via lorin dee

i want this! so pretty

Although The Royal Family And The Poor formed in 1978 it took six years for an album to be released. By that time the band consisted of  Mike Keane; an uncompromising talent who obviously benefitted from having Peter Hook on hand for production duties. The 1980 releases included here as bonuses are uncontrolled noise; rallying cries against politics set to industrial background which made Cabaret Voltaire’s early material sound like easy listening.

crank it up!

i love this song! this is one of my favorite ween albums

ok.. this song was on MTV for awhile in the 90's (1992 i think) as a top hit. i remember we didn't have cable, but my grandma did and we went over her house every weekend to see her . i would turn on her tv in her spare room wait and wait  and wait for MTV (when they played music videos) to play this song then dance around like the chick did in the video pretending to be her! haha. how the hell did  was this song a top hit? i dunno but brings back memories of being a 12 yr pre-teen! ahh.

emily carr

THE GREAT AMERICAN BAKE SALE

(the bad thing here is it's sponsored by a sugar company)

 

Hold a Bake Sale in your community. It's easy.  Here are some steps to get you started and guide you along as you plan your Great American Bake Sale. link to the website to get involved

this is a good chart and very helpful to making your own natural exlixirs

List of Medicinal Plants for What Ails You
Here is a quick reference to specific conditions and the herbs that treat them. This list should not be used for self-medication, especially for serious conditions.
http://www.naturalelixir.com/herblist.html

I made this for lunch today. very easy to make and so good! SALMON CAKES

you can also make a sauce for these as well with just simple dijon mustard, dill, white wine and lemon
Ingredients
1 (14.75 ounce) can salmon, undrained and flaked
1 slice of bread, shredded
3 Tbsp chopped green onion, including the green parts
1 medium garlic clove, minced
1 Tbsp fresh chopped dill weed, or 1 teaspoon dried
3 Tbsp minced green bell pepper
1 Tbsp flour
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon sweet paprika
1 teaspoon salt
Several turns of freshly ground black pepper
3 Tbsp vegetable oil
Method
1 In a large bowl, gently mix together the salmon, bread, green onion, garlic, dill, bell pepper, flour, egg, paprika, salt and pepper. Form into 8 patties; each about 1/2 inch thick.
2 Heat oil over medium high heat in a large skillet. Cook the patties until nicely browned on both sides, about 3-4 minutes per side.

Neko Case - Favorite

whoa! :)

Mao will serve you now

link to the article

Say Something Nice

this makes me want a massage!

SHELL BEANS!

I randomly picked these up while I was at the farm on Sauvie Island this past Sunday. I wasn't sure what they where or how to cook them! Google images came to my rescue and foodnetwork.com too! so here they are and here is the recipe I'm going to experiment with. wish me luck

 

Shelling Bean Stew

Ingredients

• 1/2 pound dried cranberry beans-soaked overnight
• 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
• 1 cup diced onion
• 1/2 cup diced celery
• 1/2 cup diced carrot
• 3 cloves minced garlic
• 1/4 pound pancetta grilled and cut into 4 pieces
• Gray salt
• Freshly ground black pepper
• 4 tomatoes halved, seeded, grilled, and then chopped
• 1 tablespoon minced thyme
• 1 bay leaves
• 1 quart veal stock or beef broth
• 1 cup canned black eyed peas
• 1 cup canned green French flagelot beans
• 1 cup blanched fava beans
• 1 cup blanched peas

Directions

Soak cranberry beans overnight and keep in refrigerator until ready to use.

Drain the soaked cranberry beans and add to a large pot with about 5 cups of water. Bring to a simmer and cook slowly until the beans are just tender. Drain and reserve.
Meanwhile in another large pot heat 2 tablespoons of the olive oil over medium heat. Add the diced onion, carrot, celery and minced garlic to the pot along with the pieces of grilled pancetta. Season with salt and pepper and cook the vegetables with the pancetta until soft and caramelized, about 5 to 7 minutes.
Add the chopped grilled tomatoes to the vegetables and cook for another 3 minutes, breaking the tomatoes up while cooking. Add the thyme, bay leaves, and the veal stock. Let the stock come to a simmer and let reduce by about 20% about 10-15 minutes.
Add the cranberry beans, black eyed peas, and French flagelot beans to the pot and let simmer slowly for about 10-15 minutes more. Finally, add the fava beans and peas and stir in to warm up. Season with gray salt and pepper and finish by drizzling in all of the remaining olive oil.

