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SO, my step-family is a little nutsoriffic and started a holiday traditional a few years ago of having a Christmas costume party wherein the guests must dress up as something fitting within a pre-determined holiday-themed category. I have managed to escape this particular indignity by coming home after the party happens but this year, they've scheduled around our visit. The theme this year is "Christmas ornament." My mother's plan:

We have all been directed to dress as some sort of an ornament. I'm going to drink a lot on the way to the party and come as a light.

I'm thinking we can all get loaded and go as a string of lights...

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link

We can take turns passing out and go as a string of blinking lights.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link

And before anyone gets all up in arms, I seem to recall Jocelyn making reference to the Pinefox shortly after she started posting to the Chicago thread in late 2004. Although I tried to find this and all I found was us making plans to go to IRAZU with Adamrl.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Your jokes are meaningless to those of us without spreadsheet access.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:05 (seventeen years ago) link

You also mentioned that Sayjal had an improv show.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Remember when we saw each other after Undertow at the CIFF?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:07 (seventeen years ago) link

In other news, croissants are fucking delicious.

That's why they call them croissants.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know who Jocelyn is, but okay. I don't think I'm as good at the spreadsheet thing as John, but I do tend to remember posts that I like. and Amanda, pinefox and I had an argument about Didion really recently on ILBooks.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:11 (seventeen years ago) link

TS: cancelling an already booked show at an out-of-town club we've never played so that we can take a much better show at another out-of-town club we've never played, opening for an indie-rock legend, and risking being blackballed from first club forever VERSUS playing already booked show and probably losing lots of potential new fans that would be at indie-rock legend's show?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Depends who the indie dude is.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:13 (seventeen years ago) link

What did Amanda have to say about Didion? You know who also loves Didion is Reader critic and local scenester Jessica Hopper.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:14 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000035GC.01._AA156_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link

fans vs blackballing?

i dunno. depends on what's in shorter supply: fans or clubs

i don't have squat to say about didion.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Ditto Jordan. Also how big is the indie-rock legend venue? And which was the greater future consequences: being able to say "Opened for Indie Rock Legend" or being blackballed from a club?

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link

no, I had an argument with the pinefox, not Amanda. (what do you think of Didion, Amanda?) He wrote lots of smart stuff which you should read whenever ILX-proper returns, but basically he thinks she's too mean. I think she's nice.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I still don't know the indie rock legend of which you speak.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, I misread your sentence, H. You were addressing Amanda, not including her as someone with whom you argued about Didion. That's a good example, though, of how the serial comma is much more effective. Your lack of it should've clued me in as to the meaning of the sentence. In the UK it would still be ambiguous.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Everything is still ambiguous in the UK.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I recognize that pic, but can't place the band name.

Here is an excerpt from an embarassing college paper I just read online that made me laugh and laugh:
The orchid has even known to be erotic and influence sexuality. This species makes people just do the strangest things that somewhere in the world there has to be at least two people that have experienced love from their magnificence. I wouldn’t be surprised if two humans overlooking a genus of orchid became so moved by its presence that both were aroused to initiate intercourse; thus creating life and pollinating the world. It may be a little far fetched, however, in life, especially with orchids, there is nothing but flowering possibilities.

― Calico (calico), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Indie-rock legend venue holds 300. But it's a solo performer, meant to be an intimate evening, etc. Plus it's not in Chicago.

No idea what the consequences are. I'm pretty sure we're going to keep the show we have, because we like to play by the rules and have a reputation as a good band to work with, but it's also kind of a bummer.

OK GUYS: Dude is J3R3MY 3N1GK from $UNNY D@Y R3@L 3$T@T3

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

That orchid excerpt is awesome, Sarah.

"Oh look, honey, it's a genus of orchid."

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:25 (seventeen years ago) link

!!! Hilarity! to Sarah.

To John - oh it's just the one guy? Forget it.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, but you know there are $SDR3 fans from way back when who'll still show up in droves to see him.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I mean $DR3. Whatever.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

TS: cancelling a booked/contracted gig vs. putting together a band wholly comprised of sub musicians (except for one dude) with the same name?

