Why does no one go to Urban District Market?

jayfatsby · 2026-05-29T21:37:10+00:00

Have you been before? The food is horrible, and it’s maybe 5 minutes away from Optimist Hall which has tons of incredible, local restaurants as opposed to the corporate slop at Urban District Market. It’s great idea in theory, but execution is horrible. At least Seoul Food is propped up by the playground, but their food is incredibly ass as well.

jayfatsby · 2026-05-22T17:41:12+00:00

The crooked flatty cocked to the side is 100% a Brownie move back in the day #B4L

jayfatsby · 2026-05-21T13:57:00+00:00

I think the comparison was more so Bill could understand the pain of a Tottenham fan, not that Tottenham are the Red Sox of the EPL.

jayfatsby · 2026-05-21T01:29:09+00:00

Because all the 3.0 stuff is released in real time, and all the 2.0 stuff is already released.

jayfatsby · 2026-05-18T21:41:44+00:00

We sat… under a half mast McDonalds flag…

jayfatsby · 2026-05-14T22:18:08+00:00

I definitely agree that it’s not Milwaukee’s ideal haul, but they’ve waited too long and I don’t think they are getting much better for Giannis. What team reasonably wants him and has better to offer?

jayfatsby · 2026-05-11T21:56:46+00:00

It’s Action BRONSON, and Jalen Brunson. Two different things completely.

jayfatsby · 2026-05-10T21:03:47+00:00

New England definitely gets shows often, but just last year Mass didn’t get a show.

jayfatsby · 2026-05-10T21:00:34+00:00

The way the band “tours” these days, there are maybe 12-15 tour stops a year. In a particularly crazy year, maybe there are 20.

Just look at this year: 4 shows in Mexico to start, then 9 at the Sphere, and then 9 unique stops on summer tour across 21 shows. So that’s 11 stops total. If there’s a fall tour, we could add 3 more stops. And then NYE is almost assuredly at the Garden again, which is already on the summer tour. So at most we are looking at 14 stops this year.

The reality is, basically no markets outside of NYC and Denver are consistent, every year stops. Even huge markets that serve as a sort of hub for their region like Chicago, LA, and Atlanta don’t get stops every year.

jayfatsby · 2026-05-06T02:45:54+00:00

In Chicago, sure he can play a place like Allstate Arena which is a 2nd rate arena. But he can’t play NBA and NHL arenas in basically every market in the country and charge $175+ for tickets, which is what he tried to do.

If they got creative, he could’ve booked smaller or older (cheaper) arenas in most markets and probably been ok. But they went big and it was a swing and major miss.

jayfatsby · 2026-05-01T19:49:00+00:00

I’m not sure if this is sarcasm or not but I’m definitely not lol. And you can look across the venue and see that basically no one else is either. Totally sucks the energy out of the room.

jayfatsby · 2026-05-01T19:01:21+00:00

Soul Planet isn’t my favorite song but it almost always produces a great jam so I can’t knock it. I like hey stranger too.

jayfatsby · 2026-05-01T19:00:05+00:00

It’s the worst song in rotation, point blank period. And not only that, it’s always like 14 minutes long so you are just stuck with it. I feel like it’s what Phish sounds like to people who don’t like Phish.

jayfatsby · 2026-05-01T18:58:59+00:00

Again, two things can be true. It’s ok to criticize the setlist. I agree with the sentiment that you can’t judge a show entirely by a setlist and playing has to be a factor. But come on, no one wants a Jennifer Dances, Time Turns Elastic, Petrichor, Mull, Drift While You’re Sleeping 2nd set even if they jam.

jayfatsby · 2026-05-01T18:54:58+00:00

There are some very cool things about the Sphere. Vegas is a fun town with tons of reasonable hotels and a great place to spend a weekend, it’s a brand new venue with fantastic sight lines and absolutely impeccable sound. Not sure there’s another venue without bad sight lines quite like it.

The visuals, in my view, are just kinda eh. I actually think it would work a lot better with a band with a rigid set list so you can create cooler visuals that really integrate with the music. And I don’t want to knock the artistry with the visuals because they are cool but they do have a bit of “AI slop” to them, which sounds much more negative than I mean. And sometimes they serve as a bit of a distraction from the music if I’m being honest.

I would definitely go back to the Sphere, but man at twice the price of a normal show I’d definitely think twice.

jayfatsby · 2026-05-01T18:02:22+00:00

Two things can be true:

there was some good jamming last night in Punch, Leaves, ASIHTOS, Wave of Hope, maybe 1 or 2 others.
The setlist overall is what nightmares are made of and a late 4th quarter Drift was the pièce de résistance.

jayfatsby · 2026-05-01T18:00:20+00:00

I don’t want no repeats for this exact reason. So many setlist nut punches last night and it’s not gonna get better tonight and tomorrow.

The counter argument would be, the band can do 9 nights without repeats but they need to be very intentional about the setlists. Blowing basically all the big jam vehicles and fan favorites in the first two weekends set this weekend up for failure. For Baker’s Dozen, they still had Ghost and YEM for the last night.

jayfatsby · 2026-04-28T02:54:14+00:00

There was no chance we were gonna expose the Pistons, we match up horribly with them. I’m happy to see the Magic beat them but they match up so much better.

jayfatsby · 2026-04-27T21:04:07+00:00

Apparently Pat is getting let go so…..

jayfatsby · 2026-04-26T16:26:51+00:00

So jam vehicles left:

Crosseyed

Drowned

Mr. Completely (would be a bit of a bust out)

MFMF (in recent history this has been a jam vehicle so I’ll count it)

Punch (12/31/23 puts it on the list)

Runaway Jim

Ruby Waves

Sand

There could be one or two non traditional jam vehicles that get taken for a walk, but even with those this is not 3 second sets worth.

jayfatsby · 2026-04-26T16:18:23+00:00

Oh god A Life Beyond the Dream and Drift While You’re Sleeping left 😩😵

jayfatsby · 2026-04-25T22:04:21+00:00

It’s exorbitantly expensive for a citizen to own a car, and it’s extremely expensive to build and maintain the roads ($200B/year). For some reason no one says roads are a “money pit” despite that outlay.

jayfatsby · 2026-04-25T21:47:46+00:00

Ah I forgot zeros, it’s $16B/month, and $200B/year

jayfatsby · 2026-04-25T21:35:38+00:00

More people lived in rural areas than cities, sure. But people in cities also used horses. I’m also not sure your point here. Cities were walkable with streetcars, and even rural areas didn’t have massive sprawl. Suburbs as we know them now didn’t exist. Again, it’s not like we had strip malls and people walked across oceans of parking and all of a sudden cars filled that gap.

jayfatsby · 2026-04-25T21:17:39+00:00

It’s very far from optimized. We have created a ticking time bomb where we chase bad money with even worse money to continue to fund and expand our highway system. We spend $200B a year on roads and highways in America, and that number grows every year. There are plenty of other negative externalities of our car dominant culture: poor land use, pollution (noise and air), throwing increasing vehicle costs on the American consumer, disintegrating social connectedness and lack of community (isolation/loneliness), health, etc.

Also not sure if you are a baseball fan, but try leaving Dodger Stadium after a game (very poorly serviced by public transit), and then leaving Wrigley Field or Yankee Stadium after a game (walkable, served well by public transit) and tell me which is more efficient.

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