chicago....

even though the weather's cold, chicago's kinda hot rightnow. by now, everyone's familiar with flosstradamus (what up curt/josh!) and just last week, we flew out the cool kids for their LA debut @ the standard (they killed cinespace the next day too). anyways, after a couple of days of late-nite partyin with the kids, i flew into chicago for a couple of meetings and to see family/friends.

first night (thursday); after dinner with the parents, i met up with my sister, schwendau and danielle to stop by debonair. mark gertz (one of my fav people in chicago) runs a weekly there with greg (kill hannah) and trancid. these dudes run the indie scene in chicago and great people too. plus i love the owners at debonair (steve, claudia n vince)... always showin family love! so in between chuggin down some shots and drinks, we went across the street to empire.

the cool kids, floss (josh), mobi, qualo and a few other familiar faces were gettin down... dope vibe. as soon as i walk in, mikey (cool kids) points out that travis from gymclassheroes was there chillin too. apparently they had a show at columbia college n he had stopped by afterwards to kick it for a bit before gettin back on the bus. we talked about djing, gear he's rockin in the video and all the talent comin out of chitown rightnow... gonna trade some tunes via AIM soon (start practicing on that serato travie!).

after both debonair n empire shut down (2am), chuck inglish (cool kids) and a couple of friends (shayna n danielle) headed to continental for some more drinks. next thing you know, we end up at a punk band's house in the middle of woods (west suburbs i was told)... some strange shit going on there but chuck n i had laughs almost hallucinating (forgot how much we drank). it was a crazy sausage fest with punk rockers who looked more like bros/frat dudes. very nice people but when we were all drinkin n smokin in the kitchen, i felt like borat with those drunk fratboys from alabama on the road. shayna's brother (forget his name) was super nice and the cd he gave us was actually good... despite their offer of me crashin there, i got my half sleepin ass to drive back (chuck had to wake me up a few times while on the road haha).

that was only the first night.....