Tag: Bacon

unintentionally ironic spam.

I get the occasional spam comment here at BIMAD and I’ve never considered spammers all that smart…usually their comments contain spelling and gramatical errors that make me cringe and some sort of general wording that makes it almost sound like someone actually commenting. Almost.

I never give spam much thought, I delete it, and that’s it…usually.

However, I felt like posting the beginning sentence from a recent one as an entry because it’s so god damn hilarious.

“You certainly have built a quality website around the concept of promoting a fitness related way of life.”

What?

This is your brain on Hogs.

bacon & eggs playlist 12.15.10

The Crystal Method – Busy Child
The Beastie Boys – Sure Shot
Amy Milan – Come Home Loaded Roadie
Hollerado – Juliette
Au Revoir Simone – Shadows
MGMT – Congratulations
Rilo Kiley – It’s A Hit
Sage Francis – The Buzz Kill
Schaffer the Darklord – Arrival of the Fittest
Elliot Smith – Pretty (Ugly Before)
Animal Collective – My Girls
Sufjan Stevens – Romulus
Ultimate Fakebook – Inside Me, Inside You (playing at the Aggieville Ball Drop celebration this year
The Low End – Rise & Shine
School of Seven Bells – Heart Is Strange
Neutral Milk Hotel – You’ve Passed
Hurricane Bells – Make A Deal With The City
Modest Mouse – Float On
The Magnetic Fields – Papa Was A Rodeo
Death Cab for Cutie – Chrstmas (Baby Please Come Home)
Foo Fighters – Big Me
The Pogues f/Kirsty MacColl – Fairytale of New York (requested)
Jessica Hernandez and the Delta – Faceoff
OK Go – This Too Shall Pass (I unretired it…just for this show.)
Phoenix – Everything is Everything
Pinback – Good To See You
Camera Obscura – The Sweetest Thing

Here are the links to some stuff mentioned on todays show:
Man Will Only Eat Bacon in February

And, even though this whole Bacon thing has jumped the shark, I can’t help but think that this ornament is adorable.

Yuri Suzuki designs some amazing objects.

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tyler florence’s mac & cheese…and bacon

Tyler Florence may be my favorite Food Network chef. I love his studio kitchen and openly covet his wicked expensive French copper cookware.

Also, Bacon. Nomnomnom…

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bacon in the morning playlist 9.1.10

A friend of mine told me that the Manhattan Hy-Vee hasBacon Covered Long Johns … dear lord, I want to go to there.

She & Him – In The Sun
Tenacious D – Rock Your Socks
Tegan & Sara – Don’t Rush
St. Vincent – Now Now
Beastie Boys – Funky Boss
Beck & Nigel Goodrich – Death To All Hipsters (Sex Bob-Omb)
Juliana Hatfield – Universal Heartbeat
Camera Obscura – Swans
Camera Obscura – Knee Deep At The National Pop League
A Day To Remember – Since U Been Gone (cover that didn’t, I feel, really capture the awesomeness that isKelly Clarkson.)
Animal Collective – My Girls
Widespread Panic – Imitation Leather Shoes (request)
Ben Harper – Burn One Down
Ultimate Fakebook – Inside You, Inside Me
Kristie Stremel and the 159ers – Unstopable
The Dead Girls – Te Quiero
The Low End – Rise & Shine
Bad Religion – 21st Century Digital Boy
Soul Asylum – Misery
Hüsker Dü – Pink Turns Blue
Architecture in Helsinki – Wishbone
Passion Pit – Sleepyhead
Antennas Up – Break Me Down
Garbage – Stupid Girl
Vampire Weekend – Cousins
Hum – Stars
The Hold Steady – Chips Ahoy
School of Seven Bells – Windstorm
Less Than Jake – The Science of Selling Yourself Short
Midnight Oil – Beds Are Burning

speak with conviction.

I stole this video from my best friend Emily’s website, which she’s doing as a project for her class but is still kind of a cute site. You should check it out here if you want.

It’s a great clip of one of Taylor Mali‘s Def Poetry Jam appearance.

And here’s another one, for good measure.

In another “website of a person I know” plug, The Hour Badly Spent is a very good read and Jelani, the man holding it down at THBS gave us a shout out in his post This Is Why You Smell Fat. Good stuff over there.

Jelani, along with many other fine poets, will be reading at Auntie MaesFine Poetry Night. I’d be there for sure…except that I’ll be watching Camera Obscura in St. Louis.

This is your brain on Hogs.

volver.

