This past weekend we saw Walk the Line and ever since I can’t stop listening to Johnny Cash’s live At Folsom Prison album and I absolutely cannot get this song out of my head:
Folsom Prison Blues
I hear the train a comin’; it’s rollin’ ’round the bend,
And I ain’t seen the sunshine since I don’t know [...]

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Webster Place & Webster’s Wine Bar, Sheffield Neighbors, Chicago
Sunday evening after seeing Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith at Webster Place we walked across the street and had a glasses of white wine at Webster’s Wine Bar. It was an awesome night. Warm and sunny. The antipasto plate we shared had artisan [...]

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AMC Theatres River East 21, River East, Chicago
Before last night I hadn’t seen a movie in the theater since January! I used to live a block off Houston in NYC and would go to Chelsea or the Angelica or the Film Forum or Sunshine Cinema or that theater across from ABC Carpet about once/week. But [...]

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Roger Ebert :: The Apple Store, Magnificent Mile, Chicago
Long time Mac user and film critic Roger Ebert was at the Apple Store tonight talking about how digital cameras are revolutionizing the film industry as part of Apple’s “Works on a Mac” speaker series. I came in late so I missed in introductory commentary and the [...]

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Gollum, Virgin Megastore, Magnificent Mile, Chicago
This lifelike Gollum in the Virgin Megastore window on Michigan Avenue scares the crap out of me.

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