Me Against the Music

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// Las Vegas, NV

While waiting for Drew, Michelle, and Matt in the hotel lobby, I check Instagram and see this:

Shortly thereafter, they walk in.

Jon: Why aren't you wearing your shirt?
Drew: I'll put it on before the show.
Matt: He doesn't want to walk around—
Jon: Oh, that's right. You're the "bitch."

Couldn't…? No, Matt has to be "Britney," and Michelle shouldn't be the "bitch."

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35. Otis Blues (Twin Peaks, S03E15)

Stray Observations

  • ♫: ZZ Top – "Sharp Dressed Man" (Twin Peaks, S03E15)
  • ♫: The Veils – "Axolotl" (Twin Peaks, S03E15)
  • "Walking's good, fighting's better, fucking's best." (Game of Thrones, S07E06)
  • "Gingers are beautiful. We are kissed by fire." (Game of Thrones, S07E06)
  • Ice dragon (Game of Thrones, S07E06)
  • ♫: Leikeli47 – "Money" (Insecure, S02E05)
  • "Hotation." (Insecure, S02E05)
  • Trying to get out of jury duty with a Black Lives Matter shirt (Insecure, S02E05)
  • Walt and Rose from Lost (Insecure, S02E05)
  • "See, the thing is, I'm a DC guy." (Insecure, S02E05)
  • ♫: Jazmine Sullivan × Bryson Tiller – "Insecure" (Insecure, S02E05)
  • The Roosevelt (Insecure, S02E05)
  • ♫: Nick Hakim – "Needy Bees" (Insecure, S02E05)


Jeff Goldblum (Rick and Morty, S03E05)

  • "Is that a…hoof collage?" (Rick and Morty, S03E05)
  • "You have wondered what your life could have been without Rick?"
    "Wondered? Sure. I mean, I've wondered about having a vagina."
    […]
    "You're asking me to lure Rick to his death?"
    "I'm only asking you to go on a ride with Rick, get off the ride without Rick, and go home to your family, where you can…wonder about having a vagina."
    "Okay, okay, that was a very specific example pulled from thin air." (Rick and Morty, S03E05)
  • "Give that button a push."
    "Okay!"
    "We're freeeeee!"
    "Okay, so, I pushed the button, and three little men ran out. What do I do next?" (Rick and Morty, S03E05)
  • "Mama's coming, and she cares about your titties!" (Rick and Morty, S03E05)
  • "Go back to your quietly ashamed family and live out the rest of your days in denial of your vagina fantasies."
    "It was a one-time thought that everyone has!" (Rick and Morty, S03E05)
  • "Cosmic apotheosis wears off faster than salvia."
    "I'm starting to believe you, because I just finished merging with your essence for an endless epoch and I'm already back to thinking you're an asshole."
    "Fine with me. Let's just go our separate ways. Sounds like you and the word 'epoch' have a lot of catching up to do." (Rick and Morty, S03E05)
  • "I'm over here answering our destiny. Come on over. It's good, it's warm. It's like the inside of bread."
    "I'm not gonna get inside of bread with you." (The Tick, S01E01)
  • "Watch out! She shoots glass eyes." (The Tick, S01E02)
  • "You cannot borrow a poncho. This is not a poncho library." (The Tick, S01E02)
  • ♫: 311 – "Come Original" (The Tick, S01E02)
  • "You're, uh…better than a Swiffer." (The Tick, S01E02)
  • "Irradiated Landscaper Identified." (The Tick, S01E03)

Still the AR™TV World Drama Champion: Twin Peaks
The New AR™TV World Comedy Champion: Rick and Morty

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Burn It Down

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Previously on Adam Riff™: Knuck If You Buck

// Chicago, IL

While eating with Chad at Half Acre's Tap Room, three white blokes sit down in a booth across from us.

The back of one bloke's shirt catches my eye.

Is he… Does the back of his shirt say "Bullet Club"?

Okay, yeah, it does.

Dare I ask him for a Too Sweet? He doesn't look like someone who would Too Sweet me, though. And do I want to be "that guy"?

I then notice a white bloke in a Dean Ambrose hoodie on the opposite side of the room.

Dare I extend a fist to him?

Jon: The Shield was a wrestling stable that touched fists.
Drew: Okay…

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Previously on Adam Riff™'s Twitter:

// Las Vegas, NV

I wear my Balut Club shirt to amuse Drew, who is half-Filipino and writes about Filipino food. He notices "balut," but doesn't get the shirt.

Jon: Bullet Club is a wrestling stable in Japan.
Drew: Okay…

Ilsh and I are walking to the cashier in the Flamingo to cash out our chips when I hear someone behind me holler "Too Sweet me, bro! Too Sweet me!"

I turn around and see a pudgy white bloke in a dress shirt asking me to Too Sweet him.

