An October sort of city: Chicago part 6

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Chicago smells like chocolate again today.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, apple slices with peanut butter on them are awesome.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

So jaymc was just talking about going into the studio. And I wanted to say that we (the FF) wrote a new song yesterday in practice in like 20 minutes. It was awesome. I had some lyrics, Sarah came up with a bass line, and it all just fell together. Which is cool because the last new song we wrote took like a month to actually finish. But when we saw Crap Engine on Friday (who are really really good, despite the awful band name), they played one of their power-pop songs, like 3 minutes long, and then their bass player said "That song took us 7 months to write"). So I guess we're generally lucky. This doesn't have much to do with Chicago, but I'm just excited about our new song. Carry on.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

i didn't even bother to slice the apple. i just smeared peanut butter on the spots i wanted to bite from. then i gave up & ate some pb off the butter knife.
*now* i'm satiated.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

by the way, does anyone have any updated info on the lake path? is it still da-da-da . . . horrid?!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

hahahahaha. a month! you guys. so cute.

last night, we had an argument about one of my keyboard parts. matt said "what about that thing you do? don't you go down on that line?" i said, "i stopped doing that a long time ago cuz i thought it was clashing with piano/violin/whatever." he said, "oh. i miss it." i said, "well, you can't miss it too much since you haven't noticed that i haven't been playing it for the last TWO YEARS!"

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

actually, i think the part itself was written THREE years ago.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

awww. matt.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

so this show tonight is late & i'm a tired monkey right now & it's only 4:45 . . . so do i go home to work out or to nap?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

and thus begins the moment when kelsey follows nick's lead & posts to herself.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

if i work out, i might wake up. then again, it could make me more tired.
if i work out tonight, i won't have to do it in the morning.
naps are really, really great though.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

So Jeff, I don't know if you're still out there, but there's a 70% chance of rain tonight, supposed to be strong storms, I'm thinking there probably isn't going to be a game...

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I post to myself?

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

sometimes you carry a thread on your own for a few.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Disco nap.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

what's a disco nap?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

That nap you take so you can stay out later at the disco.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Um... I guess. I dunno. I think it's a Beastie Boys lyric. Eat a Scooby snack, take a disco nap.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

So what does everyone else think? Is there going to be a baseball game tonight? I have to decide in the next 12 minutes whether I'm going up to Wrigleyville to meet Jeff or if I'm going home to stay dry.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I say go home and get WET.

http://www.duke.edu/~jfb10/roadtrip/drinking%20me%20and%20codes.JPG

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Well I just checked the weather again and it's supposed to storm from 7 until midnight, so I'm going to go home. Sorry if I'm ditching you, Jeff. I just left a message on yr cell.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Yep, i got the message. I sent you an email, i'm going to go to the park anyway at 7, and see how much if any of the game is played. It's cool if you don't want to brave the rain, I can dump the ticket on the street for face value.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Monday, 9 May 2005 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, cool...I love stormy nights. One thing I miss about the 'burbs are the tornado warnings. Don't get any near the lake. :(

― it's mashed potato time! (dymaxia), Monday, 9 May 2005 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I cannot imagine missing tornado warnings. You're one of those adrenaline types, aren't you?

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 05:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I tornado blew down my parents house in 1999, with us in it. It was... interesting. I wouldn't want to go through it again.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 05:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I go home to Chicago in one week, and I'm totally done with school! Hurrah!

― Lethal Dizzle (djdee2005), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 06:26 (twenty-one years ago)

(Plz give me a job)

― Lethal Dizzle (djdee2005), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 06:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Mornin', cow pokes.

I'm feeling good today. What I need is MORE COFFEE.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I bought a big-ass coffee to supplement the free stuff we have at work. Worked 9 - 6 yesterday, came home and ate tilapia with Maddie, then went back to work from 7-9 and was up until 1:00. COFFEE, MOTHERFUCKERS, it's the only way I can get through this gig.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Now I feel like a dumbass for not going to the game last night. Dammit.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I couldn't sleep the night before last because I had a HUGE Mr. Pibb at Chip0tle (I usually try to stay away from soda, especially late in the day; Also, I usually try to stay away from Chip0tle in general).

Last night I was so proud of myself because I grilled corn on the cob and sweet potato fries. True, Nick had to help me towards the end, and I didn't cook the potatoes long enough beforehand so they ended up being a little too hard in parts, but yay for grilling!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 13:30 (twenty-one years ago)

MMMMMM CORN ON COB

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I left after the 5 inning. It was sort of fun to sit in the rain though, I bought a poncho! The Books was good too.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I buy my corn on the cob off a pick-up truck in the Menards and/or Pizza Hut parking lot. Ah, Indiana in the summertime! They are building a Chip0tle here, right next to La Bamba's and up the road from El Rodeo and around the corner from the great all-day breakfast Mexican place. Why corporate America, why?
Last night I watched 24 and now I can't wait until next week to see how they dismantle a flying nuclear weapon.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

ARGGH SPOILERS

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG I'M SO SORRY TEENY. You can dismember me now.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

NO 24 SPOILERS PLEEZE OK THANX BYE.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

(Like you don't know EVERYTHING that's going to happen in a season of 24 after you've watched season one anyways - MOST REPETITIVE SHOW EVER.)

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

MMMMM MEXICAN BREAKFAST

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

MOST REPETITIVE SHOW EVER

No, that would be "Super Milk Chan." But 24 is close.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Jordan, Millions of Americans lives are at stake. Eat up!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Ohmygod MR PIBB. There is not nearly enough of that stuff around New York. Me + Gigios in Evanston used to = Mr Pibb extravaganza.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not Mr. Pibb anymore, It's Pibb Xtra to appeal to a younger, "hipper" demographic. They sent out booklets to restaurants explaining the name change.

― IcouldnotmakethisupifItried (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

But but how can there be Pibb Xtra if there is no just Pibb? Isn't that like calling Dominos for extra cheese and having them just send you a box of cheese? Does it taste the same, or does it now taste Xtreme and Xtraordinary? Is everything going to be okay? Why can they not just have regular Mr Pibb and then Mr Pibb Xtra, which would be regular Mr Pibb with extra Xanax?

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

(What kind of name is Pibb, anyway?)

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

You're just full of questions, aren't you?

I think I might need to have a Dr. Pepper, or perhaps a Mr. Pibb, at lunch today.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Mmm.... Dr. Pepper

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Pibb Xtra is Pibb with lemon. My favorite Pibb-related experiences are getting Steak n Shake to put vanilla in with it. Speaking of which, y'all should try Vanilla Dr. Pepper.

― ()ops (()()ps), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I am now drinking a Dr. Pepper. I'm also eating my lunch, I was too hungry to wait until "lunch time."

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

http://home.epix.net/~tjwagner/tablogo-color.gif

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

this week on 24: somebody dies/gets tortured horribly, omg, jack's life is threatened, how will he ever get out of it, some nuclear/bioweapon threat is going to destroy the world, various hot blonde chicks.

there was an nyt magazine article on tv shows the other weekend and they gave a little summary of some scenario from this season, which i haven't watched at all, but it sounded just like something that happened from s1. or s2. hell if i remember.

i don't know if i've ever had a mr. pibb. is it like dr. pepper?

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Superpitcher (and a whole bunch of other cool DJs) playing for free in Grant Park this summer.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

The Chicago Afrobeat Ensemble sounds fun too.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

They keep playing at this bar I like up here and I missing them (Afrobeat Ensemble that is).

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

oooh, superpitcher!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Btw, I know this is a way off, but Mama Digdown's has another set of Fri/Sat gigs at the Green Mill on the last weekend in July.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Mr Pibb is clearly better than Dr Pepper: when was the last time a doctor steered you toward anything that tasted good? Or possibly I'm just addicted to cheapo underdog beverages (cf recent realization that RC Cola is often better than Coke).

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I had lots of RC Cola growing up because it was my uncle's drink of choice. I almost forgot about it!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick just walked over to my work to surprise me. Let me hear ya say, "Awwww..."

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

AWWWW...

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

that is very cute & sweet!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey all, my new job's been keeping me really busy. But I have this to add: The cafe in the building I work in has Tab! I don't think I've seen that shit since like 1983. I might have to buy one just to find out what it tastes like.

Working down here is great, the hour long train/bus ride each way: not so much. I might have to buy a car...

― dan m (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I made that same mistake with Tab about 5-6 years ago. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Has anyone tried diet coke with splenda yet?

K, sorry I missed you last night, it was really crowded and I didn't move around much.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG summerdance schedule! I'm so excited, last year was terrific.

Today is my birthday! I am 22.

1 week until I'm HOME and Chicago is mine.

― Lethal Dizzle (djdee2005), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

happy birthday, david!!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

thanks!

― Lethal Dizzle (djdee2005), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

it's okay, jeff. see you thursday?!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Happy birthday dawg. It's almost my birthday. 5 days.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, my interview is at 1:30pm.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

On my 11th birthday, there was a solar eclipse. Who remembers that? 1994, whut!

― Lethal Dizzle (djdee2005), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Has anyone ever been to Spring restaurant on North Ave? I've got a bunch of friends in town this weekend (again) and they want to go. Just wondering if it's good, bad, or otherwise.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never been myself, but I know people who've gone. It's supposed to very good but pricey.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

What the fuck is it with me not being able to get my act together with seeing live music this spring? I guess I just never expected Out Hud or LCD Soundsystem to sell out. :(

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry jaymc. That sucks.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Seriously, though, $20 tickets in a venue that holds 1,100? There aren't that many hipsters in Chicago, are there?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

You poor, naive man.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish I lived in Chicago so that I could see Tarif de Haidouks tonight. They are one of my favorite things ever. Yay for sometimes dissonent crazy almost-jazz at points gypsy music with old men yelling over horns in Romanian.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Where is that happening?!?!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

uh, I just saw it advertised in The Chicago Reader while killing time at work.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

M.I.A/LCD is sold out? Damn. Asshole deep in hipsters indeed.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Indeed!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I really didn't think the books would sell out either, since they played a free show at UofC, but there were 3 tickets left when I went through the door.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Spring is evil! Okay, okay, it's probably good and all, but I used to walk past it on the way home every day, and when it first opened (a) these suburban people in suits would block the sidewalk waiting for their cars and then look at you like you were irritating scum if you tried to get past them, plus (b) they filled the side alley dumpsters with seafood, seafood, seafood, and during summer I had to cross the street to avoid getting overpowered by that five-feet-away dumpsterfishstink.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

You know what looks crappy over there but is actually good? Assuming it's still open? Is Mod. Felicity can back me up on this. It looks like op art farted but the food is good.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

mr. pibb is extraordinarily good, and i was boring a friend of mine last week singing its virtues. i like dr. pepper too, but mr. pibb is far better than dr. pepper.

also, you can get mr. pibb at pita inn, a.k.a. the greatest restaurant ever.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

(the fact that they serve mr. pibb is, in fact, the coup de grace.)

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Pita Inn rules! I go there as much as possible during the summer.

― deej., Wednesday, 11 May 2005 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Guys, you ought to like this

― it's mashed potato time! (dymaxia), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 11:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Sounds interesting, but I guess it's not online quite yet, or at least I couldn't pull it up.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 12:45 (twenty-one years ago)

So, did anyone on here get a ticket to the MIA/ LCD SS show (other than Nick & I)?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 13:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I know Jeff's going.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, me and Jenny.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

BOO YA!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

someone on craiglist is selling for $50. yikes. i don't think i'm ready to pay more than double face-value just yet.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, but don't forget that with all the ticketmaster fees they were almost $40 each anyway.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

scam your way onto the guestlist!

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

that's actually a possibility, phil!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

October is my favorite month. The opening of this thread reminds me of Johnny Tremaine's encounters with the smells of coffee and hot chocolate, which must smell even better if presented in a silver pot.

― youn, Wednesday, 11 May 2005 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, the Encyclopedia is now up!

― it's mashed potato time! (dymaxia), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

There was some ILXor on another thread who didn't get a Johnny Tremain reference, and we tried to explain it, but no one else really remembered the book either except for the scalded hand thing. I think it was adamrl.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm moving a LJ conversation with John to this thread.

Apparently, tickets will go up to $115 without notice as soon as the $100 tickets are sold out.

I can't decide if I should get them. I've actually seen most of the bands on the list that I already know I like, but maybe I'd see something new and exciting. Plus, it would be a crazy experiance, right?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

What show is this?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, it was Adamrl, because he is ~~SCOTTISH~~ENGLISH.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

lollapalooza?

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, Lollapalooza.

I'm justifying it because I think it would be crazy. Like, would I ordinarily pay to see the Killers? No, but could seeing the Killers in mid-July in Grant Park with thousands of swarming fans be potentially interesting and fun? Maybe!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoops. I don't know how I forgot to mention that.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, maybe I could review it for Stylus.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

it sounds like fun. ive never been to a festival before.

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

im gonna try to get a media pass too. maybe throw an afterparty woooooooo

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Kenan, I've been meaning to ask - whatever happened to the B00kslut anniversary party? Is that still happening? Did you guys regret asking us to play and so are avoiding mentioning it and hoping we'll forget? Huh? Huh?

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Lollapalooza sounds semi-fun aside from the price. I am cheap and poor, a bad combination.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

It could be fun if a whole group of us were going.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

The innotation fest is moving to a larger venue, http://chicagomuzik.blogspot.com/2005_05_08_chicagomuzik_archive.html#111574008393380266

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

when is lolla again?

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

and the Hold Steady are playing. I hate these sort of events, but I'm going just for them.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Lollapalooza = July 23/24.

I'm usually cheap about these sorts of things myself. I hate spending over $30 to see a band. I'm not a big fan of huge crowds. But I don't know, for some reason it seems like it's worth it.

Would I like the Hold Steady? All sorts of rock critics get breathless about them (and Lifter Puller), but they also focus on how great the lyrics are. These rock critics are often from Mpls, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know if you would like them, jaymc. The music is pretty "classic rock" (ie, riffs and solos and power chords) and the singer isn't singer-y at all, more talk-y. I think they're pretty awesome, but I'm not sure they're your thing.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Sounds like my thing, though.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

The music is pretty "classic rock" (ie, riffs and solos and power chords) and the singer isn't singer-y at all, more talk-y.

So they sound like Run DMC doing "Walk This Way"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

the singer isn't singer-y at all, more talk-y

Unprecedented! Revolutionary!

http://www.palmyra-verlag.de/Lou-Reed-Foto.JPG

(ps i love lou.)

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I can hardly imagine anyone that wouldn't like them, especially after seeing them live. And if they don't, they're not my friend.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess you have to draw the line somewhere, Jeff.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not serious! Seriously! But they're really great. I have a crush on Craig Finn.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

But I'm scared they're going to become a fratboy band. All their songs are about being high and the good times we had and it was rough but we made it through it all and boy we were high.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

not that they're frat boys, but they will have fans who like keg stands and beer pong. and Dave Matthews Band

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a cassette dub of this album (Hold Steady) that my friend Cam made for me, except he dubbed it off vinyl and for some reason only the left channel made it onto the tape. ROCK N' ROLL.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

But all their songs are about Jesus too! That's not very frat-y. Or is it?

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

http://restech.wustl.edu/~thetaxi/images/80sParty01/80

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry to keep posting but re: the Hold Steady, umm -- apparently it's just me, but I don't think they're nearly as bar-rock as their reputation (unless the Replacements are bar-rock, which I guess they kinda are), and I don't think they're nearly as love-or-hate as their repuation. Mostly to me they sound like something David Lowery might have done instead of Cracker, something that didn't entirely suck. I find it remarkably undifficult to imagine them playing at the Metro in 1995.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

wow, someone's relying the Reader a whole hell of a lot........

― it's mashed potato time! (dymaxia), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

i LOVE LOVE LOVE lifter puller. their song "nice nice" makes me go crazy. hold steady i like not as much.

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I just bought Sp00n tickets today for their June 11th show at the Vic. I can't remember ever going to the Vic before... Hmm...

So, will anyone be joining us?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 12 May 2005 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey jaymc, Sarah said I'm supposed to notify if I plan on doing Squeezed next week. Here's the deal: I've thought of something I'd like to do, but it's a little work-intensive and I'm worried I won't be able to get my shit together in time. But maybe if you sign me up, that will be the kick in the ass I need to put it all together this weekend. It definately won't take a full 15-minute slot, it will most likely be between 5 and 10 minutes. Let me know if that's ok. Or email me. Whatever.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 12 May 2005 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

::kicks your ass::

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 12 May 2005 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

(but if you can't get it done, that's cool, too -- we're not hurting for performers or anything)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 12 May 2005 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I just interviewed at Kelsey's office. I think it went well.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 12 May 2005 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

good! i hope so!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 12 May 2005 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

So...um, does anyone want to go see my friend's band from Montreal (they have some affiliation/member crossover with the Arcade Fire) play at a loft tonight with me?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 13 May 2005 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, how hard would it be to get tickets to a White Sox game this weekend? Whenever I see them on TV this year it looks like the stadium's 60% empty. Do I just go the stadium and buy tickets there, or do I buy tickets online ahead of time?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 13 May 2005 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

N/A -- I'm interested in that show maybe. I thought about seeing the Mtn. Goats, but mostly to say hi to Jocelyn. (Also Ted [our engineer] is going, I think, to see the opening band Shearwater [?]).

White Sox game -- ridiculously easy. Yeah, you can just go to the stadium and buy tickets. I think last weekend there was a game where only 25% of tickets were sold.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

And aren't they playing really well? Why aren't people going then?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Because they're on the South Side.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

This is a good thread about differences between Cubs and Sox fans.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, because they don't play at the cherished Wrigley Field.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't understand. It's easy to get tickets, it's easy to get there (South side or no, it's not like the stadium doesn't have an el stop), and no one cares. What a shame.

How much are some cheap tickets in the outfield? I wanna go to a baseball game.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

"cherished" = "tiny, crumbling"?

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

People hate the DH. WHITE SUXXXXXXXX.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

But the South Side is SCARY!!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

K, I do like Wrigley a lot better than "the Cell," though. (Which I still call Comiskey sometimes, or "Sox Park" if I'm feeling charitable.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Kenan, among other things, the Sox don't have the Tribune company in their corner. I remember going to Sox park when it openen, and my uncle being furious about there being that huge Chicago Tribune billboard behind the bleachers.
Have you been to a game at Wrigley? or at Comiskey?

― ()ops (()()ps), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I have been to no baseball games yet. It's pathetic.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I went to a Sox game last year. The stadium seemed nice enough, very modern. But I don't know much about baseball.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

They do have good veggie burgers there.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Meh.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah it was the last "modern" stadium built, before everyone went all retro/quirky.

― ()ops (()()ps), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

jaymc if you don't come say 'hi' I will not be offended, don't worry. I know nothing about Shearwater, but am hoping that they are good.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

We are going to eat free frosty's all the way to Chicago. And nothing can stop us.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, jocelyn, I'm not going to make it to the MG show either. I don't like Logan Square and I'm only mildly fond of the MGs and now I feel like I have to go see my friend's band. Though I also kind of wanted to go hear the DJs (Peanut Butter Wolf and someone else) at Sonotheque tonight, mainly as an excuse to go to Sonotheque, though I don't think I'd have much fun by myself.
Anyways: Jocelyn, you guys are going to be here all weekend, right? Do you have my phone no.?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I should say I don't like Logan Square Auditorium. Logan Square itself is pretty nice.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't worry! Actually we are driving back tonight : ( But I am sure we will visit again soon. Esp. as Chicago is halfway between here and his parents in Madison.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 13 May 2005 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

And you guys are great.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 13 May 2005 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't you mean "grebt"?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 13 May 2005 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick, let's hang out tonight. We could go to the loft or we could go to Sonotheque, or we could do both.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 13 May 2005 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

YEAH!

