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The Best Show on WFMU => Show Discussion => Topic started by: noise.light on September 19, 2007, 11:21:14 AM
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Hi all,
I was thinking about putting together a Chicago area listening party and was wondering how many people would be interested in attending. Also, does anyone know of a Best Show friendly bar that would be interested in hosting?
Chicago is a big comedy town and there must be some people and some places that would be down for this, right?
Let's discuss it!
Liz from Chicagoland
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I'd be up for it!
- Dag
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I'm in.
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I'd sincerely try to make it.
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Do you guys know The Hideout (near North and Elston)? I emailed the owner just to bounce the idea off him. I'll let you know his response.
Dag
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Do you guys know The Hideout (near North and Elston)? I emailed the owner just to bounce the idea off him. I'll let you know his response.
Dag
Whoa!! That's awesome! Thanks for the effort!
And I'm sure that I can bring some new folks to the get-together. Potential future FOTs.
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How about a Knoxville meet-up? No, wait, I know what the people around here are like. Forget it.
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My wife just played the Hideout Block Party!
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Oh, man. A listening party would be awesome. Count me in.
Plus: I'm just generally glad that you started this thread. It's good to know that there are other FOTs 'round these parts.
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I would be willing to have a Triangle, NC listening party, but only if Tom's good friend and Triangle resident Jon Wurster comes, and no sneaking out to make phone calls for Jon, just in case his fellow Philly-area native Philly Boy Roy calls in.
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Dude, I waited for you at that Arby's for three days and I never saw you. Unless you don't actually look like Arthur Brown or Andre 3000 or whoever that is.
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The Hideout would be AWESOME for this.
I'm not back from NYC until Oct 26th. I'm not asking you to accommodate me, exactly, but...
Well, no, yes I am, in no uncertain terms asking you to accommodate me.
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J-Grote,
I actually went to that Arby's yesterday, but I just went to the drive through, so I must have just missed you. I am pleased to report, however, that the French Dip was delicious.
As for who the picture is: "I AM the Shogun of Harlem!"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089461/quotes
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The Hideout would be AWESOME for this.
I'm not back from NYC until Oct 26th. I'm not asking you to accommodate me, exactly, but...
Well, no, yes I am, in no uncertain terms asking you to accommodate me.
KIBBLESMITH. Are you in town on the 21st? Do you like dessert? If so, you should come to my party.
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Also cool about the Hideout.
From those assholes over at Pitchfork, "Indeed, Chicago-area-dwellers will have several opportunities to get up close and personal with one of their own this December, as Shellac have announced a residency of sorts at one of the city's coziest corners, the venerable Hideout"
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Shellac is a fantastic live show. I'm not wild about their records but they are spectacular live.
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J-Grote,
I actually went to that Arby's yesterday, but I just went to the drive through, so I must have just missed you. I am pleased to report, however, that the French Dip was delicious.
Funny coincidence - I've been sleeping in the walk-in refrigerator, and I'm pretty sure I handed the guy some roast beef for your French Dip! I've been using it as a pillow.
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J-Grote,
I actually went to that Arby's yesterday, but I just went to the drive through, so I must have just missed you. I am pleased to report, however, that the French Dip was delicious.
Funny coincidence - I've been sleeping in the walk-in refrigerator, and I'm pretty sure I handed the guy some roast beef for your French Dip! I've been using it as a pillow.
I thought I noticed the approximately 10% less insect matter! Nice Work!
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Yes, the backroom at the Hideout would be perfect. I haven't heard back from Tim, the owner, so I'll give him a call or swing by there.
Richard, which band is your wife in?
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Shellac is a fantastic live show. I'm not wild about their records but they are spectacular live.
Shellac is an amazing live band. One of my all-time favorite live shows was a Shellac gig at a (now sadly gone) artist loft in Boston's Chinatown. (I've told this story a million times and shared it on at least one message board, so forgive me if this is a repeat telling here.) My cousin and I were having a couple of pints at JJ Foleys on a cold winter Saturday afternoon circa 1998 or so, when a long lost NU pal of mine, Teri Park, who at the time was a booking honcho at the Middle East, walked in the door with a longtime East bartender that to this day I only know as "Tim." I waved her over and she said, "So, are you here for Shellac?"
