Chicago MMXII

Jesse, you were definitely there on brain taco night. I think I remember Xmas in Chinatown and Christ's miracle that they were out of jellyfish.

I am unaware of this podcast but I am kind of excited about it now!

i haven't listened to it but the av club highlighted it this week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33zPlnhymCU

I love this because I love Triumph

ha i was JUST watching that, impressively filthy

i totally recommend watching it at work with the volume way up

My chat w/ Comcast is going a lot like this hilarious classic from Jeff

Chicago: Singing Italian Songs

which I found by searching for "Caby."

Please do yourself the favor of reading that transcript.

That may have been my comedic pinnacle.

haha Caby

lol

Jerry!

when did the hideout turn into comedy central?

well it's the "just for laughs" fest across chicago right now

lineup at the hideout last night looked pretty insane

aha
i just noticed that they are hyping tons of comedy shows and not much else

do you mean that benefit thing for the eggers tutoring center? that did look grade-a bananas. i wonder how much the fundraiser cost?!

i dunno about that but this was the lineup
http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/s720x720/270851_10150837213037093_645580717_n.jpg

"just for laughs" (ugh) seems like CMJ or something where at first it's like oh shit there's so much awesome stuff happening then you get stressed out about what to see when and then you realize how much it's all going to cost so you don't do any of it

I'm listening to Dots and Loops in an attempt to make one last push to get this case done before the weekend (and posting on ILX lololbarf) and this is a really good album. I mean, you all knew that, but it really holds up nicely.

"just for laughs" (ugh) seems like CMJ or something where at first it's like oh shit there's so much awesome stuff happening then you get stressed out about what to see when and then you realize how much it's all going to cost so you don't do any of it

Yup. Plus a lot of the stuff I'd want to see is at late o'clock (like Scott Adsit/Jet Eveleth tonight at iO ... at midnight).

^^ lol old

speaking of iO, what should I see there July 4th week? This seems like one of the more intriguing shows.

http://ioimprov.com/chicago/io/shows/tj-and-dave

Yeah, that show is generally recognized to be the ne plus ultra of Chicago improv. I saw it once, years ago, and enjoyed it, but I'd need to see it again to offer a more-informed opinion. I have seen TJ perform with other groups, though, and he's really sharp.

You're here first week of July, right? Of the teams performing then, the only ones I know well are Cook County Social Club and Carl and the Passions. I'd recommend both. The former is a small group of three or four guys who excel at fast-paced, quick-witted long-form flights of fancy. The latter is generally a looser experience, but its members are some of the most-experienced improv performers in Chicago. One nice thing about Carl and the Passions is that they headline the free show on Wednesday nights, though in my experience the opening groups (who rotate from week to week) can be hit-or-miss.

Fwiw, I also saw The Reckoning once, and they really impressed me.

That said, you probably also can't go too wrong with the Armando Diaz Experience or Whirled News Tonight. Both entail large-ish groups of performers, generally made up of whichever iO mainstays show up that night. (Armando Diaz follows basically the exact same form as ASSSSSCAT at Upright Citizens Brigade, if you've ever seen that.) You're not going to see anything too formally out-there, but it'll probably be funny.

You're here first week of July, right?

Duh, you just said that, never mind.

Also, Deric W. Haircare might have his own recommendations, although he doesn't post in this thread for some reason.

this was fun. I was on the near side edge trying to get people to work together, little kids were having a ball w/ it but their parents not so much

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXJzIWYcQOA

Chicago threads are odd b/c they originated after some fapping in around 2004, and I guess they became a hangout for a certain group of people who know each other IRL and for visitors to the city to ask for advice and recommendations. Maybe some people stay away b/c they think it's a clique, which is too bad. And others stay away b/c they think we suck, which is fine.

joke's on them, because THEY suck

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha BURN

thx jaymc. I think I have been to one improv-related show in NY in the 5 years since my last one in Chicago.

DWH is in Chicago?!?! I became fond of him during the horror poll because of our apparently similar tastes in horror movies. DWH, if you are reading this and you ever want to catch a movie, you should ILX message me.

What if DWH thought you sucked?

I thought about that after I posted that!!!!

I'd probably be a little sad.

I like DWH too and I'd be sad if he thought I sucked. Should probably start a thread about his opinions about us.

i got a rotten cold y'all

Announcement: Jesse and my Official Song is "My Own Worst Enemy" by Lit.

That will surely get Deric W. Haircare to like us.

Amanda, I am sorry about your cold and I hope you feel better soon.

hey thanks

i know one sure way to get people to like us is by complaining about my upper respiratory ailments, so
YOU'RE WELCOME

Sorry Amanda.

Our personalized version of My Own Worst Enemy should reference an IGo car being parked on the sidewalk.

My I-Go carrrrrr
Is parked across the sidewalk
And I'm sleeping with my clothes on.
I forgot to take the car back last night
and you're gone.

i had brunch with the jammermans over the weekend!

OK so this is probably not at all fair and totally judgmental on my part, but I wonder if anyone else has ever noticed that people driving car sharing service cars tend to drive horribly? In two lanes, not signaling, rolling stops, etc etc. I catch myself thinking that and have to forcibly remind myself that there are a lot of terrible non-car-sharing drivers out there too.

It might be confirmation bias since car share cars are v noticeable as a separate class of cars.

I haven't noticed, but one of Courtney's former neighbors used my being an IGo user as part of her stream of invective directed at me for blocking her car while parked to pick up something at Courtney's apartment. She said that she could tell that I couldn't handle owning a car in the city b/c I had double parked.

It's true that people who own their cars outright never double park.

I have a meeting at a place that is a little farther from public transit than I want to walk on this shit hot day so I took a delightfully cool cab ride (dark tinted windows in the back, too!) but traffic was v light and now I'm 25 min early and sitting in a hot, dusty, windy park waiting for the meeting to start or for me to die, whichever comes first.

And coughing like a consumptive thanks to The Never Ending Lingering Cough and the dust in the wind. Also I have to pee.

In conclusion, my meeting is in a 3rd floor apt w/ no AC.

The wind blowing the trees around is kind of pretty though.

Why did you not wait in a cool building instead of a hot and terrible park? Or have the cab drive you around until the meeting started. Or hold the meeting in the cab.

There were no cool buildings to which I had access in the immediate vicinity (have you ever wished there were more Starbucks in Chicago?). Too expensive. Not enough room.

Show of hands, please!

How many of you would be like to attend an event at Rev Brewing on July 29 that would involve you paying a certain amount (prob $35) and then drinking all you can hold of five different types of beers and also eating all you can eat of three types of appetizers for two hours?