A dreadful conversation in my apartment

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As I sat glumly watching some bad movie on DVD, my roommate and several of her friends entered and began sitting around the table in the kitchen, drinking Heineken and talking loudly about music and other topics. I'm not saying the following quotes are right or wrong, I'm just presenting them here for all to enjoy.

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"I'm not saying you can't like Wilco because you're not from Chicago, I'm just saying I appeciate what Tweeeeedy is saying more because I'm from there."

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"It's like trying to compare Ryan Adams and Bruce Springsteen."

"Yeah, seriously, you just can't."

"Ryan Adams is just SUCH a genius and Bruce is white trash."

"Yeah, straight up."

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"I can't believe Reagan died, how sad is that?"

"Really sad. He was one cool dude."

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"I saw Jet and the Vines. OH. MY. GOD! Best live show I've ever seen."

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"Oh this is so funny. Last weekend Nikki and I were bored so we went over to her boyfriend's house and took turns making out with him, it was so funny."

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"Have you ever heard of Grandaddy? they're like Radiohead but not, you know?"

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"Baby Jessica is so sad! I heard she can't walk and has to use braces like Forrest Gump, isn't that sad?"

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"Ass sex is so dirty!" (followed by silence)

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Jeff Tweedy is from St. Louis.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

So did you say that last one to shut them all up?

― Sengai, Monday, 7 June 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Gear, you need to keep your roomate around for entertainment purposes, kind of like people who own capuchin monkeys.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

it was part of a larger conversation, the silence was from my roommate and her best friend and me.

I will say that there's nothing more annoying than sitting around listening to a conversation about Wilco and have people refer to "Tweedy" by his last name only. Tweedy Tweedy Tweedy! Can't they just break up already?

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I regret to inform that there will only be several more months of excruciating entertainment, as I will be moving hopefully no later than Sept 15.

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I only want to hear the word tweedy uttered in conversations involving fall fashion.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I tried to tune it out, but I kept hearing it. "blahblahblahTweedyblahblahblahblahTweedyTweedyblahblahblahTweedygeniusTweedyblahblah"

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

1. I knew this was a Gear thread.

2. I had an uncontrollable spasm brought on by trying to hold my laughter in the net cafe.

3. Nikki's boyf is a lucky man.

4. Hang out with Girls Aloud fans and you can hear the same Tweedy spiel except with added "Cheryl" before each "Tweedy".

― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I only want to hear the word tweedy uttered in conversations involving fall fashion.

Or:

http://www.nd.edu/~colldev/subjects/irish/tweety.gif

(hope that wasn't too Jon Williams.)

― nickn (nickn), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Tweety and the Donald

http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/1999/120299/donald-chris.jpeg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Those people sound awesome.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh man, Gear's post is just like an episode of Daria (with Daria replaced by a mention of buttsex).

― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Have you ever heard of Grandaddy? they're like Radiohead but not, you know?

This should be quoted on the print ads for future Grandaddy releases.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

1. I knew this was a Gear thread.

Same here.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I really don't know how you keep from walking right up to these people and shitting on their laps, Gear. I wouldn't be able to help myself.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I really think the quotes speak for themselves.

"Gear, you need to keep your roomate around for entertainment purposes, kind of like people who own capuchin monkeys."

OTM.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

"Ass sex is so dirty!" (followed by silence)

At which point you should have said, "Yeah. Smell the couch."

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I was sitting on the couch at the time, sadly.

http://photos.friendster.com/photos/12/57/337521/3195888237370l.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I really don't know how you keep from walking right up to these people and shitting on their laps, Gear.

Cause his roomie's the ass monkey, obv.

― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:16 (twenty-one years ago)

poo-flinging is the only rebuke an ass monkey understands.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Any Which Way You Can disproves this theory.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't believe I am asking how, but...how?

