Chicago: Totally hands-free!!!

All myspace does for me anymore is causes me to dread checking my email and sifting through all the porn spam I got.

^^^

I still have fun changing up my myspace layout and song. Also, I update my blog. I AM NOT ASHAMED!

laurel, i found an awesome eames-era end table on eBay over the weekend that was BEEEEEEEAUTIFUL and CHEAP!! I made lists of all the things I want to buy when I start getting a pay check again. it was mostly food and kitchen items but i'm sick of my utilitarian bookshelves and ugly-assed couch.

sarah, billisa just left for their tour and they've been printing the shirts for him. he'll be at the note with the busy signal on the 2nd.

hey dc/nyc folk who may be on this thread, go see cococcoma when they hit your town next week. or at least2 2/3rds of them. mike doesn't join them until providence i think or maybe nyc. i know he said he'll be there when they record at wfmu but i don't know if that's before or after the show at don pedro's.

No, J, that's not really why. Facebook is basically the synthesis to Friendster and MySpace's thesis and antithesis: it's the streamlined aesthetic and regulated accessibility of Friendster combined with the technological innovation of MySpace.

YES YES wait Don Pedro's doesn't have a schedule anywhere...?

it's on a tuesday or a wednesday i think.

My favorite thing about Facebook is the way it has plugins for other web pages that I use all the time -- flickr, del.icio.us, iLike, even Skype -- and it tells me when, for instance, Jeff adds a del.icio.us bookmark to his account. All it needs is a gmail and gchat interface, and it would be pretty one-stop.

Coming soon, I'm sure.

I really like the JayR album.

I don't wanna have to deal with setting up another profile somewhere else.

You will someday soon, though. It's the inevitable tide.

wait what

i really wish i had some melon soup right now. that would SO FUCKING HIT THE SPOT.

one dog curled into a little wiener dog bun on my lap the other asleep with his paws over his eyes right up next to me... i'm in little dog heaven right now.

Oh stuff it, Kenan. No matter what you and jw say I am not opening a facebook account.

KEVIN, YAY YAYAY AYAYAY for little dogs. I like your happiness.

Speaking of ice cream (ok, well, way upthread), Nick introduced me to this loveliness last night:
http://www.dcsnacks.com/images/large/products/ben-and-jerrys--creme-brule_LRG.jpg

Any pix of the wee ones, Kevin?

I know that Facebook as a nice, clean interface and all of that, but it hasn't clicked with me. It feels like there's too many places to try and communicate (communites, messages, walls, I don't know what) and I've never contacted or been contacted by someone on Facebook that couldn't have just e-mailed me.

Everyone knows the REAL online ass-shopping hottnezz is iilwy.com.

batteries are dead in the camera but peep this guy... http://www.myspace.com/littleboybanjo

But inilwy.

i'm not trying to be prescriptive about facebook, really i'm not! Do what you like. It's just that it's the next generation - there are so many features and games and useful apps that sooner or later you'll probably be told about something on there that you would really like to be a part of. See the still-growing ILX scrabble community, for one example.

I hate Scrabble.

i'm sure there are many useful aspects to it but i'm at the point where i have neither the time nor desire to be part of another social network. once this one circles the drain i'm done too.

xpost- laurel you have just made a mortal enemy.

But inilwy.

well you have one of those girlfriend things

xpost yeah it has way more potential than myspace to be a TOOL, like a personal wiki with social-networking already built into it.

i don't a "personal wiki". that's what my purse is for.

I am sad that Banj0's profile is set to private. CUTE!

Back in Virginny, I used to play literati quite a bit at work with my mom and sisters (also at work).

i don't *want/need* is what i meant.

oops. snark attack failed.

yeah, i don't want many people, let alone anyone who can read, knowing all sorts of shit about me. fuck, i can't even remember everything that happens to me.

No one would know anything you didn't want them to know. You can limit access to your profile to just your friends. People are skeptical of the fact that Facebook is opening itself up to Google searches, but you can tell it not to, and even if you don't, all people see is a name and a photo, anyway.

Anyone see 2 Days in Paris?

i like that--i have my (unusual) real last name on facebook, which i don't have on any other social networking site. and some friends from eons ago have found me as a result, which is kind of cool.
xp

Nope, Jordan. I really wanted to, until I read it was more about a couple arguing than anything else. I still KIND of want to... dunno. Have you seen it?

I hear it's really good. I am seeing it this week!

No, but I was thinking of seeing it tonight. I like Julie Delpy and couples arguing.

Ditto.

But I also want to see the nu-westerns and Eastern Promises.

I heard enough of my parents arguing growing up to last a lifetime.

Me too, I guess I draw a mental line between older couples in hopeless marriages and young couples in relationships trying to figure things out.

I DO really like Julie Delpy.

a friend reports that it is the most feminist romantic movie she's ever seen. which, maybe it doesn't have a lot of competition in that department, but still.

I'm up for 3:10 to Yuma at some point.

Do these look like a good idea or a very very bad one?

Those look like the best idea I've seen all day.

Ok Ok Ok I'm pressing my luck now, but what about this?

Facebook is for college kids, all of you are too old for it.

I only do MySpace for band stuff.

Sarah, you don't like tofu. We are like Jack Spratt and his wife except I only eat fake meat products and you only eat squash.

I found a reasonably-priced guitar I like at Chicago Music Exchange that I might buy, if I can sell my current guitar for a decent amount.

That is not as exciting to me, but I won't lie to you people, I would probably eat mustard-crusted styrofoam.

Tonight I'm going to chill and do a homemade pizza, I only wish I hadn't finished all my netflix stuff yesterday.

So you didn't end up trading guitars with that dude?