I indulge his request.

Ilsh: What was all that?
Jon: Heh. It's something a wrestling stable in Japan does.

Ilsh: And then he did this hand gesture and the dude stopped shouting "Too sweet."
Drew: Okay…

Later that day, Ilsh and I are walking through the Linq Promenade when I hear someone behind me holler "Too Sweet me, bro!"

I turn around and see another pudgy white bloke in a dress shirt asking me to Too Sweet him.

I take a few steps in his direction, decide against Too Sweet-ing him, and turn back around.

Ilsh is doubly bemused now.

"Was he the same dude from earlier?" I wonder. "Did he (or they) notice that my shirt is not a Bullet Club shirt? Or does wearing a play on a Bullet Club shirt suggest familiarity with Bullet Club?"

I am almost 35 years old.

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34. Whitney Houston, we have a problem (Claws, S01E10)

Honourable Mention

Stray Observations

  • "Coffee time!" (Twin Peaks, S03E14)
  • "And last night, I had another Monica Bellucci dream." (Twin Peaks, S03E14)
  • "Monica was very pleasant." (Twin Peaks, S03E14)
  • RT: Whilst Jake was still at university, his original 2010 viral accents [YouTube] video caught the attention of David Lynch, who promptly got in touch to discuss a potential role for Jake in one of his upcoming projects. Jake then kept in regular contact with Lynch on Skype. (Twin Peaks, S03E14)
  • "Honey! Call 9-1-1! We got a dead one at the bar." (Twin Peaks, S03E14)
  • ♫: Lissie – "Wild West" (Twin Peaks, S03E14)
  • RT: Anyone else see the audience for James in Part 13 was the same for the band in Part 14? (Twin Peaks, S03E14)
  • "Nothing fucks you harder than time." (Game of Thrones, S07E05)
  • "Okay, you know, I'm not trying to call Jenn out or anything, but she's always at that Messianic place square-dancing with that rabbi dude. You know, coming back with that…certain smell? You know, like, yard onions and conditioner?" (Claws, S01E10)
  • Claws Season Grade: C
  • "I'm a Villanova guy." (Insecure, S02E04)
  • "Do you like The Weeknd?" (Insecure, S02E04)


(Insecure, S02E04)

  • "Your black cock feels so good in my white pussy!" (Insecure, S02E04)
  • "You know who could fuck? LaMarcus." (Insecure, S02E04)
  • "Nothing but float!" (Insecure, S02E04)
  • "What I wanna talk to you about is the seriousness of Lion King in this day and age." (Insecure, S02E04)
  • "Rick, is this a Saw thing? Are you seriously Saw-ing the Vindicators?" (Rick and Morty, S03E04)
  • Logic (Rick and Morty, S03E04)
  • "Meanwhile, I have a rape fantasy." (Preacher, S02E09)
  • RZA (Snowfall, S01E07)
  • Every Time I Die (What Would Diplo Do?, S01E03)
  • ♫: Jackal – "Animal Style" (What Would Diplo Do?, S01E03)

The New AR™TV World Drama Champion: Twin Peaks
The New AR™TV World Comedy Champion: Insecure

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Eater's Digest: Los Angeles 5

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Previously on Adam Riff™:

This is the last of my formidable backlog of food notes that I desperately needed to clear. Some dishes I tried are no longer available. So it goes.

August 2016 – March 2017
b sweet dessert bar / belcampo / birch / the carving board / cassell's hamburgers / the chairman / chichen itza / destroyer / erven / here's looking at you / hoke poke / kato / the korean mkt. / lemonade / little tart / mad pambazos / the mar vista / octopus / park's bbq / popdup / the pie hole / plan check / pot cafe / public school 213 / revolutionario / salt and straw / seasalt / terracotta / tomgeorge / ugly drum / villa moreliana / westbound / zankou chicken


Rockin' Roe Bowl (The Korean Mkt.)
assorted fish roe, uni, and pickled veggies over seasoned rice

^ For your eyes only.


Chicken Confit (Destroyer)
yukon gold potato, aged cheese, yuzu, hazelnut

^ Jordan Kahn is a pretentious chef, but this was yummy. The chicken is not visible.

Khinkali (Tumanyan Khinkali Factory)
large, filled georgian dumpling
—Its pinched top was nigh inedible.


Spaghetti and Meatballwich (The Carving Board)
sliced all-beef meatballs topped with a homemade marinara and melted mozzarella, served between parmesan spaghetti bread with extra marinara on the side

^ Also nigh inedible: This spaghetti bread.

(Mad Pambazos) is a Mad Max-themed food truck.


Toecutter (Mad Pambazos)
guajillo-braised goat shoulder, oaxaca cheese, cabbage salad, pickled jalapeño, cotija, and crema

^ The bun is dipped in a salsa roja before crisping up on the grill. This creates a crust of slightly dried salsa that surrounds the bread, giving it a distinct red sheen.

