Chicago HOTs: Pancakes, The Pink Line, and a Cat-friendly Bird

His first single once in Gotham was Photon Inc.'s "Generate Power," a dancefloor barnstormer released on the relatively mainstream dance label Strictly Rhythm. "Generate Power" was the formal debut for Pierre's new production method the Wild Pitch, created with a quickly backspun sample which generated a crispy lightning-strike of sound similar to the acid squelch. Besides featuring on a host of DJ Pierre remixes and productions, it became standard fare for scores of producers during the next few years, just as the sound of the TB-303 had earlier. Pierre continued to remix and produce for Strictly Rhythm and Twisted/MCA, finding additional club hits with "Live & Die" by Audio Clash, another Photon Inc.. track named "Love," "Follow Me" by Aly-Us and "Sound Blaster" by Joint Venture. He also hosted a slew of mix compilations throughout the 1990s.

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i encountered all of that on division street saturday. and wtf with the short shorts? i saw 3 pair on saturday/sunday. that's 3 more than i've seen in the past 15 years i think. not that i don't appreciate and impossibly long legged woman in short shorts but my gut reaction is to laugh. rediculous. but welcome. it's quite a conundrum.

For the record, I'm talking about the one with the pacifier in her mouth, not Renee.

1) "It just comes right out of my dad's corporate account."
2) "We should totally have smirnoff ice power hour for the pledges next year."
3) "There's the summer house which is right on the beach, but its a little bit smaller..."
4) "Blah blah blah" (spoken in a loud voice as if they're performing for the entire car, sounding very aware that everyone can hear them.)

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this sounds like fun though.

btw, i can get an extra free ticket to The Ark at schubas tonite if anyone really wants to go. i dont know much about them except they are swedish glam rock or something, and supposed to be fun.

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Bongo Room b (470 N Milwaukee Ave, 773-489-0690) Only about four people have ever eaten here, but thousands have waited in line. No idea what goes on inside.

Oh, the differences are things that should be obvious by now - guess I just notice it more. There's a lot of sprawl-y construction that has happened since I left that surprises me. People seem a lot more conservative there than before. No-one knows how to drive anywhere, blah blah blah.

Amanda, I knew you would! It's gotten worse, on both counts, if you can believe it.

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'Gitchoo in the NE corna
of the BR area'

Also my night class is a skills class (mediation) which means I'll be actively doing things with other students, like pretending to mediate things, which is also not conducive to eating.

Jenny, you just need some eatiation with your mediation. "Let's just stay here 'til this sandwich is gone, and then we can all go home."

Hot or Not.

"Those Who Owe Me Money"
"Those Who Have Fed Me"
"Those Who Have Yet To Return Borrowed Things" . . .

Saw an incredible production of the epic Long Day's Journey Into Night tonight - tiny theater, four acts, 3+ hours, and as satisfying as a great novel. One of the best endings of any play.

Here is a question for you lovely people.
I once had a diaryland account (2001-2005). I eventually switched over to using LJ. At that point, I cut and pasted every single entry into a word document, which is 159 pages long in small print. Anyway, I always wanted to have my journals indexed so I could use them more as a reference. So, my question is... Is there a program which creates a basic index for a document? (ie: all incidences of every word in the entire thing would be fine - then I could just delete the silly ones, like "THE")

I miss you guys. I had fun with my mom. This weekend is time with Dad. I love him too, but unlike my mom he is very very quiet and never has suggestions as to what we should do. The last time he came up we went to see the Pullman village, which was so disappointing! Our visit to see the FLW homes was better. Anyway... ideas?

I would love to see a play sometime. I haven't seen one since I've been in Chicago! Eric, could you recommend one to me? Maybe we should get a crew together to go see one.

Kelsey, Nick and I will definitely be in Minneapolis the weekend of October 7th, right after we play a show with Jordan's rock band in Madison.

Lessee... Dad stuff... architectural boat tour? Silk Road Chicago? ESPN Sports Zone? (Or not. There's smoking in there, plus I don't know if your Dad likes sports. Mine asks us to drop him off there at the beginning of every visit and pick him up when he has to go back to the airport.) Would your Dad enjoy a play? That could be really fun.

