Chicago MMXII

He sure has a lot of worldly opinions.

Lots of stuff I liked this year isn't on spotify, but I have a little list of albums.

ha what was the song you didn't like?

i'm wondering whether it's a misogynist rap song or just a dumb punk song

LOL no I really like all the misogynist rap. I LOVE that Schoolboy Q song. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I was trying to describe it but then it came on - Kush Ain't Loud. Really repetitive vocals sometimes give me the jim jams and this is a prime example. I just really, really want him to stop saying "kush ain't loud." STOP. STOP SAYING IT.

oh yeah that is footwork music from chicago. i love glitchy repetitive vocals and i like how that song gets more souled out later on.

I like repetitive vocals too -- it's words as sounds rather than words as meaning. I like that.

are you waiting for the streetcar
are you waiting for the streetcar
are you waiting for the streetcar

I don't always hate repetitive vocals, and I don't even think I can quantify what it is about this song that gets to me, but it's the same kind of irritation I get when somebody keeps tapping on the desk over and over and over or repetitively clears his throat.

fair enough!

HEY so our own n/a posted an excellent best of 2012 playlist on the Spotify and it's awesome (except for one song I don't like, but still that's a very high success rate) so I am hoping that jaymc and LL and whomever else has also compiled such lists and will post them here.

Yes! My playlist -- which I've been compiling all year -- probably won't be finalized for another couple of weeks. There's a few things I haven't heard yet, and year-end lists are cluing me into some stuff I didn't know about. And then, of course, I have to sequence it. But I promise I will let you know when it's ready.

I just really, really want him to stop saying "kush ain't loud."

Haven't heard that one, but man I hated Lil Wayne's "A Milli" so much. Could not see why it was so beloved. A MILLI A MILLI A MILLI A MILLI A MILLI. Although I was into it when Girl Talk mashed it up with "Steppin' Out."

mine isn't finalized either, i'm still fiddling with it and adding to it, and i'm not going to bother sequencing it - i assume people will just hit shuffle play anyways

Spotify has ruined any sense I have of what year music came out.

I was listening to Ride the Lightening this morning. Was that this year?

haha see, as you know, jaymc, I LOVE A Milli. So who knows what my g d problem is.

Anyway, John, hurry up.

LL, I would like to see your list of albums.

xp I noticed that, Jeff, and thought that was kind of unusual.

I feel like it's totally predictable, but it's predictable because it's what I have been yapping about all year.
I starred tracks I like too, but those are just my personal favorites.

For instance, I think this is one of my most repeated songs but who knows if anyone else will love it as much as I do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXnycij1RsM

spotted in lakeview, a poor dog just trying to make it as a great dane in this world & being forced to wear this ridiculous get-up

lol

I didn't know who WJ was, but I was interested b/c I stand w/ LL and ca in fascination w/ the grotesque and bizarre.

a, have you heard this dariush dolat-shahi recording that got reissued last month? it's persian classical music w/ buzzy-bleepy-bloopy analogue synths from the '60s w/ added cricket and bird sounds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEBKDupzQcQ

Since I broke out of my multi-year depressness, I no longer hate music, but I still have a knee-jerk reaction of hating it, but then I remember that that's fixed.

Xp I haven't but I will! That sounds great!!

Anyway, John, hurry up.

If you don't give a fuck about sequencing, it's on Spotify already. Might still add or sub out some tracks, of course.

idgaf about sequencing. Are you jaymc on there? Assuming I can figure out how to add people?

No, seriously, how do you add people? I've managed to add five people throughout my Spotify career, but now I can't find a "find people you know" or "add friends" button or anything.

Connect to Facebook

...

Do it. U r my FB muse.

Honestly no pressure, but if you get a FB account I will tell you a secret.

You might be surprised at how unpersuasive that is.

Plus you'll tell me whatever it is anyway.

the lady on the right is named lind@ w@rmb33r
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_melci23LvC1rcq6xho1_500.jpg

young lady, i should say

That's pretty awesome.

I had a friend in college whose last name was L0ngye@r. I would like to introduce them.

hahaha
look at these people in the "ice room"

http://www.kingspa.com/data/file/e_g_chicago/1077252262_DwR7kemJ_e3.jpg

L0ngye@r is the surname of a p rich/powerful mining company family in the UP.

what about warmb33r

BLAINE
WHAT ABOUT WARMB33R?!?!?

sorry
i am losing my mind

Never heard'a no Warmb33rs, we like our beers cold up north eh.

Anybody here have anything anecdotal to share about the Wr1ght F0undation? I was supposed to go to an event there tonight with a friend who's been involved with them for a little while, and I thought to actually research them today aaaaaaaand it looks like they're some weird amalgam of Sc13ntology and EST. So I won't be attending that particular event. But now I'm wondering if I need to hire a vanful of deprogrammers to help out my friend.

We don't have any NY lurkers here any more, I don't think, but I saw this on fb and thought it was weird.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/65142_10151562480485744_952813274_n.jpg

Never heard of that foundation.
What is the origin of that map? Who made it?

This guy, apparently.

https://www.facebook.com/vourteque

I produce and direct a majority of the events for Steampunk Chicago as well as act as one of the primary contributors to the blog www. SteampunkChicago.com
So, not a sociologist or other person trained in the social sciences, then?

Nope just some dork like the rest of us. Well, with steampunk.

Then DISREGARD/IGNORE

double ignore for steampunk

Kind of funny, though, inasmuch as it feels right.

If you like scientific breakdowns of Chicago's neighborhoods, here's an interesting one that compares the types of waste disposed: http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/The-312/December-2012-1/A-Look-at-Chicago-Through-Its-Trash/

Tho I don't know enough about either Edison Park or Staten Island to say whether that one makes sense.

(Re the steampunkers' map.)

I feel cheated, Lechera promised me she lived in the equivalent of the Bronx.