My friend and the engineer for our recording session, Seph, took
a stab at remixing Boxcar, thus reminding me that he rules.
Mel’s voice steps up, and so does Dan’s guitar. My guitar playing, mercifully, sinks a bit into the background.
D the B says check it out.
It’s been my experience that Austin cuisine is … let’s call it ‘limited,’ but brilliant in the things that it does well.
Subtle use of spices? Exotic influences with new and exciting ingredients, fresh from the local harbor? Small but tasty portions of enticing flavor combinations, marrying together, say, the sweet of mango and bittersweet chocolate with the salty of dried pork?
No.
Not so much.
But when it comes to combinations of meat and cheese, bam! … Boom, goes the dynamite!
One of the best examples of that locally is the humble taco, and particularly that of the breakfast taco. A good breakfast taco — fresh tortilla, eggs off the grill, and accompanied with your choice of sausage, bacon, nopalitos, or potato, and maybe a touch of salsa, all along side a nice cup of fresh-brewed coffee — manages to rise above its component parts into early morning bliss. There’s a Mexican place down the block from here — a statement you can make from almost any home in Austin — and it’s a testament to my will that I’m not there now, and every morning.
I was excited today to learn that somebody is taking their exploration of the local taco production seriously.
Ladies and gentlemen, Taco Journalism.
I don’t agree with everything they say — Torchy’s Tacos saved my life on my wedding day — but I sure am glad they’re doing it.
So, there’s this app, Corripio, which I found through this useful site called I Use This.
I’m not sure why I started caring about having album cover images attached to my MP3s, but Corripio makes it easy enough that you sort of start doing it, just to see if it’ll work, and then the next thing you know, you’re thinking, “Christ! … I can’t believe I don’t have cover art for ‘The Essential Johnny Cash,’” and then pretty soon you’re searching the webbernet for artwork for “… And Out Come the Wolves” and deciding between the American and European versions of “This One’s From the Heart.”
(I went with the European, but they’re both so ugly…)
Then you’re like, damn it, isn’t there something useful I could be doing with my time? … Writing songs? Reaching out to the needy? … but it’s too late because by then you’re searching Flickr looking for some good iconography for the mix CDs a friend burned for you back in 2004 and the hip-hop collection some pirate put together.
Learn from me, people. Avoid the app. Live with generic icons attached to your CDs.
This way lies despair.
Brandon took a pass at a mix of Happy Birthday, Mrs. K, and, man, does that sound good.
If you’re on a Mac, and you like browsing around for music, I’d like to recommend Peel. It’s an app that picks up RSS feeds from music sites and brings you the mp3s.
If you don’t speak geek, that just means “good music straight to your desktop.”
iTunes intergration, too. Like something? … Click and it’s in iTunes for your continued listening pleasure.
D the B says check it out.
In addition to being our bitchin’ bass player, Brandon Gonzales also does sound for movies.
Here’s a teaser for the Kung-Fu/slasher flick he worked on last summer, Broken Path.
It looks crazy fun.
