Chicago: They paved a fetid swamp/and put up a parking lot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LefQdEMJP1I

Here it is. It kind of makes me hate music.

Wait, did you like it?

I'm not going to judge YOU but my this is my opinion: wow that is garbage.

I don't know about that one. I like this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLGbfEf7o7c

It's starts off a little stupid but by the time it gets to the "Excuse me, but I might drink a little bit more than I should tonight" part, I think it's pretty groovy. I don't like that one guy's nasally voice, who sings the chorus and the "Grab somebody sexy tell 'em HEY." Is that Ne-yo?

I jus t listened to "Hey Baby" and... I don't hate it.

I mean, I'm not going to like buy the album or anything. Probably.

No. I'm not.

Hmmmm. This genre is very entangled with an unpleasant period of my life, so I can't tell if I just plain don't like it through the dark icky feeling it gives me in my chest. I suspect it's deeply not for me on all levels.

xp - I'll check back with you in a few days.

Look at this awesome photograph

http://i.min.us/icCPzK.JPG

Wow!

The fog the past few days has been kind of creepy, and that picture is also creepy.

I tried to tell you it was that song, but you didn't believe me!
All of Pitbull's songs are catchy, sound the same, and are about taking girls home on the dawn of the apocalypse. (Ok, not all, but basically yes)

Did you guys miss my yammering about "excuse me" in pop songs?

The fog in Hyde Park is always kind of cool, the way it fills up the Midway and the other parks. Driving through it on Lake Shore made me a little antsy though.

Amanda! I'm sorry I didn't believe you. I don't know why I didn't, since I could not have identified a Pitbull song (obviously). Vindication is yours and also your Pitbull synopsis is OTM.

I also remember the "excuse me" yammering but I didn't connect the two because I had forgotten the "Excuse me" part of the song. I only remembered the part about drinking too much, which as you said, is not exactly a unique pop song identifier. For some reason, I thought you were talking about the Black Eyed Peas. Probably because you are like ALWAYS talking about the Black Eyed Peas. NON STOP.*

*j/k

What is "the Midway" - Goggling it was challenging for obvious reasons.

Another question for everyone: is the phrasal verb "to call down [someone]" one you would understand? Or is it one you use? Example The teacher called down the student for shooting spitwads.

I used it around someone recently who said that it was not a thing. Now I'm wondering if it's a Southernism.

What is "the Midway"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midway_Plaisance

I've never heard "call down." From your example, I wasn't sure if it meant "reprimand" or "summon."

I have heard someone use that in a semi-religious sense, as in:

Coworker says something ridiculous.
I respond, "Good lord, coworker."
Coworker says, "She's calling down the Lord! Do you hear her? Calling down the Lord on me."

Similarly:

"What is with people calling down Jesus while they poop in our work bathroom? They don't need Jesus; they need a dietitian."

Did you know: The Midway is the reason all Midways are called "The Midway"!

Jesse, bad news: I officially like that Pitbull song you posted.

Dan - Thanks.

Corey - I did NOT know that. I have wondered, and I always figured it was b/c the areas of fairs with the rides and concessions were the center or middle of the action.

Did YOU know that Midway Int. Airport is not named after the Midway Plaisance? It's named after the Battle of Midway.

Re "to call down": It's apparently a Southernism that I picked up without realizing it was a regional thing. I thought it as a variation of "to call off" (in the sense of to order to desist, as in "to call off the dogs").

Jenny - We can discuss it when we're drunk.

Dan - Thanks.

what'd I do?

Thank u 4 being a Dan
U showed me Midway Plaisance
And other thangs
Ur heart is so tru,
I overlook that u pee in a pan.

rofle

several things, may be tl;dr

1) meant to tell you guys this yesterday but i forgot -- i can't remember whether or not any of you have seen BIRDEMIC: SHOCK AND TERROR but if you haven't, you should
a (the) musical selection https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvM3ymUKrn8
the most epic scene ever filmed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrxZblVUkMU&feature=related

2) i have officially watched enough lost to start having severe and terrifying paranoia dreams about a cult holding me hostage in an underground bunker in madison. in this dream i realized that they ("they") were controlling my thoughts via songs that contain the phrase "excuse me" and a woman named vera tried to steal my blood because she wanted me to be her husband. it was TERRIFYING and i woke up with one eye competely open underneath my (don't laugh) sleep mask and it was super painful. the end.

I wear a sleep mask sometimes and I will open my eyes while wearing it and dream I have sand in my eyes or that I have pink eye.

Also, when we watched Lost on DVD in rapid succession I had some fuuuuucked up dreams myself. I think Jesse had some creepy moments watching it in a lonely apartment in NO shortly after Katrina.

