Wednesday, September 28, 2005

County Line

I've been listening to an album entitled "Field Recordings from the Cook County Water Table" by Brokeback. It's a cool recording, but that's not why I'm mentioning it. It just dawned on my that the first county that was able to identify, with the exception of the county where I grew up, was Cook County. I'm pretty sure that I learned where Cook Country was located (in Illinois, encompassing all of the city of Chicago and some outlying areas, in case anyone wasn't aware) from an episode of Punky Brewster, but I'm not entirely sure. I seem to remember an episode where Punky had to go to the hospital. Before cutting to a shot of Punky in her hospital bed, they showed some stock footage of a hospital in Chicago that had Cook County somewhere in its name. I don't have any other interesting stories for how I came to learn the names of any other counties. By the time The O.C. began its run, I already knew where Orange County, CA was. Of course, I've never actually watched the show, so it wouldn't have helped me anyway.

5 comments:

Unknown said...

I still haven't seen the Blues Brothers, or Blues Brothers 2K for that matter. If you dig Tortoise then you should check out the various Chicago Underground incarnations (duo, trio, quartet). I've heard some Sufjan Stevens and I like what I've heard. I wonder if he'll manage to achieve his goal of cutting an album for each of the 50 states?

Unknown said...

While Cook Country will have some egg on its face if Mr. Stroger gets a little too rough with a lady of the night, it is nice to be able to honor someone while they are still around to enjoy it.

Unknown said...

Thank you for the kind words, MDS. You know I feel the same way about you. I probably wouldn't name a building after you, however. Your name is too common, people might think it was named after Mike Smith the asshole instead of you.

gregorykwu said...

Mike: after you b-slapped and verbally assaulted the pregnant woman on the train, did she ask if you realized your voice was loud and annoying?

Unknown said...

I believe that she retorted that half of the passengers in that train car could hear what he was saying.