Dirt Quake

Right from it’s awesome start, this video makes you want to kick over your chopper and hammer it left over the flat-track track. It really takes off when the snowmobiles come out at 1:40. Gee, if only I could join the ‘kitchen sink’ category. As they put it theirselves: ‘Dirt Quake is for bikes no other race will have.’

This video starts hilariously, and finishes with a classic bike riding shot. Hang around for it.

More info on Dirt Quake, already on it’s third edition: http://www.sideburnmagazine.com/DIRT_QUAKE_3.html 

 

 

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The Meufflers :: Nanas passionnées par les motos de caractère

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Ottolenghi :: Plenty

Butterbeans :: Greenery

Yotham Ottolenghi is an Israeli born author and chef, with his restaurant named after him, who is based in London. His cooking style is firmly influenced by his Israeli background, but most certainly not limited to it. It’s fresh, it’s bold and it is loud. His “Jerusalem’ and “Plenty” are possibly the most exciting and inspiring recent cookbooks. And also, he is vegetarian, which strangely took a while for me to realise.

His style has greatly inspired me, and it fits in very fine with the Steroid Recipes I like to propel on this website. Legumes, fresh, green, nuts, berries, herbs, homecooked, simple, etcetera. This butterbeans recipe inspired by Yotham and is straight forward. Fry the beans, add spring onions at the end of the frying time. Off the fire add herbs (whatever you like), and some sumac is fine too. That’s it, you can choose some poached eggs on the side, fried carrots could go well too.

An other consequence I found of cooking like Ottolenghi is that I end up with some simple vegetable side dishes at the evening meal. Simple is the key word here. I am not certain whether that was intended by Yotham, but it just happened to me. This is a nice similarity with the new Nordic Diet, although I won’t be using this segue in this post.

Finally as a side, Yotham is a bit of a dishy lad too. Incidentally, also gay and a father. It’s worth reading his article in the Guardian in which he describes the long road gay and lesbian couples have to walk to become a family. A walk for which support should be given, when you can.

Peugeot 103 :: 49cc of moped power

These little engines came with a handsome little reed valve, making them exceptionally easy go fast. 49cc fast, of course.

Mind you, it wasn’t only this what made them popular with French moped hoodlums.

Let’s make Sandwiches :: I know you want to do it

Bankrupt bare bone thumper. That’s it. Hard banging mash, the Detroit way.

The Detroit Grand Pubahs bounced into aural space in 2000 with what remains their biggest hit: Sandwiches. Check out the clip below, preferably with volume at 11. It’s spacy and trippy! Drum machine, bass and weird out dance vocals.

Also listen to their single Big Onion, from the ominously called vinyl long play record: Galactic Ass Creatures From Mars. Don’t do an image search if you’re reading this at work. Don’t. This song is such naked stomper filled with weird synth recorder and wobble board sounds. Ooh yeah, shake that big onion.

Paris the Black Fu and The Mysterious Mr O., we are not worthy.

Check them out.

He’s so bad :: He makes medicine sick!

Dapper man

There are plenty of fighters, fewer boxers and only one Ali.

Have you seen ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ – the documentary about the Ali-Foreman fight in Zaire in 1974? You should. We know the outcome of the fight, yet it remains a mystery until the end. Not only is it placed in time superbly, 1970’s beyond blaxploitation black soul extravaganza, it paints a beautiful picture of the poetry writing motormouth.

We all want be more like Ali, compassionate, able to take punishment, poet and wisecracking verbalist. ‘I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.’

Are you a boxer? Do you fight? Have you faced anyone in a ring?

Punishing Fist