Recommendameme

Recommendations of the strange: For each of the categories, pick one thing that you would recommend for a friend, either new to you or old and time tested but perhaps strange.   If you like, please copy the meme to your LJ or email and put in your own answers and leave a note here that you have, I want to know what you'd recommend!

1. MUSIC: New strange band: Abney Park  www.abneypark.com  Goth/Bellydance/Steampunk
                   Older:  Bing Crosby Armed Forces Broadcast, WWII Radio, from the Mountain View Library
                   Live: Asylum Street Spankers, Bluegrass/Jazz/Pulchritude, coming in April. 

2. BOOKS:  New Author:  Charles Stross.  Stay away from the Family stuff, read Atrocity Archive instead.  W00T!  IT Mages!
                      Older:  William Ashbless, Pilot Light, is amusing.

3. RESTAURANTS: New: Sophia Cafe' in Palo Alto on Middlefield.   Afghan food.
                                    Older: Kabul in Sunnyvale.  Afghan food.

4. BAR          Tasting room at Red Branch Cider/Rabbit's foot meadery, Sunnyvale.  2-6 T-F, with Friday going until 7 or so.
    ALCOHOL:  Diabhal at the tasting room, a Belgian style ale brewed with honey.

5. MOVIE:  "Pirates Who Don't Do Anything." 

6. COMICS:   Paper:  Barry Ween, Boy Genius (The Adventures Of) by Judd Winick)
                        Online:   Kukuburi  (www.kukuburi.com)


What have you got?