heckasac

NOT a dim sum slut

2009-11-23T09:55:00.000-08:00

Hey look, BAR reviewed Thai Thai Express. I recommended it to him when I interviewed him. I'm glad he liked it. On that note, I had dim sum at New Canton on Sunday and they were really bringing it. I saw some new (to me) dishes, such as fried squid. Which I got and which was a mistake because it was soooo oily. But most of the food was delicious.

Yay! Thanksgiving! I only work Monday and Tuesday this week. Don't forget the Hmong New Year Festival starts on Thursday at Cal Expo. Admission is five bucks and the food, music and fashion are out of this world! Here's my post from last year to refresh your memories.

Sacramento a wonderful town, sing sing

2009-11-20T09:35:00.000-08:00

I don't know about you, but this picture says "Sacramento" to me.

Speaking of Sacramento, Sacramento's favorite band: Knock Knock is playing tonight at Luigis for three bucks with Two Sheds and Buildings Breeding. What else do ya have ta do? Nuttin!

On Saturday is Rick Ele's birthday. How old is he? Ageless.

I want that shirt

2009-11-19T13:11:00.000-08:00

Shannon over at I Love Hot Dogs watched Phenomenon (aka Creepers) on my rec. and she managed to capture the Bee Gees shirt in all its glory. Keep in mind that its presence in this scene was completely random. What does the girl say? I can't remember.

And here's the hot teacher in Armani that Olivia was trying to capture.

stupid safran foer!

2009-11-19T09:20:00.000-08:00

I was checking the comments under the long Mexico City post and Anna said the pig face picture nudged her closer to being a veggie. I don't know if she was serious but I have been thinking about this a lot lately. Pretty much because I've read like three different reviews and articles and excerpts from that new Jonathan Safran Foer book about that subject. I'm feeling guilty about meat eating lately! I don't cook meat at home that much, and when I do it's good quality stuff, but I know the meat that I eat out is farmed with terrible cruelty. I don't know what to do. I know the only way I can deal with it is by just ignoring it, because if I think about it I can't really justify it.

On that note, the worst thing I ate in Mexico City was at a taco cart where I accidentally got five tacos for 10 pesos! That's less than 20 cents a taco so you can imagine the quality. It was almost all fat and gristle. I choked down a couple to not hurt anyone's feelings but it was really gross.

questions

2009-11-18T13:33:00.001-08:00

Sorry, I'm boring now. I shot my wad with the Mexico posts. I haven't even unpacked my suitcases. I'm supposed to try to organize some day of blog action about the taco trucks but I feel like I don't know where to start. Is "blog action" an oxymoron? Am I? Did you know Knock Knock is playing Friday but it's not on undietacos? Somebody should fix that, STAT. Do you know what STAT stands for? It's an abbreviation of the latin word "statim" that means "immediately according to wikipedia.

putting the "fun" back in "funicular"

2009-11-17T10:26:00.000-08:00

OK, Guanajuato. Here's the thing-a few people have raved to me about this city. It's around 5 hours away from Mexico City, a pretty loooonnnggg trip when you are watching "What Happens In Vegas" in Spanish. It is CRAMMED with tourists. Mostly Mexican tourists. I didn't expect this for some reason. The streets are very narrow, and most businesses cater to the tourists, selling souvenirs, shoes, crap like that. There is relentless traffic from all the tourists, and the exhaust is overwhelming and gave me a headache when I walked anywhere. So even though it's very cute and picturesque, we left a day earlier than we had originally planned.

