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That's probably not true, but it's up there.

― Jeff, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Best people to recommend music to you: your friends.

Except if your friends have bad taste in music. You realize that we're all friends because we met on a message board that was originally exclusively about music? A lot of my other friends just don't really keep up with music anymore, or else are really excited about Pearl Jam coming to Lollapalooza or whatever.

We should have some kind of Chi mix CD exchange.

We should have a mixtape party like the one EZ's old housemates hosted! That was fun.

― jaymc, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

YEAH!

― n/a, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah that would be awesome.

― kenan, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Best people to recommend music to you: ~~your~~ my friends.

fixed.

― kenan, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, I forgot to mention -- there was a woman on the el this morning who was wearing...

a) chartreuse tights
b) chartreuse scarf
c) leopard-print coat
d) black Crocs

Also e) cat's-eye glasses, which made me think she was going for some purposefully outre look, like she was just waiting to be spotted for a role in the next John Waters film, but the whole ensemble was just really unappealing.

― jaymc, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

So the rule of the previous mixtape party was everyone brings two copies of their mix and puts it in a box, and then at the end of the night, you reach in and take two mixes. Some of the fun was in the anonymity of it -- I still don't know who took my mix, and I don't know the person who made one of the mixes I took -- because we were at a party with lots of different people from different circles. So we won't have that, but still -- new music.

― jaymc, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link

That would be fun.

― Jordan, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I say we do it. It'll be easier for me to make a mix if it's all anonymous anyway, and I'm not trying to cater to any specific tastes. When I make a mix for someone in particular, I always want their approval.

― kenan, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I wore bubble gum-pink fishnets yesterday, but with proper heeled boots and not with my red Crocs, that would be unspeakable.

― Laurel, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Ugh. I just sent out an e-mail about the two shows coming up (to a broader list than you guys), and I accidentally put everyone in the "to" line instead of the "bcc" line. Not the end of the world, but embassing, since I want to keep folks' e-mails private.

I like music critics (bloggers included) who discover music outside of the new-release PR machine. Tim Perlich in Toronto has a column where he writes about whatever he finds in record stores that week, whether it's old or white-label or whatever. It's no mistake that he was one of the first critics anywhere to write about Beck, Devendra Benhardt, Nirvana, The Ponys (before they got any attention at all in Chicago) and many others.

Greil Marcus and Christgau are that way too - if they miss a record when it's released, they'll still write about it a year or two later, and I admire that.

Anders Smith-Lindall (freelancer with the Sun-Times, Harp, etc.) writes especially good profiles and live-show reviews.

Reader critics are informative and/or enjoyable in different ways.

― Eazy, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link

A mix-CD-exchange TTs would be fun.

― Eazy, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm going to encase my mix cd in black velvet.

― n/a, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Mixtape exchange second/third/fourthed.

Sendspace is aight but it's slow as shit in my experience.

― dan m, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I am listening to Laurel Aitken.

― dan m, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm listening to Laurel achin'.

― Eazy, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I would like a delicious salad for lunch.

― n/a, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

i would like a gazelle for lunch.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm going to go home and have a veggie burger, maybe burn some mixes that I owe people.

― Jordan, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm going to have a substandard turkey sub.
i'd really like about 2 1/2 lbs of garlic mashed potatoes and biscuits and gravy and some green beans.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 9 March 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/mag/images/articles/24319.gif

― Jeff, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

kev, I can show you where to get gr8 mashed potatoes in the East Village when u get here.

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Who is this other Laurel person getting all the press? I demand to know.

― Laurel, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

whoo hoo!!

― chicago kevin, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

3 weeks from today i will be hungover in brooklyn. as opposed to hungover at my desk.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Laurel Aitken

[quote]Laurel Aitken (April 22, 1927-July 17, 2005) was a singer who was known as one of the originators of Jamaican ska music in the late 1950s.[\quote]

― dan m, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Gah, I made the quote tage into LaTeX

― dan m, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link

And misspelled "tag"! I'm going home.

― dan m, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link

from the van halen wikipedia entry:

The most widely reported alcohol-related performance issue occurred during the band's first night in Chicago at the United Center when Eddie, staggering about, repeatedly tripped on his guitar cable, causing his guitar to become unplugged eighteen times. As a result, towards the middle of the set, Hagar asked Eddie's guitar tech to come onstage and follow Ed around to keep re-plugging the guitar. Also notable was Eddie stopping in the middle of his Eruption solo, laying down on stage and telling the audience in a slurred voice, "I'm sorry folks, I done run outta gas." He lay there for several seconds before standing back up and continuing.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

lol

― Jordan, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Whoa, I just realized I can leave at 5 PM today, based on the overtime I've worked this week.

― jaymc, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

christ it just gets better:

Eddie claims he cured the cancer in his tongue by means that are "illegal" in this country. There has been some speculation that crystal meth was the means he used. Further, Eddie claims that cigarettes did not cause his tongue cancer, and so despite having had a third of his tongue removed, he continues to smoke

― chicago kevin, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Ed rolls hard.

― dan m, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link

but doesn't roll his tongue.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I know a dude who really believes that Eddie threw together a bunch of money and scientists and licked that whole "cancer" problem, it just won't get FDA/corporation-approved.

― Jordan, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Because curing cancer wouldn't be profitable? I'm no conspiracy nut, but...

― kenan, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Eddie threw together a bunch of money and scientists and licked that whole "cancer" problem

pretty harsh way to describe a guy who lost a third of his tongue to cancer.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link

ha ha That's a great story.

I got my review! WOO HOO!

Hey, random: Does anyone agree that the melody to the chorus in DON'CHA is alot like the hook from Glamorous Life? or am I crazy? or both?

― KitCat, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I just googled "Glamorous Life" -- it's a Sheila E song? I don't think I know it.

― jaymc, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Fergie has a new song called just plain "Glamorous."

― jaymc, Friday, 9 March 2007 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Yep. Sheila E.

― KitCat, Friday, 9 March 2007 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Sarah, yes! it hadn't occurred to me before, but now that you point it out, they do seem really similar.

― horseshoe, Friday, 9 March 2007 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I tapdanced to it when I was wee. I wore the black and white costume pictured here.

― KitCat, Friday, 9 March 2007 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Listening to it on YouTube now. And yeah, I totally hear it -- it's just the sax part, I think, but it's very similar.

― jaymc, Friday, 9 March 2007 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link

The quality of those pix is horrendous. It was a horrible scan job I did a few years ago. They make me look freakish. I was actually very cute, I swear.

― KitCat, Friday, 9 March 2007 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks for not correcting me! HA!

Anyway, I'm pumped for my Love's wrap.

― KitCat, Friday, 9 March 2007 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Glamorous Life is great. Prince wrote it and Digd0wn recorded it on an album before I was in the band.

― Jordan, Friday, 9 March 2007 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Fucking iTunes on my fucking laptop. I tried ripping some more Field Music, it got through five more songs and then just started hanging. Then I tried burning a cd for deej and 10 seconds from the end it sighed and turned itself off.

It really makes me want to spend hundreds of dollars on a new computer just to be able to listen to music for fun without hassle.

― Jordan, Friday, 9 March 2007 19:05 (seventeen years ago) link

The new Field Music is probably my favorite album of 2007 so far.

― jaymc, Friday, 9 March 2007 19:06 (seventeen years ago) link

it is so beautiful outside right now chicago. the air is warm! WARM!!! the breeze felt great across my face, like having someone stroke my cheek with the back of their fingers. it was sublime.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 9 March 2007 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

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