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

Canada isn't really that different from here fwiw.

It does have beer stores just like in Strange Brew, however, complete with rolly-conveyor-delivery-system.

I thought Canadians were reputed to be polite and self-effacing to a fault, whereas I am more like "FUCK YOU! I'M AWESOME!"

Too bad there are no Canadians on ILX I can ask about this. No Canadians at all.

this is a question that i could probably find out the answer to myself but i choose to post it here because it's something i know john will know the answer to immediately: is the newish version of jane eyre (starring mia wasikowska) eligible for next year's academy awards or would it have been covered in this past academy awards? we watched it over the past few nights and i was really impressed with wasikowska's performance and think she should win some awards.

yo La Lechera - the photo you posted above - of those wildlife cards - what were those cards called? I used to have 'em and loved 'em when I was a kid - think they may have actually been my kid sisters ...

Canadians can same-sex marry and they have universal healthcare in a way that we don't.

Illustrated Wildlife Treasury!

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Proto lolcats

Wow - you still have the box & everything " plastic snap sound." I'd head out to a trivia night if you brought that along.

is the newish version of jane eyre (starring mia wasikowska) eligible for next year's academy awards or would it have been covered in this past academy awards?

Eligible for next year's awards. I've been meaning to see it!

That said, I've barely seen any awards buzz behind the film or Wasikowska. Glenn Close is playing a man, and Meryl Streep is playing Margaret Thatcher, so there's two Best Actress slots sewn up.

ok! next time i go (whenever that is) just remind me and i'll bring it. i love that thing to pieces.

i wanted to see new jane eyre too but i completely forgot about it

Amanda maybe you will like this: http://www.adme.ru/kreativnyj-obzor/dizajn-sovetskih-gramplastinok-314055/

do i get to hear any of it?! the covers are cool but i wanna hear :(

OMG I wanted that Wildlife Treasury box so bad when I was a kid! I used to hound my parents for hours on end, but I never got it.

I think it's just the covers. Sorry, lady!

I had a Wildlife Treasury when I was a kid. I have to admit that towards the end, I didn't even open all the cards. The subscription model just got overwhelming, like when you sign up for e-updates from MoveOn.org or something, except animals.

i don't expect wasikowska to win an oscar over streep or close but it would be nice if she were a black-horse nominee. thought the movie was really good - i've never read jane eyre or seen any other adaptation so the plot was new to me too. the movie did a good job of not over-explaining stuff, which can be a problem with movies adapted from books - trying to get all the info from a book into a movie.

The subscription model just got overwhelming, like when you sign up for e-updates from MoveOn.org or something, except animals.

ok lol

bmg music club
no i do not want that oasis cd

That sounds promising, Nick. I'm unfamiliar with the story of Jane Eyre as well.

And yeah, I guess one could hope for her to fill the slot that went to Jennifer Lawrence last year and Carey Mulligan the year before (something like "fresh-faced young actress playing tenacious in an indie"), though I think the current money is on Mary-Kate and Ashley's sister Elizabeth.

Am I wrong to think that Amanda would be interested in the Elizabeth Olsen movie? She plays a girl who escapes from a cult.

Oooooh. That sounds good. What kind of cult?

I dunno. IMDB descrip:

Haunted by painful memories and increasing paranoia, a damaged woman struggles to re-assimilate with her family after fleeing an abusive cult.

I think John Hawkes is the cult leader.

Ok, I would like to see that and Jane Eyre -- I've never read it either :-/

the elizabeth olsen movie looks really good. i'm interested in cults too. and john hawkes.

I've read the FUCK out of Jane Eyre and I want to see hat movie and the movie about the cult. Also there's another Olsen? Weird.

THAT movie

Fuck your hat movie.

Hey so I called my alderman about getting the crosswalk by our apartment repainted and they just called me to tell me they submitted my request to CDOT. I don't know what that means, exactly, but I feel involved in the process and like my aldermonster cares about my concerns. Nice work, Wagenbach.*

*Not his name but it's what we call him bc of The Shield.

Also I cleaned all the crumbs out of my computer using compressed air. It is a delightful feeling.

