what are you into right now?

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.

did not give me the shits, just made me feel like i was mainlining licorice.

Call regularly

Yes, you can.

did not give me the shits, just made me feel like i was mainlining licorice.

there was a pun, I think my delivery failed

bad flow

- kevin drumm records
- the art of dan flavin
- anticipating seeing an op art print exhibit locally
- drinking and dancing the last two weekends, and probably again this weekend
- brainstorming some home renovation/decorating

- Patricia Piccinini sculpture
- a 4x space game that replaces my own repetitive agitation with someone else's repetitive agitation
- salsa classes
- perfect hummus
- and the usual secular eschatology

Patricia Piccinini stuff is cool! I sadly am reminded of one of the most awkward artist talks ever, though, where multiple people asked variations of the question, "So, you don't actually sculpt them? You draw them? What do you do?"

Flavin is so fucking stellar

I have a book on minimalism that I haven't actually read many articles in, but have browsed a lot. It has a Flavin work on the cover.

I kind of want to set up room in my basement in neutral colors (including painting the floor) and have lights on the four corners

i'm into the idea of learning spanish/traveling around south america right now

Always into that!!

I am also into learning Spanish right now for strategic career purposes and also because I like language. Well, I will be into it this Spring cause I am about to register for a class.

i am taking a history course on latinos in america and it's one of the best classes i've had, if not the best

Nadie quiere hablar conmigo en 77 ;_;

i know next to no spanish!

If you understood that, you're ahead of most monolingual Americans!

cognates + esperanto and the smidge of latin i know

- dried apricots

btw i called my bff today so BLAM would bacdafucup off of my back ;)

And you are a better person for it. She was probably very glad to hear from you.

I'm totally giving you shit, but its motivated by some real life nonsense - like, 75% of our friends have totally disappeared and never call us anymore. Its fucking ridiculous. And on bad days, its pretty fucking depressing.

- Apparently, into getting depressed about the increasingly BAD global warming news we're seeing. Like, oh SHIT.

you can call those friends, really

they probably just think you're really busy with a kid and don't need bothering

We talk like twice a week and have been close friends continuously since 1990! I don't really need any training in the friend department, at least not with her. I'm not your friends. I'm good.

ok now I'm into watching all the British shows on Hulu. I highly recommend the latest season of The Thick of It.

its not even restricted to those assholes who pay for Hulu Plus!