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Powder the carpet.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Girl Down
Girl Boom
Grill Up

― KitCat, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, Jenny. I look dead, anyway.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Sofia C's "POV" was of a 21st-century club kid. What a waste.

I agree with the first half of this statement and disagree with the second.

― n/a, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse, is that your review or did you copy/paste that? Because it doesn't sound like you and I didn't think you liked Lost in Translation that much.

I don't know how long I boil collards for. A long fucking time. Another tasty trick is to toss some chicken bullion cubes in there. Salty! (My grandmother made collards over Christmas and they were very salty and flavorful and when I asked her how she made them she said, "Salt pork and seven bullion cubes." Then we all had myocardial infarctions.)

1- I wrote it all by myself. And I LOVED Lost in Translation

I love a lot of "slow" movies. LiT, All the Real Girls, Bubble, Elephant. Just not this one.

2- Damn. I knew I was forgetting something. I was going to use some chicken stock as well as the pork necks for extra flavor, but I forgot. I forgot to add more meat to my veg, in the great Southern tradition.

Next time I will use pork necks, turkey necks, AND chicken stock.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Smoked turkey wings are a good bet, too, and if you have leftovers, you can pick the meat off the wings and then mixed it up with the collards and that is some good shit reheated.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Is it possible in this world of hierarchical gender to come up with a feminine term with all the positive connotations of "bro down"?

I believe Kelsey came up with "bitch up".

― Jordan, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Ooooh, I like that.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I woke up this morning to some dude buzzing everyone in my building asking who had a purple car in the parking lot. He sounded pissed. I ignored it but freaked out for a second wondering if my car could be considered purple.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link

lol@jesse's examples of slow movies.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Stitching circle.

― Eazy, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know, that conjures up FGM a little too vividly.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm unsure about "bitch up," since it has, if not a negative connotation, a potentially harsh one. That Kit person, in the Lost thread, asked someone if he didn't know someone else who could "bro down" and procure a copy of Wendnesday's episode for him to watch, implying a favor. It's hard to imagine asking someone to "bitch up" and drive you to the airport early in the morning, you know?

― Jenny, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

A slow movie I did not like: Broken Flowers. The long, long shots went beyond contemplative, into boring, and came out the other side. I fell asleep and didn't have the heart to put myself through any more of it, so back in the mail with it.

What I DID like about Marie Antoinette was the way it used punk and rock and '80s elements while still making it a period piece. Unlike Romeo and Juliet, which went whole hog. (Nothing against Romeo and Juliet, I loved that movie.)

― Jesse, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link

bra down

― Jordan, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link

LOL

― Jenny, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I've never heard "bro down" before this morning, but it sounds related to "man up"/"cowboy up" (imperative verb kinder than "grow a pair and...[talk to her, call my big bet, etc.]"

― Eazy, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I've heard it like, "Who wants to bro down and watch football this weekend?" and the aforementioned favor-usage. I've also heard it negatively connotated like Jordan mentioned upthread, but not as often. Nick uses it a lot, I think. Dontcha? Dontcha?

Speaking of our ILX pigeonholes: JOHN! Can you tell me about the popularity, if any, of the name "Kai"?

― Jenny, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link

"synchronize our menstrual cycles"

― n/a, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Because a law school friend of mine's wife is about to have a baby and he said he would like to name him "Kai" but worries that name is too popular, a sentiment that I, as a Jennifer, found to be somewhat ridiculous although I appreciated his conscious effort to avoid a trendy name.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link

"bleed all over some important documents"

― Jenny, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I use the term "bros" sometimes in a semi-ironic sense but I don't think I ever say "bro down."

― n/a, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I think "bros" is one of many terms that I started to use as a joke but then became absorbed into my vocabulary and now I just use it without thinking.

― n/a, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link

And ladies can be bros too, BTW.

― n/a, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't want to be a "bro." I defy your male normativity.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I know a Kai. He is one of the biggest douchebags it has ever been my distinct displeasure to meet.

― dan m, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I've also heard it negatively connotated like Jordan mentioned upthread

I didn't mention it. I would never use bro-down negatively. When Cam and Justin and I came to Chicago for drinking and shopping for cheap shirts and sensible furniture, that was a quintessential bro-down.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

He used to read The Giving Tree as a seduction tool.

― dan m, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

(xpost)

― dan m, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

My favorite "slow" movie = Andrei Rublev

― Jeff, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't want to be a "bro."

Hey, tough shit.

― n/a, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

GAWD, Dan, I hate that guy.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha! My disgust is partially based on the fact that he tried this bullshit on multiple close female friends of mine. They laughed at him, and I did too.

Dude also "changed" his last name from a noble, relatively unique Finnish name to "Orion". I say changed in quotes because he didn't do it legally, he just asked people to start calling him that.

DOUCHE. BAG.

― dan m, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

There is a dude here who changed his last name to "FX", I think cause he was going to be famous? Then his family got upset, so he added it to his first name, ie "Joe FX Smith".

― Jordan, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link

The Giving Tree???

FX????

You people know some wankers.

Speaking of The Giving Tree, I want to restart the "relationship ending books" thread so that I can say that if someone gave me "The Secret," either the book or the DVD, I would not only dump him on the spot, but I would also probably physically assault him.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

[cut to jeff furiously scratching out an entry from his christmas shopping list]

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha. I never would have married the man if he even for a moment considered that an appropriate gift.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

[jeff pauses, worries that scratching out the entry may not be enough, and lights the entire list on fire]

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Now a pyromaniac I would have married.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

NO SERENADE NO FIRE BRIDAGE JUST THE PYROMANIA COME ON

― Jenny, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

What do you want?

― Jenny, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

What DO you want?

― Jenny, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

i wanna, y'know, rock 'n' roll

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

you betcha.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I knew you'd come through, Kevin.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

jenny, i WILL rock 'n' roll

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

And now I have Def Leppard stuck in my head. There are worse things, I suppose, since it's Pyromania-era Def Leppard and not that horrible Hysteria record. Def Leppar really went down the tubes after Rick Allen lost his arm.

SORRY BUT IT IS TRUE.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link

who knew all their talent lay in that dude's left arm?

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I have actually given this some thought. I think that to accomodate the loss of Rick Allen's arm, Def Leppard had to rely on synth drums. That meant that they had to change their entire sound because the rock and roll of Pyromania just didn't work with synth drums, at least not as they sounded in the late 80s. So the band had to build a new sound around the synth drums and you get the turd known as Hysteria.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't remember hysteria very well but i loved pyromania.

― JuliaA, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link

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