Fanfic fun (as always)

I was doing my rounds of fanfic sites (and being horribly let down) again when I decided to hit a site with a fabulously twisted Narusasu/Itasasu AU where the Uchiha family was fucked up and died but for totally different reasons than canon. Also, set in modern Japan. Sasuke was the "priestess" their family needed to sacrifice every generation due to lack of a real female. Everyone except Itachi and Sasuke die in what seemed to have been a bad event and Sasuke "loses" his memories from the trauma. He meets up with Naruto in high school, all broody and solitary, but ends up breaking down and becoming friends because Naruto latches onto him and will not stop bothering him. Since this is slash, the two eventually drift towards each other in more than friendly ways. What complicates things is that Sasuke has been sleeping with Itachi as well, and Naruto finds out. I love how the first time Itachi fucks Sasuke is to distract Sasuke from his bad nightmares and make him forget everything. I've seen this little handy excuse used in a number of the Uchihacest fics and can't help but get a kick out of it. Way to make incest seem like a kindness. XD; In any case, I'm anxiously waiting for more because in the latest (dramatic) development Itachi collapses from overwork or something, and Sasuke is kidnapped. Naruto (and Kakashi) must go to the rescue! Despite the fact that Naruto had broken up with Sasuke due to the whole cheating on him with his brother issue! The annoying thing about that site is that she hides the more graphic sex and I can't find the link to the hidden stuff. >_< Unfortunately she's been in hiatus due to a family emergency...I checked out her blog to see if she'd posted since then, and sure enough she has. It seems the family emergency has mostly finished (her mother was hospitalized and got surgery), but she is trying to catch up with life. The funny bit was her mentioning the 10th Chronicle Minibook and how she did try to stick them together and lo and behold it worked! Another blog actually posted the Naruto and Sasuke on the covers and stuck them together to see if they'd meet at the lips...I love fangirls so much sometimes. XDXD;

If anyone's curious about the fic I mentioned above (and can read Japanese), the site is トマト畑でつかまえて (http://www17.ocn.ne.jp/~tsukino/naru/index.html). (If you find the link to the hidden pages please please please let me know!)

food and music obsessions

I was listening to an interview of a Spanish chef on The Splendid Table and just about died when he described a dish called Arroz Cubano (Cuban rice) that apparently everyone in Spain has grown up with. Fried egg+rice+tomato sauce (and at times banana?) sounds heavenly. Will try to figure out kind of rice to use. I doubt the medium grain rice we have in the house would be right...

I also am so going to try making Panna Cotta after reading David Lobovitz's blog post on it. It looks so easy! I just need to get my butt to a store and buy cream and gelatin. Though I have a feeling I may already have gelatin it may be buried somewhere...I also have a huge bottle of homemade vanilla extract I really want to test (you just stick vanilla beans into a bottle filled with vodka or rum and let it sit for a while--minimum 6 weeks, probably).

I also want to eat Cowboy Steak with Chimichurri Sauce because I love chimichurri sauce. Love. I...just don't want to make it myself. ^^;

I am currently completely obsessed with "Famous Blue Raincoat" by Leonard Cohen after listening to an interview on Fresh Air--he is putting on concerts after having all his money stolen by his manager while he was in a Buddhist monastery! I love the original (check it out here) but I am also looking for awesome covers. I am so glad you can hear samples on Amazon and on iTunes. I still haven't decided on whether to buy CDs or mp3s, and if I go with mp3s whether to go with Amazon or iTunes. I've been too traumatized by successive hard drive crashes to not expect another one--and even now I'm still lazy about backing up. XD; On the other hand, CDs take up space and can get really heavy. What to do, what to do.