I mean, it's not that scary when you're watching it but then? The dreams were way way way scarier than the show. I think it's Lost combined with rapture combined with being really really tired and going to bed before 11 for the first time in recent memory. My eye is ok now, fortunately.

"Excuse me, but I might drink a little bit more than I should tonight"

Was going to say (even before Lachera's dream) that this fits with LaL's observation of a wave of "opening gambit: apology" lyrics in recent club pop songs.

What I have only now learned through the power of dreams is that this is a pretty major cult trying to control our brains and thoughts remotely through these songs. That's new news. At least to me.

Uh-oh.

Man, Birdemic was a huge let-down for me. The first half, where the couple is getting to know each other, before the birdemic happens, is very funny and great, but the rest was boring for reasons I can't quite figure out. Maybe because action and adventure scenes are more intense than mundane ones, so the intentionality of the cheesiness showed through more.

Yes, I watched Lost season 1 in marathon sessions + living in a house with a floor-to-ceiling crack in one forbidden room and collapsed houses all around it + iguana sized roaches left me scared and unsettled.

I may go home sick. Last night was horrible - I ate some pizza at about 9:00, drank a ton of water, and went to bed at about 9;45. Then I had acid reflux all night long. I tried many things, including propping myself upright, and chugging Mylanta and baking soda. My bronchial tubes are raw now. Once I woke to liquid squirting out of my nose. I tried to vomit, but couldn't. Fucking miserable!

I had a weird thing while trying to fall asleep last night where I repeatedly felt like I had to yawn, even though I was already in bed with my eyes closed. Like I did that involuntary eye-tightening thing that precedes yawns. I think I must have been lacking oxygen or something.

Last two nights I have had crazy action movie dreams, they have been really entertaining. Hopefully another one tonight.

Jesse, do you take a prescription reflux pill? Because you should! What happened to you is miserable and totally preventable, poor guy.

I had a hard time sleeping last night because my brain was playing me a mix of pop songs (Give Me Everything, Till the World Ends, S&M). I combatted it by making my brain play me Rhapsody in Blue from start to finish until I exhausted myself and fell asleep.

Maybe the rapture did happen and that's why we all had restless nights.

Jenny, can you provide me with a good article detailing some of the pitfalls of modern students going into law and ending up with huge debt and no job prospects? I'd fuckinggoogleit but I keep ending up with crap results.

I had a hard time sleeping last night because my brain was playing me a mix of pop songs
mind control in action -- kudos for fighting it

i realized that "blow" has the same "you're one of us now" theme and fart synths

my horrible dream had the positive effect of making me thankful that i do not live in a place where i can be held hostage/tortured for having subversive thoughts. freedom fries.

Jenny, can you provide me with a good article detailing some of the pitfalls of modern students going into law and ending up with huge debt and no job prospects? I'd fuckinggoogleit but I keep ending up with crap results.

Probably. Let me poke around. I would love to discourage someone from going to law school right now (as in, "right now is a terrible time for somebody who does not have a hefty scholarship to a top ten school school to go to law school," not "right now I feel like discouraging someone from following their dreams."

).

The argument I'm involved in is based on lawyers immediately making more money than engineers. This argument is, of course, with an engineer who hates his job and resents other professions that (allegedly) don't have to study as hard as he did yet get paid more.

Oh man, I lived with an engineer who resented me as an English Lit major bc I dint have to study as much as he did. They are so bitter.

Until I find an article you could tell him about how I have good academic credentials from a top 100 law school and an awesome resume and my yearly salary is 1/3 of my student loan debt, not including interest. I will finish paying my loans when I am in my 50s. Also my job makes me want to die.

I do not take a prescription acid reflux med b/c I don't have it very frequently. Last night was a perfect storm of mixing foods, eating late, and, I think, too much water, which didn't drain for hours. Usually antacids take care of it.

xp Basically lawyers who graduate in the top 10% of their class and go to a top ranked law school will make more than engineers, provided those lawyers go work for big firms with onerous billable hours requirements. The rest of us are lucky to start off making $40-50k/year.

I have talked to some people (no specifics available - just believe me) who thought that $50K was a totally awesome starting salary for a lawyer, regardless of the student loan debt, as they were sure that in a few years the salary would skyrocket and it would be all power lunches and tureens of cocaine in various homes around the world.

hahaha engineers v. english majors is exactly how this argument started

I mean the fact that this guy thinks designing drainage systems for parking lots merits gold and silver and tureens of cocaine is LOL to me.

the main problem here is starting down the road of comparison in the first place
deal with it, shit is unfair, the end

one of my favorite memes of recent times

http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii12/REexpert44/Deal_with_it_dog_gif.gif