The good: The Red Bull won in a decisive fashion with some stunning forward play and an aggressive attack. The bad: It was pouring rain – I mean biblical rain that the wind blew in great sheets as I sat in what I thought was a great seat. Also, it was about 45 degrees and…
Author: Tony
Silent Film – 1936Charlie Chaplin Another visit to Chaplin’s tramp character. This time he’s working in a factory where everything is regimented and watched over (very big brother like) by the boss via television screens. Chaplin’s character is starting to show stress from the repetitive nature of the work and then goes off the rails…
Standard NY style dough with a san marzano tomato sauce base, some parmesan and slices of hot cappicola. The only thing I’d change is having the butcher slice the salami very very thin – the slices I got were pretty thick and ended up a bit chewy, throwing off the whole textural experience. The heat…
Old School Punk! Classic album from 1976 filled with angry punk songs (Bonus, they were from my hometown of Queens NY!) Just an album full of angry punk rock – simple chords, screaming lyrics, and a standard drumbeat but each song slaps – the most iconic probably is the Blitzkrieg bop just a fun bouncy…
I was only familiar with OutKast from their super popular songs (shake it like a polaroid piiiiiicture) so I was pretty unaware of this albums existence. Filled with 16 lyrically dense songs this was an album I had to listen to a few times to really get a bead on what it was all about.…
The OG of pop Reggae – I’m a pretty big fan (in fact one of my art projects in college was a drawing of him) three little birds is one of my favorite ‘happy jams’ that I’ll sing on warm spring mornings. The music is consistently good and the themes through the songs are all…
Your standard NY style pepperoni pie – I mean it had to be one of the 50 so why not get it out of the way? I had some pepperoni left over from a party and wanted to use it up and it charred and cupped quite nicely!
Mobster Movie / Black and white You have to love a film that starts with the moral message that the film is trying to convey instead of using the movie to tell the story and let the audience infer their intent. No, these guys straight up called out the government and the police for letting…
As I set out to create this whole 50 for 50 thing I started looking at it as a system – and every system needs a rule set. Given the complexity there needs to be flexibility built into the system to allow for variance but not enough to encourage avoiding the hard work that will…