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I heard a really annoying solo (free jazz) sax piece on the way to work. It was like someone going "heyheyheyheyguesswhatguesswhatguesswhatheyheyguessguesswhat" and then screaming in your ear. I kept listening to it because it wasn't talk radio.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe it's too derivative of Oasis, Jordan, but if you would like to start a band with me called Champagne Blowjobs, I will go all the way to Madison to practice.

Madison seems like it'd be a great place to spend New Years Eve.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha, I am in.

Madison seems like it'd be a great place to spend New Years Eve.

I hope so, but all of my best New Years have been out of town (Milwaukee, Minneapolis, up north). I have no NYE plans this year, although 3van has invited me to see one Robbie Fulks out at a bar.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I just googled that phrase to see if it was a common phrase and came across this (safe for work) set of photos
- excellent for fans of the "so not gonna happen" school of party photography/anthropology.

xpost - I saw that Robbie Fulks was playing up there. I know his drummer, Gerald d0wd, a bit - really good and nice guy too. And an Irish band called The P1nts who I met last summer when I played in Madison sent out an invitation to a NYE show.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

(Irish band with very cute gals, I should say)

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Cool, maybe I will go. I hear he has class A stage patter, which I am a fan of.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

If you've got time to spare and a printer at work, it's worth reading his September 2001 tour diary (and his other 'my day' diaries too).

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

hey chicago! yr airport is very clean, but i wish i could internet in it for free.

― a_p (a_p), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

also i could really go for a cigarette.

― a_p (a_p), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Internet personality Jon Williams called me from O'Hare last night.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't have yr number ;_;

― a_p (a_p), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link

And THAT'S why it's a good thing that Chicago Public Radio made the decision to change their format.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Or wait. Maybe it wouldn't be a good thing for you, considering that you kept listening.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Chicago Public Radio never plays free jazz.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I wouldn't know. That wasn't my point.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I misread what Jordan was saying anyway, so my point didn't make sense.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link

also i could really go for a cigarette.

i always ask the cops at the end of the security line how long they think the wait is, they're usually pretty accurate. if it's a short enough wait, and i need one bad enough, i'll go out and then go through security again.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Remember what Bill Pullman on Lost Highway played? Was that free jazz?

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link

hi dere i am in england.

curry + beerz + family = best ever

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Sad day today: I am disconnecting my cable. I just don't watch TV when I'm living alone, but I'm still going to miss a couple of shows that I would DVR.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey. Where is SArah?

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link

haven't had cable in close to 2 years. you'll miss it more than you think.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't miss it. It's nice to catch the Daily Show at the gym once in awhile though.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link

My history with cable, beginning in 2000

2000-2001: got digital cable (was sort of living with a sig. other), enjoyed it.

2002: moved, broke up with S.O. New house had cable still running. Hardly watched it at all ever.

2003: Ice storm knocks down cable. Jesse hauls out ladder and reconnects cable (while wearing yellow Playtex gloves to protect me from the power lines)--still doesn't watch it.

2003-early 2006: No cable.

20006: Get cable in early spring. Go to New Orleans. Kenan watches cable for me. Return from NO, live with Courtney, watch cable. Courtney leaves, I stop watching TV again.

TV is a social activity for me.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I can watch Lost and Daily Show online. That's all I really need. Except for Big Style Small Spaces or whatever it's called. I fucking love that show.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I had free cable all through college (either in the dorms or at my apartment, where my roommates' cancelled it when I mooved in but it just kept coming) and it ruined me for paying for it.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I read that RF tour diary, pretty good stuff.

"Why, even if he had, would the sound still have sucked? Why are the rooms we're playing so ill-suited to our show? Why don't they have mikes? Why can't anybody do anything?" I'm harshing everyone's post-show mellow. "Tell me something. You have a group like the Waco Brothers. They do one thing, and it's loud. They don't accommodate the rooms the way we do, turning themselves into a folk act for a folkie room, changing to a bar band in a bar, doing old-folks music when they're booked in bingo tents. What the hell do they do when they get booked in places like we've been playing?"

"They do what they do then they never return," says Lorne. "Nobody changes their show night by night the way we do."

Too true.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I have an Arrested Dev. question.

Remember the episode where GOB is going around talking about the price of his suit? And he tells Michael that he doesn't want kids getting their sticky fingers on his $3000 pants? Michael responds, "Oh, you think they'll go right for the pants, huh?" While I think GOB's response is hilarious, I don't get why he spazzes out.

