Eh, not Car Talk. I want “interesting stories” that “stimulate conversation.” Documentary radio.
xp—Higher than dentists?
Kelsey to thread, obv.
npr.org has muchos podcastos, Armando.
Here’s a good place to start, though.
Ok. Thankee. I need some new material. I didn’t think I would run out so quickly, but I’m losing steam.
That wasn’t a link to Cartalk, just FYI. It’s to a program call Radio Lab:
Radio Lab® is an investigation. Each episode is a patchwork of people, sounds, stories and experiences centered around One Big Idea. On RadioLab, science bumps into culture... information sounds like music.
Radio Lab is designed for listeners who demand skepticism but appreciate wonder, who are curious about the world but who also want to be moved and surprised.
okay, I have never gotten a haircut in Chicago and I desperately need one. any recommendations?
not surprisingly, no.
YES MA’AM: Sine Qu@ Non S@lon and the Notorious Valerie B.
yay! I kiss you, Jenny!
OR: Leanne at ORBIT SAL0N, hairdresser to the stars (and by the stars I mean me, Sarah, Kelsey, and Amanda).
As much as people hate on hipsters, a lot of them are pretty hot.
— jaymc (jmcunnin...), September 1st, 2005.
i feel stupid asking, but what is a muffeletta?
i keep thinking it’s a fancy italian trim for a woman’s pubes or something.
— kelsey (kelstarr...), September 1st, 2005.
merkins
okay, I just made an appointment for tomorrow. and I told them you referred me, Jenny. yay!
An old snaggletoothed barmaid in Berkeley, Calif., took no small delight in describing to me what a merkin was.
okay, I just made an appointment for tomorrow. and I told them you referred me, Jenny. yay!
I’m bummed I couldn’t keep the domino effect going. :(
domino effect? I didn’t see your post about Orbit Sal0n until after I made the appointment, John. but if I ever get my hair cut again, I will totally try it. Chicago, all of you whom I have met have lovely hair and I completely trust your recommendations.
You are missing out on
pretty!
(Leanne is friends with my brother’s ex. Therefore my brother sees her [or at least he did when he lived in Chicago]. Therefore I see her. Therefore Kelsey sees her. Therefore several of Kelsey’s and my friends see her. Etc.)
My hair used to be that color. :(
I am experiencing red hair envy lately.
Since I see you so rarely, I still picture you with red hair.
Hehe. In a way I sort of feel like I grew out of it, but sometimes I miss it.
The ugly downside to the dyeing-hair-red equation is the prospect of becoming Crazy Old Lady Who Dyes Her Hair Red, a la Judy Baar Topinka. Or worse. I chose dignity.
I love red hair. what color is yours now, Amanda?
my roommate got her hair cut at orbit by some guy who had been recommended to her—now she rolls out of bed with her hair looking great, it’s crazy. so another recommendation for orbit.
The hair is currently a dignified brown. Dark brown. My natural color. With dyed red hair there is the constant feeling of knowing that the hair is not real, that there are people who have beautiful, thick, lovely, naturally red hair and that I am NOT and will never be one of them. It feels vaguely shameful for some reason. At least after 10 years it did.
I get that. though one of my friends dyes her hair red, and people are constantly shocked she’s not a natural redhead.
People said that to me too! It didn’t change the fact that I was not a natural redhead.
(XPOST) Yeah, and since I met you when you had red hair — which never once looked obviously dyed — your current shade still looks unnatural to me!
i lurve red heads, always have.
Even fake ones?
John, I meant to tell you and/or Kr. that I like her new hair color. Looks very nice on her. I’m not sure how “new” it is, but it’s very flattering.
Oh yeah, I’ll tell her! It’s a couple months old. (Gmail sez Sept. 22.)
yes, even the fake ones. if it’s not too shitty on saturday i’m gonna get some coffee and go down to michigan ave and do some people watching.
I toy with the idea of dying my hair but then I think about upkeep and then I just leave it.
I used to fuck with my hair all the time — bleaching it, dying it magenta or blue, making it spikey, shaving it completely (you all remember the last time I did that). None of those things made me prettier.
