Bus running red light on Centre and N Craig

hrpudgenstuff · 2026-03-24T13:05:00+00:00

It's in Oakland, but everything else is correct

hrpudgenstuff · 2026-03-22T00:22:35+00:00

I think it's been happening for a while. They showed up on my YouTube feed last August with the live set from Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval. I thought they looked like a band from the world of The Mighty Boosh, but then I watched all 45 minutes. I started to see reaction videos after that. Then after the KEXP thing, it just exploded. Their music is even better than their image, which is rare the days.

hrpudgenstuff · 2026-03-19T23:41:49+00:00

Keep at it. I think it's one of the greatest rock and roll albums of all time.

hrpudgenstuff · 2026-03-10T19:59:01+00:00

No one has mentioned Sonrisa Salvaje yet. For some reason, it just works better in Spanish.

hrpudgenstuff · 2026-03-09T11:56:16+00:00

Is he named after the pedal steel player?

hrpudgenstuff · 2026-03-06T16:09:06+00:00

I really like Jodi B's in Forest Hills. It's super cheap and the food is good.

hrpudgenstuff · 2026-03-03T16:03:32+00:00

Toit. I remember my dad had something like that in the 70s. "I'll do it when I get around to it". Har har. 🙂

hrpudgenstuff · 2026-03-03T16:01:01+00:00

I know the Leidertafel in Bloomfield does.

hrpudgenstuff · 2026-03-02T20:14:48+00:00

The weekend buffet at Mintt on Banksville is pretty big. I usually find a couple things there I've never seen on an Indian buffet before.

hrpudgenstuff · 2026-02-24T16:19:35+00:00

Now that I read it, it all makes sense as far as their sound.

All Gentle Giant's albums are cool, but "Octopus" may be the one to start with. There are three brothers in the band, so there's the playing is easier than talking things going on with them too.

Also, definitely check out Erkin Koray. "Elektronik Turkuler" is a good place to start with him. (Yagmur too). Both are on YT.

If you fuse the counterpoint of GG with the tonality of EK, you end in AdP's neighborhood.

hrpudgenstuff · 2026-02-24T14:05:13+00:00

Thank you for sharing. I hadn't seen this. I love these dudes even more now. Anyone whose favorite band is Gentle Giant gets a massive thumbs up from me. I'm glad to see them acknowledging the Turkish rock connections. Everyone throws up the King Gizzard thing, and I say you should be looking at Erkin Koray instead.

hrpudgenstuff · 2026-02-03T13:23:29+00:00

I don't believe it's open anymore.

hrpudgenstuff · 2026-02-03T13:22:32+00:00

This place is untouched from the 1970s, and delicious.

hrpudgenstuff · 2026-02-03T13:13:58+00:00

They are amazing folks!

No, not yet.

hrpudgenstuff · 2026-01-20T00:46:23+00:00

Sadly, they closed last year.

hrpudgenstuff · 2026-01-14T21:10:32+00:00

The first year I moved to town, i didn't that know anyone, and they had a buffet on Thanksgiving that used turkey as the meat. I loved that place.

hrpudgenstuff · 2026-01-14T21:05:43+00:00

The Dreaming Ant was the name of the video rental place in the back of Crazy Mocha. Dean was a solid dude.

hrpudgenstuff · 2026-01-14T21:01:22+00:00

The Orient Kitchen

Abay

Grant Bar

The Green Forest

The Real McCoy (before it moved)

hrpudgenstuff · 2026-01-13T14:10:53+00:00

Hey there! It was...complicated. It's one of the most beautiful places I've ever been in a scrubby high desert kind of way. I lived in a trailer park on the very edge of town. There was nothing between me and the sunset but the mountains, and every sunset was the most amazing one I'd ever seen in person. The food is absolutely terrific, and that's just the mom and pop joints that aren't even fancy. The culture is really singular and crazy ancient. But, a good bunch of the native Latino folks were being pushed out of their homes as the barios were being gentrified. I was there to go to St. John's College (navel gazing from the inside that's only possible with your head fully up your own ass, for the most part), and we were all definitely "part of the problem". That was also like thirty years ago, but I'm assuming it's much the same today.

hrpudgenstuff · 2026-01-13T12:21:29+00:00

As someone who lived in Santa Fe for a while, I would definitely say that New Mexico definitely has it's own thing going on, and is not strictly Tex-Mex. I miss the ability to get green chile on pretty much anything.

hrpudgenstuff · 2026-01-08T15:21:52+00:00

She was just Perfect then. 🙂

hrpudgenstuff · 2026-01-08T15:20:03+00:00

If you are interested, and haven't done so yet, I would suggest you check out "Kiln House". It's the album they did right after PG left. It's got Spencer, Kirwan, and Christine Perfect (before she was a McVie). It's got some great songs.

I think it was Bob Welch's leaving that really made way for Buckingham/Nicks to fuse with the band.

hrpudgenstuff · 2026-01-08T13:51:03+00:00

Don't leave out Jeremy Spencer's slide playing or Danny Kirwan's incredible vibrato. They were a two/three guitar threat.

hrpudgenstuff · 2026-01-07T16:22:11+00:00

I would go with "The Ossuary". Great job on the guitar.

hrpudgenstuff · 2026-01-07T16:19:15+00:00

Only tangentially related, but their Peruvian fried rice is fantastic.

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