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I had an enjoyable lunch with a friend at Saffron Cafe today. Ambiance was lovely, service was great and the food was even better. They definitely had some kinks to work out due to the overwhelming business they had over the grand-opening-weekend,...
So how was it? :)
Kelley - definitely looking forward to your report. Take photos, too!
I'm going for lunch today! I have been much anticipating this opening since I drive by it every morning. I'll report back.
Seeing the sign again today, the opening and 50% off is actually the 24-26th.
Yay, it's open! Looks like it's been pretty busy, too. I drive by every day on my way to work, and they are indeed advertising a 50% off weekend. I'll be there!!!! Curiousity has been getting the best of me for weeks.....
Just saw the sign driving by the Saffron Cafe this morning. It looks to be opening this Friday and will be having a 50% off promotion 23-25th.
Profile Information
- Where I Live:
- Student Ghetto
- About Me:
- Archaeologist, cartographer, GISer, cyclist, perennial grad student. Burque-born and raised, but spent time in the Bay Area, Oregon, and Tucson (it IS worse than ABQ) before returning home to live with my sweetie.
- Favorite Thing(s) About Albuquerque:
- Too many things to list economically, from posole at Barelas Coffee House to pizza at Golden Crown to hiking in the Sandias to the KiMo and El Rey to Nob Hill to the SE Heights to Old Town to the Bosque to...see, I told you.
- Relationship Status:
- In a Relationship
- What I'm Reading:
- The Good Fairies of New York. Couch: a Novel by Ben Parzybok. Jaime Hernandez. Ancestral Pueblo Landscapes, by James E. Snead. Peter Whiteley. Robert Preucel. Geomorphology. The Baffler.
- What I'm Listening To:
- Elf Power, Billy Bragg, The New Year, Pavement, Guided by Voices, Seam. Band of Horses.
Comment Wall (44 comments)
- At 10:15pm on November 17, 2007,
chantal said… - It's indecent how excited I am to see Phil_O in the house. Welcome!!
Have a look around. We hope you dig it. Here's some info that might help describe how it works.
- At 12:25pm on November 19, 2007,
hettie said…
- hey,
what's the name of that ny style deli up in the heights, around mont./juan tabo?
- At 1:32pm on January 11, 2008,
Adelita said… - Glad you joined Born in Burque! It should be fun!
- At 2:38pm on January 21, 2008,
dick said… - I compare Billy to Paul McCartney not because of the instrument he plays but the fact that bill wrote most of the songs and lyrics for descendants, all, and only crime, with heavy influence on black flags songwriting (alot of the stuff was written as a collaborative between greg, bill and kira- and not just greg) Those songs that were written by bill- most notably the stuff from milo goes to college became the quintessential prototype for the modern pop punk song all the way up to (gag) good charlotte and that whole crowd of crap bands. I once heard a musician say that Paul M was the most influential rock songwriter in history and thought to myself that if that is true then bill must be the most influential punk rock songwriter because of the pop punk sound he created. I know all of this not because I am in love with the guy- he is actually an asshole for the most part, but good to his friends- but because I have been good friends with the band and especially bill since the mid eighties when he lived with me at my house down at Los Tomases & Mountain. Karl Alvarez is more like Ringo Starr in personality, songwriting and fame. one side note GIs song "Notch To My Crotch" is rumored to be written about Bill S. cheers
- At 6:33pm on January 21, 2008,
dick said…
