Chicago MMXII

really i don't know what it's going to be. i was just stereotyping based on what i know about CHIRP and the venue.

ok. i hope it's got a diverse range of eras and styles/genres covered. i feel confident if so. just know that i do not have indie of the last 10 years hiding somewhere under my hat.

also i know nothing about reggae

ok maybe not NOTHING but not much

if jody and david can't come, let me know - my friend owen lives near there too and knows a lot about music

looking forward to this! it's not 100 degrees out today too!

i feel so so so unmotivated to work today

Me, too. I'm super motivated to hassle my alderman about repainting the crosswalk lines (also I want one of those "stop for pedestrians in the crosswalk" signs in the middle of the street, too!) at the intersection by my house. I just called them again and referenced this - http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-city-council-hit-and-run-20120724,0,582985.story - and bitched that this is my third attempt to get some attention on this matter. Now I have the chief of staff's email and I'm going to take photos of how jacked up the crosswalk is and write him a nice long letter.

Next stop, ward meeting.

Actually, next stop will be putting "THINK OF THE CHILDREN" fliers in the mailboxes of the million dollar luxury condos across the street. Maybe at the park to all the parents, too.

All of this because having to dodge traffic to get to the bus stop makes me IA. And because I'm a little bit afraid I'm going to get killed by a car.

Oh but my hope is to get a bunch of rich parents at a ward meeting after I scare them into believing their children are going to die crossing Diversey to go to the park, since I think getting the richies on board is the only way this will get done.

think about the children works!

to be honest, when I see parents pushing strollers trying to cross the street there I get very anxious. So I'm exploiting that angle, but I also think it's a real concern.

There are two crosswalks across Diversey in front of my building, about 40 feet apart, but only one of them has the special Stop for Pedestrians signs. It's strange that there are two crosswalks so close together.

Those signs are fantastic, by the way. They are game changers.

That's what I keep telling Sc0tt W@ugesp@ck. He's really obsessed with food trucks right now, per his Twitter feed.

oh i should follow my alderman on twitter.

you guys i was just looking at the stuff chirp posted to facebook and i am going to sink this ship

i still want to go!!

whenever we don't know the real answer we will come up with a properly amusing fake answer and walk out of there with our heads held high

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDUxxyFeZFc

Have any of you ever taken a class at Lillstreet Arts Center? I'm going to take some sort of a class and theirs are only four weeks long, which is very appealing.

my k8e has and she loved it!

Oh awesome. Do you know what she took? I'm leaning toward jewelry making or painting. I have so much interesting but half broken costume jewelry and sometimes I just look at it all and think, "If only I could solder..."

pottery

I took ceramics in college and was so shockingly horrible at all wheel things that I don't think I can go through it again. I'm leaning towards jewelry making. I want to use tools.

i got a C in pottery in college because there was this guy in my class who was like a total pottery savant AND nice AND unbearably hot. his name was pat. none of us stood a chance with him around, but we did get to bask in his presence :-/

related to earlier discussion from one of my favorite twitter accounts:

JADEDPUNKHULK ‏@JADEDPUNKHULK

HULK WOULD REVIEW THIS NEW GASLIGHT ANTHEM ALBUM BUT HONESTLY THERE ONLY SO MANY ZZZ'S HULK CAN FIT IN TWEET.

you guys i was just looking at the stuff chirp posted to facebook and i am going to sink this ship

You mean the station's general Facebook page, with plugs for local shows? I wouldn't necessarily expect that a music quiz hosted/sponsored by CHIRP would primarily focus on the current music they play/promote. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if, as Nick suggested, there was a very broad indie-rock orientation. But to me that would just mean that Johnny Cash, the Velvet Underground, the Talking Heads, and Public Enemy would be more likely subjects than Genesis, Earth Wind & Fire, Ruben Blades, or Alabama.

I think Kr took a ceramics class from Lillstreet right around when we started dating.

thank you jaymc for understanding what i'm talking about. like fela kuti or lee scratch perry would be the type of "world music" i would expect to be covered, not like andean panpipe music. but again, just stereotypes and guesses.

Totes.

Also, it looks like J + D will be joining us tonight.

got it
i trust chirp programmers
awesome

Brush up on yr Big Star.

Huh, speaking of Gong, Ned just posted this on the Sherman Hemsley RIP thread:
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/weezy_get_me_some_lsd_george_jefferson_is_a_big_prog_rock_fan

i remember reading that when it came out in magnet because i was like wow, magnet! still alive!

i found an old issue when i went home recently with YLT on the cover and a blurb about pitchblende

with YLT on the cover

Ha, this could've been any time in the past 25 years.

I subscribed ca. 1997-03. Not consecutively, though, I don't think.

it was from 95
kind of sweet in a pre-internet way

one of my college professors wrote reviews for magnet. he also wrote reviews for BMG music club and was in an indie rock band. a "cool professor." i took a modern music class with him and i dissected a public enemy song in front of the class.

Okay, class, everybody take a Public Enemy song from the bin I'm passing around and pin it to your dissection board. This is going to be your Public Enemy song all semester so make sure you take care of it.

Thought for a second his band was called Cool Professor.

ha that's a really great band name. now all i need is a new band.

i would seriously have a band called cool professor

I like that name a lot, too.

Makes me think of "Who's Your New Professor" but I don't think that's a bad thing.

I totally signed up for a jewelry class, you guys. I'm going to learn how to solder and rivet and texture and some other thing that I think more or less means cutting shapes out of metal.

awesome!

also, i saw a former stood at a show last friday
~~~ cool professor ~~~

well i saw a guy from a band we used to play shows with at the playground on sunday ~~~ cool dad ~~~

Makes me think of "Who's Your New Professor" but I don't think that's a bad thing.

I had the same thought.

i might have some extra tools for u carl.

There's a materials fee for some metal, saw blades, solder, and sandpaper so I think they provide the tools for the class? But I might make you an offer on them if they are something I can then use to turn my pile of costume cast-offs into Etsy gold.

(j/k I don't have it in me to sell stuff on Etsy. I really just want to turn a bunch of clipon earrings into pierced earrings.)

IMPORTANT PREFACE: I am NOT asking this question with the purpose of mocking anybody's reading habits. My interest is professional and it pertains to something I'm working on right now.

I remember somebody once saying that a lot of mass market paperback mystery/romance bestsellers are written at a fourth-grade (or some elementary school grade) reading level, adult content aside. Can anybody confirm/refute this? A citation would be great (I did try searching for this myself).

i have no idea, but i can offer this -- most of the sentences and phrases in the romance writer's phrasebook are either simple sentences with s/v and a few prep phrases. if 4th gr reading level = simple sentence structure, then maybe?

i really like simple sentence structure if it comes with very precise vocabulary. lean and mean!

N/a, guess who just got chopped in half by a train.