Chicago: More Bars in More Places

oh whoops
you're talking about klaxons cover, not jordan's band.

Right.

I think I tried to rollerskate once when I was like six? There was a roller rink on the border between Bolingbrook and Romeoville (called Main Street USA) but I never went. I have never ice skated or skied or roller-bladed, either.

Everyone had their bday parties at roller rings when I was in grade school. I was never good at it, but loved the ambiance (and the pizza! and the games!).

The roller rink was the site of my first illicit slice of pepperoni pizza.

(at a birthday party!)

It's only in retrospect that it seems like it might've been fun. I wasn't really aware of roller-rink culture until long after it was a phenomenon, so I wasn't aware I was missing out on anything. At the time, it just probably seemed like another activity that required physical coordination that I wasn't going to be good at.

i have many fond memories of rollerskating as a kid. i think i was still going as late as 87 or 88 -- whenever Expose was really big. There was this kid named Jerome who was like the local Michael Jackson. He would seriously get down the light-up dance floor. I had a crush on him for like a week.

Joan Jett is like the ULTIMATE roller rink music -- esp. "Do You Wanna Touch Me" or whatever that song was called. I remember whizzing around hardcore to that song. Also failed limbo contests.

it was basically rollerdancing that it was ok to do alone, so i was all about it. actual dancing? not yet. dancing while rolling around? SURE.

Skate-n-dances were always a source of great stress for me, at least the skate part was, because girls were supposed to skate backwards and I cannot do that, not even a little, so I always had to skate hand in hand with boys and hope that I didn't totally bring us all down.

John, we could have been total uncoordinated grade school BFFs.

All my skating parties were on ice.

The last time I went rollerskating was maybe after freshman year in college. Some kids tried to pick a fight with me! I can't remember why, only that "Who Let the Dogs Out" was playing.

I spent many days and nights at Skateville as a kid.

In Chicago I've skated at a rink out in Palatine (adult skate on Sunday nights, hint hint) and somewhere down by 75th and Halsted.

I can't find a photo of Charlize Theron and Christina Ricci roller-dancing to "Don't Stop Believin'" from Monster.

Led Zeppelin. But they stole their songs from politically and/or socially powerless black blues artists so nobody listened to them complain.

the lawyers listened, chicago's own willie dixon sued zeppelin over "bring it on home" and "whole lotta love" being similar to songs dixon owned copyrights to (whether or not he wrote them is another matter), both cases were settled out of court.

http://www.skateville.com/DSC00111.JPG
http://www.skateville.com/DSC00097.JPG

Looks like they've left the place as is.

xp to Kevin: GO LAWYERS GO!

fucking a, there's more planning going on to pick up two boxes of t-shirts than there was on the fucking landing at normandy.

lawyers, is there anything they CAN'T do?

skateville take me there

This stuff goes on in New Orleans all the time. Everyone plays everyone else's tunes, everyone argues about who wrote what, tunes contain riffs that have been bouncing around for decades, no one really has copyrights. It's crazy.

One of your brass bands should play "Pony" by Ginuwine.

Or "White Horse" by Laid Back.

That is a great idea!

xpost to nick

Nick, I listened to your mix and the big winner for me (ie I checked out their myspace and would buy a record) is Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities. They actually remind me of the Lounge Lizards a lot. What can you tell me about them.

Brass band "Idiotheque"?

no

Brass "Creep"?

ILX 2You have tried to insert a duplicate message.

"Clocks"?

Theme song to "Hill Street Blues"?

Brass band "Holland, 1945"

(Neutral Milk Hotel)

Secret: C4n4st4 rips off "Clocks" in at least a couple of different songs, although by "rips off" I just mean having the piano do an arpeggiated 3-3-2 meter.

I have thought for a while that some NMH songs had a vaguely zydeco/New Orleans rhythmic feel to them, so it might work.

Set list:
1. "Sanford and Son Theme"
2. "We Are All Made of Stars"
3. "TV Party Tonight"
4. "Anarchy In The UK"
5. "Fast Car"
6. (encore) "Don't Know Why" (fast)

They were straight out of fucking Ruston, LA, too.

"Sanford and Son Theme"

We already do this

freddie's dead by curtis mayfield?

or (personal favorite) "the young mods' forgotten story" by the impressions.

that opening blast from the horns kills me every time.

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/84/6b/b013124128a090b224618010.L.jpg

My eyes must be going totally fucking wacko: I thought that arch on the right was R2-D2 for a second.

ew I hate "Pony"

haha i think "pony" is disgusting/hilarious

better without lyrics, with coordinated gyration

!!! Pony is like the best song ever!!!

the production grosses me out. all those...noises.

Um Jordan, I don't know what to tell you about Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities. The main dude has a few albums with different personel. His last album was credited to Skeletons and the Girl-Faced Boys and was called "Git!" and was good too, though a little slicker/poppier than the new one. A bunch of us saw them live a year or so ago and they were really different than they sound on the albums, way more noisier/jammier and less song-y. If you like that one song, you would probably like the whole "Lucas" album, the sound is pretty consistent throughout.

If I were an ILM dork, I would say that song is one of Timbaland's like top 5 production jobs.

Another reason why WXRT is pretty much the best commercial radio station, despite playing entirely too much Hootie: one time, the DJ followed up the Regular Guy's review of Freddy vs. Jason with "Freddie's Dead." You can't claim that ClearChannel preprogrammed that from a remote location.

I think Ginuwine sings real pretty. I actually can't help but listen to that song whenever it's on the radio but it also makes me cringe.

How do you feel about the "In Your Jeans" song?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qurW5mnaxAM

I don't really remember how "Pony" goes -- I think I only downloaded it after Nick raved about it one time, and I don't recall hearing it on the radio (must've been in my Dark Period). I do often sing "In Those Jeans," though.

haha xpost