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Dancers?

crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Tits McGee?

crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link

interrupting strip club conversation to report: just got my hair cut by Jenny-recommended stylist. it is my favorite haircut evah! Jenny, whenever your done with your finals, I'm buying you a drink.

horseshoe, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll be staying off the Brown Line @ Paulina.... I should probably get a book since I'll be solo a bit I think

jw (ex machina), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

i think "dancers" sounds kind of june taylor-ish but if that's what jenny would prefer i have no qualms with that.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

whenever you're done with your finals, that is. haircut-delirium-induced spelling lapse.

horseshoe, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll be staying off the Brown Line @ Paulina

Isn't this your hood, JMC?

danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link

jon, you're better off asking anyone else on this thread about that part of town because i can't remember the last time i took the brown line north of diversey.

oh, wait, i did get on the brown line this summer after going to laurie's planet of sound to head back into the city. i remember it was really hot and instead of getting on the western ave bus and taking a 10 minute trip back to my sweatbox apartment i took the brown line back into the loop, then transferred to the blue line and took that out to damen just so i could stay in the air conditioned glory of the cta.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll be staying off the Brown Line @ Paulina

This is a nice little neighborhood (Roscoe Village). This is my el stop twice a week, on days when I have band practice.

There's a Whole Foods a block away from that el stop. Also a few blocks away from Hard Boiled, an indie record store and video outlet specializing in Hong Kong cinema, owned by a mild-manner British chap named Mark. And Victory's Banner, a very good Buddhist vegetarian breakfast place.

jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

(I live on Paulina and take the Brown Line, but the Paulina el stop is actually about 2 miles south of me.)

jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha! Anything east of Western and north of about Addison is still a semi-grey area for me.

danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link

sayjal is from the poon-job region of india

crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:56 (seventeen years ago) link

i met mark, the owner of hard boiled, at a party at joel's place right after i moved to chicago a bunch of years back. it's allllll related somehow.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Yay to HS for the good haircut! I'll totally take you up on the beer offer. Isn't Val B. the sweetest?

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link

she is! she's totally adorable. she picked out hair product for me, too. I am completely hair-challenged.

horseshoe, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link

My managing editor is hilarious. Here is her take on my avoidance of catching the garter at weddings: "Don't discount your chicks before they're hatched."

danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Managing eds are a rare breed!

People really throw garters at weddings?

Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I think the last garter-throwing I witnessed was in 1993, at some cousin's wedding.

jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I've never seen a garter thrown. but I've mostly been to Indian weddings.

horsehoe, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link

i would never want to catch a garter, i don't care whose leg i get to put it on.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I think just about every wedding (reception) I've been to has had that.

xpost: Yeah, her first question was "Will you try to catch the garter, or avoid it like the plague." I responded "Well, there are some pretty good hospitals here at the U."

danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

(meaning I'd take my chances with the plague... stupid typing)

danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse actually made me a bouquet so I would toss it at our reception, but I think he got drunk and forgot about it, which is good because I worked hard to avoid all that crap as much as possible.

I would rather elope than endure the garter toss.

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

one of the people I'm staying with works @ r3ckless r3cords....

jw (ex machina), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link

oh then you're fucked.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Reckless is down the street from our house.

Jon Williams, what do you like to do? Do you like to go to bars?

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:16 (seventeen years ago) link

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH..........

Oh god, someone help me up.

Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link

unless it's the reckless in wicker park. in which case it would be very far from your house.

and i suppose i should seperate my loathing for the store from the people who work there (with a few exceptions), i've actually known some very nice people who were employed there at various times. but the store sucks, and sucks hard.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I've been known to go to bars.

jw (ex machina), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay, good because I never know what else to do with internet people who come to Chicago.

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

...except get them drunk and steal their wallets.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link

but the store sucks, and sucks hard

I saw you say this on another thread, and I forgot to ask you why you thought this. My only problem with it is that its dance section sucks, and it's not really the place to go if you're looking for something in particular (unless it's a brand-new release) -- but I've scored a lot of great used CDs there.

jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link

So who is actually going to be around Xmas weekend?

JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I like Reckless just fine, but I have much less specialized record store needs than most people. I'm happy as long as the clerks don't openly mock my selections.

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Woe be unto the record store clerk who does that. WOE I tell you.

danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I think that's a myth borne out of people's insecurities. I've never been openly mocked, or otherwise treated derisively, by a record-store clerk.

jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:32 (seventeen years ago) link

As a former record store clerk, I have openly mocked people's selections.

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link

So who is actually going to be around Xmas weekend?

Me. I don't know what date we're going to come to your show yet. On Friday (the 22nd) I'm arranging for Restaurant Club to go to Glenn's Diner, a place a block away from Kr's apartment that specializes in seafood and also serves cereal all day. It'd be v. easy to just come to the Gr Mill afterwards -- it's relatively close -- but if that doesn't happen for some reason, then we'll def. be there on Saturday. Kr is v. excited.

jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link

they never have anything i want. if i'm lucky they will get in one copy of a new full length on in the red or sympathy for the record industry. and if you ask them to order anything for you they make it seem like it would only be slightly less difficult than painting the sistine chapel. my first option now is ordering from goner or passout or interpunk. but if i want something immediately, if i need instant gratification i don't even bother going there, i'll go to laurie's. the only time i wind up at reckless now is if i'm bored with nothing to do. i'll walk to wicker park, do some people watching, flip through the stacks, hit the book stores then get an iced coffee from half and half and sit in the park and smoke and drink and watch the people again.

xpost, i've never been mocked (to my knowledge but then i'm not very observent/don't give a fuck) but god, if you ask anything of some clerks it's like they are SO put out. THAT pisses me off, it's just bad service. and on top of a crappy selection (for what i want) it leaves me with little reason to go there.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I was openly mocked by record store clerks at In Y0ur Ear, in Providence. for Kate Bush. motherfuckers.

horsehoe, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link

i used to luuuuuurrrrrve in your ear in harvard square.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Doesn't that make THEM the losers, Roz? I dunno anything about 'er but the noize bored loves Kate Bush.

Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Glenn's Diner, a place a block away from Kr's apartment that specializes in seafood and also serves cereal all day.

...wow.

JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I mean, the one in Providence has a good selection, or did when I lived there, but I hated those dudes. (yes, they were all dudes.)

xpost: totally, Laurel. so I can feel superior about it. but at the time, I got all flustered.

horseshoe, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, like I said -- Reckless is a lousy place to go if you're looking for something in particular. I don't even fuck with new stuff there, I just flip through the "recent used" stack and see if I can find something I've always kinda-wanted for $7.99.

jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link

...wow

haha, I knew you'd have this reaction!

jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I want to have breakfast there. I'm gonna have all my meals scheduled (Fiesta Mexicana, Lawrence's, Ashkenaz, etc.).

JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Glenn Fahlstrom, one of the original partners of Evanston's Davis Street Fishmarket, has opened this diner in the former Andalucia address in Ravenswood. Fahlstrom tells us he's "reinventing the diner," adding subtle twists to classic items for better flavor profiles (like adding chives and red onions to the potato pancakes and a slice of maple honey ham to the burgers). All-day breakfast includes buttermilk pancakes and about 25 varieties of cereal poured tableside, just like mom used to do (BTW, the cereal is all-you-can-eat, you just pay for additional milk or fruit add-ins). Lunch offers sandwiches like a steak sandwich and carved-to-order chicken sandwich. Dinner offers about a dozen fresh fish specials; check out the large blackboards on the dining room's walls. Fahlstrom toned down the former vibrant-hued dining room; look for white walls, dark cherry tables and wainscoting, plus a cubbyhole wall stocked with cereal boxes.

jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link

My 9th grade English teacher (in Australia) was a HUGE Kate Bush fan. He made us analyze a bunch of her lyrics most everyone hated it. I thought it was better than reading some shitty anthology.

danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I am really making a play for the Shit Typing Award today.

danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link


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