November 7, 2009
Chicago to the Farm in Hooker’s pickup!

Chicago to the Farm in Hooker’s pickup!

Hooker’s opening!!

Hooker’s opening!!

November 5, 2009
Now thrifting!

Now thrifting!

And then we got drunk and got haircuts.

And then we got drunk and got haircuts.

Chi-town with Abbs!!!

Chi-town with Abbs!!!

It seems slightly off that my airplane's name is BOMBARDIER.

November 4, 2009
And I started a new book this morning. It magically fits in my magical bird hooks.

And I started a new book this morning. It magically fits in my magical bird hooks.

Major Flickr catch up today. End of summer. Beginning of fall.

Major Flickr catch up today. End of summer. Beginning of fall.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th Anniversary Show was totally insane. I had maybe two beers over the course of five hours and still managed to black out due to constant head explodingness. Let me lay it down for you. Its 7:30. Tom Hanks introduces the show. Jerry Lee Lewis takes the stage and bangs out “Great Balls of Fire” after which he kicks his bench of the stage. Aretha Franklin now. She soulfully sings, and then Annie Lennox shows up. They sing “Chain of Fools.” Lennox leaves. Aretha belts “New York, New York.” Lenny Kravitz arrives. They sing “Think.” Aretha sings a few more songs. Jeff Beck takes the stage. He jams. Sting shows up and sings “People Get Ready.” Beck continues to jam on. Buddy Guy arrives. Amazing. More jams from Beck. Then Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top) joins him and they rock out to “Foxy Lady.” Beck ends with a sick version of “A Day in the Life.” Metallica. Hetfield grabs the mic and proclaims We’re Metallica, and this is what we DO. (My head is already half-exploded at this point). They open with “For Whom the Bell Tolls” followed by “One.” Lou Reed strolls onto the stage and performs “Sweet Jane” and “White Light/White Heat” with Metallica as his band. OZZY skates in. Screams at the audience in a surprisingly loveable angry way and launches into “Iron Man” and “Paranoid.” He leaves and is replaced by Ray Davies (The Kinks) - AMAZING. He sings “You Really Got Me” and “All Day and All of the Night.” He leaves. Metallica continues to ROCK and ends with “Enter Sandman.” BOOM. And now U2. They have the audience swooning in the usual way and then, wait for it, Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith show up and they kill (in the good way) “Because the Night.” Then…because of some mic/camera issues, they do it AGAIN. And somehow, this isn’t weird at all and they actually rock harder. Patti leaves. Bruce joins Bono and Roy Bittan for “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.” And now the Black Eyed Peas show up. They do a slightly terrible mashup of “Mysterious Ways”/”Where is the Love”/”One” in what was probably the low point of the night, but that’s considering that every other point of the night blew my face off. Ok so then Fergie is still there with U2 and starts “Gimme Shelter” and who f*cking shows up but MICK JAGGER. Yes, its true! So they rock that and do another U2 song, U2 ends the show with “Beautiful Day” and I can’t believe this concert actually happened. Full setlist here.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th Anniversary Show was totally insane. I had maybe two beers over the course of five hours and still managed to black out due to constant head explodingness.

Let me lay it down for you.

Its 7:30. Tom Hanks introduces the show. Jerry Lee Lewis takes the stage and bangs out “Great Balls of Fire” after which he kicks his bench of the stage. Aretha Franklin now. She soulfully sings, and then Annie Lennox shows up. They sing “Chain of Fools.” Lennox leaves. Aretha belts “New York, New York.” Lenny Kravitz arrives. They sing “Think.” Aretha sings a few more songs. Jeff Beck takes the stage. He jams. Sting shows up and sings “People Get Ready.” Beck continues to jam on. Buddy Guy arrives. Amazing. More jams from Beck. Then Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top) joins him and they rock out to “Foxy Lady.” Beck ends with a sick version of “A Day in the Life.” Metallica. Hetfield grabs the mic and proclaims We’re Metallica, and this is what we DO. (My head is already half-exploded at this point). They open with “For Whom the Bell Tolls” followed by “One.” Lou Reed strolls onto the stage and performs “Sweet Jane” and “White Light/White Heat” with Metallica as his band. OZZY skates in. Screams at the audience in a surprisingly loveable angry way and launches into “Iron Man” and “Paranoid.” He leaves and is replaced by Ray Davies (The Kinks) - AMAZING. He sings “You Really Got Me” and “All Day and All of the Night.” He leaves. Metallica continues to ROCK and ends with “Enter Sandman.” BOOM. And now U2. They have the audience swooning in the usual way and then, wait for it, Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith show up and they kill (in the good way) “Because the Night.” Then…because of some mic/camera issues, they do it AGAIN. And somehow, this isn’t weird at all and they actually rock harder. Patti leaves. Bruce joins Bono and Roy Bittan for “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.” And now the Black Eyed Peas show up. They do a slightly terrible mashup of “Mysterious Ways”/”Where is the Love”/”One” in what was probably the low point of the night, but that’s considering that every other point of the night blew my face off. Ok so then Fergie is still there with U2 and starts “Gimme Shelter” and who f*cking shows up but MICK JAGGER. Yes, its true! So they rock that and do another U2 song, U2 ends the show with “Beautiful Day” and I can’t believe this concert actually happened.

Full setlist here.

totes: We saw Andy from Weeds dressed as Beavis on the L Train!! He yelled “Hey, what are you doing?” at Erin in a Beavis voice when he saw her camera. Epic win! YES!

totes:

We saw Andy from Weeds dressed as Beavis on the L Train!! He yelled “Hey, what are you doing?” at Erin in a Beavis voice when he saw her camera. Epic win!

YES!