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Because most of her recordings had silence tacked on, or the track stretched in some way so that CDDB wouldn't identify it as a different recording. Maybe they'd gotten lazy by the time they released the Liszt recording.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link

baby animals in love

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link

OH. And this jackass dabbles in steroids too.

His name is Jorge.

Ok, that's the end of my rant.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link

The "dabbles in steroids" bit only convinces me further that he's got some business going on under the table.

― dan m, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

― dan m, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 20:16 (seventeen years ago) link

[img]http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42623000/jpg/_42623691_out1_416_ap.jpg[/img]

In this pic it looks like there is an orangutan with a tiger's body. I suppose that if an adult orangutan and a grown tiger loved each other verrrry much, this could result.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 20:16 (seventeen years ago) link

FUCK YOU. Why can't we just have regular REAL BBCode around here?

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42623000/jpg/_42623691_out1_416_ap.jpg

― Jesse, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Looks like some nasty weather coming tonight, I hear there's a flood watch...

Weather Underground dot com

― dan m, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link

dan, i was in logan square saturday night and couldn't get a cab to save my life. i walked to the blue line at spaulding from diversey and i was COVERED in snow by the time i got there. so logan square? you can go pound sand.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Hah, sorry to hear that. You should have stopped by! I would have given you a ride, I wasn't doing shit.

They ususally hang out at the opposite end of the train stop (on Kedzie), but rarely more than 2 at a time. It's a pain. Anymore I just call for one if I am taxiing somewhere. 312TAXICAB

― dan m, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 20:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Dan, I'm listening to the new Explosions in the Sky, and they remind me of Do Make Say Think in places -- do you know them at all?

― jaymc, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 20:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't understand why Nick said the Hatto fraud is sad.

― kenan, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I really like them. There was some snark on ILM recently that they are the "Coldplay" of the post-rocky bands, which I can kinda see. At any rate, yeah, big fan here... first show I saw after moving here. Check out The Rescue which I believe can be downloaded for free from their website.

― dan m, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

No, I mean, do you know Do Make Say Think? I know you like EITS, which is why I brought it up.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh shit, yeah, I gotcha. They're pretty alright, but I've only heard their latest record. Bunch of Broken Social Scene people, right?

― dan m, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I've been listening to this Yume Bitsu record today, which reminds me at times of DMST.

― dan m, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I think a couple of the guys play in Broken Social Scene. I like them because they combine the jazzy side of Chicago post-rock (maj-7th guitar figures, shuffly hi-hat rhythms) with the big crescendo-and-release dynamics of bands like Mogwai and GBYE.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link

The "dabbles in steroids" bit only convinces me further that he's got some business going on under the table.

I don't think so. I just think he spends his money on himself and his """wife""" and daughter get what's left over.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Do Make Say Think

i saw them saturday night. not my thing but it was decent background music.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I meant GYBE, not GBYE.

I like background music.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Just back on Explosions for a second... check out "Day 5" off of The Rescue which has my, like, favorite beat in a loooong time holding it down. Maybe I'll just put it on the blog...

― dan m, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I had thought about going to that show, too, until the Ethiopian beer dinner presented itself. I think my friend Leah was there.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I, too, thought about going to that show, until it snowed a shitload and no-one I knew wanted to go. Wish I had known you were there!

― dan m, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link

meant GYBE, not GBYE.

no, you mean GY!BE

― kenan, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link

it was PACKED. i always forget that my favorite music is a sub-genre of a sub-genre of a niche of genre that nobody really cares about in the first place until i walk into a show like that. i went to a show in logan square, dropped off a cd for a friend on ashland & fullerton then went home. i wasn't going to go back out as i was soaked and miserable and SOBER for christ's sake but then a friend txt'd me at 11:40 and i got up from beneath my blankets on my sofa and headed over. i had fun.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link

That is a cool beat.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Day 5 is on the blog (although it looks like jaymc's got it already). I have to listen to the song a couple times now, god damn I love that beat!

