Chicago: Singing Italian Songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh8sjHorwLE

I pub quiz a go?

Kenan, I sent you a Very Important Email.

yes, pub quiz a tomorrow

I do enjoy facebook marketing sometimes.

http://mypartyshirt.com/tshirts/movie-shirts/johnny-utah-jersey?track=fb

UTAH!

Random awesomeness:

A friend of mine's father used to sing in a band called The L@f@yettes. The friend downloaded a BBC doc about Brian Eno because the friend loves Brian Eno. And then, this happened:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWXqKm6uF3o

I would have seriously pissed myself.

whoa that is so awesome!

awesome. btw the importance of that song to Eno is also mentioned in this book:

http://www.buzzine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/some_faraway_beach_eno_20090110.jpg

I know, right???? He said he couldn't sleep that night because he was so jazzed/amazed. I'll tell him about the book, too.

it's just a very brief mention in the book; I checked but it's not on Google Books unfortunately

I don't think he'll care that it's a brief mention.

Is the rest of the book good?

I'm asking for myself, not for my friend.

it's decent, it's a pretty straight bio. I own it, you can borrow if you want. this is also very entertaining if you want to read Brian Eno's ruminations about using PhotoShop to distort the bodies of women in pornographic photos:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/adaptiveblue_img/books/year_with_swollen_appendices_diary_of_brian_eno/brian_eno

I would like to borrow the bio, and I will think about whether I'd like to borrow the diary.

http://www.suntimes.com/business/2181984,CST-NWS-chick21.article

Still not open on Sunday.

I am filled with conflicting emotions about this!

my mom loves this place
i find it rather gross, but i worked across the street from one for 3 years and ate a regrettable amount of their fries.

Ugh. I feel you, Jenny.

if you need some effective ammo to resist its charms, watch Food, Inc., esp. the part about industrially farmed chickens.

I'll pass. I already know the horrors of industrial chicken processing for one, and for two, until I have the inclination/time/money to go totally off the grid and start raising my own poultry, the gut-wrenching guilt isn't going to do anything but make me wish I were dead, which is not a particularly useful way to feel.

i used to eat
CHICK
FIL
A
in college because there was one in one of the dining halls

Here are tonight's rounds:
1) In The Year 2525 10 pts
2) Needs Rhino Tow 12 pts
3) Match- Her Girls Vent 15 pts
4) Bizarro World 16 pts
5) Dead Or Canadian 11 pts
6) Pictures 15 pts
7) General Knowledge 22 pts

sorry, i know that was an annoying comment. i watched it recently also knowing how horrible industrial chicken farming is and, for me, it was an effective added deterrent. i'll let someone else raise the chickens, but i will eat the best chickens available to me as a consumer. this has led to me eating very little chicken.

#3 = river lengths

#2 = one-hit wonders

excited about one-hit wonders, not excited about river lengths

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/2415428,weekend-shooting-roundup-062110.article

54 people shot in one weekend seems excessive

it's sad to me that we think any people (>0) being shot is normal, but yeah. seems out of the ordinary. i always wonder if the increase in violence can be traced to a single external cause, ie a boat with xx lbs of drugs was intercepted by pirates near madagascar and it trickled down from there to the 54 people shot in one weekend.

http://www.shadowandact.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Mookie.jpg

I hope I am ready for pub quiz: I was playing Trivial Pursuit with Ariel and Sarah last night and got a question about who wrote "A Light in the Attic" and I answered too quickly without thinking and said V.C. Andrews

Ha.

i always wonder if the increase in violence can be traced to a single external cause

The heat. I'm not even saying that because of my hotweatherhass!

Now I can't remember what VC Andrews did write. But I know exactly what you're talking about, obv.

Also, my first reaction to Nick's post was "Wait, she didn't write A Light in the Attic?" which makes me a li'l sad.

xp - Flowers in the Attic.

Of course.

