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To continue my lack of updating and the string of video cop outs to make up for any real posting, here's a sweet video on the joys of eating, furry cute animals, and the at some point interweb adapted international word for eating and enjoying fare.

'Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom,' by Parry Gripp

Happy Holidays from GUE!

Food Meets Nu Rave

Japanese Electrorrific sensations, Polysics, bring it back to basics.

Shopsin on Conan

Just because I'm on the Shopsin kick, he was somewhat recently on Conan and it was pretty hilarious.

Wishlist: Kenny Shopsin's Cook Book

If you are unfamiliar with Kenny Shopsin then I fear for your life in the culinary world.

He is the most ridiculous, loud, and hilarious hi-octane philosopher and culinary personality I have come across yet.

He runs Shopsin's in New York, part diner-part heaven, and serves from what could easily be the most ambitious menu I have seen with mine own eyes. Not leaving out the fact that if it's not on the menu, and he has the ingredients, he will make anything for you. Providing he likes you, of course.

Should you need a crash-course into who and what Kenny Shopsin is, you should definitely take some time out of your day and check out "I Like Killing Flies". A chronicle and documentary of Shopsin's coming-of-age story, featuring his family and friends who have over time helped this establishment be everything it is today.



Aside from being one of the greatest people ever invented, he is no also an author and has come out with a grand cook book full of insight into his cuisine and recipes for the hungry-hearted.

Serious Eats did a great write-up on it back in August (just now getting around to reading it and writing about it) and they've been posting random one-off recipes from the book, which are interesting enough to make even the worst grilled cheese maker want to throw down on the burners.

Ostensibly, Eat Me is a cookbook, but it's also equal parts memoir and philosophical tome. [via Serious Eats]

'My Sliders'- makes one set of 3 sliders -
Adapted from Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin by Kenny Shopsin.

Ingredients:
1 big yellow Spanish onion, thinly sliced
5 ounces chopped meat (20 to 30 percent fat)
Salt Butter for the rolls
3 Martin's dinner rolls, or any soft rolls about the size of Parker House rolls, cut in half but leaving them attached to one another if possible
3 slices American cheese

Procedure:
1. Fry the onion slices until they're brown and crispy (Kenny slices them very thin and throws them in a pot of hot oil until they are charred).
2. Divide the meat into three equal-sized balls. Preheat a griddle or large cast-iron skillet over high heat until it is searing hot. Place the balls of meat on the griddle or in the pan and press them down with a heavy spatula or bacon weight to form patties about 1/2 inch thick. Season them with salt. Place a bacon weight or heavy lid on top of the patties to keep them smashed down and cook about 2 minutes per side, until they are cooked through.
3. Meanwhile, butter the insides of the rolls and toast them in whatever way is most convenient for you. Place the patties so they are all in a row, butting up against one another. Put the fried onions on the patties, and then top each patty with one slice of the cheese. On top of the cheese, place the tops of the buns and on top of the tops, the toasted bottoms. Then, on top of everything, place your bacon weight or a lid and cook for 1 minute to melt the cheese and steam the bun.
4. To serve, place the bun bottoms on a plate. Carefully slide your spatula under the three patties to lift them up in one piece and place them on top of the bottom buns. Serve at once.

Greenification

It's no secret that Ted Turner has had his bite of restaurant industry experience, and now he's also trekking cross-country preaching the green to restauranteurs everywhere. [via: TreeHugger]

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Serving Like Animals

Well, not like animals, but by animals. The Japanese are hilarious. We all know that servers have a bit of an arch-nemesis label when it comes to us in the kitchen. About time they got replace. (jk!)



So they're all done up in Japanese serving gear and walk around with your food. I wonder how the Health Department would feel about letting me implement something like his here. Heh.

Asians do it better

Alright, think Peewee's Playhouse cross-bred with something on the Food Network and hosted by cute Thu Tran in bright colors the way only she would know how know how to rock. Love it. FOOD PARTY! And surprise guests! Jay-Z and Beyonce come over for dinner in the first episode, what is NOT to love about this.

All You Can Eat

Completely stole this stealthily from a friend. Nothing like some good old 1980s hip hop beats, a little beat boxing, and some Fat Boyz rapping about an All You Can Eat Buffet. Only way to make your way and celebrate endless food, imo. I wonder if Sbarro's got paid (or rather paid) a good chink of cash for the plug.

I guess it all boils down to this...

Me.

My weekend.

Oh Noes! It was actually real!

