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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

Yeah, I just walked up to 57th and back for a haircut and on the way back to work I took my jacket OFF.

― dan m, Friday, 9 March 2007 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link

aw yay! I haven't been outside yet, but something to look forward to!

― horseshoe, Friday, 9 March 2007 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Perhaps you were touched by an angel.

― kenan, Friday, 9 March 2007 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost to kev

― kenan, Friday, 9 March 2007 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah I'm making up constant excuses to go outside. I am one cigarette smokin mofo today.

― kenan, Friday, 9 March 2007 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

just mother nature kenan.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 9 March 2007 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.worth1000.com/entries/259000/259020XDFC_w.jpg

― kenan, Friday, 9 March 2007 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I was just outside. It's beautiful.

― jaymc, Friday, 9 March 2007 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

A coworker brought in choco-chip brownies (!). Today is a good day.

― KitCat, Friday, 9 March 2007 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I will be bolting out of here at 5, hopefully to home in time to open up the apartment before it gets dark and cold.

― kenan, Friday, 9 March 2007 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I did a lot of work this morning. Isn't that enough for a Friday? Why can't I go home? WHY?

― kenan, Friday, 9 March 2007 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Groan. Someone somewhere in the production line is giving out my phone number to astronomy authors and telling them I'm an ".eps Expert". This is not good.

― dan m, Friday, 9 March 2007 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link

What would an eps expert be, anyway? Able to identify and open them?

― kenan, Friday, 9 March 2007 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't much much about astronomy.

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

Nah, these people use all kinds of kludged-together software to generate PostScript, and quite often don't have access to things like Illustrator. Getting the bounding boxes, fonts, line styles, and colors to work with these things can be an amazing headache sometimes.

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

xpost to Sarah: Me either! :)

― dan m, Friday, 9 March 2007 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm sure I've told you this story before, but my freshman year of college I took a course in Cosmology and another course in Astronomy. My dad misheard me and thought I was taking Cosmetology and Astrology. Oh, Dads.

― KitCat, Friday, 9 March 2007 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I bet.

― kenan, Friday, 9 March 2007 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost to dan

― kenan, Friday, 9 March 2007 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Cosmetology and Astrology

Those sound like they would go well together! At least, they would if you were Frenchy from Grease.

― kenan, Friday, 9 March 2007 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Ahh, I have to do MY 2 year review today (even though it's been almost 3 years) and I just realized that I have to fill out a review of my TL. Due in a few minutes. I hate doing this stuff, and really I don't have any criticisms (that I can state, anyway).

― Jordan, Friday, 9 March 2007 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link

"It says on your chart you're fucked up, you talk like a fag, and your shit's all retarded."

― kenan, Friday, 9 March 2007 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link

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