Chicago MMXII

right! i think i had planned on going tomorrow and then relaxin on saturday to get ready for sunday

OOOOH exciting!!

Actually, this is Milwaukee/Chicago/Ogden
Oh yer right yer right

Oh wow, Jordan, didn't know about the shows--will try to make it Sat.

sweet

a little bit southwest (like a 10 minute walk maybe?) of grand/halsted/milwaukee is where Publican is, and after going there a few weeks ago I am a stan for that place

if anyone wants to join me on friday, lemme know
or just meet me at the green mill and surprise me
like pop out from behind the banquette and scream SURPRIZE!

what time?

attn n/a - today i was walking my dog and it was sunny and beautiful and your song "place and time" started playing and i was like WHAT IS THIS (I have a shuffle, can't see what's playing ever) but as soon as you started singing, i knew what it was and was like DANG this song is good

aw thanks amanda! i am happy with those songs too. i've been getting more excited about home recording stuff again recently (using my reel-to-reel 4-track more) and have a few songs and so hopefully someday i'll put out more stuff. trying to get a short album's worth done first. kind of in that same vein of trying to keep the songs and arrangements pretty simple, but maybe a little slower/murkier than those songs. also we're going to jam with ben again in march sometime but dunno if we'll really have anything to record.

i tried to record some ebow drones recently based on your request but my delay/looping pedal, which is central to the process, appears to be busted. hopefully i just need a new adapter for it.

we're in springfield this weekend so no mama digdowns for us

Our weekend is kind of up in the air -- might be up for MD on Sat., though.

I think Jody and I might collab on some recordings, Postal Service-style.

fun. if you guys need spastic noise guitar on anything, just let me know.

if you need a spastic person for anything, let me know

i think the show starts at 9 tanuki!

but we have to get there early so lemme know if you're serious tomorrow and we can coordinate

9 am Saturday class means no Friday night Digd0wns for me. I'll play Saturday night by ear. Honestly I'm coming off a crazy busy two weeks, officially over once I drag myself home from class on Saturday, and there's a good chance I will be unintentionally asleep on the couch before you start playing.

I am dumb and haven't been following well — what kind of show is it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEvE5Dz_YuI

ah, okay — I'd go if it was just me but Phillip and I will be hanging out on Friday and I don't know if I could convince him to sit through a set of dixieland jazz :\

if you change your mind, lemme know!

also green mill is a nice place to go on a date fyi

I've never been but really want to since seeing it explode in Thief

i'm just saying that i think you can build it up sufficiently to make him want to go
make it sound classy and exciting! uptown! al capone! secret tunnels! grouchy but extremely efficient veteran cocktail waitresses!

some of my soccerfriends are likely going to be there tomorrow night, I've been invited but I don't know if I can stay up that late anymore :(

the sat show starts and ends a little earlier, 8 - 12 iirc.

ha i forgot about that video, i am not a big fan of it. this is by far my favorite of the random videos on youtube (for the 2nd half mostly):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqb6qdZveRE

Italian deli that's supposed to be excellent (Bari)

Jordan, you would probably like this place. Tasty, oily Italian sandwiches.

i bet. do they do hot sandwiches? because i really like hot sandwiches. could always get them to go and then put them under the broiler i guess.

i'm planning on hitting that banh mi place on broadway before the show tomorrow.

if you're feeling like pho in addition to sangwich try tank across the street. GOOD.

that reminds me I saw that Ba Le on Check Please! recently... there was one dude on the show who just kept calling it and the surrounding neighborhood "dirty" and I'm like wtf dude have you been to Chicago before?

ugh

does he have any idea how many germs he is carrying around like ALL THE TIME?
dirty, i am so sure

i was amazed by ba le's general shininess.

it's totally renovated! i still think their refrigerated goods leave something to be desired, but the sandwiches are always good.

found the clip

http://video.wttw.com/video/1622433552/#

looking at the ba le menu and now i'm fiending for it. how do i choose only one sandwich?

"only one sandwich" doesn't sound like the Jordan I know

ha. i'm trying out self-restraint in 2012. i'm 30 now, can't eat like i used to. well, i totally can, but sometimes i don't feel good about it.

actually i want to bring some other folks down there and do the buy 5 + get 1 free.

The sandwiches are pretty small!

when i go to nhu lan a lot of times i feel like one sandwich isn't quite enough but two is too much. it's annoying.

sandwiches should be bigger. or smaller.

i'll also be having an avocado smoothie btw.

i should probably get a spring roll or some other kind of side next time i go to nhu lan. i pretty much only go to nhu lan when sarah's out of town because she doesn't like banh mi.

tbf to Check Please dude, that T at Broadway and Argyle is the only place in Chicago where I regularly came across chicken feet lying in the gutter. But really, fuck that guy.

NICK. Eat one and one half sandwich.

JORDAN. Choose the lemon grass pork sausage sandwich hurry

ok! i was thinking that or the bbq pork, with a passing interest in the meatball.

bbq pork is top notch
do not get the refrigerator spring rolls, they are gummy

Lemon grass sausage! LEMON GRASS SAUSAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111

There are or used to be sweet rice and coconut crepe-type things for desert and they are very good.

I gotta say lemongrass too. But the bbq is good.

Dangit now I want to go there. I *am* going to be up at like Lincoln and Foster tonight, it not that much farther away...

ok lemongrass. or both.

I saw this weekend that that there is a brand new banh mi place on Broadway at Carmen.

Those big giant bags of frozen

that reminds me I saw that Ba Le on Check Please! recently... there was one dude on the show who just kept calling it and the surrounding neighborhood "dirty" and I'm like wtf dude have you been to Chicago before?

Barf. I just watched the video and yeh, fuck that guy. When Alpana asks him what he thought, he can't make it through a sentence without interrupting himself to say how dirty the area was. "I took my nephew -- and again, the area was just [cringes apologetically, sucks in through his teeth] really dirty -- and inside it was really chaotic so we ate outside and it was kind of.... [cringe, hiss] dirty."

He also said something about the "uniqueness" of the neighborhood and how you gotta expect to "see things."

I wish a compulsive hand washing affliction on this guy.