Finally, the Chinese chicken gets Justice it deserves!
Sunday, January 22, 2006
After giving up on finding the menu, and then cleaning my room, I finally found the small blue menu. During my short ABC interning time I would stay at my Uncle's house in Koreantown and would look for some places to eat. Taking advantage of these meal times is something I was able to achieve. One such place was the Larchmont Deli suggested to me by Sharon, infact instructed to be more accurate. The Larchmont Deli is located at the end of the famous Larchmont Blvd. It's a small little Greek place with sandwhiches, soups and salads. These aren't your average bread/meat slap joints, take the Larchmonter for example: Fresh cut Turkey w/ mashed potatoes,gravy, cranberry sauce & a dinner roll (know many places serving that up daily?), also they have a Meat Loaf dinner, corned beef & quesadilla hot sandwhiches. They have all the delicious delicasies like spanakopita (which I love), delicious potato knish and tzatziki to put on your gyros. There is even the sweet baklava and their delicious vegetarian lasagna.
LAST but not least, my favorite: the Larchmont Chinese Chicken salad (pictured above). This is the best Chinese chicken salad I have ever had, I don't really know how accurate it is to be called chinese chicken salad other than the fact that more traditional recipes include Maifun, sesame oil and seeds, and some "oriental" sauces. The deli has two sizes, the regular and the half order. Now I consider myself a big eater, and if not a big eater, alteast I can finish the meal, almost always, Infact always. But I could not finish the the HALF order. I can't imagine how big the full order is. This isn't a whimpy salad, it's got huge chunks of chicken breast, a light but very taste full sauce and better than fresh lettuce. $5.25 gets you my self proclaimed and hyped up Half Chinese Chicken salad and everything there comes with free pita. The regular order is $8.15 and it demands sharing.
Please go and have everything on their menu! The Larchmont Village has a lot of rad shops and eateries, modeled after the Larchmont in NY, which I hear is just as awesome if not jawesome. Many of them highly recommended throughout.
Larchmont Deli (map it)
5210 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 9004
(323) 466-1193 Fax your orders in (323) 466-1419 Free Delivery (no miminum)
Hours: M-F 9am-4:30pm, Sat 9am to 5:00pm
Price: $5-8 <---and worth your bucks!
Oakland's 6 piece Not quite livin' up to their name...
Saturday, January 21, 2006
I was browsing through Lex Records, holdin' down names like FOG, Boom Bip, Danger Doom, Prince Po and Tes, and I came upon a band called Subtle. Remember Themselves + Notwist = 13&gOd? An amazing collaboration of music and talent. Well Doseone and Jel are back collaborating and searching for more fresh fruits. The influences in this group are amazing, hip-hop, glitch, electronic, beats & instrumental and we're talkin' electric cello, samplers, guitars and keyboards. Their sound hits under-tones on genre non-specific music. Robotic harmonica and incredible timing and patience. They are pretty much amazing. The only reason why someone wouldn't like Subtle is cause they probably can't hear vision and appreciate trluy new sound. Pop this into your iPod. Mp3
F.K.O (f--- kelly osbourne) <---Check these out now!!!!
I heart L.A. Two
Video for F.K.O.
Check out more Lex Records artists here.
Mouche sounds like a mustache for a Woman.