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 13 May 2005 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't figure out if that list of bands my friend sent indicates that they are playing first or last, but he's supposed to call when they get into town, so I can ask then.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 13 May 2005 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Cool.

I have just spent the last 15 minutes trying to fact-check Sacha Baron Cohen's (Ali G's) birthdate. Sometimes this job isn't so bad.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 13 May 2005 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Now I think I may be trying to plan too much stuff for this weekend. Shows tonight, biking and baseball game tomorrow, eating Sultan's Market at every opportunity, checking out manly macho movies like "Amadeus," recording music, working on project for Squeezed, etc. The life of the temporary bachelor is a busy one.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 13 May 2005 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

wait? who's going biking?

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 13 May 2005 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick, just so you aren't freaked out, I'm gonna go home and shave my beard after work. This is on the advice of ILX.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 13 May 2005 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean, I'm TELLING you so you aren't freaked out, not that I'm DOING it so you aren't freaked out.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 13 May 2005 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

THANKS 4 THA WARNIN'.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 13 May 2005 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

AAAAA! I'M FREAKING OUT! I AM TOTALLY FREAKING OUT!

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Friday, 13 May 2005 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, I might meet you guys at Sonotheque. Sounds like it'll be a good show.

What's "the loft"? Can I go there too?

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Friday, 13 May 2005 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah dude. I think it's like a punk show or something, so it's going to probably be kind of like the Ice Factory. I'll send you the email I have about the show.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 13 May 2005 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Though I just realized that that show supposedly starts at 7, and my friend's band might be playing first. Ugh. Maybe I'll skip it.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 13 May 2005 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Here is the website for my friend's band: http://www.simons-rock.edu/~breed/les.html.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 13 May 2005 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

jaymc: who told you to shave?!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 13 May 2005 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

hstencil and kenan and mandee.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 13 May 2005 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

well, only mandee really told me to shave, but hstencil and kenan said they thought the clean-shaven look suited me. i'd been thinking about it, anyway.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 13 May 2005 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://www.classichollywoodbios.com/Images/Bob%20&%20Carol%20&%20Ted%20&%20Alice%20(1969).jpg

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 13 May 2005 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Well fuck.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 13 May 2005 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it's like a punk show or something

hm.

http://www.deadmedia.org/

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Friday, 13 May 2005 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

hstencil and kenan said they thought the clean-shaven look suited me

It does! I would not lie. Well, not about that. Besides, summer's here and the time is right. (for fighting in the street, boy.)

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Friday, 13 May 2005 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

SO DUDERZ: I will give you a call when I'm at home and settled in. Right now I don't really feel like going to the rock show, I'd rather go to Sonotheque or just hang out somewhere, but I feel bad because this guy (my friend Brendan) is really nice and I haven't seen him in a while.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 13 May 2005 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I'm going to go to Sultan's Market right when I get off the el. LIVIN' IT UP.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 13 May 2005 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

word.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 13 May 2005 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Ummm...it's hard to get tickets for this series, it being the Orioles, and of course our favorite clown Sammy was supposed to be in town. I was supposed to go, but my friends forgot to snap up the tickets, so we decided not to go, since we would have been stuck in the UD.

I bought my tickets before the season started, and it seemed to me that even then, the good seats were taken. Keep in mind, lots of people hang out on the concourses.

― april showers etc. (dymaxia), Saturday, 14 May 2005 11:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw Mtn G0ats and it was awesome. Then again, my definition of awesome can be easily clouded by beer. But it was still really, really good. And the sound at LSA has gotten better since the last show I saw there.

Also, Spring was a bit of a put-on. They went out of their way to be fancy and snobby, but it was the little things... the dirt on the table, the piece of bread dropped down the back of my friend's shirt, the waitress forgetting what the special was and just spouting off fancy sounding food-related words (...emulsion... reduction. Shallots?) The risotto was good though. There just wasn't enough of it for the $25 price tag of the dish. Sigh... give me an Arturo's burrito any day.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Saturday, 14 May 2005 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

how loose of a shirt was your friend wearing??

is spring that nice looking restaurant right by that intersection of milwaukee, damen, north?

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 14 May 2005 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Personally, I think all of the extremely long Chicago threads should get sent here. These people give Chicago a bad name. WTF? They're incredibly bland, and Chicago is anything but.

-- it's mashed potato time! (41x4my...), May 11th, 2005 5:04 PM. (dymaxia) (later) (link)

― hmmmmmm, Monday, 16 May 2005 04:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, you're an early riser!

― mitzi gaynor (dymaxia), Monday, 16 May 2005 11:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Mornin', Chicagoans. It might not rain today!

I need to rest up for that MIA/LCD SS show Thursday. No, screw that. I need to go to the gym to build up my dancing stamina.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 16 May 2005 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, TMG were great. Shearwater was good, but I think a band is instantly great the minute it involves a hot upright bass lady, an electric fiddle, and a drummer named THOR. The first guy was AWFUL though, we left to get pizza. And there were a lot of hipster kids there. But someone handed me a Canasta flier on the way out! (Thanks john for the comp cd)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 16 May 2005 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)

ifeelincrediblybland

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 16 May 2005 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

haha yes, jocelyn, that was my bandmate elizabeth, i think?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

It was a tallish man with sandy brown hair and light eyes.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

oh. i guess it was colin, then.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Why do bland, Mr. Gigantic? Still feeling sick?

I think I might go to Whole Foods to get a salad bar lunch today like a Senorita Fancy Pants.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

i wish i worked close to whole foods.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I meant Why SO bland, obviously.

Yeah, Whole foods is pretty fun. I always end up getting too much stuff though, all mixed together in one of those little containers. It's a flavor sensation!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I have never been to a Whole Foods: ( I have been to the scary Treasure Island in Wilmette, though.
I felt pretty blah yesterday, so I wasted most of it playing Katamari Damacy.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

i've only been to the treasure island that's by the reckless on broadway, and it is kinda scary. i mean, they have lots of interesting gourmet foods, but it always seems sort of dim and dingy inside.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

The one in Wilmette is scary because it's really dingy but populated entirely by rich North Shore types buying seafood for parties way beyond my means.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I went to my first treasure island the other day, the one right across from Kelsey's work. I didn't spend much time looking around, but it seem comparable to Whole Foods and a lot less claustrophobic.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Ok, you can stop holding your breath. I got:
a greek salad from the bar
blackberries
a large, fluffy oatmeal cookie

BOO YA!

I went to my first treasure island last week (across from Panera's). It was ok. Maybe I was just loony, but it seemed there were only large banners with country names on them instead of the usual large signs that actually tell you where to find things. I had to ask a guy who worked there where I could find something. He could barely speak English, so he referred me to someone else, who called over someone else. Then THAT guy said he'd take me there... and escorted me to the other side of the store.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 16 May 2005 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

The noodle shop (I think it's a chain, the name of which escapes me) near my new job is my new favorite thing ever. I could eat a different noodle dish every day for a month, and I probably will. And so cheap! Fuck Subway.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Monday, 16 May 2005 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

mmm... subway. I mean, it's not what you'd call "cuisine," but a bit hot melty footlong something-or-other would do me nothing but right.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

OH, I can barely remember when I used to love Subway. I had a job really close to one. Then one day I opened my sandwhich and looked at the ick lettuce and couldn't eat there any more.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

goddamn now you all have made me want subway. Sandwiches are my biggest pregnancy craving, for real.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, weird, today I had lunch at Subway for the first time in at least four months.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Adrian came to visit me at lunch just to get my Subway coupons. I feel so used.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Do they have Potbelly in Chicago? It's so tasty and all the sandwiches are $3.50.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes! That's why I don't go to Subway anymore.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

(That and Jimmy John's.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I kind of like the p0tbelly sandwhiches, but they always make my belly hurt.

Jimmy John's is fine in moderation too.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

The noodle shop (I think it's a chain, the name of which escapes me)

Ummm, was it Noodles, perhaps?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Noodles & Company?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

what are the potbelly sandwiches like? the vegetarian ones specifically?

I admit subway is kind of cheap and nasty, but something about the salt + pepper on the mayonnaisey cheese really gets me where I live.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

where I live = PREGGOVILLE

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't had the veggie ones, only turkey, but the bread is great and warm and they have better cheese and pickles than subway.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I ate the the Potbelly in Evanston at least twice a week when I worked there. Chicken salad... oh, I'll never forget. With the peppers. Oh, the peppers. Throw in some bbq potato chips, and you got yourself the best $4 meal in... anywhere.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I ate AT etc. I did not eat the potbelly.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Veggie Potbelly sandwich = three kinds of cheese, all melted, with mushrooms. And then your choice of the usual sandwich fixins = lettuce, tomato, pickle, hot peppers, mayo, mustard. I usually get everything except for mayo and oil.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

No mayo? Hell, man... you got three kinds of cheese there. May as well go all the way.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not saying the mayo isn't tasty!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

How could you? It's mayo!

I'm in a phase with this sandwich place called Delitalia by my place, because they have muffalettas and Garibaldi sandwiches with pepper cheese and lots of peppers.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I hate all chain sandwich places. They all suck. I ate at Jimmy Johns yesterday and had really bad heartburn all afternoon. I think Quiznos might be the tastiest, but it still makes me kind of nauseous and it's way too expensive. My problem is that I don't like a number of sandwich chain standard ingredients on veggie sandwiches, including tomatos, cucumbers, and mayo. So my JJ sandwich yesterday was literally lettuce, onions, cheese, and a tiny dollop of their avocado paste stuff. It was gross.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 16 May 2005 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Sometimes I think you'd be happier if you never had to eat.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 16 May 2005 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah man, a veggie who doesn't like tomatos? I mean what the fuck? If I were vegitarian I'd be clawing and scraping for every little morsel of flavor I could get my skinny little fingers on.

No offense or anything... just confused and faux indignant.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Monday, 16 May 2005 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

The tomato is not a stern disciplinarian, nothing so unpleasant as that.

http://www.heirloomtomatoes.bizland.com/tomatohead%20Lady.jpg

He is a kindly fellow, wanting only to be of use and never to offend.

http://www.briantown.com/images/illustration/TomatoHead.jpg

How can you hate him? Mr. Kindly Tomato?

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 16 May 2005 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, Nick is weird.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 May 2005 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Everyone except Nick OTM.

(sorry, but I love the tomato deeply)

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 16 May 2005 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't really care for tomatoes either, but that's because at resturants they tend not to be warm from the garden.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 16 May 2005 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I like Potbelly's a lot - mmmm, melted cheese. And Mayo. But I think the sandwiches need more mushrooms - there are only a few on each sandwich.

I hate Subway sometimes, too, but the combination of vinegar, peppers, mayo and mustard on top of lettuce really gets to me, too. I just don't trust their bread, and the cheese isn't melty enough.

― mitzi gaynor (dymaxia), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:13 (twenty-one years ago)

i agree with nick, most "sandwich shops" sort of gross me out. and i do not understand mayo, full stop. which made being in france an interesting experience ( asking for "no mayo"/"pas de mayonnaise" on your baguette is often greeted with quizzical stares). for some reason the one thing i can usually tolerate at, say, subway is a tuna fish sandwich.

how's it going everybody?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 16 May 2005 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

It's going fabulously.

If I eat at Subway, I have to get jalapeno peppers on my sub.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 12:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I never used to like/understand mayo, but it's indispensable on subs. Too dry and bland otherwise.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I like subway. It's hardly a sandwich, but a who different experince. It's just subway. I get a veggie sub with no cheese, no mayo, lettuce, tomato, pickles, cucumbers, hot and banana peppers, oregano, salt and pepper, red wine vingerette.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

i always get my potbelly sandwich without american cheese. it is a cheese i do not understand.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

i made a sandwich for lunch today & i'm so hungry right now that i'm going to eat it RIGHT NOW.
it has fake turkey on it!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

because you are unpatriotic - xp

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

well hello there!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I fucking love sandwiches. I make good ones at home. My thing right now is a tomato sandwich.

Good multigrain bread, a little bit of mayo, finely grated onions, salt and pepper, and the freshest tomato from your local farmer's market. There is no sandwich greater. Simplicity is a beautiful thing.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey Kelsey, have my future employers decided to hire me yet?

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I like homemade sandwiches too.
American cheese is good for two things: grilled cheese sandwiches and (sometimes) omelettes.
I am craving an avocado.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I want an avocado bubble tea.

I had a durian bubble tea the other day. It wasn't the best thing, and had an after taste of methane.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

american cheese is good for nothing!

jeff: i don't know yet . . . no one has said anything. it's frustrating & they're completely unorganized about the ENTIRE interview process. urgh!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

They seem to be completely unorganized in the whole department. That was one of my big selling points, I want to streamline a lot of the processes, especially the way a lot of the databases are handled. There is a great degradation of information from the past years, and isn't very consistent.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

i hope you mentioned that b/c we have a lot of openings & i'll bet that katherine (the nicer one) was into it. she actually brought up the need for tech supporty type stuff in yesterday's meeting.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I did. I think I impressed them. I wanted to present myself as more than just an assistant that can do data entry and make copies.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

what was the fake turkey i just bought? it was terrible. i made a sandwich last week with fake turkey and havarti and tomatoes and mustard, and it basically just tasted like mustard on bread, since both the turkey and tomatoes were bland city.

i think i can only buy tofurky now.

i do love sandwiches, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

what was it, though? i don't think it was smart deli or yves. i think it came in blue packaging, with a sans serif font?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

mine is tofurkey, all the time, every time.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, I had a sandwich a week or two ago with havarti, mustard, lettuce, and fake ham. It was really good.
I think today I'm going to walk up to the little store and buy an avocado, since I'm still craving avocado.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm considering buying some fancy olives & a map for my brother.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

This Is The Thread Where We Are Hungry

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm having quizno's for lunch, btw.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

When I was taking the el back from O'Hare on Sunday, there was this couple in front of me that I think was coming back from some comic book/sci fi convention in Rosemont. The dude had some kind of spaceship thing that dispensed Magic: The Gathering cards strapped to his wrist, it had a wingspan of about a foot. He kept pulling things out of his backpack: first he was assembling some Japanime figurine (after he put it together, he was turning it around, looking at it, then casually looked up its skirt, then glanced over at his girlfriend and grinned guiltily), then he pulled out a video camera and was watching something on the screen, then he pulled out a Nintendo DS and was showing his girlfriend some game that he played, with the volume turned all the way up, for like 20 minutes. Then the girlfriend played it for a while. It was interesting, mainly just in how much crap, in particular gadgets, this guy was carrying around. I can't imagine being burdened with that much stuff all the time.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm meeting a friend for lunch at Corner Bakery.

i've decided that i don't like Cosi as much as i thought i once did, namely because the bread, while it looks all hot and fresh and gourmet-ish, it's also TOO SALTY. seriously, it's all dusted in salt, and you can only brush off so much. and it's the ONLY KIND of bread they have.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I had a durian bubble tea the other day.

what?? who sells durian bubble tea?? and who orders it?? ew!

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Tank Pho on the corner of Argyle and Broadway. They also have the best pho that I've had in the area. or at least the most consistent. That seems to be the problem with Vietmanese resturants around Argyle, they can be wildly inconsistent from day to day. And the service ALWAYS sucks.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

i should try it next time im in town - though if im the area i would probably just end up getting a sandwich at that vietnam/eiffel-tower place on b'way.

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

american cheese is good for nothing!

Agreed. If you need something smooth and melty, just use Velveeta. It tastes better. American cheese tastes like a war ration.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

The service didn't suck at that one place where the guy gave us free miniature airline-sized Heinekens for free despite their not having an alcohol license.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

i am late, but n/a OTM regarding tomatoes. sooooo gross, and i am a vegetarian too!

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm taking you all out for italian food sometime.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, no I'm not. I lied.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

velveeta is just as gross!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I feel I've discussed my tomato distaste in great depth in the past, but here we go again:
Tomato sauce/ketchup/salsa/anything else where the tomatos are pureed up and mixed with spices or whatever: delicious.
Raw tomatos: not really my thing but I could eat them if I had to to be polite or survive.
Cooked chunks of tomatos, especially stewed tomatos: incredibly disgusting. Sour and fleshy.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

i am with nick, except i dont like tomato soup

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

tomatoes are like the only produce that i will pay extra money to have "organic" or "vine-ripened". they taste like cardboard otherwise! i like tomatoes nice and juicy, like asses!

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyways, it doesn't make sense to me to make fun of people for not liking certain foods, it's kind of like saying "HEY, WAY TO BE LACTOSE-INTOLERANT, FUCKO!"

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish I could like tomatoes, because they're kind of a pain to avoid sometimes (esp. in Chicago deep-dish style pizza (trying to get this thread back on track here)), but I just don't.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I am lactose-intolerant intolerant.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Also -- sorry, Nick. Didn't mean to harsh on your tomato thing.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, don't worry, I'm not taking it that seriously.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

NICK YOU ARE NOT PREVENTED FROM EATING TOMATOES BY HEALTH REASONS, ONLY BY MENTALISM

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost Yeah, me either.

Except that, you know, people who don't like tomatoes are TOTALLY WRONG. Um... except you. You know what I mean, right?

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I know I'm not prevented by health reasons, but it's something I can't actively change. I've eaten enough tomatoes to know I don't like them. I think one of the most frustrathing things about being a kid was trying to explain to my parents that I didn't like certain foods but having to eat them anyways. The worst was tuna fish casserole. I think I'm going to vomit just from thinking of having to eat cold tuna fish casserole before I was allowed to leave the table. Gah.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

There are no foods that I feel that way about. I've eaten things that I didn't like, sure, of course. But I never blamed the food for that. The cook, more like.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, ok, American cheese. But not, you know, CHEESE.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

x-post Who the hell puts American cheese on grilled cheese sandwiches? Extra sharp chedder all the way. Ideally on sour dough like they do at ... what is that place in Wicker Park? Silver Cloud? Mm, mm, good!

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

If they put Havarti cheese on all sandwiches in sandwich shops I would die happy right there.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Thank you Josh. Thank you.

There is no reason for American cheese, Velveeta & the like. They should be properly disposed of.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Whatever. The diner near my work makes a American cheese grilled cheese sandwich that comes with french fries and a coke, all for like $3.50, quite possibly the cheapest lunch in River North, and that's pretty classic to me. You can take your yuppie grilled cheeses elsewhere.

Any Chicago-ites or fans of Chicago who want to give me a belated birthday present, I will happily accept any mix cds and/or copies of albums that you like. This goes out to everyone, I'm all into musical diversity these days.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost Yeah, but you can mix Velveeta with salsa and microwave it and eat it with really salty corn chips and watch Independence Day on DVD and OH MY GOD YOU'RE IN A WORLD OF CHEESE.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Kelsey, that post makes you sound Bri'ish.

I've never been to Silver Cloud, but I likes me some grilled cheese.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll send you a brass band mix, Nick, e-mail me your address.

