Chicago MMXII

Holy crap - the new Mariano's by my work that is opening tomorrow has search lights flashing on dancers in party dresses inside each of the four landings of its glass stairwell.

I heard Pump Up the Jam on that station and it made my day. They seem a little heavy on the Third Eye Blind though -- I've heard them at least 4x, including that "I will under-staaayeeeyaaaaaaaaaand" song.

I *thought* I heard "Pump Up the Jam" the other day but it turned out to be "100%" by Crystal Waters.

@WGNTV: Freak 25 ft waves on Lake Michigan. Skilling's not-so-usual forecast coming up at 9:30. Via @WGNNews #chicago #weather

we rewatched halloween the other night and there's a pretty awesome part where donald pleasance is driving to michael myers' hometown and he's supposedly in rural illinois but it was clearly filmed in southern california, because there are mountains in the background

I am listening to this on-line Q101 station because I am in need of something light and fun and it's not bad BUT they have a really hateful promo for their "Q Club" in which they promise, as a benefit of membership, "pre- and post-op tranny porn." :( Also waaaaay too much Dave Matthews Band.

Wait, that's not what you all were talking about. What are you all talking about up there?

I figured it out!

http://www.i101fm.com/

Time for Demi Lovato.

Forgot to mention that I heard "Pony" on it the other day.
I love new stations when they are in identity crisis mode, like when that station THIS started playing basically anything they could find.

Wasn't it called THIS? Was it THAT? I can't remember. My feet hurt and I'm ready for something fun to happen. Now that all of my exciting events have passed I've got precious little to look forward to in the next few weeks :(

Does anyone want to
* DDPP tomorrow?
* karaoke Friday?

we're out of town this weekend

I think it was called THIS.

Hey, maybe on DDPP. I was going to go to the gym anyway so if the timing is right, that might be fun.

No on karaoke. I'm meeting my former colleagues out for drinks! Hopefully they have many ridiculous stories to tell me.

it is THIS. THIS is still around.

I'm willing to give it another shot after the TD incident, but I can't deny that I'm apprehensive.

DDPP got big-ups in the Reader last week. Could karaoke Friday...

Ugh then maybe I don't want to DDPP this week

I'm also not sure about karaoke because I have some wrangling to do still.

i hate orchestrating social events

hate is a strong word -- it makes me uncomfortable and i would rather not do it
how's that

I'm apprehensive, too, and also I have what I believe to be the best workout playlist ever curated and it's hard to put that aside for somebody else's potentially wrong-headed idea of dance music.

Oh gross, this station is playing Sheryl Crow now. Have I ever told you how much I dislike Sheryl Crow? I associated "All I Wanna Do Is Have Some Fun" with a really traumatic breakup, and it was all downhill from there.

if it MAKES YOU HAPPPEEEEEEEEE

I FUCKING HATE THAT SONG

This is "Strong Enough," which I also hate. Lie to me but please don't leave! GROSS SHUT UP SO GROSS

I like "My Favorite Mistake" though, gotta admit. Super catchy hooks in that song and it reminds me of shopping for tires in the middle of the night at WalMart.

Now every time I think about Sheryl Crow, I think about how she tried to ignite a national campaign against wasting toilet paper and I laugh.

My favorite mistake: shopping for tires in the middle of the night at Walmart.

Wait... what?

you guys should just have a two-woman DDPP in one of your apartments, and sarah can come and sit on a chair and wiggle around

I heard that song while shopping for tires at ~ 2:30am at Walmart.

I have one woman DDPP in my apartment several times a week.

Gotta stay in the kitchen though, too much squeaking otherwise.

No, I mean wait what about the toiler paper thing.

the situation n/a describes sounds way too much like he's setting Sarah up for lapdances from LL and me.

Which is fine as long as Sarah brings A LOT of singles.

hahaha

can you imagine

yeah -- sheryl crow made a big stink (lol) about how she only uses max 2 squares of tp and the rest of us should consider doing the same for the good of the planet

http://theorganicsister.com/tmi-alert-cloth-toilet-paper/

I actually really like "All I Wanna Do." The beat is tight.

Kr and I are going to see Kaki King at City Winery on Friday night, so no karaoke for us.

