Oasis 10-26-08

The BBC Electric Proms, The Roundhouse

01 - Rock 'N' Roll Star
02 - Lyla
03 - The Shock Of The Lightning
04 - Cigarettes & Alcohol
05 - The Meaning Of Soul
06 - To Be Where There's Life
07 - Waiting For The Rapture
08 - The Masterplan (With the Crouch End Festival Chorus)
09 - Songbird
10 - Slide Away
11 - Morning Glory
12 - Ain't Got Nothin'
13 - The Importance Of Being Idle
14 - I'm Outta Time (With the Crouch End Festival Chorus)
15 - Wonderwall (With the Crouch End Festival Chorus)
16 - Supersonic
17 - Don't Look Back In Anger (With the Crouch End Festival Chorus)
18 - Falling Down
19 - Champagne Supernova (With the Crouch End Festival Chorus)
20 - I Am The Walrus (With the Crouch End Festival Chorus

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Led Zeppelin - 1978 - Stockholm, Sweden

Polar Studios demos

01. Carouselambra
02. Untitled
03. Wearing And Tearing
04. Fool In The Rain
05. Hot Dog
06. In The Evening
07. South Bound Saurez
08. Darlene
09. Fool In The Rain
10. Carouselambra
11. All My Love

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Disappointed

For those of you that missed last night's premiere of Anthony Bourdain's new talk show, At the Table, don't worry--not only did you not miss anything of importance, but you are perhaps better off for having not sat through one of the worst hours of television in recent memory. At his best, Anthony Bourdain is the celebration of what all cooks could and perhaps should dream of one day becoming--a semi-distinguished, retired chef traipsing the world over for a great meal, all the while sharing the ambience of a great meal with friends both new and old. In the Spain and Japan episodes of No Reservations, it felt like he had finally let go of his sordid past, the need for shots of him and his obligatory beer and iconic cigarette. We saw a man that had done his time as a cook, who had studied and learned a great deal of what makes a good cook a great chef, someone who had taken this knowledge and moved on to something more promising and less exhausting. In these episodes, it really seemed like there is life after cooking. Apparently, that wasn't good enough.

Whether or not Bourdain himself or the Travel Channel is responsible for this new (or perhaps simply more intimate) look at the life of a retired chef and one-time bad boy is uncertain, but regardless, someone seriously needs to stand up and reconsider this course of action that's been taken. I should clarify that I wasn't at all surprised to see a new evolution in Travel Channel's love for Anthony Bourdain, simply disappointed. That he could open the show with a question of whether or not supposedly spending $1800 on dinner for two was shameful, while sitting with Ted Allen and Bill Bryson at WD-50 over a multi-course, high-ticket dinner, was just plain tacky. It's not as if people watch his other shows and think him anything less than a celebrity--who else would spend $2000 on a Hawaiian shirt before going to eat papaya-filled hot dogs? So, why the act?

Given that he has been treated to chef's table meals at Morimoto in Japan, Arzak in Spain, Bouchon in Las Vegas and so on, I find stories of the most disgusting things someone has done in a restaurant (discussed on the talk show last night) to be rather inappropriate. Why? Because it makes the rest of us, restaurant corporate jockeys, cooks, chefs, restaurant professionals, those of us who go to work everyday, sober, focused and ready for action, seem like the bad guys. Would he do those things today, in any of the restaurants to which the doors are so kindly opened? Then why bring it up in the first place. It's not like he promoted the fact that people don't already feel threatened by making a special request for fear that one of the cooks will spit in their food, so don't perpetuate the myth even further. Don't create a subculture of restaurant-goers that revel in making a mockery of a restaurant or other establishment's reputation simply for the sake of shock value. You're 50 years old Tony—please let it go! That is not what made you so interesting. IT WAS THE HONESTY from where you spoke that reached out to us originally.

Perhaps I'm being a bit overzealous, but the show frustrated me. As someone who relies on this industry - at this point, I can barely afford to provide for my family the way I would like, let alone a private tasting menu at WD-50 with four of my close friends. At a time when restaurants and their owners, chefs, farmers, purveyors and television alike are doing everything possible to make food a legitimate, sustainable, desirable medium for expression, highlighting the negative just seems pointless.

In his most recent post, blogger line cook 415 waxes on the question of why cooks do what they do day after day while enduring harsh working conditions, exhaustion and an overall lack of praise. Amongst his list of answers that cannot be simplified to just one, he says that we cook to make others happy, that we're hospitable--and this is coming from a line cook! Even crazier is that it's true. We work in this industry because we're good at it, because we love it, because it's our job. What we don't need is a retired celebrity drunk who's upset that the good old days of the Ramones and blowing lines in the kitchen are over making our job any harder.

