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

Love the new Scare Quotes/FFs songs y'all
Totally fuzzy Flying Nun

thanks! i like them too. we recorded them a little while ago but i was waiting to see if we could get together enough for an ep or something.

Amanda, I am a maybe for Cave.

That guy was 500 yards from the finish line. What a strain on the body.

oh sorry i haven't gotten back to you about cave. still thinking about it. i know this is annoying and i apologize.

I do not apologize because I have been a good little show-goer lately but today I'm feeling incapable of a decision.

please keep recording them

oh good, jesse! i think it will be groovy. decide later, that's fine. i just wanted to know if i would have to steel myself for going alone or not.

anyone i don't care how long you wait as long as you are considering it, i will go
just kinda hard to motivate if i know for sure no one will go with me. would prob still go, but it's nicer to know that i could possibly not have to skulk around alone.

we tried to record a third song but had some problems with the performance (sarah and ben didn't have much time to learn the song) and the recording (a big chunk of the song didn't record for some reason). i cobbled together a version using the parts that did record, which i was pretty happy with, but ben and sarah didn't agree so i didn't put it on here. but i was excited about that song too so either i'll record it on my own or try to get together with ben and sarah someday to rerecord it. it's harder now though because ben doesn't have his practice space anymore, so we'd have to do it at a rehearsal space, which might suck. that's part of why i decided to go ahead and put these songs out there, because it seemed unlikely we'd be doing any more recording anytime soon (also due to ben's baby scheduled to arrive next month).

maybe this video from a 2010 performance at the hideout will help you change your mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blr9QiU5HVc

not change, make up rather

i think dan m would like this too

will listen, but I have plans for saturday unfortch

So apparently a woman gave birth shorty after running in the marathon? I'm not a runner, but that doesn't seem like a good idea at all, attempting to run 26 miles 39 weeks into a pregnancy.

I have been meaning to check out Cave. Thought for a while that they were just kind of avant-noise, but it seems like their newer stuff is tripped-out krautrock, which seems up my alley. And I liked the snippet that DeRo played on Sound Opinions a few months ago.

Might be having some people over on Sat. night, though, since Kr is going on a five-week trip to Argentina starting on the 22nd. (Hopefully, I will be joining her for a week in Buenos Aires at the beginning of November!)

I really like CAVE, but it'll probably be a couple more months before I get a chance to hit up shows.

i think of them as oneida jr. (not a dis)

Not a bad way to think of them.

I will admit, though, that I've been vaguely annoyed by Cave man/scenester Dave "Rotten Milk" Pecoraro for a while.

That's a terrible nickname.

that just reminded me of steve porcaro, from TOTO

LOVE ISN'T ALWAYS ON TIME
NO
NO
NOOOOO

I like the keyboard breakdown on that song -- totally reminds me of the early 80s driving around with my ma.

It's not in the way you look or the things that you say that you dooooo HOLD THE LINE!

It is embarrassing how much I like that song.

totally, me too

i remember once i karaoked "africa" and this weird blonde guy who was at least 15 years older than me came over and was like "nice toto song, love them" and then proceeded to chat me up about toto. this is easily the only time in my life that has ever or will ever happen. i didn't really have much to say about toto because i only know their big radio hits. tbh maybe i should hear more considering my love for those!

It always makes me happy when I hear that bands like Toto still have superfans.

I would karaoke "Africa" (and in fact have, at Lincoln Karaoke), but this is the extent of my knowledge of Toto:

1. The song "Africa"
2. Jeff Porcaro is the name of someone in the band (is Steve his brother?)
3. They won a bunch of Grammys in 1983 or so
4. They have an album called Toto IV

5. Oh, I know "Rosanna," too

wiki tells me there were at one point or another a total of three Porcaro's in the band - Steve, Mike, and Jeff

Speaking of karaoke I was up in the area of Hidden Cove last week and I couldn't find it... did it close? I was at the Atlantic for soccer-related stuff, nice place and they have Fire flags a-flyin' out front. EXCELLENT corned beef sandwich, as well.

Was totes thinking of Toto Porcaro too.

omg no the cove cannot close
i've been hankering to go there recently but every time i try to get ppl together no one can go or it's shitty outside or something

i do wonder what toto deep cuts sound like -- like i said, i never heard the albums, just the singles

I remembered how unbearably cheesy this song is. Just unbelievable. Not only are they playing on a rooftop, but Michael McDonald appears out of nowhere to sing backup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u1u3Q-G5xI

this is also awful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsw-uQ5C7zo

totally forgot about this song too, wow late period toto was AWFUL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZEjcb-1jYI&feature=related

^^ jenny i know you will remember this song and possibly even know all the words in spite of the fact that you don't really like this song
it's one of those

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrwd2lx4aA1r0o12to1_500.jpg

I would karaoke "Africa" (and in fact have, at Lincoln Karaoke), but this is the extent of my knowledge of Toto:

1. The song "Africa"
2. Jeff Porcaro is the name of someone in the band (is Steve his brother?)
3. They won a bunch of Grammys in 1983 or so
4. They have an album called Toto IV

"human nature", y'all!!!

I think I knew the Toto/"Human Nature" connection at one point but then forgot it.

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Jenny you have to show this to Lesbian!

So apparently a woman gave birth shorty after running in the marathon? I'm not a runner, but that doesn't seem like a good idea at all, attempting to run 26 miles 39 weeks into a pregnancy.

Wtf?

Fortunately everything seemed to work out okay for her and the baby, but the story leads me to wonder what would've happened if something had gone wrong during the marathon. Would she/her family have sued the organizers and the city for not properly warning her of the danger? Just seems like an incredibly risky thing to do.

tbf she ran half and walked half & got her doc's approval

Didn't hear about the doc's approval part, I don't think that was in the original story I read.

I saw her at mile 23. She had a sign on her pregnant belly that said "Doctor Approved". I imagine she did that so people wouldn't think she was totally bat shit crazy.

Doctor was the name of her dog.

did it say "doctor approved" or "doctor-approved"?

I do not recall.

Or "Doctor My Eyes"? Maybe she was just a big Jackson Browne fan.

Maybe Jackson Browne got her pregnant.

Nah then she'd be running on empty.

oh man