Chicago: Will There Be Food on the Southside?

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― Jesse, Monday, 12 March 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

Reposted:

I listened to the results of CHILX All-Star Jam #1 last night and they sounded a lot better than they thought they would. The recording sounds kind of fucked up but in a cool way - the drums and the keyboard are distorted but nice and fuzzy and analog. The take of the actual song is good, but I'm also pretty happy with the two "jams" I recorded. I'll put them online this afternoon/evening so people can hear what we've got going so far.

n/a on Monday, 12 March 2007 12:25 (30 minutes ago)

― n/a, Monday, 12 March 2007 12:56 (eighteen years ago)

Oops. Sorry, wasn't trying to lose your announcement.

BTW, I love this ad campaign (website features"currency converter" and "translator" tools) but I wasn't aware of this: [link Sox 'Southside Board of Tourism' campaign upsets street gang of same name]http://www.theheckler.com/news/templates/?a=697&z=24[link]. That's actually a pretty menacing name for a gang. Surprising and provocative quotes inside.

― Jesse, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:10 (eighteen years ago)

SHOOT.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theheckler.com%2Fnews%2Ftemplates%2F%3Fa%3D697%26z%3D24&ei=D1D1RZGYMpaQigHq9rgB&usg=__RBazgNNxBPmcJF8MHLkdIclxbhI=&sig2=3lZ5MXv0ZWrSwhCzEghCTw

― Jesse, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:11 (eighteen years ago)

"In our neighborhood, you don't just take a gang's name and use it to make jokes," said Ralph "Crusher" Wolfe, longtime gang member. "All I have to say is the public relations department for the team better watch their back."

Bill Brieghton, director of media relations for the White Sox, reiterated the club's longtime support of all gangs.

"Anyone who has ever attended a White Sox game knows we welcome all forms of thieves, vandals, and gang members," said Brieghton. "Our gift shop includes Sox caps of every color to ensure you can support your favorite team while still adhering to the colors of your gang."

― Jesse, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:17 (eighteen years ago)

PLEASE! COME TO THE S.SIDE! SEE REAL GANGEROS AT A BASEBALL GAME!

― Jesse, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:18 (eighteen years ago)

Sharks have new songs on their MySpace if anyone else wants to listen. They are awesome.

― n/a, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:19 (eighteen years ago)

Ooh, I want to hear CHILX Jam.

I spent my weekend in Milwaukee. I love Milwaukee.

― Jordan, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:24 (eighteen years ago)

I want to go back to Milwaukee someday.

― n/a, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:27 (eighteen years ago)

What's so great about Milwaukee? I was there for a day, but spent most of it in a bookstore that another ILXite was excited about. They spent like 3 hours there! Then we ate at Beans and Barley, which was tasty.

― Jesse, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:30 (eighteen years ago)

Did you know that this year Chicago's Polar Bear Club couldn't swim?? The lake was frozen solid, and despite hacking away at it with a pick axe, they couldn't get to water. So they rolled around on top of the ice like hairless seals. One guy stayed for 27 minutes.

― Jesse, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:35 (eighteen years ago)

What's so great about Milwaukee?

I don't know. Fun bars, fun people, cute hipster girls, nostalgia if you happened to go to high school there.

― Jordan, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:40 (eighteen years ago)

That wasn't meant to sound so challenging.

― Jesse, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:44 (eighteen years ago)

Sitting on the rocks next to Lake Michigan was also nice.

― Jordan, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:46 (eighteen years ago)

Milwaukee: come sit on our rocks.

― Jesse, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

Best rock-sittin' in the Midwest.

― Jesse, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

You know what's really nice? Riunite on ice, that's what.

― Jenny, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

I might be wrong, but I am pretty sure The Heckler is a Cubs-specific Onion-style satire paper.

― Jenny, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:12 (eighteen years ago)

I think it's Chicago sports-specific, but it is "satirical."

