Archive for the tag "chicago"

• Barry Phipps’ cool photo of the Spire in Berwyn IL. Here’s another one.

• Finished “Super-Cannes” by J.G. Ballard. What should I read now? Finding it hard to go back to Musicophilia, just too dry & clinical for me. #
• Reading about golems. Wow. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem #
• Good People Are Midwest People

• The Leopard-compatible version of SuperDuper is FINALLY out. So happy. Time Machine alone wasn’t cutting it for me. http://tinyurl.com/6krpz #
• Voted for Barack Obama. (I moved here from Illinois y’know.) Hope he gets it, but either way this is a pretty exciting time in history, eh? #
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• Adamo - Aerialists Andrew Adams & Erika Gilfether
• Eeeeee!!! Some people w/ Dec. 13th Kindle orders (like me) are seeing their status change today to “shipping soon”. Refreshing like mad… #
• Why do I always have to “killall Dock”? #
• I just got a potato chip in the shape of Illinois. Oops, I ate it… no selling it on eBay! #
• Dad: “Oh, don’t worry about it. They may ship but then again they may run out. I don’t know why you can’t just show the patience I did.” HA! #
• SHIPPING SOON! SHIPPING SOON!!!!!!!!! OMG OMG OMG #

• The results are in! My blood is free of boogers, sprites, spider-babies and furballs. #
• Harper (@nata2) & his wife are on this week’s “Check Please”, only in Chicago. (There’s a Bay Area spinoff, but sadly without Alpana Singh.) #

• When I can’t sleep, I get angry at the world. It’s all your fault. #
• Kindlelust is messing up my life. Starting a list of books I want even though I have no Kindle. I’m not even in line for one! Need therapy. #
• I’m freezing, wtf should I eat? Wish we had someplace like the Soupbox here. http://www.thesoupbox.com/ Yeah yeah, Chicago blah blah blah. #
• Confessed to Wil that his present was here taunting me and I wanted to give it to him already. He’s all… “oh well, too bad for you!” Heh. #
• Listening to Steve Albini on Sound of Young America. Mentions nothing about how I turned his career around with all the referrals! Hee. j/k #
• (Well, I did find him those Jud Jud MP3s, which he really really wanted, so they’ll never take that away from me!) http://tinyurl.com/4lmjt #
• Cambodian Rocks MP3s for free on WFMU! Good shit. http://tinyurl.com/2mvzqa #

• @tigerbeat: after living in Chicago, I’m trained: the parka only gets put away in July/August. I know it looks stupid but I like to be WARM. #
• Now a Craigslister is offering ***$800*** to anyone who’ll sell him a Kindle. The hysteria is crossing over into total pandemonium. #
• Google Safe Browsing: Report a Malware Page
• Adding an Amazon Associates link for every mention of the K-word on my site’s twitter-feed. I could get $40! Doubtful but you never know. #
• Telling a funny story about a looney ex-boss. I got a million of ‘em, I’m a magnet for crazy bosses. (Ask me about the one w/ a shotgun!) #
• Befuddled over a tracklist for a comp I didn’t even know I was on. Not saying it’s not legit but you’d think I’d remember giving permission! #
• New iPhone’s acting weird. Home button won’t wake it after it’s been sleeping > 30 secs. Gotta press top button, then home, then slid … … #
• AS I was saying before I was so RUDELY cut off… “…slide. WTF?” Is that normal for newer phones? Sure didn’t work that way w/ original. #

• Trying to figure out how to get a PDF ebook onto my non-jailbrunked iPhone. Dying for a Kindle but it ain’t gonna happen anytime soon. Meh. #
• You can put PDF booklets into iTunes. But they don’t sync to the iPhone! BAH!!! #
• Sony just released a PSP firmware upgrade with no changes whatsoever other than the version number. How do you spell “fa-cock-ta”? #
• Part of the menu-that’s-not-on-the-menu at Jodie’s
• I’m full of Jodie’s #
• Regarding parking-spot territorialism: In Chicago I’d cook a pot of oatmeal and pour it on the fucker’s freezing windshield. Or dream of it. #
• I thought SpyMac was a Mac rumors site?! Looks like MySpace shook it up in their barf bag. (I’m so grumpy I must sound like @hotdogsladies) #
• Remembering the last guy who called me Edie. I couldn’t go to the funeral, obviously. #
• Bedbat? Is that meant to be kept under the bed, or over?

