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DAN, YOU MUST WAIT UNTIL YOU GIVE YOURSELF TO HIM.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I was going to say it sounds surprisingly like the Arcade Fire. But I don't get the reference, sorry. I think this is the first time I've ever listened to them.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Have you not heard "Lips Like Sugar"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link

dan, it's from "killing moon".

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link

J, no, it's not on this record (I'm listening to some co-worker's iTunes library).

"The Killing Moon" is up in a couple tracks though. I'm going to fast forward to it 'cause I think I can get out of here early again today since my boss is gons.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link

D. Cooper's chin is so bite-able.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought that "Lips Like Sugar" was kind of famous. I sort of mentally group it with "So Alive" by Love and Rockets. Probably just songs I heard on WXRT or early '90s Q101.

I think I first heard "Killing Moon" when Pavement covered it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:20 (seventeen years ago) link

my older sister LOVED echo and the bunnymen in high school/college.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I sort of mentally group it with "So Alive" by Love and Rockets.

There's maybe a larger category that also includes "Beds Are Burning" by Midnight Oil and "Under the Milky Way" by the Church.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link

And "Cuts You Up" by Peter Murphy.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:26 (seventeen years ago) link

i.e., Anglo-oriented modern rock from the late 80s with portentous booming baritone vocals.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link

You guys were busy today.

I get done with class on Thursdays at... 2:45. Yes. That's right. 2:45. Academics? Unemployed? Servers? Those with PTO to burn? Join me.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link

That's tomorrow, I mean. And in response to Dan's question above. And also we were slacking by planning happy hour so late last week.

Also, I like The Refused.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:48 (seventeen years ago) link

how many ilxors are in chicago? there seem to be more from there than any of the other major cities (save london).

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:49 (seventeen years ago) link

NYC sez ;_;

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:49 (seventeen years ago) link

;_;

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link

maybe i'm just more aware of which ones are from chicago

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link

9 maybe??

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Thank you, stranger, for putting that copier tech talk into a language I can understand!

I just had someone from career services suggest that we host a panel of women attorneys to talk about balancing family and work life or how to keep your career on track after having children. We have had three panels of women attorneys speak on those subjects just this year.

It's a stunning concept that women might be interested in the actual substance of the law instead of how we can have jobs and babies at the same time.

xp: 10 - 15?

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:51 (seventeen years ago) link

My bff Lynn talked to Ian McCulloch on the radio and he invited her "backstage" at his show in Cleveland and then reneged when he found out that she was 15.

THe end. Happy Valentine's Day.

You all better not forget to list me this time or someone's getting jacked in the jackballs.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:51 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah nyc has more, then...

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link

me jeff nick sarah john kenan jesse dan amanda horseshoe julia kevin

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't mess with my jackballs!

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I just jump-started the car of the dude who helped me with my key situation yesterday. Karma is real.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link

jaymc, nick, sarah, jeff, jenny, kevin, dan martin, amanda, deej, sparklecock... and some more. does stormy davis still live in chicago?

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

oh yeah, horseshoe, julia, and ME

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

and eric z.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Eric! Dammit I knew I would forget someone in the "core" group.

Jon via Chicago...

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Dear 70 Page Law Review Article:

I hate you.

Love,
Jenny

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link

So at least 15. Sorry dudes who I was forgetting in my count (you'll never know who!).

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link

jordan is honorary.

so is laurel. she is of a chicago temperament.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Not really. But I lubs the midwest.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link

that's more than l.a., at least. i think.

i should be honorary chicagoan, what with my roots which are deep like levar burton

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link

and then there are those who can claim dual citizenship, like hstencil, nabisco, and amateurist

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link

For purposes of ILXor head-count, though, I have to be ranked with la manzana mas grandes.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, yeah, but the question was how many are IN Chicago. I *heart* Jordan and Laurel (xp and Ama and I hear that nabisco is OTM and hstencil and I hated each other once but are BFFs now even though he probably doesn't remember BUT I DO) but they are not in Chicago and cannot be counted for the purposes of the question. Technically then neither can that guy moving here from Chapel Hill.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link

does stormy davis still live in chicago?

I'm sure he does, as long it's south of Roosevelt.

There's also Derek Erdman, jonviachicago, Josh in Chicago, econjohn, jennpb, and K3rry K3ane.

Other former Chicagoans: Phil-Two and Grady.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay this is fascinating but I have a long law review article to read. Not as long as originally feared, however; more than half of it is footnotes.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 22:59 (seventeen years ago) link

But wait you have to hear my story it's about dogs:

I just yelled at this dude in the park because he let his scary dog come running up to Carl and me and then when his dog pounced on me and almost knocked me over and I yelped he didn't even SAY anything. THen you know what he said? From like 100 feet away? When I started stomping through the snow out of the park?

"Don't you want to stay and play?"

I yelled, "NO." And Carl and I took off. I wanted to stay and play, but not with his scary dog.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Or him. That guy can suck on a walnut.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Amanda!!! Even if that big dog was harmless, which YOU had no way of knowing, you must have been TERRIFIED!

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Or an apricot.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link

No, apricots are too good for him, but gross, hurty walnuts are JUST RIGHT, sez Goldilocks.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I was not happy.
And Carl knew that I was scared and he started growling, and then I looked at the guy and was like HELP and he was just plop plop plop walking through the snow like there was nothing going on. NOT COOL PARK ETIQUETTE.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't get the walnut hate

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

They burn my mouth when I chew them. Maybe too acidic?

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link

While trying to think of Chicagoans, I remembered something -- wasn't one of us throwing a party once and this girl started a thread and was like "we can have the party at my place," even though nobody knew her? When was that?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Jaymc, if YOU don't remember, ain't NOBODY remember.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link

OK I just found it in my e-mail.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link

if i lived in chicago i would have faps with all this ilxors

xpost (!)

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link

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