- check out Only Crime, they put out their second album- hold on jeopardy is on-just recently but you can hear in bills drum work where the heavy drum rolls in Black Flags songs came from. as far as milo goes to college the pop songs like myage were done by bill kabuki girl was written by either milo or tony, but milo wasnt really good with writing the pop songs, he wrote stuff like no fat beaver from i dont wanna grow up. I barely knew milo though I met the guys at the end of Decendants All album, and yeah Milo did go back to college (he really did go to college in the first place) to work on his PHD in super crazy biochemistry or something like that, last I heard he his own research lab at SDSU and is tenured. when they did the "reunion" he was on sabbatical and All had signed to Interscope so they had tons of money and credit cards and all that stuff- they sued Interscope got out of the contract and built The Blasting Room in Fort Collins, and Descendants did a "reunion" tour. I always didnt hate All but they didnt do anything for me but neither did anything Descendants did except for Milo and All albums, I was just friends with them. what is funny though is in the 90s I loved Big Drill Car and then lost all recordings of them for what is now about 13 years, so I looked them up on youtube and, damn, they sucked, just goes to show how limited your own tastes can be at different times in your life
- At 5:54pm on January 23, 2008,
dick said…
- its funny, Albuquerque never liked All. I saw shows with 25 people at the Sunshine and they played their first ever over 21 only show at The Dingo bar because they couldn't get booked anywhere else, all these kids showed up and couldn't figure out why they couldn't get in, so All turned their instruments around and played to the kids outside. I used to ask them why they insisted on coming here when they couldn't get crowds and they would say something stupid like "cause it's ALLbuquerque". I eventually found out the truth and it was because their egos wouldn't let themaccept that they were beaten by such a little town. Only Crime is a guy from Bane (and I think he was in Gwar for a while , too) on guitar, Bill S., Russ and his brother from Good Riddance- vocals and bass respectively and I forget who the other guitarist is from. When I talked to Bill last about a year ad a half ago he was totally happy with what was going on, he said that he was not trying to write the perfect pop song anymore and going back to writing songs that he actually liked to here. at he same time he had just produced Rise Against's last albuw that went to billboards top ten and him either Karl or Stefan worked with Evan Dando on the last Lemonheads album- and the producer on that chose the two songs he wrote for the first hit songs. So there is a lesson here- Quit trying to please others and please yourself, or whatever. check out only crime http://www.onlycrime.com/oc.html its some of the best new punk rock I've heard in a long time, a good mix of old school and new school with oiut sounding tired. Also, the song that starts up when you open the site the intro was ripped off from SLip It In
- At 9:20pm on January 27, 2008,
dick said…
- yeah, Only Crime tours, just not solid cause they all got other projects- I think the guy from Bane still plays with them and Bill runs The Blasting Room, which, freakishly has turned Fort Collins into a sort of punk rock center of the universe, with all the bands that record there. They will actually let anyone record there, just got to fit into the schedule. check your liner notes a lot of the Fat Wrechords (yaaawwnnn) is recorded there. I went to a couple of Good Riddance shows at the launchpad but never saw them. the best part and worst part about the launchpad is you don't have to be annoyed by a bad band, you can just sit at the bar and ignore them but you can also miss a good band by sitting at the bar. Russ is probably one of the coolest Punk Rockstars I have ever met, totally humble and down to earth, he doesn't even realize just how huge he is in his own scene.
As far as shit i listen to nowadays, I have fallen into the habit of drinking by myself than youtubing bands who's albums I've lost long ago like The Rubber City Rebels (I found out they got back together to do a soundtrack; also they do a great cover of Fleetwwod Macs "Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight" Straw Dogs did a great cover also on their last album they released which is impossible to find) and The Suicide Commandos from Minneapolis, then I look up European soccer hooligan riots and then pass out.
