what are you into right now?

leeks
SPIN magazine
60s-70s Bollywood videos
cast iron
cold soups
dragonwell green tea
Almodovar films

kale smoothies
new bike routes
lederhosen

sri lankan curries
NYC
jewish ethics
litterboxes
fitbit
mattresses and bed linens
veggie and berry gardens

rubbing my cat Pickle's belly
sitting around in my underwear
the medieval adventure stores of robert e howard
flipping things

Pickle!

pickle is very very cute.

awwwww tickle tickle little pickle

^ belongs in both "quoted out of context" and "CUTECELSIOR!"

the only good picture i have of pickly also includes my fat belly, sorry guys.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/372268 just watching this on repeat

omg quince I am *so* excited abt my new IKEA duvet cover. It is very, uh, me.

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/images/products/tvablad-duvet-cover-and-pillowcases__0111642_PE262577_S4.JPG

That's awesome! I am into that right now.

Love it!!!

i dunno, kinda into music right now. also moby dick, werner herzog, garlic scapes, and good posture.

baseball history
eating all of the local peaches
doom metal

VG

http://www.amazon.com/Crazy-08-Boneheads-Magnates-Greatest/dp/0060889373

sweet!!! I'm adding it to my wishlist so I don't forget to read it. thanks brownie!!

strawberries
asparagus
color in terms of clothes
dresses
sandals
tiny humans
hanging out outside
yoga (what? who am I?)
herb gardens
travel plans

Star Trek: TNG
air conditioning
jojoba oil
writing love letters
music from the late sixties that combines country, soul, pop, and good production.

'historical' fiction (tho not really)
scales and improvisation on guitar (painful)
max payne 3
the house brand shirts from nordstrom -- would love to have a couple dozen of these
not cleaning
'classic' weightlifting
trying to worry and self-hate less, esp. about job

man that looks like a really dudely list now that i write it down

what's classic weightlifting? Olympic dead lifts and squats and all that?

gogol
madonna
20c america
falafel sandwiches
frequent laundry
sobriety

passing phases, all (except the falafel)

Spain
Interior decorating
Motorik
Waiting for sunshine
Playing five-a-side
Bicycle riding
Maple syrup

dayo: yeah p much

I'm imagining you in a black speedo
now

Puy lentils
The sea
Marina Ambramovic
Mark Dion
Chika Iz Permi
Pepa Flores
Belgian New Beat
Amaretto sours

I have two more!

Bruce Springsteen. This is not really anything new but I'm definitely going through a phase where he's all I want to listen to right now.

Being really excited about upcoming music shows! Squeeze! Promise Ring (lol)! Japandroids! Morrissey! Jesus and Mary Chain!

Vanilla

-Coconut milk in smoothies
-Rum + fresh strawberries + apple juice + my blender
-Everything blended
-Poached eggs

Predictably mine is all about food!

Fried tomatoes

Euro 2012
Mango Chutney
Roquefort Cheese
Alan Clarke movies
Hate Comic

also

Goodreads.com (although sometimes i feel like a saddoe about it)
Tuc Crackers

Euro 2012
Radishes
Campari
Hot dogs

Patrick O'Brian audiobooks
Our new dog and his medical issues
FASSBENDER

Euro 2012
the history of the vocoder
Michel Serres
shorts
cleanliness

Superdrugs
calendrical reform
safe alternatives to Honey Nut Cheerios (e.g. Honey Bunches of Oats)

i'm just fooling. i'm not actually into any of those things

mostly these days i'm obsessed with updating my mommyblog

Wait can we just take a minute to discuss motorik and Belgian new beat? ShariVari did you hear the mix 2 Many DJs did last year where they slowed a bunch of new beat records to like 105bpm?

Also I have never heard of garlic scapes in my life until I saw them at like 5 diff stands at the farmers market, and then later that night my rmm8's friend brought some over to cook with, and now you.

marvel shit
lego
farms
chicken
18th century maritime warfare

Right now, at this moment, I am SO into wasabi peas.

xxxp, i didn't, but it sounds like i definitely should.

poker
slot cars
light beer
circulating air
mangoes

scapes are amazing

lol I had never heard of them til now, I first thought it was like, carving scenery out of garlic haha

If you have a iPhone, they're on the Radio Soulwax app ("This Is Belgium: Part 2"); if not its on their website somewhere

tacos
spotify playlists (sorry, david lowery)
losing 21 lbs without really trying
my two local libraries
diners, drive-ins, and dives (not for fieri, just for the places and the chefs)
makers & ginger
aperol & club soda
the menagerie of stuffed animals in the living room: an orange pumpkincatbear, a snowy owl, a 3-headed red glittery dragon, and a vintage cookie monster with googly eyes

watching old seasons of Gordon Ramsay shows
collecting High Life bottle caps
slowly making decisions about my future.

homemade lemonade
-the juice of 5 lemons plus somewhere between a 1/4 and 1/3 of a cup sugar

Do you, like, add water?

Goodreads.com (although sometimes i feel like a saddoe about it)
--Michael B Higgins (Michael B)

Haha me too

also: cherries, but especially rainier cherries, which are only in season RIGHT NOW

Holy shit someone I was ride sharing with from Oly to PDX last year gave me some of those and oh my god

sunshine
being warm
waving at friends/acquaintances while biking by on the way to something
this guy i know
not-dark ambient
math-aesthetic art
raspberry dark chocolate
mangoes

rrr what not-dark ambient are you listening to atm?

acting (been doing a class and so many elements of it are now demystified to me, also lots of weird yoga-like exercises)
running
buying beers and ales i've never had before
dance music, a lot, again, after some extended downtime
lol bowties

dlh otm re gogol i'm never not into him

Do you, like, add water?

i guess

stevie, i say non-dark ambient as sort of a joke but not an entire joke, like i know it's not winter bc i'm not into dark-ambient, but i'm listening to somewhat more ambient stuff by Apparat, Monolake, Eno, Popol Vuh, oh and Taj Mahal Travellers for the full-on zone-out effect

buying beers and ales i've never had before

oh yeah, this also

isaan food
mangoes
campari
afrobeats
'wolf hall'

hi 5 rrobyn, good musical choices for full on zone out. you know how to live.

thinking about going swimming but not actually going swimming
cooking mexican foods i have never cooked before
seafood
making the reading/music listening room more inviting, possibly with curtains
finishing a bunch of things i've started
reading jillian lauren's memoir about living in a harem with the prince of brunei

reading jillian lauren's memoir about living in a harem with the prince of brunei

Oh! Was she one of those ppl paid thousands to get flown over there and then just hang out and look pretty at parties? That whole thing is so weird.

yup - i heard an interview with her and was so taken that i bought her book. now i am reading it.

I might check it out. I always thought it was interesting that it actually wasn't a sex thing and that (as far as I understand it) they were treated well and showered with gifts and that for most of them the biggest problem was boredom and being away from home.

Oh, that's weird -- from what I gather it was definitely a sex thing. What I like about it is that she totally seems like a real person by virtue of how clearly she illustrates what was going on -- she's really good at writing about her own life and communicating who she is (or who she wants us to think she is) and also moving the story along.

plain kefir
John Martyn
Horace Andy
baby-raising
fruit-bran muffins
going to the playground to shoot hoops

lol hurting i'm picturing you on a baby ranch herding babies with a sheepdog, lol

x-post - Interesting! I know that there were several of them there at any given point. Maybe for some it was a sex thing and for others it wasn't? Huh.

