what are you into right now?

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.

shifting into regular routines around fitness/food, accepting that partially-prepared foods are fine instead of acting like i'll cook complex meals and then just buying take-out

new manager and group of coworkers really changing things in a positive way

playing star wars battlefront

reading hellboy & the b.p.r.d. comics

reading books! more books. and catching up on my stack of unread magazines

listening to future, including the album with drake (? me enjoying things with drake, who am i anymore?)

planning an extended montreal/toronto vacation

I am so into you, I can't think of nothing else.

slowly losing weight
slowly improving my physical conditioning
earthquake/disaster preparedness
nba playoffs (go blazers!)
reading books
weeding, pruning, mowing the profusion of new spring growth in my yard
bird songs

going to the gym 3x a week, exercising, tracking my progress, etc
WORKING MY DREAM JOB AT A UNIVERSITY and learning so much stuff and getting along w/ everyone and loving everything abt it in every way
checking movies out of the library at said university. They have everything!!

=D

<3

Rhodiola Rosea (Nature's own crystal meth that is allegedly good for you)
Bill Evans
Booze
Listening to the live commentary on my portable dab radio at football matches
Endless movie watching
Mahler's 1st Symphony
The Americans season 4

needlecord jeans, kicking myself for not going for some stuff i hadn't seen before on ebay a couple of weeks back. Would have been great.
Large amounts of Grateful Dead early years stuff. I'm mainly into pre-'74 stuff though I did listen to In The dark a couple of nights back and it was pretty great.
Dory Previn, probably need to get the 70s catalogue. Really enjoying the compilation i have even if it does mix up chronology including the late 50s lp.
TAmam Shud great Australian psychedelic concept stuff plus the later singles.
Downliner Sect the rock Sect's In just picked up the repertoire version after having picked up a vinyl copy for 60p when i was like 14 and having loved it since. looking forward to getting the guitarist's recent book when my new edition of Ugly Things arrives.

Finally getting to put out some new seeds into plant containers on my balcony and getting to water them regularly. Should have learnt from last year that the large amounts of rain isn't enough to keep things going. I think all the trees I had grown from seeds planted have died. Though i do still have a lemon thing on my bedroom windowsill.

Reading HUnger by Knut Hamson, only taken me siomething like 30 years to get to do so
also Deal by Bill Kreutzman the Grateful Dead drummer. NIce read, not sure how much of it is ghost written. It's got a nice conversational style to it anyway.
& Peter Ackroyd's london The Biography which I've wanted to read since reading the Observer or Guardian review of it when it came out.

slowly tidying up my flat though it is taking way too long.

Should clear the worktable and get down to cutting and making some new clothing too. Have a lotof fabric I picked up over Xmas and have done very little in it.
Was getting into Line of Duty but now got absolutely up to date with it and found some major flaws in the last episode that were almost join the dots bad. Shame I had enjoyed that mainly.
But christ the bit where the Caddy and jackie are having a showdown and she admits that she quite fancied him or whatever was just naff.
Elementary, got into season 3
Avengers still in cathy Gale era.
Twilight Zone still in 1st season.
Also just been looking at The Pacific, Generation Kill and a few others.
Broad city though just got up to date with that too.

Grief
Mushrooms
Pottery
Physical pain
New music
Yoga
Friends
Being kind

Getting a jacket finished after meaning to do it for about 2 years and not getting around to it cos I thought the sizing was off.
Finally got around to it and think it may come in a bit snug.

Luke Cage
Full frontal with Samantha bee though I've now got up to date
You're the Worst
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

psychedelia
saving the meadow.
making clothing and learning how to do it better.

this set of 30 Rhythm Nation 1814 patches I'm making (I just finished cutting the fabric and I'm taking them to the printing company next week)
learning how to run
doing a better job of tracking what I eat
possibly switching to 6 meals a day
live Underworld albums
the Spy Magazine coffee-table history/anthology book ($1.46 on Amazon!)

I wanna rhythm nation patch

living in Cleveland
old houses
chilling on our front porch
Lake Erie
Sade
blood orange
coffee especially from this place in Cleveland called rising star coffee roasters
weed
croissants
museums
weekly lectures at my job's office of diversity & inclusion

oh and my older son's art, it is amazing, he's 4 and has been doing like 3 or 4 new paintings and drawings everyday

those Gil Scott Heron albums from the 70s too, those are incredible

Lists

The only list I'm into is a wine list!!

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