HALFWAY CROOKS YAYYYYYY

Halfway Crooks is back this Saturday night at Phoenix! We realised we missed our first birthday! Oh well.

Come celebrate our 14th month with us this weekend. 

DOOD FOOD

10 dudes came round for dinner the other night and received the works: cheeseburgers with bacon, pickles, red onion and rocket on a charred bun. I tried to cook em pretty rare too.

After smashing 2 burgers each and a handful of hand cut fries, I still had the deep fryer going and a bunch of leftover pickles. I make my own dill pickles using cucumber grown by B’s Dad and they’re super tasty. I’d read about deep frying pickles over at Meatwave and decided to give em a try. We didn’t have any cornmeal in the house so I used masa. Different but good.

They came up terrific, the batter of masa and flour puffed up and went nice and crispy while the pickles stayed juicy. The taste was off the hook. Deep fried pickles would be the ultimate bar snack! Serve them with some toothpicks and some good beer. Mmmmm.

So my housemate Jeremy convinced me to buy the new Pokemon Heart Gold game (he opted for Soul Silver), which is the first Pokemon game I’ve played since I stole a kid I was babysitting’s Gameboy in in 1997. 

I defeated the Lance bro (after 30 hours of addictive gameplay) and now have to go destroy a bunch of other pussy gym leaders in some other town. It’s a pretty great game but for real, Joey needs to stop calling me.

https://yolevins.com/so-my-housemate-jeremy-convinced-me-to-buy-the-new/

BONE THUGS AUTUMN

So for the first song of every Ro Sham Bo Sunset radio show in Autumn, Moriarty and I played a Bone Thugs-N-Harmony track. Over the course of the leafy season we played:

Thuggish Ruggish Bone

Foe tha Love of Money

Tha Crossroads

Notorious Thugs

Get’cha Thug On

Weed Song

Get Up and Get It

Down Foe My Thang

Resurrection (Paper, Paper)

Thug Luv

Creepin On Ah Come Up

(and psst… we’re gonna play 1st Of Tha Month as a BONUS song next week on the 1st of June!)

We also did a call out for listeners to decide which rap group we should play a song by for the first song each show in Winter and the response was huge! It came down to three main contenders – Outkast, Slum Village and Wu-Tang Clan – but the majority spoke and it looks like we have a WU-TANG WINTER to look forward to…

Listen to Ro Sham Bo Sunset with Levins & Moriarty, Tuesdays from 6pm – 8pm on FBi 94.5FM

“YOSHI!”

IGN has a massive new article celebrating 20 years of Mario’s dinosaur sidekick Yoshi. The little green dude is mine and Bianca’s favourite video game character ever and we can often be heard making ridiculous Yoshi noise at each other. It’s embarassing.

Also I gotta say that I actually like the game ‘Yoshi’s Story’. Stop hatin!

DETOURS AND DESTINATIONS STARTS TOMORROW

heapsdecent:

Detours and Destinations opens TOMORROW!

Our biggest program yet starts this Wednesday in the Studio at the Opera House and we would love for everyone to come and get involved!

Heaps Decent has been working along side Shopfront, The Sydney Opera House and the Dept of Juvenile Justice to create a mix of music, dance and technology called DETOURS AND DESTINATIONS. It’s been an intense and exhilarating couple of months putting this show together, and now you can experience it too! 

SESSION TIMES

Wednesday 5 May 
1.15 – 3pm
6.30 – 8pm

Thursday 6 & Friday 7 May
11 – 11.45am
12 – 12.45pm
1.15 – 3pm
6.30 – 8pm 

Each of the 6:30pm sessions will feature guest vocalists rapping over the beats produced during the Detours workshops. These vocalists will be:

Wed: D-Minor & Low Tee
Thurs: Young Nooky & Marley, Miracle
Fri: MC Shureshock & breakdancers

For more info head to the Detours and Destinations page on The Sydney Opera House website: LINK

Check out the projects blog:  www.detoursanddestinations.com.au

Listen to and DOWNLOAD the four mastered songs we made with the kids at Miimali & Lomandra! SOUNDCLOUD

Aaaand: follow http://twitter.com/detours_tweets for your chance to interact with the visuals at the show!