John Martyn is perfect music for baby-raising -- Bless the Weather, I hope?

I know it sounds weird but I really do feel sometimes like I have this new, intensive hobby called baby-raising. You read all these books, you obsess over various decisions about care, you carefully follow every new micro-development.

Bless the Weather, Solid Air, others xp

daddy prep
training dogs to be not crazy
making pancakes a few times a week
sleeping until 9
yellow magic orchestra
bob's burgers
t20 cricket world cup in a few months
lebron james proving me wrong

drafting
Muriel Spark
Burger/Ink
the transitions between wakefulness & sleep and between sleep and wakefulness

records (specifically and recently: http://skotrok.blogspot.com/2012/06/hey-scott-what-have-you-been-listening.html )
battlestar
sci-fi books
writing
watching my kids do stuff and hearing them talk about stuff

John Martyn is perfect music for baby-raising -- Bless the Weather, I hope?

Sunday's Child more like:

http://991.com/Gallery/438445b.jpg

I sometimes get the impression that Scott listens to more records than actually exist in the universe

at least more records with rainbows on them

Scott's record list is getting me into extruded text right now

i got this record cuz on the back carl henry explains that one of the songs was originally meant to be sung by tanya tucker on battlestar galactica but then the show got cancelled :(

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nz-NjNvr8JE/T9uuKGFZUkI/AAAAAAAAAsU/Zdr-lHTyL7A/s1600/turn%2Bit%2Bup%2B027.JPG

Area
Small Faces 2 s/t lps
photoshop projects.

burritos
spotify's new radio feature
iced tea
venturing out to do grocery shopping at 9pm, after the sun has set
comic store being on my route home and Wednesday means comics

german space-rock and funky jazz fusion from the 70s
mangos
iced tea in the afternoon
chilled rose w/dinner
wearing a hat in the sun (not baseball cap, i don't DO baseball caps)
swimming
pilates
reading & writing
family stuff (obligations i guess but it doesn't feel that way)

everyone is into mangos

I'm not into mangoes

GET OUT

without mangoes we as the animals

are

(I'm allergic to their skin)

Viz comics compendiums
finding Viz comics compendiums at the used bookstore
orange juice with booze in it
redheaded dudes
Donovan
Soft Cell
walking to the park to watch the sunset and see bats
the park has a frigging library in it how great is that
the green corn tamales in Tucson that have weird sweetened masa
Judge John Hodgman
purple eyeshadow
purple eyeliner

:(
can someone cut it for you and u just enjoy the sweet sweet mango meat

xp

I have been into dried mangos

all the mango

none of the mess

think about it, it's genius

dried mangoes are wonderful!!
mangoes are perhaps my fav fruit behind the humble guava

no, even then my throat gets scratchy. if i eat about a quarter mango my face swells up. they're delicious, tho

on my bucket list is to write the Great American Mango

do u have compensatory tropical fruits in your life, Owen? I feel like u shd not be denied this

I'm not into fruits at all, save berries when they're in season, and papaya salad. I like veggies.

I am into eating fish responsibly, that is, not at all except an occasional freshwater trout.
And Cerberus comics
Cómeme records
Doing hot yoga on hot days and taking selfishly long cold showers

aw man fruit in summer is alltime

I'm into sitting in my hot house with no a/c and no fans on and sweating like crazy.
I'm into staying out of the sun at all times. I am going on a beach vacation with family and plan on reading indoors.
Oh I am also into expensive honey in a spoon, that is amazing, fixes you right up.

dried mangoes are wonderful!!
mangoes are perhaps my fav fruit behind the humble guava

I AM SO INTO GUAVA RIGHT NOW!! I have bought like 7 in the past month and I have a can of guava shells in my pantry to experiment w making guava cheesecake. Also those green-wrapper Asian guava candy.

xp - are you in toronto? it is so hot here that when i rode my bike from school my shirt was sodden, which was gross, i was not into that right then.

- going to the park and reading dianne wynn-jones and listening to 'ladies of the canyon' and 'brothers & sisters' and keith fullerton whitman on my phone
- swimming in the early evening and walking home from the pool still wet
- making songs up

yeah toronto is hot right now, i like it

the green corn tamales in Tucson that have weird sweetened masa

yes

growing winter veggies in the garden (kale, silverbeet etc)
Animal Crossing: City Folk on the Wii
things involving home made chicken stock
making home made chicken stock
ricotta and tomato on toast

burgers
sequencers
monosynths
lapsang souchong
finishing stuff

burger sequencing

finishing stuff is something I'm into at the moment too

I have a feeling it's just a fad but it's fkn good

i shd get on borad with that.

with starting stuff, too.

almost made mango salsa yesterday

have homemade mango salsa in the fridge, so very into it. also

running
pinball
The Rest is Noise, and the attendant overstuffed playlist I'm amassing
tequila and mezcal
melting cheese on things to eat
Madalyn Merkey
reading ILE (instead of ILM)

OH MAN I want to play the Animal Crossing Wii games... argh I need a Wii!

also, monosynths are the shit!

TV

Father Dougal McGuire from Father Ted
avocado
Emika
Julie Tremblay's sculptures
W. Somerset Maugham

tanzania
apprenticeship
soccer
zoning
cultivars

TV

― Jeff, Thursday, June 21, 2012 11:39 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not sneezing, or at least I would be if I could really get into springcleaning.
Psychedelia
tie-dyed denim
Widebrim brown leather hats, maybe suede for the summer
the idea of making my own clothing, hoping the actuality follows
post-punk
the idea of getting back into making models of show cars.

occult history
By This Shall You Know Him by Jesse Jacobs
tea
death metal
ghost towns/urban exploration

somebody get plax I want to to know what he's into right now

locknuts (these little guys are so rad!)
making fruit curd
daydreaming abt what would be on my menu if I opened a restaurant, right now its

• shakshuka
• grapefruit ginger tart or maybe waffles w grapefruit ginger curd
• pancakes made w/ OJ
• something with refried black beans made w/ butter
• my friend's chamomile tea cupcakes (SO FUCKING GOOD, FUCK)
• garlic soup
• vichyssoise (maybe garlic vichyssoise??)
• beer brats w/ melted pepper jack cheese

I'm currently exploring the hidden but crucial links between the vein structure of the Tsutsuji Azalea leaf and the drum patterns Fred White played on Donny Hathaway's 1973 album Extension of a Man. It's all I think about, as a matter of fact.

At a loose end one day last week, I dressed up for a lark in a blue-grey suit-and-tails with a purple-green dress-and-gown slung over it. Desirous of creating an impression, and perhaps kindling a little aspiration in the youth of the neighbourhood, I decided to put in an appearance at my local exotic hot-house.

There, to my disappointment, no-one paid me the slightest morsel of attention. So I began examining one of the brittle, hard Azalea leaves. By chance, "I Love the Lord; He Heard My Cry (Parts I & II)" started playing just then on my iPod. I noticed with a start that Fred White's percussive punctuations fell, in time, exactly where the Azalea's veins fell in space.

The chlorophyllic ducts, light green against their dark background, reminded me of the veins on a splendid young equestrian phallus, perhaps the penis of a prize stud living at a high-altitude New Zealand horse farm where the air, early in the morning, is sharp and clear. At such a place there is sure to be a glasshouse containing rare and wonderful blooms, and it shouldn't take much lysergic encouragement, if you are there, to begin seeing clear parallels between their leaf structure and the rhythms of Fred White's performances on tracks such as "Come Little Children" and "Lord Help Me".