These charro beans were wayyy better than the ones in Mexico City. This was a great meal.
It came from this place. That means "The Wagon" You can see they fire roast the chickens.
I ate a horrible torta at this place, La Pulga, but there were pictures up of foxy Ricky Martin from when he ate there.
See? Picturesque.
Here's the university
We walked up in the hills to the mummy museum. That was the most fun part, especially since most tourists take a cab so it was just regular streets. I think this lady was selling homeopathic cures for all the problems listed below.
We came upon four weinerdogs living in a mini-dump! So sad. They just yapped at us.
The mummy museum. There is a fine line between "displaying" and "graverobbing" and this museum crossed it. Still it was cool. I will not include the pictures of the baby mummies because they might damage some tender sensibilities (email me if you want to see them).
Hey this guy needs some manscaping! (smiller hates people putting "man" in front of any term, it fills him with man-rage)

Wow, look at these mummies! I wonder how old they are? Only carbon dating will tell.

Ah, fuck you blogger, what are you doing? Anyway, I just erased on of my photos. There is a big cemetery in town and Day of the Dead had just passed. It was a picture of decorated graves. Some of the markers were extremely humble, such as the one below.

This was one of the best breakfasts I had. It was in a food court off one of the plazas. Chilaquiles.
There's a funicular to take you above the town.
This statue is up there.
See, funicular.

it's a long one

2009-11-16T11:34:00.000-08:00

I'm back!!!!!

There are so many things I want to say about Mexico City! Do not be afraid of Mexico City! OK, well Gbomb did puke out of her nose so be kind of afraid, but then she got medical care for two dollars so don't be very afraid!

It is crazy. It is huugggeeeee and so crammed with people you cannot believe it. If you are going, email me and I will set you up with suggestions. Go there! It is so cheap. Hotel rooms for 15 bucks?!?! Meals for like 4.

I'll just plunge into the pictures. Who knew that I would be so into Mexican sweets? These gelatin bunnies are from a place called Pasteleria Ideal. It's been around since 1927. We went because we were hanging out on this street and started to notice that EVERYONE who passed was carrying the same kind of pastry box.

It's a mob scene inside. They have a dumbwaiter, and people lurk by it waiting for the next cart of fresh-baked goods. When it comes out they start PUSHING to get entire trays. I got one of the fresh baked sweet rolls and I would push down anyone who got between me and one of them, too. And of course they are like a 25 each. Everything I got from there was delicious.

This was a guy being tough, doing pullups, next to his three poodles in sweaters. People would kind of bundle up, and bundle up their dogs because it's "cold" (actually about 75 degrees and sunny every day).

We went to a Yucatecan restaurant and the food was hella good. This is a cochinita pibil torta. That's pig cooked in banana leaves.
This is roasted chicken cooked in banana leaves. That's habanero salsa in the front. I think this was the only time I saw habanero anything, so it must be a Southern Mexico thing.
I was stoked to find this place because I read about it in a Diana Kennedy book that was published in the 8os. But since it was founded in 1874 I figured it would probably still be there.

It has lots of fancy candy and I especially like the candied fruit. On the front left are hollowed out, candied orange peels. Gbomb liked those the best. I'm partial to the candied lime peels stuffed with coconut.
We ate a LOT of street food. I hadn't expected there to be such an insane variety of it. How about for breakfast I'll just have the best tamale I've ever eaten-with coarse ground masa-that costs about 80 cents? OK, sounds good. Coffee that is not Nescafe (or even that is Nescafe) is pretty hard to come by, but if you like sweet drinks, most tamale vendors sell cups of atole (hot sweet cornstarch drink, sometimes with chocolate) or hot horchata-like stuff.
How cool would it be if we had corner carts that made any kind of juice to order? Such a healthy breakfast. Grapefruit, lime, guava, papaya, orange, strawberry, you name it.
Coayacan is a ritzy neighborhood south of the city that is very picturesque. It's a nice break from the hectic streets.

