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by Jambe
Tue Dec 05, 2017 11:12 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?
Replies: 4343
Views: 780153

Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Nickel Creek: https://youtu.be/jFycqnOpifQ I never thought I'd enjoy modern bluegrass as much as I do. Same, came to that conclusion years ago. Was more or less dumped into it and was taken aback. And yeah, f.ck yeah , that was great. Some lines from Rest of My Life were just damned perfect: "...
by Jambe
Fri Aug 18, 2017 2:45 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?
Replies: 4343
Views: 780153

Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Portugal. The Man - Feel it Still I like that one. Airy/high manvoice has been big for a good while now. I think I mentioned mentioned Rhye's Open earlier in the thread; super-sexy R&B type stuff (might not be your bag). In June they released their first stuff since Woman in '13, a single calle...
by Jambe
Wed Jul 19, 2017 11:37 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?
Replies: 4343
Views: 780153

Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Charo - En Aranjuez Con Tu Amor - cuchi cuchi lady plays flamenco well. The rest of the album's good but this is my favorite. Wilson Pickett - Midnight Hour - because it's Wilson Pickett. Goldroom - Silhouette - lightly-funky dt/chill house. Smooth. Retro Thunder - Summer Synthwave - from their Jun...
by Jambe
Fri Jul 14, 2017 8:46 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: What are you drinking RIGHT NOW?
Replies: 4088
Views: 784424

Re: What are you drinking RIGHT NOW?

Barry's Irish Breakfast tea, iced. Dis humidity, do. Ayeeee!
by Jambe
Sun Jul 02, 2017 11:45 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Native American Pemmican
Replies: 73
Views: 5556

Re: Native American Pemmican

Split's better than chunked (for presentation, ease of access, and cooking). I just salt the shyt out of it (seriously you can make it white) and bake/grill on a sheet pan at ~450 for 10-20 minutes until the marrow visually pulls away from the bone a bit (time varies a lot depending on how thick &am...
by Jambe
Fri Jun 30, 2017 12:04 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Native American Pemmican
Replies: 73
Views: 5556

Re: Native American Pemmican

What a thread! @whm: It's not that great a combination in my experience. I'd rather have the berries as a treat and keep the beef jerkylike. More importantly: biltong > jerky. Townsend has many neat videos. I may have linked the one about portable soup before on a LCHF rant... handy stuff if you fin...
by Jambe
Wed Jun 28, 2017 1:51 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: What are you eating Right Now
Replies: 298
Views: 63885

Re: What are you eating Right Now

Corned beef hash with a fried egg on top is delicious (though not particularly healthy). It's both delicious and healthy! Insert blather about LCHF living, the (un)soundness of the various studies underpinning our government's dietary guidelines (n.b. the reproducibility crisis), etc ad nauseam. --...
by Jambe
Tue Jun 27, 2017 10:36 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?
Replies: 4343
Views: 780153

Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Armchair self-psychoanalysis time... :lol: I've been deep into darkest synthwave but that was kicked off by Stranger Things, not by the political climate. It's just a coinkydink that that the mood of the music I'm into atm is appropriate to the timbre of news and bar-chat. Serendipity! Also fwiw my...
by Jambe
Thu Jun 15, 2017 11:28 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: What are you drinking RIGHT NOW?
Replies: 4088
Views: 784424

Re: What are you drinking RIGHT NOW?

Cheat days (in this humid season) overflow with ice-cold Boylan's Original Birch Beer. Are there better birch beers? Probably not. Some would say Boylan's own Creamy Red is superior, but that's thoroughgoing blasphemy, sez I. I've tried a good few (and collect all the bottles because I'm a weirdo li...
by Jambe
Thu Jun 15, 2017 11:28 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?
Replies: 4343
Views: 780153

Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Synthwave, as ever. New Retro Wave's Magnatron 2.0 comes out July 7, lead single released 3 days ago: Wice - Star Fighter . Driving! Mmph! More NRW fare I listened to recently: The Encounter - Behemoth IV (stereo's a must), Ron Cannon - Dreamaniac (fabulously grungy & gloomy), Division - The New...
by Jambe
Wed May 10, 2017 9:59 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?
Replies: 4343
Views: 780153

Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Gosh, hipsterism. I still don't find prog catching. I keep trying, but man. Alt-J - 3WW - indie/alt rock, I guess. The bass! The minimalism! Another one with a nice narrative video, this one thoroughly morbid. The frozen dolly shots are really beautiful, but my favorite vignette is probably the pooc...
by Jambe
Wed May 03, 2017 6:50 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?
Replies: 4343
Views: 780153

Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Every so often I'm relistening to the great music clips and fabulous sound design work in Felix Colgrave's entertainingly-weird DOUBLE KING animated short. Blockhead - The Music Scene - great psychedelic narrative animation, downtempo trip-hop type fare. Leslie Feist - Mushaboom - cheesy-cute lyrics...
by Jambe
Mon Apr 17, 2017 7:45 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?
Replies: 4343
Views: 780153

Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Chris Morris' On The Hour . The opening lines alone are timeless: "It's eleven twenty; this is On the Hour." "This is On the Hour; arise, Sir News!" "Heads, it's news, tails, it's news... [coin landing on desk] It's news!" "It's o'clock at five o'clock; this is On ...
by Jambe
Sun Apr 16, 2017 8:36 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?
Replies: 4343
Views: 780153

Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Recent finds & returning favs: Sacred Paws - Empty Body - earwormy, vaguely Afrobeat song. Cute contrast of dumb youthful anxieties/existentialism in the lyrics with the upbeat pace & lively riffs. Walter Martin - Hey Matt - another upbeat tune, clappity-clappity, so damned fun, this time wi...
by Jambe
Sun Apr 16, 2017 3:40 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: What are you drinking RIGHT NOW?
Replies: 4088
Views: 784424

Re: What are you drinking RIGHT NOW?

Was gifted Sierra Milenario's Tequila Extra Anejo recently; tequila isn't normally my thing but I quite like this. Smoky & peppery with lots of vanilla behind the agave. Aside from that, also enjoying Brugal's 1888 rum. It tastes like what I imagine a particularly unsweet butterscotch would tast...
by Jambe
Thu Jan 26, 2017 11:38 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Good Podcasts, January 2017 edition
Replies: 9
Views: 1630

Re: Good Podcasts, January 2017 edition

Game stuff in descending order of favoritude: Video Games Hot Dog Shut Up & Sit Down Level with Emily Reese Crate & Crowbar Idle Thumbs Idle Weekend Other stuff, no particular order: Futility Closet (excellent weird general interest, trivia, etc) NPR's All Songs Considered Little Atoms (gene...
by Jambe
Wed Jan 25, 2017 9:16 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?
Replies: 4343
Views: 780153

Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

I bought that album before I bought the DVDs, after seeing a handful of episodes on Adult Swim fifteen years ago. Great series, amazing soundtrack. More shows need to have a house band. Yeah, Bebop's music stands on its own but the full experience is extraordinary even today. The scenes with Gren (...
by Jambe
Thu Jan 19, 2017 10:26 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: We are the BORG. You will ALL be ASSIMILATED - through your phone..
Replies: 27
Views: 2607

Re: We are the BORG. You will ALL be ASSIMILATED - through your phone..

To most of us who grew up reading sci-fi vintage 1950-1980 or so, we all assumed the toilet would become the primary home diagnostic device. Something something those wacky Germans (this reminded me of a goofy article from eons ago ). wrt the topic: eh, can't happen soon enough. From a great Aussie...
by Jambe
Thu Jan 19, 2017 9:34 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?
Replies: 4343
Views: 780153

Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Can't get into prog even though I keep trying. Ah well! Recent fun from shuffle: Matt Ueleman - Diablo OST - Town - my favorite game OST track of all time, perhaps? Certainly the best single piece of music to come out of Blizzard. Hits you right over the head with its moodiness, but I find that ende...
by Jambe
Tue Nov 29, 2016 2:06 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?
Replies: 4343
Views: 780153

Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

O'swee'jeeze, this thread remains a trove to mine. I don't often comment on suggestions but I give most everything a listen so thanks everyone. A fartpost of my recent finds shall follow: Did y'all know Eartha Kitt did great renditions of Rumania Rumania ? How fun! Meekly pouts, "I don't have m...
by Jambe
Sat Oct 29, 2016 1:35 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: What are you drinking RIGHT NOW?
Replies: 4088
Views: 784424

Re: What are you drinking RIGHT NOW?

