Chicago: The Eponymous Thread

Jesse, no one is here anymore.

there does seems to be a special problem with Vista's over-security, though.

I HATE that.

1) D sick
2) only 1/3 of my class showed up for the library field trip
3) computer crashed, we had to restore settings and wipe hard drive, lost a bunch of shit including vacation photos from UK ;_; Don't tell me anything about backing up my files because I AM AWARE TAHT WE SHOULD HVE DONE THAT.
4) gas leak this morning, People's Gas are on their way.

;_;x100

As I understand it, visual effects is special effects, like CGI, scale models, explosions, etc., whereas art direction is like the cinematic equivalent of "set design." [i]Pan's Labyrinth[/i] was a deserving winner here because it created a unified look from the old house and the woods and the labyrinth: old and dark and mysterious. I think the category has to have some overlap with costumes, too.

Still can't log in at work, Kevin?

I am listening to Giant Brain.

from chicagoist:

You can't throw a stone amongst a bunch of hipsters in the Wicker Park / Humboldt area without a decent chance of accidentally hitting Plastic Crimewave's carefully managed -- and now more tightly clipped -- 'fro. Long a staple of the local psych rock scene, at least as a prodigious historian and record-keeper with a killer collection (some of which saw airtime on a recent Market Frenzy podcast), Crimewave is assembling what he calls his Vision Celestial Guitarkestra at The Empty Bottle. The idea is to get dozens of guitarists together to play a single chord -- admission is free if you bring your own axe and a short lesson on how to play the single chords will be given -- in an attempt to either a) summon our alien overlords or b) shatter every fucking window at The Bottle. Either way, we're curious to see how the whole thing pans out.
Empty Bottle, Tuesday, 9:30 p.m., $8 (free if you bring a guitar and play), 21+

You still can't get in from work? I think I type for all of us when I type: W.T.F.?

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seems like a LIFETIME ago already.

bump?

I wish people wouldn't change their handles so drastically when in the Sandbox.

Or whatever. But if you're going to, I'm going to eye you with suspicion and indignance.

hahaha my name was Armando
i forgot

i made a hasty decision, as all of my decisions are, and now i am stuck worrying about being sued by a perfectly decent organization. hooray!

Okay "CrunkleJ".

ay dios mio, pobrecito Jesse!

I keep reading that name as "cacahuate blanco".

You mean "cacahuete"?

"CrunkleJ" was my name during a different period of my life. The last time I used the sandbox, I was in a stinky office in a once-great American city scraped flat by the roller of the deluge and man's apathy toward man.

xp - No, I mean "cacahuate"

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cacahuate

jajajajajaja

Oh LL, the LWV will not sue you because your user name falls under fair use and then also, the first legal step in a copyright action is a c&d letter, and once you comply, they can't pursue it. And even if they do, the remedy is an injunction, not damages.

thank you! i appreciate your expert opinion.

Are you a lawyer giving legal advice?

no way, she is a mongoose giving financial advice