Love Language / Blue Angel
Arcade Fire / Sprawl I (Flatland)
Arcade Fire / Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
Scout Niblett / Cherry Cheek Bomb
Autolux / Audience No. 2
Land Of Talk / Hamburg, Noon
Best Coast / Boyfriend
Flaming Lips / The Spiderbite Song
Johnny Cash / For The Good Times [Kris Kristofferson cover]
Public Enemy / Bring The Noise
New Order / Lonesome Tonight
Bjork / Declare Independence
Yo La Tengo / Here To Fall [De La Soul remix]
Toro Y Moi / Low Shoulder
Of Montreal / Coquet Coquette
Style Like Revelators / Devil’s Road Blues
Quiet Americans / Kill Summer
Strange Vine / Justin’s Song
Trumpet Solo / Gift
Dr. Dog / Where’d All The Time Go?
Dr. Dog / The Ark
Bright Eyes / First Day Of My Life
Moby / James Bond Theme [Moby’s re-version]
Strange Boys / Da Da
Ernest Tubb / Walking The Floor Over You
Black Keys / Howlin’ For You
Adam Green / Stadium Soul
Joy Division / Transmission [Arrow Studios version, May 1978]
Male Bonding / Weird Feelings
Ozomatli / Gay Vatos In Love
Fol Chen / They Came To Me
Jaill / Summer Mess
Janelle Monae feat. Saul Williams / Dance Or Die
The Drums / Let’s Go Surfing
Band Of Horses / Compliments
Admiral Radley / Ghosts Of Syllables
Portishead / Western Eyes
John Heart Jackie / Hook In My Arm
Neverever / Blue Genes
Baths / Plea
Adem / To Cure A Weakling Child + Girl/Boy Song [Aphex Twin cover]
Komeda / Rocket Plane (Music On The Moon)
Regina / Sain levyt joita et halua kuunnella
Wavves / Mickey Mouse
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Playlist: Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010
Tori Amos / Raspberry Swirl
The Books / Thirty Incoming
Sleigh Bells / Rill Rill
Jaill / Snake Shakes
Arcade Fire / Ready To Start
Best Coast / Crazy For You
Autolux / Supertoys
Ceo / Illuminata
40 Watt Hype / Mas Y Mas
Mayer Hawthorne / Your Easy Lovin’ Ain’t Pleasin’ Nothin’
Love Language / Summer Dust
Gil Scott-Heron / I’ll Take Care Of You
Quiet Americans / Kill Summer
Dylan Tidyman-Jones / Usulut
Marty Robbins / Maybellene
Black Keys / Never Gonna Give You Up
Foo Fighters / Big Me
Crystal Castles / Doe Deer
Scout Niblett / Lucy Lucifer
Of Montreal / Coquet Coqeutte
Land Of Talk / Cloak And Cipher
Social Studies / We Choose Our Own Adventures
Lake Heartbeat / Mystery
Reporter / Click Shaw
Perfume Genius / Lookout, Lookout
The Sugarcubes / Eat The Menu
Efterklang / Harmonics
Admiral Radley / Sunburn Kids
The Greenladies / Clover Honey
Strange Vine / Close Your Eyes
DJ Muggs & Planet Asia / Pain Language
Wheels Of Fortune / Fresno Is A Good Little Town
Style Like Revelators / Doctor
The Suppressors / Kids
Trumpet Solo / Gift
Fierce Creatures / The Great White
Pavement / Heaven Is A Truck
Deer Tick / I Will Not Be Myself
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin / Banned (By The Man)
Foals / After Glow
Wavves / Covertible Balloon
Le Tigre / Fake French
Tammy Wynette / I Don’t Wanna Play House
Sloan / Stove
Four Tet / Angel Echoes
Eating out: Loving Hut (Fresno, CA)
Tracy and I had a lovely visit from my cousin Marisa a few weeks back. She was up from Simi Valley visiting family in Fresno and Dinuba, just weeks before leaving to Albuquerque, N.M., to begin her Ph.D. program in communication and media studies at the University of New Mexico. Marisa and I, through the wonders of Facebook, have kept in better touch these last few years, and she and Tracy have a lot in common, being fellow speech and communication scholars.
