4th, Part 1.

What did you do on the 4th?

Farewell to Prime Burger.

Yes, we've posted this before.
And yes, we're posting it again.

Because today, Prime Burger will serve its last burger.
Yep. The building was sold and they will cease to be after today.

Farewell, Prime! We hope you come back soon, in a new location. And yet, somehow, we doubt it.

Let's Make Raspberry Pie!

Let's make it is fucking right! We love this video for several reasons:

1. It's almost raspberry season. Which means we're fucking JONESING for those sweet, nipple looking berries. You know, to put in our face holes.

2. St. Vincent. Because who can ever really get enough of St. Vincent? If you don't listen to her, please change that.

3. It's pretty as shit. And a lattice? No one makes a goddamn lattice for their pies anymore! Craziness! Lattice away, for I wish to do filthy things to that deep red pie. Mostly with my tongue.

Let's Make Raspberry Pie from Ben Derico on Vimeo.

Artisanal Pencil Sharpening.

If you've been following along for a while, you know pretty well by now that we live in Brooklyn. And that we love it.

However, we'll openly admit to much of the ridiculous shit that goes on here, and absolutely welcome all that wish to make fun of it. But anyone that wishes to do so should probably give up, because you'll never succeed better than David Rees.

While sure, this video takes place in Beacon, NY, we all know it's a riff on the Brooklyn dream. The dream of taking up some oddly specific craft and bringing pretentious assholery to it. Whether its pickles brined in the tears of your lost childhood or a tattoo artist that only uses inks made from beet juice (neither of these things is real, but might as well be), David's brilliantly dry satire will call you out.

Sure, it's a little long. But for the funniest video I've seen come along in months, it's totally worth digging in. After all, "pencils are, in a lot of ways, the opposite of the internet."

Half-Smoke Worship

If you've never been to Ben's Chili Bowl, you've never been to one of my favorite places on the planet. Just in case you are one of these poor lost souls, we found you this.

The History of Ben's Chili Bowl from Zoeann Murphy on Vimeo.

I've got a thing for late night greasy spoons (in case you had not already guessed), and I was in love with Ben's the first time I ever crossed the threshold. There isn't much that I can say better than Bill Cosby and the Ali family, so watch and drool for yourself. And let's go get a half-smoke next time we're in DC. Happy weekend, chili faces.

You Feel That, Right?

Can you feel it? The warm breeze on the back of your neck? The sting of sunshine on your bare feet? The steam burn of a too-hot crawfish right out of the boil? Yeah. Us too.

Memorial Day Crawfish Boil from Jen Tank on Vimeo.

I mean, yes, this video is a little shaky, a little all over the place, but isn't that kind of how memories of summer feel? I mean, you could lay Louis' rendition of La Vie En Rose over a Civil War re-enactment and I would think it's super romantic (no offense to any Living Historians* in our midst). There's also something surprisingly charming about capturing the faces of people expecting to be photographed on video. Big smiles, held for just a little too long, with a beer in your hand. That's kind of the framework we're building our lives on here.

We're so close, everyone. Now, if you'll excuse us, our roof and our beer coozies are calling. Happy weekend, lovelies!

* But seriously, what are you people doing with your lives? 

The Best Thing I Ever Done.

Pizza.

Yeah, just seeing the word makes us feel feelings too. We had a reader request yesterday to add a video about pizza to our growing list of local food videos we've been giving to you on weekends. And of course we knew the perfect one.

DiFara.

The name here is bandied about any time someone asks about the best pizza in New York (this is a frequent conversation, and EVERYONE has an opinion, and it's ALWAYS an agressive one).

Here's what DiFara has going for it: this guy's been making every single pizza his restaurant puts out. That's right. EVERY pizza. Since he was 26.

And now for a sad admission: we've never been. I know. I know. It's certainly something we feel bad about. And among the list of best pizzas in NYC, the only place we haven't tried.

We're people that make extra time on east coast road trips to pop in for a Frank Pepe's pie, so it's shocking to us as well. Even with the increasingly frequent health department closures. Perhaps watching this video will drive us to finally head out there and deal with the fucking line and the hour or two wait for a perfect (and maybe slightly unsanitary?) pie.

Or we might just go to Totonno's again...

The Best Thing I Ever Done HQ from Margaret Emily MacKenzie on Vimeo.

Sorry, the filmmaker won't allow embedding of this video, but click the link above to get your Brooklyn pizza on.

Violet's Sex Diary: Part 3

And here it is, everyone, the final installment of Violet's Sex Diary. I bet you thought you were only getting seven days, didn't you? Well, we're good to you, so you get ten. That's right. We were so happy that you ate up Part 1 and Part 2 of this series that we decided to give you more.

Get to it!

DAY SEVEN:

We were both so hungover the day after dinner with the Make Love Not Porn crew. I played hooky from work, which turned out to be incredibly opportune because it was GORGEOUS outside. I ran some errands, reveled in the attention of the swarms of construction workers and other men wearing their boners on their sleeves that day. A little bit of sunshine turns the men in this city into sex animals.

One notable highlight from a sweaty, muscled, rather hot construction worker: "DAMN. Why you gotta be everything I've ever wanted?"

I love springtime.

Violet's Sex Diary: Part 2.

