It's the windy city but that don't mean it's a breeze...

I'm pretty sure I went to a taping of "106th and Park" last night. Or maybe Columbia's Big Mouth Open Mic night is only attended by the BSU (black student union). There were multiple types of performances... 

• Singing (not really of the amazing sort) that was usually done to the persons track without having the vocals removed so it was excruciatingly obvious how off key the singer was.
• Spoken word of only two varieties: 

1. Lesbians talking about caressing skin with tongues.
2. Boisterous black women in camouflage one piece short suits talking about how white supremacy has made black women straighten their hair and forget that black women are beautiful and that their tits and ass were made for them and it's all that is keeping their race around... oh and it somehow jumped to caressing skin with tongues but of the hetero sort.
   

• More singing. This time in the style of a music video. This guy walked on stage with two girls. One of which as singing backing/hook vocals and the other who was there for, merely, bad acting. They sang a "love song" where the chick acted all ghetto while the other one, much prettier BTW, was stuck singing her small vocals where the stage lights didn't hit. Talk about getting snubbed.
• Finally, Rap. There were like 5 rap duos that I saw. Every single one of them rapped about... you guessed it! Chi City. I'm not even joking. Nobody said Chicago on even Chi town. Each group, as if they'd planned it, rapped about Chi City. Apparently I am not up on my windy city lingo and need to get hip to the times. My personal favorite group was the guys that go up and started off with the typical yos, yeahs, and uhs and then not so subtly went right into their song... " It's time to have sex." Not even joking, this song/rap/WTF could give 2 Live Crew's album "As Nasty as They Wanna Be", which was basically banned for sale in the US, a run for it's money. 

There were like 5 white boys with guitars and the makings of a rock band standing in the back of the room but Ashley informed me that when she arrived at 6:15, for a 6:30 show there was a line out the door of people waiting to get in and that the list of performers was full and there was another page of wait listed performers. Apparently all the white boys were on that list because they all continued to stand at the back of the room until the show ended. We left and went to get dinner at Eleven which we decided was more my scene... a jewish deli style restaurant full of kins with gauged ears and long hair. The night ended with a mighty large piece of chocolate cake... which also served as my breakfast.

Let's hope tonight's "Jam of The Year" event will be more my style. Ashley is pumped to see "Matt and Kim"who are some sort of eclectic duo from Brooklyn. Then it's off to KThro's cocktail party in my lovely dress!

Davedar: Yay new section about Dave Matthews, at least for now! I was going to do a bracket style tournament for my favorite Dave song when I realized that I had already added like 5 songs from one album to my starter list. As of today, I am listening to my 5th album and only one of those albums contributed less than 6 songs to the list. I suppose now I will just be making a rather long list of songs that I really really like and maybe doing one more cut into a list of a top 20... ok who am I kidding, top 30 probably.