I was part of this political performance yesterday with my senior seminar class, where we all dressed in black and walked around Chicago passing out cards with information about individual soldiers who have died in Iraq. I'm usually not very big on speaking out politically, but this was pretty cool. A lot of people wouldn't even look at the cards, probably figuring we were trying to sell something, but a lot of people stopped and talked to us. They seemed to know more about the situation over there than we did. Halfway through thing, it started to pour, but we kept on trudging. Fun experience, and I played my new african djembe drum for my class afterwards.

Here's an awsome link of the day- this guy Matt Wilson was my teacher for performance art at Columbia. He and another teacher, Adam Brooks have a performance group that involves some pretty abstract stuff. I like it.      www.industryoftheordinary.com

matt

So yesterday Jen and I started packing stuff up for the big move. I have about 8 boxes of stuff (mostly books) and like, 2 garbage bags full of clothes. Jen on the other hand had about 20 bags of clothes, but we got rid of half. (I can't complain however, because she's the one with the furniture. :) We were sitting by the window a couple days ago listening to the block party going on on Lincon and Paulina, and we heard this guy who souded like Eddie Vedder talking. I said, "Wouldn't that be funny if he busted out with "Daughter"?" Wouldn't you know, 2 minutes later, we heard blaring from the P.A. "Alone, listless, breakfast tables in and otherwise, empty room." We're both like, what the hell? Is Pearl Jam playing down the street? So we run down there and find this cover band called Even Flow rockin' out. It was hilarious. We also found a party that was going on with some of Jen's friends, so it turned out to be worth the trip. funny shit man, check them out www.evenflowrocks.com  
 
later
matt