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Kwik Chek sandwich sucks, Turpentine Brothers Rock

2007-06-05T06:44:00.000-07:00

Yesterday the Kwik Chek muffaletta sucked. Bread not toasted. What used to be a sure thing is no more. 2nd in a row that has disappointed, and unless I know who's making the thing, from now on I'll pass. Sorry Kwik Chek.

In happier news, tonight THE TURPENTINE BROTHERS ARE PLAYING IN MEMPHIS!

yes!

We Were 138!

2007-06-01T13:04:00.001-07:00

yep, Hoppe & I hit up some ribs... and WE WERE 138!

MAGNUM... and MIKE POST

2007-06-01T13:01:00.000-07:00

Fantastic single... "Gumbus Red" is amazing!

KENNY ROGERS!

2007-06-01T12:54:00.000-07:00

merch it up with THE GAMBLER!

(not sure if this merchandise is still available... investigate at your own risk!)

May 30th

2007-05-30T17:41:00.000-07:00

We were slow with no customers but had mail orders to crank out, then our Cheater Slicks, Revolver, and One-Stop orders showed up. The dude that put out those Bullet In The Head & Retainers 7"s came by and bought some stuff, and Alix scored Lotte Golden and Jet (70s glammers not the new rockers) and put her big bag of stuff on hold back behind the counter. We did play the Sparks bootleg. Amazing radio show... I don't know how they can sing like that for an entire set. Some rockabilly-looking dude with a woman with bright pink hair brought in a whole bunch of mediocre 90s grind, pop punk, and florida punk. The Crumbs 10" comes back! Yes, they played with Teengenerate in Birmingham. Then one of the Vile Nation guys brought some punkers over and they bought the LSD March record we got in before I could check it out. Damn. John played Blasting Concept 2 lp and we tried to identify the bands. I got Wurm, he got Overkill. I had guessed St Vitus. Stupid! I played Bo Diddley. Andy & Candace came by and bought a buncha Quintron, Terry Manning, and other great records including Blasting Concept I. I priced all those damn cds. They'll be on the cart tomorrow. Wreckless Eric Big Smash dbl cd at the right price. YEAH! A family from New Orleans on a family vacation hell came by to check out the coin-operated Elvis Impersonator shrine. They were surprised I didn't know some band in New Orleans who plays on Disney tour boats. They were off to look at the Crystal Grotto, Graceland, and the Statue of Liberty holding a cross at Winchester & Kirby Parkway, after reading about all this stuff on the Roadside America website. They were likably clueless. John left to go eat hot wings at the Buc. Some guy just came in after we closed and sold more electro/80s pop like Atlantic Starr that came from Jelly's store in Hawaii. Bizarre. I'm rocking the William Robertson (Cecil Barfield in disguise! Thanks Adam!) album. Mush city! One more beer, shut down the register, and I'm outta here.

Jeff & Ross at the Buc tonight!

GONER NEON!!!!

2007-05-29T17:33:00.001-07:00

there are few among us as saintly as DUSTIN CROPS,
drummer for the mighty BLACK ROSE BAND and creator
of the godlike GONER NEON SIGN!

THANKS DUSTIN!

McNichol Mania!

2007-05-22T15:36:00.000-07:00

Two separate fan clubs to join.

Will it be Jimmy, or Kristy?

Or both?

Which poster is your favorite?

Random Image #42

2007-05-22T15:33:00.000-07:00

John thinks this could be a Pavement-influenced cover art from the 90s.
1990s or 1918, It looks pretty good to me.

Random Archive Item: Slash T-shirts offer

2007-05-18T14:00:00.000-07:00

It's the SLASH insert from the Decline of Western Civilization lp!
Get your Germs, Gun Club, Blasters, and , uh, Blurt t-shirts !
(note: offer assumed not to still be valid.)

BOSTON CHINKS!

2007-03-03T16:45:00.000-08:00

Someone was running a little late!

TYLER KEITH!

2007-03-03T16:44:00.000-08:00

GOLIGHTLY KILLS IT!

2007-03-03T14:23:00.000-08:00

ROSS THE BOSS JOHNSON + JOE T take notes as Golightly goes off... pop style!

JEFF GOLIGHTLY + BRITNEY FOX!

SCOTT ROGERS & JOE T realize their powerpop band needs some work!

HOLY SHIT! THE CRIME! HARMONIES ? YEAH!!!

POP NIRVANA!
MEMPHIS' CRIME!!!!!

(hope to post video of "ICU" soon!)

BIRTHDAY STUFF!

2007-03-03T13:10:00.000-08:00

who doesn't like cupcakes?
who

then came bronson!

Sam from Oscars partyin' DOWN!

Scott Rogers, powerpopper.

Negative Trend in the house!

More COUGARS!

2007-03-03T13:07:00.000-08:00

Zac checks out his new favorite band!

Cougars w/Golightly!

Rockin the Register... HOPPE!

Cougars!

2007-03-03T13:03:00.000-08:00

ABE!

BRUCE!

BRUCE's Cake!

Cougars rule the Memphis powerpop world!

GONER 3rd BIRTHDAY!!!!

2007-03-03T10:28:00.000-08:00

It's on!

Expertly decorated by Eric & John!

Balloon-mania! All blown up by lung-rocker Hoppe!

