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Is anything happening tonight?

hi jenny, i look forward to meeting you as well. i think this weird weather contributes to weird feelings. i'm also a bit antsy today, but don't know what to do, plus it's so crappy out. i think i want to take a nap, but know i wouldn't sleep tonight if i do, which isn't good.

dan, are you planning on going to anymore footie games this year? the USA/Brazil one is a bit expensive, but i'd be interested in going to a normal game.

Watching the Fire
Beers somewhere? Probably after 10.

xpost Yes, not the one next weekend because of my sister's wedding, but any after that!

Kr and I are going to August: Osage County tonight. Text me if something happens later, but the show won't get out until like 11, I suspect.

Courtney and I are formulating a plan. As of now it consists of the following:

1. Go to a bar.
2. ???
3. Profit!

Okay, not really number 3. We're trying to decide on a bar. Something that isn't awash in smoke would be preferable.

if anyone's still reading this, i'm probably going to a bar tonight with some chapel hillians. somewhere down around by me though - WP or Uke V.

seeing the thunderbirds at the end of the air show, while "proud to be an american" was playing over the PA, actually made me a tad bit emotional! am i a wuss or what? they also played limp bizkit's "rollin" while the thunderbirds did rolling maneuvers.

Play formulated. We will be at Galway Bay (NOT Galway Arms, although if Galway Bay is no good, we an always run into Galway's lovin' Arms) at 500 W. Diversey at 8 pm. Be there or don't be there.

Sarah and I are going to see Cococoma at Ronny's I think.

wow what a nasty goal by blanco!!

I ran! I timed myself on 5k, 27:53 from Cornelia/Broadway to North Avenue. I ran back, but a lot slower. I was slowed by air show crowds.

This is the reason that don't want to run with you. You do things to excess.

It was a reasonable pace. I don't go fast at all. Basically I shuffle my feet for 6 miles.

I'm just stubborn about stopping.

Total Time (h:m:s) - 00:27:53
Pace (miles) - 09:21
Moving speed (mph) - 6.4 (avg.)

That's reasonable, you're just slow. Get the glue off your shoe.

Riding bikes around at night while slightly drunk is funnnnnnnnn 'cause there are no cars.

Those of us with wheels should take a mass ride together sometime.

yes

I think I made up a song driving tonight that could be the big breakthrough hit for 'nasta if you will allow in an outside songwriter collaborator.

I ended up at the only open bar in St. Helena, California, which had salt-of-the-earth wine country dudes and Jenna Bush types and a band that did "Mustang Sally" and "Running Down A Dream" and then had a special guest gal singer who did full-on rock versions of "You Oughta Know" and whatever that I'll-take-your-breath-away song is by Sarah McCloughlan. It's likely that none of you wish you were there, but it was an interesting mix.

Eric, write a song for the FFs. Actually, the song on my myspace called "Wrecking Ball" was my attempt at writing a song in the Er1c Z1egenhagen styley but like most of my attempts to copy someone I don't think it really ended up sounding like an EZ song at all. It's basically a country song.

When I have timed myself on the treadmill (I usually do the 5K program) I average a 12 minute mile--I don't dip below 5 MPH, and I go up to 7 or 8 for a minute or 2 at a time. 5K is more than enough for me.

I need to find motivational running music. So far I have found that In Utero is the best for running ("Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle" is good for motivating me in a high speed push, as is "Scentless Apprentice") but I am afraid I'm going to wear it out.

I think I made up a song driving tonight that could be the big breakthrough hit for 'nasta if you will allow in an outside songwriter collaborator.

I'm interested. We've actually been working on a song that was written by T0ny S@ck3tt (of W@rm On3s), and while it's sometimes hard for me to maintain the same level of investment in his song than in the ones I've written myself (since for me, the best part of being in a band is seeing stuff you randomly made up become actual songs performed in front of people), it's still a good song, and it takes us so long to write songs that having a whole structure just given to us (even though we still have to come up with arrangements) is welcome.

Well, being sick is good for losing weight at least. For 3 days I've had barely any appetite and have been reminding myself to eat, and I'm down 3 lbs from my last known weight. And it's not water weight, since I've been chugging pint after pint of water and juice.

Worth it? I kind of think so.

This is extreme.

I just want a runner's physique.

Wow. Interesting, but so dumb. I mean it's encouraging to know the limits of what a body can do, but even a fraction of what he's doing will have a net effect of damaging the body.

