Perry Bible Fellowship does that last-panel reveal a lot. Still funny, though!
undeclared was great. not as endearing as F&G but that has as much to do with the setting (freshman year of college vs. high school) as anything else.
perry is way under rated in that show.
Jordan: I swear by these cameras.
Yeah, Kenan recommended the PowerShot to me when I was shopping around last year, and I have been pleased with it.
Thanks Kenan! It is as good as done.
I just realized I’ve never listened to that hugely popular Strokes album all the way through until now. It’s alright, eh?
I haven’t listened to that album in an age. Yeah, it’s excellent.
I like the second one too. Ain’t no shame!
re: powershots. i have an ancient a40 (about 6 years old now) and while it works fine and takes decent photos, the thing is so damn bulky with that one fat end that it’s too big to fit in my pocket and therefore gets left home a lot.
re: strokes. i haven’t heard that record since it came out. i had the aussie import with the different cover and nyc cops that got dropped from the american release after 9/11. it was a decent album i guess, didn’t do much for me and certainly didn’t help me understand the hype that surrounded them at the time.
Why would I have heard a Strokes album?
that “laaaaaaaaast night, shheeeeeeeeee said...” song is catchy as hell though.
I like that song. They also have occasionally hilarious stage banter. I am particularly fond of the vodka styling product comment.
“Last Night” = “American Girl.” Therefore = good.
I love stage banter.
You should get Bob Pollard’s album FULL of nothing but stage banter! I think it’s called “Relaxation of the Asshole.”
Maybe I should. I’ve always meant to get Eddie Harris’ stage banter album.
van halen from the US Fest = BEST STAGE BANTER EVER!!!
Explain.
extra loaded dlr talking shit about the clash. he’s so coked/liquored up that he stops singing in the middle of “ain’t talkin’ ’bout love” to sling shit at them.
that was the festival where they wouldn’t play unless they got $1,000,001 as david bowie was getting an even million. everyone else got peanuts.
Wasn’t it supposed to be a benefit concert?
That is rad.
FYI: I am looking at boots again and I said to my coworker “I think I’ll just get a pair of those furry Ugg boots” and she said, “If you ever wore those, I’d kick you.”
Just so you all know that I’m not alone in my irrational Ugg hate. Which also reminds me to say to Laurel: Crocs? Does NY let you wear Crocs?
yes, but the old joke was “why is it called the US Fest?” “’cause all the money goes to us!”.
but yeah, benefit or no they weren’t playing unless they got more than anyone on the bill. they said they were fine with taking a dollar more than the scale everyone else was on but when bowie got added at the 11th hour for a mil they said they needed a million one.
Fuck Van Halen
Just so you all know that I’m not alone in my irrational Ugg hate
I don’t know anyone that likes them, frankly.
xxpost Um... because they’re more of a draw than Bowie? Is that even true?
And yet I see them on ex-sorority girls around the office (uggs, not Van Halen. Van Halen rulz.)
Has anyone messed around with the beta of Windows Vista yet? I’m downloading beta 2 now. Everything I’ve read says that it’s not majorly buggy, and pretty safe to upgrade to.
dan martin you must be feverish.
in may of 83 van halen was the biggest draw in the western world i’d imagine.
OK, I guess I should have said “fuck overblown rockstar egos”. There are some decent VH tunez. I’d be very surprised if any of you are Hagar sympathizers, though.
Plus I just really like the Clash a lot more.
Jenny, NYC totally doesn’t love Crocs but I have fucked-up sore feet so I went for them, ostensibly as winter house shoes that I could run to the deli in. Of course, yesterday I walked around much more than I planned to, and my feet are now triangulated with blisters and won’t fit into anything but these rubber clogs.
dan, i just typed a long, detailed response but it read like a hysterical ilm post. so obviously that got shit canned. but for their genre they were at least as good as the clash.
Yeah, that’s cool, we don’t need any hysterical ILM shit here I don’t think. I feel your (and Jordan’s) love for VH, although if it’s the Sammy years (or whoever the clown that came after him was) then I don’t know how I feel about that.
no, when dlr left the spirit left.
whatever spirit that was.
