Chicago Highlights: Sept. 22nd - 27th.
[SIZE=2][B]Thursday, September 22nd.[/B][/SIZE]
So, I pretty much head out of San Antonio with an awkward start having my flight delayed for an hour at the gate terminal and me calling up one Undertow to advise him in the change of arrival time. I sit down and get aquainted with the seats around me and the random strangers about then pop up my library copy of Lunar Park and get to reading. About twenty minutes in to that I get brought out of my sync with reading when I have this business yuppie twat yelling at someone, I go to see who is putting up with this guy and then I realize he is talking on a earpiece to his cellphone. He went on for about a good 10 minute rant about business stock and merging and whatnot, but i'm not really paying attention, i'm just staring at his outfit. The light brown slacks with the bright yellow socks, dark blue jacket and his hideous neon orange wristwatch. I wanted to puke from staring at it.
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9210027.jpg]Business Yuppie[/URL]
My plane arrives and I get a comfortable window seat two rows infront of the right wing engine. Just me and a bald aging fat guy, but I really should call him jolly looking...anyhow just me and him in our three seat row. So we had a nice comfortable barrier between us which was good because right before taking off there was another delay. There so happened to be a tiny private plane circling around the airport runways for some time now having landing gear problems. Eventually they get the gear to work and they land. Which I was glad and I flight commenced take off. 2nd Delay time 50 minutes. So I was suppose to be leaving at 6:15 I didn't fly out till 7:50pm.
At any rate, I have a harmless flight all the way up until we are about twenty minutes away from chicago. There was some minor thunderstorm and heavy ass winds and what not and the plane had a nice crazy shake for a good 2 minutes rocketing around left down up and right. That was just fun in a "I wonder if I'm going to get to hear the...[I]This is your captain speaking we are dealing with some...[/I]"
I fly into chicago, give one Undertow a call and he is roughly twenty minutes away from arriving at the airport. I get my bags (which took me awhile to find since I was given mixed answers as to which baggage claim area I was suppose to find them.) and head outside the gate terminal. I don't see Undertow anywhere yet, so I call him and tell him I'm at terminal 3 G and he informs me that he is at Terminal 3 as well but 3A. So he informs me to walk on down towards him and ask me what he should be on the look out for. I tell him don't worry i'll be pretty easy to catch. So I walk down the Terminal to G to A and Undertow (mike) finally catches sight of me, well...because I thought visual aid was in order to help the poor guy so I held out this as I walked down.
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9220034.jpg]Professor Underpants[/URL]
At any rate he recognizes the name and the person weilding it. Give the usual meet and greet airport shot of the shit and stuff my bags into his trunk. But before he can close it, I tell him to hold up a sec and I go digging into one of my bags and pull out a copy of Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis and flip a few pages in and tell him to read the message inside.
"To Professor Underpants, Missed You in Chicago. Best Wishes Bret Easton Ellis"
He gets excited about it and demands a hug which I offer. We step into the car and I give Liz a call who is over at Naperville (I believe) catching Neil Gaiman doing a book reading and signing. We tell her we are on our way to the bar over in Palatine and we will give her directions when she is getting ready to leave. So me and mike talk about his job and a bit about the book reading of Ellis and then about my flight and plans for the time i'm here. Funny thing through out this is that, Mike isn't a multi-tasking individual and would constantly almost miss a turn by mere moments and couldn't remember the exact location of the bar we were heading to and had to consult directions he gave himself several times. It was funny and we arrive at the bar about 45 minutes later. Liz calls us as we get ourselves a beer and then Mike gives her directions and she arrives 20 minutes later. They had some shitty cover band in one of the backrooms and we were nearby and I wanted someplace else to sit to enjoy a conversation, some food, and beers of course. Give one Frankazboy a call while he is at work to see what the guy is up to, couldn't talk long since he was busy with his coworkers. At anyrate we have nice evening joking around and drinking and some point in the middle of a conversation I stop midsentence and get up excusing myself and the pair of them are looking at me as to what I was up to and I go several tables over and grab some money off the floor and walk about and slap 15 bucks down on the counter and continue talking. I'd show pictures of the bar and me and mike and liz hanging out but I was informed by one undertow not to have his picture taken so i'm not throwing those up. But I can toss these random ones up.
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9220029.jpg]Me and some minor[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/9220033.jpg]Me and That Black Guy[/URL]
Okay, Liz and Mike what the hell was I saying to that women walking into the bar when we were exiting? And what was the deal with Black Guy not giving me a name and me just calling him black guy when we left? I never did look at that flyer he gave us which took him 10 minutes to find.