Part two of three, y'all! You went apeshit for the first one, so go on and dig in, perverts.

DAY FOUR:

Rye was out of town on business. This usually engages us in a fair amount of naked pictures being texted back and forth. He was so busy on this trip that it engaged me in watching a LOT of RuPaul's Drag Race and going to sleep.

The Freshest Guacamole.

So, there's not a ton to say about this video, other than it's fucking RAD. And is by PES. Which is redundant given the first sentence. If you're not familiar with their work, you should change that. Start here:

Combining familiar elements of childhood or current-hood, and adding food elements hit us in our softest spots. And even better? They just scored a gig to bring The Garbage Pail Kids to the big screen. We'll just pretend like it's the first time that will happen, shall we?

Enjoy! It's literally impossible not to.

Hotel Chevalier.

Of course we love Wes Anderson. If you didn't know this by reading our blog up to now, we don't really know how to make it more clear. The attention to detail, the style, the music. It's all very much him, even if that can be redundant as he "progresses" as a filmmaker.

Whether or not Wes has lived up to the promise of his early films is beside the point for us. The real point is that if you've never seen this short, which relates to Jason Schwartzman's character in The Darjeeling Limited and ran before it in theatres, you're missing out.

We're here to fix that.

Hotel Chevalier from q1ch on Vimeo.

There are a number of reasons we love this short:

1. Natalie Portman's ass.

2. Natalie Portman's hair.

3. The Peter Sarstedt song.

4. The balcony.

5. The little details all over the room.

6. It's funny.

7. It's sad.

8. Natalie Portman's ass.

We hope you find similar reasons to enjoy this little gem.

Wiener Porn.

Just so you're all prepared, what follows is full-on, hardcore, unadulterated wiener porn. Sizzling hot lengths of meat. Tube steaks.

Bark Butter: Why Every Hot Dog Needs a Little More Pork Fat from SkeeterNYC on Vimeo.

Well, the kind that you eat. Wait, the kind that you swallow. Shit, you guys, the kind that are made from beef and pork and get slathered with mustard and sauerkraut!*

Food and Hot Men in Suits.

Honestly. That's it. We love how this video looks, we love how it sounds. Rye and I were sold on this video inside the first few shots of black and white kitchen action. Especially hacking up that t-bone.

We love the idea of locking a few single girl and guy friends in this room and not letting them out until they've fucked at least a few of these gentlemen. This is a lunch date wonderland for anyone who loves beards, hidden tattoos under suits, old Italian guys, fine tailoring and steak. Does anyone not love those things? Not to mention a surprise Kanye West appearance!

 

The Sartorialist: Lunch for 25 from The Sartorialist on Vimeo.

If you are not already acquainted with The Sartorialist, you should most definitely lose a little time there. It is total stylish-people-porn. 

This Must Be the Place.

Here we are. Another weekend, another lifestyle post. and yes, it's about food again.

PRIME from thismustbetheplace on Vimeo.

To be fair, the last video wasn't as much about food as it was about craft. But for a product that is used exclusively for food. This one isn't even borderline, it's just straight up about food. Burgers, in fact.

But it's also more than that. It's about a business. And old, still thriving business in Manhattan. Among all the chains, the fancy new joints with reclaimed barn wood and local brews on tap. This one is a throwback. And it makes me yearn for not only more places like it, but for a tasty burger during a cold winter afternoon.

Oh, and it should also be said that this video series hits right where it counts. After all, it's named after one of our favorite songs EVER. Talking Heads, 4eva!

See you at Prime!

Food Porn (or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Just Embrace All of Our Fetishes, Sexual or Non).

This may seem like it comes completely out of left field. But if you know us at all, you know that we're food people. Most of our life here in Brooklyn is driven by food. Cocktails. Speciality markets. Farmers' markets. And the sheer quantity of like-minded people that surround us at all times.

Our pleasures lie in the most basic pleasures of life. We like good food, good booze, good sex and good art. And we don't ever tire of any of them. Constantly searching for the next amazing thing to eat, that booze we hadn't heard of yet and just how to use it, a cooking technique or ingredient we've never encountered, a record that knocks us on our ass.

Please don't leave us.

Don't worry, guys! We're absolutely not going anywhere. Just a few busy post-holiday weeks for us. We'll be back to our regularly-scheduled programming quite soon.

Ask us anything. Make it filthy.

Pegging Weiner.

Isn't this just the perfect scene of suburban contentedness?

No?

But shouldn't it be?

The whole Weiner scandal was a big topic of conversation in the Violet + Rye household in recent weeks. Sure, we wavered back and forth on the subject. Was it creepy? Was he Tweeting under age girls knowingly? Were the Democrats being fucking ridiculous?

What do you like to do aside from fucking? Sports? Art? Travel?

Hmm. Never thought of that. Fucking is pretty much it...

Joking. We actually have very full, varied lives that revolve around friends, food, music, cocktails, food, writing, food, politics and travel. Though not so much the sports.

We've said before that people that meet us in person would probably never guess that we run this blog. And none of our friends know. But then, who knows, maybe if you told them, they wouldn't find it so far-fetched.

I suppose that's partly because we're drawn to passionate people, whatever that passion may be. They, like us, tend to be passionate about many things, and sex can just be one of them. I know it is for us.

Ask me anything. Make it dirty.