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Thursday, March 11th, 10 pm
@
The Mutiny

Jesse Thomas
& His Electric Band

with

Dadad

Friday, Mar 12th, 8 pm
@

5045 N. Clark St., Chicago

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Thursday, Mar 25th, 8 pm
@ Silvie's Lounge

Audial Aura
Suckling Pigs
Dadad
Lord of the Yum-Yum
Jesse Thomas &
His Electric Band

Friday, Apr 2nd

VIOLENCE II /WHPK, 88.5 FM

aaron/anna/FluiD/jesse/travis followed by solo FluiD performance

Following

Senior Frog's

Senior Frog's

blurry mextreme

blurry mextreme

Mextreme!

Mextreme!

My sister, brother-in-law, and Jesse and I were all going to go out to the ridiculous “Senior Frog’s” that was almost directly across from our condo area…but upon approaching, we were accosted by two very blond, very perky sorority types that told us it would be a “20 minute wait” - for what, we weren’t sure.  We had serious drinking goals, and ended up at the far superior “Mextreme” restaurant, where we not only had great nachos and some kind of steaky-thing, but drank much Tecate.  There was a marimba and drum combo that played two identical 15 minute sets with a break in-between, where they moved the marimba about 10 feet back and forth.  One of the marimba players was an old man with a cane and yet he did both sets.

Later on in the night, the kitchen staff were all given bandoliers and sombreros, enlisted a nearby diner in their “army,” and enacted a strange play where they did push-ups and urged a guy on a fake stuffed horse acting at Pancho Villa to return to the restaurant after he galloped down the street.  An odd attempt to amuse us, and it worked, although what it portrayed is a little less clear.  Video to follow.

View

View

bedroom balcony

bedroom balcony

bedroom balcony 2

bedroom balcony 2

bedroom balcony 3

bedroom balcony 3

bedroom balcony in the morning

bedroom balcony in the morning

bedroom balcony in the morning 2

bedroom balcony in the morning 2

bedroom balcony in the morning 3

bedroom balcony in the morning 3

bedroom balcony morning 4

bedroom balcony morning 4

construction next door

construction next door

hardly anyone out there

hardly anyone out there

VIEWS FROM MEXICO!

enjoy your time

enjoy your time

swift with the menu, my camera says help

swift with the menu, my camera says help

what to get

what to get

drunk and happy

drunk and happy

iguana

iguana

iguana again

iguana again

iguana purple!

iguana purple!

dreamy sailboat

dreamy sailboat

please don't forget!

please don't forget!

More miscellaneous photos of Cancun, Mexico!

Whoa those are big lobsters!

Whoa those are big lobsters!

fatten them up!

fatten them up!

mom loves the pirate

mom loves the pirate

casa tequila

casa tequila

chef guy throwing a knife at a chicken

chef guy throwing a knife at a chicken

garbage burn pile

garbage burn pile

no pasar

no pasar

I don't know why either

I don't know why either

More scenes from Cancun, Mexico - nighttime!

What is that thing?  Water tower?

What is that thing? Water tower?

abandoned budget car place

abandoned budget car place

bug bus

bug bus

el shrimp bucket!

el shrimp bucket!

bite me!  from el shrimp bucket

bite me! from el shrimp bucket

Love the lines here

Love the lines here

close up tangle

close up tangle

More scenes around town in Cancun, Mexico!

anyone need some giant seashells?

anyone need some giant seashells?

abandoned budget car place

abandoned budget car place

lots of bike riders out

lots of bike riders out

loved the painted poster of fancy ladies

loved the painted poster of fancy ladies

i like that thing

i like that thing

big graffiti

big graffiti

MEGA

MEGA

nancy mar

nancy mar

another building

another building

sale sale sale

sale sale sale

Scenes around town in Cancun, Mexico

Sunrise over O’Hare Airport the day we leave for Cancun, Mexico

Sunrise over O’Hare Airport the day we leave for Cancun, Mexico

MEXICO!

Least Favorite Things about My Cancun Vacation
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* Swimmer’s Ear  - I have been plagued with ear infections for the past year, and I guess swimming too much gave me another one.  Luckily when I got home, I still had medicine from the last time this happened, so I’m already on the mend.
* Having to avoid drinking tap water
* Aggressive selling.  I was not used to the marketplace hard-sell.  In the States, half the time store owners will not even approach you, so I was a little startled at all the verbal banter and incentives to buy.
* The work on the pipes and beach that caused me one night of restlessness because banging-on-a-pipe-kind-of-work was allowed to go on all night.
* The woman who said, “Oh!  They have a Chili’s!” like that was a BONUS.
* Flying.  Planes suck.  


Favorite Things about My Cancun Vacation
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* Getting a sunburn in February - divine!  
* Swimming every day outside in the not-very-clorinated pool and hot tub
* Fresh shrimp tacos with perfect avocado slices/the sweetest lobster I’ve ever tasted
* SOL beer-water - the beer that’s as drinkable as water itself - although unfortunately, a beer that it seems impossible to become drunk on
* Cheap beer like Tecate and Modelo - also available as single 12 oz cans in the convenience store
* Improper English translations/typos, like “Shrimp in Spacy Sauce” and “Meat and Sea plate” instead of Surf and Turf
* See-through panels on the paper money!  Menus printed with impossible-looking prices!  $80 for nachos! (amounts in pesos)
* Iguanas hanging out whereever
* Magnificant Frigatebirds (looked like teradactyls flying overhead) and the Great-Tailed Grackle, which was loud and obnoxious and everywhere
* My niece being psyched about having the balcony jacuzzi tub all to herself - “You GUYS!  Having the hot tub to yourself is AWESOME!”
* My niece using a snorkel non-stop around the pool like some kind of wind-up tub toy
* Giant holes in the sidewalk, pieces of rebar sticking out, abandoned storefronts with gunk inside, graffiti-ed things.  I love ugly sometimes.

Lillian Pau
Not sure about the OCD work statement, but I like the look of the switches.

Lillian Pau

Not sure about the OCD work statement, but I like the look of the switches.

Themed by Hunson. Originally by Josh