what are you into right now?

- 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

also into:
- gentle drinking lawn sports like bocce
- secret vices
- good hard sleep
- writing in a journal again
- shoes
- my new career

- Full spectrum photography (infrared & uv), but I don't have a full spectrum camera, just yet
- (related) underwater fluorescent photography, but I don't have a good UV dive light, just yet
- stacked supermacro photography, but I don't have a stackshot, or even a decent macro rail, just yet

Oh, and also a continuing interest in secular eschatology.

beats in space is such a good thing to be into

- researching credit cards / staying on top of my finances / building up my credit real good (I hear the Chase Freedom card is it right now)
- En Vogue's "My Lovin'"
- watching a bunch movies I haven't seen on the new BFI Top 50 list
- watching shows w/ my boyfriend: Mad Men (which I haven't seen before) and Oz (which he hasn't seen before)
- retagging/renaming/organizing several dozen gigabytes worth of music and files in preparation of moving to a new computer (everyone needs this TagScanner program: http://www.xdlab.ru/en/)
- dissecting the concept of #yolo
- planning a small menu of finger foods for my birthday party on Saturdays
- grocery stores / being in grocery stores / going grocery shopping (this never leaves my list tbh)

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

― drawings by teen cultists (Crabbits), Thursday, August 16, 2012 11:34 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhh.

at this time of year my late night summer pasta is

100 g pasta
12.5 g salt / 1 liter water
1/8 cup pasta water
1/2 pat butter
cheese, salt, pepper

blueberries

w plain yogurt

xp the 3rd, 4th and 5th go in after pasta's drained

greek or what

also are there blueberries right now? i thought it was red and black berry time.

blueberries are slowly on the way out iirc

yeah there are still some at my farmer's market but less than before ;_;

Those Fage yogurts with the fruit cuppy!! Total full-fat and 2% are good; the 0% is too chalky which is sad bcz it has all the best flavors (mango guyanbana!!)

Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island

http://z.about.com/d/usparks/1/0/A/0/1/FortWadsworth.jpg

This yard was in a movie! What movie??

I can picture it, I just can't remember.

There was a man with a...briefcase full of...something valuable--money? And gunfire from the colonnades, and a helicopter searchlight....

Oh no. That was Point Blank, and it was shot in Alcatraz. I am so disappoint.

-korean grapes (i'm sure these have a name...don't know what it is)

i found out what these are called -- concord grapes! so delicious and juicy.

I instantly thought of Point Blank when I saw that, too. xpost

Nile Rodgers's autobiography/Nile's general attitude to life
Freshly shelled hazelnuts
The aroma of toasted spices
Another Nickel in the Machine
The amazing fun shirt I bought half-price, which has already garnered several compliments

karaoke
exploring new types of interpersonal dynamics/relationships
Radical Faeries
certain kinds of disco
hanging out with my roommate and my ex
picking up and putting down Tama Janowitz's "Slaves of New York"

prog
dark chocolate
new yorker back issues
vintage red dwarf
app dot net

red dwarf me too :D
beets
making soup
chili dogs
erasure

ew beets tste like dirt!!

no u do

:)

*clutches pearls*

hell yes beets

and hilarious old family photos that i can totally blackmail everyone with

certain kinds of disco

which kinds?