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Ok - I know I should probably post this on some ILM thread (and I probably will - new thread 'oversold shows,' maybe), but Metro this weekend for Afghan Whigs was CRAZY! Joe Shanahan can suck donkey balls for all the times he oversells that venue.
And seriously ... why go to a show if your going to yack the whole time and play with your phone. I was seriously considering decking some dickwads who would not SHUT.THE.FUCK.UP. Afghan Whigs put on a great show for not playing for 13+ years. Good thing I didn't try to record it - would've been covered up by blabbing ... grrr.

i've never had any big problems at the metro but it can get pretty packed in there

I was just wondering if I should buy tickets for the upcoming show in October, but they're $35 and I would have to go alone because who the f among my friends is willing to shell out $35 to see the Whigs? With me?

No one. But I want to go! I don't even want to know how great the show was (yes I do)

Also I didn't see you at the most recent Agalloch show, Mr Prison. Were you there? I was in the same place I was for the last two shows, standing on that little bench area to the right if you're looking at the stage. It was great! They played for a really really really long time.

why go to a show if your going to yack the whole time and play with your phone. I was seriously considering decking some dickwads who would not SHUT.THE.FUCK.UP.

I HATE THIS. I have asked people to please stop talking or if they must talk, please go somewhere else in the venue.

Other than going to see the Protomen (lol) last winter, I haven't been to the Metro in a bazillion years but I've never had any major problems. Or I just assumed that whatever problems I was having were because I was at a dirty filthy stinking rock and roll bar.

Every show I've been to at Metro has been ridic packed, but I enjoy my personal space at shows a lot more these days than I did 10 years ago or so.

Me, too, which is why I haven't been to the Metro in a bazillion years. Protomen was fun because they opened and we had no interest in the headliner so we were home early, and half the audience were kids, as in minors there with their parents, and they are easy to push around and see over.

I was not at the recent Agalloch show (nor GBV this week - on-call for work both cases - grr). Do buy tix for Whigs (I already have mine for Oct. again and I rarely see two legs of a same tour) - they were great http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/the-afghan-whigs/2012/metro-chicago-il-73dce275.html.

Will you hang out with me? I don't want to go alone! How sad would that be.

I'm afraid to look at the setlist before I see if the show is sold out...

Yep - totally hang out with ya and my buddy would be cool with that, too (I'm sure you can deal with two 42 yr old music geeks occassionaly weeping for our rock n' roll salad days schtick). I know you listen to a lot of good tunes and I seem to remember you're some sort of educator (my gal just won Provost award for best freshman professor at Loyola - I hear about higher ed. all the time) - so there's plenty of between-set banter to be had.

bought my ticket, will go solo if i have to but you seem to be one of my people
we'll discuss when the time comes!

how nice that they have awards at loyola :-/ (congrats to her though for real!)

When I saw tune yards (damn the stylized caps) and we were in the balcony where a guy and girl were chatting at normal bar chatting volume, but it was a pretty quiet show so it was like they were booming. My friend was getting annoyed and I so was I but I didn't puff up like a bulldog and lose my shit; instead I turned face them and said simply "I can hear you," which shut them up and made them leave. They stopped and apologized as they were leaving. Maybe I sounded psychotic.

A friend just posted this on FB. I want to burn my neighborhood down.

Reason #57 Why I Hate Linoln Park: I'm going for Italian Ices with my dad yesterday to a place we've been going to since I was a little kid and while I'm pulling into a parking spot, this trixie drags her little yuppie larva across the street. Not at the crosswalk mind you, but in the middle of a not-very-busy street. Meanwhile another car turns onto the street and does not come anywhere near
hitting her but she decides to stand in the middle of the street telling the driver off. Minutes go by, she' still telling him off. I look at the car and its an older vehicle driven by a young black guy. She finally gets out of the way and finishes with, "This is Lincoln Park. You have to be careful here!."

Update: The guy yelled back: "I went to high school in Lincoln Park! Stupid Bitch!"