I haven’t posted an entry since July 28th. The reason for that is quite simple. I’m ridiculously fucking busy. So busy, in fact, that I’m not even doing my beloved radio show this semester. It’s very sad, I know, but never fear loyal readers/listeners, I’ll be back next semester with a vengeance, better production, more music and, of course, more Bacon. Just because I’m not on air, however, doesn’t mean you can’t listen to the other awesome DJs here.

Now that the sort of housekeeping issues are taken care of, we can dive into the meat and potatoes of the blog.

The Pittsburgh Penguins are the reigning Stanley Cup champions. I never get tired of saying that.

They raised their Stanley Cup banner at what will be the final home opener at Pittsburgh Civic (Mellon) Arena. How unreal is Dennis Miller as a narrator?

If you’ve read this blog before you’re probably well aware that Camera Obscura is my favorite band in the whole world. They’re going to be playing some US dates later this year, one of which happens to be at Off Broadway in St. Louis on December 1st. I’m going, of course, and I’m so excited that sometimes I lose feeling in my extremities.

Camera Obscura have a blog on their website and they posted a video of some live acoustic performances they did while on tour in France. My favorite song from the new record, James, is included. Really amazing stuff. It looks like a beautiful day.

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Fall has finally reached Kansas and I am loving it but I know it’s only fleeting. By the end of October it’ll be winter so I’m enjoying my month of autumn while I can. Yesterday, I hooked my MacBook up to my stereo, selected the Magnetic Fields, put the nine albums of theirs I have in iTunes on shuffle and opened my windows. I suggest you do that same (or do what I did today, which was the same thing except with Camera Obscura.)

Coming to you from Jeph Jaques of Questionable Content fame is a link to a very strange, yet quite cute website Asian Poses. There are probably people out there who enjoy sites like this a little too much. I’m not one of those people. I don’t have an Asian fetish or anything but the cute poses (such as the cat-inspired Nyan-nyan) are amusing and adorable enough to provide relief from boredom in much as the same way as my other guilty pleasure websites, Texts from Last Night, People of Wal-Mart and Stuff White People Like. Anyway, Asian Poses is weird but cute. Just don’t get too into it, know what I mean?

Speaking of weird but cute, Little Boots has a remix of Earthquake you can download here.

The Paper Raincoat is releasing a CD tonight which I’m excited to hear.

My beloved NPR has a first listen of British band Noah and the Whale which isn’t really my cup of Earl Grey but if you’re into that sort of thing you may dig it. NPR also has a Sunny Day Real Estate concert up as well as Death Cab For Cutie who were on World Cafe last week. (They also have an app for iPhone, incidentally, if you’re silly enough to sign up with AT&T whose 3G deployment is pathetic, but I digress…)

My wonderful friend Meglet knows an author she refers to as “Augie” but whom the rest of the world refers to as August Kleinzahler. His book, Cutty, One Rock is one of the most exposed, honest, beautiful books I have ever read. Meglet was nice enough to loan me her copy (I’m mailing it back next week, Meglet, I swear) and after I finished it I immediately bought my own copy. I urge everyone to read it. Now. Do it now.

Kleinzahler was featured in an episode of No Reservations with Anthony Bourdain. (Note: at about the 1:50 mark in that video, you can see Meglet listening intently. Love it!) But seriously, read Cutty, One Rock now or I will come to your home and set fire to your pets.

I saw Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut, Whip It last night and it was great. It was well cast, funny and heartwarming, which sounds like a vomit-inducing romantic comedy, however, I assure you, it was well worth the price of the ticket. Andrew Wilson was wonderful as the team’s coach, Razor.

If you’re interested at all in the recording industry, Tape Op magazine is a good read. In the US & UK you can get subscriptions free, because the magazine is heavily supported by advertisers and they have some good articles about the recording process some of which I find interesting and some of which are so full of technical jargon that I have no idea what is going on but they also have album reviews and interviews with artists. The Sept/Oct issue features a great article on Moby and an interesting interview with Snuff Garrett, who produced more number one hits than Phil Spector and, to my knowledge, hasn’t murdered anyone.

Canadian twins Tegan and Sara have a new album and book box set Sainthood & ON/IN/AT. You can preorder them via the provided links.

I’m going to try and cook more and post pictures of the things I cook and recipes and whatnot. This is a little ambitious, so we’ll see if I actually accomplish this. I guess I hope to be a less awesome version of Not That Anyone Cares with less talk about NIN and NASCAR.

Regardless, I have obtained a flat iron steak and, at the urging of the aforementioned Meglet, I shall be preparing it au poivre with a red wine reduction as a sauce. Meglet suggested I serve the steak with frites but I’ll probably go with mashing the potatoes I got from the farmer’s market recently. I do love good mashed potatoes.

