seeing up in the air tonight, which feels like the santa barbara of this year's best picture contenders
― caek, Thursday, 14 January 2010 02:19 (fourteen years ago) link
got a phil collins song in my head now
― A™ machine (sic) (omar little), Thursday, 14 January 2010 02:21 (fourteen years ago) link
caek's reports on the cityscape of Isla Vista will amuse.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 14 January 2010 02:32 (fourteen years ago) link
haven't seen any oxford/cambridge varsity ski trip hoodies yet this time, although i did just see a canadian national polo team shirt (horse, not water). what a town.
― caek, Thursday, 14 January 2010 06:21 (fourteen years ago) link
have a blenders 4 me
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 14 January 2010 06:22 (fourteen years ago) link
also if yr driving to LA you can stop in carpenteria and have a burger @ The Spot. Julia Child used to eat there apparently and they had, at one point, the finest burger I had ever had
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 14 January 2010 06:27 (fourteen years ago) link
blenders rulesget blue-banana
― iatee, Thursday, 14 January 2010 06:27 (fourteen years ago) link
fuck that noize. orange banana w spirulina
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 14 January 2010 06:29 (fourteen years ago) link
in an alternate universe blenders is national and jamba juice is regional. never underestimate a sugar bomb's ability to go national
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 14 January 2010 06:30 (fourteen years ago) link
sooooooooooo otm
― iatee, Thursday, 14 January 2010 06:30 (fourteen years ago) link
also the owners of blenders were shot by richard avedon and the picture is hung in every blenders; you can tell that avedon was totally phoning it in
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 14 January 2010 06:34 (fourteen years ago) link
haha I know what picture you're talking about
― iatee, Thursday, 14 January 2010 06:35 (fourteen years ago) link
it's so weak
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 14 January 2010 06:35 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah I had no idea it was supposed to be anything but a cutesy local photographer type thing
but yeah, I don't go to juice places anywhere outside of santa barbara. jamba juice is horrid. I imagine it's healthier than blenders, though...part of the reason why blenders drinks taste good is that they're practically ice cream.
― iatee, Thursday, 14 January 2010 06:39 (fourteen years ago) link
is the cajun kitchen still around? serious good times there 15 years ago.
― ┌∩┐(◕_◕)┌∩┐ (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 14 January 2010 06:43 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah it is w/ a buncha locations
― iatee, Thursday, 14 January 2010 06:44 (fourteen years ago) link
i will be here from jan 12-25, let's party/see dead people.
― caek, Thursday, 20 December 2012 13:12 (eleven years ago) link
Any given Saturday night in Isla Vista they'll be one and the same.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 December 2012 13:36 (eleven years ago) link
btw i am only briefly passing through LA on this trip now ned, but thanks for responding in the LA thread
― caek, Thursday, 20 December 2012 14:52 (eleven years ago) link
pretty scared that I'm gonna die sometime in the jan 12-25 interval now. please pass over me santa barbara death angel caek. I will put the goat's blood on the door mantel, etc.
― toy_sleigher (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 20 December 2012 16:31 (eleven years ago) link
These days I'm giving a tour of the local "Fieri Hot Spots" for extra cash. The tour includes food from those places featured in Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives and ends with frosted tips at Aveda.
― toy_sleigher (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 20 December 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
wait where was on ddd
― iatee, Thursday, 20 December 2012 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
Norton's, some fish n' chips place that was open for all of 1 year before Guy soiled it, and some Mexican place on upper state that I've never heard of.
― toy_sleigher (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 20 December 2012 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
There's enough good mexican food that I can believe it's good, though. I'm somewhat glad he didn't just go to super rica, even though it seems to fit the show perfectly.
― toy_sleigher (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 20 December 2012 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
yeah milpas makes a lot more sense than anything downtown
― iatee, Thursday, 20 December 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
true. I live over by the bowl, so I am biased toward milpas.
― toy_sleigher (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 20 December 2012 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
including los agaves, the cheaper evil offspring of los arroyos
― toy_sleigher (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 20 December 2012 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
I was in sb like two weeks ago, state st is getting so depressing
― iatee, Thursday, 20 December 2012 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
it's shifting towards super super high end and super super low end stores at the same time
sorta a microcosm of america I guess
― iatee, Thursday, 20 December 2012 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
ha, that description is kind of true. but I learned from this thread that you grew up here, so a bit of hometown depression is natural. you should check out el cielito next time you're in town. it opened in la arcada and is the best new thing imo.
