february highlights
Much much love ya’ll. I know I haven’t been around but we’re getting back into the groove and I’ll be posting more frequently - musings, couchdates, and whatnots. I’ll start by sharing two events I’m super excited for this month.
The first is my underground supper club untitled lovesong. It’s fucking scary to do these dinners. And in the fear I find confidence - it feels punk rock. Like I was Henry Rollins in 1982 writhing & shouting around.
Out the window are all the conventions of “dining.” Everything I had learned in restaurants goes in the trash with the watermelon rinds and onions peels. I try to find my grandmas, gentle, unhurried pace, instead of the frantic sense of urgency of “professional” kitchens. I look down and find love in my hands.
“Fuck tables & chairs”
Restaurants, especially high end restaurants, are supposed to serve the finest of wines to their diners. And restaurant managers, servers, even food runners taste them, and sometimes even take them home. But rarely does any of the lord’s juice make it to the back of the house, the kitchen. If it does it was a mispoor of something cheap, or the dregs at the bottom of the wine bottle. So, true to the spirit of the kitchens I was raised in, at untitled lovesong I serve cheap beer & cheap wine.
There’s something nice about not having to pretend to be sophisticated. You don’t need to appreciate the subtle notes, or be an expert on France. There’s nothing to be right or wrong about. You don’t need to be anything other than happy and drunk.
A fuck tables & chairs. I didn’t grow up with them. We didn’t even have forks or knives in my house growing up. So at untitled lovesong I serve you on the floor, the way my babiji (grandmother) did.
Our next dinner is Saturday February 24th. Tickets below:
https://couchdateoak.ticketleap.com/untitled
The other event I wanted to highlight is our Sade “Love Deluxe” Vinyl Listening Party on Friday February 23. If you haven’t been to a vinyl listening party yet this would be the one. If you’ve been before you know you can’t miss this!
These are small, thoughtful, intimate events modeled after Japanese Jazz Kissas (cafes). We will play “Love Deluxe” in its entirety on vinyl on the vintage high fidelity stereo system at couchdate 📻
Tickets: