Just released this past Friday, here is the new very chill Weezer album called ‘Pacific Daydream’. We were just getting the last Weez album last year’s ‘White Album’ which also had similar California vibes with a persistent pursuit of positivist during trying times. Rivers Cuomo and company still deliver all the fun with a nod to the mutli-layered vocal harmonies of 60’s pop rock and their consistent love of making guitars really sing over monster hooks, particularly on the track ‘Mexican Fender’. If you enjoyed ‘White Album’ and the unrequited love anthems on their classic ‘Green’ and ‘Blue’ albums, this will be right up your emo alley. This album also sees the W boys giving it go on more keyboard driven tracks with grand results.
Listen to Rivers chat with Brian and Lou after playing in Tinley Park in the summer of 2016.
The new Apple Store on the river downtown has impressed Apple fans and most of the architecture critics, but not everybody is happy. (MORE HERE)Â
Now, there’s one more building presenting a hazard to the birds, according to Chicago Bird Collision Monitors.
“It is a new threat and a new hazard for the downtown area, in an area that already has many buildings with a lot of glass,” said Bird Collision Monitors director Annette Prince.
A place that can bring such joy to so many can also be the source of sad tragedy. I hope this isn’t the new circle of life for birds. I wish we could make them little glass detecting visors. Perhaps Sir Mitchell could be commissioned to create them IRL. Until then be safe out there birds!!
What you’ve really been waiting for, and why you still haven’t bothered to decide on what you’re going as for that party you don’t even want to go to this Friday because that’s the day Stranger Things 2 hits Netflix, is this list of the perfect Halloween costumes for each state in America. (MORE HERE)
Illinois
Ferris Bueller
Even though the state in general is probably more of a Cameron (read: inferiority complex), this is the one day you can expertly pretend to be the guy who expertly pretended to be the sausage king of Chicago. Danke Schoen.
Indiana
Leslie Knope
Can you believe that Indiana’s most beloved citizen isn’t real? If you’ve ever actually been to Indiana, you probably can.
Iowa
Loose meat sandwichÂ
Iowa’s only culinary contribution to the world (which is actually just a sloppy joe without ketchup, if we are being real) makes an ideal costume, and late night, post-bar snack. Both requisite parts of the Halloween experience. And being in Iowa.
Kansas
The Wicked Witch of the West Â
So, the Wicked Witch — NOT Dorothy — was the real hero in The Wizard of Oz, and the costume Kansas residents deserve. Think about it: Wouldn’t you be a little miffed if some hotshot, gingham-wearing, poppy-sniffin’ teenager crushed your sister with a house, stole her shoes, then ran off with a gang of monsters? Same.
The home at 1446 W. Hutchinson St., built by Heffernan Builders in 2015, is a 6-bedroom, 4-full bathroom, 5,110 square-foot mansion just west of Graceland Cemetery. It’s luxurious features include a surround sound system, radiant heat flooring and a patio with a fireplace, according to the real estate listing. In terms of other outdoor spaces, the home as a roofdeck above the garage and a classic front porch. (MORE HERE)
Before he shaved his magical beard he had ALREADY moved out of his rental house. Hmmmmm. Here are a few photos in case you’re interested.
This may very well be where the shaving of the magical beard all went down. Just think, YOU could shave your beard in the same bathtub as Jake!
Make your…I mean, order YOUR pizza in the same kitchen as the Arrieta’s
Rest your herculean thighs in the same room where Jake rested his after a game.
Sit in the ‘DON’T SIT IN HERE, THAT’S THE GOOD FURNITURE FOR COMPANY’ room while your mom’s voice haunts your every thought.
No need to lock the doors at night. Jake will be there 24/7 watching over you like a beardless, thicc thighed guardian angel
Halloween is one of the greatest things we have left. I have always felt lame in my costume creation. Last year I was Hot Dog Harry Caray, once I was a giant box of macaroni and a few years before that I was Pee Wee Herman Munster. Maybe those are ok-ish but none of them come close to Mackenzie Stith’s creations. If you follow her on Snapchat you know how Halloween she really is. Below are a few examples from the past several years. I’ve never seen anyone on her level when it comes to costume making. To quote her “I AM Halloween.”
I’m wondering how you breathe in this one?
This one she did last minute. Her makeup skills are beyond amazing.
