When I last left chef Ricardo Zarate, he was in the kitchen at Mo-Chica. Through the small window separating kitchen from counter, he sent a complimentary dessert to the table. If memory serves (this was a few years ago) he announced through that portal that it was carob mousse, something he was just trying out. This [...]
The Chicago Sun-Times is a funny little news organization. In the heyday of Swan Fungus (hard to believe it's over, eh?), their online edition syndicated a few of my blog posts. I don't know how it happened, or why it happened, but it did. Stop scratching your head, it's really not worth the mental strain. [...]
The anticipation was totally unique. It wasn't like the butterflies one gets before a new episode of Breaking Bad. Hell, it wasn't even akin to the premiere of a show like The Event of Flash Forward, where you're pretty sure it's going to be bad but you want to enjoy the trainwreck anyway. Last night's [...]
From Mutant Sounds: "Truly wonderful and extremely little known krautrock released on the Kerston label (same imprint as the Gaa LP) and with something of their widely variable and fascinating approach. With it's seamless fusions of acid rock fury and amiable folksiness, this project of Eulenspygel's drummer (using the first name of the notable German [...]
I've been searching for ideas for screenplays for as long as I've considered writing to be my passion. On field trips during my elementary school years, long bus rides were spent penning episodes of Beavis & Butthead. And, truthfully, that's about the closest I've ever come to completing any sort of play, be it screen- [...]
I trust you're all recovering/resting/relaxing today. Whether you welcomed 2012 with a quiet night at home alongside family and friends, or joined some raucous, drunken celebration at a house/club/bar, I'm sure it was a great time. If you must know about my night, I thoroughly enjoyed myself. Considering New Years last year was probably the [...]
...I've got nothing. Go out and celebrate with your friends and family. I'll be back tomorrow biting my fingernails before the Giants game to post the first mix tape of 2012.
Often I am reminded there is a fine line between satire and insensitivity. Sometimes a friend will nudge me, and sometimes I'll be spoken to in stern tones. Like a child who has knowingly committed a misdeed. Actually it is my mother who usually takes me to task for striving to pass off such exaggerated [...]
Change up! Jonas Hellborg is a Swedish bass guitarist. He has collaborated with everyone from Bill Laswell to John McLaughlin, Buckethead and Fazal Qureshi. Beginning his career in 1976 he joined Mahavishnu Orchestra in 1983 and remained a member until 1988. On this record, Hellborg - on acoustic bass - is joined by Tony Williams [...]
I had planned on spoofing The Frisky's Holiday Gift Guide last week after the website's slutty editoress Amelia IM'd me asking about gift ideas a girlfriend should by for a boy she's in a serious relationship with. After rattling off all the terrible gifts I've gotten from serious girlfriends in my life (a gold bracelet? [...]
I was sitting around the house the other day listening to music and one of my roommates spotted this record in a pile and said, "How do you know Quintron!?" to which I, naturally, responded, "Oh…you know Quintron?" in my typical sarcastic manner. Unfortunately for me, my roommate then let me know he actually KNOWS [...]
As many of you know, I have started a Christmas tradition in Los Angeles that involves costumed critters running rampant around the city, getting insanely drunk and bringing holiday cheer to various watering holes, alehouses and tap rooms. In the inaugural 2007 edition of MouseMas Eve I donned the mouse costume, drank at Little Joy [...]
By now your Christmas dinner is beginning to settle, the realization that you might have to go to work tomorrow is setting in, and your significant other is happy enough with her present to swallow your load. Ah, but the holiday weekend isn't quite over yet. We've still get ten more MP3s to listen to, [...]
You guys, I can't do this anymore. I can't give you descriptions of all these albums and post 30 or 40 MP3s along the way. It just takes too much time and effort. I'll try to make this a little bit more than just a list, because I want it to look a tiny bit [...]
Here's a record I was lucky enough to find cheap at a store in LA a few weeks ago. I try to consume - and by that I mean procure, not simply listen to - everything Achim Reichel-related. Why, you ask? Because the German musician/producer and songwriter was one of the most important figures in [...]
We all have female friends who are sexually active. Some of us have even seen them engage in intercourse, or worse, heard the gory details afterwards when it concerns a good friend of ours. Like I care what my friends' cocks look like or feel like. Isn't it just like a woman to think men [...]
When I was living in Jersey and doing most of my record/CD shopping in New York City, you could find this CD anywhere for super cheap. At one point the Academy CD store had cases of them, and you could buy as many copies as you wanted for about ninety-nine cents. Now that it's out-of-print [...]
As one of the world's foremost tastemakers (there's me, and then there's Rachel Zoe, and then there's Fergus Henderson, and then there's everyone else) people often ask me what I think about stuff. They ask me what I'm watching, what I'm reading, what I'm listening to, what I'm drinking, what I'm wearing (underage girls are [...]
You know what they never address on the Survivor season finales? What happens to the digestive systems of the last three contestants after 39 days of near-starvation, when they get that final breakfast delivered to them. Because I know if I lived off of only rice and fruit for over a month, the first time [...]
• "Do couples influence each other's drinking habits?" Must you even ask such a preposterous question, Newswise? Of course they do! I could never count the amount of times I've been driven to drink by girls I dated. I'm not saying binging when you're pissed off or upset is a good thing, but there's definitely [...]
Swan Fungus
Sleigh Bells - Demons (Official Music Video)
The Rains of Castamere by The National
A-Trak & Dillon Francis - "Money Makin'" (Official Video)
DIIV "How Long Have You Known?" (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
Nas - Daughters
Bison - Quill
Neutral Milk Hotel- Aeroplane Over the Sea
Shinichi Osawa – Big Beach Mix 2012
Mr Fogg - Eleven