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't it obvious?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

(Actually, I don't know what she is talking about either)

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Sondra Locke and Ruth Gordon are a crueler and more effective method for rebuking monkeys.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe?

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

If Gear has the opportunity to fling Ruth Gordon's corpse at his roommate he should do that too.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

That sounds like my idea of fun.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Mmm, dessicated bodies.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I feel the need to say that Jeff Tweedy is actually from Belleville, IL, sorry I'm such a pedant.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 7 June 2004 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I am going to come over and kick your roommate in the ass.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 7 June 2004 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)

although it's true that making out with Nikki's boyfriend is fun.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 7 June 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Me too! FAP!

xpost

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 7 June 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha funny xpost!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 7 June 2004 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Belleville H.S. beat my high school in the state football championship in 1993. JEFF TWEEDY CAN SUCK IT.

oh wait, maybe that was Belvedere H.S.? ah fuck football.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 7 June 2004 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember. And oops was the team's shining star. He coulda been somebody.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 7 June 2004 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

One can't fully appreciate the absurdity and annoying factor that was added to the situation with that group's collective fashion sense.

i.e.

http://www.eveprime.com/images/portfolio/hipster.1.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 7 June 2004 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Your roommate reminds me a lot of this one random stranger I made out with once and really regretted it later on when I actually talked to her.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 7 June 2004 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

You don't live in L.A. do you?

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 7 June 2004 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Shit, I AM LA.

(ie no)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 7 June 2004 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

You are LA, though.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 7 June 2004 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I think they're kinda OTM about Grandaddy tho

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Monday, 7 June 2004 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

they're kinda off their fuckin' noggin about Grandaddy as well

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 7 June 2004 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a tragedy about Baby Jessica, too.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 7 June 2004 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Everyone is right at least once in their lives.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 7 June 2004 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

My roommate seems to stick to her usual circle of guys anyway, and they're all a cross between Lenny Kravitz and Jason Mraz in style and personality.

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 7 June 2004 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got a fever which may or may not explain how hard this thread is making me laugh.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 7 June 2004 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

they're all a cross between Lenny Kravitz and Jason Mraz in style

Gear, come to the FAP this Saturday. We will buy you a drink. We will hex your roommate and her friends. We will show you the way to the light.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 June 2004 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Everyone is right at least once in their lives.

Although in some cases it's a matter of blind pigs and acorns.

BTW, Gear, was your roommate ever aware that you were in the house during the Anal Event of 2004?

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 7 June 2004 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

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I cry for Baby Jessica.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

You have just suggested a new Andrew Lloyd Webber musical and for that I must hurt you.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

"A TRUE STORY" by GEAR!

INT. WEST HOLLYWOOD APARTMENT - NIGHT

ROOMIE: What's that CD?

ME: Some CD by Bonnie Prince Billy I've always wanted to get.

ROOMIE: Oh kewwwl what's she like.

(pause)

ME: She's okay.

the end

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

gygax! why are you so grumpy?

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Everybody's Baby [see acting credit #4]

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Can I have a few drinks first?

mulyiple xpost

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Here, check this gygax.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

"who is this Jacques Jamm?"

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

"He is not blessed with great pace but more than makes up for that with his tireless running up front."

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

that is great, especially "tireless runner" as that was my forte in my competitive athletic days.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

OMFGGGGGG GHAGAASGA

http://www.470mbogo.com/vgg/i-scare-adrian.jpg

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Who the fuck are those cunts?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Something of a surprise selection in the squad, Gygax has made his name with the Swiss Under-21 side and only made his full debut as recently as March.
A midfielder or forward, the 22-year-old is an uncompromosing presence with a sweet left foot which he puts to good effect with accurate crossing from out wide.

He is not blessed with great pace but more than makes up for that with his tireless running up front.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

22-year-old!!!!!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to go on a date with @da@ml and gear!.

― mandee "lovejoy" wright, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.streetdrugs.org/Images/POOPERS.jpg

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

i meant @d@ml - clearly.