So we head to the parking garage and we each take a different route to it and meet up inside. chat for a bit and I get a call back from Frank and tell him about our evening and what everyone else is doing in the background and then get off the phone and say our goodbye to Mike, who was detained for the rest of the weekend with business so I never got to see the guy again.
Me and Liz drive off to her place and I mention that I have to stop over at a convienent store to grab some essentials, toothbrush, shampoo, conditioner, batteries and that was it I think. Liz walks past a isle stuffer of Cheerios and stops and grabs a box which I laugh at since it was 3am by then. We sit at a empty grocery store with no line waiting for our register clerk and when he finally arrives I idle chat with him and make myself out to be a known author who has published a book he may or may not have heard of about a culling song that kills the individual that hears it when it is spoken, I told him I named it Lullaby and it is at your local library. He doesn't say much to that because he was a silent jerk the entire time. I introduce myself somewhere inbetween paying and walking away and he doesn't respond with much so I walk out and outside i'm just telling Liz how Dominick sucks ass, he was a lousy clerk and I bet he didn't care about the book since he probably didn't know how to read. I'd like to mention also he wasn't wearing a nametag so I had nothing to call him except the name of the grocery store, so dominick if you are reading this you suck dude.
Me and liz get back to her place she shows me the guest room where i'm staying in and we take a look at her room and then she goes into showing me some hair molding gel for styling hair and then we goof around on the cult laughing our collective asses off till about 6am. She crashes out and I get two or three hours of sleep wise and just read alittle till about 9m or 10am and shower and change then Liz wakes up and we both slowly get ready for the day ahead of us.
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9220035.jpg]My tiny bed[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9220036.jpg]Mr. Hash's Pad[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9220037.jpg]The Molding Gel....[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9220038.jpg]My thoughts of gel after she walked away.[/URL]
More to come...
How come you weren't allowed to photograph Monsieur Le Prof? Is he afraid he's gonna get stalked?
dammit dammit dammit
[QUOTE=Ubikrex][URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/9220033.jpg]Me and That Black Guy[/URL] [/QUOTE] You make it sound like there is just this "one black guy" here. Its true though. He is the only black guy in Chicago, well besides the pro atheletes in our various sports teams.
[QUOTE=Vendetta]How come you weren't allowed to photograph Monsieur Le Prof? Is he afraid he's gonna get stalked?[/QUOTE]
He wouldn't say, but I shall respect his wishes. He can't give me shit for this pic of him though.
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Undertow.jpg]Undertow[/URL]
Friday, September 23rd.
Okay, let us see here....Oh right so me and Liz are goofy'ing around a bit before heading out. Mostly just going back and forth on the cult before we head downtown so she can go to class and I can roam around aimlessly (My weekend Motif for the entire event mostly). I end up chatting to one Franc Tireur in the chatroom and he graciously gives me a call and me and liz chat to him for about 10 minutes and end it there since he was calling long distance. I really appreciated the call Ludwig. Hope classes are going well teaching over there. At any rate Liz is finally ready and we head out to downtown and end up passing the area where Frankazboy works and I mention we should walk in and bother the guy and i'll taunt him about being a secretary and he'll correct me in saying a dispatcher and I'll just continue with secretary. But he we were both sure he was off work at that moment. So we pressed on forward and Liz gave me the Saturn car tour of downtown chicago which was really nice of her. I glanced over at many things and I gave a couple of culties a call as we drove. I believe the order went Cassun, Rachel, then before I could call someone else I had Maddie phone in saying she was about 2 hours out.
Both Cassun and Rachel I start off with strange messages for them answering the phone. With The Cassun I was just rambling on in some sort of online survey about internet chat forum posters and then stopped abruptly when Liz snorted and laughed and just told the guy hello and it was UbikRex. He laughs alittle and mentioned wondering what exactly the punchline was going to be and there wasn't one and that is why I found it funny. Tells me a little about him working on finding funding for his film and just chilling out and what not. Get off the phone with him mostly, because i'm keeping these chats short and my battery doesn't have a long charge. Next I call up one Rachel Gita, and mention to her that I was from something DryCleaners. (Can't recall the actually name I used I just pulled a name off a sign as Liz drove.) anyhow I mention to her that we have a wedding dress in our warehouse in her name that has been sitting there for over a year. She is responding with slight shock and befuddlement. And then I just say hey it's Ubik from the cult and she laughs alittle and figured it must be me and then she informs me she has a wedding dress! I reply with "yeah of course so you can pose in the mirror and look at yourself, you know always the bridesmaid never the bride." She laughs at and then tells me her coworkers are laughing at her. I find out if she is going to hang out later in the evening and she says yes, but then starts to back out because she doesn't have a coat so I told her she could use my kicking leather jacket if need be and she decides that is acceptable.
