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Geek Weekly #3

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Chicago Again

So I went to Chicago for 2 weeks around Xmas. I got to hang out with my mom and go junk shoppin' with her - I accidentally got her loookin' at some 78s one afternoon and it was amazing some of the stuff she knows about some of the songs and bands. I also got to eat lots of really great food. Just about anything you want is in Chicago - consumer heaven! For example, mom just moved out to a suburb much like Westlake Hills (so that my brother could go to a good high school and not get knifed every other day), and even in this rich white suburb, there's an Ethiopian take-out place across the street from their apartment!

I didn't have much access to independent transportation this trip and I had to work, so I didn't get around much. Also everyone I met up there this trip was a Deadhead or something, except for my old friends and my brother's friends. Ben (my bro) brought 3 of his friends into town with us one day when we got to use Mom's car. We went to record stores and pawn shops and "alternative" shops and an army surplus store and a bad diner. It was pretty cool. I blew all my cash at Ajax (one of my favorite places in the world). Ben's friends are pretty cool for 15-year-olds. They're really into Nirvana and Pavement and, of course, the Offspring and shit, but they're on the right track.

They have a band called Chlorine and they play in eachothers' basements. I started sending zines to Ben a few moths ago and I brought some up at Xmas. I'd come home and Ben and a couple friends would be sittin around readin' U-236 or Ben Is Dead or something (they really liked Peek-a-Boo also). The one night they did their own zine called Is Your Dad Gay? It's got lists of what's cool and what SUCKS and reviews of Chlorine shows and reviews of records by Sonic Youth and Nirvana and the Breeders and Pavement and some philosophical runnings-on and some scanned pictures of Kurt Cobain and themselves and some Nirvana lyrics and a pretty cool board game on the back cover. Ben made me proud by successfully lobbying to get the Inhalants on their Top Ten Bands list (he's also probably the only 15-year-old in Chicago with a Jesus Christ Superfly/Rise t-shirt.) So if you're interested in what the youngsters (hee hee, Ben) are up to, write Ben and demand a copy of: Is Your Dad Gay?/Ben 424 S. Maple #3N Oak Park, IL 60302 (send him a stamp or somethin'-jeez!)

On New Year's eve I went to my friend James's party. The crowd was mostly queens and people I knew from Whole Foods up there. It ended up bein' really fun and I kicked off my I'm-takin'-control-of-my-life campaign by poppin' my first champagne cork. Then I talked to a guy named Will Power. Later I thought that was a hell of an omen, but at the time I was already drunk and I guess I didn't take the cosmic hint. I drank some more champagne and passed out.

Mom and I had a great time and her man, Nat played me tapes of his old bands which were really great! Mom even got into reading Cometbus and she loved the kim chee article in Wipeout #7 since it's one of her newfound culinary favorites. She should be contributing something to GW in the near future. I'm tryin' to talk Nat into it, too. And if my lazy-punk-ass brother ever sends it to me, we should be seein' the occasional Spindly Man cartoon.

Last edit over 9 years ago by Jennifer Hecker

Geek Weekly #4

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Right: The e-mail Carl + Ben wrote to their friend Marisa in the wee hours of 7 May 1995.

Above: on the way back from the Blackout REcords instore. On the el platform, (L-R) Carl, Marcel, Ben, Katie & Chris Hamer, heir to the Hamer Guitar fortune and estate.

we didn't see the grifters... JUST KIDDING! WE SAW THE GRIFTERS! WE TALKED TO THEM! THEY RULE! I LOVE THE GRIFTERS! THEY ARE GODS! it was so cool. It rocked my world.. okay uhh.... it's like 20 hours later now. we saw the grifters again at this tiny record shop, and their bassist came up to me with their new ep and said, "hey carl, do you have this?" and i was like "no..." and he said "do you want it?' and i was like "yeah!" and he gave it to me. IT WAS NEAT. ben's sister from texas is here. she is old, like 20 and stuff, and she got us into the show. this guy came up to me and ben and said 'you're not 21, are you?" and we were like "no... we're with her" and we pointed to ben's sister, and she got scott who's one of the singer for the grifters, and he told the proprieter of the empty bottle some stuff, and we got to stay. the grifters = YAY!. and tony had this surprise party that was quite lame, and we just sat there for a while and i ate pizza and had POP and sat there and some people smoked weed!!! DANGEROUS!! uh-oh! and we're back now. i'm gonna get the grifters cd i just got and listen to it more. we listened to it at tony's house, and they had a black light people were doing crack, no wait, not crack... im not sure ,ask the rabbit. After we left tony's we journeyed tp carl's (oh this isn't carl.) um... there we saw John(Shudder) uh we went to the basement and chriss tried to play a game of motorbike. denied. um Andy came down and told us about is escapade to the barbar. he had a 1:30 appointment and the dude who was cutting his hair wasn;t done with the previous customer untill ten till two. the dude took an hour trying to cut andy's hair so it would go a different way it didn;t look any different than it did this morning...... uh now ben and chris are playing starcom and Marcel is a MONKEY!!!!!! he got his feet stuck in between the pipes and got stuck hanging upsidedown. the grifters were cool.. monkeys are cool. --- katie. yesterday on the way home we had this whacked cab driver, and i don't think he's been in america very long, and he was like "there are other places in chicago that have bands." and we were like "oh" and then he said "some have two or three bands sometimes" and we were like "yeah..." it was pretty weird. he was annoying and it was three in the morning, but i felt like i had to be nice to him, cause he was nice. and stuff. the grifters are nice guys. the record store we went to today was cool. i want get some money and buy some 7"s, cause there might be some good music on them and stuff. the new grifter cd is awesome. i'll tape it for you. school is almost over. we get out like june 3rd, not including finals. the grifters consume lots of alchohol, and they were drunk last night, and today they were drinking! tomorrow Chlorine is practicing. EXCITEMENT CITY!! UHH THIS IS OVER. I HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO WRITE, oh yeah, last night, me and ben were both wearing sonic youth shirts, and ben's sister was like " you look so cute in your sonic youth shirts" and she got drunk too!!!!!! !UH !O!O!OP!!1!!!!! okay, that's all i think. okay bye carl, katie, and NO ONE ELSE> okay beye@!!!

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