what are you into right now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbJCB2ArgK0

- camping!
- trader joe's mediterranean hummus
- Celis White beer
- sierra mountain foothills. SO GREEN EVERYWHERE!
- horseradish

There's a 3-mile Navy pier off the coast of Sandy Hook, NJ that was purpose-built for loading AMMUNITION ONTO NAVAL VESSELS. It has to be 3 miles long in case ammo detonates while loading!!! Rail cars carry the ammo across the country from the factories and all the way down the pier to the docks.

Am having crazy "inaccessible places" longings about it right now but apparently they do not fuck around with it being off-limits so I'm thinking that's a "No."

http://njscuba.net/zzz_sites/navy_pier_aerial.jpg

The way I found out about it was that my plane flew over it on Saturday and I had no idea where it was, it's just this ENORMOUS PIER with a weird trident-shaped end, just hanging out in a bay. I looked it up on gmaps and Jesus Christ, of course it's military.

future noize colony

into it

i like the lake pontchartrain causeway, that you fly over coming out of new orleans; flying over unidentifiable manmade structures is amazing (nb: ooo)

meanwhile i am into this right now
http://www.garlandsorganic.co.uk/images/uploads/rice-dream-calcium.JPG

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Leonardo_piers_zoom.jpg/800px-Leonardo_piers_zoom.jpg

FUTURE HOME OF NOIZE BIKE GANG. One way in, one way out.

@schlump, that link is all jacked up thinking about what the longest bridges in the world are. chesapeake bay bridge? no fuckin' way.

I am so into Whole Foods' 365 vanilla almond milk right now; it seriously tastes like a milkshake.

@schlump, that link is all jacked up thinking about what the longest bridges in the world are. chesapeake bay bridge? no fuckin' way.

― spanky hotel frogstrot (how's life), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 17:43 (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i mean i was just staring at the pictures, i believe you tho

I am so into Whole Foods' 365 vanilla almond milk right now; it seriously tastes like a milkshake.

― the mandy moorhols (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 23:14 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i am making tentative inroads back into drinking weird-non-soya-not-milk-milk-drinks recently, kinda for nutritional reasons, & am really into rice dream. it's rad when you get get vanilla options - i stay away from the sweetened kinds & vanilla-unsweetened still tastes good, & all of this kinda thing has a weird pulpy thickness, weird in a good way. this exists, if you wanna go all out, stevie:

http://static-resources.goodguide.net/images/entities/large/352031.jpg

fucking summer magic, blue skies, golden hour lasts like five hours, every girl is wearing magical shorts, all neighbors passing out smiles and BBQ invites, even the damn fighter jets over top gun are doing lazy spirals like pelicans

June and July rather dud this yr but man August is just killing it

71.

Christian Marclay's The Clock, the Wilbur Cross Parkway, mango licorice, the new Kutmah mix, Gal Costa and Caetano Veloso's version of "Baby," and MY MAN.

golden hour lasts like five hours, every girl is wearing magical shorts

- fugazi
- string quartets
- william carlos williams
- slowly sipping coffee outside in the morning when the air is still cool
- headbanging in my car
- twitter
- learning french

-homemade bloody marys
-korean grapes (i'm sure these have a name...don't know what it is)
-ice cream with fudge chunks
-scramble with friends

- Being a dad
- being a husband
- not giving a fuck about much else
- west coast IPAs
- being in the groove at work

-walks after dinner
-the production work of lee scratch perry
-cheap coffee
-cheap booze
-crock pot cooking
-keeping my dashboard clean
-revisiting mythbusters with my kid
-doing chores that my wife would normally do before she gets a chance to do them

august heat wave edition:

drinking too much gatorade
the slovenian punk band pankrti
curling up near the air conditioner
antonioni's l'eclisse
tarkovsky's solaris
cooking even though it's too hot for it
trader joe's dark chocolate mint espresso beans
cold showers
stock aitken waterman

just an interjection to say HI BLAM and YAY U DADDY and MISSED U ON ILX and TELL YOUR BRO TO EMAIL ME and stuff :)

In the past two weeks I was deeply into 9 and 10 mile hikes up into wild mountain areas, climbing up to alpine meadows at timberline or above and visiting glacially-formed lakes, seeing how far away from civilization I could get.

Now that I'm back to where there are refrigerators, I am into fresh food, especially salads, along with clean clothes and showers.