The single barrel is pretty darn silky. There aren't a lot of flavors going on (as to be expected with a regular aged whiskey and not a scotch or bourbon) but enough to warrant getting it over their regular whiskey. At the moment I would rate it above Crown XR, similar pallet but a touch smoother. ...
by Jambe
Thu Oct 27, 2016 3:06 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: What are you drinking RIGHT NOW?
Replies: 4088
Views: 784424

Re: What are you drinking RIGHT NOW?

Moving onto a bottle of Door County Distillery Single barrel Whiskey. Oo, do tell me how it is! I haven't tried any of their stuff. I have tried all Death's Door's spirits and like their Mint liqueur best. Tangentially, still my favorite trip to anywhere on this rock was late autumn up in Door Coun...
by Jambe
Thu Oct 27, 2016 2:50 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: What are you eating Right Now
Replies: 298
Views: 63885

Re: What are you eating Right Now

Still avoiding the evils of carbohydrates! Fave breakfast thing (I often skip it because I'm no longer hungry in the mornings) is an egg muffin w/tea. Just an egg whisked w/chopped salt ham or bacon and cheese cooked for ~15 minutes at 375 in a single muffin cup (grease it first, I use lard). I usua...
by Jambe
Thu Oct 27, 2016 2:46 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?
Replies: 4343
Views: 780153

Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Given his death: you spin me right round baby, right round. Like a record baby, right round round round. *androgynous hip-gyration* Also, I emerged from synthwave's digestive tract to find... more synthwave. New retro is mixing in now, too, e.g. revisiting the Hotline Miami soundtrack (Jasper Byrne,...
by Jambe
Fri Oct 14, 2016 9:55 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Newegg bought out
Replies: 41
Views: 7512

Re: Newegg bought out

Part of the capital flight. Makes sense to get a direct hand on overseas retailers/distributors. tbh I haven't bought from Newegg in years. Amazon usually has whatever I want for the same or less and I don't have to deal with Newegg's deteriorating customer service. Also, I use Prime anyway (and the...
by Jambe
Thu Sep 29, 2016 1:48 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: What are you eating Right Now
Replies: 298
Views: 63885

Re: What are you eating Right Now

For carb-eschewers, what I'm eating ALL THE TIME right now: Tortilla alternative: 1 whisked egg cooked in medium buttered pan for 30 seconds, flipped and cooked for another 15-30. Nacho cheese: Land O'Lakes white American cheese melted in 60 second microwave bursts pound-to-cup with 2% milk, minced ...
by Jambe
Tue Sep 13, 2016 11:27 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?
Replies: 4343
Views: 780153

Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

b2b posts but I just have to relate that a friend and I danced like ridiculous goons to this when Soundcloud autoplayed it from a list of tracks related to the Stranger Things Extended Theme: GosT - Cruel Summer (f**kup) . Stranger Things has me so into synthwave right now (revisiting John Carpenter...
by Jambe
Sat Sep 10, 2016 3:28 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?
Replies: 4343
Views: 780153

Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Sade - Slave Song from Lovers Rock . One of my favorite "hi-fi benchmark" songs. This track has some absurdly deep, punch-you-in-the-chest bass. The entire album is just great. One of those albums that, when played loud enough, will cause a pair of 15" sealed subwoofers to repeatedly...
by Jambe
Sat Sep 10, 2016 3:28 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: What are you drinking RIGHT NOW?
Replies: 4088
Views: 784424

Re: What are you drinking RIGHT NOW?

The Ardbeg Corryvreckan is open. At 57.1% ABV I think it needs a splash of water to not be such a kick in the throat. Definitely a new favorite Scotch up there with after Laphroaig 10/QC, Glenmorangie Signet, Balvenie Caribbean Cask, etc. A distinct pine scent mixes interestingly with the Islay medi...
by Jambe
Sat Sep 03, 2016 8:40 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: What are you drinking RIGHT NOW?
Replies: 4088
Views: 784424

Re: What are you drinking RIGHT NOW?

Left Hand Milk Stout on Nitro.  Anyone try this?  It's extremely drinkable.  Next to no bitterness at all.  Nice and dark, sweet, malty, and smooth. Sounds right up my alley, and it's stocked nearby. Gonna pick it up to try on a cheat day. @thread: pool table broken in! A (gratuitously overgenerous...
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