Get off the phone and we are over at Liz's campus. I get to meet her cement canoe making buddies and I introduce myself as her internet date buddy. I'm offered a Miller Lite which I down in the few minutes we are there. They were working on a giant wooden board for molding the canoe on. It looked....interesting. They had some battlebot cars in the back somewhere that caught my eye and Liz mentioned they had a cement bowling lane back somewhere. I didn't get to see though.
We head to her building for class and I get a copy of the area of downtown i'll be meeting Maddie at later so I get that and we both like nerds look on the cult.
Leave her to her class and I end up wandering around aimlessly for about 45 minutes looking at things talking to homeless people that entertain me with their woes. Eventually make it to Grant Park where i'll be meeting Maddie, then Rachel calls me saying she is on her way to meet me I tell her where I'm at and sit over at a starbucks by the L train for her. I get to hear this homeless guy hustle about not being able to afford tickets for his entire family to check out the aquarium and I mention that on weekdays they may be free and he kinda gets annoyed by that response and continues his hustle, it was a truly moving lie and I nearly dropped a tear for him so I gave him two dollars to shut up and he showed me some pictures of himself and his wayward children. Rachel is across the street so I tell him good luck hustling he just gives a look and I walk away.
Fast forward alittle here, Me and rachel say hi, I give her my jacket and we walk a little south on michigan street looking for a bar to grab a drink she informs me it isn't a good area for that and we turn around and maddie calls saying she is checking in so we meet her in the lobby and I get the two to pose for a picture.
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9220039.jpg]River and part of downtown[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9220041.jpg]Bronze statues in Grant Park[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9220040.jpg]Me with random Grant Park shot[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9220042.jpg]Maddie and Rachel[/URL]
So we drop head upstairs and I drop off a thing or two in the room and then we walk around downtown and make our way into Little Italy taking the train. Machine gets screwy with me and I have random train cards pop out and I have just shrug and take them all. I know i operated the thing right. So at any rate none of them had money so I just see about getting change from the trainstation clerk, fat help that bitch was. She apparently is paid to sit there and be a bitch. Nice Job. I dish out a twenty dollar bill since they were all I had on me and get the thing to graciously help me out after making me angry. All this and Liz calls to find out where we are at which I can barely hear her and tell her to meet us over at some street we get off at. Take the train, I fiddle around, nobody reall feels like talking much on the train. Get off chat around abit finding someplace to eat and Liz meets us over at Nookies. We order and eat, I let the girls all talk since i've heard their stories seperately already and I just asborb the enviroment. Anyhow we get old Polish lady pop out of nowhere and start talking to us and I almost get her to dance for us, sweet lady by the name of Isabella. Pay our bill and find a bar.
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9220043.jpg]Homage to Daley[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9230044.jpg]THe Ladies[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9230045.jpg]Me and love struck lady[/URL]
After that we stop over at some bar, I forget the name. I drink a few pints of guiness and Rachel leaves us for the evening. I stop taking pictures for the rest of the evening. I realize now that most of them are all on saturday and into the evening. So anyhow, me, liz and maddie go barhopping. end up at another bar, drink alittle bit there and decide to take it easy that night. The girls try and talk and I try and listen but the place is too fricken loud. Liz spills my guiness all over herself and nobody offers to touch her boobies. We head over to one last bar and hang out there. I questioned continuously at this point about my not drinking. So I order a pint of guiness and then i get questioned as to why i'm drinking now. I couldn't win. At any rate, I just shotgun them down and the girls just feel surprised by that. The run off to smoke cigarettes and abandon me for 30-45 minutes and I just go through 4 or 5 more pints of Guiness and whatever drink liz left on the table. They get back and we chat it up a bit and call it a night.
I'll do more later. i'm just blah'ing through this. Everyone else that was there feel free to add in anything.
[QUOTE=Smartazboy]You make it sound like there is just this "one black guy" here. Its true though. He is the only black guy in Chicago, well besides the pro atheletes in our various sports teams.[/QUOTE]
har har
[QUOTE=UbikRex]Friday, September 23rd.
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9220043.jpg]Homage to Daley[/URL]
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I love a joint where I can piss and wash my hands at the same time.
"well she's either a cruel horny bitch or she might actually like you." - audreythirteen
[QUOTE=rkdaley]I love a joint where I can piss and wash my hands at the same time.[/QUOTE]
way to be non-commital about which one your pissin in an which one your washing hands in
Lets see Saturday, September 24th.
