Chicago MMXII

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.

if I lived on the far south side I'd be pretty pissed about some of this happening instead of extending the red line

Yeah, I'm not sure that fancy new platforms should be first on the list. I think extending services would be a priority, but lets not expect CTA to exhibit logic.

But then I'm furious with the CTA because the goddamn 97 bus I mentioned earlier has driven past me at the stop three times in the last week and a half now and my complaints seem to be doing no good.

i don't even want to know what the cta has planned for my stop

Bus tracker has developed an annoying glitch for the westbound Diversey stop in front of my apartment. It will say Approaching when it absolutely is NOT but it will say that for several minutes. Then it will either switch to an accurate estimate or get stuck on 6 or 7 minutes.

At eastbound Belmont bus stop by Courtney's house (Belmont Blue Line) Bus Tracker consistently predicts 5 minutes when it is 2 stops away. That's pretty fucking exasperating. Those 2 stops = 2 minutes MAX. >:[

I've been enjoying the electronic trackers on select bus stops.

I'd be happy of they just put new metal caps on the stairs at Wilson. The ones there now are worn smooth and slick and one of these wet and ice days, I know I'm going ass over elbow down those stairs.

the steps are all really scary
i often get this terrible OH GOD I'M GOING TO FALL sensation and it's awful

The steps on the stations they are remodeling are bad, too. Hate those steps. Hate that gonna fall feeling.

every time it's like having a heart attack!

all of a sudden the phrase "heart attack" sounded really weird

Heart attack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack
You oughta know by now

PRESSURE

sorry

PRESH-UH

You cannot handle it.

haha wikipedia:

"Pressure" is a synthesizer-driven song from 1982 by Billy Joel about difficulty dealing with the stress of daily living.

PRESH-UH!
deet doot deet deet deet doot deet deet deet doot deet deet deet doot deet deet deet doot deet deet

my bff and i used to have so many larfs pretending to be billy joel singing that song

i think that's how i learned the word "rationale" too

Seriously? I just spilled like 1/4 cup of water on my cell phone, 98% of which was kept away by the protective cover, but apparently the three drops that got inside the cover have fucked it completely. So not happy right now.

i was probably 7, so yeah

turn it off and pull the battery out if you can

He is really intense about the stress of daily living in that song, it is troo.

1-2-3-4 PRESH-UH

Done and done. Both sitting out and drying right now.

Oh god a weird, unnotified XP!!!! I'm sorry about your phone, John!

JON

God. I suck.

let them sit for 24hrs or more

same thing happened to me with beer and laptop, it amazingly survived

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZO954_SQUY

sorry about your phone j dogg

also I would say take your phone apart as much as you easily can, more area exposed = more thoroughly dry

I am guessing you probably know this but I want to say THERE IS HOPE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC0dTcjUH9o

Its cool, might be an excuse to upgrade but of course I am 6 months away from contract ending. The water indicator strip appears to not have been touched though, so I don't know.

Billy Joel vid is making me feel better.

it's totally hilarious!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/82/Billyjoelgreatesthits.jpg

This was my mom's preferred "cleaning album" on Saturdays so I heard more fucking Billy Joel in my life than I ever needed to hear.

"Allentown" still rules

Allentown is legitimately a good song.

R is a huge, unrepentant, celebratory fan of Billy Joel

like she will threaten to cut your face if you besmirch him

not really

but close

like she will threaten to cut your face if you besmirch him
this is the kind of dedication i can support

i don't know that many of his songs. i am an unabashed fan of "uptown girl" because it's so dorky and catchy, kinda like "we didn't start the fire," and despise "piano man." can't think of any other ones i know.

Yeah "Allentown" is a good song and my parents dragged me to see him live once and I'll begrudgingly admit he put on a good show, but he has so many corny songs that I just can't really ever take him seriously.

we've been singing "honesty" to the dog for a while now, subbing his name (vonnegut) for the titular line

usually it goes "vonnnnnnegut / is such a giant dog", or "is sleeping on the floor", or whatever else he happens to be doing at the time

sometimes I think we've both gone insane simultaneously and therefore seem completely normal to one another

Brenderand Eddie
were still going steady
in the summer of '76

BUM BUM

you don't want me to go into detail with my billy joel memories

I was a big fan of "Storm Front" in seventh grade.

was steely dan's "barrytown" a response to "allentown" or vice versa?

xp "downeaster 'alexa'" is a pretty rockin jam

'keepin the faith' is pretty bad