What I learned last week (#2)

There’s lots of music I’ve been sleeping on, as evident by KEXP’s Top 90.3 Albums of 2018: I’ve been swimming in new music since last week. Combing through all of the “best of 2018” lists made me realize how much I’ve been missing out on some great stuff this year. My favorite lists are KEXP’s Top 90.3 Albums, and the lists from their DJs, namely Troy Nelson, John Richards, DJ Alex as well as many others. My top albums of the year right are:
- Kasamai Washington- Heaven and Earth
- Against All Odds – 2012 – 2017
- DJ Kose- Knock Knock
- Curtis Harding – Face Your Fear
- Black Milk – Fever
- Pusha T – Daytona
- Black Panther OST
- TiRon & Ayomari- WET
- Plus a few new albums I’m now all about as a result of this past week:
  - IDLES – Joy As An Act of Resistance
  - Children of Zeus – Travel Light
  - Mick Jenkins – Pieces of a Man
  - Car Seat Headrest – Twin Fantasy
  - Confidence Man – Confident Music for Confident People

A new book for the kids called The Day Louis Got Eaten by John Fardell: Our latest discovery in kids books has been John Fardell and his two picture books “The Day Louis Got Eaten” and “Jeremiah the Jellyfish”. The illustrations are incredible and the stories are great. We change the names of the main characters to our names and pretend my daughter is saving her brother from the monsters. It’s fantastic. I’m now on the hunt for the first picture book he did, “Manfred the Baddie”.

How to cook my new favorite food, coconut bacon: I’ve never heard of this until last week, but apparently you can not only make it but buy it in grocery stores as well. It’s amazing. My wife and I experimented with a month of eating vegetarian this past September, and it’s continued through October, November and now December. Eliminating meat has been eye-opening as a way to expand our horizons of what’s possible in the kitchen, and we’ve loved it. Coconut bacon is a great example of why. I originally found it in the book Protein Ninja by Terry Hope Romero. It’s so simple, and so good, I don’t know whether I’d ever go back. Here is a similar version of the recipe from the book.

A nostalgic read about The day Michael Jordan wore Penny Hardaway’s shoes instead of his own: My buddy sent me this. Michael Jordan is one of my heroes and I hearing stories from behind the scenes during those times is a guilty pleasure.

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