Ken Sumka - Music Man!

TALK TO ME:

-Born and raised?  Born in Chicago (3/5/70) Raised in Glen Ellyn Currently living in Brookfield, IL

-Three of your favorite albums from the glorious 1980's? The Smiths’ Meat Is Murder, The Replacements Hootenanny, The Rolling Stones Tattoo You

-Rolling Stones or the Beatles?Rolling Stones

-The Clash or The Sex Pistols?The Clash

-Footloose or Dirty Dancing?Footloose

-Smokey & The Bandit or Cannonball Run?Smokey & The Bandit

-Milkshake or Rootbeer Float?Milkshake

-Daily life would be so much better if...everyone got a nap and a per diem

-What I really miss about being a kid (kid = 5-10 years of age) is...Having no responsibility

-Do you own a pet(s)?  Yep.            Name(s)? Bella (Shep/Rott Mix dog) Vinny (Black cat) Mona (Grey Cat)

-If you had to take a bath w/ one of the characters from Friends who would it be (Joey, Ross, Chandler, Monica, Rachel, or Phoebe)?Rachel

-I remember reading George Burns saying everything goes better w/ ketchup.  Everything goes better with...Bacon or cheese.

-The youth of today...it seems they've taken the innocence out of everything!  What are your thoughts on bringing back "dry-humping"? All for it, no actual sex until prom.

*First thought that comes to mind when hearing the following:

-Big Lebowski? White Russians

-President George W. Bush? Underqualified

-Pizza? Due’s or Barone’s

-Skinny Dipping? Only with women. Must be drunk. In a hotel pool or a lake.

-BBQ? Pulled pork sandwich or ribs.

*Thanks for talking to me...

Ken Sumka can be heard on Chicago's WXRT.  He did his first show at XRT February 5th, 1994.  He can be heard after Sound Opinions on Tuesday nights, most Saturdays 7PM-Midnight, Sundays after Jazz Transfusion and frequently fills in at night and overnight.  The man loves muisc...so if you see him out and about at any of the numerous Chicago muisc venues, buy him a drink and ask the question, "So what are you listening to these days?"  Before he dies, he'd like to see the Cubs play in a World Series.  Ken also runs a very entertaining blog called Gaper's Blog.

Comments

[William Clark]

William Clark
April 16, 2010 3:29 am
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Dear Ken….glad to here your pipes still shifting the air at nights.

I always underestimated you I must confess thinking of you more as “Ken” lite since you also did the air reporting thing…the thing is that you do see the little divots, the patches of earth stretching it’s arms out into the arms of high rises and the intricate nuances of Chicago’s drop off the ethnic ontinent into another culture demarcations and slices that we can only feel with our fingers and our toes from ground level. You can fold up the city into fragile paper shapes and objects from a pristine view while the rest of us see the man we pass on the street waiting for the bus spit at our feet in an intentional or more or less half-hearted spew…wishing his aim was as bad as usual….you are above all that ….in a swosh in between the monoliths….I hate to bring this up, but I remember that we tried to stop smoking at the same time….I have scuffled at it…but in a frollicsome twist of denial I give myself credit for keeping the number of cigarettes at a mildly lethal 3-6 a day…and more importantly by far, I am smoking with a filter now…I used to be such a knuckle-head that I ripped the filter off when I smoked…I convinced myself that it was the filter that had all the cancer-causing stuff in it. I smoke American Spirit, now fortunately with a filter that doesn’t have the cancer shrapnel in it–I hope?
It is hard…I am so nervous all the time and fidgity…so fidgity that I can rarely be captured on film in photographs…really
request: I haven’t heard any Jeff Tweedy today…who I happen to think has the most star quality and talent and in constant flux more than any other rock artist today…..just my opinion….
for what it is worth….could you please play either the deepest or most mysterious of a jeff tweedy solo song or the same of a Wilco song….I would surely appreciate it !
God Bless You and your Family!
Bill Clark

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On a "Lucas" blog, I found that you were an extra for the film. Do you recall what you were paid? I'm writing an online novel partially set in Glen Ellyn in '85 that mentions the "Lucas" filming. If you could help me with that detail, I'd appeciate it. It's at www. summerof1985.wordpress.com. Thanks.

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