Adventures in Meat, Part 2

2007-03-01T17:47:00.000-08:00

Ms. Kitty Lynn telephoned to say that she'd had a vision. A vision of meat. The problem was, she didn't have a grill to cook it on. So, we invited her over.

She'd dreamed of stuffing a pork tenderloin with goat cheese, green apples, jalapenos, rosemary, and thyme. We'd never heard of such a thing. She brought all the ingredients. Two pork tenderloins, actually, because they usually come in pairs.

The tenderloins were each butterflied and filled with the goat cheese mixture. Then they were put on top of each other like a goddamn sandwich!

Resisting the urge to eat this thing right then and there, we then tied it up with twine and threw it on the hot grill, covered, for about 20 minutes or so.

Also on the grill were sweet potatoes, yukon golds, and purple okinawan sweet potatoes.

Here's what it all looked right before we savaged it.

This was a very successful and well executed meat concept. Congrats to Lynn on the grand vision.

Classy Craig sports MEMPHIS in Italy!

2007-02-21T09:40:00.000-08:00

Classy Craig Daniels of the Leather Uppers relaxing in Regio Emilia in Italy wearing a favorite MEMPHIS shirt, available via Goner!

Kween

2007-02-09T20:55:00.000-08:00

I like Queen, but I love KWEEN!

Pablo Cruise- Love Will Find A Way

2007-02-09T11:11:00.000-08:00

thanks to Andrew Earles.

Enjoy your afternoon!

drummerboydeluxe (3 months ago)
Great band, Great song, What happened to these guys?
Anyone know? Singers got alot of soul. Love it!!

Steak Drapes

2007-02-07T19:20:00.000-08:00

Beef has been on my mind lately, as it usually is. Specifically I've been thinking and daydreaming about the eye of round cut, something that is often sold for the bargain price of $1.99/lb at my local grocer. The problem is I can never seem to figure out how to cook one. Roasting/rotissering it usually tends to make it tough, as does cutting it into steaks. You can stew it, but it's pretty lean and doesn't work as well as the more inexpensive chuck roast. Yessir, this meat is a doozy. So one day last week, the idea popped into my head to use it for carne asada. I couldn't stop thinking about it, so I bought one.

To make carne asada or beef fajitas the proper way you're supposed to have flank steak or skirt steak, cuts of meat that are difficult to find in my grocer's cooler. Even when it's stocked, it is absurdly overpriced. Skirt steak is used for fajitas because it's thin, lean, and stringy. It absorbs marinade well, and becomes tender and delicious, especially when cut into strips against the grain of the meat. Well, the eye of round is lean and stringy as well. Problem is, it's not thin. It's about the same shape and size as my bicep. Not really conducive to throwing on the grill.

Luckily, I have a sharp knife and an imagination filled with beef fantasies. I lay awake at night thinking about it; how I can turn an eye of round roast into a makeshift strip steak. The idea is simple enough- cut it in a spiral fashion, the long way and unravel it as if it were a meaty magna carta. Would this work? Or would I literally butcher a perfectly good cut of meat into oblivion? Well, there was only one way to find out. After a few pints of beer I got my knife out and slapped the meat onto the cutting board.

I wish I had photographed this procedure so that one might have a better understanding of how I did it, but my hands were too messy to hold a camera. It wasn't all that hard, I just sliced and unravelled, trying as hard as I could to maintain a uniform thickness of meat throughout. I like to think I succeeded on this front.

The end result of the butchering could only be described in one way: MEAT CURTAINS. Actually, just one large meat curtain, which I proceeded to cut in two. I then prepared a marinade thusly:

1 cup fresh lime juice
1/4 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup olive oil
1/4 cup red wine vinegar
3 large cloves of garlic, minced
pile of black pepper
dash of cumin
dash of coriander
dash of oregano

I put the meat curtains in two separate ziploc bags and filled with equal amounts of marinade. I froze one of the bags for some other time. The other bag, I put in the fridge overnight. This is what it looks like after taking out of the fridge. The meat is about 1/2"-3/4" thick.

I grilled over an extremely hot fire for a short period of time and then let it rest while I cooked the onions. Then I sliced it (against the grain!) into thin strips.

It came out pretty good. If I did it again, which I probably will, I'd eliminate the red wine vinegar, no need for that. It covers up the delicious lime taste. I'd also cook it hotter, the outside of the meat wasn't quite charred enough, although the inside was nice and pink.

So there you have it, a way to make the boring and unversatile eye of round cut into something more exciting. I would venture to say that it's more tender and juicy than your average flank or skirt steak, and cheaper as well.

? is a Hero of Mine

2007-02-06T17:48:00.000-08:00

Question Mark is a hero of mine.

Tilton In Tongues

2007-02-06T17:08:00.000-08:00

thanks to Roastingears, who put this together with RON EASLEY... Psychodelic Tiltonics!

Wonder Spot Is Closing, But Mystery Spot is Hiring!

2007-02-06T07:57:00.000-08:00

As reported by the Associated Press, Wisconsin's WONDER SPOT is closing its doors... sad news for fans of weird attractions in the Dells.
Over in Santa Cruz, the MYSTERY SPOT is hiring... (thanks jahna!)
(more discussion @ goner board

Here We Are

2007-02-04T11:51:00.000-08:00

"Here we are.

Where are we?" - Ken Nordine

CONDITION GREEN (thanks Jason!)