Me and Maddie walk around and generally hang out with each other all saturday afternoon, we make our way to the Sears Tower and before that we ate at PotBellies after walking for far too long and both of us wanting to take a break. Hang out talk, and I mention afterwards this creep was lurking the entire time listening into her conversation with me. I'd say ours but then he'd have to be bisexual or gay. Or....he was just using Maddie to get to me. We check out Sears tower and I wasn't feeling energetic enough to go slamming scenery shots of chicago, I can find those anywhere online or in magazines I told myself so I we look at everything. Then we head back towards the hotel and meet up with Liz who takes us into...someplace I can't remember. We check out a couple stores and I find me a nice shirt and hat at a place called ragworks. We finish there and I call up frank to let him know where we are going to be eating at. Which Liz names off like 20 different types of choices of food we could eat and I just settle with greek since i've only encountered it once and it was in san antonio. Tell Frank we are going to be eating at the Greek Island restaraunt he says he'll meet us there in 30minutes. We get there, look at the menu and then order this appetizer with the fire igniting and what not. We chat and joke around and Frank pops up and we go through the meet and greet and chat up some more and eat our meals. At some point Frank mentions a complaint/suggestion card the restaraunt leaves out. So I fill it out and Frank tells me to add in the suggestions as a joke "Rock us Like A Hurricane." So I add that in there and mention some other crap on it. Then on the back I add more to it in the complaints crap. I go on about the soap dispensers not having any soap (which was true.) and that they had a chatty Bathroom attendant. Frank reads this and just looks at me all weird then says, "Bathroom Attendant? I didn't see one?"
I reply, "there wasn't one." Which then the joke sets in and he starts laughing alongside with me.
The girls are curious and I explain and they like the joke. We leave find a bar somewhere bump into some tourist like me looking for someplace to eat which is funny because i'm directing them around and i hadn't a clue what was around but I did sound knowledgeable. Especially when I point out the restaraunt they were looking for which stood out in plain view.
Get to Bar #1 Have a sam adams since they were out of guiness and shiner bock. Hang there for a short spell, go to another bar elsewhere in town. Frank drove us around in his pretty new square car. He pulled a undertow a few times and we got to laugh at him failing to find parking alongside the street. Liz tells Maddie to jump out and hold us a spot. Maddie looks to get out but decides otherwise since Frank wasn't slowing down all of this is happening all at once and i'm just mention to Frank, you can park in reverse buddy. We lose the spot to all the confusion and Liz had some words about that. Get parking somewhere, and Bar #2
I call up Karbunkle and do the dry cleaning bit again, he answered in typical Bunkle style and I laugh talk to him for a bit but everyone is walking inside, and I don't want to have to yell and smash a phone to my ear. So I stay outside, hand the phone to maddie she says a few things then she gives it to Liz he just waltz inside and takes the phone into the loud bar. That was the last I heard of Karb who was listening to some live show and went into his office which I just assumed was a toilet. Everyone goes ahead of me and I chat it up with some random guy at the door. Ends up the guy was from Ireland on vacation. He had a heavy accent and was a cool guy and we shared a laugh or two. Sit down with everyone and we just order drink after drink after drink. At this point i'm just flippig a coin to decide whether I shotgun in one gulp or two. I forget the count on that and end up drinking myself happy. Liz invites a friend to join us he pops up and I go take a leak. Call up Daley on the toilet and chat him up for a second then Frank walks in and takes a leak and I just put the phone to his ear as he urinates. I laugh and Frank is just...well he is pee'ing and talking. Hang up and wash my hands and head up stairs. We hang out for a long spell drinking. Head to bar # 3
Its some loud uppity shit bar. We go downstairs where it is just loud mega size speakers over each booth and nobody can really talk. I order a round of drinks we drink then decide to leave. Head out to Bar # 4 and I immediately just waltz off in search of the bathroom ditching everyone who were clueless of my thoughts at the time. I find the bathroom fairly easy. Get back and join everyone, chat up some strangers at some point leaving the group, drink more, then get lost after a second trip to the bathroom in the multi floor bar. Get my point of reference straight and join everyone quickly. We hang out a bit and decide to stop someplace to eat.
We stop over at Nookiees three and then....I can't remember shit till i'm being escorted by Frank to the toilet. Give one good heave into the toilet, rinse my mouth, wash my hands and walk out feeling alive and alert and annoyed that I puked. I'm informed that I initially pass out leaning on Maddie then I lean over on Liz's friend and use his shoulder as a pillow, which Frank mentions to him like he couldn't notice I was there unless he told him. At any rate the food comes around and i'm hoisted into position so I don't fall face first into the food. I lean over and look at it and just give one tiny little spew ontop of the food on the plate and i'm sent to the toilet. Didn't seem to bother liz and maddie since they just went on ahead with eating. I feel back to normal, they get the check after talking awhile and poking fun at me and we get dropped off at the hotel and I shower and change.