ORTS

"Samoa" Cookie Bread Pudding (B Sweet Dessert Bar)

BLT Panzanella (Lemonade)
turkey, bacon, avocado, tomatoes, arugula vinaigrette
—One of the few items worth ordering at (Lemonade).

Butter Chicken Crispy Rice Balls (Birch)
cucumber yogurt, mint, cilantro

Overheard at Smorgasburg LA:

"Is there actually llama in there?"
"It's Peruvian!"

(Revolutionario) is "the first and only North African Taco restaurant in the world."

Duck Hash Taco (Revolutionario)

(Tomgeorge) is "Budapest's #1 Italian restaurant."

Nutella Pizza (Tomgeorge)
strawberries, banana, almonds, whipped cream

(Kato) serves an ever-changing contemporary Taiwanese tasting menu.


Smoked Hamachi (Kato)
charred scallion sauce, lightly pickled cucumbers


Crispy Rice (Kato)
kale, mushrooms, soft scrambled egg


Buttermilk Pudding (Kato)
rose ice


The Makgeolli (Terracotta)
passion fruit cream, banana ice cream, makgeolli foam

^ Used in the foam, Makgeolli is Korea's oldest alcoholic beverage.


Sweet Potato Crack Fries (Little Tart)
sweet potato fries served with housemade bacon honey, topped with green onions and peanuts

^ I am not a fan of sweet potato, but these were addictive.

[Complimentary] Popcorn (Westbound)
distilled vinegar powder, onion powder, garlic powder, salt
—As was this, which is supposed to taste like Cool Ranch Doritos.

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN


Compartes' Spring Awakening Ice Cream (Salt and Straw)
freeze-dried strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries coated in milk chocolate and stirred into milk chocolate ice cream with a kick of strawberry vanilla jam

^ I am not a fan of milk chocolate, but this was scrumptious.

Twenty-Four Blackbirds' Matcha Mint Chocolate Ganache Ice Cream (Salt and Straw)
mint ganache truffles stirred into matcha ice cream with a touch of citrus
—The texture of the truffles was not one that I had encountered before in ice cream.

K-Pop (Terracotta)
chocolate cream, banana-caramel, chocolate crunch
—Heh. Koreatown, popsicle, get it?

112 "Peaches and Cream" (Westbound)
grilled peaches, ginger beer gelée, peach cream, apple celery sorbet


Duck Nuggets (Birch)
pickled veggies

^ Well, one nugget…

—

(Erven) was the best vegan restaurant that I have ever dined at.

This past June, (Erven) overhauled its menu, adding meat and dairy. Most everything vegan that Hugo and I feasted on [Sauerkraut Fry Bread with smoky apple sauce, Seaweed "Doritos," Pretzel Bread Pudding, Green Onion Spaghetti, et cetera] is memorialized here.


Beer-Battered Tofu Sandwich (Erven)
with slaw, thick pickle, and manchamantel


Fennel Cake (Erven)
with rhubarb-balsalmic jam, iced pecan milk, and dried strawberries


Black Sesame Cake (Erven)
with passion fruit custard, cilantro sorbet, and coconut meringue

MISSED CONNECTIONS

Smoked Trout Dip (Erven)
with "everything bagel-spiced" beet churros

"Thai Style" Burrito (Erven)
with fried rice, tempura sweet potato, lime cream, peanuts, and tom yum gravy


Dragon's Breath (Chocolate Chair)

^ A cup of fruity cereal is blasted with flavourless liquid nitrogen. The result? You get to look like a dragon, while dipping the icy cold cereal in sauces like chocolate, mint, and rose.

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Pitches Brew

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Bring It On: Worldwide #Cheersmack will be released on home video on August 29.

It is the sixth Bring It On film.

Only the first Bring It On film was released theatrically, whereas all five Step Up films were.

The director of Bring It On: Worldwide #Cheersmack previously directed You Got Served: Beat the World.

Bring It On 6 was filmed in South Africa, like Honey 3.

The director of Bring It On 6 wrote Honey 4.

The director of Bring It On 5 directed all four Honey films, as well as Drumline 2.

The director of Can't Buy Me Love directed Bring It On 3 and 4.

Bring It On 3 stars Solange and Rihanna.

Bring It On 3, in which Hayden Panettiere plays a cheerleader, was released within two months of Heroes' first season, in which Hayden Panettiere plays a cheerleader.

Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote music and lyrics for Bring It On: The Musical.

Hot Ones

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Briet concocted a recipe that was 75% beer and low on sugar, allowing the flavour of the beer to shine.

Now, Briet makes eight or so flavours, along with some snackable ale and IPA glazed peanuts.

