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― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:53 (nineteen years ago)

I found this album for $3.00 at Half Price Books on spring break, and it was the unexpected soundtrack of the week.

Continue with Kenan being/thinking he is being funny.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:54 (nineteen years ago)

That's a really good record. And a great thread title.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 03:03 (nineteen years ago)

I want to go to bed but I feel like I have to wait for the Sparks album to finish downloading first.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 03:03 (nineteen years ago)

DOWNLOADING IS RUINING YOUR LIFE

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 03:04 (nineteen years ago)

You do.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 03:05 (nineteen years ago)

NEXT YOU'LL BE SMOKING MARIJUANA AND LIVING IN YOUR MOTHER'S BASEMENT

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 03:05 (nineteen years ago)

I want to hear more about Journey, that wild spirit from Waco in the IROC Z. What do her tattoos say?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 03:11 (nineteen years ago)

The one in the small of her back, especially. I can't... quite... make it out from here.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 03:12 (nineteen years ago)

I hear her and her boyfriend moved to the big city. The city lights were spread out before them, and his arm felt nice wrapped round her shoulder, and she had a feeling she could be someone, be someone. In the IROC Z. That's what I hear, anyway.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 03:14 (nineteen years ago)

http://gjthomas.tripod.com/iroc-pics/04.JPG

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 03:16 (nineteen years ago)

You can't read it? It says "BITCH" in curly-q letters.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 03:17 (nineteen years ago)

I posted to the blog.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 03:55 (nineteen years ago)

Me two.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 05:05 (nineteen years ago)

I am not familiar with Blogger anymore. How did you guys create your own user accounts and get your name to appear as tghe author beneath the posts?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 05:23 (nineteen years ago)

I had a blogger account from before. So do that first (i.e. register). Then, log in as CHILX and go to "Settings" and click "Members." Then, enter your email address and invite yourself. Then, log out of Blogger. Check your email and click on the link. Then, log in/accept the invitation using your individual account. Voila! You are done. Don't worry, it took me two tries as well.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 05:25 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I did all that already. I guess I'll try again. In the meantime, download my song and make me feel special.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 05:47 (nineteen years ago)

I did. Now you do mine.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 05:50 (nineteen years ago)

Hi. Just got back from the Brighton, MA show.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 05:53 (nineteen years ago)

JMZ, T0dd Burns went to my high school and was two years ahead of me.

Whoa. That's funny -- where was this, Ohio? I know he went to college in Ohio. He calls me occasionally when he's walking to his gf's place after work.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 05:54 (nineteen years ago)

I would really like to know more about the file sharing cases, though. Are they defending or prosecuting?

I'd like to know more, too. She works for a defense lawyer, though, so they are defending. But that's all I know.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 05:56 (nineteen years ago)

I did. Now you do mine.

I already know both of yours.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 05:57 (nineteen years ago)

Here are my two favorite songs by the Octopus Project, whom I like a lot.

Huh, Brand0n Durh@m of P@l@xy Tr@cks just joined that band. (He also designed the C4n4st4 album and website, and is like the nicest guy ever.) I'm curious about them. Apparently they won some Myspace contest for a slot to play Coachella!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 05:58 (nineteen years ago)

Um... not to sound flip or anything. I just do, because I'm one of those people.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 05:58 (nineteen years ago)

That sounded worse. I'm sorry.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 05:58 (nineteen years ago)

Huh, Brand0n Durh@m of P@l@xy Tr@cks just joined that band. (He also designed the C4n4st4 album and website, and is like the nicest guy ever.)

Brandon is amazing. You know I worked with him in Austin, right? I mean, we were never best friends or anything, but you're right. He's the nicest guy in the world.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 06:00 (nineteen years ago)

I already know both of yours.

Figures. Man! Funny xposts.

J, yeah, it was in Cincinnati. I actually applied to write for Stylus almost two years ago and got turned down! I even tried to milk the connection, as the guy who drove me to school was a friend of his. No dice! Oh well.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 06:01 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, I forgot about the Kenan connection. Totally.

You guys only think downloading stuff is weird because you haven't been doing it for years and years.

So I've been downloading since mid-2003. You're right, at first I did think it was weird, and then that went away for awhile, but lately I've been thinking about it more and more, and I find it not exactly weird anymore, but increasingly indefensible -- even as I dutifully click on every YSI link that comes my way.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 06:01 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry about that, Dave! T0dd actually contacted me because of stuff that I'd written for my blog -- otherwise, I don't think I'd have had the stones to even apply.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 06:02 (nineteen years ago)

I find it not exactly weird anymore, but increasingly indefensible -- even as I dutifully click on every YSI link that comes my way.

