Weekly-ish Mix

I am going to try and post a mix a weekly-ish...We'll see....This is a mix I did over last summer for my friend Laura for a Saks Fifth Avenue fashion show, who also has a blog.

You can check it out here----->Classic Twist

Recorded Live on two turntables.

Download or Stream-----Here

Tracklist:

Magic - Robin Thicke

I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You(Twelves Mix) - Black Kids

Rich Girls - The Virgins

Sad Sad City - Ghostland Observatory

American Boy - Estelle ft. Kanye West

Hold On - Holy Ghost

Beggin - Franklin Valli

Electric Feel(DJ Teenwolf ReEdit) - MGMT

What Else Is There(Thin White Duke Mix) - Royksopp

Don't Go - Puzique

Chrome Knight - Surkin ft. Chromeo

Bonus Track from the Mix for Esteban:

Royksopp - What Else Is There(Thin White Duke Mix)

I'm kind of a Boner, but I Won Top Chef

This dude stayed consistently mediocre the entire season and then goes on to win it all.

Luckily, the long awaited Chicken Soup recipe is here to comfort you in your time of need.

From my Top Chef to you:

Ingredients

1-2 cans of low-sodium, low-fat chicken broth (or full sodium if you are not worried about puffiness/swelling)

1 package of real long carrots (not the baby ones)

1 package of celery

1 medium/large yellow onion

1 package (about 1.5-2 lbs.) chicken with bone-in and skin on (it can be breasts, thighs, legs, whatever)

Salt/Pepper

Bay leaves

Garlic powder

Macaroni

Cheese

1. Large pot and put it on the stove. Put a little bit of olive oil on the bottom of the pot and turn flame to high.
2. Brown chicken. Take skin off of chicken and put chicken in pot to brown as you are de-skinning it. When the chicken browns a little bit, turn it to the other side. By browning meat, you help to seal in the juices so it does not get tough when boiling for extended periods of time. By the time you are done de-skinning chicken, most of the chicken should be lightly browned.
3. Take the pot off of stove and fill it to the top with water by running under sink faucet. Do not fill with water to the tippy top of the pot or once you start putting vegetables in the pot, the water will overflow out of the pot. Leave about an inch of room. You want it to begin to boil.
4. Return pot to stove. Put flame to high. Note: You goal is to reduce broth about 1/3 while cooking, which is when you then add 1 or 2 cans of chicken broth for flavor, if needed.
5. De-skin onion. You may put it in whole, or cut in half, or fourths, or eighths. If you do not like onion, put it in whole so that you can take it out once the soup is done. Most of the time the onion is cooked so well that it disintegrates into the water. Put onion in pot.
6. While the chicken, water and onion are boiling in pot on the stove, shave the dirty outer layer off of the carrots with either a knife or peeler. Rinse carrots. Slice carrots. Put them in pot.
7. Rinse celery. You may wait about 20-30 minutes or so between carrots and celery because you don’t want celery to get too mushy. It cooks quickly. Cut celery and put in pot.
8. Put in 3 bay leaves. Season with salt, pepper, garlic powder, or whatever you want. Keep tasting to make sure it has taste. Season as needed.
9. OPTIONAL: You may add sliced zucchini, fresh baby spinach, escarole, etc. to pot. They all cook very quickly.
10. Boil for about an hour after this. You know soup is done when you check to see if chicken is falling off of bone easily. Or you check to see the chicken is not pink inside. Once that happens, the soup is about done.
11. Add 1-2 cans of chicken broth about 30 minutes before you are ready to serve. After the hour if fine.
12. Put up water for macaroni (or rice, or best, acini de pepe) and make it in a separate pot. Do not add pasta to boiling soup because the pasta absorbs the broth while cooking and you will end up with no liquid left in the pot. It’s best to make macaroni separate.
13. Take chicken out of pot and take off of bones. It should fall apart. Put chicken back in soup pot.
14. Serve with macaroni. Add pecorino romano, or parmesan, cheese.

HI Supernintendo Chalmers

The Simpsons are scheduled to become the longest running television series...ever.

Read More------>Here

Just When You Thought the Internet Was Over

Give it a watch and a listen. Some of it is Magical

I was not aware nor am I sure....

what I think about this.  

Nutmegger is a nickname for people from the state of Connecticut. The official name for Connecticut is 'the Constitution State', as voted in 1958 by the Connecticut state legislature; however 'The Nutmeg State' is also an unofficial name for the state, hence the nickname 'nutmegger'. While this nickname had become increasingly overshadowed by the official nickname since the legislative act in 1958, it has made a recent resurgence.

The origin of the appellation is unknown. One theory is that it comes from Yankee peddlers selling nutmegs in colonial times. These nutmegs may have been the real thing, i.e. the hard aromatic seed of the nutmeg tree (Myristica fragrans), an East Indian evergreen tree, or counterfeit wooden nutmegs; or, as has been suggested ^[1], they were the real thing but customers unfamiliar with the native form of the spice might have decided they had been sold a counterfeit after futilely trying to grind the unusually hard ^[2] seed.

A popular newspaper column in the 1830's was 'The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville', which has been often cited as the source of this legend. The original story was^[3] :

"...that eternal scoundrel, that Captain John Allspice of Nahant, he used to trade to Charleston, and he carried a cargo once there of fifty barrels of nutmegs: well, he put half a bushel of good ones into each end of the barrel, and the rest he filled up with wooden ones, so like the real thing, no soul could tell the difference until HE BIT ONE WITH HIS TEETH, and that he never thought of doing, until he was first BIT HIMSELF. Well, its been a standing joke with them southerners agin us ever since. "

The term "nutmegger" is also used about people who often use nutmeg recreationally.^[4]

Billy Mays Dubs

There are a handful of these on Youtube. This is the most recently hilarious one.

