Chicago: Totally hands-free!!!

Dr. Wax apparently "forgot" to order the new Les Savy Fav and then questioned the accuracy of my statement that it was released today, so I had to buy it at Barnes & Noble. GOOD JOB INDEPENDENT MUSIC RETAILERS.

Idiots!

I am the King of the divan wins! It was my 2nd choice.

Ok, so that's old news. I'm behind the times.

Jen: contain yourself!
i love the container store

This album is good. It's like Les Savy Fav but 12% poppier.

I'm listening to it now, too.

LSF, get in my shuffle!

"Raging in the Plague Age" is really poppy.

Actually, haha, when I reviewed "The Equestrian" a couple of weeks ago, I said it wasn't pop enough.

I am listening to Rudimentary Peni.

Sadness:

1. "Les Savy Fav does not accept add requests from bands."
2. No Chicago-area tour dates.

John copy or link to review so I can argue with you (note: I am going into a meeting in 10 minutes and probably going home after that).

The main reason I review indie-rock singles on the Jukebox is to balance out Martin Skidmore's reviews, which nine times out of ten are something like: "US indie, with lifeless guitars and not much of a tune. Dreadful. [2]"

Secretarial duties I normally get away with not doing that I have been asked to do today:
"Take this down, will you?"
"I will take a fresh pot of decaf."
"I would like a cab here at 2:45..."
None of those requests were from coworkers.

Nick:

At their best, Les Savy Fav couples off-the-rails punk intensity (as demonstrated by Tim Harrington’s anarchic stage antics) with exuberant, literate tunefulness. Unfortunately, this single, their first after several years of inactivity, has plenty of vitality but not enough melody: after several plays, only the end, which exploits Harrington’s penchant for closing mantras, strikes me as particularly memorable.
[5]

DECAF????

My rebuttal: u crazy

Wow. I told you that I offered a client coffee and he just ASSUMED we had decaf and the assoc. said, "What are we, Communists?"

That's cool. I might warm up to it. Plus, I'm liking some of the other songs on the album.

ugh. that getting people's coffee thing is BULLSHIT.

even moreso, an entire POT of it??!

I only get it for clients on the very infrequent occasions that we have an in-office consultation. I do however generally make the coffee around here.

Well, I knew the coffee (regular) wasn't fresh, AND It was almost noon anyway, so I offered this guy water or soda. That was his response.

ugh. that getting people's coffee thing is BULLSHIT.
At least most businessmen are too hardcore to take anything but regular black coffee, which is the easiest for me.

I drank decaf for like a year.

I realized that the thread title keeps reminding me of Alanis M.'s "Hands Clean", and so I went to search for the album art and found so much other stuff under a GIS for that title. Such as:

http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/preservation/training/handling/hands.gif

Once again proving my point that when disembodied body parts appear in advertisements (e.g., a treatment for athlete's foot) or other public displays, they will always be white.

Those are sunburned hands of the man.

In high school and college, whenever I was with my mom at a restaurant and ordered coffee, she'd tell the waitress "DECAF! It needs to be DECAF!" Supposedly I get hyper on the caffeine? ha ha (understatement)

That one's from the library at Oxford University.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/language/asl/flashcards/gifsAa/S.GIF

http://www.msu.edu/~bsaemail/blkpower.jpg

I totally made a mess of the WDYLL thread (!).

http://www.tnr.com/graphics2004.1/20070702/lede.jpg

i think it would be funny if the black panthers had used a white hand in their logo.

Nice studio pic!

I totally made a mess of the WDYLL thread (!).

You and me both, sister.

john! who was my old roommate that lived at HPK? the one in the comic? ben something? i wonder if he was there during the FF appearance.

and by "lived" i mean "worked"

http://cdbaby.name/t/u/tumba52.jpg

I think I found his myspace page.

i think it would be funny if the black panthers had used a white hand in their logo.

Well, you know what I mean. The Black Panthers logo and the Iraqi hand are both deliberately calling attention to the race/ethnicity of the hand. Advertisers, however, don't want consumers to see body parts as racially coded at all; they want it to be abstract and universal, so they use white body parts, because most Americans aren't going to see that as a specific race at all.

That's a Palestinian hand.

Yeah, Kels, "Ben" is all I remember.

I like this studio pic better of me, but it is Nickless:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1355/1402749481_74598ecb15.jpg?v=0

That's a Palestinian hand.

So it is, I just saw the colors on the sleeve and thought Iraqi, but you're right, it's a different flag.

Canadians only look clean.

what's the big deal with decaf? i ordered some decaf at the coffee shop last week because it was 7:30pm and I wanted a special coffee drink for dessert and did not want caffeine. who cares?

Yeah, I'm with you, Amanda. There are reasons to drink coffee besides the caffeine, you know. Like, for example: It tastes good. I mean, I drink Roastaroma tea every morning because it has a delicious, robust flavor I associate with coffee but without the caffeine to which my body is sensitive.

I used to have a shirt that said "Death Before Decaf," and I worked at a coffee shop and looked down my nose at people who ordered decaf and took no care in making their coffee... but I have had to reevaluate. I can't do more than one cup of regular coffee in the morning, if that, but I need more beverage than that, something sugar-free and caffeine free and not juice or anything like that. So it's decaf. :(