chicago jennifer I wish I hadn't listened to my logical side that day 010201 ... birdmad colour my world 010201 ... minus can someone please LET ME OUT?!?!?!? 010626 ... kinkazoid i live near chicago, does anyone else? i like chicago dont be bad mouthing it...please.. 010714 ... kinkazoid ok.. ever heard of taste of chicago? well its like this big tourist attraction that is actually realy stupid and shity.. but anyways my friends went there and got pulled over cuz they were in a really shitty looking car and chi-town cops are dicks.. so they got pulled over and searched and stuff... and one of the cops put a crack pipe in my friends pocket and said oh look what i found but that was after they already got searched 3 times by about 6 different cops.. so they knew he was lying... ok i have really stupid stories 020710 ... commit irreversible sins i'm dying tomorrow did i do it right this time? 020711 ... silentbob if i had only thought harder i could have gone to see bright_eyes tonight, and got my alkalinetrio tickets early for halloween. but i didn't. and there will be no chicago for me. 020913 ... Anna_Began Is where I wish I was right now at this very, very moment. 021209 ... angie might be going there for spring break maybe. 021209 ... no reason i wonder if anyone'll come see it with me on christmas day... 021210 ... Anna_Began Sometimes I look back on my past and chuckle. 030403 ... tulle the city is the only thing keeping me alive, but it's killing me every day. 041022 ... unhinged there's plenty of cool stuff in chicago; last easter we took our last precipitous family vacation together before moving my bro to hawaii to chicago. my parents and my brother went to st. louis cause my dad had it in his head; they loved st. louis. plenty of good jazz and beer which i'm sure bummed my brother out since he was 18 and with the parents. and they drove up to milwaukee and picked me up and we spent easter weekend in chicago. we went on michigan avenue and shopped. i made my dad buy me a pair of $80 shoes; they actually might have been diesel shoes. but there is just something about chicago and that area of the country that makes me nervous and sad. people seem cold there. so cold that i feel completely alone in one of the biggest cities in the u.s. can't go to chicago alone. and i live in milwaukee alone; i just can't be alone. especially in the dead center of the midwest. i don't know how the midwest got such a niceguy reputation; it's not very nice there. 050324 ... no reason i must love it if i want to visit in the dead of winter 121227 ... no reason that's interesting what unhinged said all those years ago... i find a lot of chicagoans to be forthright at best and rude at worst, but in a way i find it liberating. unlike most places in canada, i feel free to say what i think and express how i feel. 121227 ... amy adaptability Lives up to "same old place" thing But sweetness is just what goes on the popcorn. It's too tough for sweet, too tough for sweet. 121228 ... no reason the windy city is aptly named. holy shit is it cold. but i still love it. the city passed the test. 130102 ... PeeT i wonder if you went to bucktown? filter is there, as well as quimby's and reckless records. 130102 ... no reason i'm staying there, actually, until tomorrow! wicker park/bucktown. it's great. and just visited reckless records today. 130102 ... PeeT very cool. quimby's is the best book/zine store in the world and filter is the perfect place to enjoy what you bought with coffee, tea, or a bite to munch. probably right around the corner from you. 130103 ... PeeT i would spend hours in quimby's. i would dream big. i would see my book there. people wanting it. 130103 ... amy adaptability quimby's made me feel like a) with the accurate moves and wherewithall and concentration, it's not that difficult b) that i simply must get done with my reading so i can do more reading. and c) i didn't see chicago shining forth and being relevant. i fell like it's about getting that accurate "take" hrmm. yes, yes ye whole director perspective. which can certainly keep you busy ! like this store ! Want to go back to quimby's almost immediately. 130104 ... no reason i liked quimby's too. i bought a little book about chairs in the upper midwest for a friend who loves chairs. and reckless is cool, namely/mostly because it was the inspiration for the "championship vinyl" store in high_fidelity. unfortunately didn't make it to filter, but the city hasn't seen the last of me. it's harder to leave this time. 130104 ... no reason actually it's "a field guide to chairs of the upper midwest" and it's pictures of chairs in fields. it's very cute. 130104 ... no reason "what do you like so much about chicago?" "yeah." 140601 ... nr some places just make you feel more yourself. oddly, one thing that spawns my excitement is hearing the subway announcer. "this a blue line train to o'hare." (then it gets said over and over again, and the novelty wears off a bit.) i guess it's like some kind of auditory proof of where you are. 140601 ... nr more people ask me for directions here than in my hometown i guess i look like i belong 140713 ... unhinged hot big mean he still has a chicago cell phone number. whenever anyone talks about chicago now i think of him. ugh (773)xxx-xxxx ugh 140714 ... no reason wish i had more friends here more distractions from my temptation to contact other_you 140718 ... nr we have the same birthday. i wonder if this has something to do with the connection i feel with it... 151018 ... Raina so ridiculously homesick 170112 ... nr i feel like talking but i'm not even sure what to say. i was there again and i feel different/i've changed a lot/things have changed a lot in me, but i still felt like i belonged. and then i arrived home, and people were busy and pushy and rushing around and i felt on edge and went home and hid in my cozy apartment. 180505 ... nr stayed on the south side this time around. i liked it. it had personality. 180505 ... nr found out john_cusack and i like to drink at some of the same spots 180505 what's it to you? who go blather from