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sometimes I wish for every few hours, instead of once every two or three minutes. Like at about 6 in the morning, when I'm not sleeping well anyway.

― they call me candle guy (kenan), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link

i will be at the hold steady show!

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:49 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost And oh God, when the Purple line starts running! It goes by at full fucking speed in the morning, and it's deafening, and it shakes the floor, and I wish to hell Chicago had a subway system instead of this stupid El thing.

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Hi, Todd!

― they call me candle guy (kenan), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Man, I'd hate having a dark underground subway ride from Howard to the Loop.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link

hi kenan!
happy new year folks!
i had a nice time getting wasted at a friends place and drank some dom perignon!

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I watched a little bit of The Blues Brothers a few weeks ago and was trying to figure out where their railroad flat was - on Van Buren, maybe?

Clanging bell outside right now.

Nice way to roll, Todd - how was the Dom?

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link

truthfully, i am not well-versed in champagne, but it was amazingly smooth and tasty compared to the other bottles we had which cost between 5 and 20 dollars each.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link

We've decided to stay in today. Yes a shocking decision.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Monday, 1 January 2007 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm with you, bruthaman.

― they call me candle guy (kenan), Monday, 1 January 2007 23:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I know that the Blues Brothers' hotel is a long-demolished rat-house in the loop. I read it somewhere. Can't find it again, though.

― they call me candle guy (kenan), Monday, 1 January 2007 23:47 (seventeen years ago) link

All I wanna do is zooma zoom zoom.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 00:24 (seventeen years ago) link

np. Blues Traveler - Run Around.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 00:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Went to see Children of Men this afternoon, then dinner at Siam Country. Now I feel like collapsing, totally exhausted after the last three days.

NYE was fun, but we were sharing the bar (it was split pretty evenly between our group and another), and so it didn't seem appropriate to hijack the sound system, even though I'd put in a good couple hours putting together a dance playlist. I was promised that we'd go back to our usual style next year.

Drinks: about four gin and tonics, and a couple of Harps.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 00:50 (seventeen years ago) link

* Driving to J&J's house = a bad idea. Nowhere to park.

OTM

Although I eventually did find a spot nearby on Friday after about what, 25 minutes of circling around?

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 02:27 (seventeen years ago) link

My NYE = quiet quiet quiet, just like I wanted.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 02:28 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost er, Saturday...

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 02:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Good New Year's Day. Drank some mimosas, made some BM's (and some Bloody Marys too!), watched a couple of so-so movies (Omen '06, Hard Candy).

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 05:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Hard Candy's good - kind of Oleanna to the Nth degree.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 07:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't think I've ever seen a two-character movie that I didn't like.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 07:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I've never met a man I didn't like.

― Will "Fag" Rogers (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 07:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Hard Candy's good - kind of Oleanna to the Nth degree.

Really? I wrote it off but that makes me want to see it. Maybe.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Happy first morning of work in '07, dudes.

New Year's - Robbie Fulks was pretty great. It was incredible, those guys basically wrote a whole musical just for the NYE show. Comedy, satire, top 10 pop songs revue, props (!), etc. Then welsh rarebit at 3van's house, drunken acoustic jam session (pennywhistle/guitar/hand drums), bed at 6 am. I had big plans to have everyone over for brunch but I had a pretty epic hangover. The works.

Drinks: beer, homemade cherrywine, beer, beer, beer, beer, champagne, gin & tonic, beer, beer

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link

i've never liked a man i didn't meet.

― JuliaA (JuliaA), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link

That's funny, both my 1+-year relationships have begun online. Not to say that either was a fantastic idea, I 'spose.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link

All my fantastic ideas have begun online.

― look at them eating. i bet it tastes real good. (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Happy first morning of work in '07, dudes.

Same here.

Feels really weird, though. Half the office is still out, and I have nothing to do. I was amped for work this morning, then... blah.

― look at them eating. i bet it tastes real good. (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm bald?

― jw (ex machina), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Hi jon.

― look at them eating. i bet it tastes real good. (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Not yet.

― look at them eating. i bet it tastes real good. (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Half the office is still out, and I have nothing to do. I was amped for work this morning, then... blah.

Exactly

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Dan, I saw a van with yooper bumper stickers and Texas plates, please explain?

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

The constitutional right to unhindered interstate travel, I'd wager.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Could have been my friend's older brother, he lives in TX. Dunno if he drives a van though.

But really, we get around, so it could have been anything. That and people seem to like to go up there to vacation a lot. Silly tourista fudgies!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, I have a yooper bumpersticker and IL plates, which causes more consternation among certan UP folx than most people would expect.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

On my flight out of GR I was seated next to a nice young woman from Manistique who now lives in upper Mass = you people DO get around!

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

ok fuck this. I'm taking a loooong lunch, starting... now.

― look at them eating. i bet it tastes real good. (kenan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Man, the managers here are ASSHATS. They've managed to piss off the professional society whose journals we publish to the point that they're (the society) issuing an RFP to see if they can get a better deal from other publishing houses. This is what we get for treating an ostensible non-profit like a profit-maximizing monetization machine. THANX DUDES

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I am swamped. The upside is that it's almost lunchtime.

What I meant to start out with was... HELLO! HAPPY NEW YEAR! WOO HOO! * streamers *

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

happy new year, Chicago! just got back into town last night!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't really like 2-person movies as much as others. I'll have to think about this further, but it may be b/c in order to make up for the variety of voices they tend to have overly-clever dialogue and restless cinematography. They make me wish I was watching a play instead of a movie.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link

While it's on my mind I would like to express my utter disgust with The Goodbye Girl and Sportsnight. Their snappy, lively, witty dialogue arouses in me the urge to kill.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link

oh, Jesse. you're, like, the anti-me. I love overly-clever dialogue. and Sports Night. I suspect I would dislike The Goodbye Girl, though, because isn't Richard Dreyfuss in it?

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_Night ?

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

yes, that Sports Night. though, to be fair, overly-clever dialogue can be godawful, viz. everything else Aaron Sorkin has ever done.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, that show.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

See I kind of liked The West Wing for the first few seasons but I have never met anyone (ok, check that: one person who was just a giant sports nut, and now you) who honestly liked Sports Night. Just thought it a little odd, but to each their own when it comes to bad TV. (for example, I watched several episodes of Heroes last night)

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Sports Night is not bad tv! I mean business! I was under the impression that no one liked it because no one actually watched it.

I like bad TV, too, but Sports Night is not it.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Fans of two-person movies should rent Conversations with Other Women when it comes to DVD. I thought it was fantastic, one of my favorite films of this year, with strong performances from Helena Bonham Carter and Aaron Eckhart, engaging in clever, flirtatious back-and-forths for 80 minutes.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I never saw Sports Night, but I was under the impression that it was a lamented classic that never got the ratings it deserved, a la Arrested Development.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Sports Night is not about sports.

I would guess that people could defend SN by saying it was "intelligent" etc, so I would think it doesn't fit into the generally-accepted canon of Bad TV. But it defines bad entertainment for me.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link

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