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It was really only a matter of time before Buttercup went nuts.
Of course, lotsa folks figured the San Antonio foursome was kinda already there from the get-go. Certainly frontman/guitarist Erik Sanden was always at least borderline crazy, going back to “Dial-a-Song” days when he wrote and recorded a tune a week just for anyone with enough time on their hands to call a special hotline and hear a song over the telephone. Not to mention the stunt where he committed to playing a single song over and over again for 24 hours, just to see if he could. And the bass player, Odie? Goodness, where does one start? Sweetest dude you’ll ever meet, but not “normal” even by the most liberal definition of the word. As for the two straight guys, drummer Jamie Roadman and lead guitarist Joe Reyes … they’d have to be nuts to hang around with the other two, right?
And let us not forget all those “Grackle Mundys” — Buttercup’s handle for their legendary, no-two-alike, what-will-they-possibly-think-of-next very special … events. Concerts, if you will — though they were more like performance art music socials. They were usually held in some tiny art studio in or around downtown San Antone. Or maybe in somebody’s living room or, every now and then, just to fuck with the status quo, an actual rock club. What happened at Grackle Mundys? We could tell you, but unless you were there, you wouldn’t believe it. Come to think of it, most folks who were there — band members included —didn’t believe it, either.
But they did learn to believe in a band that through years of strange gigs, countless songs, and more than a little practice has grown into a moody, melodic, powerful rock band with a sound that is somewhere between the Kinks at their most depressed and Neil Young at his most ecstatic.
Four loons, five-years worth of “Grackle Mundys,” and, just last year, a damn good sophomore album that they actually saddled with the name, um, Hot Love. So yeah, Buttercup has been on the road to madness for a while now. But as Sanden outlines the band’s schedule for the year ahead, it’s clear they’ve now officially gone certifiable.
With two albums under their belt (the aforementioned giddy Hot Love and the previous year’s moodier Sick Yellow Flower), Buttercup will triple their catalog in 2007 by writing, recording and releasing four CDs (three generous EPs and one full-length) before the end of the year. From scratch. First out of the gate is the freewheelin’ rock ’n’ roll EP Captains of Industry — its very title a cheeky nod to the band’s lunatic ambition. Hot on its heels will be the largely acoustic Living Again (July), followed by August’s Camp Zama, an “experimental” live album which may or may not be recorded somewhere in West Texas, far from the band’s San Antonio/Austin comfort zone. The as-yet-untitled full-length, schedule for October … well, there’s no telling what shape and sound that one will take. The band’s kinda making this all up as they go. Truth be told, the whole campaign was pretty much decided on a whim with a quarter of 2007 already in the rear-view mirror.
It’s an ambitious little to-do list, to say the least — and a cynic (realist?) would surely point out that they’ll never pull it off. But there were doubters at quite a few of those Grackle Mundy fetes, too: lured to the shows by friends or curiosity over what all the buzz was about, but ready to call “bullshit” the moment the band broke out the ukuleles, asked the crowd to watch the show on monitors at the bottom of oil drums or led the whole audience outside for a musical parade through a dicey part of town. By evening’s end, though, cynicism was invariably dropped in favor of the warm, fuzzy embrace of the “Buttercult.” Buttercup fans learn fast that this is a band that thrives on the unexpected and taking risks. And they’ve watched this band grow into one of the best, most solid rock bands around.
“We needed to move the goalposts a bit,” says Sanden of the Buttercup’s four-records-in-a-year gameplan, noting that Buttercup’s previous one-album-a-year schedule felt like a snail’s pace to the band. “I think doing this was my idea at first, but nobody in the band needed any convincing. They were all like, ‘Let’s do it! Why not?’”
