So, it's not very adventurous, really, but I have this dish I like to make.  It involves a ton of carrots, a couple of ham steaks, a bag o'cheddar cheese (shredded) and various and sundry foodstuffs (flour, an onion, a half stick of butter, milk, wheat thins crumbled up).  I bake it for a half hour and I have this yummy carrot/ham/cheese ( Read more... )

   So as I continue my encoding adventures (encoding my music collection on computer), I come to the F section ( Read more... )

    I've been a fan of Z-Trip for about a decade now (damn, it's been a minute).

Got an email the other day about a mix he's been doing for some fundraisers and he wanted to share/disseminate it.  Even if you're not of my liberal bent, you have to appreciate the mix - it's great fun like most of what Z-Trip does.

http://djztrip.com/ ( Read more... )

...the unexpected awesome sample in a funky-ass breakdown in a record you bought for an entirely different track.

Sometimes, I'm just good like that.  Wasn't even one of my go-to artists, although it's on Drop Music which is such a dope-ass label.

Werd.

Happy holiday to all of ya.

...when I can let a batch of records I ordered this long ago sit on my turntable without playing them.  Never mind the excuses about needing the mixer for the weekly gig, in the old days I would've had things plugged in and ready within ten minutes of cracking the package open ( Read more... )

   Um, yeah.  My body is definitely feeling the effects of my hard-core shovel workout this morning.  I knew when I was finishing that it was a good workout - lots of sweatiness, a pleasant ache in my arms.  My form was very good, because I'm not feeling any ache in my lower back and lots in my arms and the backs of my legs.   These places in the ( Read more... )

  After a short-circuit emotionally last night that left me waking up with "frog eyes" (I cried so much before bed that I woke up with my eyes still swollen), I am back on the update/renovation circuit ( Read more... )