holy fuck am i going to regret this thread and everything in it in about four, five hours

Wow, this is long. It's been sitting here all day. I added to it it bits and pieces.

Anyway.

On ribs:

Earlier, I wrote:I am making ribs for several people. I could barely squeeze 6 trimmed racks on my Green Egg.

I'm doing the tips and bits on the Weber.

The Weber is just much more primitive and rustic than the Egg. As a result, I'm done with some of the tips and bits already, after only 3hrs, and I've got a good 3hrs to go on the proper ribs.

But. The tips and bits from the Weber, which I have sampled, are awesome.

The tips and bits were awesome.

The regular slabs were NOT. Cooked for 6.5hrs at 230 like usual, they didn't take off.

The stuff cooked on a Weber in half the time killed the stuff cooked on the Big Green Egg.

I got pissed off at the slabs, heated up the Egg to about 450, and punished the errant slabs for 15min or so.

They woke up! They were about three times as good.

Then, last night, my friend Andrew, who was privy to all this stuff, cooked some random baby backs at 400 for about 2hrs, over essentially direct heat (just off-axis from the heart of the flames).

They were great.

I think this slow-cooking mumbo jumbo for ribs might be total nonsense. It's caveman cooking. High heat seems to work great if you are vigilant, move the ribs around so they don't get too charred, etc.

Very interesting to those of us who are totally into ribs.

What do you do for a living?

I work at a proprietary trading firm. I do computer coding, logic flows, trade setup, and market analysis geared towards shorter-term trading.

Have you ever tried to make your own BBQ sauce? (this is a general BBQ question...not just ribs). Any advice?

I probably have, and it probably wasn't very good. I don't actually remember doing it, but I probably did it at some point.

You can go to Lem's at 311 E 75th and buy their incredible sauce by the gallon. That is what I do.

This sauce is fantastic. It's basically ketchup, vinegar, pineapple juice, hot sauce, lemon juice, and whatever powdered spices they put in it. No liquid smoke.

On a side note relating to the above, Lem's claims to cook their ribs at high heat for an hour and a half or so. I always thought maybe they were pulling people's legs by saying that. But after the last couple days of rib revelations, I think they were serious.

I've been on a real Pavement kick lately. Are you a fan?

Yes. I love the guys in the band--they are great guys, and a lot of fun to be around. I think they made some great music, and they could be excellent live. They could also be a total wreck at times, but even that came to them honestly.

They were not really an influence on Silkworm, a contention that was often made. I'd say we had a lot of the same records in our record collections; let's put it that way.

I also think that in spite of what the perception may be, they can actually play their instruments well enough, and may even be feigning ineptitude to a certain extent. Do you have an opinion on this?

Dr. Venkman wrote:I am not Tim, but

tmidgett wrote:
stephen is a natural musician, but i think he has worked pretty hard and steadily on his guitar playing

he is a proficient guitarist

pavement was always 'trying' twice as hard as anyone thought they were

for my money, _perfect sound forever_ is the best thing pavement ever did. _crooked rain_ is a close second, _slanted_ a close third, _watery_ right in there someplace. i like significant parts of all the rest, incl sm's solo albs.

they could be magical live, and they could be dreadful live. not boring that often, in my experience.

not crap

Although, maybe Tim has more thoughts he'd like to share. I apologize for butting in.

No, thanks. I wrote an answer that basically repeated all of that.

Feigning ineptitude, no. They were doing exactly what they wanted to do, whatever way they could do it.

They had an active distinterest in being prepared, something they held in common with, say, Palace (probably an awful lot of the Drag City roster, for that matter). And we might consider them the polar opposite of Bedhead in this regard.

I would say that Gary Young and Steve West, as maligned as they are in some circles, fit into that band in a peculiar way that more typically accomplished drummers would not have fit in.

The other guys were all very well matched to their roles in the band. That's not faint praise, b/c they were really good when they were hitting it.

I went on the treadmill at the gym saturday morning and broke my own personal record.
I use to run 15 or 16 minutes at 6.2 / 6.3 mph. This time I set the treadmill at 7 mph and did somehow 24 solid minutes.

I don't run, but that sounds pretty good to me.

I'm just wondering what would be a good way to balance out saving money and also, say, buying a little bit of music with every paycheck I receive. I was thinking that with each paycheck, I'd just limit myself to just one item. I don't buy that much music - and if I stop doing other stuff like buying food out, I think I'll be saving myself a lot this way. I was also thinking about maybe even ordering online when possible as opposed to driving to the nearest record store that'd have what i buy - which will, I think, save me gas since it's a 25 minute drive give-or-take both ways. How does this sound with you?

I would make a monthly budget, rather than paycheck by paycheck. Then when you spend your music budget for the month, tough shit--you can't buy anything else that month.

I'm not you, Tim, but maybe you read about it in this thread? That was what altered my shaving method forever...

Hey, that might have been it!

mr. arrison.

I am drunk now so bear with me.

OK.

Two friends of mine have been dating, and they have made the sexy kisses, and I have feelings for the lady in the relationship, BUT I have always repressed them like a good Catholic and a proper Canadian. Tonight I told her that I am not 100% comfortable with their relationship but that I will never be comfortable with it and the best option for them is to go with what they know makes them happy.