Kid Cudi Day and Night Video

JetLev

Happy Belated Valentines Day

I made a mix for my special someone, and now that it has passed, I am sharing it with all.  Good songs, played long....

Download or Stream Right------->Here

Tracklist:

Cause I Love You - Lenny Williams

So Far To Go – J Dilla ft. D’Angelo, Common

Sade – I’ll Be By Your Side

You Got Me – The Roots ft. Erykha Badu, Eve

La La Means I Love You – The Delfonics

Midnight Train To Georgia – Gladys Knight & the Pips

When A Man Loves A Woman – Percy Sledge

Hey Love – Stevie Wonder

Love and Happiness – Al Green

Taboo – Santana

One In A Million – Aaliyah

You Really Got A Hold On Me – The Miracles

At Last – Etta James

A Blanket and a Snuggie Walk Into a Bar.....

Do you remember the website Stuff White People Like, well there is something starting in Chicago that should make its way to that site with the quickness.  It is a Snuggie Pubcrawl.

J. Period Presents....The Abstract Best

A solid mix.  Click Here to download.

Thank you Dr.

Dubai Bubble Bursts

I know someone who wanted to open a pizza shoppe there.....

Check the New York Times Article---->Here

This is new artist called Little Boots from across the pond.  In this video she is using a Tenori-on.

Singing begins around 1:10.

This One is for the Ladies

So, this website called Sorry-Mom had 1 million hits in 16 days.  Girls post a picture of a dude and then badmouth him.  Maybe you know someone on there.

Sorry-Mom I Bang the Worst Dudes

I've Never Been Camping

But this is a wearable sleeping bag...

Clickity Click

New Sony Product

*contains swear words

It's All About the Benja...What the F?

I'm On a Boat

Drugs are bad mmkay

Dude is losing sponsorships, being suspended from competing for three months and now debating his return in 2012.  Read more from the Baltimore Sun.

RedBull Snowscrapers

Red Bull is putting on cool snowboarding event in New York City right now.

Click Here for live webcast

This Hurts

Review of Quantum of Solace

So this dude has a hilarious website where he critiques random things.  Here is a review of Quantum of Solace: 

Imagine finding out you got rejected from community college, then finding out that your alcoholic father got arrested for domestic abuse, you lost all your life savings in a Ponzi scheme, and all of this happens to you while you're on the space shuttle Challenger. Then you wake up and it's all a bad dream, except you realize that you're at work without clothes on, and work is NASA and you're really on the space shuttle Challenger. That's what this movie is like, only infinitely worse. Everything about this movie pissed me off, save for the lesbian finger bang scene. Except even that sucked because it wasn't in the movie.

To continue reading the review, click here

Kids on Drugs-After the Dentist

Louisville Recap

Well, Im actually still here, but had some great fun over the weekend when mi novia came into town. I used some hotel points(one of the few benefits from consistent travel) and we stayed at the Seelbach Hotel.

It is an old hotel with a pretty cool history including mention in The Great Gatsby and having secret doors for Al Capone to escape down into underground tunnels.  I did not take the above picture, as our digital camera broke, which would have to be explained to people if we asked them to take our picture with a sweet kodak disposable that we picked up.  

 

We also went on a tour of the Buffalo Trace distillery.  They make 14 different bourbons there, some of which do not make it to the east coast, and if they do are very limited.  Taking pictures of the storage area, which was basically long hallways of barrels with a point and click was funny.  Why, you ask.  There was only two other people in our tour, so it was quiet and if you remember, you have to wind that camera after every pic.  Full disclosure:  Andrea was in charge of the camera.  Very informative and for those curious what makes a bourbon, there are laws, man.

On 4 May 1964, the U.S. Congress recognized Bourbon Whiskey as a “distinctive product of the United States," creating the Federal Standards of Identity for Bourbon. Federal regulations now stipulate that Bourbon must meet these requirements:

• Bourbon must be made of a grain mixture that is at least 51% corn.^[1]
• Bourbon must be distilled to no more than 160 (U.S.) proof (80% alcohol by volume).
• Bourbon must be 100% natural (nothing other than water added to the mixture).
• Bourbon must be aged in new, charred oak barrels.^[1]
• Bourbon may not be introduced to the barrel at higher than 125 proof (62.5% alcohol by volume).
• Bourbon which meets the above requirements and has been aged for a minimum of two years, may (but is not required to) be called Straight Bourbon.^[2]
• Bourbon aged for a period less than four years must be labeled with the duration of its aging.

 

In accordance with local culture, we drank a good amount of bourbon at various bars, mostly in downtown hotels.  I did some tasting flights.  Andrea had a champagne and bourbon concoction as well as a bourbon and creme do cocoa mixture, but my favorite was the Old Fashioned.

Because of my hilton status they gave me a couple drink vouchers and room service coupons when checking in.  They were just printed on normal paper and I figured that there was no real way to track them, so each time I saw a new person at the front desk, I told them I never received the coupons.  A couple of times doing that ended up in about 100 dollars in free drinks at the Old Seelbach Bar, and over a hundred in room service breakfast.  Not a bad deal.

Might post more on this when pictures are developed.......

New Kids on the Glock-D.A.N.C.E