If this does occur I would recommend that you to skip lunch (let's face it, you have no appetite anyway) and at once climb the path that follows the crystalline stream, rising from the melting huddle of rock-daze to the grinning skull of the treeline, where a paranoid scarecrow stands screeching. If you listen long enough to his scream - which starts terrifying, but becomes more and more beautiful - you will realise that it's Donny Hathaway's version of "Love, Love, Love". Just sung very, very slowly.

the smiths
climbing on rocks
lisa robertson
spinach with tomatoes, garlic, and salt with an egg and toast in the morning
Mickey's malt liquor
riding my bicycle around listening to Swans

hunter s thompson's letters
hilly fields
chorizo
slide guitar
nasty but really quite refreshing beer
summer

occult metal with melodic leads
scene- or label-focused compilation CDs
the baby
work

Aero you have babby?? That is so exciting! How old/what gender/is it yr first?

j.g. ballard's high rise
tahini sauce
'80s/'90s supermodels (cindy, christy, naomi, claudia, linda)
freegal (sorry, !@t33)
sopressata
taking the 2 bus all the way down sunset to the beach at pacific palisades

I'm really into the blowsy busty mom from the show Outrageous Fortune. I want to know her, I want to be her, I want to chain-smoke in every scene just like she does. I'm taking notes.

early space ghost coast to coast
mall food courts
thomas ligotti
antonio negri's book on spinoza
vintage benetton
scientology's involvement in los angeles public schools in the 80s
late 80s wwf wrestling (costumes and feuds)
nervous gender/the screamers/old synthpunk

taking the 2 bus all the way down sunset to the beach at pacific palisades

^love the 2

eating whole grapefruits
Omar khorshid
Grateful dead from'68
Judge dredd
Dampyr
John Ronson
shredding veg for stir frys

I ate a whole grapefruit the other day and some sections tasted like perfume. I haven't braved another one. :(

nervous gender/the screamers/old synthpunk

word

velvet underground
wheat berries
wearing dresses

KEXP
boobs
exploring the upsides of mediocrity

cheap bourbon
lesser-known new wave sf novels
newish swans live album and new swans studio album
sleeping

'80s/'90s supermodels (cindy, christy, naomi, claudia, linda)

The PR guy at work (who you think would know better) told us that Kristen McMenamy is 60 years old.

Man, what ever happened to her??? See also: that Helmut Newton blonde named I think Nadja or something? She was HUGE (literally and figuratively), and then she just. . . disappeared.

Nadja Auermann!! I looove Ève Salvail too

I was soooo into late-80s-to-mid-90s fashion for a minute there. Have you seen Altman's Pret A Porter or Unzipped or the Christy Turlington doc Catwalk?

Also I plan on making one of these soon
http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad184/sdolnack/Screenshot2012-04-04at21050PM.png
http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad184/sdolnack/Screenshot2012-04-04at21245PM.png

was never that into kate. not amazonian enough.

dude she looks like an alien!

Aesthetics of the original Experimental Jetset design require you to put the longest name on the bottom; that's what the ampersands are for after all.

DUMPLINGS!
dark chocolate
mandopop
converse shoes (bought eight pairs this month)
throwing out stuff that annoys me
affogatos
cupcakes

throwing out stuff that annoys me

― undermikey: bidness (Autumn Almanac), Monday, July 30, 2012 1:03 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^^^

did this with a bunch of underwear recently, A+ decision

it's like being reborn

Strontium Dog, but wondering on the physics of time-bombs
Lightnin Hopkins
Telling People that the Tunnel Boring machine is on the way to Mayo which might mean I need to head up that way to prevent it. Last stage of the Corrib Project is about to begin.
Reading Ed Sanders and listening to the Fugs.
Banana Shampoo from Body Shop

hey get bent, have you tried dark tahini, it sounds like a '70s miles davis album & is the connoisseur's tahini preference, kinda granular like peanut butter almost

THIS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0

esperanto
ab fab
buffy
caprese salad
zazen
guy maddin

golf
chewing tobacco (unfortunately)
Allman Bros.
golf
beer
golf

arepas
the beach, going to the beach, talking about the beach, thinking about the beach
not cleaning my house and not seeing the dirt
drinking a little too much probably

Aesthetics of the original Experimental Jetset design require you to put the longest name on the bottom; that's what the ampersands are for after all.

Right but then Experimental Jetset went ahead and made this too
http://www.experimentaljetset.nl/images/stories/2001/experimental_jetset_kmbcb.jpg

ballet documentaries
Revenge (the not-that-great TV show, why am I watching you?)
pork
PJ Harvey

You must have seen The Children of Theatre Street!!

I love ballet docs. Also in the last year watched Only When I Dance and Dancing Across Borders, very happy with both.

Oh have not seen either of those yet! Ballerina and First Position thus far.

I've seen Ballerina, thought it was uncomfortably approving and unquestioning and a strange take on the subject, but I'm hazy on the details now. The other one you mentioned looks GREAT, will watch ASAP!

michael b higgins, that video was mesmerizing. i clicked on it, planning to just watch a few secs and i had to stay till the very end.

hey get bent, have you tried dark tahini, it sounds like a '70s miles davis album & is the connoisseur's tahini preference, kinda granular like peanut butter almost

i have not! where is this sold?

pork
PJ Harvey

totally just reminded me of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFozbx7kKgg

michael b higgins, that video was mesmerizing. i clicked on it, planning to just watch a few secs and i had to stay till the very end.

Yeah, that was terrific. You guys should check this out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35hCo_grAqw&hd=1

So not into block quotes.

Stereolab
Talking abt social theory w my boyfriend
"Let's Have A Kiki" by Scissor Sisters
Looking up and considering old Olympic mascots (<3 u so much Waldi!!)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b0/Waldi%2C_Olympic_logo_1972.png

Tanya Donelly / Belly
DUNE

alexander calder
that ilya bolotowsky painting that ended up at goodwill
ferlin husky
haribo dinosaurs
vixen the cat

NailPorn. If I had the time, I would hop on the Eurostar and have my nails fixed. OMG

You guys should check this out

that vid was sweet!

speaking of cute boys in suits, i am into:

http://youtu.be/QbJCB2ArgK0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbJCB2ArgK0

- camping!
- trader joe's mediterranean hummus
- Celis White beer
- sierra mountain foothills. SO GREEN EVERYWHERE!
- horseradish

There's a 3-mile Navy pier off the coast of Sandy Hook, NJ that was purpose-built for loading AMMUNITION ONTO NAVAL VESSELS. It has to be 3 miles long in case ammo detonates while loading!!! Rail cars carry the ammo across the country from the factories and all the way down the pier to the docks.

Am having crazy "inaccessible places" longings about it right now but apparently they do not fuck around with it being off-limits so I'm thinking that's a "No."

http://njscuba.net/zzz_sites/navy_pier_aerial.jpg

The way I found out about it was that my plane flew over it on Saturday and I had no idea where it was, it's just this ENORMOUS PIER with a weird trident-shaped end, just hanging out in a bay. I looked it up on gmaps and Jesus Christ, of course it's military.

future noize colony

into it

i like the lake pontchartrain causeway, that you fly over coming out of new orleans; flying over unidentifiable manmade structures is amazing (nb: ooo)

meanwhile i am into this right now
http://www.garlandsorganic.co.uk/images/uploads/rice-dream-calcium.JPG

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Leonardo_piers_zoom.jpg/800px-Leonardo_piers_zoom.jpg

FUTURE HOME OF NOIZE BIKE GANG. One way in, one way out.

