but do you know a guy in Oakland named Chr1s C@rl3y? Performs as DJ 0n@n1st?

does not ring a bell

OK, thanks!

He is an old high-school friend of mine who I don't keep in touch with much anymore, but I know he was in an experimental/noise act in St. Louis for a while and thought he might be still involved in "the scene" now that he's in the Bay Area. I think he does stuff with Other Cinema?

hmmm ... might be one of those people i know by sight whose names i do not know.

Word.

any further questions?

did u roll w/ the fratboys in college?

i was one - i belonged to a co-ed fraternity in college. ian went to a party there once.

it was the gay fraternity, iirc. and by party she means "poetry slam"

tbh i only know what fraternities are from movies w/ tara reid in them

timeline of aesthetic evolution of my frat

mid 90s - band nerds, role-playing geeks, misc. weirdos like me
late 90s - arty & queer
early 00s - pirate a cappella group, slightly nerdier queers, poetry slams

what even is a frat really

i thought it was this

http://www.phisigflorida.com/Photos_old/Toga%20Party.jpg

american fraternities pretty much all base their ritual stuff on freemasonry.

some are like the picture, others aren't. there are party frats, there are nerd frats, there are social climbing/preppy frats

i suppose this will never have any impact on any aspect of my life at all tho

the hygiene and maintenance of horse genitalia will never have any impact on any aspect of my life, but it is still interesting to know about

valid comparison?

equally messy

Hey ... so i'm going to get on a plane for the first time in ten years

i am going to Brooklyn - i will be there for a week - from the 29th of this month till the following Tuesday

tell me things about planes and Brooklyn and stuff to do/not to do

IRL troll all of NYC ILX (that is a thing to do)

what would that consist of, miss?

pretend to be an AnCo groupie? idk

u could troll me i guess?
did i ever have my own thread for updates?
i feel like i missed out.

track down Sufjan Stevens if he's around & go bowling w/ him

. . . then punch him in the kidney and push him and his ukulele into lake michigan.

lol ;_;

i just thought it would be a bit arrogant to start a whole separate thread about my vacation and fear/ignorance of commercial air travel post 9/11

yeah, i have the same concerns about air travel, especially when it comes to my wife and/or daughter flying.

okay - so tell me if i'm right or wrong about these things:

no cigarette lighters on planes
anything liquid has to be in 3 oz travel sized containers

lighters ok on planes

can i bring outside food on a plane?

what about electronic cigarettes - can i smoke one on a plane?

burgers
beer
making fun of alan licht behind his back

my trip is also planned around getting to see Richard Pinhas play with Wolf Eyes - fyi

oh, you'll be able to make fun of all sorts of avant-garde yahoos at that show.

but i wanna know if there'll be hipsters there! I want to experience firsthand this phenomenon that has catapulted Whiney to such success!

my trip is also planned around getting to see Richard Pinhas play with Wolf Eyes - fyi

jealous

jetblue was advertising $79 fares between jfk and orlando - you live near there, right? or am i just totally confused?

the distance from Atlanta to Orlando is roughly half the distance from Atlanta to NYC.

lol - i have no idea why i thought that! sorry!

southern states are big!!

i know! one of my college roommates was from Tennessee and we liked to make fun of the "teeny tiny states" that comprise New England

like we'd say, "oooh, Rhode Island is sooo small, such a cute little teeny tiny state!"

don't want no short dick state

her bf was from Connecticut - we'd occasionally joke about there being a correlation between the size of his home state and his dick

should i unsubscribe to sp0ckm0urge? It used to be all rad noize newz and WHAT IS AWESOME posts and now it's all apartment listings in Oakland

hahaha! most of the show and news announcements are crossposted to brutalsfx anyway

http://www.sfweekly.com/2005-08-10/music/the-skaters/

un chien album andalusia

was there ever a resolution to the dude-from-skaters-bilking-his-mail-order-customers saga?

sarah what do u think of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8Oqo_2ddq4

are the people in the video the sports science bros you were talking about in that other thread?

hmmmmmn

i think they are the downhome northern equivalent of SSBs

nb for the purposes of this thread it shall be assumed that #northern translates approximately to #southern in american terms

like if those guys were American, i can easily see people i know referring to them as "frat boy douchebags" - but they are obv not American, because the Range Rover rapper is sitting up front to the left and there is no steering wheel.

obv they live in magictown where steering wheels are unnecessary

how does one keep it real in magictown?

necromancy

happy birthday!

thanks! i think after drink #3 last night, i was holding forth on the dreaminess of Mark Ruffalo

Sarahel! Truly a Most Valuable Poster!
I would really like to meet you IRL someday--I travel to Oaksterdam periodically to visit my brother!
Sarahel!
Happy Birthday!

happy birthday!!!

happy birthday sarahel!

