I think I would do very well in Seattle because I really like this weather. Not at all a big fan of silly, vapid springtime (and way less so of summer.)
Please. There is no better smell on earth than that of fresh, recently thawed mud.
Which reminds me — I got my shipment from the Alchemical Laboratory of Scents and my favorite favorite one smells like dirt + white flowers. I love it. It’s called DEATH CAP.
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not that i want to line up according to our favorite season AGAIN
Well, except for baking bread, sauteeing onions and cookies. Those smells are pretty good too.
PS Thank you Imitrex for helping me with headache.
the lack of sunlight kills me every year but moreso this year. i’m in the midst of a horrible horrible stretch right now and i’m pretty desperate to get out of town.
My favorite sample scent from the Lab is King of Hearts, which I’m wearing today. Rosewood and black cherry with white musk, red rose, red musk and a spark of lavender. I want to smell more more more scents. My only regret is that perhaps I should have chosen scents from different categories instead of just from two, but there is still a decent variety.
xpost— that smell sounds great! (I read DEATH CAMP and had a moment of wondering if maybe the Alchemical folks weren’t going a little far with the whole gothy-dark-beauty thing by making allusions to concentration camps.)
Smells I like:
Dirt
coconut
the smell of clean, fresh sweat
rain
My dumb ex hated the smell of rain, something that I could never understand. How can you actually HATE that smell? He too was not a fan of sunny days, but only because he was too fabulous to be out during sunlit hours. He had blackout curtains on his windows and would put of blankets on my windows when he stayed over. He even tacked up a quilt over the bathroom skylight. Then he and his DJ friends would hang out talking about “I just don’t understand how anyone can work a day job” like most people would say “I don’t understand how anyone can sell heroin to middleschoolers.”
Another favorite smell:
“Sparkling Snow” from Glade. I stock up on cans of this during the holidays. Also, pine-scented candles.
Kevotto, I thought you were heading south soon (I remember you mentioning making plane reservations), or was I mistaken?
Also, hi everyone. I am staying home this morning waiting for my friend to ride in from the airport. I’m also trying to motivate myself to clean the bathroom while I’m waiting, but so far have not had any luck with that.
I like winter, because I hate sweating.
I like early spring, because of cool, breezy days. And I like outdoor activities.
going to memphis but not for another 4 weeks. four weeks from this weekend.
Ha-ha.
I like winter, because I hate sweating.
2000x
All it takes to get me cleaning the bathroom is the prospect of writing a cover letter or doing homework when I’m in school.
Oooh Sarah, that one sounds goooood. I am officially an Alchemy Lab addict. It didn’t take much. I am saving one of the scents to take with me to UK so I can remember the trip when I smell it.
Do you (chilx) think customs/Homelnd Sec. will confiscate my little vial of perfume if it has a weird name?
Only if it’s bigger than what, 3oz.? I don’t think the name will have any effect.
Make sure it’s all in a ziploc bag too if you’re carrying it on. If you’re checking the bag none of this matters.
All it takes to get me cleaning the bathroom is the prospect of writing a cover letter or doing homework when I’m in school.
otm!
hi Chicago. I’m hanging out at Midway airport all day because I missed my flight home! any of y’all flying away for the holidays: don’t be an idiot like me; arrive more than an hour early for your flights.
You know how you can tell I’m gay? I lurv Bette Davis.
That is also how you can tell I’m gay. I have a copy of All About Eve displayed prominently atop my television as we speak.
i think i need to start mega-dosing vitamin d or something
2x, or get a happy lamp. Don’t make me post those Achewood strips again.
xp—Ok, cool. It’s in a tiny little vial. If only I had 3 oz. of this intoxicating elixir.
I want more of the one I want on, but also I want to smell ALL the scents, so I should just wait and then order more (different) samples in a few months.
I love the Stars song Death is Death. I keep it singing it this morning.
I want more of the one I want on
Yo soy loco from too much coffee this morning.
I keep it singing it
You know what other song I’m loving right now? Here it Goes Again by Ok Go.
testing
FOUR DAY WEEKEEEEENNNNNND
It starts with a rock show tonight and I’m going to keep the drink, food, and tunes rolling until Tuesday.
