Since we last spoke:
– DJ’d at Mike N Molly’s to a thin Wednesday night crowd. I thought the prospects of being able to hear music from Detroit all night long was good enough to bring a few more peeps out, but maybe I was wrong. Or maybe it was the fact that school just let out. Or that, hey, it’s a Wednesday. Either way it was still fun for me and I got ended up getting hipped to “Moon Shadow” by Patti Labelle, which is a pretty weird/good song.
– Took the train the next morning to get up to Chicago. Was one of those trips where the engineer kept blasting the horn every 10 seconds. I hear this appeases the train gods and provides for safe passage.
– Got to Chicago and immediately my Celiac Disease (Gluten allergy) started to pop off. I was a wreck. Mustered enough energy to play at Lokal in Wicker Park. Dope little spot that reminded me of Boltini. I played with many CU Hiphop Congress luminaries from the past and everyone sounded really good. Lots of U of I grads now living in Chicago came out. I played stuff by Dorian Concept, Guilty Simpson, Spac Hand Luc, Orest, Harmonic 313, Aardvark, Flying Lotus, et al.
– Felt so bad health wise that I had to cancel the gig the next night. It happens. I was never one to weasel out of a gig for any reason so when health issues pop up I almost feel like I have a great wealth of sick days 
accumulated and just stay in. At one point I realized I hadn’t really eaten much so I ordered Lou Malnati’s gluten free pizza. Its amazing, instead of dough they just pack ground sausage into the pan. It’s literally the double-down of pizzas. it goes like this: a layer of pepperoni, cheese, sauce, a disc of sausage. My personal sized pizza was so good I ended up going back the next day and got a medium. This was a bad idea. Way too much meat. WAY TOO MUCH MEAT. See that “crust”? Yep, that’s sausage.
– How about that ‘Hawks game, eh?
Ok so now I am gearing up to head back home to play at the infamous Hit-It-Run party with Kosmo, Legtwo, and Wonderbread. If you havn’t been to one of these you should go. It’s always pretty wild when we do this at Cowboy Monkey. The wrinkle with this one is that we will have three full setups of DJ equipment. Curious to see how that turns out. The music will be old school classics and one hit wonders of every genre. Lots of guilty pleasures!
see you there!
(Editors Note: Due to the holiday weekend, we didn’t get this up until after the Hit-It-Run party. Apologies all around for those who are only hearing about the show here.)