balaban balaban balaban

Sarah and I learned on PBS that bonobos are continually doing it.

I hear this, too. I doubt I would want to see it.

Babalan 5

i kill thread

I am very frustrated that I can’t sign in to stupid myspace right now, I have to reply to someone’s message about a gig.

Hey EZ — Lavender Diamond is coming to the EB. Wanna go? I do. 5/27

YES YES YES. I doubt it would sell out, but maybe we should get tix in case there’s a tsunami of hype when Matador finally puts out their record.

MY FAVORITE BAND OF 2004–2007.

MAYBE I CAN OPEN FOR THEM.

I think we’re inquiring about that show.

Fuck you, it’s mine!!!

heh.

Wow, and Electrelane on 5/22 too.

nick, sarah, what time are you guys playing tomorrow? i think i’ll be done doing what i need to do around 11-ish.

Don’t know, Kevin, but we probably won’t start until at least then. We are third out of four bands.

cool, hopefully i’ll see you then.

EZ — did you see this item on Carl W’s blog?

Pitchfork reports that Joanna Newsom is going to put out an EP featuring her live band with one new song (probably the song fans have been calling Shreddy or Colleen, of which you can hear about 30 badly recorded seconds here) and one track each from Ys and Milk-Eyed Mender. I’ve never seen the band, which features tambura, accordion, drums, percussion and back-up vocals, but by the accounts and samples I’ve heard, I’m inclined to prefer the Balkan-influenced arrangements over the album’s orchestral versions. It’s a shame that the EP’s only three songs. However, you can’t beat the title: Joanna Newsom and the Ys Street Band—just another sign of the current Second Coming of Springsteenism on the indie side of the street.

I’d like to hear that, for sure.

I just realized that Windish is Lavender D.‘s booking agent, so between them and Matador they’ve probably got a band of their own to give a break to.

For all the jaymc.xls fans out there, I just remembered that in fourth grade, I kept a steno pad with profiles of all of my classmates: where they lived, their parents and siblings names, birthdays, etc. Sort of a proto-MySpace back in 1988.

crepey

Electrelane on 5/22

I am all over this.

something smells like baking bread/melting butter in here. it could just be an impending stroke however.

I am not even making a pretense to work today. I haven’t even printed out an article to edit yet, so that I have something on my desk to look busy with.

good going, sport!

The other day I could totally smell wasabi in my living room. I got pissed for a second thinking my roomie had gotten sushi and not let me get in on it.

I can’t decide if I want to live alone or with a roommate next year. One of the guys from the band really wants to get a place...on one hand I like living alone, but on the other maybe it would get me to hang out more?

You should live alone ... in Chicago.

I want cherry pie. I thought I could even taste it, but then I realized that, no, that’s the taste of cheese.

there’s an awesome apartment about 2 blocks south of me that is for rent, i looked at the building 2 years ago and really really wanted to live there but someone else moved in first and now it’s open again and i’m not ready to move yet so i’ll lose out on it again causing me mental anguish heartbreak and run on sentencing.

If someone can find me a great-paying QA job in Chicago, then I’m there.

Yeah, Jordan. You should move here.

The company my roommate works for is almost always hiring testers. The thing is, the place kind of sucks to work at. I don’t know how he’s lasted as long as he has there — probably because he’s not afraid to be an asshole.

Do you ever wish you didn’t have to eat? I feel like I spend 75 percent of my time and money on food.

uhm, i spend 75% of my time and money on beer and records.

being warm blooded is a bitch, ain’t it.

Eating can be a pain, but I do love me some flavors.

Man, I luuuhhuhve eating. Sometimes I realize that outside scheduling cues or etc are telling me to eat but I’m not hungry and the thought flashes through my head, “NOW what do I do with my time?”

smoke.

No, eating is the highlight(s) of my day.

oh, hey, chicago, if you’re not doing anything tonight there’s a show at betty’s blue star with the mans, lafayette indiana’s #1 proto/mildly retarded rock ’n’ roll duo.

Yes, that’s why I have so many bad habits, the recurring thought of “...NOW what?”

whenever i think “ok, now what” i grab a beer, get a smoke, or start to read. sometimes all three. depends on how much time i have, where i am, what i’ll be doing later etc.

huh, some friends of mine are playing a show at heartbreakers in milwaukee at the end of next month. i’m almost interested enough to go up there to see how that goes.

Got two possible QA leads, Jordan—I’ll check ’em out.

I wanna play a show at a place called Heartbreakers.

it’s a, uhm, gentleman’s club. aparently band on one stage, regular artistic expression on the main stage simultaneously.

