what are you into right now?

haha if it makes you feel better i found a cassette of 'fumbling towards ecstasy' at a charity shop last year that i jammed on

just cant stop fucking w/ 'im the ocean' rn tho

shaving, thanks to Dollar Shave Club
my job
my apartment
my bookshelf
the distinct possibility of making new friends

also thai curries
redlettermedia
trying very hard to recognise the artistic value of the original star wars movie
headbutting things for comedic value
walking along the beach and not going into it
beers with friends (this is a recent thing)
app dot net

Colour co-ordinating Marvel badges with my clothes
Dick Valentine
Keeping the boat warm
Not fucking up at work
Making sock monkeys
Cooking real food

doing vocals for my friends awesome songs
wine wine and more wine
growing tomatoes and eggplants and capsicums (summer garden!)
spending time with a certain someone
archer and bobs burgers
playing zelda minish cap (again!) on the DS

getting rid of stuff
making soup
napping with kitties

I need to work on my curry game; they are not turning out as consistent as I'd like to. I cannot for the life of me do that thing where you heat the cream at the top of the can of coconut milk up and get the oil to separate from the solids! And I'm using rly good milk w/o emulsifiers, too.

Why you do this?! Is this a necessary step?

Yes, when you do this before adding the curry paste, it creates a fat in which to fry the curry (which is a necessary step) instead of just simmering it in some liquid. You can use veg oil too but apparently this coconut cream separation thing is better.

It also makes small flavorful pools of oil flout about your curry when it's done instead of just being a homogenous goop.

Thanks, will give that a try. My curries are always homogenous goops, and if I add coconut milk I chuck in the whole tin at the end.

I have not been able to get my coconut cream to separate ever, maybe it's something to do with the canning. I usually just fry the curry paste in a little oil, then add the coconut cream until you get the green oil and go from there

-figuring out how to put together a successful podcast that people will want to listen to
-remembering my college-radio life from a million years ago and how it basically saved me when i was living in a shitty town and going through some bad depression
-thinking about how i know exponentially more about music now and yet i still feel like i'm barely scraping the surface of what's out there
-wanting to reach out to people, is the main thing, wanting to make a "connection"? not a drug connection, i'm already pretty well-medicated.

- the French film Polisse, which I'm proud to say i managed to understand without subtitles
- Eyvind Kang's 'the Narrow Garden'
- vinyl records
- working out 3-part harmonies with my band

- killing ivy and blackberries in my yard
- reading in the evenings
- good eats!
- the sports section (rest of the newspaper sucks)

Yes, when you do this before adding the curry paste

and then

PG tips

- roasted mate/black tea mix
- arno schmidt short stories
- "going" "out"
- b12 records
- vitamin b12

- toying with androgyny, despite concurrent obsession with...
- hand-painted nail art
- doing all my friends' nails, custom
- The West Wing
- thinking about taking trains more

- grey

Breaking Bad
Yo La Tengo
Five a side football
Chocolate Oranges
My noughties project
Our new shelves

pissing off the alt lit community
wearing a thunsulate black beanie hat
eating a bowl of krave cereal and drinking a pint of summer fruits fruit and barley robinsons in front of bbc breakfast in the morning
HHhH by Laurent Binet
American food

Toaster waffles
Skippy peanut butter
Jelly
Banana

opera
my sprawling incoherent mess of a cd collection
work
aero jr.
heavy metal
the worm ouroboros

yerba mate
dumbbells
figuring out a few of my favorite albums on guitar
dusting off my tumblr
legos
penguins

flax seed muffins
boots
experimenting with becoming a morning person
fresh squeezed grapefruit juice

I've been going through grapefruits like wo. Family packs!

- scanning old photos and slides
- thinking about big earthquakes and putting some preparations into place

calling ppl 15+ yrs older than me things like kiddo/sport/tiger/slugger (I do this a lot actually, usu w acquaintances/not total strangers)

I'm not sure I quite make the 15+ mark (or, er, do I), but I welcome you to address me as any and all of these things.

I'd probably just say "quince" tbh

That reminds me of when I hollered "ROXY!!" upon seeing her band play. Turns out her name is not actually "Roxy."

-work. Like, I'm fucking killing it.
-revisiting long-owned but not recently listened to hip hop albums
- being a dad. My daughter is unbelievably awesome.
- shaving the right way, every morning. When you do it right, it's awesome.

roadtrips
not spending any money for days
this painting i saw at the met from 160 ad that is a perfect likeness of my friend joseph http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5291/5493151623_f4914ea443_m.jpg

watching tv with people
new band
downloading every book in the world ever onto my kindle for free on the internet
jacobin mag
getting embarassingly drunk

xp Holy shit, BLAM, I haven't seen you on ILX for ages! And you're a dad now, congrats! Hope to at least see your bro while he is in DC.

work: coming to terms with being THE BOSS
home: demolition
also, cognac manhattans

Hey, Q! Yeah, been a bit. Gonna try to post more regular-like.

Also:

-playing bluegrass guitar. Shit is like being a grill cook at a high end steakhouse. All meat. No filler. Ba-dum-ba-DUM!

documentaries: ie BBC docs like the one about Fleetwood Mac's Peter Green or the one AG linked on FB about Krautrock; Bastards of the Party; and the one I watched today abt Hubert Selby Jr
beets
nicki minaj
reading in bed
I think I might be getting into poetry again

-not feeling COMPLETELY bogged down with cold symptoms, for the first time in weeks
-the nearby strip-mall falafel place i checked out for the first time tonight
-my new butterfly-under-glass necklace that looks like something from the museum of jurassic technology
-the trader joe's fake strawberry twizzlers

- doing lots of pushups
- cereal
- not being outside

he trader joe's fake strawberry twizzlers

Things are crack. They have never lasted more than a night in our house.

- jantina noorman and david munrow, alternatingly
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environments_%28series%29#Environments_5_.281974.29
- my new students
- trying to be more into my bff's soon to be born baby and half succeeding
- all the same old stuff

haha a few years ago i had to stop eating TJs black licorice because i was going through it like way too fast! like i was getting upset if i ran out!

LL I haven't been around a lot of babies lately but I'm pretty sure they get way more compelling once they are born and not incipient

Yeah. They have an impact.

I know they have an impact; that's kind of what I'm dreading :(

But on the bright side, I am going to her shower in 2 weeks, so there's fun traveling to look forward to I guess?!

- mountain and beach resort towns in Idaho
- arrested development
- reading about artist's studio spaces and work practices
- crosswords
- the first song on the new yo la tengo record

Look, here's the ONLY new parent schpiel I'll go off on:

They rock. But damnit, they require a lot of time, work, and patience. The best advice to soon-to-be friends of soon-to-be parents is to remain present. Call regularly. Ask if you can swing by for a cup of coffee. Offer to pick up carry out. It will matter in ways you cannot imagine.

Alright. Done. Who else has a bit of a buzz on?

haha a few years ago i had to stop eating TJs black licorice because i was going through it like way too fast! like i was getting upset if i ran out!

it gave you the shits, right?

We don't live in the same state, I can't do any of those things, but thanks for the advice. I understand that it's gonna be tough for her and will be there however I can.