This guy was selling one of my favorite street snacks, FRESH FRIED potato chips that you can top with hot sauce, lime, and salt
This lady was selling one of my other favorite street snacks.
This is the close up. It's roasted corn with butter, hot peppers, and sometimes little herbs or spinachy greens.
This is the central market in Coayacan.
This was some ceviche I ate there. Octopus and shrimp. It was really tasty, but because Mexico City is landlocked I didn't especially seek out the ceviche.
Beautiful art for sale.
This was a little fonda right near our hotel. This is the meat case out front.
A close-up. Can you see the teeth? The "carnitas" torta here had high quality pork that tasted kind of a like a slow-barbecued pork chop, but did not seem to be carnitas in the traditional sense.
This wonderful man cooked me one of the best tacos I had. He's at the Chapultepec metro stop outside the giant park
Chorizo and potatoes and nopal taco for breakfast!
This is a skyline view at dusk.
We went back to Pasteleria Ideal to check out the cake displays upstairs. They have an El Chavo cake!
Some of the cakes were about 7 feet tall.
This is the courtyard of the anthropology museum. Great architecture. That column is also a fountain. The museum is so huge that I saw probably one fourth of it in 3 hours. I mostly checked out the Mayan and Aztec stuff.
This is food from a Oaxacan restaurant. That's a fried pasilla chili (so fruity and spicy!) stuffed with chicken, almonds, and raisins.
Of course I found my favorite neighborhood on the last day! Roma Norte is chill and yes, kind of hipstery. This was the day of ice cream. That's mamey ice cream that a lady was selling from iced down tubs at a flea market.
These are lucha libre dudes posing with stoked kids.
Check out the chihuahua.
Here's the Saturday flea market in Roma Norte. Some pretty good shit but prices were pretty high. Tons of Cool Ray sunglasses, some deadstock from the 60s. Pretty good 70s era furniture.
Here's a spot that's on the main drag in Roma Norte.
I got the arrachera, which is skirt steak marinated in lime and grilled. This platter came with salsa, grilled nopal and onions, hand made tortillas, and ranchero beans (whole pintos with bacon and sometimes chili strips), all for about 4.50.
I figure if a place has a neon sign advertising a certain dish, you should order it there. While I was there they were playing a music video of wacky and terrible Spanish-language cover of "I want you to want me". Since everything is on the internet, you can see it here if you care to torture your ears.
Here's a nice park in Roma Norte. That's David, I guess.
Here's some more ice cream. Check the crazy flavors. Beer? Tequila and lime? Mmm...cajeta. I didn't notice that one or I probably would have gotten that.
This is fig and mezcal. It was fucking delicious. And boozy. Booze-soaked figs.
The fashion in the D.F. is pretty conservative, but this park gets all the subcultures. The skinny kid had awesome hair. The short guy has a sponge bob squarepants backpack. Not a good look.
Here's some smiley goths.
A bunch of gothic lolitas trooped by, too.
We stayed in the gown district. I made Gballs promise to wear a gown like this some day.
Window after window of gowns like this.
Phew! Sorry that was so long! I'll post about Guanajuato tomorrow.

Finches show coming up!

2009-11-04T08:49:00.001-08:00

Things got a little negative yesterday. Let's forget about that now.

Me and Gballs are heading to Mexico City tomorrow. I'm pretty excited but have felt a bit sick for the last couple of days which is preventing me from getting too stoked. I think it is all in my mind because I've been so freaked about the possibility I could get the flu and it would ruin my trip. Anyway, did you know that al pastor appeared in Mexico City in the 50's due to the culinary influence of Lebanese immigrants? I learned that and other facts in the book "good food in Mexico City". It has an extensive food term glossary that is going to come in soooooo handy. The author also has a blog. Any additional recommendations would be appreciated. We'll be heading to the "El Chopo" flea market which I guess is a big punk/metal/goth scene. Hopefully I'll find some funny shit to buy. We'll be traveling to Guanajuato, too, and of course to the MUMMY MUSEUM.

Oh yeah, and PLEASE don't forget to go see the Finches on Sunday night!! It's an early show, starts at 6:00 at the Press. Should be over by 9 or 9:30 because Roger also wants to go see the Nodzzz Yellow Fever show that is going on after. I'm bummed to miss these shows and will have to stuff my face with tortas to console myself.