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9230049.jpg]Street SaxMan playing the Simpson's theme song[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9230051.jpg]Maddie and Liz heading towards Greek Island[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9230052.jpg]Frank walking up[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9230053.jpg]The Man again[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9230054.jpg]Group Confusion with me[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9230055.jpg]Everything cleared.[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9230057.jpg]Heading towards Liz's car for my man bag.[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9230058.jpg]This is just me taking random shot[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9240059.jpg]My Irish Buddy acting tough and hard for the camera[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9240060.jpg]Drinking and fun[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9240061.jpg]The JazzMan[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9240062.jpg]Me and the Smartazboy[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9240063.jpg]The Group all together[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9240064.jpg]Drunk love[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9240065.jpg]The Group + Liz's friend ...Randy?[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9240066.jpg]Maddie, Frank, Me[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9240071.jpg]And the last thing I remember before the spew[/URL]
I'm breezing through these. More to come.
Monday and Tuesday shots.
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9240072.jpg]Met me a Pirate[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9240073.jpg]Monkey on my back[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9240075.jpg]Yelling out it's my birthday, looks like i'm trying to perform a feat of strength[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9240080.jpg]Another street player we heard for blocks[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9240083.jpg]The ladies underneath a water fountain[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9240085.jpg]The group underneath said fountain[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9240086.jpg]The Neo Furturist and Me. Well the male troupe of them[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9240089.jpg]I think of Texas[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9240090.jpg]Piggy back ride[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9240091.jpg]The ladies name tags for the Neo Futurist Show[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/aa597e5f.jpg]Talking to Jane while we are eating at Giordano's[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9250094.jpg]Married with Children[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9260095.jpg]Me leaving Chicago[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9270096.jpg]Me back in San Antonio while my friend searches for gold[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9270097.jpg]My friend Joe making a use of Earwax[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9270098.jpg]Big lady hitting up on my friend.[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9270100.jpg]Me and Tasha[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9270099.jpg]Me and the bartender jackie.[/URL]
Feel free to ask if you would like me to elaborate on any of those. I'm just tired and I don't feel like dragging this out. I came, people came, we had a awesome time hanging out. Some people didn't show but that didn't bother us from having fun. Drank, Talked, Walked, Laughed. People missed out as usual.
I looked very drunk in alot of those pictures. Funny thing is I wasn't.
Great accounts Chris.
Thanks somebody else that was there make with the stories. I feel fucking burnt out and annoying dragging out long ass posts. Wasn't just my thing you know. Heh.
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9230048.jpg]Outside shot of Field Museum[/URL]
[URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/UbikRex/Chicago%20Trip/P9230046.jpg]Boats edging along Lake Michigan[/URL]
i am getting a serious genital chaff from reading these stories and not having been there !
Hey now!
wanna see ?
Negative.
I love it I love it!!!! Those are some superfab pictures Chris.
There is hope, but not for us.
ok I'll do Sunday since he's burnt out.
I woke up a my friends apartment where I crashed and made my way back down towards my car. I call chris while he ws in the bathroom and he tells me they're in greek town so I meet them there. maddie was surpprised to seeme as he hadn't gotten back out by the time I was behind her. I pick them up and we decide to head towards Navy pier since it was raining and there's some indoor stuff there. We walked around the atrium and maddie and i lose chris, we figured he wanted to get away from us for a bit try giving him a call and start heading downstairs. We then run into Chris who figured that we where sick of him and gave us some time together. We end up wandering around Navy peir and walking through the stained glass exhibit. We get a call from Cindy that she's parked and we walk towards the front to meet her. Cindy, Brett, and Chelsea come walking up we do the greet thing and then we walk in. since we'd just walked through chris maddie and I got a drink while the others did the walk around thing (we where kinda tired from the night before still). So we meet them up in the Children's museum gift shop and Chris gets a monkey for his back we all play with the various toys and ten decide to make our way out of Navy Pier. We decide to walk aronud that area since Cindy had to leave shortly and we had to make our way up to the show soon. We walked up grand ave. to michigan and then to the river and saw the wrigley building and then walked along the rive back towards the cars. we all say goodbye to cindy and them after they drove down from thier garage and hand me back my canapy from the meet up.
Maddie, chris and I then head up to Andersonville where the noefuturists theater is, we stop in starbucks so that they coudl use the washroom I gat some coffee and then walked back the other way we stop in a cafe (me with starbucks in hand) maddie gets tea and I get soud thinking it'll help my head ache (which I had had all day and was slowly getting worse) I take some advil and down some water and only eat like 1/4 of my soup and chris eats the rest. Rachel meets up with us at the cafe and then we head over to the theater.