Is there not an August WDYLL thread? I did due diligence searching but found nothing.

people are savages iirc

If anyone's interested, Kr and I are going to an all-you-can-eat clambake tonight at Fulton's on the River. Not much info on the restaurant's website, but RedEye has a little blurb.

NO CLAM!!!!!!! For me bc I'm going to see Batman tonight.

hey richard thompson is coming to...evanston! i wonder if that would be a good show or not. he totally rules, but i don't know if he would play boring songs for the boring venue o que.

Assuming the show is at Space, I think he's been there before?

i'm not sure if i'm the owl or the mouse but either way this picture sums up my mood today and probably for the rest of the week
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7117/7732837832_abe246cde1_z.jpg

From a Telecaster message board (lol):

I had the pleasure of seeing RT play it in person at a tiny venue here in Evanston, IL last year. My seat was maybe 15 feet away from RT, and it was really amazing to see him at work from up close like that.

Actually, I just remembered how I knew that he'd played there before -- before we saw Contagion last fall in Evanston, some guy behind us was talking about how he'd taken his dad to the Thompson show.

Nick, your tape measure got me turned away from the courthouse. So I hid it at Starbucks. I'll send you a map.

A brigade of emergency vehicles just pulled into the bus stop at Western/Armitage & a Firefighter asked waiting passengers what the emergency was. Nobody knew and they started to pull out, which caused a Camry to swerve and nail a flatbed, crushing the Camry's hood, so the FD an paramedics and cops didn't waste a trip after all!

http://i.imgur.com/Ogos1.png

in case anyone other than me is incredibly sinusy today and couldn't figure out why
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-historic-mold-counts-20120808,0,2998669.story

Hey! I am! I have been snotty and have lungs full of crud and I've been saying aloud "What is going on?"

However, I cannot read that Trib story b/c it's a "Plus" story so you can either register and log in or No Thanks.

Dan, what is your post about?

does the image not show up any more?

It does, but I wondered if it was in reference to a real life thing.

nope just something I thought was kinda funny

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443545504577567763829784538.html

This is a good idea.

Oh, yes, that is a good idea! It would be nice to have lockers for shipments from other companies and for just storing stuff, too (a borrowed tape measure, for example).

yes. sarah had to go to the ups facility on the near southside to pick up one package, and my parents' birthday present to evie was sent back to amazon and had to be reshipped to my work, because now there's no one home to pick up packages during the day.

I know from personal experience that Sarah's employer is fine with their employees receiving packages at work. Poor Jeff is like a pack mule sometimes.

Fantastic idea.

I learned tonight that the Atlantic (just down Lincoln from Hidden Cove) is having Saved By the Bell trivia coming up soon. I did not mentally imprint the date/time.

Anyone heard of a bar called W@ng'5? It's on Broadway across from Ping Pong. Yelp reviews go back to 2008, but I hadn't heard of it until it started blowing up on my Facebook. Apparently it's a semi-secret gay bar that that is under investigation by the IL Dept. of Human Rights for having a policy of men only after 11:00. Anyone heard of it?

If they really do have that policy, I'm surprised at some of the guys who Liked it on FB since they are pretty enlightened and safely presumed feminists.

But then again, there has to be some kind of consideration for how the human rights act is applied in settings like sex clubs, which perhaps this place becomes after 11, so maybe who knows.

Misread that as "W@ng Five." Like Hang 10.

everybody wang chung tonight, but only if you're a dude

I can't decrypt the web search proofing.

A coworker gave me some Gold Bond hand sanitizer moisturizer and I used it and then looked at the active ingredient, which is benzethonium chloride and now I swear I can feel bacteria becoming antibiotic resistant on my hands and growing into superbugs as I write this.

In other news, why did Jay Cutler name his child Camden? It would be like naming a kid Gary as in Gary, IN if Gary wasn't already a name.

gary indiana
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let me say it once again

gary indiana

I can't decrypt the Google web search proofing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Indiana

Another really cool collection of pics of Chicago http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/uic_bru

I have a p¡#73r357 page, btw, in case anyone feels like checking it out or following m3. http://pinterest.com/yambrusco/

Anyone want to go see vanilla ice on Sunday? http://www.playerssports.net/bigdig