Chicago: They paved a fetid swamp/and put up a parking lot

hey guys, i'll be at the whistler again on thursday night. can't afford to take any time off work though, so no breakfast at kuma's on friday. ;_;

hey n/a, i ended up seeing bill callahan on saturday night (on the terrace). really enjoyed it even though i didn't know the songs, esp. the big free jazz-ish freakout they did as a transition. i have got to get a linen suit one of these days.

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chicago show was amazing. he wore the same linen suit. i thought the noise freakout was a little unnecessary but i was glad they actually transitioned into the next song instead of just having it be the obligatory end-of-song freakout. did they play "america!" in madison? that song is ridiculous.

doubt i'll make it to the whistler, been going out and spending lots of $$$ these days, but maybe?

hey someone posted high-quality vids of the first couple of songs at the chicago show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vNrEDkGO9k&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uaN0y8YWTM&feature=related

i guess he probably played the same set in chicago and milwaukee since he had to coach the band through the encores

first video has a pretty hilarious "rock face" at about 3:41

He sure loves tonguing the mike.

Ugh gross.

did they play "america!" in madison? that song is ridiculous.

they played it...right after the huge fireworks display over the lake (ie directly behind them).

summer appears to have reached that point where it's just constantly hot for days on end

Eh. It's 80-ish. No big.

The web girl in the next office is watching episode after apisode of old "Inspector Gadget" cartoons, and I'm about to go strangle the life from her body.

Eh, it's a cartoon. No big deal.

OH WAIT maybe different people have varying levels of tolerance for heat and stupid cartoons!!!

for me it's when the night doesn't get significantly cooler than the day so the apartment has no real time to reset, I get worried about the dog :(

Yeah it's pretty gross in the morning. 75, which should be okay but it's super humid and bright and somehow feels a lot hotter than an afternoon high of 75.

Do you not have AC? Can you leave windows open? Maybe you should get him one of those cold beds.

I worry about the cats except that when we're home with the AC on they lie behind the curtains in front of the sliding glass back doors in direct sunlight so really they are either already brain damaged from the heat or it doesn't get too hot for them.

You guys I am chilling in the teevee room at paradise sauna right now. This place is so wonderful.

We have AC in the bedroom but it's old and inefficient plus if we leave him in there he'll just sit on the bed and make it gross. We leave the windows open at night but button the place up during the day with heavy curtains on the east-facing windows to keep the sun out. It stays relatively cool but can get stuffy. He seems to have done ok thus far but I still worry. He would probably destroy a cool bed very quickly, the giant that he is.

The forecast I'm looking at has several days to come with highs in the low to mid 80's and lows in the mid 60's. The humidity will be moderate. Hell, this is damn near beach weather!

Jenny: it's not the cartoon itself that bothers me, it's that the theme is a real earworm. Like, the kind from Wrath of Khan.

Kenan, you seem to be missing Jenny's point completely.

Or you aren't and you are making your own point by pretending to miss her point.

Dan, I'm going to be posting my 5,000 BTU a/c on CL. That's not much, but it works well. Let me know if you're intersted. For you, $30.

Hey. I'm supposed to be transcribing the Hood Internet Kid Static song Chi City, which is fun in theory, but it turns out I'm horrible at dissecting the lyrics. No! My interpretation so far is definitely wrong. Like "been a minute since the deja ended, busy getting by" makes no sense. Apparently the lyrics aren't up anywhere online.

Hi.

I assume you've all taken a break from your jobs to start figuring out the lyrics for me in full. Thanks.

I'm eating cherries. The babe is sleepin'.

I don't even know what that song is. Why are you transcribing the lyrics?

I did some online training several months ago to do transcription work. I do a file here and there when E is napping. Most of the files are university or conference lectures, but there are also instructional videos, ads, radio programs, all kinds of things. This file just happens to be the video to that song.

http://www.thefeast.com/chicago/restaurants/Small-Bar-New-Menu-Justin-White-124280929.html?=m890890

unsure what to think of this

xp - huh
that's interesting!

it's "day job"

(not "deja")

i'm not messing around with any longman & eagle tonight, i'm going straight to taqueria moran.

How many Small Bars are there? I guess Logan Square isn't adopting the new menu?

4

Sorry 3 I mean

Damn autocorrect.

Sarah, I used to transcribe lyrics a lot in high school, but I got some things hilariously wrong*, so I am probably not a good resource.

*Pour Some Sugar on Me:

"Livin' like a bum/Baby come and get it on/Livin' like a lover with a red hot phone"
(Love is like a bomb/Baby come and get it on/(??) like a lover with a radar phone)

If I had been transcribing this song in the present day, I would have thought it was "with a red iPhone."

xp - haha.

i'm going straight to taqueria moran.

now you've gone and got me thinking about tortas

oh man taqueria moran

mexican food in buffalo is so dire guys

y'all should eat some tacos for me

OK, I'll say it: I don't quite get the level of passion re Taqueria Moran. Dan and T|m 0'Shart rave about it, and I guess Jordan and horsehoe, too, and while it's good, I didn't find it to be exceptional. Maybe I expected too much?

i wish i could make some tacos for you! they're at least as good as most restaurant tacos i've had, maybe better tbqh

modesty is not my thing today i guess

i have seen your taco photos and they look insanely good

xps what did you order?

There was a taco truck outside of my work today. Need to try them.

i haven't been there before! we'll see.

last weekend i went to a wedding catered by my favorite taqueria, such a good idea. taco buffet!

I don't remember. It's been a while since I was there. Tacos, for sure.

It also might be a matter of diminishing differences between terrible v. acceptable and acceptable v. incredible.

yeah, i find a lot of tacos acceptable, but i have rarely been blown away by restaurant tacos. of all the taquerias in my hood (and there are like 3-5 per block on clark) i have found that uptown is my favorite b/c their tacos al pastor are just SO GOOD and i can't make that shit at home.

speaking of which, any breakfast recommendations in uptown? i'm staying near foster & ashland, and while i have to leave early in the morning to go to work, it would be nice to get a breakfast sandwich (or taco!) or something.

I can't believe Small Bar's new menus includes boiled peanuts!

xp - I have been blown away once by Mexican food when I had the carne asada nachos at one of the La Pasaditas near Division and Ashland. Amazing carne.

also dan, what should i order at moran?

Jordan, my usual recommendation is Tweet Let's Eat, but I don't know if they're going to be open. Other than that, there I know of nothing incredible. I'd probably enjoy a Golden [Angel/Nugget/etc.] breakfast.

i am eating a piece of the crazy pizza i made for dinner last night -- spinach, pancetta, leeks, oo, garlic
it's really tasty