EATFREAK

So.  hey.  most of this stuff is covered in the “about” page, but I thought I’d take a moment to officially welcome you to my new blog and explain a few things in a detail.  So.  Here goes.

I’m John.  I am not a food professional of any kind at all.  I am a musician.  I just happen to have a serious obsession with food and most things concerning food.  I cook a lot.  So much it’s obnoxious.  I love cooking for my friends and family – and when I do I hear this a lot “Dude, you should totally start a restaurant”.  Well – flattering though that may be (Though my cooking is a far freaking cry from restaurant quality … at least the kind of restaurant I’d want to put my name on)  The fact of the matter is that the restaurant industry sucks balls.  Almost as many balls as the music industry.  I’ve got one ridiculous, life consuming, crack addled, crumbling maniac of a profession to deal with – I don’t need two – and if I leave music it’ll be for something unfathomably boring and quiet and stable.  The food industry is none of those things.

When I was 18 I attended the first four weeks of the California School of Culinary Arts.  I had to leave for family reasons.  By the time I was ready to return, I had also been accepted to Berklee College of Music.  I had to make a hard decision.  I chose music.  The music industry is a very heartbreaking monster.  You spend a lot of time busting your ass for free and praying for a day when you finally feel like you are “working”.  I used to spend a lot of my time wondering if I made the wrong decision, and if I should leave music and go back to cooking.  I don’t know why, but one day I grew up and remembered that the food industry is just as heartbreaking, just as hard, and just as monstrous – and were I ever to leave music for food – I’d spend every hard day wondering if I made the right choice and if should I go back to music.  So instead of doing that stupid dance I’m sticking to my guns and making noise for a living.  BUT…….

… That doesn’t mean I can’t write a ridiculous blog about my never-ending obsession with food stuff and things and force you poor bastards to read it.  Not true.  I can’t force you.  But I’ll try.

What can you expect to find on this blog?  Well, I’m glad you asked.  Food.  I’m gonna cook and show you recipes I make with pretty photos.  I’m also gonna review stuff like restaurants, cooking gear, food books, other food things.  I might occasionally go off on some useless but (hopefully) entertaining food rant.  I will also be making profiles for some of the people in my life who pertain to my food obsession – the people I cook for, the people I cook with, the people who cook for me.  I’m guessing this will be my favorite part of the blog and here’s why ….

…  solipsism is real.  The only life we know how to live is one trapped within our own minds.  The fact that people try to share anything with one another is fucking incredible.  But there are a few things that we have to share.  We are all born – we will all die.  Unless you die immediately after being born (if this is true of you and you are reading this – we need to talk) one of the few other things that we will definitely share is eating.  You have to eat – otherwise you will die.  Me too.  That’s something we share.  And I really like sharing it with you – and basically anyone who is willing to.

So – enough of the sappy shit.  On to the real stuff.  I’m an incredibly disorganized disastrous person when it comes to putting stuff like this together.  That said you should expect to see a post a day – whether it’s a recipe or a review or a profile or whatever – if a day goes by and you don’t see a post – it’s because I’m a loser.

I could keep writing stuff – but I’ve got a whole blog to fill, so I’ll save it for later.  Until then – eat good things – freak.