For the first time maybe ever, I really like my job
Catherine learning to make savory veggie tarts
The San Rafael farmers market
Sol Food continues to be awesome every time
The food at AVA in San Anselmo
I finally found good California beer this year (not as easy as one might think)
Our new place is awesome. My work room actually has space for all of my stuff
Getting to know Barron over this last year has been great
Comic-Con 2008
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Music related good things
Cex – Dannibal LP (The guy just keeps cranking out amazing work)
Lustmord – Other
Nine Inch Nails – The Slip and Ghosts I-IV
Portishead – Third
The Autumn Wind Productions mailorder
Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words – Lost in Reflections LP
Discovering the parts of the Black Sabbath back catalogue that I hadn’t heard before (Dehumanizer and the Tony Martin albums in particular)
Sigur Rós – Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
Mogwai – The Hawk is Howling
Gnarls Barkley – The Odd Couple
Uruk-Hai – Upon The Elysian Fields
Telefon Tel Aviv – Helen of Troy (I can’t wait to hear the rest of this album!)
Autechre – Quaristice (Of the last 3 Ae releases, all of which I thought were great, this is the one I’ve been listening to the least for some reason, its still very good. Apparently the other material they released around the same time (call quadrangle maybe?) is even better. I need to track that stuff down.)
I’ve been pretty busy with work and moving into a nicer place. Soon there will be something meaningful posted here again, just not right now. Other projects have been occupying all my free time.
I’m working on getting the first synapse.project tape together. Its gonna be awesome!
I’m a little freaked out about this global financial collapse, but I’m not sure why.
Part of me thinks that wiping the slate clean is the best thing that could happen to us, the other part of me is reminding that part of me that even if that happened, we’d still have cities.
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2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Optional extra: Post a comment here at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.
The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred:
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake
So I have always been interested in politics as a system of control, but have always felt like I was above the squabble of American politics in a way. I never thought that I would ever give a fuck who was president, until Obama. The guy honestly gives me goosebumps (in a good way) when he speaks. He hasn’t said how yet, but he’s said what he wants, and so far I agree. I can’t describe how remarkable that is for me. I’m willing to give the man a try, which is a lot more than I can say for any other presidential nominee ever. I hated Clinton and I hated Kerry, I didn’t trust either of them from the beginning, but for some reason I totally believe that Barack will change the day to day life of everyone in this fucked up country of ours in a positive way.
I am not only going to register to vote this year, I am actually going to vote.
I’ve watched almost an hour of coverage so far this time, I probably wouldn’t have seen any of it, but then I found out that BADMITTEN (Badminton) IS AN OLYMPIC SPORT!!! Also, we found out last week that we have cable and didn’t know it.
But now I think I’m done this time around. I got sucked into the badmitten and ended up watching swimming for a while and volleyball and women’s softball (which was actually kind of cool, but the commercials just kill my attention span for it).
So for the rest of these games I’m going to following what’s going on by how loudly the neighbors in the house behind our place clap and yell at the TV when someone does something good.