I had no idea what she was talking about, and responded accordingly.
"Oh, Shellac is playing at Tim's loft," she said.
Teri and Tim joined us for a couple more rounds of Guinness, and we got directions to Tim's loft, which was about a block and a half away from the bar. After a meal at a Vietnamese restaurant and a trip to the packie (the gig was byob), we got to Tim's loft right as the opener for the second set started making noise. The band was The Peer Group, a relatively short-lived, never officially documented, but damn good outfit headed by past-and-future Burma guy Peter Prescott. After a tasty set from them, Shellac took the stage, and Steve Albini gave warm accolades to The Peer Group by reminding the crowd how lucky we Boston folks were to have "a monolyth" like Prescott in our midst. The stage was set in front of a set of enormous picture windows which gave a breathtaking after-sundown view of Chinatown's rotting concrete past. Chinese letters ran down the side of one building and glowed red, and Shellac had these homemade amps that looked like something out of Lost In Space. The visual was like an outtake from Blade Runner. The aural accompaniment that followed -- greasy funk -- was overwhelming. I went home knowing that I had experienced something special.
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a confluence of precision, noise, soul, and sweat
In other words, greasy funk.
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Shellac is a fantastic live show. I'm not wild about their records but they are spectacular live.
Shellac is an amazing live band. One of my all-time favorite live shows was a Shellac gig at a (now sadly gone) artist loft in Boston's Chinatown.
I was there! I lived in that loft during its last year.
While the Shellac shows were certainly awesome, my fondest live music memoriy of 84 Kingston St (RIP) was seeing The Make Up and The Vehicle Birth.
Now that was greasy funk. Damn I miss that place.
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i may be down for a chicago area listening party. although i find it kinda weird to be sitting in a bar in the quiet listening to The Kid; seems to me that bars are for chatting.
shellac at the hideout however, i'm quite psyched for.
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Shellac laid down some of that greasy funk at a Polish dance club in my neighborhood last Summer and it was sweet. It was especially funny when the show ended and the DJ scheduled for the dancers that were then trickling in decided to throw us hipsters a bone by playing some Blind Mellon.
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a confluence of precision, noise, soul, and sweat
In other words, greasy funk.
Laurie, you are now officially my new editor. Please refer back to my earlier post for your sage influence.
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I am going to try to make it to one of those Shellac shows. Maybe one at noon. Hideout is a great bar. I'm a couple of hours north, so a Tuesday in Chicago might be out of reach for me, but do it do it do it.
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KIBBLESMITH. Are you in town on the 21st? Do you like dessert? If so, you should come to my party.
Yeah, I'd like to do that. I might be staying with someone who can help me bake like a madman, if you need me to bring anything.
Madman as in, excellent baking, not like, there'd be broken glass in it. E-mail me closer to the day with time/place.
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KIBBLESMITH. Are you in town on the 21st? Do you like dessert? If so, you should come to my party.
Yeah, I'd like to do that. I might be staying with someone who can help me bake like a madman, if you need me to bring anything.
Madman as in, excellent baking, not like, there'd be broken glass in it. E-mail me closer to the day with time/place.
No need, it's at p*ong in NYC. And it costs $25, yo. BUT IT'S AN AWESOME CELEBRITY CHEF AND WORTH EVERY PENNY.
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BUT IT'S AN AWESOME CELEBRITY CHEF AND WORTH EVERY PENNY.
Finger crossed for Ratalouie. See you there.
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BUT IT'S AN AWESOME CELEBRITY CHEF AND WORTH EVERY PENNY.
Finger crossed for Ratalouie. See you there.
It's an open kitchen. If this Ong guy wears a tall hat, I think that means that yes, there is a cartoon rat underneath his hat. And that rhymes.
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Is the Chicago FOT listening party forgotten? I want to do it.