Chicago: She Wrote The Route

Sexual Perversity in Chicago?

is that some mamet shit?

xp

http://www.organictheater.com/Organic/news/history/images/sexual_perversity.jpg

It's actually bastardized Mamet, from About Last Night, but I couldn't find the original opening online. I just remember the original line is "so tits out to here so."

Oh, here we go (quadruple post, I know): original opening.

Having seen neither, I had no idea that ALN was adapted from SPiC.

is that movie any good? does it sound like mamet?

lol Yak-Zies

apparently i just saw this guy filming on the streets of evanston:

http://www.janicegarner.com/images/john_corbett.jpg

he was in sex and the city and my big fat greek wedding and is apparently in the baby on board movie with heather graham, which is probably what he was filming. i didn't see heather graham though. i didn't recognize the dude but my coworkers did.

Also in Northern Exposure! But you were ... overseas.

I haven't seen About Last Night[ in forever, but I bet it would be fun to watch for all of the location shooting. Rob Lowe wakes up from his fling with Demi Moore and asks her roomate, Elizabeth Perkins, "Where's breakfast?" And Perkins says, "McDonald's, Belmont and Broadway." That kind of thing.

this album cover is never not funny to me.

http://us.ent1.yimg.com/images.launch.yahoo.com/000/031/795/31795726.jpg

eazy, i like doing that too. last spring i netflixed a bunch of shot in chicago movies to see what the landscape was like 20/30/however many years ago. that's also why i always pause when i see the opening or closing (esp. closing) credits to "good times". the end shot of the merchandise mart with no buildings taller than it in the frame is nuts. or the shot down chicago avenue (i think) near the pj's that ends with the hancock being the only visible building.

ooh, where are they filming in evanston? i might go for a stroll...

Willie Colon cd from the 60s that is fire. It's one of those two trombone salsa bands and it is dirty as hell.
luv u willie

this one is another favorite of mine, but i love celia
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51P4M671P5L._AA240_.jpg
i got it at reckless in the goddamn dollar bin

nice. i don't even know what the one i've been listening to is called.

i propose that from here out the dollar bin at reckless only be referred to as "the goddamn dollar bin at reckless".

collette, they were out on the corner by le peep, a couple of blocks east of your office (i think)

I object to this thread title on the grounds that it will encourage loose morals in today's youth.

good thing we're all too old/grizzled/corrupted to really worry about that, huh

And that's not the only thing that'll be loose... OH!

I'm here all week.

I would like to direct a charity reading of Sexual Perversity in Chicago with the following cast: Bernie (Kenan), Dan (Dan), Debbie (Amanda? Sarah? Collette?), Joan (Jenny).

Dan M as himself

I think doing a play reading would be really fun. All the fun of acting without having to worry about physicality.

Or seven of us can read Glengarry.

i will play the mcdonald's

i will play the steak knives

i will drink the glenfiddich.

nick, can you be steak knives if you're a vegetarian?

We should read it at my place, to ensure we get the totally authentic Chicago soundtrack of the el train roaring by every few minutes.

I was walking by Ollie's, the bar near my place and Kenan's, and I saw that it has a NOTARY PUBLIC sign in the window. So if you want a drink and have some contracts to deal with, you're set.

it is not 48 degrees yet
what gives

Wow, I didn't see this week's forecast 'til now!

friend in austin told me it's been in the 70s and the trees are BLOOOOOOOOMMMMINNNNGG!!!!

shit, remind me to buy some claritin.

i recommend zyrtec -- it's otc now!

woo otc zyrtec. you should drug yrself sometime and then you and ez could come over for lunch some afternoon maybe.

i also have the el train soundtrack if my windows are open. happily, it's much less extrme than k's place.

john corbett dated a girl i went to elementary school with. she showed up on a chicago thread a long time ago because she was one of the babes of conde nast or some such bullshit.

zyrtec? will check it out.

she showed up on a chicago thread a long time ago because she was one of the babes of conde nast or some such bullshit.

Wait, what?

Was it A1m33 Sl0@ne?

no more movie stars in evanston, at least near le peep.

wow is it nice out there, though!

no, it was one of the others, j1ll d3mling. amanda was making snarky remarks about her hair, which i found amusing, because she'd been a popular girl with always-perfect hair back when i knew her.

i made a snarky remark about someone's hair?
more than one?

i feel bad now

Oh wait, I thought you meant someone who *posted* on the Chicago thread!

And now that I remember it, A.S. didn't even post, she just e-mailed Jenny and said she wanted to host a party for us, wtf.

So if you want a drink and have some contracts to deal with, you're set.

Oh, I love that sign. It's so... Chi.

