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Tales of Interest

I'm sitting here eating a praline nut mix with peanuts, cashews AND pecans..so it should go without saying that life's pretty good. You know what else was pretty good..some stuff that I consumed in 2017, below is a list of some of that stuff:

Chip/Snack Division:

- Covered Bridge chips. (these will likely show up ever year because they're tight AF. [I haven't tried their popcorn line yet..maybe in 2018, we'll see])

- Co-op Gold Pure chips. If you have co-op food stores in your region of Canada grab a bag of these. They're primarily black with a circular logo that says PURE in the centre of it. These chips might seem familiar..the back of the bag says, "Homegrown by the Albright Family in the heart of New Brunswick's potato country...russet potatoes..kettle cooked.." if that sounds familiar it should, if it doesn't. Do a little sleuthing and you might link these to a familiar 'tight AF' chip brand for a wicked price point. Hazzah!

- Making dip with plain greek yogurt. We played around with homemade dill pickle dip with part cream cheese and part greek yogurt (replacing the previously used sour cream) to help the dippability. It's a nice little tweak. (I wonder what it's like to make onion soup/homemade onion dip with greek yogurt instead of SC..something for 2018)

- La Cocina tortilla chips. Not necessarily new to me in 2017 but they're tight and I want to eat these light lil' chips more often.

- Kettle Brand Classic Caesar. Chips are bangin'! Not sure if they're going to come back (they've been sold out on my source (well.ca) for a while now..*sigh*)


Music Division:
  •  Dopamines - Tales of Interest
  • Ogikubo Station - S/T
  • Wiki - No Mountains in Manhattan
  • Jidenna - The Chief
  • Kitty Kat Fan Club - Work Space Grind 7" 
  • Caves - Always Why
  • Worriers - Survival Pop
  • Greg Rekus & the Inside Job - Sibling Cities
  • Chris Gethard - Career Suicide (comedy album)
  • City Mouse - Get Right
  • Nothington - In The End
  • Iron Chic - You Can't Stay Here
  • Partial Traces - Glass Beach
  • The Murderburgers - The 12 Habits of Highly Defective People 
  • Cayetana - New Kind of Normal
  • Get Dead - Honesty Lives Elsewhere
  • Arms Aloft - What A Time To Be Barely Alive 
  • Elder Abuse - Burnt
Getting late to:

- Jeff Rosenstock - Post-
- Vultures United - I Still Fell Cold (it was on my anticipated list for 2017 from last year but it didn't come out until Sept and I don't have a cd yet so, yeah)
- Ezra Kire - ..Speakers in the Sky..

Stuff to look forward to in 2018:

- new Bigwig/Tom Petta and the Worlds End album(s?). I know I said this last year but it didn't materialize in 2017..here's to hoping 2018 delivers.

Well, 2018. Who knows what's in store.

Stay hydrated,
MARC

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