@schlump, that link is all jacked up thinking about what the longest bridges in the world are. chesapeake bay bridge? no fuckin' way.

I am so into Whole Foods' 365 vanilla almond milk right now; it seriously tastes like a milkshake.

@schlump, that link is all jacked up thinking about what the longest bridges in the world are. chesapeake bay bridge? no fuckin' way.

― spanky hotel frogstrot (how's life), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 17:43 (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i mean i was just staring at the pictures, i believe you tho

I am so into Whole Foods' 365 vanilla almond milk right now; it seriously tastes like a milkshake.

― the mandy moorhols (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 23:14 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i am making tentative inroads back into drinking weird-non-soya-not-milk-milk-drinks recently, kinda for nutritional reasons, & am really into rice dream. it's rad when you get get vanilla options - i stay away from the sweetened kinds & vanilla-unsweetened still tastes good, & all of this kinda thing has a weird pulpy thickness, weird in a good way. this exists, if you wanna go all out, stevie:

http://static-resources.goodguide.net/images/entities/large/352031.jpg

fucking summer magic, blue skies, golden hour lasts like five hours, every girl is wearing magical shorts, all neighbors passing out smiles and BBQ invites, even the damn fighter jets over top gun are doing lazy spirals like pelicans

June and July rather dud this yr but man August is just killing it

71.

Christian Marclay's The Clock, the Wilbur Cross Parkway, mango licorice, the new Kutmah mix, Gal Costa and Caetano Veloso's version of "Baby," and MY MAN.

golden hour lasts like five hours, every girl is wearing magical shorts

- fugazi
- string quartets
- william carlos williams
- slowly sipping coffee outside in the morning when the air is still cool
- headbanging in my car
- twitter
- learning french

-homemade bloody marys
-korean grapes (i'm sure these have a name...don't know what it is)
-ice cream with fudge chunks
-scramble with friends

- Being a dad
- being a husband
- not giving a fuck about much else
- west coast IPAs
- being in the groove at work

-walks after dinner
-the production work of lee scratch perry
-cheap coffee
-cheap booze
-crock pot cooking
-keeping my dashboard clean
-revisiting mythbusters with my kid
-doing chores that my wife would normally do before she gets a chance to do them

august heat wave edition:

drinking too much gatorade
the slovenian punk band pankrti
curling up near the air conditioner
antonioni's l'eclisse
tarkovsky's solaris
cooking even though it's too hot for it
trader joe's dark chocolate mint espresso beans
cold showers
stock aitken waterman

just an interjection to say HI BLAM and YAY U DADDY and MISSED U ON ILX and TELL YOUR BRO TO EMAIL ME and stuff :)

In the past two weeks I was deeply into 9 and 10 mile hikes up into wild mountain areas, climbing up to alpine meadows at timberline or above and visiting glacially-formed lakes, seeing how far away from civilization I could get.

Now that I'm back to where there are refrigerators, I am into fresh food, especially salads, along with clean clothes and showers.

I'm always into the same things. Takes years to change.

breaking bad
louie
doucheburgers
super mario 64 via sixtyforce
listening to podcasts on the way to work
swimming laps most days
weekly hour-long sex sessions with new FB
canaboids
ILE

apologies for the boring list! wish i was into something more esoteric lately but there you go. maybe i should work on that? i feel like i'm letting ilx down somehow :/

Late night comfort pasta
Lobster economics
Nano accomplishments
Possessing little of interest to burglars
Alternatives to my current salaried job
Undeserved fortuitousness

late night comfort pasta has been totally letting me down lately - glad it's still working for someone out there

thai and vietnamese salads
kettlebell
running
reading about l ron hubbard
beats in space
budgeting (i'm not hugely into this but i am paying for a diploma)
the freedom i'm feeling because of doing this diploma in 2013
and yeah, the sun

Steaming vegetables with the new steamer I got
Absolutely Free
deep space grooves of Cosmic Dead
Pontiacs
sweltering, well not really but seem to be doing quite a bit of it
sorting out FAS courses
Pete Brown's autobio
Strontium Dog and offshooot stories

- impending fatherhood
- hence, finally learning to drive
- and getting work done on the house that has been put off for the last two years
- stephen king's 11.22.63

you guys are so into stuff. i can never think about what to write here other than a couple of albums i'm listening to / books i'm reading.

The Walking Dead comics
Playing football
Moving house
Blueberries

okay here it goes

- adjusting to life in the country
- clearing nettlebeds (by hand!!)
- reggae reggae reggae!
- nice mellow house music for bbqs and campfires
- David Foster Wallace's The PAle King (which I'm reading very slowly but enjoying a great deal)
- Prehistoric studies
- Mandarin Chinese for beginners
- Cycling

aloe vera juice
the planet Mars
nectarines
Severed Heads - Clifford Darling...
John Shirley's Heatseeker

is it the taste of aloe vera juice or are you trying it for health reasons?

deep space grooves of Cosmic Dead
you should check out the live recordings if you haven't already -- they're not all as great as Cozmic Tape but they hit the spot

recumbent bikes
wood pigeon
robbie basho
the yorkshire dales

return of stoods
strawberries - blueberries - cantaloupe for breakfast every day, without exception
reading like 4 difft books
move on to 1981 (!!)
plants and botanic illustrations
getting rid of stuff
talking to my parents
lots of other stuff

(i am finishing one period of my year and starting another, so i have to wrap up loose ends and get started on some new things for the long dark season)

is "move on to 1981" the title to something? reason i ask is this year has huge personal significance for me & is a subject for research

not the title of anything, just a note to self to wrap up 1988 on my yearbook tumblrlr (sorry to advertise, that is not my thing but you asked, so) and continue back in time to 1981, which i have been looking forward to scanning because it the next stretch of years is so full of great pictures.

your mum

i'm not sure that aloe vera itself actually tastes of anything, cause even the plain one is heavily flavoured with grape. it's got the chunks though. chunks to make you go hmmmmm.

so, health? i tried it before for reflex and similar probs. dunno if i used it for long enough to have any idea if it worked.

deep space grooves of Cosmic Dead
you should check out the live recordings if you haven't already -- they're not all as great as Cozmic Tape but they hit the spot

― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Thursday, August 16, 2012 2:17 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

are you aware of any links with Skullflower? Just been intrigued by them both having a song called Black Rabbit which I think is based on a similar riff.
Could just be coincidence of course. The Airplane's White Rabbit is one of the best known psych tracks ever after all.

Think I've tried an otherwise unflavoured ALoe Vera drink from a chinese shop in Dublin. That was a while back, but I think that was reasonably straight.

Most of the Aloe Vera stuff I've had for oral use has had some flavouring though. The toothpaste is normally mint.

