Chicago MMXII

Oh shit Hip City still airs! :D

has anyone been to el faro in little village? is that area safe or will i be murdered if i bike down there?

jon i challenged you in songpop, which i just downloaded, and promptly embarrassed myself by being overconfident about my knowledge of modern rap. just fyi. i did really badly.

clouds, i have no idea -- have never been there. would like to say it's safe to ride your bike but i don't like being overconfident about something as precious as your life!

I'm horrible at modern rap too. Basically I'm only ok at 90s alternative.

I'll have to play after work. I'm terrible at modern rap too though. I'm better overall though, now that I have my new phone. The screen on my old HTC was always twitchy on the best of days, so a third of the time I'd go to tap the top option and it would register as the bottom option. There were several rounds when I'd go 0-5.

clouds, i have no idea -- have never been there. would like to say it's safe to ride your bike but i don't like being overconfident about something as precious as your life!

― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Friday, September 28, 2012 9:04 PM (50 minutes ago)

decided not to go :( the area immediately around it is probably fine during the day, but the only real bike route down there from my neighborhood takes you through some really sketchy areas including lawndale, where i was mugged — uh not going there again.

i and the friend i was supposed to meet decided on quesadilla la reyna del sur which looks similar and is supposed to be really good.

on = at

there are tickets for tonight's cubs-astros game on stubhub for 19 cents
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/10/01/cubs-astros-tickets-listed-for-0-19-on-stubhub/

Big derailment on the red line y'all.

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/livenow?id=7096082

Dag!

Glad I'm working late or I'd prob end up getting blotto at Clark St. Ale House like I did the night Roy's burned down.

video's gone now so

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-cta-train-derailment-on-north-side-20121001,0,2917836.story

shit, that was what was going on. there was CRAZY commotion.

Holy muff, that is terrible. Here is a direct link to the video, showing the train laying across all the tracks http://abclocal.go.com/wls/video?id=8831424&pid=null

i can't watch the video -- just tell me -- did people die y/n?

N

ok phew
that's all i want to know about this train derailment

HOW ARE YOU GUYS?!

i'm alright. staying on top of things, feeling good about that.

I'm on the train. Going home then going to play a show.

oh is that thing at lincoln hall tonight?! i thought i had missed it! (i am still going to miss it if this is it because i have to get up super duper early but i did want to express wishes of regret for not attending; would have liked to attend)

I am totally psyched about it being October.

It is tonight. Ive been told we play at 9 sharp if that changes your mind.

i REALLY would like to but i am being taken out for a superbelated birthday dinner
this is the show with mark kozelek?

Yeah.i hadn't heard any of his music til last week. Seemed pleasant but kinda samey after a while? I'm hoping to sneak out early

really? huh. i have only listened to him in small amounts but i went through a red house painters phase right when i met dan and a short but emotionally charged solo mark k phase right when we moved to chicago. something about his samey singing makes me feel ~feelings~, which is usually a little overwhelming, but i appreciate the sensation in small amounts.

in sum, i don't want to cry in public so i probably shouldn't go to this show anyway

I just listened to his new live album which is just him and guitar so there were no arrangements to make things sound different, maybe that was part of it.

LL, I think you would like this http://www.publiccollectors.org/. Apparently it's based in Chicago and you can go see the stuff?

I did talk about my bra at one point but I swear it was contextually appropriate.

Did she get stinky too?

From that website. This confirms for me that LL will like it.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9a2u9HwCh1qa53iwo1_500.jpg

discreet beers or discrete beers

Discrete. I was very open about them.

Speaking of being too open, I'm going to have those two posts deleted, just in case.

hmm missed it

Things Mark K0zelek has done since getting on stage before playing any music: tuned for a long time, "jokingly" demanded the show rep get his jacket from his dressing room because he's "fucking freezing," demanded the a/c be turned off, demanded that people in the front put away their cell phones.

That said he is a pretty impressive singer and guitarist.

those demands don't seem too ott

LL, I think you would like this http://www.publiccollectors.org/. Apparently it's based in Chicago and you can go see the stuff?
yes!!

they weren't really ott but he was not expressing them in the most polite fashion. anyways it was a good show.

What's up Chicagooooooooooooooooooo

La Lechera, I was thinking about DDPP today and thinking I might go back, too. It's mostly because I want to make a playlist of lady MCs, but I will be nice and go to a few dances before I start forcing my music on everybody else. Also I made a workout playlist, just basically songs I like a lot that are fast, and it was hard not to dance on the elliptical machine, which is frowned upon at LPAC.

Aw, some of my favorite nights were at LPAC back in the day, watching The Sopranos and Curb on Sunday nights when they still had HBO and Showtime on the little TVs, before Comcast cracked down on that...

duuuuuuuuuuuuuude

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/10/03/huge-marijuana-field-found-on-chicagos-south-side/

Whoa! That's huge!

Man, I'm decades out from my "The Emperor Wears No Clothes" days but reading that they are going to destroy all the plants made me really angry. It's part bc who cares it's pot! And part bc it's awesome that somebody put a HUGE POT FIELD in the middle of the city and I think they should get to keep it.

Wow. I don't believe in destroying plants unless they are invasive and/or threatening in some way. These plants are not threatening since apparently they've been there long enough to grow and appear to be well cared for.

does anyone want to play music with me the weekend of oct 13/14? i don't have anything going on with @dvance b@se for a while and i have a hankering to play guitar again. i'd be down with renting a rehearsal space if we're using drums or just at someone's apartment if we're not using drums and want to play at a reasonable volume

have you been reading my mind? i'm not good at playing anything, but i would try and/or follow instructions!!

i may have not been the intended audience for that question, but that did not stop me from being a first responder
sorry

no we will play music. it'll be cool.

i have a funny voice modulating toy i can bring, and a little flute, and that keyboard that has gotten embarrassingly dusty in the last year

my synth is dusty too! it's been doing some random stuff where it will start flipping through settings when i'm not doing anything and i think it's because there's dust in it. i need to blast it with compressed air i guess.

I can play an iPad.

Wait, actually I can't.

I would be down to play but I'm going to be in Dullyouth for wedding planning shiz.

Anyone got a good restaurant suggestion in the vicinity of Lincoln Hall? Something for pre-concert eatz.