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Chicagoland locations mentioned in Rehearsing My Choir [incomplete]

Joylag — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 09:40:33 +0000

“Memories Are Better Off Sung”

IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE

Forest Park
Carson's

www.carsons.com –
Joey Meyer's Red White and Blue Demon basketball seminar tutorial clinic day care camp

www.depaulbluedemons.com –
H-F

www.hfhighschool.org –
The Antoinette Pope School of Fancy Cookery

articles.chicagotribune.com –
Trader Vic's

www.artofdrink.com –
Mr. Rick's
4823 22nd Street
The Hawthorne Smoke Shop
the closets on 12th Street

articles.chicagotribune.com –
a bowling alley and lunch counter

chicagocrimescenes.blogspot.com –
the Western Electric plant

www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org –
the old Garfield 'L'

www.chicago-l.org –

Trembling Blue Stars – "Idyllwild"

Joylag — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:02:06 +0000

I was looking for this song on YouTube a few days ago and couldn't find it. I wasn't content with leaving it at that. Ergo: This video I made. A recording of the song, quickly thrown together with slowed footage from Kurasawa's "The Blizzard." The track is from the group's 2007 LP, "The Last Holy Writer" (Elefant Records) — Enjoy.

YouTube – Trembling Blue Stars – Idyllwild.

Awkward Family Photos

Joylag — Sun, 17 May 2009 12:01:55 +0000

A collection of Awkward Family Photos.

Rachel Maddow: Auto-Tune the News #3

Joylag — Sat, 16 May 2009 06:54:32 +0000

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Definitive Playlist of 87 Internet Videos You Should Have Seen By Now

Joylag — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:56:24 +0000

This is off of Greg Rutter's Definitive List of The 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet Unless You're a Loser or Old or Something. All 87 videos from the list are here as well as some more I thought were missing.

The original list of 99 (comprised of 87 videos, twelve websites) can be seen here.

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Circle L Ranch

Joylag — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:47:52 +0000

A poignant story from last night's episode of Nightly.

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Nice Fox

Joylag — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:28:23 +0000

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Artist Feature: Cocteau Twins

Joylag — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:53:10 +0000

AIRDATE:	APRIL 12, 2009; APRIL 19, 2009
HOST:	IAN BEVERLY
LENGTH:	4h 2m 17s

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Last.fm Makes Beautiful Wallpaper from Your Favorite Album Art

Joylag — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:51:19 +0000

I seldom bother to look at the links in the footer of a webpage, but this time I'm glad that I did. If you click on the Build link at the bottom of the Last.fm pages, you'll be whisked off to build.last.fm—a site full of "free extras built by the community to extend your Last.fm experience." Many of them look pretty cool, but the one that I liked the best was Gijsco's Desktop Generator. This free application is full of customizable options that allow you to tweak everything just the way you like it: from canvas size to individual album size. It even lets you select what pool of data to draw the albums from, whether it be from your Top Overall, to All albums listened to in the past 3/6/12 months. The result is a beautiful collage of album covers that make for a stunning desktop wallpaper or page background. I settled on a simple grid of 16×16px album covers, randomly drawn from the pool of albums I've scrobbled from in the last year. Here's a full-scale screenshot showing just a portion:

What-not

Joylag — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:25:18 +0000

A what-not is a piece of furniture derived from the French étagère, which was exceedingly popular in England in the first three-quarters of the 19th century. It usually consists of slender uprights or pillars, supporting a series of shelves for holding china, ornaments or trifles of any kind, hence the allusive name. In its English form, although a convenient drawing room receptacle, it was rarely beautiful. The early mahogany examples are, however, sometimes graceful in their simplicity. In some parts of the United States, the term what-nots has come to mean the decorative ornaments so displayed. Soure: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What-not

Neil Halstead releases 2nd solo LP

Joylag — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:04:12 +0000

Six excruciating years after his debut, "Oh! Mighty Engine" is finally out on Brushfire Records. It brings the greatness. Give it a listen! http://www.last.fm/music/Neil+Halstead/Oh%21+Mighty+Engine

allmusic.com | Album of the Day

Joylag — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:13:11 +0000

oh, Look! http://www.allmusic.com/ Thanks, Ian!

Portugal. The Man – "Censored Colors"

Joylag — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:54:30 +0000

Alaska’s Portugal. The Man arrive with their third full length, the highly ambitious Censored Colors. The album is split into two parts by a single track, “Intermission”. THE COLORS collects six formidable, single-worthy tracks full of soaring string melodies; while THE TWENTY-FIVE subtracts out the strings—boasting seamless track-to-track transitions, trippy brass parts, and [...]

Parenthetical Girls – "Entanglements"

Joylag — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:35:48 +0000

Parenthetical Girls are a group from Portland, Oregon, formed in 2002 by music journalist Zac Pennington and musician Jeremy Cooper. Cooper has since dropped out and Jherek Bischoff (of the Dead Science) has swooped in to take his place. Their third album sees the band making a huge leap into the realms of orchestral pop, [...]

