Chicago: customers are advised to allow extra travel time

wait, Jesse has a new job?

trapped in the closet makes the nytimes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/16/arts/music/16trap.html?em&ex=1187496000&en=040887c010330bbe&ei=5087%0A

god smells like a nutsack, but a freshly washed, gently powdered one

I love these new Trapped in the Closet chapters. He really knows how to write dialogue and get all of the timing perfect -- the stutters, the pauses, the overlapping. He knows what he's doing.

God smells like the sweetest bong hit you've ever taken, on the shaded floor of a redwood forest.

2) where should I get lunch this afternoon?

falafel

(I'm projecting my lunch desires on to you, I really want to go to The Nile today.)

xp lol ez

The Stylus Singles Jukebox is reviewing "Trapped in the Closet" parts 13-16 today. I haven't heard/watched them yet.

if we're invited to birthday party, we're driving to toronto on the 7th but free on the 15th.

I haven't watched any of Trapped in the Closet at all, I'm not sure why. I think maybe I heard the first one on the radio, but as far as I know I've totally missed the rest.

I can party pretty much whenever.

So let's get a party going (let's get a party going)
Now it's time to party and we'll party hard (party hard)
Let's get a party going (let's get a party going)
When it's time to party we will always party hard

nick, you have missed the seminal work of art of the 20th century so far.

I may or may not be kidding.

Isn't that on your family crest? xpost

There was a while when the Noise Board was embedding "Trapped in the Closet" episodes as soon as they were leaked.

nick, you have missed the seminal work of art of the 20th century so far.

That's one long century.

107 years and running.

I only heard maybe parts 1-4 and then started watching/listening to these new chapters this week. It's worth watching these ones as much as listening to them. It's like R.'s pitching a movie.

So basically what you're saying is that Sarah and I should spend the weekend catching up on Trapped in the Closet?

Oh I forgot I saw some live performance that R. Kelly did of one of the parts, probably on some MTV awards show? That was pretty binoculars.

All day
All night
All music video

you're right... i need to leave the 20th century behind. It totally sucked.

So basically what you're saying is that Sarah and I should spend the weekend catching up on Trapped in the Closet?

no no... it doesn't take long. Watch it over breakfast. Then go do other things and clear your head or the inexplicable bizarre-ness you have just witnessed.

Someone thought that they saw Will Oldham as a cop in chapter...15? 16? -- but I haven't watched it again to check.

Spend an entire weekend watching it on repeat. Then you'll see God, and you can find out what He smells like.

I feel like this is one of those Friday nights where Sarah and I spend a long time trying to figure out what to do, looking up things in the Reader and Metromix and dismissing them all, and then I get frustrated and in a bad mood and then eventually we end up checking out a movie. So really question 1 was the most important of the three questions I asked earlier.

Go to a new restaurant.

Ooh we still have that Green Zebra gift card, maybe we should do that tonight.

Go to a new restaurant.

this is truth and wisdom

via the washington post:

"[R.] Kelly says he's not sure when the series will be done, but says it will finish 'when the aliens decide to leave.'"

ahahahaha

Spend an entire weekend watching it on repeat. Then you'll see God, and you can find out what He smells like.

this is actually what all tomorrow's parties is like.

R. Kelly is an edgy motherfucker

wait... is amanda's hubby's movie tonight or next friday? I could have sworn it was tonight, but I think I'm wrong now...

Next friday.

oh ok. That's good actually, I'm so sleepy I could die.

Yeah, I'd go if it were tonight.

Yeah yeah next Friday 8/24. Also I convinced Dan that he wants to hang out at Old Timer's beforehand, so if anyone wants to meet us there please do!

ez's favorite food critic covers one of our (leaf & I) favorite local beers this week:
http://citypages.com/databank/28/1393/article15757.asp

sounds like you'll have to try it when you're up here!

the downside of people being able to see what you're listening to:

D:
are you okay?

Kenan:
?
yeah, i'm fine

D:
glad to hear it
it's just, you know, this mortal coil

Kenan:
haha
it WILL end in tears

D:
i just feel like i need to give you a pat on the back, maybe a nice cup of camomile

how do people know what you are listening to?

by the way, when did the new yorker start having weekly cartoon captioning contests?! leaf picked up a copy & as i was flipping through, it seems like the back page is now a caption contest every week. have you submitted any, john?

The contest started about two years ago, I think. I've submitted one, but there was one that I really thought I had a shot at but didn't get around to submitting in time.

seeing it made me think of you.

That Moskowitz piece is great, by the way. From what little I've read of her (that piece and the Dave and Busters one), she seems to be a great example of how criticism that's ostensibly about one thing (food, music, film, whatever) can really be about lots of things (herself, the bridge collapse, the ordinary lives of Minnesotans).

Which reminds me of this quote from Carl Wilson's blog:

I was being interviewed for a teevee show about music writing and blogging today, and among my staircase moments afterwards, I thought that my answer to the question, "If writing about music is such a non-lucrative career, why do it?" should have been that precisely because music is so abstract and inimical to verbal capture, it opens up an infinite field to write across, an unending series of creative near- or far-misses -- and because music is so insinuated in everyone's personal lives and consciousnesses, it burrows tunnels into every subject matter, making it a subject that potentially permits you to write about anything and everything in the world. But then again, I thought, that could be said of writing about food or clothing or a hundred other things.

Do you have that quote stashed in a special place so you can post it whenever you want? I swear I've seen that at least twice before and I don't even know who Carl Wilson is.

I just trawled through a year and a half of posts on my old blog to find it.

Ooh, I've never had that beer.

I just trawled through a year and a half of posts on my old blog to find it.
aw, that's a lot of effort.

Carl Wilson is the music critic for the Toronto Globe and Mail, btw. I know EZ is a fan of his.

Also, he played guitar for the Beach Boys and died in 1998.

my stomach just started a revolution & now i want to go home. blech.

http://www.virtualfools.com/filler/videogames/jimmy2521revx1.jpg