thejinn

TopTen Things I Love About Chicago (in no particular order):

1.Struggle Inc
2. photo booths in multiple bars that i frequent
3. sultan's market / handlebar
4. MCA / AIC (only on days that it's free)
5. The "Fuck You In The Ear" ping-pong table.
6. Village
7. Rodan
8. Music Box
9. Signature Room (only kind of...and only on dates)
10. midwestern people....
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i hate football. and i don't really like tv (except for the simple life, ifc and the food network), but it's things like this that make tv worth watching, no?

wish i had more interesting / funny things to say, but i can't feel my toes. in the meantime, you should really check out this site where a friend of mine has a poster for...
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so i was at the used bookstore last night, and for some reason they had gotten a whole bunch of super old taxidermy manuals in. i only slept three hours last night, and now i'm fairly comfortable in my ability to kill, stuff, style and mount your average deer or otter. not that i ever would, but it's a good skill to have, no? like...
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just saw the Wolf Eyes dvd. ho....lee....pschidt, is it good.

i spent the entire day yesterday with a migraine that i thought was going to kill me. if there was any light in the room, it felt like a bunch of 2-ton evil bunnies were jumping on my brains. i ended up lying down naked in my bathtub (which was empty) with a glass of...
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ever go to a bar and so many people are dancing, and the music is so good and everyone is smiling and flirty and sweaty and it reminds you of high school house parties? yeah, me neither. never happens. except for last night. sweet jesus it was fun. even my too-cool-to-dance-because-i'm-a-bitter-dj ass got drunk and danced for three hours. i stopped going to soul night...
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OK, first day here, first journal, not a whole lot interesting to say right now, as it took me almost 20 hours to get from DC to Chicago...on a plane. Well, most of the time was waiting in the airport, but still, long time. And it's so fucking cold here. And I'm still at work. Need sleep. More tomorrow.