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Stick a corn cob in me and call me Cletus.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 23:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Is that what you gay.com profile headline is?

― Jenny, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 23:30 (seventeen years ago) link

My dad used to use the term "pot licker" as a pejorative.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 23:32 (seventeen years ago) link

The Lake Isle Of Innisfree

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 23:47 (seventeen years ago) link

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 23:48 (seventeen years ago) link

What do you want? Can't a man share some Yeats?

― Jesse, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 23:50 (seventeen years ago) link

yes! :D

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 23:50 (seventeen years ago) link

also, when i think of jesse i hear his voice but i hear him making absurd comments like "i invented the exclamation point" or "do you like my vest? it's made from shoelaces."

i was going to say something about how your thumbnail sketch would be something about ass. or maybe feminine folds. but here you are quoting yeats too.

― JuliaA, Thursday, 8 March 2007 00:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse: talk to you tomorrow or something
what's your schedule tomorrow?
i'll protest bunny with you
me: i'm meeting people at depaul at 11:30 and then heading over
you can meet me at depaul if you want
good way to meet owmne
women, too
Jesse: ok
before that i mean
me: nothin
i'm open
want to get some COFFEE?
Jesse: maybe
what time are you rising and going to innisfree?
shall you arise and go to innisfree
what time are you getting up?
me: whenevs
Jesse: and hitting the road
to innisfree
me: i don't know, i'll probably get up around 7:30?
8?
Jesse: to the bee-oud glade
me: and then shower
Jesse: bee-loud glade
me: shit shower shave
brush my teeth
Jesse: beel-loud glade
me: get dressed
want to get some breakfast?
Jesse: bee-loud glade
me: stop that
Jesse: probably not
bee
me: okay
Jesse: ok
me: put on make up
fuck around and waste time all morning
and then get on the train to go to depaul
Jesse: ok, i shall arise and go to innesfree
Sent at 5:46 PM on Wednesday
Jesse: bye
off to innisfree

― Jenny, Thursday, 8 March 2007 00:11 (seventeen years ago) link

There's a snapshot into My Life with Jesse.

― Jenny, Thursday, 8 March 2007 00:12 (seventeen years ago) link

ahahaha!

― horseshoe, Thursday, 8 March 2007 00:14 (seventeen years ago) link

The annotated conversation

Jesse: [...]what time are you rising and going to innisfree?
shall you arise and go to innisfree
what time are you getting up?
me: whenevs
Jesse: and hitting the road [pause]
to innisfree (the moment in the re-reading that makes me LOL)
me: i don't know, i'll probably get up around 7:30?
8?
Jesse: to the bee-oud glade*
me: and then shower
Jesse: bee-loud glade*
me: shit shower shave
brush my teeth
Jesse: beel-loud glade*
me: get dressed
want to get some breakfast?
Jesse: bee-loud glade*
me: stop that
Jesse: probably not
bee*
me: okay
Jesse: ok

During this exchange I was so unreasonably jacked up on caffeine that I felt as though I was hallucinating. *=unintentional typos.

― Jesse, Thursday, 8 March 2007 01:33 (seventeen years ago) link

i was going to say something about how your thumbnail sketch would be something about ass. or maybe feminine folds. but here you are quoting yeats too.

I'm an enigma wrapped in a mystery, enveloped in ass-folds.

― Jesse, Thursday, 8 March 2007 01:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Oy.

How did I end up with so many duplicate files?? Fortunately iTunes has a "show duplicates" function. Unfortunately, the only way to remove duplicates without accidentaly removing say a remix or live version of a song with the same title) is to go through and do it manually.

Show Duplicates beginning: 4900-some
Show Duplicates now: 1003

That's about 3,900 clicks.

― Jesse, Thursday, 8 March 2007 02:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I've spent a good couple hours pruning out my duplicates, too. My main problem is that one version of the song might be on a playlist, and so I want to make sure that that one stays, or else the playlist is fucked.

― jaymc, Thursday, 8 March 2007 03:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh. Now I remember one reason iTunes is the Devil. I want to hear "Tin Man" by America. But this computer is not authorized to play that song because I bought the fucker from iTunes store and I don't remember my password.

― Jesse, Thursday, 8 March 2007 04:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm going through iTunes hell right now too. Trying to fill up my new iPod, but most of my music is on an external hard drive and iTunes doesn't know where the tunes are half the time. Also my laptop can only run iTunes for like 10 minutes before overheating and crashing. :( :( :(

― Jordan, Thursday, 8 March 2007 05:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Someone on Jenny's other (dead) board said it best: "iTunes runs like a fat kid in gym class."

My music is on my external HD also, but I just relocated my official iTunes Music folder there.

