![]() ![]() Recorded at Tulsa, Oklahoma’s legendary The Church Studio with Grammy-winning producer/engineer Trina Shoemaker, Jenny from Thebes is a lush collection of showtunes, pushing Darnielle as a vocalist and the Mountain Goats as a band, broadening their sonic palette once again by leaning into influences like Godspell, Jim Steinman, and The Cars. It is a story about the individual and society, about safety and shelter and those who choose to provide care when nobody else will. Jenny from Thebes is the story of Jenny, her southwestern ranch style house, the people for whom that house is a place of safety, and the west Texas town that is uncomfortable with its existence. They invite certain questions: Who is Jenny, really? What is she running from? Well, she’s a warrior and a thief, and, this being an album by the Mountain Goats, it’s a safe bet whatever she’s fleeing is something bad. ![]() These features are beguiling, both to the characters who’ve told her story so far and to the listener. In these songs, Jenny is largely defined by her absence, and she is given that definition by other characters. The Mountain Goats’ catalog is thick with recurring characters Jenny, who originally appears in the All Hail West Texas track bearing her name, as well as in “Straight Six” from Jam Eater Blues and Transcendental Youth side two jam “Night Light,” is one of these, someone who enters a song unexpectedly, pricking up the ears of fans who are keen on continuing the various narrative threads running through the Mountain Goats’ discography before vanishing into the mist. That lyric, “Jenny was a warrior / Jenny was a thief / Jenny hit the corner clinic begging for relief,” became “Jenny III,” a song which laid down a challenge he’d never taken up before: writing a sequel to one of his most beloved albums. ![]() Enny from Thebes began its life as many albums by the Mountain Goats do, with John Darnielle playing the piano until a lyric emerged. ![]()
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![]() Add a handful of fries to the oil and cook them until they reach the crispiness level you prefer. Pour oil into the skillet until it’s ¼-inch deep and heats it over medium-high heat until a drop of water splatters loudly when you introduce it to the oil. So you won’t have to use as much with each batch for the flavor to come through. When you pull them out of the oven or oil, salting your fries right can help your seasoning stick better. Put your hot fries onto a plate covered with paper towels, shake them to remove the excess oil, and add your seasonings before serving them immediately. Get a slotted metal spoon and carefully remove the fries from the oil. Once the oil reaches this point, carefully drop your fries down into the oil and cook for three to five minutes until they get crispy and golden brown.Įnsure you don’t overcook the fries, as they can get hard. If you cook frozen fries, you want to heat your oil up to 350 degrees. Thawing them, even for 5 to 10 minutes before you cook them, can result in a soggy fry that gets even soggier as it sits. Keeping the fries frozen until you drop them in the oil will help prevent them from getting soggy, and they’ll turn out much crispier. With this in mind, please don’t allow your fries to thaw before you drop them into the hot oil. You can fry frozen fries relatively quickly, and you usually get a much tastier product by cooking it this way than you will by baking them in the oven.īefore you fry them, you want to ensure that your fries don’t have big clumps of ice or freezer burn on them because this will cause the oil to splatter when you drop them in. This results in a very crispy fry that doesn’t absorb much oil and turns out soggy. It would be best to keep them as frozen as possible before dropping them into the oil to ensure that the potato’s surface is completely sealed before frying. Why You Shouldn’t Defrost French Fries Before You Fry Themĭon’t let your fries thaw out before you fry or cook them. Sprinkle them with your seasonings of choice and bake at 400 degrees Fahrenheit until they sizzle and are slightly brown. Shake the bag for a minute or two to distribute the oil, and lay the coated fries on a baking sheet or baking stone. Start by putting your fries in a plastic bag and spraying them thoroughly with cooking spray. This quick guide will outline everything you need to know to get the perfect fries each time you cook them. Several factors determine how well your fries turn out when you finish cooking them, and it’s relatively easy to burn them or have them turn out soggy.
