what are you into right now?

thomas pynchon. reading the oeuvre in advance of the new book...amazing, amazing writer

The Genesis Castlevania is the best of the series imo. Fastest play, smoothest controls, and great graphic gimmicks that put Mode 7 to shame. Plus you travel around Europe! The music is way better than the SNES one as well, which is no small shakes.

Apparently the Contra is great too but i haven't tried it.

the sound chip for the genesis is the same as the yamaha dx-7 iirc, so it sounds better than most snes music — but the snes games had better composers working on them.

Pain relief
Singapore fried rice
Holden
The garden
Pressure washing
Decorating
Board games

Xcom: Enemy Unknown
lattes

pistachios

Learning chess openings and watching famous games play out and studying them.
Running long distances on my toes.
Consommé.
Ultravox records.
"Ulysses".

Oh that is so adorably pvmic. I feel like this entire thread is just a nonstop parade of pvmic.

learning thai alphabet
sheep milk cheese
books on history of early christianity/gnosticism
thinking abt wearing more frilly things like amethyst jewelry

arnold palmers or just plain iced tea
'paperback writer'
lactaid chewables which have made it less depressing to be lactose-intolerant
little lulu
waiting for monsoon season to start

donuts and milkshakes
anger

craft beers (though the heartburn I get makes it harder to enjoy)
spending assloads of money on merchandise and concert tickets
karaoke
Netflix

sitting on the porch
opening the window
looking at baristas
quitting google notifier, because why, because i want to, that's why

Learning everything metric
Stand up comedy
Ripping records on my new turntable
Watching auctions end on records I want, but won't buy

balcony gardening, experimenting with exotic plants botrh there and on my windowsill but not sure how far I'm getting.
long islamic shirts from a charity shop in walthamstow. wish I had a more local outlet.
Indian Takeaways on a Sunday from a stall on St Nicholas lane,.
especially Chana Saag which I really need to learn to make myself.
various psych bands from the freak valley festival. cos they're being dimed.
Flashback! number 3 cos I just got it recently and its as good as the first 2
Mighty Baby's Jug of Love which I was reminded to get by reading the long article on them in the above Flashback! 3
Loop A Gilded Eternity the 2009 Reactor version, wondering if it's going to get a UK re-release since they're reforming.
Dead Sea Apes, looking forward to the collaboration with Black Tempest. But Dead Sea Apes themselves are very interesting atmospheric instrumental band. Not sure how they view the idea of post-rock but some people might fit them in with it.
Grateful Dead May 1977 still pretty decent at the point and thankfully I haven't come across much Disco Dead so far. Really not into that aspect of them, they were a fantastic improvisatory rock group though.
learning more and more Autocad, though not sure how well I'm doing at the moment. Really hoping i get it together by September. Got a set of exams week after the one just about to start which I'm not looking forward to at all.

not into landlords who suddenly decide to change over bin collections when you've had the same set up for all the time you've been in a place through at least 4 landlords. & you have payment sorted which it won't be if anything goes wrong with this. Or needing to get it on paper that the payment is being sorted by the landlord so he doesn't just change his mind a little down the line.

also: cherries, but especially rainier cherries, which are only in season RIGHT NOW

― thumbs.db (get bent), Tuesday, June 19, 2012 7:05 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I finally found a copy of Shakey at a local bookstore in the same week that I discovered rainier cherries. I am very into these right now. So gb otm in pointing out the best cherries, and I'll reward gb by reminding gb to buy some immediately.

making iced tea w/ loose leaf tea, a french press, and leftover Santa Cruz lemonade bottles.

ultravox records <3

Civil War history
Gore Vidal's Lincoln
cherry tomatoes
You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go - ole Bob

eating salads and fruit for every meal

-super-americanized thai-chinese food (i made roast duck & pineapple fried rice last night)
-waiting for new criterion dvds to come in the mail
-that picture of the little girls in the cancer-patient ward eating pizzas reddit users sent after reading the girls' "send pizza" missive scrawled on their hospital room window

-"glitter and be gay" from candide, a lifelong favorite that i've gotten back into lately

- the beach

Coconut milk
Enchanted Lion Books
Instagram
Lentils
Looking up toy dishes,toy kitchens..toys on Amazon
Louie
Painting sticks
Strapless dresses

vanilla ice cream, add fresh blackberries

midnight grocery shopping

mika vainio

strapless dresses!!

ontology

syllabi planning

sitting in the cool basement to read

I loved midnight grocery shopping when I lived in Austin!

Morning ritual of making coffee w/ manual burr grinder and Aeropress
Quirky anime (e.g. FLCL)
my new roommate/living situation

my new roommate/living situation

:D

Watched "Phenomena" last night. So right now I'm into Dario Argento, Goblin, Iron Maiden, and Jennifer Connelly.

Weather
Transit

stevie, don't forget to watch paranoia agent!

Watched "Phenomena" last night. So right now I'm into Dario Argento, Goblin, Iron Maiden, and Jennifer Connelly.

otmfm

Ooh!! I have Argento's "Opera" on my computer; I'll have to watch that soon.

And I've got 2 more eps of FLCL and then I'm starting Paranoia Agent :-D

My roommate and I, though, we like cook dinner for each other and watch movies and text each other throughout the day and get excited for each other when good things happen and hang out in our undies and talk about life. I'm worried we might kind of "like" each other :-/

inspector lewis
alasdair roberts
air conditioning

yay steve!

reading about/planning on keeping our soon-to-be garden strictly native/zone-specific plants
jegog (all bamboo) gamelan music
going to the beach kinda regularly

listening to classical music regularly again

drumming
getting psyched for the next academic year
the fruits and vegetables of summer
not wearing a bra
Blue Öyster Cult

actually i would like to append "unless i have to" to the penultimate thing
the rest is undiluted

farmers markets
more guitar building books \o_o/
my new apt, and grilling things on the lawn outside of it
yukio mishima and kobo abe again
laying on the floor and listening to windy weber 'i hate people' when nobody else is home

xp hooray for undiluted drumming! Had you ever drummed before or are you just starting out?

just starting! i had dabbled before, but i'm officially learning now. finally.

(ha i mean like, because it's relaxing and really nice, not in a 'listening to morrissey in the dark' depresso way or whatever)

xxp to self

my bf loves abe's inter ice age 4, have been meaning to read that myself

i haven't read that one yet!

Best way to learn drumming imo is get your favorite album really loud on headphones and play along to it.

reading the "privilege as meme" thread from start to finish
soba noodles
air conditioning
this Mexican drink called Jamaica, sort of a hibiscus tea
Treasure Island

courgettes
prince buster
pessoa
swimming in outdoor water
soul control
lemonade
mario bava
isolation
tour de france

Hookah smoking
Attempting to master Bejeweled Blitz
Ken Burns documentaries
Lamictal
Homemade gourmet hamburgers
Ridic. Atlantis theories

Best way to learn drumming imo is get your favorite album really loud on headphones and play along to it.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau)

OTM this is so true!

You don't even have to match what the drummer is doing just jam with it so you keep the time and mind the changes and it sounds good.