Shopping List: Drawers

I'm totally on the hunt for random drawers after seeing this amazing chest from Wis Design of Sweden. Seriously, what is in the water over there that makes these Swedes crank out such beautiful objects? Think of all the abandoned drawers in the world that will find a new home when I construct my very own chest! How many times have you passed an ugly desk or dresser on the street and thought it seemed like a perfectly good piece of furniture, but it just didn't go with your decor? Never? No? You aren't a picky furniture scavenger like me? Well for the sake of this blog just pretend! I would have been on my way to a new stylish cabinet years ago if only I had the idea to swipe the drawers from the countless pieces of furniture I walked by on the street. Better late than never I suppose. This project is going to be placed in the "very long term" category...after I finish all the other pending projects. Remember that chair I was going to finish a few months ago? It's going to go really well with this chest when they both get completed sometime around 2017...

Four-legged Friends

I've been on a quest for some time now to find a set of salt and pepper shakers that I am in love with. Everything that I've come across is unoriginal, too expensive, or completely adorable and already owned by a friend. Well I'm happy to report that I've finally settled on a pair by the amazing ceramics designer Lola Goldstein. I came across these in New York at the MoMA design store, and I knew I had to have them when I decided NOT to buy them on Friday, only to obsess about them the whole weekend. Good thing I was back in SoHo before heading back to Chicago on Sunday. Seriously, how cute are they??? It is impossible to look at them and not smile!

Stitch In My Side

My whole body hurts, and it's all The Go! Team's fault.
That's not a complaint, but rather the highest of compliments to be paid to a band that had me dancing my ass off on Saturday night. The last time I was that sweaty at a concert it was a 98 degree day in July with a heat index of a gazillion and the ceiling fan above my head at the Double Door was broken...but that is another great concert story for another day. The boys from The Hood Internet got the party started, and The Cool Kids kept the momentum going, and did not disappoint.


I could have gone home happy then, but I would have missed one of the best live shows I have been to in a long time. Take what you see in these photos, multiply it by 100, add a 70's car chase, some kool-aid, fireworks, a slip-n-slide, the feeling you have on the last day of school, pixi-stix, champagne, a rabid dog, a Michael Jordan slam-dunk, pop rocks, a trampoline, a lite-brite, kung-fu movies, 3-D glasses, and some glitter; mix well, condense, and eat like you would a package of fun-dip and there (in a nutshell) you have The Go! Team.
Observation: apparently words that are hyphenated = fun.

Rock*n*Roll Rebel

What Would Neil Young Do? asks the pile of posters in the installation by Jeremy Deller...
...I'll tell you what he would do: not listen to a sign that says "No photography permitted in the gallery." These naughty neon lights were too fun to not take a picture of!

Overall, the Sympathy for the Devil exhibit at the MCA was really great. The audio tour left much to be desired, but I just hummed a little When the Levee Breaks to myself and I was entertained (thank you Slater Bradley for your cool piece "The Year of the Doppelganger"). The MCA is free for 40 days people!!! Go see some rad art!

Later that night, after a sidewalk ticket ambush from a friend, I found myself at Yo La Tengo. I love randomly falling in love with a band I'm not too familiar with, and such was the case on Thursday night. My rebellious rock star photography continued where "No photography of any kind is allowed."

"Cameras will be confiscated," yeah right.
WWNYD?