Chicago: Become Familiar with its Distinctive Neighborhoods

Yeah, I respect Jesse's prof's statement.

EZ's greatest achievement just came up on shuffle in my iTunes... that achievement being his cover of "Word Up".

Closely tied with my four seconds in Mallrats.

I was also an extra in In The Line of Duty, a TV movie starring Arkin and Turturro. Adam Arkin and Nicholas Turturro, that is.

haha

Adam Arkin is great!

"You are lucky to get my criticism. You think the world's going to give a shit that you like to be creative? You're going to work and work and most of the time be lucky if you are met with indifference."

http://www.hbo.com/sixfeetunder/img/90x94/characters/oliver.jpg

Sorry, that's the only picture of that dude I could find.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/images/alec-baldwin-glengarry-glen-ross.jpg

"You are lucky to get my criticism. You think the world's going to give a shit that you like to be creative? You're going to work and work and most of the time be lucky if you are met with indifference."

in any case, none of the students i was inputting grades for got lower than an A-. they're turning in final projects tomorrow, and he wanted to do the grades today so he was like "just input As for everyone as their final project" which is 20% of the total grade! i wanted to call them all and say "don't do an all-nighter! anything you turn in will be fine!"

xpost-- ha, there's a lot of AIDA in the book i'm working on.

If I can do/see one thing during the day Sunday, what should it be?

I guess it bears mentioning that that professor was reacting to a couple young students who were upset and whiny because the professor pointed out flaws and mistakes in their drawings. Their argument was, "It's art, so how dare you tell me it's wrong?" And his responsewas OTM: "What we are doing here is not art, but exercises that will facilitate the production of art," followed by other stuff including what I quoted above.

I thought he was an awesome teacher, and he is/was our friend Brian's closest mentor.

Oh, here he is http://www.michaelananian.com/

I'm going to remember that line. Thanks.

Sorry I can't give you much Sunday advice. I would probably go window shopping.

The top of the Hancock Tower is my standby for tourists--you get a great view for the cost of a drink, which costs about the same as entrance to the Sears Tower observation deck.

Sundar, name three general things you are interested in or like to do when on vacation and we'll give you the must-do. wouldn't want to send a museum-lover to the hideout to see shellac this sunday at 11 a.m.

Fair point. I'll probably be live music-ed out. Museums/galleries/films are good. Interesting restaurants, places to try microbrews/imports. Interesting architectural sights. I don't really know anything about the Midwest (though, according to Michael Moore, it starts at Buffalo.)

You could take the green line out to oak park and tour frank lloyd wright's home and studio and then go to the hopleaf on sunday night for beers and a pail of mussels.

Oh and in between see 'too much light makes the baby go blind' at 7 p.m. and when it's over at 8 go around the corner to the hopleaf. That would be a fine sunday.

Or you could reverse those, since there's no better time to be at Hopleaf than Sunday in the late afternoon.

Man, neither "I'm Not There" nor "The Mist" are going to fit into my schedule this afternoon. Should I go see "Margot at the Wedding" instead? Not sure if I'm in the mood for an uncomfortable movie, but I liked "The Squid and the Whale" a lot, so maybe I should? Alternative is sitting in a coffeeshop and reading for like three hours at least. Need to occupy myself in Evanston between 3ish and 6:45.

what other movies are playing?

Why do you have free time in Evanston for that long?

*psst dude Margot at the wedding is GREAT*

man, i stayed up waaaay too late working on that mojito remix. it's pretty much done, i just have to mix it.

also, i bought that turntable from a jazz saxophonist/philosophy major and rediscovered some records. who knew that my dad had the best of Steely Dan on vinyl!

Nick?

Nickie?

Read the thread.

My work party is in Evanston tonight and I don't want to drive home and then drive back out to Evanston later so I'm just hanging out here all day.

yeah maybe i'll just check out margot at the wedding

Dan? Danny?

Shhhh.

nick, we're going to see "i'm not there" at 4:30 in evanston, if you want to come along? i don't know how long it is, but if it's short enough you're welcome to.

you can also come to my office and steal a crispy oatmeal cookie or two (they're supposed to be that way, they're not just burned). i brought a whole bag for the movies, inspired by the baking done by you and sarah.

i liked "margot at the wedding" but i probably wouldn't go see it just before enforced social activities with work people...it kind of made me hate people, you know?

dang, "i'm not there" is what i really want to see but assuming it's 2 hrs long and there will be previews too, it's cutting it pretty close for me to get to the shindig on time

Fuck the holidays. I hate having divorced parents. If I get one more e-mail or phone call from one of my parents about how I'm not spending a fair amount of time with them over the other, I'm going to say 'fuck it' and not go see them at all. It's not a fucking competition.

I'm Not There is 2:15.

I mean 2 hr 15 min.

:(

j/v/c, can't you just not see them? i know it's easier said than done, but we didn't want to get into a pattern of having to alternate parents and years, so just said we're on our own this christmas. my mom was surprisingly accepting of this, although now we've agreed to come over for a couple days the weekend before, and it's basically christmas, just early...

dang, that movie is long! i'm not good with movies over 2 hours, glad i brought cookies and edamame to keep me from getting hungry!

Nick, go window shopping!

Well, we decided a couple years ago to alternate years. Last year we spend with my parents, so this year we are going to Michigan to spend it with my fiance's parents. Which has worked out well. But this year my mom moved her Christmas plans to this weekend so that we could be there. Fine, but it pissed off my dad. So now he wants a holiday party this weekend and we shifted things around to do both. And now my mom is feeling shorted. Yeah, it would definitely be easier to not go at all, but I've already promised to see them both this weekend.

n/a - go to Dr. Wax and Vintage Vinyl! I haven't been to Vintage yet, curious to check it out.

I've never been to VV, but I remember Amateurist telling stories about that place, something about their mark-up being really high.

Yeah? I always forget its there, but now that I live in Evanston I should go check it out.

I think I wandered into VV for a few minutes when killing time before last year's office party!

I guess 2 hr 15 min is kind of long -- the only other movies out that are longer are American Gangster (2:37) and Into the Wild (2:30) -- but most dramas are about 2 hours long (Michael Clayton, No Country for Old Men, Rendition, Atonement, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, and The Mist are all between 2:00 and 2:05), so an extra 15 minutes doesn't seem like that much more to me. But of course some movies just feel longer than others, too.

i thought both michael clayton and no country for old men felt too long to me. but i have a short attention span.

All this movie talk reminds me that I need to go see a bunch over the next couple months.

Colette, those sound yum! I'm planning on making these crazy oatmeal cookies sometime this weekend. :-D

those sound awesome. i had to go double-check to make sure there were no raisins--YUP! awesome.

I got that tattoo. I wound up getting one pretty much like the Picasso that Jordan posted but sans Sancho Panza (and Shakespeare).