Thursday, January 19, 2006
Judging by the looks of this picture to the left, the voice doesn't match the face. It's strange. Sandy Mouche has a very clear voice, but sometimes raspy, Good raspy! Catchy drum beats and the guy doing the background vocals. Sounds good together. I particularly like the song 'In the Sand', it talks about a friend's love and it not being mutual. It's kind of sad but it has a good message, and the song is done beautifully with background vocals, a drum beat and overlay vocals. She has a good voice to go with piano but this poppy sound is positive and kinda mood uplifting, yay! They have a new album just came out called "...and Poems for the Unborn" <---rad title points. Also be sure to check out their myspace page. And dude they only have 29 friends, come on that's sad! It's probably more sad that I just said that. Swedish and surrounding musica is jawesome. Also check out this super rad video someone recorded somewhere. Mp3 (I jacked these from boyethan, he's a genius)
In the Sand
Spiderweb Suit
13 band members and a sound like Ben Folds
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
So many different instruments and so many influences. "His Name Is Alive" is from Detroit and coming out with Detrola this month, they even got Sony-BMG distributin' for them. They got this light piano and female vocal thing going on. I defintely like it. It's happy and semi new school grabbing. Catchy yet fun stuff. You have to check out their older stuff which has a lot of electronic sounds. More indie electro pop, with tings and keyboard. Also be sure to check out their myspace pageMP3
Get your Curse On
01. USA vs Gamelan
02. Brown Rice
03. The Pine Cone
04. The Pine Cone II
05. Everglades National Park
06. Mystery Spot
07. Brown Rice II
08. Wake Up Jin (Spring Can Really Hang000Hang You Up The Most)
09. Free Concert
10. Dreem Up
11. Detrola
Isolde, my apartment is so cold! Why?!
Maia Hirasawa vocals
Rikard Brandén guitar & pedal steel
Svante Söderqvist cello
Magnus Bergström double bass
Ola Hultgren drums
They are like totally matching. It's a rad picture, you might recognize the girl in the middle, it's Maia Hirasawa. She also sings for this rad band Isolde. There site is all in Swedish and I can barely make out any of the words. I would use google to translate but that's not as fun. They are on the Swedish label Rorschach records.
Check out these samples from their ENTIRE cd!
9. Andas in
Just some random things you know?
Oh I made that last week. Kim-chee Jjiggeh (however you want to konglish that) complete wit hchicken and tofu and secret. This morning I browsed through the sale items on the West Elm website. They have some rad stuff. Something else I was looking at was the Korean Blog List. It is a buncha korean blogs written in English; it's mostly a buncha americans who live and submerse in Korea. Pretty Neats. Right now I am just checking out some new music for you peoples.
Have you guys heard of Phill? The new Civic GX NGV runs on Natural gas, and guess where you get it from? Why not your own natural gas you pay for every month to run the heater and stove? You can "Phill" up your car from your home, no need for a gas station<----it's pretty much off the peter pan!
Apparently William Shatner sold his kidney STONE to an online casino GoldenPalace.com for $25,000. They are giving it to habitat for humanity. But still...like what the heck.
Um...Bob Larson, ever heard of him? I guess he's the Michael Jordan of Exorcisms, whatever that means. You can see him do it live at the Sheraton Pasadena Hotel Friday and saturday the 27th & 28th. His site is hilarious.
Last but not least....an old favorite video by Takagi Masakatsu. It's called Sorina <---it's a beautiful sample.
japaneseuropeans....are so weird.
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Take Alanis Morissette's acoustic sound and make it even more acoustic, maybe some less cynical irony filled drug-drag lyrics (I love her so yea), and you get the easy sounds of Maia Hirasawa. I've have heard she also can sometimes sound like Björk. Maia play's for a buncha different bands and has her own trio. Her songs have a dash of sorrow but I think it's just her style, her sound. The songs are more hopeful but do show signs of bitterness. Her beautiful voice goes well with her light guitar strums. There is sometimes an echo voice, I wonder who's it is? Anyways check out Maia's Case! Mp3:
Star Again
Melody
Parking Lot
My new Friend
speakin' of dreams, what does Majessic mean?