Hey, can anyone else get to the Allmusic site? I'm trying to figure out if I'm having virus/spyware issues or not.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I have to agree with Nick -- you really can't fuck with a grilled American cheese sandwich.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I was on Allmusic about half an hour ago, it was working then.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

And yeah, Jordan, I can get to Allmusic. In fact, the guy who's recording the Canasta album is on the front page! Okay, a very, very small photo of him on the Best of Poi Dog Pondering CD cover.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha. But seriously, fuck, I get an unregistered page if I go there as well as http://www.thedailypage.com, which was working for me this morning. I guess it's time to get Adaware on my work computer.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

omg poi dog pondering. wxrt was really hyping them about, uh, 15 years ago.

mmm grilled american cheese sammiches... please use lots of butter too, thanks.

yeah organic tomatoes are like a different species from supermarket tomatoes. so much better.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry i'm a little behind on the conversation, whenever i stop by here there's been like 200 new posts.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

An organic tomato with more supermarket tomato friends than organic tomato ones is destined to screw you over. If its own species don't trust it neither should you.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm picturing a tomato that has fallen in with the wrong crowd. He was good when he was young, but then his friends started getting him all hopped up on pesticides...

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.wired.com/news/images/full/bart_tomacco_f.jpg

― i told you that stuff was bad for you (kenan), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

it is late but the quiznos has finally been eaten. Blurgh. I won't be hungry for dinner now.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

xrt is still hyping poi dog pondering!! there's like the quintessence of an xrt band!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

i mean "they're like..."

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

off topic (if there is such a thing)

We're having cupcakes and pecan pie at our wedding party.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

that's fucking adorable

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Yum! That's not so far away now. Are you getting nervous at all, Jeff?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I really really really like pecan pie. It might even be my favorite pie.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Nu uh, it's more of a party and less of a wedding. I'm good at parties.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Pecan pie is awesome.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I GOT A TICKET FOR TOMORROW!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

YAAAAAAAAAY!!!!

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Pecan pie is totally my favorite pie. Also, fall is my favorite season, and I just thought of it, but maybe it has something to do with pecan pie. My grandma had this huge pecan tree in her back yard, and we'd go out and pick 'em up off the ground. Many pecans were eaten. Many pies were made. Good times were had.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

How did you pull that off, jaymc? Did it involve bloodshed?

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Nah, every day this week I've posted a new Craiglist WANTED ad. No one responded until today. So I'm meeting the dude at a Starbucks tonite to pick up my ticket. I offered him $40, which I think is reasonable, since with Ticketmaster fees and all, it was probably around $30. I didn't want to go much over that, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Awesome. It's going to be a funktacular good time. I took Friday off of work!

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm totally out of the loop here. A ticket to what?

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0003V16Y0.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.rarebeatles.com/sheetmu/uk/smuktick2.jpg

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.lcdsoundsystem.com/_content/images/poster.gif http://xlrecordings.static3.state51.co.uk/71/95/7840054_PoVd/200x200.jpeg

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

excellent

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

MOST excellent.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I would go so far as to say Dope.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Is anyone up for Diplo afterwards? Free with your metro wristband.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

yah-yah, of course. i may need need to pass out canasta flyers first, tho.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm going to try and go to Diplo if Sarah and I have enough energy. She has work the next day...but I don't!

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

most suspenseful ellipse ever!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

[Amst], you need to get more into dance music - if only to see John dance at a show. :-D

DUDES! I'm excited about tonight. I might even take a nap when I get home.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 19 May 2005 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

[sarah, I thought amst didn't ever use his real name? I changed it, hope no-one minds.]

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 19 May 2005 12:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm going to see Star Wars tonight. Anyone want to come endure it with me?

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 19 May 2005 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to see it, but I'm going to the BIG dance party USA at the metro, of course.

Sorry, teeny/am. - I wasn't thinkin'.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 19 May 2005 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I am seeing star wars this afternoon.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 19 May 2005 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Man, fuck a star wars.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 19 May 2005 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I think I'll go right after work. It would behoove me at this point to put aside all my problems with everything that has happened in Star Wars since, oh, 1980, and go ahead and get excited about it. I think I can actually manage that! (Or am I just sleep-deprived?)

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 19 May 2005 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I will not be dancing. The level of drunkeness needed to dance has a more detrimental effect than positive one. Jenny has promised to bust a move though.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

good! she will not be alone!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

the guy i picked up my ticket from last night seemed sort of irritable for some reason. whatever, dude, i gave you your $40!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I might dance if I get a few beers in my gut. Probably I will cross my arms and nod my head, as if to say, "Yes, yes," at some point in the evening.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Toes may be tapped.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Not mine, of course.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

DANCE MOTHERFUCKER DANCE

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.euronet.nl/~vanderpluijm/veikko-simp/dancing%20Homer.jpg

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

kenan has suddenly turned into a violent femmes song.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm so lonely
I just don't think I can take it anymore
and I'm so lonely
I just don't know what to do
and I'm so lonely
feel like I'm gonna crawl away and die
and I'm so lonely
feel like i'm gonna...

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know. I don't think hack hack hack hacking it apart would be very productive.

So nobody wants to go to the movies with me? Do I smell?

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Kenan, all of the Chicago people are going to the Metro show tonight!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, most of us, at any rate.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, you smell.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

...like fresh dandelions!

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, fuck a star wars.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Right, that, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

hey, i have a fairly sizeable budget to throw launch party and various one-offs and weeklies in chicagothroughout the summer, for a new website. i may need some help/advice!!!

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I got caught up in the whirlwind of excitement about Episode I, so I went to see that when it came out, and then I remembered why I never cared about Star Wars in the first place.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Tell us more, Phil!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

its for this new social-networking/buzz-building website that has big people behind it, and in addition to being editor-in-chief, im also doing some marketing work, and handling the nationwide event/party thing. they were just going to do NYC, LA, Miami for the soft launch, but i said chicago too. and so i have money to do a somewhat big'ish party in june, one in july, one in august, then maybe sponsor a weekly on a smaller scale. thinking of trying to do an afterparty for the two music fests in july.

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

but i dont know any local promoters, except those LDW djs who totally blew. well the girl blew, i dunno about the other dude. he seemed nice. and the 0paqu3 project guys who i share mutual friends with...

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Keenan, I will see SW with you in spirit.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 May 2005 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

noone want to help?

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 19 May 2005 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't understand the question. You need someone to help build a website about... big people?

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 19 May 2005 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Phil, I AM NOT HIP. I'm not sure how I can help. I can, um, hang up fliers?

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 19 May 2005 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

what do you mean by promoters? i know talent buyers (booking people).

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 May 2005 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

i mean people who can get people in the door. also need maybe a few local djs. and who can hand out flyers. and stuff like that. but i mean not like right now, i dont have anything set yet. but has anyone heard about afterparties already in place for intonati0n or l0llapalooza?

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 19 May 2005 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Schubas is having a Lollapalooza after-party that the Walkmen are playing at. The Logan Sq. Auditorium is also trying to set something up, I think for Intonation Festival, but nothing has been finalized. (I talked with the booking dude last week.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 May 2005 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I am totally lost. What are you promoting? What is a "social-networking/buzz-building website"? Sounds poisonous.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 19 May 2005 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Only thing I'm not excited about re: the show tonight: figuring out how we're getting to and from the Metro. My guess: public transport to, taxi from.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 19 May 2005 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

that's what i was planning on doing.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 May 2005 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I always want to ride my bike to shows, but I'm never in a condition to get back home. I need a beater just for tha purpose, so I can leave it where ever.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 19 May 2005 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I got the tube in my front tire replaced last Saturday, rode it on Saturday, Sunday, and Tuesday, and then yesterday when I decided I was going to ride it to work, the front tire was flat again! I was really pissed.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 19 May 2005 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Is anyone still looking for a ticket to LCD Soundsystem/M.I.A. tonight? Unfortunately I can't go and I'd prefer if I didn't have to eat the ticket cost. We'd have to deal by Paypal/ticket e-mail since I live in Milwaukee. Let me know ASAP if interested.

― Shane (Shane), Thursday, 19 May 2005 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I know a bunch of people who like to party, if that's what you're looking for, Phil.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 19 May 2005 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, thank you Intonation for moving right next door to my housemate's office. A/C and getting-out-of-the-(inevtiable)rain breaks will be nice.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 19 May 2005 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

a buzz-building website is one where there's a midi file of a low hum embedded in the front page, which gradually increases in pitch and volume to a loud, distracting buzz.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 19 May 2005 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

That's the sound of feedback created from the meta-weirdness of promoting the fact that you're promoting something that's called "buzz."

Content is king, dudes.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 19 May 2005 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.culturalianet.com/imatges/articulos/4364-1.jpg

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 19 May 2005 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Phil, I know of this 3 piece band that's JUST ABOUT TO MAKE IT BIG!!! :-D

But seriously, I wish I could help you, but I don't really have many connections.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 19 May 2005 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Ok, I wrote a stupid review of the show last night on my new My Space account. Good luck searching for Sarah Johnson on there. BWAH HA HA! I did a search just in my zip code and found 2 other Sarah Johnson's with My Space pages. ha ha

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 20 May 2005 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

ow ow ow. my head really hurts. everything is fuzzzy.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

hi dere.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

i have that t-shirt and cd of jenny's. i couldn't find you guys.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I AM COMING UP TO EVANSTON FOR TO FIND A SOPRANOS BOOK AT N'WESTERN I NEED FOR MY THESIS THAT IS DUE ON MONDAY!!

― L (Leee), Friday, 20 May 2005 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

i've decided that last night was my friday. so i'm just gonna go home tonight and download some tunes, maybe watch a movie, and go to bed EARLAY.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 May 2005 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I coudln't even find me. We ended up at the hotdog joint across the street, then the next thing I remember is waking up this morning in bed with a hotdog on my chest.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 20 May 2005 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

That sounds terrifying.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 20 May 2005 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

ok good, i felt bad for ditching you to hobnob with pitchfork folx yet again.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 May 2005 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Jeff, man...

http://www.virgin.net/music/picturegalleries/qawards2004/pix/09_main.jpg

There but for the grace of God.

Alternately, if you should fall from grace with God.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Friday, 20 May 2005 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

i mean, i didn't purposely ditch you, i went to say hi and then you were gone.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 May 2005 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

and kenan, there are far more terrifying pictures of shane mcgowan out there! in that one he doesn't look too bad!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 May 2005 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, no hard feelings at all, we were just loopy, so things were crazy.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 20 May 2005 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

i was drunk enough that i kept calling this one dude "brian" when his name is sam.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 May 2005 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm loopy at work today from not getting enough sleep. Then I drank a bunch of coffee, so I keep doing stupid stuff like posting things I shouldn't Submit. Also, I splashed salad dressing all over myself at lunch. Why the hell would anyone think, "Hey! Let's add something so this dressing is dark pink! It would be so pretty!" Urgh.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i wouldn't worry about it too much, sarah.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks.

It's so pretty outside! I'm so jealous that Nick is at the practice space playing guitar really loud. Actually, he's probably playing drums. Everyone wants to play the drums. (ha ha, I just typed "drunks" first. Everyone wants to play the drunks.)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

i keep getting distracted by people walking by in their flip flops.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 20 May 2005 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

i wouldn't either. actually, i just responded to your worry.

i have a meeting with my bosses in 1/2 hour to discuss my job. ack!*

For lunch, I ate this chili L made last night & then I went across the street to buy olives, sparkling water & on a whim, a snickers bar. the olives SUCKED (why oh why are whole foods fancy olives a THOUSAND TIMES better?!) and now I want three more snickers bars. ack!*

*not a cathy ack!, just a regular one.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 20 May 2005 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Everyone at my work (almost entirely ladies) is convinced that the new stylee flip flops with a tiny bit of sequins is work appropriate because it's flashy. I hate wearing flip flops, but I might give in and join them at some point just so I can feel like it's really summer.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 20 May 2005 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

but it's actually kinda chilly today with all the breezes!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 20 May 2005 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh. I haven't been outside since early this morning. It just looks sunny from my desk.

I am feeling a little bit of a chill though from dabbing water all over my clothes where I got the dressing.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 20 May 2005 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

it's 87 degrees out here.. yow!

two of my good friends are in chicago right now

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 20 May 2005 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooh! Ooh! Am I one of them?
What are they doing in Chicago?

Who ended up getting Bike the Drive tickets? I still don't have any because I'm broke. :-( Maybe instead I'll just have to bike the LSD bike path some day.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 20 May 2005 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm unfortunately not going b/c L & I are heading out to minneapolis that weekend.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 20 May 2005 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I'm leaving for New York the following Wednesday. I'm going to need every $35 I've got.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Friday, 20 May 2005 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

i hate when people with nasty feet come on the el wearing flip-flops and then proceed to cross their legs and mess with their toes, ew.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 20 May 2005 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

They are just on vacation, hangin' around!

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 20 May 2005 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought both of you already had tickets! Well, I guess I won't miss out on as much then. Are you just going on vacation, Mr. Subdued?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 20 May 2005 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

This isn't directed at you, Am...your comment made me think of it.

I've never understood people who have a giant phobia of feet.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 20 May 2005 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Everyone wants to play the drums. (ha ha, I just typed "drunks" first. Everyone wants to play the drunks.)

Every drunk wants to play the drums. This is empirically true.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 20 May 2005 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

And pothead, Jordan! And pothead!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 20 May 2005 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

"whoa, i'm totally in the groove"

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 May 2005 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

drum circles, argh :(

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 20 May 2005 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

They caused so many sleepless nights in college : ( Evidentally they couldn't hear me pounding on the window over the sound of their wicked drums.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 20 May 2005 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.southparkquotes.com/themes/hippies-quotes.html

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Friday, 20 May 2005 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

TS: Frat Parties vs. Hippy Drum Circles -- which kept you awake in college?

Unfortunately at my school, these could be one and the same... And people wonder why we drank so much.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Friday, 20 May 2005 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Every drunk wants to play the drums.

This sounds like a LFTR PLLR song title/lyric.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Friday, 20 May 2005 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I lived across the street from a frat for a year, and the next year in a house full of hippies with a big, circle-worthy backyard. I pick the hippy drum circles any day. If they're keeping you up, you can at least go bum a puff of pot off of them. With frat boys you just lie in bed and wish them painful death. WOOOOOOO!

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Friday, 20 May 2005 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

no contest. hippies win.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 20 May 2005 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Or you could just lie in bed with them and wish yourself a painful case of herpes.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 20 May 2005 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

(sorry)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 20 May 2005 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Hippies are better for lying in bed with, as well. More stinky less rapey. It's a trade-off.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Friday, 20 May 2005 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick is picking me up from work in 25 minutes. Did I mention he had the day off to celebrate HIS BIRTHDAY??? M.B.N.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 20 May 2005 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

"M.B.N."?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 20 May 2005 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

"most birthdayed nick?"

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 20 May 2005 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

"my beautiful nick?"

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 20 May 2005 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Mo' Bettah Nick?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 20 May 2005 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

"most bountiful nick?"

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 20 May 2005 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

"may birthday nick"?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 20 May 2005 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey! I'm almost not hungover again. These two day hangovers have got to stop.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Saturday, 21 May 2005 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

http://giganticmag.com/images/ilx/john_nick_lynndie.jpg

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Sunday, 22 May 2005 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

awesome.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 22 May 2005 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

ha ha ha

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Sunday, 22 May 2005 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

jaymc looks mega hotttt sans beard.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Sunday, 22 May 2005 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

SURPRISE

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Sunday, 22 May 2005 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

They both look really good in that pic. Thanks for coming, those of you that came.

MBN= Must Be Nice.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 23 May 2005 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Thank you for inviting us! The crazy-ass bicycle was the highlight of my week.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 23 May 2005 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I agree with Mandee, Jaymc's beard must never be allowed to return. Likewise, all of my bandmates suddenly shaved off their beards for summer and informed me that if I'm going to do the same, I'd better do it soon or else I'll have BEARD TAN LINES.

I don't think I can let it go just yet, though!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 23 May 2005 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

If you haven't seen Chicago Crime Dot Org yet, you should. Amazing, suprising, terrifyingly creepy, and more!

― dan m (OutDatWay), Monday, 23 May 2005 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh hey, are you guys going to be around Memorial Day weekend? I have to take my mom to Chicago for dinner (because she's all hardcore kosher and won't eat any of the food in Milwaukee) and maybe a museum, but afterwards I might hang around for a while.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 23 May 2005 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, what day, Jordan? Canasta is playing a show on Friday night, but I think I'll be around for most of the rest of the weekend.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 May 2005 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Sunday, I think.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 23 May 2005 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

That crime site is much better than the old one. Yay Google maps!

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 23 May 2005 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Chicago rules! I'm so glad to be home. What are some good diners that are open late? I like going to diners late at night.

― deej., Tuesday, 24 May 2005 06:36 (twenty-one years ago)

What neighborhood are you in?

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 07:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm all for hanging out, Jordan. If any of you guys want some beer, please feel free to stop by our apartment any time and have one on us. There was so much beer left over from the party that it was hard to fit my tiny-sized milk bottle back in the fridge this morning.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 12:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Mr. Subdued, Do you have any more good pix of the parteee?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

If anyone ever feels like watching some old Homocide, LIfe on the Streets episodes, let us know. We're checking them all out from Netflix (we're on Season 3 now). Also, I need to do lots of FREE stuff because I'm poor. No, for REAL this time. For REAL this time I'm going to do fun, free stuff. Any ideas? Chicagoans, talk to me.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I do have some decent pix, but not here at work. I'll dig 'em up for you later.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

At least you already have beer stockpiled, Sarah.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I'll never go hungry again!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Or sober!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Hooray permadrunk!

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Man, a beer sounds pretty damn good at the moment. Ever had 3 Floyd's Gumballhead? That shit got me fucking destroyed last weekend.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

3 Floyd's Gumballhead? That's some kinda name for a beverage.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Somebody help me out with a gym recommendation. I just need a place to lift some weights, really. Basic machines will do just fine. HOWEVER I do not want to be locked into a six-month membership that will cost $2000 and only pay for itself if I go nineteen times a week and turn into some kinda creatine-swilling, preening muscle monster.

Is this even possible anymore? Can you go to a gym ever, anywhere, without being gouged? Or am I just going to be doing a lot of push-ups?

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Crunch has been advertising a "pay-as-you-go" membership, and there's one in the building where I work, but it looks expensive, meaning it looks fancy.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm interested in this, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to be in better shape, but mostly I just want a solid, regular place to go when I want to get out of the house but don't want to socialize or spend scads of money.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Crunch is a gym? I thought that was a candy store! They need to work on their logo, ferreal.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Online review:

Andrea U
Chicago, IL
This gym offers a lot of sweepstakes-like drawings to "win a free year at Crunch." DO NOT PUT YOUR NAME IN ANY OF THESE DRAWINGS. I did, and received a phone call that I had won a membership. I went to the gym, only to be aggressively harrassed by two salespeople who said that my membership now was only good for one week, and that was only if I signed a year-long contract costing well over a thousand dollars. They told me to ask my partner for money, to sell things, to take out a new credit card. They simply would NOT take no for an answer, and would not allow me to use the equipment until I gave them money. I left in tears and will never be back.

GOD DO I EVER SYMPATHIZE WITH THIS. You hear about used car salesmen being assholes, but that stereotype needs to change. Car salesmen are downright gentlemen compared with the salesmen in gyms. Fucking DICKS. Will NOT let you walk out the door. I've tried joining a gym twice in my life, and each time it was a total emotionally draining fiasco that made me hate all humans and not want to talk to anyone for hours.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

do yoga, they're much more chill.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I go to Cheetah. It's expensive and I'm locked into a year contract, but it's by far the best gym I've ever been a member of. I go rather regularly, often 5 times a week over 3 days, so I think it's worth it. It's also close and convient. If a gym isn't with walking/biking distance of my office/home, I would never make it there.

There is a pay as you go gym in my neighborhood too, but it's just as expensive, just without the contract. And the equipment is teh suck.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a Cheetah in Wicker Park that I might look into.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

and there are meatheads there but they are all gay and very nice.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

do yoga, they're much more chill.

