Good luck, Evan!
thanks! it wasn’t that bad.
Yay Evan! Here’s hoping my Friday exam is not that bad, either.
Meanwhile:
That reminds me of Julia.
wait, kittens are too weak to lift up pitchax—oh, i see what you did there
hi. i’m home late.
i often get that kitten-with-pickax comparison.
I think it’s your pointy ears and whiskers. And that pick ax you always carry around.
bye. i’m going to bed.
Colbert + John Zorn, now this is some funny shit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLPdrXMZTks
Hip-hopketball: A Jazzebration!!!!
jenny — that’s not real, is it?
the corpse book is getting to me. i just had elaborate dreams about rotting corpses. of course, they were underwater, and there were also pirates, and leo dicaprio was in love with a badly decomposed dead girl, so it wasn’t a total loss.
i smell movie rights!
of course, the reviews said that after the gripping opening scenes, the story settled into a lame Treasure Island rehash. Yes, my dream included reviews.
i bought a space heater last night. takes a while to heat up but it was nice sitting on the couch last night and not shivering. when i came in from my last cigarette of the night around midnight i could FEEL ACTUAL HEAT WITHIN MY APARTMENT!!! you have no idea how happy that made me.
i also went to the dominick’s in roscoe village because i was up that way and i was totally underwhelmed by the place. nothing was in stock and there were only two checkout lanes open at 7 p.m. that is unacceptable. so despite spending almost $150 at the grocery store i still have to stop by the jewel near the division el stop after work today. but i need to get some nails to hang my x-mas lights so i’ll go to the kmart that’s over there too. and i need drano. and beer. i should be writing this down instead of typing it here.
HOORAY HEAT.
I have slept for my second straight night without having to kick off the covers. We’re all reaching some kind of equilibrium.
add interpunk.com to the list of blocked websites at work. so for those keeping score or just can’t seem to get away from my incessant blathering about this, we’re up to flickr, youtube, interpunk, goner, shit sandwich, and itunes. that i’ve noticed, i’m sure there are others.
how do they determine what to block? because if they were monitoring traffic, seems like ilx would have been blocked a long time ago.
i got an email from a student last night addressed, “dear sir”
how polite.
From a paper on children’s television programming:
“...unlike older shows, that were made just to help teach kids life’s lesions.”
[a native speaker, btw — a good kid with a startlingly bad work ethic.]
kenan, i’m not sure what the creteria is. for instance, the arts & entertainment section of the boston globe is blocked but the business section is not. flickr is blocked but photobucket isn’t. certain parts of espn are blocked seemingly without rhyme or reason. almost everyplace with the word “record” in the url is blocked.
One of the girls in the office just came in expressing frustration over having tried to help her nephew, who’s in 6th grade, with a homework assignment. The assignment was to go online and find a picture of a can of avocado green paint with the price listed next to it. I can guess what the teacher was thinking, I suppose — something like one of those Wal Mart ads in the Sunday ad supplement. But nothing like that exists online. Nor would it. First of all, why would anyone buy paint online? And secondly, assuming you were going to buy paint online, why would you insist on seeing a picture of the frickin’ can? And I had a sudden flashback to every stupid homework assignment I ever had.
sounds like the teacher is redecorating her house and wants the kids to do the leg work on the comparison shopping.
That sounds like an important life lesion.
goddamn it, add music direct to the list of blocked sites. i’m trying to buy a zerostat gun as an xmas gift but have had bad luck with lp gear in the past. so now i have to spend more time looking for this thing. IF THE SITES WEREN’T BLOCKED I COULD GET BACK TO WORK A LOT F’ING FASTER.
yay for Kevin getting heat!
...“Baney taught show shave kids buying there fun.”
this paper reads like spam.
You shouldn’t be shaving kids.
Tell that to Baney.
i’ve read that sentence 15 times and it’s made me dizzy each time.
That sounds like an important life lesion.
lolz
A friend just txted me that one of his students said she wants to shoot him and never see him again. She’s autistic though, so I don’t think he has too much to worry about (at least as far as getting shot).
