Hmm... all this lumpen prole rigamarole. Now I have to come up with somethiing absurdly elitist for tomorrow.

This fusion future was well-foretold in Blade Runner.

OMG--U-Shaped Life, I am confident in your ability to rise to the occasion,

that sounds awesome. I need to go to LA and try this...

If you Twitter you can follow them at:
http://twitter.com/kogibbq

or hit their webiste at:
http://kogibbq.com/

EL: Any time frame on a Twitter presence for you since other Sun'ners are on?

I had to wait until I got home to see what all the fuss was about. When you open your own mobile food emporium, jl, I've got a fusion meatball sub you can put on the menu.

I heard about this on the podcast of KCRW's Good Food, which you can hear at the 6:30 mark on the broadcast here: 24 Jan 2009.

Any Hopkinsites here thinking of the Surf & Wok wraps from the Northeast Market?

You know which ones I'm talking about. Burritos filled with grilled kalbi-chicken, but finished with salsa, lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, sour cream and sriracha.

I used to get a salad at the NE Mkt – the Salad of Anti-Social Afternoons, i.e., a pint of Kim Chee. I used to run Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach on a continuous cassette loop in my office to keep visitors at bay. Before I was instrumental in banning smoking at Hopkins I took up smoking in my office just to get rid of people. I never smoked habitually, but it is a good anti-social tool when Philip Glass and kimchee won't work.

OMG 2 -- Fistful of Dolors, do you remember when you could smoke in the library?

Dahlink, I remember when there were smoking rooms in my college library and the Health Centre, and we could smoke not only during class, but also during exams.

Heck, one of my library directors used to smoke so many of my cigarettes I'd just drop a pack off in his office every other day or so. Saved him walking over to my desk.

Smoking in the library? Hmmm.. I think that was before my time. It sounds glorious.

Now I just thought of picking up a pack of Gitane's and having a nice smoke in a bar but NO, Fascists like ME made that impossible!

Oh the levels of self-hatred just keep getting more complex! But if you feed it enough self-loathing is like a pet – and it never runs away or abandons you. Loathy wants hot dogs for dinner. Come on boy, lets see what's in the freezer. Oh look Safeway has something called Butchers Cut Meat Franks, Safeway Club Price: 4 for $5.00. $1.25 a pound for "meat". Yahoo. Loathy is so happy.

I worked for DEC from 1986 through the assimilation by Compaq and than HP. When the company changed the rules and wouldn't let us smoke in our offices and cubicles anymore, the non-smokers would get mad because the smokers would be having business meetings in the smoking rooms.

When I arrived, you could smoke on B level and D level, and in certain offices and the staff lounge. Eventually someone decided that smoking in the stacks was a fire hazard, and then someone from California complained that he couldn't eat his lunch without gagging. Now of course the whole campus is smoke-free, pretty much ... You can still smoke outside, but please step away from the doors.

I used to make out with my girlfriend on E Level. Did we smoke after sex? I don't know, I never looked.

Hal worked for DEC? That sort of makes sense. I knew a lot of DEC people in Boston. I still dream in TECO.

OMG RE: Einstein on the Beach ... exactly how long was that loop?? Somehow about a third of the opera has disappeared from my iPod, but what's still there is over 120 minutes. "One two three four five six seven eight."

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1 2 3 4
1 2 3 4

I had a dual cassette player that played one cassette and then switched to the other, so that's a lot of EotB in one chunk. It encouraged people to be brief with their complaints

5 6 7 8
5 6 7 8
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1 2 3 4
1 2 3 4
Paging David Cassidy
5 6 7 8
.....

I found it very soothing, but we all know my brain isn't wired normally.

MD Canon wrote: Somehow about a third of the opera [Einstein on the Beach] has disappeared from my iPod[.]

Umm -- how could you tell? I always found Glass to be numbingly monotonous and repetitive.

Liberatingly monotonous and repetitive. People like the sound of the ocean or rain and that's pretty monotonous. 5 6 7 8 5 6 7 8

Phillip Glass makes me homicidal. I can handle other minimalist stuff, enjoy some of it, but something about Glass makes me want to grab an axe, and create some non-monotonous chaos.

Saw him a few years back at a Jewel Heart benefit in memory of Alan Ginsburg in Ann Arbor. Buddy dragged me, and the other half of the program was Patti Smith. She was awesome (and she reads Ginsburg's poetry better than he ever did), but I had to play games on my phone through the Glass portion.

My friend love Glass, couldn't stand Patti Smith.

I find that Patti Smith and Philip Glass are good when I'm already feeling homicidal.

Patti Smith is a pretty talented poet/philosopher, Owl. Try to catch her on Roseanna Arquette's documentary about raising kids and being rock stars. She set the bar very high for all musicians.

Haven't seen that, Joyce. Do you have a title?

She's really, really good at reading poetry. Not surprising, since she is a poet, a singer and a performer, too.

Dip in to the sea,
to the sea of possibilities
It started hardening
Dip in to the sea,
to the sea of possibilities
It started hardening in my hand
And I felt the arrows of desire

Rosanna Arquette's doc is called All We Are Saying

Lissa, I think it's called "All we are saying". Arquette also interviews Chrissie Hynde and Patti Scialfa (Bruce Springsteen's wife). For some reason I've never caught the whole thing but if tomorrow if the same rainy drek that today has been, I may go to Blockbuster and see if I can find it. The portion with Smith, that I've seen a couple of times is very intelligent, insightful and articulate. BTW, not that it's mentioned in the documentary, but I recently read that she was a lover of Mapplethorpe possibly the only female he was interested in, not just as a lover but as his muse. Interesting life, this woman has had - I could listen to her forever.

Across the country through the fields
You know I see it written 'cross the sky
People rising from the highway
And war war is the battle cry

Thanks, Owlie and Joyce. I'll see if the library has it.

Joyce, she was crushed when Maplethorpe died. She was pretty androgynous in those days.

Not only has she had an amazing life, she's actually survived it.

An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.
– Patti Smith

Here's the imDb listing for All We Are Saying. Note that more than 50 musicians are interviewed, not just Patti Smith. (Thankfully, Philip Glass was not interviewed.)

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.
-Patti Smith

Hey, hmpstd, how about a little love for Philip Glass? After all, Baltimore can claim him.

Btw, All We Are Saying is not yet available on Netflix--you can save it to your queue for when it does become available.

I doubt that Philip Glass being interveiewed sounds like his sounds like like like like sounds like sounds like his like like like sounds like sounds like sounds like his music.

I hear the influence of Glass in movie scores all the time, much like I hear the influence of Sonic Youth in rock music. Both watered down but an essential underlying structural force. Glass works particularly well for movies, plus he has written a score of scores.

Note to self: be forewarned of the tangents you spawn.

Well, or be prepared to blame a bird for them.

^-^

Lissa, I love that Patti Smith quote! I just caught the full depth of her meaning!

They're fantastic, if you go to the actual club/bar place where they're stationed. The kogi tacotruck is still great though, same stuff, just a liiiiitle bit less quantity and the entire menu isn't there too :( The sliders are completely the same so no loss there.

But if you are in LA, have the time and want to tough it through, a trip to the Alibi room (the bar/club they are located) is certainly worth the wait... and if the wait is to long, get drunk waiting :D