Not aware of any link, no
but come to think of it, but i think they are all from glasgow?

skullflower (ie matthew bower) are from england

oh sorry! i get them all confused, esp youngsbower (which i know contains richard youngs because of youngs) but matthew bower and skullflower -- that gets all mixed up in my brain! next thing you know there's gonna be a bowersflower power hour or something.

meant to say reflux above, not reflex, on the aloe vera thing.

la lech, just to confuse things further, richard youngs is an englishman who lives in glasgow (like me!)

i just wrote and erased so many bad jokes
consider yourself spared

really into a rainy desert night on which I can sit on my patio, drink a hot toddy, and watch a lightning storm over a benedictine monastery

also into:
- gentle drinking lawn sports like bocce
- secret vices
- good hard sleep
- writing in a journal again
- shoes
- my new career

- Full spectrum photography (infrared & uv), but I don't have a full spectrum camera, just yet
- (related) underwater fluorescent photography, but I don't have a good UV dive light, just yet
- stacked supermacro photography, but I don't have a stackshot, or even a decent macro rail, just yet

Oh, and also a continuing interest in secular eschatology.

beats in space is such a good thing to be into

- researching credit cards / staying on top of my finances / building up my credit real good (I hear the Chase Freedom card is it right now)
- En Vogue's "My Lovin'"
- watching a bunch movies I haven't seen on the new BFI Top 50 list
- watching shows w/ my boyfriend: Mad Men (which I haven't seen before) and Oz (which he hasn't seen before)
- retagging/renaming/organizing several dozen gigabytes worth of music and files in preparation of moving to a new computer (everyone needs this TagScanner program: http://www.xdlab.ru/en/)
- dissecting the concept of #yolo
- planning a small menu of finger foods for my birthday party on Saturdays
- grocery stores / being in grocery stores / going grocery shopping (this never leaves my list tbh)

really into a rainy desert night on which I can sit on my patio, drink a hot toddy, and watch a lightning storm over a benedictine monastery

― drawings by teen cultists (Crabbits), Thursday, August 16, 2012 11:34 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhh.

at this time of year my late night summer pasta is

100 g pasta
12.5 g salt / 1 liter water
1/8 cup pasta water
1/2 pat butter
cheese, salt, pepper

blueberries

w plain yogurt

xp the 3rd, 4th and 5th go in after pasta's drained

greek or what

also are there blueberries right now? i thought it was red and black berry time.

blueberries are slowly on the way out iirc

yeah there are still some at my farmer's market but less than before ;_;

Those Fage yogurts with the fruit cuppy!! Total full-fat and 2% are good; the 0% is too chalky which is sad bcz it has all the best flavors (mango guyanbana!!)

Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island

http://z.about.com/d/usparks/1/0/A/0/1/FortWadsworth.jpg

This yard was in a movie! What movie??

I can picture it, I just can't remember.

There was a man with a...briefcase full of...something valuable--money? And gunfire from the colonnades, and a helicopter searchlight....

Oh no. That was Point Blank, and it was shot in Alcatraz. I am so disappoint.

-korean grapes (i'm sure these have a name...don't know what it is)

i found out what these are called -- concord grapes! so delicious and juicy.

I instantly thought of Point Blank when I saw that, too. xpost

Nile Rodgers's autobiography/Nile's general attitude to life
Freshly shelled hazelnuts
The aroma of toasted spices
Another Nickel in the Machine
The amazing fun shirt I bought half-price, which has already garnered several compliments

karaoke
exploring new types of interpersonal dynamics/relationships
Radical Faeries
certain kinds of disco
hanging out with my roommate and my ex
picking up and putting down Tama Janowitz's "Slaves of New York"

prog
dark chocolate
new yorker back issues
vintage red dwarf
app dot net

red dwarf me too :D
beets
making soup
chili dogs
erasure

ew beets tste like dirt!!

no u do

:)

*clutches pearls*

hell yes beets

and hilarious old family photos that i can totally blackmail everyone with

certain kinds of disco

which kinds?

Stuff that sounds like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NzL976tXTg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyqkePY6FKY

I'm not sure how exactly to quantify the Venn diagram overlap. Kinda spacey/groovy with awesome synths and electric guitar I guess?

Basically right now I am trying to find other tracks that I will love as much as I love "Moon-Boots"

ya i feel you. don't think this is in the same vibe but i bought this disco single the other day on a whim & it's great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfGOyqAwxSg

abba pure curl shampoo
eucerin for my dry elbows
clothes shopping
cooking vessels
getting the golden palominos' 1982–1985 comp as a festivus gift
the manicures at romance nail spa in studio city
almonds
seeing one of my holy grail novelty-disco albums on cd and not buying it because i said i wasn't gonna buy anything at amoeba

New Order.
Convincing myself that my portable record player is good enough.
Coconut water
Kale smoothies.
Learning to play the ukulele.

kale smoothies otm

exploring new types of interpersonal dynamics/relationships

me2

also:

bob's burgers
learning icelandic
norwegian black metal
xmas lights

techno
whiskey
Adventure Time

what kind of techno stuff?

Kinda spacey/groovy with awesome synths and electric guitar I guess?

Maybe some Euro stuff like Space or Rockets?

cerrone - supernature too

fuck yeh kale smoothies! I haven't made a good one in a while; I bought frozen kale instead of fresh last time and they turn out too thick.

abba pure curl shampoo

♪♫
see that curl
watch that sheen
she is the shampoo queen
♪♫

xp yes all three of those are great and otm! I guess "Space Disco" is what I'm looking for?

get that "david mancuso presents the loft" compilation if u haven't already

^^ what he said

also, AT THIS PRECISE MOMENT:

- stars of the lid
- very, very strong coffee
- that hour-long space i give myself after waking up but before i feel the need to get anything accomplished
- re-reading the few thousand words i managed to write this weekend and not hating about 500 of them

homemade horchata w/ espresso in it

and yeah those 2 loft comps are great

- keeping an eye on the corrections corporation of america
- finding the filmstrips of ken middleham
- antiquated educational materials
- springerle rolling pins
- fermenting vegetables in the least fussy way possible

<3 yr preoccupations 4eva

gene wolfe
glen cook
potatoes with rosemary
rum drinks with mint
the earl of lemongrab
good coffee

Aztec Sweet Chilli Tea
Not sleeping, apparently
Wearing color
Revisiting music I haven't listened to since HS
TAB
The scatterbrained researcher I work with who just wrote to me saying "I suspect every email from me may say that, so this is a blanket apology for being a slow loris." <3 <3 <3
Some other important stuff too.

Stevie - I had horchata with espresso in it for the first time a couple months ago and it was out of this world good.

free clinics

Thai curries (I currently have red, massaman, and penang paste)
cycling at a leisurely pace
dating myself
Ritter Sport
kale smoothies
trying to find a new job

Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814

Scramble with Friends

Bob's Burgers
Jack Reacher novels
iPhone apps

I have become middle america...

cosign on the first 2

Adequate Sleep (amazing!)
Using a light box in the morning
being a dad
trying to actually put myself into my work instead of sitting around resenting it
Costco

beer, bob's burgers, discernible posting styles

watching classic simpsons episodes with my boyfriend
roasted sweet potatoes with goat cheese, green onions and slices of cherry tomatoes
swimming
loose, baggy sweaters
'mirrorball'
claude cahun's photographs
not cutting my hair

neil or sarah?

neil!!

you disappoint me.

like I got rly excited there for a second.

The stars that we lay under and is he still I wonder
The fairest of them all, mirror, mirrorball, mirrorball, hey

yo stevie let's chat about everything but the girl

I only know the Todd Terry mix of "Missing" :-/ I fucking love Massive Attack's "Protection" though; it's probably my favorite track of theirs.

haha if it makes you feel better i found a cassette of 'fumbling towards ecstasy' at a charity shop last year that i jammed on

just cant stop fucking w/ 'im the ocean' rn tho

shaving, thanks to Dollar Shave Club
my job
my apartment
my bookshelf
the distinct possibility of making new friends

also thai curries
redlettermedia
trying very hard to recognise the artistic value of the original star wars movie
headbutting things for comedic value
walking along the beach and not going into it
beers with friends (this is a recent thing)
app dot net

Colour co-ordinating Marvel badges with my clothes
Dick Valentine
Keeping the boat warm
Not fucking up at work
Making sock monkeys
Cooking real food

doing vocals for my friends awesome songs
wine wine and more wine
growing tomatoes and eggplants and capsicums (summer garden!)
spending time with a certain someone
archer and bobs burgers
playing zelda minish cap (again!) on the DS

getting rid of stuff
making soup
napping with kitties

I need to work on my curry game; they are not turning out as consistent as I'd like to. I cannot for the life of me do that thing where you heat the cream at the top of the can of coconut milk up and get the oil to separate from the solids! And I'm using rly good milk w/o emulsifiers, too.

