bury me at the Chicago Theatre

"good news: got us some good tickets, first section of the balcony, in the center. bad news: 93 bucks, ha."

for $93 mr. cohen better be so good (good = epically depressing) that i'll chuck myself over said balcony when it's all over.

small world

my hairstylist, when it's not my sister, who also works with my sister, who is also my friend, who also used to get sexy with a member of the DeKalb Wolfpack, is marrying the guitarist from Chicago's Devastation. they met at the Cadillac Ranch and she thought he was gay. he was floored that i even knew who they were, even more floored that anyone gives two cranks about primitive death metal. i will pick pick pick his brain for hours.

they are a stunning, adorable couple.

hot finds: furry stash

02-06-09

last vacation day before i start the new job. had to take my car into the repair shop from which i picked it up the week before. "loose light bulb" in the new headlight. since i was at 57th and Western i figured i'd hit southside thrift spots.

soundtrack*:


* when i hear this song i have to repeat it for something like 30 minutes. i have visions of being in a car full of people stopping in the middle of the expressway for a chinese fire drill/mosh about the car combo. all i can say is that the breakdown in that song is about the sickest fucking thing i can think of.

pretty decent haul. some tried and true spots failed me, but i'm sure they'll come through soon enough. last week i was set on finding one of these later 60s floral vinyl travel bags and lookie what was hiding under a rack...

passing it onto the etsy shop. i'm sure i'll eventually find one for myself.

also found these which have no size tag so i have to bother my friends to try them on and tell me what they fit like. i have a similar pair that are way way small in the shop already. they had a front page feature (my first!) and shot my page views/favorited-ness through the roof.

had plans to see a movie that afternoon with jessica t. since we both have Century gift cards but she's seen everything that's playing! so i went way north, had dinner at Lakeside, which i don't think is really that good and could stand to try harder. wandered a bit and found cute pictures of my spirit animal:

and old hand cut silhouette portrait (might start collecting these?):

and picked up some books. shouldn't every household have a copy of the communist manifesto? mostly bought it because i love going through to see what previous readers underlined or made notes about in the margins. i'll have about 50 pages with "well, ideally" scribbled out when i'm done with this. also bought an old edition of "that quote book".

what to do when one of your favorite philosophers says things like "i call Christianity the one great curse, the one enormous and innermost perversion, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are too venomous, too underhand, too underground and too petty, -i call it the one immortal blemish of mankind" and then goes on to say "god created woman. and boredom did indeed cease from that moment- but many other things ceased as well! woman was god's second mistake"?

ended the night with j'suz at simon's. my closest friends have an overwhelming power to strike me down with reason and calm. she's no exception.

because nothing means anything and that means everything to me

it's getting really expensive to watch scenarios unfold before me that where once the stuff of daydreams..."wow, wouldn't it be excellent to see Deathstrike, or even some scab one-off, play "Pay to Die"? how insane would that feel coming over my ears? oh well, it'll never happen"... shit like that. BUT IT HAPPENED.

add this to the "dreams make it to reality" pile:

SATURDAY 25th APRIL
CHICAGO
Epiphany Episcopal
201 S. Ashland Ave.
Chicago, IL 60607-5301

TG’s first ever Chicago and Mid West American performances on their first tour in the USA since May 1981.

SPECIAL TG EVENT
TG will play TWO sets,
A new live soundtrack to Derek Jarman’s 60min 1980 alchemical film 'In The Shadow Of The Sun'
PLUS a second set of material from across TG’s history.

There willl also be included in the event a TG signing:
to which you are welcome to bring along ONE ITEM from your collection for them to sign.
There will also be for sale special 'TG USA 2009' merchandising
(all new TG CD album, TG T-shirt specific to this event, TG Tour Enamel Badge, TG Tour Embroidered Patch)

so with a $50 VIP i can only assume i'll be flanked by a bunch of overly skeletal 50 year olds in coal black sunglasses (though it's in a dark, dark church) whose antisocial "hurdles" have allowed them to never marry, work a steady job or find bill cosby funny.

which one should i have them sign?

"TO CHOOSE TO BE CHAINED TO LIFE WHEN SORROWFULLY AWARE OF ITS EMPTINESS IS THE PATH OF A MASTER."

GP-O