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Btw, I've totally wrestled with the "but we don't have the same taste" or "she's not as into art as I am" quandary,

yeah, last girl i had an extended relationship with had similar interests but her tastes weren't exactly mine. like we both love love LOVE music. but while i'd prefer some garage/punk thing she sat on my couch and was able to disect and perfectly articulate what she loved about the shostakovich we were listening to. she loved to cook, i loved to eat. we both dug peter sellers movies though and we both liked to stay in bed until past noon on weekends. i think that's what probably sealed the deal for me.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

sorry jordan, i'm going to a b-day party in the 'burbs.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

I dated someone who didn't read books unless they were about conspiracy theories and alien abduction, and who listened to Mr Bungle & Jucifer and told me that pop was for girls. Then we broke up. Haha.

― Laurel, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

Courtney may be interested in doing something?

I will send her a social networking message and see.

― Jordan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, I'm still trying to figure out my plans for tomorrow night. I know there's dinner and after-dinner drinks in the works, so I'm going to say no to the show, but I might be good for a couch.

― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

I could never date someone who doesn't read. I have read a couple profiles on gay.com and yahoo like this. One said (approximately) " I watch TV and enjoy movies, and I'm an actor, so I read scripts, so don't tell me that I'm missing out on a whole world, blah, blah, blah."

― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Was last night's L O S T any good? I don't want spoilers, I just want to know if I should be excited or not.

― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

I dated someone who didn't read books unless they were about conspiracy theories and alien abduction, and who listened to Mr Bungle & Jucifer and told me that pop was for girls.

lol I KNOW THAT GUY. He's a douche and a half.

― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

I don't read fiction very easily. This is a problem for some people who shall remain nameless. But I love nonfiction books about science!

― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

Especially science that involves food, drugs, or dead bodies!

― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

we both dug peter sellers movies though and we both liked to stay in bed until past noon on weekends.

i just sent a poorly thought out email to said young woman. i forgot about the nasty song she wrote about me and i really wish gmail and a recall message option at this point.

:-(

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

Lost was pretty consistent with the last few episodes. So, pretty good. They're starting to put some of the plot pieces together, which is nice.

― n/a, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, last night's episode was consistent in quality with the last few; i.e., pretty good.

― n/a, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

Good. I'll watch it tonight.

I'm having trouble making it through Special Topics in Calamity Physics (a work of fiction, if the title was confusing) -- the narrator is just so annoyingly precocious. Maybe if she learns to drop the Daddy-worship, it'll get better.

― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

i've missed the last few weeks, last one i saw i think was the one where they got the van going, maybe the one after that. i've had a standing appointment for drinks on wednesdays but i didn't go last night.

anyone want to get some tt action gonig tonight?

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

The problem with conspiracy-theory rockstar was that he WASN'T a douche, he was a really nice, honest guy...it just drove me batshit crazy that he had to simplify every decision to a place where it was so un-nuanced that it was hardly worth discussing anymore, hence "pop is for girls", "social causes are for liberals", etc.

― Laurel, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

Cool, I have your number. I also might be able to crash at my friend Nick's house, I just remembered.

xpost

― Jordan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

I'm having trouble making it through Special Topics in Calamity Physics (a work of fiction, if the title was confusing) -- the narrator is just so annoyingly precocious. Maybe if she learns to drop the Daddy-worship, it'll get better.

She doesn't. That book was very annoying.

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

(Are we going to get to see her picture in this thread, John?)

Jordan, I'm playing a show tomorrow night but there could be room in the attic here to crash.

― Eazy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

Book-jacket photo still hot:

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/resources/2006/10/marisha%20pessl%20better%20silent.jpg

― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

Yup

http://booksense-stores.booksense.com/images/stores/1657/storeevents/pesslweb.jpg

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

it just drove me batshit crazy that he had to simplify every decision to a place where it was so un-nuanced that it was hardly worth discussing anymore

uh oh i think i just had a moment of awful self-recognition

― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

*shivers*

*decides to forget*

― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

oh wow.

beartrap to mr. que.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

man, i CAN NOT WAIT until it's warm and women aren't buried under layers of wool and gortex and hats and scarves. hope springs fucking eternal, even in the face of history and reason.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

I can't wait either.

― KitCat, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

pessl is cute, but in person not nearly as much

http://www.thegogglesdonothing.com/archives/bookread.jpg

― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

That's probably just a bad pic. She's cute, just kind of teethy.

― KitCat, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

http://duranduran.no/cms/images/stories/nu_shooz-i_cant_wait.jpg

― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

also, i have it on good authority that she's a whiny over-entitled bitch

― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

nice, dude. real nice.

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

i should not repeat second hand stories, i don't guess, but one hears things

― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

i guess maybe you should repeat it, for the benefit of mankind

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

It's hard, because I want to give her the benefit of the doubt of writing a *character* who lacks self-awareness re: her own pretentiousness, but I keep suspecting that Pessl drops all these literary/cinematic references specifically to show off how erudite she (the author) is.

― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

xpost nah, i'd mess it up

― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

but I keep suspecting that Pessl drops all these literary/cinematic references specifically to show off how erudite she (the author) is.

Also: her references got really really old after awhile, and it's a long book.

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

The damn thread is still in italics past a certain post if you load all the answers.

― dan m, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

TONIGHT'S GONNA BE AWKWARD FEST 2007!

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

How so?

― KitCat, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

a confluence of people and situations and suspicions and accusations and recriminations and petty jealousies and drugs in the confines of ronny's.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

neat!

― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

no. not neat. the more i think about it the less neat it gets. but i'm going anyway.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds like a line from a Paul Simon song.

― Eazy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

AWKWARD FEST ~~2007~~1996!

S.L.M.P.N.

― dan m, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

Paul Simon's "a confluence of people and situations and suspicions and accusations and recriminations" is a classic!

― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

and with every email in it gets more and more convoluted. if i play my cards right i won't even get punched out in all this.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure you can arrange for someone else to get punched out, there's certainly no shortage of candidates.

― Laurel, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

petty jealousies and drugs
in the confines of Ronny's

― Eazy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

I'll get your back if need be.

― dan m, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

negotiations and punch-outs
are often mistaken
for one and the same

― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

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