With great sadness we must report that our show with Nina Hagen in Berlin on the 24th has broken up. Our sincere apologies to our dear friends in Germany who now continue to wait. We promise we’ll try our best to get back to you in 2013.
With the open date now for the 24th we have added Amsterdam’s Melkweg to our itinerary. Tickets go on sale this Monday, 19th November at 10:00 HERE.
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Spinner is premiering the latest video from The Dandy Warhols, the Thomas Rhazi directed “The Autumn Carnival.” This video is the third released by the band in promotion of their latest album, This Machine, and was written by Dandy frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor and Bauhaus/Love & Rockets’ David J.
“The song came from David J and I discussing Something Wicked This Way Comes,” Courtney says. “The theme here is how, as we age, our view of youth and our feelings regarding what it means become paper thin and almost totally unrealistic.”
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Alrighty.
Here’s another photo of my lovely wine in action. (Buy it HERE for a limited time.) This is at the tasting for the Christmas dinner/show show December 15 at the Mission.
Here’s the first draft of the menu. Its gonna change a bit between now and then and a couple wines have changed already but you get the jist:
1st. Basic roasted beet stack on little arugula w chive/spinach goddess.
Schoenfeldt NV cremant d’alsace
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2nd. Smoked pepper Manhatten clam chowder.
Chateau Taylor-Taylor Boca D’Avolo 2010
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3rd. Chili-maple grilled carrots on celeryroot/new potato puree
Chateau Taylor-Taylor Boca D’Avolo 2010
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4th. Braised pork shoulder w molasses/mustard glaze on broccoli cornbread.
Teselli Nero D’Avola 2009
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5th. Bourbon pumpkin bread pudding
Amontillado Sherry 2002
When we finalize it we’ll flesh it out so that ALL of the herbs, oils and whatnot are listed. Again, this is just the big ideas.
Yum.
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Well we polished off two bottles of Chateau Taylor-Taylor with Thai food the other night and it rocked. I had the viticulturist from Rex Hill winery over and he was blown away.
The wine turned out lighter and brighter than I thought so you can add slightly tangy dishes to its pairings now too. It’s more like an Oregon Pinot Noir which is probably part of why my Rex Hill guy loved it (They make a huge number of modern, high quality Pinots. Check em out). The finish on this wine is where it’s at. That’s where you can tell the quality and the age of the vines. It’s long and ancient.
Well anyhoo I can’t wait to bring one into my favorite Mexican joint and get seriously fatter. There’s Indian right down the street so that’s my job for tomorrow. I’ll letcha know how it goes.
If you can put some away for next spring/summer you’ll be glad you did. The bottleshock will have gone away and well, plus this wine turned out to be pretty summery.
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Yipes! My achin’ back!
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(2012) When this movie was over it took about a minute and twenty seconds for me to start it again. |
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(2012) It’s like the value pack of artistic credibility: you pay for just over two hours but you feel like you got about four. |
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(2010) Mostly miserable. |
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Ok, the wine is at the port in New York. It’s in America and is getting trucked to the warehouse today or Monday. THEN it gets sent to everybody who bought some and curry and mexican food sales are gonna skyrocket!
I tell you what though, I’m gonna have a major Mexican seven course dinner party and go thru like two cases the first night. God this is exciting.
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I just figured it was about time.
It’s a quick read at 174 pages so a chunk of afternoon spent on the sofa has yielded quite a lot of brain stimulation.
What an amazing clarity this translation has, too.
What with all the dark associations and the centuries and languages between then and now I think it is still safe to say this Machiavelli guy was really really bright.
For some reason I was always under the impression that he was royalty but turns out he wasn’t. He was a rather fortunate young man but it turned ugly of course, and naturally this work of genius wasn’t appreciated in its time.
It’s also not about being underhanded and sneaky but rather about how you must know what the nature of your troubles are and/or how to hopefully circumvent them. Failing that, recognizing and choosing the lesser of evils when dealing with them is probably the part where he got such a bum rap.
Anyhoo its a fun read. Get it. Actually mine is inscribed to me by my friend Patrick and I must say a good, compact hardbound copy of this book inscribed is a pretty badass gift idea for a certain type of person. Probably the type of person who is reading this right now.
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Chateau Taylor-Taylor arrives in port on Friday. I CAN’T WAIT!
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(2010) Hottest choreography I’ve seen since I saw Book of Mormon. |
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