JOHN JUSTEN PLANS UR EVENING FOR U!

list your options, i consult my vast social experience and wikipedia and determine the best choice for you to make. please be as specific as possible, although i am willing to consult a page of "events" in one of your local "alternative newsweeklies" if needed.

Movie choices for tonight on the treadmill: James and the Giant Peach, Alien, or random episodes of Moonlighting from the third season.

1) go to dinner party hosted by friend who makes fantastic food
2) play WoW

please pick one from each list:

list one:
drink whiskey
drink rum
drink wine
drink beer

list two:
read
talk on telephone
do crossword puzzle
look at internet

list three:
smoke

Friend is arriving on the train at Portland, Ore.'s lovely Union Station in 40 minutes for One Night Only. I have a new, completely devoid of furniture apartment, a bus pass, and like $30 left on my credit card. What to do?!?!

P.S. We enjoy booze.

What do we do if John never gives us directions?! PANIC

We musn't think it.

woah en i see kay you are in portland now????

;)

my options:
1) chicken prik-king (green beans and red curry paste)
2) spicy flat noodles with veggies
3) green coconut curry with veggies over rice

(3 is spicy too)

my options

1) dinner with out-of-town friend and her boyfriend

followed by

2a) being 'tired' and going home
2b) trying to find some way to entertain them after dinner*

*should probably not involve booze as friend is like 6 months prego

Totally am, and will remain for the forseeable future.

xposts

gonna be there in like 2 weeks!

3) green coconut curry with veggies over rice

THIS SOUNDS AMAZING

i know i think i might buckle down and get it!

oh shit sorry i went out and got lebanese food and then went and drank at the corner bar where strange women kept rubbing the shaved parts of my head 0_O

so im going to play catch up here

sara: totally moonlighting season three. no offense to the giant peach, and i love alien, but cmon dude maddy hayes? no other alternative.

dan: really? you, in your heart of hearts know the answer to this.

(it isnt WOW tho.)

lxy: whiskey, read, smoke

oh man i really let down en i see kay.

OK DONT PANIC

$30 pretty much rules out bar probably, but leaves you plenty of 2 person options for boozing, as long as you dont have to eat or do anything else that costs money in the near future. i am going to assume that you have at least somewhere soft to sit down in your house, and (this is not a gotta have it thing, so if not, carry on) maybe a means of playing music audibly.

proceed to liquor store. buy largest possible bottle of medium grade tequila. now to corner store. buy as much 7up as you can afford. go home. obtain shot glasses (if you dont have these i cant help you). tonight is back and forth dueling dj tequila popper night. GO.

(note if tequila popper technique is not familiar, check back in and i will make it happen for you.)

surmounter: 1) chicken prik-king (green beans and red curry paste)

red curry always, always wins.

tehresa, your situation is tough to unravel. on one side, i am naturally predisposed to never offer support for the tired in scare quotes, but entertaining the pregnant is always a tough order.

can you go to a weirdo play or some crap like that? its the only thing that i can think of that doesnt involve booze or crowds elbowing some poor unborn babee in the melon.

if not, you get a free pass to play the tired card, as long as it is an excuse and not an actual go home and post on the internet thing. unless you get really drunk, in which case, go team.

omg i got out so easy. was totally receptive to 'i'm tired' and also was tired and cranky (her words) and decided to drop her friends at a bar and go home early. <3

so glad i could help ;)

I shouldn't be roffling at "entertaining the pregnant," but I AM. In my experience, the pregnant are always so tired themselves that they just want a nap, so it sounds easy to me! (btw, I hate women who claim that they feel "energetic" and "great" when pregnant. Liars.)

I was forced to ignore all film choices for the night because of time issues (I have to get up early tomorrow to go to see a client AGAIN - hope she is there this time!), but will put Moonlighting on the plan for tomorrow night. Although yeah, Maddy Hayes is awesome, but I have to say that David Addison is more my type. (so weird to see Bruce Willis so thin and with hair...)

John Justen: continue to make yourself cocktails and listen to "Holy Diver" by Dio.

John: you should know that, independently of your suggestion, we bought a handle of gin and some tonic and now sit drunkin' and listening to music.

lolz we are sitting drinkin and postin to the internet too

should reallly sort out some music

A+!

really pretty much everyone should cash in on the one-on-one listening to music thing more often.

xpost but only kind of

i am at that point of the night where i start denying myself the good liquor because i will not really appreciate it as much as i do when i am fresh and early in the evening, so no more Herradura for this guy.