My iTunes question: Is there some way to make the library automatically recognize changes in the Music folder? When I add stuff I have to manually go to File --> Add Folder (or file) to Library -->[file or folder name]. Also, when I move things around (e.g., if half of 1 album is under The Arcade Fire, and the other half is under Arcade Fire, and I consolidate them into one folder) then I still have to do it manually.

Is this just how it is?

(I went to ilounge.com and didn't see any answers to my problem.)

― Jesse, Thursday, 8 March 2007 05:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Why are you using itunes again?

http://www.mlipod.com/

― Jeff, Thursday, 8 March 2007 12:34 (seventeen years ago) link

"iTunes runs like a fat kid in gym class."

HA!

Unless you have a Mac or a gig of ram. In which case it's lurvely.

― kenan, Thursday, 8 March 2007 13:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I have the new Maximo Park album; it starts out strong but loses energy after the first few songs. And I thought they were French, not British?

― n/a, Thursday, 8 March 2007 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link

They sound British though. Very Futureheads-y.

― n/a, Thursday, 8 March 2007 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Maxïmo Park are an English indie rock band, signed to Warp Records, who formed in 2003. Drawing comparisons to Pulp and Franz Ferdinand, Maxïmo Park were, along with cohorts The Futureheads, North-East England's response to the post-punk revival of the 2000s.

Kitten is at the vet awaiting fixing. I forgot to not feed her last night, oops.

― Jordan, Thursday, 8 March 2007 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Did you tell the vet that?

― Jenny, Thursday, 8 March 2007 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, they said it's okay, they'll just do her later in the morning.

― Jordan, Thursday, 8 March 2007 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Nick, you must have been confused by the diaresis over the "i."

― jaymc, Thursday, 8 March 2007 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Oops, vet just called, it's a no go b/c she didn't fast long enough. I am dumb.

― Jordan, Thursday, 8 March 2007 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Huh, I could have sworn that I read they were French somewheres. I wish I had the north English accent that the Futureheads and Field Music have.

― n/a, Thursday, 8 March 2007 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Drat, Jordan! It's okay, though. That's an easy mistake to make, plus it's better that they don't do it then risk something bad happening. She might get diaresis or something.

― Jenny, Thursday, 8 March 2007 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Diaresis of a Madman was probably my favorite ozzy album.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 8 March 2007 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Really? My favorite peanut butter-based candy item is Diaresis' Pieces.

― n/a, Thursday, 8 March 2007 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Severe diaresis can lead to anal fissures.

― kenan, Thursday, 8 March 2007 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I really didn't have to go there, did I?

― kenan, Thursday, 8 March 2007 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Ok, this is bad. I'm walking to work today, for what's going to be a really busy day, and all I'm thinking is, "I think I'll revive that thread about how bald guys are sexy."

― kenan, Thursday, 8 March 2007 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't do that, I'm going to be busy today and can't obsess over a crush thread. Maybe tomorrow?

― Laurel, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link

So if the Olympics DID come to Chicago, someone would probably be forced to pony up some $$$ to fix up the CTA, right?

― n/a, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes.

I want the Olympics to come here. It will be like another World's Fair.

― KitCat, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link

really i just wanted to post a bunch of pictures of Brian Eno. No crushing required.

― kenan, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Except that I have a crush on Brian Eno. It's not sexual, really. It's a different thing. An Eno crush.

― kenan, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:16 (seventeen years ago) link

i really wish i had a copy of marquee moon with me because that record helps me do stuff. for a kind of swirly, laid back record it's a real motivator for me. anyway, it's sunny out, it's going to be above freezing today and i feel like a million bucks.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I've never heard MM. Someone needs to burn it for me because I'm clearly never going to buy it.

― Jordan, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link

That is a fantastic record. Yes. Title track is almost too short.

― kenan, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm imagining what it's like to get off at Addison during a Cubs home game crossed with riding the train full of sweaty, muscle men in tank tops a la the Gay Games and multiplying that by a giant, Olympic-sized stadium and getting a little terrified.

Anyway, I'm skeptical. I don't like how we basically have to want the Olympics to get the CTA repairs that we need. I am also skeptical that the people who live in Washington Park now aren't going to get much of a voice in the process and are going to get screwed.

― Jenny, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Jordan, I will YSI Marquee Moon to you if you send me the old Field Music album you have.

― n/a, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I am also skeptical that the people who live in Washington Park now aren't going to get much of a voice in the process and are going to get screwed.

That is my one big concern. An Olympic stadium in your neighborhood is something beyond mere gentrification.

― kenan, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Done.

(I just have to dig the cd out of my car)

― Jordan, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

all i know is that walsh construction will have all of the city's money if chicago gets the games. right now they only have most of it.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, well I won't be sending you Marquee Moon until I get home this afternoon, track down the cd, and put it on my computer, so no rush.

― n/a, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I haven't ever zipped/rar'ed up a whole album, it'll be educational.

― Jordan, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Right click, create archive... at least that's all I ever do.

― dan m, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link

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