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I used to be obsessed with a dish at this Taiwanese restaurant Little Fatty - a “sunday gravy” served with pipe rigate pasta instead of rice. Here’s the TOP SECRET recipe that I managed to track down and successfully prepare. Cooking time: 3 hours. Ingredients: 1 lb ground pork, 1 lb cubed pork butt, 1 lb cubed pork belly, 1/4 cup shiitake mushrooms, 1 large strip of kombu seaweed, 1/2 cup shallots, 2 cloves of garlic, 2 tbsp low-sodium soy sauce, 2 tbsp fish sauce, dash of sesame oil, 2 tsp hoisin sauce, 2 tsp sambal sauce, 2 tbsp Shaoxing cooking wine, 2 tbsp kecap manis (Indonesian sweet soy sauce), 1 tsp five-spice powder, chicken stock to cover. Directions: Soak the kombu and shiitake mushrooms in hot water. After 10 minutes, dice the shiitake mushrooms and kombu. Mince the garlic and shallots. In a large bowl, measure and combine all the liquids, then set aside. In a large pot, brown all the meat in two batches over medium heat. In a separate pan, sweat shallots, garlic, and mushrooms for 5 minutes, then combine them with the meat pot. Add the liquids and spices. Add enough chicken stock to cover the meat mixture by half an inch. Bring to boil, then simmer for 2 hours, stirring every 20 minutes. Serve with pasta (or steamed rice) and pickled mustard greens.
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If you’re from brooklyn or new york city or just moved here, i know, this is cliche. But i! Don’t! Care! The truffle popcorn is addicting, even if I'm farting for the rest of the movie, it’s worth it. Plus they have cute little trailers to gab about with your date or friend, but i also go alone because nobody tried to have small talk with you at the movies and you can just disassociate peacefully in blissful high-power air conditioning on a hot nyc summer day. They have guest curators on a monthly basis and do fun screenings of old flicks. Highly recommend it. Nitehawk > Alamo.
Aug 7, 2023
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let me break it down…
Anthology 10 dollars a lot of lesser known avant garde films mixed in with art/foreign films. most things are also projected on film. really good place if your looking for something different.
Moma is like 10 dollars too but if you’re a student you can get a free entry ticket which allows for a free movie ticket you just have to ask the desk. Moma has alot of stuff on film also and is always putting up classics And retrospectives on filmmakers
Momi is also 10 and has a ton of cool 35mm more mainstream films always playing such as kubrick or Micheal mann.museum’s section is also cute especially if you like the muppets.
Lincon center is a good place to go see indies/foreign movies that have come out recently also around 10 dollars also do some retrospectives remasters and 35mm screenings
Spectacle is a community run Brooklyn theater that is one room and plays obscure cinema very fun place to go out to with friends and see something different.
Roxy has some good 35mm screenings good date place to take someone.very comfy inside this fancy hotel downside is little more expensive but overall one of the better theater experiences in New York. Warning hipster central however 😭
Feb 13, 2024
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Going to the movies rocks. this was honestly such a hard question. This isn’t exactly the ~best~ movie but it is a great movie to see in a theater
From like 19-20 going to the Landmark in Westwood to see the Room with my friends rocked. The Room is such a funny bad movie and it’s even better at this theater because of all the canned responses the audience has to the shit happening on screen. its similar to how campy people get with Rocky Horror Picture Show. People throw plastic spoons and loudly jeer at the movie. occasionally Tommy Wiseau and maybe Greg Sestero will show up and you can take a pic. Highly recommend pregaming and then going with your friends at least once
sometimes a specific audience for it will suck but overall it was always pretty fun.
May 1, 2024
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This synth-plugin has been doing the rounds amongst my producer friends since it was released at the end of last year. It has a pretty radical approach, using Sonic Charge’s “genopatch technology” to grow and unravel synth patches based on a small audio sample. It isn’t really like sampling - it’s a much more beautiful and chaotic hall of mirrors. Pure synthesis has never been easier or more uncanny than this.
May 13, 2024
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I started playing Dungeons & Dragons a few years ago, but I’ve imperceptibly drifted towards more and more esoteric games. This downward spiral led me to Swyvers. “A game about bastards [where] you and your gang of criminals scarper through heists and sewers, stalk through the filth of The Smoke and, if you're lucky… make it out with a few extra shillings.” You can play as a Ruined Nob, a Ratman Exile, a Hedge-Swyver or just a bog-standard Swyver with a 25% chance of being literate. I’m truly inspired by games like this that flesh out a detailed, open-ended world using random tables, glib descriptions and a handful of rules. Written by Luke Gearing, illustrated by David Hoskins, and published by the Melsonian Arts Council, the full book is still on its way - but there are plenty of resources for it if you know where to look.
May 13, 2024
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A modern music folklore podcast hosted by Alaska Reid and featuring a wide range of interviewees. I’ve been with Alaska for the last 6 years, so I’ve really witnessed and learned a lot from her dedication to songwriting. She’s also a human can-opener, extracting golden nuggets while discussing her guests’ rawest demos. There’s a new, extremely thorough episode with Gus from Kero Kero Bonito, someone else who I’ve known for a long time, and it’s special to hear such a sincere conversation in an otherwise opaque online world. Her episode with Lauren Mayberry is also particularly direct and touches on a lot of things that musicians don’t often talk about.
May 13, 2024