It's already hard enough. Tony, say goodbye to Hollywood and come home. I REALLY wanted to like this show.

Long Day...

Excuses, excuses...

to show my commitment...

Maxine Nightingale - Right Back Where We Started From

This pull from her 1975 album of the same name has become ridiculously popular as of late, thanks in no small part to it's inclusion in "The Family Stone" when Sarah Jessica Parker wobbled around drunkenly to the tune. I've always thought it was pretty good R&B, even if it does teeter on cheesy (I think it's the violin and horn parts, frankly), but it's a good example of Motown emulation after Motown's heyday that actually works. To this day, people are trying to emulate that sound, and it seldom works.

NEW Star Trek update with SPOILERS

Earlier this week we got our first good look at J.J. Abrams' STAR TREK movie via images that were to accompany a cover article in Entertainment Weekly.

That article, by Jeff Jensen, is now online, including a few images we haven't seen yet.

The article also reveals many details of the film's storyline and production, a few of which are shared below.

** No longer are their signature Trek weapons boxy plastic toys, but sleek silver gizmos with spring-triggered barrels that revolve and glow in the transition from ''stun'' to ''kill.''

** ''In a world where a movie as incredibly produced as The Dark Knight is raking in gazillions of dollars, Star Trek stands in stark contrast,'' Abrams says. ''It was important to me that optimism be cool again.''

** Star Trek's time-travel plot is set in motion when a Federation starship, the USS Kelvin, is attacked by a vicious Romulan (Eric Bana) desperately seeking one of the film's heroes. From there, the film then brings Kirk and Spock center stage and tracks the origins of their friendship and how they became officers aboard the Enterprise.

** The storytelling is newbie-friendly, but it slyly assimilates a wide range of Trek arcana, from doomed Captain Pike (Bruce Greenwood) to Sulu's swordsmanship to classic lines like, ''I have been, and always shall be, your friend.''

** The opening sequence, for example, is an emotionally wrenching passage that culminates with a mythic climax sure to leave zealots howling ''Heresy!'' But revisionism anxiety is the point. ''The movie,'' Lindelof says, ''is about the act of changing what you know.''

** ...One other essential element in Team Abrams' conception of the new Trek: getting the old Spock. Abrams felt Nimoy's Obi-Wan-ish presence was so crucial, he told the studio he wouldn't move forward without him.

** Kirk spends much of Star Trek dressed in respectable black — space-cadet colors in Abrams' Trekverse

** Moviegoers will get a sneak peek when the first full trailer is released with the new James Bond flick on Nov. 14

Downey Jr. As Guy Ritchie's SHERLOCK HOLMES

These pics started hitting the Nets late Friday afternoon...an easy time to fall through the cracks...but I thought I'd call your attention to it regardless.

Behind-the-scenes images revealing Robert Downey Jr. as the title character in Guy Ritchie's SHERLOCK HOLMES.

The Beatles - January 3, 1969 Abbey Road

Disc 1
1: The Long And Winding Road (:31)
2: Oh! Darling (:55)
3: Oh! Darling (:06)
4: Unknown (:06)
5: Maxwell's Silver Hammer (3:08)
6: Adagio For Strings (3:20)
7: Adagio For Strings (:47)
8: Tea For Two Cha-Cha (1:23)
9: Tea For Two Cha-Cha (:43)
10: Chopsticks (:29)
11: Unknown (:40)
12: Torchy, The Battery Boy (1:13)
13: Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On (:48)
14: Unknown (:35)
15: Let It Be (1:09)
16: Unknown (2:30)
17: Taking A Trip To Carolina (:44)
18: Unknown (1:22)
19: Dialogue (2:09)
20: Please, Mrs. Henry (1:35)
21: "Ramblin' Woman" (1:43)
22: "Is It Discovered?" (1:33)
23: Improvisation (2:20)
24: Picasso (1:22)
25: Taking A Trip To Carolina (1:12)
26: Hey Jude (2:08)
27: All Things Must Pass (1:43)
28: Don't Let Me Down (2:35)
29: "Your Name Is Ted" (3:00)
30: Crackin' Up (2:11)
31: Improvisation (2:53)
32: Crackin' Up (:32)
33: All Shook Up (1:05)
34: You True Love (1:44)
35: Blue Suede Shoes (1:32)
36: Three Cool Cats (2:47)
37: Blowin' In The Wind (:33)
38: Lucille (2:28)
39: I'm So Tired (2:32)
40: Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (1:46)
41: "Get On The Phone" (:57)
42: Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (:14)
43: Don't Let Me Down (:33)
44: The Thrid Man Theme (1:51)
45: Improvisation (:30)
46: "My Words Are In My Heart" (:10)
47: "Negro In Reserve" (:43)
48: Don't Let Me Down (3:39)
49: Don't Let Me Down (:10)
50: Don't Let Me Down (3:16)
51: Don't Let Me Down (:05)
52: Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (:16)
53: Don't Let Me Down (:08)
54: Don't Let Me Down (:34)
55: Don't Let Me Down (2:44)
56: Sun King (:18)