My friend Elam suggests the following for a sauce, I figure I’ll follow his instructions to the letter because the man knows food and I rarely cook anything French.

“Basically, you want to pour about 1 cup of red wine into the hot skillet after removing the big hunk o’ meat, and reduce the liquid on high heat until the result is a thick, syrupy mixture. Gently stir everything so the fond (what’s left from the meat) combines evenly with the wine. You’ll probably end up with about 1/4 cup or a little less. You can even season it to taste with additional salt, pepper, and maybe a little garlic powder, but it’s not necessary. I should add that it’s really important not to let the meat burn, because your reduction will then be full of nasty charred bits.”

Mmmmm…charred bits.

This may be my longest blog post to date, I had a lot to catch up on. I hope to be doing this more often now so they won’t be as long or scattered in scope or subject. I leave you now with one of my favorite artist, Tori Amos.

This is your brain on Hogs.

P.S. – Holy shit, I can’t believe I forgot this in the original post.

My friend Jamie told me about a web program called Yacht Rock and it is bloody hilarious. Do yourself a favor and watch every episode now.

Step One: Ask Nicely
Step Two: Make Him An Irrelevant Joke
Step Three: Loggins

but arthur fonzarelli’s got an army of clones.

My friend Meglet sent this to me. How amazing. I love this.

A long time ago I wrote bacon-themed lyrics to that song.

Total Attack of the Heart

Fry it up, Every now and then I get a little bit hungry and you’re never cooking food
Fry it up, Every now and then I get a little bit tired of eating non-pork-based goods
Fry it up, Every now and then I get a little bit nervous and I think my cholesorol’s high
Fry it up, Every now and then I get a little bit terrified then I see the Bacon you’re fryin’
Fry it up, Bacon, Every now and then I need some pork
Fry it up, Bacon, Every now and then I need some pork

Fry it up, Every now and then I get a little bit restless because your cooking takes too long
Fry it up, Every now and then I get a little bit helpless and I need that Bacon buttered strong
Fry it up, Every now and then I get a little bit angry that the Bacon just won’t fucking turn
Fry it up, Every now and then I get a little bit terrified that you might just let it all burn
Fry it up, Bacon, Every now and then I eat some pork
Fry it up, Bacon, Every now and then I eat some pork

And I fuckin’ need your pork tonight
And I fuckin’ need your fuckin’ Bacon
And if you only cook it right
We’ll be eating pork forever
And we’ll only be making it right
Bacon and sausage can never be wrong together
Bacon Buddies can take it to the end of the line
We want to eat buttered Bacon all of the time
We don’t know what to do, we’re always eating pork
We’re living in a smokehouse and eating pig parts
Eating Bacon tonight
Bacon’s gonna fry tonight
Bacon’s gonna fry tonight

Once upon a time there was pork in our life
But now there’s only soy in the dark
There’s nothing I can do
A total attack of the heart
Once upon a time there was pork in our life
But now there’s only soy in the dark
Nothing I can say
A total attack of the heart

INSTRUMENTAL BREAKDOWN (seriously, this is a long ass song)

Fry it up, Bacon
Fry it up, Bacon
Fry it up, Every now and then I know you’ll never be the Bacon buddy you always wanted to be
Fry it up, Every now then I know you’ll always be the only boy who wanted Bacon but never quite liked the Spam
Fry it up, Every now and then I know there’s no one in the universe as chicken-fried-Bacon as you
Fry it up, Every now and then I know there’s nothing any better and there’s nothing that I just wouldn’t do…
… for Bacon, Bacon, Every now and then I eat some pork
Fry it up, Bacon, Every now and then I eat some pork

And I fucking need your pork tonight
And fucking I need your fucking Bacon
And if you only cook it right
We’ll be eating pork forever
And we’ll only be making it right
Bacon and sausage can never be wrong together
Bacon Buddies can take it to the end of the line
We want to eat buttered Bacon all of the time
We don’t know what to do, we’re always eating pork
We’re living in a smokehouse and eating pig parts
Eating Bacon tonight
Bacon’s gonna fry tonight
Bacon’s gonna fry tonight

Once upon a time there was pork in our life
But now there’s only soy in the dark
There’s nothing I can do
A total attack of the heart
Once upon a time there was pork in our life
But now there’s only soy in the dark
Nothing I can say
A total attack of the heart

Also, you know how I know Metallica sucks?

Yeah, that’s how.

This is your brain on Hogs.