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    • November 20, 2010 8:59 PM CST
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    • fat elvis with a cheeseburger in a pink flying saucer

    • November 26, 2010 6:59 AM CST
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    • Cassoulet de Toulouse recipe:

      Ingredients for 8 persons : 600 gr [1.3 lbs] white kidney beans (haricot beans) / 800 gr [1.8 lbs] bacon / 1 kg [2.2 lbs] pork meat (loin, knuckle…) / 1 kg [2.2 lbs] lamb meat / 8 pieces of preserved goose / 1 Toulouse sausage / 1 pork rind /
      400 gr [14 oz] tomatoes / 200 gr [7 oz] carrots / 7 onions / 10 garlic cloves /
      5 cl [2 fl oz] olive oil / 1 bouquet garni (bunch of aromatic herbs) / 3 cloves / thyme / salt & pepper

      - Soak the beans into water during 1 night then rinse them generously.

      - Cover the bottom of a large casserole with the pork rind and display the beans on it.
      Add the bacon, the pealed onions pricked with the cloves, the bouquet garni,
      3 crushed garlic cloves, the pealed and cut (into 8 pieces) carrots. Season with salt & pepper, cover with water ; put a lid and simmer for 2 hours.

      - During this simmering, fry the pork and lamb pieces in oil. Add 4 pealed and minced onions and 2 pealed and minced garlic cloves. Spread with thyme then
      add the tomatoes cut into pieces. Season with salt & pepper, then add 5 cl /
      2 fl oz water, cover and let simmer for 1 hour.

      - Right before the beans are cooked, take out the bouquet garni, the onions and the pork rind.
      Cut the rind into small cubes then put them back with the beans, together with the sausage and the preserved goose. Add the meats with all the cooking juice and other ingredients. Gently mix and simmer for another 20 minutes.

      This must be served very hot but can be re-heated and with a red wine served at room temperature and after putting the whiskey flower LP on your turntable of course !!!
      yiiihaaaaa !!!

    • November 26, 2010 4:02 AM CST
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    • give us your cassoulet recipe!

    • November 25, 2010 1:08 PM CST
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    • Awesome.
      Quelle heure nous mangeons?

    • November 25, 2010 9:27 AM CST
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    • Yes please!!

    • November 25, 2010 6:02 AM CST
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    • Nasty Product said:

      avec le temps pourri qu'il fait à toulouse ça feet mega bien, héhé
      it feets with the bad weather !

    • November 25, 2010 5:38 AM CST
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    • Not so bad

    • November 25, 2010 4:58 AM CST
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    • cassoulet

      good wine


      and whiskey flower


      aaaaaarrrrgggghhhhhhhh: the best way to eat !!!


    • November 25, 2010 10:50 AM CST
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    • what are your favorite holiday meal drinks?  or special boozy sauces to spike the meal?  and how many different things can you mix with eggnog!!!?

    • November 25, 2010 2:03 AM CST
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    • Cool! This car was on the cover of Jimmy Bryant's classic country album "The Fastest Guitar in the Country".

    • November 24, 2010 1:37 PM CST
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    • Originally posted on No Depression.

      The rise of Dust-to-Digital has been perhaps the most important catalyst in exposing younger generations to traditional American folk music since Harry Smith’sAnthology. The label has managed to offer this music in a way that makes it accessible to newcomers while at the same time offering something “new” to those of us who are already converts. Yet they have always been more than just a mere record label. The label’s releases are living artifacts of our history and culture reaching far beyond music. Take for instance the disc of sermons that served as the appendix to the Goodbye Babylonbox set, the book of vintage baptism photographs they released last year, or the lavish packaging and meticulous eye for details that can be found on every one of the label’s endeavors.

      So it was really no surprise when Dust-to-Digital recently began releasing documentaries detailing aspects of American life and culture. The first of these was Let Your Feet Do the Talkin’, director Stewart Copeland’s masterful portrait of buck dancer Thomas Maupin that would easily get my vote for Best Short Subject were I on the Oscar committee. Now, just in time for the holidays, they have reached back in the vaults to issue George King’s Ten Thousand Points of Light, an obscure 1990 documentary that takes a look at what ensues when the tradition of Christmas lights, Elvis fandom, and Southern hospitality are all taken to the absolute extreme.

