YEAH, GO LIKE THAT, GET SOME!!

it's true. i've taken using items typically relegated to tumblr.

THE PIPER PUB AND GRILL - Try to Avoid at all Costs

Ugh. I can't say anything good about this place, so I'll try to keep it brief. Bad service, bad food, bad atmosphere, bad cocktails. I'm not even going to give you directions or a site because you should never go...I mean, they fucked up nachos. You have to really try hard to fuck up nachos. I like nachos from 7-11. And it all culminated with a jacked bill and an apparent lack of management on hand to resolve.

I really hate to bag on anybody in Boise right now, I know everybody is struggling. But these guys really need to get it together. 2-4-1 Happy Hour for drinks and apps only goes so far with this kind of fare...

The PARIS BISTRO - Hands Down, best meal in the SLC

Let me tell you something that you may have heard me mention a time or two, Salt Lake City is a dead zone for delicious eats and for the peeps that enjoy the deliciousness. I mean you can do with a chain in a pinch but I like my food fresh and I don't think there is anything wrong with that. But I digress, I had an AMAZING and I mean AMAZING service and food. And we did the works! Cocktails, wine, apps, entrees, dessert and more cocktails. I mean, listen, it was 3 of my best mates from brown town on my first night back in little bit and I had a delightful meal. I started with the oven roasted beet salad. Just a hint of clove, as it should be. A carbonara that knocked my socks off. I was nervous, I pulled a safety, but this was no Trio cup o' noodles. But seriously, socks, knocked off. I finished with the lemon grass creme brulee. Hurrah!! And not crazy expensive. I mean, it's not Sabarro but let's get real...

1500 South 1500 East (Emerson Ave.)
photo from their site.

08 BEST, WORST, COULDABEENS, AND HOLDOVERS

I could do a lot of pontificating and justifying and the this is why and that is because, but I’m not…leave a comment or send an email and I may or may not address your concerns…

For the purists, I used the US street date for my basis. I happy to quibble. Please start music player located at bottom of post, now... I totally chintzed out and didn't build individual players for each section but I did include some stuff I didn't like (see how fair I am). And there were only a couple of tracks that weren't available. I guess I could've uploaded them myself but I'm still trying to figure out the reach of this thing etc. or if it's a big wank.

Anyway, listen and discuss...

BEST ALBUMS:
TV on The Radio, Dear Science
Radiohead, In Rainbows (actual US street date 01.01.08)
The Helio Sequence, Keep Your Eyes Ahead
Say Hi, The Wishes and the Glitch
Cut Copy, In Ghost Colors

HONORABLE MENTIONS: The Walkmen, You & Me/Black Keys, Attack and Release/Silver Jews, Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea/Gnarls Barkley, The Odd Couple/MGMT, Oracular Spectacular

BIGGEST PLEASANT SURPRISES:

Grace Jones, Hurricane

Duffy, Rock Ferry

Nine Inch Nails, The Slip

The Hold Steady, Stay Positive

The Teenagers, Reality Check

BIGGEST WHAT HAPPEN-EDS?:
Ladytron, Velocifero
N.E.R.D., Seeing Sounds
CSS, Donkey
Brazilian Girls, New York City
Destroyer, Trouble in Dreams

these were albums i liked by 'big' acts that seemed to have no ups

MOST ANTICIPATED 2009:

Doves, TBD

Andrew Bird, Noble Beast

Neko Case, Middle Cyclone

Kings Of Convenience, TBD

Kid Sister, Dream Date

BEST CLUB/DANCE TRACKS:

Fagget Fairys, Uzela (prod. Yo Akim, T.O.M.)
Kid Sister, Control
The Black Ghosts, Any Way You Choose to Give It
Hercules & Love Affair, Blind (Hercules Club Mix)
Duran Duran, Night Runner (team9 Remix)
07 Holdovers
Armand VanHelden, I Want Your Soul
Spektrum, Kinda New (Dirty South Remix)

HONORABLE ALBUM HOLD OVERS 07:

Yeasayer, All Hour Cymbals
Film School, Hideout
MIA, Kala
Saturday Looks Good To Me, Fill Up The Room
Coconut Records, Nighttiming

BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT:
Metallica, Death Magnetic
Sasha, Invol2ver
The Verve, Forth
Portishead, 3rd
Emiliana Torrini, Me and Armini





WORST ALBUMS:
Ryan Adams and the Cardinals, Cardinology
Bloc Party, Intimacy
Dandy Warhols, Earth to the DandyWarhols
The Stills, Oceans Will Rise
Monkey, Journey to the West

my stuff

INTELLIGENTSIA - So what?

Let me tell you something about this place, their cheapest up of coffee costs about $3.50 for about 6oz. I dunno about you but in these times, girl, I'm workin' hard for my money. This is a luxury item. And don't get you're little douchey hipster haircut all in a ruffle or your Sal Moscot frames askew and before you call all your friends at American Apparel to start picketing my house. I get it. I know it takes one year for a coffee bush to prodce one pound of coffee. I know about fair trade. I know about their fancy brewing machines. I get it. But, this should pretty much be the best cup of coffe I've ever had. Every time. Right? Well it's not. But I'm going to keep going, beacuse I support the anti-man, the anti-machine. I carry my little hemp bags down to the Whole Foods (or as it's affectionately know 'the Whole Pay Check') or the Trader Joes between paydays (personally i'm a pretty big fan of the Fresh and Easy). I like to sit on the little blue bench and pet the dogs and enjoy the weather and oogle the peeps. But come on, let's stop fooling ourselves and call this one like it is...

I'd also like add an extra special 'FUCK YOU' to the CUNT FACED BITCH that petitioned the city to have The Casbah Cafe remove their potted garden from the side of their building. I mean really, you must be very very bored or very very unhappy.

And everybody needs ro start cleaning up after their dogs. Come on buddies. Don't be douches.

3922 West Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90029