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hahaha, if you were to ever say you were thinking about it, I'd try to talk you out of it.

Mid to late October is a possibility, but I'm trying to save $$ for the big Frank's APA meetup next year. (We've narrowed it down to Netherlands or Belgium.)

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 28 August 2006 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Here I am.

― jesse, Thursday, 31 August 2006 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Hi. I'm bored.

I see Rebirth is playing in Chicago this Sunday (3:30 at the Chicago Jazz Festival). I recommend GOING.

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 31 August 2006 19:25 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't understand. why can't we have real ilx?

― jesse, Thursday, 31 August 2006 19:42 (seventeen years ago) link

You can't handle real ILX.

http://www.beckerfilms.com/JackNicholson.gif

― jaymc, Thursday, 31 August 2006 19:45 (seventeen years ago) link

http://newyorkmetro.com/guides/fallpreview/2006/movies/movies060828_198.jpg

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 31 August 2006 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link

What a lovable old coot!

― jaymc, Thursday, 31 August 2006 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Jack, who’s always thought his erotic appeal is underrated, first asked for sex scenes. “These kind of monsters, they don’t usually have a sex life onscreen, so I wanted to bring that to the part.” He chuckles. “I pushed that side pretty good. He’s a mad, bad nut job, so he’s evil sexually too. Fuck ’em, kill ’em, you know … At the moment, it’s a matter of discussion how far we went, as a matter of fact,” he says proudly, noting that Scorsese’s currently debating whether to edit down his brutal lovemaking.

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 31 August 2006 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Hi Chicagofags! I was just checking this thread for shits and giggles and saw the Jack Nicholson pictures. A preview before BEERFEST was for some big-timey vaguely cop/crime-drama that starred Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Alec Baldwin, etc etc, lots of BIG NAME GUYS. And then BEERFEST came on and we larffed. And got drunk.

― nklshs (nklshs), Thursday, 31 August 2006 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

That Nicholson quote is terrifying. It sounds like he's trying to turn the character into Frank Booth:

http://adulecine.ovh.org/cinema/images/blue_velvet01.jpg

― jaymc, Thursday, 31 August 2006 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Hi Nick -- yeah, I think that's the movie that the bit Jordan quoted is about. It's called The Departed.

― jaymc, Thursday, 31 August 2006 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm here.

i can't handle the chicago threads on the real ILX.

i miss chicago like mad, you guys.

― grady, Thursday, 31 August 2006 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I just filled out the questionnaire for my high-school reunion. YES.

Plan for tonight:

1. Little Miss Sunshine at the Davis Theater
2. Brighton MA at Schubas
3. Hang out with potential new guitarist (!) at Schubas after the show

― jaymc, Thursday, 31 August 2006 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link

There's a band called Brighton MA? Huh.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Thursday, 31 August 2006 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Chicago! Specifically Eric!

Let's go see this play: http://www.congosquaretheatre.org/richard.asp

― jenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 1 September 2006 13:18 (seventeen years ago) link

There's a band called Brighton MA? Huh.

Yup. Named after the lead singer's hometown. I didn't make it to the show, though. I was hungry after seeing the movie, so I had dinner instead. (Movie, btw, was just okaaaay. There were some funny moments, but I sometimes resist movies that try to endear me to the characters by ramming down my throat how adorably quirky everyone is.)

― jaymc, Friday, 1 September 2006 13:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Jenny, that play looks very interesting.

I had the most wonderful bottle of cabernet last night (well, one glass of it). I am coming to understand that there's nothing wrong with a screw cap. It feels weird for a while, but then you taste the wine, and you realize that it's not automatically Mad Dog just because it has a screw cap.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 1 September 2006 14:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Screw caps are making a comeback due to cork shortages.

― jenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 1 September 2006 14:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't remember the name of this one... Nuages, or Numan, or something with an N and a U. Anyway, it's on sale at the store at Foster and Clark. And it really is good.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 1 September 2006 14:16 (seventeen years ago) link

GUYS POST ON THIS THREAD

― jaymc, Friday, 1 September 2006 14:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Hi John.

