CHICAGO: If Hepatitis C Were Attacking Your Face Instead of Your Liver You'd Be Doing Something About It

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Hi! I don't know how to get back on this ILX train, but hey. I'll probably go to the Green Mill tonight with a few people (including a friend from high school who I haven't seen since graduation - he's passing through town and is apparently kind of the manc0w of New Hampshire), and if not I'll go tomorrow night. You're all the tops. Would love to see any and all of you soon.

eric z (Eazy), Friday, 22 December 2006 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey, z-town. I'll definitely give you a call when we get back in town.

n/a (n/a), Friday, 22 December 2006 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Oops, used my real name.

Z-TOWN AND DOG BOYZ

Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 22 December 2006 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Eric, HI!

What should I watch on youtube?

Calico (calico), Friday, 22 December 2006 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

omg, Sarah and Nick, that's awesome about FFs picture in the Reader!

I am sorry about various and sundry hangovers and traveling inconveniences. fyi for anyone flying/picking people up from airports, the flight that I got bumped to after missing my actual flight yesterday was delayed an hour and a half. that seemed endemic; all the flights around me were delayed.

also, hi, Eric!

horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 22 December 2006 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry just trying to be "controversial" upthread re live recordings. I don't have much of a relationship with them, though. In a lot of cases I'd rather just listen to the studio version than some poorly recorded substitute. And I don't want to hear crowd noise unless I'm actually there, because otherwise it can take away from the intimate connection with the recording. Neil Young's Live Rust is pretty good, though.

jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 22 December 2006 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

ALSO, MOTORHEAD.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 22 December 2006 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I was just gonna say: There are some good, some bad, just like studio records. I have an EITS bootleg that sounds almost as good as a studio recording and I actually like it better than the album it mostly draws from.

danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 22 December 2006 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I will now officially vow to not mention Motorhead again for.. say... six weeks.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 22 December 2006 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link

We are Scientists are cuuuuute.

Calico (calico), Friday, 22 December 2006 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Might I recommend Incation or Great Escape.

Calico (calico), Friday, 22 December 2006 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link

That was INACTION. I'm not even drinking at my desk today!

Calico (calico), Friday, 22 December 2006 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm listening to Ace of Spades now, Kenan. Hey! The pixies ripped off that riff (or paid tribute to it?) in nimrod's son!

Calico (calico), Friday, 22 December 2006 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link

dear god i can not wait to get home and crawl into bed.

otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Friday, 22 December 2006 19:11 (seventeen years ago) link

No hair of the dog? ;D

danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 22 December 2006 19:14 (seventeen years ago) link

no. what the fuck happened to me last night?

unrelated: the bob inn has malort.

otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Friday, 22 December 2006 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I think you just answered your own question

danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 22 December 2006 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

SHIT someday I'll learn to read

danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 22 December 2006 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Be strong!

That show looked fun. I got drunk with strangers instead. How was it?

Holy momma. A subcontractor just gave me a $50 gift card to Lord & Taylor. Niiice.

Calico (calico), Friday, 22 December 2006 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link

first set was kind of choppy, second set was way way better. by that time everyone (crowd & band) was pretty sauced but it was a whoooooooole lotta fun. then there was an afterparty at a place pretty much right across the street. me and amy cabbed it home around 4:30-ish, i got back home around 5. my brain feels like it's been pressed against a circular sander for about 6 hours.

otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Friday, 22 December 2006 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Bbut it was worth it, right?

My boss just came up to my desk and said I could go home. BOO YAH!

Have a great Christmas, everybody!

Calico (calico), Friday, 22 December 2006 19:42 (seventeen years ago) link

i have 72 minutes to go chicago, not sure if i'm gonna make it. it's the same sensation as when you've been driving a car with the gas gauge way past E for too long and you're not sure if you'll be able to make it to the next gas station or not.

otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Friday, 22 December 2006 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/12/22/sports/22cnd-duke.600a.jpg

Middle dude kind of looks like Mark Wahlberg/David Spade.

jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 22 December 2006 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link

you can do it otto!
you can do it otto!

http://www.gosimpsons.com/ProdImages/simpsonspinpalsaf.jpg

danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 22 December 2006 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey does anyone have any of these songs?

Zeigeist, "Tar Heart"
Geiger, "Good Evening (Supermayer Remix)"
Momus, "Nervous Heartbeat"
Sasse ft. Kiki, "Loosing Touch"

They're the only songs standing in my way of having the entirety of Pitchfork and Stylus's year-end lists on my hard drive.

jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 22 December 2006 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link

No.

I am thinking about showing up at the Green Mill around 10 tonight, but I might just go to tomorrow night's show. Not sure yet what I'm going to do. What should I do?

crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Friday, 22 December 2006 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Who do you love more, me or Dan?

jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 22 December 2006 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link

The Green Mill calendar doesn't provide show times.

crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Friday, 22 December 2006 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

nevermind. I see now that you can click on the name of the act and get a showtime.

crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Friday, 22 December 2006 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM. Hmmm, hmmm, hmmm. What to do.

crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Friday, 22 December 2006 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Who loves me more, Dan or John?

crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Friday, 22 December 2006 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm gone chicago, hope your holidays are everything you wish them to be.

peace & love.

otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Friday, 22 December 2006 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Q: How do you make a mix CD for someone in an age when they're able to routinely burn hundreds of songs from your hard drive and put them on their iPod and thus already own the songs you've played for them thinking they'd like?

jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 22 December 2006 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link

make it a mix cd with a flow to it. that they'd listen to in a car or as a playlist. so, basically you're just parsing and organizing them.

robots in love (robots in love), Saturday, 23 December 2006 00:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey! The pixies ripped off that riff (or paid tribute to it?) in nimrod's son!

