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

I think Bioshock would be bad for my nerves though I would like to watch someone else play it.

If I get better at the game-y parts of LA Noir I'm going to try Alan Wake, which looks AWESOME.

the new bioshock game coming out soon looks like it will be AMAZING. so just wait and get that. it's in a sky city.

ha ha that all-caps superlative was an xpost, not mocking

Video games make us all-cap adjectives that begin with A.

XP!!!!

Anyone want to play FIFA with me?

I love the feeling of being stuck on the same damn level of Angry Birds for 30 minutes, getting frustrated and giving up, and then the next morning after a good night's sleep totally nailing it.

I've been playing Final Fantasy 6 for the past month

Rage is pretty awesome on an iPad, too. Doesn't really work on anything smaller, though.

I love FIFA, but I haven't played in a few years. I've got 08, going to upgrade when 12 comes out.

thinkin of going to see "don't be afraid of the dark" at the davis tonight if anyone else wants to go. a movie sounds fun and a/c sounds even better.

Hey Nick, we went to that movie.

we suuuuuuure did

we went the SHIT out of it

How was it?

It was OK. It could have been scarier. The creatures were really cool. I think we agreed that they look like scary sugar gliders. Like if you fed a sugar glider after midnight and it changed form.

What was dumb was that while it seemed like the whole basis of the movie was that it was a take on the myth of the tooth fairy, they barely touched on that aspect. Even a little more of that angle would have been awesome.

The little girl was a good actress, I thought. Guy Pearce's American accent is impeccable. I noticed that before in Memento. Katie Holmes is a Scientologist who is married to Tom Cruise.

i pretty much agree with jesse. the scary parts and the monsters were good, the parts in between were dull and formulaic. guy pearce was fine, though his character was pretty annoying, the little girl was great, katie holmes was bad. i'd give it a C, maybe a C-.

Gotcha, probably wait until that one comes to Netflix.

i went down to jazz fest to see the ensemble playing arrangements of unreleased sun ra stuff, which was fantastic. but someone needs to tell young jazz musicians that they don't have to wear fedoras.

Fedoras are not sufficiently spiritual for Sun Ra.

Chicago has a Jazz Fest?

I took My parents to it one year. for like 5 seconds.

The NPR lady says it will be "a very chilly Labor Day," but then follows that with "a high of 67 degrees." I mean, come, my lady, come come my NPR Lady, that isn't "very chilly."

Npr sucks

That is not the most reasonable conclusion to draw from what I just said.

Npr under sweaters weather

The NPR lady says it will be "a very chilly Labor Day," but then follows that with "a high of 67 degrees." I mean, come, my lady, come come my NPR Lady, that isn't "very chilly."

OK, so I was freezing at the Cubs game. My indignation resulted in my choosing to wear a thin t-shirt and no hoodie (and where ARE my hoodies anyway??). Thank god Courtney decided to buy a Cubs hoodie.

Yesterday's Cubs game was characterized by Cubs players falling over. They were like fainting goats out there. But they still won.

I saw non-crazy people wearing coats, hats, and scarves today. Jesus HIV positive Christ.

Ha.

I wore a winter jacket b/c I can't find my lighter coats and hoodies. Stupid moving.

I'm so happy to wear my hoody

I am hoopy.

Seriously, are people just that proud of their winter wear that they can't wait to break it out? I saw three scarves on the redline today and several wool hats. Why?

Hoodies are great though, broke mine out yesterday and was super excited.

Its time to take a break from ILX for now. Partially planned because of the baby's imminent arrival, but also because I'm taking a few posters too seriously and letting them get under my skin. I guess I'm just finding it more frustrating than enjoyable to post here these days. I know this is 100% my issue, but just so many unpleasant people lately it seems. There seems to be far less interesting/funny discussions and much more threads solely trying to stir shit up and goad people on. Its annoying. Anyway, I'll miss the Chicago threads but I'm going to be too occupied to really miss them that much.

Yesterday I saw some dude in a wool coat, which was bad enough, but he had the collar up to protect himself from the cruel painful winds of a 70 degree day.

JVC good luck with your baby! I expect he will be named Bob Pollard via Chicago.

Aw, Jon, you've been generally very agreeable and loveable on this thread. Good luck, and I hope you come back soon!

I wore my leather jacket this morning. It felt good.

Now you know.

I wore tights today but I did so as an alternative to shaving my legs.

Have a good break, jvc! I look forward to baby pictures and updates on FB. xoxo

breaks are good. you'll have to post some baby pics though.

i wore a long-sleeved shirt to jazzfest (to hide my track marks) and was glad i did so. weather!

It never fails. Sarah goes out of town and you're back on the horse.

that's kind of a pun! i think?

You know what they say. If you fall off a horse, you've got to inject a TON of heroin.

goofy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3PRmu0tr6k

in what world did eazy not post that

oh wait he did
on the i gotta feeling thread

for the record, "eazy, jaymc, and 'dave' go to a frat party" is one of my favorite chilx defining moments, right up there with butter rolls.

I don't remember butter rolls. What as that about?

It was a choreographed routine to R. Kelly's "Sex in the Kitchen," first performed by Kelsey and friends at Squeezed (the variety show I hosted) and reprised by a CHILX crew somewhere on Foster Avenue after a karaoke sesh.

i was thinking about that recently because i was wishing we had a venue for doing something similar to that pitbull song everyone loves

fortunately, puttin on the hitz is no longer a tv show

Ah, thanks. I wasn't familiar with that episode.

They're digging up gas lines outside of my work and the office has been shaking for 2 days now. It's often low grade rumbling - disturbing b/c it's barely there - and sometimes fixture-shuddering thuds.

i think maybe jaymc got it backwards, in my mind the squeezed performance (which included sarah as a dancer) was the culmination of the "sex in the kitchen" obsession; the foster ave. performance was before that.

yeah, i think so too
the squeezed thing happened because the dance was SO powerful, SO moving, that it just had to be shared.

the POWER of DANCE

i also remember chickening out at the last minute, so know that the irony is not lost on me

I bet the cute photos from that are still on Friendster.

I'm so glad to have had that frat experience at the U of C.