Re: Sweet music!

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And available for download after the instance? For the slackers whose employers frown on streaming?


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 08- 7-08 11:51 PM
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Uh, maybe.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 08- 7-08 11:58 PM
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But only in bullshit Ogg Vorbis format.

I'm always excited to read the lineup on Ben's shows but I never get to hear them. Perhaps this time will be the exception.


Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 08- 8-08 2:15 AM
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I live in the area, and last week turned on my actual radio to catch it--no signal! All static! Grrr. I am only 25 miles away, and I can't even tune in? Then I just clicked on the "stream it" thing on KZSU, and lo, W-lfs-n's sexy adenoidal voice came streaming over my speakers, and sweet, sweet it was to hear the dulcet tones. I'll be listening tomorrow afternoon as I bake you cookies for dinner the next day (decided to make ice cream sandwiches). OMG. I just said that out loud in public. I should don my Japanese cherry blossom apron and take pictures of this spectacle of W-lfs-n-love and add them to the Unfogged pool.

You should publish the playlists. I liked most of the artists but can't recall them now.


Posted by: Belle Lettre | Link to this comment | 08- 8-08 2:33 AM
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Request for advice: I want to make this for dinner with W-lfs-n. How the fuck do you remove the backbone of a chicken and "butterfly" it? Goddamn my poor knife skills.


Posted by: Belle Lettre | Link to this comment | 08- 8-08 3:06 AM
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5. Three options:

1. Buy it from a butcher who will do it for you (preferred).
2. Find a supermarket which sells them ready done (in Britain you can do this if you're prepared to pay through the nose).
3. Do it yourself. It's a sod of a job. You need a heavy, razor sharp knife or cleaver, and you have to cut through the rib cage on both sides of the spinal column (just where the ribs are strongest!), rip out the spine, break the breastbone down the middle, and bend the bird open by brute force. There is no easy get round. You will cut yourself at some stage. But it can be done with sufficient willpower.

Best of luck. The recipe looks really good.


Posted by: OneFatEnglishman | Link to this comment | 08- 8-08 3:45 AM
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How the fuck do you remove the backbone of a chicken and "butterfly" it?

Those "Poultry shears" which came as a free gift with your knife set, and which you have always been wondering what the fuck they are for, are for this.


Posted by: dsquared | Link to this comment | 08- 8-08 4:36 AM
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dsquared is right of course, but for those who got a cheap knife set (or bought their knives severally), such that none of the knives are robust enough for the operation described in 6.3 and there was no free gift as in 7, I have heard of people achieving a result with an electric carving knife. However, if you're tempted by this approach, I'd advise calling the ambulance before you start, to save time. And you still need something heavy and pointed for the breastbone.


Posted by: OneFatEnglishman | Link to this comment | 08- 8-08 4:50 AM
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7 is right. Any heavy duty kitchen scissors will do it, it doesn't have to be poultry shears [although they help].

I've done it with a knife a couple of times, too. Bigger and sharper the better.

Once it's opened up a bit, it's easy enough to flatten it by turning over and pressing down on the breast bone.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2006/05/24/FDGEQIU78N1.DTL&o=3&type=printable


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 08- 8-08 5:40 AM
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6: A fourth option: ignore the recipe instructions and just buy two half chickens (your supermarket probably sells them like that) and arrange them in a spatchcock position. It will take slightly longer to cook, but the result will be indistinguishable.


Posted by: Knecht Ruprecht | Link to this comment | 08- 8-08 6:19 AM
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Oooh, the link pwnage, it buurns.


Posted by: KR | Link to this comment | 08- 8-08 6:27 AM
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I've done it with a knife a couple of times, too

This is actually the easiest way to do it, but assumes a) you know what you're doing and b) you have a proper knife


Posted by: soup biscuit | Link to this comment | 08- 8-08 8:00 AM
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Once it's opened up a bit, it's easy enough to flatten it by turning over and pressing down on the breast bone.

The chicken breast, or the gaping wound in the palm of your hand?


Posted by: kth | Link to this comment | 08- 8-08 8:12 AM
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Sweet music!

Have you got plenty of java and Chesterfield Kings?