Van Halen with DLR was the best rock band on the planet.
I *heart* Van Halen up through 1984, which I’m about half and half on. My aunt used to have a giant DLR poster in her room that depicted him shirtless and either tied to or just spread-armed up against a chain-link fence.
xpost—oh, Kenan, you’re just looking for a fight with a statement like that.
Do they have any songs I would know besides “Jump”?
The Clash is one of the most overrated bands ever.
The guitarist in the 0ptimistic is a HUGE Van Halen fan. At the end of tunes he always wants me to do this Alex Van Halen fill, the one that sounds like a motorcycle engine revving down.
xxpost They really were, though. That first VH record is one of my all-time favorite records.
Do they have any songs I would know besides “Jump”?
[edit] Singles
Year Title US Hot 100 US Mainstream Rock UK singles Album
1978 You Really Got Me 36—- Van Halen
1978 Runnin’ With The Devil 84—- Van Halen
1978 Jamie’s Cryin’—-—Van Halen
1978 Ain’t Talkin’ ’Bout Love—-—Van Halen
1979 Dance the Night Away 15—- Van Halen II
1979 Beautiful Girls 84—- Van Halen II
1980 And The Cradle Will Rock... 55—- Women and Children First
1981 So This Is Love?—15—Fair Warning
1982 (Oh) Pretty Woman 12 1—Diver Down
1982 Dancing In The Street 38 3—Diver Down
1982 Secrets—22—Diver Down
1984 Jump 1—7 1984
1984 I’ll Wait 13—- 1984
1984 Panama 13—- 1984
1984 Hot For Teacher 56 34 1984
1986 Why Can’t This Be Love 3 1 8 5150
1986 Dreams 22 6 32 5150
1986 Love Walks In 22 4—5150
1988 When It’s Love 5 1—OU812
1988 Black And Blue 34 1—OU812
1988 Finish What Ya Started 13 2 28 OU812
1988 Cabo Wabo—31—OU812
1989 Feels So Good 35 6 63 OU812
1991 Top of The World 27 1 63 For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
1991 Runaround—1—For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
1991 Poundcake—1—For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
1992 The Dream Is Over—7—For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
1992 Right Now 55 2—For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
xpost, lol
Almost all of the Haggar stuff can eat me. But I do like “Why Can’t This Be Love.”
Fun things: legitimately googling “Varicocele” at work and having your boss walk into your work space only to find pictures of giant penises on your computer screen.
1978 You Really Got Me 36—- Van Halen
1978 Runnin’ With The Devil 84—- Van Halen
1978 Jamie’s Cryin’—-—Van Halen
1978 Ain’t Talkin’ ’Bout Love—-—Van Halen
1979 Dance the Night Away 15—- Van Halen II
1979 Beautiful Girls 84—- Van Halen II
1980 And The Cradle Will Rock... 55—- Women and Children First
1981 So This Is Love?—15—Fair Warning
1982 (Oh) Pretty Woman 12 1—Diver Down
1982 Dancing In The Street 38 3—Diver Down
1982 Secrets—22—Diver Down
those first four albums are all killer. i’m with jenny on 1984 but still, cheese and all, the first four records are boss.
xpost to jenny, at least they were only pictures.
I wish I had 1984 in my car right now (no pun intended).
I came in early today, and now I’m leaving to find out if Madison has real gelato or not.
It doesn’t feel like Women and Children only had one single.
The Clash is one of the most overrated bands ever.
I can’t tell if you’re making this statement to just make waves or because you actually believe it. Either way, it’s retarded.
There are songs I’m surprised weren’t singles, like Drop Dead Legs.
then there’s a song like “house of pain” which was probably of their best straight ahead rock songs. it was on their gene simmons produced demo, played live for 10 years then finally came out on 1984 when the band could no longer agree on the quality of the newer songs.
all this VH talk is making me want to burn a j in the back of camaro then go get a mullett.
I know! I miss my cousin Darrel. He was a goofball hick piece of trash, who made my early music listening experiences so damn rockin’.
xpost to jenny, at least they were only pictures.
