All Things Chill

Summer finally started here in Chicago. FINALLY TIME TO BBQ! On a lighter note, I made some crepes yesterday using Alton Brown’s recipe. I made two batches:

1. Sun-dried tomato crepes filled with spinach, diced ham, finely grated parmesean cheese topped with a creamy lemon hollandaise sauce.
2. Vanilla kissed crepes with [...]

Latest offering from Black Eyed Peas: Monkey Business. Yeah, yeah I know. They’ve fallen off the coolness radar for a while… but this track is too damn good to pass up. Efforts by Cee-lo, John Legend, Talib Kweli ANNNNDDDD Q-Tip make the already relaxed beat worth being on repeat on a long [...]

Brand spankin’ new unannounced deep house mixsets by Special*Dark (me) available here. Direct downloads can be found below (To download, right click and select “Save Target As…”). DEEEEEEEP!
With Friends Like This Who Needs Special*Dark Mixset - 05.26.2005 - 70.9MB | 1 Hour 17 Minutes
Alive & Well with Special*Dark - 05.27.2005 - 96.3MB [...]

Wow. It’s been a while. I can’t believe I left that ‘pork chop’ post up for so long. That was supposed to be a ‘throw away post’ to be followed by another fun cool she-bangs she-bangs post about something amazing going on in my life. Too many things to really get [...]

Eating pork chops @ 12AM with a pot of freshly made rice with your hands is quite possibly the most hedonistic and self-indulging act EVER. And I’d still be sitting @ the table if I didn’t run out of rice!
Delicious.
~Spec

New camera phone album on Flickr here. Contents? National Restaurant Association (the OTHER NRA) Show @ McCormick Place, a quick stop over @ Loyola and then an all expense paid (read: free) trip for two to a little hideaway beach in Chicago. Not much else to say but…
I’m happy.
~Spec

I finally have all the essential of my stuff (computer / audio equipment) setup in my new place. It drives me CRAZY when I have that ‘not-quite-completely-setup’ feeling in the back of my mind. Gel came by and I dusted off some old burned games and I popped in the Japanese version of [...]

Sunday marks the last day of KKJZ’s Spring Drive to raise money for their yearly operating budget. Originally found on iTunes, it’s been what I’ve been listening to the past couple months to reboot myself for the big move of ‘05. Click here to give a listen to the chillest jazz from California [...]

The the ‘Tears’ story arch ended with this episode. I think they wrapped everything up pretty well. I wish things ended differently, but this way, there’s a little more room to open the story up more for character development and random ass fighting.
|| Spoiler ||
Sasuke went to the darkside, but it’s [...]

No more chair surfing. No more talkin’ trash about Judy (whoops!). No more lunches @ the Pizza Hut across the street. No more 2 minute office commute. No more friendly conversations with the facility management employees. No more catered meetings. No more customized vending machine requests. No more [...]

With all of this StarBoreWars hype goin’ ’round, I just wanted to remind some of you that you once claimed Star Trek (TNG for me) as your #1 Sci-Fi phixx. Remember… the Enterprise-D was first to $bling$ it out with the Dilithium ICE. Don’t forget your geeky roots!
Tea. Earl Grey. Hawt.
~Spec

E3 Happenings. 1up.com has the XBOX 360 Dead or Alive 4 Exclusive Uncut Trailer available for download. It’s around 5 mins and get this… 470MB!!! If you have a box that can run this monster video clip, watch it for the resolution’s sake. It’s quite beautiful. Also, click on the [...]

I put in my two weeks last Tuesday @ werk. My last day is this Friday. I move out of my apartment Sunday. I have no idea what I’ll be doing. Everything I own is packed away in cardboard boxes. I have plans, job offers and a couple places to [...]