Welkom op de website van het Hinkelspel. De website is nog volop in ontwikkelin

2009-11-03T09:31:00.001-08:00

Wow, here's Meckfessel on Democracy Now. He just sent a letter to Ahmadinejad. Good luck getting his friends out of jail. It was interesting to finally hear his story of why he went camping in Iraq. It almost makes sense the way he explains it.

So here's that beer that I mentioned that you can only get at Whole Foods. DKK was kind enough to get me the cheese that it was brewed to go with. Here's the website for the cooperative in Ghent that makes it. I love how you can kind of read Flemish (and Dutch) without knowing it. It makes it seem more like a made up language. They are both cow's milk cheeses. I loved the pas de rouge, which is very tangy and zippy and salty. The pas de bleu was just a regular blue. It's hard for me to find the nuance in blue sometimes and it lasts on the palate so long that I don't think it goes well with beer. Anyway, a fun tasting and all available at Whole Foods right now.
Tonight is Tyvek and G. Green! At the Hub.

have you seen my wallet?

2009-11-02T09:22:00.000-08:00

Halloween was crazy but fun. I didn't bring my camera so I don't have any pictures. Even if I had brought my camera I wouldn't have any pictures, because it probably would have been stolen along with my wallet. On the plus side, I got to do a whip it. Blast from the past. The past being the walk-in refrigerator at my job when I was 21.

There is a good show tonight for those of you who aren't partied out. It's DJ Mike C.'s night at the Press. Maybe he will play some Rage Against The Machine. I don't know about the other bands but I know how young band Vichy Water will be playing. Good name. Tomorrow is the big Tyvek show.

sexy Abe Lincoln

2009-10-30T11:23:00.000-07:00

Ah, how sweet is an unexpected day off? Sweet indeed. That's all. Gotta write my MidMo article. Have a fun Halloween. What are your costumes? My favorite I've heard is Babraham Lincoln (sexy Abe Lincoln). My coworker is going as a LOL cat.

I wish I had a pizza and a bottle of wine

2009-10-29T09:18:00.000-07:00

Yesterday at Rolle, Rafik (sp?) told me that the Rolle clip is on youtube, and I had never seen it. I've never tried that lentil salad, but now I'm going to. I had a chicken pate sandwich for breakfast today, and for lunch yesterday.

In the evening I had a Jack Rose cocktail at Shady Lady. It's a Calvados-based cocktail. It has house made grenadine and I guess lemon juice? I thought the internet would tell me, but Shady Lady is not internet-y. It was delicious, very citrus-y with a faint apple tinge.
Then I won the pumpkin carving contest with my hatchet girl. That's Violent J on the right.
This is such a brilliant idea for a band! It's the rated R version of the Girls video for their song "Lust for Life" (why did they name the song that?). It's NSFW cuz Hunx's dick is used as a microphone. HOT!

drunk biking verboten

2009-10-28T11:38:00.000-07:00

There are a couple of interesting screenings going on tonight and tomorrow at La Galleria Posada, Lurch posted about them on the MOBS blog. I assume they are not subtitled?

Some scary news from the Sacbee: a DUI sweep last friday in South Sac and downtown netted 7 bicyclists! Yikes. I do this all the time. I have heard that it's treated the same as vehicular DUI. Could that possibly be true? DUI in this state is insanely expensive (I'm not saying it shouldn't be!). That would probably ruin my life. I guess I'll have to start taking our excellent public transportation. Or just walk through all our really safe neighborhoods.

yay!

2009-10-27T10:31:00.000-07:00

I emailed the creator of one of my favorite blogs, Ilovehotdogs (she's the one who compiles the eye candy film stills, and I get lots of movie rental ideas from her) and recommended the movie "Smooth Talk". She watched it and loved it. Here's her post about it. She's a fellow DePalma and Argento lover, and the person who turned me onto the mindblowingness of Jodorowsky.

stop work

2009-10-27T10:18:00.000-07:00

That little cutie is a financier, a French buttery almond cake. Easy (I made some this morning) and tasty. Here's a link to the epicurious recipe. Does anyone know if Conde Nasty is going to leave epicurious up?