TS:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JClFnTobX2E/SvX24HY14TI/AAAAAAAAADU/KvPsMLmouo8/s320/a+light+in+the+attic.jpg v. http://a7.vox.com/6a00d41416098d685e00e398bac0df0001-500pi

I've never read Flowers in the Attic but there was an interesting article in The Believer about VC Andrews that made me kind of curious. But I'm willing to bet A Light in the Attic is better than Flowers in the Attic.

both favorites of my childhood.

oh, i know the heat is involved, but i wanted it to be more dramatic and possibly involve madagascar and/or pirates.

when i read vc andrews books i mistakenly got the idea that consensual sibling incest is more popular than it really is. count that among the things that only children don't get ha ha. i loooooved vc andrews though. so lurid! so scary!

well ,it's time for another unpaid work meeting!

and a light in the attic is 10,000 X better than Flowers in the Attic, but the latter might just be more memorable

Light >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Flowers

consentual?
wow i have no idea how to spell that word

conSENSUAL

awwww yeah

i mistakenly got the idea that consensual sibling incest is more popular than it really is

It does seem to be a staple of a certain type of schoolgirl mindset. Also see: Donna Tartt.

i wanted it to be more dramatic and possibly involve madagascar and/or pirates.

I feel you. The mundane reasons we actually kill each other are pretty depressing. I AM A BUNDLE OF JOY TODAY!!!

count that among the things that only children don't get ha ha.

Uh, speak for yourself on that one, lady.

I will eat all the delicious chickens, no matter their source. They have to be delicious though. I will also eat chik-fil-a, despite the religious wackery. I'm sure you all feel better knowing this. I'll buy you a chicken biscuit and we can be friends.

As someone who has no sisters, I can sort of see sibling incest as being a very elite, almost grand thing. The privilege of royalty, dontcha know. I suspect that if I had a sister I would understand how disgusting it sounds.

As someone who has a sister, you are freaking me out.

Yeah, see?

Mozart just north of Diversey. Right by IHOP and Popeyes! :/

it's just the way things are. it'll get better. on the upside, we get our very first spring break! ever! i'm so excited.

I have never seen Picket Fences.

I don't know if I would like the show in general now, but that episode (which I rewatched recently) is pretty good. There are several ~twists~.

Ugh. I have never heard that song and I don't want to.

I've been doing some classes at Ballys in prepraration for my early a.m. Cross-Fit-like bootcamp and as a result I have several songs I don't like stuck in my head. And I don't really know then. One is something about "next time, baby (maybe?), I'll be bulletproof." Also, Jon Bon Jovi "Have a Nice Day" and "It's My Life."

Chicago Bound, would you be able to explain why the mystery?

Yeah sorry about that. It's just that I post under my real name and didn't want to advertise the move. I actually don't post too often (and never on this thread before) so you probably don't even know me.

But I already found a grocery store: The Market Place Foodstore at 521 W Diversey Pkwy. I like it!

And Dave's Records is waaaaay expensive. Eek!

RU R.Kelly?

no one reads this thread. if people you know don't know where you're moving, you are a mystery indeed.

Oh man, The Market Place.... It's a mixed bag IMO. It's a decent-sized store and has decent selection (there are glaring exceptions, e.g., medium and large bags of cat food, cat litter), it's got slushy machines, and Boar's Head meats. My main beef is that the prices are high and you have to watch out for bad produce.

That reminds me - I love when I leave little easter eggs for myself. Today I ran out of cat food and I looked in my storage and found that when I moved, I bought 4 15lb. bags, so I still have 2 full ones! Thanks, Jesse from back in July!

Have you been to The Weiner's Circle?

Hey - anyone heard from K8ee? Have the Incas eaten her? Has she eaten any Incas?

R u Shawn Ryan, creator of The Shield and Ride-Along?

This guy Peter Sellars, who directed John Adams's Nixon in China and Doctor Atomic, is talking at 6 at the Harold Washington tomorrow night. One of those guys who's so interesting and such a good speaker that you don't have to be interested in his particular field to be pulled in. Really worth seeing. Come if you like.

I'm still annoyed at his four-hour production of Merchant of Venice at the Goodman in '94.

Oh yeah, folks hated that.

dave's on clark has good stuff from time to time but it never has a bargain. i did find a copy of the gentry's keep on dancin' there but i paid like $17 for it. killer record though.

just got caught in flash flood
opposite of good times

Are you okay? Is your vehicle okay?