Ah yes, the Buttercup battle cry: “Why not,” every bit as much as their songwriting and musical chops, is what makes this band tick. It’s what made Sanden, Odie and Roadman — three-quarters of San Antonio’s late, great Evergeen — decide to regroup after a year or two apart and pick up nowhere near where they left off: With the slacker, goof-off rhythm guitarist (Sanden) recast as a take-charge visionary and dynamic frontman, and the whole Stones swagger traded for an unabashedly more fey and whimsical but ultimately more daring and mercurial Kinks fetish. “Why not” is also the mindset that made Reyes, formerly half of the acclaimed Alamo City flamenco duo Lara & Reyes and a Grammy-winning producer (for Freddy Fender, R.I.P.), decide to throw caution to the wind and expand his musical horizons with a group of guys long on originality but initially short on prospects. A few years and countless laughs and musical dares later, “why not” remains Buttercup’s answer to pretty any challenge they set their minds to.
It’s also the key to the characteristic insouciance that pervades their approach to songwriting, performance and, most recently, recording. The Captains of Industry EP marks Buttercup’s first attempt at producing themselves, with every note cooked up in Sanden’s freshly installed home studio. Reyes’ Grammy-certified production mettle notwithstanding, Sanden admits to finding the DIY method daunting — but ultimately exhilarating. After recording half a dozen tracks that went into the “delete pile,” the band had a bit of an epiphany while recording “Sun in the Sky,” a 7-minute epic reminiscent of the Pixies and Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd that Sanden describes as “scream therapy on a boat.”
The epiphany came when they captured Reyes beating up Sanden’s bathroom — slamming the toilet seat cover and spilling all his hair care products into the bathtub. “To my ears, this was freedom,” enthuses Sanden. “This was a realization that we could do anything we wanted to, and that there were no rules that we had to obey.”
Nuts? Yeah. But like everything else Buttercup has ever done — or even attempted — it’s all in the name of fun. In the name Art, too, of course, but first and foremost, fun. And should they fail … well, it still promises to be an epic ride.
“If we should falter in our quest,” says Sanden (invoking one of his musical heroes, Jad Fair) “we solemnly promise to wear our clothes inside out for a one year period. On this you have our word!”
Colostrum
Blackberries.
Notes: Colostrum is the "first milk" from an animal. This custardy dairy is in salted meringue shells with a dot of blackberry jam.
Fäviken Magasinet
Järpen, Sweden
(January 20, 2015)
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Cadets from 1st Regiment Advance Camp, Charlie Company, hang out after completing the Confidence Course, Fort Knox, Ky., May 29, 2019. The Cadets were waiting to rotate with Delta Company and attempt the Rappel Tower. | Photo by Kyle Crawford, CST Public Affairs Office
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Pour plus de talon c'est par là :
Sinon je vous invite a regarder le reste de l'album (à droite) de cette course déjà mythique.
Abalone
Rice, artichoke, barigoule, nettle.
Saison
San Francisco, California
(April 17, 2013)
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Antelope
Saison
San Francisco, California
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Halibut
Mole, avocado, escabeche.
alinea
Chicago, Illinois
(March 23, 2013)
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Soldiers sling load a HMMWV during the Pathfinder Course, Feb. 14, 2017, in the Grafenwoehr Training Area. The Pathfinder Course prepares Soldiers to establish day and night landing zones for cargo drops, and provide air traffic control and navigational assistance to rotary and fixed wing aircrafts.
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Maitake
Pumpernickel, black garlic, blis elixir.
Notes: The broth for the maitake course was brought toa simmer at our table.
alinea
Chicago, Illinois
(March 23, 2013)
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Seaweeds
In seaweed vinegar.
Saison
San Francisco, California
(July 17, 2014)
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Eggplant
Aged venison leg.
saison
San Francisco, California
(July 17, 2014)
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2001 China TCDC International Training Course on Bamboo Technology
DESCRIPTION:
Training Course
China National Bamboo Research Center
CHINA
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Mr. Ding Xingcui,
Mr. Wu Jintao cbrc@mail.hz.zj.cn
+86 571 8869217 or 8863888 ext. 8915
PRESS RELEASE:
Participants are required to master the basic theories and principles of cultivation processing and utilization of bamboo so as to enhance their awareness and capacity of integrated development of bamboo, and create a chance leading to further mutual fruitful exchange and cooperation.