Chicago: Where have all the serial killers gone?

i was watching prison break last night and kept wondering whatever they were going to do with stacey keach's character (the warden guy, with the mustache) so that he could be king lear at the goodman theater. but they seem to have taken care of that.

xp well i suppose i'll have to go there.

i personally have only experienced the combo of beer and hookers.

This is a story begging to be told.

For plays, there are lots opening up right after Labor Day weekend - that King Lear should be extrordinary (the director, Robert Falls, is kind of populist and avant-garde as well, kind of a Michael Mann type in that way; his first big production, Hamlet with Adian Quinn in the mid-80s, had Hamlet spray-paint 'To Be Or Not To Be' on one of the walls - then Quinn points at it and says 'That is the question').

This Long Day's Journey is a long play - mother, father, two full-grown sons having it all out with each other over the course of a day and night - but to me felt like reading an engrossing book for 3.5 hours. It's showing at the Gift Theatre Co. - a storefront up at Milwaukee and Lawrence.

Half-price tickets for that one and lots of others around town are for sale through Hottix .

Another good outing - one S&N would like especially - is Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind. The Friday and Saturday-night shows have lines around the corner, but we should go on a Sunday at 7 p.m. and then hit the 'leaf before or after.

i'm not sure i have the imagination for a good beer and hooker story this morning, sadly. if i had better storytelling skills, i could make my life sound much more exciting.

that production of king lear sounds incredibly involved--i get all the behind-the-scenes scoop because my roomie works there. it's a modernized version of king lear, taking place in the middle east, with a lot more gore than the original. if i remember correctly, the director was inspired to do this after spending some time in syria. i have a shitty memory though--it's a haze of beer and hookers.

my roommate comes home and tells stories of her workplace debates, such as the one about how much someone would bleed if their eyes were gouged out. to which i naturally said, oh, i could find that out for you, i'll call my mom. not that my mom is psycho and murderous, but she's worked in an ER.

My Dad and I took the architectural boat tour before and loved it. Are most plays 3.5 hours? I will look into going to see a play. Also, I remembered that I wanted to take him up to the Skyview lounge because I know he'd love to see the view.

Ones we could see:

58 - Tony Mendoza stars in his own comedy about a bike messenger. Mendoza has a great handle on the contradictions of the typical two-wheeled warrior's goofy/grave persona, and is immensely watchable as the anchor of this urban picaresque. His supporting cast of seasoned sketch and improv players handily flesh out a rogues' gallery of grotesques, and director Pat McKenna keeps things ticking along at a steady clip. This is pretty funny as bitch-about-my-job, trials-and-tribulations tales go; ultimately its shop-talk specificity gets a little wearying, and the story deliberately goes nowhere, but it rings true all the way through the realistically desultory finish. (BN) Through 9/28: Thu 8 PM, Annoyance Theatre, 4840 N. Broadway, 773-561-4665, $7, $5 for bike messengers with ID

THAT HOOTCHIE - Shoshannah stars in her own one-woman play about a party girl forced to accept the consequences of her actions, presented by Lyrics 76 Productions. 8/25-8/27: Fri 7 PM, Sat 3 and 7 PM, Sun 7 PM, Duncan YMCA Chernin Center for the Arts, 1001 W. Roosevelt, 312-405-1117, $15 advance, $20 at door.

I'm getting excited about fall movie season. I want to try to see Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown sometime next week, maybe when Kr is in O-ho-ho (she's seen it already). Oh, and Being There is at the Music Box this weekend, too.

oooo, you have to see women on the verge.

That still does not sound like fun. In my confusion, I turned to Ebert, who gave it a four-star rave review and made it sound really good.

I think it's the word "geeky" that turns me off so much. Nothing I enjoy is ever "geeky." Some will quibble with this assertion, but I provide as evidence my distaste for puzzles, games, and movies about homosexual hobbits.

xp yay!

TMBG!

LALALALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU

I got AD season 3 and the new Roots cd over lunch. The first three tracks on the record are hittin', but it will probably be too much to ask for them to keep it up.