Chicago: customers are advised to allow extra travel time

Brian Z. and I just chatted:

Brian: guess what i did this morning
me: what?

Brian: an old prof of mine is doing this big deal art piece where he is photographing the feet of straight men who are masturbating (at the point of orgasm)

me: uh

Brian: (he is gay)
me: tell me you didn't
...

Brian: so he goes around and asks his straight friends and such and sets up in their apartments...i might not have...but since i am currently living in Allen Ginsberg's old apartment....I kind of thought I should take part in this....
project...
so...
this MORning...
i jerking off in front of a camera

me: eek
Brian: jerked
for the first time ever
(only pointed at my feet)
and he was out of the apartment at the time
i was sitting on a radiator in the same place the gisnberg was standing in the photo on the back cover of his last book of poem, "death and fame"

me: http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060930837.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg?
oh
you said back cover

Brian: yah that would have been more difficult especially b/c my roomate was still sleeping near there

Brian: my feet will be two of 200
me: that's interesting

Brian: then i went to work
me: i still want to know how the fuck you were sitting on a radiator
Brian: it's the summer
me: i know but radiators are pointy
Brian: there's a cover on it and a cusion that i was told ginsberg used to "hold court" while sitting on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZutgOyA9EY

brutal

I went to the Cubs game last night, it was a good time despite the loss and the hour and a half rain delay before the game even started.

Surprisingly good crowd in our section, not the steretypical drunk douchebag Cubs fans. Lots of older dudes who were very knowledgeabel about baseball.

fried chicken hangover

I'd take that over the Bellhaven Twisted Thistle hangover I have now.

45-minute bus ride hangover

http://www.aa2sbu.org/aaezine/images/C/MargaretChoNYTimesPNee.jpg

I don't know why I posted that.

hm. No one's around this morning. Did Chicago take the day off, or did the red line explode?

(I'm going to feel horrible when I find out that the red line exploded, and hundreds are dead.)

It's not even 10 AM yet, dude. I got to work 10 minutes ago.

It's usually more hopping by now though, some of us have been working for three hours already.

It's not even 10 AM yet, dude. I got to work 10 minutes ago.

lol

I saw Before Sunset yesterday and liked it infinitely more than Before Sunrise, which I walked out of in the theater, in part because it was just like being stuck on the train watching Ethan Hawke make the moves and also because I had gone to see it with a friend I hadn't seen in 6 months, and halfway through it we looked at each other and decided to Perkins and catch up with each other instead of watching two other people get to know each other.

Anyway, I liked this second one a lot. Would make a good double feature with Once, actually.

And then I also (can you tell I'm in a house with cable?) saw about 15 minutes of The Last Kiss -- go Madison.

We got some subs at Urrburrt & Gurrburrt's after the gig, then remembered "hey, fried chicken!" and stopped at KFC.

LIFE ON THE ROAD.

I like Before Sunset too.

I'd like to see the Madison shots in Last Kiss, but don't think I can deal with all this Braff.

(I'd rather just watch Back to School again)

The talky romantic movie must die.

I say that, though, without having seen any of the movies Eazy mentioned.

I admired Sunrise enormously when it came out, but having seen it again recently, I agree that Sunset is the better film. I'd like to think that it's in part because Delpy and Hawke co-wrote it.

The talky romantic movie must die.

No.

:(

more romance like this plz:

http://25frames.org/media/screens/448.jpg

Richard Linklater must die.

http://www.gothamist.com/arts/archives/sunrise.jpg

Non-talky romance

Richard Linklater must die.

I could hug you for saying that. It would be so romantic.

I like talky movies in general.

me too, tbh, but too much meet-cute makes me woozy

I've randomly been catching chapters of this Frank Lloyd Wright book on NPR (usually when driving home after a beery gig) and it's pretty interesting. I hadn't heard about these murders before! And I've been up around Spring Green a lot.

http://bfgb.wordpress.com/2007/05/15/death-in-a-prairie-house-frank-lloyd-wright-and-the-taliesin-murders-by-william-r-drennan/

I want to post to the "two true things and one lie" thread, but I can't think of two true things about myself that everyone doesn't already know.

:(

what about that procedure you had done? does everyone know about that?

you mean the partial lobotomy? I think they do.

oh, and the other thing, too

well, except for my girlfriend. I haven't told her yet.

The thing that's neat about both Once and Before Sunset is that they're talky anti-romantic movies in a way, or at least they're coming around to love and intimacy in a way that isn't about sex.

Whereas, The Last Kiss from what I saw you get to see Braff rather explicitly doing the deed and using the 'f' word and scowling and all. The bit I saw was more interesting than I would've thought, though not enough to keep me from turning it off and going to bed.

they're coming around to love and intimacy in a way that isn't about sex

YAWN

;)

I like sex in my movies. Also, violence. I am unashamed of this.

I do too, K., but now that we all aren't saving ourselves before marriage, the storyline where it's the hooking up that provides the epiphany of true love and intimacy seems a little out of date. Whereas playing a song with someone....

point taken.

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/DMS/841202~One-Night-Stand-Video-Release-Posters.jpg

There's the less talk, more action.

leaf & I watched black snake moan last night.

What did you think, Kelsey? (I haven't seen it.)

to be fair, i fell asleep during it so leaf had to recap the ending for me. aside from it being just a bizarre movie, which i usually go for, i think i'm going to come out on the side of not liking it although many of the performances were decent i just couldn't get into the story line.

but there is more sex in it than i anticipated which is why i thought of it.

I watched Monster's Ball the other night. Great soundtrack.

http://www.impawards.com/1981/posters/private_lessons.jpg

Not too talky.

burned by impawards.com. It will never stop happening.

Maybe this'll work better:

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/7/74/200px-Private_lessons.jpg

emmanuelle.jpg

Kenan I think you owe the boobs and bums thread profuse apologies.