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
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
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 22 December 2006 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Friday, 22 December 2006 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Friday, 22 December 2006 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Friday, 22 December 2006 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Friday, 22 December 2006 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link
peace & love.
― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Friday, 22 December 2006 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 22 December 2006 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― robots in love (robots in love), Saturday, 23 December 2006 00:14 (seventeen years ago) link
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
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
― whoop de doodle (kenan), Saturday, 23 December 2006 04:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― robots in love (robots in love), Saturday, 23 December 2006 08:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― robots in love (robots in love), Saturday, 23 December 2006 09:00 (seventeen years ago) link
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
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
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Saturday, 23 December 2006 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Saturday, 23 December 2006 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Saturday, 23 December 2006 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― whoop de doodle (kenan), Saturday, 23 December 2006 23:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― n/a (n/a), Sunday, 24 December 2006 01:04 (seventeen years ago) link
I am in Virginia, watching "White Christmas" with my family.
― n/a (n/a), Sunday, 24 December 2006 01:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Sunday, 24 December 2006 01:35 (seventeen years ago) link
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
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Sunday, 24 December 2006 06:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 24 December 2006 06:38 (seventeen years ago) link
-- jaymc (jmcunnin...), November 29th, 2006. (jaymc) (link)
Do you want to come to dinner with me at Glenn's Diner, for breakfast cereal and seafood specials?
-- jaymc (jmcunnin...), December 18th, 2006. (jaymc) (later) (link)
Jordan -- the restaurant is Glenn's Diner at 1820 W. Montrose. I'll be there at 7, it'll be a party of 4 to 6 folks.
-- jaymc (jmcunnin...), December 20th, 2006. (jaymc) (later) (link)
― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 24 December 2006 06:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Sunday, 24 December 2006 07:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Sunday, 24 December 2006 07:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Sunday, 24 December 2006 07:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 24 December 2006 07:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 24 December 2006 07:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 24 December 2006 07:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 24 December 2006 07:37 (seventeen years ago) link
John -- do you have OCD?
― baby wizard sex (gbx), Sunday, 24 December 2006 07:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― baby wizard sex (gbx), Sunday, 24 December 2006 07:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― baby wizard sex (gbx), Sunday, 24 December 2006 07:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― baby wizard sex (gbx), Sunday, 24 December 2006 07:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 24 December 2006 08:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 24 December 2006 08:24 (seventeen years ago) link
I like movies. A lot.
― whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 24 December 2006 08:30 (seventeen years ago) link
I thought that diary you posted might have been of Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL).
― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 24 December 2006 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― baby wizard sex (gbx), Sunday, 24 December 2006 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Sunday, 24 December 2006 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Sunday, 24 December 2006 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― n/a (n/a), Sunday, 24 December 2006 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 24 December 2006 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Sunday, 24 December 2006 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― baby wizard sex (gbx), Sunday, 24 December 2006 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link