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HBD sarahel!!!

hope you are having a rad birthday

ya happy birthday s

http://bit.ly/tIdf0v

lol + happy birthday s!

such a fan

why do you have an extra L

for a mellower and more chill me

cool

hey sarahel do you have any older peasant magik stuff? if so is there anything really excellent youd recommend?

also have you heard any of william hutsons stuff as rale?

i had never heard of peasant magik until now.

if i have heard any rale stuff, i don't remember anything about it. that is not to say it isn't good or memorable.

thread of miguel
thread for sarahel

hb dude

hey! hbd2u

sarahel, is it your birthday?

hbd hbd hbd hbd

oh wait at first I thought hb was for holla back

Happy B'day sarahel!!!

Sarahel if you visit Chicago, I'll take you to my fave Vietnamese place and why pho yo b'day.

tee hee

irl lols

yesterday was my birthday, thanks guys!

I had a lot of tiki drinks and didn't puke.

ooh, happy birthday!

not puking otm!

though i probably have puked on money before

hur

happy birthday!!

i think it's funny how this thread now only gets bumped for my birthday

sarahel, do you usually puke when you drink?

no.

sarahurl

wanna talk about bejeweled?

HAHAHAHA! You know my shameful facebook secret

sarahell, do you tweet?

no

ok cool

but if you are interesting in tweeting here is a thread 4 u
Real ornithology thread this time not on noise board (no roadkill pix PLZZZZ)

hadn't seen that thread, thanks

sorry i wasn't more helpful

nah, that was pretty good. I would consider this to be a satisfying interaction. let me know if you are interested in any cross-promotional activities on social media in the future, I have verrry interesting viral marketing ideas for selling these back issues of Spin magazine on ebay

sarahel(l) have you ever played any of the 'grand theft auto' video games?

also do you like the von trier film w/kirsten dunst in it?

the only video games i play are bejeweled blitz and scrabble variants, sometimes i will play pacman or ms. pacman if they have it at a bar and the drinks aren't so overpriced that i am reticent to spend more money at said establishment

i stopped watching von trier films after Anti-Christ

are there places in sf that have reasonably priced drinks? or: what is a reasonable price for a drink in sf?

if i move to the bay area you can borrow my ps3 if you want

well drinks should be no more than $5 -- unless it's someplace like the Eagle which has the stiffest drinks I've had in SF - then it's ok if they are $6

Are you seriously considering moving to the Bay Area, Lamp?

i have an impt job interview there in two weeks

$6 is pretty good for a double anywhere i've ever been $5 mixed drinks is p cheap i think idk. i wish jaxon still posted to ilx

me too.

xp - well it's only a double in that so many other places mix weak drinks

if how much the drinks are is the biggest factor in your decision, you should totally move here

and buy me a bunch of drinks

do the costs of drinks in an area correlate to other living expenses? def in NY drinks + rent is expensive. is it true elsewhere tho?

lamp sometimes poster sanfrandisco throws afterhours disco parties in sf

I dunno you could definitely find bars with $10-$15 drinks around here without looking too hard. but yr average neighborhood/decent bar is closer to sarahel's math.

says the guy who hasn't been inside a bar in at least a year

i feel like the average price of drinks where i live now (toronto) is p close to $7 for a mixed drink. when i lived in ny the average was maaaybe closer to $6 but i didnt go out as much and i didnt go to as many 'nice' places as i do here. i feel like the data i have for sf is hopelessly out of date, and i do not trust the anecdotal information i get from fb

if how much the drinks are is the biggest factor in your decision, you should totally move here

haha this is important job info for my bf tbrr

lamp sometimes poster sanfrandisco throws afterhours disco parties in sf

i will probably be sad/lonely for the first few months if i move and will def want to go out w/ilx people if theyre willing

There are plenty of places here to get a mixed drink for $5 or less.

i don't know if you can get a mixed drink in manhattan for five dollars

i am not as fugazi about the $5 rule as i used to be, now that i have mellowed with age, have more financial stability, and participated in enlightening discussions here on ilx. $6 for a well drink is something i can accept tbh.

i would totally drink w/u lamp -- even at a place with fancy drinks where they mush up food-like ingredients and put them in yr drink

Mixologists would call that muddling. Muddling costs about $3.00 to $5.00 dollars ime

I am way into this muddled drink I had at the Slow Club and have been making it at home - I'm not sure what it's called (a whiskey smash maybe?). Ingredients are bourbon, soda water, maple syrup, a slice of lemon and crushed mint leaves. it is awesome.

That's a mint julep.

hey Lamp are you gonna visit or what?

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it's still nowhere near her birthday in west coast america u impetuous brat

have a miserable next 8 or 9 hours sarahel, then happy birthday

ok *now* happy birthday

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hb sarahel

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happy birthday!

thanks!

it's your birthday!

birthdays are so much fun! I love presents!

big HB sarahlol

sarahell, what is your favourite situation comedy?

oh whoops, answered in nakh's thread

"lj's love life"

oh, that's a good answer

matt p's was good too!

http://www.trashtalktv.com/tag/bad-sitcoms/

i loathe tv recaps as much as lex loathes "comedy"

I didn't even know they were a thing till people here started complaining about them