what are you into right now?

Tartan jeans where?
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getting fabric, cutting around an old dismantled pair of cord jeans, sewing while making much more fitted.
So, homemade. Not that difficult but taking more time than I'd really like.
Also would be happier if it wasn't viscose/poly material but looks like main alternative is wool.
Should have a pair in blackwatch done soon.

& have been wearing 3 other tartans over teh year, most recent of which was teh Gordon dress type that you see on the 1st love lp
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/4b/a5/ae/4ba5aefcff8970331626d2c4bccc1a38.jpg
sleeve as well as a couple of the Standells ones

mine look like this
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-t-ET4KoIdK4/VdL2SjFeoFI/AAAAAAAAAG4/Z_3AgiLlAKE/s1600/paisley-dobe-gordon-dress-jeans-slight-right.jpg

and I did these earlier in the year
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0U_v0SEp9GE/VdL1j7mDZkI/AAAAAAAAAGY/3GkRwlIh14g/s1600/exploded-paisley-cowboty-shirt-red-tartan-jeans-turned-front-headless.jpg

Gloria Estefan And Miami Sound Machine, Max Richter's Sleep, City Pop/J-Pop
Peabody's Control of Pipeline Corrosion by A.W. Peabody
Google Earth
Ohm's law & chemistry

"change the sign change the side" always rings through my ears when I see Ohm's Law

lattes! they are so good!

Underworld
Watching Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman w/ my boo
apple cider + caramel vodka

bill orcutt
quilted carhartt sweatshirtt
baking cakebread
clean apartment
quiet hour on campus quad after teaching
a nice new 'tight reading copy' of my favorite book

black embroidery on black fabric
joanna newsom
this library book about murder ballads
the good wife
roasting everything

cleveland cavaliers basketball
kombucha
rap music
november, weather getting cooler
weed
my two boys
sweatshirts
curly hair
my new-ish glasses

frozen lemonade
steph curry / gs warriors
devin townsend
my oldest son wanting to play catch all the time
restoring an early 80s super chexx bubble hockey table that i just bought
trying to get sw0le

lentils for lunch
keepy uppy badminton
drrrrresses

mountaineering movies
chemistry and corrosion
wrangler button up shirts
and these!!!
https://www.lucchese.com/shop/boots/colby/GY1526.73

lentils for lunch otm

Google Cardboard (turn yr mobile phone into a surprisingly great VR headset for like $15-30, omg, too cool)
smoking weed w/ my boyfriend
having a boyfriend and doing/planning things w/ him
Comme des Garcons
wearing all black

DID YOU HEAR THAT ILX POSTER mh I SAID WEARING ALL BLACK

HI

still my boyfriend
watching Breaking Bad with my boyfriend
my new retro ivy-style college sweater
hanging framed things on my walls for like the first time in my life (i have been framing things for years but have never gotten around to hanging them, so silly!)
nerding out abt coffee (just upgraded my rig w/ a fancy grinder, a fancy pour-over thing, a fancy carafe, a fancy gooseneck kettle)
making smoothies again w/ my new blender
thinking of things to juice w/ my new juicer

my new wool coat
walking out in the cold in my new wool coat
winter casseroles
star wars tfa
magical realism fiction
oscar isaac

VG!! What magical realism fiction are you enjoying?? I dabbled in this a year or two ago and made it halfway thru One Hundred Years of Solitude and then gave up and read a few Borges short stories and that was that.

I thought it would be much more joyful and whimsical than it actually was :(

One hundred years of solitude is certainly not joyful; Borges is at best sardonic

iced coffee from this place downtown
rainy afternoons
sandie shaw covering "hand in glove"
taking photos
lawrence wright's "the looming tower"
children's books by edward eager
my new peanuts desk calendar

i just read The Night Circus by Ellie Morgenstern which i looooved but is kinda more mainstream, and am now reading The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Záfon

i love one hundred years of solitude but you gotta roll with it for a good long while before it sweeps you away

painfully sore forearms
lists for everything
getting older
witcher 3
new music every eight hours

loud earbuds
black beans
new diary
waka flocka

Drawing duck-rabbits

watching all the 80s grotesque fantasy films (legend, time bandits, labyrinth, dark crystal, others??) w/ bf
all the studio ghibli movies
playing thru twilight princess for the first time
youtube demos for mid-80s digital synths
late 70s/early 80s japanese city pop and jazz fusion

There is a new one!!!!! http://www.onlyyesterdayfilm.com

wellllllll, "new" but a quarter century old. It's pretty amazing btw and i'm looking forward to seeing it in a theater for the first time on Saturday.

had no idea they were re-releasing it! -- i watched an old rip from a torrent

Star Trek
Learning to cook
Fairisle Cardigans
Fairy Lights
Brushed cotton duvet covers and pillow cases

winter
cuddling w/ my two boys in the morning
our fireplace
coffee
weed
earl sweatshirt

oh yea my new wool coat
walking out in the cold in my new wool coat

oh yea vegemitegrrl otm

also going 8 months without a haircut

i'm at five and looking shaggy

yea me too for sure but i really really hate getting haircuts in the winter

im really into having my hair cut monthly and pomading it nice and tidy in the mornings right now

i'm into looking in the mirror and feeling bad

I've been growing my buzzcut out for 3 months and have "short hair" now and am so excited abt all the options I have to get a great cut!!

being in a reverie

That sounds nice.

I'm into reading ital recipes and thinking about making them.
I'm getting into tea, a lot of lapsang souchong right now and old noirish private eye books.

watching all the 80s grotesque fantasy films (legend, time bandits, labyrinth, dark crystal, others??) w/ bf

KRULL, man!

i'm really into the "you're correct" horse

lapsang souchong is the best tea

well the best cold weather tea prob

It absolutely is, a wood fire in a cup

during the summer i make a cocktail w/ lapsang souchong + simple syrup + lemons + tequila/mezcal

Buying up loads of Waxed Cotton fabrics. Wish I'd bought even more now.
Working out what clothing to make.
Gordon Ramsay.
David Attenborough.
Watching period drama to look at the clothing.
Regretting not having brought items back from London with me. (Hard to be better organised when half asleep cos not sleeping right did bring some stuff though.).
Tartan jeans & other patterns including stripes and paisley.
Trying to work out actual new designs for garnents. Not just variations on existing patterns.
Getting sleep.
Getting organised.
The Kinks
Ten Years After(early).
Buzzcocks.
Wire.
Afrobeat.

ASMR videos of people tapping and scratching things

witcher 3 - haven't loved a game this much in years

all of the music from here - http://testpressing.org/feature/the-2015-end-of-year-review/

redecorating my room/workspace - got a big oak desk/shelves, 3/4 new pictures framed and hung, a new lamp, the kind of stuff i always procrastinated before

a new year - dunno why people hate january i find it the perfect antidote to everything going gradually haywire with parties/booze at the end of the year. i like resolutions and planning and most good things in my life have come from resolutions in the last 4/5 years.

no booze in january - as someone with health probs a lot of my life can feel like a series of obligations, with the constant question of how my health might affect my ability to do them, it is nice to have a month with nobody doing anything alcohol-related.

paris review interviews - one of my ny resolutions is to read all of these - this week read hemingway and capote and both were funny, interesting and useful - amazing free resource

the jd salinger short story "the laughing man" - kinda ticked all the boxes - whimsical, sad, romantic, idiot narrator, brilliantly constructed.