So...it's Thursday -- does anyone want to see Cave (Oneida Jr) with me on Saturday? Email if y, silence if n. I am going regardless because I want to do recon.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/lapd-discovers-hidden-deformed-olsen-triplet,576/

i still don't know, amanda. we're dealing with some serious toddler sleep issues at my house and we're all kind of cranky and sleep-deprived and in this scenario i feel bad ditching sarah at home and going to a fun rock show. but it might still happen for me.

you know what's the worst? when you're really tired or even up in the middle of the night trying to fall asleep and you get a song, or worse, part of a song in your head and it just keeps looping over and over and over again and you can't get rid of it because you're too tired. the other night for me it was this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6hzkBihaew which i had listened to earlier that day and has a really catchy chorus with a weird structure/rhyme scheme that kept repeating and repeating. btw i like that song but it has a really terrible video.

Oh man, I don't want to know there are toddler sleep issues ahead. I keep wanting to live in my fantasy world where the sleep thing gets better by about 7 or 8 months in.

though it does have a part where a tiny ghostly rick astley sings on nick lowe's shoulder and nick lowe brushes him off and steps on him. xpost to self

you guys have a house right? most of our issues are still due to not really being able to sleep train in our apartment. we really need to though. i think either i'm going to go try and talk to our new upstairs neighbors and suss out how cool they are or just write a note to them warning them of what's to come and then start trying to sleep train again this weekend.

we've been casually doing some crying-it-out with evie over the past couple of nights. it was kind of funny on tuesday because after she cried and screamed for about 5-10 minutes, it shifted into her just angrily yelling gibberish at us from her crib. like "BLAABADEEE ARGHAAA MEE EOO MOMMY! MOMMY YEEABBBLLAAA BLLEEEE GGRSSCCHAA!"

oh, no prob -- i understand. just wanted to remind one more time. no pressure!

i totally know what you're talking about w/r/t songs -- when i was having my worst bouts of insomnia last year was also when i became convinced that all top 40 pop songs were mind control devices that burrowed in slowly but in a determined and methodical fashion. i was kept awake and uncomfortable by katy perry, ke$ha, enrique iglesias, and god knows who else during that time. i feel better now but it was rough.

lol xp

n/a yeah, we have a house, although I do get kind of nervous because our neighbor's houses are like 4 feet from ours and we can always hear their arguments, so I'm hoping our crying baby isn't too audible. We're a ways away from sleep training though, he's a little young yet but I've been reading a book about it.

(Sorry for the baby sleep derail)

I really wanna go see CAVE since that was my soundtrack for my flights to and from Austin this week, but its not gonna happen. Maybe Black Iron Prison will go and tape it.

lol at Evie's angry gibberish

I get song bits stuck in my sleep deprived head or more often, visual movies of visual media or even books. Just frantic, repetitive visuals. Drives me nuts.

weird, mine aren't visual at all, almost always auditory
brainz!

I get both. I had the Pitbull Excuse Me song going so bad I didn't sleep well for a couple of days.

One time I couldn't sleep all night because my brain was featuring it's own six hour movie of Pride and Prejudice.

It is a horrible feeling. Helpless and desperate. Thank god it doesn't happen much. I feel like there must be a good drug that would short circuit the feeling?

I had the Pitbull Excuse Me song going so bad I didn't sleep well for a couple of days.
See, that is what makes me think that they are mind control devices.

hahaha

http://www.freakingnews.com/pictures/66500/Britney-Spears-in-a-Tin-Foil-Hat-66733.jpg

i think i only get songs. i also recently had the same thing with "illegal smile" by john prine.

i heard "uncertain smile" the other day in TJs and it was really weird

yeah, when i got song loop insomnia i know my brain just is not going to settle down, and it's time to go in the living room and read on the couch.

so i just went and talked to our new upstairs neighbor, to be apologetic about evie's crying as we've been trying to start out the sleep training and warn him it might get worse over the weekend. his response? "oh i hadn't noticed ... we're pretty deep sleepers." feel sooooo relieved!