The Big # 4...

So here I am presenting a pretty rock and rollin' mix to commemorate the beginning of my (and perhaps yours too) senior year of college. Now with most playlists I put up, at this time I would wax poetic about what the mix means to me but in all truth I don't have much to say, but I will try. It is a playlist about excitement and trepidation, certainly something anybody about to enter a new stage in their life feels. It has been a fun and strange three years. The places I've seen, the people that have come and gone, and the times that have been shared. I am happy to be reunited with old friends after a long summer in Chicago, don't know what I want to do after this year, and am pissed as all hell about taking hebrew again... That pretty much sums it up

Here are some key tracks:
Destroy The Heart - House of Love
Knuckles - The Hold Steady
We're Almost There - Michael Jackson
Paris (Aeroplane Remix feat. Au Revoir Simone) - Friendly Fires


THE MIX

Destroy The Heart 2:40 House of Love 12" A side
What Ever Happened? 2:50 The Strokes Room On Fire
What Am I Fighting For? (LA Priest Remix) 3:39 Unklejam What Am I Fighting For? CDS
Dont change your plans 5:11 Ben Folds Five The unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
September Gurls 2:48 Big Star #1 Record / Radio City
In The Fade 4:26 Queens of the Stone Age Rated R
Rock And Roll Remedy 4:09 Alpha Blondy Revolution
Range Life 4:55 Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Waterlooville 2:19 The Minders Cul-de-Sacs & Dead Ends
We're Almost There 3:45 Michael Jackson The Motown Years
Ashes To Ashes 4:22 David Bowie The Singles Collection CD 2
03 - Mr. HUDSON & THE LIBRARY - Too Late, Too Late 3:08 Mr. Hudson & the Library
Brian and Robert 3:03 Phish The Story of the Ghost
Fake Empire 3:25 The National Boxer
Gimmie Panic 3:13 Perspects The Third and Final Report-EP
Knuckles 3:46 The Hold Steady Almost Killed Me
Paris (Aeroplane Remix Feat. Au Revoir Simone) 7:43 Friendly Fires discodust.blogspot.com


-MC Sauce

Peach-Tomato Salsa

So I have been absent from this site for a while. I was out of town for a bit, then took a conscious break to build up the creative juices so to speak. But this week I have been cooking a bit, I made a red mole sauce for grilled Chicken two nights ago that was very good and I may share it with you one day. Also tonight I prepared a peach tomato salsa for some grilled halibut, and because that particular recipe is fresher in my mind and fresher for the season. If you were unaware we are now at the peak of the few but glorious weeks of peach season. There is no fruit more succulent or flavor as divine as a perfectly ripe peach. Whether you like to eat them refrigerated or at room temperature a word to the unwise you best bring a paper towel during this season, the wise already knew this. Luckily for us the bounty of juice and supple flesh provides the perfect foundation for a salsa of the decidedly sweeter, but equally as savory variety. This salsa is perfect on any chicken, fish, or even the dark charry flavor of grilled mushrooms. This is a good recipe to practice knife skills because there is a lot of dicing involved.

2 peaches finely diced

2 plum tomatoes finely diced

1 small red onion finely chopped

chopped mint or basil

1 finely chopped jalapeno pepper (seeded, or not if you are VERY adventurous, or partially seeded as I plan to do next time)

juice of 1 lime

salt

pepper

sugar

Just combine the above ingredients in a bowl and let sit for a bit so the flavors combine.

P.S. Congrats to my longtime favorite chef, Rick Bayless on his recent triumph on Top Chef Masters!! I can't wait to see what the am's will be doing this season.

Old Town School at the Dakhla Festival 2009: Folk Diplomacy in Morroco

So these are some very cool videos by my friend Nashma Carrera formerly of the Old Town School of Folk Music

featuring Chris Walz (also from the Old Town) on the banjo. This is from a trip to the Dakhla Festival in Morroco

funded by the MacArthur Foundation to build a relationship between the Old Town and the Casablanca Music

Conservatory along with finding new groups to bring to the school for their ongoing world music series. This is a

French/Morrocan band, I cant really tell you the name, but they are really cool. If you like these Nashma has a lot more really awsome

that I didn't post here but you should definitely check out.

OMFG...

I thought I would share this awesome blog with you. With this post the summer of soul has perhaps reached its precipice. Now if there is anyone who reads sound out loud and says they don't listen to much soul music you will be dutifully flaggellated by the almighty god of funk (who if you are not in the know goes by the name of Afro-Buddha).

This site is whole soul discographys of the biggest soul names out there from James Brown, to Al Green, to the Ohio Players, to Grant Green... OMFG.

Here is also a really really good world, jazz, and roots blog with whole albums that linked me to this amazing site.

More 45's: The Small Faces

So as promised here is another 45 that I ripped on to my computer. This is the Itchycoo Park single from the band The Small Faces. Despite their current relative anonymity they were an important and influential band in both the mod and britpop scene, going on to join up with Rod Stewart to form the seminal band the Faces. The B-side, I'm Only Dreaming, is a little interesting. As the song starts off you first get the impression that this is going to be some mushy, written in a half hour, love song b-side but once the bridge comes the song moves somewhere good. If you can wait forty seconds (which sadly asks a lot of people) you get an idea of the motion of the song, and it moves somewhere good, so when the second equally gushing verse comes in everything is hunky dory. As far as the a-side goes, standard upbeat pop. It is complete with a frolicking verse, catchy chorus and psychedelic flange in the bridge. I think it is actually pretty goofy to tell you the truth, mainly due to how it is sung (just listen to how he sings the words "Itchycoo Park"), but fun nonetheless.

Itchycoo Park - The Small Faces

I'm Only Dreaming - The Small Faces