Author Archives: Nik Bronder

Halligan’s (and a Kyle Orton Sighting)

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Friday night amongst may stops that most of the people in these photos don’t remember we met up with the Malibu Girl at Halligan’s. The vast size of the peacock headdress cannot really be explained. It must be witnessed. And for the record the Malibu Girl smelled like baby powder. Not sure why.

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After Halligan’s we moved onto to another destination that I can neither name or locate.

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Before the night really began Julie and I met up with Emily and headed to Lucky’s for dinner where we saw Kyle Orton. Considering it’s a bye week for the Bears I’m pretty sure it was him.

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Game On.

Pirates.

So let me get this straight: A gang of pirates have hijacked a tanker carrying the highly flammable chemical Benzene and are now threatening the US Navy ship that is planning an assault on the vessel.

Do they not know what we are capable of? Not since the First Barbary War have I been so fed up with Piracy. What these pirates don’t get is we’ve been at this pirate fighting thing since the very beginning. The first thing we did after kicking the English out of the Colonies was go find some pirates to fuck with. It’s practically our National Birthright.

As a Nation we are nothing if we’re not kickass pirate fighters.

The Hold Steady at the Metro.

The Hold Steady at the Metro.The Hold Steady at the Metro.

Last night I went with Dom & Kelley and Emily to see The Hold Steady at Metro. Being my first time to the Metro I was surprised by how small the place was. We ended up in the balcony and it felt like we were right on top of the stage. The place was packed but considering it was Halloween the only costumes I saw were on the band. I take that back there was a midget taking tickets at the door that had his face painted.

Towards the end of the show.The Costumes are falling by the wayside.More Hold Steady.More costumes.From my view in the balcony.The Hold Steady in Costume.

We missed the first band but the second opening band, Art Brut, is a stalwart of my annual Top Ten List. ‘The Brut’ (as I like to call them) were decked out and all sorts of costumes that were in many waysappropriate . They also had a running slide show of the lyrics to their songs on the back of the stage which was helpful for those who are new to tidal wave of sound that is Art Brut. If nothing else in went well with the singalong vibe that the crowd was excreting all night.

I missed The Hold Steady at Lollapolloza this past year but I’ve been listening to their albums the last couple of months leading up to this show. My favorite being Almost Killed Me. The band showed up on stage in Pancho Villaesque attire which included ‘bullet belts’, mustaches and cowboy hats. It was pretty bad ass.