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

Corey, that's not it, but it's VERY close.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WGVG3_IoG8&playnext=1&list=PLC214E228F463CC25

??

Oh, I just sort of remembered the melody! The chorus is a descending line, and then there's a synth line that echoes it.

I think descending lines and all I get is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXNTRnKOYyM

OK, I really have to go to work now, but I recorded what I remembered of the chorus:
http://soundcloud.com/jmcunning/80ssong#

(BTW, nice Nick Heyward song/video!)

(And Mander, that totally makes me think of going to motels in northern MN as a kid and mostly being excited to turn on the TV and watch cable.)

just to follow up on the hailstorm: R's minivan looks kind of like a golf ball on the roof and hood :/

You guys are freakin me out. I think I'd better go check on my car...

nothing's broken, but there are some dimples if you look at it from the correct angle

One of my coworkers that lives in the south loop area showed me pictures on his iPhone of cars on his block with windshields and headlights blown out from the hail.

none of that on the good ol' windstar!

BUILT FORD TOUGH

Apparently the garfield park conservatory is closed because the hail damaged so much of the greenhouse:

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/metro/garfield-park-conservatory-closed-hail-storms-damage-glass-broken-greenhouse-20110701

daaaamn

Sorry, try this link for the song:
http://soundcloud.com/jmcunning/80ssong/s-Bpyqr

(I was originally just complaining, but someone actually knows the song, that'd be awesome.)

wouldn't it be good
it's on the pretty in pink soundtrack i think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWfD5yL9gPo

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That's it!

In 2009, VH1 listed the song as #88 among their 100 Greatest One-Hit Wonders of the '80s

Huh -- I thought I'd checked all of these. Guess not!

Thanks, A!

Ha, I almost mentioned that the cadence of the melody is sort of like "Wouldn't it be nice."

I'm here to serve.

apparently it's a nik kershaw song sung by danny hutton for the PiP sdtk?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7D_cyVZPXQ

of course i know it from the soundtrack

Can you name the song and artist for those of us who are YouTube challenged at work?

"wouldn't it be good" by danny hutton/nik kershaw

I should also thank Corey, b/c that Icehouse song for some reason dislodged the Kershaw melody from my brain's crevices.

you'd know it, jenny

I do know it and am quite fond of it! I can't be certain, but I think I have talked about/posted the video for that song in a past chilx thread.

Do you ever look at random events on Facebook? Sometimes I just want to say I'm Attending on various family reunions.

yes, but i don't ever rsvp
i also engage in recreational background photobombing in tourist locations

it's not as fun as it was before people could delete photos immediately if they weren't exactly right

Hi.

I've never changed a diaper.

My new building manager said his neighbors cars (NW side) were all fucked up.

New landlord seems completely awesome so far. He has good stories about Lakeview in the 70s through now, and interesting knowledge of my prop MGMT (wtf? Auto correct capitalized that- does it know current bands??) company's properties.

But mostly I love that aging homo bc when I told him I hired cleaners to spiff up my old place he immediately said he would knock $100 off July rent bc I really didn't need to go to all that trouble. Wow.

Pibull fans: "Give Me Everything" is now #1 (his first).

That should be "Pitbull," obv.

Go Pitbull, it's my Pitbull, that's how we roll, it's my Pitbull.

I took photos of the crazy clouds this afternoon:
http://assets3.photogram.me/photos/3ad1d5ad60ca4ad292a046ae061f2699/4/original.jpg

that's a great pic. The sky today has been nuts, half van gogh and half mount doom.

Also, has today revealed the most botched weather forecast in Chicago history?

I didn't know who pitbull was, but I just watched the video for that song. It was okay.

Yeah, that's an awesome photo. It'd be a great backdrop for a book or album cover.

Or an Ed Ruscha painting.

Allah why are you punishing Chicago

http://c0013839.cdn1.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/x2_6e86cbf

allah why are you punishing chicago

Pibull fans: "Give Me Everything" is now #1 (his first).
heeeeeeey

excuse me

But now it's getting hot as predicted and I don't think it ever rained, did it? What a weird ass day.

Of all the ass days, this has definitely been one of the weirdest.

I think the yellow sky day was weirder.

that was nice. I took some photos that day.

while you guys are helping us figure things out: i've seen posters in my neighborhood for an outdoor concert happening this weekend on rockwell, just north of irving park. it's called something like the "ultraviolet circus" or the "electric yard sale" or something like that, and it was all local punk/garage bands. i can't find any information out about it online. the only band i was thought i remembered listed was white mystery, but they don't have it on their website. anyone remember seeing anything about this?

I feel like the current Raymer/Costello/Warwick/Hopper-era Reader music section would be all over that.

Anyway:
http://chicagoist.com/2011/06/20/chicago_mixtape_to_perform_ultra-vi.php