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This is the thread where Chicagoans pretend they're in a Galaxie 500 video.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Thursday, 17 February 2005 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe a photo to kick it off?

http://giganticmag.com/photos/P1010777.jpg

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Thursday, 17 February 2005 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

So Sarah and I are planning to go to the Canasta show tomorrow...anyone else?

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 17 February 2005 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I printed my ticket.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Thursday, 17 February 2005 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

We should repost that link, actually:

http://www.canastamusic.com/shows/announcements/metrocomp2005.html

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Thursday, 17 February 2005 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay :)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 February 2005 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I just read about kenan's SO and miccio's sister in the ny times!

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 17 February 2005 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

(I like the thread title, btw. Something from that album came up on random last night, I forget what it was.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 February 2005 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

im coming back to visit in march sometime if anyone wants to hang out, or help me babysit my 2 year old niece

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 17 February 2005 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Teeny, wow! I'm used to seeing press on Jessa, but what was Ms. Claire Miccio in there for?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 February 2005 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

i'd like to go back :(

― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Thursday, 17 February 2005 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

It is fucking frigid out today.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 17 February 2005 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I just read about kenan's SO and miccio's sister in the ny times!

Link me? I may have missed that one.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Thursday, 17 February 2005 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Stevem, not meeting you is one of my biggest regrets in life. (Fuck being sick, I coulda dragged my ass outta bed!)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 February 2005 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

And yes, it is FUCKING cold out there. And I couldn't catch a cab this morning to save my life. My cheeks were totally numb by the time I got to work.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Thursday, 17 February 2005 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/17/books/17comp.html
via TMFTML.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 17 February 2005 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

thank you kindly.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Thursday, 17 February 2005 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah yes, I read about that somewhere, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 February 2005 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I will probably be attending the Canasta show. I don't know about my better half. My worser third might go though.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 17 February 2005 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

and thank you for a new thread.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 17 February 2005 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I applied for a job at the new Barnes and Noble that's going to be in the DePaul center today. The lady said she would hire me, but she thought I would be bored as a cashier. How does she know????????

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 17 February 2005 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

My worser third might go though.

Is that your name for Jesse?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 February 2005 23:42 (twenty-one years ago)

mmm hmm

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 17 February 2005 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

wouldn't anyone be bored as a cashier? but it's a job. do you think they are looking for part-time people??

how is everyone??

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 18 February 2005 07:12 (twenty-one years ago)

fine. just fine. and yourself?

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Friday, 18 February 2005 07:12 (twenty-one years ago)

eh, you know.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 18 February 2005 07:21 (twenty-one years ago)

well, it's been real.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Friday, 18 February 2005 07:32 (twenty-one years ago)

see you round

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 18 February 2005 07:39 (twenty-one years ago)

(turns to friend) well, that was awkward

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 18 February 2005 07:42 (twenty-one years ago)

*whistles while walking away*

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Friday, 18 February 2005 07:48 (twenty-one years ago)

i always see that guy around, and he says hi, but i can never remember his name.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 18 February 2005 07:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Fish. How can you forget Fish? You know a lot of Fishes?

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Friday, 18 February 2005 07:52 (twenty-one years ago)

can i answer that without there being legal implications?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 18 February 2005 07:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyway, yeah, I'm doing ok. It's late and I'm working on my 1994 mix after a long and completely undeserved hiatus. Feels good.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Friday, 18 February 2005 07:53 (twenty-one years ago)

IT'S SO FSCKING COLD OUTSIDE I THINK I MAY DIE RIGHT HERE.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Friday, 18 February 2005 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

But it's sunny! I listened to Arular on the way to the el, and it was a perfect soundtrack to a cold, cloudless morning.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 18 February 2005 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I listened to a mix of Spoon's "Telephono" and Basement Jaxx's "Rooty," introduced by some experimental drum stuff I threw together last night.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 18 February 2005 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooh, experimental drum stuff. So did you make a mash-up out of the tunes?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 18 February 2005 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I took a drum track from a 4-track tape of an old band I was in, mixed it down four times, slightly faster each time, then played them all at the same time so they start together but then eventually go out of phase and collapse into chaos. It sounds kind of like jazz.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 18 February 2005 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

But it was a little too controlled, so I moved one of the tracks so that it's more out of synch with the others, and I think it sounds pretty cool.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 18 February 2005 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm thinking of doing a series of experimental recordings using drums and drum sounds, because I feel like experimental music (at least what I'm exposed to) is dominated by the drone. Which is ok, but we need some variety.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 18 February 2005 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Everyone likes drums.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 18 February 2005 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

TS: drone vs. cacophony

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Friday, 18 February 2005 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

This is true.
Johnny, my love, get out of the business it makes me wanna rough you up so badly...has been in my head all day because of this thread.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 18 February 2005 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I have to return my iPod shuffle today. This makes me very very sad. It will not work on my piece of shit PC at home. Actually, it's worse than that -- it loads sometimes, and sometimes it does not, and it works perfectly on the Mac at work, so I know it's not a problem with the iPod itself. More likely a problem with the squirrelly hardware config on my cheap-ass computer, which iTunes and Quicktime have consistent trouble with.