Saturday, January 14, 2006
This band is almost like mum without the creepy yet catchy whisper singing. Oh yea but this band still is creepy to me, but I love it anyway. Majessic Dreams I think swedish. Step out of this world for a second, no seriously, pretend you are a marsian/alien. Think if you weren't sure humans existed, or life on earth existed, but you were given the task to make the sound/noise a gun would make and you woke up and dreamed the whole thing...Majessic Dreams makes these sounds into reality. It's weird, it's fresh, folky electronic pink mountain material. MD is off of the oscillatone label and has sorta recently released their self-titled debut album. (I think, I can't really know fa-ch0) Well just check them out and tell me what you think, if you do infact end up thinking after listening to this stuff, IMAGINE this: it's like what animals interpret as a soundtrack to the witnessing of aurora borealis...hmm...Curious?cop these tracks now, dawg! (off their debut 12 track)
Drawers
Black Out
Out there
Changes or Lies
Still Inside
HOW TO CELEBRATE A BABY'S 1ST B-DAY!
What better way to say "hey you're 1 year(s) old!" then a placenta party? You read right! Placenta Party!
Johnny, what in the crud is a placenta party anyway?
Well my friends. First of all, let's be sure we all know what a placenta is, cause I know we all know what a party is; Well according to me friend American Heritage, a placenta is 'a membranous vascular organ that develops in female mammals during pregnancy, lining the uterine wall and partially developing fetus, to which it is attached by the umbilical cord. Following birth, the placentia is expelled.' In new latin if means "flat cake" <---hmmm cake? GREAT IDEA! Now my friend's Bianca and Jina were discussing that more earthy folks would do this, But I think more of us are curious then we are letting others know. (Knowhat I mean?) You think I'm joking?
Yea but so what Johnny! I mean how would you even eat/prepare such a thing!
Well My friends, according to Google, 176,000 pages for placenta recipes can be found. Let's take a look at some of these recipes. Well there's Roasted placenta, placenta Lasagne, Placenta Spaghetti bolognaise (what?), and my favorite PLACENTA COCKTAIL!! So I guess in the 70's women ate these things, they were called "Earth mothers", synonymous with the earlier mentionings. Also animals eat them so like yea...if they do it then we... Anyways read more about it here.
Johnny, when can we plan our placenta party?!
Well there are some small requirements...amongst one BIG one. You have to be female, or have a wife who's fairly...open.
Still can't decide? Well there's placenta stew and pizza here. I would have included pictures but I left them out for the sake of your lunch coming out of your mouth.
Johnny, what in the crud is a placenta party anyway?
Well my friends. First of all, let's be sure we all know what a placenta is, cause I know we all know what a party is; Well according to me friend American Heritage, a placenta is 'a membranous vascular organ that develops in female mammals during pregnancy, lining the uterine wall and partially developing fetus, to which it is attached by the umbilical cord. Following birth, the placentia is expelled.' In new latin if means "flat cake" <---hmmm cake? GREAT IDEA! Now my friend's Bianca and Jina were discussing that more earthy folks would do this, But I think more of us are curious then we are letting others know. (Knowhat I mean?) You think I'm joking?
Yea but so what Johnny! I mean how would you even eat/prepare such a thing!
Well My friends, according to Google, 176,000 pages for placenta recipes can be found. Let's take a look at some of these recipes. Well there's Roasted placenta, placenta Lasagne, Placenta Spaghetti bolognaise (what?), and my favorite PLACENTA COCKTAIL!! So I guess in the 70's women ate these things, they were called "Earth mothers", synonymous with the earlier mentionings. Also animals eat them so like yea...if they do it then we... Anyways read more about it here.
Johnny, when can we plan our placenta party?!
Well there are some small requirements...amongst one BIG one. You have to be female, or have a wife who's fairly...open.
Still can't decide? Well there's placenta stew and pizza here. I would have included pictures but I left them out for the sake of your lunch coming out of your mouth.
Don't get me wrong, it sounds totally bizarre, but guys, come on, who wouldn't want a part of a miracle? Yea, thought so.
Something about her...it's not just coincidence...