It’s very much like an addiction. Don’t do it. I got very accustomed to a technicolor version of myself and now, without it, I always feel hopelessly mousy. It’s worse than meth*!
*I know nothing about how bad meth is.
ALERT: Fishport on Jackson is closed. La Cocina and Chicken Planet are unaffected, thank god.
Meth mouse.
I hate hemroidal. It’s a stupid story, but basically it goes like this:
* I was in charge of ordering beverages for the office
* bossman decided it was too expensive
* Hemroid was given the new duty of driving to costco to buy drinks instead
* I told her over a week ago we were almost out of diet coke
* In the meantime, we’ve also run out of bottled water
* She storms in today and is accosted by a bunch of people at once, “We need water! We need water!”
* She glares at me and says, “Sarah! You did not tell me we were out of water.”
* I say, “I told you when we were almost out of diet coke. I figured you’d ask me what else we needed before you went to costco.”
CATFIGHT!
See? Wasn’t that story boring and uninteresting? I tried to warn you.
Anyway, screw her.
The Charlie Brown Christmas Special comes on TV tonight. YAY CHRISTMAS SPECIALS!
Basically, it’s my fault that everyone is getting dehyrdrated because they are too good for tap water, even though it’s not my responsibility to get the drinks any more.
Interesting videos showing how cocaine is made. There’s a lot of gasoline involved, and one chicken gets its head pulled off.
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/56553
(Click 1 and 2 for the video)
Hi, I read MetaFilter too.
(well, I used to, before every single FPP was commented “not worthy of FPP, already seen this, etc etc etc.)
Sarah, you should invite then to taste the crisp, clean goodness that is Lake Michigan. Make sure you use those key marketing words.
I toy with the idea of dying my hair but then I think about upkeep and then I just leave it.
i used to henna my hair, or do red highlights sometimes. it was great fun, but fuck upkeep.
and fuck the uptight people at sarah’s work.
If Lake Michigan is “crisp” and “clean” down here, I’ll eat my own shit.
DM OTM re MeFi
I have never wondered how cocaine is made, but I have always assumed that it involved getting some blood on your hands.
If Lake Michigan is “crisp” and “clean” down here, I’ll eat my own shit.
And if you drink from Lake Michigan, that’s just what you’ll be doing? Ba dum bump.
That question mark really fucks up my joke.
xpost “down here” = out in front of Gary/Chicago/Milwaukee
There was a mess o’ litter in the river this mornin’.
I think the nutcases who live out in the desert where it doesn’t rain are stealing Lake Superior. There was a movement underway a few years ago to build this huge pipeline out of Minnesota to carry water down to Arizona and shit where people just really shouldn’t be living in huge numbers because they depleted the aquifer. The plans got squashed but when I was up at the lake on Saturday the water level was down about a foot and a half to two feet from last year. It’s kind of scary.
Lake levels vary I think. I read something in the Reader about how the Great Lakes remain protected under an old international something or other.
When I worked on the boat (on Lk Mich) the water was at varying levels around the pilings and the boat sat at different heights day to day. It’s normal.
I don’t really think people are taking the water, but I have been going to this same spot on the lake for 10 years and built a dock on it and can see the lines from where the water was vs. where it is now. The lakes have tides of a couple inches but something big has to happen to make it fluctuate a few feet in a year. Maybe lighter rain/snowfall, warmer temps, I don’t know, but this is more than I’ve ever seen.
For example:
So here’s the dock we built, you can kind of see the lines on the wood from the previous year’s lake level. The horizontal boards are just above where the water was when we built it in 2001. I’m just saying it’s weird and kind of freaked me out. Global warming/climate change/etc.
Sorry for killing thread
I was at Tokyo Lunchbox.
Oh man, I can honestly say that I miss that place now that I don’t work across the street from one. I have found, however, that Annie Chung’s instant udon is a fine substitute if I add a little chili-sesame oil to make it SPICY.