      The film tells the story of the Townsend’s, a family who for over 20 years decorated their suburban Atlanta home with excessive amounts of Christmas lights and Elvis memorabilia and then opened it to the public. While on the surface, this premise seems to only reiterate the worst stereotypes about the South, the film isn’t derogatory whatsoever. Instead the director focuses on the bond the entire family shares in decorating, touring people through the home, and even in making cookies to share with the visitors. While the family’s taste may indeed be in question, their love and passion is not. The documentary harkens back to a time of close-knit communities and caring neighbors; a time when people took care of one another. That attitude is mostly gone these days and was even when the documentary was filmed, which is partly what makes it so compelling. Unfortunately, too many people today would call the Townsend’s “eccentric” or worse rather than seeing them as being among the last holdouts of the true American spirit.

      None of which is to say that the film isn’t hysterical. It is. But mostly that is due to the family’s interactions with one another and their own recognition of their excesses. They are very much in on the joke.

      This “20th Anniversary Edition” is the first time the film has been released on DVD and as with all Dust-to-Digital releases, it is an experience in and of itself and is clearly the result of a lot of hard work. In addition to the film, we get an interview with the director in the DVD's liner notes, commentary by the director and members of the Townsend family, extensive interviews with family members, and even a “video Christmas card.”

      If you are looking for something off the beaten path to replace the more conventional holiday films this season there is always Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. But if you want something off the beaten path that also packs plenty of heart and soul while entertaining you, look no further. This documentary will remind you of the joy of giving and of a way of life that is all but gone. And as the grandmother in the film says at one point, “It seems that Christmas and Elvis goes together.”

    • November 24, 2010 11:37 AM CST
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    • I found and added this interesting link about italian cinema and reviewed in English. All about action, horror, comedy, giallo, western.... HERE

    • November 21, 2010 7:21 PM CST
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    • Thanks for the tips. I've never tried mead but I did one beer with almost 50% of the sugar from honey, and surprisingly it fermented really clean and the honey flavor was very subtle. I haven't tried wine yeast, I usually do White Labs 001 or 500 strains for high gravity brews. They have a strain, 099, that is supposed to go up to 25% abv. I pitched it in the primary, which was probably not how it was intended to be used, and it tasted terrible, actually was the worst beer I've ever had, which is saying a lot. I just found this podcast with several episode on brewing high gravity that has some good tips: http://www.thebrewingnetwork.com/shows/639

    • November 16, 2010 8:40 PM CST
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    • Ooooh, And another new one to my list. These guys make some delicious stuff, good luck getting your hands on some. http://www.hoppinfrog.com/

    • November 16, 2010 12:54 PM CST
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    • It's just what the doctor ordered! I'll drink yours, if you don't want it.

      Zephyr said:

      ...I can't drink Guinness. ... That's not a beer that's medicine!

    • November 16, 2010 8:33 PM CST
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    • I wore Beatle Boots for many years in the Speedies & Fuzztones. They look really cool, but they really, I mean really fucked up my feet. I almost needed an operation. So be careful . I would not wear them every day.

    • November 16, 2010 8:40 AM CST
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    • The book is more better !more characters and action but it's seems to be difficult to adapt a book for the cinema!

      "Romanzo Criminale" Giancarlo De Cataldo 2005

    • November 16, 2010 4:30 AM CST
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    • hell's angels on wheels with jack nicholson, soooooo boring i almost had a heart attack.
      (i actually liked Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man though)

    • November 15, 2010 9:38 PM CST
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    • My guess is Xaphan just created this post to get a rise out of you guys, if that's the case, it worked!

    • November 15, 2010 12:07 PM CST
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    • had some capt M. w/ instant coffe yesterday!!!! yumm!!!! Tim Doubledee said:

      Favorite mixer? No real favorites, as I will experiment and use a variety of sodas and juices for variety's sake. Most often used is Sprite with Captain Morgan coconut flavored rum. I have some Captain Morgan Private Stock that gets nothing but Coke (or Coke Zero--us old guys have to start watching caloric intake!), as Coke is the most proper mixer for quality rum. Recently, I have had success with Bacardi and cranberry juice. Summertime is rumtime!

    • November 15, 2010 9:25 AM CST
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    • crusen for a Brusen!!!!......Fuck !!!!!! all Booze will Kick your Ass!!!!! but tekiLia is a mysterios monster!!!!..... kinda like the chupa cabra!!!!!l