Showing posts with label hipster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hipster. Show all posts

15.5.11

Domestic Advice: A recipe from my home to yours

It's a little sad now that school's out. This past week has been a mass exodus of college students, and I'm kind of just sitting here for a few more days before I move out. Little bRob is so lost without a school routine...no bus to run after, no homework to not be doing, no classes to gChat through...oh I miss it already.

Because it is so empty and I'm feeling a little melancholy and I'm too lazy to pack just yet, I went and bought myself some consolatory Rocky Road. I wore my gym shirt [complete with the words physical education emblazoned across the front], jean shorts,  sperry's, and a dark purse that didn't match with anything. I realized I should have been ashamed to go out in public dressed like...that...so I tried to make it better by putting my hair up in a sloppy bun.
Maybe then people would think I was being ironically sloppy.


[Haha - I love how hipsters use the word "ironic" for everything now. "I'm wearing this teddy bear sweatshirt because it's ironic." Hipsters slay me.]

Anyways - to the point of this post:
So many bloggers share their domestic bliss, and I just want to contribute. Here is a fun, delicious recipe free of charge for you to share with  absolutely everyone you love...

My  [not so] Secret Recipe 

The final product


Sometimes college is hard. Long hours, little money, no time to cook good food.. However, on nights when I am feeling especially energetic, I like to make this timeless and relatively pocket-friendly dish.

Your ingredients. Not pictured: salsa. Unnecessarily pictured: My facebook.
Anticipated Prep Time: Maybe 15 minutes? I don't know...my can opener takes a really long time and slows me down.

1. Boil water, add couscous. I just kind of wing the amount of water I use...and then boil until it's gone. Most of the time the couscous comes out fully cooked. I think. I've never had "professional" couscous so I really have no standard for comparison.

2. Once the couscous is donezo, add a can of chicken. Yes. You didn't even know it came in a can, did you? Beginner's tip: Drain the water first. 

3. Add about a bloop's worth of salsa [bloop = the amount that comes out when you tip the jar]. I don't own spices, nor would I know how to use them even if I did. I choose to believe that salsa is a ready-made spice for the spice incapable.  InstaFlavor.


Here is proof that I eat this stuff. Also proof that I look guh-reeeeat when I eat. 

This meal serves approximately 2 people. Or one really hungry girl that eats like a full-grown man. It is a little low on vegetables, unless you count salsa [which I do], so you could, you know, go eat carrots or something. I don't, but you totally can.

You are so welcome.

- bRob


Completely unrelated: Someone posted this on facebook. This girl is only fourteen. It's beautiful!

27.4.11

Hipster Nonsense

I love indie, singer-songwriter, alternative music. I really do. Throw in a banjo or a ukelele and you've won me - heart and soul. But I absolutely balk at the idea of sitting through weird awkward concerts in pretentious coffee shops/bistros or dirty warehouses, and I just don't have it in me to fork over the money I am currently not earning to go to some over-priced crowded music festival held in a muddy field that reeks of marijuana and outhouses and hippy-dom.

In the words of Liz Lemon from 30 Rock, that's just "hipster nonsense!" (I tried really hard to find a clip of this on youtube, but apparently no one else thought it was as hysterical as I did.)

Surprisingly, however, commercials have come  a long away in the past decade and are now featuring a lot of singer-songwriter music.Cause I love you, InterWebs, Imma hook you up and list some of the cooler commercials. PS - I can't take credit for all of this  - some friends have shown me some of this stuff as well. 

You've probably heard this song before:
artist: Joe Purdy
song: Can't Get it Right Today




This one is my all-time favorite. Heads up, future hubster: you should learn how to play this on the guitar and sing it to me when you propose. That's not ridiculous, is it?
artist: Kyle Andrews
song: You Always Make Me Smile





While this isn't my favorite song here, it is really great, and this is  my favorite commercial. Oh my goodness it's so adorable.
artist: M.Ward
song: Here Comes the Sun Again




artists: Daniel Johnson and Brie Stoner
song: Don't Fence Me In




too sweet.
artist: Jesse Harris
song: The Secret Sun




I know you know this one.
artist: Amos Lee
song: Sweet Pea




artist: Joe Purdy
song: Wash Away




Ok I lied. THIS may be my favorite. Sorry - I couldn't find the original commercial.
artist: Basia Bulat
song: Before I Knew


Subaru has the winningest commercials. I would buy a subaru.  =)


Television shows are getting better soundtracks now, too...have you noticed that? While some continue to play "Sweet Home Alabama" and Katy Perry's "Firework" on loop, a lot of television shows are playing crazy cool artists. Grey's Anatomy soundtracks (freaturing artists like Brandi Carlile and Joe Purdy and KT Tunstall) are always really bomb, and Scrubs was decent, too, before it went and got cancelled (I'm still hurting about that one).

Anyways - what did I miss? Have you heard any other good music on the tube recently?
-bRob





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