― toy_sleigher (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 20 December 2012 16:59 (eleven years ago) link
oh yeah I looked at it curiously
― iatee, Thursday, 20 December 2012 17:20 (eleven years ago) link
according to http://www.santabarbara.com/dining/best_of_sb/ , 2012's best korean restaurant in town is "New China"
― toy_sleigher (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 20 December 2012 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
chumash casino should have everything you want and more
― johnathan lee riche$ (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 20 December 2012 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
haha unless you want a mojito
― toy_sleigher (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 20 December 2012 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
Tower of Power on Jan. 17 at the Chumash
― toy_sleigher (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 20 December 2012 19:34 (eleven years ago) link
caek should get funkifized
my favourite eats over the weekend was whail tail deli: http://whale-tail-deli.com/default.aspx. cheap for sb, and hearty fare indeed.
xp, two dead people in four days has to be some kind of record, right. central california is perilous.
― caek, Monday, January 12, 2009 11:25 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this place is gone, btw. you killed it too. ;_;
― toy_sleigher (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 21 December 2012 03:00 (eleven years ago) link
good thing i didn't get the job there i made the shortlist for last year.
― caek, Friday, 21 December 2012 11:01 (eleven years ago) link
is ucsbs astronomy good?
― iatee, Friday, 21 December 2012 11:06 (eleven years ago) link
it's small for a UC astro dept (cf. UCSC, which is probably 5 times bigger?) so it has gaps because so few faculty, but it's very good
+ it has the kavli, which is a v big deal for theoretical physics
― caek, Friday, 21 December 2012 13:04 (eleven years ago) link
one sure does hear eddie vedder's into the wild ost regularly in this town
No deaths yet this time but still a couple of days to go
restaurant turnover seems fast. any good new places places to eat/drink walking distance of say state and castillo?
― caek, Thursday, 24 January 2013 05:01 (eleven years ago) link
So you mean between state and Castillo? They are parallel I think. You mean on state by the Castillo exit off of 101?
― Garth Brooks In ... The Life of (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 24 January 2013 05:24 (eleven years ago) link
Or maybe you meant Carrillo?
― Garth Brooks In ... The Life of (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 24 January 2013 05:26 (eleven years ago) link
otm
― caek, Thursday, 24 January 2013 05:39 (eleven years ago) link
I like Cielito, which is nearby in 'La Arcada.' Arlington Tavern is a new place up state 3 blocks and to the left (toward chapala). I've not been there, but I've heard good things. Cadiz is a good new Mediterranean place down State a bit from Carrillo. Scarlett Begonia is good for breakfast/brunch. If you just want a beer and a burger type thing, a place called Eureka!Burger opened in the paseo nuevo mall area a bit down state st.
― Garth Brooks In ... The Life of (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 24 January 2013 06:01 (eleven years ago) link
There's also the French Table on Anapamu by the courthouse
― Garth Brooks In ... The Life of (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 24 January 2013 06:05 (eleven years ago) link
thanking you.
Still haven't found a bar I really like here. I was enjoying the press room until someone put kasabian on the juke box and then a television programme called 'the banter zone' was on the tv very loud. Elsie's is a bit crusty.
― caek, Thursday, 24 January 2013 06:10 (eleven years ago) link
haha elsie's is very crusty. I liked it for awhile, but the last time there some biker dude was talking loudly about how the Newton Massacre was a grand plan from Obama to take his guns away
― Garth Brooks In ... The Life of (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 24 January 2013 06:11 (eleven years ago) link
I'll be grabbing drinks with some photonics grad students on Friday to celebrate a guy in our group graduating and moving on to intel. Let me know if you wanna join up.
― Garth Brooks In ... The Life of (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 24 January 2013 06:16 (eleven years ago) link
Hah yes Elsie's reminds me more of the uk way more than any of the pub style places. It's kind of like a perfect mixture of Austin TX and Bristol. Is 'crusty' a widely understood word here?
Unfortunately I have to be back in lol angeles on Friday.
― caek, Thursday, 24 January 2013 06:21 (eleven years ago) link