Let it go, maaaaan.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 06:03 (nineteen years ago)

Also re Octopus Project and Jordan's YSI -- anyone who wants me to download an mp3 from them would be wise to put "(dancey!)" next to the link. :)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 06:04 (nineteen years ago)

K., I'll let it go when the risk of getting arrested and fined suddenly vanishes.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 06:05 (nineteen years ago)

It's not a big deal, really. I've "matured" a lot as a writer, ha! But yeah, I don't think I would want to write reviews anyway. I liked your S0uls33king article, though, speaking of downloading. I went back and checked the archives for your stuff. :-)

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 06:06 (nineteen years ago)

K., I'll let it go when the risk of getting arrested and fined suddenly vanishes.

That's bull. That's not why. The two people who are concerned with the morality of downloading are the two people here who would probably, in a perfect world, like to make money off their music. And I understand that. And I have nopthing to say about it except that your mission is probably futile, and that you'll get a better return off of free music than you will off of a record deal. So you have to buy what you have to buy, and you have to download what you have to download. You know the line.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 06:09 (nineteen years ago)

Dave, I don't want to write reviews, either. That's why I write features. And singles reviews -- because those can be fun and snarky and ephemeral.

Kenan, I don't want to make money off my music. Being a musician has absolutely nothing to do with my concern about downloading.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 06:10 (nineteen years ago)

ok, attack that further. it's interesting to me.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 06:11 (nineteen years ago)

Good point, and not the one to Kenan.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 06:12 (nineteen years ago)

And may I remind you, K., that you haven't defended the practice at all except to say, essentially, "get with the program, it's the 21st century."

I did buy the Belle & Sebastian and Destroyer albums because I like them well enough to want to own them. I still don't download whole albums, except when people make them available to me, or when they're crazy import-only European dance albums that aren't readily available anywhere else.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 06:13 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, even if money isn't your goal, and I certainly don't think it should be if you want to put out the best music, doesn't the way downloading hurts artists at least somewhat INFORM your decision not to download?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 06:14 (nineteen years ago)

I get 70 cents off of each 99-cent iTunes download of one of my songs, so that part's not futile. But I understand that it's hard to pass up something when it's free and available.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 06:14 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder this aloud because it does not inform my decision, and I wonder if it should. Like I said, I am in the habit. I don't much think about it anymore.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 06:15 (nineteen years ago)

And may I remind you, K., that you haven't defended the practice at all except to say, essentially, "get with the program, it's the 21st century."

I know. I need a better defense for this. Jenny! ake up!

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 06:16 (nineteen years ago)

Wake up, even

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 06:17 (nineteen years ago)

No, I don't think of it in terms of the artists. I hardly ever think about music in terms of the artists. My decision not to download stems from the fact that albums are sold in stores for money, and thus downloading is a way of circumnavigating that, getting out of paying for something that would ordinarily cost you. I'm sorry if this sounds totally lame and old-fashioned of me, but that just doesn't seem right. Again, I feel better about downloading stuff that I can't just go down to Reckless and readily buy.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 06:17 (nineteen years ago)

Eric, what's your band's name again?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 06:20 (nineteen years ago)

Look on Canasta or the Fake Fictions' MySpace pages, and I'm on their front page under my own name.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 06:22 (nineteen years ago)

My decision not to download stems from the fact that albums are sold in stores for money, and thus downloading is a way of circumnavigating that, getting out of paying for something that would ordinarily cost you.

Well, that's what I was accusing you of to begin with. Just buying records that you could easily download because buying records is a habit, or it's a wonderful pastime or somthing. It's really not, if you can get the music elsewhere.

Really the issue of guilt is moot at this point. I wrestled with it for a couple of years, and then decided not to wrestle anymore. Like the semi-sentient computer in WarGames, I learned futility.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 06:22 (nineteen years ago)

Just buying records that you could easily download because buying records is a habit, or it's a wonderful pastime or somthing. It's really not, if you can get the music elsewhere.

I have no sentimental attachment to buying records. I don't really even own that many records. And like I said, those CDs that I just bought are going to languish on my shelf, because 90% of my listening is done either on my computer or on my iPod. I might take them out if I want to listen to something while I'm in the shower, but otherwise no. My purchase is just more a matter of doing the right thing, morally.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 06:26 (nineteen years ago)

I don't really even own that many records.

By this I mean physical copies of CDs.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 06:28 (nineteen years ago)

My purchase is just more a matter of doing the right thing, morally.

You mean, giving your money to the poor?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 06:28 (nineteen years ago)

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STOP TALKING IN THE THIRD PERSON

Wha...? Who?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

John has a very neat and restrained beard in that photo.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 3 April 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

All of those -ist sites have the same "style" I think -- it might even be required. It is muy annoying, I agree.

― The Milkmaid (Litany Farquhar) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 3 April 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

Do you mean first-person plural?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

Either that, or they refer to themselves in 3rd person, "Chicagoist likes this and that, blablabla."

