what are you into right now?

chris marker
john coltrane's classic quartet
salt and vinegar chips
tart cherry limeade, king of polar seltzer'ades
w.g. sebald
earthbound (again)
thinking about buying dresses and not buying dresses
this dress: https://www.hottopic.com/product/sailor-moon-artemis-and-luna-dress/10297188.html
writing any damn thing instead of whatever i'm on deadline for

(buy the dress brad)

Silby otm

roasted unsalted monkey nuts
booze
homemade curries
having a good long shite with the kindle
staring at death and death looking back, and thinking yeah fuck you arsehole
committing to f/t unrestricted hate warfare against my fucking arsehole neighbours
unsalted red skin peanuts
the intricate beauty of trees dancing in the wind to birdsong in the summer, assisted by the illuminated colours of the landscape, seemingly also dancing under the sun's rays. That make me want to be Monet/Cezanne, until I start thinking about twatting the fuck out of my neighbours again.

committing to f/t unrestricted hate warfare against my fucking arsehole neighbours

Sounds bracing

After 40 years of living on council estates, only the 5th time this has happened!

Middlemarch
Proust
Browsing art books that I can't afford
Throwing sticks in the river for my dog
Club soda by the decalitre
The new Ghost album
Walking around aimlessly

fuckin art books i can't afford, i'll have them someday

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

Cooking rice in the oven
Nardwuar
Stealing condiments
Keeping plants alive
Roy Orbison
Going to movies alone

All In the Downs Shirley Collins memoir
Anadolu Pop the Daniel Spicer book and related reading.
Making clothing again. hoping i can regain momentum.
African psych stuff.
sleeping
watching the late planted seeds sprout.
putting some order in my flat.

going through old favorite-album threads on twitter
eva
shouting french lyrics at rock concerts
peanut butter and pickle sandwiches
complimenting friends' writing
putting on the one skirt and pair of leggings i own

hopefully w.g. sebald too soon! fifty pages into austerlitz but it's slow going

peanut butter and sweet chilli sauce or hot mango chutney is pretty great, haven't tried it with pickles.

xp i got into sebald this year and totally one of the most transformative literary experiences I've ever had, impossible to get those books out of my head some days

Read that Blowflygirl story. Seems familiar so maybe that's why it made me nostalgic for an earlier era of the internet. Refreshingly just disgusting rather than dark or scary.

Rasputina!

The Good Place

Breasts

Club Mate

Shirley Collins All In The Downs
Cadfael Derek Jacobi as a medieval monk which i don't think I've seen before but turned up as torrents so I checked out.
ersatz satay sauce though not sure if its affecting my blood sugar. I think the peanut butter is pretty additive and extra sugar free.
Scotch bonnets
coconut milk
Jakeman's cough sweets in a variety of flavours.
My Tudor hat
Cardinal Fuzz label artists.
working through Sandy Denny's material after reading I Always Kept A Unicorn recently.
Anadolu Psych
POstpunk
Luke cage series 2 even with the occasional clunker.
my deersking moccasin calf length boots, walking experience is a bit different after walking in more solid soled shoes for the last while.
Working out how to do a radio show from home.
Hoping it might eventually rain.
springcleaning (when it's as hot as July).
getting back into garment production when it's not too hot to function.
African dance

fuck yes club mate

Breasts

― El Tomboto, Friday, July 6, 2018 12:14 AM (twelve hours ago)

ikr

I have this bookmarked right after "things you just don't care about". Breasts did not scan right when I thought I'd clicked on that one.

never knowingly undercared about breasts

Drawing and feeling nothing is going right until it starts working, "I've still got it! It never left me!" said in Bo Selecta Scary Spice's voice.

guacamole (basically for the first time)
Sonic Mania
homemade breakfast sausage patties, the ratio of how much better they taste to how easy they are to make is INSANE
trying to eat vegetarian more often and rediscovering vegan and veg cooking
finally, finally discovering the perfect homemade fudgy brownie recipe

Biriyanis, I'm cooking the second Chicken Biriyani of the last 3 days after making a Beef one yesterday. I'm starting to reap the benefits of soaking the basmati in multiple washes of water, it gives it a perfect texture.