Speaking of THIS, I haven't looked in a while, but is Ch. 26.4 still just a logo that reads "What's up with THAT?"

i had to drive out to dekalb today for work and i passed this place, looks pretty awesome:
http://www.starworldsarcade.com/

Fuck you, Sarah Mcblahblah. If we all shit Kleenexes for drying kitty tears 2 squares would be fine, but I've seen how real people shit, and it's not a delicate matter.

Fuckin' Rahm. Glad to see his "editorial" in favor of tearing down Prentice Hospital is nothing but straight up repeating, sometimes verbatim, Northwestern's talking points. Not that Prentice is even close to being my favorite Chicago building, but there was a ton of behind the scenes shadiness that kept the building off the Landmark Commissions for long enough to seal its doom. There are plenty of more significant buildings in this city to save, but this puts such a bad taste in my mouth. Large institution + $$$$ + Rahm's friends + Washington lobbyists = tear down whatever you want. I'm just appalled that, for a city that pays so much lip service to sustainability, no one could be bothered to do a legitimate study for how the building might be adapted instead of just torn down.

I think two-squares-Cheryl was something Matt Drudge manufactured from an off-the-cuff comment, but maybe I'm wrong.

I've done way too much wrangling for some one-night playlets I've directed in the past month. So much back and forth. So, anyway, 'mander: if karaoke happens after 9:30/10, send a note and I'll join.

"All I Wanna Do" reminds me of a summer doing temp work as the secretary in a room full of uncover narcotics cops.

undercover

That sounds pretty fun.

I love Prentice Hospital and anybody who wants to tear it down is a total monster.

Temping in a room full of undercover narcotics cops, I mean. You could have written Narcotics: My Month in the Typing Pool.

My first daughter was born in Prentice and I'm not sure I've thought about it since. The Durham, NC hospital I was born in is long gone, the Tarzana, CA hospital my sister was born in is long gone ... c'est la vie.

There's a great BBC doc about the Beatles childhood homes, and the fight by Yoko, among others, to make John Lennon's childhood home a historic landmark. The issue I guess was that there was absolutely nothing that made Lennon's childhood home special. It was just a mundane post-war house. They even had to bring in anachronistic decorations to Lennon-ize it, because he did absolutely nothing Beatles or even music-related back then during his brief pre-teen tenure. What a lot of the anti- people were complaining about was that preserving Lennon's house meant that there would be further movements to then preserve all the Beatles' various childhood homes, which would cost a lot on the public dime for nothing but even the most generically historic return.

Not saying Prentice doesn't rise to the level of historic, but nothing lasts forever. I can imagine it repurposed as apartments, at least, though.

Well that gets at the crux of my annoyance really, there has never been (and most likely never will be, now) a serious study of ways to adaptively reuse the building. It has always been presented by Northwestern as "we HAVE to tear it down" and no one, outside of historic preservation circles, has been questioning their party line.

Never even heard of Prentice until a week ago, when coworkers started tweeting about it.

My thing with Prentice is that it's so neat looking. It seems like a really sad thing to tear down a weird looking futurebuilding and replace it with a boring rectangle.

Maybe if NW built the new hospital in the shape of a mortal and pestle, I wouldn't be so quick to judge.

http://www.kymodern.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/LexVillageDrive1465Bondurants.jpg

WBEZ had some good reporting on the issue this morning. I was wondering why they don't just repurpose the existing building but some of the instruments that would go into the proposed research center require very specific construction techniques that the existing building doesn't live up to.

Also kind of interesting to hear people positing on whether Goldberg, the designer, would want the building to be preserved or not. Someone suggested his school of thought was anti-preservationist.

i'm listening to an episode of the "how did this get made?" podcast (comedy podcast about shitty movies) about "sleepaway camp" and they've spent the first 15 minutes trying to figure out who is related to who in the cold open sequence

I was wondering why they don't just repurpose the existing building but some of the instruments that would go into the proposed research center require very specific construction techniques that the existing building doesn't live up to.

Yeah, thi is true and a big problem with the existing building. I really liked the solution Studio Gang came up with, which was to retain the existing Prentice as the "base" for a new tower above. That would solve the issue of providing space for new technologies, while still maintaining the old building. Its just frustrating that solutions like this were never taken seriously.

http://agreenliving.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/8f1a5aa7fcprentice-jeanne-gang-537x370-500x344.jpg

Weird

That's awesomely weird. It looks like four Ikea silverware holders with a building on top of it. I love it.