Friday Fives

I just listened to the new Springsteen album. It is so many different shades of suck that I think music itself maybe over. With that I need to be cheered up.

1. What are you listening too that is new, fresh and simple?
It isn’t new, but when I need fresh and simple I go to Jorma’s Blue Country Heart. An amazing album of foot stomping porch sitting music.

2. What would you do for fun if you had to give up tv, movies, electronic games and the internet?
I have a stack of New Yorker’s and Harper’s magazine and probably two crates of books I haven’t written. I also have stacks of journals that need to be filled. And the list doesn’t limit music. I may find some music that can reenlighten me.

3. _____; are you kidding me???

Merril Lynch

4. What is a quick, easy, fun meal to make to handle my sudden comfort food needs.
This is simple – chicken, raspberries and a crockpot.

5. What’s the oddest thing you’ve ever made with bread?
I homemade pita bread once. it is pretty odd and different, all things considered.

8 Replies to “Friday Fives”

  1. 1) I love me the new Nickel Creek.

    2) Outside, up high and never look back.

    3) People saying now that torture was just a way of protecting our country, are you kidding me?

    4) Black-eyed peas and hot corn bread with honey butter

    5) Peanut Butter and carrot sandwiches.

  2. 1. I’ve gone back to some really old punk, like the Ramones, Black Flag, and Suicidal Tendencies. Surprisingly fresh for being nearly 30.

    2. I’d go on a killing rampage. Next question.

    3. No internet porn; are you kidding me?

    4. I like to throw together a simple but classic risotto with wild mushrooms and seared duck. But then I am ‘special.”

    5. A mask.

  3. 1. What are you listening too that is new, fresh and simple?

    Flight of the Conchords. It is a comedy/music/show thing that could only be compared to Tenacious D. However, it’s smarter, and they are from New Zealand (that’s Australian for talented people). At the end of their first season, they released all the shows on DVD, and a music CD. That is what I am listening to.

    2. What would you do for fun if you had to give up tv, movies, electronic games and the internet?

    if I had to? I would read and play guitar. My college degree was lit, so I love books and have a great collection (see the ‘what I’m reading‘ tab for updates). I also really love guitars. As long as there is the mountains, my acoustic, and lots of beer… all will be well. I will breathe for the both of us.

    3. _____; are you kidding me???

    Obama was up at 7 am his first day as POTUS and having meetings and briefings and signing legislature? Are you kidding me? If I had that job, I would spend the first week at Camp David getting drunk and sleeping a LOT.

    4. What is a quick, easy, fun meal to make to handle my sudden comfort food needs.

    Man, I love to cook. So, good question. I guess the easiest and most impressive would be to knock out a shrimp scampi in a garlic butter cream reduction (that’s obnoxious speak for ’sauce’) over angel hair pasta. That is a dish I could literally do in my sleep that would make you make out with me. I could do it in ten minutes for under $10.

    5. Roy says that Brendan O’Brien ruined the new Springsteen album, and he should be beaten. What say you?

    Roy could not be more wrong. O’Brien is a GENIUS and my absolute favorite producer. He gave us Pearl Jam’s masterpiece ‘Yield’, along with the amazing Stone Temple Pilot’s disc ‘Purple’.

    Oh, and Roy forgets that O’Brien produced Springsteen’s ‘The Rising’. It’s more than a great album. If it weren’t for that album (and O’Brien), your little buddy Springsteen would be washing cars and cashing unemployment checks from Columbia right now.

    6. What’s the oddest thing you’ve ever made with bread?

    Jesus, what kind of question is that? Listen buddy, I am married. What I do with bread is my own business. Oh, and there is this little gem. I am on another goddamn diet, so I don’t enjoy bread anymore. Nope. Stupid carbs. I get to eat bread that looks and tastes like bird food and cardboard. I better lose weight, or I am taking it out on all y’all!

  4. 1. there’s been a bit of a resurgence in the Shoegaze genre, which has made me very, very happy (relatively speaking). All the Saints, The High Violets, Asobi Seksu…all excellent My Bloody Valentine-ers. Been delving back into earlier Shoegaze as well..MBV, Ride, Slowdive, etc. and can always get on a Smiths kick. the perfect soundtrack to my irreparable depression.
    2. i would read more and listen to music. fuck it, i’d start buying vinyl again.
    3. sarah palin.
    4. i cant cook..so i guess Campbells Soup.
    5. mold.

  5. 1. I think job stress has pushed me back to some old school punk, as well. It’s a simple way to get catharsis – and it makes me feel young *and* old at the same time. I blame the Ramones.

    2. I would learn that there is such a thing as A Book.

    3. Kelly Osbourne back in rehab; are you kidding me??? I thought she never left.

    4. Grilled cheese and tomato soup. Done.

    5. Love. No, wait..

  6. 1. What are you listening to that is new, fresh and simple?

    Andrew Bird, Fleet Foxes and some John Vanderslice ( what a name! )

    2. What would you do for fun if you had to give up tv, movies, electronic games and the internet?

    Masturbate even more

    3. Paris Hilton is dead; are you kidding me???

    4. What is a quick, easy, fun meal to make to handle my sudden comfort food needs.

    Good ole PB&J

    5. What’s the oddest thing you’ve ever made with bread?

    Um……..the beginnings of love handles?

  7. 1)My wife
    2)stare directly into the sun
    3)Teachers getting paid what they are truly worth?
    4)mac and cheese with bacon bits crumbled into it.
    5)a bread helmet.

  8. 1. i am enjoying the stills ~ oceans will rise

    2. read & paint

    3. work tomorrow; are you kidding me?

    4. crockpot chili

    5. peanut butter & potato chip sammich

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