I liked the Krazy Glue recommendation though.

I'd rather just work myself to death and keep a bad cold. My 4 pack is at about a 4.25 today.

August: Osage County was great, btw. Jesse, you should find a way to go if you can (I think it closes next weekend). The letter from the artistic director in the program contains the following passage:

"The patriarch is an academic and a poet. And an alcoholic. The matriarch is a wife and a mother. And a drug addict. Does this recall that other towering family of American drama, the family of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night? Does the exchange of insult and dependence in the Weston family recall the pact between Martha and George in another great American drama, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? So be it. These allusions ... are being consciously invoked by Tracy to encourage our reading of August as a drama of not only one family, the Westons, idiosyncratic in their personalities and relationships, but also our reading of the Westons as emblematic of a characteristically American family."

I would rather be fat than sick right now.

i.e., I finally succumbed to the cold I've been fighting all week and I hate it. Last night was worth it though, KJSL got offered the New Year's Eve gig at the place we played.

Thanks John, I'll make a note of it.

fat is definitely better than sick. crazy Jesse.

Fat lady at the circus better than sick lady at the circus.

I will try to write a song a la the FFs.

Glad A:OC is still in good shape after these weeks and that you were able to get in.

so tonight, with dinner I had this Leffe Blonde beer that someone here (John?) recommended to Sarah? and it was delicious. from where do I obtain all this Leffe Blondes? I love it.

fat is definitely better than sick. crazy Jesse.

But if I'm gonna be sick and miserable, I it's good to at least have slimmage as a mitigating effect.

I don't know where to get it in your neck of the woods, HS, but the liquor store on the corner of Clark and Foster has Leffe. I'm sure Binny's does, too.

Glad A:OC is still in good shape after these weeks and that you were able to get in.

Yep, we showed up outside Steppenwolf at 10 AM on Saturday and waited for an hour to get $20 tickets.

Re "good shape" -- yeah, I cannot imagine putting on a show like that nearly 10 times per week.

When I saw a preview of the show, I talked a bit with Tracy, the playwright, afterwards, and someone else who was working backstage on the show was saying to me, almost apologetically, "Yeah, yeah, don't worry, it's long, we're going to cut it before opening. It sure is long, isn't it?" and Tracy says that they were tinkering with a few things, and I'm like "Tracy, who cares about cutting, you've just got one of the great second acts in American literature is all."

Hi. Hope everyone's well.

A friend of mine is going to be in Chicago (tomorrow) for a few hours and is looking for recommendations on a place to catch some blues music. And asked me if I knew if anyone who would have any recommendations. And I thought, well maybe I do.

Thanks!

OK best article on Trapped in the Closet so far.

Reader's blues listings. Rosa's is out of the way but is supposed to be worth visiting. B.L.U.E.S. and Kingston Mines are across the street from each other, so that might be the best bet -- try either, try both.

When guests at the restaurant ask I usually recommend Buddy Guy's for its downtown location or Kingston Mines for its reputation. Still, I know nothing about either one, or about any blues places at all.

If someone wants to plan a night out to a blues place, I would like to correct my ignorance soon!

I can't see you enjoying that.

Episode 19 of TitC was interesting, lacking that familiar beat was jarring. I can't believe that there are only 2 more episodes.

This getting up early is not the horror I thought it would be. Granted, this is only day 3 of the new job*, but still, it's not the end of the world. (Normally I can get up at 7 and have time to putz around and still be on time, but today I have to get in early since I'm working at the restaurant at 4:30, but still 6:15 is not so bad).

*I had a little moment of panic when I thought "day 3 out of...."

My time in New Orleans drastically changed my perspective on jazz and blues. I still find recorded jazz tunes unlistenable, and a lot of the stuff I saw in NC (at art openings, on the street in front of my old apartment) was pretentious noodling done by dirty rich white boys.

You should start listening to improv/free jazz.

I don't know if I would enjoy a blues night. Sure I appreciate it as music, but it goes further into the lyrical territory that I have been moving away from.

Will Oldham pops up everywhere. I predict he will have a supporting role in a major Hollywood film in 5 years.

Impov/free jazz = NO!

As far as blues, as with other shows, it's not just about the music, but about the atmosphere--it is enjoyable in itself and it enhances the music.

Will Oldham pops up everywhere. I predict he will have a supporting role in a major Hollywood film in 5 years.

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