The Home Sick Play List

dentonmd — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:41:43 +0000

A few nights ago Dre and I had many drinks at a bar in Amsterdam with my cousins. The location was great and the DJ was spinning a wide range of music. The music was decent, but after a few tracks I started missing my own iTunes library. So this morning Andrea and I put on some home brewed play lists and got back into the NYC groove a bit. Our “Homesick Playlist” includes many genre’s many sources and two different influences that merge to give us a few hours of memories from home, and some people we miss so much.

More than a few months back, Tom Fletcher answered my desperate plea for musical enlightenment. When Dre and I first started dating, I was indie rock ignorant. Other than the few bands that came across my Pandora, I was unable to hold a musical conversation with Andrea and her friends. (Specifically Schwa) Tom provided me with a proverbial sample platter of bands new in old in many genre’s. Most of these songs are on the HSPL, but some of our favs are below.

Arctic Monkeys

From the vast expanse that is Andrea’s music collection, she has introduced me to the below additions to the ever growing HSPL. Additionally, she has agreed to “pay forward” the Fletcher favor and burn some music for Esmeralda (my dutch cousin). A link to this playlist is coming soon.

Bright Eyes (Conor Oberst)

My 1990’s additions include…

Cake

Soul Coughing

Gluten Free Blueberry Muffins

admin — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:46:52 +0000

As you’ll come to find out, we DO NOT like being stuck in our cubes (cranking out work for the man) so in an effort to distract ourselves from the hell that is Monday in our office, we used our lunch hour to take the cable box back to Time Warner; a perfect excuse to be out on a sunny Monday afternoon.

We’ve recently decided to cancel cable in an effort to save $65 per month which equals 45 Euros or 2 bottles of wine.

Since we were half way downtown, we decided to stroll through the Union Square Greenmarket and grab salad ingredients for lunch. From almost 60 yards away, Ninja Ki spotted fresh blueberries and tonight, she prepared another amazing gluten free desert!

She has become a master of substituting wheat-free flour for the gluten-filled kind. She adapted this recipe and made some of the tastiest muffins I have ever had.

Three cheers for Ninja Ki!

The best part is there are left overs for breakfast, YEAH MUFFINS!

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The Home Sick Play List

Gluten Free Blueberry Muffins