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Eric, I was thinking of you because the episode of The O.C. I just watched featured "Night Moves."

― jaymc, Monday, 16 April 2007 05:50 (nineteen years ago)

Eric-- Do you know a play about a woman who wants has decided to commit suicide because for no apparent reason? She tells her mother that she will fix her dinner and then go to the bathroom to shoot herself. She's not depressed, upset, or angry; she is just has decided to die. In the end she shoots herself in the bathroom. I think a woman wrote it.

― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 06:16 (nineteen years ago)

because for no apparent reason....

― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 06:17 (nineteen years ago)

'night Mother by Marsha Norman. Really good play.

As opposed to 'night Moves by Bob Seger (so good).

― Eazy, Monday, 16 April 2007 06:21 (nineteen years ago)

I just found it! http://www.storyispromise.com/night.htm Thanks though. The keywords in this search were "play suicide mother gun." This play is pretty great. I wish I had kept my Modern Drama textbook.

Maybe she is a little upset, if not depressed.

"And I can't do anything either, about my life, to change it, make it better, make me feel better about it. Like it better, make it work. But I can stop it. Shut it down, turn it off like the radio when there's nothing on I want to listen to."

Eric, have you read/seen Top Girls? And do you remember a play set in Victorian times in Africa? In it the roles are all mixed up--some men play women, women play men, grown man plays a little boy.

― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 07:05 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I've seen it a few times, and it's probably one of my favorite plays (though it's hard in production to connect the first act with the rest). Cloud Nine, also by Caryl Churchill, is the one about Victorians in Africa, and that one I've seen two so-so productions of. Top Girls is the real dazzler.

She also has a play called The Skriker that is about a thousand-year-old British shapeshifter in contemporary London who speaks like she has a brain disorder. The opening lines are:
"Heard her boast beast a roast beef eater. Daughter could spin span spick and spun the lowest form of staw into golden lion and lyonesse under the sea, dungeonesse under the castle for bad mad sad adders and takers away. NeVer marry a kingsize, well beloved. Sees a little backjack thingalingo with a long long tale awinding. May day, she cried, may pole asked me to help her. So I spin the sheaves shoves shivers into golden guild and geld and if she can't guessinggame and safety match my name then I'll take her no mistake no mister no missed her no mist no miss no me no. Is it John Jack the ladder in your stocking is it Joke? Is it Alexander Sandro Andrew Dersteignton? No 't ain't, says I, no tainted meat me after the show me what you've got. Then pointing her finger says Tom tit tot! Out of her purple lippety loppety, out of her mouthtrap, out came my secreted garden flower of my youth and beauty and the beast is six six six o'clock in the morning becomes electric stormy petrol bomb. Revengance is gold mine sweet. Fe fi fo fumbledown cottage pie crust my heart and hope to die. My mother she killed me and put me in pies for sale away and home and awayday. Peck out her eyes have it. I'll give you three wishy washy. An open grave must be fed up you go like dust in the sunlight of heart. Gobble google says the turkey turnkey key to my heart. Ready or not hear we come quick or dead of night sleep sleep tight."

― Eazy, Monday, 16 April 2007 07:41 (nineteen years ago)

I am going to have to buy some anthologies.

― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 07:55 (nineteen years ago)

I'm making a shopping list for stocking my harem. So far the must-haves are

-Brandon Flowers
-TR Knight
-Eminem

― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 07:56 (nineteen years ago)

I remember buying a ticket to see arcade fire for $8.00 at the Empty Bottle.

Then I sold it. Ha.

― Jeff, Monday, 16 April 2007 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

Warning, somewhat gross story ahead:

I got into work today and my chair was adjusted all weird, like someone else had been sitting in it. OK, not so strange, I was out on Friday and maybe someone was using my computer while I was out. Then I notice that my mouse was kind of sticky. Gross, someone was eating while using my computer. I go get some wet paper towels and clean it off. Then I start up my computer and open the internet, and notice that the last three pages visited on my computer were porn sites. ;_;

― n/a, Monday, 16 April 2007 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

the western/congress blue line pooper is back ;_;

nothing like starting your day next to homeless person scat.

― chicago kevin, Monday, 16 April 2007 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

Gross on both counts, dudes.

― dan m, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

oh man, the person i'm sharing this office with started this morning. and i've got cheap beer farts!

it's a big office but still.

― chicago kevin, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

And do you remember a play set in Victorian times in Africa? In it the roles are all mixed up--some men play women, women play men, grown man plays a little boy.

Ha, the first time I ever saw Matt from C@n@st@, he was dressed up as a woman in Cloud Nine.

― jaymc, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

OK, now that I think about it, it wasn't the FIRST time. We were also doing improv together, and we both had American Music that quarter -- but it was one of my first impressions of him.

― jaymc, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

Mornin Chicago. Hope your weekend was a roaring success.

The Departed is better the second time around, better even than I remember it being.

and i've got cheap beer farts!

Oh man I feel your pain. I do not have cheap beer farts, but I have eaten nothing but beans and vegetables all weekend. I am currently also the flatulent sort. :(

― kenan, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks for sharing, guys.

― jaymc, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

You wanna see sharing, drop by my office.

― kenan, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

Why does Kompakt hate computers? I had to insert the Field album like 10 times into my CD drive before my computer was able to read it, and this was also the case for Kompakt 100 and, if I'm not mistaken, another Kompakt release (Immer, maybe?). The ironic thing is that this is the first actual physical CD I've bought in months (I know at least Nick has the album and could YSI, but sometimes I like having artefacts), and shenanigans like this just make me want to go back to downloading everything.