As opposed to actual penises?
exactly. i’m guessing if you were sitting around a some dudes from the office or perhaps just visitors or whatever where at your desk with their business draped over your monitor like some bad fringed vest it would be worse than pictures.
I’m listening to side 2 of 1984 now. The rest of the art room can just fucking deal.
around a should be around with.
or whatever where shoud be or whatever were.
later chicago.
xpost—Worse for all of us.
I guess I also know “Right Now.”
I can’t tell if you’re making this statement to just make waves or because you actually believe it. Either way, it’s retarded.
Little of both, my friend.
Granted, I’ve only heard London Calling, but I really only like a few of those songs, like the title track, “Spanish Bombs,” “Train in Vain,” and “Lost in the Supermarket.” And “Rock the Casbah” is obv. great. But there’s also plenty of Clash songs that just sound like uninteresting bar-rock to me.
If you don’t like “Rudy Can’t Fail” then you don’t have a pulse.
I wholeheartedly believe later Clash records are mostly for shit (Cut the Crap, for example) but playing the “overrated” card based on a single album is kind of feeble, no? Not that I think you’d like their first record more (it does having some “uninteresting bar-rock” tunes) but it’s also got a few that are true gems.
Rock music John doesn’t like = uninteresting bar rock? It’s a trend I’ve noticed.
I’m sorry, I just brought the ILM. This is why I don’t post there. I actually really hate arguing about music.
Yer right about me not liking “uninteresting bar-rock.” Unless that’s a term I just use for any music that I don’t like. But generally meat-and-potatoes three-chord boozy rabble-rousing ain’t my thing.
Also a trend = my favorite Clash songs (“Supermarket,” “Casbah”) are the disco ones.
How do you feel about the reggae ones?
Like which? I’m not a huge reggae fan, to be honest.
Like... well, off of London Calling, the obvious one is “Guns of Brixton.”
Fuck yes. And the aforementioned “Rudy Can’t Fail”.
I kinda like “Guns of Brixton.” In fact, I almost included it on the list of songs I like from that album. I don’t remember “Rudy Can’t Fail,” and it’s not on my iPod.
Real-lx seems to be back.
Yeah, it’s been back for about an hour. I just kept posting here b/c you guys were.
It was working off and on for me until I just checked again.
“White Man in Hammersmith Palais” is not good.
No, it’s brilliant.
Hey John, you can borrow the Undeclared DVDs from me if you want. It’s nowhere near as good as Freaks & Geeks but still entertaining, and most of the kids are pretty great. Plus, Loudon Wainwright III.
Cool — that’d be rad, Nick.
anyone home?
no? no one?
ok, well i’ll be taking a nap on the couch so try not to slam any doors when you come in alright? thanks.
HEYYYYY!
yo
The Chicago thread never, ever dies. Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name.
GOBBLE GOBBLE TURKEYS.
FUCK A BUNCH OF GIVING THANKS. WE WANT MORE BOOBS.
to explain: we ate, drank, and watched Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. We got our boobs on.
damn, that’ll teach me.
Did you know that if you forget the address of the fake ILX you can just Google it? Keywords: ILX SANDBOX.
or you can search your gmail.
This is not cutting it for me.
i’m functioning (if that’s what you want to call it) on only one working nostril. the right one has apparently been filled with concrete.
sleep on your other side tonight.
yeah, when i woke up the right was the working side. but not anymore.
Sudafed, but not the PE shit.
sleep on your other side tonight.
the real problem is that he slept on his side to begin with—it’s unnatural.
but the only way to make it work when i’m sleeping on my couch. and yes, i took sudafed last night and it worked great but i forgot to take it with me. i left it on the bookcase next to my door along with my phone.
I have so much shit to do today. I think I’m ready now. I have showered, shaved, loofahed, trimmed my unruliest body hair, lotioned, taken out the trash, sorted my laundry, swept, put away my shoes, and opened the windows to air everything out.
Who wants to touch me?
sure thing
Listening to: Anita Baker. What a set of pipes.
Alright, I’m gay. Fine. Is that what you want to hear?