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Also the MP3 I downloaded doesn't have the clap-breakdown part. ;_;

― n/a, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

I am out of touch with radio pop/hip-hop. What else is good these days?

― n/a, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

ok, new officemate reads out loud. in a whisper but still, i just gave her a 20 page document to proof for me and SHE'S READING OUT LOUD. wtf lady?

Are you going to take any action?

― Jesse, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

How about you repeat everything she reads aloud?

― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

HEADPHONES STAT

xpost Awesome idea!

― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

I am out of touch with radio pop/hip-hop. What else is good these days?

If you like "My Love" by J. Timberlake, you should try "Ice Box" by Omarion, which has a similar Timbaland production.

I like the new Avril Lavigne song, "Girlfriend," an awful lot, too. It's very spunky.

The last couple of Amerie singles have been pretty good, too. Not that I've ever actually heard them on the radio. But she's really good at that funk-R&B style -- which she started with "1 Thing," I'm guessing -- and I still think she sounds like Michael Jackson sometimes. The songs are "Take Control" and "Gotta Work."

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and there's something oddly ingratiating about Mims's "This Is Why I'm Hot." It took some time to grow on me, and I can't quite explain why I like it, but I do.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

On the mainstream hip-hop tip, "Throw Some D's" is pretty good although it took me awhile to warm to it. Very similar to what jaymc sez about Mims.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, that's good, too. I dl'd it a while ago but haven't really listened to it much.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

i need a fucking cigarette so badly.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

(Hey, Cormac McCarthy won the Pulitzer yesterday. As did the restaurant critic for L.A. Weekly -- I haven't read him, but he can't be better than City Pages' Dara Moskowitz.)

― Eazy, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's weird that they give a Pulitzer for music. I'm sure Ornette Coleman deserved it, but they should probably just stick to print.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

Bummer: I went to lunch early, only to come back and find that the bosses that be had ordered Thai food for everyone. Damn it.

― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

Save it for dinner?

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

I ate already, and I feel sorta scroungey going and loading up a big plate now. Oh well.

― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

If I go down to the post office right now, will it be totally insane? I want to put an extra stamp on my tax envelopes in case they're over the allotted weight.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

I can't quite explain why I like it, but I do.

Because it reminds you of gimmicky hip-pop tunes of ye olde 90s?

― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno, maybe!

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

ILX is making me grumpy today. I think I cling to my myopia too persistently sometimes.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

John, maybe you should move to the sticks for a while?

― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

(kidding)

― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

I'm pretty much suicidally depressed today. Having thoughts like, hey, handguns ARE really easy to get!

― kenan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

Don't worry, I would never take any of you out with me.

― kenan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

Dude don't make me come punch you in the face.

― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

Why is it the week of people making me want to hit them?

― Laurel, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

John, maybe you should move to the sticks for a while?

Let's trade apartments for a year and see how it works out.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

BTW, and unrelated to my last post: what is the appropriate degree of myopia-clinging?

― Laurel, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

Do you consider Madison the sticks? I mean, I lived in Kalamazoo for four years, it's not like I'm Mr. I Can Never Imagine Living Anywhere Besides Manhattan.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

John, There usually isn't a line for the stamp machine.

TOTALLY.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

Neither of those places are at all what I was talking about dude, c'mon. And I was just kidding.

― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

LOL at Madison being "the sticks"!!

― Laurel, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

I don't, but it's certainly not the big city. It's basically a small town with a lot of city features (restaurants, schools, politics, etc.).

xpost

― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

Even Whitehall isn't "the sticks" -- we might be small but there's a mall and a symphony orchestra within 30 miles!

― Laurel, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

Don't get me wrong, I know from "the sticks", but relatively speaking. It always feels small when I get back from Chicago.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

My TOTALLY was in regard to punching Kenan (sorry, Kenan).

This subcontractor dude won't give it a rest with the flirting. He asks me things in this sleazy sounding way with a polish accent like, "Where does your man bring you on the weekend?" and "Are you getting sexier and sexier every day now or what?" Today he asked me if I ever go out on the town without my man. He tends to say this stuff over the phone. There's got to be an easier way to get off the phone with him (oh ha ha, not that way). The obvious solution is that I should screen my own calls.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

John, There usually isn't a line for the stamp machine.

I know, but today is tax day.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

The obvious solution is that you should say "I'm uncomfortable with this conversation. Please address me in a professional manner." If it were ME, that second sentence would end with "...or I'll hang up and report you to your boss and/or the person who subcontracted your company in the first damn place" but I'm guessing that doesn't fly in Sarah-land.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

Neither of those places are at all what I was talking about dude, c'mon. And I was just kidding.

I know. My question was directed at Jordan.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, sry.

― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

OH SHIT TAXES

oh good one more thing to freak out about

― kenan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

Say it in Polish.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

KENAN

RELAX

DUDE

― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

I owe the feds $61 and am getting $20 back from the state. Pretty good year, all told. Last year, due to some gross miscalculation on my part I thought I owed the gov't over $1000. A few weeks later I got a check from the U.S. Treasury with most of that money back.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

Homies, is anything fun happening this weekend? I'm jonesin' already.

― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

I'll be on the road.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

I got a free ice cream cone.

I don't understand why people wait till tax day to mail their taxes. I had those done and got my return all by February.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

Oh no, John. :-D (about the taxes) Good though they caught the mistake.

Sarah-like: Doing my taxes the first second I can get my hands on all the necessary figures. Afterwards, checking it a million times and making a copy for myself and filing it.

UnSarah-like: Figuring out a way to get off the phone when I don't want to talk to someone (I even feel bad hanging up on telemarketers.)

― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

(I even feel bad hanging up on telemarketers.)

(Not to say I don't do it, but I say I'm sorry a bunch of times first)

― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh.. is this the tour weekend, John?

― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, it's the tour weekend.

Re taxes: I'm a procrastinator by nature, and I haven't gotten a refund in at least five years, so I have no financial incentive to file early.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

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