Yeah, I bet, but yoga is too chill. If I can't listen to Boston on my headphones while I'm doing it, it's not really fitness.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Well I’m takin’ my time, I’m just movin’ on
You’ll forget about me after I’ve been gone
And I take what I find, I don’t want no more
It’s just outside of your front door

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!

*air drums*

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

often 5 times a week over 3 days

You go to the gym twice in one day?!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I do weight lifting three mornings during the week, and spin class twice a week at night. You couldn't tell by my pillsbury doughboy body, but I have had a decrease in body fat, just not weight.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been workin' out with my free 2 month membership to Bally's. Woo hoo! But it's over in 2 weeks and then I'll be a fattie mcfattycakes again. :-(

I was totally dreading a huge sales pitch from them, but the guy just said, "So, do you want a membership after these 2 months or what?" I said, "Um, no." He said, "Ok. Then you're all set." It was like a beautiful dream.

I once had a free 2 week trial to a gym and it was torture. Every time I'd show up they would want to talk figures (as in mula, not body shapes) with me. (American Fam1ly, I think it was called)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

That's amazing Jeff, if I can work up the motivation to go to the gym 3 times a week, it's a triumph.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Once again I'll rep for Bucktown Fitness Club on North Ave. No contracts, no initiation, pretty much a flat rate per month (you save a bit the more months you buy: $60=1 mo, $150=3 mos, and so on) and there's really no bullshit about the place. Sometimes it's a little crowded, but never ever more than a 10-15 minute wait for a bench/machine. They haven't got a hot tub or yoga or a juice bar or internet, though. The absence of those things matters little to me in a gym.

xpost

― dan m (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

That's probably the one I should sign up for. It's closest to my house, which is important. I'm really bad about self-motivation though, and I'm really lazy. I'm just trying to get in the habit of riding my bike to work instead, but my tire keeps going flat.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Plus that place is across the street from Sultan's Market. Mmmm.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I feel like a coach or personal trainer saying this, but:

Find a partner. Honestly, if my housemate and I didn't go together, neither of us would go at all. If I did go alone, my neck would have been crushed under a 185 pound barbell not too long ago... So there are advantages. Plus you can make fun of other people in the place (just not too loudly because there are some huge dudes there.)

Now, let's runs some laps, pussies! Got a big game coming up this week against Central!

― dan m (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

And we go to Sultan's all the time after the gym. Need that protein! Those guys are cool.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

A partner? No, no... the whole point is to get away. That will motivate me to go all by itself. "I'm going to the gym, baby... see you later." Woo hoo! Out of the house, not talking to anybody, and feelin' good!

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Best thing ever: an all-night gym. How late is this place open, Dan? Cause I will, guaranteed, want to go work out at 10:00 at night.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I went to the gym on Sunday to do the back extender machine and looked around and wished I knew how to use all the fancy weight machines, because I was pretty good at weight lifting when we did it, oh 10 years ago in school. I don't know, I just get easily intimidated by asking the gym guys for help. ( I go to the RSC on campus. You guys could see if there are any campus sports centers around and they would probably be a lot cheaper to use and they don't pressure you at all, since they are full of apathetic students)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, my gym is 24 hrs. I want to go swimming at 2 a.m. sometime just because I can.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I want a 24 hr gym too. Bally's closes early on Sundays. The dumbest!

I 'played' on a whole bunch of weight machines last night. I would go to the next one in line, slowly read the instructions, set the weight on the lightest one, and have at it. I got pretty embarassed on one though, because it basically had my laying on my belly at a weird angle, kicking my legs up in the air behind me.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

But see, how often do you get to do that? It's the only time, really.

It's like a margarita.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Remind me sometime to give you my theory on why the margarita is the exception to all rules.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I love me some margaritas.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not sure how late they're open, but it's not 24 hours... I'm guessin like 10 or 11. It's pretty much a family-run place.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

And, with my new employment, I may stop going there and start using the UofC's new athletic center, seeing as how it is half the price per month.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

i joined know no limits which is cheaper than cheetah ($55/month). no contract, but the equipment isn't the most up to date. i really don't care that much though b/c i mostly use it to lift. Since I bike to work I get automatic cardio in my day, although I still run or do the elliptical a couple times a week. Or, at least I try to.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you ever work out in the window?

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Oooh... that's the true test of fabulousness. You got ta WORK it if you gon' be in the window.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

If people aren't too sick of hanging at our place, you all are welcome to come by on Sunday and help us polish off the extra beers. We can even cook out if you want. Also, Jordan, if you end up staying on Sunday, you're welcome to crash at our place on the futon if you don't want to drive back to Madison on Sun. night. I'm just sayin'.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I never work out in the window because that's where the treadmills are at my gym. I figure if I'm going to be on one of those, I might as well be outside going for a walk instead.

I really want to try biking to work one day, but I have this fear that I would get run over. hmmm...

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I figure if I'm going to be on one of those, I might as well be outside going for a walk instead.

Very very OTM. And like Kelsey, I ride my bike everywhere, so I'm not starving for cardio. Just gimme summa those big beefcake machines.

I'm going to have to get on a high-protein low-fat diet, tough. If I don't lose the fat off my man-boobs before I try to tone them, they're only going to get more shaplely and womanly.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm going to the gym to lift more weights tonight. GRRR! (That's not anger - it's me telling the weights who's boss)

After my membership runs out, I might have to just start moving furniture around the apartment instead.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, since we're all talking about diets and health and stuff, I want to try and lose some of my gut. My plan is to essentially eat better (take healthy snacks to work instead of buying candy and chips, try not to gorge as much at dinner and on weekends) and to bike to work regularly (like every day that it's not pouring rain). Is this going to work or do I actually need to do like sit-ups and shit?

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

God I am so lazy.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I think you'll be surprised, Nick, how much difference biking to work makes. Just that half-hour of activity twice a day can knock off several pounds.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm gonna try doing that, too. I don't think I could do it every day, though. I wish I worked just an eensy bit closer to home.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't lost several pounds! Yikes! Maybe I'm eating too much around the bike ride . . .

ergh.

Food is fucking frustrating!

L's going on a sugar fast. I may join him, although sugar isn't really my downfall. It's snacking & portion size.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I have very little self-control, so I think I basically just need to get more exercise to balance out my eating. My bike is at the shop right now, I really hope they figure out why my tire keeps going flat so I can start riding it to work!

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh my god people . . . biking to work is so much easier than you think -- especially with the lake path! You can get kinda sweaty in the warm weather or if you go fastfastfast, if that sort of thing bothers you, or if you don't want to pack a different work outfit. Traffic can be discouraging & sometimes plain awful, but it's nothing to be scared of. You just have to be assertive & keep your space on the road yours.
I used to only bike to work on fridays, when i temped in this law office, b/c fridays were casual days. but now, i just pack my work outfit & keep the shoes i mostly wear at work in my desk drawer. i got sick of lugging them back & forth. i keep hippie baby wipes & deodorant in my drawer in case i'm too sweaty & need to freshen up. you can do it! bike to work every day!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't eat after 8 o'clock PM. This is of course assuming you go to bed at like 11 PM or so. Also, do your cardio in the morning, before eating breakfast. That way you're doing nothing but burning fat instead of food you've already eaten that day.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i haven't quite figured out how to control the ol' helmet hair, but sometimes pulling it back for the duration of the ride works well enough. if i have to be *that* put together for work, i take the train.

p.s. you can be less sweaty leaving a bit earlier & just riding at a slightly slower pace. it might not get your heart rate going at a cardio pace, but you're still getting movement & exercise, which is great.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

dan . . . i actually do try to do those things already, although my not-always-enforced eating "stop time" is 8:30. sometimes 8 just comes too soon.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Nutrition is roughly 70% of weight loss. You can cardio till you faint and it's not going to help you lose much weight unless you eat a low fat, low calorie low sugar diet. I'm having the problem now that I'm gaining muscle and not losing weight. My eating sucks.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

My eating sucks too. At least I've switched to salads for lunch, but last night we made shrimp po' boys and I literally ate until I was unconscious. AND I LOVED IT.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the advantage I have when losing weight is that my diet is not bad, and my metabolism is fairly spry. The only time I gain fat is when I get into a rut where I'm totally sedentary all the time. Like, during the winter.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I literally ate until I was unconscious

That's awesome. Did you wake up with shrimp in your hair?

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Btw Nick, thanks for the offer re: crashing. I found out my mom sprained her ankle, so I don't know if she'll be up to wandering around a museum in Chicago like she wanted to. I'll def. let you guys know if I'm coming down, though.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Come down! I wanna meet me some Jordan.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

He woke up naked wandering the shores of Lake Mendota looking for more seafood.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Meh. Jordan's ok. (j/k)

I am burning up at my desk. I just took of my sweater and am now sitting at my desk in - gasp! - a tank top! HORRORS!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

what exactly is a shrimp po boy? it sounds frightening.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Does not!

It's a big-ass submarine sandwich filled with shrimp and delicious sauces and other stuff. It's one of those things you can't avoid eating when you're in New Orleans, not that you'd want to.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never had one of those, but my mouth used to water when my friends made shrimp creole back in Shreveport (I was already a veggie).

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I was an avocado, in case anyone was wondering which veggie.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha. I will post pictures later (yes, it was such an amazing sandwich that I took pictures).

Yeah, it's basically soft french bread with mayo, lettuce, tomatoes, hot sauce, and then whatever the main filling is (fried shrimp, oysters, hot sausage, etc.).

Last night was the first time I'd cleaned and deveined uncooked shrimp myself, it was interesting.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

what if you don't really like shrimps? are they still delightful?

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

*rimshot*

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Um, if you've earnestly tried shrimp and you don't like it, then I guess it might not be the sandwich for you. Maybe a catfish po' boy instead?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I will resist the urge to say, "YOU DON'T LIKE SHRIMP OMG THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOU," because through experimentation I have learned that this leads nowhere.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

What if you don't like mayo or tomatoes and you don't eat meat?

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

That means you're Nick A*****. It's not such a bad condition, I don't think.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Feel free to eat french bread topped by lettuce, I won't try and stop you.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Seriously guys, these were like Lawrence's caliber shrimp that we cooked up last night (double-breaded with milk, eggs, and seasoned cornmeal).

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.lawrencesfisheries.com/files/scan0003.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to see Iron Chef: Battle Crawfish. And they have to call them "crawfish." None of this sissy "crayfish" stuff.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Mmmmm, veggie po'boys.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't eaten anything but coffee yet today. I think it may be time.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

If I ever get a job I would love to ride my bike to work. The problem is I'm a SWEAT HOG. It's cool, with a nice breeze today, so I thought I'd ride my bike to DePaul, and by the time I got there, my shirt was soaked with sweat. And this was at a lesiurely pace.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

kenan, you might not be able to retain any of the food you eat because of that GIANT HOLE IN YOUR STOMACH.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

jeff, i was going to say that i have a hunch that you may get the position. i know that some people don't really like the temp we have. i'm not promising anything though!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

teeny if you happen to read this before the mod. request thread, could you please delete my last name out of Kenan's post a few posts up? Thank you.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

So far as I know, my stomach only has the usual two openings.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I'm sorry, Nick! I totally didn't think...

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Kelsey, I hope you're right. My stomach sank a little when you said that I was competing against a temp that has already worked there. But I'm thinking positive thoughts now.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

That's cool dude, I just don't want to be googleable here.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Could anyone even find ILX by googling your name though? I mean, isn't thread content ungoogleable? Also, are you scared someone will find out you don't like tomatoes?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

So far as I know, my stomach only has the usual two openings.

I do, however, have a hole in my hearrrrrt that can ooooonly be filled by youuuuuu.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

IIRC some threads are googleable and others aren't. I think they are googleable unless a mod specifically makes them ungoogleable in the settings somewhere. I could be wrong though.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

kenan: because coffee is so acidic!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh. Doesn't bother me, though. I put half and half in it (no sugar, though, my teeth have it rough enough), and prefer darker roasts, so not as much acid as you think.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

got it, n/a.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Think positive thoughts. Plus, we SERIOUSLY need more men folk in this office!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Kenan, what do you do for work, again? I only ask because I can't imagine working an office-type job and not eating anything until 2:30.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks teeny!

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha ha, it kind of looks like my name is Nick Asshole now.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Now Nick's last name looks like it could be Asshole.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost haha

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Kenan, what do you do for work, again?

A small office, small magazine. I get a bit of leeway in the lunch department. I was going to eat earlier, but thought it would be more fun to go to a shoe store instead (not a very successful mission -- turns out it was one of those $300 sneaker places). And I got coffee on the way back.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Let's talk about googling some more, shall we? huh huh huh?

How quickly does something become googleable after it is posted to the web? I mean, is that automatic? When Nick's last name was up, I googled him but it didn't come up that way.

Also, a lot of times when I've googled, I've come up with phrases from webpages that are no longer available (ie: you click on the part it gives you from whatever document and end up on a file not found page). So, doesn't that mean you can't truly ungoogle something? That once you've put it "out there" it can be found??

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

You should Google those questions.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick's name wouldn't be Googleable so soon, I don't think. Search engines have to send out "spiders" every so often to collect data: it happens regularly but not perpetually.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I think instead of buying shoes, I'll go have a nice schvitz at the Division St. Russian & Turkish Baths. At Damen and Division. I hear it's a good place to spot Jesse Jackson and his son.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

He also works out at a gym near my office. As does Barak Obama & Oprah, apparently.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Jesse or Jesse Jr.?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

And shouldn't Oprah have some sort of Private Fitness Center?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Jesse. Maybe Junior. And yes, I agree. Maybe she needs to get out of her self-sustaining pod once in a while, though. Smell fresh air & stuff.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, you'd assume she's have her own Impregnable Fitness Fortress. Oprah out in public like that? Does her entourage work out there, too?

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

dunno.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

But when Oprah wants to smell fresh air, she surely goes to her Private Cabin in The Woods and slips into a warm bath while listening to the birds chirp.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Which I remember because there was some show on stress reduction, and she was all, well, here's what I do, I just go to my cabin, and I'm thinking NOT EVERYONE HAS A CABIN!!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, Oprah's a real bitch.

;)

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

and she talks about her feelings! it's emotional exercise!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

So, I just read a little far down on this page about how google works until I realized it was a joke. I thought it was just all metaphorical tech speak! ay ay ay

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

i think i'm getting a cold sore. sadness.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

and we're having dinner tonight! oh no!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

no sharing forks with me, buddy!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

When I google myself a few ILX threads come up! And it's embarassing because they are like my first posts to ILX which were really lame.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

When I google Sarah Johnson I get 11,300,000 results.
"Sarah Johnson" gets me 61,900.
"Sarah Christine Johnson" gets me only 13, none of which are me. But hey, check this out: Sarah
Christine Johnson was born 23 Aug 1977 in Huntsville - that was just the week before I was born (but I wasn't born in Huntsville).

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 26 May 2005 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay, I rode my bike to work today! It was fun! But I learned I shouldn't drink a big cup of coffee before biking to work. Acidy stomach + exercise = no good. But then I ate muffins and that helped.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 26 May 2005 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i used to not like muffins. now i do. especially these double chocolate ones they sell across the street...not that i eat them very often.

congrats on the bike ride, nick!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 26 May 2005 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't biking just, like, THE BOMB?

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 26 May 2005 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I am sore from doing laundry. Somehow we had allowed pretty much everything we owned to get dirty. I washed it all. Five large, crammed-full baskets of clothes, hauled a block and a half back and forth, washed, dried and folded. All the while, I was tossing holey socks and stained shirts and things I just didn't want to wear anymore, which was a useful activity all by itself. Took me more than four hours.

Oof! My back!

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 26 May 2005 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, I have decided to turn my bedhead into a look. My hair is short enough to do spikey, messy, and gelled! I look so gay!

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 26 May 2005 13:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Also! (continuing with the minutiae update) I dreamed about Trump Tower Chicago last night. It was huge and tall and beautiful, and I was so happy about it. Mmm skyscraper I love you.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 26 May 2005 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I like your bedhead look! (at least based on that one underwear pic)

I want to ride my bike to work sometime soon, but I'm worried I'd be all sweaty and redfaced at work. Maybe if it doesn't rain tomorrow...

Oh, god. This one coworker NEVER gives me anything easy to do. She just said, "I have a project for you..." which turned into about 7 different involved projects. ARGH!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 26 May 2005 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

By the way, I invited Am. to Nick's party but sent his invite to an account he never checks. DOH! I'm so sorry!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 26 May 2005 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm going to be in Chicago between June 6-9. What would the Chicago ILXor cabal suggest I do during that time? Note: I have not been to Chicago before.

― Zebra, Alpha Go! (cprek), Thursday, 26 May 2005 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I suggest walking around and gawking at the architecture.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 26 May 2005 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

what kind of stuff do you want to do? music stuff? museum stuff? aimless happy wandering stuff?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 26 May 2005 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

All the stuff! More specifically anything to get away from my bosses during the evening hours that I can also do solo. I'm flying up with my CEO and CFO for Supercomm and will have to do industry stuff during the day. Any time I'm in a strange city I usually do the aimless wandering, so that's a given.

― Zebra, Alpha Go! (cprek), Thursday, 26 May 2005 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you staying downtown then?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 26 May 2005 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you know anyone here?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 26 May 2005 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

go to the gay strip mall on halsted street and gawk at the phallic rainbow street-lamps.

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 26 May 2005 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

No I don't really know anyone there. I *think* I'm staying somewhere near McCormick Place, since that's where the convention is, but I haven't been given those details yet.

― Zebra, Alpha Go! (cprek), Thursday, 26 May 2005 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Go see Spoon at the Vic. I think that's June 6th. (And I think it's at the Vic!) I don't have time to check...

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 26 May 2005 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Spoon is really good live. At least, they were five years ago. I bet they still are, right?

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 26 May 2005 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Shit. I may have to go to that show myself and find out. Except I will have just flown into town, so probably not.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 26 May 2005 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

The Spoon show isn't until like the 10th, I think. Sarah and I have tickets.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 26 May 2005 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw Spoon when they came through Lexington last time, but wouldn't mind going to see them again. Arrival and Departure date is kind of unknown at this point. We're flying up in my CEO's plane, which is kind of terrifying. I wouldn't have to worry about leg room, but I do have to wear a helmet.

― Zebra, Alpha Go! (cprek), Thursday, 26 May 2005 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

You could bring yer harmonica!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 26 May 2005 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Spoon was so-so live when I saw them last year, but a few weeks ago they were great.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 May 2005 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Spoon show is June 11th at the Vic.
The Fake Fictions show is June 10th at Silvie's.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 26 May 2005 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

kelsey I stopped taking harmonica lessons because they were too creepy! It was like a David Lynch movie every Thursday. I guess I could bring it anyhow though!

― Zebra, Alpha Go! (cprek), Thursday, 26 May 2005 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

That's kinda crazy . . . sorry to hear that! You could see if the Old Town School of Folk Music is offering any Saturday classes & take one of those!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 26 May 2005 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm confused. I thought that show was the 6th. What a day this has been....

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 26 May 2005 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

hey, happy belated birthday nick! sorry for being flaky lately.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 26 May 2005 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

hey chicago.

I'm drinking tonight.

help me.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 27 May 2005 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Jeff! What's your phone number? mail it to

[email protected]

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Friday, 27 May 2005 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Dudes, don't forget our offer to drink up the extra beer Sunday evening. Give us a call.