Watch here. http://gobspeechless.ytmnd.com/

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm bored. I should be cleaning. I'm drinking tea again b/c I'm out of Diet Coke. Bleh.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I haven't seen that episode yet, although I did finish Season 1 last night.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Sarah is here in DC, but she has been staying at her sister's place with the rest of her family and has most likely been too busy to even think about ILX. But this evening she will be coming to stay at my parents' place with me for the rest of the week.

Thanks for checking on los gatos, John.

I think Gob in that episode is just supposed to be generally power-crazy? COME ON.

― n/a (n/a), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 19:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I cleaned like mad this morning. Went over the living room rug with one of those tape roller things, and it took like 12 sheets to get all the cat hair off of it. Shaking it out does not remove cat hair. Then I rolled up the rug and swept and mopped the whole apartment. Then I cleaned the bathtub. Then I dusted. Then I opened the windows to get the smoky smell out. Then I febreezed. Then I showered. I am a new man.

Remaining problem: cat hair on the bed spread. I'll deal with that shit later.

― Learn to ignore what the photographer saw (kenan), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Next up: watch another episode or two of News Radio, then get back to the freelance work that I've been massively procrastinating on.

― Learn to ignore what the photographer saw (kenan), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

In fact, I think the reason I did so much cleaning was to avoid doing real brain work. It works like that a lot.

― Learn to ignore what the photographer saw (kenan), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Cleaning is always a good way to get out of real work. BUT browsing the internet is a good way to get out of cleaning, though it does remind you that you're supposed to be doing real work in a way that cleaning does not.

xpost-- I know he's supposed to be power hungry, but I just wondered what he was going to say. "Should" what?

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 20:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I've reached a point of feeling powerless to clean. Perhaps if I changed out of my bathrobe into shorts and put on some flip-flops instead of going barefoot....

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link

You know what? The 3-prong outlets in my house--of which there are only 3--are actually not grounded! I pulled out the Playtex gloves again and did a little electritioning and was saddened to find that the grounding screw has nothing attached to it.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Dude. The suckiness of the wiring in your apartment never ends.

― Learn to ignore what the photographer saw (kenan), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey, when do Jeff and Jenny get back?

― Learn to ignore what the photographer saw (kenan), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link

No, it only lives on through my rewiring.

xpst-- tonight.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I have found that the easiest way to clean cat hair off of cloth, such as rugs and couches, is with a slightly damp sponge, especially one with a rough Brillo side. The problem is you have to keep rinsing the cat hair off the sponge.

― n/a (n/a), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link

ihttp://i.walmart.com/i/p/09/78/03/99/51/0978039951510_150X150.jpg

― n/a (n/a), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Nick -- I never thought of using a sponge. I happen to have a bunch of them around. With a rough side. I'll try that. Yer teh best housewife ever.

― Learn to ignore what the photographer saw (kenan), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I will try that too. I've tried lint rolling, vacuuming, etc.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I just got a weird phone call. Monique from the office, who nobody really likes anyway except for our old pervert boss, who only likes her because she's a tall blonde with fake tits. Anyway, she a total dizzy dingbat, and she called me and said "Hey, Kenan! You wanna come to the office tomorrow and help me move boxes?!" She was loud, in some kind of bar, and clearly drunk. I said, "Um... I'm not really in the mood to move boxes. What's the angle?" She said, "Well, I can't find any guys to move things for me this week." I said, "That's because we're all on vacation." She stuttered a little as she said, "Wait, this isn't Joe?" "No, it's not Joe." Honey, you called me by my name. You knew exactly who you were trying to sucker into this shit work. I said, "That's a good idea, though. You call Joe. He's big and strong."

Weird. This can't be company sanctioned behavior.

― Learn to ignore what the photographer saw (kenan), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link

it's drunk behavior, bro.

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link

ps - they've broken out the irish music. jaysus.

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link

It's obviously drunken behavior, but even then, it's weird. It's like, nobody really likes you. You want people to help you make? Make some friends first.

― Learn to ignore what the photographer saw (kenan), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link

people to help you MOVE, i meant

― Learn to ignore what the photographer saw (kenan), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link

otherwise, it sounds like she needs potty training.

― Learn to ignore what the photographer saw (kenan), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link

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