weekend recommendations 2.0
this weekend was more low-key, but i can still recommend the following:
the freaks and geeks dvd. tommy got me this for christmas, and i've been too busy to watch it until now but have spent a large chunk of saturday and sunday racing through. it's certainly charming, although i'm not sure why it inspired such cultlike devotion - it hasn't totally grabbed me in that way. but still very enjoyable, and i am now also in love with linda cardellini.
el tapatio on ashland. you know the night's going right when a) your supposed 45-minute wait to eat at a restaurant turns into 15 minutes b) the restaurant lets you sneak in your beers from the bar across the street that you were waiting at c) along with your pitcher of margaritas the waiter scores you each an extra glass full and d) even though your "burrito grandioso" weighs approximately four pounds, it's so good that you eat the entire thing.
guthries. we were supposed to hit up this bar on saturday night, but it turned out to be too crowded to stay there. but it looked adorable - small, cozy, with a fireplace and stacks of boardgames that people were playing at every table. perfect for a rainy night. if our group had been smaller, i would have been content to snag a table and hit up some monopoly. as it was, we headed to the first bar we came across on southport - cullen's, which was basically your typical faux-irish pub but was still fun. they actually had a decent cover band that played everything from radiohead to gin blossoms.
fudgy chocolate-raspberry bars. though fresh raspberries obviously aren't in season, the bars were still delicious and elicited raves from a dinner i went to sunday night. i was glad, because only god in heaven knows what a trial it is to bake in my postage-sized kitchen. my kitchenaid mixer? has to go ON THE FLOOR IN MY BEDROOM BECAUSE THERE IS NO WHERE ELSE TO PUT IT/PLUG IT IN.
not recommended: lazing out on your weekend run of 8 miles such that you have to do it monday morning before your 2 p.m. class, and now it's flurrying. sigh.
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Your reaction to the Freaks and Geeks DVDs, including the Cardellini-love, mirrors mine exactly.
guthries is one of my brother's favorite places in chicago, but i didn't get to go while i was there. hope you get to go soon!
i think i liked freaks & geeks so much because i identified with the lindsay character, being the girl who was supposed to be one of the good kids, but finding them annoying and boring and spending my senior year hanging out with the bad kids instead. don't know if i'd like the show as much if i didn't identify with her, but i still love it.
Guthries is one of my favorite bars ever. Some friends of mine used to live just down the street and even though they no longer are in Wrigleyville I still try to make it up there for a drink whenever I'm in town.
Yeah catherine I want to go back to guthrie's soon, it looked fun and relaxing.
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