Also, Stand up Tall!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 27 May 2005 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

If I wasn't going to MI for the weekend I'd totally go drinking.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Friday, 27 May 2005 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, speaking of the Old Town School of Folk Music, have any of you taken any classes there? I was just looking at their courses, and some of the guitar and theory classes look pretty awesome. I'm thinking about it...

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 27 May 2005 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

It doesn't look like I'll be able to come down to Chicago this weekend. :( Maddie is rolling with me to Milwaukee, and after doing stuff with my dad on Saturday and my mom on Sunday I think we're just going to want to go home. We've been talking about coming down some other weekend when things are less hectic, though.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 27 May 2005 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Boooo-urns!

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 27 May 2005 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Boooo-urns???!! WTF?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 27 May 2005 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

"No they are not booing. They are saying Boooo-urns! Boooo-urns."

Burns: "Excellent."

― Zebra, Alpha Go! (cprek), Friday, 27 May 2005 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

good morning.

Sarah saying wtf is funny, because I don't think I've ever heard her curse. She is constantly petting bunnies.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 27 May 2005 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Shiiiiiit. I fuck shit up all the time, mother fucker.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 27 May 2005 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

That was pretty forced.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 27 May 2005 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

This is massively embarrassing, but has anyone seen my boyfriend since last night? The goofy one that didn't bother to come home last night, show up to work this morning, or even call his employers, which led them to call me looking for him, and I had to admit I had no idea where he was. Anyone?

― Jessa (Jessa), Friday, 27 May 2005 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

nick: i took a theory class at the old town school, it was taught by a guy who is in a few local post-rock-type bands. unfortunatey it wasn't a very good class and i didn't learn much. but some of the performance classes are supposed to be very good, especially the old-time and bluegrass and some of the "ethnic music" ones.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 27 May 2005 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

yikes, crosspost. jessa i hope k. turns up soon! sadly i don't know where he might be.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 27 May 2005 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

my mom took classes at the old-old-old time school in like 1957, by the way.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 27 May 2005 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

i really hope kenan is all right. i haven't talked to him, either.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 27 May 2005 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Jessa, He called Nick looking for jeff's phone number, so you should call jeff. If you don't have his number, email me. Wait, I'll just email it to you..

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 27 May 2005 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

i just did a search to see when the last time he posted on here was, but the search must be screwy, since it said may 20, and he posted on this thread at least yesterday.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 27 May 2005 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

oh right! jeff!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 27 May 2005 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks. I have to go find a payphone because the construction next door just managed to knock out everyone's phone connections. But I'll let you know what I hear.

― Jessa (Jessa), Friday, 27 May 2005 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

no word from kenan. that sucks. i hope he's okay.

nick: i took classes at old town & LOVED them.

also, l & i are going to minneapolis for the weekend.

xposts all over the place.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 27 May 2005 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Left a message with Jeff, no answer

― Jessa (Jessa), Friday, 27 May 2005 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

The number I gave you I think is Jeff's cell phone. Does any have their home number??

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 27 May 2005 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Or Jenny's #?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 27 May 2005 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Sarah, did you check to see if you have Jenny's number in your cell phone? I thought you did.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 27 May 2005 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

No, I don't. :(

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 27 May 2005 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Yikes! Neither do I!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 27 May 2005 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I just e-mailed both Jeff and Jenny.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 27 May 2005 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

KENAN FOUND! (on Jeff and Jenny's living-room floor)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 27 May 2005 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Hoorah!

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 27 May 2005 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

CALL JESSA!!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 27 May 2005 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I knew that's where he'd turn up!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 27 May 2005 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Jeff said he thinks Jessa knows by now.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 27 May 2005 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

is he alive? has anyone poked him?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 27 May 2005 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I am unsuccessfully trying to hold back a necrophilia joke.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 27 May 2005 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

He's been spotted on the mexican food thread! Um, one of them anyway!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 27 May 2005 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

What are people up to tonight? Sarah and I can't decide what we feel like doing. We want to get out of the house but the only things we can think of that we feel like doing are eating nachos and drinking pina coladas. BUT WE MUST GET OUT OF THE HOUSE! We need some culture.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 27 May 2005 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

CULTCHA!

A friend of mine who I haven't seen in over a year is leaving Chicago and having a going-away party at the Whirlaway in Logan Square. So I'm going there right after work.

Then: Canasta is playing at Martyrs at 10 pm.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 27 May 2005 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

We talked about going to see Canasta but Sarah isn't in the mood for loud music tonight.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 27 May 2005 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

What's the Whirlaway? It sounds fun, but also makes me dizzy.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 27 May 2005 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

It's just a neighborhood bar, run by this old Mexican woman who's very nice. It's sort of weird and run-down, like a 70s rec room.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 27 May 2005 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

GO TO ONE MUSEUM.

Is Canasta loud?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 27 May 2005 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

FUCK YES WE ARE LOUD

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 27 May 2005 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean, er, sometimes.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 27 May 2005 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

(seriously, I'm actually disappointed that I won't be taking my mom to a museum in Chicago this weekend, and I normally hate hanging out with my mom)

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 27 May 2005 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Most museums aren't open on Friday night, or I would seriously consider that option.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 27 May 2005 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe there's a free art opening tonight like that screen printing show we went to?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 27 May 2005 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Here's one (and it's not that far from you, either)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 27 May 2005 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Good work!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 27 May 2005 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm, that looks fun-ish.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 27 May 2005 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

It starts early, so we can just drop in and check it out whenever.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 27 May 2005 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

So I'm going back and forth on if I want to Bike the Drive. I have a friend in town and I don't know how the hell I'm going to get up that early on sunday morning and get to grant park.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 27 May 2005 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I'm not going to make it.

At least I'm getting stuff done today. What are ILXors doing tonight? I think we're going to jakes to havea few drinks. I have no idea where that's at. I want to go to the green mill too, for some reason. I don't want to pay a cover though.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Saturday, 28 May 2005 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sorry, but this is bloody fucking adorable.

http://giganticmag.com/images/ilx/jeff_jenny.jpg

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Sunday, 29 May 2005 00:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anyone want to get together tomorrow? That would be Sunday? Perhaps in the afternoon or early evening?

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 29 May 2005 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe so. I could hang out.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Sunday, 29 May 2005 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

But gently!

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Sunday, 29 May 2005 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

It looks like we're going to go see KUNG FU HUSTLE at Landmark Century CEnter tonight.

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 29 May 2005 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, you'll love it. It's really just great. Really.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Sunday, 29 May 2005 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoa, that's me. Thanks for coming out tonight kenan. Hoorah for keeping it reasonable for us.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Sunday, 29 May 2005 07:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Ideas for things to do if people want to hang out today:
* Just hang out at someone's apartment. This does not have to be our apartment, despite the fact that we always hang out at our apartment.
* All go out to eat somewhere fun
* Go bike ridin'.
* Cook out on the grill
* Go out to bars
* Some combo of the above.

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 29 May 2005 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)

* All go out to eat somewhere fun

Casa Bonita?

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Sunday, 29 May 2005 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.moosiemeadows.com/photos/casabonita.jpg

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Sunday, 29 May 2005 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Well Weather.com is calling for rain basically all day, so I guess that eliminates biking and cooking out. I don't have any great ideas. Call us if you want to get together.

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 29 May 2005 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

i am exhausted. i stayed up until 8 am. in very-much related news, things are looking up with the girl i met recently.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 29 May 2005 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey kenan, did you get my message about your man purse?

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Sunday, 29 May 2005 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Man purse?

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Sunday, 29 May 2005 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi peoples. I do need my man purse back. I don't remember what's in it -- I'm assuming nothing essential, so I'll probably pick it up next week when I get back.

I am very excited about New York. I always get excited about New York. It's an exciting place!

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

TRAITOR!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)

You know what's fun? Biking that Lake Shore Drive bike path. Except now my nose and forearms are sunburnt.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Kenan, you should go hang out with my sister!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe. Maybe I should.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

(not chicago related, but know I can track down one Jordan here)-FAP (or FABrunch) 4th of July weekend in Madison?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck me. I KNEW we should have paid the extra money to fly into La Guardia. The car from Newark to Brooklyn is going to cost $60.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyone going to see Pinback tonight? Think it'll sell out?

― dan m (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a bus you can take from Newark to Manhattan that's no more than $15, IIRC. And then you can take the subway to Brooklyn. But it'd probably be much faster to take the cab. Depends on how you're feeling.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

kenan, you can take the airtrain (very very easy) from newark airport to penn station for like $11. then from there catch a taxi to brooklyn. depending where in bklyn, the cab would be like 20-30 or the subway will be $2. will save a little money, i guess. nobody takes cars too/from newark unless they're on expense account

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

John, why weren't you at R's birthday party??

Mr. Subdued, when will you get back? Nick and I were going to NY once a year for a while there.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I forgot about it! I was cleaning my apartment! But then they called me, and so I ended up going over there around 7 and stayed for about an hour and a half. And then I went to another party, where I found the girl. :)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

So you just met this girl this weekend??

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

No, I met her a few weeks ago. I e-mailed her and then she didn't write back for a long time, so I'd sort of given up on her in my mind, but then she wrote me back on Wednesday and said she had gotten sick and swamped with work, but she wanted to hang out soon. And then, coincidentally, our mutual acquaintance was having a party on Saturday night. So yeah.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Awesome. You need to hurry up and move the relationship to the next level so Nick and I can have couple friends. DO IT!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Heh, we'll see. I actually sort of like the idea of not jumping into something too soon. I think I made that mistake with R. It's more romantic to wait, I think. I dunno, tho. We're supposed to hang out this weekend sometime.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

(not chicago related, but know I can track down one Jordan here)-FAP (or FABrunch) 4th of July weekend in Madison?

Aw, I'd love to Jocelyn (especially considering that brunch is my weakness), but I'm going to be waking up in Switzerland on the 4th of July and arriving at O'Hare later that evening.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I had a feeling that may be so. We will meet for Luftwaffles sometime though.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Indeed!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Chicagoans, I'm sorry we couldn't get our act together this weekend.

Maybe sometime we should plan a weekend brunch outting at someone's apartment or at a restaurant??

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

will save a little money, i guess. nobody takes cars

Well, the nice thing is, flat rate, not like a taxi. No traffic surprises. And what you're talking about won't cost much less!

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

But thanks for the advice, yo.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

When are you going to have a movie party?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, you know. As soon as my life is perfect.

Really, my place is baaaa-aad for entertaining. It's tiny and it's a constant wreck.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Cleaning my apt. this weekend makes me want to have people over. I know I can never have big parties, since it is a small place -- it'd maybe be doable if I had anything resembling a balcony -- but a small gathering might be fun.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

(oddly relevant x-post)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

What's all this talk of a broken rib?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

The offer of free PBR still stands for anyone who wants to swing by our apartment.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

how was R's birthday party? & who will be at B's next weekend?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

the ass-end of the party was nice. i mostly talked to ol' hendrix. and jason clark (who recorded wire in the walls and who i might've met in san diego) was there. except when ben told me on the phone that jason clark was gonna be there, i thought he meant IAN clark, and so when i got to the party, i kept looking around for a guy with an irish accent and only later realized my mistake.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

fuck, i've been terrible with my who/whom's today.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

We, unfortunately, will be playing a show at the time of B's party this weekend.

The part of the party we went too was fun. I totally gorged myself on mexican food and chocolate and talked to some nice people. Then we played a dumb card game with @@ron and S@rah and Sh@ne and L!z (I think those are their names, I'm bad with names).

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Yup. Was it Aaron's game? The one he created?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

No, it was one he was carrying around as "research" for the one he's making. It's called Quiddler. It's vaguely Scrabble-ish, which is good, but it takes forever and isn't that hard or fun.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Plus Aaron was kinda cheating ("bo" is not a word!). Though we did have a romping debate on whether the proper spelling of the multiple of "ho" is "hos" or "hoes," further complicated by the spelling on the Outkast album: "hoez."

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha. I'm supposed to play his game with him sometime soon -- or at least the prototype he has -- as a test run.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't keep track of all these initals. Do I know any of these people?

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

how do you feel about s@r@h? as in, @@ron's s@r@h? she never speaks to me.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

It's okay, Jeff. I don't think you do. R & B are a couple who are friends with me and Kelsey, and know Nick & Sarah because they've come to see the Fake Fictions a few times.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Sarah seemed nice enough to me, but my Sarah said she thought she seemed kind of humorless and serious.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Jaymc, gotcha.

I went to see Hong Kong Hustle last night. I love Stephen Chow.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry to be so gossipy about her but i just don't get her at all!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

don't dwell on it, k!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost
i loved kung fu hustle too!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

what's it about? hustlin'?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

what's kung fu, anyway? i have no idea. i mean, it's some sort of martial art, right? but what's so special about it?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I LOVED KUNG FU HUSTLE AS WELL! (Though I think I liked Shaolin Soccer a little more.)

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

and stephen chow, is that even his real name? < /ilm joke>

― jaymc sylvester (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

God of Cookery >= Kung Fu Hustle > Shaolin Soccer > Lawyer Laywer

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

jaymc, Kung Fu Hustle (and Shaolin Soccer too) is about when someone finally realizes that instead of just using special effects in movies to make things that are kind of impressive but bound to physical reality, you can use them to do whatever kind of crazy shit you want, even if it doesn't make any sense, and applies that aesthetic to a martial arts comedy.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, i've seen a bit of shaolin soccer. that still doesn't answer any of my questions, tho.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

it's an ancient chinese secret, john. only the initiated know.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

EXCUSE ME, but I believe I answered (in my own quixotic way) THIS question:

what's it about? hustlin'?
-- jaymc (jmcunnin...), May 31st, 2005 4:23 PM. (jaymc) (later)

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

So don't tell ME "that doesn't answer any of my questions, though"!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I am indignant. INDIGNANT, I tell you!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

but you didn't answer that! i still don't know if it's about hustlin'! i just know that there are crazy special effects and martial arts!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

It's about gangs fighting. And masters fighting. and the kung fu palm style.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)

i probably wouldn't like it. too much fighting.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

You know what else was pretty good? Internal Affairs. It takes place in Hong Kong and stars Tony Leung and Andy Lau. Now I will have to see Hero and House of Flying Daggers.

I loved Kung Fu Hustle! Plus, what's wrong with you, jaymc?? Fighting is awesome.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 12:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Kelsey, I'm such a bitch! I thought Sarah and her bf were both nice, but just weird as a couple. Plus, yeah, I thought she was a little too unfun for me. Example:

Her: This word is perfectly acceptable.
Nick: Ha ha. That's one of those words that Scrabble players made up!
Her: No it isn't actually. It means... blah blah blah.

I mean, crack a smile for god's sake! Nick is comedy gold!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

nick *is* comedy gold!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm thinking of hosting a film series at my apartment where I go through the list of movies on my Romantic Time Travel thread.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I feel like a Chatty Cathy today. Someone chat me up!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm going grocery shopping. It has been a long time coming.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

What are you most excited about getting?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I was excited about the fat-free feta I bought the other day. However, it's got nothin' on fatty feta, I'll tell you what.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I had big plans for the fat-free feta if it had turned out to be properly delicious. I could have based my entire diet around it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Jordan, Have you ever eaten at Old Jerusalem in Old Town? We ate there again Monday for lunch. Mmm... feta...

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

No, but I'd like to.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Heh, come to think of it, I can probably count the number of places in Chicago that I've eaten at in the last five years on one hand (although I've had each a number of times):

--Lawerence's Fisheries
--Ashkenaz Deli
--that Mexican place on Lawrence & Broadway
--that hot dog/sandwich joint on Lawrence & Broadway

It's pathetic, really.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm excited about everything. Here's my grocery list:

Produce

* apples
* bananas
* pears
* grapes
* onions
* butternut squash
* sweet potatoes
* bell peppers
* broccoli/cauliflower
* tomatoes
* grape tomatoes
* baby carrots
* avocados
* snap peas
* hearts of romaine
* cucumbers
* potatoes
* string beans
* corn on the cob
* cabbage

Dairy, cold

* lowfat cheese slices, veggie slices
* firm tofu
* eggs
* sour cream, fat-free
* low fat shredded cheese
* low fat sharp cheddar block
* ff cream cheese

Assorted Meat

* lox
* chicken breasts
* ground turkey breast

Freezer

* boca burgers
* veggie sausage links
* ice cream

Canned

* soup
* canned tomatos
* assorted canned beans
* fresca
* Diet Coke

Dry Items

* cereal
* bagels
* bread
* WASA
* soy sauce

Misc

* Drain-o
* kitty litter

Trader Joes:

* soy creamer
* frozen bell peppers
* frozen corn
* frozen mushroom assortment
* frozen peas and carrots
* frozen vegetables (stir fry)
* quick dinners
* meatless meatballs

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

$270. Fucking hell.

Worth it though.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

That's quite a list!! You should have a dinner party.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

We'd like to one day, but we really don't have a lot of places to sit. I love cooking, I make an awesome spagheti and meatless meatballs.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

jeff, have you hard anything from our office? i'm clueless on this end!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't heard anything. I don't know if this is a good or bad sign. Seems like they should of hired me on the spot since I'm so awesome.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i'll see if i can fish around for any information . . .

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I just made myself a budget. WOO HOO! SUMMER 2005, BABY!!!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

That's why I want to strongly encourage you all to host social activities which would be free, or close to free, for me. Thank you.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Should I give Jeff a call just to say that I'm very interested in the job still? It's been, like a week.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Am. is coming over to our house Saturday night probably to watch a movie. Would anyone else like to come by? I'm guessing we'll be watching something in black and white, but I dunno. :-D

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 2 June 2005 12:41 (twenty-one years ago)

You could send him an email, that might be less invasive than a phone call. Just ask if there's any update & let him know you're still interested.

Sarah: those pictures of you & nick on flikr are ADORABLE!! Plus, you look really foxy!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 2 June 2005 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks! Better than in real life, huh?

I'm crazy on the caffeine right now. I keep feeling like it's Friday.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 2 June 2005 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

no . . . not better than real life!

pretend it's wednesday & then be surprised tomorrow . . .

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 2 June 2005 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm going to see KRAFTWERK on saturday.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 June 2005 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Follow up email sent...

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

$270 on one grocery trip!! i dont think ive spent $270 on groceries in my entire life!

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Have fun, jaymc!

Good luck, Jeff!

I bought some groceries last night, but only $15 worth. Then I made a really delicious sandwhich for my lunch today - sharp cheddar, pepperjack, lettuce, pickles, and dijon on wheat. mmm... Usually though, when Nick and I do full grocery shopping, the total is closer to $150.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I've only spent over $100 once in my life.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

But for one person, right?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

The Hold Steady are on tonight at the Bottle! If I have any energy left after work today, I'm going.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, for one person.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Although I never really spent that much when I lived my brother, either.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

you've never bought, like a cd player or something?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

or are we still talking groceries?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Is the Hold Steady show sold out? Maybe I can sell enough cds after work to make $8!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

suck off the doorman if you must, but you can't miss the hold steady show. so so good live.

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I spent $137 on groceries for me and Maddie last week, which is a tiny bit high for us, and we STILL had nothing to eat.

(well, obviously we had stuff, but not as much as it felt like we were buying and most of it requires a fair amount of preparation)

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 June 2005 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Groceries.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 June 2005 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Last night at Target I got Buffalo mozzarella for $2.25 that had been $8.99. Now I wonder what mutation will happen to me when I consume it.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 2 June 2005 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think it'll sell out. I saw them back in March at the Bottom Lounge and there was a decent crowd, but not sold out.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 2 June 2005 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't even know they sold food, much less mozzarella, at Target.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 June 2005 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

SuperTarget, to be precise. Target has its own line of food. It's very cheap and tasty although I am mad at them for discontinuing their fake Pepperidge Farm pirouette cookies.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 2 June 2005 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

(Adrian just told me SuperTarget in Madison is next to Menards and CompUSA on Mineral Point Rd. I don't know what that means.)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 2 June 2005 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

That's my Target. I live like 5 min away from there.

