Grr.

RRRAAGHGHGHGAAAHAHHH

OOOooO Fajitas!

I thought Chef Kaz (hopefully more on this later, depending on if Fradkin edits his footage [sorry if you don't know these people]) was great (and I was right, great chili Kaz), but last night my man Kenneth mad me some of the best fajitas I've ever had (and I am a big time fajita lover [I hope all this bracketing isn't too hard to follow for you, if it is, you should try Java Programming])

Anyway, Fajitas!

Marinate that Chicken!


You go! Kenneth! :look at those colors:


Sizzle Sizzle


Drool...


Dios mio!

Here is what he had to say about them:

A little bit of Texas in Boston!


Also, while I was writing this post, :the lion sleeps tonight: came on pandora...?.

It was perfect for the fajita post, but shocking. Here is what pandora had to say:

"Based on what you've told us so far, we're playing this track because it features rock & roll roots, r & b influences, heavy use of vocal harmonies, interweaving vocal harmony and extensive vamping."

Wow. All things I love. Especially interweaving vocal harmony.

Remember that I went to Vermont?

This post took a while because a little someone I know named Kenny refused to get the pictures to me.

Let me give you the lowdown on this trip see. Kaz, Kenny and I leave Boston in the late afternoon to arrive in Stowe, VT at about 10 O'Clock. It is 27 degrees outside. It is freakin' September and this state is so ridiculous, that it reaches below freezing in the middle of September.

No matter though, a steamy homecooked brisket waited inside the cozy little schoolhouse ready to be devoured. Kenny was there, so obviously that was no problem. Look at the coze factor here:



That is a fat log with slits in it, and it is their staircase. Amazing. We play some trivial pursuit (obviously I dominate) and go to bed ready for a full day of work.

Here is a picture of Kenny and I working hard.


Here is a picture of the ridiculous amount of wood we stacked.


Here is a picture of the three of us sitting on a pile of wood. It is one of the best pictures ever taken of me...


After a long day of hard work (about 11 hours), of stacking, of mulching, of seeding, of clearing, of hacking, of digging etc. we are ready to eat (remember, Kenny is there). We head into town and eat some of the most amazing food I've ever had at a place called The Whip @ The Green Mountain Inn... Oh my god...

We retire to an epic game of monopoly that I dominate at again and go to sleep.

What is a trip to VT without a a little pancake breakfast action? We went out to a nice little diner where we sat next to man literally named Dr. Danger. Props to Kaz for recognizing our little celebrity from the Mojo channel (yea, that is a real tv station). Props to the waitress too for recognizing him and getting him in our picture!

Here we are at the breakfast place with Kaz's dad (who I can't thank enough for taking us out and making VT amazing!) and with Dr. Danger (on the left looking suspect with his macBook pro).


And what is a trip to VT trip to the Ben and Jerry's factory? What an incredible place. Cheap tours, ice cream abound, crazy paintings everywhere, cows! and the flavor graveyard...

Check us out in front of their van!


Have you had Oatmeal Cookie Chunk? I never had it either. I never would have chosen it, but I got it for free... Very likely my new favorite ice cream flavor. Very likely.



Bottom Lines:
VT is my second favorite state in the union.
Hard work can be rewarding.
VT is way too cold.
Thank you very much Dr. Kazakoff for making everything possible, I had a great time.
Ice cream is good.

We sang a song on the way up that I think captures the epicness of this trip. Here it is:

The look even more like idiots than we did in Vermont.

Prowl

On my iTunes, I have running playlists that I sorta keep in the back of my head and when I hear a song and think it would fit well, I toss it in. Most get built slowly, but one just reached 10 songs and I am pretty amped on it.

It's boring to actively listen to, but it's great to have on...



CLICKHERECLICKHERECLICKHERECLICKHERE

Look What I Did Now!

I went to a Rockstar themed party this weekend so I thought I would really go all out:




Thanks Dan Karel for doing the deed.

Mafioso Invasion of Buswell Street

It finally came. My w00t order is one of the most revolutionary game types I have ever played. Oh my goodness what fun:

An Hour of Work

Want to know what my crazy 6 hour work shifts are like? Perfect, I took a picture of myself every two seconds for an hour (and put the fps at 30) to boil down an hours worth of work to 1 minute.

Even watching this for 6 minutes would be boring as hell let alone working for 6 hours. Actually, it's not bad. You see what happens?




Sometimes you see my mouth moving pretty weirdly. That is me singing along. The isolation down here is intense. Here is what came on randomly in 1 hour:

Turkish Song Of The Damned- The Pogues
Bailamos- Enrique Iglesias
Dream About Me- Moby
Anne Braden- FloBots
Sunday Morning- The Velvet Underground & Nico
With A Girl Like You- Condo Fucks
Cut Sunday Snow- Sonolmoss
Caravan Girl- Goldfrapp
Maybe- Enrique Iglesias
Something In The World Today- Rancid
Jamaica Is The Place To Go- Charlie Binger & His Quartet
Birthday Cake- Cibo Matto
Innocence- Working For A Nuclear Free City
Closer- Kings Of Leon
Live Freaky! Die Freaky!- OST
Manipulation- The Black Angels
Tent Circles- Mesita

With the exception of the Rancid song that bursts in right between two relatively tame songs, this actually set a pretty nice mood for the hour.