Enrollment Information for Course Guangzhou - 10-May-2001
ENROLLMENT INFORMATION 2001
China TCDC International Training Course on Bamboo Technology
Totally, there are 1250 species of bamboo or more belonged to 150 genera with a bamboo forest area of 1700 million ha. in the world, among which, there are more than 500 species belonging to 39 genera with a bamboo forest area of 500 million ha. in China, or about 1/3 of the world total, therefore, China is reputed as a "Bamboo Kingdom". China not only is a big country of bamboo resources, but also has already accumulated so much experience in bamboo research, exploitation, production, and management, etc., as a result, has been in advanced position of the world in many aspects of bamboo, especially marked achievements have been scored in bamboo integrated processing and utilization. The total production value of bamboo sector in China in 1999 is over US$ 2.2 billion. Bamboo sector has been becoming a new sunrising industry.
China National Bamboo Research Center (CBRC) was established in 1988 in Hangzhou, a picturesque city in eastern China, which is located in one of the China's biggest bamboo grown centers, and well-known for its West Lake. CBRC has three missions as enshrined by the Ministry of Science and Technology, the State Administration of Forestry: (a) to undertake, organize and coordinate major international and domestic bamboo projects of research and exploitation; (b) to undertake international technical and economic exchange and cooperation and personnel training in bamboo; and (c) to be managed and operated by modality of share-holding and gradually grow into a locomotive and backbone enterprise of China's bamboo sector so as to enhance China bamboo industry as a whole.
In order to disseminate bamboo technology, CBRC has already held with success several training courses/workshops entrusted by United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the Ministry of Foreign Trade & Economic Cooperation (MOFTEC), P.R. China, etc.
"2001 China TCDC International Training Course on Bamboo Technology" is the course sponsored by the Chinese Government. CBRC is entrusted by the MOFTEC to organize this training course. We should invite famous experts, professors all over the China, even an academician to give lectures.
1. Objectives
Participants are required to master the basic theories and principles of cultivation, processing and utilization of bamboo so as to enhance their awareness and capacity of integrated development of bamboo, and create a chance leading to further mutual fruitful exchange and cooperation.
2. Date and Duration
From May 8 to June 22, 2001.
3. Venue
China National Bamboo Research Center (CBRC) No. 138 Wenyi Rd., Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, 310012 P.R. China
4. Main Course Contents
Present situation of bamboo resources, cultivation, processing, utilization in China and in the world; Bamboo sustainable development; Bamboo classification and introduction; Bamboo genetic pool set-up and maintenance; Bamboo biology and ecology, including individual and population growth and development; Bamboo propagation; Oriented cultivation of in-kind bamboo stands, such as for shoot, timber, both shoot and timber, coastal shelter, water and soil conservation, landscape, and pulp etc.; Bamboo landscaping; Bamboo pest control; Bamboo shoot production and processing; Production technologies of bamboo flooring and 10-plus bamboo artificial boards; Bamboo food, Bamboo integrated utilization (bamboo mats, bamboo charcoal, bamboo chemical utilization, etc); and Bamboo timber and shoot preservation; Bamboo social economy, etc.
5. Training Methods
Lectures, Field Practice, Demonstration, Seminar on Special Topics, Field Tours, Discussion and Report Presentation, Term Paper, etc.
6. Medium of Instruction
English
7. Source of Trainees
Technical, management and research personnel or officials in the field of forestry, bamboo, agriculture and others from developing countries.
8. Methods for Evaluation
The evaluation for the participants will be done on the basis of written tests, field practice, site study and comprehensive performance. Successful completion of the training program will lead to a diploma offered by CBRC. The allotment of marks will be as follows: a) Written tests 50% b) Comprehensive performance 50%
9. Participant's Qualifications and Requirements for Admission
Participants are requested: 1) To be nominated by his/her related government department; 2) To be less than 45 years old, better with a minimum educational background of college graduate, better with an agriculture, forestry and bamboo background and with a minimum of two years' practice in the relative profession; 3) To be in good health conditions with no infectious diseases and not handicapped. Physically fit to completing all course activities; 4) To be proficient in English reading, listening, speaking and writing; 5) To prepare a review paper or report on the bamboo (forestry) production or research of the participant's country and brief introduction of the participant's professional experiences for the purpose of experiences exchange; 6) Not to bring family members to the training course; and 7) To observe all the laws, rules and regulations of P. R. China and respect the Chinese customs during the training period.