Antony and the Johnsons – "Another World" EP

Joylag — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:16:50 +0000

The last time we heard from Antony and the Johnsons was the 2005 release of I Am a Bird Now. Despite the passing of three years since his last proper release, Antony Hegarty has been anything but dormant, contributing to releases from (among others) Björk and Hercules And Love Affair. Another World is a five [...]

The Facts about "No Match, No Vote" Law

Joylag — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:15:19 +0000

I only heard about this for the first time yesterday, and based on the information I had to go on at that time, I was deeply upset. Since then, I have talked to a number of sources about "No Match, No Vote" and feel quite a bit relieved by what I've learned. The Voter Registration Verification (so-called "No Match, No Vote") Law aims at preventing voter fraud and ensuring the integrity of ballots cast in the state of Florida. It involves matching various pieces of voter identification (driver's license, social security card, etc.) with existing information in various state databases. There seems to be a great deal of misinformation circulating about the law, like "if the address on your license or ID card doesn't match the address on your voter registration card, then you can't vote." This is false. Check out this press release from the Florida Department of State, which reads like a sort of FAQ. http://www.dos.state.fl.us/news/communications/pressRelease/pressRelease.cfm?id=330

Computer Chronicles COMDEX Specials

Joylag — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:20:42 +0000

Computer Chronicles was a TV show that aired on the U.S. west coast for twenty years starting in 1981. The Internet Archive is currently hosting all (?) episodes of the series; a full list can be seen here.

My favorite episodes are generally the special reports from COMDEX (Computer Dealers' Exhibition), a now-defunct computer trade show held each fall in Las Vegas from 1979 to 2003 (a spin-off COMDEX/Spring debuted in 1981). The CES (computer Electronics Show) and MacWorld Expo episodes are great, too. Anyone interested in retro tech or the historical timeline of personal computing should appreciate these videos. Each one is about ~28 minutes runtime.

COMDEX 1986
COMDEX 1987
COMDEX 1988
COMDEX 1992
COMDEX 1993
COMDEX 1994
COMDEX 1995
COMDEX 1996
COMDEX 1997
COMDEX 1998
COMDEX SPRING 1999
COMDEX FALL 1999

Artist Feature: Silver Jews

Joylag — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:35:06 +0000

AIRDATE:	SEPTEMBER 14, 2008
HOST:	SHAWN
LENGTH:	2h 1m 30s

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AIM Link Generators

Joylag — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 03:11:31 +0000

Gus Verdun's AIM Link Generators:

You type in your AIM screenname, and it spits back the URL for you. Very handy.

Gus has a couple others to pick from here, but they're not as widely used as the two posted above.

Cassette Singles I Have Known: Inaugural Entry

Joylag — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:40:10 +0000

I am beginning a new series of posts where I share music videos of cassette singles I bought as a kid and have managed to hold onto up through the present. I'll try to keep this going as long as I can, though lack of reader interest would probably be a dealbreaker.

#1 "Everything Changes"

Acer Aspire One

Joylag — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:42:00 +0000

Set for Saturday arrival!

Banana Mask

Joylag — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:11:42 +0000

Thanks to EP.

The D Redux

Joylag — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:41:07 +0000

Oh, what the hell. For anyone interested, here's an audio rip of the full track, downloadable if you want it. I'm even throwing in a 25sec clip for strategic ringtone purposes.

Full Track
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25sec Clip
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"It's So Cold In The D"

Joylag — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:46:24 +0000

One of those rare instances where something on YouTube is so crucial that I have no choice but to share it here. This comes to me by way of Chantelle, as all the best ones do.

WVFS-V89 is hiring!

Joylag — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:44:42 +0000

Please repost freely!
This event has passed.
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Scatman (Ronald Lapiña's Killa Coven Remix)

Joylag — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:57:55 +0000

By request.

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p24

Joylag — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:33:10 +0000

JOHN TOMMAS

SELLS DOPE

TO PEOPLE

TRUCKING COMPANY IS DONE

Public Service Announcement: Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Big Bend

Joylag — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:36:58 +0000

TITLE:
Big Brothers & Big Sisters of the Big Bend

DESCRIPTION:
A public service announcement.

PRODUCERS:
Shawn & Amy

RUNTIME:
34s

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Public Service Announcement: Bipolar Disorder

Joylag — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:34:23 +0000

TITLE:
Bipolar Disorder

DESCRIPTION:
A public service announcement.

PRODUCER:
Shawn C

RUNTIME:
50s

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Artist Feature: Pet Shop Boys

Joylag — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:04:59 +0000

AIRDATE:	JULY 20, 2008
HOST:	SEAN EARL BEARD
LENGTH:	2h 4m 4s

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