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
I was looking on Boyethan's blog the other day, my 29 year old music connected mutual listener who lives in Taipei, Taiwan but I think he's Japanese. He loves the same music I do, our tastes are the same just like how lotta people love potholes in freewways, oh wait nobody loves those, get what I'm sayin? His music blog had a girl named Jonna Lee. <---the name says something to me. Jonna Lee is an acoustic act out of Sweden. Another awesome artist from Sweden. Without further a do, check out Jonna's songs now! Mp3s
"What it takes"
"DC sleeps along tonight" <---her cover of the PS song
"Well Aware"
"Out of my Mind" <----I think so too...
Today is a strange day...wouldn't you agree?
Monday, January 09, 2006
I need printer cartridges. So in the summer on one of my usual good music hunts I came across a band off of the Flameshovel label. Literally; they haven't had anything except their debut album The Song Is You. I wanted to see them in Chicago when I was there in very early 2003. This whole band is about mixing stuff. Mixing electronics with early 70's disco and jazz. It's almost as if they took samples, sucked them into their brains and then out came the instrumental guitar and bass form. The Ancient Greeks are pretty quiet these days. There songs are really chill, full of energy and have catchy sounds. Check them out! MP3s:
The Song Is You - "Ask me a Question about the Atom"
The Song Is You - "Center"
more pics
Pictures Pictures Pictures Pictures Pictures
Sunday, January 08, 2006
Semester grades, a fun game, and some good music
Friday, January 06, 2006
3 A's and 3 B's. GPA: 3.44 well I tried really hard in my classes, but again I could have done better. Dang it!
If you haven't listened to the "Blankets" song by The Acorn please do so now! I can't remember what website I was at but I found this amazing Flash game. YEA I know there are tons of amazing ones out there but this one is cute and fun. So yea, play it here and please someone tell me how to win cause I suck at it.
Okay the good music I promised. Today's music comes from an amazing woman named Madeleine Peyroux (yes I know jona bear, maddy). Peyroux is pronounced "Peru" like the country. She is everything from country to blues to jazz to pop fabrochet. Her voice, oh my her voice. Turn Norah Jones into a bucket of oil and Ella fitzgerald (my most favorite female singer) into a glass of water and mix them together. Whatever you get you still get the two and Madeleine has keys from both. The comforting feeling that the late Billie Holiday's voice brings, and that jazz environment in the isntrumentals...Peyroux's got it. She's 30 now, but she is amazing and incredibly unique. Read her bio. Also read her notes. Her sophomore release Careless love is her coverings of many great songs. YOU MUST listen.
Listen and love it..
Careless love - "This is Heaven to me" <---meaningful to my life, written in the 40's
Check out the video for "Don't Wait Too Long"
If you haven't listened to the "Blankets" song by The Acorn please do so now! I can't remember what website I was at but I found this amazing Flash game. YEA I know there are tons of amazing ones out there but this one is cute and fun. So yea, play it here and please someone tell me how to win cause I suck at it.
Okay the good music I promised. Today's music comes from an amazing woman named Madeleine Peyroux (yes I know jona bear, maddy). Peyroux is pronounced "Peru" like the country. She is everything from country to blues to jazz to pop fabrochet. Her voice, oh my her voice. Turn Norah Jones into a bucket of oil and Ella fitzgerald (my most favorite female singer) into a glass of water and mix them together. Whatever you get you still get the two and Madeleine has keys from both. The comforting feeling that the late Billie Holiday's voice brings, and that jazz environment in the isntrumentals...Peyroux's got it. She's 30 now, but she is amazing and incredibly unique. Read her bio. Also read her notes. Her sophomore release Careless love is her coverings of many great songs. YOU MUST listen. Listen and love it..
Careless love - "This is Heaven to me" <---meaningful to my life, written in the 40's
Check out the video for "Don't Wait Too Long"
TV Stand is finished!
Thursday, January 05, 2006
It took a total of about 2.6-3.1 hours. It works pretty swell so far. Okay the end!The Acorn and their Blankets!
