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 Easter morning I arose from a dead sleep before dawn to explore the city. We were out 'til after midnight the night before and it was well below freezing but look at the morning that greeted me. Snow still on the ground. Crisp, cold air off the lake. Beautiful. Makes you feel alive. Before we get started, a brief commercial. Eddie Martin (the chap with whom I made the Chicago trip) has a new EP out called 'When We Were Brave'. It's probably my favorite thing he's done and it's in heavy rotation on the ipod. Here's an article about it in the Times Daily. Right now the hard copy is for sale and if you're interested, drop me a line. It will be available on iTunes and CD Baby soon. I'll let you know when it is. Good stuff from a really good guy. (I also added a pick to my 'Panhandlin in Public' page because the CD uses a couple of my images. One for the back cover and one for the disc image.) Now back to the story. So after the Asian/Chicago crime syndicate stole our tickets to the musical, we had to find something else to do on a Saturday night in Chicago. We had options. I'm a bit of a stand-up comedy nut. Sketch comedy. Improve. Love it. Nothing feels quite as good as laughing until it hurts. But most of my exposure has been through television since good live shows are few and far between in small town USA. So seeing The Second City live was high on the list. But the current political craziness has been a boon for comedy and it turns out it's really hard to get tickets on short notice to the Second City's newest production, 'Between Barack and a Hard Place.' That, I would love to see. Maybe later. There should be plenty of time to parody him when he's President Obama. Another play we heard a lot of good things about was 'A Steady Rain'. A two man drama about a pair of Chicago cops. It's a home grown play that's gotten big and is apparently about to hit NYC and London. We could have gotten two tickets but they were near the back and the theater was not close so we decided to pass. We wanted music. We had two choices in mind. We chose Buddy Guy's for Saturday night because Sunday was Easter and the club would be closed. I told you about that night. Awesome. For Sunday we chose a movie. Well more than a movie. An IMAX movie. Well more than an IMAX movie. An IMAX 3D movie. But not just any old IMAX 3D movie. U2 in 3D at the IMAX on Navy Pier. It was the coolest thing. And sounded great. (my thoughts on U2 in case you missed them) We got so into it that we both said later that when a song ended, we felt like jumping up and screaming like we were actually at the show. It just rocked. There was a promo before the movie for an Rolling Stones IMAX film directed by Martin Scorsese. Coming soon. That I will need to see too. Anybody want to go with me? Next time on Panhandlin' I'll get to what was the catalyst for the trip. The Edward Hopper show at the Art Institute. Posted by blbutler on April 2nd, 2008 Archived under: Color, Travel, Wordplay |
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