Everyone is welcome! It would be fantastic to see you there!

DICKS ON THE WALL AT THE METRO THEATRE

If you’ve ever been backstage at The Metro Theatre on George St you’ve surely seen at least one of the dozens of penis drawings that adorn the walls of the venue.

Recently I tried to take a photo of each wanger. Here’s the meaty evidence.

That’s a lot of D. If you’ve seen more than that at another venue let me know!!

RO SHAM BO – 4/20 SHOW

Every Tuesday a combination of myself, Moriarty, Jimmy Sing and Spruce Lee host Ro Sham Bo Sunset, a radio show on FBi Radio in Sydney.

Last Tuesday, the 20th of April, I was left to the show on my lonesome and decided to dedicate almost the entire show to the herb most people celebrate with on 4/20 day.

A bunch of people have asked me to upload the show, particularly the last hour where I mixed nothing but weed classics, so here it is! Spark up!

Ro Sham Bo Sunset – 4/20 Show

This was recorded and broadcasted live from FBi, in the last 20 mins my buzz was totally harshed by hearing about the death of Guru. I played Take Two And Pass from Gang Starr’s Daily Operation as a tribute to both Guru and DA URB. Read the whole playlist after the jump!

Playlist:

BONE THUGS-N-HARMONY weed song

METHOD MAN & REDMAN da rockwilder

SONIDO DEL PRINCIPE wucumbia

MR LEXX dem a pree (cosa nostra riddim)

TIFA reject (cosa nostra riddim)

TIMBERLEE the general (cosa nostra riddim)

RUSKO you’re on my mind baby

DJ RIOT mermaid dub

THE BOOGALOO CREW calling all dancers

BREAKAGE feat DAVID RODIGAN & NEWHAM GENERALS hard

LIL’ FLIP / DORIAN CONCEPT i’m a balla / trilingual dance sexperience (PATCHWORK PIRATES refix)

6BLOCC the weed

MAJOR LAZER feat LEFTSIDE & MAPEI mary jane

DVA ganja

CHRISTIAN MARTIN ghosts

THE MARTIN BROTHERS duckface

MAJOR LAZER feat VYBZ KARTEL pon de floor (STEVE CAPORAL remix)

MR VEGAS heads high

METHOD MAN & REDMAN how to roll a blunt

DR DRE feat SNOOP DOGG the next episode

PAUL WALL feat DEVIN THE DUDE smoke weed

GUCCI MANE feat BUN B, DEVIN THE DUDE & E-40 kush is my cologne

EEK-A-MOUSE ganja smuggling

COLLIE BUDDZ come around

RICHIE SPICE marijuana

THREE 6 MAFIA bin laden weed

TYTE WURK mary jane

DEVIN THE DUDE doobie ashtray

LIL’ WAYNE fireman

GANG STARR take two and pass

CRUCIAL CONFLICT hay

THE CLIPSE gangsta lean

AFROMAN because i got high

SANDWICHFACE

Bianca started this great Sandwich blog where she takes a photo of all the sandwiches she eats. Since I make her an average of two sandwiches a week, there’s a few good rolls I made on the blog.

So far none have come close to this next level sandwich I made for us to eat today:

sandwichface:

Roast pork belly, sweet pickled cucumber, pickled bamboo shoot, red cabbage, rocket, coriander and mayonnaise on long white roll. Made by Levins.

heapsdecent:

Levins and Adam Bozzetto went back to Riverina Juvenile Justice Centre in Wagga Wagga to run two days of music workshops for Australian Youth Week 2010.

We recorded 2 songs while we were there which we’ll put up on the site very soon!

https://yolevins.com/heapsdecent-levins-and-adam-bozzetto-went-back/