I'm just a fool.

The best pressure is peer pressure. Even if friends use their powers of peer pressure to get you to update your blog. I'm not completely sure which is worse though, alcohol, drugs or the internet. They all can keep you up strange hours and leave you feeling disgusted with yourself. Though alcohol and drugs don't have cute animal videos involving cats and treadmills.


One thing that I've noticed that I've been doing in the kitchen lately is trying to find music to inspire/motivate me to cook dinner with Keri after a day of working in a kitchen for six hours. I feel a bit embarrassed about admitting this but I got this idea from the TeaNY cookbook by Moby and Kelly Tisdale. Their idea was about what music they enjoy playing in the store and suggest the readers to listen to when they make or enjoy the recipes. So like them I came up a list (as in I looked at my stack of cds in the kitchen and figured that I share them). But unlike them I don't want anyone to enjoy anything. So here is my list of music that can be heard when I'm in the kitchen:

Slingshot Dakota - The Golden Ghost
Propagandhi - Less Talk, More Rock
Jawbreaker - Etc.
Armalite - S/T
Dead Unicorn - Yellowstone Supervolcano
Bomb the Music Industry/ O Pioneers!!! - Split
SuperBobby - Without Bug Spray, Bugs Stay (though after awhile I have found that with this album on I dont really cook as much as I dance.)
Delay - Don't Laugh
Fake Problems - How Far Our Bodies Go
Thee Headcoats - Elementary

A band that should a honorable mention is Tin Armor. I made this list three days ago and since then Ive only listened to A Better Place Than I Have Been. Yesterday alone I listened to it twice just while making an on the spot pasta dinner. It reminded me of the night that they and boys from Annabel spent the night here and were spread out from one side of the living room all the way to the counter top in the kitchen. Another mention should go out to my friend Rachel. She made me a mix cd last winter that is also always playing when I'm in the kitchen or if I'm just bumming around. Two tracks that get a lot of play on that are songs Paul Baribeau - Ten things and Sour Grapes - I want to set you on fire. Dope Jams.

I hope my list lives up to Mobys'. I mean his had Nina Simone, Bjork and I think even one of his own albums. I feel like the only thing to could help me beat Moby would be listening to nothing just DragonForce or Anton Maiden. And I don't know if I'm willing to take that step yet. Notice that I said yet. But maybe with time I'll come up with a list that will get people all razzle dazzled.