Thursday, March 10, 2011
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
We rolled on the ground, we chased the chicken, we...
Thank you to all the Villians.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Symphony Chorus Hosts Singers Of United Lands Friday and Saturday Night
I think I'm going to try to make this concert. Sounds good.
Friday February 25 - Saturday February 26. 07:30 PM - 09:00 AM
Symphony Chorus of New Orleans, the principal chorus of the L.P.O., hosts S.O.U.L. (Singers of United Lands) in a joint concert of international vocal music. S.O.U.L. is a touring group of singers from four different continents, whose mission is develop international and cultural relationships through vocal music from around the world. The 2011 S.O.U.L team features singers from Columbia, Zambia, Australia and the Mi’kmaq Nation of Canada. Students from Delgado, Lusher Charter School and Salem Lutheran will join the quartet and SCNO on stage for an evening of joyous music and song.
Price
$10.00 General admission / $5.00 students
Offbeat's story on Spaghetti and drummer Johnny Vidacovich
If you have not seen Johnny Vidacovich play the drums; well, what's the matter with you?
The Gravy: In the Kitchen with Johnny Vidacovich
Photo by Elsa Hahne.
The poem, yes. We call it “Getting Ready Spaghetti.” The name of the poem is “Oh, it’s Fun to Play the Drums,” but the best part of playing the drums is eating spaghetti.
Oh, it’s fun to play the drums.
Getting ready, eating spaghetti.
Going to the gig, feeling like a pig.
Oh, it’s fun to play the drums.
Stomach’s full of music’s fuel
that makes the bouncing balls of
sound and time go touching all
over your skin.
Oh, it’s fun to play the drums.
Eating spaghetti, getting ready.
Going to the gig, feeling like a pig.
Now, the protein in here is great. By the time you get to work it’s like [snaps fingers]. Protein going to work, you know. Pasta get you through the gig. I try to eat a lot of pasta. I was raised by my Sicilian grandparents all my life, so I had pasta about four times a week, in different forms and variations. The whole trick to making this dish work out is to have a wife. Ha! No, the secret to this dish is good cheese. Spend money on cheese, spend the money on cheese.
If you say, ‘Johnny, we’re having pasta at my house tonight’ I’m not going to ask ‘What kind?’—I’m not going to say that because I know I’m going to like it. If it’s something I’ve never had before, then I’ll eat slow. Pasta can hold anything together. I wouldn’t put a can of tuna fish in it, though.
Italian is my first choice. When I’m out with Astral Project, we eat healthy. Tony [Dagradi]’s a vegetarian, so he’s a problem. You’ve got to make sure the food is up to his standards, with no animals in it. Tony will eat no bullshit. No eggs. No butter. Bless his heart and their hearts, because James [Singleton] is a real bitch when it comes to—can I edit some words out?—he’s very conscious about food. They’re googled up, ‘Seven miles, take a right’ and you walk into Happy Chopstick and there’s a Mexican back there. I don’t say nothing. I say, ‘Okay, brother. Just give me a pair of chopsticks and a tamale.’
My mother-in-law cooks fat-boy meals. She loves me, because I go over there with a fork in each hand. You’re watching the right guy because I love to eat and I’m skinny as a rail. That’s alright, I’m healthy.
My grandmother cooked hamburgers on Saturdays, that was traditional, every Saturday. But hey were not like anybody else’s hamburgers. Most people take hamburger meat, make a patty, fry it. My grandmother cut up a little onion, a little green bell pepper, she took an egg, she took a little Italian breadcrumbs, could have been celery in there, maybe garlic, but she’d only put a little because we were young and garlic was strong to us. Now, I can sit down with an apple, piece of cheese and eat a whole bulb of garlic. Raw!
I like coffee, I like it all kinds of different ways. After Katrina, I got the Maserati of coffee makers. My grandmother used to give us coffee when we were little kids, before we’d go to bed. Love coffee, my whole life, but not that hotel coffee. That shit will give you the shakes.
I have low blood sugar. Have to watch it. I’ve never passed out on stage, but there’s been times when I was out, passed out, and people freaking out that I’ve had a heart attack. Man, two things; I need an apple and I need a Coca-Cola. Cola get me right up; apple keep me going. Want me up right now? Give me a Coke real quick; back it up with an apple.
My grandmother’s red gravy was good. She made a great meatball sandwich: French bread, mash a meatball down on that, put some red gravy on it. I know that as long as I eat spaghetti, I won’t be afraid. It’s going to be great to die, it’s going to be great!