Marisa and her family eat mostly vegetarian and vegan food, so we delighted in taking her to one of our favorite Fresno vegan restaurants, Loving Hut, near Fresno City College in the Tower District. Loving Hut is a small national chain of vegan restaurants whose motto is: “Be veg. Go green. Save the planet.” Of course, I love saving the planet and being green as much as the next guy. But I also happen to love the vegan Vietnamese food at Loving Hut.
I ordered the No.6, a dish called Blissful State. It consisted of lemongrass vegan soy protein, steamed rice, and veggies. This is my favorite dish from Loving Hut, and has stayed mostly the same since the restaurant was formerly called Au Lac, before the national affiliation sometime in the last year. The pepper flakes make the lemongrass vegan soy protein so hot, and it’s one of my favorite fake meat dishes in town.
Tracy ordered the No.11, a dish called Meditative Chow Mein. It had delicate yellow noodles, tofu, vegan soy protein, onions, and veggies. Later, in her experiments with her Take-out Menu Cookbook, Tracy has tried to re-create this dish at home, to excellent effect. So excellent, in fact, that I’m actually eating bok choy willingly these days. (I’m a picky veggie eater and always have been, but this dish has changed my mind about bok choy.)
Marisa ordered the No.18, a dish called Divine Pho. It consisted of rice noodles, veggie broth, oyster mushrooms, tofu, and vegan protein. Marisa said she often likes to order pho at pan-Asian restaurants. It made me feel a bit guilty, as a longtime Fresnan, that I didn’t take her to one of the many hole-in-the-wall numbered pho joints near our house. But there’s always a good bowl of pho to be had next time when my dear cousin comes through town.
Loving Hut
1495 North Van Ness Ave., Fresno, CA 93728
Playlist: Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010
Roy Orbison / Candy Man
Black Keys / Do the Rump [Junior Kimbrough cover]
John Heart Jackie / Gold Mounds
Vieux Farka Toure / Chérie Lé
Wavves / King of the Beach
The Pixies / Debaser
Patrick Contreras Band / 1st and Belmont
Pavement / In the Mouth a Desert
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings / Window Shopping
Crystal Castles / Fainting Spells
Band Of Horses / Factory
Love Language / Brittany’s Back
Arcade Fire / The Suburbs
Shapes & Sizes / Too Late for Dancing
Joanna Newsom / Soft as Chalk
Hot Chip / I Feel Better
Wheels Of Fortune / Give It All Back
Luke Top / Lord, Save Me from This Valley
Bad Andy & The Sunburns / Southern Gentleman [Live in KFSR studio]
Kate Bush / Hounds of Love
Pinkeye / Friends
Bad Andy & The Sunburns / Cold Sister [Live in KFSR studio]
Eggstone / Desdemona
Rademacher / They are Always Into That
Bad Andy & The Sunburns / New Directions [Live in KFSR studio]
No Cello / My Piano
Van Dyke Parks / Riverboat
Milk for the Morning Cake / Dead Summer
The Smiths / Ask
Hoppi Potti / Graduation
Mike and the Green Lady / Where to Buy Harps
Bad Andy & The Sunburns / Take Cover
Fierce Creatures / Harpooning
Perfume Genius / You Won’t Be Here
Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse feat. Jason Lytle / Jaykub
CocoRosie / Hopscotch
Grandaddy / Revolution [The Beatles cover]
Scout Niblett / Cherry Cheek Bomb
The Books / All You Need Is A Wall
Mayer Hawthorne / Green Eyed Love
Back to school means new portfolios
I love back to school time, when all the deals on school supplies come pouring out at retailers, office stores, and drugstores. After eating breadsticks and pizza for lunch with my parents at Corsaro’s Pizza on Draper Street in downtown Kingsburg, Tracy found these amazing portfolios while puttering through the Walgreens in Kb. While it is true that I love my Pee Chee portfolios from back in the day, these folders at Walgreens were supercute.
Tracy’s favorite, with li’l crabs.
Some folders were quite a bit nuttier than others.
I’ve always suspected popsicles and peace were connected.
Pirate themes are always a big hit with the kids.
Now here’s a portfolio that the farm bureau and the C+C Music Factory could equally love.
I love new portfolios. The end.
Jefferson Beavers 