Thirsty Thursday

Perhaps you’re wondering how to make a turkey delicious this holiday season. Or perhaps you want to know how other people make ‘em. Or, just maybe, you wonder what the kids think goes into that delicious fowl. Here are some second grade children’s responses when they were asked how to make a turkey:

Gregor:
List of ingredients: Papr spisiy, sos, chicin brast, salt

Directions: frst you biy the turkey then you wosh the turkey and then you cook the turkey for an howr and tak it out then you put the paprspisis and then you cook it for a nother half a howr and take it owt and add the soy and the solt and the checin brast.

Josie:
List of ingredients: first staffing 3/2 seaning that rel stuff, second solt 2/2, after paper 1/2

Directions: Fist you bake it and after a hour you take it out some times longer then that so after you wait for it to coll off you all so make more stuff the that i forget a big stape befor you holf to cleane it. Some peple don’t clene it but most do. Then you eat it!

Hamilton:
List of ingredients: 1 knife, 1 salt, 5 spice’s, 1 pan, 1 pepper, 1 turkey

Directions: first go to the store buy turkey. Second come home. Third place turkey in pan. Forth take the knife, cut bones out and most of fat. Fifth take out livers, spleen and stomach if they are not out. Put in oven bake at about 205 degrees for about one houre then serve it.

David Dondero has been playing barroom folk-rock solo since ‘99. With three LP’s behind him, along with an amazing live disc, his fourth solo album hit the street back at the end of August.

“Simple Love” paints a beautiful portrait of life on the road, broken relationships, evil women and the Prince William sound. It’s currently out on the Team Love record label and available via iTunes and a variety of other online sources.

Dondero is heading to Europe over the next few months to tour. I spoke to him back in September about the recording process, the digital revolution destroying the art form of the album, wild tours that involved narrow escapes from aggressive skinheads, and the art of laundromat shows. Yes, laundromat shows.

Find out what all the hoopla over Dondero is all about, click on the .mp3 link and hear the interview in all of its glory. It also includes choice cuts from the latest album, and Dondero classics like “Pre-invasion Jitters.” Listen as the man’s voice bleeds emotion and he showers us with odd characters and stories of wandering the U.S.

David Dondero on KVSC’s “Crispy Critics”

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Spoon is the little Austin band that could. Since their inception in 1994, they’ve slowly built a rabid fan base, even while battling labels (Elektra dropped them after their third album), and touring a hell of a lot. Around 2001, after the release of “Girls Can Tell” they started to gain the recognition they deserved and began popping up on a variety of late night talk shows, soundtracks, and even TV (Britt Daniel, the lead-singer, showed up on the prematurely canceled high school P.I. show, “Veronica Mars”).

Jim Eno, drummer and surprisingly friendly guy, took a moment to chat with me for “The Crispy Critics”, a weekly show on 88.1 FM, KVSC St. Cloud. The interview took place the week prior to their appearance on “Saturday Night Live” last October.

Stream the interview off of this page via the box below, or head over to KVSC.org, the college and community radio station that’s bringing you this treat.
Jim Eno Interview

“Man of the Hour” is a silent film Ben Herreid (from “Sparkle Picnic”) wrote and directed earlier this fall.

It’s a quirky play on the early silent films, complete with exaggerated gestures, bizarrely wonderful facial contortions and some nice grainy film. It’s the tale of a love-affair interrupted by an ex. Starring Pat Anderson, Kayla Frawley and Danny Dikel.

Enjoy.

Will Oldham’s latest release is an eight song E.P. of covers titled “Ask Forgiveness.”

“Ask Forgiveness“. is being released under one of Oldham’s monikers, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, and it’s chock full of odd covers of songs by artists like R. Kelly, Bjork and Frank Sinatra.

Oldham has been on the scene since the early 90‘s, when he started crafting quiet, folk ballads that occasionally bordered on the obscene. Over the years he’s picked up a cult-like following, and even done a bit of acting in a variety of movies, TV shows and even a mock Kanye West video.

The new disc chugs along with the light, campfire folk he‘s known for. Oldham tackles an odd variety of artists that sound nothing like him, and manages to make each track his own. On Danzig’s “Am I Demon?” he takes an angry, vicious metal song and turns it into a musical hug. R. Kelly’s “The Greatest,” formerly a ridiculous exercise in egomania, gains a sense of realism with Oldham behind the mic. The disc also contains a single original tune, “I’m Loving The Street.”

Though the disc holds no real surprises, it’s still a very pleasant listen. Oldham’s dry voice and plucky guitar sounds always offer a treat. He may stick to his tried and true formula, but manages to draw the listener into a quiet, well-drawn world that’s quite lovely.

Originally published in the St. Cloud Times on 12-20-07.