Dirty old town.

I am also a notary. Buy me a drink and I will notarize your contract!

oh, don't feel bad, amanda.

anyone know when they're dying the river?

i mean like showing up to unload and set up. we play when we're told to play

yeah, i was more addressing this posting the "door time" as 8pm when no bands will ever, ever play until at least 11. but was too lazy to c&p the first go 'round.

Yes, Kevin, but the door time is usually within 1 hour of the show time? More like half an hour, at most places. I can totes appreciate that if you know the bands and they pull into town a few hours early, it's cool to be there hanging out...but if you want to see their show, a three- or three-and-a-half hour difference between "door" and "show" is a bit much.

hahaha you guys the secret boards thread

I know, I don't even know what spawned it?

secret borads

ilx is making me crazy right now with the secret broads ... makes me feel like just hiding out on this thread

hello, i'm all caught up now. good use of the first hour back at work, surely. jesse, i was gone for almost exactly a week and 1.5 of those days were spent getting out of and into LA, and in the rest of it we hiked in the grand canyon, bryce canyon, zion and a couple random state parks, and drove through escalante national monument. and did vegas as well. surprisingly, it didn't feel like we were rushing it at all, except that we had breakfast in vegas a little earlier than we would have liked in order to drive to LAX to get our flight.

responses to things said over the last week:
-- you can take your own passport photo now, there's a website (ipassportphoto.com, i think) which will resize them to any country's requirements and you can print them for free or have them send them to you for $5. this is cool because you can play with the photo using photoshop and stuff and hopefully not look as scary as the photos from a lot of the instant places do.

-- jenny, i think you'll like dinosaur jr at pitchfork. i saw them at ATP a few years ago (similar small festival, but inside) and they were a lot of fun.

--jesse, i don't know what episode you're talking about, but toby and i have had a hard time getting into the wire as well. the first episode is so boring, we just can't get through it. i know we should try, since it must be good if so many different people love it, but it's weird to make yourself watch something you aren't enjoying.

-- i saw a billboard for "moonvertising" while driving out of LA.

that's it for now, the main reason i'm reading this rather than working is that our DSL is down and i'm on 50kbps dial-up. which sucks for yahoomail, which is my work email. ilx does better in the old school speed thing.

uh nick i invited you to secret broad on friday

(it's pretty lame now, though)

now?

yes

i know i am on secret board ... i just feel kind of eh about the whole thing. not so much about the tee hee exclusion but just the whole meta explosion. a little meta is fun, but there's so much inward focus on a lot of ilx right now

i guess i'd be more excited about it if some of my least favorite posters (chaki, dom) weren't on there doing the same shit they always do

(it's pretty lame now, though)

-- Jordan, Monday, April 7, 2008 4:31 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Hi guys, I'm back. I missed the whole secret board brouhaha, although I read the thread just now and am torn between feeling a little left out and not giving a shit. But if you guys have the password, it can't be that exclusive, haha.

I also secretly caught up with this thread a couple times in Peru when we needed to kill time before catching a train or something. I didn't post, though, because it sort of seemed dumb to get all involved in ILX while on vacation. So I did the online equivalent of biting my tongue when I read the definition-of-pop debate from early last week. All I'll say is that in my mind there's a difference between "pop" as the name of a genre (which I consider close to Jordan's definition) and using "pop" as a mere adjective (like "that's really poppy" or even "it's a great three-minute pop song" -- which indicate tight structure, lots of hooks, etc.). But I really don't want to get into that again.

Peru was pretty amazing, btw. Pretty much everything went according to plan, too, which was great, considering we were in transit quite a bit, going from Arequipa to the Colca Canyon to Cuzco to the Sacred Valley to Machu Picchu, etc. I have lots of pictures but won't be able to post them until next week, since Krista is still down there for another week, with the camera.

Currently trying to decide whether to go into work for a half-day. When my flight from Charlotte to Chicago last night was delayed for two hours, I called in and said I wouldn't be coming in at all, but if I don't go in, that's just one more day I have to get caught up on.

welcome back, looking forward to seeing some photos!

could you work from home the rest of the afternoon, catch up on work emails and stuff, but still not be bothered to go in?

