Home again, home again.

[spacebug]

Back from Second City. Nice little getaway. Very nice to spend a buncha time with my S4. We didn't get to everything we wanted to get to, but had a very nice time.

I did fall asleep all by myself last night, the short WoW ban having been lifted. Ah, back to normal...



I was thinking we'd have a nice jump on the whole thing, seeing how we live on the ass-end of St. Paul these days, but I'd forgotten. Mom was nice enough to lend her car for the excursion, so we first detoured to suburbia to pick up our willing chariot, Sadie the Saturn. Which was fortunate, since I often wonder if Clyde the Chev will successfully get S4 to work most days, let alone to, from, and around Chicago. Plus, Clyde's horn has been long dead. A working horn is a basic survival need in downtown Chicago.
Got in around midnight or 1, and slothed around the hotel, drank the most of the bottle of wine we'd brought along to facilitate slothing around the hotel, and soaked up cable TV. Ahhhh.

Saturday brought us delicious amounts of sleep before heading off to the Chicago Diner for my ever-so-coveted Vegan French Toast Combo.

How were we to know our weekend would be made so much more annoying? Oh, that's right, we aren't sports fans in the slightest. How would we know it was the Cubs opening weekend?
And of course, The Chicago Diner is a stone's throw from Wrigley Field.

So, that was fun. Glad S4 was driving.

There are a few cool things about annoying sports crowds in Chicago, though. Driving next to Wrigley Field gives the impression that it hasn't changed all that much since it opened in the nineteen-teens. The sign is still old-fashioned and I can still kind of imagine depression-era crowds lining up for games, somehow. The stadium is built up right next to residential streets, so it still has a neighborhood feel to it. And Chicago sports crowds aren't completely overrun with the SUV-owning superjock ignoramus vibe I typically associate with other sports crowds. Sure, they're there, but interspersed with a wider variety of people. Older people, people obviously on dates, lots of kids. I dunno, it generally seemed like going to a Cubs game is a more inclusive, neighborhood-y kind of thing to do. S4 says nearly everyone in Chicago is a sports fan.

Traffic was still insane and annoying, though.

And then we went to the Art Institute, which S4 and I have both always wanted to visit and always managed to avoid on every other trip. So we got there. And I have my picture in front of both The Big Lion (tm) and viewing La Grande Jette to prove it. The art institute is huge and pretty overwhelming, and could be a weekend or two in and of itself. We're pretty sure we missed a wing or two.

Hung out in Millenium Park, and then unsuccessfully went shopping (drat) before meeting up with mollysaurus and her Scott for dinner at Soul V. And that was super yummy and a lot of fun. We had grand designs on going clubbing, but food coma won out, and when we came back to the hotel to change, I fell right asleep instead. I am lame.

Sunday brought us Chicago Diner v. 2 and more unsuccessful clothes shopping. Darnit, too, since I'm actually finding myself in a mood to spend money on clothes these days. We did get ourselves some cd's for the trip home. I bought a cheap copy of Big Science, which is one of those albums I'm really surprised I got this far along without owning a copy of, and Theivery Corporation's newest, which is good, if a little too much on the dub for my particular tastes. S4 got Moby's newest and a crazy Kid 606 import. We were gonna go to the Planetarium, but realized that it closed a half hour after we'd decided to head out to find it. And then we were going to satiate S4's desires to see one of The Big Apple Stores, but parking wasn't being helpful. And it seemed stupid to pay eight million dollars to park to go see one retail store, especially one that he spends a lengthy work week entrenched in a smaller version.

So, we headed home.


Today, I'm tired. But this large coffee is helping.

I like Moby's new album a lot. It's a good album for roadtripping at night.


Some things fall apart
Some things makes you hold
Some things that you find
Are beyond your control

I love you and you're beautiful
You write your own songs
But if the right part is leaving
Turned out to be wrong

If I could kiss you now
I'd kiss you now again and again
I don't know where I begin
And where you end

Thought I fell in love the other day
With an old friend of mine
I was running kisses
Down every inch of the spine

We had the roof down
The sun came shining in
The black fact is...
that I was thinking of you

If I could kiss you now
I'd kiss you now again and again
I don't know where I begin
And where you End

I slept in the sun the other day
I thought I was fine
Everything seemed perfect
Until I had you on my mind

I tried to love you
I did all that I could
I wish that the bad now
Had finally turned into good

If I could kiss you now
I'd kiss you now again and again
I don't know where I begin
And where you End

If I could kiss you now..
If I could kiss you now..
If I could kiss you now..

Oh where you end,
Is where I begin.

Oh where you end
Oh where you end
Oh where you end

Comments

[riotdorrrk.livejournal.com]

>a little too much on the dub

noooo such thing

[spacebug.livejournal.com]

I loves me some trip-hop, but I'm really not into the dub. But then, I rarely like reggae at all. Reggae influenced stuff, maybe, and I like dub-delay, but... Eh. I'm not a stoner. Maybe that's the difference. Have Black Rock neighbors play "The Dub Side of the Moon" Loudly On Repeat was a special kind of torture.

[riotdorrrk.livejournal.com]

>I'm not a stoner. Maybe that's the difference.

i don't smoke at all, and i'm huge into reggae... i really couldn't find very many fans of the genre in minnesota, tho.

[sarendipatree.livejournal.com]

There was you and me, and we both left.

[earlapricot.livejournal.com]

there's also Paul Harding, who spins reggae and a lot of other world-music-type stuff at Dinkytowner on Wednesdays. (+ the 2.5 ppl who attend the event... which was 3.5 until i left.)

i'm also a non-smoker once-was-mplsr who doesn't mind a bit of reggae (i *love* Dr Ring Ding).. but that Dub Side of the Moon crap must be destroyed. eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.

[vaxjo.livejournal.com]

Welcome back! You didn't miss much while you were gone. In fact, I spent nearly the entire weekend at home (except for a few hours late Sat night over at Logan's drinking gin and playing with remote controlled laser-fighting robots (what else, at Logan's?)).

[djnoise.livejournal.com]

(weeping)

[star5.livejournal.com]

so am i.

[knotwellone.livejournal.com]

Wow, his Joy Division fandom really shows through. Good to see others listening to contemporary Christian music, I thought I was the only one...