Happy Happy Happy

Hey,

sorry for the delay, 2 jobs, grad school apps, meh...

Anyways, just so you know this is a SWEET POTATO PIE recipe.

first step is the crust:

buy a plane ticket to paris (one way is fine)

go to the cheapest little grocery store you can find and buy a roll of dough and a square pie pan.

since you live in a tiny apartment without an oven and just two hot plates and a sink get a big frying pan going and brown the crust in a pan with some butter (im serious just fry the dough first, but leave it soft enough, so you could still shape the dough a little)

on to the filling:

now you're still in Paris, so even though you dedicated an entire week to finding pumpkin and have gone to every specialty/world food store in the region you come up empty handed, go get some sweet potatoes.

peel and boil in A big pan until mushy mushy mushy

leave just a tiny bit of water in the pan and mix with a healthy amount of butter (either healthy healthy healthy or healthy as in OMG that's like a stick of butter, your call) brown sugar, maple syrup, vanilla extract, caramel, basically whatever sweet stuff you have on hand + cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and a little ginger to help cut the sweetness.
this should be thick enough to be a reasonable pie filling.

now here's the tricky part:

you've now got to put your fried dough into the pie pan and try to smush it in there without breaking it and then pour in your sweet potato mush and fold over any excess dough onto the sweet potato so it might look like a giant half sweet potato turnover if you have a lot of dough left over.

THEN put the pie pan (with your nascent pie in it) directly on a hot plate at low temp covered with the giant dinner plate that you've been eating every meal off of for the last 8 months.

Cook this (maybe with marshmallows on top of any exposed sweet potato) until the crust is brown and it seems like something that someone else would consider eating.

For added effect, drink 4-5 bottles of wine with friends before consumption, that's what keeps em coming back

Happy Thanksgiving!

Max

Getting into a groove

This is going to be a short post. Later tonight I have my first ever paying gig as a DJ. Once in Paris I got a beer and a shot for winning a one man ipod battle which was nothing like this:



Anyways tonight will be similar to the above video since its the 41st high school reunion of some Atlanta area high school (I sure hope it's a mixed class or I won't get to play "say it Loud"). A gig is a gig though so no complaining, instead I thought I'd just drop in with some good links and pics:

An article about the continuing politicization of higher education:

http://patrickdeneen.blogspot.com/2009/07/end-of-education.html

Newly discovered reactionary blog:

http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/

Yet another argument for "Chapelle Show" as voice of a generation:



Currently Reading:



My new pickup line:

In Search of

So in case you haven't noticed, and you have, because you're me, because no one else reads this blog. Since its inception my blog has been searching for meaning, music is important, so is my shitty poetry, so are bicycles, who can keep track. So here's the scoop:

I read a lot of blogs. That selection probably says as much about my blogging interests as anything else up to this point. So I'm going to aggregate for a while, throwing my own shit in when I feel like it. So today's an image party.

So This Happened

I don't know if I've mentioned it before on this site but one of my chief hobby-like preoccupations is cycling and over the last year I've moved from road cycling to primarily fixed gear city and path riding while trying to nail some of the tricks that they talk about here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/nyregion/12bikes.html?scp=3&sq=fixed%20gear&st=cse

A full-fledged multimedia feature by the nytimes on fixed gear freestyling. I've spent more time than I'd often like to admit watching bike-trick videos, and from what I can tell it doesn't get much better than this guy though:



Though I'm not sure what this guy has against roads, I can't argue with his use of "Funeral" by Band of Horses, gives a timeless quality to the video.

Fear not though, this blog will not turn into another fixed gear bike blog, though I might as well take a second to shout out the best of the bunch:

Bike Snob NYC
NoBrakesATL
Trick Track
Tarck (go to the forums)

For now I'm a lonely fixer in the suburbs, don't see many of our kind around these parts.

The Biggest Ship

If we were to imagine for a second that Port Sonic was a real port somewhere that all the world's sound artists came to on their vessels in search of community and each other, whose ship could possibly be larger than the King's? Obviously not Paul McCartney, MJ bought his songs out from under him! Jagger, please his solo album didn't even go gold, "Invincible" (Jackson's last release of original material) went 9X Platinum, how many acts have done that since then? Who else would come in on a California King sized yacht? Madonna? Bowie? Dylan?? Ah now we're getting somewhere, Jackson's death seems to have earned him the title of all-time greatest entertainer, possibly putting his name in a pantheon populated by the likes of Shakespeare, Muhammad Ali, Beethoven, and any other geniuses that you can think of. But I still think that Dylan is the all-time greatest songwriter. However Jackson wrote songs too and did much much more for way more people. These past couple days have been incredible for music fans around the world and for the next few days Port Sonic will be one man's homage to the most famous man in the world, Mr. Michael Jackson.

More bonnaroo stuff

In case you missed it, Triumph made it out to Bonnaroo this year. I was at Bonnaroo and I never saw him. Though I'm pretty sure I met that girl in the last scene, she was pretty funny in person, though she doesn't really get any jokes in the clip, anyhoo enjoy!

