Triptych #2
1) The Online Archive of the radio food program, "Good Food"
One of the thing I love about winter, is that with more time spent in, there is more time to cook. One of the biggest inspirations I currently have has been finding the download archive of all of the episodes of KCRW's radio program called "Good Food." Hosted by Evan Klineman who runs an cal-italian restaurant called Angelique Cafe in Los Angeles, this program has a joy of food and the farmer's market in its heart and an insanely diverse palette of interests, ranging from reviews of crazy chile and garlic slathered whole lobsters at tiny korean joints by Johnathan Golde to interviews with the local farmers, to kitchen lessons with the great chefs [both large and small] of Los Angeles, cookbook reviews, stories on how fish get caught and transported, essays on funny kitchen mistakes, introductions to curious ingredients (PERSIMMONS!), recipes, and everything in the culinary and food worlds. And best of all, hundreds of hour-long episodes are free at their archive at http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/gf
2)Bob Black's essay "Abolition of Work"
Here's an essay that will help you have some perspective on your New Year's resolutions, and sure to provide countless hours of booze-fueled discussions at parties. In the vein of Jonathan Swift's satirical essay's, but like Swift, only satirical on the outside, anarchist Bob Black eloquently, and amusingly at turns addresses, critiques, contextualizes, and fantasizes about a work-less utopia and why we spend so much time working in our current society. And how little it often gets us. In his own words, "Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment. Conservatives support right-to-work laws. Following Karl Marx’s wayward son-in-law Paul Lafargue I support the right to be lazy. Leftists favor full employment. Like the surrealists - except that I’m not kidding - I favor full unemployment." Read it while pre-drinking at http://www.inspiracy.com/black/abolition/abolitionofwork.html. Black is one of the more astute, realistic, and honest writers in the contemporary anarchy community, so go get in a productive argument with someone over a glass of good beer.
3)Saint the Fire Show's album "Saint the Fire Show":
This album is the perfect accompaniment to your revere after all the guests have left or passed out at your party, you're sitting on the ground in front of your door drinking tepid champagne in the winter wind. Probably the most intriguing, complex, yet still stripped-down music I've heard from any band in the rock genre in years, this is at turns, haunting, raging, intricate, mysterious and jarring. From it's opening, empty, harsh layers of overdubbed vocals the complex compositions in each track twist and submerge with a love of empty space, roots hints, alien melodies, and a truly diverse sonic palate that has learned the lessons, but not forced to emulate, Sonic Youth, Birthday Party, My Bloody Valentine or the Raincoats. Think Death Cab for Cutie, but so sonically adventurous, liltingly haunting, intricate, grating and untraditional that your indie friends wouldn't even like it. A refreshing reminder to start your year that even the standard rock instrumentation (plus a sampler) in a cheap recording studio can sound so radically new. http://www.amazon.com/saint-fire-show-Fire-Show/dp/B000069V2S.
One of the thing I love about winter, is that with more time spent in, there is more time to cook. One of the biggest inspirations I currently have has been finding the download archive of all of the episodes of KCRW's radio program called "Good Food." Hosted by Evan Klineman who runs an cal-italian restaurant called Angelique Cafe in Los Angeles, this program has a joy of food and the farmer's market in its heart and an insanely diverse palette of interests, ranging from reviews of crazy chile and garlic slathered whole lobsters at tiny korean joints by Johnathan Golde to interviews with the local farmers, to kitchen lessons with the great chefs [both large and small] of Los Angeles, cookbook reviews, stories on how fish get caught and transported, essays on funny kitchen mistakes, introductions to curious ingredients (PERSIMMONS!), recipes, and everything in the culinary and food worlds. And best of all, hundreds of hour-long episodes are free at their archive at http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/gf
2)Bob Black's essay "Abolition of Work"
Here's an essay that will help you have some perspective on your New Year's resolutions, and sure to provide countless hours of booze-fueled discussions at parties. In the vein of Jonathan Swift's satirical essay's, but like Swift, only satirical on the outside, anarchist Bob Black eloquently, and amusingly at turns addresses, critiques, contextualizes, and fantasizes about a work-less utopia and why we spend so much time working in our current society. And how little it often gets us. In his own words, "Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment. Conservatives support right-to-work laws. Following Karl Marx’s wayward son-in-law Paul Lafargue I support the right to be lazy. Leftists favor full employment. Like the surrealists - except that I’m not kidding - I favor full unemployment." Read it while pre-drinking at http://www.inspiracy.com/black/abolition/abolitionofwork.html. Black is one of the more astute, realistic, and honest writers in the contemporary anarchy community, so go get in a productive argument with someone over a glass of good beer.
3)Saint the Fire Show's album "Saint the Fire Show":
This album is the perfect accompaniment to your revere after all the guests have left or passed out at your party, you're sitting on the ground in front of your door drinking tepid champagne in the winter wind. Probably the most intriguing, complex, yet still stripped-down music I've heard from any band in the rock genre in years, this is at turns, haunting, raging, intricate, mysterious and jarring. From it's opening, empty, harsh layers of overdubbed vocals the complex compositions in each track twist and submerge with a love of empty space, roots hints, alien melodies, and a truly diverse sonic palate that has learned the lessons, but not forced to emulate, Sonic Youth, Birthday Party, My Bloody Valentine or the Raincoats. Think Death Cab for Cutie, but so sonically adventurous, liltingly haunting, intricate, grating and untraditional that your indie friends wouldn't even like it. A refreshing reminder to start your year that even the standard rock instrumentation (plus a sampler) in a cheap recording studio can sound so radically new. http://www.amazon.com/saint-fire-show-Fire-Show/dp/B000069V2S.