Getting Ready Spaghetti
1 head roasted garlic
1/4 cup pine nuts
1/4 cup olive oil
1/4 cup basil chiffonade
1 handful cherry tomatoes, cut in half
1 lb pasta, cooked al dente
1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
Roast garlic at 300 degrees for 30 minutes: Cut the top off the head, exposing the cloves, and rub a few drops of olive oil on top and over the skin—garlic is ready when cloves are soft enough that you can squeeze them out. Toast pine nuts in a dry skillet until golden, stirring/shaking constantly. Heat oil in a large skillet. Add roasted garlic cloves, pine nuts, basil chiffonade (stack leaves, roll into a fat roll and cut to make long, thin strips) and tomatoes and cook until warm, about 1 minute. Toss together with pasta in a large serving bowl and serve immediately, covered with parmesan cheese.
Free Wine tasting tonight at Cork and Bottle on Orleans Avenue
TONIGHT Thursday
5 to 7pm
FREE TASTING
featuring
Eric Glomski, winemaker at
Arizona Stronghold Vineyard, which was featured in the documentary Blood Into Wine. We will have signed bottles and signed copies of Blood Into Wine available for sale.
Wed, March 2nd
6:30-7:30pm
WINE SENSE
Wines of Central Italy hosted by Antonio Molesini
Cost $25pp
reservations required; limited seating... 483-6314
Wed, March 23rd
6:30-7:30pm
WINE SENSE
Wines of Southern Italy hosted by Antonio Molesini
Cost $25pp
reservations required; limited seating... 483-6314
Cork & Bottle
3700 Orleans Ave. (in American Can Co.)
483.6314
Mon: 3 pm - 7:30 pm
Tues - Sat: 10:30 am - 7:30 pm
FREE PARKING
FREE
WINE TASTINGS EVERY
THURS & FRI
5 to 7 pm
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
ten good ones..
These are some insightful and thought-provoking lessons from Wieden+Kennedy’s Executive Creative Director, John C Jay: 10 Lessons for young designers.
1: Be authentic. The most powerful asset you have is your individuality, what makes you unique. It’s time to stop listening to others on what you should do.
2: Work harder than anyone else and you will always benefit from the effort.
3: Get off the computer and connect with real people and culture. Life is visceral.
4: Constantly improve your craft. Make things with your hands. Innovation in thinking is not enough.
5: Travel as much as you can. It is a humbling and inspiring experience to learn just how much you don’t know.
6: Being original is still king, especially in this tech-driven, group-grope world.
7: Try not to work for stupid people or you’ll soon become one of them.
8: Instinct and intuition are all-powerful. Learn to trust them.
9: The Golden Rule actually works. Do good.
10: If all else fails, No. 2 is the greatest competitive advantage of any career.AMEN!
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Tipitinas Announces Instruments a Comin Benefit and Jazz Fest Concert Lineup
The Tipitina's Foundation proudly announces its 10th Annual Instruments A Comin' Benefit Concert on Monday, May 2, 2010, at the original Tipitina's Uptown. The outdoor festival kicks off at 5 p.m. with an epic battle of marching bands, followed by hours of entertainment, food, local arts and crafts, and a silent auction.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
It's about to be Dancing time in New Orleans
I love the opening scene in this video. I'm nursing a sore back, but I hope to find myself dancing in the street soon.
Harry Callahan
I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.
Fredrick Starr from Introduction to Lafcadio Hearn's Inventing New Orleans
Set your novel in Louisiana, especially South Louisiana, and your themes start to multiply like the outlets of the Mississippi Delta. Involuntarily you will find yourself holding forth on ethics, pleasure, mortality, and what Monty Python called The Meaning of Life.
THE SEARCH
To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair. Walker Percy from his book the Movie Goer.
Truth is
Robert Penn Warren speaks the word in All the Kings Men.
"Her eyes were glittering like the eyes of a child when you give a nice surprise, and she laughed with a sudden throaty, tingling way. It is the way a woman laughs for happiness. They never laugh that way just when they are being polite or at a joke. A woman only laughs that way a few times in her life. A woman only laughs that way when something has touched her way down in the very quick of her being and the happiness just wells out as natural as breath and the first jonquils and mountain brooks. When a woman laughs that way it always does something to you. It does not matter what kind of a face she has got either. You hear that laugh and feel that you have grasped a clean and beautiful truth. You feel that way because that laugh is a revelation. It is a great impersonal sincerity. It is a spray of dewy blossom from the great central stalk of All Being, and the woman’s name and address hasn’t got a damn thing to do with it. Therefore, the laugh cannot be faked. If a woman could learn to fake it she would make Nell Gwyn and Pompadour look like a couple of Campfire Girls wearing bifocals and ground-gripper shoes with bands on their teeth. She could get all society by the ears. For any man really wants is to hear a woman laugh like that."
Robert Penn Warren from All the Kings Men
New Orleans Underground Guide
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
EVERYTHING'S AMAZING NOBODY'S HAPPY
Louis CK is correct about everything here but I still can't wait for the Verizon iphone to make me happy on February 10th.