Disc 2
1: I've Got A Feeling (4:38)
2: I've Got A Feeling (4:49)
3: I've Got A Feeling (:25)
4: I've Got A Feeling (3:29)
5: I've Got A Feeling (2:48)
6: I've Got A Feeling (2:33)
7: Unknown (:29)
8: Going Up The Country (:51)
9: On The Road Again (:17)
10: One After 909 (4:2)
11: "Because I Know You Love Me So" (2:29)
12: Roll Announcement (:04)
13: One After 909 (4:06)
14: "I'll Wait Till Tomorrow" (1:05)
15: A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody (:11)
16: Thinking Of Linking (:25)
17: "Won't You Please Say Goodbye" (:52)
18: Bring It On Home To Me (2:01)
19: Hitch Hike (1:57)
20: You Can't Do That (2:15)
21: The Hippy Hippy Shake (4:16)
22: Two Of Us (2:20)
23: Two Of Us (1:46)
24: Two Of Us (2:37)
25: Two Of Us (3:33)
26: Two Of Us (3:28)
27: Two Of Us (2:37)
28: All Along The Watchtower (1:01)
29: Dialogue (1:39)
30: Sun King (:47)
31: Sun King (:25)
32: Sun King (:34)
33: Short Fat Fanny (2:58)
34: Midnight Special (2:09)
35: When You're Drunk You Think Of Me (:12)
36: What's The Use Of Getting Sober (When You're Gonna Get Drunk Again) (:09)
37: What Do You Wanna Make Those Eyes At Me For (1:34)
38: Money (That's What I Want) (1:34)
39: Give Me Some Truth (1:39)
40: All Things Must Pass (1:57)
41: All Things Must Pass (2:16)

Disc 3
1: All Things Must Pass (3:13)
2: All Things Must Pass (3:41)
3: The Weight (:25)
4: I'm A Tiger (:21)
5: All Things Must Pass (3:19)
6: Improvisation (:31)
7: All Things Must Pass (1:59)
8: All Things Must Pass (6:36)
9: All Things Must Pass (:05)
10: All Things Must Pass (3:26)
11: All Things Must Pass (3:13)
12: All Things Must Pass (4:16)
13: All Things Must Pass (3:48)
14: All Things Must Pass (1:21)
15: Slate Announcement (:07)
16: All Things Must Pass (5:28)
17: All Things Must Pass (5:36)
18: All Things Must Pass (4:24)
19: All Things Must Pass (2:36)
20: All Things Must Pass (2:32)
21: All Things Must Pass (6:21)
22: All Things Must Pass (2:22)
23: All Things Must Pass (:33)
24: Improvisation (1:04)
25: All Things Must Pass (1:59)
26: All Things Must Pass (:40)
27: All Things Must Pass (1:52)
28: All Things Must Pass (1:12)
29: Slate Announcement (:04)
30: All Things Must Pass (:37)
31: All Things Must Pass (1:12)
32: All Things Must Pass (3:32)

Disc 4
1: All Things Must Pass (1:42)
2: Unknown (:07)
3: Back In The U.S.S.R. (:54)
4: Every Little Thing (:37)
5: Piece Of My Heart (2:11)
6: Saber Dance (1:29)
7: Piece Of My Heart (1:28)
8: "Over And Over Again"(2:52)
9: One After 909 (:25)
10: Slate Announcement (:08)
11: Dialogue (4:33)
12: I've Been Good To You (1:59)
13: All Things Must Pass (:23)
14: All Things Must Pass (:50)
15: All Things Must Pass (3:44)
16: All Things Must Pass (3:54)
17: All Things Must Pass (5:30)
18: All Things Must Pass (:19)
19: All Things Must Pass (2:09)
20: Maxwell's Silver Hammer (:51)
21: Maxwell's Silver Hammer (15:07)
22: Maxwell's Silver Hammer (1:04)
23: Maxwell's Silver Hammer (7:59)
24: Maxwell's Silver Hammer (1:05)
25: Maxwell's Silver Hammer (1:42)
26: Maxwell's Silver Hammer (2:46)
27: Maxwell's Silver Hammer (1:16)
28: Maxwell's Silver Hammer (:25)
29: Maxwell's Silver Hammer (9:03)

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NY Times Sunday Mag

For those who aren't regular Times readers, you may want to check out yesterday's Magazine, a special issues devoted to food. This great image, one of three the editors are using, is by German photographer Martin Klimas, who fires projectiles through the food and manages to capture the action.