We stood outside while I was smoking and other people saw us standing there and waited outside cause we're trend setters. so we go in and wait in room upstairs and then we each go up to roll the die and pay (we all rolled 5 or higher) ew get name tags for each of us as follows:
me: wild boys
rachel: speed brewer (I think)
maddie: powers
chris: I love powers
and then sit for the show. the chair I'm in is broken and I can't lean back so I use people's coats for lumbar support. the show was really cool, maddie got kissed during it as part of a skit and we all got really wet in mid show. the show is like a post in and of itself. so i'm not gonna try to recap.
afterwards we start walking around andersonville looking for something to eat we walked for about an hour, when rachel needed to head off we then spent another 30 minutes talking before saying goodbye. Maddie, Chris and myself then head to giordano's and get some deep dish pizza since chris hadn't tried it. we chit chatted and whatnot. I then took them back to the hotel and headed home.
The Neo Futurist show was called
Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind
September 25ths menu carried 30 plays which encompass the time span of 60 minutes. The fun interactive part is that they perform the plays at random by audience suggestion. They hand out a playlist of all the plays each one is numbered to 30. The Neo Futurist then place the numbers 1 - 30 hanging from the ceiling roughly 8 to 8.5 feet in the air. When a play ends the random Neo Futurist says "CURTAINS" and at this point the audience yells out the number they want to hear. Whichever Neofuturist hears the first number they can notice runs and grabs it from the ceiling by jumping. There ended up being contests of two chasing after different numbers since with the audience yelling nobody ever heard the same number first. They perform the play and then say curtains again. The plays themselves stretched from comedic performance to verbal puns of sorts to just complete oddity. Regardless it was fun. Here is the playlist of the 25th.
1. Rude Poetry
2. Through the Eyes If a Minnow
3. Dinner at Mongolian House (An Unfortunate True Story)
4. Ryan Walters Bad Ass Bike Messenger
5. Fragment: 1998
6. 3 Predeteremined Fates
7. Variaciones con Leche
8. slowpoke
9. A Moment of Violence
10. Miss Mary Mack
11. The King of Scat
12. Percentage Daily Value
13. The Ledge
14. Gerald Rivera is a punk ass bitch cocksucker and I don't even like saying the word cocksucker. Cocksucker: A tribute to the American Press Corps
15. Mediocrity
16. Rooted Like Cypress in the Rising Bayou (for Alobar)
17. This Fall A Woman Will Be President OR A West Wing of One's Own
18. Poet Slam
19. A Pessimist's Guide to Relationships
20. Art. I Birth You.
21. A Prayer
22. Hemingway Afternoon
23. Gallery 5153, the Non-Walking Tour
24. Z to A
25. Preparing for the 22nd
26 Double Dutch Single Malt
27. Case 27: Interrogatio Obscura
28. My life in drag: years 5-14
29. Play without Competition
30. Right Grand Family: A No Suitcase Square Dance.
So number 24 was a memorization contest which two male neo futurist read the same script at the same time and chose a list of words starting from Z to A and had to remember as many or all of them and say them in order running from Z to A. The winner gets to chose an audience member of their choose to kiss. They had 1 or 2 minutes to memorize as many as they could. Guy on the right is doing this hip shaking action with his hands to his face or shifting back and forth to his hips. the other is just standing there. At any rate time runs out and the first guy on the right goes and could only remember the first one and had the second but screwed up on ending it with ing or ly. Next guy names the first two words then stops and says, "I don't really have to go any further to win this now." So everyone boos him into continuing and he gets the third wrong. At any rate he walks straight up to me on the second row and chooses maddie is his victory prize. She pecks him on the lips and I laugh because it was just a funny show.
The King of Scat was a guy just standing in the spot light pretending he was a instrument and making the bebop sounds of jazz with boops and beeps bediboobeeps as he gestured with his hands. Someone else walks up and says we could have easily just had a giant turd. Which Bebop guy contorts himself as if he were a turd.
Slowpoke was just two of them standing for about 30 seconds and one of them moves very very slowly and pokes the other on the arm. The other slowly shifts there face into anger as the other reaches away from poking.
Hemingway Afternoon was just random lines of stuff possibly hemingway, I never read his works. But best part is the bald guy saying "I'm a manly man" and one of the other guys pops out from the door we entered the room in and quickly utters "Closet Homosexual" and exits. This just continues to repeat with half the troupe spouting lines.
My Life is a drag was this one guy running in place with red lipstick smeered on his lips and a fake blonde wig on his head. He spit out all sorts of comments and the only one I recall is the one where he is facing infront of me and he is saying, "God is my secret friend" which after each statement the light changed on him and he look to his right or left and freeze frame himself. It was just hilarious.
