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Mmm Momofuku : Better Late than Never...

Clearly I was late to the Momofuku noodle dance, but I really don't mind, the noodles are delicious and tender as ever (and I'm not one to wait on lines for food, or bread for that matter). As a child raised on Ramen (by choice, not a budgetary concern), Momofuku is a little taste of childhood, but all grown and sexy (yes noodles can be sexy if done to this level of perfection).

Lunch seems to be the move, as you can just walk-in (long Dinner-time lines are stat quo). A feast of delectable pork buns and noodles for days awaited us, and they did NOT disappoint. David Chang's career can likely go nowhere but onward and up, now expanding his noodle dynasty to bigger and better locales across New York and likely elsewhere. Chang even has the "keys to the bakery," (word is, his cookies are the best in New York, though I won't short sell Kathleen King just yet, and shall leave that debate to another time and place. For now, step your noodle game up, Nissin Ramen is for broke college kids, Momofuku is for the distinguishing noodle connoisseur, I'm goin' in....

Don't Sleep on the Pigeon...

They're EVERYWHERE...

Spring in New York City, Get Your Roll On...

Once the City thaws-out from a brutal winter season (maybe the worst in memory, if you count all the rain), it's time to ride-out. Instead of riding dirty in my vintage diesel-fueled Mercedes, I'm out riding bikes, making memories and exploring this vast city. While the rest of the country is drowning in empty buildings and foul leases, NYC seemed to be steeping-up its game. Case in Point: Wards Island used to be no-man's land, a dust-bowl armpit off the coast of east Manhattan. Now, It's all cleaned up, with a circumfrential bike-path and fields of actual green grass - still the site of a rather gnarly coo-coo facility, but a cool respite from "dreary old Manhattan," nonetheless...

Doing Big Things in Twenty-Ten (or Dying to Try)...

Bigger than the Burj Dubai? Maybe in spirit, or consequence, but never in scale. I'm trying to pop-off like these two gnarly knuckleheads, and hijack me some glory. Peep the video of a two 'Wild Euros' base-jumping off the newly appointed (and barely afforded) Burj Dubai - I mean, Burj Khalifa (a hat-tip to Uncle Emirate for the hand-out). As for the building, it seems a testament to 'Balling Outrageous' - although an obvious overcompensation in many regards. Here's to doing it big no matter what the consequence...

The REAL STORY of The TIGER WOODS AFFAIR

Tiger may have the purest swing in the game of Golf, but his Sweedish wife is definitely handy with a 7-Iron. Gotta love the Chinese for this on-the-spot animation of the affair, maybe TMZ will follow suit and start doing hypothetical
re-enactments.

Taking it Back to "Looseyville" with Machine and the Fat Jew

So I've have been keeping a low profile, trying to build up my Chi and center my gravity, (or is it vice versa?). Had to take a hot second to shout out my brethren of the Facelift gang on this homage to the Upper West Side in the roaring nineties, when the city still had some cajones (r.i.p. Dinkins era insanity). Check out this track off Machine's (Team Facelift) "The Jones Beach Mixtape" - available now



For all other matters of the Facelift Gang (duck down)

KING KHAN & The Shrines :: Soul Powered Insanity with German Precision

A King Khan & the Shrines show is a sensory blitzkrieg , a multi-layered explosion of R&B infused insanity and if you aren't privy to the party yet, peep this throw'd-back video for "Land of the Freak" off their album, What Is?! (vice) ...



King Khan and the Shines play an updated brand of soul-powered rock 'n soul reminiscent of MC5, or more recently the Dirtbombs, but with a German horn section that could keep Ike Turner guessing. Soul music for the modern era maniac - a King singing about the fringe benefits of a Sex n Drugs lifestyle, Welfare Bread, and of course, Trannies - seriously, who doesn't wanna hear a call and response song about an incident with a Tranny - something Khan himself was relatively proud of when i asked him about the song after a show at South-by.

King Khan will be making his rounds this summer along with his band of radical (bundt party) Germans and their glitter-girl cheerleader who shakes her zoftig stuff all show long. Seriously, if you have a chance to see them live DO IT - you will not be disappointed...

Galifianakis vs Portman/ Between 2 Ferns :: Funny Yes, Die Yes...

Between Two Ferns With Zach Galifianakis from Between Two Ferns

I have always loved Galifiakinakis's dead-pan idiocy, and his series of absurd (and often Obscene) Between Two Ferns interview's are a fine form of of viral entertainment. He really puts the screws to Natalie Portman, as she seems genuinely stunned. Make sure you wait for his closing question, I assume that's the point at which a handler of some affect intervened and pulled Portman away from her unbeknownst stupor. Or, the whole thing is a set-up, but somehow that doesn't seem in keeping with Zach G's comedy stee. Well played Sir...

Poverty Funds Piracy in Somalia, Just ask K'naan

K'naan's star has been shining for a while, and with all the press he's been getting its likely we will see him become a more compelling version of a Wyclef character, outspoken but down to earth. He never signed-up to be the only public representative of his native Somalia (and more recently Toronto), but really who would want such a job. But he definitely sheds some light on how desperation andf hunger in a lawless land coule easily lead to the outbreak of piracy in the Somali region - check out this K'naan "Somalia" video...


good looks to Dutty Artz, where i pinched this vid - and to K'naan, the only music crusader i can sign-off on, the dude is deep, but not a preacher. Take notes all you backpacking chatter-boxes with too many causes.

What you know about that Brown Brown?