― jaymc, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

Wow no kidding. Maybe it's not DRM crap but something about German CD manufacturing?

― kenan, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

btw: The Field album gets better the more I listen to it.

― kenan, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

I think maybe I just don't like "minimal techno" that much. I've decided I prefer my dance music maximal. Like, loud and crazy and dense.

― n/a, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

By the way, Sarah doesn't think my thumb is weird.

― n/a, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

Nick: are you saying The Field is minimal? I don't hear that. It's not loud and crazy, but it's fairly dense.

― kenan, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

This is the play I want to see:

Danger Zone: The Making of a Top Gun Musical
Produced by: New Millennium Theatre Company
National Pastime Theater
4139 N. Broadway
Chicago,IL

xpost, that's cute but she's mistaken

― Jordan, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

John, I dl'ed your mixes (at least the SL and SY, I'll the other one tonight). I haven't had time to listen to anything yet but thanks again.

― Jordan, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

This is for Jesse because of the tamales:

http://m.assetbar.com/achewood/autaux%3Fb%3DM%255ea11f09b8576e606bcb5038dfdb92fb821%26u%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fachewood.com%252Fcomic.php%253Fdate%253D04162007

― Jordan, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

Of course Sarah would say that. Nobody wants to spend her life with a dude with a freaky thumb.

― Jenny, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

ERIC: This makes me think of you.

― Jenny, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha. Nick said you guys thought it was weird he could bend his thumb back so far, but so can I... So maybe we both just have very flexible thumbs? Us freaky thumbers have to stick together in this cruel world.

I walked in to work today. So! pretty! out! I listened to my ipod, which I stuffed full of new-to-me tunes, like Kenan's mix, the powerpop comp, and the ratatat mixes, and junior boys remixes.

― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

DRAMA:

1. MY COFFEE POT IS BROKEN. I cleaned it yesterday by running vinegar through it a few times and halfway through the second rinse cycle it went BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE (my coffee pot beeps when it's done) and now it won't turn back on. I'm hoping the electronics just got wet or something and it will work when it dries out because otherwise it's one of those things where the mechanics work perfectly but the failure of the over-designed electronic geegaws render the whole thing worthless. I hate that so much!

2. Do you remember that terrible prof I had my first year who took points off if we used the word "not" in our papers and with whom I had many a pitched battle including one over using my laptop in class and one about how she required women to wear SKIRTS during our mock oral arguments or lose points on our grade? Well, she's up for tenure today and an intrepid 2L has drafted and circulated a petition opposing her appointment with the support of two other professors (one of whom is my favorite prof ever in the whole world ever). So that's like sweet vengeance and all, even though I'm kind of over all my issues with her now, besides just thinking she's an insane person.

― Jenny, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

I have new to me tunes on my mp3 player, too, and I am contemplating walking maybe halfway to Worker Justice, Inc. (walking from here to Bryn Mawr would be nice but it would take too long, I think).

Have you people ever heard of a band called Midlake? I listened to them for the first time last night and I liked them a lot. But then I looked at their website and they seem like pretentious wankers with a really irritating following. But I'm just going to forget I ever saw that and go back to liking the band.

― Jenny, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

This is for Jesse because of the tamales:

What is this supposed to be? What tamales?

― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

http://achewood.com/index.php?date=04162007

― Jenny, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

LOL @ WTF: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lmyyMpIBBQ&mode=related&search=

― Jenny, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

Thx Jenny. Jesse was talking about coming home with cans of Hormel tamales yesterday.

― Jordan, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

1. That video is awesome. Actually the video is OK, but I like the song a lot. It sounds just like Alanis Morrisette.

2. Kill the bitch (apply to whatever you think is applicable).

3. What does the Blue Line pooper poop on?

4. I support selectively being in denial. I suspect that's what makes a lot of great relationships work (be they relationships between 2 people or between an admiring fan and a pretentious band).

5. The case that "be they" is is my favorite case.

― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

What was the picture?

― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

OH I GOTCHA.

HA HA.

― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

You know me, and you know I'm all for irreverence, but that 9/11 video is kind of not cool....

― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

Saturday Apr 21st
at The Note

LATE SHOW 1:00AM!!
Busy Signals
Tuff Bananas
Screaming Yellow Zonkers

ugh, doors are at MIDNIGHT for this?!? the note serves until 5 a.m. on saturdays apparently.

― chicago kevin, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

4. I support selectively being in denial. I suspect that's what makes a lot of great relationships work (be they relationships between 2 people or between an admiring fan and a pretentious band).

Case in point:

By the way, Sarah doesn't think my thumb is weird.

― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

Is Eric in the hizzy?

― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

Trying to be, but the xposts keep coming up.

Wow, that's great (not the 9/11 one). At the end of it, a link led me to Alanis doing this little comic skit. She's a funny gal.

― Eazy, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

Oh wow. There she is!

― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

OK, the video to the Humps song is dumb, but the song is GREAT!

― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

OK the video is OK, AND the song is GREAT!

― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

DOOD MY SWEATER IS ON BACKWARDS AND INSIDE OUT.

― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

Hooowowowowowowowwwwowwwwwww appropriate.

― Jenny, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

Have you people ever heard of a band called Midlake? I listened to them for the first time last night and I liked them a lot. But then I looked at their website and they seem like pretentious wankers with a really irritating following. But I'm just going to forget I ever saw that and go back to liking the band.

I *love* the song "Roscoe" by Midlake. It reminds me of Fleetwood Mac's "You Make Loving Fun." The rest of the album isn't as good, but if you like what you hear, it's probably worth hearing, and I can upload it if you like, JB. I know nothing about the band's personality or reputation.

― jaymc, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

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