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November 15th, 2008 / 21:52:00

BURLINGTON, VT.

For my friends at Burton… A NY Times article about your hometown. And a good reference for me next time I visit for an iDiom meeting.
Burtonの友人達へ。。。ホームタウンの記事がニューヨークタイムズに出ていました。次のiDiomミーティングに訪れるときにいい場所が紹介されています。

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3 Responses to “BURLINGTON, VT.”

  1. knef says:
    November 17, 2008 at 11:08 am

    I go to Middlebury College and have been following your blog for awhile so it’s quite weird to hear you mentioning my neck of the woods. All the things I’m into your blog for are not always ultra prevalent here(epic shows with epic seats,samples of next year’s most quality clothing etc.etc.), but we have something to offer as a foodie. I’d say Black Sheep Bistro, and the Waybury Inn are excellent choices within the 45 minute radius of the Burlington area. There’s quirky staples of the area like the kettle corn guy calmly manning his station in cold weather on Church in Burlington. The late night diners with cheese fries are bomb for the obvious late night munchies for the obvious light night reasons for late night college students who go to school in the middle of Vermont. Finally, my hometown(err, only as far as school goes) stomping grounds of Middlebury has my favorite wing sauce (and I’ve lived and been a bit of everywhere with a flight attendant mom) at Mister Up’s on Bakery lane of maple barbecue sauce mixed with a decently hot sauce. Our American Flatbread is a bit cozier, but it’s very local as it’s only open for a couple hours Friday and Saturday night. Frankly, that’s better to me. Right near there is Marbleworks with Noonie’s sandwich which is a daytime affair perfect for grabbing a sandwich and a bench and sitting by the water which is a part of an old Native American trail between communities. Order a Purple Pleasure’s unless you’re out of control picky. 5 miles down the road is the Otter Creek Brewery with their own brews(the more famous Magic Hat brewery of Magic Hat 9 Apricot tinged bear is near Burlington and also worth a Duff Beer like factory visit).

    I can’t lie that I’d want to try and compel you to come through Middlebury and drop a lecture on us(we’re a pretty interesting school and student body for a visit, if only on the quick step into surreality tip before the village gets boring…as really, i go to school in a place so small it’s officially a village). However, realizing the demands on your time,I’d say, it’s worth swinging around the area the next time you have a meeting with the Burton folks, even if you don’t make it to Middlebury. Though, I’m from L.A., and I did (alright while lost walking around lookingly for a possibly non existent barbershop) drop by Reed Space, and for you to stop through my area code and not check out the stomping grounds is kinda bugged, no?

    I’ve been appreciating your blog since Bobby at The Hundreds dropped his interview with you on his blog, and it’s since become one of my favorites as a more . . . seasoned commentator.(I wouldn’t say older/elder statesman comment or nothing like that as the hypebeast thing apparently ticked you off, but it is sophisticated taste that most don’t acquire until they’re older). Anyway, I’d never imagine there’d be a post relevant enough to me while at Middlebury to want to make a comment, but here it goes I guess.

    I hate personal blasts, but these are actually solid local flavor, if not much more of the level of DIY,but making do on some the whole being greater than the sum of its parts tip.

    Steez Teez-Church St.2nd floor walk up ( One of the leaders of bringing hip hop early to Vermont and local openers for Common and other artists founded and runs the shop, clothing and print brand that’s actually gotten some clout. Oddly enough, it’s our public safety officer’s brother, and the officer is an occasional DJ at certain risque establishments in Montreal. The funny connections of small town Vermont.

    Bern Gallery- Even if you’re not into plantlife exotica, this place that hosts an international glass pipe blowing contest in September(12 hour competition style, there have been some heartbreaking last second breaks apparently, judges passes can be bought and described as money “well spent indeed”). Bern Gallery has some of the most tastefully elaborate pieces I’ve seen in a region where glassblowing and artistry go hand in hand due to that crunchy Vermont flavor.

