We on a food tour #4 (aka end me in portland)

Portland Oregon
Los Gorditos
Tiger Something
Tecmo Bowl Burrito

We are short on time, so lets just say this. Portland, you are amazing. Why in the world does every restaurant have a vegan option, because your awesome. Seriously, what the fuck...Thank you!

Oh and chad wants to know why there is such a high up charge on guacamole in Portland, is it because the distance the avocado has to travel? Is it because Portland has no sales tax, thus the taco industry is trying to get there's some how? Or is it because he ordered two burritos when he was trying to just add quac to an existing burrito? The world might never know.

Fajita Fury Burrito

Soyrizo burrito
Rueben

We on a food tour #3

Salt Lake City Utah

Vertical Diner (again)

This place is so incredible good it has to be eaten twice, or so I am told. A real test of a place for me is breakfast. I consider myself the Master of Breakfast, so a good breakfast place really has to knock my socks off. Other then being the most important meal of the day, it is the best, you can go anyway and not fail with breakfast. Greek...yep, southwestern, yep, simple, sure, complex and over the top...of course. Breakfast flat out rules the food world.

Chad tore into Tofu scramble, cali garden paddy, horizontal chili, biscuits and gravy. Shining example of the versatility of breakfast, fucking chilli makes an appearance. I have never been hyped on a tofu scramble not made by myself, so hopefully this place comes correct, which I have a feeling they do.

david expanded his waste with biscuits and gravy, hashbrowns, tofu scramble, portebello mushrooms, red anti green salsa (?) and the best tap water he ever had. If you are reading this and from Phoenix and never been ANY where else, some places have legit tap water. Imagine that!

Eric ordered Same as davey only with a sausage biscuit.
I need to get to SLC to try this place, as do we all!

One of the most exciting times in random restaurant going to for me was in Inglewood California (home of the Great Western Forum, Fuck the Lakers) Went to some random diner next to a Nation of Islam church or masque or whatever the shit they call them and a southern baptist church. Thank you 5% for your weird juxtapose of ancient text and random traditional African practices, because this diner did not serve pork, but instead used morning star veggie sausage Patty's. Same with the gravy, this place was off the proverbial hook. And I went in expecting to eat a shitty waffle and be pissed the lakers won so many championships in the zip code I was in.

See You in Idaho Falls (again)

The Lakers Suck

We on a food tour #2

Salt Lake City Utah

Vertical Diner

So...the exploratory committee first wave occupational unit (the 3/4th of Seas Will Rise currently out posted somewhere between Salt Lake City and Idaho Falls Idaho) took this food tour blog to a level worthy of a zagats reviewer. If that zagats reviewer was a 30 something unwashed dude fueled by coffee and the call of the wild. What I am getting at here is the level of food that was dispatched to the western front was ridiculous

Incredibly quick pre amble, Vertical Diner got a top ten faux chicken on 2009 from PETA magazine. The restaurant is 100 percent vegetarian and buys local and organic ingredients whenever possible. I can get on board with all of this. And a quick once over of the menu, place looks priced about right. Lets see the goods:

Eric had a jerk Chicken burrito

I am assuming its tasty, the potato's look good. Quick tangent about vegetarian faux meat dishes. At least in my experience, eating faux meat entrees is like a 3 times a month ordeal, vegetarians aren't sitting around wishing they can eat a chicken sandwich everyday. So, like when you have a coca cola (Mexican, cane sugar uber alles) once a month, so when you do drink it, it is amazingly good as opposed to a steady diet of modified high fructose corn syrup all day every day. Same with faux meat, its breaks up the monotony and adds some spice to life, but is not an essential diet staple.

Another quick tangent, look at the cultures that have the "best" vegetarian foods: Hispanic, Asian: Indian/Thai/Chinese. These cultures diets are not focused around the plentifulness of meat. Look at Mexico, traditionally, beef was not available, ever. Sometimes pork was, but mostly chicken, if there was any meat at all. Thus the need to develop making "boring" fruits and veggies taste great. If your diet is mostly corn, beans and tomato, then you best make those ingredients taste amazing. Same flys for the asian cultures only add religious sentiments.

