what are you into right now?

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

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.