Fats Waller

I have a special place in my heart for listening to vinyl records. I absolutely love the crackly crispy warm quality that comes out from the record players. Plus you can get steals on great records of past great musicians. Lately, I've been listening to this giant TIME magazine sponsored vinyl set of Jazz Greats. I think the first 4 are all of Fats Waller.


This is one of my favorite songs below

• Your Feet's Too Big by Fats Waller

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I'm also a huge fan of django reinhardt

• After You've Gone by Django Reinhardt

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and least but not last one of my favorite french records

• La Vie En Rose by Edith Piaf

More Edith Piaf music on iLike

I know these few songs are quite a bit different from my music selection yesterday but they just are so charming. I love to put on a few good records and drink some great wine. They make such great background noise for a party too!

Hope your Tuesday brings you lots of good music (and wine)

xoxo
Raechel

I could spend hours

on this website mixpod.com creating playlists.

MySpace Music Playlist at MixPod.com

this is what i'm listening to today. its all pretty slow and chill music. I'm just in a mood to relax

xoxo

raech

Old Patterns

I could wear a hole in a floor with how much I love going to the same places. I don't mean to do it but I like comfort. I don't like to be disappointed and I don't like to disappoint those people who work at my favorite haunts.

I'm talking about my favorite restaurants. We always go to the same places when we go out. For a nice dinner we go to Silverlake and go to Cliff's Edge, for sushi we go to Miyako, for Indian we go to the place by our house, and for Thai we go to Chan Dara which is literally in our alley but for some reason this weekend we put a toe outside of the box.


Drum roll please......We tried Ethopian Food and absolutely loved it! In Los Angeles there is "Little Ethiopia" and its on Fairfax also nicknamed "Ethiopian row". We were driving back from Ikea and wanted something good for dinner but didnt' want any of our usual ( gasp..how could this be?). So we decided to try ethiopian food.

So we used Urban Spoon ( iphone app..love it!) and found, Rahel Ethiopian Vegan Restaurant. It was amazing. We split a millenium special for 2.




This isn't exactly what we had but it comes out like this. Little mounds of stew and served with this spongy pancake that has a slight sourdough flavor. Its actually the brown part under the stews in the above image. The meal also came with a big basket of the spongy part and that is what you ate with. There were no forks, spoons, knives, etc.. ( though an obnoxious table of 10 teenagers did order forks). If you've never had Ethiopian its very similar to Indian as far as texture but different spices. My favorite was a carrot and potato stew and the split pea stew. The perfect compliment to all these spicy stews was a fresh coconut juice. Yum. Over all the experience was really good and it hardly hurt at all to step outside of our comfort zone! The only part that was not so good was the service. There was one waitress for about 15 tables and we had finished eating and waited almost 30 minutes to be able to flag her down for a check. A little disappointing because of service but the food far out weighed that part.

Upon doing a bit of research it appears that Rahel also used to own Messob which is next door to Rahel's restaurant. So maybe our next trip down there we will check out Messob.

Get your craft on!

Hey Friends-

Our online shop Jack and Till will be a vendor at 3 Silverlake Craft and Vintage Fairs in November and December for the following dates 11/22, 12/6, and 12/13. we hope you can all come out and visit us and say hi! If you live to far away don't worry about it! We have an etsy store that you can purchase products through!

Happy Friday!

xoxo Raechel

P.S. I think I have a serious obsession with 60s style drawings. Love it.



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I want to be Parisienne

this new perfume commercial is to die for. I have a serious weakness for all things sexy. I also love these chanel commercials too!



I'm going to go find my leather dress and buy some roses.

Love it.

So I was copying the photo's from my iphone and ahem... I have 398 pictures on it. OMG....Needless to say I don't remember every single photo on there but I forgot about this one. Its of our feet at the Hollywood bowl and I love it.



I surprised Jack with tickets to see Ray LaMontagne this past summer. It was a warm beautiful night and Ray LaMontagne just has this sultry sexy voice that could make anyones panties drop ( hi mom! dont read that part) and the hollywood bowl is gorgeous. It was also amazing because the LA Philharmonic was playing with him. OMG. I can tell you that it was by far the best concert I've ever been to ( sorry DMB! you're really really really amazing as well!)

xoxo

raech

Impromptu trip to San Francisco

So I have not gone to alcatrez, rode on a cable car, or walked across the Golden Gate Bridge but what I have done is drank my way through some great restaurants in San Francisco. Two of my besties live up there and one lives in the city and makes it her job to try every cool place so that when I come to visit I have somewhere absolutely fun to go!

So Friday night we started at the Tipsy Pig for some drinks and food. They have this amazing drink called Strawberry fields and its crushed strawberries, vodka, simple syrup and other good things and these things are amazing. Its got a really cool pub feel going on and really great food!




We sat in the far right corner by the wall and a really awesome touch that they do is when they bring you the receipt it is in an old book. Love it. After that we met up with some friends and went to some pubs.

On Saturday we headed down for bloody mary's, mimosa, deviled eggs, and biscuits at the Elite Cafe. Where we made great friends with the tender of the bar and he hooked us up with drinks and even made some of his own personal cocktail creations for us. Let me say I am a huge fan of his espresso martinis. narm.



Also, girls if you're going out for breakfast sit at the bar and make friends with the 'tender! You will have a way better experience...Just sayin.

Fast forward to my last day up there and we decide to do a walking tour of SFO. First we, got coffees and wandered around Fillmore St. which is filled with really cool shops and restaurants. We decided to do lunch at Dosa, which is a South Indian restaurant. We had such good food and we both had elderberry mimosas. Yum.



Then we headed down to Japantown and walked through the little mall to walk off our lunch. When were done there we headed down to the Clift Hotel, which is an awesome Phillipe Starke designed boutique Hotel. How awesome is this giant chair in the lounge? Plus, I love all the mismatched chairs in the lounge.



We hung out for a bit in the lounge waiting for their bar to open which is called the Redwood Room and rumor is the entire wood covered bar was made from one giant redwood tree back in the '20's. How effing cool is that?


We had a cocktail here and decided to do some more wandering to other bars . We tried to go to Bourbon and Branch. A really awesome speak easy bar/lounge but when we got there no one was answering their doorbell ( which btw you have to give a password at). So we ended up wandering to an Irish pub and grabbing a pint .

At this point we were a bit hungry so we headed down to Betelnut which is an amazing asian fusion restaurant. The Best part is the wait staff wheres these really awesome little costumes. Loved it in there and the food was to die for!


After this we headed back to the house and fell asleep. I had a long day of driving ahead of me on Monday and we were both tired from our debauchery all weekend long. Maybe one of my most favorite parts of the trip was on Monday morning we walked a block down to her local coffee shop and the city was so sleepy and beautifully quiet. For being right in the middle of the city you would have never guessed how serene it could be. I love SFO.

Cheers-

Raechel

*all pictures were borrowed from a quick google search.