Sunday Funday, 12.09.12

Despite crummy weather all damn day, managed to make the best of it.

Started off with a book fair at the Empty Bottle. Picked up stuff from Curbside Splendor, Another Chicago Magazine, The Handshake, Two With Water, Artiface and a couple novels. May have over done it:

 Only spent about 20 minutes there before I booked it to Saki. Caught the second half of the last song by Foxygen. Managed to catch all of Angel Olsen's set. Amazing voice and range, fantastic presence for just her and a twelve string acoustic. Picked up John Coltrane Live at the Village Vanguard Again! Features Pharoah Sanders. Haven't listened yet, but I'm sure it's gonna be bizarre. Grabbed a burger at Longman & Eagle, undoubtedly one of the best restaurants around.

As is customary for when I go to the Metro, it has to rain. As it did for Liars:

Another tweet complaining about how it always rains when I go to the Metro.
— Hjortzy (@and_hertz) July 20, 2012

and Spiritualized:

Ominous thunder is ominous. Always seems to rain when I go to the Metro.
— Hjortzy (@and_hertz) May 4, 2012

earlier this year. While there's no tweet commemorating it, I'm positive it was raining when I went to see Boris last fall. As if going to Wrigleyville wasn't miserable enough. Oh well. Full review of the show (of Montreal, Wild Belle, and Foxygen) is up on Windy City Rock. Of Montreal is the @horse_ebooks of live music. They played 'Oslo in the Summertime' and 'The Past is a Grotesque Animal' so all is right in the world. 

Rand Dumb Lean Kiss

Eternal Rocks Beneath, by Paul Brainard

Nursing a hangover the majority of the day allowed for plenty of time on Twitter and reading random stuff. Here's some of the more interesting rabbit holes I went down:

Hypnotizing New Animated GIFS from RRRRRRRRROLL (via Colossal)

Literature vs. Traffic in Melbourne (via Lost at E Minor)

Drawings and Paintings from Brooklyn artist Paul Brainard (The Birth of Tim Tebow is a NSFW personal favorite)

This is the one that did me in. Know Your Meme page on Barack Obama. Be careful of all the links on the bottom. So much time wasted.

Of Montreal, one of my favorites, has a kickstarter to help out their feature length documentary. Anyone have $2500 they can give to me to give to them?

I bookmarked these videos on creativity. Haven't watched yet, will later tonight.