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this is why you’re single dot com (Taken with instagram)
I have a lot of regrets about leaving Chicago. Not spending more time with this handsome motherfucker is a big one.
C’mon Greg. Leave a couple hearts unbroken for the rest of us.
4 April, 2012
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My Internet Garage Sale. This is mostly for Chicago Tumblrs as I won’t be shipping any of these. Items will need to be picked up on the 12th at the latest (and if at all possible I would prefer pick-ups on that day). Email or message me if you see something you like!
(Table details: Has leaves on side that fold down and extra leaf to add to center. All collapsed seats 2, all folded out could seat 10. Has some paint on it and varnish is coming off, rustic, or a fixer upper. Sold wood, good construction. Would love to keep it. Also - it is very heavy and awkward with the sides that flap around, you will need to bring someone to help you move this.)
(Both dressers are old and not in the best condition, a little dinged up and some scratches. The drawers are wobbly, but will hold your things)
(Surround sound has 5 small speakers, one is long and narrow, one has a water mark on it, that one can be hid in a bookshelf or something, also has a large subwoofer)
ATTENTION CHICAGO TUMBLRS.
THESE ARE SOME QUALITY PEOPLE WITH SOME QUALITY GEAR FOR SALE.
30 November, 2011
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Howlin’ Wolf - 300 Pounds of Joy
Fuck working out. Fuck this diet. Fuck quitting cigarettes.
I’m gonna smoke, eat, and generally indulge myself to 300 pounds.
Then, perhaps only then, will my joy become truly heavenly.
(miss u Chicago)
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17 October, 2011
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Hey, what are you doing tonight? Oh yeah? Sounds super lame.
How about instead you come down to the Siskel at 8:30pm to see this movie. I’ll be doing a Q+A afterwards.
Good talk.
Chicago peoples should NOT miss this.
Dean’s a good friend and hell of a film maker. in case you haven’t heard, his film Incredibly Small has gotten some incredible reviews, press and praise. do yourself and your friends a favor and mosey your way down to the Siskel theater at 8.30 PM for some cinema excellence.
26 July, 2011
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I bumped into Scott at O’Hare right before he took off for Boston, so I had the good fortune of being able to bid him adieu and snap a photo with him before he heads off to law school. Scott is one of my favorite people and I’m lucky to have gotten to know him this past year. He’s a true gentlemen in a no-hyperbole kind of way.
Boston, treat him well. You’re getting a good one.
oh gosh. i just found this.
this was a really magic moment for me though, unfortunately, i think i was a little too emotionally scrambled at the time to fully appreciate it. Dean and i had planned to meet up for one last drink the night of my departure before i shipped out to Boston. however, due to his flight back from Minnesota being delayed, it seemed a lost cause. thankfully MY flight was heavily delayed due to the freak hailstorm and serendipitously we had a chance to meet up in the hallowed terminal halls of O’Hare.
this photo is so wonderful and absurd at the same time. i don’t know what to say. i feel so blessed when things like this work out.
gosh darn it Dean. i think you’re just about the best dude ever. can’t wait to come visit you and Jenny in NYC. i know you two are going to thrive. you should give your couch “the talk” to prepare it for it’s impending invasion by my butt.
3 July, 2011
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(please read the self indulgent parody rap below in Will Smith’s distinct, upbeat and commanding vocal cantor while listening to the song above)
now this is a story all about how
my quarter life crisis got twisted upside down
so just give me a moment, i got something to say
as i tumblr about moving from Chi to Boston, MA
iiiiiiiin Logan Square, Chicago i was neither born nor raised
but i spent three years living there, lovin’ everyday
non-profit workin’ and makin’ music like a fool
blessed with good friends and being generally cool
but the clock was a tickin’ fast and opportunity was knockin’
got accepted to attend Law School at the University of Boston
i looked at my life in Chicago, i was happy and gay*
but i knew the best was yet to come in Boston, MAi texted for a cab and it rolled up predictably
threw my bags in the trunk, could tell Chicago was sick of me
my cabbie was dope, with kind words to share
“Ricardo! me encanta, ahora me lleve a O’Hare!”
i got off my plane about four in the mornin’
waved to my new roomie, straight exhausted from soarin’
asked him ‘bout our hood’s safety, “is there anything to fear?”
he, said “YES VERY SAFE. NO BLACK PEOPLE HERE.”
i shit you not. his exact words. i audibly cringed!
Scott Kane and three antisocial ESL Chinese exchange students! they’ve already complained about playing my music too loud at 5 PM! i can tell it’s gonna be an interesting two months already! woo!
no matter! my first day in Boston has been incredible. Blake, bikes and Bösendorfers! will share stories, photos and maybe a secret track of self recorded piano audio later!
*in the traditional / anachronistic sense of the word. i’m neither a homosexual nor homophobic, just bad at rhyming. -
by Nelson Algren, 1951
Excerpts from Chapter 4: Love is for barflies
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A town with many ways of fixing its corners as well as its boulevards, some secret and some wide open. A town of many angry sayings, some loud and some soft; some out of the corner of the mouth and some straight off the shoulder.
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A town that can look, in the earliest morning light, like the fanciest all-around job since Babylon. And by that same night, south down State or north on Clark or west on Madison, seem as though the Pottawattomies had been the wisest after all.
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Big-shot town, small-shot town, jet-propelled old-fashioned town, by old-world hands with new-world tools built into a place whose heartbeat carries farther than its shout, whose whispering in the night sounds less hollow than its roistering noontime laugh: they have builded a heavy-shouldered laugher here who went to work too young.
And grew up too arrogant, too gullible, too swift to mockery and too slow to love. So careless and so soon careworn, so challenging yet secretly despairing—how can such a cocksure Johnson of a town catch anybody but a barfly’s heart?
Catch the heart and just hold it there with no bar even near?
Yet on nights when, under all the arc-lamps, the little men of the rain come running, you’ll know at last that, long long ago, something went wrong between St. Columbanus and North Troy Street.
And Chicago divided your heart.
Leaving you loving the joint for keeps.
Yet knowing it never can love you.
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Sufjan Stevens - Come On! Feel The Illinoise!
nostalgia theater continues.
it’s funny that in going to law school, i regress to the music of my college days.
hm. whatever, best not to get hung up on amateur self-psychoanalysis.
i still think this song is a pocket symphony on a similar level as “Good Vibrations” or “A Day In The Life”. i’ve always wanted to do some type of graphic representation / music visualization of this song. that’d be a cute summer project.
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The Go Team - Everyone’s a VIP to Someone
excuse the throwback but if you’re going to move, might as well do it to great upbeat music!