Niiicceee.
I think maybe I’ll drink around my family this Christmas, just to mix things up a bit.
Ok, I’m not complaining about a lack of presents any more. Two vendors have given me bottles of wine, one gave me chocolates, and one coworker gave me the wine & champagne out of one of her gift baskets. Then just now one of my coworkers, this guy who is NEVER in the office, gave me a $50 gift certificate to Aldo! Plus, I’ve got that $150 gift card for Nike. I’m feeling pretty set.
Whoa. There are no presents here, no Secret Santa, no Chsistmas bonuses, nothing. I’ve gotten free lunch all week, though.
towga sent me something so i’d have something to open on xmas day. and she also screwed up on the shipping so the toaster she ordered for work is also coming to me. she said she got amazon to send her one for free so i could keep the toaster but i don’t need it. anyone need a toaster?
Yes, I’ve been training classes most of the week and have been grubbling on free pastries and lots of Thanksgiving-style free lunch food.
Btw it looks like we’ve graduated from the Heart o’ Chicago motel and are staying at the Embassy Suites on State & Ohio. Walking distance to Ashkenaz?!
Sarah! I have Queen of Hearts and I don’t like it very much—too sweet. I will give it to you if you like it.
To continue a related email convo w/ Amanda on ILX—I tried wearing it to see if it worked magic with my body chemistry but no go. I seem to do best with spicy, foody smells or things that other people say smell like old lady perfume (my favorite mass market perfume EVER is Cinnabar by Este Lauder). Superduper florals might smell fine but they give me a headache. Super sweet smells just smell like I spilled something on myself.
The White Rabbit oil, without a doubt, is my favorite smell. It smells like food and spice and powdery old ladies all at once.
In summation, I also want to buy samples. Then we can have a smellin’ party!
Also: Amanda, I am glad you stopped your migraine. I cannot even imagine how dreadful that would be, especially when you have to do other things like talk to people or breathe.
Also: HS, we’re flying today and will heed your warning! Like I need any prompting to leave work early.
Free lunch sounds wonderful too. Niiiice.
Check this out. Nick tracked his present for my mom, and it was delivered to our house back on Dec 8th, which means it was stolen. :-(
Yeah, horseshoe. That sucks being stuck at the airport!
Jenny & Amanda, we DEF need a smelling party. Also we could switch out less favorite smells perhaps.
So, do you people know about Robin Thicke, Allen Thicke’s son? He is soulful. We are listening to his album at work right now and it’s pretty good.
i do not know about robin thicke. but i do know where i’ll be tonight and if anyone is still in town, come on out and join me for the snow angels at the bob inn.
I love Robin Thicke!! I need to buy his new-ish record.
Haha I also thought that would be a Jenny thread, I don’t even have to click the link to know which one it is.
So in reading about orchids, it seems like just about every orchid fanatic/collector/seller is also into bromeliads, at least to some extent. So I’ve been wondering what those were and I just discovered on flickr that I have one on my desk at work that belongs to a coworker! It looks like one of these.
I am loving this newish record, too.
Well I guess it’s flattering that you think of me when you hear “social justice.”
Sarah—pretty! I’ve enjoyed your orchid posts on your LJ, too. When are you going to try and grow orchids yourself?
Kevin, maybe you could go to a tanning salon or something. Does that work for SAD? If you become too depressed to finish biting through your toast, call one of us and we’ll come pull it off your teeth.
I’m like Jesse. I get reverse SAD and get more depressed during the hot, stupid, horrible summer. I’m okay with spring on its own except that it means that hot, stupid, horrible summer is just around the corner.
I was thinking of getting a cheapie one some time after the holidays. I’m kind of scared because I tend to kill plants, but most of my houseplants have been doing ok for a few years now, so maybe not all hope is lost. I might have to keep it at work so Toons won’t eat it, unless I build some sort of shelf in the back window where she can’t get to it.
I don’t mind sweating a few months out of the year. It feels cleansing. Also, it’s nice to get a little dirty sometimes. You appreciate showers more, for starters.
fuck, i just realized i forgot to get somone their xmas gift and now i have to go to CRATE AND FUCKING BARREL ON MICHIGAN AVE AT 5:45 THIS EVENING TO GET IT.
fuck me in the goat ass.
