July 2010
12 posts
What to do with shiso aka perilla →
About a year back I accidentally wrote what’s become the most popular post in this blog’s history — What to do with carrot tops aka carrot greens. I wouldn’t call this a sequel to that — and I…
Summer AMG reviews to share… →
Another batch from the past few weeks:
Setting Sun — Fantasurreal
Dan Sartain — Dan Sartain Lives
Barn Owl — The Conjurer
Mose Giganticus — Gift Horse
The North Sea — Bloodlines
Not Just the Ticket — #56, The Medicine Show, July... →
Apparent festival line-up, in general order from openers to headliners: Terri Nunn, Dogs D’Amour (?), Circle of Power, Low Pop Suicide (?), Blind Melon, Tool, Rage Against the Machine, Porno…
The garden on July 23, 2010 →
And after a two week break, back for a visit — most of my fellow gardening crew were either away on their own vacations or in town but busy with family visits so it was all up to me this time. We’ve…
Not Just the Ticket — #55, My Bloody Valentine,... →
Then-current album: Loveless
Opening acts: Buffalo Tom, Yo La Tengo
Back of ticket ad: Fox Photo, so nice to see you again
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I remember this ticket went missing for a while, turns out I…
Not Just the Ticket — #53, The Cure, June 27, 1992 →
Then-current album: Wish
Opening acts: Cranes, Dinosaur Jr.
Back of ticket ad: at the time I would have laughed at the KLSX ad as being inappropriate and now…
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Those hole punches in the…
Kale and carrot salad →
So this one grew out of the fact I had plenty of kale around, not much lettuce and little desire to cook or steam the kale, especially in this weather. As I had a lot of carrots too I did a…
The Faraday Trippers at UCI, July 14 2010 →
So I had a chance to meet the Faraday Trippers — the core of Mike and Pat plus newer member Bryce — at Bottled Smoke back in May. Mike runs Seagrass Recordings, who have released the…
Not Just the Ticket — #52, KMFDM, June 7 1992 →
Then-current album: Money
Opening act: completely blanking on this
Back of ticket ad: And I never thought I would be glad to see a Fox Photo ad.
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I almost hadn’t realized how many shows…
Spaghetti with braised kale →
While I’ve done a tomato-braised kale pasta dish before, doing one this way — using this recipe – was a first, and turned out very nicely! It’s one of those ‘rewards patience’ dishes,…
Another cucumber salad plus a little more →
So following on from my post of the other day, my friend Anji Bee noted over on Facebook that she’d done a Japanese variant on a cucumber salad, involving rice vinegar, soy sauce and…
Not Just the Ticket — #50, All/Big Drill Car, June... →
Then current album: In All’s case, Percolater.
Opening act: Chemical People
Back of ticket ad: KLSX again? Do you never stop?
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And welcome back to Not Just the Ticket — both my lengthy…
June 2010
8 posts
And a quick report from Charleston →
For now! (Also, if you just want to check the photos, the rolling set will be here; having a little trouble linking some specific examples right now but I’ll edit them in later.)
So two years ago…
Not Just the Ticket on pause… →
…due to my upcoming vacation! (And also what turned out to be a hugely busy end of the quarter.) Keep an eye out for a variety of random blogs about relatives’ weddings, good food up and down the…
Frogs! →
And oodles of them.
Story is here is that a friend who likes to organize ‘expeditions’ as she calls them got together a small group of people to go see this exhibit at the Muzeo over in…
Some early June AMG reviews… →
Onward and along through the year!
A Certain Ratio — Mind Made Up
The Reserves — Life
Dara Puspita — Dara Puspita 1966-1968
v/a — Beyond Berkeley Guitar
Bushman’s Revenge — …
The garden on June 4, 2010 →
And so it continues — but this will be the last full garden update for a month due to my various travels and plans for June! So enjoy where we’re at here with this video:
And as ever the…
Not Just the Ticket — a ticketless entry on Ween,... →
Then-current album — not really Pure Guava as that was a few months away but they played a lot of stuff from it
Opening act — honestly not sure if there was one
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Part of the problem of strictly…
Bottled Smoke II — Saturday afternoon →
This’ll be the first of two posts on my Memorial Day weekend for this year attending Bottled Smoke II, which (as the name gives away) replicated in part a Memorial Day weekend three…
Bottled Smoke II — Sunday afternoon →
And now on to the second and final post — though there was a lot more to the weekend than just the two afternoons!
Like the previous festival, this was a three day affair, though this…