Blend up some beer-glazed peanuts and you can make a beer-glazed peanut butter and beer jelly sandwich – with beer bread.

related:


"A fully cooked omelet in the shape of a link."

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33. Oh Boy, Dany (Game of Thrones, S07E04)

Honourable Mention

Stray Observations

  • Giant screen (Twin Peaks, S03E13)


(Twin Peaks, S03E13)

  • Big Ed (Twin Peaks, S03E13)
  • Double R franchises (Twin Peaks, S03E13)
  • One hit wonder James (Twin Peaks, S03E13)
  • "Who taught you how to do that?"
    "No one." (Game of Thrones, S07E04)
  • "How many men do we have in the north to fight him? 10,000? Less?"
    "Fewer." (Game of Thrones, S07E04)
  • "Ser Davos, Lord Snow."
    "King Snow, isn't it? No, that doesn't sound right. King Jon?" (Game of Thrones, S07E04)
  • Noah Syndergaard (Game of Thrones, S07E04)
  • "Virginia loves me. She loves me, and she helps me when I get upset, and I help her too, and she may have food issues that place her on the autistic spectrum, so we're an excellent match. Also, I love sex." (Claws, S01E09)
  • Sterling K. Brown (Insecure, S02E03)
  • "Hey, did we ever finish watching that Shark Tank from last week? See, I wish Daymond could be in every episode. I don't know why they make him alternate with that Peter Pan-looking white lady." (Insecure, S02E03)
  • "Um, I was thinking, would you mind if I titty-fucked you?"
    "Uh, I'd like to respectfully decline."
    "Okay, well, thank you for being so respectful." (Insecure, S02E03)
  • "You a fuck nigga who thinks he's a good dude." (Insecure, S02E03)
  • "Is this the first part of some kind of magic trick?"
    "I don't do magic, Morty, I do science. One takes brains, the other takes dark eyeliner." (Rick and Morty, S03E03)
  • "We have 34 armed guards and we can't kill a pickle?" (Rick and Morty, S03E03)
  • "My kids pee their desks and suck on unbaked vases." (Rick and Morty, S03E03)
  • "You're an intelligent pickle." (Rick and Morty, S03E03)
  • "Why didn't you want to come here?"
    "Because I don't respect therapy. Because I'm a scientist. Because I invent, transform, create, and destroy for a living, and when I don't like something about the world, I change it. And I don't think going to a rented office in a strip mall to listen to some agent of averageness explain which words mean which feelings has ever helped anyone do anything. I think it's helped a lot of people get comfortable and stop panicking, which is a state of mind we value in the animals we eat, but not something I want for myself. I'm not a cow. I'm a pickle…when I feel like it."
    "Rick, the only connection between your unquestionable intelligence and the sickness destroying your family is that everyone in your family, you included, use intelligence to justify sickness. You seem to alternate between viewing your own mind as an unstoppable force and as an inescapable curse, and I think it's because the only truly unapproachable concept for you is that it's your mind within your control. You chose to come here, you chose to talk, to belittle my vocation, just as you chose to become a pickle. You are the master of your universe, and yet, you are dripping with rat blood and feces, your enormous mind literally vegetating by your own hand. I have no doubt that you would be bored senseless by therapy, the same way I'm bored when I brush my teeth and wipe my ass, because the thing about repairing, maintaining, and cleaning is, it's not an adventure. There's no way to do it so wrong you might die. It's just…work. And the bottom line is, some people are okay going to work, and some people, well, some people would rather die. Each of us gets to choose." (Rick and Morty, S03E03)
  • Susan Sarandon (Rick and Morty, S03E03)


(WWE Raw, 08-07-17)

  • "I'm Maxine North-Carmichael."
    "You hyphenated? Lord, even your name is a threesome." (The Carmichael Show, S03E12)
  • "Cynthia, the diamond trade is vicious and destructive, so if you see a diamond on a ring, that means somebody in Africa died to get that."
    "Oh, well, if the ring is in the store, then whoever got the diamond is already dead. So you saying you want these Africans to have died for nothing?"
    "Yeah, Maxine. You always telling us to recycle, and here you wasting dead Africans." (The Carmichael Show, S03E13)
  • "Oh, thank you, ma'am." (The Carmichael Show, S03E13)
  • "Isn't it ironic that black people were brought here in chains, and then as soon as we get money, we put them on again?" (The Carmichael Show, S03E13)
  • "Why does money make this family throw food in the trash? You know there are starving kids in Africa."
    "Make up your mind about these Africans, Maxine. Are they dead or are they starving?" (The Carmichael Show, S03E13)
  • The Carmichael Show Season Grade: B-
  • Brandon Wardell as Skrillex (What Would Diplo Do?, S01E02)

The New AR™TV World Drama Champion: Game of Thrones
The New AR™TV World Comedy Champion: Rick and Morty

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