Heart attack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ackYou oughta know by now
― gonna give her the old fuquay-varina (Jenny), Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:07 (twelve years ago) link
PRESSURE
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
sorry
PRESH-UH
You cannot handle it.
― gonna give her the old fuquay-varina (Jenny), Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
haha wikipedia:
"Pressure" is a synthesizer-driven song from 1982 by Billy Joel about difficulty dealing with the stress of daily living.
― gonna give her the old fuquay-varina (Jenny), Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
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
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:12 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
i was probably 7, so yeah
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
turn it off and pull the battery out if you can
― long duk dan (dan m), Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:17 (twelve years ago) link
He is really intense about the stress of daily living in that song, it is troo.
1-2-3-4 PRESH-UH
― gonna give her the old fuquay-varina (Jenny), Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
Done and done. Both sitting out and drying right now.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
Oh god a weird, unnotified XP!!!! I'm sorry about your phone, John!
― gonna give her the old fuquay-varina (Jenny), Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
JON
God. I suck.
let them sit for 24hrs or more
same thing happened to me with beer and laptop, it amazingly survived
― long duk dan (dan m), Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZO954_SQUY
sorry about your phone j dogg
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
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
― long duk dan (dan m), Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
it's totally hilarious!
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
"Allentown" still rules
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
Allentown is legitimately a good song.
― gonna give her the old fuquay-varina (Jenny), Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:27 (twelve years ago) link
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
― long duk dan (dan m), Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:27 (twelve years ago) link
like she will threaten to cut your face if you besmirch himthis is the kind of dedication i can support
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:32 (twelve years ago) link
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
― long duk dan (dan m), Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
Brenderand Eddiewere still going steadyin the summer of '76
BUM BUM
― gonna give her the old fuquay-varina (Jenny), Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
you don't want me to go into detail with my billy joel memories
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
I was a big fan of "Storm Front" in seventh grade.
― the emancipation of distraction (askance johnson), Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:36 (twelve years ago) link
was steely dan's "barrytown" a response to "allentown" or vice versa?
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:36 (twelve years ago) link
xp "downeaster 'alexa'" is a pretty rockin jam
― long duk dan (dan m), Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
'keepin the faith' is pretty bad
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
I had Storm Front because it was the first time I forgot to return one of those Columbia House things on time and it showed up. I didn't learn until later that I could've just sent it back. I think I listened to it once.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
75. That should obv be 75 up there. Stupid thumbs.
― gonna give her the old fuquay-varina (Jenny), Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
my only other billy joel reference is getting a casio for xmas when i was like 11 and the demo song being "just the way you are." i wonder how much money he got for that.
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
$1,000,000
― gonna give her the old fuquay-varina (Jenny), Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
weirdmine had stuff like "down by the old folks home" and "greensleeves"
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
OK FINE i also know "my life" which is annoyingly catchy. gets stuck in my head when i don't want it there.
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:42 (twelve years ago) link
i know like a zillion billy joel songsand i'm going to sing all of them here tonight
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:42 (twelve years ago) link
good comment on the youtube video for "my life"
why can't musicians like billy joel be around today
Coolz444 1 month ago 4
pretty sure billy joel is still alive?
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:43 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, but to be sort of fair to Coolz444 he's only been "composing" classical stuff for a long time now.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:44 (twelve years ago) link
the good old days weren't always goodand tomorrow ain't as bad as it see-ee-eeems
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:44 (twelve years ago) link
I kind of enjoy that b. joel has stopped writing new songs and just performs the hits now
― the emancipation of distraction (askance johnson), Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:45 (twelve years ago) link
there was a b. joel concert on pbs a couple weeks ago and it was almost enjoyable
that video is really weird. it has a long intro where billy joel is tough and wearing a leather jacket and walking around with other tough guys while a groovin' beat plays, then suddenly they're in a recording studio dressed like dorks playing the songhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3JFEfdK_Ls&ob=av2n
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:45 (twelve years ago) link
Don't waste your money on a new set of speakers. You'll get more mileage from a cheap pair of sneakers.
― gonna give her the old fuquay-varina (Jenny), Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:46 (twelve years ago) link
I've always meant to listen to more Billy Joel after reading Chuck Klosterman's impassioned defense of Glass Houses a while ago.
Here are the Billy Joel singles I recognize as having heard:
Piano Man (Probably? I couldn't hum it.)New York State of Mind (I know I've heard it at least once -- in The Beaver Trilogy)Just the Way You AreOnly the Good Die YoungMy LifeYou May Be RightIt's Still Rock and Roll to MeUptown Girl (Probably the first B. Joel song I ever heard, since the Chipmunks covered it)We Didn't Start the FireI Go to ExtremesThe River of Dreams
― Girl I want to take you to a JBR (jaymc), Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:49 (twelve years ago) link
I sort of think I like the idea of Billy Joel more than the reality. Like I think the aesthetic of it being 1978 and this sad-eyed crooner playing piano in a fancy brass furnished and wood-panelled bar for lawyers doing bumps in the bathroom as they prepare for, or come down from, a night at the disco is sort of cool. But then I hear his songs.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:49 (twelve years ago) link