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Food Adventures at Barbuzzo (my place of work)

I’m currently lucky to be working at a fairly nice Mediterranean restaurant with absolutely excellent food, and I particularly love their pizzas. Sometimes I’ll treat myself at the end of a shift to a half-off (we get discounts wooo) choice from the menu. Additionally, sometimes the cooks will let us experiment with the menu, or even experiment on their own!

If you can’t tell, I love food…

Left: The Patata Pizza has sliced potato fingerlings, gorgonzola “dulce”, red onion, pecorino, and pistachio pesto. All of this on top of our supposedly “secret” white sauce. This sounded great and all, and then the cook offered to put eggs and bacon on it, which my co-worker immediately recognized as an attempt to make a psuedo breakfast-pie because of the potato. Needless to say, it was stupidly good… Oh yeah, and that’s dried Sicilian oregano on the side, and a diet coke GOTTA WATCH THEM CALORIES

Right: My coworker decided he’d make his own pizza by simply telling the cook what to put on it. He dubbed it the Barbuzzo Mexipizza. It’s got sausage, mushrooms, peppers, onions, red sauce, and sheep’s milk ricotta (aka the “sour cream” LOL!) I didn’t get a chance to try it, but boy did it look heavenly. Sidenote: Sheep’s milk ricotta is like the greatest thing to happen to…ricotta…ever.

Chills Best Collection

A while ago I created a compilation album dubbed “Chills Best” for a couple friends of mine to share my favorite hip-hop at the time. After a positive reception, I soon created another album and called it the “Chills Best Collection”, which consisted of two separate volumes. I never really distributed the compilation outside of 5 or 6 people, and I released it on Tumblr a couple times just for people to check out if they were interested.

Recently, I decided that it’s been quite a while (and it really has) since I made a compilation, so I went ahead and created a third volume. It ended up having double the tracks of any one of the previous volumes, but that was simply due to the huge time gap.

But anywho, here’s the full collection. Give it a shot if you’re in to the chill.

Chills Best Volume 1

Chills Best Volume 2

Chills Best Volume 3

Chills Best Collection (contains all volumes)

Note: The third volume has a wider range in style compared to the first two, just as a heads up.

Thanks for listening!

On my way home from work each night I walk by this neat little open-mic bar. Often times I’ll be walking by mid performance and I almost always stop to listen (the performers are set up right next to a giant open window) because well, I like to! This particular night there was a jazz group performing, and being a giant jazz fan, I was super excited to be able to stop and listen, especially because I (normally) have a great view of the drummer, although unfortunately an amp blocked most of the view that night. The drummer was absolutely excellent, and it reminded me of my old days in the jazz band at my high school and the jazz clubs sponsored by the school district. I miss that. But anyway, god damn, the guy was grooving.

If you can, listen to the drum solo, it’s awesome.

(you’ll also notice that there are a lot of conversations going on around me, including one of my own that I was having with a seemingly homeless man about the glories of jazz music XD)