A French Singer and My Love for Puppets

Yelle. She's French. Sassy. Wears great clothes. Her videos are aesthetically pleasing. I like her. My musical taste is quite eclectic so expect music posts that are all over the place. 

Kanye has his new video out for "Champion" which is hilarious, mainly because I love puppets. I dont know why but I really think they are hilarious. I really am a little kid...its weird. 

I know There Are More Important Things to Contemplate

Samron and Lohan. I dont really know what to make of it, but its everywhere. Do I like them? Yes, Yes I do. DO i think theyre together? I have no idea. I have a few thoughts and theories. 

If they are together, just fucking say you are already, its just makes them look like douche's/jerks, not to mention middle school kids who are trying to be obnoxious on purpose. It gets old fast. 

Part of me thinks they arent together, honestly if I couldnt hold hands or touch my said girlfriend at all in public that would drive me insane and Id be like fuck it already to be overly conscious of it like these two. They NEVER touch each other. 

I noticed something the other day that threw me off, Sam's nails. SHE HAS NAILS?! In terms of gender and sexual representation trust me im all over it, but with her giving off such a masculine image, i was really surprised to see long nails on her. Not to mention in "other departments" that would NOT be good looks. Interestingly, in the same pictures that brought this to my attention, Lohan doesnt really seem to have nails....I hope you are catching my drift, if not you dont deserve to know what im talking about. 

Im not saying that if you are masculine you shouldnt have nails, but it is rare. A friend mentioned that maybe Samron is putting up a front as well, shes not this "butch" the media and her seem to put out there. But it does help conveniently with creating the allusion that her and the "girly" Lohan are together, the whole butch/femme dynamic. I dont know if they are together but im really starting to think not. The elusivness of it all has brought them both alot of attention, im sure its not hurting Sam's amount of gigs as a DJ. It terms of Sam's "butchness" it could be very genuine, she has always sort of been that way and then she has those tattooed stars on the back of her arm, which back in the day was a way for other queers to know you were too. 

But if they are together Id welcome it for sure, I like them. Sometimes they look genuinely happy to be together. And deep down, I'd like it if they were. 

New Flicks

As we all know I am a movie fanatic, they are what I live for. I always look towards the fall for films, not so much the whole summer blockbuster thing necessarily. I did however see the Dark Knight and it was awesome as reviewed and expected. I look to movies at all times for "still images", scenes that look like they would make perfect photographs. There were a fair amount of good scenes in this movie for that. Im always looking out for what's coming up though on a daily basis. I definitely need to do some more research but for now here are a few movies im looking forward to.

 "Knowing", I have never been a huge Nicolas Cage fan, but this one looks pretty good and i have usually enjoyed him in the "National Treasure" series. It seems a little M. Night Shamylan-esque. In this film, back in the 60's school children were asked to draw their predictions for the future and 50 years later they will be revealed from a time capsule. Things get weird when one of the papers is covered in number, which Cage figures out to have predicted all disasters in the last 50 years. He is now at a point where he can see whats going to happen in the future. The big question is...what happens when the numbers run out? This one goes out to Phillip Noel in the spirit of 2012.

"Towelhead" has such an abrasive title, but it looks really good, funny yet super intense about coming of age in the states and trying to deal with heritage and overbearing parents. 

Im looking forward to "Death Race" for its explosions, the sounds of guns and other gratuitous violence, I have yet to see the original but this just looks fun. 

"Dorothy" is an upcoming horror film based in Ireland but subtitled in french. The movie follows a psychiatrist that is just getting over the accidental death of her son when she is sent to an Irish island to help a 15 year old girl. The girl is accused of attempting to murder a baby that she is caring for, at first she is diagnosed with multiple personality disorder but once she speaks to the doctor is her dead sons voice, the doctor is forced to realize there is a larger power at hand here. 