I just recently started to hear some GOOD bands from Canadia. One I super like is the Acorn from Ottawa, CANADIA! This is the kind of stuff I loved in high school. Acoustics and this electro light drum beating sound with that catchy xylophone like sound, I think it's a keyboard or computer. The leader of their group is Rolf which is so awesome cause it's almost wolf (like you weren't thinkin' that). They even have an ASIAN guy! way to rep canadia style. I think he's Vietnamese, from the looks of it. This band has gotta be dope cause they are posing in front of a triceratops. COME ON! Check out their Myspace. Harmonizing + loops, you'll love it! Check out their ish dawg!
The Blankets EP - "Plates and Saucers" <---you'll see why
The Blankets EP - "Blankets"
The Pink Ghosts - "The Pink Ghosts"
Bad day = good day?
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
It's days like these that truly remind me of how many good days I have. Days like this that make me think how much worse off others are. It's this kind of day that helps me want more. So here is how it goes: I get a credit card rejection letter... WHY?! I pay off bills and do swell, so what gives? How about a mix-up by 6 different companies? The Manager informed me a month ago that a man named JOHN LEE lived exactly where I lived previous. WHAT ARE THE CHANCES? I hated California for like 10 hours today. I am still mad at it. MY NAME IS JOHNNY BYUL LEE. Yea, so it's similar, that's what the companies thought. They mail me all his mail. YAY! So I checked my credit report and surely enough those companies are stabbing at it. +10,000$ worth of crap. I felt like I was pissed off forever not to mention yelling at the managers for these companies who love to say "well I can't do anything for you here sir." They were trying to help, but I was angry. All this becaues of money. I hate money. I want to create a giant fire where we all burn it. Yea sure bartering won't really work but atleast we won't be better than someone else cause of a few finely threaded linens.
The Turn Around: I went running, I released, listened to my favorite music, 3 miles later; sweated out the anger. There were kids playing soccer and I kicked it back. Then I saw Tony, he was working, seeing him made me happier (awwww, but true). I came back from running and made some food, watched the USC vs. TEXAS game, which was awesome. Vince Young is an amazing athlete, when he rus, it looks like he is walking. I don't get it either. The agony of defeat, the triumphant victory, etc, the fandom-ness spraying on me made my moods. Now I am sitting here typing this, It is 10:06.
The Turn Around: I went running, I released, listened to my favorite music, 3 miles later; sweated out the anger. There were kids playing soccer and I kicked it back. Then I saw Tony, he was working, seeing him made me happier (awwww, but true). I came back from running and made some food, watched the USC vs. TEXAS game, which was awesome. Vince Young is an amazing athlete, when he rus, it looks like he is walking. I don't get it either. The agony of defeat, the triumphant victory, etc, the fandom-ness spraying on me made my moods. Now I am sitting here typing this, It is 10:06.
I didn't go to my internship interview...infact I could careless about it. I hope everyone is having an awesome and relaxing and learning experience during this break. Here is an unfinished TV stand that is my LATEST project. The wood is simple laminated pine, wiring galvanized rods, brackets and drywall screws. Does anyone want to by my current TV stand? Lemme know. That's all for now. Oh yea, if anyone wants to build anyhing like shelves, or whatever, let me know, we can play in my garage.