I go through Hardcore burn out/ bummed out phases where I just listen to classical or R & B which is where I am at right now. One of my best friends is a tour manager and he's always bringing me stuff that he has found out on the road, like D.O.A.s Triumph of the Ignaroids- signed by Joey Shithead himself. He also picked me up a copy of Tesco Vees Hate Police 45 and Dutch Hercules, (if your from the bay area or lived there then, at least in the 80s, Tesco was Satan in the MRR crowd ( My best girlfriend worked for Mordam Records for 12 years- theres some stories.) Most recently he picked me up a CD of MIA's complete discography which include their first release which was a split whith a band called Genocide. But, over Christmas he picked me up something that made me cream when he told me about it then I came when I got it and fell into a two day long euphoria, he found me the complete discography of Willful Neglect on CD. Now, see, Buck (his road name, you probably know him) lost three boxes of my albums and cd's when I was DJ'ing at The Moonlight Lounge about 7 years ago, some of which were irreplacable even with file sharing (like Fear doing Hoochie Coochie Man and Hank Williams Was Queer 45/ B-side Fuck Christmas) But my only surviving Willful Neglect was in there and it was gone forever, 500 pressing, only sold on tourin 83. So, these guys were my favorite band in high school, and I lost my only cassette recording of their 2nd album back around 85. So here I am with having lost some of the rarest punk rock on earth and I get to listen to it again, and damned if I didn't know all the lyrics, even the stuff I hadn't heard since 85. AOF re-released all their stuff on CD (another of my favorite bands from high school, and I lost all their stuff too, but that was all my fault) I pull that out when I'm feeling it. Vic Bondi was and is one of my hardcore heroes if you want the absolute best treatise on the Hardcore Movement go to http://vicbondi.com/ -Vic rules. (funny side note: he did a side project with the guys from Rage Against The Whatever and they did a couple songs, one was called Enola Gay, it is the same song/ different lyrics as Cochise by whoever they became, the song is on the website, seriously, check it out). But mostly, nowadays, when I throw a record on it's gonna be 70s punk rock, pre-hardcore. Back in the hardcore days, 81-85, I had no respect for the 70s punk rock scene because it was the general sentiment of the hardcore movement that the bands of the 70s, whether the Germs, Buzzcocks, The Clash, The Damned, all those bands,sold out punk rock, we considered them to be the bands that sold out and killed the punk rock movement and made Rolling Stone say "Punk Is Dead" (which caused The Exploiteds Punks Not Dead song), which could have been true but the death of "punk rock" lead to the hardcore movement which re-inspired the DIY movement. and we wouldn't be where we are today without the hardcore movement. So, anyway, alot of Damned, Clash, Iggy, Bowie ( I picked up his first album a while back, it's crazy "Life on Mars" was written in 71) all the stuff I refused to listen to when I was younger. The only cool thing about age is learning tolerance, because some of this shit rules, like Damned "Jet Boy, Jet Girl." Also check out Trousermouth, from Canada, with SNFUs original drummer, great hardcore in the old Canadian tradition, and Unknown Instructors- Mike Watt and George Hurley at it again. A couple of tracks have the singer from Saccharine Trust and it sounds like the two good songs that Saccharine Trust recorded. One last thing that I found the other night when I was drunk, if you're a Paul Westerberg or Replacements fan check this out http://main.losthighwayrecords.com/product.aspx?ob=disc&src=art&pid=1708
Sorry I don't know how to direct link yet, but Paul did the soundtrack for the new movie Strange Wilderness, if you're into Replacements some of the stuff is like late 80s Replacements, ya know, the stuff everyone hated, and one song is old solo stuff. anyway thats it, hope I didn't get too long winded.
- At 11:38am on January 29, 2008,
dick said…
- Do you know anything about 96.9FM I think its a new pirate radio station. I've heard a bunch of punk rock on it, yesterday I was listening to VooDoo Glow Skulls, on it- then they did poetry and a speech by Hugo Chavez I think. check it out and if you find any info let me know
- At 3:31pm on January 29, 2008,
dick said…
- I knew a couple of Chucks but not real familiar with their last names anymore. was he the one heavy german feature with a real strong jawbone, or the heavy set one, I don't think thats the name of the one that dated Becky B. back in the day. So if we really have pirate radio we need to get the word out!!
- At 12:00am on January 30, 2008,
dick said…
- yeah, if thats the right Chuck I knew him okay, just from the scene, though not personally. I had party houses from 86-95 with the hey-day being 89-93, I knew almost everybody by face, I mean it's hard to know everyone when there is constantly 30 people at your house... constantly. But Chuck was more regular and dated some friends of mine so I knew him a little better, the last time I saw him was Agent Orange at The Golden West about two years ago. Just like everyone I run into from the old days we say hello, ask whats been going on, and then talk about how busy with life we are, then go our own ways. Damn, when I think of the party house days, it wasn't so lame- get drunk try, to find a girl, find some drugs, try to find a girl again, get in a fight or break up a fight, then find a girl and the nights over. I hope I'm not sounding like a Bryan Adams song.
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