Chicago: Where have all the serial killers gone?

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (1187 of them)

They Found You In Spain
Face Down In The Street
With A Bottle In Your Hand
And A Wild Smile On Your Face
And A Knife In Your Back
You Died In A Foreign Land
And They Found My Letter
Rolled Up In Your Pocket
Where I Said I'd Kill Myself
If She Left Me Again
So Now She's Gone
And You're Both In My Mind
I've Got One Thing To Say
Before I Am Drunk Again:
God Damn The Sun
God Damn The Sun
God Damn Anyone
That Says A Kind Word
God Damn The Sun
God Damn The Sun
God Damn The Light It Shines
And This World It Shows
God Damn The Sun

I feel like I'm 20 again!

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Monday, 11 September 2006 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

And now it's thundering! OH! And now it's raining! I love this weather. I think I would do very well in Seattle.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Monday, 11 September 2006 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link

When the Levites Broke, parts I and II, 6% downloaded
parts III and IV, .5%

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Monday, 11 September 2006 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

If you close the door
the night could last forever
Leave the sunshine out
and say hello to never

All the people are dancing
and they're having such fun
I wish it could happen to me

But if you close the door
I'd never have to see the day again

If you close the door
the night could last forever
Leave the wine glass out
and drink a toast to never

Oh, someday I know
someone will look into my eyes
And say hello
you're my very special one

But if you close the door
I'd never have to see the day again

Dark party bars, shiny Cadillac cars
and the people on subways and trains
Looking gray in the rain, as they stand disarrayed
oh, but people look well in the dark

And if you close the door
the night could last forever
Leave the sunshine out
and say hello to never

All the people are dancing
and they're having such fun
I wish it could happen to me

Cause if you close the door
I'd never have to see the day again

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 11 September 2006 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link

When I posted those lyrics, I had forgotten that I hate it when people post lyrics on ILX.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Monday, 11 September 2006 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, and I hate it when people decide to hate things that couldn't possibly bother them all that much.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 11 September 2006 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

You know, like the way I do when I hate something.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 11 September 2006 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

When the Levites Broke

lol

(When the Cohens Broke, etc.)

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 11 September 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't know why it bothers me. maybe it is b/c they're usually uncredited and fairly obscure. so it seems like people are proving their familiarity with the obscure.

it would be different if people were quoting something unavoidably familiar like metallica, edgar allen poe, or a hymn. but they are lyrics from songs that are not part of collective knowledge.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Monday, 11 September 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

When the Levites Were Broke. (In which Spike Lee somehow blames New Orleans problems--ncluding the the actual hurricane--on the Jews.)

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Monday, 11 September 2006 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Just because you have never heard it doesn't mean it's not part of collective knowledge, John.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 11 September 2006 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Lyrics often come from indie music, which is by definition outside of the mainstream, and therefor not part of the collective knowledge. Even Velvet Underground, an institution though they may be, is on the sidelines.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Monday, 11 September 2006 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

(With the right conditions, we could be a part of the formation of a really stupid day-long ILX argument, al la "Protests Accomplish Nothing," "H&M Make Wonderful Clothes" and "Vegetarians Cannot be Gourmands.")

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Monday, 11 September 2006 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, i think what would be the collective knowledge for me and some of my other friends may not necessarily be part of the collective knowledge of chilx friends and vice versa.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 11 September 2006 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I just never think it requires posting the WHOLE thing to get the point across. Referencing the song in a prose paragraph doesn't bother me at all, whether it's indie band-checking or not, but I'm never, ever going to read lyrics in a big tall column like a bad poem. And I love that VU song. :(

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 11 September 2006 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link

DARKNESS
IMPROSONING ME
ALL THAT I SEE
ABSOLUTE HORROR
I CANNOT LIVE
I CANNOT DIE
TRAPPED IN MYSELF
BODY MY HOLDING CELL

LANDMINE
HAS TAKEN MY SIGHT
TAKEN MY SPEECH
TAKEN MY HEARING
TAKEN MY ARMS
TAKEN MY LEGS
TAKEN MY AOUL
LEFT ME WITH LIFE IN HELL

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 11 September 2006 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link

(better?)

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 11 September 2006 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha ha. Yes. Especially since it's in bold, larger font.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Monday, 11 September 2006 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link

(i didn't know that it said "landmine." that's awfully....literal and heavy-handed. i've come to expect more of metallica.)