Feh. I really liked it, too. But I can't use it until I get a new computer, so what's the point?

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Friday, 18 February 2005 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, K-dog.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 18 February 2005 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

New computer for me! Someone please help! Can we hold a fundraiser, maybe?

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Friday, 18 February 2005 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I CAN'T LIVE WITH A SHITTY-ASS ATHALON PROCESSOR FOR MUCH LONGER, PEOPLE.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Friday, 18 February 2005 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

"Kenan Aid." It'll be like when my friends put up flyers around town announcing that "starving artists need wine." I'm too much of an aesthete not to have a nice Apple on my desk.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Friday, 18 February 2005 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

http://freemacmini.com/

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 18 February 2005 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Skipping 841 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

I like this picture better.

ihttp://giganticmag.com/images/ilx/bike_path.jpg

― happy fun ball (kenan), Monday, 11 April 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

Weekend observations:

Every gay couple in Lincoln Park has a dog. Usually a very cute dog at that.

It's getting that time of the year where I want to sit outside of a cafe with a pale ale and good company and chat for hours.

People are crazy for wading/swimming in the lake yesterday. That water is still damn cold.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Monday, 11 April 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

Man the Hancock building looks more and more like an air raid bunker gone horribly awry each time I see it.

― Dan M. (OutDatWay), Monday, 11 April 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

You're crazy. It's a Modernist masterpiece, and one of the most elegant pieces engineering anywhere.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Monday, 11 April 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

I like the Hancock Tower, but it looks too much like the Sears Tower. They should have painted it pink or something.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 11 April 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

They're both ugly, just sayin' is all. The building I work in (IL Center) is ugly too, just not so visible. Give me the Wrigley or Tribune Building any day.

― Dan M. (OutDatWay), Monday, 11 April 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I get it. You don't much care for the last 100 years of advances in architecture. You know, Chicago has a lot of lovely public sculpture you can look at instead.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Monday, 11 April 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

I prefer Wrigley & Tribune Tower as well. I feel about modern architecture like I do about jazz, that it requires some kind of background/education that I don't have to appreciate. Oddly enough, I don't feel this way about most modern visual art.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 11 April 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

xpost I'm sorry. That was mean.

What I'm saying is, no one will ever build buildings like the Tribune Tower again, nor should they. It's a beautiful building as far as cathedrals go, but it's form is so devoid of function. It's just sculpture. And it must have been hella expensive. Since then, architecture has made huge advances in the design of space, cost efficiency, general practicality, and IMO, the integration of all of these into more coherent vision of what building should be. Great architecture is so much more than a fancy facade.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Monday, 11 April 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

Or, to put it another way, CHICAGO HAS SOME OF THE GREATEST 20TH CENTURY ARCHITECTURE IN THE WORLD U R ALL GAY.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Monday, 11 April 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

I was just admiring the Harold Washington Library this weekend. It along with the Aon Center are my favorite buildings in Chicago.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Monday, 11 April 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

Since then, architecture has made huge advances in the design of space, cost efficiency, general practicality, and IMO, the integration of all of these into more coherent vision of what building should be. Great architecture is so much more than a fancy facade.

But this is what I'm saying. I don't have the background to appreciate "design of space." I just like buildings that look pretty.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 11 April 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

I was just admiring the Harold Washington Library this weekend. It along with the Aon Center are my favorite buildings in Chicago.

I love the Harold Washigton, but I feel alone sometimes. It does has a sort of a confused sense of neo-neo-classicism about it, but I think that's a very interesting thing for it to have. Also, drama! It has the colors of a violently stormy afternoon sky. It reminds me of valkyries.

Aon Center wouldn't be half as much fun, I don't think, without Two Prudential Plaza next to it. They play very well togetherr, though.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Monday, 11 April 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

Hey: those of you with DSL service, what company do you use? Who's cheap?

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 11 April 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

No worries, I didn't think it was mean. This is the internets after all...

I totally appreciate design to achieve an end, be it sun exposure, maximization of interior space, whatever. And, I also see how old timey buildings ignore, willfully or not, these principles. I just don't particularly care for the 2001-esque monolithic feel of the Hancock. I guess it stems from my notion that for all its well-designed aspects, it's really just working to make its investors more money, instead of giving the people of the city something "nice" to look at in return for taking away a slice of their view of the lake. But I'm rambling now. Nothing but love for y'all...

― Dan M. (OutDatWay), Monday, 11 April 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

re: DSL

My friend just got SBC, she seems pretty happy with it after sorting out a host of inital problems with software driver clashes and the like. I have Comcast, but that's because no-one else can serve our neighborhood for some reason. Seems to me that Earthlink was the best choice according to my internet-nerd roomie, but we couldn't get it.

― Dan M. (OutDatWay), Monday, 11 April 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

Earthlink - $45/month
SBC - $30/month
Comcast - Their website is fucked and won't let me get to that page with the prices on it.

