(or Maybe I’m more pretentious than I thought I was) I generally like the people who are working at or patrons of the gym I go to in Chicago. One of them, about a month ago, asked me what I was listening to through my bulky Ministry of Sound headphones. I was actually listening to [...]
(above photo by Cinchel (Or when music snobbery intersects photo snobbery in one pretentious car crash) Not too long ago, I went to see Feist and Sonic Youth at the Double Door, which I reviewed here. It was a sold out overfilled to capacity type of show with a mixture of people who had won [...]
Note: I have so many bands to blog about I don’t know where to start. The Effigies show, The Dears, even some bands from jazz fest and I’m hoping to take some pictures from the audience at the Hideout Block Party. I’ll get to editing and posting these pictures in due time, but for the [...]
(or Behold a man who can actually live without music) Cinchel and I were at a coffee shop we frequent in the neighborhood awhile back and we asked what was playing on the coffee shop’s stereo. The guy working there responded that he didn’t know as it wasn’t his cd. We’d had a couple of [...]
(or I really just like to “hang out”) Last year I worked with someone born and raised in England from a distance (meaning just that I heard and admired his accent but was too shy to talk to him when I didn’t have any specific reason to.) I knew pretty much the bare minimum about [...]
(or Commercial Relativity) My parents in law try to be nice to both of us in general. I know I’m not easy to get along with considering my politics are so different from theirs (they actually voted for Bush) and my tastes in…well…just about everything are different. Music is unfortunately no exception as my father [...]
So I’ve decided to start a regular every Friday post that details one awkward conversation I have recently had about music. I already have a couple of them stored up but what I am hoping this will do is to inspire me to talk to people more at shows and hopefully this will be more [...]