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CHIRP Radio writesCHIRP Radio Weekly Voyages (Feb 12 - Feb 18)
Upcoming Events:
- Tuesday Feb 13: CHIRP DJ Night at the Native (feat. DJ Sondra the Audible Snail)
- Tuesday Feb 20: CHIRP Music Trivia Night at Beermiscuous
- Thursday Feb 22: CHIRP Radio welcomes Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs to Lincoln Hall
- Sunday Mar 3: CHIRP Radio welcomes Katy Kriby to Lincoln Hall
- Wednesday Mar 6: CHIRP Radio welcomes Mary Timony to the Empty Bottle
- Saturday Mar 9: CHIRP Radio welcomes OMNI to Schubas
- Saturday Mar 9: CHIRP Radio welcomes Beth Orton to the Old Town School of Folk Music
- Tuesday Mar 12: CHIRP DJ Night at the Native (feat. DJ Geoffrey Wessel)
Ninja writesCHIRP Radio Interview: Dianogah
This article was written based on a conversation for our CHIRP Artist Interviews podcast. You can also listen to that episode here.
Chicago’s Dianogah, named after the garbage-loving monster from the original Star Wars film, never left. They just morph into other bands.
Jay Ryan plays bass, Jason Harvey plays another bass, and Kip McCabe plays drums. Dianogah most recently released remasters of all four of their full-length albums and a collection of singles and soundtrack tracks, reissuing them on vinyl pressed at local pressing plant, Smashed Plastic. Preorder is open for this reissue.
CHIRP Radio writesCHIRP Radio Weekly Voyages (Feb 5 - Feb 11)
Upcoming Events:
- Wednesday Feb 7: Both Sides Now, a CHIRP Vinyl Listening Bar at Schubas
- Tuesday Feb 13: CHIRP DJ Night at the Native (feat. DJ Sondra the Audible Snail)
- Tuesday Feb 20: CHIRP Music Trivia Night at Beermiscuous
- Thursday Feb 22: CHIRP Radio welcomes Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs to Lincoln Hall
- Sunday Mar 3: CHIRP Radio welcomes Katy Kriby to Lincoln Hall
CHIRP Radio writesCHIRP Radio Weekly Voyages (Jan 29 - Feb 4)
Upcoming Events:
- Saturday Feb 3: CHIRP Radio welcomes Meat Wave to the Empty Bottle
- Saturday Feb 3: CHIRP Radio Rock & Bowl Fundraiser
- Wednesday Feb 7: Both Sides Now, a CHIRP Vinyl Listening Bar at Schubas
- Tuesday Feb 13: CHIRP DJ Night at the Native (feat. DJ Sondra the Audible Snail)
- Thursday Feb 22: CHIRP Radio welcomes Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs to Lincoln Hall
Kevin Fullam writesThe Fourth Wall: “The Killer”
Welcome to The Fourth Wall, CHIRP's e-conversation on cinema. This week's subject is the 2023 film The Killer.
This edition is written by CHIRP Radio volunteers Kevin Fullam and Clarence Ewing.
Kevin:
"Stick to your plan. Anticipate, don't improvise." -- the titular protagonist of The Killer
Are we sure that The Killer doesn't moonlight as a day trader? As someone who watches the markets, I find myself repeating similar mantras each morning. But never fear, Ye Reader -- the soul-crushing monotony that describes the life of an assassin here is pretty much a non-starter for yours truly. Waiting. Waiting. Always waiting.
David Fincher's new film, The Killer, seems like a bit of a stylistic salute to his 1999 magnum opus Fight Club. Both are adaptations of novels and feature plenty of internal monologues. And both feature leads who possess a certain implacability born of shattered psyches. In the latter, The Narrator (Edward Norton) develops his Thousand-Yard Stare along his descent, whereas the eponymous "hero" (Michael Fassbender) of The Killer displays a stony demeanor from the opening bell.
If The Killer is on your trail, somebody very, very rich has decided that you should no longer be breathing. As Jaqen H'ghar from Game of Thrones once put it: "A minute, an hour, a month. Death is certain. The time is not." Until the day comes when death isn't certain -- a bystander gets in the way of a bullet meant for a target. The Killer's mission is aborted. And his employers, per standard operating procedure, immediately decide to cover their tracks by eliminating all loose ends.
Thus kicks off the heart of the tale, as The Killer realizes that he'll never be safe until his tracks are indeed covered... but in the opposite direction. Predator vs. prey? No. Predator vs. other predators. It's his employers and their hired guns who have to disappear.