Come to think of it, I HAVE seen food there. Mostly like cereal and gift boxes of chocolate though, nothing refrigerated.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 June 2005 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I bet Hold Steady will sell out, they've been getting tons of press since the new album came out. But I think it would be fun to go, if I can wake up enough by then. Who else is going?

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 2 June 2005 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Me! ha ha

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 2 June 2005 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I guess dan m said he might go. Well if you see us, say hi. Sarah, post a pic of what we look like so dan knows.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 2 June 2005 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Please.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 2 June 2005 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

http://photos13.flickr.com/16064818_0bd28fa65d_m.jpg

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 2 June 2005 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

If I haven't mentioned it before, I'm tall.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 2 June 2005 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm going to skip hold steady, we just saw them a couple of months ago, and I'm dead tired after getting license, marriage license, and car service today.

Our groceries are expensive. We shop at the yuppie Domminicks up past Thorndale. Dieting is expensive when you get organic this, fat free that, hippie this.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 2 June 2005 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

And it really saves money in the long term when you don't eat out as much.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 2 June 2005 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

That's true. I'm making Nick cook a huge brunch for me this weekend with scrambled eggs and pancakes. I'll save so much money by making him do that.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 2 June 2005 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick, is that picture reversed or do you periodically change the direction your hair flip/part goes (Momus eye-patch stylee)?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 June 2005 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

who are the hold steady?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 2 June 2005 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I used to go out to brunch with friends every weekend but now we stay in and make extravagant, prolonged brunches with sour cream waffles, omelettes, bacon, etc.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 June 2005 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Am - Hold Steady in the Reader

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 2 June 2005 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Hold Steady has dude from Lifter Puller in it.

Does the Empty Bottle sell tickets like all day? Could I ride there on my bike after work and buy tix to ensure that we can get in? Anyone know?

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 2 June 2005 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

oh Palaxy Tracks is playing tonight, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 June 2005 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha ha I just went and bought tickets for the Hold Steady show online. I R CRAZY!!! So we'll definitely be there tonight. Red-Eyed Legends are opening (Chris Thompson's newest band)!

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 2 June 2005 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

It's pretty likely I'll be there. So I'll keep an eye out for you guys.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 2 June 2005 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

on a completely different note...i cannot stop eating dairy! i kept eating my hard pretzels with cream cheese until my pretzels were gone!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 2 June 2005 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

yer makin' me hungry.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 June 2005 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm also drinking diet pepsi wild cherry!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 2 June 2005 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

So were you there, dan? It was pretty f'n crowded.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 3 June 2005 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

i have had a serious crush on the lead singer for YEARS!!!!!!

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 3 June 2005 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I admit it, I didn't make it -- I'm off the team. Stupid beer and rain conspiring against me.

But hey, they're playing at the Int0nati0n festival supposedly. So, that's a month or so away.

What did you guys think? IMHO, they're the kings shit.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Friday, 3 June 2005 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

It was awesome. The Empty Bottle was completely crowded. We were pretty close to the stage (near the employee's only/back stage door). They were really tight, the keyboardist danced a lot, and the lead singer made chit chat with the crowd every couple of minutes when they'd break it down and get even more bar band-y.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 3 June 2005 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't know where else to post this, so: i just got an email from an ex-gf in which she egregiously misspelled by name. i know it was probably an innocent typo, but somehow this alarmed me.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 4 June 2005 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I've had too much coffee this morning - Chicago, slow down!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 6 June 2005 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Sooo... Who's going to the Fake Fictions show Friday night at Silvie's? huh huh huh?

Also, anyone else going to see Spoon Saturday?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 6 June 2005 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, if anyone isn't doing anything on Fri., please consider coming to our show. I'm not pumped for it because our last show at Silvie's sucked ass, and the only way I'm going to get excited about it is if our friends come and hang out.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 6 June 2005 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry for being pathetic.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 6 June 2005 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

What time does it start? I think I might come.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 June 2005 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe i'll bring a marching band with me

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 6 June 2005 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I went to the beach today!

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Monday, 6 June 2005 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I will be in Chicago June 27th for ALA at McCormick Place. Maybe I can sneak away for lunch?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

We should have a lakefront/beach FAP. Hidden booze, frisbees, kites, snacks, sun and surf.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

and bikes.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

My girlfriend informed me last night that we were moving to Chicago. She was drunk, though.

(I was too, of course)

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Chicago, I will be with you in a matter of hours. (Be kind)

― Tinman: Set to Self-Destruct (cprek), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

It sucks though because I will be leaving Thursday and have no itinerary other than corny business stuff.

― Tinman: Set to Self-Destruct (cprek), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I flew into Chicago at night for the first time last night. It's true what they say. It's totally breathtaking.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.djangomusic.com/images/cover200/DRC000/C018/C018808CS87.jpg http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2002-01-04/music_strung-1.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

(1) i saw a guy on the street today with one of those black-on-red che t-shirts, only instead of che, it was ronald reagan

(2) the redheaded intern here is so cute

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 6 June 2005 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

(1) Nick & I saw a guy wearing an Annie shirt at Whole Foods yesterday, as in Annie of Anniemal, not Annie as in It's a Hard Knock Life.

(2) I am full of cheese cake. Blah.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 6 June 2005 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I was at the hold steady show! Near the front, just to the left of the crazy girl at the edge of the stage who kept singing along to all the lyrics with arms outstretched.

― deej., Monday, 6 June 2005 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

(1) who knew joanna newsom was so young?
(2) what does annie sound like?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 6 June 2005 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I know nothing about Joanna Newsom except that she plays piano on the best song on the new Smog album.

deej, it sounds like you were near us! We were at the far far left, like almost near the employees only door, and pretty close to the stage.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 6 June 2005 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

she is like 22 years old! madness. also i'm guessing she is dating bill's callahan.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 6 June 2005 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

wait, who mentioned joanna newsom? yeah, she's hella young. younger than all of us, at least.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 June 2005 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

and yes, she + bill are dating.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 June 2005 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Russian Futurists, Junior Boys and Caribou tomorrow night anyone? I know Mr. MC is going.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Monday, 6 June 2005 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

yes yes yes.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 June 2005 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

she's younger than all of us COMBINED!

wait...

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 6 June 2005 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

re jaymc's album covers:

"The earth looked like it was lit from within /
Like a poorly assembled electrical ball"

Exactly! It's surreal, it really is. The density combined with the uniformity of the color of the light (orange) makes it look like one thing, not a collection of things. I took pictures, and all of them are blurry. You cannot take night shots from a plane. You're moving too fast.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 6 June 2005 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Spoon is less OTM about Chicago at Night:

"Now When She Went To Chicago That Night She Faced A Wall
And She Woke Up Outside With All Those Leaves In Her Mouth
And Felt The Pall"

Uh huh.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 6 June 2005 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe you saw me, n/a...i was drinking lots of beer, wearing a green sweater and glasses, with cute girl w dark brown hair and skinny kid with red hair.

― deej., Monday, 6 June 2005 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Was the cute girl the one screaming the lyrics? Because the girl screaming lyrics with longish wavey hair was really cute. I was totally jealous.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

so you like guitars, after all. ;-)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been such a slacker at work today. I've spent most of my time drawing pictures of my girlfriend in paint, like this one:

http://www.madolan.com/LJ/maddieninjapaint.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

If I cave and move to Chicago, can I come play with y'all?

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes. Yes you can.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Jordan, your girlfriend is super hot, if you don't mind my saying so. Like Uma Thurman, but goth and with yuge boobs.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you saying that strictly based on the drawing?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

at least they aren't nuge boobs

http://www.rocktrip.net/imagenes/clasicos/Ted%20Nugent/Ted-Nugent-01.jpg

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you saying that strictly based on the drawing?

That was the joke. I have never met either of them.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

haha i just noticed that "autism" is the lead story for the nuge issue of rolling stone!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

"toto: the studio upstarts"

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Thank you, Kenan. I feel that it is an accurate work of portraiture, although I must confess that her skill with the blade is a bit exaggerrated.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I might do it. This Autumn.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay Luna!

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Do it!

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

wow, luna.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.rachelleb.com/images/2004_09_22/leos.jpg

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

luna should totally move in here:

ihttp://www.planet99.com/pix/1868_1.jpg

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

http://ftp.pcworld.com/pub/screencams/chicago_moon.jpg

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

haha - that's fabulous. I have two dogs and a kid, though, so, I might need a little more space.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

(That's such a weird Photoshop. I can't quite figure how they came up with that configuation of buildings. It's way wrong, though.)

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay! We'll have a stronger female ILX Chicago contingent!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh wow, Leo's is shut down? I know hstencil said it was filthy, but I still enjoyed going there for brunch and them blasting the Darkness at like 9:30 AM.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, and hi, luna!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

But that pic says 2004 at the top... I think.

My head really hurts! Too much caffeine and I'm overheated. Owwwwweeeee!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, it's an old pic. it's still open.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Whatever. It is kind of gross in a way.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

How many cups of coffee is too much, Sarah?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, only 2 for me, but they both had WAY too much sugar in them. I'm a lightweight.

So, luna, how serious are you about moving here?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been thinking about it for a long time, and I'm fed up with LA. I want to make a trip sometime this year to scope things out and hopefully I can do it by the end of the year...

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I will definitely give you a tour of my neighborhood, but there are so many nice areas! Or did you want to live downtown?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, btw, I don't think I can make the FF show on Friday, because I just remembered my friend Chris is visiting from Tennessee. Ordinarily I'd invite him to the show, since he likes going to rock shows, but I believe he's going to R. & B.'s party so as to see lots of people at once.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Everyone at the party should come to the show, duh.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Right. :)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't a clue where I want to live, Sarah - gotta come check it all out!

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

thanks for the compliment on the mods thread, jaymc! and thanks to pash as well, although he won't see it here--I just will not break my vow to post on a whatshisface thread.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Yesterday, we received an anonymous package at home. It contained weasel balls.

http://www.madolan.com/LJ/wolfgangpounce.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.madolan.com/LJ/beeperconcerned.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Nothing kills a thread like Weasel Balls.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

have you tried shaving them?

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

but are they freshly shaven?

haha! i was just posting this!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

has anyone been to Texas Ballr00m or 0pen End Gallery for a show or party, and have any opinions on them?

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

i think i am nuts, because i read jaymc's post and thought he had a friend named "chorc" visiting him, and i was going to compliment him on having a friend named "chorc."

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

that'd be awesome.

phil, i've been to open end for a show. it's a pretty simple white room (it's an art gallery) on the 2nd or 3rd story of a building that holds maybe 150 people. it worked well for the show i saw (will oldham + joanna newsom) -- what are you planning?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

The floor of Texas shakes alarmingly when danced on.

― Arachne, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

wow, if you had been referring to the state of texas, that would make a very poetic line in a song.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been to Open End too, it has very high ceilings. When I saw a show there, there was a bunch of art crap in there. It seems like the acoustics might be weird if it were empty (due to aforementioned very high ceilings).

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

boooooo, the russian futurists won't be at the show tonight. That was the main reason I was going.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

well, i think in july for one of the website launch parties, i have two fairly well-known bands wanting to do a dance party dj night. looking for a venue. dont want to say who until its confirmed though. 150 people isnt that big... ugh. sonotheque and darkroom were both booked. i think texas holds like 300 people, but its on like 3000 south archer, which i have no idea wtf that is. like chinatown?

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

The Texas Ballroom is a pain in the ass to get too. I was going to go to a Hair Police show there a few months ago, but bailed at the last moment. Stupid inertia.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

OK so I have a habit of posting in this thread then disappearing. I should try to get all community-oriented, no? Anyway, to answer some q's upthread - i'm looking for diners anywhere. I like the Hollywood Grill right off North Avenue and...ashland? I dont remember. Clarks is ok but always so busy. I also like this diner on milwaukee that serves massive-sized orchadas. I might be spelling "orchada" wrong. Yes, I do like guitars obv. ;) but i think the song about how everyone's a DJ is funny only because everyone also plays guitar. The Hold Steady were great, although I can never imagine them being my "Favorite Band" because they are SO midwestern, SO lift-up-a-beer-sing-along-to-the-good-times-while-watching-the-cubbies/twins/brewers or whatever yr team alliance happens to be. It seems like such a lifestyle band that if they were my favorite band I would feel trapped by their outlook. Instead, I like to see them as a single patch in the diverse and many-colored quilt that is my music taste. Yesssssssssss!

So, new questions!

Who's going to dance to Paul Johnson in grant park a week from tomorrow! I know I'll be there, weather permitting. It will be wild. I hope some of you take advantage. I've recruited some coworkers and friends to join me. Woohoo! summerdance is like the best thing ever.

― deej., Wednesday, 8 June 2005 06:07 (twenty-one years ago)

(thread killed)

― deej., Wednesday, 8 June 2005 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

What kind of music does Paul Johnson play? The only one I'm really planning for sure to go to is the Superpitcher one, which isn't until the end of the summer.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I pussed out on the junior boys/caribou last night. That's the second show this year that I've eaten tickets on. I suckity suck suck.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

and why is it so hot? That was one of the reasons I left NC to get away from 95-100 degree days. And it's 92 today. Which would be okay, but I miss the cold.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Will any of y'all be around over the 4th of July weekend?

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I know. It's fucking miserable.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Too bad, Jeff. It was a great show (although I left in the middle of Caribou, cuz I was tired and they'd played all my favorite songs already!).

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Re the heat: they said on the radio this morning that it was the longest streak of consecutive 90+ days in early June in years.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Paul Johnson does ...well, straight up chicago house music, really. His biggest single was "Get Get Down" which you've heard even if you don't realize it.

― deej., Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Luna, I should be around!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Deej -- where are you staying these days?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Sarah and I should be around, Luna, as far as I know.

Jeff, couldn't you call the Empty Bottle and claim that you bought tickets just to see Russian Futurists and try and get a refund?

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm at home right now (evanston). Looking for a job (i have a summer job but it is far from permanent/career oriented) and once I have one, then will be looking for an apt.

empty bottle = pretty good about refunds in my experience.

Oh yeah, Paul Johnson also does a GREAT remix of "Chicago Southside" (originally by CZR)

― deej., Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

If you're in Evanston, we could meet some night at the Deluxe Diner on Clark and Devon!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

haha I've been there! It was pretty good, as far as cheap diners go.

― deej., Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I think they may be owned by Leona's? I'm not too much of a diner guy anymore, but since it's six blocks away from me, that's the one I end up at when I do go.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

the deluxe diner got all self-consciously retro, though!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

The Hollywood Grill on North Ave. is great because its such a lazy attempt to be "hollywood." I like the staff too.

― deej., Wednesday, 8 June 2005 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Am, I think that's part of the Leona's takeover. Before that, it was just a greasy spoon called Stacks N Steaks!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

there are funny people in there on late weekday nights

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I vote we start a new Chicago thread. This one takes long enough to load at work, I dread looking at it when I'm on dial-up at home.

― deej., Wednesday, 8 June 2005 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

click the 'settings' link below the answer box, tick the 'show last 50 answers' or whatever box.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

not that this thread isn't getting enormous, it's just that some people don't know about that option and it can be really handy.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

if you are on dialup, I would also recommend the option to turn images off.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

let's let it last a month. we can start a new one tomorrow.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I like Hollywood Diner but no one will ever go there with me because they claim it's "gross"! Duh. That's the point.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd go there again with you, Nick. I just need to be really drunk first.

I was in Virginia last July 4th. I don't know how it's DONE here.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Sarah, you were here in Chicago for the 4th of July weekend last year, because that's when we recorded the first batch of Fake Fictions songs.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

"really drunk" = have half of nick's beer!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

It is pretty gross. But it's open all night. What are you going to do, *not* eat there? That would be wrong.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I enjoyed Hollywood Diner quite a bit the one time I went there.

My current favorite diner is Salonica down by my new job. It's run by a bunch of Greeks, as far as I can tell (judging from the guy working the register and that they have several Greek specialties on the menu.) Plus, it's cheap and they have a bar to eat at -- essential in any diner experience.

The lunch counter place on the corner right by Logan Square Auditorium was pretty all right too. The name escapes me but breakfast was cheap and huge.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd go there again with you, Nick. I just need to be really drunk first.

They sell beer there!

― Lethal Dizzle (djdee2005), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

me = deej. btw

― Lethal Dizzle (djdee2005), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

GUYS. OH GUYS. We need to have a MIDNIGHT (or MIDNITE) FAP, where we meet at Hollywood Diner at MIDNIGHT and then go out and do MIDNIGHT kinds of things!

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

GUYS! I am such a gee-nee-us!

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

like drinking till 5 am? Hollywood then to Stella's or another 4 am bar around.

Yes, I realize this is a bad idea.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I was thinking more like DRESSING IN BLACK and SKULKING AROUND IN CEMETARIES but whatever.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.impawards.com/1988/posters/midnight_run.jpg

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Pertinent!

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Yo dude cemetaries are bad! Man me and some friends were walking around rosehill with a movie camera the summer after my fresh. year of college (sneaking into the cemetary? You be the judge). Cops showed up, shined the big light on the six of us, like seven squad cars showed up and we rode in the paddy wagon! They searched our car but nothing happened really.

― deej.., Wednesday, 8 June 2005 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

This is directed at the people in bands, mostly... but others can feel free to chime in as well:

Do you know of anyone looking for someone to play drums?

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

you play drums? i play drums!
sorry don't know of anyone though.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

My friend lost her virginity in a cemetary.

And sorry Dan, I only know drummers. :(

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't like bands, so i'm never on the search.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I want my virginity back so I can lose it in a cemetary.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Huzzah! It's not so hot outside that you want to peel your skin off! Hosannah in the highest!

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I believe I am going to start some kind of support group to teach Yankees about iced tea. Everyone up north is iced-tea-impaired. I have ordered it three times from three different places in the last three days, and each time was more awful than the last. First we had peach, which could be great, but it was sweetened. With Nutra-sweet. Nasty, but I drank it. Next we had the tea that was out of a days-old container that *still had the tea bag sitting in it*. This is not only bad for iced tea, it represents a fundamental misunderstanding of the way tea works. Terribly bitter, but I drank it just so I could eat the ice. Then this morning I reached the breaking point. "What kind of tea is this?" I asked while making a face. "Earl Grey." "I'm sorry, I think I'll take coffee instead." YOU DON'T PUT EARL GREY ON ICE, YOU MANIACS! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

where is the hollywood diner? I was in chicago a couple of years ago, but I was drunk the entire time.. but me and some people went to some greasy spoon that was like, AWESOME, the food was meh but it was just a tiny box with a counter and a grill. and it was.. near the congress theatre, I think.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, goodness Mandee. That could by anything.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

were you at the congress for the b&s show?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

yup!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

i was there!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

me and ilxor kirsten were there, shouting at mick cooke. i think we annoyed 90% of the people around us because we were being shouty, annoying drunks

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I want mandee to come to Chicago.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I demand mandee - I DEMANDEE!

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm thinking of making a trip like, in the autumn, i totally enjoyed my last holiday there A LOT, and I miss Chicago! it seriously was the best week of my life, I think.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, no. Don't make us live up to that!

