cunsta

That’s what I would call your band if I hated you guys (which I do not).

Come here and entertain me, all of you.

Cunt Nasty

Good start.

I spilled a few drops of Vernors on my laptop keyboard. What should I do about that? It’s making my Enter key stick a little bit. I’m afraid to pull the key off b/c I’ve done that before and it’s a bear to get back on.

I’m sorry. I don’t want to talk about that.

Cuntastic

Cuntsta?

Clearly only the dudes are online right now.

Did you know?

33. Eating a packet of crisps a day is equivalent to drinking five litres of cooking oil a year.

45. Cows can have regional accents, says a professor of phonetics, after studying cattle in Somerset

45a. BBC News online missed putting a period on that sentence, thus eroding their readership’s esteem and credibility.

Love that Reader article, and Newberry’s photo too. And you guys even get a blurb on the cover of section one. I really like that the writer works on getting the details of your stories straight, so that it covers the different influences and paths and becomes the opposite of pidgeon-holing. Viva the FFs.

Hmmm. It does not appear to be online.

I assume it appears in the music section? I’ll have to go grab a new copy since I always dispose of that part.

I’ll have to go grab a new copy since I always dispose of that part.

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I don’t read that part. I grab a copy and that and any inserts go in the trash straightaway. Sometimes I keep it with me on the train and throw it in the newspaper recycling bin.

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It’s just funny because it’s the first part that I go for.

If I take it on the El on a Thursday afternoon/evening, I leave it behind, so that if someone is coming from Rogers Park or somewhere else that doesn’t get the Reader ‘til Friday they might see it as a gift.

You can have mine.

I read the letters to the editor, Savage Love, headline articles, Perry Bible Fellowship, reviews of movies, and sometimes books and plays.

I have drunk SO MUCH Vernor’s over the past week. Like, liters and liters. Cannot get in NYC. In fact there’s a Detroit-theme bar called Motor City that has VERNOR’S SIGNS ON THE WALLS but doesn’t serve it, the lying bastards.

i love vernors.

if anyone finds a link to the ff article online, can they help a minnesotan out? i can’t find it...

It’s not online yet. It probably will go up tomorrow.

I’ve never had Vernor’s!

Oh, it’s ginger ale. I thought you were talking about a beer.

OMG The Reader! Your picture is all right there and stuff! I haven’t read the article yet, but I applaud your sweater choice, Nick.

That’s amazingly, totally, shitfuckingly awesome. Congrats you guys. Many hugs.

Hi miss Laurel!

Ok, so, tell us how you got that pic.

I’m at Jenny and Jeff’s place with Jesse. We’re watching Ravenous and eating vegetable soup. It wasn’t planned that way, but while watching this movie, we’re all very glad there’s no meat in this.

The same guy who took that photo has this neat one of Paul McCartney. Getting your photo taken by him is kind of a rites of passage in Chicago.

We should’ve had TTs at the Rainbo with you guys, just to flaunt it.

Lovely pictures!

Goodbye.

Late. Just got home. Surprisingly lucid. Going to read the book that J&J just gave me, by Royko, about Daley #1. It looks really good.

Also, listening to Skip Spence. Man, I love this record.

Thanks for the kind words, all. N3wberry was a delight to work with. Professional but relaxed and relaxing. We’ll be back tomorrow and we both have Monday off, so let’s get together and hang out in the next couple of days.

Actually, what are people doing for New Year’s Eve? We have no plans.

the bottle is sold out so unless jim or jered put me on the list (unlikely since i will not ask either of them to do this) i will probably celebrate at home. i might go to tuman’s early in the evening to get drunk but i’ll be home before midnight.

hey, is there an online version of the reader article? i want to read it!

the reader.

That’s a great article.

Any tips on where to buy a new computer online? Newegg maybe?

Great article! I sent it to all the Top Models, Sarah.

When in June are y’all getting married? Leaf & I are on the 30th . . . not that it will conflict or anything, considering that since my side of the family is so huge I’m only inviting like, one or two friends. Literally.

June 2.

