He said I wore to much Moscow-a

Tonight at Lollapalooza we saw The Hold Steady, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Spoon.

Oh my gosh, The Hold Steady was adorable. The lead singer is from Minneapolis and he's very midwest-like, ya'll. He was EXTREMELY EARNEST**, thanking the crowd for all the joy being in the band brings to them, and just professing how very grateful he is for his awesome job. Our friend Z, who is a huge fan and was front and center during their set, said that the singer was close to tears of joy while rocking out. He also would often repeat lines he'd just sung sans mic directly to the fans who could hear him because of their close proximity to the stage--very closely connected to the fans. Presh.

Then we finally had dinner at Sushi Toro!!! The chef and co-owner is a friend of disc0's and we visited often last summer. The place is always packed and is tiny, so as per usual we put down our names at the restaurant, went for a glass of wine at the nearby wine bar ****, and finished just in time to sit down for dinner. Absolutely delicious. The menu has a whole page of rolls the chef has invented, many of them named for friends and customers. We had the MJ (fried tempura flakes and spicy tuna goodness), the Park West (with shrimp tempura, grilled and topped with cheese, thank you Chicago for allowing even sushi to be fried and smothered in cheese), and the California Twist (a yummy California roll with special fresh crab salad and avocado). I'm so glad we finally made it there this summer and hope we can be there more regularly in the future (along with guests, as always...)


**this reminds me of a cute line from the lead singer of LCD Soundsystem during their set yesterday at Lolla: he noticed that the group of fans dancing closest to the stage was started to get a bit rowdy and apparently kept his eye on them, and after finishing a song thanked them for not being too rough and implored them to keep it that way, so that violent and/or handsy dancing would not make that area a "girl bummer." It was nice that the lead singer was watching out for violence and handsiness.

****I have redacted the name of the wine bar because I forgot to mention earlier that I straight up found drug paraphernalia in the comfy little upholstered chair in which I was, until that point, enjoying my wine! WTF, Lincoln Park neighborhood! Now I can add the "pointless rivalries" tag to this post, because although there may be snow bunnies in my neighborhood, I have never found evidence of them, because they do not carelessly fling their dirty tools around wine bars for unsuspecting gals to find, when all these unsuspecting gals want to do is wait in peace for their seat at the sushi bar. I felt bad for the waiter to whose attention I had to bring the offending length of straw. For shame, Lincoln Park; for shame.