what are you into right now?

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

Bob Dylan: 1970

Trying to get myself together.
Still watching bits of KLorean tv in the wake of squid game
Wishing I had better oragnisation cos i want to get right back into making clothing
NOt really into sense of fatigue hoping its transitory and teh wake of the booster shot.
Still making massive cook one day a week for the next week and making it some kind of fusion of European and Asian veg & fruit and a bit of meat. & a can of preferably LIDL coconut milk cos its the highest %age of coconut to other ingredient like almost pure.
the reappearance of some yoghurts I've been missing from Lidl though in smaller size pots . Hope tehy stick around cos I do like them
Reading a stack of anti racist/feminist etc writing that I should have years earlier, not sure why I'm only finding bell hooks now. But am finding that there is more of her on the Irish library system than I had thought.
buying way too many books for the storage space I have . & my budget and still having the idea that I will eventually get through them all.
Making bread about once a week. Still working on how to balance ingredients since some are substitutions.
Dreaming of tidying up

Have you ever looked into an e-reader?

I know they're not for everyone but in terms of space-saving they're a game changer

I think the availability of e-books from library apps is also pretty good (and many ways besides to get a lot of titles on the cheap or free)

leeks and thomas hardy

street tacos
playing the drums
my children
pop nonfiction
pinot grigio
Ritual gin alternative
NYT Spelling Bee

pencil and pen

Guineas West Indies bottles especially cos they're €2 a pop right now. 6% volunteers too. But I think the taste is even better than the draught stuff.

Autocorrect Guinness

new strain i'm vaping
Silas Marner
my new slippers
listening to old noise and freakout music from the early to mid 2000s

i am looking for slippers, can i ask what you got?

ILM singles recommendations, lotsa good shit in here
triple chocolate pannetone
demons souls on ps5
not having covid
that one fucking stitch in my arm finally falling out
non-medicated sleep
a movie now and then
iced green tea with honey
being surrounded by plenty while i heal

map, I got the LL Bean Wicked Good Slippers in the "venetian" style.

They're expensive but I read good things, and all my recent slippers have fallen apart after a single season. Beans makes me feel like I'm turning into a weird cliche, but oh well. Feeling warm and cozy is worth it.

Yakuza 0
My homebrew beer/ciders
Wife’s new law job
My cats
The morality of rejecting ambition at 26 (laziness or virtue?)
Chess
Making new friends

Xxp
Where do you rank demon’s souls in fromsofts catalogue? Don’t have a ps5 or a desire for one except for that game. might hassle ask a mate to borrow his for the weekend to run it through

Xp thanks!

iced green tea with honey

I could drink a gallon of the Honest Tea version of this a day.

that's the one!

Demons Souls is the OG; I played it through when it first came out. It's very good! It's maybe not the worst from the catalog but i don't know what I would put beneath it.

nyt crossword
jeopardy
tng
demon's souls (ps3)
charly garcia
cesar aira
soft tofu
green tea

tabletop wargames
graham crackers
granny smith apples
side two of archie shepp's "for losers" LP
georgian polyphonic singing
scratching my cat's armpits

xps English breakfast tea with rosewater is my thing rn

Recently discovered the greatness of ginger turmeric tea

Abbott Elementary
Cuphead
late Boredoms (Super Roots 6 and beyond)
Secret of Evermore
Rabbit in the Moon remixes
Kurosawa films
Calbee Jagarico snacks

cola bottles

Does Abbot get better? We watched the first few episodes, and it was pretty good, but still not that funny, and they seemed like they had to shoehorn in some moral of the episode thing every time.

Rabbit in the Moon rules. When this came out, it blew my mind:

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

reggaeton
baile funk
dancehall
charcoal drawing, been going to these life drawing classes hosted by a friend
aji amarillo, aji panca
lamotrigine, for real been life changing
new job, sometimes hella stressful tho tbh
sweatshirts
genmaicha, hojicha, lapsang souchong
decorating! we painted the walls, bought some new rugs, moving art around
spring around the corner

realizing i hate my profession and need to try something different, less boring and anal retentive and know-it-all and more creative
phoning it in wfh half the week, sitting on couch and decompressing or working on dj stuff instead
being close with my bf
giving my cat excellent scratches
early morning lifting weights at the gym
occasional hotties therein
running in the sunshine
crazy big blooms on our little rat tail cactus
realizing i'm a good dj who plays good music, even if gatekeeping egomaniacs shun me
trying to let myself off the hook for being tired all the time

taking a sick day just because you feel run down and maybe kinda depressed

goddamn i wanted to take a sick day today so badly for feeling exactly that. i didn't only because I DON'T HAVE ANY MEETINGS!!!! and i can kinda take it easy and get stoned anyways.

i've been trying to be compassionate w/ myself if i have a day or two a week when my brain doesn't really work. those days happen regardless of that compassion so i may as well give myself that latitude

true true

my job is soooo easy it's weird how the littlest things become hard sometimes.

anyway it's sunny out and i'm going to the gym and then running later, with a nap and eating and cat cuddles mixed in there.

Does Abbot get better? We watched the first few episodes, and it was pretty good, but still not that funny, and they seemed like they had to shoehorn in some moral of the episode thing every time.

If you've already seen several episodes, probably not. Part of why I love it so much is bcz it's SO fucking Philly, some of the references are p niche and sometimes I can't believe it's actually broadcast nationally.

also there are 3 Rabbit In The Moon Remixes compilations, I'm working my way thru them all but currently 3 is the winner bcz it has both that Possession remix and this one which is my current fav:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YWYyIpYuMk

I love Abbott Elementary! - p much my favorite show atm.