Also, "Mother" by Danzig is on VH1 Classic and it is fulfilling my needs for the evening at the moment.

made a drink. trying to decide what to listen to.

i am making jordan listen to neko case, since i have listened to more than my fair share of meat puppets and harvey milk the last several months

i am on ethiopiques 13 right now but i could switch. it was an easy choice.

i love all three of the things you just mentioned. everyone wins. except for me, because VH1 is now playing White Lion.

in the spirit of this thread, i recommend "Furnace Room Lullabies" for RR. xpost

hmmm. tehresa, i think that you might be doing ok with your current choice, but if i stumble across a suggestion, i will let you know.

lolz i am listening to furnace room lullabies!

just ordered middle cyclone couple days ago

BREAKING NEWS: have moved away from the awwwwwwful vh1 direction (eat my poo queensryche) and am now greatly enjoying "Trans Europe Express" by teh Kraftwerk, so if anyone gets stuck in their listening, this is a sure fire jam.

xpost furnace room lullabies is pretty much perfect from start to finish.

I'm pretty sure there is already enough information on this thread to entertain me for many evenings, even if I am stuck at home, THANK YOU!

(not just John - everybody, but of course John, too)

hmm this is making me switch to future days or maybe ege bamyasi i don't know hmmmm

OH SNAP: never mind my shortchanging of the vh1 classic musical video station, they are now playing "Wild Child" by WASP, which is actually one of the high points of human achievement in the latter part of last century, as determined by science, done by scientists.

xpost obv you dont have cable and cant bask in the glory of blackie lawless.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2091/2993516101_72c9888bfd_o.jpg

for johnjusten

holy fuck what is that and why dont i have it

its my handbag

for realz - i found it at a comics convention, handpainted original art by this awesome sacramento artist, $15

oooh

oh wait, is a purse. probably hard for me to pull off, even with all of my self-assured masculinity. damn.

xpostsss ha. well i can still be jealous.

you could turn it into a 'record bag'

"look this is my messenger bag in which i keep my um messages."

john i will email u this dude's email/website - if you email him this photo, and ask him nicely, he will probably paint something identical or similar on to a bag of your choosing (you post to him) for around $25-50

he's a great dude. i actually bought two bags from him then posted a wallet to him and asked him to paint it to complement my other bag:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3041/2993516219_4ccd7a2f3b_o.jpg

that is awesome. out of guilt, momentarily returning to the thread theme ->

PRO TIP: if the evening is proving to be too daunting for you and you need to retreat to comfortable unambitious listening, there is no shame in returning to the dulcet tones of "The Phunky Feel One" by noted hip hop artists Cypress Hill.

wow that guy has some sort of great charles burns thing going on (meant as a huge compliment btw)

also about 100% more likely to paint something for me than charles burns, so he has that going for him too.

just emailed you

thx!

dan: really? you, in your heart of hearts know the answer to this.

haha I know, it's just there was a chance that J031's headache was going to keep us home

btw: if you ever get the chance to have it, Absolut Mango is fucking incredible

oh noes you are hipstre and ilx disapproves of you

Things that are currently hip that we don't really like, but for no specific reason

hipsters don't have enough $$$ to buy awesomes duty-free vodka

Sara R-C: how is moonlighting treating you? NOTE: do not be alarmed when the characters "break the fourth wall". they can not actually exit the tv, it is merely a narrative trick.

unless you have watched the ring recently, in which case your evening may end with staticky cybil shepard stutter walking towards you trying to sell you fruit snack or whatever she shills on tv these days.

so... what she shills on tv these days is lesbianism

ORLY?

happy belated b-day, dude, sorry i didn't make it

i need a dope movie to watch on netflix (ONLINE) that isn't like three hours long and has lolz and action

Blade Runner is on netflix instant watch.

not a bad idear

xxxpost: Moonlighting is treating me well, and I love the breaking the fourth wall stuff (no idea why). I'm up to the final two episodes of season 3; David realized he loves Maddy, Maddy was just proposed to by Sam (Mark Harmon) & is confused. Kind of dreading where this is going (is Sam the dude that is used as an excuse for Cybil Shephard's pregnancy later in the series? I can't remember) a bit... but mostly enjoying it. The pilot and first episodes were kind of "whoa, this is a lot more dated than I thought it would be," but it got better from there and I still love the show.

So thx John! (Also, I think you know that the odds of me watching The Ring are roughly the same as me going to More 4 naked, especially now that More 4 doesn't exist, so no worries there.)

Dapper Danity - wait, Cybil Shephard shills lesbianism on tv? I didn't even know lesbianism was for sale!

