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Grubsgiving

nathanael — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:47:57 +0000

Thanksgiving, clearly the foodie-est of all the holidays. A brief look at recent food triumphs and failures around the quasi-verse.

Also (& most exciting) our first guest Deconstructing Dinner! This is Death to Mushrooms, with what one assumes is a custom soundtrack.

I ? Broccoli

nathanael — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:12:18 +0000

And I ? these guys for the shoutout. See how easy it is to fall into these self-inflating virtuous cycles where I like you, when you like me, and then we all sing-dance-sing-along with Barney & Friends (Baby Bop, BJ, and Riff).

YOU TOO CAN BE PART OF DECONSTRUCTING DINNER SYCOPHANCY DANCE DANCE CRAZE WITH OUR HOT NEW BADGE adapted from this original. To wit:

Yeah? Yeah. Yee-haw! Now I’m Texas Too!

Deconstructing Dinner: Haymarket, Skewers and Sangria

nathanael — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:01:17 +0000

Speaking of RobZ, he’s got a semi-starring role (along with the rest of the boys and KKV) in the new new episode of Deconstructing Dinner (you’ll find him featured in the I am a Firestarter sequence). It’s been a while since I last posted one of these (Japan?), but that’s conveniently ignoring that there’s a lost king cake episode in the can that’s floating around on one of the many hundreds of orphaned hard drives populating my detrito-sphere.

Or for the anti-blip zealots.

See em all.

Deconstructing Dinner: Monjyayaki

nathanael — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:17:04 +0000

Volume 8! I almost can’t count that high. Whether it’s okonomiyaki or monjyayaki, it triggers salivary responses in me just watching it. Oh man I need me some more.

This episode is the first restaurant-based deconstructing dinner. Next up, sausages uncased!! Or not. See em all!

Deconstructing Dinner: Dali’s Lime Cake

nathanael — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:12:21 +0000

Just a little late, Lee’s birthday cake gets deconstructed post Bangin’ Boca Bar Birthday Bash. In today’s small world coincidence, our co-chef for the evening Lisa is Ahree Lee’s sister-in-law – her brother is Nathan Melsted.

Deconstructing Waffles

nathanael — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:37:29 +0000

More up! More gruff! Waffles be up on my gruff too.

See ‘em all.

Deconstructing Dinner: Player Pickle Edition

nathanael — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 03:33:10 +0000

It’s more of a Deconstructing Dessert really, but has a multitude of cameos to make up for the grammatical inaccuracy. Special thanks to assistant camerapersons Catie & Annie and icers Ev & Polly. And of course AS on giant hamburger construction.

Another Good Tuesday

nathanael — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:59:41 +0000

Today was really quite great. In brief, a list-style recaplet.

1) Found out some stuff we shot in NYC this weekend might end up on a Loren Connors DVD retrospective.

2) My first ever second author paper was accepted (no further revisions!) at JVS.

3) Got confirmations from two more bands (Antiques & Big Blood) for the WMBR compilation. Also got Pipeline band #14, Howarewe Hawaii.

4) Shot a new mini-episode (minisode?) of Deconstructing Dinner. This’ll be up in a few days. (UPDATE: here!)

5) Also, I’m fond of this.

6) Happy birthday Chris!

7) Stayed up til 3am. Punk rock it..!!..

Tuesday nights are best spent in Brookline

nathanael — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:31:33 +0000

No one wants to be the guy who makes people listen to his piss-poor karaoke Like a Virgin while they’re trying sing Hank Williams classics and smack each other on the back with broken beer bottles. This of course is in direct conflict with the desire to get people to see and validate any of the random crap I’ve been spending my life generating lest it go otherwise unobserved.

With that caveat, I couldn’t decide what to bring to the November Open Screen so burned both HOCR and the new new Deconstructing Dinner . There was a massive crowd in the Coolidge lobby, unfortunately all there to see the premiere of No Country For Old Men. Overall I think CNHB’s first starring roll and the spicy lasagna went over better (AVDK’s opinion to the contrary) than the Clap Your Hands Say Yeah bit. The thing about a one minute film is if the audience doesn’t expect it to be so short and they’re trying to settle in it understand what you’re doing it can be over before it even gets started.

IMO the best film of the night was Kimberly Andrade’s (mostly) found footage montage, ‘The Wonder of Water.’ I can’t find this online but she used the opening from the film below, Normandy beach scene, slow motion/zero gravity water balloon bursting and a kicking Flaming Lips soundtrack.

Deconstructing Dinner: Spicy Veggie Lasagna

nathanael — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 03:25:07 +0000

Better than disgusto quote-unquote tacos, yet another parade or even Harvard streakers, it’s our special commemorative World Series edition of Deconstructing Dinner. Mad props to the female half of my krewe, Steven & Bonita too.