Tales of a chocolate devotee by Linda Isra
Monday, January 02, 2006
For the first couple of weeks in Madrid, Spain and being the avid-chocolate lover that I am, I knew I had to stop by a "chocolateria" and see what the fuss is about. I first had the famous San Gines located around Plaza Mayor where I thought that was great. It was not until my friend had introduced me to another place, Valor that I fell even more in love with the high-quality of the chocolates over here (or Europe in general). Located at Callao, Valor definitely hits the spot--really well. They have much more variety, different types of chocolates that the customer can choose from. Although the chocolate cup is smaller and the price is higher than San Gines and others, it is definitely my favorite chocolateria and still located in the center around Sol, a hot-spot for everyone. -Linda IsraNobukazu Takemura : Almost 40 and still kickin'
Hold the rewind button on the last battle between the rebel alliance and the evil empire and add piano and a jazzy drum beats to it and you might find yourself floating in the same brain patterns as one of the most amazing ambient minimalists. Upon discovering the rather larg
e helpings of electronic music on Bubblecore.com I stumbled across an artist by the name of Nobukazu Takemura. By "stumbled" I really mean I saw that his name was Japanese and clicked it immediately. Every once and then there comes a time for a person to be appointed with ears and the gifts of sound engineering. Takemura is truly an electronic instrumental rhythmic living and breathing analog genius. His heart beats in electro-pulsating melodies and he's almost 40! If Only I can be this cool at that age. Want to know how to capture a sound that doesn't exist? Takemura has worked on zillions of projects with artists like Aphex Twin and SONY for that robot dog, Aibo. Sound genius, just listen... It would go good with all the rain. Gutevolk should marry this guy, the universe would collide.
Download these MP3s now!
Songbook - "turutiksbinbon"
Songbook - "Uruu"
(the vocals are amazing)
e helpings of electronic music on Bubblecore.com I stumbled across an artist by the name of Nobukazu Takemura. By "stumbled" I really mean I saw that his name was Japanese and clicked it immediately. Every once and then there comes a time for a person to be appointed with ears and the gifts of sound engineering. Takemura is truly an electronic instrumental rhythmic living and breathing analog genius. His heart beats in electro-pulsating melodies and he's almost 40! If Only I can be this cool at that age. Want to know how to capture a sound that doesn't exist? Takemura has worked on zillions of projects with artists like Aphex Twin and SONY for that robot dog, Aibo. Sound genius, just listen... It would go good with all the rain. Gutevolk should marry this guy, the universe would collide.Download these MP3s now!
Songbook - "turutiksbinbon"
Songbook - "Uruu"
(the vocals are amazing)
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! ~2006~ God Bless
Sunday, January 01, 2006
So it was 7ish. Me, Sean, Ingrid, and Jina were just eating and I thought we should play a game, then card game, then we decided to go buy some poker chips which turned into buying a small Texas Hold'em set. Yea it's fun but why is it soooo popular? Eventually Huy, Merlo, Shannon, Paul, and Sarah came and we all played games and crud. We counted down with the Times Square ball. How did Jillian Barberie get that job, she sucks. I gotta say it was a layed back, fun, comfortable, New Year's eve party and we didn't know what we were gonna do, I guess it goes to show that as long as we were together it didn't matter. AWWW! Taquitos and JoJo's make me feel funny inside. Pictured aboveis a toast after the countdown...yea cool! 1st New Year's in California! Here is my 2006 NEW YEAR resolution check it!
1. Run everday in January, Atleast 3 times a week thereafter
2. Pray more; Daily qt's in morning or before sleep
3. Sleep More/ earlier
4. Eat Healthier/ Eat out less.
5. Meet someone new every week, or everyday.
6. Meet 10 new people in the industry.
7. Get 4 or more A's
8. Go up 10lbs. on my max (haha)
9. Get Close with 3 or more people, but alteast 3.
10. Poop in Jina's bed. (no seriously)
11. Read More; newspapers, books.
12. Stay more up-to-date with current issues. (not same as 11)
13. Build new wood stuff. Main project: re-upholster a chair
14. Become closer with people I already have.
15. Go camping, fishing; look for people in California to hunt with.
16. Have 3 NEWhobbies.
17. Make Jello, Freeze it, and finally prove to Merlo that if I melt it, The jello defrosts into liquid and not back into Jello---I think that's right?
18.(I had some more but they are just silly stuff...for serious)
*Water Kissing. hehe.
Hope Everyone was safe! And Jina and I went to church this morning!
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