somebody asks you where you re from and you answer, i m from chicago, nobody s going to give you a patronizing response like, oh, chicago s charming. hey, chicago. more likely it ll be wow, chicago or oh, chicago. they ll be impressed. chicago is the town, a city that doesn t ever have to measure itself against any other city. other places have to measure themselves against it. it s big, it s outgoing, it s tough, it s opinionated and everybody s got a story. i took a walk through this walk through this beautiful world felt the cold rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder as late afternoon gives way to evening in chicago s old town, it s time to drink. though to be fair, almost anytime it s time for a drink at the old town ale house. the chorus assembles to give their opinions on matters of the day, subjects of great import to this city on the lake, this city of broad shoulders, this
course is the music. and if one guy who s defined rock and roll and punk sounds for the last three decades, well this guy, steve albini, would have to be a powerful candidate. member of the legendary chicago punk band big black and one of the most important producers of underground rock, albini produced some of the most influential music of the last 25 years. the pixies, slint, nirvana, p.j. harvey, to name a few. he takes me to one of his favorite chicago spots ricobene s, to sample the particularly unholy delights of the breaded fried steak sandwich. this things is this is a half a sandwich bear in mind. that s like four pounds. yeah. wow. we re going to need a boat load of napkins. there s no delicate way to eat this, you just hoist and go. the time out of the fryer is also critical. these are still crispy on the outside. this is precisely the way this sandwich was meant to be eaten. yeah. that is a thing of beauty and tasty. so, you have remarkably unusual for the m