He writes for Time Out Chicago now, so I still see his byline almost every week.
― jaymc, Thursday, 19 June 2008 21:25 (sixteen years ago) link
deja vu
― deej, Thursday, 19 June 2008 21:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Did I mention that last night?
― jaymc, Thursday, 19 June 2008 21:35 (sixteen years ago) link
haha yes
― deej, Thursday, 19 June 2008 21:35 (sixteen years ago) link
gah i hate lofty-minded writers. everyone should write like a mix between hemingway and a 40s beat reporter.
-- Granny Dainger, Thursday, June 19, 2008 9:18 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
are IKEA references your idea of lofty writing?
― s1ocki, Thursday, 19 June 2008 21:43 (sixteen years ago) link
why do ppl hate on ikea so much? it's like if you don't have a lot of dough and just need a dresser or coffee table that looks decent enough it's not a bad place
― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 19 June 2008 21:44 (sixteen years ago) link
no this is though: Cold Ikea percussion frames hold downy white duvets of keyboards, the music sterile and functional xpost
― Granny Dainger, Thursday, 19 June 2008 21:45 (sixteen years ago) link
i only hate on IKEA when it's used in figurative language in association with a music review
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 19 June 2008 21:45 (sixteen years ago) link
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/7/2008/03/ikea3.JPG
― tylerw, Thursday, 19 June 2008 21:49 (sixteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fe/F0322403au9.jpg
― NickB, Thursday, 19 June 2008 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link
THIS ^^^
― stephen, Thursday, 19 June 2008 22:12 (sixteen years ago) link
i hate on ikea cause its a horrible place to be inside
― jhøshea, Thursday, 19 June 2008 22:23 (sixteen years ago) link
this one dude i saw on the news had been waiting on the street for two days to get into the red hook ikea to get free furniture
― jhøshea, Thursday, 19 June 2008 22:25 (sixteen years ago) link
http://weblogs.amny.com/entertainment/urbanite/blog/line.jpg
it was crazy
― jhøshea, Thursday, 19 June 2008 22:27 (sixteen years ago) link
The only way you could compare music to IKEA would be if, say, the download cost you $.99, but then you had to pay another $.10 to load it into your iPod, another $.10 to put it in a playlist, $.50 for the metadata, another $.50 for the album art, etc...
You gotta love a business model that sells you the table separately from the legs. Genius.
― pshrbrn, Thursday, 19 June 2008 22:39 (sixteen years ago) link
more like you have to buy percussion separately.
― deej, Thursday, 19 June 2008 22:57 (sixteen years ago) link
"hi hats are an extra .10"
exactly! i guess that's sort of the radiohead model for those remixes stems, no? i wonder how many of the contest remixers scrimped and didn't buy, say, the bass.
― pshrbrn, Friday, 20 June 2008 00:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Isn't it good? Scandanavian wood
― Steve Shasta, Friday, 20 June 2008 00:13 (sixteen years ago) link
What's odd is that the music review references to Ikea always make the furniture sound more glossy and professional and, well, sturdy than it actually is.
Like, the real IKEA pop would be Robyn - not because she's from Scandanavia, but because there's that same sense of rickety el cheapo construction aspiring to ape the high-tech and high-cost fashions of the day.
― Tim F, Friday, 20 June 2008 00:20 (sixteen years ago) link
This is just what happens when the generation who watched Fight Club too many times during adolescence grows up and becomes music writers.
― adamj, Friday, 20 June 2008 01:27 (sixteen years ago) link
(I know because I am part of that generation)
― adamj, Friday, 20 June 2008 01:28 (sixteen years ago) link
That's great because you can choose what color legs to go with what color table!
― dan selzer, Friday, 20 June 2008 13:02 (sixteen years ago) link
paint would be cheaper. and more versatile!
― pshrbrn, Friday, 20 June 2008 16:32 (sixteen years ago) link
What these writers really mean to say is "This music reminds me of IKEA because they play stuff like it at IKEA."
― Hurting 2, Friday, 20 June 2008 16:53 (sixteen years ago) link
mostly they play stuff like it at urban outfitters but nobody wants to admit they shop there once they get their first job
also THE CONTAINER STORE people fills more inches and is less done
― El Tomboto, Friday, 20 June 2008 17:01 (sixteen years ago) link
do they play stuff like this at IKEA? the ones i've been to are playing kinda normal supermarket/mall sort of music. i think.
