Teeny Tour Day 5-8: (Chicago)

god this city rules. green grass in between row houses; i mean enough to plant a substantial garden. you don't have to move into the suburbs to have substantial grass. proof is here!

(yeah, but where's the photo?)


played The Empty Bottle with the solo drone banjo wonderfulness from the encyclopedia of bw psych illustrations and psychwildcrazyheadplanet Plastic Crimewave

and he has a working jukebox with his own choice collection of 45s in it!


the amazing, so amazing, honest and ultimate; her voice makes me tear Angel Olsen

and theee inspiring duo with third eye mysteriousness harmonium tales of fire and snakes Laughing Eye Weeping Eye

And my of my bestest bffs January surprised me by showing up from NY!

and Pierced Arrows was here in the greenroom, so it is officially blessed by the family Cole themsefffs




and don't forget:


no one can make you feel inferior without your consent



Also went to MCA to see a Q&A session with the aforementioned musician / illustrator Plastic Crimewave; he has an "info-strip" of sorts of the Secret History of Chicago Music that runs in the Reader and it is excellent.

Also accompanying the exhibit was a performance by Chicago experimental legend Ono!