Line Out - Comments on Pitchfork Music Festival: Liquid Swords, Daydream Nation

Comment by groot

groot — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:38:22 -0800

Now where is Union Park? Milennium and Grant Parks are by the museum. Hyde Park is near U of Chicago. Oak Park is next to O'Hare, maybe Midway? Wicker Park is that trendy section. Any more vocabulary besides 'donut-shaped' to situate us?

I gotta say I'm glad to have split the urbanfarm before my scheduled vacation departure (one can only take so many familial discrepancies). However, it would have been nice to catch some of these musicfests. The folk/roots festival happening this weekend sounds amazing! i've never heard of Welles Park?
http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/music/127786,0,888940.event
Main Stage, Dance Tent and the Gazebo sound like headtrips for both days. Pitchfork sounds good, if not a tad too retro-edgy. Miming instruments and vocals to the Spiderland LP back in the day was a cough-syruped midnight blast- read hangover. And who said midnight ends in Chicago? Take the red line south in the wee hours if you want some hip-hop. Maybe you'll find a good place for $30 hairsnip.

Comment by groot

groot — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:55:13 -0800

and don't be discouraged if you get mugged. let it bleed, the folkfest is only a $3-$7 suggested donation :)

Comment by lar

lar — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 23:47:07 -0800

Liquid Swords in it's entirety....woooow

Comment by Mairead

Mairead — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:06:18 -0800

Union Park's in the West Loop -- and of course midnight's not the end! These guys just didn't know how to get anywhere without a taxi. (Me, I like Fiskars hairsnips. Those are, like, 4 bucks max, plus the scissors are orange and reusable.)

& "woooow" -- word.

Comment by Chicagoan

Chicagoan — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:01:35 -0800

Corrections:

Grant Park and Millennium Park are by the museums (note plural.) Hyde Park is a neighborhood, not a park, though it contains U. of C. Oak Park is nowhere near either airport.

Union Park is near the cluster of union halls put there by city planners decades ago in an affort to create an "anchor of stability" in a ghetto. The ghetto has since been replaced by yuppie hives, though the ghetto was much more interesting.

Nobody gets mugged at Union Park these days. It's boring, and totally surrounded by boring. That's exactly why the city likes it for loud musical events, and as a staging area for large demonstrations.

In other words, by missing the geographical coordinates, you missed exactly nothing.