Chicago: Totally hands-free!!!

this thread is quickly going monkey side, and I fear I am to blame. :(

Kenan now has the artwork for his electronica project.

Any ideas for something fun to do tonight?

Fun and cheap?

I'm thinking of going to free Thursday at the Art Institute and checking out the Jeff Wall exhibition before it's gone. But you guys saw it in NYC, right?

stay home, open the windows, feel the cool night air as you snuggle under a blanket and watch TV.

No,E. That looks good!

better than snuggling, though? Be honest.

The problem is that we're still getting used to this new routine of not having band practice a couple times during the week. Also, I've had this dumb cold. So basically we've been homebodies all week.

If you guys want to meet up, name a time that's good -- I think the museum's free anytime after 5 and open 'til 8.

Art Institute is free on Thursdays now?

And why no band practice?

Ben is on a design project team. He had to apply to get in, and it lasts until next summer I believe. So, he's working full time and going to this other thing in the evenings during the week. Thus, he can't play shows or practice during the week any more.

This means we only practice on Sundays. Once a week is probably the norm for most bands but we're used to 2-3.

Oh, we do two three-hour practices, so I feel ya.

There's also an exhibition (closing this weekend) of communal poems from Japan, basically the kind of thing we all do in bars:
http://www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/exhibition/surimono

N & I had also talked about maybe seeing that new western, 3:10.

Bro up is just like man up or cowboy up

Bro down is just like throw down or party down

Bro v. Wade ensured that you can fuck all teh bitchez you take a mind to and not have to marry a bitch

Any ideas for something fun to do tonight?

-- KitCat, Thursday, September 13, 2007 3:05 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Fun and cheap?

-- KitCat, Thursday, September 13, 2007 3:05 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

dunno what u guys are into but this will be awesome

September 13, 2007

BUTTERED BUNS (2): ELECTRIC BOOGALOO

Good for Party magazine and Mr. Peabody Records present....

Buttered Buns 2: Electric Boogaloo

In the world of rare vinyl, DJ's Mike Cole and Mark Grusane own the store....literally. Everyone else is just shopping in it.

Their record store, Mr. Peabody's, is the finest in Chicago, boasting a collection of rare vinyl that no one else in the city can touch. When your favorite international DJ's come to play, Mr. Peabody's is where they go to find obscure dancefloor vinyl no one else has. Everyone from Dimitri from Paris to Kool Herc has bought from Mr. Peabody's.

Playing Sonotheque for the first time ever, Mike and Mark open their vaults for a very special night of classic dance music and sexy bullshit. This is a rare, special treat that you music fans do not want to miss. They pack more heat than an oven door, tastefully folding rare disco, soul, funk, into New Wave, house, hip-hop and boogie. Listening to them play records is like being on a time traveling Be prepared to dance...hard.

Please rsvp to rsvp.goodforparty.com for reduced admission. Early arrival is strongly suggested.

9pm-2am
$10 cover after 10pm

http://rsvp.goodforparty.com/

supposedly u get a discount on cover if you are arriving after 10pm and have rsvp'd

That sounds fun.

5 MIN TO OFFICE MEETING!

I understand they're fun. We're going to sit on a patio in Greektown, drink and talk.

Nice meeting!

11:00 AM
jesse: but we're having an office meeting in 4 hours! yay!
jesse: (booze!)
Dan M: I like booze
jesse: not me
jesse: it's yucky
Dan M: wow, how do you manage to drink so much of it?
jesse kehr: FUCK YOU

Goddamit! Where is my fucking meeting!?

jaymc: "unironic" or "un-ironic"?

This is like a Death Row Records meeting. You go and try to find them and then they jump you.

"a historian" or "an historian"?

Webster's sez "unironic."

Also how do you set off song titles? Quotes?

a historian?

song titles, quotes; albums, italics

An album is like a book title (itals) and a song is like a poem (quotes) -- that's how I remember.

cool, that's what i "thought"

With punctuation outside the quotation marks, because who would really respect one inside "I Walk The Line"?

