Chicago in no order- Southside flea market, O’hare airport, Jumping Bean cafe in Pilsen, North side intersection near Bucket O’ blood books and Records,
Medieval torture museum, Gyu-Kaku bbq, magical jeep adjacent snap on the freeway, and miners exhibit at the museum of science and industry.
Chicago always has the best abandoned shoes. Not sure what kind of Saturday night this baby had, but Sunday morning it was sans shoe
Had a nice Americano from Cosmonauts in the park. Met a new person on their very first trip out into the world. Their parents were a delight. There’s still hope out there folks. Keep being good people. Every little bit helps.
My favorite space wizard surprised me with my second favorite space wizard. Green Mind was a seminal album in my life, right up there with Sonic Youth’s Sister and Daydream Nation. My heart and ears are having a very nice evening!
Because we need wholesome distracting things, along with the commitment to evolution, even if through revolution.
Original here -> [saturnianspaceghost.tumblr.com/post/7777...](https://saturnianspaceghost.tumblr.com/post/777718307645227008/katajainen-definitelynotaminion)In a crazy time this makes so much sense Kasso Ep. 3
Perfect for a day that felt like it was gonna get me. Posi vibes out to all those out there struggling. Take a listen Concierto de Aranjuez #nowlistening #jazz #vinyl
in progress
the living room wall
the backyard fence
on the south side
simple attempts
at attention
this report
relayed via residue
letter and note
wars
large black shapes
of fur and fury
rights and refusal
remission reminiscing
2am hospital discharge
to number 44
the small damping
down
low compression
and compensation
memories moving
mist like in
this moment
making movies
out of a past
that
like everything else
remains
in progress
comment, like, prescribe
the mundanity of modernity
has misled us into
a metric uneven and deceiving
catching the comments
hoping to hold a connection
looking for symbols
badges and notifications
working the refresh
regretful
when nothing new
denotes acceptance
wandering across the globe
in seconds
wondering
how do you touch another
person
how do you express
anything
without recrimination
without understanding
without the experience
without the nuance
of faces, and eyes, and cheeks, and smiles
without the lean in
or away
what dystopian rhythm do we
dance to
here in our
private public
confused into apathy
losing our empathy
why aren’t they into me?
Another successful trip to grit city to find good music to play of an evening. This time we made our way to Drastic Plastic and it did not disappoint scoring a copy of Bill Nelson’s debut solo LP, along with a BeBop Deluxe Drastic Plastic promo poster, and some more Coleman Hawkins et al.
Record store haul. Chet Baker Quintet - Blues for a Reason, Chastity Belt - Live Laugh Love, Bud Shank - Brazil! Brazil! Brazil! #vinyl #lp #chastitybelt
Sunday morning drive in the snow with some tunes from #Pumpernickel #classiccarsofmastodon #type3 #vw
20+ years of music - a reckonmembering
Today I am revisiting a play list I made some time ago. It is populated by music that i have been listening to for at least 20 years. This, is itself a bittersweet study in aging, but also a joyful recognition of various moments in my life. I tend to recall very specific moments when I listen to a song. Whether that is the first time I heard a particular song or the foundation of some core memory.
As a result while listening to this playlist various moments come back full force.
Thumb - Dinosaur Jr. (outside the starlite motel going to see a girlfriend i didn’t like)
Schizophrenia - Sonic Youth (walking home from my job at a pizza place at 1 am on a winter night)
Girlfriend - Matthew Sweet (vibing stereo lights in a young ladies basement)
Holiday in Cambodia - Dead Kennedys (song #1 on side two of a mix tape made by Danz from Chicago as i walked the college quad)
Sweetness - Yes (going to see buffalo 66 on houston in NYC and seeing VIncent handing out flyers)
Basketcase - The Vindictives (listening to this on vinyl in a spare room of a 1920s apt with a tiny 1960’s portable tv with just static on.)
I Get Along Without You Very Well - Billie Holiday (rocking my daughter to sleep on a warm late summer day the light filtering through white cotton curtains)
Food, Sickles and Girls - The Mummies (sitting in a friends west suburban st louis upper middle class den, recording the lp to tape)
Bad Day - Samiam (driving northbound on 270 in the middle of a work day after picking up some supplies from another location for the cafe)
Tiger Lily - Luna (sitting in a downtown park with a lady and noticing all the little bottles of jack and knowing a non 0 number were probably from her before i showed up)
etc etc… lot’s of thoughts and feelings….enjoy the tunes
Just another example of corporations ruining things. We need to wake up to the fact not everything has to make more money, more money, more money. Pitchfork Fest co-founder says he felt “pressure” from Conde Nast to book Justin Bieber
The delightful PETER BJORN AND JOHN are touring in May of 2025
San Francisco, CA Pasadena, CA Salt Lake City, UT Denver, CO Minneapolis, MN Chicago, IL Toronto, ON New York, NY Boston, MA Washington DC
That time when the wife and I delivered our son in a VW Beetle next to a bridge on the south side of Chicago at 1:00am. Paramedics were helping clean up after we had already done the work. They were so ill funded they had to borrow a cop’s knife to cut the umbilical. Long night…