They were all pretty fucking hilarious. Oh if they sold out all seats they would order pizza, but we only filled up 3/4 of the seats. At any rate, the trick is they race against the timer of 60 minutes to complete all the sketches. They did it with 1 and a half minutes to spare. We exit and we are standing outside and I decide to get a picture with the group of them (Neo Futurist) I go back inside and find one of them behind a counter at a sink, talk to him see about getting a picture he was nice about it and it was just going to be me and the guy in the far right of the picture but the Bad Ass Bike Messenger guy in the white and orange shirt popped up and the bald guy that kissed Maddie showed up as well and we all pose for a shot. They would have found everyone but they have meetings for the next weeks shows every sunday after the show.
Bike Messenger Bad Ass was funny he talks about wanting to be a bad ass bike messenger that puts up with nobodies guff and when some driver passes by and pisses him off he rips their side mirror off their car off. He wants the orange long sleeve shirt with the white short sleeve over on top and the hard chiesled abs and the tattoos. Which two Neo futurist ladies run up and draw with a marker abs and a tattoo. And the back of his white t-shirt reads bad ass. they set up the stage with chairs and he pulls out this kid bike and rides around them like obstacles and stops at a chair and says, "Take that Chair" and knocks it over. All of this bike riding happens with Blurs - Song 2 or Track 2 song playing. Funny ass shit.
I exit after the picture and Rachel is going to the bathroom and demands that I go back and ask them for directions to a Giordano's around the area. So i'm the ladies bitch all of a sudden on my BIRTHDAY and go back and ask. Nobody knew where a nearby one was at, I must have watched them go through about 6 neo futurist until this random one I didn't see on stage at all pops up and gives me a answer. Go outside and Nobody wants to walk that far to a Giordano's yet we are parked across the street. I laugh to myself about this. We walk, find the stone statue horse, hop on and take a few pics. I almost land on my face sliding off, foot got caught rotating over since I wasn't wanting to kick maddie in the face. Liz gives me a piggy back ride later when i'm joking around about nobody mention happy birthday throughout the entire day. They correct me and say they did the previous night when I passed out and have trouble remembering ordering food. Pffft. At any rate, Rachel decides it is getting late and we chat to her for 30 minutes and she leaves and i'm commenting to her as she leaves, "There goes Rachel taking one last look at Who's Online and now she's logging out."
Oh so I got to roll the dice on how many new plays they have to create for the next week shows. I rolled a 4. So basically they do this every week. It is something I'll definitely check out again next time I'm there. I'd make a monthly trip of it just because it is nice. They do a workshop for learning how to be a neo futurist. That would be fun also.
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I got to order 4 and Maddie got one and Rachel got another. The guy infront of us was all excited that he got the last two but I was like they are the last two who cares. I ended up yelling a repeat number because I liked the skit. But they didn't go looking for it.
so was everything they did improvisational or were the plays written out before hand and they just made em look spontaneous ?
either way i want to go next time !
[QUOTE=karbunkle]so was everything they did improvisational or were the plays written out before hand and they just made em look spontaneous ?
either way i want to go next time ![/QUOTE]
They were known beforehand but they are spontaneous in order. The memorize game one neither opponent knew the other's list of words. So there was bits of improvisation especially inbetween skits as they rush to set things up. One guy would run across and do something odd like a queer jump skip dance and mention this is my distraction.
that neo-futurist name though keeps throwing me off
i picture them all with shaved heads and prancing around in silver aluminum foil suits
Here ya go Karb, you can read up on them
[url]http://www.neofuturists.org/[/url]
yeah i checked em out when maddie posted about em the other day
but damn i just cant get that image outta my head of them in some 1950's bad sci fi spacesuits no matter what !
well if you ever come to chicago (which you should cause its not far from you) we'll go.
Those are FANTASTIC pictures. I love them. I wish I had more time to read through all your account of it. I'll have to get to it this evening. You really did get some good shots of the city and I love the random snapshots of all of us when we weren't posing.
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This one is so funny.
Friday early evening I was walking alongside Rachel and Maddie and I decided to start trying to high-five any random person that would highfive me. Chicago doesn't like strangers or they found me awfully strange. But eventually I get this black dude to high five me. At first he was just blah about it then he realizes i'm with two fine ladies and he gets all excited about that and then i'm all responding with "slap a brother some skin" and he does and he goes into telling his friend and I high five him. My game was validated finally. But they started creeping other chicks out trying to pick them up. So I tell rachel and maddie to move some distance away and I stop talking to them.
