Chicago: Become Familiar with its Distinctive Neighborhoods

Hey, so since ILX is disappearing in a half hour, what are people doing this weekend?

Kr and I are going to Red Rooster, the French bistro that was recently on Check Please!, for dinner tonight. We're also having lunch with a friend of hers tomorrow afternoon and having my mom over for dinner on Sunday. But that's about it. I'm guessing we'll watch some Six Feet Under, too.

Besides going out tonight to Small Bar, I'm thinking of going to see the Brotzmann Chicago Tentet tomorrow at MCA, if anyone's going to that.

You mean we're not all going to start a gmail chat group for this occasion?

My weekend plans:
* crafting
* laundry
* band practice

Ten bucks at the Second City next week (thing I mentioned earlier): 24 straight hours of music and improv, $10 cover, Jeff Tweedy, Steve Albini, Kim and Kelley Deal, Will Oldham, Robbie Fulks, and Jon Langford.

you can have group chat in gmail?

Jam bands are more indie than indie bands, as far as working independently outside of PR and media circles.

For a lot of the (live, primarily instrumental) N.O. bands that I like, getting into the jam band kid's pockets is so key.

I just typed in a person whose last name is Brab0y.

Part of why we don't have a clear fix on what Umph and OAR and Moe do is because the description of what they do and the narrative of who they are (the PR part) isn't part of their success. I may not like their music if I heard it, but that's very refreshing, that they're these kinds of anonymous bands.

I was on the Red Line a week or two ago with a car full of giddy college kids having just seen the John Butler Trio at the Riv.

Where can I get tix for that, EZ? What date? I'm looking at their site but can't find it.

(getting Bonaroo and "Jam Cruise" gigs, and some guys have even gone so far as to start jam bands, ranging from terrible to pretty okay)

While jam band kids may have terrible taste, at least they're receptive to that kind of music.

Oh, I found news on Pfork. Why oh why do they have to do it mid-week?

Here's some info. It's goes from 7p.m. Tuesday to 7 p.m. Wednesday. I think the schedule will get filled out more closer to Tuesday -- looks like the Deals are playing at 1:30 a.m. (I didn't see this until now), so you may want to have a "doctor's appointment" Wednesday morning. You can buy tickets at the door -- I don't think you can get them in advance.

I've gone the past two years -- saw Shellac at 3 a.m. last year (with about 50 people in the audience in the middle of the night) and saw Tweedy and Jason Molina the year before (pretty full house) as well as the Blissters (Tweedy's then-10-year-old kid's rock band). And the comedy can be really good too -- some of the best Second City folks.

I think they do it on Tuesday nights because mainstage Second City shows on weekend nights are big moneymakers for the theater company.

hee hee bl1sters are wrapping it up

hey, is anyone else here yet?

You are the first real post.

Hi.

we are obsessed, huh?

How many times did you refresh today?

colette how did you find this? You were here before I'd even published the address!

i did a bit of jaymc googling... i googled "ilx sandbox" and then that took me to the lastFM page with this site, which i remember from the olden days.

i only refreshed about 5 times today, but i just got home and thought it might well be working by now. yes, i am lame.

heheh, well timed anyway!

Jaymc did you get my Facebook message to you about exciting upcoming event?

Yes, thanks for that! I think I can go, too.

Yay. He gave a good reading. And he's a nice guy. And he's a friendster friend of mine, even.

Also the map at the start of the thread is pretty great.

By "friendster" I meant "facebook" of course.

Mornin'. Hi, Casuistry!

My desktop weather widget shows snow, snow, and then some snow.

I'm listening to my myspace song over and over. (Bonafied Lovin by Chr0meo)

Oh, hey. I went to a basketball game last night! It's because I'm a huge W0fford Terriers fan.

Uh, I also kind of enjoyed being more productive while ILX was down, so I'm going to try to spend less time here for awhile.

Hi Sarah. Hi everyone.

It's still rainy out here.

Huh! When you drop liquid on the floors at the office they go directly through the floor and into the suite below, without much of anything mitigating the flow.

Did you knock over the water cooler?

Oh man. That was a bad start to the day.

The kitchen sink spigot pulls out, so I stick it directly into the coffee maker. The phone rang and I thought I turned it off, but I hadn't.

TBH, I already knew the floors leaked b/c one time I heard a CLUNK above my office, then someone cursed and a few seconds later we had a coffee fountain. Such is life in the West Loop Lofts.

Sorry, Jesse.

It's quiet around here.

TOO quiet....

awesome:

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I wonder if they run their own myspace?

hey guys, it was weird working all day yesterday with no ILX. i didn't like it.

it looks like Jad Fair somehow has like 10 myspace pages all under the same name

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It's freezing in here and my outfit is a mess--bunch of nice pieces of clothes that look dumb together.

Fuck.

I feel like an asshole.

maybe you need a scarf?

C@n@st@ mentioned on Pitchfork: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/47428-jeff-tweedy-cool-kids-rock-for-obama

I moved on Saturday, it was awful but it's done, and my new house is crazy and also freezing. My space hea(r)ter arrives from Amazon today. The crazy part I'm just going to have to go with -- at least all the bands that played on Sat were enjoyable.

Laurel update complete.

weekend update:
fri - saw no country for old men at the davis, thought it was weird structurally but enjoyable. some parallels with the jesse james movie, though i liked the latter more
sat - hung out at home most of the day reading the charles schulz bio and working on mixing the ff album. watched most of a bulls game for some reason. went to king khan & bbq show at the note, got in a really really bad mood because of density of assholes and general tiredness
sun - woke up in a bad mood still, had band practice which put me in a better mood, went to ben's house for enchiladas, drank a really strong margarita and got buzzed, went to target and bought god of war II, went home dreading doing my sunday work half-drunk only to find i had no work to do, played gowII and read more schulz bio.

pretty good weekend overall except for saturday night which was ironically the one "activity" i had planned

God. A scarf might get me sent home. I wouldn't want to look at me all day.

I have on

- pinstriped brown pants
- lovely checkered blue shirt
- tan argyle zip-up sweater
- brown shoes (they really clash with the pants bad--they're warm brown and I now see that pants are decidedly cool)

This sounds very fussy and like I know something about fashion, but I am just describing possible reasons for the self-loathing I'm experiencing when I look down at my sartorial vomit-splash.

Fri- had head/chest cold. Hacked and sniffed.
Sat- Did H&O work in daytime, worked my ass off at Catch ($$)
Sun- Worked my ass of at Catch (not so much $$) and had mini burgers at Crew.