I'm always into the same things. Takes years to change.

breaking bad
louie
doucheburgers
super mario 64 via sixtyforce
listening to podcasts on the way to work
swimming laps most days
weekly hour-long sex sessions with new FB
canaboids
ILE

apologies for the boring list! wish i was into something more esoteric lately but there you go. maybe i should work on that? i feel like i'm letting ilx down somehow :/

Late night comfort pasta
Lobster economics
Nano accomplishments
Possessing little of interest to burglars
Alternatives to my current salaried job
Undeserved fortuitousness

late night comfort pasta has been totally letting me down lately - glad it's still working for someone out there

thai and vietnamese salads
kettlebell
running
reading about l ron hubbard
beats in space
budgeting (i'm not hugely into this but i am paying for a diploma)
the freedom i'm feeling because of doing this diploma in 2013
and yeah, the sun

Steaming vegetables with the new steamer I got
Absolutely Free
deep space grooves of Cosmic Dead
Pontiacs
sweltering, well not really but seem to be doing quite a bit of it
sorting out FAS courses
Pete Brown's autobio
Strontium Dog and offshooot stories

- impending fatherhood
- hence, finally learning to drive
- and getting work done on the house that has been put off for the last two years
- stephen king's 11.22.63

you guys are so into stuff. i can never think about what to write here other than a couple of albums i'm listening to / books i'm reading.

The Walking Dead comics
Playing football
Moving house
Blueberries

okay here it goes

- adjusting to life in the country
- clearing nettlebeds (by hand!!)
- reggae reggae reggae!
- nice mellow house music for bbqs and campfires
- David Foster Wallace's The PAle King (which I'm reading very slowly but enjoying a great deal)
- Prehistoric studies
- Mandarin Chinese for beginners
- Cycling

aloe vera juice
the planet Mars
nectarines
Severed Heads - Clifford Darling...
John Shirley's Heatseeker

is it the taste of aloe vera juice or are you trying it for health reasons?

deep space grooves of Cosmic Dead
you should check out the live recordings if you haven't already -- they're not all as great as Cozmic Tape but they hit the spot

recumbent bikes
wood pigeon
robbie basho
the yorkshire dales

return of stoods
strawberries - blueberries - cantaloupe for breakfast every day, without exception
reading like 4 difft books
move on to 1981 (!!)
plants and botanic illustrations
getting rid of stuff
talking to my parents
lots of other stuff

(i am finishing one period of my year and starting another, so i have to wrap up loose ends and get started on some new things for the long dark season)

is "move on to 1981" the title to something? reason i ask is this year has huge personal significance for me & is a subject for research

not the title of anything, just a note to self to wrap up 1988 on my yearbook tumblrlr (sorry to advertise, that is not my thing but you asked, so) and continue back in time to 1981, which i have been looking forward to scanning because it the next stretch of years is so full of great pictures.

your mum

i'm not sure that aloe vera itself actually tastes of anything, cause even the plain one is heavily flavoured with grape. it's got the chunks though. chunks to make you go hmmmmm.

so, health? i tried it before for reflex and similar probs. dunno if i used it for long enough to have any idea if it worked.

deep space grooves of Cosmic Dead
you should check out the live recordings if you haven't already -- they're not all as great as Cozmic Tape but they hit the spot

― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Thursday, August 16, 2012 2:17 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

are you aware of any links with Skullflower? Just been intrigued by them both having a song called Black Rabbit which I think is based on a similar riff.
Could just be coincidence of course. The Airplane's White Rabbit is one of the best known psych tracks ever after all.

Think I've tried an otherwise unflavoured ALoe Vera drink from a chinese shop in Dublin. That was a while back, but I think that was reasonably straight.

Most of the Aloe Vera stuff I've had for oral use has had some flavouring though. The toothpaste is normally mint.

Not aware of any link, no
but come to think of it, but i think they are all from glasgow?

skullflower (ie matthew bower) are from england

oh sorry! i get them all confused, esp youngsbower (which i know contains richard youngs because of youngs) but matthew bower and skullflower -- that gets all mixed up in my brain! next thing you know there's gonna be a bowersflower power hour or something.

meant to say reflux above, not reflex, on the aloe vera thing.

la lech, just to confuse things further, richard youngs is an englishman who lives in glasgow (like me!)

i just wrote and erased so many bad jokes
consider yourself spared

really into a rainy desert night on which I can sit on my patio, drink a hot toddy, and watch a lightning storm over a benedictine monastery