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Sarah and I can't do Trat. 10 on Friday, because we are looking at a POTENTIAL WEDDING VENUE and then having a LAST-MINUTE BAND PRACTICE for the show on SATURDAY at the HIDEOUT. Which is too bad because I love GORGING MYSELF ON ITALIAN FOOD.

n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 09:28 (twenty years ago)

Nick, why were you posting at 5.28 am?

Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 13:00 (twenty years ago)

That's when he gets up.

Good morning, my little sparrows.

The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 13:18 (twenty years ago)

Chirper chirper. Oh who am I kidding, am I a) hungover or b) sleep-deprived? FEEL FREE TO PICK MORE THAN ONE.

Italian food? What time, I'm there.

Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 13:21 (twenty years ago)

i'll guess equal parts a & b.

i'm only b. i have a squishy spot on my head where i think i can touch my brain. it hurts.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 13:41 (twenty years ago)

I am sick. Actually, truly sick. I feel like I'm on the verge of this often, but I woke up and had to puke last night. Ugh.

Man Man (kenan), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:10 (twenty years ago)

Today, I got in the elevator at school with five FIVE people wearing iPod shitphones, all of which were leaking their music out into the crowded, small elevator space and I wanted to murder.

Earlier, on the Clark St. bus, I sat next to a man who was reading from a musical score (in a book form, like whem you buy the BIG BOOK OF SUPER 70S HITS FOR THE SAXAPHONE) and was HUMMING and TAPPING HIS FOOT to the music only he could hear.

Today is a day that I dislike music.

Safety First (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:20 (twenty years ago)

Note: I am pretty sure I once owned the Big Book of Super 70s Hits for the Saxaphone.

Safety First (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:23 (twenty years ago)

i don't have a problem with ipod headphones at all, although i've lost mine. but in contrast to the new ones i bought that go around the back of your head, the sound quality is about the same and the ipod ones were a lot more comfortable, since nothing was pressing down behind my ears.

jaymc @ rrrobyn's (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:24 (twenty years ago)

I really like and recommend my Sony noise-canceling big old over-the-top-of-the-head headphones. No hanging on ears, very little leakage, better sound, less deafness.

The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:25 (twenty years ago)

I want to hear people wearing headphones singing a song they love.

I want people to get onstage and sing a song they love while wearing headphones.

Last week I was at the Virgin store on Michigan, and a this well-dressed middle-aged African-American gent was singing "Hung Up" with kind of a falsetto voice, verses, and all I could hear of it was his singing. It was beautiful and weird.

Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:27 (twenty years ago)

I have Sony in yer ear earphones and I like them a lot. They are comfortable and cancel sound fine enough and are cheap enough that I can lose one pair a year.

Safety First (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:29 (twenty years ago)

Last song I sang while wearing my headphones: "What Is Life" by George Harrison. Goddammit I love that song. Will one of you please cover that song so I can play the Irene in the corner and sing backup?

The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:30 (twenty years ago)

I realize that I should not say "goddammit" and talk about that song at the same time, that it's probably heresy, but I love it JUST THAT MUCH.

The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:31 (twenty years ago)

xxpost Eric, I will sing "Adult Education" by Hall and Oates. Which is what I'm listening to now.

Or maybe "Erotic City," which is what the song just changed to.

All of my purple life...

Man Man (kenan), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:31 (twenty years ago)

So, I'm at a public computer at school, right? In a computer lab. And a lot of people save documents into the my documents folders and just leave them there. I've probably done it, too, although I try not to. So as I'm saving my 65 fucking page Wills and Trusts outline, I notice there is a document in there called "Promotional Modelling Resume." I usually don't look at the random docs in the My Documents folders of public computers at work because they are all law-related and deadly boring. But I looked at this one. I would like to share some highlights with you:

Objective: I am looking to secure a fun-vibrant position as a promotional model, or bartender...

Work Experience includes such gems as:
I was a in action hero is playing the role of the “Suck Up” in a life size doll box... I was also responsible for carrying my box to the van after each location

Major duties also included line control and answering easy questions.