an old PROHIBITION poster

If you have a chance, you should watch this! it airs tonight through oct 4th

link to --> video and documentary

Shellac - Prayer To God

sauvie island corn maize and pumpkin patch!

brad phillips

After seeing Bridesmaids, I dusted off my old Wilson Phillips CD (I wish, I actually just found their entire album on Mediafire and I don’t feel guilty because I have purchased it at least twice, once on cassette tape and once on CD) and turned up my speakers.
This album is me from age 9 til way too late in life, singing in my room and making my mom listen to it in the car incessantly. I don’t even know technically which songs were the singles (outside of “Hold On”) because in my life, they were all hits. Thanks for kicking ass WP. I kinda wanna go do karaoke right now.

Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch and Alison Krauss sing their song from "Oh Brother where art though"

Smoked Trout Hash

4 tbsp. unsalted butter
1 lb. boiled and cooled russet potatoes,
cut into 1⁄2" cubes
1 small yellow onion, finely chopped
1⁄4 lb. boneless smoked trout,
flaked into 1⁄2" chunks
1⁄4 cup heavy cream
1 tbsp. finely chopped fresh dill
1⁄4 tsp. cayenne pepper
1 garlic clove, finely chopped
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
3 tbsp. crème fraîche
2 tsp. prepared horseradish
Finely chopped fresh chives
Lemon wedge

1. Heat 3 tbsp. of the butter in a 10" skillet over medium-high heat. Add potatoes; cook, stirring, until lightly browned, 8–10 minutes.

2. Add remaining tbsp. of butter and onions. Cook, stirring occasionally, until onions soften, about 10 minutes. Add trout, heavy cream, dill, cayenne pepper, garlic, and salt and pepper to taste. Stir to combine.

3. Turn hash in parts every 2 minutes, loosening any browned bits, until potatoes are golden brown, about 12 minutes.

4. Divide hash between 2 plates. Combine crème fraîche with horseradish. Garnish hash with sauce, chives, and a squeeze of lemon.

 

12 slices bacon

2 whole rainbow trout (about 1 lb. each), cleaned

2 tbsp. olive oil

Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste

6 sprigs tarragon

1. Heat oven to 375°. Place bacon on a rimmed baking sheet, and bake until half-cooked, about 10 minutes. Remove from oven, and let cool. Brush inside and outside of each trout with 1 tbsp. oil, season with salt and pepper, and stuff with 3 sprigs tarragon each; set aside. Arrange 6 bacon slices, overlapping slightly, on a cutting board parallel to you. Place I trout over middle of bacon perpendicular to you, and wrap trout in bacon, arranging it seam side down on the rack of a stove-top smoker (see link for instructions). Repeat with remaining bacon and trout.

2. Prepare stove-top smoker according to manufacturer's instructions, using apple or pecan wood shavings (see Fuel and Flavor); place rack with trout inside. Smoke until fish is cooked through, about 15 minutes. Heat broiler to high and arrange a rack 4″ from broiler element. Transfer trout on smoker rack to a baking sheet and place under broiler; cook until bacon is crisp, about 2 minutes.

goats in a tree! yes- this is real

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Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton

Kittens that drink tea and toads that play leapfrog: world of a Victorian taxidermist in special one-off exhibition

They look perfectly civilised, carefully passing cups and plates around a large table while enjoying afternoon tea.
But these guests are in fact stuffed kittens in an odd piece of artwork which will make up part of a special one-off exhibition.
It is just one piece of a bizarre Victorian collection of stuffed animals which was broken up and sold around the world seven years ago.
The eccentric world of taxidermist Walter Potter, where stuffed animals mimic human life including toads playing leapfrog and rat police raiding a drinking den, was sold for more than £500,000 in 2003.
Mr Potter started his collection at the age of 19 when his canary died and he dissected the bird before stuffing it for display in the family summer house.
His family kept his museum in Bramber, West Sussex, open after his death in 1918, but it closed in the 1970s.
The collection was moved to Brighton and then to Arundel before finally ending up in Cornwall.
The Museum of Everything's founder, James Brett, said: 'The idea of re-creating the Potter museum began as a chance remark by Peter and it became an obsession to bring it back together.
'It has taken over my life. But Potter was worth it, he was a true original and himself an outsider artist as much as a craftsman.
'I can tell a Potter from the work of another taxidermist at a glance across a room - he was a genius.'