Last night I heard that an acquaintance had his bachelor party the day after Xmas and is getting married on New Year’s Day. WTF? Who wants to have their anniversary on the most hungover day of the year?

Are you getting married in Chicago or Virginia or . . . .? June 2nd will be great. I actually wish we were getting married earlier or in the fall.

Do they still have Egghead Software? I used to love that place when I was a kid.

And by “they” I mean “the world.”

BABBAGE’S

That was my free-videogame-demos-at-the-mall joint as a kid.

OMG I totally forgot about that place. Yeah, it seemed like it was only in malls.

Egghead Software was founded in 1984 as a computer software retail company. It grew into a chain with over 200 stores in the United States, primarily located in shopping malls. Faced with declining revenues, in 1998, the company shifted its focus to online business, closing its retail locations and selling entirely through its egghead.com website.

Egghead was hurt by a December of 2000 revelation that hackers had accessed its systems and potentially compromised customer credit card data. The company filed for bankruptcy in August of 2001. After a deal to sell the company to Fry’s Electronics for $10 million fell through, its assets were acquired by Amazon.com for $6.1 million instead.

Among other things, Egghead’s customers could voluntarily and freely sign up for a Que Card, a card that would guarantee a slightly reduced price on certain items.

Guys, I am listening to a WALKMAN right now. Old school!

I love Walkmen. I wish I still had one.

Hi, I’m back at work. For one fucking day! I’m kind of pissed about this. But on the bright side, this is the first time I’ve come back after a few days off and haven’t had to put out a half dozen fires, so that’s good.

I echo Nick’s sentiment that we should get together and hang out sometime soon. I don’t have NYE plans either but I may be heading over to Detroit. If not, though, I’m up for anything.

Also, please accept my kudos, FFs, for a great article. I feel proud to say I know you!

i’m drinking a rice shake that includes “spirulina, blue green algae, and nutrutious grasses” in the ingredients. it’s quite delish.

in other news, i think i will finally sleep well tonight as leaf is due home this evening. i sure have missed that guy.

Where did he go? China again?

Wow, I have this awesome solo piano improvisation from like 1998, like Keith Jarrett meets Thurston Moore or something.

Now that I’ve read the article, I have to agree—it was really good! I totally laughed at the quote from Sarah about how badly it messed her up for her mom to get into Def Leppard and Nick’s Boyracer obsession. The article made me want to buy your album and be your friend all over again, seriously.

Yes to getting together. I understand EZ and Cuntstanza are playing an early show at the Beat Kitchen on Saturday. I’d really like to go to that—a 5 pm show is totally my old lady speed! Maybe we could all do that?

We don’t have NYE plans either. If I could have all my dearest wishes come true, I would want to find an uncrowded low key bar where we could all hang out and drink beer and listen to a juke box (isn’t that what I always want to do though?). Chillin’ with pals at home would be cool, too. I’m into that nowadays. Old lady thing again, I guess.

Three cheers for getting married on even days in June! Although I am like Kelsey—I wished we could have gotten married in October or November. Did you know: January is the least popular month for weddings?

I probably mentioned this before, but I am going to the Driftwood Bar for NYE. In a lot of ways, I wish I could hang out with you guys, but it’s sort of a tradition, and I’m excited about playing DJ.

Yes to getting together. I understand EZ and Cuntstanza are playing an early show at the Beat Kitchen on Saturday. I’d really like to go to that—a 5 pm show is totally my old lady speed! Maybe we could all do that?

hey, i could do that considering i’ll be at the beat kitchen for the criminal iq holiday party later that night. i wouldn’t mind getting my drunk on early.

I’d be down for that too.

also lol @ “Cuntstanza”

I am working NYE and the brilliancy that is the investing partners decided that we would be open until midnight and have a Champagne toast. The thing is, C35 is the kind of place people go early before they hit their destination. Fucking waste of my time. Except getting to drink free Champagne (or maybe just cheap bubbly—probably).

I totally laughed at the quote from Sarah about how badly it messed her up for her mom to get into Def Leppard and Nick’s Boyracer obsession.

me too! great article.

I’m depressed/angry as fuck, I don’t think I’ll be on ILX the rest of the day. Have a good weekend/New Year all.