I went to Crate and Barrel last night to see if I was inspired by anything there as a potential gift idea but came up empty, since I have no idea if people have glass pitchers already or if they even want them. Then I went to Borders and found presents for everyone in my immediate family.
This Robin Thicke business sounds like the time I tried to convince everyone I knew in college that Jimmy Smits had a Latin rock album and that it was “actually kinda good.” I smell prank.
Why do you have to go to crate and barrel?
the time I tried to convince everyone I knew in college that Jimmy Smits had a Latin rock album and that it was “actually kinda good.”
hahahaha!
Why do you have to go to crate and barrel?
that’s where the gift i was planning to get her are. which originally were going to be house warming gifts then birthday presents but i wound up getting something else for both of those. anyway, it’s actually a somewhat thoughtful gift that i know she wants, needs, and will use. and since she’s leaving for north carolina tomorrow we’re exchanging presents tonight pre-show.
I thought the Robin Thicke thing was a joke, too, but it’s not! He even opened for John Legend recently.
Hey, so we went to Chicago Diner last night. The service was fine (I think we got lucky) and the food was good. We ordered chips and guac as an app but it was RAW chips and guac—they made the chips by dolloping corn goo onto a tray and dehydrating it. They tasted fine, but then we finished those so she brought us some regular fried corn chips and it was like, “OH that’s what this is supposed to taste like!”
Anyway, I think being a raw foodist would be very depressing.
The coworker who gave me the Aldo card just handed me a glass of wine. If everyone in the office is drinking, this could make for an interesting afternoon.
Those chips sound weird.
Nick and I ate at the Handlebar the other night and I was wondering why we don’t go there more often. We both got the three sides plate, and I got us chips & dips for an app.
“Shooter” was my summer jam last year
HI KIDS I WAS IN CHICAGO FOR ONE HOUR YESTERDAY. Now I am on le other side of le lake. Getting in trouble for stuff not-done at work. HAAAAAAY.
Sarah, enjoy yr presents! We get lots of edible stuff in my dept but everyone’s on a diet so we try to spread the sugary, buttery cheer around the offices. The champagne’s all mine, tho.
I thought you would appreciate that, John. It was a very successful prank. Unfortch, Meloy-as-Horshack has not had legs.
Laurel! SOrry I missed your txt. I was at the goddamned grocery store when i finally saw it.
The chips were kind of sweet and not very crunchy and they stuck in my teeth like craaaazy but the taste was okay. If those were the only chips I could ever eat, I would sit at home in the dark eating dehydrated corn chips and crying.
i like handlebar too, i’m not sure why i don’t go there more often as well now that i think about it.
BEGIN RANT
When I went to UBS for my tutoring dude I overheard some people actually COMPLAINING that there was a mountain of chocolate in their office. They said some shit about it being Carb Mountain and I wanted to remind them that there are plenty of people in the world — and one in that elevator — who would enjoy a piece of that mountain. People complaining about the hardship of sweets/treats in their office can zip it the fuck up.
/RANT
It is kind of annoying though, like I’m trying to stay in shape but I have absolutely no self-control when it comes to food placed it front of me.
Boo hoo.
Hey how much is the cover for your band?
I’d prefer to have the starving third world get most of the food that gets placed in front of me! I don’t need that much food to live!
It’s ten bucks. I wish I could put you on the list but we only get one slot per person, and I gave mine up because some dudes have lots of out-of-town family coming to the show.
I’ve actually always been mildly disappointed whenever I go to Handlebar. Like it’s decent enough but never outstanding.
I haven’t been to Chicago Diner in a coon’s age. I generally think other veggie restaurants do the fake-meat thing better, but their gazpacho is the best I’ve ever had.
carb mountain=happiest mountain evah!
I am feeling much better about being stuck at the airport after 2 bloody marys (consumed at 10am, special airport rules).
re: food
there is a time of year when you give in to The Plenty and this is it.
re: cover
oh, that’s fine! i’m glad to support you and am very thankful that you will provide entertainment for my parents, because i had no idea what to do with them. they’re excited!
THIS IS IT
I am going to drink on that motherfucking plane tonight. Yes indeedy!