Oh, but it goes so much deeper than that. I was a fool before. I did not know enough to recognize that Motorhead is rock. They are the pinnacle and the nascent form all at once.

Christgau has a clear thought for once:

The stuff is so pure it's almost rarefied: no operatic declamations, no schlocky guitaristics, no satanism or medievalism or sci-fi or sexist s&m. Just aggression, violence, noise.

YESSSS!

whoop de doodle (kenan), Saturday, 23 December 2006 03:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Ok, so I have to tell you about how I bought a couch today. I went to that strip of Milwaukee between Ashland and Damen that is just lousy with crappy furniture stores. That and shoe stores. The are more end tables and Nikes on that block than anywhere in Chicago.

So I went to four of these furniture stores, and saw a lot of overstuffed things and a lot of grandmotherly things and a lot of just plain bullshit. It's a lot like looking for records in the dollar bin. But then this one couch jumped out at me. There was a soft glow behind it, and angels sang. I knew it was meant for me. It's a chocolate brown number with no arms and tapered and angled steel legs.

This is the conversation I had with the salesman:

Me: "I really like this one."

Him: "That's... yeah that one's nice too. It's very retro." [emphasis his]

Me: "I'll take it."

Him: "You're some kind of artist, aren't you?"

Me (flattered): "I'm a designer."

Him: "I could tell by your glasses."

So I have an artist couch, apparently. It will be delivered tomorrow.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Saturday, 23 December 2006 04:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, and it folds out into a double bed. I laid on it -- very cushy. So feel free to crash at my place. Bring a friend, even! A friend you like a whole lot!

whoop de doodle (kenan), Saturday, 23 December 2006 04:55 (seventeen years ago) link

hi! i'm enamored with chicago again. it's a nice feeling. midafternoon beers at 3rd coast + dinner at lula + drinks at danny's + ending the evening at the zebra lounge = A+. although maybe it was just the company. so good to see old friends and meet some new ones as well. plus, the superhot bartender at zebra lounge was all smiley at me and told me i had a cute haircut! i'm taken, but that'll get me through the week i'm away from my gf just fine...

robots in love (robots in love), Saturday, 23 December 2006 08:43 (seventeen years ago) link

john, you might also be interested to know i ran into n1ck luck1ng! he's following me everywhere. he came to 3rd coast with me and dan!

robots in love (robots in love), Saturday, 23 December 2006 09:00 (seventeen years ago) link

No Dan at the Green Mill. No nobody, except for Jordan. So I left the cramped space and met Sayjal at Crew where we had quesadillas. Then we went back the the GM at 1.

After that we went to Nick's Uptown where we drank vodka and sodas until 4. I am strangely about my wits and I do not like it whatsoever after the money I spent on hard liquor (5 hours of drinking) that was to have taken me outside myself.

crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Saturday, 23 December 2006 10:19 (seventeen years ago) link

So you're at work, it's Xmas eve and you are saying goodnight to your favorite wonderful mother-surrogate, white-haired, Twisted-Sister-loving, pothead, gives-you-a-hug-when-she-sees-you co-worker and what do you think you might say to her?

How about, "Goddamit--who do you have to blow to suck some dick around this place?"

Then I got a hug. Yay.

HAPPY XMAS EVE!

crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Saturday, 23 December 2006 10:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Sry guys. Everything happened later than anticipated, and ppl were tired.

danno martinez (danno martinez), Saturday, 23 December 2006 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Now I'm gonna go drive home. Merry Christmas, Happy Haunnakah, Krazy Kwanzaa, and all that to all y'all wonderful people.

danno martinez (danno martinez), Saturday, 23 December 2006 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Weird drunk. I drank vodka all night and then came home and polished off a whole bottle of wine at about 5. The thing is that usually I can't handle hard liquor. Strangely, I have only a normal hangover. Not that it doesn't completely fucking suck, because it really totally does.

crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Saturday, 23 December 2006 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

vodka is a surprisingly clean drunk.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Saturday, 23 December 2006 23:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Did anyone tell Jesse that it's not xmas eve?

n/a (n/a), Sunday, 24 December 2006 01:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse, it's not xmas eve.

I am in Virginia, watching "White Christmas" with my family.

n/a (n/a), Sunday, 24 December 2006 01:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Wodka is deeeelightful. Sadly I have none. Actually vodka (more than any other liquor, for me) is for going dancing and being manic and/or coked up and busy. Everything else is for down times.

Laurel (Laurel), Sunday, 24 December 2006 01:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I am speaking to a limited audience here, I know, but I just went to a good restaurant that you should all know about. It's called Glenn's Diner, it's on Montrose near Damen, and they serve seafood. I'm normally really skittish about ordering fish at smaller places, but they seem really good.

The best part is their specials. There's the early bird special--seated before 6, you get an entree, soup, and salad for $10.95. The special that I'm reeeealy excited about is all-you-can-eat Alaskan KING crab legs for $29.95 on Tuesdays.

Tonight I had the Simon and Garfunkle tilapia, seasoned with--you can probably guess--parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme, broiled (I think), and served with string beans and roasted red potatoes.

They have a small but respectable wine list. And you can order breakfast all day.

http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=4b1&q=glenn%27s+seafood+chicago&btnG=Search

crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Sunday, 24 December 2006 06:20 (seventeen years ago) link

What's funny about crabs and lobsters is that they are the only animals I can think of that look appetizing when they are alive. It's kind of disturbing to pass the tanks in the window and get some mouth-watering action going on from looking at a living, moving creature. No other animals look so much the same alive and on a plate as these guys. This does not happen when I see a pig or a cow, but it would be funny if it did.

crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Sunday, 24 December 2006 06:33 (seventeen years ago) link


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