With voices featuring the likes of the best of the best when it comes to the Mexican-American acting: Edward James Olmos, Cheech Marin, George Lopez, Salma Hayek, Drew Barrymore, Jamie Lee Curtis, Andy Garcia and Paul Rodriguez.

I fear for my myspace page being that I am All three of these. Mexican, Chihuahua, and a Dog!?! This is too much, but hilarious no less.

Bacon dogs may be going extinct. [Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!]

This saddens me, not because I know how delicious they are, but because I haven't had a chance to try them and find out how delicious they are! In my somewhat recent visit to LA, I wanted to try one so bad, but the only time I passed near a vendor, I was feeling so ill from overdrinking and overeating and undersleeping, that I didn't get a chance to try it.

Perhaps next time I make it out to a BBQ I'll have to make these and chronicle their success.

Drew Carrey comments through this investigative report:

Stress!

Justice movie for what I suppose is "Stress" More like mayhem and what I hear today's Paris is like. Reminds me of that 90s French flick, Hate and a bit of Irreversible.

[click here for full HD video]

The Bureocratic Way to Smash a Creme Filled Egg. [Best Thing I've Seen All Day]

This is probably the most ingenious time-waster I've come across all day. To top it off there is a an obscure Smashing Pumpkins reference through it all. Killer. I hate Creme-filled Cadbury's anyhow.

Food shortages. A serious issue.

Food shortages are nothing to laugh about and a very serious issue in today's world. Stephen Colbert reports on the matter.

On a serious note. Get Informed.

House of Cards

So Radiohead was the musical guest on Conan O'Brien. It's uncanny, this abominable adoration for Thom Yorke. I mean I respect them as musicians, and Pablo Honey and The Bends are probably some of my favorite albums ever, but Listening to In Rainbows I feel like maybe I'm missing something. I think it has a lot to do with the build up my friends give them everytime they talk about the R-head.

Although I admire a musician's will to experiment and venture out, it doesn't necessarily mean I have to agree or like what they do. Take Billy Corgan post-Adore, for example. I love Billy to death, probably one of the most, if not THE most, influential musician in my life, but everything he's done afte Adore, in my humble opinion, is mediocre at best and lacks the spirit his previous works contained.

In any event, Radiohead's performance was actually entertaining even if they didn't perform live at Conan's studio.

Coincidental Baking

By strike of luck, or maybe my sub-conscious alertness to these things now, I found a post through GRS on making some quick and easy bread.

Mark Bittman's No-Knead Bread Recipe on youtube video, and a recipe adapted from Sullivan Street Bakery's Jim Lahey for a 1 1/2 lb. loaf on the NY Times.

Try it out!

Conan the Raverian [1995]

I thought some of you may get a kick out of this. Some of you will judge silently.

Mixtape: Bjork

Coincidentally I came across two Bjork related posts and I thought I'd share. I can't say that I'm all that familiar with most of her work, although some of what I have heard, I've appreciated, and her name I've known for ages it seems.

First there was this post from French blog Fubiz, about Bjork's Wanderlust video. It's gorgeously dark and abstract as she is known to be. The sounds are definitely of the Bjork fame and the visuals are just astounding. Apparently this will be a 3-D video for which you will need some fancy Back to the Future glasses, keeping in mind that the 2-D version is not any less impresive.

Full Video: Here

Secondly, was a tribute mixtape from our BFF's at Stereogum, with some great names as Final Fantasy, Liars, and Pattern is Movement.

Download: Here

1. Liars - "Army of Me"
2. Dirty Projectors - "Hyperballad"
3. High Places - "Modern Things"
4. Bell - "It's Oh So Quiet"
5. Pattern Is Movement - "Enjoy"
6. Evangelicals - "You've Been Flirting Again"
7. Xiu Xiu - "Isobel"
8. Final Fantasy & Ed Droste - "Possibly Maybe"
9. White Hinterland - "I Miss You"
10. El Guincho - "Cover Me"
11. Atlas Sound - "Headphones"
12. No Age - "It's Oh So Quiet" (Alternate Take)

Heavy Metal Parking Lot

Stole this link from someone on the interweb. This minuscule detail does not, even for a second, take anything away from its grandeur.

Heavy Metal Parking Lot, a mid-'80s film documenting lifeforms that once orbited around Judas Priest concerts, has been circulating on shitty-quality VHS bootlegs for years. I just watched it for the first time last night -- and it blowed mah mahnd. BB friends Coop + Ruth turned us on to it, and the film recently became available on DVD (along with Neil Diamond Parking Lot, and lots of other good stuff). Zebraman FTW! [BoingBoing]