My sudden, sharp rise in incidental alcohol consumption (like, oh I will watch some TV. And drink a beer! or I’ve got to pack, I think I’ll drink a beer!) since I finished finals suggests that I might actually end up being one of those proverbial alcoholic attorneys.
GOD THAT COVER.
Another rumor I like to perpetuate:
Kenny Loggins got married in the nude
(although I swear that I actually read this in Parade magazine at some point)
Jenny, I think any kind of graduate school drives you to alcoholism. I’ve even convinced myself that 1 gin and tonic “helps me read.”
I love how he’s looking the opposite direction of all of the hands clamoring to touch his cockles. And smiling idiotically.
OH KENNY
They know that they are considered bizarre. After all, their 1992 wedding began with the wedding party in the nude. “I saw it as a statement that [everyone] had nothing to hide,” Kenny says. Julia says she follows only “far-out’ healers and therapists, and advises Kenny to do the same. He wonders: ”Is that incredible wisdom or is she a New Age Gracie Allen?“ She even inspired Kenny, who wore a beard for 25 years, to shave. ”I was afraid Julia would say, ‘Oh, I didn’t know you looked like that!’ “ Instead, ”she discovered a new erogenous zone.“
Both had first marriages where their goal was ”to get along.“ But introspection and angst pay off, Julia says: ”The rough spots always lead us to a closer place.“
amanda, you made me snort.
whoa crazy xposting.
has anyone ever done ebay sniping? i’m kind of tempted to.
I like how KENNY HAS NO EYES.
LOL @ one gin and tonic to help you read. Shamefully, I can identify.
That cover is a perfect example of guitar-as-phallus.
I have, Julia! I got tired of being sniped, so I sniped back. It works.
One of my coworkers just complained about all the alcohol she is getting from the subcontractors. ‘I mean, COME ON! I HARDLY EVEN DRINK!’ Give it here, lady.
Waaaaaaay xpost: The Bob in is having a show? WTF
INN
Bobolink eating worm
Hi dere cute birdie!
i haven’t been to the bob inn in years, that’s where i’d go pre-show for shows at the fireside to avoid the high schoolers at the punk shows.
separated at birth?
hahahahahaha oh dear
Shit, I thought that was an unwashed Crispin Glover for a minute.
Devandra B. would shoot white light out of his eyes and when the white light it the ground it would turn into tofu wraps and hits of acid.
What’s awesome about that photoshop is I thought you whitened KL’s face a little bit, but then I looked back and realized you didn’t! Dude has natural corpse paint.
If I had more time and proper image editing software I’d decapitate some of the audience members and maybe put some blood running out of his mouth.
Note: I edited that image using http://www.fauxto.com/, which is a web-based flash image editor. You can open an image from a remote location and when you save it, you save it to their servers. It’s like the best piece of message-board related technology since the
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so is anyone going to be around for the xmas holiday or are you all going out of town?
I = leaving Saturday, back Thursday evening.
Jeff and I = leaving today, back next Wednesday.
Jesse will be here.
hello chicago, i am among you. i’m meeting sarah for a girly cupcakes and wine thing early tonight, is anything fun happening tonight that i could come along to? or is anyone interested in eating leftover cupcakes/drinking leftover wine in my fancypants hotel room?
I will be in town, but out of commission on account of parental units.
ok. i think everyone i know is going out of town. colette i don’t know who you are but upthread there’s a link to a christmas show at a dive bar called the bob inn. that’s where i’ll be tonight. then saturday night my friends eric and jeremy are spinning at the continental.
JESSE WILL HE HERE.
everyone i know but jesse will be out of town for the holidays.
:(
I’m gone Sunday afternoon through Tuesday night.
everyone i know except jesse and amanda, though she will be otherwise obligated, will be out of town for the holiday.
Damn right.
Hey Kevin, do you remember that time you and Courtney and me were drinking at the Italian Village and you yelled PROVOLONE? I think about that sometimes and laugh.
Nick and I = leaving tomorrow after work and returning the evening of the 30th (Sat)
i do remember that time jenny and in fact i yelled PROVOLONE today at my desk in place of the poly-syllabic swear word i wanted to shout.