Fuck Monoculture
Lounge Axe passed, how sad. The Double Door is looking at the same fate. For what? A Banana Republic. A fucking tragedy if this occurs.
For the record, I have nothing against big corporate clothing stores and Banana Republic is a fine place to purchase garments (even though walking into one makes my fucking flesh crawl like half mad snails along slime covered leaves), but we hardly need another one in Chicago. We really do not need one in Wicker Park. Damen Avenue is not Michigan Avenue. What we do need is a venue to see live music that is intimate, hip without pretension and mixes a damn good drink. And one savvy enough to book local acts like Rock Star Club and Local H as well Frank Black and even the goddamn Rolling Stones.
On another note, Wicker Park is rapidly becoming Lincoln Park. Rents are all ready sky high and the overall snotty art school attitude (annoying as it may be) is vanishing, replaced by the far more upsetting yuppie monoculture. I for one would sooner see a neighborhood of art school dropouts and skateboard riding, baggy pants wearing cretins before unleashing another yuppie playpen on my fair city.
This city is (or once was) rich in culture and while Wicker Park-- a ghetto when I was in high school, an artist community when I was first in college and now a hybrid of quasi-artistic sensibility and corporate gloss-- is not necessarily the cultural Mecca it is far less plastic and insipid as nearby Lincoln Park. Sadly, it is only a matter of time before the location of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer and High Fidelity becomes condo ridden, Starbucks saturated and khaki covered. Let's strike one last blow against such a fate. Sign the petition attached and write a letter or two to the papers and the alderman. What the fuck will it do? Probably nothing, but at least you can sleep easier at night knowing you did your part. The next time you walk past the corner of Damen and Milwaukee your eyes might be spared the sight of bright clothes and dead eyed shoppers.
Thank you for your time.
http://www.petitiononline.com/dubldoor/petition.html
For the record, I have nothing against big corporate clothing stores and Banana Republic is a fine place to purchase garments (even though walking into one makes my fucking flesh crawl like half mad snails along slime covered leaves), but we hardly need another one in Chicago. We really do not need one in Wicker Park. Damen Avenue is not Michigan Avenue. What we do need is a venue to see live music that is intimate, hip without pretension and mixes a damn good drink. And one savvy enough to book local acts like Rock Star Club and Local H as well Frank Black and even the goddamn Rolling Stones.
On another note, Wicker Park is rapidly becoming Lincoln Park. Rents are all ready sky high and the overall snotty art school attitude (annoying as it may be) is vanishing, replaced by the far more upsetting yuppie monoculture. I for one would sooner see a neighborhood of art school dropouts and skateboard riding, baggy pants wearing cretins before unleashing another yuppie playpen on my fair city.
This city is (or once was) rich in culture and while Wicker Park-- a ghetto when I was in high school, an artist community when I was first in college and now a hybrid of quasi-artistic sensibility and corporate gloss-- is not necessarily the cultural Mecca it is far less plastic and insipid as nearby Lincoln Park. Sadly, it is only a matter of time before the location of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer and High Fidelity becomes condo ridden, Starbucks saturated and khaki covered. Let's strike one last blow against such a fate. Sign the petition attached and write a letter or two to the papers and the alderman. What the fuck will it do? Probably nothing, but at least you can sleep easier at night knowing you did your part. The next time you walk past the corner of Damen and Milwaukee your eyes might be spared the sight of bright clothes and dead eyed shoppers.
Thank you for your time.
http://www.petitiononline.com/dubldoor/petition.html
posted by ZombieDante at 12:38 PM
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