Why you do this?! Is this a necessary step?

Yes, when you do this before adding the curry paste, it creates a fat in which to fry the curry (which is a necessary step) instead of just simmering it in some liquid. You can use veg oil too but apparently this coconut cream separation thing is better.

It also makes small flavorful pools of oil flout about your curry when it's done instead of just being a homogenous goop.

Thanks, will give that a try. My curries are always homogenous goops, and if I add coconut milk I chuck in the whole tin at the end.

I have not been able to get my coconut cream to separate ever, maybe it's something to do with the canning. I usually just fry the curry paste in a little oil, then add the coconut cream until you get the green oil and go from there

-figuring out how to put together a successful podcast that people will want to listen to
-remembering my college-radio life from a million years ago and how it basically saved me when i was living in a shitty town and going through some bad depression
-thinking about how i know exponentially more about music now and yet i still feel like i'm barely scraping the surface of what's out there
-wanting to reach out to people, is the main thing, wanting to make a "connection"? not a drug connection, i'm already pretty well-medicated.

- the French film Polisse, which I'm proud to say i managed to understand without subtitles
- Eyvind Kang's 'the Narrow Garden'
- vinyl records
- working out 3-part harmonies with my band

- killing ivy and blackberries in my yard
- reading in the evenings
- good eats!
- the sports section (rest of the newspaper sucks)

Yes, when you do this before adding the curry paste

and then

PG tips

- roasted mate/black tea mix
- arno schmidt short stories
- "going" "out"
- b12 records
- vitamin b12

- toying with androgyny, despite concurrent obsession with...
- hand-painted nail art
- doing all my friends' nails, custom
- The West Wing
- thinking about taking trains more

- grey

Breaking Bad
Yo La Tengo
Five a side football
Chocolate Oranges
My noughties project
Our new shelves

pissing off the alt lit community
wearing a thunsulate black beanie hat
eating a bowl of krave cereal and drinking a pint of summer fruits fruit and barley robinsons in front of bbc breakfast in the morning
HHhH by Laurent Binet
American food

Toaster waffles
Skippy peanut butter
Jelly
Banana

opera
my sprawling incoherent mess of a cd collection
work
aero jr.
heavy metal
the worm ouroboros

yerba mate
dumbbells
figuring out a few of my favorite albums on guitar
dusting off my tumblr
legos
penguins

flax seed muffins
boots
experimenting with becoming a morning person
fresh squeezed grapefruit juice

I've been going through grapefruits like wo. Family packs!

- scanning old photos and slides
- thinking about big earthquakes and putting some preparations into place

calling ppl 15+ yrs older than me things like kiddo/sport/tiger/slugger (I do this a lot actually, usu w acquaintances/not total strangers)

I'm not sure I quite make the 15+ mark (or, er, do I), but I welcome you to address me as any and all of these things.

I'd probably just say "quince" tbh

That reminds me of when I hollered "ROXY!!" upon seeing her band play. Turns out her name is not actually "Roxy."

-work. Like, I'm fucking killing it.
-revisiting long-owned but not recently listened to hip hop albums
- being a dad. My daughter is unbelievably awesome.
- shaving the right way, every morning. When you do it right, it's awesome.

roadtrips
not spending any money for days
this painting i saw at the met from 160 ad that is a perfect likeness of my friend joseph http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5291/5493151623_f4914ea443_m.jpg

watching tv with people
new band
downloading every book in the world ever onto my kindle for free on the internet
jacobin mag
getting embarassingly drunk

xp Holy shit, BLAM, I haven't seen you on ILX for ages! And you're a dad now, congrats! Hope to at least see your bro while he is in DC.

work: coming to terms with being THE BOSS
home: demolition
also, cognac manhattans

Hey, Q! Yeah, been a bit. Gonna try to post more regular-like.

Also:

-playing bluegrass guitar. Shit is like being a grill cook at a high end steakhouse. All meat. No filler. Ba-dum-ba-DUM!

documentaries: ie BBC docs like the one about Fleetwood Mac's Peter Green or the one AG linked on FB about Krautrock; Bastards of the Party; and the one I watched today abt Hubert Selby Jr
beets
nicki minaj
reading in bed
I think I might be getting into poetry again

-not feeling COMPLETELY bogged down with cold symptoms, for the first time in weeks
-the nearby strip-mall falafel place i checked out for the first time tonight
-my new butterfly-under-glass necklace that looks like something from the museum of jurassic technology
-the trader joe's fake strawberry twizzlers

- doing lots of pushups
- cereal
- not being outside

he trader joe's fake strawberry twizzlers

Things are crack. They have never lasted more than a night in our house.

- jantina noorman and david munrow, alternatingly
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environments_%28series%29#Environments_5_.281974.29
- my new students
- trying to be more into my bff's soon to be born baby and half succeeding
- all the same old stuff

haha a few years ago i had to stop eating TJs black licorice because i was going through it like way too fast! like i was getting upset if i ran out!

LL I haven't been around a lot of babies lately but I'm pretty sure they get way more compelling once they are born and not incipient

Yeah. They have an impact.

I know they have an impact; that's kind of what I'm dreading :(

But on the bright side, I am going to her shower in 2 weeks, so there's fun traveling to look forward to I guess?!

- mountain and beach resort towns in Idaho
- arrested development
- reading about artist's studio spaces and work practices
- crosswords
- the first song on the new yo la tengo record

Look, here's the ONLY new parent schpiel I'll go off on:

They rock. But damnit, they require a lot of time, work, and patience. The best advice to soon-to-be friends of soon-to-be parents is to remain present. Call regularly. Ask if you can swing by for a cup of coffee. Offer to pick up carry out. It will matter in ways you cannot imagine.

Alright. Done. Who else has a bit of a buzz on?

haha a few years ago i had to stop eating TJs black licorice because i was going through it like way too fast! like i was getting upset if i ran out!

it gave you the shits, right?

We don't live in the same state, I can't do any of those things, but thanks for the advice. I understand that it's gonna be tough for her and will be there however I can.

did not give me the shits, just made me feel like i was mainlining licorice.

Call regularly

Yes, you can.

did not give me the shits, just made me feel like i was mainlining licorice.

there was a pun, I think my delivery failed

bad flow

- kevin drumm records
- the art of dan flavin
- anticipating seeing an op art print exhibit locally
- drinking and dancing the last two weekends, and probably again this weekend
- brainstorming some home renovation/decorating

- Patricia Piccinini sculpture
- a 4x space game that replaces my own repetitive agitation with someone else's repetitive agitation
- salsa classes
- perfect hummus
- and the usual secular eschatology

Patricia Piccinini stuff is cool! I sadly am reminded of one of the most awkward artist talks ever, though, where multiple people asked variations of the question, "So, you don't actually sculpt them? You draw them? What do you do?"

Flavin is so fucking stellar

I have a book on minimalism that I haven't actually read many articles in, but have browsed a lot. It has a Flavin work on the cover.