David had the american dinner

According to the menu: Choice of hand cut fries, mashed potatoes or hashbrowns smothered with gravy topped with fried chicken. As a person who never really thought about making gravy, it was always a meat eaters thing, until I recently started making gravy based dishes, I am shitting My pants while simultaneous high fiving the air. This shit sounds tasty and patriotic.

Davey topped it off with this gem. A chocolate peanut butter brownie with homemade chocolate syrup and extra peanut butter. I think that description sums this up.

This is what Chad got, he didn't say what it was but he did say "nom" being he isn't a 13 year old girl or asian anime character I am going to just post a picture and end it at that.

So...moral of the story is, make good food, eat good food, if your an omnivore who choose to eat the meat side of the omni, try some of these type of restaurants out, if your a veggie, frequent places like this, keep them around, especially once that buy local and organic as much as humanly possible, the fate of the world is on your shoulders.

See you in Idaho Falls.

We on a food tour #1

The Seas Will Rise regional food critic and taco enthusiast tactic assault and recovery task force has set off on a sojourn of personal and pallet enlightenment. We bring with us a bias towards awesome tamales, burritos and tacos from our Sonoran desert stronghold. Also 3/4ths of us refrain from eating the brutally acquired flesh of animals (we are ovo-lacto vegetarians, but the pope was a NAZI so no one is perfect right?) The 1/4th who chooses to clog his coronary arteries and pad the wallets of factory farms will not have a deciding vote on this quest for for food, so take heart that all these will be vegetarian dishes. We are in a dodge van traveling up from Arizona thru zion, thru the snake river valley into neverland down the gold coast and back thru the city of angels. We bring forks and empty stomachs (and hearts). The idea of a tour food blog is neither novel or generally exciting, but neither is downtuned hardcore, so either turn back or come along with us.

(editors note, listen to A Tribe Called Quests "Award Tour" and tell us it doesn't sound like they are saying "food tour"...really...well we think it does.)

Las Vegas Nevada

Yayo Tacos

FULL DISCLOSURE: Corey, the author, was not here, and is working off how the food looks from dispatches from the front.

Yayo Taco is apparently in some half empty strip mall that all western US citys are blighted with. I am sure there is a nail salon, a $1 store, maybe a water and ice store. Doesn't matter, good tacos are good tacos, and from the looks of this plate and erics correspondence of "holy fucking shit these tacos were awesome" this place isn't messing around. PLUS they host aggressive music concert events, which is rad. This is the 2nd taco shop Seas Will Rise has played (the first being Tacos Locos in Flagstaff when we were still referring to ourselves as CAGEMATCH) That place was passable to mildly decent, but all food in flagstaff is, sans Primos Hotdogs because that place is off the grid.

If Corey had been on this trip he would have politicked HARD for a capprotis sandwiches stop, which would have probably not been as refreshing and different as the Yayo experience (you know what yayo is? ask E-40 )

Anyhow, see you dorks in Salt Lake.

Stay Hungry.

Stay Pissed

We as a band are a collection of the most "normal" jerks you can assemble. We have mortgagees, children, wives, college degrees, car payments, pets, the complete domestic spread. We are school teachers, finical auditors, warehouse clerks. We work 9-5 monday thru friday for established corporate entities and come home and share dinner with our loved ones then rinse and repeat.

Often, and this may be the case for all members of downtuned hardcore bands, we aren't sure, our extra curricular music entities are discovered by co-workers. This is more often then not awkward, as most often they ask what kind of music you play and for a 30 + year old to say punk rock you get a giggle and smirk. They picture adolescent kids with mo hawks and ask "...so like blink-182?"

We don't expect them to understand, because they never have and never will. But it brings up an interesting dichotomy. Playing punk rock is to the masses scene as a juvenile thing, and in a large way punk is a juvenile tool of expressing anger and frustration, something teen agers are full of. But its also much more then that to many people. It shaped our lives, thru the outlet, thru the ideas, thru the community and thru the exposure to much more then we would have received by listening to a Collective Soul record.

