well, jesse's stuck somewhere either in missouri or western illinois and can't swing by chicago before demon hunter's show midnite on wednesday at c-stone...i was so bummed when he called me yesterday to break the news to me...i mean, i spent hours on saturday plunging my bathtub drain and pouring various chemicals down that spout and sticking a long wire thingamajig called a snake (auger?) down that cavernous abyss and still not getting a satisfying enough of a tornado drainage...refer to my march 15th 05:27 post and you'll see that me and that drain have had a rocky relationship...all that muscle work for jesse...oh well...i'm happy to report that i am able to shower without ending up in calf-deep water...not only that, i did ANOTHER load of laundry! that's TWICE in ONE WEEK! that's a record...on the bright side, i don't have to figure out what to do w/ four heavy metal boys (feeding & storage)...

so before i forget....

friday night was the love poetry slam...very intimate with a few folks...sat outdoors @ aion...lovely weather...

saturday, teddy & i went to the burbs to help his grandma move...we were there until late afternoon...by evening back in the city, we were pretty exhausted...we went to hi ricky's for dinner and walked over to get me high but ethan wasn't spinning so we left...the detholz were playing @ martyr's but i was too tired for a show...

sunday, teddy worked and i went to see him during his lunch break...it was when i pulled into the trader joes parking lot that i got jesse's call with the bad news...i could've cried, i was so bummed...partly cuz i was so sore from plunging to the point that i had stigmataesque sores on my palms...oh well...

teddy took my little red hottie to midas cuz the brakes have been squeaking louder than a bevy of teenage girls at a nsync concert...and i gotta maneuver that thing through mobs and mobs of pedestrians @ cstone this week, which means stop-n-go, stop-n-go, and i don't think my motorized teenage fan club will be very much appreciated...you literally need ear plugs it's so loud...or WAS loud...the good old boys who fixed my flat tire for free back in december (refer to my december 8th post) at midas by the fireside fixed my brakes and now my little red hottie is as quiet as...uh...a mouse? no...mice squeak...uh...quiet as a corn flake...there...how's that...no, corn flakes crunch...uh...quiet as...oh whatever...let's move on...

teddy & i biked down to the lake down by diversey harbor today after work...the hardest part of the whole ride was carrying my bike up and down the damn stairs at my apartment...the view of the western horizon at dusk from the lakeside rocks was spectacular...'god's sky' teddy called it...the colors reflected in the big fluffy cottoncandy clouds with the rays shooting through at various angles just like a painting...you expected to hear a choir singing the hallelujah chorus and a snowwhite dove to fly down with an olive branch in its beak...lovely...

i got to level 12 and 129 lines and like >91,000 points on tetris today...that's a record for me...

so bill mallonee & the tiny silver hearts (formerly known as either the vigilantes of love or the trophy wives) are playing tomorrow @ schubas...in case you don't know, bill mallonee is very, very important to me...i get teary-eyed when i think about how much he means to me...he is one of the most talented (and prolific) songwriters i know...and he is so passionate...reminds me of my dad...(sniff sniff)...annie quick is opening up for him and so is my buddy derek becker in the security council, his latest band...it should be a RAWKIN' SHOW!! oh yeah....

and then it's on to c-stone on wednesday...you can't stop the ROCK DUDE!!!!

been listening to--
hootenanny--the replacements
tim--the replacements
the execution of all things--rilo kiley
V.O.L.--VoL