OK, sure. That passes for sharing when you're drunk.

Was this the right thing to do? Should I have waited until I was sober enough to remember names and events before saying this? It is a raw situation but hopefully it will make me hard enough to own Airwolf eventually.

Right thing, wrong thing. Who knows. If you were both drunk, it doesn't matter.

If the dude in the relationship is your bro, you are shit out of luck for now. I'd keep my mouth shut and let it run its course, if I were you. If they end up married and so forth, well, you waited too long, is the lesson there.

So the lesson, in any case, is don't wait to tell people these things.

a) They might die.

b) You might die.

c) They might move thousands of miles away to another place and then you're fucked.

d) They might end up with one of your friends, and you can't skeez on your friend's girlfriend, while she is his/her girlfriend.

My advice is:

Do not skeez while they are together. No more commentary to either of them on the substance of their relationship, your feelings for woman, etc. Even if drunk.

If they break up, don't be a pussy (or Catholic or Canadian), and tell her you are into her. I don't think too many people lie on their deathbeds thinking, "Shit, why was I so honest with those people I wanted to get with? What a terrible mistake it was to tell them I was into them."

P.S. I BOUGHT BOTTOMLESS PIT AND HAD A CONVERSATION ABOUT .22, SEAM AND SILKWORM WITH THE RECORD STORE OWNER AND IT WAS ONE OF THE WEIRDEST EXPERIENCES

It is weird that someone would know about all those bands in the first place, but someone behind the counter of a record store, your odds do go up a bit.

tmidgett wrote:

What do you do for a living?

I work at a proprietary trading firm. I do computer coding, logic flows, trade setup, and market analysis geared towards shorter-term trading.

Dear Tim,

It's none of my business (so feel free to ignore), but, do you like your job?

Dear Tim,

While in WA over the weekend a man saw my shirt, approached me and said, "Hey Silkworm! I was just showing my girlfriend Libertine on the way over this morning!" He was very enthusiastic but his girlfriend, not so much. Either way, I think these shirts still have a good reason for being worn.

Just thought you'd like to know.

Question: What size of Green Egg would you recommend for a couple at home who do occasional entertaining of larger groups?

OK, so, yeah.

It's none of my business (so feel free to ignore), but, do you like your job?

I love it. It's a great deal like playing poker, only the odds are much better.

While in WA over the weekend a man saw my shirt, approached me and said, "Hey Silkworm! I was just showing my girlfriend Libertine on the way over this morning!" He was very enthusiastic but his girlfriend, not so much. Either way, I think these shirts still have a good reason for being worn.

Emphasis mine. Common malady.

Bottomless Pit seems to be more palatable to women. Which is nice.

Those shirts are juuust about gone. It'll be weird when I don't have any more. Were you wearing the super-ancient, handmade one or the other one I sent?

Just thought you'd like to know.

Sure.

Question: What size of Green Egg would you recommend for a couple at home who do occasional entertaining of larger groups?

Large. The XL looks odd, and as I recall its greater price was not really born out in extra grill size. I think I figured I could get a large and a medium for the price of an XL? Or maybe it was two mediums.

tmidgett wrote:

While in WA over the weekend a man saw my shirt, approached me and said, "Hey Silkworm! I was just showing my girlfriend Libertine on the way over this morning!" He was very enthusiastic but his girlfriend, not so much. Either way, I think these shirts still have a good reason for being worn.

Emphasis mine. Common malady.

Why do you think the chicks didn't dig on Silkworm? I certainly did, but I do remember being one of very few XX'ers at your shows for a while.

Is it because you wrote songs about "boy" things?

burun wrote:

tmidgett wrote:

While in WA over the weekend a man saw my shirt, approached me and said, "Hey Silkworm! I was just showing my girlfriend Libertine on the way over this morning!" He was very enthusiastic but his girlfriend, not so much. Either way, I think these shirts still have a good reason for being worn.

Emphasis mine. Common malady.

Why do you think the chicks didn't dig on Silkworm? I certainly did, but I do remember being one of very few XX'ers at your shows for a while.

Is it because you wrote songs about "boy" things?

Did women not like Silkworm? My wife loves 'em.

Tim-You ever think Sony is going to do fancy reissues of Pangea and Agartha?

The shirt was the standard black one with red text, which is now adorning holes. The gentleman who noticed the shirt was Ben, who runs Ba Da Bing records.

I only know a handful of girls who like the band as well. Then again, if I used 'liking bands I like' as a dating criteria I would most certainly be a lonely man. 'Liking people I like' will still remain, however.

The large Egg sounds good to me. Canadian pricing for the medium is $699, $899 for the large, and $1150 or so for the XL.

tmidgett wrote:Bottomless Pit seems to be more palatable to women. Which is nice.

Struggling to make a rimjob joke about this, but failing.

tmidgett wrote:I don't think too many people lie on their deathbeds thinking, "Shit, why was I so honest with those people I wanted to get with? What a terrible mistake it was to tell them I was into them."

This and the earlier line, 'I'd rather be too much for someone else than not enough for myself' pretty much sum it up.

Thank you for this thread, Tim.