She's on The L Word

i didn't even know that show was still on!

Who knew series featuring attractive lesbians would maintain an audience!

I feel old and out of it because I have never seen an episode of that show. And yet I thought it wasn't on anymore, either. Apparently I am out of touch with lesbian media.

Apparently it ended 2 days ago, so everyone is right! ^_^

take that, lesbians!

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/12_01/EarlyTakeThatREX_468x329.jpg, lesbians!

Suddenly rescued from feeling old and out of it by the ending of a lesbian television show! I would not have predicted that as something that would happen today.

argh, deX, wtf is THAT?!

that is the British boy band Take That

how can a country that elected a black president not continue its shows about lesbians?

going down this theme for a while, J031 and I spent a good amount of time watch RuPaul's Drag Race on LOGO last night; I don't know if television has reached its apex or its nadir

http://www.blingdomofgod.com/_wikipedia_commons_f_fa_Ouroboros.png

Okay, I feel old and out of it again. THANKS A LOT, Dapper Danity.

Okay, how did I forget that Maddie and David kept sleeping together at the end of Season 3?! wtf

who what?

Sorry; I finished up watching the third season of Moonlighting tonight. I seem to have blocked major parts of it out somehow. Kind of made it more fun to watch, though.

HEY I WANT TO HELP YOUR EVENINGS PEOPLE

to lead by example, i went out and got drunk and played bar trivia tonight.

YOU CAN DO THIS TOO. LIVE THE LIFE THAT YOU HAVE ALWAYS WANTED BUT ONLY DREAMED OF

I am not allowed to get drunk and play bar trivia until summer. ;_;

Somebody mail me the charles burns guy's website.

sent!

ok tonight you should go to an art show, and then afterwards to a bar and drink something you have never tried before.

No help required today, we are going to try 'pittsburgh's best burgers' and see if they are all that, they have east end beer on tap so that will be good whatever happens. I am growing to love the east end brewery, they are a short bike ride away, sell their products in cheap refillable half gallon jugs, they have a local and sustainable sourcing policy and you can work there in return for beer. I'm waiting for my call up to hump grain sacks and stir mash tuns.

I'm waiting for my call up to hump grain sacks

wau they must be really bored in Pittsburgh

sounds like youve just never met the right sack of grain

Pretty sure my evening is going to involve a big nap.

should i stay or should i go now?

JJ tell me about memory lanes

also my pal sh3ridan's band is having their cd release over at the turf club 2nite, do i go? har mar superstar is playing----what does this mean

memory lanes is a ton of fun (most of the time), used to be the stardust, lots of aging punk rawkers mingling with the locals. cheap beers, definitely find out what the drink special is.

har mar superstar is kind of a deal breaker 99.9% of the time. also is a near guarantee that the crowd will be awash with douchebags.

if you think of it text me and let me know where you are and perhaps my rolling art show posse will join you one we are done representing

also i got my record player workin and a growler of surly furious, what of it

yeah, i figured that about harmar :( but sheridan's a bro and i haven't seen him in months (or you, for that matter).

tell me more about this art show posse?

in that case nothing really can go wrong with your evening. start with that, and then choose between venturing into the world of men or locking your door and headphoning yourself into oblivion. (although hey not totally down with the surly furious, i know this makes me a traitor and a bad man).

xpost: we are going to the soovac gallery (K, me, mook, FB, maybe goole, other people? IDK.) for the deuce seven show at around 7 but then going elsewhere for drinks i assume. dont know where yet.

this is not a question about planning tonight but a future night:

is $40+ way too much money to spend on a ticket to see neko case live?

no.

have you seen her live before? she is awesome. also if she gets drunk, she is tons of fun to party with after the show.

john justen plan my evening for me

-go see watchmen
-argue about which movie to rent and then come home with something neither one of us wants to see
-go out to dinner
-watch 30 rock on dvd

thankiing u

(no i haven't seen her live before, don't think she's ever been to nz, and ticket prices are prohibitively expensive there)

HOOS: dinner plus 30 rock. i have not seen watchmen so i am operating on the idea that i like to eat food made for me by other people more than most other things, and that hours of 30 rock in a row is pretty much an A++++ followup.

(this suggestion void if dinner is someplace boring. also plz to follow my upthread general "try a drink you have never had before" plan.)

