When last we left The Rest their new album, Seesaw, had just been rescued by the same company that retrieves airplane black box information. As we catch up with them now, they finally have a release date for Seesaw (June 19th via Auteur Recordings) and are in the process of revealing it, track-by-track, on their bandcamp page. Each week leading up to the release the [...]
While most people I work with have spent the last few weeks in bed with Mr. Grey, I’ve been wandering amongst the blueberry fields of Jim Minick. Jim was a professor who tried his hand at growing blueberries. 1,000 babies, made up of four different types, were planted in back of his house and organically grown so that people would have a place to pick. [...]
Meat eaters seem to have cornered the fast food market on little globs of happy meat that they can quickly pop into their mouths. First it was KFC with their popcorn chicken and Long John Silvers with whatever the hell they fried and served. Recently I’ve seen a number of commercials for Sonic selling their new pop ‘em meat fritters. These Sonic commercials usually involve [...]
Tomorrow La Masa of Sweden will release their new self-titled album (via A West Side Fabrication). It is a testament to band mate Fredrik Eriksson (who was also a former member of super-hyped punk-pop band Love is All). Frederik was the bassist/synth player for La Masa of Sweden and he suffered from severe depression. About a year ago his life was tragically cut short. The [...]
Some of my all time favorite meals are made with garbanzo beans. I thought, through years and years of practice, I had perfected them all. Hummus, chickpeas and spinach, falafel, chickpea stew, you name it and I probably boasted my expertise hard. But last week I realized that I had been a fool. These meals could get better. By using a pressure cooker. Despite railing [...]
In early April J-Fur and I made our way to Asheville, North Carolina to enjoy some mountain music and hippie food. Here is some of the best from that experience: Dessert has to come first. Namely the sweets and drinking chocolate available at French Broad Chocolate Lounge. I don’t even like chocolate and I liked the honey, lavendar drinking [...]
Last night Sweetwater Organic Community Farm in Tampa hosted their annual Pesto Festo. For the past 20 years the farm has celebrated the end of their season by hosting a night full of organic food, music, and prizes. Despite the somewhat pricey entry fee (20 dollars a person) I didn’t hesitate when I received the email about it. Sweetwater Farms provides an important service for [...]
“My salad days, when I was green in judgement and cold in blood…” -Cleopatra in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra Some days it seems that everyone is eating salad. Vanilla salad. The kind that is made with iceberg lettuce, a couple round tomatoes, some shredded carrot or thinly sliced cucumber and a packet of lite salad dressing on the side. I watch it being shoveled into [...]
I’m not going to sit here and pretend I was a Minor Threat fan my whole childhood. In truth, Minor Threat was one of the last punk bands I got into. By the time their discography hit my CD player I had been to so many hardcore places that my ears were ringing. But it was their song “Salad Days” which first got me thinking [...]
