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

I'd love to see Tree of Life. Or either, really, but Tree of Life is at the top of my list already. I get out at 5-ish.

What theater were you thinking?

i dunno, i'm leaning toward godard actually, since i've seen ToL already. hmmm. tree of life is playing at river east at 5 PM.... godard is at film center at 6 PM.

I can see ToL anytime, and the Film Center is just a few blocks away. Six would be great.

Ok, who else?

Yeah, they're mailing me a sticker.
Have fun at yr fruity French movie.

Well, there's a little time to kill. Meet me at Argo Tea around the corner at 5:30? Near the NW corner of Randolph and State. That is, if you don't mind seeing a movie with me. Looks like there's no other takers.

River's Edge was not as good as it was when I was 16, but it was still good. Crispin Glover is awesome.

hi kenan. just saw your last post. i actually left the film a minute in because it seemed clearly to be projected from DVD. i guess i figure i can see it at home for free in that format.

i hope i didn't abandon kenan to an inscrutable french art movie. :-(

(to absolve myself a bit, i didn't see him in the theater.)

Man, late Godard is as inscrutable as it gets.

amanda i would like to hang out and eat curly friends

hehehe

Yaaay! What shall we do? I am contemplating karaoke but that might be...too much? I dunno, it sure has been a while.

In other news, I just ate a ton of Mentos.

I have been looking for cats on craigslist but everyone charges a bs "rehoming fee" (i.e. the "we got this cat for free so we might as well get some cash out of it" fee). Where should I look?

Let's karaoke sometime after this weekend.

I always understood the rehoming fee to be standard practice to deter creeps or, historically assuming this isn't exaggerated, labs from grabbing up all the "free to a good home" animals, and not a profit motivated practice.

Why not CACC or PAWS or Treehouse?

PAWS charges $100 to adopt; haven't looked at the others

I'm talking *next* weekend! The 24th or 25th?

I would love to do something on the 25. I work all day friday though.

Tomorrow I will be at the Grant Park concert downtown at 7:30, if anyone was going and would like to meet up there.

I should be around next weekend for funtimes.

I have to go do board member stuff tonight, Corey, so I won't make the concert. I'm sorry!

funtimes next weekend are a definite possibility

Amst: no worries at all. I ended up sitting at Argo tea for what would have been the length of the movie, leeching their wi-fi and getting to know my new iPad.

The app called Music is fantastic. It's photographer Andrew Zuckerman interviewing and photographing musicians from all over the musical map. The worst interviews are with people who talk about their "process" or their "inspiration" (Sinead O'Connor: "My soul speaks to me through music." How touching. Now STFU.) but the best interviews are not just about music. Ian MacKaye: "Ninety-nine percent of the world's population will never know that I ever existed... The question is, did you make what you were trying to make? Did you try?" Or Herbie Hancock talking about how it took Buddhism for him to finally understand that the lessons he learned about music from Miles Davis -- collaboration, awareness of what everyone around you is doing and expressing, problem-solving, never doing anything just because it's comfortable, being fully aware of the moment and its transience -- were also about how to get through life. I don't think I've ever purchased anything from the iTunes store before that I would describe as "inspiring". So this is a first.

S'all right Jenny — I won't be alone, but I thought I'd gather some more people and make it a group thang.

Corey, I won't be making it. I'm going to have a beer and then sleep on the pile of cardboard boxes that I use instead of a bed these days.

:C

hey guys maybe if it's nice out, we should have a family picnic next weekend!!

FAMILY PICNIC 2011

we could loll around outside on the grass and eat/drink/talk/walk/etc
i have a little grill

I really want us to all get together, and a family picnic sounds perfect. I miss you guys (lol! I started to type "I miss some of you guys") and you're all awesome people I want to see soon.

Oh, "picnic" reminds me: the video of me reading the erotic story "Picnic" didn't turn out AT ALL :(
I will share the written version, however.

I'm going to buy this for Jenny. Anybody else want one for Xmas or a bday or something?

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21KryhaOghL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

NO thanks.

So how about, weather permitting, we plan on Saturday around 5 starting to gather and then we can cook out and eat grilled foods (bring whatever you want) and then whoever wants to continue and go to a bar or something, we can and if you gotta go, you go?!

Maybe Loyola Beach or Montrose Beach? Both pretty spacious and not full of degenerates. I bet most of you have never been to the little lighthouse near Loyola beach? It's pretty neat.

We can take planning off board, I just want to make sure everyone holds Sat evening open? Friday is ok for me too, I don't really care, but I figure maybe it's easier for most ppl on Sat.

Actually I don't think it's a lighthouse -- it's just a little thingamajig out on a pier. There are also lots of lifeguard chairs to climb on.

I like that idea, Amanda. I thought about going to see Les Savy Fav at Sub-T that night (w/Big Science opening), but a party that starts at 5 still leaves that open.

I'm fine with anything. I'm busy, so maybe just tell me where to be, what to bring, and how to act and I'll be totes happy!

Ok. I'll put something together and send it out.

sounds lovely!

Is there a place to buy beer off the Thorndale Red Line stop?

Hmmm lemme think...YES.

Yep, there's a liquor store right there, just west of the stop.

Sweet. That's even the direction I'm heading.

Is there any El stop that doesn't have a beer selling convenience store within a block?

Ohare. It's a 10 mile walk to the terminal bar.

20 miles for midway.

i got mugged by that el stop (i lived two blocks away for a while).

in fact, i got mugged steps from the liquor store in question. yay.

Hi, amateurist.

You guys, I'm all about this beach idea.

Also, I do not like selling products. WHAT WAS I THINKING?? Here are some problems:
- I don't like talking to strangers
- I hate being approached by salespeople when I'm in stores, so I'm not inclined to annoy people myself
- They don't think I'm upselling enough

So now what should I do? I want to do something else mother/baby related, but I have to get paid for it. Brainstorm!