N.C. Part 11- Hardcastle Hot dogs

     After the after party My good pal Jeremy Hardcastle invited Micah, Philo, Annie, and I over to his crib for home made hot dogs. Holy shit! Dude made the best dawg I've ever had in my life. He only uses prime cuts of local beef and pork, and cases them all himself. Pretty much all the side ingredients he's using are homemade, too. I'm trying to tell ya'll, bacon wrapped hot dogs with homemade chilli, beer cheese, mustard, and jalapenos at 3 in the a.m. Hot damn! This guy is a seriously talented chef, I used to work with him at Table and I remember when he first started making these things, and hadn't perfected the recipe. Let me just say, he got that bitch where it needs to be. Anyhow, look out for him soon to be killing the late night hot dog stand game, as soon as the city wises up and gives him the proper permits. Hardcastle Hot dogs coming soon to your mouth!   

Alexander Spit "Beat For The Street" Al Lover Remix

     My man Alexander Spit has got a new record coming out, a show next week, and a hot single on i-tunes right now. Dude is killin the game for sure! He sent out an accapella version of one of his singles "Beat For The Street" for fools to make remixes of. Here's the version that I came up with. I'm pretty pumped on it. Make sure to catch him live at Slim's Friday Sept. 4th if you're in the bay area. Don't sleep.

N.C. Part 10- "Hot Stuff Tattoo" Grand Opening

     My homie Danny Reed had a grand opening party for his Tattoo shop "Hot Stuff" while I was back home, and I was lucky enough to swing through. It was a great time, free beer, great food (compliments of "The Admiral"), and lots of walking, breathing canvases to view. This dude has skills and I would recommend him for anyone looking to get any tattoo from a tramp stamp butterfly on your lower back to an intricate, full body yakuza type joint. This dude can do it all with ease, though I'm sure he'd try to talk you out of the butterfly, or at least convince you to put a big dick on it. Check the links.  

After Party at The Admiral

Aquadust Negative Space Free Download

     This is going to sound stupid and romantic, but to me this whole free music at your finger tips via the internet thing is pretty awesome. Not because you can get whatever you want without paying for it, but because I see it taking things back to the essence. I like to think it will return music to where it was before big industry crapped all over it. Returning it to the core of what it was and is supposed to be about, community, oral tradition, artistry, blah blah blah. I know this won't happen, but whatever, I like to overanalyze things. I'm all for fools getting their paper right, but it's really all about the music and the act of sharing your creation, in my opinion. That being said, this is an Instrumental album that I put out myself around 2007. It's not mastered and is pretty jenky, but I love it and hope you will too. So have it for free, I'm sick of trying to make money off of this shit. Just listen to it. Download it free HERE.

Performance

This shit is funny.

N.C. Part 9 - Trove Harder, Hendersonville

     My buddy Morgan, his son Brennan and I took a little trove journey out to Hendersonville while I was back home. We were looking for this old antique shop that had this room full of records attached to the side of it. Before reaching our destination we stopped at a Goodwill, and I picked up a dope Buffalo Bills hat and some cool flicks of old redneck gospel records. When we got to the spot, said room was closed but the whole back half of the shop was filled with LPs and 45s. I didn't really even start to look because we only had an hour or so and if I start flipping through records I'll be there all day, Morgan came up on some dope old country LPs though. There is some cool shit to be found out there in the sticks, I can't wait to go back to this spot.

Table, Heaven For Your Mouth

     For my birthday my Mom took some of the fam and I out for dinner at Table, so good. I used to wait tables here, it's where I learned most my food knowledge. It's been a while and I had definitely missed the food, and my old co-workers. I recommend it to any and everyone who stops into Asheville. This here is serious business. Great food, an excellent old world wine list, awesome people, and the majority of the ingredients used are local and or organic. I didn't get photos of all the dishes we had because we were too hungry, but here's an Idea of what delights your mouth could know. Check out the website HERE.

  George, Sam, Mom, and Uncle Steve

Veal Sweetbreads, Sugar Snap Peas and Black Olive Butter

Sea Scallops, Myco Garden's Mushrooms, Bruschetta, and Sage Butter

Grilled East Fork Farms Rabbit, Smoked Ham, Pistachio, and Basil Risotto

Orecchetti Pasta, Roasted Zucchini, Basil and Parmesan

Springer Mountain Chicken, Warm Polenta, Taleggio, and Swiss Chard