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[lord_melbury]

So freaking proud of my friend Azaria (w. the hat in the pic below). His band are currently touring the US & they just released their latest single. I absolutely love it, so catchy and his vocals are brilliant. You gotta have a listen to this single.

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[lalittlecricket]

They're playing Metro tomorrow night?! Damn! Yancy and I have been to Metro countless times to see bands. We've seen Broken Social Scene there, New Pornographers, etc. But tomorrow night we're probably getting together out in the boondocks closer to where I live (not in Chicago) to have dinner and possibly see a movie and otherwise celebrate Yancy having a job again. Weird timing. Congrats to your friend's band though!

[lord_melbury]

Aw that's a pity that it collides. It would be weird and cool knowing two people from entirely different parts of my life were in the same room. Heck, I haven't even met you.

But you must celebrate with Yancy of course. I'm a little confused though, I thought you lived in Chicago. Also, I've heard the word "boondocks" a couple times used by Americans. I don't think we use it here, at least I don't know it. What does it mean?

[lalittlecricket]

I don't actually live in Chicago, although the Chicago area extends well beyond the Chicago city limits (I grew up in Bloomingdale, which is a suburb of Chicago about a half hour from the city limits, and that was considered part of the Chicago area). The Metro is actually within the Chicago city limits. It takes me about an hour-and-a-half to drive to Chicago proper from where I live now, which is closer to NIU, further west to the point where you can't even say it's in the Chicago area anymore (when traffic is bad, which is usually, it can take me upwards of 2-and-a-half to 3 hours to drive to Chicago from my house. In those instances it's better for me to take the train--and I actually have to drive about a half an hour before I even get to a train station close enough to Chicago to actually take me there). I basically live in the middle of a corn field now. Boondocks basically just means "remote" and has the connotation of wilderness or a more "country" lifestyle.