That’s just horrible.

He’s not even the first person FROM THAT BAND to get shot. New Orleans is so fucked.

Damn. It was 5:30 in the afternoon. Was he robbed or anything, or was this just random?

I have no idea. I know exactly where that block is too. Doesn’t sound like he was robbed but I want to know if it was random or if someone had it in for him specifically.

I wondered that too. I used to drive there (Dumaine and Broad) daily and at all hours.

Sorry to kill thread. I’m at home drinking a beer and trying to get my mind right before going back to work.

Did you know him personally?

I wasn’t his best friend or anything but I went to see him play a bunch of times, sent some stuff down after the hurricane, listened to his recordings about eight million times. Some other guys in my band know him from way farther back, played in the same band, etc.

Please start talking about minutiae again people

How about this: my housemate got norovirus over Xmastime (actually Christmas morning) and so did his entire family. They all had to go to the ER to be rehydrated after spending literally hours on end puking. He says he lost close to 12 pounds over the course of a couple days due to not being able to keep anything down (and he’s a skinny guy already). Also, he passed out (while puking), fell down in the bathroom, and got a concussion!

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ WORST XMAS EVER

To top it all off, he’s still contagious apparently! I’m nervous as hell!

Sorry, that’s a little disgusting I know... but man oh man oh man I hope I’m safe.

Tho I could stand to lose a few lbs.

That’s what I was thinking. That I could stand to lose a few pounds, not you.

So if you get it and you’re contagious, I’ll come over.

Dan: norovirus is spread via fecal-oral contact

I’m just saying

me: oh dear

yet you say you’re worried about contracting it from your roommate

Dan: apparently it can be spread via other means (sneezing or whatever) but that is the primary vector

me: is there something you’d like to tell me, dan?

Dan: CORPROPHAGIA

me: you naugthy boy

I knew you were going to do that

I’m predictable.

And you used me as a means of letting the world know your secret.

IT’S TRUE I HAVE WANTED TO TELL YOU ALL FOR SO LONG

Guess I killed the thread pretty dead too

Jordan, I’m so sorry. Somebody doesn’t have to be your best friend to have an impact on your life, you know? Grief is grief. What a fucking shame, too.

Sorry to re-seriousify the thread.

Back to our regularly scheduled programming: Um, Dan... gross.

So, then shall we plan to meet up at the Beat Kitchen? Jesse has already promised me he would go. Doors open at 4:30.

We’re about to go see a movie, either Children of Men or Pan’s Labyrinth. Yay movies!

Um, Dan... gross.

if we can’t joek about shit eating on the internets, the terrorists have already won

I really want to see Children of Men.

Another time when I like my job: trying to figure out whether “Ninja Turtles” needs to be written out as “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.”

(Editor says it does.)

GR—N Z-BR-A in 2.5 hours. Currently salivating.

And listening to a recording I made in 1997. I plugged my keyboard into a guitar amp for the first time and tried to do some sort of distorted organ slather, no doubt influenced by Yo La Tengo. For some reason, though, the jam also features me horribly “scratching” my vinyl copy of Saturday Night Fever, so that occasionally you hear “stayin’ a... stay- ... stayin’ ali- ...”

i’ve been out of work for a few hours, went to lunch w/my friend n0rah and had a $25 steak, now i’m at the bar. what’s going on tonight?

What are you posting on — phone or laptop?

lapdance.

what’s going on tonight?

2x

For me, for now, video games and beerz. I feel like I haven’t really sat still for a week. But I’m up for doing something in a while after I’ve sufficently numbed my brain.

towga got me guitar hero II but it won’t load on ps2, defective disc... :(

Prob drinking w/ my sister in Grand Rapids. Exciting, I know!

fuck, i wanna go to the gerald ford library. next time you’re home laurel. seriously, if any chicagoans wanna go i’ll rent a car.

Children of Men is one of those movies where I got burned out on seeing the preview too many times (both times I saw The Departed, both times I saw Miami Vice, when I saw Babel and maybe one or two other times), especially because it seemed to give away much of the story. But now the reviews are so good that I’ll probably see it.