I Return

Ive been gone forever and decided after being inspired by other blogs today and the fact that one can only put up so many facebook photo albums, that it was time to blog again.

From this point on look forward to updatees and reviews on movies, music, new york (sometimes dallas and other cities) food offerings, and all around awesomeness.

I start the day off with a trip to New York's lower east side renowed Doughnut Plant. I have seen the food network battles with owner and Bobby Flay. I have seen it on the discovery channel, vogue, regis and kelly. it was time to finally pay a visit, so around 7:30 this morning i was off. It was a pretty long trek considering the JMZ is the worse train ever, overall i think it took me over an hour there and back.

The Doughnut Plant is known for its homemade, made on the premises gourmet doughnuts, with extremely unique and seasonal flavors, like Rose Water which is a rose glazed doughnut topped with rose petals, as well as this summers Sunflower doughnut sampled by a friend sometime last month. They carry cake and yeast doughnuts.


Today they also had some blueberry lemonade which was really good and perfect for the humid adventure back home.

I basically gauarded the box with my life, i knew with my luck i would trip and drop the whole thing, but luckily i didnt and made it back to finally try the awesomeness. Before I start I would like to assure everyone that i did NOT eat all of these by myself, i cut them into pieces and shared with the roommates as well as save some for later, do not be alarmed.

First we have one of their most popular flavors "Tres Leches". It had been intended originally as a limited flavor only to be made around Cinco De Mayo weekend, but after much request it has made its way onto the menu permanentley. The doughnut is made with a traditional Mexican recipe by soaking butter cake in three different types of milk – evaporated, condensed, and whole milk or cream. The center also had a cream filling and with the pastry itself being so moist, it has almost hard to tell the difference when chewing. The outer glaze was perefect and not too sweet by any means.


The "Chocolate Cake" is the only one i was already familiar with, because it is carried by a favorite coffee shop Joes. I went through a phase of getting one of these once a week when opening the school lab for work. It's an amazing soft chocolate cake doughnut covered in chocolate. Its only fault is the grease factor, it never fails to soak through the paper bag in minutes and onto whatever the bag is on. but its a doughnut so i guess it is to be expected.

Next one is the "Valrohona Chocolate", nothing super exciting going on here, its of the yeast variety, not super greasy or dry. i was surprised for it to be like a regular doughnut in the center though, I had anticipated it to be chocolate for some reason.

Only in the last year or two have i been remotely interested in jelly doughnuts, i have had a few good ones but usually theres too much doughnut and not enough jelly. That was not the case with the "Vanilla Bean Glazed Blackberry Jam Filled", the jam is made at the plant as well. This i have heard is the only place that has a square jelly doughnut with a hole in the center that still has jam throughout the entire thing and a perfectly intact center. This one was one of my favorites, the jam was perfect.

I didnt expect the "Blackout" doughnut to be much different than the chocolate cake one, in taste it wasnt, until i noticed there was a chocolate cream filling, which added a little to it as well as the cake crumbs on top.

Lastly I had the only seasonal doughnut they had for the moment which was a "White Peach" yeast doughnut. I wasnt sure what to expect from it but was pleasantly surprised to really enjoy it. It was a simple donut with a glaze made with white peaches, with a few bits of the fruit on top. nice and summer'y and extremely fragrant.

I have recently started working at Gorilla Coffee in Brooklyn's Park Slope and im in the process of furthering my barista training. I do not drink coffee on a regular basis but I am a huge fan of making it. My roommate has and always will be a coffee fanatic and exposed me to Vietnamese coffee recently. You get to make it in these neat little metal things over your cup, think of it as a mini french press sort of. The bottom of the inside has tiny holes, you spoon in spoonful of ground coffee then screw a little press onto the top then pour in hot water and cover and let it filter through into your cup. After you add some condensed milk for sweetness, it was good stuff overall. 

Later on today or early tomorrow I will return with current movie reviews and upcoming films to lookout for along with their trailers.