The Beatles - January 2, 1969 Abbey Road

Disc 1
1: Dialogue & Slates (:04)
2: Dialogue & Slates (:05)
3: Dialogue & Slates (:27)
4: Dialogue & Slates (:08)
5: Dialogue & Slates (:05)
6: Dialogue & Slates (:10)
7: Dialogue & Slates (:05)
8: Don't Let Me Down (:33)
9: Tuning (:04)
10: Tuning (:19)
11: Tuning (:04
12: Don't Let Me Down (:27)
13: Tuning (:27)
14: Don't Let Me Down (4:16)
15: Dig A Pony (3:05)
16: "Everybody Got Song" (:45)
17: Don't Let Me Down (3:09)
18: Let It Down (2:14)
19: Let It Down (:53)
20: Improvisation (:57)
21: Brown-Eyed Handsome Man (1:43)
22: I've Got A Feeling (1:19)
23: A Case Of The Blues (1:09)
24: Improvisation (:24)
25: Improvisation (:51)
26: On The Road To Marrakesh (2:08)
27: Revolution (:08)
28: I Shall Be Released (1:53)
29: Sun King (2:20)
30: Sun King / Don't Let Me Down (4:59)
31: Don't Let Me Down (3:34)
32: "The Teacher Was A-Lookin'" (1:00)
33: Don't Let Me Down (:20)
34: Don't Let Me Down (:26)
35: Sun King (:28)
36: Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues (:21)
37: I've Got A Feeling -(3:40)
38: Unknown (:09)
39: I've Got A Feeling (1:15)
40: I've Got A Feeling (:04)
41: I've Got A Feeling (:05)
42: I've Got A Feeling (11:00)
43: I've Got A Feeling (1:23)
44: Unknown (3:46)
45: Speak To Me (1:58)
46: I've Got A Feeling (:32)
47: I've Got A Feeling (5:00)
48: I've Got A Feeling (:11)
49: Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo) (1:05)
50: I've Got A Feeling (4:03)
51: I've Got A Feeling (2:00)
52: I've Got A Feeling (1:22)
53: Dialogue (:45)

Disc 2
1: Dialogue and Slates (1:42)
2: Dialogue and Slates (:06)
3: Dialogue and Slates (:05)
4: Dialogue and Slates (3:20)
5: Dialogue and Slates (:07)
6: Dialogue and Slates (1:52)
7: Dialogue and Slates (1:12)
8: I've Got A Feeling (1:29)
9: Tuning (:30)
10: Slate (:06)
11: I've Got A Feeling (:38)
12: I've Got A Feeling (:27)
13: I've Got A Feeling (:09)
14: I've Got A Feeling (1:24)
15: I've Got A Feeling (2:17)
16: I've Got A Feeling (5:36)
17: I've Got A Feeling (:37)
18: I've Got A Feeling (4:00)
19: Sun King / Don't Let Me Down (2:07)
20: Don't Let Me Down (3:54)
21: Don't Let Me Down (2:14)
22: Sun King / Don't Let Me Down (1:55)
23: Don't Let Me Down (6:44)
24: Don't Let Me Down (:31)
25: Improvisation (1:24)
26: Unknown (:19)
27: Don't Let Me Down (3:10)
28: Don't Let Me Down (:05)
29: Well...All Right (1:12)
30: Well...All Right (1:07)
31: Unknown (:25)
32: All Things Must Pass (1:24)
33: Two Of Us (7:21)
34: "We're Goin' Home" (:22)
35: Two Of Us (4:17)
36: Two Of Us (:39)
37: Two Of Us (3:36)
38: Two Of Us (:33)
39: Two Of Us (:05)
40: Two Of Us (:54)
41: Two Of Us (4:35)
42: "It's Good To See The Folks Back Home" (:22)
43: Two Of Us (4:45)

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Honey-Cinnamon Vinaigrette

Prep: 10 min. Shelf magic at its best, this quick-and-easy dressing adds a sweet note to some of our favorite fall salads. It's especially good with the peppery bite of fresh arugula topped with sliced apples and pears or warm roasted root vegetables.
Yield
Makes about 1 cup
Ingredients
1/3 cup cider vinegar
1/3 cup honey
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon dry mustard
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup canola oil
Preparation
1. Whisk together first 5 ingredients in a small bowl. Add oil in a slow, steady stream, whisking constantly until smooth. Serve immediately, or cover and chill until ready to serve. Store in an airtight container in refrigerator up to 2 weeks.