DAER JOHN JUSTENN--

SHOULD I DRIVE OUT OF SUBURBS TO CITY AND WAIT ON FRIEND WHO MIGHT BE UP FOR HANGING OUT AFTER 10 OCLOCK P M

DRIVE OUT OF SUBURBS TO CITY AND DRINK AT GAY BAR (MAY BE BORING AND I'LL PROB GET DRUNK BAD FOR DRIVE HOME)

STAY AT HOME LISTEN TO DOWNLOADED EMUSIC (N.B. NO ALCOHOL)

??????????????

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE

pepperoni & mushrooms or pepperoni & sausage???????

think i might head over to soovac with a buddy or two?

also y to neko. the one time i saw her live was in a tiny, tiny venue and me and my pal had planned for weeks to try and party w/her but we got too stoned :((((

ty john justen u r a gentle man and 1 scholar

sausage and mushrooms
xpost

pepperoni and sausage, unless it is a place that has great mushrooms, in whish sace do that. most pizza shrooms are crap IMHO

v. true

ok Matt P, what i would do is drive into the city and kill time at the gay bar until my friend was avail. if he isnt avail, then you have a buzz on and can return home (picking up alcohol on the way) and kick it with downloaded music.

window of opportunity is closing BTW because i need to leave soon to get to the soovac and am not one of those iphone internabled types.

hmm i agree! thank you for this service btw a+ would ask again

helping your fellow americans

My evening is planned but there are some dullards whose heads need a beating. Care to assist, anyone?

The distance is prohibitive, but don't think we're not willing.

I just guzzled down one billion calories in the form of a malt. SO good.

xp The problem with mushrooms at pizza places is that normally they used canned mushrooms & they are slimy. Fresh mushrooms = much better.

if i hear that any of you are out tonight wearing mardi gras beads made of shamrocks i will cut you.

lol too bad I was tending to my sick wife instead of reading this thread because I missed an awesomely irritating namedropping opportunity (I did a production of "Mahagonny" with Har Mar Superstar's brother-in-law)

I am, as usual, so out of it that I have no idea who HI DERE is talking about.

My evening plans don't even involved going out. ;_;

so bummed i missed black lips last night

also i kinda wanted to see a rock band music show tonight since i don't have much school happening this week, but it's all stupid st paddy's day garbage (tho man i love me some irish music, for real)

the thin lizzy tribute at triple rock might be fun, tho

the thin lizzy tribute is pretty much awesome, but will prob be stupid crowded.

just trying to keep my contribution level high

oh man i don't know what to think about stupid crowded

plus i doubt i can corral anyone into going with me

hey twin cities go to the nomad tonight, famous ilx personages will be there

The c@llum and d0m jam band?

i would see that actually but no

I wish I could do that. I will be prepping teaching on STIs for a clinical experience in the morning. BLAH

Strategic Tefense Inititive?

Sexually Transmitted Imperatives?

also this is the thread where I plan your evening for you, so it isnt really like you have a choice in the matter, duh.

i mean feel free to start a SARA R-C PLANS HER OWN EVENING FOR HERSELF thread, but i am afraid it wont do any good, wheels are in motion etc

Sexually Transmitted INFECTIONS. It's the hip new thing to call STDs, apparently.

I have no choices about this evening, but maybe next weekend I will at least have some options for you to tell me what to do. Actually, A. is going to Chicago tomorrow night; what should I watch without him? I've got The Bourne Supremacy, random eps of Angel, 30 Rock, Arrested Development, and Scrubs. (There's a bunch of other stuff on the shelf, too, but I'm trying to narrow this down a bit.

30 rock or arrested development. watch whichever one you have seen least recently.

Arrested Development it is, then.

BOOOOOOOOORING

apparently there is a SNUGGIE PUB CRAWL tonight???

I got a Snuggie as a joke birthday present, so if you need to borrow one, gbx...

lol, no thanks! i'm just sort of bewildered by the very idea

do not do the snuggie pub crawl

of course i am not even considering that jesus who do you think i am

(a: lonely guy thinkin baout things)

I have gotten so cold in my house that I have actually used my Snuggie in a non-ironic way, but there is no way I would go out in it. For one thing, I would fall right over, since it is way too long for a short person like myself.

On the other hand, is my plan of walking on the treadmill and watching a movie really that much better than wearing a blanket in a bar? Not sure.

JOHN JUSTEN PLAN MY EVENING FOR ME

should i
-get drinks at my crappy middling local
-go to a hookah bar in my new neighborhood
-go home with a 12 pack and get blasted alone

Option 2

Dapper Danity, just because you and John are identical twins, doesn't mean you get to take over for him in his many occupational pursuits.

OPTION 3

i am always terrible at this when i am already drinking

fwiw i went with option 2 and the place was dead but dope