(we are doing the latter in feb.)

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

later chicago.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I remember that impromptu Undertow meeting. It was shortly after N&S's bday throw down bash.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, it was like the second time ever I'd seen you guys. There was the awkward moment of whether or not I should say hi. These days I just run up and give you big ol' bear hugs every chance I get.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

We had that same awkward moment! But we fixed it with beer, which fixes everything.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 1 December 2006 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I have to write a simulation for my mediation class and mine is all about a magician and Houdini historian who appeared on an episode of Legend Smashers, "a popular television show on which two co-hosts test urban legends under scientific conditions to determine whether the legends have any basis in reality."

Can you tell I was watching TV while doing my homework?

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 1 December 2006 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Why do the libraries close at 5pm on Fridays? DOES LEARNING HAVE TO STOP?? I wanted to go to the library after practice this afternoon. Bastards!

― Calico (calico), Friday, 1 December 2006 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I hate that! I've been burned by that before.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 1 December 2006 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm here. What do you want.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Friday, 1 December 2006 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Why do the libraries close at 5pm on Fridays? DOES LEARNING HAVE TO STOP?? I wanted to go to the library after practice this afternoon. Bastards!

The one in my neigborhood doesn't (Bezazian).

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Friday, 1 December 2006 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Is the library in your neighborhood IN ARMENIA?

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 1 December 2006 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse, WTF is your gmail message about?

― Calico (calico), Friday, 1 December 2006 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:v0h-4quJe4YJ:writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/frost-mending.html+robert+frost+fences&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=firefox-a

Something there is that doesn't love a wall

it's the first line of the poem "Mending Wall," a poem that contains the famous and frequently misused line "good fences make good neighbors."

Also, my fucking foot is wet because my shoe has a hole in it.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Friday, 1 December 2006 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I love that poem.

Why Armenia?

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Friday, 1 December 2006 21:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm putting on my Christmas wish list:

Robert Frost poems
Dremmel Tool

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Friday, 1 December 2006 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Because lots of names that end in -ian are Armenian and the presence of Zs is another tipoff: witness Bezazian.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 1 December 2006 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link

God I love Robert Frost.

I Googled Bezazian and the first result was the Bezazian branch of the CPL. My drawing professor was Armenian and his surname was An@ni@n.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Friday, 1 December 2006 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

"The environment of my life causes me sudden horror because it is my irreparable petrification, the proof that I am this and not A or B. To travel is to invent a spatial future. Instead, if I stay, I destroy even the temporal future to replace it with a matchbox future, a future of weekends, new detective stories, Thursdays with Olga and Sundays at the cinema. I know how many shirts I have in the closet. The wall of my office is a vertebra. Soup, then soup. Then this blue armchair."

- Julio Cortazar

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 1 December 2006 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Translation: I feel stagnant and unhappy.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 1 December 2006 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I like detective stories and the cinema. I think I'd probably be into Olga too.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 1 December 2006 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Soup, then soup. That's so great.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 1 December 2006 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I just watched an episode of America's Test kitchen wherein they made chicken and dumplings. I come from a slick (or slip, I swear my family used these terms interchangeably but it seems that whichever one I use, I get mocked for not using the other one) dumpling family but this recipe made puffy, biscuit-like dumplings over a very rich stew and looked reeeeeaaaaaaallllly good. The heavy cream and chicken fat make it inappropriate for regular consumption, but I'm thinking as a nice new year's day dinner, it would be absolutely delish.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 1 December 2006 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link

nervous and i were in the same musical appreciation society back in college

― grbchv! (gbx), Friday, 1 December 2006 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I've already had lunch, but I want it again. I'm think my body is mistaking sleepy for hungry. It does that sometimes.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 1 December 2006 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link

nervous and i were in the same musical appreciation society back in college

VINDICATION!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Someone brought in a bunch of Ghirardelli chocolates, including an eggnog-flavored chocolate. WAHT.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link

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