Hmmm. Askoxford.com is inconclusive:

The form an for the indefinite article is used before a spoken vowel sound, regardless of how the written word is spelt. If you say 'an otel' when speaking (which is now often regarded as distinctly old-fashioned), then it may be appropriate for you to write 'an hotel'; but most people say 'hotel' with a sounded 'h', and should write 'a hotel'.

By contrast, words such as 'honour', 'heir' or 'hour' in which the 'h' sound is dropped are written with 'an'.

-- CharlieNo4, Tuesday, April 24, 2007 6:03 AM (4 months ago) Bookmark Link

I think the BBC decided that it's "An Hotel", weirdly.

-- the next grozart, Tuesday, April 24, 2007 6:12 AM (4 months ago) Bookmark Link

There was another recent thread all about ans and as (what is the best way to write that, by the way, "an"s and "a"s?) and aspirated hs, Charlie. Can't rememeber what it was called.

I think "an historical" etc is widely deprecated, yes, though it seems to be one of those hypercorrective things that people do to try to sound right. I can't believe you really want to write "an hotel". Why?

-- Alba, Tuesday, April 24, 2007 6:39 AM (4 months ago) Bookmark Link

in the same way an American might write "an herb" i suppose; or indeed in the same way i'd write "an honour".

-- CharlieNo4, Tuesday, April 24, 2007 6:43 AM (4 months ago) Bookmark Link

Peaches and an Herb

Wait, we've been through this, because I posted "an" and a photo from WKRP sometime in 2006.

Hahah. Isn't the exception for "historical" done because of the word "ahistorical", meaning, not historical at all? That is what has been exlpained to me but I'm suspicious and stick with an.

Er, sorry, I meant to say that I stick with a.

I'd never heard that, Laurel. And I'm not sure it holds up because you're more likely to pronounce the "a" in front of "historical" (and related words) as "uh": "uh historic moment," "uh historian of the Civil War."

xpost Good. I was about to say.

Anna's an anorexic.

Ahistorical - you think this shit just dropped right out of the sky
My analysis: it's time to harvest the crust from your eyes
To surge and refine, to rage and define ourselves against your line
So sorry friend but you must resign
You want to figure it out we'll throw down, we'll throw down
Wou want to figure it out well throw down your bulldog front
Bold bold mouthtalking not so bold now that you've eaten your own
Lips flecked, mouthspecked you strip the skin right off of the bone
And I would never say you act without precision or care,
But it's all attention to armor, to the armor you wear so well
Let's knock and check to see if there's somebody home

Re pronounciation of "a", I doubt "uh" is any more likely to be used before historic than any other word. I'm not up on my regional linguistics hallmarks, but isnt the ay/uh distinction partly geographic?

WTF

MarryOurDaughter

I doubt "uh" is any more likely to be used before historic than any other word.

Agree with you there. I'm unaware who actually pronounces "a" as "ay" in contexts other than wanting to emphasize the word.

The distinction between "thuh" and "thee" has to do with whether it's before a vowel or not, but "a" has already solved that with "an."

oh wow

Marry Our Daughter is an introduction service assisting those following the Biblical tradition of arranging marriages for their Daughters.

Oh, I meant to mention this to John earlier, but there is this essay/review of a book about e-mail etiquette, and it talks about why exclamation marks are more common in e-mail than in other forms of writing.

Also for some reason I thought of John when I read about this book.

ok holy shit @ marryourdaughter

Kyra likes the outdoors, more the open air of the beach or the desert than the woods. She would love to live somewhere away from it all. She is bright and funny and full of life and while she has little direct experience with the opposite sex we have made sure she is aware of everything she needs to know to be a good wife and mother.

Kristin has a wild streak. She likes parties and has spent more time with boys than we’d have liked her to. We had a family talk and decided that it was time she settled down with a man who could meet her needs and help her fulfill her dreams of being an actor or singer. She’s a bit fiery but worth it.

Is that "Marry Our Daughter" thing a joke? It has to be, right?!