Soy Sauce Packets & Epiphanies: It's Time For Me To Fly...

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i've found that buying a musician's entire album has become more and more difficult for me to do over the years. albums that are completely listenable are few and far between, but when you do find one, it usually makes up for lost time. albums like dave matthews band's 'under the table and dreaming,' zach macko & far north's 'songs from my room,' and gavin degraw's 'chariot' are a few of my most notable listenable albums of all time. recently though, i've been lucky enough to add a new band to that list, the words of which their song 'fly' are on the photo above. cipes and the people is an awesome band that brings reggae back into the current music scene. whether or not reggae is your thing, you can't deny the rythym and lyrics that greg cipes brings to the tunes. i haven't listened to much else in the past week, since getting the album on itunes. it's worth so much more than the $9.99 it costs for the 18 track album titled 'conscious revolution.' the lyrics strike such a chord with me, causing be to believe that it truly is "the music that unifies everyone and everything." -greg cipes

check out the cipes and the people website HERE.
or the cipes and the people myspace page HERE.

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the story behind ssp&e:

so i'm not sure if you're anything like me, but being the 'off the cuff cuisine' chef that i am, i try not to let anything go to waste. you know, when you bring home some bk or mickey d's, and after consuming your poor excuse for food, have ketchup packets or sauce shots left over that you throw in the door and forget about. same goes for chinese food, and you know they always give you enough sauce to put out a fire at the pentagon with your order. you throw them in your refrigerator door and forget about them. then one day you're trying to impress some last minute guests that have decided to stay at your place for dinner and all you have in your 'gourmet' kitchen are some ramen noodles, frozen veggies and some leftover grilled chicken from last weekend's cookout. the makings of a superb, on-the-fly stirfry. but wait, OH SHIT!, how are you going to make a sauce for your stirfry with no sauce? you look in the fridge and all you see is a bottle of ketchup, french's mustard (i use the term mustard loosely when describing french's), and a jar of pickle juice. oh no, what to do, what to do. then you bust open the butter holder, that invariably has never seen a stick of butter in it's life, and VOILA! soy sauce, duck sauce, hot mustard! packets, but instant chinkychow sauce nonetheless! each one of those packets, collected over time, came from a meal, inevitably eaten over conversation, an argument or during a lone lunch of self-reflection, came from a time and place in the past. as are our lessons learned. we learn through the years how to cope, how to inspire, how to teach, and how to live. we don't always remember those lessons, as we throw condiment packets in the fridge we throw life-lessons into the back of our heads, until one day we find ourself in a situation where it becomes relevant and we pull them from the back of our minds as to not waste the advice and lessons of the past. the moral of this story, and the linking of it to my blog- our life experiences are our 'soy sauce packets,' our hidden links to our experiences of our past...

e·piph·a·ny - noun - a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience. [www.dictionary.com]

the epiphanies that we experience in life, questions or situations that we find ourselves in, and don't know how to resolve, can most often be solved my raking our brains in search of a 'soy sauce packet.' an answer to a question. a solution to a problem. and so this, this blog, is simply an ever-expanding culmination of soy sauce packets in my butter box, and the epiphanies that have helped to make room for more butter in my fridge...

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It's Time For Me To Fly...

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

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