Chicago MMXII

instrumentals are not boring!

i like the instrumentals on the new lambchop album a lot, but they have a big string section going. generally i just have trouble latching onto songs with no vocals at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOpRGGcHW5w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQvObik_cHI

those are the two instrumental tracks on the lambchop album. so good.

Should I listen to that album? IIRC I have never heard Lambchop.

(Obv. I have no issue w/instrumentals.)

i think it's really good. it's very very mellow but also very warm. if you like those two i posted, you'd probably like the rest of it, the vocals are very low-key

i love stuff that doesn't have lyrics but still involves the voice in some way

guys, i used the word "very" four times in my last post

i'm having my third cup of coffee for the day

nick I'm always up for playing if you wanna

cool, thanks. i like playing music with friends. i need stuff i can work on at home though too.

Scoobie doovie be ba ba ba bum

btw that reminds me -- my parents visited recently and brought a load of my "crap from the attic" with them, including a full set of drum shells and some random hardware. it's not high-end stuff (Tama Rockstar) but it's in good shape. if anyone knows anyone interested I'd be into making a deal on it...

Take an upholstery class.
And blog about it.

i wanna make music that sounds like this
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7066/6799445772_34daa8447f.jpg

amanda do you have a way to record stuff? if you record keyboard drones/noises i'll play trash guitar and bleep bloops over it. we can discuss via email if you prefer.

ok!!

that's skin with sun damage btw

Some shit is freshly fucked up on the Red Line. Purple Line conductor is telling everyone not to transfer to the Red because of a "1072." Whatever that is.

Ugh somebody said a 1072 is someone got hit by a train.

Why would a conductor use code when talking to passengers FFS.

also totally unrelated I am 1. glad the anti-eavesdropping law that was used to make recording cops in public spaces illegal has been ruled unconstitutional and 2. amazed that the comments on the trib article on the subject are pretty much wholly in favor of the ruling -- fully expected some major insanity there

This is great. I don't know how I missed the news. Great news for Occupy this May.

To reiterate: Great great great.

Happy 175th birthday, Chicago!

Yay!

so for the week around the g8/nato summits, my office building is:
closing the front entrance completely
requiring everyone to show their building id to get in the building
requiring everyone to show their building id again to use the elevator
setting the elevator to only take you to the floor indicated on your building id
requiring all guests to sign in and be escorted upstairs by someone from the office
having a "shelter in place" drill

we are right next to the federal reserve building and apparently some "foreign dignitaries" are staying in our building. i'm betting we'll close the office completely or work from home some days

R's office is telling everyone to work from home. They're afraid of "looters".

<3 this fucking fearful police state we live in.

My students are all talking about it too -- h8 on the G8 brings Chicago together on this marvelous Pulaski Day

http://www.benmeadows.com/images/xl/Pulaski-Axe-BEN-_i_9Y903_AS01.jpg

Unsurprisingly, there has been absolutely no announcements/preparations/planning related to this at my work. Which isn't to say I think these terrifying hippies and their anti-g8 communist riot terrorism looting bedbugs anthrax whatever are actually going to cause me any harm other than possibly some public transit irritation. I just think it's funny that out of all of the places to have concerns, an actual gov't building is just like "meh."

the library's going to be closed because i can't go downstairs and escort everyone up to the library who wants to visit one by one. but i also can't really work from home.

meant to post this a few days ago but here's some good news for my neighborhood/chicago in general: http://ecojusticecollaborative.org/breaking-chicago-coal-plants-closing/

Hey, that's great!

Nick, I hope you're getting paid for those days.

those two power plants were a big issue in the most recent aldermanic election. the company that owns them (midwest generation) sent out a p cynical letter "from the employees" basically saying "please don't take these jobs away from pilsen". of course most of the workers in the plants don't even live in the neighborhood, and the electricity they generate isn't used in chicago, it's sold to other areas.

Oh man, I hate that kind of manipulative evil PR bullshit.

oh i'm salaried so don't worry

Hmmmm... apparently he G8 summit is now going to be at camp david but NATO will still be here?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-g8-summit-to-be-held-at-camp-david-not-chicago-20120305,0,2787373.story

whoa

Oh, well I guess you suckers are all going to work after all.

I had actually taken off the week of the G8 summit so my car wouldn't get firebombed on the way to work; now I will have to reconsider my options.

Maybe you should keep the days off and schedule a vacation in Thurmont, MD.

#OccupyMaryland

my hotel room in thurmont has been booked.

http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2012/03/05/g8-moving-to-camp-david-one-less-summit-to-protest

LOL at this

http://www.chicagoreader.com/binary/c332/1330984856-nomoreg8.jpg

Wait

http://www.chicagoreader.com/binary/c332/1330984856-nomoreg8.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/431528_10150569572611861_682376860_9518526_958449922_n.jpg

Pretty.

Oooh -- Wolcott's is gone and cool new french bar to open in its place!

http://troquetchicago.com/

$5 pints of Blue Moon just wasn't enough, I guess.

Wolcott's didn't last long. Did we ever go there? I can't even remember.

What does it mean to be a "French bar"?

We never went there. At least not according to my untappd.