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

here's me and some people at REFLECTIONS posing with the bartender, sherri

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/Mandalion/mandreflections.jpg

here's me in front of some WOLF themed restaurant

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/Mandalion/mandwolfs.jpg

I had a weird mullet back then.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Leoup Cafe? Where the hell is that?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't really remember.. :/

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

That's Cafe Le Loup. That's not really what the sign says, for some reason.

http://www.planet99.com/chicago/restaurants/7591x.html

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

wow, i gotta go there to see this ALLEGED 1/2 dog, 1/2 wolf OUT BACK.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

YES.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

kenan will be happy to know that in summer months i make my own iced tea. sun tea, in fact.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 9 June 2005 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick, make me some sun tea! DO IT! (*chasing him with a frying pan and my hair in curlers*)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 9 June 2005 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Tea isn't tea unless it's sweet tea. Then it needs 5 pounds of sugar in it.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 9 June 2005 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

peppermint sun tea is da bomb

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 9 June 2005 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Tea isn't tea unless it's sweet tea.

I will be over here, enjoying my high-minded unsweetened iced tea, which I like to refer to as being "dry."

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

wow you make drinking tea sound like something decadent

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 9 June 2005 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

and put the sugar in it before the ice and stir furiously.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 9 June 2005 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I need a job. Someone hook me up. I have a summer job, but it sucks. need real job/ paying the rent job.

― deej.., Friday, 10 June 2005 01:29 (twenty years ago)

you can have my job in two months

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 10 June 2005 04:10 (twenty years ago)

What do you do? Something sexy I hope.

― deej.., Friday, 10 June 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

Big thanks to Jordan for recommending the House on the Rock as a road trip destination. We are definitely going to go there soon.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 10 June 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

No problem! Maddie and I had a lot of fun going up there a few years ago.

I just wish that I were going to be in town (or country even) when you guys come up, because we certainly wouldn't mind giving you a place to crash.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 10 June 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

Did you go there because of American Gods?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 10 June 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

Of course we did, Jocelyn. :>

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 10 June 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

Nick and Sarah, if you do decide to come up to WI when I'm in the land of Switzer and you'd like a (somewhat shy) guide for any of your adventures, Maddie says that you should contact her.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

mmmm sun tea sounds great right about now.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

There are a million street festivals this weekend. Anybody going to something?

I have to try a Glugg Slushie.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

Whats going on tonight? I'm trying to avoid David Cross at Sonotheque. Hah! he's djing.

― deej.., Friday, 10 June 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

I think I'm going to a friend's birthday party in Rogers Park.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 10 June 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

You could come see our lame band play at a shitty club.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 10 June 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

(I don't know why I'm pretending to be self-deprecating, I think our band is awesome. But Silvie's is kinda shitty.)

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 10 June 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

What kind of music do you play? Is it free? is Silvies El-accessible?

― deej.., Friday, 10 June 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

deej, there are guitars in their band.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 10 June 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

I doubt it's free, but I don't know. Maybe it says in the Reader?

You know what would be cool? Getting paid to play.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 10 June 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

I'm playing at a street festival this weekend! And getting paid!

Only bad thing is that it's in Milwaukee at 11:15 a.m..

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 10 June 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

The show isn't free but it is cheap (probably like $5-$8). Silvie's is El-accessible, it's on Irving Park Rd. between Ashland and Damen, and I think there's an Irving Park stop that's like a block away.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 10 June 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

For anyone who's looking, there's a job opening in my department at the UofC Press. I think it was Nick that had mentioned being interested in jobs down here. If anyone wants more info, let me know.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Friday, 10 June 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

jaymc, thanks for warning me, but "band" is one of those code words (like "angular" and "dancepunk") that alerts me immediately to the presence of the 5-string devils. AndbythatImean I dont really hate guitars!

― deej.., Friday, 10 June 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

I know, I'm just teasing you!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 10 June 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

I could use some info (xxp)! ddrake at geeeeeemail dot com.

― deej.., Friday, 10 June 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

Me too, dan. naamme @ yahoo.com.

And most guitars have six strings. Though to be fair, Sarah's been playing with five strings lately. Our bass only has three!

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 10 June 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

BUY TWO STRINGS

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 10 June 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

Ok, I resized and cropped my blurry-ass pics that I took from the plane flying into Chicago at night. Like I said, the blurryness is not my fault. Planes move fast.

http://giganticmag.com/images/ilx/chicago_plane_1.jpg

That big black square near the foreground is Rosehill Cemetery.

http://giganticmag.com/images/ilx/chicago_plane_2.jpg

Downtown.

MAN I wish it were possible to take a completely clear picture of this, like your eyes can. It's fucking incredible.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:38 (twenty years ago)

not your fault? exposure time, man!

― oops (Oops), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:41 (twenty years ago)

Also, this is what Chicago looks like flying out of Midway on a hazy day:

http://giganticmag.com/images/ilx/chicago_plane_day.jpg

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

not your fault? exposure time, man!

Tried that. Of course I went with the largest aperture I had (2.6) and dialed down the shutter speed to as fast as possible without making it black. That was still about a second. You're still looking at the best photos I got. It's dark out there!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:47 (twenty years ago)

You're right, though -- with a better camera, I could have gotten something better.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:48 (twenty years ago)

it sounds pathetic, but one of the coolest things ever was when I was flying west out of midway during the day, and was able to fly low right over where I live. (John: I was tipped off as to where we where exactly by Mount Trashmore and Ditka Dome. literally right over boughton n 53)

xpost yeah on my old camera it had just a low (or high, whatever) enough setting to work while in a car, but not in a plane.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

it really is an incredible sight, even in the daytime. thousands of miles of plains and farms, with a few rinky dink outcrops of civilization then BAM. grids and buildings and whatnot from horizon to horizon.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

I identified Chicago out the window from probably 200 miles away. You can't miss it.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

At which point I had an argument with Jessa. "Look! Chicago!" "No it's not." "No really! You can see Lincoln Avenue! Right there!" "Whatever." When I was proven irrefutably correct later, I was told to stop gloating.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:59 (twenty years ago)

(Actually, I think "Shut up, already" were her exact words.)

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 11 June 2005 00:00 (twenty years ago)

Can I repost this (relatively) fine picture of the north side?

http://giganticmag.com/images/ilx/chicago_plane_1.jpg

Not only can you see Rosehill, you can see Graceland just to the left and up a little. And you can totally indentify Andersonville by the way Clark Street meets Ashland. Runs RIGHT up next to it, then along side it for a while, as if to be polite.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 11 June 2005 00:11 (twenty years ago)

You can see my house from here.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Saturday, 11 June 2005 00:54 (twenty years ago)

and the two bars i just went to!

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Saturday, 11 June 2005 01:07 (twenty years ago)

It's hot today. Looks of stuff on clark street. There's a milkshake with my name on it. And a turkey corndog.

I'll be married a week from now.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Saturday, 11 June 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

It's only hot in the sunshine. It's actually kind of okay in my apartment today. I'm eating ice and sitting near a fine, and all is well with the world.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 11 June 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

A fan. I'm sitting near a fan.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 11 June 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

I have three ceiling fans and a floor fan going. I'm not going to give in and buy a window unit. That's why i moved to chicago, so I won't need my air conditioned.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Saturday, 11 June 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

I know, but some days I get pretty close to cracking. Jessa's smart -- she went to sit in a cold movie theater all afternoon.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 11 June 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

Stevie Wonder makes me feel cooler.

There's somthin' 'bout your love/
That makes me weak and knocks me off my feet

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 11 June 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

Morning, bitches.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 13 June 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

Ugh, I didn't sleep well at all last night.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 June 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

Hi. Want me to bring your bag to you today?

I ate the biggest polish dog yesterday. With saurkraut.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Monday, 13 June 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

I hope that was a hot dog.

This weekend was dumb, but then yesterday evening there was a nice breeze and I felt calm, cool, and collected, kind of. The heat makes my brain fuzzy.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 13 June 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

The worst thing to do is try to sleep through the hottest part of the day without an air conditioner. You wake up WRECKED. Dehydrated and more tired than you were to begin with.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 13 June 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I was unable to do any of the cleaning and most of the reading I wanted to do because of the HEAT.

I did meet Kirsten over the weekend though, she's really nice!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 13 June 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

We have a window unit AC in the bedroom, so I keep going in there to take naps. It's dark and cool in there, but very disorienting. I'll wake up at like 2 in the afternoon from a nap, shooting out of bed thinking, "What the fuck? Am I supposed to be at work? Is it the middle of the night? ARGHGH!!"

I took a million naps this weekend.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 13 June 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

ooh awesome!

i gathered, from jordan and sarah's lj's, that it was hot up there this weekend.

it still hasn't been REALLY hot here yet.. I fear July.. with no A/C.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Monday, 13 June 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

yeah mandee, it's been above 85 for like ten straight days or something.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 June 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

But the forecast is beautiful. Rain tomorrow, then a cool front. Highs in the lower 70's, lows in the upper 40's for the rest of the week.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 13 June 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

I'm in love with the forecast.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 13 June 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

Have any of you ever visited Pilsen? Is it a dangerous area to live in?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 13 June 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

no, it's fine. do you like mexicans?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 13 June 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

Sure. I also like mexican food. And I took 5 years of spanish in high school/middle school, so I can still remember some basic phrases that everyone else knows who didn't even take spanish.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 13 June 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

There are lots of new upstart art galleries in Pilsen, as art-school kids start taking advantage of the cheap rents down there. I've sort of wanted to go down there on a Friday night to gallery-hop sometime.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 June 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

What about this Friday night?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 13 June 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

Well, it's usually a specific Friday night, either the first or second Friday of the month, I can't remember. Let me check on that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 June 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

I'll go with you guys. I'd love to.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 13 June 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

(jaymc hops in car, drives to montana, never to return.)

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 13 June 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, it's the second Friday when they have all the openings. So we just missed it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 June 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

Next month?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 June 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

http://www.chicagoartsdistrict.org/

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 June 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

Also, my bandmate Megan lives in Pilsen. So I bet she knows more about stuff going on there.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 June 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

Hey, ya know, I'm sorry that I didn't call Jeff and Jenny yesterday like I said I would. I pussied out and ended up watching all six hours of Angels in America.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 13 June 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

I want to go!

― deej.., Monday, 13 June 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

xpozfggft

s'okay kenan, we mainly just went to get a hotdog yesterday. We did all our drinking festival stuff on saturday. Then we went to Carol's, the first time I've been there. Then we went to the Eagle, which is certainly the first time I've been there. I was extremely overdressed.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Monday, 13 June 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

Just to jump on the Pilsen bandwagon, one of my best friends lives down there too, and I always like heading over there. Her rent is a lot less (~$200 less) than mine for a similar amount of space. Now that the blue line runs down there on weekends getting there and back is a hell of a lot easier, but who knows how long that will last.

Plus, living near a tortilleria is sweet. Smells so good.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Monday, 13 June 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

Carol's is cool. It's the first place in Chicago I ever did karaoke. I sang "Once in a Lifetime" but was dramatically upstaged by Hstencil doing "Crazy Train." Awesome.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 June 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

I'm thinking we should maybe do a proper FAP sometime soon -- you know like we used to before we just started casually hanging out -- but so Dan and deej can meet the rest of us.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 June 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

Jenny's jumping to go back on karaoke night. She wants to do Invincible by Pat Benitar.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Monday, 13 June 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

I believe I would like to continue my habit of singing Neil Diamond and do "Shiloh."

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 13 June 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

A FAP is a good idea. I'm busy this next weekend though, perhaps the one after?

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Monday, 13 June 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

I'm free Saturday.

xpost - or whenever, yknow.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Monday, 13 June 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

ugh, just found out I didn't get the job at Northwestern

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Monday, 13 June 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

Anyone gonna hit up grant park on wednesday? Paul Johnson's coming!

― deej.., Monday, 13 June 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

Sorry to hear that, Jeff. Sucks.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 13 June 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

I'm busy this next weekend though, perhaps the one after?

Understatement alert.

And yeah, that sucks about NWU. :(

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 June 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, let's do something next weekend.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 June 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm... the weekend after this is the one Nick and I were going to use for our road trip to... drum roll.. Wisconsin! But we'll see. Actually, right now we're thinking we'll leave Saturday morning and come back Sunday, so we could do something that Friday night (the 24th).

Yeah, Jeff, you're funny.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

When you guys are going to Wisconsin, I'll be flying out of O'Hare.

I don't suppose anyone has tips for what to do about parking? I'm guessing leaving my car in the O'Hare parking structure for 10 days will be prohibitively expensive, but I'm not yet sure if I can get Maddie to drive me down/pick me up.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

What time of day are you flying out? You could leave your car at our apartment and take the el to O'hare. Of course, we wouldn't be there for a couple of days, but at least you wouldn't have to pay for parking.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

I REALLY FUCKING WANT TO DO KARAOKE WITH EVERYONE.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

Thanks for the offer Sarah, but surely I couldn't leave my car there for 12 days?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

Um, I don't see why not unless they had street cleaning. I mean, it would just be street parking, but it would be free.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

It would just be parked on the street. You could leave us the keys in case they decide to do street cleaning or something, but probably it would be fine. We could keep an eye out for it. xpost

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

But keep in mind that you would be parking on our block, walking like seven blocks with your luggage to the El, and then taking the El to O'Hare (which takes about 45 minutes). It's up to you whether it's worth all that to avoid paying for parking.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

Okay, thanks, I'll have to think about it. It looks like "economy parking" at O'Hare (which involves taking a shuttle to the swanky lots and then the ATS, whatever that is, to the terminal) is $13/day, $156 for my whole trip, which sucks but is theoretically affordable. All the other lots are like $26-32 per day (!).

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

Hey I just got an email from M@tt Pri3st about a show at the Beat Kitchen tonight - did Squeezed get pre-empted?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

cant u take a bus from madison?

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

Squeezed is next week, dude.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

That's a brilliant idea, Phil, I forgot about the bus!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

But I've obviously been left with little time to promote, so I have no idea what sort've crowd will be on hand.

Argh! Is M4tt Pri3st secretly Alex in NYC?!?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

Oh dammit, I thought it was this week, and when you sent out the reminder emails last week I had a brilliant idea for a project for Squeezed but then I gave up on it because I didn't think I had enough time but it turns I might've (ha!) had enough time but now I don't have enough time because it's only a week away!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

Doh!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

So, are we hanging out on the 24th, everyone?

Also, who has intonation tix?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

I have 2-2day passes.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

I have tickets, my gf and housemate do too. It looks like we have friends coming into town for it as well.

Man, I hope the weather is like it was yesterday. Well, without the rain.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

Oh shit I keep forgetting to buy my ticket. Should probably go do that now.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

you guys please come to the afterparty thing. plz plz plz (i give u more details when everything confirmed - but its on sunday, which means plz call in sick on monday)

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

i might be in chicago for intonation! a couple of friends of mine who have lived in chicago, but have moved elsewhere are kinda planning a little mini-reunion.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

yay! what weekend is that, again?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

The same on as L's going away party :(((

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

We plan on leaving early though, to try and make it to at least part of the party.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

I thought I told you that, kelsey.

How come rent is so f'n expensive? I have been refreshing the apts/housing thread on craigslist every day for like a week over and over and I rarely see anything below 1000. Whenever I do, it's in roger's park. What is that and can I eat it?

I don't really want to move out of my apartment. Neither does the bf. But I feel like I should at least look around a little, since I'm a po' folk.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

I think craigslist is just dumb, because there were lots of cheaper apts. in the Reader. My theory is landlords who charge less for rent = poorer = can't afford internet access = don't post their ads on craigslist.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

i didn't mind living in roger's park, actually. it's mostly okay.

and yeah, i think everyone's told me that about 12 times & i keep forgetting. xpost

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

Oh, so I've been there!

I really only enjoy looking at postings with pix. And I think it's funny there's always a pic of the bathroom, because it's always tiny anyway. So you get a picture of maybe the exterior of the building, one kitchen shot, and a shot of the toilet. I guess the toilet is important, but it's still kind of ick. "This is where YOU could be using the bathroom!"

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

remember to factor in how much it will cost to move (truck rental, parking, rent overlap etc)--and then you can see at what point you'd actually going to be saving money over where you're living now. I'm planning on moving soon and although (if I get the place I want) I'll be saving $200 a month, I'm not going to be saving any money because movers will eat it up. And they're well worth it when one is pregnant, I'm not complaining.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

Sarah, I don't live in Rogers Park now . . . I used to a few years ago (before you & Nick moved to Chicago!)

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

why not get a bunch of friends to pitch in, rather than hire a movers? (says mr. cheapo.)

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

I doubt we'll move in the near future, but we might move when our lease is up (not til next April) unless one or both of us is making substantially more money by then. I can't decide whether I would want to stay in the same general area and just move down to Ukranian Village or over near where Kenan lives, or if I would want to try a totally different neighborhood (Lincoln Square looked really nice when we were there).

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

You can find cheaper apartments, the best way is to walk through the neighborhoods that you really like and call numbers off the for rent signs. There should be tons of them. Jesse found an apartment for $600 a month this way, only a block and a half from our apartment that is $1120.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

LL Cool J replaces Lauren Hill on taste of chicago's concert schedule...

But I'm more excited about

DONNA SUMMER!

wooo!

― deej.., Wednesday, 15 June 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

why not get a bunch of friends to pitch in, rather than hire a movers? (says mr. cheapo.)

I hear you, I'm so fucking tight with my money, hiring movers kills me in a way. But the friends route only worked when we were all young and poor. Now we're all doctors and lawyers and computer programmers and our knees are bad. So I've got no problem passing along some of that money to professionals.

Hey, my mom is going to taste of chicago! maybe I can figure out a way to tag along, I had fun last year despite my mom twisting her ankle and causing my absense from teenyfap.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

When is that?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 16 June 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

Taste of Chicago sucks big sweaty ones. Unless you are dying to know what Chili's will be offering this year.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 16 June 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 June 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

Do this instead:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/photo/2005-05/17608947.jpg

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 16 June 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

mmmm burgers

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 16 June 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

I mean, the ToC is crowded with suburbanites, but lots of Chicago restaurants represent. Maybe not your favorite little neighborhood cafe, but it's disingenuous to say that it's all chains. Of course, I haven't been there in at least five or six years, so maybe it's changed.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 June 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

I haven't been more than once, but I did see an over-preponderance of chains, and not just that, but boring food. Sausage. Tastes like Jimmy Dean. Who th' fuck cares.

I think I was just disappointed, because I had built it up in my mind as some kind of foodie Mecca. It is not. Most of the food wasn't even that good.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 16 June 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

have you noticed that sausage or brats are always the main feature at ALL 'taste of ____" festivals?

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 16 June 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

do they still have that gourmet tent? i remember last time i went (long long time ago) they had like charlie trotters and aubriot and everest and spiaggia type restaurants serving up bite-sized pieces of morels/foiegras/etc.

