chicago Quintessensual Chicago, chicago, it's my kinda' town. 991209 ... deb cruel grey clouds look harmless upon the midday sky as buildings pass and people stare without knowing why myriads drone and buzz about without a single word while others doze away on trains that deafen little birds buildings loom above our heads some fifty stories high the cars all speed; the people swear; bus honks as it goes by endless moving running walking get out of my way! tomorrow doesn't matter just focus on today. 991209 ... Allison the place i hate, the place i love 991209 ... Tess my head reels when it thinks about chicago next time. i'll bring back the goods, but i don't know when (bjork). 000104 ... Marjorie That huge airport. The one everyone could lose themselves in. And then fly away by accident And error And wake up in Tokyo Where you do not know anyone But the flavor is delightful 000711 ... moonshine Been there once. Where the taxi drivers are pushy like low budget hookers 000818 ... misstree grounded, yet dreaming, everyone that i knew in chicago had a handle on the daily grind but also drank deeply of the night (though the drinking wasn't anywhere near as literal as the infectous alcoholism of new orleans) 000818 ... vix New orleans is infectious in every way and has my affections. I want to go back 000818 ... birdmad colour my world 000819 ... ass facely jim was from chicago. he doesn't talk much about it. 001007 ... ass facely i'm thinking about terry kath. we should always remember him. colur my world too. 001022 ... Raina as soon as I can go away from, I will... 001023 ... amy i think i'm a little homesick. i'll trade you for seattle. 001023 ... Raina amy, just because my name is rain, it doesn't mean I'd like Seattle. 001031 ... girl " da bearss!" "da bullss!" .....nevermind. 010823 ... Tigris the distance from chicago to london always seems twice as far as it really is. 020406 ... a trio of alkaline birds did i remember to sleep in? take lots of pills commit irreversible sins? did i, did i at least try to kiss the prettiest girl at the right time? did i remember to keep your beer as full as mine? did i, did i remember to say cheers? did i, did i at least try to make sure everybody had a good time? had the best time? ...in this house on this street Chicago . 020406 ... starlette anyone go to UIC?? 020504 ... silentbob she told me he called her from chicago and asked her if she would go out with him. she was disturbed and disgusted. or at least i was when she told me 020504 ... unhinged i think it would be a cool place...i've only driven through it. he lives in chicago. hopefully, i will be living near by in about a year and a half. some place that isn't northeast ohio would be wonderful. take me away from the dead steel towns and the rolling hills where there are so many dead and abandoned. take me away. 020504 ... silentbob friday friday friday friday friday 021030 ... Elzbieta My home My Love My Teacher My Prison 021031 ... silentbob tonight tonight 021101 ... no reason it was excellent. it was all we could do not to sing out in the theatre. 030111 ... no reason the only thing i regret is that they didn't use much fosse-style choreography. ah well. 030111 ... Chilly D Fuckin' beautiful. The people, the view on the Sears Tower at night... everything. I love it. 030112 ... megan i knew a guy they called chicago once. he was goofy, and smiled a bit too much. he was kind though, and that was all that mattered at the time. 030112 ... imaskitzo It's where I'm from 041031 ... unhinged scares me going to symphony hall in a few months to perform people places wind in chicago scares me 041101 ... 53 minutes ago 9142005: Chicago calls for troops to leave Iraq 050914 ... quotree "Well we had a mouse right in our house and were afraid to move But I'd never trade that time we spent huddled up in the front room No chill or rats or poverty can quell my love for you Or for this dump we're standing in 'cause this is my home too Chicago, Chicago, well there's assholes everywhere Chicago, Chicago, where you're 15 pints from all your cares Where your wallet's like a sieve And that's where all of the gangsters live Chicago, Chicago, is where we can afford to live Well I sit out on my front porch step, watch the gangsters selling crack And I call the cops when a girl walks by and they give her a smack Oh I like to get my beer and sit on my front step or by the store Hanging out where white folks fear to tread, yeah this is my home for sure No gangsters can deface it 'cause it's still the same to me Sometimes the bullets frighten me but I speak up you see Oh I can navigate the subway sect just like a weathered pro And anywhere I want to you know that is where I go Chicago, Chicago, assholes everywhere Chicago, Chicago, we are 15 pints from all our cares Where your wallet's like a sieve And that's where all of the gangsters live Chicago, Chicago, is where we can afford to live I'm going out all by myself, no victims role for me No I'm not transgressed by lovers or friends or owed something you see Well the new condo's they're coming fast and the rents have gone sky high Just because we're seen as pioneers they start to build for all the whites They fuckin' gentrified my home, they fuckin' gentrified my home Left affordable housing there to roam, they fuckin' gentrified my home They fuckin' gentrified my home, they fuckin' gentrified my home Daley kicking ethnic vendors off the street, ordinanced nothing cheap to eat No more vendors in front of restaurants 'cause Daley says they attract vermin to their haunts But I don't think that's the targeted vermin that he wants See the copper with his badge and his gun He's not hiding from anyone So you better collect your shit and run New shopping fronts are popping up all around Driving our affordability out of town You'd think they no longer want us around Public housing coming down by federal mandate All of whom they promised to relocate Rick Lazio's bill passed congress but they just segregated 'em back from where they came Neighborhoods splits up by highways lined Dividing different races by color lines Old mayor Daley put 'em there in the ever old grand ol' time Real world hype drives the rent sky high Now MTV age yuppies want to buy The city got the exorbitant tax But in the real world in Chicago someone was shot outside the apartment and they died So you better run, stand, fight!" -tossers, chicago (i miss you, dirty old girl. the *real* city that works.) 050920 ... sisyphus a stopover in chicago is just as flat as you'd imagine 051222 ... silentbob dear blather i'm moving to chicago love bobby 070827 ... in_retrospect beautiful and cold and full of homework. where I had the longest hair and drank the most. oranges stuffed with cloves. Clarkes. Red line to Jackson. Bikes. Bubbleland. Layers and layers of clothes. Mad libs. Swipe that ID card. Watercolor sunset. Lake Michigan. I miss it. 071024 ... n_bloam@hotmail.com dear bobby i'm still up in milwaukee, so if you're in chicago you should come visit again. unhinged 071024 ... amy beautiful and cold and full of homework, I liked that. I only know about 20% of it, but I have a job for the summer that'll get me out a lot more. I stay way far away from the city, 45 miles, it's very green and I have to mow the lawn a lot. 080501 ... unhinged did you really move to chicago bobby? my best friend is moving there in june. and we will paint both towns red even like we did back in the akron youngstown days. 080501 what's it to you? who go blather from