The city council meeting with the Nestle plant on the agenda is tonight. I will not be in attendance, but I hope it goes off well. There is currently a stop work order on the plant, according to Sacpress.

various miscellaneous

2009-10-26T09:02:00.000-07:00

Man, the Argento movie at Movies On A Big Screen was so fucking awesome I can't believe there were like 8 people there!!?!?!?!?! It was nuts, which kind of goes without saying with Argento, but in a really good way. Weird pacing, flat affect, insect closeups, impeccably beautiful Armani outfits for the whole cast, music by Motorhead, Iron Maiden, Goblin and Bill Wyman(?), mutant children, tub of body parts, you know, the usual.

The Rose Melberg/Dreamdate/Kellarissa show was so fun. Knock Knock had to cancel due to flu. Dreamdate were getting nervous when they started noticing that all of Sacramento is ill right now. We're the illest! That joke made me cringe inside.

I like that it looks like Joe is posing for the camera.
Monday Brew Awareness
Whole Foods has a really obscure beer right now, and for only ten bucks. It's brewed by the shadowy genius "The Prof". His brewery is in a small town, but it's probably really close to Ghent (well I guess everything in Belgium is pretty close), because he brewed this beer to go with the cheese that is made in a shop in Ghent called Het Hetspinkel. Whole Foods is the only one importing it, and I think they might even be selling the cheese, but I didn't know that when I bought it. I'd love to try it together. This beer is tasty, and the most remarkable thing about it is its strong pineapple aroma.
My new thing is to make pickled red onions to have sitting around to put on stuff, like a turkey sandwich, or the cat. This style is from Diana Kennedy, and it's just diluted vinegar (2 parts water, one part vinegar) with peppercorns, ancho chili, sliced garlic, and most importantly, lots of dried oregano.

In this Fall-ish weather, a girl's fancy turns to ramen. Don't forget about Edokko 2! It is worth the trek. This is the wonton men. Shio ramen with pork wonton and delectable pork slices. It's pretty much two meals for $6.95.

this just in...

2009-10-23T12:07:00.000-07:00

I don't wanna detract from the below post about the show on Saturday, but there's a really exciting screening at The Guild on Sunday at 7:30. A Dario Argento movie called "Creepers" from 1985 starring Jennifer Connelly!! We never have cool shit like this in Sac, and at such a great venue, too!.

good show!

2009-10-23T11:07:00.000-07:00

The big news is the show on Saturday at Luigis. It's an all-star lineup: Dreamdate, Knock Knock, Kellarissa (?!?!-don't know anything about) and headliner and Sac music legend: Rose Melberg. Pop fans, you can stop making pea coats out of felt for your bunnies right now and come out of the woodwork to attend this show. That's an order.

KJ is fucking up in so many ways right now that it's pretty comical (I would direct you to SNOG for more), but one particular fuckup just shows how very tone deaf this man is. Remember how KJ crowed when Nestle announced its plans to open a bottling plant here? Here's a quote from the Bee:

Nestlé signed a lease on an industrial building in July. Mayor Kevin Johnson and the SacramentoArea Commerce and Trade Organization both lauded the project, which the company says will employ 40 people.

"This company will not only bring jobs to the city, but it is also nice to have a reaffirmation that many firms still see Sacramento as such a desirable location," Johnson said in a news release at the time.

Then, on KJ's OWN BLOG, this post appeared:

Blog: Nestle water deal shows need for strong mayor

If you don't like the way the Nestle water deal came down, you need a strong mayor in Sacramento.

The Nestle deal is an agreement between the City of Sacramento and the Nestle Company to build a bottled water facility. The purpose of this blog isn't to debate the merits. The deal is perfectly legal and legitimate under city rules.

But some people are questioning the method. They need a reality check.

The agreement was made between Nestle and the Sacramento city manager's office. That's how the old charter system works – public review is not necessary unless projects reach certain thresholds. There is no public debate.