Do you need a hug? Or a towel?

i was outside jogging! this has been a very stressful week and i was really looking forward to running today because i need to exhaust myself so that i don't think about how stressed out i am and it started POURING, like torrentially, so i ran home and stepped in puddles and then had to take everything off and dry off my feet with the dog towel.

oh well. today is a major meeting and it will determine a lot of things about how this year will go. i will hopefully dry off by that time.

also weighing on me is that i am pretty sure that i cannot make my college friends' annual get together, and i had planned on going, but i waited too long to buy my plane ticket and blablbablablabla emo blog post blech

sorry. thank you for caring about me!

BTW i had a dream last night that there was a giant ilx sleepover (like pan-ilx, not just chilx) and we all sang "skid row" from little shop of horrors.

it's only wednesday too :(

Good luck with the meeting. I hope the outcome is that things go AWESOME.

My coworker got caught in the rain whilst jogging, too! She had to take shelter under a bridge.

i had a dream last night that there was a giant ilx sleepover

Prophecy!

Sorry your week is dumb Amanda.

I used to listen to the Little Shop of Horrors sdtk all the time as a kid, I thought it was awesome because it had (a couple of (light)) swears. It's one of those things like "Parents Just Don't Understand" or the first five minutes of "Goonies" that I could probably still recite from memory.

Today is my last day of paternity leave. Lame. Adjusting my schedule back to work mode is going to be interesting.

Poor. All my life I've always been poor. I keep asking God what I'm for, and he tells me "Gee, I'm not sure. Sweep that floor, kid." OH! I started life as an orphan, a child on the streets. Here on skid row...

^^ from memory

<3ed that soundtrack
sorry about your paternity leave :( i can see how it would be tough.

ha ha that's the exact same part that came into my mind when you talked about "Skid Row"!

Hmmm, I don't really remember the songs from Little Shop that well, even though I was on stage crew for it in h.s.

(Maybe b/c I never had to learn them?)

I watched the movie approximately 10,000 times. I think it was in heavy rotation on HBO/Cinemax at some point in my childhood (along with Dreamscape and Cat People). I liked it, though, so I didn't mind watching it.

yeah, i remember watching it a ton on vhs

The only time I remember watching it was on video at a friend's house for some kind of sleepover/birthday party thing in elementary school. The flower said "oh shit" and my friend's mom (who is a v sweet lady but has the jesus pretty thoroughly) made us turn it off.

The Blues Brothers is being screened at Joliet Prison:

http://blog.originalalamo.com/2010/07/08/alamolevis-rolling-roadshow-us-tour-2010-announced/

treats me like dirt, calls me a slob...which I aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam

Suddenly Seymour is another favorite
also Feed Me

predictably i do not love the dentist song. well, it's a good song, but i don't like to think about it.

when i was young, just a tiny little kid
my mama noticed funny things i did
like shootin puppies with a b.b. gun
i'd poison guppies, and when i was done
i'd find a pussy cat and BASH its tail
that's when my mama said
(what did she say?)
son be a dentist

you have a talent for causing great PAIN!

i wish there were singalong little shop

People will pay you to be inhumane!
(inhumane!)

i wish there were singalong little shop

Surely the Music Box would be all over that.

Wow, I suddenly got the urge to go to the MBM this year. I think I am actually just getting excited for fall/Halloween.

what up

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4139/4860900000_3fbf7dc190.jpg

she has such an expressive face! i really really love her nose/upper lip. nice chin too. beautiful child, well done!!!

That is an awesome picture.

Oh man, so cute. I am starting to think I'm baby-crazy lately. This weekend I'll be visiting with my nephew again and I can. not. wait.

ha ha. I mainly posted it because it's one of the best pics we've gotten of her so far. I hate our camera.

that is an intimidating baby

I think I mainly hate the flash? Either the flash is on and everything is washed out and white or it's off and everything is blurry. I had to stand under the lamp while Sarah took like six pics before we finally got one with decent lighting that wasn't blurry.

It might be better if I understood manual focus etc. and didn't have to rely on the AUTO setting.

that baby is a genius

btw i got some rescue remedy for my cat, to help with moving anxiety. is this a silly thing to do? she's already getting freaked out with everything getting packed up and moved around (hiding in the closet etc.), so i gave her some and it seemed to help.

Some people swear by that stuff. We bought some Feliway and it's really hard to tell whether it worked. Well, it definitely did not work AT ALL for Francie, but Sample seemed relatively unfazed by the whole move. But then again, maybe she would have been anyway.

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