OWEN TAYLOR: THE CHICHARONES ARE IN OLY TONIGHT >>>

Pork products are amazing. I realize this watching my Jimmy Dean Vermont Maple Syrup flavored breakfast sausages sizzle in the pan at breakfast. There they lay, my pretty little pig fingers, dancing back and forth as the pan’s heat sears through the casing and cooks the little blobs of ground-up fat and meat. It’s that surreal blend of savory and sweet aromas emanating from the pan that gets the salivary glands going â€" anticipating the greatness that will come. It’s kind of like seeing the Chicharones flyers all over downtown Olympia. Having tasted the Chicharones’ high-powered show before, an experience that only comes from the combination of the right ingredients, namely Oldominion’s Sleep and Anticon’s Josh Martinez, we can but wait in a drooling stupor for the flavor to arrive in our ears and satisfy our hunger for dope hip-hop â€" which will happen Friday at the Clipper. Like I said, pork products are amazing.

[The China Clipper, Chicharones with Language Arts Crew, Junkyard Gang, the Elements, DJ Deadbeat 9 p.m., $5, 402 E. Fourth Ave., Olympia, 360.943.6300]

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