thread of the big shoulders: son of chicago

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― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

http://home.uchicago.edu/~khannafo/Meatpacking2.jpg

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes. 1000 posts is plenty.

And besides, new season, new weather. It's a new dawn, it's a new day, and I'm feelin' good.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.geh.org/fm/lwhprints/m197810230057.jpg

chicago tenement 1919

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

You're bumming us all out.

Chicago beautiful people 2005

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

― happy fun ball (kenan), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.bn-mekanik.dk/pinball.jpg

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

http://webpages.charter.net/jcory17/geotech/pic_lib/census2k/maps/image2_files/image002.jpg

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.blackcommentator.com/67/67_images/67_panthers_up.gif

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

View from our practice space:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/naamme/IMG_0595.jpg

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

btw i haven't checked ILX since saturday morning, have i missed anything interesting?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― happy fun ball (kenan), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Everyone had great weekends (and FF played a show!), Nick and I got bikes, and we discussed our favorite/least favorite Chicago buildings on the thread.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I tooka bunch of pictures, which are more easily viewed on my own site at http://giganticmag.com/photos.php

― happy fun ball (kenan), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I made this face:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/naamme/IMG_0664.jpg

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Was that purely in honor of the mug?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG nick that's a buster keaton face!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.alljim.com/jim/bkpics/bk-cfobk.jpg

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

You have a face for comedy!

No, seriously, that's a great picture.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Buster is cute and apparently he has chocolate icing for hair, which is a bonus.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

buster keaton is (was) a sex god.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

also, he was short, like nick.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Your search - buster keaton shirtless - did not match any documents.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I've had that mug for 25 years. The mug I'm holding, however, I've had for at least 12 years.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

And it's not so much a comedy face as it is a "oh shit, I have to go to work AGAIN" face.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

*rimshot*

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.bigfanboy.com/pages/interviews/michaelkeaton/keaton-beetlejuice.jpg

― Dan M. (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick, your face looks like one I would've drawn when I was in 5th grade. I don't know what means.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Shellac this weekend? I want to see if Albini has started actually singing into the microphone since the only other time I saw them.

― Dan M. (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I am still the only person I can draw.
xpost

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

When/where is Shellac? I'm not a huge fan, but I'd like to see their huge homemade amps with one knob that I've heard so much about.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

They're playing 4 (four) shows. One at the Bottom Lounge, the others at Martyr's. At least one is sold out, and one is at noon (!) on Saturday. I'm thinking of going to the Bottom Lounge one, Friday night.

― Dan M. (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick at the beach in his swimsuit (ooh la la):
http://www.fathom.com/course/10701030/127_keatonnav.jpg

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

K, some of your deep-blue-skyline photos just beg to somehow wind up on the "Album Covers Shot on the Streets of Chicago" thread.

Hey so to hop past Sandburg: has anyone here ever read Campbell McGrath's Spring Comes to Chicago?
http://www.zooscape.com/dataimg/zoo1058/9/250/10589540.jpg

(Weird: while googling to see if I could find one of his shorter poems online, I learned that he got an MFA at Columbia about fifteen years before me.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

standing on the shoulders of giants

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Is McGrath the guy that wrote that book of poems about Florida? (Which I haven't read, either, but he seemed sorta interesting.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

i like the pun in that book's cover

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I do, too. It's a spring. In the snow. Get it?

Speaking of which, it's cold and shitty out there again today.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

i know, fuck a rainshower

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

The Navigator was just on TCM last night!

― Eric von H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Standing on the shoulders of decently-employed academics with mild small-press publishing success! Umm but so yeah, he did wind up in Florida, which seems appropriate to his poetry. But some of the Chicago stuff really pleases me (in an I-don't-know-much-about-poetry kind of way) -- there's a poem about the Golden Angel Pancake House and a few other city scenes, and then his ultra-long "Bob Hope Poem," which is pretty engaging even on a non-poetic level.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

i totally want to check this out now!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a pretty excellent book cover. I wish I knew about/appreciated poetry.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG dudes, scroll down this thread by clicking on the down arrow on the scrollbar one click at a time. Then get ready for some crazy optical illusions with that poetry book!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the idea of poems about prosaic and/or popular things, but I always worry that it might veer too Billy Collins.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

TrIpPY

― Dan M. (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I underrated McGrath just then; he's got like six books and more attention/success than I imagined; and the stuff in the other volumes is more traditionally poetic than the stuff in Chicago, which winds up being mostly long catalog Whitman-type sentence/lines. So nothing too Collins-like -- pull the occasional line break out of the Bob Hope poem and it's already prose: "What is it with this generation of white men from southern California, the oil barons and water boarders, the highway builders, the golf players, the dream merchants and the oligarchs and the last frontiersmen, Uncle Walt and the Duke, Nixon's Committee of 100, and the whole Reagan crew, who willingly testified to their fondness for none but former Marines and self-made millionaires like themselves? They are such fossils! I mean that constructively."