    Kids trying to retain their cityhood in the middle of nowhere/middlebury,vermont while taking on absurd workloads in classes you can’t hide from because there’s only 12 of you in a class-

    wrmc911.blogspot.com

    and considering I doubt there will be another Burlington, VT post, the only real personal blast:

    My show,
    MoveMental Radio 10:30-12MidnightET
    Wednesday bleeding into Thursday
    Mainly, Hip Hop, but Reggae, Jazz, Electronic and a bit of everything else thrown in to”Move your Mental”

    Webcast: wrmc.middlebury.edu/listen

    Lastly, I know this post will come off fanboy status, but really, I breeze through lots of blogs, but yours, bobby’s, souledonmusic, attorneyst, and model minority are the only ones that actually keep me coming back regularly. Why not, kicks, good food spots, travel, classy not over the top clothes, ping pong leagues, and where the hell else would I have got the idea to cop a lomos(sp.) disposable? Much appreciated man, don’t stop, I almost freaked when the old address changed-

    Knef King
    WRMC 91.1 FM Middlebury Concerts
    knefking@gmail.com( if you should ever decide to fit us in what most likely has become a veritable lecture circuit for you,but seeing as how I graduate in the spring it’d be a pretty ill graduation present to a Los Angeles kid who near froze obvious appendages off grinding hard for credentials I don’t really need to lead a happy life(but know it’ll better enable me to help others do the same). However, if you absolutely cannot, using the rolodex and getting Bobby(And let him know Umi makes my shopping experience dope every time,thanks for the labor day party payback shirt this year) to make a Gravis/Hundreds Black Box collection box disappear from a stockroom to my campus box on my birthday (Dec. 9th), we’ll call it far from even, as you obviously owe me nothing but a blog post about Black Sheep Bistro after you’ve had a meal there. Don’t sleep on getting fries in pretty classy establishments, there’s always a reason they’re still on the menu.

    Middlebury College
    Box 3402
    Middlebury VT 05753

  2. n says:
    November 17, 2008 at 11:05 pm

    b, he called you “seasoned.” haha!

  3. knef says:
    November 18, 2008 at 5:36 am

    I mean, elder statesman, is pretty respectful, but I could see myself rocking to the same stuff I do now 10 years from now regardless of age and being stupefied if anyone tried to quantify me as having anything other than my finger being on the pulse of the time. Straight up, I respect going into Reed Space with a little excess cash in my pocket and not worrying that I’m going to be cajoled into coming out of a dressing room looking like a 6 foot 2 brightly colored skittle. Maybe it does take going through a few of the clothing trend cycles to focus on the subtle details rather than beating you over the head with a wild trend that doesn’t withstand the test of time. I don’t want to look book at my pictures of myself years from now and realize, “what the hell was I thinking” a la folks that grew up in the 80′s and remember their Jheri curls and hightop fades with a slight sense of “I should have known better”. I feel like Reed Space, and the projects jeffstaple gets behind, come from a “seasoned” perrespective that perhaps has had/or has seen peer brands have a few of those moments and create products that fit for someone who carries the burning shame of an amazingly trendy for the time, but horrendously bad(upon reflection) purchase with them as they buy clothes,and not just for those who will snap up what’s hot at the time. Feels like, the brand, the creative house, actually responds to expected and unexpected consequences of their projects and adjusts accordingly. Young brands typically aren’t afforded this time as most dope ones that I run into that fade away spent all their time grinding to stay afloat on their ascent.I don’t think most young brands would take the time to think of a distribution/release strategy that would actually put Pigeon New Balances on pavement, rather than dead stocked away in someone’s closet. Hypebeast confused age with experience, I was trying not to. No disrespect though, as I will undoubtedly get salty as I get older and some person confuses my vision and experience learned the hard way with age. I mean I do it myself sometimes, but it ‘s a copout to not step your game up because the purveyor of quality goods is older, and you feel as if you’re competing on different planes. All that being said, the fact that the stuff on To Darrin Hudson is rooted in now, but is also cool enough to stand out from past experiences as people tend to post what truly stands out, and something that you’ve seen before, really doesn’t stand out that much.

    Novel over, but I couldn’t have my first and probably only (besides this one) post on this blog come off as a dig. I might half jokingly obnoxiously plead for The Hundreds/Gravis Black Box collection as there’s no way I can come up with the loot for the 2nd of the only two things I know I will partially regret not pawning my tv for(Supreme Trainers being the other), but I do have some respect.

    -my girl jackie almost through a fit when she saw the post without her personal blast as I put together openings for her stuff on midterm breaks and holidays-
    JackieLaryea.com, showings/openings in L.A., N.Y.C., and D.C. through January, contact her if you the dig the Ghanaian flavored, globally thinking work.

    Lastly, again, seriously consider dropping through Middlebury for a lecture, not everyone lacks succinctness like me, and could really use some real world perspective that we don’t always get in this bubble. Think, you could give 40-50 talented creative minds the proverbial balls to pursue what they want, rather than what the Career Services Office offers because maybe your ideas sounding similar to theirs might be a little more encouraging than a “Sounds interesting” response that my friend’s art history/sociology thesis on street art and marketing got.

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