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Monday, 11 September 2006 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

that's awfully....literal and heavy-handed. i've come to expect more of metallica.

hahaha

wait... are you joking?

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 11 September 2006 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Guilty as charged
But damn it, it ain't right
There is someone else controlling me
Death in the air
Strapped in the electric chair
This can't be happening to me
Who made you God to say
"I'll take your life from you!"

(I think this song is against... something.)

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 11 September 2006 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

LANDMINE
HAS TAKEN MY SIGHT
TAKEN MY SPEECH
TAKEN MY HEARING
TAKEN MY ARMS
TAKEN MY LEGS
TAKEN MY SOUL
TAKEN MY LUNCH
TAKEN MY SANDWICH
TAKEN MY SNACK
TAKEN MY MILK
LEFT ME WITH A BAG OF CHIIIIPPSSS...

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 11 September 2006 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

"are you joking"

sort of. but even for them, do you have to say "landmine?" i think that is not helpful. it robs the words of potential as allegory or metaphor. it's like saying,

THIS SONG
IS ALL ABOUT WAR
WAR IS SUCH HELL
I DON'T FEEL WELL
WHERE ARE MY LEGS?
WHERE ARE MY ARMS?
YOU DID ME HARM.

Meh. I'm arguing for the sake of argument.

XPOST kevin: LOL in a really disruptive way.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Monday, 11 September 2006 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

You have been EXCELSIORed.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 11 September 2006 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha.

FWIW I don't really like lyric posts either (I can never remember lyrics anyway).

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Honestly, I hardly ever read them. Like Laurel said. But it never occured to me that they shouldn't be posted. Hey, there's lot of stuff I don't read.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link

you know what song has been stuck in my head all day? "meaningless" by magnetic fields. i've been muttering it all morning. i love that song but i can't remember the last time i heard it or why it would be in my head.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link

gmail statuses on my screen right now:

"blank and pitiless as the sun"
"rainy days and mondays...."
"...."
"dark office"
"you'll understand when you're younger"
"collect a paycheck, accept your place and fade away...."
"we're alone at last"

on the whole, a little gloomy, except for kenan's and maybe jordan's.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah but my picture is the best of the bunch.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link

You've reminded me -- I need a new gmail status message.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link

well, i think mine is actually the best. (it's me in a small baseball helmet!)

who is in your pic?

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Dan and Jordan: GET PICTURES!

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link

elias mcdaniel.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Done.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link

awwwwwww. Who's a fuzzy wuzzy?

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Beethoven is a fuzzy wuzzy.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link

someone give me some work to do. i mean some work that i actually want to do.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I changed my picture, too. Hoo boy, am I bored today.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Metallica lyrics are in the collective consciousness? I mean I know they are a popular band, but I always thought they were a niche band: I doubt that as many people know the words to Metallica's "One" as they do U2's "One," or Joan Osborne's "One of Us."

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I just wrote a long blog post about "mom names."

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I doubt that as many people know the words to Metallica's "One" as they do U2's "One," or Joan Osborne's "One of Us."

Judging by the demographic of me, I disagree.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay, yeah, I might be wrong. I've never heard it, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link

John's may be right. But I think that most of my peers (age-wise) would recognize "Exit light, enter night"

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I mean, I was no fan during their heydays, but I recognize the following because, well, who doesn't:

"they call us problem child...we are the youth gone wild"

"muskrat suzie and muskrat sam..."

"girls girls girls"

"i'll be there for you/these five words i swear to you"

"when the children sing/let the new world begin" (maybe not this one)

"easy operator come a'knockin' at my door"

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Ok, I know two of those.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link

No, three. I just got the Bon Jovi.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I only really know the Skid Row and Motley Crue ones.

I learned to play drums by listening to Metallica.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I always thought they were a niche band: I doubt that as many people know the words to Metallica's "One" as they do U2's "One," or Joan Osborne's "One of Us."

http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0151020.html

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Ok, so I looked all these up. We have: Skid Row, Motley Crue, Bon Jovi, White Lion, Def Leppard, and... wait for it... The Captain and Tenille.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link

i totally knew all of those before reading kenans post. but that's because they were during my high school years. the prom song for my junior prom? skid roe (i prefer to think of them as fish eggs) "i remember you".

i did not attend.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Skipping 1087 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.