Guess we know who we won't be using.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 11 April 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

Comcast ain't a bad way to go... we get digital cable and a cable modem for a total of $40 a month. Ask about their introductory specials. They love new customers.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Monday, 11 April 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

Since we don't have/want cable, I'd go with anything but Comcast, personally. But for some reason they have a monopoly on our street, not sure why/how. Their service also got like $20 more expensive after the introductory period ran out, like 5 months I think. The one thing I can say in their favor is that it's fast, fast, fast.

― Dan M. (OutDatWay), Monday, 11 April 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

Some of My Favorite Things (Buildings) in Chicago
by Sarah Johnson

* I really enjoy walking past The Fisher Building. It seems really mysterious to me, in a Titanic death ship sort of way.

* I also love the Hotel Burnham building.

* On a less historical note I enjoy the building with the VERY slanty top that allows as much sunlight as possible. What building is that?
(and Gateway IV" though less so).

* I also don't know the name of the Corncob/Wilco buildings, but love them.

* And lastly, I would like to mention the Drake Hotel, if only for the sign.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 11 April 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

I don't even know the names of buildings or notice their architecture at all! Now who's the philistine!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 April 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

(except the Corncob/Wilco buildings = Marina City Towers, haha)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 April 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

Thanks. :-D
I get giddy whenever I see them in the Bob Newhart show opening shots.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 11 April 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

There's this building I can see from my work, that's a little northwest of the John Hancock Tower, and it's just a plain white skyscraper, but the top 10 floors or so jut out a few feet more than the floors below them, making a "head," and it's one of the most phallic buildings I've ever seen.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 11 April 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

There's a building like that at my college. It was referred to as the "brick dick."

― Dan M. (OutDatWay), Monday, 11 April 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

I know that building, too, Nick. I work right near it (so do you!). You can see it from the Brown Line, too -- that's the first time I noticed it. And of course I thought to myself, "Hm. Penis."

― happy fun ball (kenan), Monday, 11 April 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

I enjoy the building with the VERY slanty top that allows as much sunlight as possible

This one?

― happy fun ball (kenan), Monday, 11 April 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

I just call that the Adventures in Babysitting building.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 April 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

yup. the Smurfette building.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 11 April 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

When I first got to Chicago we always called the Marina Towers the Jetsons building. I think the idea was that it was built for a future where everyone's flying bubble-pod car could just shoot out from their individual indentations/corn-kernel-pocks and head out to work. As such I'd have been happier to see them on a Stereolab cover than a Wilco one.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 11 April 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

the Smurfette building.

I think of it as the "Smurf it!" building. Like what a Smurf says when he just can't f'ing take it anymore.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Monday, 11 April 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

I love all these buildings. I've never been inside of them though.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Monday, 11 April 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

THere are so many great buildings in Chicago, sometimes I ride the el around the loop just for the hell of it, to get a good look at them. There's one right after the brown/ purple lines get in that has these thin bars going one over each row of windows, it's my favorite.

― Holly (an appletross), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 01:13 (twenty years ago)

I just call that the Adventures in Babysitting building.

ha! me too!

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 01:49 (twenty years ago)

People with giant umbrellas who take up half the sidewalk can kiss my ass.

― Dan M. (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

speaking of the show (which was great), the nueva cats now have a website.

www.nuevacats.com

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

Actually it's http://www.thenuevacats.com

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

Great video!

Chicago question:
Nick's parents suggested we go for an overnight trip with them somewhere when they come to visit. We would be using my car, driving from Chicago... So, any ideas?? I'm not really excited about going to some historical reenactment town, because I lived in one for 6 years.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

Sleeping Bear Dunes in western lower Michigan is really, really nice. It might be a little bit of a long drive for just an overnight, though.

― Dan M. (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

Wow, the Nueva Cats website is nice. I just sent them a fan email.

Dan, I saw the legendary Blue Line Ski-Doo last week. I was like, yep, there it is.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

Nick, where do you think your parents want to go? Someplace idyllic? A state park or campsite? A quaint town? Etc?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

Oh I don't know. The only place they really suggested was the Indiana dunes but I think that's because they used to live there (it's where I was conceived). Probably some nice little quaint town with shoppes and stuff would be good though.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

Blue Line Ski-Doo

Yeah, it doesn't move much. The Yooper in me aches to see it free, floating across white fields and down forest trails, its 2-stroke howling with delight.

― Dan M. (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

I wonder if I have a Yooper in me too. How would I know?

I've never been to Michigan, so that might be nice.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

Has anyone here been to Geneva, IL?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

I'm going to refrain from the obvious joke...

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yooper:

The peninsula is home to 328,000 people, about 3% of the state's population. Residents are colloquially known as Yoopers, (from "U.P.ers"), and many consider themselves Yoopers before they consider themselves Michiganders.

xpost - also, I may be a little too proud of where I'm from.

― Dan M. (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

Geneva definitely fits the bill of a quaint town with shoppes. I've never been there, but my parents have gone there a couple times and stayed in, like, a bed and breakfast and bought homemade soap and shit like that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

Has anyone here been to Geneva, IL?

that was the town i was trying to think of! i haven't been there either, but my sister and bro-in-law had a nice weekend there once, and my parents have gone there too, and enjoyed it. it sounds like the right sort of thing.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

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time for a new thread?????

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

thread of the big shoulders: son of chicago

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

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