In the Nestle case, the agreement follows city charter rules to the letter. The city manager and staff did exactly what the charter requires.

Today, at least two city council members are expressing concerns about the deal. They say they didn't know what was going on. They didn't have a chance for discussion.

Guess what? That's how the weak mayor charter system works. The city manager followed charter rules, helped bring a major corporation to town, and that was that.

What council members should do is demand charter reform. This story would be different under a strong mayor system.

Here's the important fact: with strong mayor, the Nestle deal would have been reviewed in the Mayor’s office, by the Mayor’s staff.

Under strong mayor, there would have been transparency and accountability. If people didn't like it, they could have brought their concerns to the mayor. There would have been public debate.

The Nestle deal is the perfect argument in favor of charter reform and strong mayor.

If you prefer mayoral accountability over deals done by a city manager, you’ve got an option.

It’s called charter reform.

What a freak! Why didn't he just tell us about it in the first place?!? Anyways, yeah read SNOG to hear about his tone deaf handling of permitgate.

Nestle sucks

2009-10-22T08:41:00.001-07:00

I went to the screening of Tapped sponsored by Save Our Water last night and came away with mixed emotions. The 8 o'clock screening was at least 2/3rds full, which is an amazing turnout for a somewhat obscure issue. The movie had a lot of cheap shots and questionable science. At one point they quote the figure that bottled water uses up .02 percent of the municipal water source and then just brush that aside with some statements that it's the principle that matters. I understand that, and it's true, but that's a pretty small amount. I came away from it actually thinking that we shouldn't necessarily stop the Nestle plant, but that Nestle should be charged a premium while we're in a drought. The big impression that I came away with is that I need to stop drinking from the water cooler at my work, even though Davis tap water is nasty (it tastes just like what Davis would taste like if it were water), and that people should work to get bottled water banned when possible because it's unnecessary and wasteful. If I can wean myself off of it at work for a while I'll probably try to circulate a petition to get the water cooler removed.

The second big impression is that council member Kevin McCarty is a great guy and a politician to watch. I had already written him a letter commending him for taking a stand against the strong mayor initiative. He was at the screening and talked about how he's working to bring this issue to the agenda at a city council meeting, despite the fact that the proposed factory is in his district and will bring money and jobs. He wants to make it law that this kind of project would have to undergo an environmental review, which I totally agree with. Also, this whole issue underscores that KJ is totally gullible when it comes to business. Lots of other towns have rejected these plants, but he bragged about it and seemed unaware of the controversy. Do your research, dude!

On to Brew Awareness:

How have I slept on The Shack all this time? Oh yeah, I know how, I was pissed at the owner for fucking up the best patio in Sac. But I've gotten over that because he's a standup guy and just look at that list of beers!
They just got a shipment of Achel Blonde. This is a trappist beer and it's delicious and refreshing with a great hop character. It's 7 bucks, which is a lot, but it's 8% alcohol, so this and a Sudwerk Pilsner kept me occupied very well on the patio for a couple of pleasant hours, and that works out to less than 15 bucks with tip and all.
Remember when local blogger Jeff Mcrory wrote that thing about what local blogs need and one of the things was "more pictures of Sacramento cats"? I'm here to oblige him.

This sums up their relationship well.
Filthy paws, dirty claws.
I can haz belly rubs? LOL.

make yogurt, stop Nestle

2009-10-21T10:21:00.000-07:00

Both Harold McGee and Ann Marie Rolke have tried to talk me into making yogurt lately, so I finally caved in. I bought some Strauss whole milk, heated it, let it cool, stirred in two tablespoons of yogurt I had in the fridge, let it sit for about nine hours and now I have some delicious, kefir-style yogurt. I don't know why it's so thin. Maybe I didn't use enough starter. Regardless it's fucking delicious. Way different then commercial yogurt. It's lightly tart rather than sour. I'm hooked now. How will I ever eat commercial yogurt again?

