A Wolf at the Door

Time for a little Music Friday. David McDuff, whose wine geekdom is perhaps only exceeded by his music geekdom, recently recapped Meeting People is Easy, a 1999 documentary filmed during Radiohead’s sprawling worldwide tour in support of OK Computer. I don’t really go in for these types of films (really, why bother after this one?), [...]

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Mother Mother

Via Burrito Justice*, easily one of the top local San Francisco blogs, comes Mother Mother, a rockin’ group from Vancouver. Infectious, poppy rock with solid songwriting. And did I mention harmonies? Harmonies! Sort of a New Pornographers meets the Pixies kind of thing.
Mother Mother has two albums out, and you can stream them both at [...]

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Late Night Bling, or I *Heart* SF

(Above: I started my Friday with a michelada at Nopalito, which is Tecate mixed with tomato, chili de arbol, salt and lime. Yeah, it’s good.)
This post is going up late because I’ve been sick all week. For the record, summer colds suck. And no, I don’t use Zicam.
After gorging ourselves senseless with the Third Degree [...]

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Distractions

Should be writing. Actually, writing’s going fine but need a soundtrack. Violà, an HD video recording of Radiohead playing last year in Japan.
Mmm.

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Drink Champagne All the Time

But especially for dessert…
This was the lesson from dinner the other night when we made swift use of some new kitchen toys (birthday presents: all the tools necessary to make western and central European style dumplings, be they ravioli, gnocchi, maultaschen or spätzle). After a hefty stick-to-your-gut feast of potato gnocchi with a wild mushroom [...]

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Les Concerts à Emporter (or, I *Heart* Paris)

Make that j’M Paris.
Okay I’m not really in Paris, at least not physically. Sometimes when I get a little ancy or am feeling a desire to be easily distracted, I tune in to Les Concerts à Emporter, or the Take Away Shows, a series of intimate musical performances recorded and videoed in Paris by the [...]

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Distractions

(Above: The Catinaccio, or Rosengarten, dolomite formation rises beyond a narrow valley that runs northeast from Bolzano in the Alto Adige. It takes its name from the pink color of the rocks during sunset.)
Back from a lovely trip to Italy’s Alto Adige region where, besides developing an (un)healthy addiction to speck and knödel — canerderli [...]

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L’America Cambia Pelle!!!!!

Ciao tutti,
I’m leaving early in the morning for Italy’s Alto Adige province, excited to proudly claim that I come from a country where anything is possible. Wow.
(At this point, things aren’t looking good for California’s proposition 8 – the gay marriage ban – I hope it’s voted down – but at least there’s hope.) 
Meanwhile: Obama’s [...]

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Stereolab vs. Marcel Lapierre

I love the idea of pairing wine and music. Aside from the fact that there are plenty of songs where wine features prominently in the lyrics, the two have a lot in common, sensorially speaking. A quick scan through various blogs (and even mainstream publications) suggests that others feel this way too. And why not? [...]

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Delicious Things

“I’m going where there’s no depression…”
Despite the (rather painful) extraction of a wisdom tooth last week, I did manage to drink a few delicious bevvies over the course of these last days. Maybe it’s the hint of desperation and talk of Long Depressions in the air, or perhaps I just couldn’t stomach any more days [...]

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