The lineup this year was really impressive, if Dirty Three hadn’t come around here I might have made the effort but sounds like it wasn’t their best night (or Warren is just very sensitive to bad reviews?)
Pow. Calendar’d. Deal with it.
Is this just going to make me sad that I didn’t go?
TWIORs: The Work Is its Own Reward
Got fired from the restaurant for singing “DEGLAZER!” to the tune of Debaser every time I slosh some wine into a hot sauté pan
I mean Trent Reznor doesn’t need more money but I’d prefer it go directly to him than some streaming platform, and I’ve stupidly personal-ethic’d myself out of the loop of the good private torrent sites
Where can an old-fashioned millennial find mp3s of the Nine Inch Noize album to buy and download and own outside of any streaming platform?
Yeah, that’s where my argument falls down, takes a POS to play a POS apparently
Jake and Elwood would have tossed Ferris off the bridge with the rest of the nazis.
Probably my most knives-to-the-throat Chicago take is that Ferris Bueller is a bad person, a poster boy for wealth and privilege under Reaganism, and the film is a corny, lazy, pandering representation of the city, making a creepy antagonist of a dedicated public servant and educator.
Reached the part in Mad Men where a computer gets installed and the joke is supposed to be “look at these stubborn Luddites flapping against the inevitable march of progress” but seeing the bosses force flavour-of-the-month unproven tech onto an unwilling workforce hits different for me these days.
I really don’t like Damen, rarely feel safe biking on it. If I’m going south I’ll do Ravenswood > Cornelia > Wolcott then only do Damen for the bridge section, and hop over to Leavitt as soon as I can. So I’m stuck with the worst section of Damen still, but chill side streets > painted lane main sts
At least you get that sweet, car-free cortland section over the bridge
New cat nicknames: BriBri and Corruption
It’s that (typically extremely male) tendency to turn any interest into a hobby of collection, categorisation and comparison that just sucks all the joy out of it for me. See also: cars, bikes, music gear, fantasy sports leagues…
One day I hope this will be recognised much the same way as Indigenous Peoples Day replaced Columbus Day
I mean I probably could have stopped typing after “people on bluesky…”
What’s more annoying: amateur stoners and their “420 wooooo! weed christmas!” thing; hardcore potheads smugly boasting about taking the day off instead; or people on bluesky dissecting the whole thing in order to appear above the entire debate?
You gotta imagine this in David letterman’s voice, they’re a fantastic young rock and roll band out of Chicago, ladies and gentlemen, Friko! Standard band setup with guitars and drums and bass and earnest young people playing their hearts out, but in a record store rather than a regular venue, so there’s records and shit in the background, and some kind of purple hooded beaked monster thing, I don’t know what it is, on the wall behind them. Oh and neon antlers too, I guess
Went to the Friko in-store
You’re talking like someone who just found a stranger in the alps
89-year old Hunter S Thompson, embedded with King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard on tour, taking a different drug each night and doing massive amounts of all of them. Feels like it would do gangbusters in mcsweeneys or something.
Every time I hear mclusky’s As A Dad I just get Fred Schneider in my head singing “in the piranha… was another piranha!”
Picked up an old mono version of this recently. Fairly sure that between this, In A Silent Way and Tutu, I have all the Miles I’ll ever need on vinyl.
I stand by my statement but with a respectful cadence this time. “Jazz man”, perhaps
I am already having so much fun in my head imagining sentences combining “prought” and “beeves”. Good work, everyone!
What tuning do you use? I’m not currently guitar-adjacent and I’m having a hard time getting my head around that chord in standard tuning
This made me think I should start a campaign to change the past tense of preach to “prought”
Much prefer to aver, avow, or declare.
From Sharon Van Etten’s Every Time The Sun Comes Up, sung in a sultry, intimate tone:
“I wash your dishes but I shit in your bathroom”