Chicago: customers are advised to allow extra travel time

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.

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/sgabriel/matewan.jpg

I'm officially sick of his ubiquity.

I wouldn't mind if he ever actually put out an album as "I See a Darkness" again.

Yeah. I agree. I assume you mean "as great as"?
As it is, lipsynching "haHA" in music videos isn't gonna cut it for me.

I'm kinda surprised by all the raving over Superbad after watching it last night. Don't get me wrong, there were some very very funny moments (the movie could have pretty much revolved entirely around McLovin and the cops and I'd have been happy), but it just wasn't overly satisfying. I think my problem was that none of the main characters were likable enough to really give a shit about them. Seth was just a misogynistic asshole with hardly any redeeming qualites and Evan was horrifically underdeveloped. And I thought the female characters were treated even worse, nothing more than drunken sluts (except for the girl throwing the party obvs). I know I'm reading a lot into a summer comedy, but some of it just rubbed me the wrong way.

Also, parents of the year candidates at our showing. I know you really wanted to see the movie, but was it really neccessary to bring three kids, all under ten, with you? Do theaters even try to enforce this shit anymore?

I was a little underwhelmed too. I laughed a lot, but it wasn't really as complete a movie as 40-Year-Old Virgin or Knocked Up. Most of the laughs weren't really the result of the script or the jokes but were because of the reactions and the high standard of comedic acting - Michael Cera still kicks ass. I thought Seth Rogan and Bill Heder stole the movie as the incompetent cops.

I'm listening to this bootleg of one of Daft Punk's recent sets, and it's pretty awesome because it was clearly recorded from the audience. You can hear the music but it's in the background, and there's one guy standing near the mic saying things like "oh god" and "oh man, Daniel, here it comes" during the climactic build-ups. Plus lots of "woooooo!"s and cheering.

I'm not sure what there is to enforce - I think as long as a parent is there, it doesn't matter how young the kid is? I could be wrong.

My fave line of Superbad: "We should be guiding his cock, not blocking it."

Also: "Spin class ... farmer's market ... pumpkin patch."

I suppose thats true, they can't really do anything.

I liked the Boyz N Tha Hood tribute when McLovin shot up the cop car.

I still find recorded jazz tunes unlistenable

What about New Orleans jazz?

I mean real major, like staring along side Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. Love interest of Jessica Biel.

Hey, I'm in chicago this weekend. Anyone want to drink a beer on sunday?

ok

maybe

Jordan--

I need the atmosphere, otherwise it's boring. Or I guess it could be good background music while eating out.

I'd have all these beers, but I'm going to be out of town this weekend.

I could have a beerz. Mondays are my new Sundays! (I work Tues-Sat)

ed, i just emailed you.

sigh, i've been listed with new 0ffice for a week and a half, and no work yet. i even got up today to call in to get something:"you're like 95% guaranteed to get an on-the-spot job if you call on a monday or friday!" they said.

That is no good. I know what it feels like, too. I fear having to temp ever again.

EZ, i'm not sure about that NYT article. it just seems to be a bit pretentious to call racism for thinking he's a bit nuts when he's claimed that he has aliens in his head. which, you know, maybe he does, but that does sound a little nuts to me.

otm... I'm not convinced that he's as in on the joke as that writer thinks. I have no trouble believing that r kelly is honestly a little bit nuts. I furtherr think it's perfectly ok to laugh at his dumb, pee-fetish mess.

hottest love jam ever:

It's like a jungle atmosphere
And we're two monkeys baby
It's like we're on a vine
The way we're swinging it baby
See, you're a tiger girl
The way you're scratching me
I'm a lion
In this jungle I'm a king
Girl, I got you so wet
It's like a rain forest
Like Jurassic Park
Except I'm your sex-a-saurus baby
You and me hopping
Like two kangaroos
Rattling and moaning
Out here in these woods

i mean, wasn't one of his big defenses in his rape trial that it wasn't him, it was his 'evil twin'? i know i read that somewhere, but can't remember where.