Chicago: Become Familiar with its Distinctive Neighborhoods

Ugh. Thats why I'm really nervous about not getting my sticker. I have to drive to a small town about two hours outside the city to see my grandma on Saturday, through two or three really notorious cop "speed traps".

Anyone heard of Elon College?

If I had, I'd have used it in a crossword by now.

Jon, just git-r-done. stay out too long for lunch, whatever. what would your ideal job be?

i am in my pajamas and am unshaved. i haven't even put in my contacts yet today.

in case you were wondering

My ideal job? Bits and pieces of what I do here. Just not with a boss that is great at architecture, but horrible managing people.

My ideal job would be:

Working here, making $10K more (to start), not having to do billing or make copies (but doing more writing).

And having the job responsibility to burn Catch Thirty5 to the ground (sorry Leo Burnet Building).

Leo Burn It

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2007/01/04/2_BD_061228030608870_wideweb__300x375.jpg

my ex rolled with an expired sticker for 3 years, i think you'll be okay for a few days

A buddy of mine in college got his car towed and impounded for an expired ticket, so you know... roll the dice I guess.

A buddy of mine in college got his car towed and impounded for an expired ticket, so you know... roll the dice I guess.

well, this may not be the best time to test them. the winter parking ban starts at 3 a.m. (i think?) so the cops and tow trucks will be out in force tonight.

Shiiiiit.

nick, on the way to work i started listening to that recent seven second delay where they rebroadcast a show from '93, it's pretty f'n funny

I have the same birthday as Bo Jackson, Winston Churchill, Mark Twain, Billy Idol and Ben Stiller.

There's a good 7 Second Delay where they go back and forth playing 5 second clips from their iPods on random, and have callers vote on which person's song was better.

Happy birthday Stingy. :)

thanks!

do you think third eye blind will play semi-charmed life at the obama show? has some questionable lyrics.

they fucking better for $500 a ticket

c@n@st@ should cover 'semi-charmed life' before 3EB gets on stage. cockblock

xpost lol

will 3EB play Jumper?

http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/archives/cushman/screen/P15376.jpg

i'd pay $500 to never hear 3rd eye blind again.

I feel bad for a lot of 90s one hit wonder bands. If they never had a hit, people might think they were a decent local pop band that's cool for sticking it out. Now it's like, Better Than Ezra, wtf, why haven't they given up yet?

I saw them at BLOCKBUSTERROCKFEST (1997?)!

One time I saw this girl do Jumper at karaoke. It was a solid performance. She also complimented me on my performance of Runaway Train. The songs are somewhat similar thematically, I guess.

jaymc, that's really exciting about the show, i'm sorry you'll be partying with obama instead of me, though!

also, where is the aragon ballroom on the hierarchy of venues in chicago?

j/v/c-- i know you know this, but you need to do something about your manager. i suffered through a year with a really bad, incompetent manager who was borderline abusive by the end of it, and certainly played fucked up mind games just like the whole "i don't care if everyone else is going out early, i said you can't, so you can't" you describe above. i started writing down each incident with dates, and also writing down other shady behavior by her (she took a LOT of sick days, like at least 1 a week), and eventually got so pissed i was ready to walk out, burst into tears at my other job because of a nasty email from her. went in to the director and said i was either going to have to leave or stop working for her, and you know what? he found me another manager-- one i didn't even know was coming back to the organization, so thought wasn't an option. she was awesome and we even hang out outside work. the end.

my goal in my musical career is to be a one-hit wonder. there's something so pure about it. like they have one awesome song. and it was so awesome they could never do better.

i narrowly missed having to see hootie play at the gore/lieberman rally in 2000. (as in, i stood outside the gates until they finished on principle)

actually a lot of my favorite pop songs are one-hits. "I Touch Myself," "Groove is in the Heart," "Jesse's Girl," etc. (don't be pedantic and point out some #32 follow-up "hit" these bands had).

aragon is a huge ballroom, holds probably 2,500? i saw the pixies there and psoi open for wilco (left after psoi because it was roughly 98 degrees outside and SO MUCH WORSE inside).

i've only seen pixies at aragon. i guess it's pretty good for a larger venue? i got claustrophobic but shit was sold out obviously.

my exi rolled with an expired sticker for 3 years

pls tell 3rd eye blind guy that he had mad acting skillz in that one lifetime movie with the "girl" from "just one of the guys."

he played a ne'er-do-well boyfriend who gets his just desserts!

Didn't just about everyone on this thread go to one of those Pixies shows? I am pretty sure we lined up that way once before. I went, too.

is aragon the one by the green mill?

why would i have gone to see the pixies? :)

i went

back to class bye bye

huh. the random dude i ran into from high school at the caribou/battles concert is apparently a big deal then, they've got 3 dates there and one of them t0rt0ise is opening for them. which seems a little weird to me!

what band is he in?

oh nevermind, i see. :> one night, they were playing at the aragon and we were playing at the green mill, and i had a hilarious conversation with a drugged-up hippy girl who had wandered in afterwards. she was going on about their 20 min guitar solos and how they just, like, make it up, maaan!

(that's crazy that t0rt01se is opening!)

Never been to the Aragon. I think it's probably the biggest non-arena venue in Chicago. Q101 does their annual festival there. Bands like the White Stripes, the Strokes, and the Flaming Lips are typical, along with a lot of huge Spanish-language bands.

Wait, Colette, you know someone in U|\/|p|-|rey's McG33??

Don't you mean Umphr3y's McG33?

I saw Pixies at Lollapalooza that year, that was enough for me. I've only seen a few shows at the Riv (Sonic Youth, PJ Harvey, Belle and Sebastian, Kraftwerk), but there have seriously been no shows that I've wanted to see at the Aragon, and from what I understand, it's a pretty terrible place to see a show, anyway (bad acoustics, etc.). I don't really like big shows.