Yikes Jordan.
Hi, guys. It’s Sarah.
I’m glad for your heat, Kevin. I don’t understand the website blocking. Is there just one person in charge of picking out websites to block all day? Do your coworkers ever complain about it?
I feel totally out of it today, but at least I don’t feel as much pain. Also, I threw on some clothes to do some laundry downstairs and I just realized how totally awesome I must look. Consider:
* tennis shoes, no socks (but with orthodix!!)
* black slip, hanging out over
* pink gym pants
* covered on top by green t-shirt
= AWESOME
Now it’s back to playing Sudoku on the couch and moaning whenever one of the kitties breaks something.
Lucky you.
Hi.
We played a show in Milwaukee last night. It was the worst monitor mix I’ve ever heard. Actually, the balance was fine. But dude did not know how to deal with my keyboard — there was no low end whatsover. High notes were screechy and loud, low ones were completely inaudible. Makes me wonder if I should get an amp instead of going direct. Other than that, show was okay. Got home at 2 AM and am exhausted today.
John, was INDIEROCK$T*R worth seeing?
For someone that’s never really given a fuck about him in the past, I was pretty impressed. He has a cool voice: he strains for high notes, but it doesn’t weaken the tone at all, it just gives it more character. Good backing band, too.
Of course, I was also playing Tetris on my cell phone and reading The Rules of Attraction for much of the time.
(Still Sarah) How is Rules of Attraction going? Also, could you tell the keyboards sounded off on stage or did someone out in the audience tell you that later?
For someone that’s never really given a fuck about him in the past
Not an SDR3 fan, eh? Guess I’m not too surprised.
I like “Seven” a lot, which a friend put on a mixtape for me in high school, but I’ve never really investigated further. (I didn’t mean for that to sound negative at all.)
Also, could you tell the keyboards sounded off on stage or did someone out in the audience tell you that later?
It was the on-stage monitors. No one in the audience said anything, and we did have a couple of fans who made the drive from Chicago to see us (because they’re also big J.E. fans) so it might have been totally fine out there — but it was hugely disconcerting on stage. Also, it was a seated crowd that was there to see another band, so it was hard not to feel a little uncomfortable, anyway. I looked down a lot.
Man, I forgot about Sh4nk Hall. That place reminds me of high school (making my dad take me to see my drum teacher’s band, etc.).
Jordan (and everyone else) — this video has some neat drumming and wacky editing. Check it out.
That looks cool, I’ll watch it when I get home.
people be workin’?
friend of a friend who went through a windshield on monday is a-ok! bike is FFF-ed and she got a bunch of glass in her back, but otherwise she’s totally fine. and it wasn’t her fault, neither, so hopefully her bike and her trip to the ER will be covered.
driver didn’t have a license, though. :-/
That’s good to hear! No scarring, even?
I don’t think so!
what neighborhood was she in evan?
Hey dudes and dudettes — was thinking about taking Kr to Gr Zebra as a treat/x-mas gift. I know it’s all about small plates, but that makes it hard to calculate an average check just by looking at the menu. How many plates would you typically want to get for two people? Just want to make sure this is in my price range. And I know a couple of you jokers will probably say JUST PAY FOR HER GODDAMNED MEAL ALREADY. And I will do my best to bite my tongue, thanks.
JUST PAY FOR HER GODDAMNED MEAL ALREADY.
fulfilling my duty.
I think we got 5 or 6 plates, I think. Dessert and drinks and ours was about $125 with tip.
Yeah, Tribune dude says 3 plates per person. $125, though: man alive.
i heard there’s some place in bucktown called marrakech cuisine that’s knock yr socks off. little place in the back of a retail store.
just fyi
and for the love of god, john, just pay for her goddam meal already
I’ve heard of that place, Evan. I get confused by it, though, because Kr and I had our first date at Marrakech Expresso.
Moroccans be openin’ restaurants.
What retail store?
Also: Just pay for her... etc.
See, now I don’t know if you guys are being serious or not.