― dan m, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 20:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Two thousand and five was our year to take a bit of a step back and take some time to write new music, and along the way somewhere we got an idea for doing this e.p. in a different way then we've ever approached writing music. It can take us months and months and months to write even a song. Sometimes it comes much quicker, but often we spend many an afternoon trying out new melodies and riffs and drum beats, playing things over and over, obsessing and arguing and sighing and sitting silently for what seems to be hours on end. So, for this, our idea was to write and record a song every day for two weeks (this later became eight days) and the rest of the two weeks would be spent trying to mix and master the results. No riffs were to be written beforehand; things would be pretty much made up on the spot. It seemed daunting but fun and, perhaps, instructive. A learning experience. A chance to try new instruments and new ways of thinking about writing songs.

HI DERE

― jaymc, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 20:49 (seventeen years ago) link

That's why I almost like that EP more than any of their other releases, because for the most part it sounds very different from anything else they've put out.

― dan m, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 20:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I absolutely love reading 1-star reviews. Going over Arrested Development 1-stars--no big surprises* but still satisfying reading.

*Perhaps I missed something. Something important. But I could not sit through even the extended pilot. I understand my tastes must be weird but come on, look at, say, Golden Girls, or The Nanny. Those shows are cracking. This one? No way. Supersized monologues, dialogues that seem to be out of school play, just boring. Some people say they need a "background laughing track", well it's missing for a reason -- the show is not funny.

The show, however, is a little too cornball (to use a show phrase) for me. [This actually is sort of surprising. AD? Cornball??]

I had to stop after the first disc because every single character drove me nuts. You want to smack them, shake them, drive them far out into a desert and abandon to walk home, and hope they don't make it. They're not just eccentric or disfunctional...they're the most selfish people on earth. If this is where America is heading or what riches can do, save me from both. I loathed them all, even the one sensible son who tries so hard for "family." I kept saying: Run, run, run...take your son and run for it! But he doesn't. Idiot.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

But he doesn't.

Should've stuck around.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link

It always amazes me when people don't get joeks, like those freepers who thought the Colbert Report was for reals.

― dan m, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Some people say they need a "background laughing track"

I don't think I've ever heard anyone argue in favor of a laugh track before. Ever, for anything, ever.

― kenan, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Some of these reviewers favorite movies: Phat Girls, The Nutty Professor, Big Fish.

Also hated: (Cronenberg's) Crash, Hedwig, and Happiness.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Though surely it has happened in history. Married With Children would be lost without the laugh track.

― kenan, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm tired of working. You think there's a Married With Children marathon on somewhere?

― kenan, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link

That review is kind of how I feel about AD, too. Altho I have only seen maybe two eps ever.

― Laurel, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, it's really better on dvd, from the beginning.

― kenan, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link

The NY Times has a big profile of Chi thetre scene today, incl place I've never heard of called House Theater.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link

look at, say, Golden Girls, or The Nanny. Those shows are cracking

...

― jaymc, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link

if anyone says anything bad about the golden girls i swear to god i'll crawl through this internet connection, out your monitor, and kick your ass.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Those reviews don't seem to take into account that these characters are written to be selfish, annoying, irredemable.

Ha ha, 2-star review of Hedwig
This movie is definitely not for the faint-hearted. Main character John Cameron Mitchell goes into songs detailing his "angry inch." It could have been a good movie if it were more tastefully done, or with less singing, because 'Hedwig' is at heart, a musical.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link

new rule: if you have not watched television for the last 10 years, you do not get to review television shows.

― kenan, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Every time I hear the Golden Girls mentioned I can't help but think of that movie Airheads -- "Naked pictures of Bea Arthur?!?!?" Also: "Bea Arthur... outstanding."

― dan m, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link

(kevin: i loved the golden girls, too.)

― kenan, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Again, about Hedwig, from a reviewer in San Jose, CA

I am disappointed. Most of these type of movies (by that I mean foreign) are wonderful. This was just an annoyance. The animation was really juvenille. The only saving grace about this movie was the monologue. But that was coarse and strained at times as well.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link

It's a foreign movie, from a land called "New York City."

― Jesse, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link

From what glorious repository of popular opinion are you culling these gems?

― kenan, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Nothing against The Golden Girls. I haven't seen it in years, but I did find it pretty funny at the time. It's more just that GG and The Nanny seem like poor examples to use to contrast with AD. Like, if that's your idea of the pinnacle of comedy, then maybe AD just isn't really your style.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link

These are from Netflix, but Amazon is great for this too. Actually, Amazon is easier because you can show only certain levels of ratings.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 21:32 (seventeen years ago) link

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