Still don’t have plans for Halloween? Have an extra $3,000 laying around? We have just the thing. ACME Hotel Company in River North is tempting locals and visitors alike to forgo lame costume parties in favor of something a bit more lavish. The Binge Watch & Chill package allows guests to turn an entire floor of the hotel into a giant sleepover with their closest friends. (MORE HERE)
If you’re doing the math, you could host approximately 20 friends for $150 a piece.
Stranger Things, Netflix’s Zeitgeist-y, ’80s sci-fi–horror series, is one of the most buzzed-about TV series of the past five years. It’s also a love letter from its co-creators, the Duffer brothers, to the genre movies they grew up watching — E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Goonies, and more — which contain a magic they hope to re-create. Before the show’s second season — cheekily titled Stranger Things 2, like the second in a slasher series — finally shows up on October 27, why not sate your Strangerthirst by watching the works in its (jugular) vein? (MORE HERE)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
If the films of Steven Spielberg are Stranger Things’ Bible, E.T. is its John’s Gospel: It may be less directly influential than other films in terms of the show’s surface-level horror-film aesthetic, but it has the heart and soul that moved people more than its more straightforwardly spooky analogues — and which ST is clearly attempting to evoke. From its sinister government agents in hazmat suits to its iconic bicycle imagery to its general suburbs-gone-weird vibe to its ultimate emphasis on warming hearts over chilling spines (though it remains deceptively creepy and paranoid), this story of the little alien who fell to Earth is the Stranger Things source code.
The Goonies (1985)
One of the all-time great populist collaborations, this teen-adventure classic was written by Chris Columbus (Gremlins, Home Alone, Harry Potter) and directed by Richard Donner (The Omen, Superman, Lethal Weapon) from a story by Spielberg himself. Starring showbiz scions Josh Brolin, Sean Astin, and Martha Plimpton and featuring tween superstar Corey Feldman as comic relief, its story of a gaggle of dirt-broke kids on the trail of pirate treasure in the Pacific Northwest posited a world of discovery and danger literally beneath its characters’ suburban feet. Sound familiar?
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Spielberg’s sci-fi breakthrough trafficked in some of the same “cover-up and conspiracy” mentality that Stranger Things has utilized as a Watergate by way of The X-Files bit of flavoring. Beyond that, though, it’s a story of an everyday parent awed by evidence of other worlds, and like Stranger Things, it uses children menaced and abducted by these forces as emotional linchpins. A recent theatrical rerelease has given its dazzling visual effects (by 2001 and Blade Runner’s Douglas Trumbull) and five-note theme (by all-timer John Williams) a new grip on our collective imagination.
Poltergeist (1982)
“They’re heeeeere …” At the same time Spielberg was working on the wholesome science-fantasy of E.T., he was also collaborating with Texas Chainsaw Massacre auteur Tobe Hooper on this nightmarish demolition of the Reagan-era nuclear family. Starring Craig T. Nelson and JoBeth Williams as wealthy young parents raising three children in a suburban development, its tale of an increasingly malevolent haunting centering on their angelic young daughter Carol Anne (Heather O’Rourke). Stranger Things borrows a lot from its toolbox, from the mother desperate to rescue her missing child to an electronic method of communication with the Other Side. The mother-daughter material here is white-hot with emotion, particularly when you factor in older investigators played by Beatrice Straight and Zelda Rubinstein; unlike Stranger Things, Poltergeist directly indicts the American Dream, laying the blame at the feet of the rapacious real-estate developer who built the family home. (James Wan, director of Insidious and The Conjuring, owes his entire career to this movie.)
Chad Smith, drummer for Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Will Ferrell, star of almost every big comedy of the last 10 years, look so alike it’s almost scary. In May 2014, Jimmy Fallon finally brought them together to have the drum off that Ferrell had been asking for for months. (WATCH BELOW)
Earlier this month Amazon announced that they were working on innovative new ways to leave deliveries at your car or even your home. At the time they were calling it a “smart doorbell service” that would allow Amazon’s delivery people to open your door and drop your package just inside the safety of your house. Well, today, Amazon announced a new program called Amazon Key that does exactly that. (MORE HERE)
They can have the key to my house as long as they are willing to clean my cat’s litter box. What? If they’re willing to do that you know they’re serious.