― n/a, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

In response to this thread's titular question, my mind always answers, "There are no cigarettes in the bibllllleeee."

― Jenny, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

OH. Well, I guess I don't GET irony....

― Jesse, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

I feel like a douchebag.

But seriously, can't you easily picture a gang calling themselves that?

― Jesse, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

No? Maybe you just don't get gangs, either.

― Jenny, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

Jesse ... a gang called "The Southside Chicago Board of Tourism"? :(

― n/a, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

Courtney's email to me this morning:

"I'm never going to the Southside again."

Apparently the parade did her in, and she couldn't find any drinks. Which seems odd at an Irish parade.

― Jesse, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

FUCK YOU ALL. IT'S OVER.

This is what I get for getting up before 9:30. The irony filter wasn't funcitoning at full capacity.

― Jesse, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:40 (eighteen years ago)

HOW COULD I HAVE BEEN SO **STUPID**!?

― Jesse, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

Eh, I can see how, if you don't know/care about sports and hence ignore most sports journalism, that the absurdity of the Heckler could appear to be sincere sports reporting, which can get pretty darn absurd.

― Jenny, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

We don't have to talk about it anymore.

― n/a, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

If it'll make you feel better, yesterday when we were playing music I used the word "scaredom" because I couldn't think of the word I wanted.

― n/a, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

nick, did you have a hand in the new shark demos???

― gbx, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

Hey you guys, guess how much my ziploc bag of pocket change was worth at the bank!? Just guess.

― Jordan, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

$40

― kenan, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

what's the street value of a ziploc bag?

― gbx, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

Fun bars, fun people, cute hipster girls,

I like Milwaukee because going there really feels like going far away, even though it's only a 90-minute drive. And, it's true, the counterculture has a more deliberate style up there than here. Or maybe it's just that the punks are more committed. Last time I was there, I saw a guy with tattoos on his shaved head. If Reckless had a branch in Milwaukee, I bet everyone working there would look like London 1981, in the best way.

I like: the bowling alley (w/ underground arcade); Pizza Shuttle; the Egyptian movie theater (like the Music Box); the art museum; Brewed Awakenings; very cheap rent; the beaches 1 hour north of there.

I've been to the world-famous custard stand, but I don't remember getting anything there.

― Eazy, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:04 (eighteen years ago)

$113!!

― Jordan, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

I want to go back to Milwaukee with some of you people because you make it sound like fun. We went for a wedding two summers ago and it seemed okay but we were all caught up in wedding-related activities and didn't get to do much else.

― Jenny, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

Brewed Awakenings

I think this place (formerly Anodyne) just closed. My friend Cam has the bar from it in his kitchen.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/82/383959533_4e2332fba4.jpg?v=0

― Jordan, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

There is a Brewed Awakenings in Newark, Delaware.

― Jenny, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

the Egyptian movie theater

Do you mean the Oriental???

― Jordan, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

I had nothing to do with the new Sharks recordings, which is why they sound all clean and shiny and produced. It's nice to hear their own vision of how they hear their songs, and I think they did a great job.

I only spent a like half a day total in Milwaukee. We played a weird attic show in someone's house where I was scared the whole time the floor was going to collapse, then we had to come back a day or so later because Ben left his cymbals there. We had to hang out for a while waiting for someone to come home to let us in, and we found this artsy store selling local clothing and whatnot that also had a tiny kitten. We got coffee a couple of times and looked in a record store. Basically it seemed like a cheaper, even lower-key version of Chicago.

― n/a, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

Oops, I meant the Oriental. (The Egytpian in in Seattle - same style.) My good friend Atom (from high school) opened Brewed Awakenings in '94 or so (he sold it, moved to Chicago, and opened At0mix later). I always liked that place.