Sac has a campaign going to keep the dastardly Nestle water plant from stealing all our water, and they're having a screening tonight at the Crest of the movie Tapped at 5:30 and 8 pm. Bottled water is an industry of the past, not the future, and it's not progress to bring this plant to Sacramento! Try to attend the screening, or if you can't, go to the Save Our Water website, read the facts, and click on "take action" to see what you can do.

there's a tear in my beer

2009-10-20T10:59:00.000-07:00

Wow, seriously terrible news. Sacramento Brewing Company is closing down. My interview with the brewer, Peter Hoey is in the SNR that comes out this afternoon. Good timing. He talks a lot about special beers he is making that might never see the light of day, including barrel-aged beers and Brettanomyces beers. I also hype his Collaborative Evil beer, which won a bronze at the Great American Beer Fest. I think he will find other work, because he's a well-respected brewer, but this is a serious blow for beer lovers in Sac. Peter had brought in over 20 guest taps starting in January, and had had festivals and brewer appearances-events that Sacramento now doesn't really have a venue for.

Peter already has another company, Odonata, and he has just started brewing some beers that people are going crazy for. It's hard to get your hands on one. I think the local stores are sold out right now.

If you've been to Sac Brew, you know it had problems. Every single time you would either be over or undercharged, quite often under. Last time we were there, a couple of weeks ago, I had to beg the server to bring us second beers. We sat there for probably 15 minutes between the first and second, even though it wasn't very full. Many of the servers didn't seem to know much or care much about beer. I'm not saying I know how to run a business, at all, but I'm pretty sure these problems contributed to the downfall.

wild braying

2009-10-19T11:14:00.000-07:00

Oh my god! I found out that I work with someone who used to work with someone who is married to Joyce Carol Oates!! Does anyone have any particular JCO to recommend? I want to read "Them", which she names as one of hers that people should read. I like her short stories. And despite its Oprah book club status and ubiquity in every thrift store, I enjoyed "We Were the Mulvaneys".

I watched film number one in the Michael Haneke challenge. I may become so depressed that I kill myself by the time I watch all nine films. I guess I'm lucky that the tenth one he named is not yet out on DVD. So much donkey cruelty to be endured in "Au Hasard Balthazar"!
Things I learned: 1) baby donkeys are the cutest things possible. 2) if you are falling asleep during a movie, the wild braying of a donkey will wake you up pretty darn fast. what I did not learn is that this was a religious parable. I missed that whole angle until I read it on the envelope. That wouldn't have made it more interesting for me, anyway. Major theme: the cruelty of life. Supposedly there was redemption. Maybe I slept through the redemption.

Good show at the Hub tomorrow. It's on undietacos. I can't tell you where the Hub is!

never been to willy's, i never will

2009-10-15T09:09:00.001-07:00

Norman Greenbaum lives in Petaluma! Dillon needs to work on getting him to play his next party.

My baby lost her ovaries yesterday and it was very sad. I paid extra for the drugs so she is feeling no pain right now.

Do you guys know about the Touchez show tomorrow at Luigis? I am DJing, I don't really know what I will play. My normal bubblegum set will not fit the vibe. San Kazagascar and Doom Bird will also be playing. Doom Bird is the headliner. I heard he is Sacramento's answer to Bright Eyes.

the wet stuff

2009-10-13T09:49:00.001-07:00

There's a big show at the Hub tonight. It's Sac faves The Intelligence and French band called Sonic Chicken 4 that Rick said is really good. 9 pm.

Tomorrow Babs is getting spayed. Don't tell her, she doesn't know yet. They better do a good job.

bunchy got high

2009-10-12T10:36:00.001-07:00

Ugh, monday. I'm sick of this economy, you know what I mean? Are you with me? What's the term for young, downwardly mobile professionals? ydppies isn't very catchy.

my major accomplishment this weekend was getting dj larry to play spirit in the sky twice at the wedding. i can die happy now.