Welcome back Whiney

bite me, nick

fuck you, JERRY

Boy, I am glad to hear things did not turn out so bad as they could have.

You and me both!

(^^ sense-of-humor-wise, I am still kinda laughing about how multiple music writers showed up with boxes and Whiney said "this is like Da Capo's Best Helping-out-after-a-Fire 2010." it would probably have been faster to get five reviews of the fire than actually clean anything up.)

(umm obviously Whiney has friends who aren't music writers, but the music writers are the ones where I know who they are)

Hahaha, thanks for remembering my jokes because I def was too frazzled to remember them! Yeah, including me it was FIVE music writers and 100 boxes.

totally behind the curve here but glad yer ok and so is most of yer stuff dude

sorry that happened--I lost all my stuff in a fire 7 years ago (woke up to find my ceiling on fire with flaming bits falling onto the bed.) Got a pretty big settlement from the lawsuit, but that took 4 years.

Do they know what caused it yet bro?

Nope!

any idea when your place will be habitable again?

btw, i almost gasped when i read this:

Against fireman’s wishes and defying any modicum of common sense, my first instinct was to dive inside the burning building and save my laptop. This I did. I’m typing on it now.

that's a lot of risk for a laptop.

anyway, i said it before, but it's worth repeating: very, very glad to hear you're okay.

i bet it was some schmo trying to microwave a hot pocket

it was someone from the future trying to stop the publishing of the hipster puppies book, which ends up leading to the end of civilization as we know it. whiney from the future killed the arsonist but died in the fire.

now who knows what will happen...

Whiney, have you done anything about smoke damage? My memories of the fire in my apartment a little distant (it was 1982), but I remember that smoke damage was pretty deep and instantaneous and the smell of soot won't go away until you address it properly -- won't wash out of clothes without certain chemicals, all your recovered stuff (books, records, jewel cases, etc etc) has to be treated; when it's just sitting in boxes it's just soaking in the smell. I also remember that we were so drenched in the smell, having moved lots of the smoky stuff we salvaged with us to a hotel, that we didn't at first notice it, but man, the people who worked in the hotel sure did.

Fire insurance can go a long way toward this type of thing. Hope you had plenty. Anyone reading this who isn't really interested in experiencing all the details of this type of nightmare firsthand -- GET FIRE INSURANCE.

My girlfriend and I are friends with Rose and were there all day wed packing her apt and moving it to uhaul on 4th ave. Had no idea music critic and fellow ILXor was doing the same in downstairs apt. I'd been to your building before, it was a good location and the yard was nice except for the giant slugs. Sorry you had to go through that and good luck...

Sorry you had to go through that

The fire, or the giant slugs? o_O

wow just read this, sorry to hear about all this Chris, glad you're ok though!

Wow, this practically counts as a FAP (Fire After-Party)

Whiney, you got your amazon wishlist stocked yet?

Whiney, I know you're kinda not on ILX much right now, so just wanted to ensure you saw this:

http://pitchfork.com/news/39202-local-natives-schedule-fall-tour

came across this on the internet randomly.

http://i26.tinypic.com/2hs19p0.jpg

*the complete randomness of where I found it being so odd.

"hipster runoff"?

"ban max"?

sorry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rHbeblkJd0

hmm so the 'victory' sample is from this, had no idea

dying

should play this music before the next twitter conference speech

"...Do Work..."
- Chris Weingarten

^when you're freelance you have to sort of look in the mirror every day around noon and shout that at yourself

had no idea you could clean 300
jared was right

^when you're freelance you have to sort of look in the mirror every day around noon and shout that at yourself

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, August 8, 2010 8:58 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

i feel that!

literally every time I see this thread title the 'Welcome Back, Kotter' song starts playing in my head

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT1pwrscRu4

Nice interview w/ Jarmusch in the VV today, Whiney!

aw, thanks dude! Sorry I'm not gonna see you at ATP this year!

No worries, there's always SXSW!

Unless you're too busy tweeting another 100 bands (or 150; up the ante?) to kick it over a beer.

i welcomed him

http://mob13.photobucket.com/albums/a292/jrzyeyez/hello/hi.jpg?t=1241826038

is this what the second coming of christ will feel like?

Depends, did you get killed in Cairo and then have your reanimated body get called up into the heavens by god?

Guys this could actually be an interesting discussion, can we not completely ruin it with zings?

what are we talking about?

Firm and friendly handshakes.

also moist.

wb whiney try not to bait deej also have an icey