Musik Mundi: Silversun Pickups

I heard this song on the way to work this morning and I like it. I give you one line. That's how busy I've been as of late.

*photo courtesy of amazon.com*


Silversun Pickups
Album: Swoon (2009)
Song: Panic Switch

Restaurant: Feast

219 Westheimer Rd
Houston, TX 77006

Big poppa and I had date night with Rocco and Nestle the other weekend where they treated us at Feast. I've been hearing a lot about Feast from food blogs and my foodie friends and so I was excited about trying it out. They have a popular selection that is available all the time and the other part of the menu changes daily. As I was looking at their website, I started getting really scared, cos they offer the types of protein that is not typically eaten by most people here in the states. The owners of Feast describe their food as rustic european fare and nothing from an animal seems to be wasted. There's this dessert they have called the spotted dick which is basically a pastry of some sort. When we were seated, I looked around at the restaurant and there was mostly older fancy types. I had a moment of irony flash through my mind as would imagine that this is what the poor folks of the medieval times would eat and now looky here, rich and um, tall, people are fancying themselves some fine cuisine. I can't say I loved it. But I'm not one to appreciate this kinda stuff. I'm unrefined. In the end, big poppa and I just like to say we've tried it.

Appetizer. Snails in garlic butter and garlic butter toast. Oh this was just pure heaven. Cholesterol heaven. Snails to me really don't taste like anything. It's all about the butter and garlic. The toast part was freaking DELISH!

Second appetizer. This was like a rabbit meat quiche. Very cheesy. The rabbit meat was very chewy and gamey. I'm not a fan of rabbit. Literally. Hah!

Nestle and I both ordered the cock-a-leekie ($20.95). I love the name of the dish! Whenever there's a conceited dude around, I now describe them as cock-a-leekie. Haha. It is braised chicken with cream and leeks, plums, bacon and red potatoes. It was okay. I expected it to be more savory but was surprised by how the plum gave the sauce a much more sweeter taste.

Big poppa had this fish but I can't recall the name of it. He said the fish was good and very flaky but he still prefers the asian styled fish where it's steamed with soy sauce, ginger and scallions. We're so AZN!

Rocco had veal I think. Boo! I demand that people stop eating veal!

Musik Mundi: Catchpenny

Doncha just love it when you stumble upon good music? So the other day, Gilles sends me this link to this slideshow phenom site that she had been telling me about. I was like ok cool but didn't really think I would be putting together slideshows since I've already got my foto system down and I tend to be a creature of habit and routine. The site is called Animoto and instead of having your run of the mill slideshow, you get these awesome and professional slideshows that can be set to music and all you do is upload your pics and choose the song and BAM! Cool slideshow. But that's not what reeled me in. So as I was perusing the site, the thing that popped out at me was that they were now introducing video capability and to celebrate the launch, they were holding a contest to see who could put together the most creative video. I was down for the challenge. I never enter contests but I felt this was something that I would enjoy doing. Plus, I had all this untouched footage from NYC. The only catch is that the song for the video had to be from the Animoto library, which isn't a very good selection. So after working day and night and listening to almost every song in the Animoto library, I was able to produce something contest worthy. Well, it's good to me and the people in the video. Hah! And the cool thing is that I found a song that was perfect for the video and it's a song that big poppa and I actually like. OK. Enough blabber. The band is called Catchpenny and the song is Wouldn't Be The Same. Enjoy the vid! This one is purely for the contest. One of these days, I'll get to making a full length one. I seem to have some down time around the corner. Voodoo let me upload it onto his youtube, or rather, he requested it since he's featured all over it. I hope I become a finalist! Wish me luck! Anyone planning on starting an animoto account or just simply signing up? Please use this referral code: rflcjhuo. Danke! Danke!




*photo courtesy of amazon.com*


Catchpenny
Album: From Where You Are (2006)
Song: Wouldn't Be The Same

Trippin': Atlanta - World of Coca-Cola

121 Baker St. NW
Atlanta, GA 30313

I want to say that the number one Atlanta attraction that all visitors check out would have to be World of Coca-Cola. I completely made that up so there's a big chance that's just a bunch of hokum. For a general admission of $15, you get to enjoy coke from beginning to now. You start off with a brief intro. There were antique paintings and coke written in different languages. The speaker pointed out one sign in particular and asked the audience what language it was written in and of course me and my big mouth quickly blurted out Vietnamese! He wanted to know who said that and I yelled out, the Vietnamese girl! Haha. And here's the embarrassing part. He wanted me to tell everyone what it said, but since I don't know how to read VN nor do I know VN other than food and simple conversational phrases, I was like, uuuhhh ... don't know, sorry. Hah! Next comes a short film about Coke makes people happy. And then you get released on your own where you have several things to enjoy. There was this 4D movie about discovering coke's secret formula. I think the answer was like us Coke drinker's is/are the secret formula. CHEESE! You also get to see a fully-functioning bottling line, pop culture gallery and the world's largest collection of Coke memorabilia. The thing that everyone always talk about is getting to taste coke and coke products from all over the world. I tasted about five or six sodas before calling it quits. The floors were super sticky and my hands felt sticky so I was like, bail time! My fave part was getting to take a picture with the polar bear!