Mornin'. Hi, Casuistry!
My desktop weather widget shows snow, snow, and then some snow.
― KitCat, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 14:02 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm listening to my myspace song over and over. (Bonafied Lovin by Chr0meo)
― KitCat, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 14:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, hey. I went to a basketball game last night! It's because I'm a huge W0fford Terriers fan.
Uh, I also kind of enjoyed being more productive while ILX was down, so I'm going to try to spend less time here for awhile.
― Jordan, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 15:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Hi Sarah. Hi everyone.
It's still rainy out here.
― Casuistry, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 15:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Huh! When you drop liquid on the floors at the office they go directly through the floor and into the suite below, without much of anything mitigating the flow.
― Jesse, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 15:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Did you knock over the water cooler?
― KitCat, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 15:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh man. That was a bad start to the day.
The kitchen sink spigot pulls out, so I stick it directly into the coffee maker. The phone rang and I thought I turned it off, but I hadn't.
TBH, I already knew the floors leaked b/c one time I heard a CLUNK above my office, then someone cursed and a few seconds later we had a coffee fountain. Such is life in the West Loop Lofts.
― Jesse, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 16:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Sorry, Jesse.
― KitCat, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 16:38 (sixteen years ago) link
It's quiet around here.
TOO quiet....
― Jesse, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 16:48 (sixteen years ago) link
awesome:
Jad Fair would like to be added to your MySpace friends list.
By accepting Jad Fair as your friend, you will be able to send Jad Fair personal messages, view Jad Fair's photos and blog, and interact with each other's friends and network!
Click the following link to view Jad Fair's profile and accept or reject this user as your friend:
― n/a, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 16:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Blind Boys of Alabama would like to be added to your MySpace friends list.
By accepting Blind Boys of Alabama as your friend, you will be able to send Blind Boys of Alabama personal messages, view Blind Boys of Alabama's photos and blog, and interact with each other's friends and network!
I wonder if they run their own myspace?
― Jordan, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:03 (sixteen years ago) link
hey guys, it was weird working all day yesterday with no ILX. i didn't like it.
― colette, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:11 (sixteen years ago) link
it looks like Jad Fair somehow has like 10 myspace pages all under the same name
― n/a, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Jad Unfair
― dan m, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link
It's freezing in here and my outfit is a mess--bunch of nice pieces of clothes that look dumb together.
― Jesse, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Fuck.
― Jesse, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:14 (sixteen years ago) link
I feel like an asshole.
maybe you need a scarf?
― colette, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:15 (sixteen years ago) link
C@n@st@ mentioned on Pitchfork: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/47428-jeff-tweedy-cool-kids-rock-for-obama
― n/a, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:16 (sixteen years ago) link
I moved on Saturday, it was awful but it's done, and my new house is crazy and also freezing. My space hea(r)ter arrives from Amazon today. The crazy part I'm just going to have to go with -- at least all the bands that played on Sat were enjoyable.
Laurel update complete.
― Laurel, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:17 (sixteen years ago) link
weekend update: fri - saw no country for old men at the davis, thought it was weird structurally but enjoyable. some parallels with the jesse james movie, though i liked the latter more sat - hung out at home most of the day reading the charles schulz bio and working on mixing the ff album. watched most of a bulls game for some reason. went to king khan & bbq show at the note, got in a really really bad mood because of density of assholes and general tiredness sun - woke up in a bad mood still, had band practice which put me in a better mood, went to ben's house for enchiladas, drank a really strong margarita and got buzzed, went to target and bought god of war II, went home dreading doing my sunday work half-drunk only to find i had no work to do, played gowII and read more schulz bio.
pretty good weekend overall except for saturday night which was ironically the one "activity" i had planned
― n/a, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:22 (sixteen years ago) link
God. A scarf might get me sent home. I wouldn't want to look at me all day.
I have on
- pinstriped brown pants - lovely checkered blue shirt - tan argyle zip-up sweater - brown shoes (they really clash with the pants bad--they're warm brown and I now see that pants are decidedly cool)
This sounds very fussy and like I know something about fashion, but I am just describing possible reasons for the self-loathing I'm experiencing when I look down at my sartorial vomit-splash.