![]() ![]() There are tons of setting powders on the market, so we focused on some of the most popular brands and top-rated setting powders. We think that this is the best way to apply it, but you do you! If you're looking for serious staying power, Faller says you can even try adding a layer of powder in between primer and foundation. “You can use a blending sponge like Mehron's Face Smoothie Sponge to pack on the powder, and then use a big fluffy brush to dust off the excess,” Faller explains. There are endless ways to apply setting powder, so your giftee can feel free to experiment and find what’s best for them. How to Apply Setting Powderīefore we get to testing, let’s talk application. “Pressed powder can be matched exactly to the skin tone like foundation because it is not known to oxidize, while loose setting powder can only be close to the skin tone or colorless,” she says. “It’s OK if it’s not the exact color as the skin tone as long as it’s colorless and brightens the highlighted area of the face,” she says.Īccording to Gant, a setting powder’s formulation also impacts your giftee's shade match. Makeup artist Kenyata Gant of Pink Lipps Cosmetics says setting powder should either match their skin tone or be colorless because if so, the setting powder won’t show a white cast or a flashback after applying it to the face. Whether your giftee prefers a loose powder, in which loose pigments are contained in a jar, or a pressed powder, which is patted down onto a smooth surface, this step is essential to long-wearing, flawless-looking makeup. ![]() “A finishing powder acts as more of a veil and goes on like a light dusting than setting powder to blur any lines to create that seamless finish.” They usually come translucent and are a bit heavier,” makeup artist Pamela Faller tells us. “Setting powder will literally set the makeup to make sure it stays put. ![]() ![]() The Converse Sample Library is overflowing with an abundance of samples recorded by real, professional musicians in the Converse Rubber Tracks studios. Some websites, smartphone apps, or software programs use digital audio workstations to create samples. You don’t have to enroll in their courses just to sign up. You can download these drum samples after signing up. ![]() So, why are we mentioning them? Well, they also offer free drum samples of high quality. This Australia-based company offers musical lessons, courses, and other learning tools. LiveSchool is, in fact, a school for producers. Another thing worth noting is that the plugin doesn’t stress your computer’s CPU too much. The plugin itself is beginner-friendly with a minimalistic layout design. This allows you to edit the samples from their website. Then again, you can settle on their free content as well.Īdditionally, W.A. They come in packages, depending on the instrument or music genre you’re looking for. You don’t have to buy the samples individually. However, their best samples are only available for purchase.ĭon’t worry. In general, all of their samples are of good quality, and some of them are royalty-free as well. ProductionĪnother website that’s relatively popular among musicians and producers is the W.A. ![]() ![]() Maybe you could try it out with the free samples first, and if you find that they’re incalculably helpful to your music, then it’s time to invest in the paid samples on the website. However, while some of the samples are free to download, a majority of the content requires payment. Additionally, the drum tracks are also classified according to their styles or genres, so it’s pretty easy to find what you’re looking for. This website offers various samples from different musical instruments. Cymaticsįor anyone who’s trying to find quality drum tracks and is looking to produce music as well, Cymatics can be a useful tool. They do have a massive library of quality tracks, and even producers use this website for some of their songs. However, considering that all of them are completely free, you might have to dig a little to find the best quality drum samples. This means you can use their drum tracks even for commercial projects without worrying about a lawsuit coming your way. All of the samples from this website are free to download and are also royalty-free. If you want to access a ton of samples but you don’t want to spend your hard-earned bucks, you have to check out Looperman. It’s also relatively easy to use as it features a digital drumkit, which you can also build on your own. It’s basically a plugin you can download and use on your DAW.Īside from drum snippets, the Toontrack Superior Drummer 3 also allows you to create your own drum sounds. Toontrack Superior Drummer 3įor those of you who are mainly looking for drum tracks and would like to avoid tinkering with various apps, the Toontrack Superior Drummer 3 is a great option. This means you can reverse, loop, or slice the drum tracks before you transfer them to your digital audio workstation. Loopcloud also allows you to edit the samples through its loop editor. After downloading the app and signing up, you can immediately access countless samples from various instruments, which include drums. It has numerous functions and features that allow you to customize your music in almost any way you want to. Loopcloud is one of the most complex options we have on this list. Some of these apps or websites are completely free, while others have additional downloadable paid content if you wish to expand your library. Free Downloadįirst, let’s talk about where or what to download to get free drum tracks. Having said that, allow us to show you where you can get the best free drum tracks for your songs. “ How is that possible when I don’t even have a drum kit?” you ask? Well, you can get numerous drum tracks from various sources. With all the technological advancements we’ve had over the recent years, you can now create your own songs. We’re looking at you there, bedroom musicians.