― Eazy, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

I think At0mix is the place where we got coffee a couple of times. It was weird because we drove the hour or so to Milwaukee, and that was the first place where we went, and as soon as we walked in I saw 90 D@y M3n/local scenester R0b L0we (who now works at my video store). It was like we hadn't left Chicago.

― n/a, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

My good friend Atom (from high school) opened Brewed Awakenings in '94 or so (he sold it, moved to Chicago, and opened At0mix later).

Huh, I know one of the owners roomed with the tuba player from my band in college. Small world, whether it's the same guy or not.

― Jordan, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

He opened Brewed Awakenings with three (?) other people, who left and sold their share one at a time. It was the first or second coffee shop anywhere in the city. The other one is Fuel (maybe that's the one you're thinking of, Nick), which I had never seen until last summer and seemed kind of ordinary, but maybe what I saw as ordinary was an industrial style when it opened.

― Eazy, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yeah, it was Fuel.

― n/a, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

who now works at my video store

north coast? robert is a really nice guy.

― chicago kevin, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

Yes. He seems nice. Most of the dudes that work there are really nice, actually.

― n/a, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

NICE NICE NICE

― n/a, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

Now, Riunite on ice? That's nice.

― Jenny, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

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morning chicago.

i looooooove animal collective.

― kenan, Saturday, 24 March 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

I just realized that I had a dream about Jessica Simpson last night. WTF.

― Jenny, Saturday, 24 March 2007 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

ok, so these shure earphones sound amazing! very very impressive sound from such tiny things. Really natural, no "bass enhancement," none of that shit. BUT... here's the issue. They're also earPLUGS, which means they isolate any inside sounds as well as excluding external sounds. Which means that between songs, you can hear yourself breathing. If you make any sounds yourself, it has that boomy inside-the-head resonance. Worst, though, is the sounds you make when you move. They of course have wires, and when those wires move, it makes a sound in the earplugs, which means that for optimum sound, you should be doing what I'm doing now, sitting and not moving at all. Walking makes two sounds that interfere with the music a good bit: the sound of the wire moving, and the boom of each footstep as your foot hits the ground.

All that said, these are the best earphones I've ever had audiophile-wise. I can hear the difference, maybe for the first time ever, between mp3 bitrates. The sound is just beautiful.

― kenan, Saturday, 24 March 2007 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

oh noes jenny is MEDIA SATURATED

― kenan, Saturday, 24 March 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

these people annoy me

― JuliaA, Saturday, 24 March 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

but i am kind of delighted that i managed to post a link.

srsly, i wish the media could discuss ways that an average person could be more environmentally conscious, rather than portraying ultra-extreme people who decide not to use toilet paper to save the trees.

― JuliaA, Saturday, 24 March 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

And they have not had the heart to take away the vacuum from their cleaning lady, who comes weekly (this week they took away her paper towels).

Wow. I don't even know what to say to that sentence, except that their cleaning lady ought to find another job.

― Jenny, Saturday, 24 March 2007 18:04 (eighteen years ago)

And RJ's son works at Simon's doesn't he? Or there is some RJ connection to Simon's, if you'll recall.

No. You're thinking of Fred Chappell.

― Jesse, Saturday, 24 March 2007 18:26 (eighteen years ago)

By god, you're right. I am thinking of Fred Chappell. Dave's brother.

― Jenny, Saturday, 24 March 2007 19:56 (eighteen years ago)

Did John have his birthday yet? I just wanted to pop in and say hi to you all and happy birthday to John. Hope you're all doing well, KIT, BFF, etc.

― Casuistry, Saturday, 24 March 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

John's party is tonight, but I don't know if today is the actual birth day or not.

― dan m, Saturday, 24 March 2007 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

Some Like It Hot. Funny.

― Jeff, Saturday, 24 March 2007 20:21 (eighteen years ago)

His birthday is tomorrow.

― Jeff, Saturday, 24 March 2007 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

Someone give him the appropriate number of birthday spanks for me, thanks!