I just remembered: I dreamed last night that I was friends with Lindsay Lohan. It was great. We were just beginning to be friends and were excited about laughing together. She seemed a little oblivious of her own fame, though. I forget where we were, but Ed1th F. was across the room, and I kept trying to explain to LiLo that she was infinitely more famous than Ed1th. I was like, “You’re sponsored by Blockbuster Video!” She was all fresh-faced, with wet hair.
Then you did mountains of coke.
No, that was the thing. She was as skinny as she is now, but she wasn’t all skank-a-rific or anything.
Ah, fantasy.
My ipod chopped & screwed something last night. I was listening to the N.O.R.E./Neptunes track and it was running out of power, but instead of turning off it seriously started playing the song at half tempo. In time, intelligible, just sloooowww. It was sweet as hell. Has that happened to anyone else?
That’s awesome, Jordan.
Btw, I liked the zaftig LiLo, too.
I haven’t experienced that, but I discovered that if you shake my iPod a little you can hear something rolling around inside of it. Still works fine though. 3G WHAT??!
Dan, I’m thinking about making you a mix of post-rock stuff I think you’d like.
Like what?
Directions in Music, Papa M, Tristeza, Do Make Say Think, Pullman, Dirty Three, Tortoise, Jim O’Rourke, Kaki King, Gastr Del Sol, Idyll Swords, Tara Jane O’Neil, etc. etc.
Cool. I’d love a copy too.
(Do Make Say Think blows though)
Boo. “Goodbye Enemy Airship” is my jam.
I’m all about it, but just so’s you know I already have two Tristeza recordz.
Also did I push the C0ugar record on you already? I really love it. The 0ptimistic is opening for them at the end of January, and I think they’re going back to the Bottle too.
Good to know, Dan. Actually, I have zero — but it seemed like something you would like! (My brother used to have a copy of Spine and Sensory.)
I still have only heard Cougar on MySpace, but I remember enjoying it.
Yeah, I’ve got that one and their next one. I saw them tour for that record and play at MichFest in 1999 or so. A whole day of hardcore bands with them in the middle and the stage all lit up blue. It was great.
A coworker lent me a DMST record last year and it was kind of jam-bandy and loose, with two really boring drummers. I don’t remember what record it was though.
I have two. The one I like best is & Yet & Yet.
JorCoh: Have you heard Mice Parade?
I haven’t heard most of those other bands though, just Tortoise and a couple of tracks from Directions in Music and Durrty Three.
xpost, nope, or them
Lately I have been big loving Explosions in the Sky, Mercury Program, the new Six Parts Seven record, and the Appleseed Cast double album while at work.
Here’s a good article on Mice Parade. I only have Mokoondi, an album that’s based around the cheng (Chinese harp).
I would like copies of all mixes, please. But you can save yourself a CD by just YSIing since I’ll just rip the tracks and put the CD in a drawer somewhere anyway.
I like & Yet & Yet.
A post-rock mix would be super nice because I could listen whilst studying.
Yeah, Dan asked me yesterday to recommend him some post-rock so he could listen at work without being too distracted.
Words are annoying me lately.
SACRAMENTO = AROMA SCENT
Mice Parade sounds like something I might like.
Winter Hymn Country Hymn was the DMST record I heard.
I can’t listen to music while working/reading anymore, it’s all too distracting.
Oh yeah, Winter Hymn is just okay.
I have been enjoying some Derek Bailey and Steffan Basho-Jurgen (sp?) for relaxin’ times/working/writing. No words, no distracting tempo, just vaguely melodic geetarin’. But not DISTRACTINGLY melodic. I got to the point where I found Discreet Music distractingly melodic. After that it was pure silence for a while.
People on ILM always talk about Derek Bailey. I assumed he was free jazz...?
free euro-prov
Yeah, kinda, but he just plays guitar. The stuff that I have is definitely not squawky — more noodly.
Ew.
The Arbiter of Taste has spoken.
When I’m really really really into the studies I like The Disintegration Loops. Soooooothing.
The Arbiter of Taste has spoken.
Notice how I’m keeping it brief today.
xp I’d like to hear that.