My duties included getting my make up done and changing back stage into at the speed of light. Then walking the runway as I only know how with grace, poise, attitude and elegance.

Safety First (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:33 (twenty years ago)

I really like and recommend my Sony noise-canceling big old over-the-top-of-the-head headphones.

i have broken more of these in the past 5 years than i care to recount. i use my ipod ear buds and i don't care about leakage. it's at a lower volume than someone talking on the train, if you can hear it at all. my ex was in town a couple of weeks ago and bought me a pair of better fitting (and way more expensive) ear buds but the sound was too bright and they fit too well. without any leakage of sound i couldn't find a happy medium of being able to hear over the rattle of the blue line and being too loud for comfort. they sure were snug though.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:33 (twenty years ago)

Things to stick in your ears:

1. earplugs
2. Q-tips

That's it.

Man Man (kenan), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:35 (twenty years ago)

Last song I sang while wearing my headphones: "What Is Life" by George Harrison.

last song i sung was last night in my living room, no headphones necessary as i wailed along to "bo diddley is a gunslinger". i was flipping bo 45s for a while last night.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:36 (twenty years ago)

i'd had an arrangement thru freecycle with someone who needed boxes, and not only was she an hour later than we'd agreed last night, she took very little. we have this massive stack of boxes, and she barely made a dent. grrr.

i hate behind-your-head headphones. and the ipod type.

i broke my good headphones a long time ago and now i buy some once in a while, but they're never quite right and i always return them.

Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:37 (twenty years ago)

How did getting home go, Dan? (read: tell me how right I was, haha!)

I ended up catching a 2 right in front of work (it was there when I walked out.) It took a little longer than usual, but not much.

My laptop appears to have died. I am taking it to the @pple Store today to see how much it will cost to fix. I am not looking forward to this.

Peeps c/should come to my friend's art show on Friday if they want to.

Golden Girls

It's like I'm their fucking street team.

xpost I have a badass pair of Mac headphones that came with my dad's G3 Powerbook. OLD SKOOL

Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:38 (twenty years ago)

i hate behind-your-head headphones. and the ipod type.

I hate "bud" earphones, as you can probably tell, but the behind-your-head type aren't much different than the over-your-head type. To me.

Man Man (kenan), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:43 (twenty years ago)

See, Kenan doing 'Adult Education' and Evan doing "Bo Diddley is a Gunslinger' - a capella but with the song in their head - this could be fantastic. 'manda, you should send me this 'What Is Life' because I don't know it - a hole in my adult education.

Oh, and what if you had someone like John C. pressing play on 'Adult Education' at the same moment and assign him the 'oh yeah, oh yeahs'.

Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:46 (twenty years ago)

There's this game you can play on the iPod -- name this track. It plays you a snippet of a track on your iPod, and gives you a list of titles to choose from. It's suprisingly hard, especially with any music that has no words, and that you've never thought much about the title of. Is this Dabrye or some old-ass Nightmares on Wax track? I DON'T KNOW.

xpost I love that Eric is old enough to be intimately familiar with "Adult Education."

Man Man (kenan), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:48 (twenty years ago)

In junior high I listened to WLOL (LOL = Land o' Lakes) all the time, whenever the song made the top 40. For a background singer there's also "aaaaaadult adult...aaaaaadult adult".

Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:52 (twenty years ago)

I feel like Jenny, Julia, Eric, Otto and I have some sort of special thirty-something connection, while the rest of you are standing behind a car that's speeding away, covered in dirt and trying to spit it all out.

Man Man (kenan), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:54 (twenty years ago)

Excuse me?

The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:55 (twenty years ago)

que?

otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:58 (twenty years ago)

What's weird is how much of the retro culture we grew up in as kids (Happy Days, Grease, theme diners, She Na Na, Wolfman Jack, etc.) was nostalgia material for the thirty-somethings then.

Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:58 (twenty years ago)

xpost to Amanda

haha sorry. You're kind of the supreme authority on the 80's around here, and I don't know how I forgot you.

Man Man (kenan), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:59 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, well... we're younger! If it's a question of that or the speeding car, I'm walking, thank you.

Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:01 (twenty years ago)

You're covered in dirt, dude!

Man Man (kenan), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:02 (twenty years ago)

The dirt will be cleansed easily from my fresh young skin!

Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:04 (twenty years ago)

There's this game you can play on the iPod -- name this track. It plays you a snippet of a track on your iPod, and gives you a list of titles to choose from. It's suprisingly hard

I kind of love this, because every time you get something wrong, there's shame because it's a song THAT YOU HAVE. And then you go, "Maybe I should listen to that more."

Man Man (kenan), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:04 (twenty years ago)

i can honestly say that the retro aspects of the above mentioned affected me to almost no degree. i've never been to a theme diner, didn't see grease until college, avoided sha na na because even to a pre-pubescent me it obviously blew, and wolfman jack was just another oldies dj who played the same tunes my dad was playing on the stereo anyway. i was completely oblivious to any knowledge that these parts were part of a larger fabric of nostalgia.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:06 (twenty years ago)

i've never been to a theme diner

avoided sha na na

wolfman jack was just another oldies dj

Oh, hi. WTF are you talking about?

Man Man (kenan), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:09 (twenty years ago)

We're not talking about the movie "American Graffiti" dude. Take it to I Love Film.

Man Man (kenan), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:11 (twenty years ago)

'Grease' is retro-retro now, 1950s-nostalgia made in the 1970s - la double nostalgie. The skinny tie is early-60s nostalgia made in the early 80s. This is a fun game. Interpol...

Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:13 (twenty years ago)

What's weird is how much of the retro culture we grew up in as kids (Happy Days, Grease, theme diners, She Na Na, Wolfman Jack, etc.) was nostalgia material for the thirty-somethings then.
-- Eazy (chicagoflaneu...), Today 10:58 AM.

that.
what's unclear? never been to theme diner (unless denny's counts), think sha na na can go shit in their collective hat, and wolfman jack played the same songs my dad would play saturday afternoons on the record player.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:14 (twenty years ago)

You don't understand. What I'm saying is that you're talking about something totally unrelated to Hall and Oates, Prince, Cyndi Lauper, what have you. I think I speak for everyone when I say that I have no opinion at all on Sha Na Na.

Man Man (kenan), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:18 (twenty years ago)

Good God man, how old ARE you?

Man Man (kenan), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:19 (twenty years ago)

yeah, i guess it wasn't clear that i was responding to ez's post. sorry?

otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:19 (twenty years ago)

10 days older than water.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:19 (twenty years ago)

I took too sharp a left turn and Otto was in the passenger seat.

Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:20 (twenty years ago)

haha

Man Man (kenan), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:21 (twenty years ago)

I was comparing our 80s nostalgia as thirty-somethings to the 1950s nostalgia that we grew up around in the late 70s early 80s. I'm saying that we are old rockabilly dudes now.

Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:21 (twenty years ago)

The dirt will be cleansed easily from my fresh young skin!

Haha, awesome. I'm a little disappointed that you didn't take the Red Line last night, though. Now you can't tell any of your coworkers how totally easy it was.

re: headphones, I recently lost my nice ones after carrying them in my hoodie pockets after a night out so I'm bag to really big over-ear Sonys with slightly muddy sound that make my head/ears sweat after a while.

I will be singing "Leaf House" by Animal Collective. I can get behind "Erotic City," though.

Funny that that model had an "Objective" on her resume, because when I worked as a resume reviewer, that was absolutely considered over and a no-no. They're always so lame, too.

regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:23 (twenty years ago)

It's weird. I'm sick and I feel shit and I TOTALLY feel like being mean to someone, but today Dave is not that guy. What gives?

Man Man (kenan), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:26 (twenty years ago)

You can be mean to me because I'm about to leave. Today we get bought lunch by the bosses for our AWESOEM JOB PERFORMANCE. For some reason we're going to Pizzeria Due? This also gives me a chance to drop off my poor iBook with the repair people. Why didn't I buy applecare?

Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:30 (twenty years ago)

BIZARRO WORLD (XP)

Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:31 (twenty years ago)


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