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 3 April 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

ME AM CHICAGOIST. ME HATE C4N4ST4.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 3 April 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

just want to know if it pops up in any legal cases.

What, like a suit against a porn company for marketing something as bukakke when it was really just some bad BDSM?

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 3 April 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

I'm totally not searching for "bukakke" at work.

― Nutsy the Squirrel (pullapartgirl), Monday, 3 April 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, am I spelling it wrong?

"bukkake" vs. "bukakke"

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

vs. "makkara"

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

vs. "macarena"

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, no, I was right: Google hits for the former spelling are about 15 times more common as for the latter spelling.

In some ways, it should probably bother me that I do know the correct spelling of bukkake.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

Results 1 - 3 of about 7 for "faux macarena".

Includes: "They entered the stage with an ass-shaking faux Macarena-style line dance to some unknown, fey retro-dance song, completely with finger-pointing waves."

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

(Oh, and this guy was writing about the Moldy Peaches!)

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

What's that "Casanova" song that MDBB does? It's been in my head last night and today.

By the way, I really cannot handle caffeine at all. Despite the sleeping pill I took, the delicious tea I had in the late afternoon kept waking me up throughout the night and making me feel all disoriented.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

"I ain't much on Casanova /
And me and Romeo ain't never been friends..."

That's all I know.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makkara

http://static.flickr.com/6/6236792_a3daf95419.jpg

Not quite like bukkake, but it probably tastes better!

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

'Ere we go. Levert.

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:oesqoa9aqijv

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

Aw man, if I had checked the thread sooner I coulda told you that. I got a series of dirty prank calls from someone who was playing that song in the background and I've never forgotten it.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

Yep, it's a cover of the Levert song. Our lyrics are much dirtier though, I don't if you caught the lines after what Kenan quoted.

Reb1rth Brass Band recorded a classic version of it on their Hot Venom record.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

I think I only know the works of Gerald Levert. And by "the works" I mean the single that was played on WGCI in 1992: "Baby Hold On to Me."

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

Hot Venom

They have a nice live version of it on their website too.

(we're playing with them in Madison in a few weeks, I'm psyched)

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

Our lyrics are much dirtier though

How dirty? Do tell.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

All right folks, I'm getting ready to start a new thread, OK?

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

Uh oh.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

i'm so nervous!

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

Phew. It worked!

Thanks for passing the torch.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

Good, I can bury these lyrics at the bottom of this thread:

I ain't much on Casanova/Me and Romeo ain't never been friends
Can't you see how much I wanna fuck you/Gonna say it to you time and time again
Oh baby bend over/take 'em off/take your motherfuckin' drawers off
repeat

That's we didn't do that song on mics.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

That's rough rugged and raw.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

I like this thread better. Jesse's picture grosses me out somethin' awful. Next up: Chicago: An Amputee Stump-Humping a Midget!

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

Chicago: A Close-up of a Hobo's Infected Foot!

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

Carry on. I am using that other thread as "Images of Lips in Popular Culture."

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

Dissed.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

This is an historic moment. An momentous occasion. First instance of duel Chicago threads!

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

I think it is you who dissed the rest of us by starting off the thread with a picture of a tragic birth defect.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

It's really not about the birth defect, it's about what someone(s) did with a birth defect. Hairlips are a dime a dozen. Glossy harelips? Not so much.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

I just assumed it was a mutant from Star Trek -- hence "Chicago, the Next Generation" -- am I wrong?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

I regret nothing. I took a risk and stand by my decision. I consider it an intriguing well beyond its original shock value, which is something we need to move beyond.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

I find you abusive, albeit in a way that's hard to call you on.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

LOL

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

I say we should stay in this thread.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

I would exelsior that (Kenan's post), except it'd be misunderstood outside of the context of this thread.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

Until it is 7000 answers long. xpost

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

what's exelsior?

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

There is a really weird vibe in the office today. Is it the time change? Everybody's on edge or something. I don't get it.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

I'm just really out of it, having trouble concentrating on any work. It's probably due to moving and getting about half as much sleep as I'm used to the past 3 days.

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 3 April 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I know. That's definitely the vibe. Fuzzy, and maybe a little snippy.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Monday, 3 April 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

Barometer's rising after the storm... everybody's head is swelling up from the inside like in Scanners...don't be standing near anybody with a head cold when the explosion happens.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Monday, 3 April 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

I hate daylight savings.
I have discovered the joys of OTC sleeping pills. It's just Tylenol PM, but I can finally stay asleep after the sun comes up, which is a blessed relief.

― Daddy's Little Duder (unclejessjess), Monday, 3 April 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

Excelsior is the term for the thread where you post your favorite (in a LOL sense) posts. It generally has the word "excelsior" in the title.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 00:42 (nineteen years ago)

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