Lots of great music in Chicago. We are lucky to have venues where you might see the same faces at a rock show/ a jazz show/ a punk show/ a noise show, etc. We love human blood, flesh, booze, LP records, hair farmers, motorcycles, BBQ joints, house shows and house parties, skateboarding, Hot Dougs, The music we have played or do play: The ABPK, Pinebender, Euphone, Taking Pictures, Milemarker, Challenger, Speaking Canaries, Hurl, Northern Bushmen.
Pork stuffed duck, goat taco, beef ribs, sausage and cactus stuffed fish, smoked brisket, Pulled pork, phesant sausage with brie- filled sweeet peppers.
abbriviated overveiw: Nice Strong Arm, Scratch Acid, Sonny Sharrock, Chico Hamilton, Fucked Up, Tom Petty, Ignition, Enslaved, Hot Snakes, Melvins, Polvo, Mastodon, Lungfish, Wipers, Makebelieve, Prince, This Heat, Wire, GBV, Enslaved, Nels Cline, Bad Brains, The Birthday Party, Black Flag, Blunderbuss, Chavez, Golden, Dead Moon, Devo, The Ex, Government Issue, Halo Of Flies, One Last Wish, Pink Floyd, Sun Ra, Tight Phantomz, Galactic Inmate, Mr. Lif, Tony Williams Lifetime, Led Zeppelin.
Jim Jarmusch, Luis Bunuel, Wong Kar Wai, Spike Lee, Godard, Cohen brothers, David Lynch, We Jam Econo, Dogville, Afterlife, Wercmeister Harmonies and a bunch of other stuff.
The one guy who ate the still- beating frogs heart followed by a generous bowl of frog sashimi.
Murakami. Black Hole by Charles Burns. Various books written by various people at various times, there are lots. Gun With Occasional Music comes to mind. So does Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.
Friends. People doing shit their own way.