Anyway tomorrow I will try and find the book and copyright-infringe a couple brief poems onto here.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

btw i haven't checked ILX since saturday morning, have i missed anything interesting?

i think you missed me calling you a hot sex-salad, and also telling people to come to sonotheque tonite for "dark wave disco" night which ended up being really fun!

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 06:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh no! This thread is about to fall off into Lake Michigan!

It looks pretty outside again, but is it deceiving?

Less than 2 hours of work left for me today. :-D

Tomorrow night I go see the Shins alone. I do believe this will be my first concert ever where I'll be going it alone.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I'm sorry. I would have gone, but those tickets were shockingly pricey.

It is pretty outside. A little windy, but not bad at all.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, the tickets were too expensive for me to go see a band I don't really care about that much. But now I'm worried about Sarah going to the Congress Theater by herself.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Skipping 803 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

I'm feeling really emotional and sensitive today, and no one at work has said anything about my haircut and highlites. NOOO!!! Also, I want chocolate. Chicago love, please.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 9 May 2005 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

*hugs*

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 9 May 2005 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I like giving internet hugs. Real hugs have so much baggage attached. Internet hugs are just like saying, "Hey... you're alright." Maybe I could snap and point while I say that. "Hey, Sarah! You're groooooovy!"

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 9 May 2005 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

*chocolate*

I like giving internet chocolates. Real chocolates have so much baggage attached. Internet chocolates are just like saying, "Hey... you're alright."

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 9 May 2005 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Real chocolates are far superior, methinks.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 9 May 2005 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

CALL TO ORDER!
http://www.chantilly.com/chocolate.html

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 9 May 2005 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

How about some chocolate bearberries?
ihttp://www.chocolatemoose.com/images/products/bearberries_lg.jpg

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 9 May 2005 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks for all the virtual stuff.

You know, in the real world I'm totally not a hug-gy person. I felt awkward hugging people growing up because it made me more selfconscious of being so much taller. I really only like to hug my family members and Nick. But recently I've been trying to be more open to being hugged. I never initiate it though.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 9 May 2005 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I am the opposite of huggy. Hugging strangers or people you just met is the weirdest. I'd honestly rather be insulted by a stranger than hugged by one.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I don't know. Maybe those huggy people come from exceptionally demonstrative families?

I'm still feeling weird about hugging Nick's family even though I care about them.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

My family was very un-huggy when I was a kid, so it took me awhile to get used to hugging. Now I can hug with the best of 'em, though.

xpost, yeah Sarah, my family then inexplicably switched to hugging sometime after I moved out of the house. It freaks out my girlfriend, who also came from a very unhuggy family.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

HUGGGGLEZ!!!

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Get off me!

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

::shoulder pat::

*comforting hug*

(+ an arm squeeze)

sarah, i hope you feel better! i bet your hair looks great. my office is oblivious to change unless it's associated with candy.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

My boss left for the day. Huzzah.

I want to break into the exciting world of commercial jingle recording. How do you think one does that?

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I have no idea, but I fully support that career choice.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Doesn't that sound awesome? Get into the studio at 8:00, write like 30 one-minute songs about cat food and used cars, cash yr checks, and go home.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

You need to build a portfolio of jingles, I guess. But how do you build a portfolio without any experience?

That's more a question for myself, really. I did find an ad today in this little rag called "Chicago Innerview" that says, "Part time: build ads for magazine while building clips for your portfolio." Oh man, tht would be perfect.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

xposts: Thanks, kelsey. You know, I rarely say anything when my coworkers get their hair done. I just figure they lead a fancier lifestyle than I do and so it's totally an every day thing for them to come in with more highlites or whatever. I'm such a snob.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

nick, you should talk to this guy.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

A friend of mine has a jingle recording business with another guy. They're trying to market themselves as the hip, indie jingle alternative. They basically recorded about twenty samples of tunes in different styles, set up a website, and started passing out business cards and milking connections. I guess it's going pretty well.

Also the other guy in Cleft & Cloven has been getting some jingle work. He just did a radio ad for a place in town. It was pretty tough to make up a melody for the phone number because it has, like, four sevens in it. He's also doing something for a Chicago radio commercial where they want people to start moving into this Mexican neighborhood, or something. No idea how he's getting these gigs.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

SAVE BIG MONEY AND MENARDS

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Save Menards??