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 16 June 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

I think part of the appeal is just walking around and being like, "hmmm, chicken satay? why not?" and then munching on that for a little while and being like, "you know what would be good? corn on the cob," and then finding that, and waiting a little while and being like, "motherfucker, i need a philly steak sandwich pronto." etc.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 June 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

mmmm, sausage or brats

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 June 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps I am being disingenuous, or at least forgetting that the cuisine of Chicago is made up of simple things -- hamburgers, hot dogs, sausage and the like. That's what Chicago does best. It has perfected processed, shaped meat.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 16 June 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

i went to a "taste of greeley, colorado" festival once (I PLAYED SAX IN A TENT FOR THE ONLOOKERS WOO) and had the greeley specialty - M&M PIE

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 16 June 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

TEH HORROR

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 16 June 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

has anyone here ever been to a REAL smorgasbord? because i'd like to go to one. or have one.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 16 June 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

i'd imagine that it's a bit classier than your run of the mill buffet

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 16 June 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

http://www.actionfigureworld.com/acatalog/th-muppets-swedish-chef-801.jpg

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 16 June 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

mandee, i just found out that my dad wrote a play set in greeley, colorado. it was sort of weird that he wrote a play, period. i was at my cousin's graduation party the other day, and my uncle said to my dad, "how's that play coming along?" and i'm like, wtf are you guys talking about? and my dad was all, "i didn't tell you i wrote a play?" i'm like, okay, whatever. anyway, the play is based on the true story of an egyptian scholar who lives in greeley in the late 1940s and then goes on to write a bunch of pro-islamic, anti-american tracts that some people speculate are the foundation for much of osama bin laden's beliefs. but so the play imagines what the dude's life was like when he was living in greeley.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 June 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

http://www.chronologictiming.com/web.jpg
Veritable Smorgasboard!

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 16 June 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

maybe just the meat is boring! I'm a vegetarian and my mom isn't a big meateater either. We had some really really tasty pad thai, pierogies, samosas.. I forget what else but it was nice. jaymc otm about the walking around appeal, also it is a big deal for my mom who lives in the sticks and has to drive half an hour to eat at a proper restaurant!

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 16 June 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

jaymc, yeah, i've read about that guy before! crazy!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

WHO DO I HAVE TO BLOW TO GET A THIN CRUST PIZZA CUT INTO NORMAL, TRIANGULAR SLICES? I want crust on every piece of pizza. I do not want to have to dig mushy, crustless squares of pizza out of the middle of the box. It burns your fingers when it's hot, and is very difficult when it's cold and the cheese has stuck to the box in that permanent way. This is not provincialism, that is not me being entrenched in some old way of thinking and refusing to adapt. No, the problem is not me. The problem is that cutting pizza into little squares is STUPID AND ALSO IT IS STUPID, and impractical, and devalues what would otherwise be a fine pizza, and every pizza place in the whole city does this. It's like they're trying to dissuade you from ordering the thin crust. "Oh, come now... wouldn't you rather have that fine Chicago Specialty, Stuffed Pizza? Just one slice and you're sick from excessive cheese and carb intake! Two slices and you pass out right here on the table! Doesn't that sound fun?" No, it does not, you're all a bunch of maniacs, get me some proper New York style pizza or I'm going to kill you.

(This concludes today's rant about food. Stay tuned tomorrow for more episodes.)

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

it seems like we have the pizza debate like quarterly.
(i still much much prefer chicago pizza)

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 16 June 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

I like my slices tiny and triangular. I'll eat just as much pizza, but I like them in easy-to-hold sizes. Also, I'm not a fan of the squares. It was fun when I was little and that's how pizza's would come from Pappa John's, but now I am a grown-up and I demand thin-crust pizza in TRIANGLES. Anyway, I'm totally with you on that, K.

I actually had no intention at all of going to the taste fest. I was just wondering when teeny might be around. But now she's making me think it might be fun.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

Triangles, yes.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

St. louis style pizza = squares, and this bizarre regional cheese called provel. perhaps it is migrating chicagoward.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

i like squares. because i really like the corner ones that are just like one bite of pizza and three bites of pizza'y crust.

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

I used to like Rocky Roccocco's pizza, which was squares but thick crust. Now I work down the hall from one and I loathe it like no other.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

there's no real crust on st louis style pizza--the cheese just goes right up to the edge! My husband loves it, I'm not so keen on it but I craved it like twice in early pregnancy. Now I don't like it any more and he is calling me a pizza tease.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

Guess what dudes, I'm going to ROSEMONT tomorrow!!!!!!!

ROSEMONT!!!

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

the all-state arena was more fun when it was called the ROSEMONT HORIZON. the only time i've been there, tho, was to see a chicago fire game like 15 years ago.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

I've been a big fan of Santullo's lately. Greasy, hangover killing stuff, there.

As a former pizza-assembly dude, square-cut can be done well but you've got (GOT) to have the right crust. Most places don't have dough that cooks up stiff enough to survive the square cut. This leads to the dreaded center piece fiascos described above.

Also, when asked, we would always cut in triangles for those who wanted it.

xpost

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

Yes! Santullo's is great for the huge greasy apres-many-beers pizza slice! Yes!

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

I PREFER DIPPING STRIPS

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

oh those are good.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

I PREFER STRIPPING DIPS

What are we talking about now?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

taste of chicago is horrible

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

A Chicago fire game?! Do people throw fire?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

Ah, see, now this is why people use conventional capitalization. Chicago Fire.

http://www.chicagotraveler.com/attraction-pictures/chicago-fire.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

http://www.alyon.org/generale/theatre/cinema/affiches_cinema/m/mot-mys/mrs_o_leary_s_cow.jpg

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

what will dominos pizza think of next? my friend says the cheeseburger pizza is delicious - they use a mix of ketchup and mustard instead of tomato sauce.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

taste of chicago is horrible

Thank you. These people were about to convince me I was defective or something.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

mmmm gryos pizza!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

p.s. who do you think makes signs such as this one:

http://hometown.aol.com/mchicagotaste/images/gyros.jpg

which i associate with the fast food counters at ice stadiums where i used to go skating.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

what will dominos pizza think of next?

Hm...

http://chicago-pizza.com/menu/index.html

I've always loved this web page. The URL is so innocent, and then you click on it and BAM! A gallery of horrors so sick, so twisted, so totally insane that only a culture hellbent on cruelty could have thought of it.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

"casual sausage"

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

"casual sausage"

xpost, christ

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

Actually most of those don't look that bad, do they? I was expecting squid ink pizza and such.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

Gigio's in Uptown makes a great thin crust, cut into slices. Not goddamned squares.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

The "Healthy" options are particularly... wrong. Hard boiled eggs and corn, tuna and mayonnaise.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

gigio's in uptown looks like it is run by rodents!! that whole neighborhood by the wilson el stop creeps me out. do you remember that record store that was up there? worst record store ever. although one of these days i will visit the cambodian video store.

gigio's in evanston is really good. ok i'm getting hungry. i won't click on that web link btw.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

Hrm. Strike the last three, but hard boiled egg is actually pretty good on pizza.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

Kenan I tried to call you last night to go get a quick drink with me somewhere but you weren't home!?!?! WTF!?!?!

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

I was doing laundry. Sorry I missed you.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

nick do you want to see BATMAN this weekend?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm. I am supposed to be being frugal. But maybe.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

perhaps then we can watch the DVDs of season nineteen of "the frugal gourmet"?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

xxxpost

And tonight is Batman. I don't know what it is that compels me to keep going to these movies that I don't care about at all. "I hear this one's darker than the first one!" So what?

I love Batman Forever. People think I'm crazy, but Val Kilmer is liquid sex, the costumes have nipples and enormous codpieces, Nicole Kidman is smokin', it's full of double entendres and one-liners -- I love how they pretty much threw all the "dark" out the window and had a Halloween parade instead. Fun movie.

This one's going to be all... WOOOOooooo. I believe I may nap.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

i don't actually want to see batman begins either, nor did i want to see star wars, and yet....

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

"Serious" Batman can be fun too. I'm going to see it with Maddie tonight.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

Uptown has really grown on me. I frequent there just as much as I do the Clark street side of my hood. I'd buy a condo there.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 16 June 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

when I lived in engerlund all the random cafes or kebab shops or fried chicken places had these weird posters much like the Gyros one above - and they had some weird-ass sandwiches, man, like one was a bunch of hot dogs cut up on a bun with a fried egg on top - i always wanted to get it!!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 16 June 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

damnit i'm googling "hotdog sandwich" and not finding much.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 16 June 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

To Sarah McLusky:
I sent an e-mail to the address that's next to your name here, and then I realized I didn't know if it was a real address or if it was a fake one or, terrifyingly, one that you made up but, unbeknownst to you, was actually a real one belonging to a scary stranger who now, thanks to the e-mail I sent you, has my phone number, because I wanted to see if you wanted anyone to show you around or give you suggestions for places to go in Wisconsin. I can't remember the e-mail because I think I was a bit tipsy when I wrote it, so chances are good that the actual message contained none of this and was just a bunch of nonsense, and if that is the case, I do apologize.

― kirsten (kirsten), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

Ok, I was sooo wrong. Batman was excellent. Kicked a serious, surprising amount of ass. The Batmobile alone is worth the price of admission. There are also terrifying hallucinations. You really can't lose with terrifying hallucinations.

Revelation: I now understand why Gotham has to be Chicago and cannot possibly ever be New York. Gotham has to have allys. Where's a bat going to hang out and be spooky if not in an alley?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 17 June 2005 02:01 (twenty years ago)

I'm going crazy. Everyone is coming into town the next couple of days. It's quite alarming when 29 people are coming to hang out, just because you asked them to.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 17 June 2005 02:16 (twenty years ago)

kirsten, Thanks, I did get said email. I'm sorry I didn't reply. Basically, we (the bf and I) were planning a road trip for next (not this) weekend which was going to take up the entire weekend and include a few small towns and then Milwaukee. However, due to limited resources (and I don't just mean protecting the environment by using less fuel), we will now only be tripping Saturday & Sunday and not swinging by Milwaukee at all.

I do hope we can get over there to explore sometime this summer, but it just won't be this trip.

Instead, we're going to Mt Horeb (to learn about my norwegian ancestry and mustarg), Spring Green (for house on the rock), and Univ. of Madison (to see the corpse flower).

Jeff, I think it will be a great time. (People like you guys, they really do! - It shouldn't be that shocking)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 17 June 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

By mustarg, I meant mustard.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 17 June 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

I, for one, like Jeff and Jenny a helluva lot.

What time does this whole thing kick off?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 17 June 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

I'm pretty sure it's 8pm.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 17 June 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I am greatly looking fwd. to it!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 June 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

Corpse flower?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 17 June 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

Corpse flower.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 17 June 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

jeff, i know it's short notice, but are you & jenny registered anywhere?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 17 June 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

Should I wear a tie? I look good in ties.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 17 June 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm. I was sort of taking the dress-however-you-like to heart! I'll probably look a little nice, tho.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 June 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

(say yes about the ties, jeff! I really love it when Nick wears one. oooh la la!)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 17 June 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

There will be dancing, right? I feel like dancing.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 17 June 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

Haha, weird coincidence:

I'm listening to "I'd Rather Dance With You" by Kings of Convenience right now.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 June 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

And I'm having an e-mail conversation with someone about dancing...

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 June 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

I don't how if there'll be room to dance at Hopleaf, though. :(

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 June 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

We'll have to do the Standing Still.*

This morning I've had that Bowie song stuck in my head:
John, I'm only dancing! She turns me on. I'm only dancing!!

*(ooh! Dismemberment Plan reference - did you catch it??)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 17 June 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

No, what D-Plan song is that from?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 June 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

I think it's called "Doing the Standing Still." Just a moment. Oh, how stupid of me! I'm supposed to type BRB.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 17 June 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

L8R!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 June 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

Damnit. My computer froze up, so I restarted it, ran a virus check, it froze up again, blah ti blah, and now I'm getting a million popups. What's a quick way to get rid of those?

Anyway, in better news, it's off ...Is Terrified.
Oh whoa-oh, well the pony was funky
The watusi was kinda smooth
Oh whoa-oh, well the problem with all
Those little dance steps was you had to move
Oh whoa-oh, well they found a brand-new step
And it doesn't take anything to get this groove, uh-huh!
And I don't want no standing still!
And I don't want no standing still!
And theyâ're doing the standing still

Oh whoa-oh, well it's a sensationâ€¦
Across the entire nation.
Oh whoa-oh, a hundred million kids
All dancing in suspended animation
Oh whoa-oh, and the feeling's all right
We'll be standing still until the morning light, yeah!

I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed
Oh, my aching head.
Uh-huh!
Oh whoa-oh, in Fargo, six or seven kids
Watched the Plan in a strip-mall
I thought they were bored out of their skulls
But it turns out they were having a ball, uh-huh
Oh whoa-oh, well I finally knew
They were doing a brand-new step everybody isn't moving to
And I don't want no standing still!
And I don't want no standing still! yeah!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 17 June 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

I just uninstalled some suspect programs, but it won't let me uninstall The Bullseyenetwork. GRR!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 17 June 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

When I got back to my desk after lunch, there was a huge sex site popup on my desktop. Not good!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 17 June 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

Try the free demo version of Stopzilla, that works pretty well.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 17 June 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

Adaware is what I always use. And maybe some free virus software is in order. AVG is very good.

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/Get+AVG+FREE/lng/us/tpl/v5

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 17 June 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

I think maybe I got it this time. But if I see another pop up, I will scream. And then follow your advice.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 17 June 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

Link to AdAware:

http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Personal-Edition/3000-8022_4-10045910.html?part=dl-ad-aware&subj=dl&tag=top5

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 17 June 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

Thanks.

I'm addicted to looking at the apartment ads on craigslist now. But the problem is that they make me want to upgrade, not save money. I keep thinking, "Wow! Look what I could have for only 150% of what I'm paying now!"

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 17 June 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

You cannot uninstall Spyware by uninstalling programs from the system menu. That's why it's spyware. You may have uninstalled the suspect programs, but you didn't get rid of all the other little evil shit they put on your computer. They hide that stuff pretty good.

AdAware will scan your drive pretty quickly. You'll be amazed what it finds. I always am.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 17 June 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

And step two is to stop using Internet Explorer immediately. It causes nothing but pain.

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

(I'm sorry if you know all this already. I'm always afraid of sounding pedantic. But this stuff can get serious -- first sex ads, then slowed performance, then you're unknowingly sending viruses to other people, and finally computer death. That's the Windows Way. Gotta nip it in the bud.)

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 17 June 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

I stopped using Firefox ages ago when it mysteriously stopped working on my computer. I've gotta get a new version and get back on that shit.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 17 June 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, you really do. Explorer has security holes in its security holes.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 17 June 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

I'm so glad I use a Mac with Firefox. Except at work, because this computer is soooo old.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 June 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

can one overdose on alacer emer'gen-c? i've had five packets today

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 17 June 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

too much vitamin c gives you the runs!

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 17 June 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

Lovely.

I'm getting a little frustrated. I was running adaware and it had already scanned OVER 450,000 objects with over 200 suspect files and then it timed out or something. It froze. I checked the systems page and it said it was no longer responding.

In better news, the owner left for the rest of the day and a coworker told me I can sneak out at my own risk. I think I'll stick around for a while longer though because I get paid to do basically nothing as it is.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

I finally did it! Someone cue up the theme from Chariots of Fire!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

I'm stopping by this art opening (12) tonight. Is anything else going on?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 17 June 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

What time are you going there, Sarah?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 17 June 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

hi, yeah it's wear what you want, except for nick, he has to wear a tie. And tails. We'll make room to dance. I've burned like 15 cds.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 17 June 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

Kenan, we haven't decided when we're going to the art show. Give us a call if you want to come with or meet up with us there.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 17 June 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

ATTN Jordan (and Matt, though I don't think he reads this thread) -- my band will be playing your fair city on July 11. I'd love if you came, but since I've never gotten off my ass to see you the six billion times you've come to Chicago, I understand if you don't want to.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 June 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

i was just skimming things here but i have to say that the crustless pieces are the BEST ones!!! I usually wait for everyone to eat the outer, crust-havin' pieces so I can get the heavenly, all-pizza, no-crappy-hard-crusted pieces.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 17 June 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

OMG, i just met JAYMC.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Saturday, 18 June 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

jeff in drunk on his wedding day shocker

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 18 June 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

jeff in POSTING ON ILX ON HIS WEDDING DAY shocker! Don't you have better, um, things to do?

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 19 June 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

My boy turns 21 this weekend. Where should I take him? Is that place Divine in Wicker Park any good? We walked by there and they were playing some hot music. "Dress code strictly enforced," which I'm down with.

― deej.., Sunday, 19 June 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

i've never been to divine, but i generally tend to avoid places where the dress code is strictly enforced!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 19 June 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

I like dressing up, I just wish I knew what the dress code was! They are impossible to find any info about online.

― deej.., Sunday, 19 June 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

Some very beautiful people seem to go there, from my recollection.

Any other places you'd recommend?

― deej.., Sunday, 19 June 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

Where are you playing, John? I'll be back from tour by then and I don't think I have anything going on.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 19 June 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

High Noon.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 June 2005 03:59 (twenty years ago)

deej, who's this "boy" of yours?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 June 2005 04:01 (twenty years ago)

hah its a friend of mine from high school, grade younger than me. Good people. Why do you ask?

― deej.., Monday, 20 June 2005 07:26 (twenty years ago)

the phrasing seemed ambiguous.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 June 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)

Jeff, how is married life? Do you have a honeymoon planned? I can't remember.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 20 June 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

Also, everyone, we should do something this Friday night because, um, I said so. So, what do you wanna do?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 20 June 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

KA-RA-O-KE!

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 20 June 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

Ok, so, nick and I are in. That's 2. Who else?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 20 June 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

Jaymc, the High Noon is a pretty cool club,I will try to be there.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 20 June 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

YES I AM IN FOR FRIDAY!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 June 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

We could go to Hidden Cove for karaoke. Unless it's too far out of the way for you guys. It's like 5300 N. Lincoln.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 June 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

I will travel any distance for karaoke.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 20 June 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

Good. It's a fun little place. I sang Steely Dan's "Do It Again" there once, about a year and a half ago.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 June 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

Do they have "Cherry Pie" by Warrant?

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 20 June 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

I wonder if they have any Heavy D. Prolly not.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 20 June 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

CHICAGO KARAOKE FAP: Friday, 6/24

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 June 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

I went to Chinatown last night on the recommendation of the Slow Food Guide. Lao Tse Chuan, I believe it was called. "Best Chinese food in the city!" everyone said. It was garbage. No, really. I don't know if it's a cultural thing or what, but every animal part we were served had bone in it in surprising places, as if the animal had not been attended to with any care at all, just cleavered into bits. The rabbit was totally inedible for this reason. The duck was just as bad, burned on one side, and dry. How you get duck to be dry is a total freakin' mystery. The "Three Happiness" or whatever was exactly like fried shrimp from Red Lobster, only not as good. Crap, crap, crap. If this is the best in Chicago, I guess I just won't be eating any more Chinese food in Chicago.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 20 June 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

Has anyone, I'm guessing not Kenan, had good chinese takeout in Chicago? I mean, the kind that's so good you can eat it in the little box it comes in and not feel gross? I'm looking for great vegetable fried rice in particular. There was this chinese place across the street from my old job (in jefferson park) that everyone ordered from all the time but the veggie fried rice had shrimp in it! Not veggie!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 20 June 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

Sarah, try Blue Willow on Fullerton just west of Western. They used to be at the corner of Damen & Chicago but moved in 2001 or 02. That was our most reliable Chinese we found the entire time we lived around Wicker Park.

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 03:07 (twenty years ago)

Shrimp don't have any feelings.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)

Also, while they're pure cholesterol, they're also fat-free, which means that the cholesterol can't be absorbed the way fatty cholesterol can. Eating a bunch of shrimp won't raise you blood cholesterol one bit. So pull up a chair and have at 'em.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 03:13 (twenty years ago)

Hey! Can I be on this thread now? Sweet. Glad to be a part of the team.

....wait. where are you guys going?! I just want to be friends!!!

― giboyeux (skowly), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 03:42 (twenty years ago)

(psst... we're not that cool.)

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 03:58 (twenty years ago)

This thread is way too long.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 03:58 (twenty years ago)

Four fried chickens and a Coke: Chicago part 7

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 04:15 (twenty years ago)

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