― mandee, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

As I am a daddy, this movie was hard for me to watch.

Shoot! The event was hard to hear about when it happened and I wasn't even a daddy then.

There are many views of this event and many levels on which to examine it.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.collectalotshop.com/images/fisherprice/bbears.jpg

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

freaky connection: wasn't will oldham aka 'bonnie price billy' in the baby jessica tv movie?

WILL WONDERS NEVER CEASE!?!?

― mandee "lovejoy" wright, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

he was! he was "CHIP" - whoever that is!!

― mandee, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I think he was the dad or something. Or a neighbor. Or some dude.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I think he was Baby Jessica's father.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

her mom was 18

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

we prayed for her everyday in catholic school

it was a HUGE DEAL

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

You were raised Catholic? Ah! The veil has been lifted from my eyes!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I think "Chip" was a fireman.

― mandee, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Even worse, I was raised Protestant but went to Catholic school.

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to go on a date with @da@ml and gear!.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.omnitv.ca/images/shows/elimidate.jpg

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

not on a date TOGETHER. Separately. Except schdeduled at the same time, so I'll have to make goofy excuses to leave and run around the corner to where date #2 is waiting.

― mandee, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

3 dates in one night...

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm so there! However one of us will meet Mandee, and the other will meet, er, "Sandee" your identical twin sister who wears a different jacket and glasses and her hair up (or vice versa)

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

The scenario in Gear's kitchen reminds me of an updated-for-the-00-decade version of The Dead Milkmen's "Bad Party."

"God I really hate these jokers. I can't Gene Loves Jezebel. If there is a god in heaven, I'm sure that band will burn in hell. Gonna shoot somebody if they don't stop talking about 'East Enders.'"

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

bah. "can't" should be "can't stand" in the quote above.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

'Gear's Kitchen' is the title of my next novel.

― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

"Gear' Kitchen" sounds like it should have been a Mary's Danish song.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

What's wrong with talking about Eastenders??

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I got no problem with it, but apparently the Dead Milkmen didn't like it in 1988.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

The fuxors, that was (apparently) a vintage year.

― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

heheh. I know bupkes about EastEnders.

I do know Gene Loves Jezebel though, and Dead Milkmen were spot on about them being a shit sandwich of a band.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm still waiting for a pic of the roomie. shurely she has a glossy available.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm so there! However one of us will meet Mandee, and the other will meet, er, "Sandee" your identical twin sister who wears a different jacket and glasses and her hair up (or vice versa)

Now.. this is just turning into an Archie comic, isn't it.

― mandee "killjoy" wright, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

She has a stackful of glossies in her room underneath a pile of Walkmen and Death Cab For Cutie CDs. I'll see what I can do. xpost

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

yes and wacky Mrs Doubtfire/Two Much-esque hijinks will ensue.

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Bonus if roomie's wearing a t-shirt with an emo band name/design on it (x-post).

― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

xxxpost but Will Oldham was in a John Sayles movie, which shores up what little acting cred he had left, thank God

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

he was in a movie with Chris Cooper, who was the closeted gay Marine in American Beauty. Yet more connections and completed circles!

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

nine months pass...

Any more?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 12 March 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

unfortunately I parted ways with my roommate on September 22nd 2004 around 3:37 PM and perhaps perversely in order to avoid her giving me a falsely enthusiastic goodbye hug I told her I'd be back the next day. She called "Okay!" from her room, whilst clutching a short man with glasses that I'd never seen before and looked suspiciously unlike the "boy" she'd been dating. I assumed I might hear from her at some point, because I might have owed her $5 on a utility bill, but that was that.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Saturday, 12 March 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

which was actually not techniaclly the last time I saw her, because that was a tale related previous, when she closed a door on me after a brief exchange. But this was the last exchange we had (I saw the short fella go into her room as I was moving stuff out).

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Saturday, 12 March 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

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