• Listened to This American Life’s story on Harold Washington. Whatta guy. I miss Chicago so, so much. Not moving back anytime soon but still. #

• Chicagoist got me craving a nice Cuban sandwich with fried plantains. Do they even have those in California? http://tinyurl.com/2rw2km #
• Wil’s at work so I turned off the lights and played like I wasn’t home. Now I can eat the emergency candy! I bought it in case of marauders. #

• Edith Frost met this couple in Chicago, at Mr. Kites on State St.
  (via Ice Cream People)
  
• Thank you Lord for watering our garden, with your tears. #
• The Unicorn Kingdom Club and Legend of the Unicorn Kingdom (via Metafilter)
• Carlos Santana shreds, Steve Vai shreds and Steve Vai shreds in Denver (courtesy of Goh Nakamura)

• @merlin: I do that to you, sorry! Ppl do it to me too, and it weirds me out a bit just like you said. I ignore unless they’re plumb crazy. #
• Maybe I’m being paranoid but I just edited the plugin that displays the list of plugins, so it won’t show version numbers. You never know. #
• p.s. I’m not JUST stalking @merlin btw, I follow all the TWiTs whenever I see ‘em on social networks. Merlin brings the comedy, I dig that. #
• Make me a Greasemonkey script to display Gmail labels as a skinny tag cloud, instead of that longass column of single-word labels. kthxbai!! #
• Gmail Google Calendar sidebar - Greasemonkey script that adds a sidebar to GMail to display your upcoming events/appointments from Google Calendar. (It’s not very nice-looking though…)
• WordPress Plugin Database
• Mulling over an invite to participate in a music project. I wish there were more opportunities to sing on things! None since I left Chicago. #
• SimplePie - RSS aggregator plugin thingy for WordPress

Morning Recordings: The Welcome Kinetic
©2007 Loose Thread #LTR019
Produced by Pramod Tummala & Barry Phipps
Purchase it at No Karma, or try Amazon

I sang lead on one song (”Songs from a Hotel Bar”) and did backups / extra vocals on two others.

Watch the video for “Sugar Waltz” on YouTube… I sing, but I’m not in the video. But’s it’s a great video. :-)

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• Friends are posting pics of the flooding in Chicago — it’s making me very very homesick, but at the same time glad I’m not there right now! #
• Nice when nice people write nice notes asking to use my pics, which are CC-licensed anyhow. News is not nice tho. http://tinyurl.com/3cfcdv #
• I f’in hate showing my receipt at the door, and showing ID when I use my card. Considering polite noncompliance. http://tinyurl.com/2hz3ht #
• Googling “chronic earworm”. Got one that’s bugged me for at least 25 years if not more, a 4- or 8-bar loop I call the Default Song. It sucks #
• Argh!! What would Leo do? #

Awhile back in Chicago, Leroy Bach asked me to join in on a song he was recording.  I was to be singing in a girly trio type thing along with my good pals, the divas of the barroom, Kelly Hogan and Nora O’Connor.  It was for a project he was producing for his friend Sonny Smith.  Sonny is awesome.  He’s a San Francisco native, a traveling-troubadour type dude, the kind of guy who always wears a hat.  He’s toured around and recorded with some of my most esteemed musical contemporaries, like Jolie Holland and Neko Case.  So anyway, this record’s been out for a few months now. It’s called FRUITVALE and it’s very very good.  I’ve been negligent about posting it to my discography — got my copy last week though, so here it is.

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