― tylerw, Friday, 20 June 2008 17:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Actually I haven't been to IKEA in years so I don't know.
― Hurting 2, Friday, 20 June 2008 17:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Pretty sure the first time I'd ever heard of IKEA was via the Pavement song "Date w/IKEA."
― jaymc, Friday, 20 June 2008 17:55 (sixteen years ago) link
jaymc always with the really random cultural blind spots!
― some dude, Friday, 20 June 2008 17:56 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Hurting 2, Friday, June 20, 2008 12:53 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link
they play soft rock/pop radio at ikea
― and what, Friday, 20 June 2008 17:57 (sixteen years ago) link
not the alt/indie peter bjorn & john style soft rock but like air supply and shit
― and what, Friday, 20 June 2008 17:58 (sixteen years ago) link
It was 1997! They hadn't yet penetrated the Midwest.
― jaymc, Friday, 20 June 2008 18:01 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm with jaymc, that too was my first exposure to IKEA.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 20 June 2008 18:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, it looks like the Schaumburg store opened in fall 1998.
― jaymc, Friday, 20 June 2008 18:04 (sixteen years ago) link
ironically, the first time i heard of pavement was at an ikea.
― Granny Dainger, Friday, 20 June 2008 18:24 (sixteen years ago) link
You should've borrowed my Walkman on the National Honor Society field trip to Navy Pier.
― jaymc, Friday, 20 June 2008 18:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Sometime around 1999 I think I nearly had a relationship end entirely because of the stress of a day at IKEA. You can walk in at 10am and find yourself at 5pm, still there, wanting to murder everyone around you, you and your companion both convinced that the other is the most irritating soft-headed pain in the ass ever to have walked the earth. There should be some sort of Survivor-style reality show set in an IKEA.
(I think the only reason the girlfriend and I didn't wind up killing one another that day was that I managed to carry a 7-foot circular rug through crowds and down three flights, which gave me immunity.)
― nabisco, Friday, 20 June 2008 18:35 (sixteen years ago) link
i wasn't in NHS! just NJHS. (and i was lying. i'd heard of pavement in Spin)
― Granny Dainger, Friday, 20 June 2008 18:37 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.telefonica.net/web2/marcshaiman/cds/scenes.jpg
― some dude, Friday, 20 June 2008 18:38 (sixteen years ago) link
xp For some reason I think I knew that. (The first part, I mean.)
― jaymc, Friday, 20 June 2008 18:45 (sixteen years ago) link
The best part is that if you go in the morning and do all your slow strolling and looking around and considering options, by 2:30 or so you'll be tired and snippy and running around trying to gather things up and get the hell out of them -- except then there'll be an afternoon crowd of couples strolling happily around considering options, and you will probably want to punch them all in the face and tell them that love is an illusion and they'd better get the hell out of your way because this is the real world and you are putting your foot down, getting the original lamp, taking it home, and strangling yourself with the cord. It's like an instant aging process between the morning and afternoon crowds: "Remember back at 11 when we were like that, so happy and full of dreams? These poor bastards have no idea what will happen to them in two hours."
― nabisco, Friday, 20 June 2008 18:46 (sixteen years ago) link
it's been very freeing to purge myself of all my ikea crap, though i've found it very difficult to find a new dining table on craigslist because it's all ikea bullshit.
― omar little, Friday, 20 June 2008 18:52 (sixteen years ago) link
say what you want about ikea but if you have a shitlaod of books like i do their cheep bookcases are a fuckin godsend
― s1ocki, Friday, 20 June 2008 19:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Not to mention that by late afternoon you're liable to start buying a bunch of random cheap crap from the housewares section that will uselessly clutter up your apartment.
― Hurting 2, Friday, 20 June 2008 19:18 (sixteen years ago) link
(xpost)
actually wait, the only thing i haven't purged is the EXPEDIT, which was a bitch to put together but it was totally worth it and it looks pretty good, too. it fits records perfectly.
― omar little, Friday, 20 June 2008 19:19 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, I was thinking about getting some EXPEDIT for our new place when we move
― Hurting 2, Friday, 20 June 2008 19:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I found myself the other day missing my JERKER (OOP)
― El Tomboto, Friday, 20 June 2008 19:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I prefer to get my houseware clutter from Crate & Barrel and World Market
― milo z, Friday, 20 June 2008 20:38 (sixteen years ago) link