June 2010
TCB. First of all, the important stuff (brought to my attention by the always courteous, always kind Wil Wheaton Jon Dyer):
In other news, I am another year older today. Each year it amazes me I made it into another one! To celebrate I will be at Beauty Bar tonight from 7 p.m. until 10 or 11 p.m. (where GalPal and my friend Lisa will be spinning anything I ask them to because IT’S MY...
Psssst … hey you! Shhh, don’t tell anyone, but my birthday is tomorrow. Well, I guess technically it starts tonight at midnight. I’m going to a friend’s taqueria after work and then god knows what else tonight. Tomorrow is slightly more structured, but only slightly. RSVP to make sure you get the details as they emerge.
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chainofknives:
I would like to thank Mr. Berkowitz for writing this so I didn’t have to. It would’t have been as coherenly amusing anyway.
xoxo, michaela
ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS!
Muse + Edge = Not too shabby! Well, I suppose if you’re going to cover this song you couldn’t ask for someone better to handle the guitar duties, right?
I still think their last album kind of sucked though.
Socially driven. I have been out doing something every night this week. And the pace show no sign of slowing. So come and see me make my miraculous transition into a real-live robot tomorrow when Keep and I DJ at The Continental!
It appears as if I’m an uncle again! Being an uncle makes me feel as if I should start acting responsible! Congratulations to my brother Jason and his wife Fiona for bringing a new addition into the family!
Betty the Beagle is a hot dog! GalPal stayed home today — she was a bit under the weather — and she just sent me this from her phone. You can almost hear her panting!
Sometimes I think ours may be a dark and vengeful God. Storms, storms, storms. Chicago has been hit by a couple of whoppers in the last few days. Nothing quite as scary as that mammoth crash of hail, thunder, lightning and possible tornadoes that hit right after Lollapalooza a few years ago — that one had me huddling in the first floor of my apartment’s stairway with a beagle on a...
They didn’t play “Precision Auto” but I loved them anyway. Superchunk played the Taste of Randolph — probably the “highest class” and most yuppified street festival in Chicago — and I was shocked at how good they were. Superchunk is one of those bands I’ve loved since their early singles first came out but for some reason I had never seen them live...
“Reviews only matter if they’re in a place your fans read them. Jam band...”
– Via today’s always out of touch Lefsetz Letter
I’m down with targeting reviews somewhat, and totally agree that getting print media to write about you is probably close to a waste of time (though Bob, in his infinite wisdom, forgets to include the fact the print critics are also online...
PSA: He’s really that into you. Here is one of those simple facts of life women never seem to quite be able to grasp so maybe it must be said out loud: If a single guy approaches you at a bar and is buying you drinks and you are telling him over and over that you have a boyfriend but he says that’s cool and continues to stick around is is not because he is hearing your words and...
Even Screaming Trees get hungry. Supreme thanks to Goldenfiddlr for digging this one up. Watch the killer rendition of “Nearly Lost You” but definitely stick around until the end.
I am very upset with T.I.! This was TOTALLY my album cover for the next America’s #! Sweetheart disc! Only with ‘Balls sitting next a Photoshopped embiggen of Charles Balls (his cat)!
Disturbing dreams, they disturb my sleep. Last night’s sleep was one interrupted by me constantly waking up from a narrative nightmare of GalPal suddenly leaving me cruelly and without warning for someone else, all while a psychotic bully chased me from end to end and refused to expire (I seemingly being the only one in the dream to realize that the horror movie trope of “if you...
Hi there, how are you? This looks to be an insanely busy week, so please forgive any brevity or unhinged ramblings that may appear in this space over the next few days. Love you!
Ye Old Oak … tonight! I was in NOLA last Friday so I’m doing my monthly DJ thing at Old Oak Tap tonight! I’ll be there from 100 until 2 so come on by and say hi. The owners told me there’s a couple big parties booked so it should be a really good time. Woo hoo!
“It’s a very carefully balanced piece of music — it could easily just topple...”
– Matthew on the Gorillaz’s “Superfast Jellyfish.” Read his whole write-up, it’s excellently crafted, but I particularly like the final line, excerpted above.
A pall hangs over NOLA. Yesterday somebody sent me this story of the dying oyster industry in Louisianna, and I forwarded it on to GalPal knowing that while her response would be an anguished cry she would also appreciate the fact she ate at Felix’s just last week even more. Pictures of the oil soaked pelicans surface while we were down there last week and it was the sort of thing that made...
Kick some butt, karate kid! My favorite line by far in this is “”He wanted to get into the Brat Pack, but he wanted to change the name to The Smile Bunch.” However the bit about eschewing cuddling while making a sex tape is pretty chuckle-worthy too.
Holy mackerel! Check out Jeremy’s tattoo!
thursday morning coffee.
peabs:
yesterday could’ve gone better.
mornin’.
“I can’t imagine what the younger Ghyslain went through but I’m sure most of us...”
– The Star Wars Kid is back and he’s going to be a lawyer
Caught up on my RSS feeds so let’s dance! I neglected my RRS feeds during vacation but I’m finally up to date. What better way to celebrate than with Kylie Minogue and whole buncha barely clothed dancing?!
It’s … TankBird Tuesday again! Talk about no rest for the wicked. THE day I get back into the real world from my vacation just happens to also be the second Tuesday of the month which means it’s TankBird Night at The Burlington! Last time we DJed there were unicorns in attendance, which tells you exactly why you should NOT miss tonight. I hear it might rain — which is par...
Taking a vacation in public. While I was on vacation last week I made a conscious effort to do so publicly, using social media, primarily Twitter and foursquare. Part of it was selfish, wanting a linear record without taking copious notes (although GalPal and I did buy a notebook for personal use and found recording more private thoughts between the two of us in that was loads of fun). Part of me...
Drenched! We were on a cemetary tour and I guess the spirits weren’t too happy with us because a thunder storm swept in and soaked is to the bone. Awesome.
WOF in NOLA. I’m not posting much over the next few days since I’m on vacation in New Orleans (and yes, we have a friend house-sitting for us so I don’t mind letting people know I’m out of town) but this, I had to share. I can not stop running into Vanna White in this fricking city! Wheel of Fortune is filming here and we keep running into her doing pick up shots. Last...
Guess where I am? HINT: It ain’t Trops.
New Orleans bound! GalPal and I are scrambling to get ready for tomorrow departure to New Orleans for a well earned and long overdue vacation. (I don’t feel bad letting you know we’re headed out of town since one of our friends is house-sitting for us so we’re not exactly leaving our place vacant.) Anyway, keep your eyes here for periodic updates and drunken scrawls from down...