― Casuistry, Saturday, 24 March 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

Hi Chris!

Yeah, Jeff is right: my birthday is tomorrow. I just took a nap and I'm about to shave.

― jaymc, Sunday, 25 March 2007 00:15 (eighteen years ago)

I also just did my yearly duty and revived Ronan's birthday thread.

― jaymc, Sunday, 25 March 2007 00:17 (eighteen years ago)

Potential David Caruso CSI line:

[finding big hairy dead guy in a sundress]
"Apparently...
[puts on sunglasses]
some like it dead."

― Eazy, Sunday, 25 March 2007 00:38 (eighteen years ago)

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOWWWW

― Jenny, Sunday, 25 March 2007 00:40 (eighteen years ago)

Somebody had to do it.

― Jenny, Sunday, 25 March 2007 00:40 (eighteen years ago)

Happy birthday jaymc. Celebrate lots, just avoid the bars where off-duty cops like to congregate.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Sunday, 25 March 2007 02:32 (eighteen years ago)

Who needs friends when you can eat sushi by yourself?

Actually, it would be nice to have gone with a friend or two.

― Ivan, Sunday, 25 March 2007 04:06 (eighteen years ago)

Dag, then, email us. We like sushi.

That's the royal we.

To all the girls: Jeff is OOOKay. He's making cheese toast.

― Jenny, Sunday, 25 March 2007 07:00 (eighteen years ago)

Happy birthday Jaymc. The smoke was killing me but I was glad to make the tail-end of the party.

― Eazy, Sunday, 25 March 2007 08:04 (eighteen years ago)

I like sushi rolls. And butter rolls.

― dan m, Sunday, 25 March 2007 09:42 (eighteen years ago)

Just to all the girls?

― Casuistry, Sunday, 25 March 2007 09:50 (eighteen years ago)

Hey dude -- I'm v. sorry I did not make it to your party. It just wasn't gonna happen. Hope everything went well.

Nice day today, huh?

― La Lechera, Sunday, 25 March 2007 13:34 (eighteen years ago)

I was using "girls" in a gender neutral sense.

― Jenny, Sunday, 25 March 2007 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

I've got a hell of a neck ache.

― Jeff, Sunday, 25 March 2007 14:23 (eighteen years ago)

:) :)

― Jordan, Sunday, 25 March 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

Guys, my pussy is on fire. I must have slept on it funny.

― Jesse, Sunday, 25 March 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

Dulce et decorum est my mangina.

― Jesse, Sunday, 25 March 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

My mangina is sweet and proper.

― Jesse, Sunday, 25 March 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

(C/D: referring to one's mangina in gustatory terms)

― Jesse, Sunday, 25 March 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

DUDE, WAY CLASSIC!

― Jesse, Sunday, 25 March 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

Hi Jesse.

― Jordan, Sunday, 25 March 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

Observed at: Hill Farms, Madison, Wisconsin
Elevation: 930 ft / 283 m
[Scattered Clouds]
80.1 °F / 26.7 °C
Scattered Clouds

80? 80?!?!?

― Jordan, Sunday, 25 March 2007 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

Whoa. Holy shit. I just noticed that it's 76 here!

― Jesse, Sunday, 25 March 2007 19:30 (eighteen years ago)

I enjoyed last night's comedy (and boobs). I liked the joke that went sort of like this "people often mistake me for a lesbian. Lesbians look and me and want to move in with me...buy a house...build our own furniture...have opinions....

I also thoroughly enjoyed the facial expression of the woman dressed as a bumble bee.

― Jesse, Sunday, 25 March 2007 19:35 (eighteen years ago)

And Kenan was a part of the show, handing the MC his fifth of Jim Beam and cutting up.

― Jesse, Sunday, 25 March 2007 20:15 (eighteen years ago)

Comedy boobs?

― Jordan, Sunday, 25 March 2007 21:01 (eighteen years ago)

happy bday jaymc, i spent all weekend helping my sister move.

