Photo: David WaldmanFucked Up, Mustangs & Madras, Guns N Rosa Parks
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Larimer Lounge
Better than: The G.G. Allin documentary.
Right off the bat let's dispense with two things. One: Fucked Up is an
awful name for a band. Two: If you are going to name your band Fucked
Up, timidity is not going to be one of your strong points. Now that
that's out of the way, let's flash forward to the present where
Wednesday night, the Larimer Lounge hit a home run by pairing Canada'
The original casket of Emmett Till was among the missing items uncovered in the Alsip, Illinois, cemetery scandal. After the body of the fourteen-year-old civil rights martyr was exhumed in 2005 for an investigation into Till's lynching back in 1955, when the Chicago boy dared to talk to a white woman on a trip to the South, it was reburied in a new casket, and the original designated for inclusion in a future memorial.
"His mother had the gut and grit to say that 'I want America to see what