10. Training Expenses
1) The expenses of training, boarding and lodging, local transportation, pocket money of RMB 30 Yuan per person per day during the training period in China will be borne by the Chinese Government and distributed by CBRC. 2) The International travel costs including round trip tickets, transit fares are to be covered by the participants themselves, or their respective Governments, or their employers or sponsored by some international organizations, like UNDP, ESCAP, FAO, etc. through proper application and consultations. 3) The expenses of medical care, insurance and domestic salaries for the participants are to be borne by the participants' governments.
11. Application and Admission
1) The applicants should be nominated by their respective Governments. The nominated participants are requested to fill up the Application Forms, which should be endorsed by the departments concerned of their respective Governments, and submit with valid Health Certificates provided by authorized physicians or hospitals to the Economic and Commercial Counselor's Office of the Chinese Embassy ( ECCOCE ) for examination, recommendation and endorsement; 2) After endorsed by the Economic and Commercial Counselor's Office of the Chinese Embassy, Admission Notices will be issued to the accepted participants by the ECCOCE through the related governmental departments of the participants. With the Admission Notices, the participants are requested to go through all necessary formalities for entering into China and bring all the documents like Admission Notices, Application Forms, Health Certificates to China for attending the Course on time.
12. Insurance
The training course organizer dose not hold any responsibility for such risks as loss of life, accidents, illness, loss of properties incurred by the participants during the training period.
13. Liaison Address
Attn: Mr. Ding Xingcui, Mr. Wu Jintao China National Bamboo Research Center No. 138, Wenyi Rd., Hangzhou 310012 Zhejiang Province P.R. China Phone:+86 571 8869217 or 8863888 ext. 8915 Mobile: +86 13805791796 Fax: +86 571 8869217, 8860944
E-mail: cbrc@mail.hz.zj.cn
3rd Regiment, Basic Camp Cadets participated in the Team Developmental Course June 25, 2018 at Fort Knox, Ky. (Photo by Angela Yin)
I registered for Creative Fibre's (NZ) 'Certificate in hand spinning wool' course, and received the fleece package and study material this week.
Can't wait to start learning new things!
The final obstacle on Rudder's High Ropes Course requires Cadets to slide upside-down to the next platform. After this obstacle, it's all smoth sailing, ending in a "Tarzan Swing" and zipline to the bottom. Fort Knox, Kentucky, July 5. | Photo by Megan Reynolds, CST Public Affairs Office.
Cadets from 3rd Regiment, Advanced Camp, put their communication skills to the test at the Field Leaders Reaction Course on June 21 at Fort Knox, Ky. (Photo by Emily Peacock)
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Cod
Tempura tongue, bottarga, cauliflower, arugula and sherry gastrique.
Lysverket
Bergen, Norway
(March 6, 2014)
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Royal Military College of Canada (RMC)’s first year Naval and Officer Cadets participated in the 2022 Obstacle Course. RMC Grounds, RMC, Kingston, ON September 23, 2022.
Image by: S1 Lisa Sheppard, Military Photojournalist, RMC Kingston
2022-RMC1-0115
Pear
Pear vinegar, and lemon verbena.
Notes: The pear vinegar was in the form of very thin strips of geée that were interleafed with lemon verbena and thinly cut pear. I don't know how they made the "package" stay together so that the strips of pear and pear vinegar gelée didn't separate or slip when eating it.
Geranium
Copenhagen, Denmark
(September 12, 2014)
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At a history course social, Andre Mercier, an unnamed woman, Wanda Sine, and Gerry Boyce have a conversation. The course was taught at Quinte Living Centre by Gerry Boyce.
Donated by June Sine in 2008 (2008-06).
Hogo
Oyster, sea urchin.
alinea
Chicago, Illinois
(March 23, 2013)
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