I'm not sure why you had such a hard time relating to strangers. usually when i say hi to people or mention something I get acknowledges (sp)
Nothing beats Monday in chinatown when Liz had to take off for an hour and me and Maddie are walking around browsing at things. I get this one lady who walks up to me and starts talking really fast. She wants to clean my shoes. She asks me first if i'm a honest person, I say I can be. And she tells me she can guess how many children my father had just by looking her in the eye. I entertain her and myself by saying okay. Maddie is moving aside and ends up walking alittle behind the lady and she gets all twitchy and responds to her with "Whatcho doing back there?" Maddie steps back into her general eyesight and then comments about me not needing shoes cleaned, which the lady responds, "He's a man, he can make his own decisions." I'm laughing at this point and I just tell maddie, "Yeah, i'm the man here." So she goes on about cleaning my shoes and keeps mention to look into her eyes which she keeps her head bowed down while cleaning my shoes. She goes on about how she works over at all these different spots and I just answer back with "That's alot of jobs." She got the joke and laughed. Eventually she finishes and says, "Okay the number of children your father had is.......0. You father can't have babies only your mother can." I knew the punchline already and she makes a gesture about owing her 5 bucks which I tell her I thought this was free since you never made reference to cash being traded. But I pull out two bucks and tell her this is all I had and I look over at maddie and begin to say something about her havi...But Maddie is shaking her head vehemently so I stop there and laugh some. She finally takes my two dollars believing I had more so I hand her my change of 17 cents she nab those too. Dingy ol'street broad trying to hustle me. Ha, It was great. I forgot to get a picture with the lady though.
[QUOTE=mr_hash]I'm not sure why you had such a hard time relating to strangers. usually when i say hi to people or mention something I get acknowledges (sp)[/QUOTE]
Oh they talked to me, they just didn't want to high five, I should of ask for down low.
And that is because you have boobies.
I'm sad I missed the shoe cleaning lady.
That lady kept saying,
"keep staring at me so I can see you in the crack of my eyes."
Her cleaning goop looked like vasoline. and it probably was. Maddie said my shoes looked cleaner, she's a nice girl.
Oh we were huddled over on a bench tired from walking and we watch this elder group in a car park alongside us at a meter and they are parallel parking and they bang up the car behind them and finish parking. They didn't seem to notice and get out and walk on about and exactly 30 seconds later the guy how got his car dinged up gets in his car and drives off without noticing. There was a black blotch on the front bumper but I couldn't tell if there was a big dent. Me and Maddie had a nice laugh about that.
The shoe cleaning lady did have a really nice purple gift bag that she was carrying her stuff in. It was like that crinkly hand-made paper. I'd say her entertainment and cleaning was worth 2 dollars and 17 cents at least. Your shoes really did look cleaner, of course you probably could have done that with your own hands and maybe some oil from some chapstick, but whatever. It was good times. Liz knew a great noodle place in China Town.
[QUOTE=Maddetchke Malorkus]The shoe cleaning lady did have a really nice purple gift bag that she was carrying her stuff in. It was like that crinkly hand-made paper. I'd say her entertainment and cleaning was worth 2 dollars and 17 cents at least. Your shoes really did look cleaner, of course you probably could have done that with your own hands and maybe some oil from some chapstick, but whatever. It was good times. Liz knew a great noodle place in China Town.[/QUOTE]
Oh yeah those noodles and the rice and the mushroom tofu were awesome. That fruit drink tapioca was cool too.
the mushrooms didn't reheat well though. it was way better fresh.
I swear everything in that minimall looks alike, not to mention is written in chinese so I always get turned around in there.
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I just realized how awesome my face is in this picture.
[QUOTE=UbikRex]That fruit drink tapioca was cool too.[/QUOTE]
Bubble Tea!
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this is my fav pic.
I like how after we ate you still looked at menu's along the windows inside the mini mall.
I was trying to figure out which place was the really good dim sum place so I could find it the next time I was around there. and confirm that they had like no vegitarian food at that place.
[QUOTE=Maddetchke Malorkus]I just realized how awesome my face is in this picture.[/QUOTE]
yeah I didn't notice that you look alittle impatient with the crossed arms with me in that. That is how i'm taking it now looking at it.
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Like, I just got here and pictures already.
oh man the married with children fountain, there's a pilgrimmage right there.
[QUOTE=snuffy]oh man the married with children fountain, there's a pilgrimmage right there.[/QUOTE]
that's buckingham fountain. in the summer time at night its all lit up so its like colered water and stuff. in the winter its just kinda barren.
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I like this one especially you flashing the name tag out.
on Monday walking into the planetarium I tripped on the stairs, but managed to catch myself from falling flat on my face.
chicagos got some great bums
that was one of the highlights for my trip when we went up there a few years ago
The following days ahead pictures are larger in number and better. I just wasn't allowed camera shots of one undertow he walked outside one moment when I pulled out the digital camera. Way to help me relive the moment you know.