YES YES YES. I doubt it would sell out, but maybe we should get tix in case there’s a tsunami of hype when Matador finally puts out their record.

Oh, don’t worry. I am always the person buying tix ahead when they let me. Even for shows that no one cares about. I’m not about to get all the way there to find myself disappointed. When does record come out? I only have the EP.

Also, I feel like I spend 75% of my time and money on food, but I don’t mind. I would rather spend it on food than on something I don’t enjoy. Like surgery.

Jordan, what kind of QA work? Software?

Yeah, I was technically in QA a couple years ago, but it basically meant proofreading.

I’m going to fall asleep RIGHT HERE. Someone start talking.

9. Bonobo monkeys are very affectionate.

This is going on my quiz for tomorrow in the “identify the parts of speech” section.

Please give me more simple sentences.

Without complex (multiword) verbs — action verbs preferred. I need 4 more. Also try to use a past participle as an adjective. Go.

A lady copy editor just complemented me on my U.P. t-shirt. I was kind of embarassed since I’m only wearing it because I’m behind on laundry.

10. A lady copy editor complimented my t-shirt.

3 more

i went to the post office to mail my movies.

i am going to a bar to drink a thousand beers.

i plan on being hungover at work tomorrow.

thank you

one more

plan on is a phrasal verb and very confusing in this context

try again

i will be hungover at work tomorrow.

gimme a compound subject

Part 2: Parts of Speech

Identify the parts of speech for the underlined words. (This should be review…)

7. I applied for that job yesterday.

8. Bonobo monkeys are very affectionate.

9. A female editor complimented my t-shirt yesterday.

10. Before we eat dinner, Dan and I usually watch The Simpsons.

11. I went to the post office to mail my movies to Netflix.

I am accepting more submissions to replace #7

Everyone thinks....

nah, scratch that.

i made you a cookie but i eated it

Kenan and Jesse work at the glove factory.

This will be #7 until someone gives me a better option.

The giant ball is made of pants.

kevin and his liver are no longer on speaking terms.

This are Two-tone

Kevin and his family like to eat fried liver.

I can’t wait until you all help me write the midterm.

Jughead has gone the gay way.

I am trying to determine if I’ve got it in me to play in a soccer league this summer. I’d be a goalie ’cause I have no skillz and I’m huge.

Dan has decided to play in a soccer league this summer.

That was quick!

I’d like to play in some tennis tournaments. I can’t take the commitment of a league.

Dan, how are your knees and do you have insurance? That seems to be the deciding factor....

Also how much do you like to sweat under loads of protective gear?

PS My extra credit question was to write at least two sentences describing the ball of pants photo, using at least one adjective and one adverb.

knees: middlin’

insurance: yes

Loads of protective gear? I think they get some gloves...

Shin guards! And possibly knee braces.

I doubt this league will be that serious, but who knows.

I’m pretty sure everyone needs shin guards, actually. I mean, would YOU wade into a forest of kicking feet without them?

A very good point!

i want to start playing golf again this year. i haven’t played since i moved to chicago. : (

I love golf.

this is not something that one would immediately intuit about me, but it’s true. I also enjoy that most broville of video games: Golden Tee.

also, thanks to the buy one get one free offer at jewel this week i have eaten an entire package of thomas’ bagels today. the bagels alone gave me 128% of my daily allowance of sodium. also 66 grams of protein, 1720 calories, 18% of my fat intake, 114% of my carbohydrates, and 72% of my dietary fiber*

*Percet Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.

fuck golden tee. i only play unless there is no other video game available. also, about 2 months ago me and this dude john got hustled at golden tee at tuman’s by a couple of serbians. i think we bought out for $10 each after the 4th hole.

How come YOU had to buy out when you’d been hustled?

we were playing for two or three dollars a hole? must have been two. it was obvious we were going to lose all 18 so we bought out for 10 bucks.

In addition to having never skied, I’ve also never played regulation (not mini-) golf. I think Joe Coverdill (who once coached Denver Nuggets star Dan Issel) taught me us how to swing the club in 6th-grade gym class, but that was the extent of it.

I can’t believe I haven’t played any of you at golden tee. I love golden tee, but no one ever wants to play. (I’m not that good).

jeff i suck at it and at that bar in lincoln park i think i played 6 holes. but you may have left by then.

If you’re going to suck at something, video golf is not a bad thing to suck at.

i would say self-harm or suicide would be a better thing to be wildly unsuccessful at.

hey, i didn’t say it was the BEST.

true. the best would be to suck at being unsuccessful in every endeavor.