Chicago MMXII

that's cool nick.

i've never heard sun kil moon or red house painters, but i do like the retribution gospel choir record they put out.

it's funny, one of my friends was just playing me a song by c@siot0ne, and i was like 'oh yeah i think that guy is crashing at my place in a couple weeks'

i guess it wasn't that funny

wtg nick! a friend of mine was just asking me about your show at the burlington the other day.

red house painters reminds me of a very certain time in my life, and this song always makes me weepy for some chemical/chord-related reason

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKRA7weVyLs

i am also excited to be on wax this year. need to get my turntable fixed, there's something weird going on with the tonearm (maybe the weight?) where it skips on the first couple songs on a record but is fine near the end of a side.

epic metafilter post about one of my Chicago faves, the Viceroy Hotel:

http://www.metafilter.com/112760/One-Chicago-hotels-story

we hadn't been using our turntable because the needle broke and evie kept wanting to play with it, but then sarah moved our stereo on top of our dresser and bought a new needle so we could listen to records again. but now our needle is broke again. and they are kind of expensive. so now we can't listen to records again. lame.

i've never listened to RHP or SKM.

it's pretty sad, not sure if you would like it unless you are seriously in the mood for langorous (but not indulgent or histrionic imo) sadness

Oh cool, Dan! I drove by the Viceroy a few weeks ago and I wanted to stop and take some pictures. The "FREE ADULT MOVIES" (paraphrased?) sign was awesome. I will spend some time on that thread at lunch.

Ah - that Fugazi show was awesome, I'll have to look through my shoebox of minidiscs, but I taped the Shellac and Ex sets as well ... I have a nice recording of the Kozalek show if anyone wants it (don't tell Mark) from Lincoln Hall this past summer (god bless him, he didn't want to turn on that A/C and it was a million degrees in there ...

Why wouldn't he have wanted to turn on the AC? Does he hate the people who came to the show?

some singers like it to be hot and humid, think it helps open up the vocal cords or something? OTOH i know some singers like things really cold.

A/C makes lots of noise when you're doing hushed stuff.

I prefer the goldilocks zone when I sing.

It's not like Lincoln Hall has a 20 year old window unit for its A/C! I would imagine that they might have even considered how much noise the vents made in the room.

That reminds me of when "carl," Jeff, and I went to see TV on the Radio at a tiny record store in G'boro, NC. Their manger or whatever asked the guy working at the store to turn off the track lighting. It wasn't possible to turn off those lights w/out turning other, necessary lights, so he had them take down the offending fixtures.

He said the band needed them taken down b/c their black skin would absorb the light and make them uncomfortable.

...

lol

ha that's pretty awesome

You all can probably guess my opinion of performers who won't turn on the AC in a venue in the summer but in case you can't: they are worse than Pol Pot.

ditto

It was a white guy in the band who asked about the lights.

Worse than Pol Pot and Gaydolf Shitler combined.

xp - oh. not sure how that affects my opinion of his request.

Those performers can hook up with the owners of Great Lakes Pizza and move to the moon.

What did GLP do?

I wish I had more opportunities to say "Gaydolf Shitler."

(no AC performers, not TV on the Radio, whom I love and would let sleep in our spare room.)

xp GLP is all surly and self important and hostile to custard because their pizza is soooooo great.

I wish I had more opportunities to say "Gaydolf Shitler."

I'll still pay for that tattoo.

Get "Gaydolph Shittler" in a banner under your little fuckmouse tattoo.

what if track lighting was all just a massive conspiracy by THE MAN to make black people uncomfortable?

There's your next online-personals codename. xpost

Gaybe Lincoln

Please take note of my "hostile to custard" typo, which is making me stifle LOLs at my desk.

Anal Dershowitz

Hot Doug gets around the hostile-to-custard attitude while still running a place by his own set of rules.

They acknowledge that waiting in line for an hour for a hot dog really blows and take steps to make it go quickly and pleasantly and at the end, they help you find a table. They don't act like they are doing you a god damn favor by condescending to take your money.

Anal Dershowitz

Oh man, what does it say about me that the first thing I thought of when I saw this was, "Hmmm, I wonder if there's a crossword theme in there."

I'm ok with no a/c because I like to hear noises and also suffering makes the experience more fun duuuuuh.

this made me lol

http://cdn.ticketfly.com/i/00/00/15/50/93-atlg.jpg

http://malortchicago.com/

here are some vids i just found of the last @dvance b@se show. oddly i'm not playing autoharp in either. and there's some weird shit happening with the bass and the camera mic. but i look pretty good in them. you can see me looking at my keyboard cheat sheet immediately before playing what might be the easiest keyboard part in the world:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=ya317SfSYYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hcnFgphTfg&feature=related

dag those are pretty swank t-shirts

Get "Gaydolph Shittler" in a banner under your little fuckmouse tattoo.

All joking aside I will get GAYDOLF SHITLER tattooed on the bottom of my foot if you pay for it. ALL JOKING ASIDE

be careful what you wish for

or what you don't joke about I guess

also it's too bad that wouldn't work as a knuckle tattoo

^^^ credit for that joek to ilxor 'joygoat' who btw will be visiting this coming weekend if anyone is interested in FAP saturday night

GAYD SHIT would be a pretty awful knuckle tattoo
but
GAYD OLPH could work if you also put
SHIT TLER on your toes

i'm on this committee for the sp3cial l1braries ass0ciation illinois chapter and this morning i was supposed to call in for a practice webinar but didn't notice that the email said 11 a.m. EST not CST so i missed the call and apparently the woman who was head of the committee quit. hopefully not just due to me missing the call. anyways that should make things interesting.

I'm excited that I'll be a fellow Illinoisan starting this summer! I got the job in C-U so I'll be down in the prairie rather than up in the city for the most part, but we'll be up in the city a whole bunch, so perhaps I'll see what you guys are up to once in a while.