ĭon’t worry. It’s just that not everyone has the resources to pursue this passion and start a band. ![]() Millions of people actually have the talent to make music. On the other hand, some software programs also allow you to create drum tracks by using their pre-built snippets or a MIDI controller. There are numerous websites and apps that offer royalty-free downloadable drum tracks. You can either download drum tracks or make your own. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now the shortest route option is 30-70miles longer than the previous route provided and we added some fun skills challenges at the end like a u-turn on a 2 lane rd. When it does you’ll close the app to take care of something before you go, then and open it, input the same destination and bam you’re route is completely changed. Most times a good route but rarely will it give you a great route. (used to be able to do on Mapquest) this would be more helpful than any other upgrade. Please look into making it possible to adjust the recommended routes by dragging your route line. Get rid of carpool lane recommendations because. ![]() Įasy to use good app good features but can’t trust it to keep you on a good route more than once so if you get a good one save it immediately. This app needs to have it so you can aliterate the routes and combine two or more to your own route you know is faster and better. If I don’t stop and change the routing half way thru our trip it’s not just going to take an extra half hour but it’s also going to put me on when we call misery hill ! It’s a very steep grade two mile long down hill going and a two mile up hill on the way back. So it looks like half way there I will have to stop and then change the route from one to the other?It gives me a two hour and a two is hour drive time depending on what route I pick but having been going to lime rock countless times every year for 30 years I can make the drive combining both routes in 1.5 hours. I can’t seam to just combine making my own route out of both. The bargaining part of the blue route is faster but half way there the green route is faster. A green route and a blue route to pick from. Needing to get from our race teams shop in hamden ct to lime Rick park race track this app gives me two routes we can take. I hope it works again some day, but I can not continue to try to test an app that crashes my whole system. And I have uninstalled and reinstalled it multiple times. With and without extra stops (no added points renders it useless to me). I have tried to use it in portrait and landscape mode. This is particularly frustrating, as my ELD is through my iPad as well. It actually crashes so hard I need to do a soft reset to get my iPad to function. Some of my longer trips have 20 or more route points and this app handled them easily. ![]() If your iPad updates or needs to restart, just reload your saved route. Just take the time to build your route and you know you are good. The unlimited stops and ability to save your route makes multi day trips a breeze. You can save routes and easily alter the routes as your permit changes. Let’s review based on it working, and hopefully it will work again. I haul exclusively OS/OW, and this app is perfect… when it works. ![]() ![]() ![]() What we gladly discovered after removing the crown moulding was that this is how the previous owners were able to hardwire speakers into almost every room.Īll the rooms, including the garage, have random wires popping out of walls, floors, ceilings, and cabinets, and we found that a lot of the wiring was hidden behind the crown moulding. My mom was upset with us for removing it because it’s “expensive to put in” and considered a desirable feature, but I didn’t think this particular moulding was going to make sense with the more modern style we want to bring to this home. I’m not generally against crown moulding, but for this house it didn’t feel right. From going around removing the myriad of Command strips all over the house with some causing damage to the walls, deciding on the light fixtures and built-in speakers we didn’t want to keep, removing a couple strangely out-of-place exhaust fans, and finding random holes and large openings that needed to be filled in, the project list kept growing to then include replacing interior doors (saving that for another post because it’s entirely its own disaster), putting in new door casings (saving that for the other post as well, DISASTER), removing plantation shutters and window casings (other post, too), and removing crown moulding. ![]() Because we’re painting every wall and ceiling in the house, we needed to look closer at prepping the canvas and this is where the project became bigger. I’d love to play with paint color in the future, but for now we wanted a blank slate and keep it easy by painting everything white. What seemed like a small task ended up being not small at all and is still going on today (we are estimated to finish this “pre-move-in” work by mid-end of November, which increases our original time estimate of 2 weeks up to 8-10 weeks!) It has been our first and thorough lesson on how projects can grow, complications happen, and budgets and timelines are merely suggestions.