― Jesse, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Fri- had head/chest cold. Hacked and sniffed. Sat- Did H&O work in daytime, worked my ass off at Catch ($$) Sun- Worked my ass of at Catch (not so much $$) and had mini burgers at Crew.
― Jesse, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:25 (sixteen years ago) link
I've written our old pal Dave to thank him for the Pitchfork mention. :)
― jaymc, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:26 (sixteen years ago) link
DAVE-O! DAVEY BOY!
― dan m, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:27 (sixteen years ago) link
is how you should have started the note
fri - went to a sports bar sat - rehearsed all day, left car at rehearsal studio b/c of ice storm, ate and drank and ate and drank. a dude at the bar gave me basketball tickets and one of his anti-depressants, for some reason. sun - recorded all day (got 4 songs out of it), ate mexican food, hung out w/a girl
― Jordan, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:27 (sixteen years ago) link
jesse, i think if you zip up the sweater, you'll be fine! the shirt sounds like it might be a bit busy, so that might make it less annoying to you.
or you could have the dog rub up against your pants, and you could pretend to have a fit because it's against your religion, and that you have to go change clothes because of it?
― colette, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Hahahah oh man
― Jesse, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Weekend:
Went to Red Rooster for dinner on Friday. Delicious and surprisingly reasonable, although we kind of splurged and got appetizers, dessert, and wine, which turned it into the second most expensive dinner we've had. Also really cozy and romantic.
Had lunch on Saturday at First Slice Cafe with Kr's friend Melissa. Grumbled about the weather. Went grocery shopping. Casted about for things to do at night: I really wanted to go out and drink, since we came home right after dinner on Friday night, but neither of us were thrilled about leaving the neighborhood. Ended up walking five blocks in the freezing rain to my friend Mark's place, where we had a couple beers and got stoned before he and his girlfriend left for a show at the Hideout. Went to bed early.
Sunday was all about cooking and cleaning. We made two (two!) lasagnas (spinach w/bechamel and mushroom and soymeat w/marinara) and served the first with an arugula salad and a bottle of pinot noir for dinner with my mom.
Somewhere in there we watched a few episodes of Six Feet Under, too.
Not a bad weekend, but I kind of missed getting drunk and smoking cigarettes. I know that probably makes me lame.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:36 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm pretty sure that makes you normal.
― Laurel, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Friday: bands and beers w/ out of town friends at Beat Kitchen. The dude from Roadside Monument's new band was not very inspiring, the opener that sounded exactly like Explosions in the Sky was only slightly more so. Saturday: drove to fucking Joliet to get a treadmill w/ mattttttt. The snow started just as we arrived in town. The treadmill was slightly too large to fit in my car, so we tied the hatch closed and drove back ~30 mph the whole way on slippery roads. Everyone else went slow which was fortunate given my open-door status. After that I ate pizza and fell asleep, then played video games and screwed around until I went back to bed. Sunday: Lots of kicking it, watching soccer, doing laundry, etc. Wore pj's and didn't leave the house all day. A winner is me!
A side benefit of the trip on Saturday was driving through everyone's favorite local site of national scandal, Bolingbrook.
― dan m, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I bet you drove right by the truck stop where Drew Peterson allegedly met some truckers to help him dispose of the body. There's a Bob Evans right there, or at least there used to be.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:45 (sixteen years ago) link
friday- got a little loose at my local after work, when i walked home my upstairs neighbor and a friend were heading out so i went to some bar up north i think? damen and foster maybe? i don't know. i stayed out too late, got home real early and didn't sleep much. saturday- went to my friend's house and drank beer and ate pizza with mark & khan before going over to the note. place was oversold by about 100 people, couldn't move, got massive amounts of drinks spilled on me, took way too many elbows to the kidneys. bold ones sounded good with zac on bass. johnny and the limelights were depressing. busy signals did not play any of the songs from any of their singles. incidentally, busy signals full length is reviewed in the latest issue of spin (which also has an article in the back that name checks c0c0c0ma). i think they gave it 3 1/2 stars. sunday- watched football, slept, watched football, went to grocery store, slept, watched football, ate, etc etc.
i've been sick the last couple days, my head is so congested that when i woke up this morning i couldn't open my left eye all the way! it looked like someone punched me. no one has (yet).
― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:49 (sixteen years ago) link
so i went to some bar up north i think? damen and foster maybe?
This was probably either Leadway or K's Dugout. Was there an easel in the corner and amateur art on the wall and the top 40 being played on satellite radio, or was there an Internet jukebox being commandeered by Vietnam vets?
― jaymc, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Morning all. Barely. I wanted ILX to be up yesterday when I had time for it.
― kenan, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:53 (sixteen years ago) link
while king khan & bbq were playing, we were standing at the side of the stage, by the stairs. dude from busy s1gnals squeezed his way in front of me and then proceeded to pull like three of his friends in front of me too. then this big dude came pushing through, but i wouldn't move because i was tired of people shoving me. he said "get out of the fucking way!" i was pissed off and so i said "where the fuck are you going?" he gave me a dirty look but just kept moving up to the stage. i think maybe he was security or worked for the note but he had no item of clothing or badge or anything identifying him as such, and didn't say anything like "security coming through." probably dumb behavior on my part as dude was like twice my size but i was in a really bad mood, as noted.
― n/a, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:59 (sixteen years ago) link
i could not tell you. i'd go with the easel place with top 40 music. there were a lot of girls there.
― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 18:00 (sixteen years ago) link
My thoughts re: said show: * first band I really liked the music, could take or leave the vocals (probably leave) as they were were a bit obvious and affected * second band had some good slow songs, but mostly were embarrassing to watch - then guy behind me dropped all this pizza on the floor that I had to dodge Then I did this wonderful thing that hasn't happened at a show in a long time where I got extremely claustrophobic and overheated and felt like I couldn't breath and like I would faint soon. So I rushed over towards the door and sat at the bar there. It was freezing cold but I didn't care because all I wanted was space and fresh air. * KK &BBQ were so entertaining. Great vox. AMAZING guitar playing SKILLZ. Nice costumes. I was really annoyed by all the shoving but was still glad I went.
― KitCat, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 18:05 (sixteen years ago) link
What is up with KK/BBQ shows being INSANE? At Cakeshop here the sight lines are terrible to begin with, so if you weren't within about 12 feet of the stage you couldn't see anything...and I was up there but having trouble breathing and could not actually move my arms and hands, it was so tight. I gave up. Show was...well, not ruined by any means, but frankly I liked the opening bands better.
― Laurel, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 18:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Props to n/a for holding his ground though. I hate when people shove their way to the front after arriving late. When I went to see *cough*thekillers*cough* at the Congress a couple years ago, I got burned by a cigarette for refusing to move when this girl and her 18 friends tried to push past us.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 18:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, forgot the third band. They played while I was breathing at the bar, so I didn't see them in action. I liked them well enough, especially one song which I can't remember now, but mostly every song sounded the same. I'm sure I would have appreciated them alot more had I not been off in a corner.
― KitCat, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 18:10 (sixteen years ago) link
I've mentioned this before but I really hate on the shorties at shows that think that because they are half as tall as I am they can shove past me. I got here first, bitches! Of course, rock n roll doesn't usually shine on punctuality.
― KitCat, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 18:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Sarah just changed my whole life for the better. COLORED LABELS ON GMAIL ARE AMAZING.
― Jesse, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 18:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, no problem, I'll just listen to the set while staring at the middle of your back. With laser beams.
― Laurel, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 18:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Get there earlier and get a good spot closer to the stage.
― KitCat, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 18:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Which is what I do and then a zillion girls shove in front of me and call over to their friends to join them.
Really I don't like anybody that feels they deserve to be closer than people who got there before them, for any reason. Also, if you can't make it through a 45 minute set without four trips to the bar for more beer, just stay by it instead of making us all suffer as you attempt to shove your way through the crowd with four full beer cups.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 18:17 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm just bitching -- at the last few shows I've gotten shouldered aside by much taller boys who then planted themselves right in front. Asking them to move for you sometimes backfires when you don't realize that there's going to be a mosh pit starting in approx 7 seconds and you've just moved to the front of it.
― Laurel, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 18:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Also it's not my fault they banned smoking indoors.
― Laurel, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 18:18 (sixteen years ago) link