― t0dd swiss, Sunday, 25 March 2007 22:28 (eighteen years ago)

My neck still hurts. Did someone get a better view of exactly what I was trying to accomplish before I smashed myself on the ground?

― Jeff, Sunday, 25 March 2007 22:50 (eighteen years ago)

As near as I could tell, doing an impression of someone slipping on a banana peel.

― dan m, Sunday, 25 March 2007 23:48 (eighteen years ago)

Body Worlds was weird as hell. I touched a human kidney and liver.

― Jeff, Monday, 26 March 2007 00:33 (eighteen years ago)

Today was great. A couple of hours sitting in the open front windows of Nick's drinking lots of Blue Moon, followed by grilling and a nice dinner... this is how all Sundays should be.

But now I sit here reading all the follow-up stories on these two Chicago cop stories and I find myself getting more pissed and more discouraged. One, I hope that this city loses the Olympics for this shit and two, I wish there was something I could do to fight this bullshit. I've never been so disgusted in this city.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 26 March 2007 04:29 (eighteen years ago)

Today:

-I saw a guy on the train with a hot pink button affixed to his WGN tote that read, "FUCK YOUR GOD."

-There was a guy beat-boxing at the Belmont train stop. He was amazing. His name is Jasper, and he was really friendly and talented.

-I discovered that there exists in this crazy, mixed-up world a fountain that dispenses Scope.

-I ate mussels and there was a bad one in the batch. :(

-I drank some Scope.

― Jesse, Monday, 26 March 2007 04:57 (eighteen years ago)

Ask A Faulknerian Idiot Man-Child

Dear Faulknerian Idiot Man-Child,

Because of a job promotion, my husband and I recently moved from Boston to Louisville, where I don't know a soul. I don't want to stand in the way of my husband's career, but I miss my friends back home terribly. Any advice?

—Lonely In Louisville
Dear Lonely,

Through the fenceposts on the hill I could see them hitting, across the pasture towards where the flag was. Me and Cornpoe was looking for to find some balls that had gotten lost so we could get a nickel, but I wasn't looking too hard on account of it felt so nice to see the men there on that bright green field, and Cornpoe was just sniffing in a bush not saying nothing because she ain't but an old hound. I sure did love that old dog, but that was before the truck come down the road and I yelled for Cornpoe to come back, but she didn't hear and the noise from the motor was so loud it filled my head up with the roar and then it was too late, too late. And the crash, and the noise from the horn blowing, like it was saying Yah. Yah. Yaaaaaahhhh.

Dear Faulknerian Idiot Man-Child,

I have had it just about up to here with our new washing machine! We paid top dollar for it, and it's under warranty, but every time the repairman fixes it, within days it's broken again. It has never worked right, and they can never figure out what the problem is. I want my money back! Am I being unfair?

—Irritated In Erie
Dear Irritated,

I done told that old nigger that I weren't allowed to go out in the rain, on account of my needing my medicine-pills and my coat being none too dry, but he just kept on saying Don't you know we got to Go. Go and saddle up old Bess and get on our way Right Now Boy there ain't no time. I said no no no and then he made like he was about to commence to beating on me and I started cryin' and then I looked up and he was cryin' too. His face went all soft and he said goodbye and take care of your sister like a good boy. As I watched him and Bess going on up that road in the rainy night I kept thinkin' how it dint need to be this way, it could've been diffrent. Lord knows it could've been.

If anyone can find me the "Ask a Traffic Cone" one, I'd like to read it. I can't find it myself.

― Jesse, Monday, 26 March 2007 05:21 (eighteen years ago)

WOWZ. Lost is good again!!

― Jesse, Monday, 26 March 2007 06:25 (eighteen years ago)

Is it a bank holiday or something today?

― Eazy, Monday, 26 March 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

New thread, dog.

― Jordan, Monday, 26 March 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

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