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

Why is AP dressed like that? I really hope it's a promo shot for BB b/c otherwise I'm going to have to love a man who dresses like a doucheturd.

xp- omg shorter. <3

i think it's a promo shot -- i tried to find a pic of him biting his own shirt off, but couldn't find one

pinkman dresses like a kmart shopper

Jesse and I are meeting here at my place of employment and then coming to the park. So probably we'll get there around 6ish?

You can get cell reception around Pritzker, right? You can't in Grant Park and it's super frustrating if you're trying to meet up with someone there.

I just don't want to be stuck with Jesse all night and have to hear endlessly about the scalp scratching man.

i dunno. we'll be back on the lawn somewhere, just follow the dulcet tones of evie's shrieks.

"Dulcet Tones of Evie's Shrieks (Part I)", oh man didn't know they were going to play that one too! My favorite of that era of Reich's career.

(sorry)

lol

We may be later because we have to go to Sears and buy underwear because Jesse shat himself.

Depends at the Walgreens along Millennium Park and you're set.

So how was the Reich last night?

Really good! Music for 18 Musicians was super. I did not enjoy the tape loops that bookended the performance, however. It made me feel like the cats look during a bad hail storm.

Lol! "Music for 18 Musicians" is so amazing and why I was so bummed I couldn't make it. Tape loops can be hit or miss, but in general I like his.

So of the three pieces that were officially on the program, your favorite was the third Reich?

All joking aside, it was probably mine, too, though I do love Double Sextet.

Groan. But a good groan, I appreciate awful dad jokes like that.

Womp womp. Have you been saving that joke or what?

I liked them all but the third really grabbed me. (oh remember when I was like "I think I've heard this before"? It was on my phone.)

Wow, I think that was a really good joke.

hey guys

Aaron Paul is the poor man's Ryan Gosling
T or F

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i buy this! but aaron paul is not prettier you crazy lady!

http://nymag.com/arts/tv/features/64941/

So when Aaron Paul walked in to audition for the role of Jesse Pinkman in 2007, he had a severe handicap: He was too handsome

is it just me or does jesse pinkman have a lars ulrich-esque accent sometimes?

Gah, I really want to start watching Breaking Bad but my wife is a) afraid its going to be too depressing and b) hated Malcolm in the Middle so is prone to not liking Bryan Cranston.

just watch it by yourself then
that's what i do

Thought about it, buts its pretty rare that I have time to watch that kind of show myself. Prefer to keep my TV time to something we can both enjoy. Thing is, I have a feeling she'll really be into it once we start, just need to give her that first nudge.

yeah, she'll forget all about malcolm in the middle, that's for sure.

i'd say you have to give it a few episodes too...my gf was worried she wouldn't be able to handle it because of some graphic/disturbing shit in the first two eps, but the characters suck you in.

Well that was already my defense, this show obviously is a different beast. I mean, this is the same girl that I had to drag into watching the first two episodes of The Wire but was shortly turned into, "WHEN IS THE NEXT DISC GETTING HERE?!? MAKE IT GO FASTER!".

girls, man

I didn't mean it like that.

i know! i'm just f f f f foolin :)

Brian Cranston is so amazing in this show.

Hi Jordan!

cranston is amazing but it is a pretty depressing/unnerving show and i think it's a tad overrated personally. still worth watching but i think they get away with a lot by being so dark that people are just like "omg it's so dark!"

speaking of dad jokes, i couldn't believe no one acknowledged my response here: random overheard conversations that annoy you

I'll watch half-hour comedies by myself -- e.g., Louie and Curb -- but I prefer company for dramas with drawn-out narratives.

^^^ otm

lol nick

lovin' Louie over here too

i feel bad that i still don't really "get" "louie," like i'm challoping or something. people just keep doing that thing where they're like "well did you see this episode? oh well you really need to watch that episode before you write it off." i love louie ck, think he's a great comedian, respect him for doing his own thing and doing most of it himself, but the show is just so uncomfortable while not rewarding that discomfort with laughs/payoffs like CYE or lots of other shows, which i guess is the point but makes it a not very enjoyable show to watch for me.

btw guys, I know you're all into going to the Chicago Fire game this Saturday on the MALORT BUS

I'm kind of irrationally happy we've pulled off scheduling this thing. I also have this mixed feeling of dread/elation (as is the case with most things Malort) that I'm not going to see the destruction the inevitably results.

I watch big love mostly by myself. Jenny watches true blood by herself.

Red Shoe Diaries: alone or as a couple?

R watches True Blood solo as well, or, at least, on the computer w/ headphones while I play video games or whatever.

I find Louie kind of inconsistent, but there are a handful of episodes that balance wry humor, flights of fancy, existential angst, and dramatic tension in a way that I think is pretty remarkable. I was trying to describe the show to Kr, and the only analogue I could come up with Annie Hall.

Well that's a bullet between the eyes for that show then.

Well, it was one of the only comedies to win a Best Picture Oscar. So there's that.

Annie Hall is great, fuiud.

^^^

I guess there's been an earthquake in NC/VA, including GSO?

Apparently a big one, felt all the way up the east coast.

H0oly what? Did the entire East Coast have an earthquack??

xp - OK