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OMG WHAT AM I GONNA WEAR

― dan m, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Sarah and I might or might not come.

― n/a, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

But I don't understand what we're supposed to say to get in: "YES HELLO I AM WITH THE ERIC Z13GENHAGEN PARTY I BELIEVE YOU ARE EXPECTING US"

― n/a, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I said I was going to be there. At least I'm planning on it.

Also HORSESHOE.

― jaymc, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Or just whisper "Ziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiegenhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagen."

― n/a, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I think you just say "I'm on the VIP list. Ziggy's the name."

― jaymc, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Exactly, Nick.

designer clothes purchased half off at filene's basement

That's me! Though I do 60% clearance off the original 50% off.

― Eazy, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Apparently anyone in my party will get a wristband that indicates FREE DRINKS TIL 10:30 at any of the bars in the establishment.

― Eazy, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I own one pair of pants that aren't jeans or corduroys. I maybe, MAYBE still have some terrible slacks left from my last "business casual" job.

― n/a, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

And I'm bringing a few honeys.

― Eazy, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh wait, I guess I have my WEDDING SUIT.

― n/a, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

May I ask (if you don't mind) how you ended up on the list of this booty dance club? Or is that better discussed around the table tomorrow night?

― dan m, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Powder-blue tux?

― jaymc, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm wearing hot-pants, was there a mention of that in the dress code? will my beanie, satin halter, hot-pants and roller-disco skates be ok? i'm going for a venice beach/elton john circa '78 kind of thing.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I hate fancy clothes. :(

― n/a, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

AND MEDALLIONS, I WILL BE WEARING LOTS OF MEDALIONS.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

i may shave my head in the classic male pattern baldness shape for this.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Have any of you guys (Kevin) heard of the Reptoids?

― Jordan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link

DO IT. Especially if you're still rockin' the 'stache.

― dan m, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link

The Reptoids practice, or used to practice, in the same building where we practice. Their fliers are very bland and ubiquitous in our neighborhood. I have not heard them. But they seem like they might be cool.

― n/a, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah the reptoids are a local hard rock band. and flyering machines but their flyers are always the same so i never know if it's a new show or a show that happened 2 months ago.

dan- stache went away a week ago ;_;

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Thx. The 0ptimistic is playing a show with them tomorrow night.

+ the show got a nice write up in the Onion

- the show is in the basement of a pizza place

― Jordan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link

+++ the show is in the basement of a pizza place!

― n/a, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link

duh

― n/a, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I will be sure to dress like Corin from Nashville Pussy.

― KitCat, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I wish pizza places were the default rock show venue instead of bars.

― n/a, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd rather come home smelling like tomato sauce and grease than shitty beer and cigarettes.

― n/a, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I mentioned our Soudbar expedition to my roomie, who said his boss had gone off on the place when she went there (under similar circumstances to our own):

"it's like bad mix of cocaine, calvin klein, and sad old man desperately clinging to their 20s"

AWESOME

― dan m, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

No mention of "no jeans" on the soundbar page so I think I am in the clear.

― n/a, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

i wish in order to have an entertainment license you also had to have a pizza license. can't have one w/o the other. that would be awesome.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Good point Nick, but I'm trying to keep my expectations low because if I don't get free pizza I will be crushed. :(

― Jordan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah that's what I'm thinking too. The only decent pairs of slacks/dress pants that I have are in dire need of dry cleaning and there isn't time.

― dan m, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I'M ACTUALLY HOPING I DON'T GO TO MILWAUKEE NOW.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

(xpost to Nick)

― dan m, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

If you do get free pizza you should replace all your cymbals with pizza pies.

― n/a, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

A few years ago I was in Gr@mmaphone Records and talked to a friendly gal who works there and is a DJ and invited me to kind of an end-of-summer industry night where she was 'sprinning' -- the promoter rented out this sports bar in one of those big ugly office buildings near Ogden/Ashland, and a bunch of DJs were doing there thing and there were brats and beer, and everyone I talked to was friendly and down-to-earth, maybe because they're DJs and not the clientele.

Flash-foward a year or two later, and see that she's DJ-ing at Soundbar and that if you sign up for the club's mailing list admission was free. So I signed up, and I get these promo e-mails that I scan and delete, and then earlier this week I got one saying that the first 20 people to reply get a VIP package worth $500. So I say what the hey, reply, a guy from the club calls, and it's set up.

The one other time I saw that DJ do her job was upstairs at Schubas last fall - and somehow there was free beer there. I'm thinking What's the catch, and the only catch is that someone wants to promote something by giving away free beer.

― Eazy, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

and play drums with your face

― n/a, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

worst sounding hi hat ever.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

what if you use frozen pizza?

― n/a, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link

What's the catch, and the only catch is that someone wants to promote something by giving away free beer.

the only thing they will be promoting to me is that they are giving away free beer.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I can play and eat pizza at the same time, do not doubt me.

― Jordan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh man, my roomie's on the ball, I would invite him along but he'll never ever come...

chach3e: man, you have to bring a camera and make a slide show, dr. martin style
chach3e: like you're visiting a secluded tribe in Papua New Guinea

― dan m, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

nick's onto something jordan, thing how much better tearing down will be.

ewwww, but then there's a whole new meaning to "loading out".

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Breadsticks >>> drumsticks

― Jordan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I saw a photo of a bunch of dudes outside of Soundbar, and they were all wearing jeans. Fancy jeans, maybe, but jeans.

I just hope the dress code doesn't exempt styes, because I've still got an ugly little one on my left eyelid.

― Eazy, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Is there a dress code for outside of Soundbar?

― n/a, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link

yep.

― kenan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link

What time are you guys getting there? I REALLY don't want to be the first one.

― n/a, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link

If I had a really fancy club, I would say there's a dress code but I wouldn't say what it was, and then when people asked me what the dress code was, I'd look really confused and say, "I can't tell you ... it's a code."

― n/a, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:42 (seventeen years ago) link

And if it is somehow unbearable, we can always go over to the Green Door Tavern and pay for drinks.

I'm planning to get there right around 9. Would Thai food beforehand make sense? That place at...LaSalle and Chicago?

― Eazy, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:42 (seventeen years ago) link

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