I kind of want to set up room in my basement in neutral colors (including painting the floor) and have lights on the four corners

i'm into the idea of learning spanish/traveling around south america right now

Always into that!!

I am also into learning Spanish right now for strategic career purposes and also because I like language. Well, I will be into it this Spring cause I am about to register for a class.

i am taking a history course on latinos in america and it's one of the best classes i've had, if not the best

Nadie quiere hablar conmigo en 77 ;_;

i know next to no spanish!

If you understood that, you're ahead of most monolingual Americans!

cognates + esperanto and the smidge of latin i know

- dried apricots

btw i called my bff today so BLAM would bacdafucup off of my back ;)

And you are a better person for it. She was probably very glad to hear from you.

I'm totally giving you shit, but its motivated by some real life nonsense - like, 75% of our friends have totally disappeared and never call us anymore. Its fucking ridiculous. And on bad days, its pretty fucking depressing.

- Apparently, into getting depressed about the increasingly BAD global warming news we're seeing. Like, oh SHIT.

you can call those friends, really

they probably just think you're really busy with a kid and don't need bothering

We talk like twice a week and have been close friends continuously since 1990! I don't really need any training in the friend department, at least not with her. I'm not your friends. I'm good.

ok now I'm into watching all the British shows on Hulu. I highly recommend the latest season of The Thick of It.

its not even restricted to those assholes who pay for Hulu Plus!

I have to watch that through my hands.

LL - I am and have been totally kidding. Tone is not conveying well.

mh - We've made it clear to them ALL that we're around and would love to hear from them. Seriously.

those jerks!

better start calling them once a week, whether they deserve it or not

Meh - just over-tired and undersocialized. Sounds like a new parent, huh?

shouldn't you be crowing about the ravens (so to speak)? parenthood really *has* changed u man

It has. I'm a pretty toned-down fan at this point. We made the SB. I'm not a Niners hater. It should be a good game.

- Watching the Ravens win in the Playoffs.

my uncle coached for the ravens for a while before he coached for the jets

Woah - are you related to the Ryan family?

Lawd Jesus no, I'm related to his right-hand man though.

-spiced apple cider/Fireball whiskey hot toddies (which quincie served me last time I visited her and OMG they are insanely good)
-getting stoned and playing Earthbound
-William Orbit's "Guerilla Beach Mix" of Madonna's "I'll Remember", which is stunningly beautiful and easily one of the best things he's ever done (I mean it's more a WO track f. Madonna on vocals)

how far are u into earthbound

I played once before like 6 or 7 yrs ago but this time around I just got to Twoson

I have to go back and get the Mr. baseball Cap I think

i always avoided the bad guys in twoson somehow apart from the mushrooms in the cave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0R8MYGREmg
btw

Downton Abbey: Watched the first two seasons and caught up with the third
Beaded necklaces: Weird for me, never have been before, don't own any, until now
Cayenne pepper: On everything,my taste buds must be bored
Eating lots of sweets: Usually I am a fruit and veggie worshipper who snacks on dairy but the sweet tooth has been a real nag lately
Instagram: New phone....
Sculpting my eyebrows

The History Channel - was an avid watcher of Pawn Stars all the way through uni, but have only recently picked up on American Restoration, American Pickers and Storage Wars. This stuff is just so easy to watch without really engaging whatsoever.

Rowntrees Fruit Gums - delicious, and the after-taste you get from drinking water after eating these things is an absolute delight. They also last for ages if you chew slowly so when I'm sneaking them into my mouth whilst sat in court I don't have to draw attention to myself by continually rustling about and grabbing more.

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susannah Clarke - a little bit twee and slow, kinda wish there was a little more jeopardy at times, but it's pretty charming and I'm really enjoying the portrayal of magic in this book as opposed to the magic in something like Harry Potter. It's pleasantly eerie and creepy and fairytale-ish - mysterious chiming bells and dancing music that always appear to be coming from the next room in the house, little glades of trees that lead to dark paths through forests that can't possibly be there in reality, rooms that suddenly appear at the end of a corridor in the house and lead to a different house entirely etc. It's much more fun than "Here's a wand, point it like a gun and here is the one word spell to make fire / water / kill people" and so on. Looooong book for what it is, though.

Tartan - a recent development, since I knocked up my own kilt for a party thrown in honour of Rabbie Burns the other night. Never really tried skirts before but I've worn it around the house for the last few days and I'm finding it peculiarly liberating. Perhaps this could be the first step in a wonderful voyage of self-discovery?

Veins of the Queen by Robyn Hitchcock.

Workaholics with Adam, Blake and 'Ders. Funniest new programme I've come across since I finally sat down with Arrested Development a couple of years ago.

Oh, and Christian Benteke.

A different kind of future for me...maybe. The first serious inklings I've had for a very long time.

the minutemen
hardcore in general

lots of holes in my musical appreciation, kinda feeling like I wanna go exploring again like the old days

aero jr
evoken
cooking and baking
e.r. eddison
ricolino spicy fruti gomas

"lots of holes in my musical appreciation, kinda feeling like I wanna go exploring again like the old days"

Feeling the lack of this in my own life at the moment. In the past 6 months I've gone from having more free time than I knew what to do with, enough to spend 2 or 3 hours most days just listening to new music and exploring old bits and bobs on Spotify, to suddenly having maybe 2 or 3 hours of free time a day full-stop. I really don't know where those extra hours I want for music appreciation are gonna come from.

buying into in orbit's excitement (apprehension?) for ~the future~

- making soup (still. I think I've been into this for a couple of weeks now)
- trying to live in an unhurried way
- Downton Abbey. The clothes!

latino/latin american culture
dr who (starting w/ the eccleston season)
hearing as much new music as possible
being more communicative
feeling better abt shit in general

- selling things on ebay for extra cash to spend on other things
- the matt scudder novels by lawrence block.
- french press that i got for my birthday makes much better coffee than our regular coffee pot, uses less too!
- 78rpm records

- my new Japanese mandolin! So much cucumber salad

haha for a minute I thought you meant a musical instrument and then the cucumber confused me totally

all this stuff. tonight anyway. i'm all about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WflVHf43E40

@ VG yeah I've always been scared offa them because people say they're dangerous but I just wear protective gloves and it's a miracle for veggies. I julienned 5 lbs of carrots in 5 minutes

I have the v-slicer version, the plastic one that comes with the veggie holder thing - I'm terrified of the OG japanese ones (but I'm also v accident prone with knives so )

But I'm jealous of yr slicing-fu

my grandma has a mandoline and I werq'd that shit for some taters one and i was like daayyyuuumm this shit is magick, I gotta get me wunna these.

- staying in on weeknights/embracing homebodiness
- clarice lispector
- winter family's 'red sugar' lp
- chimichurri

chimichurri!

Counselling
Halo 4
Music from before I was born (early 80s)

simple things
fantasizing about adult-like routine, domesticity, stability
tulips
eggs

- snickerdoodle soda

what?!

what on earth is that?

whut

Moving
Avoiding despair
All the same old things
Cara cara oranges
Spring?

it's a very real soda brewed by the ice-cream-and-microbrewery place around the corner from my building xp

it tastes like a snickerdoodle.