Ha ha, I get that stuck in my head ALL the time.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

SEVEN SEVEN THREE, TWO OH TWO...LOOOONNNNAAA!

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

joe rizza ford is number one, joe rizza ford is number one

harlem furniture, you'll! like! our! style.

john m. smythe's ho-o-ome-makers!

when you run out, run out to white hen, when you run out of anything ... run out. to. white hen.

you'll save more points and closing fees! ... with a citibank home equity loan.

aronson's, aronson's furniture, home of the credit connection ... aronson's!

you'll find chevys and chevys and chevys! ... save more money at rockenbach. chevrolet!

800-588-2300, empire!

when the moment has to be truly special, just remember these love letters ... JBR! jb robinson ... jb robinson.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Apparently, yeah, the best way is to make a demo tape of like ten 30-second commercials for whatever, as an example of what you can do, then send it out to local companies and advertising companies and what-have-you. Normally I wouldn't be motivated enough to actually do this, but I was thinking about doing some kind of solo recording while Sarah's out of town this weekend and it sounds kinda fun to do a bunch of 30-second songs, so maybe I'll just try it on a lark.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooh... let us help you pick products! Might I suggest "Good Friends" cereal?

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://www.kashi.com/images/hero1_good_friends_cereal.jpg

"People say we're doin' it/
Whooooah/
But oh no!/
We're goooooood frieeeeeends..."

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoah, yo, D workin' for the U of C Press? Journals or Books? Editorial or Marketing or Copyediting or Production? Oh the people you'll meet, the places you'll go...

"Good Friends" cereal explained: SEXUAL TENSION (a picture thread)

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe i'm going out on a limb here, but kenan, are you feeling frustrated today? all the posts i'm reading from you are about doin' it.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I can think of no finer topic.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

But that's the essence of Kenan!

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

A slightly musky essence.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

is it Black Panther?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

or sex panther or whatever the correct name for the horrid cologne i'm attempting to reference...

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

the one from anchorman?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Rattle Rattle thunder clatter boom boom boom
Don't worry call the Car-X man!
I was going to do the empire one too, but jaymc beat me to the punch.
I want to get a job naming lipsticks and nail polish and clothes in the J. Crew catalgue. That would be the best job ever.
"No, no, we can't call it red, that's so common."
"How about May Day in Moscow?"
"Perfick"

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

k, the word "horrid" makes me think of you as a spoiled english child.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the one with Wayne Brady and 5/3 bank.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

::smoothing out pinafore::

it makes me think of a spoiled victorian child.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://www.qeshu.com/funny_images/1341_2mark-e-smith.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

i mean http://www.qeshu.com/funny_images/1341_2mark-e-smith.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Yow. That's not a spoiled victorian child. That's more like an urchin or a chimney sweep.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Past trees the fairies are flyin
Past trees with rose bushes in
The child was spoilt Victorian
The child was spoilt Victorian

Spoilt Victorian Child

Sugar and cakes appear mean
Sitting at the table
Tigers pop-up from books

Spoilt Victorian Child

Let`s take it ten years on
You`re looking back from then
Under rough grey blankets
Thread loose stained grey blanket

Spoilt Victorian Child

C.L.O. - Pedia
E.N.C.Y.C.L.O. - Pedia

Musical chairs rouge cheeks he remembers
Thru` the aqueduct of five years
Spoilt Victorian Child shall avoid reflection
The child was spoilt Victorian

Spoilt Victorian Child

Mirrors can`t hid the toxic of disfigured Poxes

Spoilt Victorian Child

Past trees the fairies are flyin
Past trees with rose bushes in
The butterfly shrugs to fly in
Sugar and iced cakes appear mean

The child was spoilt Victorian
The child was spoilt Victorian

Spoilt Victorian Child
C.L.O. - Pedia

And you know that servants keep their order knowledge
And as you walk in on the footsteps steed babe
In the encrusted green unwild
You know you are a spoilt Victorian child

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

OOOOH, so Mr. JAYMC is the big FALL fan, now, is he?

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Man, oh, man. I just ate an entire bag of microwave popcorn by myself. UGH.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it's about time for a new thread, don't you?

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm eating an apple & putting massive amounts of peanut butter on each bite.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

An October sort of city: Chicago part 6

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

as you well should, k.

i'm def. in the studio tonight. i was told "it SEEMS like we'll be done by 10:30, but c0lin's never played to a click track on this song, so it's kinda out of our hands." fingers crossed.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

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