After we wen to ‘The Taste’, we walked over the BP Bridge at the Pritzker Pavillion. I love the detail.

Millennium Park, Chicago Il.
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Up & down Michigan Ave., there was a flora & fashion art installation. This piece by Andrea Fuess was my favorite. You can read more here…

Michigan Ave., Chicago Il.
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The water was hitting the pier hard with criss-crossing waves.

Oak Street Beach, Chicago Il.
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The sky was so surreal that evening merging silhouettes with color.

Navy Pier, Chicago Il.
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i haven’t been back to chicago for almost 4 years now… *sigh… and jami has never been. some of you know but for the others, i consider chicago my third home (so cal being my second) and i am very excited to be going back. 

jami and i are going out there for two weeks (july 2nd through the 15th) and we’re staying at the hard rock hotel right in the midst of downtown. we’re going to ‘the taste‘ and the navy pier for the 4th. we’re hitting all the museums and i think we’re going to a few concerts (wolf parade & feist). i’m also taking her to this quaint little town called long grove. they have a rad ‘main street’ downtown. 

i’ll also be taking a lot lot lot of pictures and will post as i can!

here’s a great track from one of my favorite local chicago bands,
the sea and cake

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whenever possible, i try to make my way down to central phoenix and go to one of my favorite coffee shops, lux coffee bar. so i figure, why not go to stinkweeds (independent music store). and yes, in this fantastic age of digital wonder, i still buy the occasional cd :)

after picking up the new ‘mates of state‘ & ‘joan of arc‘. i hit the listening stations and find two new bands ‘okay‘ and ‘fleet foxes‘.  i grabbed a few band t-shirts as well. top that all off with a trip to lux for a large latte and some homemade chocolate chip cookies and you have a fantastic sunday afternoon!

here’s the first track from okay’s album, huggable dust called ‘my’…enjoy!

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