Was not a fan of Sarah during that season at all but she currently owns and operates the popular Monteverde in Chicago's immensely popular West Loop neighborhood.

It's not necessary to sharpen your knives prior to each use and is quite impractical to do so. Even if you cook frequently, having your knives professionally sharpened 1-2 times per year should be plenty. However, you should use a honing steel (the cylindrical rough piece of steel that comes with knife sets that no…

I think making the protagonist a space janitor would give the idea legs.

Josh Modell interviewing Isaac Brock in 2004. http://www.avclub.com/artic… I remember reading it in the print edition of the Onion. Not super profound, but it changed the way I thought about bands "selling out" when I was a dumb college kid.

Some people aren't too into the vocals, but I think Britt has the right amount of marbles-in-the-mouth sneer. I was initially drawn to Spoon because they have this Motown approach of instrumentation and songwriting that's filtered through early Costello New Wave while still sounding relevant and modern.

This record is a solid A for me. Love at first spin. Highlights are for me "Rainy Taxi" and "Outlier" although "Do You" is fuckin great.

He's black, NBC. Very proud, like peacocks. Right, Janet?

I really enjoyed that one. There is a great live DVD of that tour available. They bring out a bunch of horn players to play charts Toussaint wrote,—even on some old tunes. I remember really liking the version of Clown Strike updated with horns.

He recorded them with Jimbo Mathis at the time. Tracklist of the 10" is:

In some ways I prefer the Clarksdale Sessions companion 10" Costello did on the side while recording the Delivery Man. So good. I think they are listed as bonus tracks on Spotify's version if you've never heard it before.

Maybe he's trying to pull a Robert Jordan.