Red Chuck

Bye Bye

Interview with Chaz Sharp

I blame all of this on potatoes. In particular, those tiny, delicious potatoes sold by the Nufer's at the Farmer's Market on Saturday mornings. Because of my devotion to these potatoes, my wife and I started to get to know Rusty and Sue Nufer, the hardworking couple responsible for these scrumptious tubers as well as a wide variety of equally delectable organic produce. So during one Saturday visit with the Nufer's I learned that Sue has a son named Chaz Sharp who is a songwriter living in London, UK. Chaz fronts a band called The Red Fishes who have been recording this past year in different studios in both the UK and the US. One thing let to another, Sue told me that Chaz would be visiting this summer, and the next thing you know I was hooking up Chaz with a recordings studio here in town and also playing in an Arkansas edition of the Red Fishes featuring Michael Goodrich, Marcus Lowe, Chris Atwood, and Isaac Alexander. Before our second gig I recorded this quick Q&A with Chaz on a hand held recorder while driving from L Street Park to the White Water Tavern.

Ed note: Since this was recorded in a moving car, I thought I'd chop up the interview and post sections of it along the route we travelled to get to White Water Tavern. You can read this interview sequentially by clicking on the yellow Wayfaring note tags in the map. Each note tag corresponds roughly to a question I posed to Chaz. I fucked up the Wayfaring numbers so don't pay them any mind.

Happy Birthday, Sonny

Sonny Rollins is 76 today!

Red Chuck's Huevos Rancheros

In a medium sized skillet, make bacon. Remove bacon from pan and turn heat to medium low. Chop four small tomatoes (preferably Nufer organic from the Farmer's Market). Add chopped tomatoes to pan. Accidentally pour 1/4 a cup of Old El Paso Pickled Jalapeno Slices juice into the pan. Shrug. Add 4 to 5 pickled Jalapeno Slices to pan. Wait for some of the liquid to evaporate. Crack 4 eggs directly into the pan. Scramble with tomatoes and pickled jalapeno slices. Remove from heat. Top with grated cheddar cheese. Enjoy.

Red Fishes / Black Lung

Tonight I'll be pulling double duty at WWT (Black Lung side of poster) playing guitar with The Red Fishes and The Easys.

Please note - Caspar and the Cookies are also on the bill. Hey bro, do you know these guys? They are from Athens.

The Snow Was Too Loud

Dig this Wes Anderson AmEx ad. . .

"Can you do a 357 with a bayonet?"

Awesome. I also love the Godzilla tab he puts on his card.

But really it's more than just particulars that makes this great. The cheeky portrait of the film director as both a picky auteur and an unflinching power broker is hilarious. Also the way the director's juggernautian multi-tasking echoes the implied convoluted plot machinations of his fictional espionage/thriller sure is neat. All in all it makes me wanna watch The Life Aquatic again. Thankfully doing that doesn't have to involve my AmEx card.

Thank you Slate's Ad Report Card.

Miss Razorback and the Coonskin Cap Kids

Representin' at The Purse and the Person: A Century of Women's Purses.

Thank you Caroline for the pics.

YouTube Layman's Diagram

Even though it's not quite as exciting as their usual content, I think this YouTube layman's service diagram is pretty damn great.

Sayeth the Prince of Disco

We had an impromptu living room dance party tonight, after which, Harrison said,

"I boogied down til I sweated!"

Then, when he came upstairs, he said,

"Whew. I'm pooped. I'm totally exhausted from dancing PLUS I'm all out of jokes. Will I have jokes tomorrow?"

I think so.