We feel there is something predisposed in a person to be initially drawn to the misfit and deviant culture of punk rock, of skateboarding, of heavy metal, of hip hop of the "sub genres" of our youth (and today). There wasn't much glamorous about being called a dirt head, a loser, an outcast. But there was that draw, that spark that drew us to it. It various upon personal experience, be it the angst of broken homes, the anger of feeling left out, the hunger to want to create and encourage a community of like minded losers and outcasts brought us all together.

Then you grow up. You go to college or you get a job, or you do both, you date and you meet new friends, you change the way you dress, you act "older" and alot of the ideals you had when you were younger don't seem as important. Or you feel you need to make them less important because you don't want to be wearing a crass shirt in a sea of sport coats. Thats fine. Crass shirts and drinking malt liquor in parking lots is all auxiliary to the original spark (unless wearing crass shirts and drinking was what excited you about "counter culture" then in that case your probally a poseur. Not shame, just sayin')

Having a career, having a family, dressing like everyone else, isn't a resignation of the anger and frustration that brought you to this music. You are still that person who questioned authority, who didn't fit in, who felt like screaming at the top of there lungs about anything and everything. Only now your a more potent weapon of change. Your a real cog in a wheel, and you can help shift the tides. You have more of a vote if your a person with a career, you vote with your money, you decide whats fucked up and whats not with your monetary support. Instead of screaming anarchy, you can actually choose to no longer support slave labor by shopping else where. You can vote, you say hey, your policy's suck and fuck you your not getting my vote. You can choose to not support companies that support candidate that you feel suck. You can choose stand up unfairness in your work place, hell if your a boss you can choose to treat your employees fair, you can change the way you look, change the way you approach your day you can do whatever you want, and you can do it all with the same convictions that brought you to this place to begin with.

Doesn't matter how old, how happy, how well adjusted you are, you can always stay pissed. Because nothing is ever ok, no one where is ever perfect, things are always fucked, and its your duties as a conscious living breathing person to fight for that in any way you can, for as long as you can.

Your never to old, stay pissed.

Search Engine Overload

We got an amazing review by the head bangers at Hellride Music.
http://www.hellridemusicforums.com/forum/showthread.php?p=405177#post405177

Needless to say, we want to buy this fellow a 3 foot party sub or something, but his enjoyment of our music is gift enough (the pleasures all yours).

But seriously, it really reinforces our ideas and commitment to this band and this music when people are picking up what we are putting down. We can get into a long winded bullshit tangent about the creative process and the artists vision and all that, but lets break it down like this:

When we hunkered down to record this album and when we were making these songs, it was in relative isolation. We played these songs a billion times, got into our heads about them and they are totally different beasts to us then what it initially sounds like to you. Hell they are different beasts then when we started them. So its really refreshing that we did convey what we set out to do and nothing was lost in translation. Our mission has been the whole time to get you to smash your cubicle and throw a water cooler thru the break room window. So if you tap your toes to one of our songs, we are 20% on our way.

So on that note, where is a link to an exclusive stream of the opening track,
http://www.metalsucks.net/2012/02/07/a-sleepers-cell-by-seas-will-rise-a-metalsucks-exclusive-music-debut/

Record Release Show

The flier below was done by Gregory Allen Colson, who plays in the band rituals, who have a menacing, haunting, doom sound that is spooky and punishing all in one swoop. You should get familiar with this band as soon as possible. Their new record sounds great.

This show features our friends Lago who have been wearing gauntlets as long as we have (and by gauntlets we mean they have been playing in the Phoenix area as long as we have, but Cole does wear a gauntlet) They do a HIS HERO IS GONE cover, so get into that.

Tomorrow We Disappear is a post rock band more in the indie vein, but fit the bill. We listen to the full gambit of music, so if you can bring the pain with a harmonic we will back you (not that they play harmonica, but if they did!) Eric and Chad played with members of this band in Roman Arms, which was a band Corey was into after the demise, if that means anything to you. I mean he has 127 twitter followers, so it probably should.

Godawfullnoise bring grindcore and we feel that speaks for its self. Right!

The man in decline records distro will be on hand for this show, so now you can pick up that deluxe version of Metallicas St Anger you always wanted to buy as a gag gift.

Stay Pissed you chickenshits, its all we have to hold on to.