No, catching up mostly means going through the massive pile of papers that will surely be in my inbox, most of which is someone else's editing work that I need to review. (Also, I don't know how to remotely access my work e-mail from home, although I'm sure there's a way.)

huh i guess i missed the "definition of pop" discussion too, too bad because i have strong feelings and deep thoughts on this matter

john check your "boards" list

Chicago: She Wrote The Route

oh well basically i have a very broad definition of pop as any music where the main point is the hook, ie what it's trying to do is get stuck in your head. it's more a definition of purpose than a genre in my mind, and as such a song can be in another genre and still be pop. like "crank dat" is definitely pop while still being hip hop. hop on pop.

i have a similiarly broad definition of rock as many music where the main point is to rock, but then you get into definitions of what it is "to rock" and it becomes a snake eating its own tail situation

I present to you the nth in a series of n+1 crazy astronomer emails (googleproofing my own):

Dear editor-in-chief,

Now I'd send the thesis again in PDF format to make it clearer.

P@SP is open to contributors from all over the world, regardless of their nationalities. It is known by people for its spirit of innovation.

Synthesizing existing observational data, I have drawn the result which is the newest development on current research of Quasars.

I am responsible for the accuracy of the data.

I assent to all terms of the P@SP agreement. P@SP shall retain the exclusive right of publishing the paper, either on the printed periodical or on-line, and any third party may not reproduce, reprint, or modify it without a prior consent from P@SP.

You are entitled to modify and collate the layout and format of my manuscript according to the P@SP publishing requirements . But I set my face against inequitable subeditor.

Thanks and best regards,

Doctor Zh@ng W3i

April-6-2008

Chicago: I set my face against inequitable subeditor

(NB this guy has never been published and has been spamming our journals as well as the Pr3ss books division for at least 2 years, and now someone higher up actually wants me to engage with him -- maybe he's discovered the answer to the Ultimate Question)

Dan M, Chicago's Inequitable Subeditor.

also, that's why i don't talk to anyone higher up here.

Inequitable Subeditor is my new Wu-Tang name.

Yeah, I knew I should just have ignored it instead of passing it along...

there was a secret board?

check the front page

oh well ok then
that gives me a memory of 1st grade when i was staying at afterschool care and someone told me that she couldn't tell me why she was laughing, since it was an "inside joke"

i'm not usually part of the conversational vanguard, so why start now.

/eeyore

i was sick this weekend and then today i have been grocery shopping, making sauces and i just ate some tacos. pretty ok, all around really.

my weekend was pretty much a waste. anyone know of a decent film lab around here? central camera on wabash closes at 6 and while i *should* be able to make it there in time it's always kind of dicey when you're relying on the cta.

my weekend was awesome. which is why i don't understand why i had terrible, restless, anxious sleep last night, since i went to be feeling tired and happy.

I slept a LOT, I ate tortas (black bean/chorizo nom nom nom) and other mexican food that matt made, took Kates to the ER (she's fine), made enchiladas and did a bunch of laundry.

my weekend was pretty good but too busy. i am ready for our apartment to be unpacked and set up so i can sit around it doing nothing

btw I stopped in at the Jewel by J/J's place yesterday and MAN that place is a nightmare when all you want are some chicken thighs and a coke.

I danced A LOT, first in a parade, and then outside in gale-force (okay not quite) winds on Ellis Island. I think people liked us and we feel pretty good about how we performed, so that's satisfying. Today I'm v v sore and twingey, though -- what comes of dancing on cement in ye colde.

In other news, there's no elec in my bedroom cos the outlet that used to supply all of it isn't working. Landlord won't do anything. Waiting for roommates with elec expertise to try, or else I'll have to start reading up VERY CAREFULLY.

dan, that jewel is pretty much always a nightmare, just different kinds of nightmares depending on what time you're there.

NB: i had my wedding flowers done there, so ginger from the floral department is not included in the nightmare.

my left wrist is sporadically hurting today and it's freaking me out. i have been playing drums a whole lot more than usual in the last few weeks, and i guess i need to focus even more on being relaxed.

any idea what band this is?
looking for bassist for live disco/electro/funk group (Chicago)

i think the only time i was in there we were denied beer sales because jeff had problems with voice modulation.

Tracy Letts has won the drama Pulitzer.

As Eazy predicted!

any idea what band this is?
looking for bassist for live disco/electro/funk group (Chicago)

No, but they sound awesome.

Things I have learned in the past 25 hours:

1) Spraining a knee hurts
2) Pain that impedes mobility is much more frustrating than pain that is simply painful (like cuts and such)

3) I make a terrible, terrible, whiny, petulant injured person. But a pretty decent, complacent sick person.

4) Do not pull your jeans up over your knee as it is swelling. It will be difficult and painful to take your pants off later.

Pain that impedes mobility is much more frustrating than pain that is simply painful (like cuts and such)

otm, i'm still mad at my foot for not being able to run.

Pain that impedes mobility is the bane of my existence. I've started tying an icepack to the bottom of my foot with a bandana at night and that plus two days of anti-inflammatories is making a HUGE difference.

Chicago: Shockingly Prompt