― danno martinez, Friday, 1 September 2006 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Hi. I think I'm gonna stay in tonight, because I've gone out every night this week (all for band-related endeavors) and I like the idea of watching a DVD with a bottle of wine or a couple pumpkin beers, ya feel me?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 September 2006 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I feel ya, dawg. I've done nothing but sit in and do laundry and read HTML books all week, so I'm itchin' to get out and blow some money.

Also, wine=good, pumpkin beer=not so much.

― danno martinez, Friday, 1 September 2006 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Sir, believe you are mistaken.

Although it may be too warm yet for pumpkin beer. It's not as good if you don't need a jacket to go outside.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 1 September 2006 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link

The Blue Moon pumpkin beer is disgusting. I forget what I picked up. It was from Whole Foods.

I don't need a jacket to go outside, but I am wearing a long-sleeved shirt for the first time since May.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 September 2006 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I know, I know, I just don't like fruity-flavored beer. Hops, hops and more hops!

― danno martinez, Friday, 1 September 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Pumpkin is hardly "fruity-flavored." It's more of a bittersweet memory.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 September 2006 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Sounds kind of emo.

I just figured everything out, and I am going to Alaska in a few weeks!

― danno martinez, Friday, 1 September 2006 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Whoa. How come? Is 3r1c@ involved somehow?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 September 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

lol at EmoBeer.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 1 September 2006 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Pumpkin beer is

a bittersweet memory
a favorite sweater
an autumn sonata
freshly cut wood and the first time you light the fireplace
a crisp breeze
a train in the distance

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 1 September 2006 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost: Possibly. I need to see if she's got to go up there for her tribal board meetings around then. But she's moved out to Washington state now 'cause she got a job teaching at Evergreen State College.

Two of my best friends in the world (one since I was like 3 years old) live in Homer, AK and I'll be going primarily to visit them.

― danno martinez, Friday, 1 September 2006 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance
Everybody thinks its true

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 1 September 2006 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link

But she's moved out to Washington state now 'cause she got a job teaching at Evergreen State College.

Ah, that's cool.

IIRC, Evergreen State's two most famous alums are both cartoonists: Matt Groening and Lynda Barry.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 September 2006 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh weird, Charles Burns went there, too.

Okay, and I'm forgetting Kathleen Hanna, Corin Tucker, Carrie Brownstein, Calvin Johnson, and Kim Thayil.

Not to mention Michael Richards.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 September 2006 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Yup. Also: most of Sleater-Kinney, Phil Elverum, Kim Thayil, and Issac Brock I think...

xpost Exactly! It's a cool place.

― danno martinez, Friday, 1 September 2006 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I visited there once when I was 14. The campus was very woody.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 September 2006 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link

here i am

― jesse, Friday, 1 September 2006 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link

hi jesse.

alaska has always seemed like a really great place to visit, i've known a couple of people from there but never managed to get there.

― JuliaA (JuliaA), Friday, 1 September 2006 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

FAUX-LX YOU

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 September 2006 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I just e-mailed someone, and she responded via text message. Weird.

I don't want to work, I just want to play online all day. I mean, more than usual.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 September 2006 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Re: AK... Yeah, that's about the sense I get from it too.

Best quote while setting this up, from my friend Seth: "You can shower at my work, so you don't have to pay for it." Because there's generally not indoor plumbing in the houses there, there are bath houses (not that kind of bath house... or maybe it is, I don't know how they roll there) for the whole town to use.

― danno martinez, Friday, 1 September 2006 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Fascinating information:

The Frat Boy billed for 62.25 hours of work this summer. For the entire summer. This means that this law firm paid him $109/hour for his legal work.

...

Ha ha Dan's going to an Alaskan bath house.

― jenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 1 September 2006 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

No, see, I can shower at the Homer Soil and Water Conservation District because my friend works there, and it will be free! Free hot water!

Of course, I'll probably still go, if only for the handjobs.

― danno martinez, Friday, 1 September 2006 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Atta boy.

― jenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 1 September 2006 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

The Frat Boy billed for 62.25 hours of work this summer.

I don't understand. Surely he was around more than that, or he wouldn't be bothering people so much.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 1 September 2006 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I will have worked that much this week when it's over.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 1 September 2006 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Law offices bill clients for their time. So for each project we work on, we have to turn in a time ticket that lists the number of hours we workedon, who the client was, and what we were doing. We're in the office and getting paid hourly for roughly 40 hours a week, give or take some time for getting in late, leaving early, or working overtime.

So, while the Frat Boy was in the office 40 hours a week give or take all summer, he only worked 62.25 hours of that.

And 6.5 of those hours were "reading the handbook" and I don't even know what the fuck that means. But it's not billable client stuff.

― jenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 1 September 2006 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link

What is Frat Boy's first name? Is it Josh? He sounds like a Josh.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 September 2006 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Mark

― jenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 1 September 2006 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

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Nothing happened at Tuman's, far as I know. I found a scarf.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link

OH MY GOD REALLY???

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 22:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Is the beer selection in liquor stores limited too?

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 22:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I have been really bemoaning the lack of good beer selection in this shit hole town lately.

Whaddar you talking about, can't you get Bud bottles everywhere?

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Depends on the store, but I haven't found anything like State Line Liquors in MD or Liquormart in Boulder, CO around here. Then again, I have not been looking that hard. I just prefer to bitch.

xpost - no, can't get OLD STYLE everywhere!

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link

State Line Liquors

*genuflects*

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 22:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh my.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link

A store with ~ 700 North American craft brewed beers. In Elkton fucking Maryland. IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK FROM A MAJOR CITY?

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link

The guy in the cube next to me always says "g/f" on the phone instead of "girlfriend". As in "gee slash eff". IT HAS MORE SYLLABLES AND SOUNDS DUMB. JUST SAY GIRLFRIEND, FLAPJAWS.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 22:59 (seventeen years ago) link

don't you mean JACKBALLS?

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha. I was walking around downtown Chi with some dudes and saw a place called the Flapjaws Cafe or something, and it stuck (as in "what's up, flapjaws" or "listen to ol flapjaws here").

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Holy cow, State Line Liquors, wtf. And here I was happy with the place at Clark and Foster. (Except dude gave me a shitty wine recommendation last time I was in there.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Jenny, we should go here:

http://www.samswine.com/Products/beer.aspx

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 23:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Hiya, I took most of the afternoon off to tend to some bidness.

For big beer (and of course, wine) selection I like http://www.samswine.com/Main.aspx -- closer to my house, VAS Foremost liquor actually has a lot of good Belgians and craft brews.

I will go anywhere for TT, just don't make me decide. Extra travel time may be needed, and I may bring a friend.

Otto, you ought to know better than to trifle with the VA Office of Internet Time-Wasting Prevention Department, Northern Illinois Division. We see all, we know all.

The dude from Scrubs ruins that show, I don't care how funny it supposedly is. He sucks so hard. The Office, OZ, C.Y.E., and Mr. Show are all grebtx1000. Well, only the first 4.5 seasons of OZ, really.

xpost: GREAT MINDS, JEFF

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 4 January 2007 00:02 (seventeen years ago) link

FIELD TRIP TO SAM'S WINE.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 4 January 2007 00:32 (seventeen years ago) link

OLD ILX IS BACK UP.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 4 January 2007 00:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I've heard good things about foremost as well. Haven't been in the Binny's downtown, but I should check it out.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Thursday, 4 January 2007 01:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I started a new thread on the nu-old ilx: http://ilx.wh3rd.net/thread.php?msgid=7486949

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 4 January 2007 01:31 (seventeen years ago) link

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