On Graduation

On the graduation exit survey at my university there are a lot of important questions, perhaps none more so than this pair found at the bottom of the 4th page:


Number of times per semester you attended events relevant to your academic interests:

Number of times per semester you used the Student Recreation Center:

Y'all, I'm not even sure that I know what an « event related to my academic interest » looks like, but I know for a fact that the rec center is where I spend two hours a day, five days a week sweating it out while trying in vain to make eye contact with this freshman Indian girl who I'm not man enough to try and talk to. So after some poor math and hazy recollections of Jimmy Carter and watching the inauguration at a pizza party, the numbers don't bode well for my propensity to self-identify as an intellectual. Ouch!

Thanks Georgia State, you (and by you I mean we) have a really great and helpful Political Science department that fully supported me. However I must admit that I wasn't sure whether to use "that" or “which” in the last sentence. Is that on me (and by me I mean us)?

Anyhoo, I was at bonnaroo this last weekend and I gotta say that the best show I saw all weekend was the Beastie Boys. As I heard their set start I was still at employee camping and I had to ditch my friend who was dragging his feet and head right over to the main stage to catch their set. The Beasties are one of my all time favorite bands, one of the few from middle school that I still listen to, I even got into their back catalog at a young age, going so far as to buy an old cassette with "egg raid on mojo" and "cookie puss" back in eighth grade. So I was thrilled to see the beasties switch roles, sometimes mcs, sometimes punk-brats, then funk-jazzers, always Beastie, always Brooklyn. Mix Master Mike was afforded buku time to shine and left me with the impression that he was probably the best DJ at Bonnaroo; Oakenfold, Girl Talk, sorry. Other highlights were Crystal Castles, MGMT, Of Montreal, Wilco and whoever's playing drums for the mars volta, that guy was sick.

Look for this blog to get more serious soon, regular updates, reviews, free music, the whole nine yards.

Aliens vs. Predator vs. Terminator vs. Daft Punk vs. The Internet

STRANGERS SAIL ON DISPARATE SHIPS

SOME WORKING, WALKING, SITTING, STARING

WHEN YOU LOVE NO NEED FOR TALKING

BUT YOU JUST CAN'T HELP YOURSELF

I'LL TAKE US THERE BUT THEN NO FARTHER

FRIDAY NIGHT'S A BIG NON-STARTER

WAIT AROUND TO HEAR THAT BIG BEAT

NEVER HAPPENS GO BACK TO SLEEP

WAKE UP YOU TOOK ALL THE COVERS

TALK IN YOUR SLEEP OF OTHER LOVERS

Inspiration, Perspiration

IT'S SO HARD TO TALK TO GIRLS BECAUSE I ASSUME THAT THEY HAVE THIS OTHER LIFE. HOW CAN I TALK TO GIRLS BETTER? MAYBE I'LL SING IN A BAND AND THEN THEY'LL LOVE ME...AND WHEN THEY LOVE ME NO NEED FOR SAYING STUPID SHIT AND BEING TOO STONED AND AKWKARD TO SAY HELLO.

I KNOW YOU'VE SEEN ME

STANDING THERE

COLORFUL AS SHIT

COOL HAIR

I AIN'T TALKIN TO NOONE

CUZ I CAN'T

CUZ I CAN'T

CU CU CU CUZ I'M

STONED AND AWKWARD

STONED AND AWKWARD

STONED AND AWKWARD

I'LL PICK YOU OUT

YEAH OUT OF THE ROOM

THERE'S A LOT OF BODIES MOVING

BUT YOURS IS THE ONE I CHOOSE

DON'T CARE IF YOU'RE BLONDE

OR ABOUT YOUR SHOES

THE PRETTIEST THINGS

ARE THERE TO BE USED

BUT I DON'T GIVE A SHIT

I DON'T WANNA MOVE

CUZ I CAN'T

CUZ I CAN'T

CU CU CU CUZ I'M

STONED AND AWKWARD

STONED AND AWKWARD

STONED AND AWKWARD

Grand Hustle's next move

So this is the new young dro track that has already been reviewed by village voice, cocaine blunts, amongst others. The difference between me and them, I went to middle school with one half of two band geeks, the production-duo responsible for the warbly space-banger beat. Since Dro and Young LA teamed up on the "White Boy Black Boy" mixtape (and with TI m.i.a. for the time being) the streets of Atlanta are hungry for Dro's album which should be dropping any day now.

Here's a taste

Everybody talk about

So everyone in the world seems to be talking about this newly relaeased lost gem from a band called death so much that I can't even write about it. Which has lead me to write on what I'm listening to right now who is none other than The Jam. After a visit to my parents house last weekend I absconded with a stack of choice LPs in great condition. The breadth of the collection is extraordinary, from live Eric Dolphy cuts to 80s Acid Techno to venerated vinyl mainstays like golden era Santana ans Emerson Lake & Palmer. It's what records are all about. They've broken a rule of technological consumer habit by maintaining their appeal and relevany across generations.
It looks like this CD is out of print or at least there's a version of it with some vinyl only tacks, which means thatI might be able to put them up legally, does anyone know anything about that? If so, hit me up please! I guess I'll have to get vinyl to harddrive conversion, man that just seems like it's gonna be horrible quality.
Ah gotta clean my room and get ready for big interview monday.