Chicago MMXII

What kind of car do you have? I had that same kind of coffee table (EVERYBODY in the free world has that coffee table!) and I fit it in a hatchback. A Prius, I think. I don't think they're too hard to take apart, if you have to. The tables, not Priuses.

You have a hatchback, don't you? If you have fold the back seats down, you should be fine.

Yeah but I have a tiny hatchback, a yaris. It should fit, but it could stick out the back a bit.

Sara had that exact coffee table when I met her, so this will be exciting.

Oh right, I've been in that car.

It will fit, even if you have to leave the hatchback open.

I don't know why I'm involving myself in this.

nice work, team

you guys missed an awesome dance party

Yessssss you did!!!!!

Amanda and I IMed earlier and I was going to go (not to dance, just to judge people) but then I got a Garfield grade nap attack at 8:00 and it was over.

I was in the depths of codeine-induced sleep. (Still coughing at night (and during the day, come or think of it), not actually addicted to codeine. Yet.)

The only thing to judge was that a Daily Show guy was doing stand-up beforehand and decided to try out an extra half-hour of new material. This meant that the club was at capacity, so there was a long wait to get in, until the comedy show let out. Other than that, some club-sapphic pairs of gals, just a few dudes being bros, a few pairs of dancers who took over big swaths of the dance floor, and other than that everyone was who there were and the music was all great.

phillip and i watched episodes of archer and venture bros until we went to bed

Also guess what -- not tired, only had 1 beer, feeling good. Staying up til 4 isn't as taxing as it may appear! I've done it several times recently, in fact!

I was kidding about judging. And I was thinking about Jeff's advice to someone on ILX, "Dance like everybody's judging you." (who was that?)

Corey, there will be new Archer episodes soon!

So guess what? I started a thread on ILM last night and it was not a disaster. Worst Pixies song

xp it was my first time watching it. i think i like it more than sealab, but i'd need to see more eps to tell

Archer v. Sealab is very much apples an oranges IMO.

they share some writers don't they?

Marduk commands you to reconsider your opinion.

Oh I don't know.

I just meant that the styles are very different, though thinking about it now I can see some intersections. The characters are all kind of jerky and the jokes are often somewhat blue. But Sealab is more about absurdism and non-sequitirs. Archer eps stick w/ their story and characters rather than veer off into stuff like the 5:00 long "UH OH!" bit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjkdMQzNbt4

ha! i'd always wondered where "we have uh-oh" came from

The only thing to judge was that a Daily Show guy was doing stand-up beforehand and decided to try out an extra half-hour of new material.

Wyatt Cenac? I know he was in town this week.

Yeah, we even saw him walk around the building when they wouldn't let us in. He stayed for the dance party too, but was not dancing.

Btw he was cute, smaller than I expected, and had a beard. Lotsa dull jokes though, including lol buying condoms is embarrassing.

Wow. That's really bad.

tres leches, i used some of that dried mango powder. my stir-fry is now deliciously tangy.

awesome!!! i hope you sang "lemme tang it" while you were cooking :)

Hey sorry I didn't check in. Hope the coffee table transportation went OK <3

Yeah, I think Wyatt Cenac was on a live episode of WTF not too long ago and I was kinda ~shrug~ about him. Not that that's the best venue to judge someone as a performer, but it seemed like he was mostly coasting on charm.

Be careful, karaokers!

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-cops-man-hits-bar-owner-with-bmw-then-tosses-150-cash-at-him-20120116,0,3630305.story

Weekly check-in to see who might be up for pub quiz tonight.

1) Odd Mint Saucepans 14 pts
2) A Witch Liver 10 pts
3) Finish the Lyrics 12 pts
4) Chemical States Round 16 pts
5) Dead Or Canadian 11 pts
6) Pictures 15 pts
7) General Knowledge 22 pts

1 = Stand-Up Comedians
2 = The Civil War (or possibly "Welch Trivia": questions about Jack and/or Raquel Welch)

can't do tonight as per empty bottle show as previously discussed. seems like it's going to be pretty poorly attended (tuesday night plus snow in the forecast). i'm now playing bass on three songs and keyboards on two songs, instead of just autoharp all the time, plus singing backups on a couple of songs, which is fun.
too bad, "stand-up comedians" is a good category.

Oh riiiight. Sorry.

it is cold

how was your show?

Gaahahdsafwh Nick, I wanted to go to your stupid show and I only remembered it last night at about 9:30. I need a social secretary.

i've been playing in my friend's band for about a year, most of the time i play autoharp. last night we're playing a show, we're a fairly quiet band, and a drunk guy decides that the middle of a song is a good time to wander up and ask what the instrument i'm playing is called. i try to just stare him down, he says "you don't know what it's called? ok" and wanders away. kinda put me in an odd funk for the rest of the set.

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the club also arbitrarily pushed back the start of the music by an hour, literally minutes after we were talking about how we liked playing there because they're so professional

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i think it was fine but i was in a weird mood after having to wait around with nothing to do for the four hours between sound check and our set, plus the drunk guy, plus an annoying opening band. there were a surprising number of people there though, i guess because free show.

should've kicked drunk guy in the forehead imo

four hours is a long time, geez
i'd be antsy
at least there were people there, even though one of them was drunk guy?

Empty Bottle is only good for rock. The rest gets drowned out by yayhoos.

i've seen some great loud jazz shows there, and folk stuff too but there were as many times that the singer had to yell STFU.

one of my favorites was seeing alasdair roberts with like 20 other people including the bartender
i remember there being a LOT of problems when we went to see lavender diamond though. that was a long time ago, eh?

Yeah, and I tried seeing Azita there a time or two, to no avail.

bert jansch was great though, and no one bothered him because everyone was there to see him

i've definitely seen quiet bands get overwhelmed by crowd noise there (whoever opened for bill callahan/smog that time i went with jeff), or sometimes they try to make quiet bands LOUD to compensate and lose the dynamics, which i think was more what happened with us - they had the bass pumped, which isn't really appropriate for our songs.

sorry for the bitching. it wasn't that bad.

anyone know anyone looking for editorial work?

New CTA Stations

I was hoping this was about the proposed new stop on the Yellow Line that would be blocks from my house. That would be great.