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 08- 8-08 8:15 AM
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Posted by: lw | Link to this comment | 08- 8-08 8:25 AM
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Once it's opened up a bit, it's easy enough to flatten it by turning over and pressing down on the breast bone.

The chicken breast, or the gaping wound in the palm of your hand?

Actually, that's from the Wikihow entry on coronary bypass surgery.


Posted by: Knecht Ruprecht | Link to this comment | 08- 8-08 8:30 AM
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You don't need to have gotten poultry shears with your knife set. You can buy them for like $7. That's what I did. It's not really that hard an operation.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 08- 8-08 10:00 AM
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15: no, but I will be dancing in the streets.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 08- 8-08 10:46 AM
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Huh. Wow, thanks for the terrifying advice (W-lfs-n will attest that me holding a knife makes him wince). Either I'll just pop it in with the backbone and roast it longer, or run and get poultry shears.


Posted by: Belle Lettre | Link to this comment | 08- 8-08 11:09 AM
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You got room in your kitchen for one of these, Belle? 'Cuz it would make short work of that chicken.


Posted by: Knecht Ruprecht | Link to this comment | 08- 8-08 11:19 AM
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21: Take a knife-skills class; I can vouch for this one. It's totally worth it.


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 08- 8-08 11:20 AM
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Totally Gannalicious shit going down right now, y'all.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 08- 8-08 3:53 PM
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Holy crap, w-lfs-n, that Carbonara track was pretty good.


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 08- 8-08 4:12 PM
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Yeah, every now and then I play something nice by mistake.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 08- 8-08 4:14 PM
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I was gonna say, you seem to have rectified that with whatever's on now.


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 08- 8-08 4:18 PM
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That would be Osorezan's "All We Know So Far", from the album Mimidokodesuka. Osorezan, which actually consists of Chris Corsano, Jim O'Rourke, and Darin Gray, was somewhat hilariously identified as a band of "Japanese noisesters" by the guy who reviewed the album for KZSU, even though the names of the participants are on the fucking jewel case.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 08- 8-08 4:22 PM
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I tune in and it is Japanese (I think) jazz. Good stuff too. Sorry I missed the one dedicated to Emerson.

And here's Ben!


Posted by: md 20/400 | Link to this comment | 08- 8-08 4:32 PM
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Et tu, md 20/400?


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 08- 8-08 4:32 PM
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It was Japanese jazz, at least one third by participants (though probably less by mass)!


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 08- 8-08 4:34 PM
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Ah, and now we have saxophones farting!


Posted by: md 20/400 | Link to this comment | 08- 8-08 4:36 PM
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I'm not as keen on the squeak fart stuff. The structure is interesting but the sounds are not easy on the ear.


Posted by: md 20/400 | Link to this comment | 08- 8-08 4:38 PM
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The labels that produced Ben's selections are weird too. Rune Grammofon, Cuneiform, etc.


Posted by: md 20/400 | Link to this comment | 08- 8-08 4:41 PM
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Those are both fantastic labels.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 08- 8-08 4:42 PM
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Mostly this has been a very pretty set. *I* think.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 08- 8-08 4:45 PM
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The label names are great AND off-beat

B is right. These are some sweet pieces. Nice trumpet now. Still on Scarfnet?


Posted by: md 20/400 | Link to this comment | 08- 8-08 4:51 PM
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Still on Scarfnet?

No, not anymore.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 08- 9-08 9:06 AM
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Check out the results from dinner with W-lfs-n (some also added to the deggofnU poo)l. Alas, I did not get poultry shears in time and so just roasted the whole damned chicken, but W-lfs-n was obliging and carved it up real nice (I merely watched and then ate one of the oysters and the short end of the wishbone). Chicken accompanied by glazed fingerling potatoes + chives, and roasted brussel sprouts. A nice rose' wine. Dessert, blueberry crumb bars and a flowery black tea. Recipes to be added to AWB's wiki soon!


Posted by: Belle Lettre | Link to this comment | 08-10-08 1:51 AM
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Er, I got the short end of the wishbone. I did not actually eat it.


Posted by: Belle Lettre | Link to this comment | 08-10-08 1:56 AM
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