SWEET!

8th Annual Jackpot Records Music & Film Festival
Monday, September 26 – Friday, September 30 FREE
8 p.m.@ Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

This year’s film line-up:
Sept. 26th 8pm: The Agony and Ecstasy of Phil Spector
Sept. 27 8pm: Deconstructing Dad (the music, machines, and mystery of Raymon Scott)
Sept. 28 8pm: Pysch night
Sept. 29 8pm: Upside Down (the Creation Records story)
Sept. 30 8pm: Color me Obsessed (a film about the Replacements)

this is one of my favorite breweries right now DOUBLE MOUNTAIN

http://doublemountainbrewery.com/

Matt Swihart and Charlie Devereux founded Double Mountain in 2007 with a clear mission: make great beer for craft beer fans. Ours is a “brewers' brewery”, with an uncompromising focus on beer quality.

From the beginning, our goal was to make beers that we liked to drink. All of our beers are served up unfiltered and long-aged, to deliver maximum flavor and character. The beers can be very complex and assertive, but with the ultimate goal of proper balance. We aim to satisfy both the hardcore aficionados and the more casual craft beer fan, all in the same glass.


FREE LIVE MUSIC AT THE TAPROOM:
(all shows start around 8:30pm)

Friday Sept 23: The Way Downs
(Funk & Soul)

Saturday Sept 24: Danny Barnes & Four On The Floor
(Banjo Wizardry)

Friday Sept 30: Pitchfork Revolution
(Bluegrass from Bend)

Saturday Oct 1: Hood River Hops Fest
(no music at Taproom, close at 8pm)

Friday Oct 7: Foghorn Stringband
(Old-Time Revival)

Thursday, Sept 22:Indulge at the Jupiter 2011
Jupiter Hotel, 800 E. Burnside, Portland -- 5:30 - 9pm. $45/pp.
Come sample our beers and feast on small plates from 20 of the city's finest eateries.

Saturday, Oct 1:Hood River Hops Fest
Columbia Lot, Downtown Hood River -- Noon - 9pm. $6 entry fee includes mug.
Sample over 50 beers from Northwest breweries, including more than 30 fresh-hop beers.

Tuesday, Oct 4:Killer Green Release at the Horse Brass
Horse Brass Pub, 4534 SE Belmont, Portland -- 5-9pm
Come enjoy this year's version of our popular Fresh Hop IPA along with six other Double Mountain specialties.           

http://www.noaloha.com

MARTHA STEWART (MAR-STEW)  every year does a halloween pets contest! they are so cute i can't handle it!

http://www.marthastewart.com/gallery?galleryId=halloween-pets-mmx&page=1

today is a fugazi kind of day

re-post from an amazing lady named sara nobles

http://getyourjuiceon.tumblr.com

i am still obessed with this man and everything he has made

I'm loving this album Noah Georgeson FIND SHELTER

“Streets of Manhattan” by artist Jacob Kedzierski is a collage of 2000 street sign photos that includes every street in Manhattan

I heart paul rand

http://www.paul-rand.com
Paul Rand (born Peretz Rosenbaum, August 15, 1914 – November 26, 1996) was a well-known American graphic designer, best known for his corporate logo designs. Rand was educated at the Pratt Institute (1929-1932), the Parsons School of Design (1932-1933), and the Art Students League (1933-1934). He was one of the originators of the Swiss Style of graphic design. From 1956 to 1969, and beginning again in 1974, Rand taught design at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Rand was inducted into the New York Art Directors Club Hall of Fame in 1972. He designed many posters and corporate identities, including the logos for IBM, UPS and ABC. Rand died of cancer in 1996.

http://doctorcatmd.com

Emmylou Harris : Making Believe (1977)

Dolly Parton& Alison Kraus. adorbs

i can't get enough of this blog

these before and afters with furniture, thrift finds, design, rooms etc ..are creative and awesome


before-and-after PHOTOS

yay! it's offically out! grace bonney, i love you.

click to watch --->  video