I was being serious, just put it that way because Otto got to ya first with the captials response.
And think of it this way: last year I spent only a little more on a nice piece of jewelry for my gf and things went to shit shortly afterward. At least this way if that happens you’ll have gotten an excellent meal out of it!
/cynic
he’s right, you know!
I wish I had spent $$$$$ on an engagement meal. :(
I just bought two books for xmas break reading:
Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago by Mike Royko and Boundaries of Her Body: A Troubling History of Women’s Rights in America by Debran Rowland
Those sound upset my neo-con stepfather pretty good.
I just bought two books for xmas break reading:
Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago by Mike Royko and Boundaries of Her Body: A Troubling History of Women’s Rights in America by Debran Rowland
Those should upset my neo-con stepfather pretty good.
SPOT THE DIFFERENCE AND WIN!
sound/should.
what do i win?
Corporations and Other Business Associations: Selected Statutes, Rules, and Forms 2006 by Charles R.T. O’Kelley and Robert B. Thompson. You can come get it Friday at 4:30 pm.
Glad he beat me to that.
You can have Corporations and Other Business Associations: Cases and Materials by the same two guys who are probably just wicked fun at parties.
oooh, lucky!
get it at 4:30, be in the depaul bookstore at 4:35.
I bet you get... $2.50.
fine with me, that’s a free coffee and donut at the forest park el station.
Hey John, I listened to clips of the stuff mentioned on that post-rock ILM thread. Some of it I wasn’t into but that Lindstrom record sounds pretty tight. The drums sound incredibly like 70’s Michael Jackson!
Argh, I copied my dad on a work e-mail. Stupid Outlook completion matching. At least he doesn’t work at GE anymore (competitor, etc.)
I should check out that thread.
I was just thinking about how I always seemed to get boned on reselling my books in college, so I started keeping them with the intent of using them as reference. This is how the copy of Words Into Type and similar such volumes ended up on my shelf.
I’ve only heard two tracks from that record, but I like them. I don’t know if I’d call it post-rock, though!
Lindstrom is post-rock now?
Come on, ppl. Space disco!
haha xpost
Yeah, I like that Lindstrom record. And it’s so trendy it’ll match your goddamn shoes.
I don’t know if I’d call it post-rock, though!
I wouldn’t either, but I still read about it on that thread. The thread where people were saying that they’re not post-rock.
Oh, and I just realized I had been reading one of jaxon’s posts and jaymc’s, i.e. why I brought it up here.
later chicago.
It’s Marrakech for dinner tonight!
JEALOUS
Sorry dude, but once I told my roomie about it there was no stopping that train.
Bring me Marrakech—14th floor computer lab. kthxbi
ditto — BZN public library, 2nd floor, near the east windows
oh shit foxored red line again today. I took the 144 bus. not bad once i was on it, but it was an hour before i got to the stop.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
CTA = Broken?
Red line fucked up, and on the Drive tonight there was one bus going 15–20 MPH with hazards flashing from downtown until I passed it at around Belmont. During that trip one of the long accordianed buses was completely broken down and blocking the right lane around Fullerton.
Yeah, I would have taken then 147, but it was broken down on Michgan Ave, blocking traffic, and there were no other ones in sight. So I had to go with my 2nd choice.
Goddamn. What the fuck is going on?
OK, so I got pretty damn lost tonight. Or as lost as it’s possible to be in such a strongly grid-following city like Chicago.
Returning from Michigan I usu. stop at the Gas City somewhere by a huge fireworks store just before the I-90 toll road starts. Or, failing that, I will get off at Exit 0 on the toll road (the stop where Jenny, Jeff and I stopped when we moved here—a smelly place).
Tonight I stopped for gas at S. Chicago Ave at 73rd. There was no return ramp that I could find. So this is what I did.
URL for this route is: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=586782
I meant to say:
You’re driving now?
power outage. I took the brown home.
Fucking hell. I knew that when they announced on the platform that the delay would be “at least 15 minutes” we were talking about at least an hour.