what's your recipe/method/secret? I've never really got into cooking biriyanis despite loving them, I wonder if mb I tried and it wasn't good

nowt spesh really, I started with a very bland Maunika Gowardhan recipe and basically just made it hotter and used much more tomato puree: chicken marinated in greek yoghurt, turmeric, hot chilli powder. Simple tomato,onion,cardamom, red + green chillis, cumin seeds, ground cumin, garam masala, garlic/ginger based sauce to cook it in. Add cooked rice and garnish with fresh coriander and lemon juice. I suppose the game changer for me has been the slow prep washing of the rice, then letting it cool after 6 1/2 mins of boiling, and stirring it about whilst it cools down, to get that really good texture.

cooking with scotych bonnets.
Anadolu Psych & E Gone a band released through Cardinal Fuzz.
Hoping that springcleaning will take less time than it seems to be.
Waiting to get onto doing some more clothing.
Gointg to loads of plays during the Festival which ends tonight thanks to winning a pass at the table quiz.
Helena Grimes inkwork http://www.helenagrimes.com/
& whoever did the upcycled bicycle tyre sculptures taht are in the Festival garden for the Arts Festival.
The Sand Pebbles who I should probably have heard way earlier.
Chris hayes on tv and podcast.
the Slow Burn series on Watergate, though may only last tonight interesting though.
starting reading the master Switch which has been sitting on my shelf for too long but I think Hayes mentioned it as a vital read in one of his podcasts.
Sacrifice & transcendence or more finished it this week so listening to a lot of Swans.
Out Of The Unknown since its being shared on Demonoid. Some of it's pretty ok but not quite a UK Twilight Zone.

getting ready to fire up the work laptop and knock out some tasks while sitting in a shady cabana in San Diego with a cold plastic cup of IPA

terry riley
pran nath
zia mohiuddin dagar
t rex tanx
limes
essential oils
sex
my new glasses, round silver wire frames that i've wanted for a while
strategizing about how to get out of my shitty work situation
doing a morning yoga practice before my kids wake up

what kind of essential oils

olive, vegetable, peanut. *the essentials*

some people would add oil of olay to that list, but not me

dead heart
us forces
beds are burning
kosciusko
power & the passion

If you're not doing tea tree or rosemary or lavender, you don't know essential oils.

haven't listened to Midnight Oil in forever, VG!

also Marcos's list reminds me that I really loved Pandit Pran Nath's "Midnight", and "Raga Cycles", I will have to dig them out and listen to them again

those three for sure xp. also sandalwood, patchouli, ylang ylang, frankincense, various citrus oils. my wife makes some blends and also orders blends from doterra

That feeling of using different art tools and realizing the new possibilities

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (first playthrough)
Final Fantasy VII (also first playthrough)
the second Third Eye Blind album ("Blue") which is astonishingly good

STEVIE

glad to see you're still into stuff

17-century princesses (??)

tracer what was this about, how did it pan out

lol i read "daughters of the winter queen" by nancy goldstone which is about the offspring of elizabeth stuart. she in turn was king james vi/i's daughter - the one guy fawkes et al planned to install on the throne after disposing of james. anyway it's really good! lots of characters. one of the daughters becomes penpals with descartes. there is a lot of anxiety about "good matches" as the family fortunes become uncertain etc. you know how it is - accept the crown of bohemia, get run out of town by an armed battalion. i want to read more about rupert - he's the baby they almost got left on the floor when frederick and elizabeth stuart were fleeing prague in a hurry. he ended up fighting for charles i in the civil war and had a massive white dog named Boye that went with him everywhere, even into battle. for awhile he became a pirate of a sort.

Jakemans cough sweets probably too much. LIke the aniseed original and the cherry menthol m most I think or maybe just get through more of them. Local place has special price on them.
Trying to get some shirts finished before going away. Will probably spend a lot more time doing shirts next year. Since I didn't get several done this year. So will at least have a few to start teh year with. Partially cut cos i keep getting busy doing other stuff when i start them. Did jeans and jeans jackets this year when I did anything.
Charles Webb's The graduate.
MSNBC night news shows.
the Sopiderverse.
lots of psych rock.
Waxed cotton
Mueeler She Wrote,
Why Is this Happenning
& several other Podcasts I've been listening to for the last few weeks.

extra-neighborhood travels
espresso from little cups
heating corn tortillas in my saucepan because it is the same size as them
acid squelches
kanban
walking farther
hopeful pedagogy
listening-journaling
playing ecm records and imagining being in the nordic lands
looking for thai peppers (my supermarket stopped carrying them)

i found the peppers!

now my list is ruined

poached eggs
green tea
not smoking weed every night
“transcendental style” films
twitter dms
R
to-do lists

oh also keeping a diary. it’s more of a phd diary than a personal life one but still great

transcendental style films, i gotta get into that