Liz Phair is doing her damnedest to get past the security guard. “Pleeeease?” she wheedles as a particularly simian man blocks her way. ” What’s the big deal, hmm?” she bats her eyes at him, giving him the full-on Phair charm, but the guard, meaty arms crossed over his barrel chest, is unmoved. “Sorry, Miss,” he says a tad too happily. “The show’s already started. Can’t let you in.” The show that will not grant Phair entrance, let alone backstage privileges, is not Woodstock ’94, nor is it Pavement, whose Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain Phair, 27, often jogs to. It’s not even the Rolling Stones. No, it’s slightly more alternative: It’s Coral Reef Dreaming, the nature movie playing at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium. She strains to look past the guard’s Refrigerator Perry-size shoulders and tries another let’s-all-be-adults-about-this grin. The fact that Phair’s normally crackerjack oratory powers are a bit dim doesn’t help matters – earlier, she and her companion got baked, high-school style, in the parking lot. “All right then,” she tells the guard haughtily as she spins on her heel. “We’ll look at the fish.” We shamble over to the Animals of Warm Fresh Waters and commence two hours of… Read full this story
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