Īs you saw from the empty house tour, every room was painted a different color. We had a limited amount of time before we moved in to get some work done on the house, meaning we prioritized tasks that would be more convenient to do while none of our stuff was there yet, like painting. ![]() ![]() ![]() Picking a load and making it fit a “suitable” handgun is going about it backwards and asking for trouble. The trick is finding the firearm that works for you, and then (and only then) selecting the load that works in it. The attitude of “real cartridges start with the numeral 4” do not take into account the fact that a lot of people just don’t want to deal with, or can’t handle, the size of a “4” pistol and the recoil it brings with it. Now, we have accurate 9mm because it is all accurate. This temporarily stopped the pistol program, and initiated a crash program to develop match-grade 9mm ammo, then started the tests again. Army and Air Force began testing in the early 1980s, to replace the “worn out” 1911s with something new, something 9mm, they found that the 9mm ammunition of the time wasn’t as accurate in new pistols as the then-current. It is soft in the lighter loads and manageable in the hottest loads, so it is accurate. Now they are common, but the BHP is still a valid choice for those who want a single-action system pistol. The Browning Hi Power (this is a Novak Custom) was for a long time the only hi-cap 9mm. The 147-grain bullet is so long (it barely fits in the case, with room for powder) that you could expand it to double its diameter, and it still has enough length of bullet cylinder left to support the expanded bullet. It has enough velocity to punch through the various barriers and still have speed enough to expand on the other side. The 9mm Parabellum seems to be the cartridge the FBI tests were made for. Speer Gold Dot 9mm $23.99 Buffalo Bore 9mm $25.99 Oh, you’ll get more than the standard ammo would deliver, but not so much more that it’s worth all the drama, noise, flash and recoil. Using the same ammo in an ultra-compact Kel-Tec is simply making excessive noise, beating up your hands and not getting the velocity you thought you were. So, using a Glock 17 or 34, a full-sized Government Model or similar other big 9mm, you get all the benefits of the velocity. This was seen as a not-good outcome.įor instance, the +P and +P+ loads are best performers when launched out of a full-sized gun. NYPD found them sometimes stopping in bystanders. FMJ bullets do not expand, they penetrate, tumble, and stop eventually. The big problem in selecting the best 9mm ammunition is determining what platform you will be using it in. With the 9mm, the convergence of all the advantages created a product that now is going to re-set the law enforcement landscape, moving many agencies back from the. ![]() If it is manageable, people will learn to manage it. Even in the hottest loadings, in a not-ultra-compact pistol, it is manageable for the average shooter, and this is another advantage. As a result, you will find more hi-tech bullets in 9mm, from more makers, than any other cartridge. ![]() Some might say, “Sure, because it needed it,” but I see it as ballistic advantage waiting to be reaped. These two advantages caused the 9mm to be the main focus of bullet improvements. 7 Affordable 9mm Carbine Options (2018).Is The 9mm Luger The Best All-Around Defensive Cartridge?.And, the higher operating pressure means it can generate enough velocity to expand bullets. 45 offers eight rounds in a magazine, a 9mm magazine in the same-size pistol doubles that. This offers a significant increase in capacity. The standard bullet weights range from 115 to 147 grains, with velocities from just under 1,200 for the 115s and just under 1,000 for the 147s.Īs a compact cartridge, the 9mm has an advantage that larger or longer cartridges cannot offer: a high-capacity magazine, with a double stack of cartridges, does not become too large a magazine and grip for the average shooter to handle. It is a hot number, with an MAP of 36,000 PSI. So, Georg Luger opened up the bottlenecked case of that 7.65 as much as he could and, viola, the 9mm Parabellum came about. Invented in 1904, the 9mm Parabellum came about because the German army couldn’t bring themselves to adopt a. +P and +P+ are best reserved for full-sized pistols.9mm ammo can be divided into three classes: light, medium power and supersonics and heavyweights.Gun type goes a long way in determining the preferable load.The 9mm has the advantage of higher capacity without enlarging a firearm's grip.9mm bullet weights range from 115 to 147 grains and velocities from 1,200 to 1,000.How to choose the best 9mm round for personal defense: Offering a high-capacity magazine and enough velocity to expand bullets, you’ll find more high-tech 9mm ammo, from more makers, than any other cartridge. ![]() |
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