Like cinnamon cream soda?

something like that yeah

homemade apricot-date chutney
reed's ginger candy chews
robyn hitchcock

I NEED THAT SODA

the Thirties
tentacles
bicycles
butter

the present lover
mints
anachoresis
walt whitman

aprender español latinoamericano
contemporary korean films
cypress + grapefruit oil
group sex

terre d'hermès
atoms for peace lp & new emika lp
all thomas bernhard
all frank o'hara
_the disenchanted_ by budd schulberg
bordeaux colored tops
sashimi

miguel
ritter sport

Weisse beers
Interesting weather apps
Kindle singles
Any Downwards offshoots
Homecooked Indian food
Buying new furniture

- index cards
- british punk
- ferris bueller
- caffeine

- spanish moss
- daily naps
- the the mississippi delta hot tamale trail (http://www.tamaletrail.com/introduction.shtml)

charlie chaplin
belgian footballers
puma
the breeders
cider and beer with high alcohol content.

these are mostly longstanding affections though, i'm no good at getting into new things. like i read a book i like and then something always stops me from ever pursuing the author further

Interactive fiction and the idea of it
I feel another love affair with flatfooting coming on, sure to fail because I'm really bad at it
Today I offered to attempt to read Mein Kampf

spoiler: he invades poland

i go through phases with interactive fiction, right now i'm teetering on the edge of jumping back in

musicforprogramming.net

Janet Jackson

france

and its metal

baroque organ music

some of it is from france

finally, our interests intersect

check out sweelinck's organ music crüt

I have heard some of it!

metals of france

grizzly wintergreen
the new white mountain dew
joey wong

Bruce Cost Jasmine Tea Ginger Ale like a motherfucker

omg where do I get jasmine tea ginger ale

Whole Foods apparently carries it some places, or Rocket Fizz if you're near one of them. I'm in love with the stuff.

I have gone to 4 diff places trying to find this white Mtn Dew and I cannot fucking find it (except for this one 7-Eleven where all the bottles had expired 4 months ago)

thai piphat ensemble music
finding a decent ramen shop in chicago (this feels impossible btw)
embracing my boringness; not trying to cram my life full of meaningless activity

oops messed up the link:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi5RyepygCo

chorizo

and researching where to buy food around the city

making horchata
discovering Ceylon/Mexican/"true" cinnamon (brittle and flaky stuff that is so floral and citrusy and will change lives)

my new job at a porn shop

-Learning to live stress- and schedule-free
-Sunscreen
-Reading the newspaper online (not really loving this, but no alternative if I want to have a clue about what is going on in the world)

-Stevie's new job at a porn shop and thread devoted thereto

ya

the cool new tabletop RPG I get to playtest
being less lazy about cooking for myself
anticipating my partner moving to Seattle

I have gone to 4 diff places trying to find this white Mtn Dew and I cannot fucking find it (except for this one 7-Eleven where all the bottles had expired 4 months ago)

think this is part of the dewmocracy promotion, which the united states enjoyed many years ago but is only now coming to canada, where we've had a very small range of mountain dew products to choose from. the four flavours available are: white out, supernova, code red, and voltage. i think code red is a proven winner and i'd welcome its introduction to the canadian market, but white out was an unexpected treat (it's available in the united states, although i've never seen it, and in japan), an overacidic citrus crispness that has an artificial flavour profile closer to what would be produced by dissolving a handful of sugarcubes in a bottle of fresca. also, it's white.

i'm not sure if passing its expiry date would harm it. it might be a bit flat. i'm a fan of the sticky flatness and brown sugary sort of character of expired coke zero.

I learned once from Wikipedia™ that in Canada, soda that isn't brown can't have caffeine in it, so Mtn Dew is caffeine-free in Canada.

plz confirm/deny

no. i am going to explain this from memory so, if i have some facts wrong, forgive me.

mountain dew didn't have caffeine in its canadian product for a long time. they tried to put it in and couldn't get the recipe approved, because... yeah, something to do with cola having caffeine and nothing else having caffeine, except stuff labeled as an energy drink (like, ther was red bull in our 7-11 coolers while mountain dew still had no caffeine). mountain dew said it was necessary and was a flavour additive and should be allowed.

now, mountain dew has caffeine in it in canada.

Did this upset anyone?

much adew about nothing

no, it did not. soda drinkers in canada found the rule a bit strange. the change was made quietly and i'm not sure anyone noticed except die hard mountain dew drinkers, which we have fewer of in canada.

it's childish to be upset by what is necessary

that's one way to put it.

right now i'm really into

the loaded lux vs. calicoe battle.

I learned once from Wikipedia™ that in Canada, soda that isn't brown can't have caffeine in it

I don't think there's a law but in the UK caffeinated sodas are generally brown (plus Irn Bru but that's a category of its own) (plus energy drinks now but they come in distinctively-labelled cans rather than bottles)

so I was surprised when I went to the US and wanted a cold drink but since it was 10pm I didn't want to confuse my jetlagged bodyclock further with caffeine, so I bought an orange-flavoured soda rather than a Coke from the motel drinks machine, and then realised it was also caffeinated, as were all the other sodas in the machine

fruit-flavoured sodas are just not caffeinated here (Dr Pepper claims it is fruit-flavoured but it is a) brown b) mostly tastes of not-quite-cola so it doesn't count)

I found the white mountain dew!! I have been searching for non-diet Fresca for a v long time ever since they took Citra off the market like a decade and a half ago (they have Fanta Grapefruit which iirc is actually the same thing, but not available on the east coast, as well as a few other inferior bevs). It was very good but it had too much OG mtn dew taste for my liking. I could see myself buying it again though.

Also yeah 4mos expired wd be a v flat beverage.

I don't think there's a Fresca with actual sugar, is there? I thought it was always a nutrasweet beverage

that's exactly the problem ;_; R.I.P. Citra
http://www.virtualvender.coca-cola.com/ft/images/products/htmgHtml147.jpg

I am into

wok

wok it, girlfriend.

i shouldn't have promoted white out as being similar to a sugared fresca. the flavour profile is far closer to mountain dew or cheap powdered lemonade or malic acid coated sour keys than the subtle grapefruit saccharine of fresca.

i feel like you want a sugary grapefruit soda. have you ever had mirinda grapefruit? how about ting grapefruit? i was going to ask about wink but then i looked it up and it was discontinued in 2004 or went through a rebranding and now exists under a name i've never come across.

I love Squirt but it's not at all the same

you should try (lol) "neuro bliss" which has a taste I cannot quite describe but definitely has a citrus tinge: http://drinkneuro.com/products/bliss

I don't think there is non-diet Fresca just like there's no non-diet TAB.

God, I love Fresca but I always forget about it. I love TAB too but I never forget about that.

I can never remember what Fresca actually tastes like because nutrasweet gives me a nasty headache so I never have it.

It is light, citris-y and refreshing. Also, grapefruit but not at all bitter.

local history
~ghost tours~ (related)
reading bad reviews of new ben elton shows
orange dark chocolate

music that is fun and playful but still engaging/not disposable or novel (e.g. Deerhoof, Pavement, Mouse on Mars, Mu, The B-52's, etc)

I'm really into cacao nibs right now, so much so that I carry a little bag with me

like you just eat them plain? I imagine it would be like crunchy unsweetened cocoa powder.

i dunno how you do it, goon -- to me they're like crunching on broken cocoa-flavored teeth

fig balsamic cream vinegar & club soda on the rocks .
alt comics cbrz/ buying anthologies
GameCenter CX
captvty.fr, software to download french tv shows.
recycling some old ideas

Pesto
The color yellow
Shameless
Sunshine
Wearing sandals because IT'S SO DAMN NICE OUTSIDE
Young Galaxy
Did I mention pesto? I want to eat it all the time.