what are you into right now?

hah quincie I have things to tell you abt certain bars in the Castro and things I have done in them and the apartments above them that someone had keys to

making GIFs from the "Red Light Special" video:

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fresh lime juice
the urban decay anarchy face case (esp. the lip pencil)
pending bay area trip
the warm hearthy crackle inside my tummy when i'm drinking
candy corn
tavener's "village wedding"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9_FAZAEeJM

painting my nails. Like not just having nails that are painted but the actual act of applying nail polish is really fun for some reason. I bought some black OPI and some Essie matte topcoat. Rly into "rocking" matte black nails for fall (left the middle finger glossy for added sass). I want to also get a really dark steely grey and do that matte too and maybe do patterns btwn the two but I think I might stick w/ a monochromatic palette for a while; I am not ready for color

avoiding sexually-charged spaces

don't u work in a sex shop? or do u mean like a dance club

na I stopped doing that like 3 months ago, and yeah I mean like gay bars or parties where everyone is on a mission and rly into objectifying everyone else instead of approaching them as actual human beings

word

Dune (the novel, never read it before actually)
Electric Wizard
writing
imperial stouts
not getting stressed out about a terrible, terrible project that is going to be the focus of my work life for the next 3+ years

xp i'm kind of on the opposite tip where i feel like i suddenly became an ascetic peasant whose only interactions with people are either warm gatherings of friends or talkin to math people at school. wouldn't mind some objectification in my direction right now tbh. but i totally feel u

into:

kickin it w my mom
topology
disco + early electronic music
selling my records
poetry(?)
novels written by female authors

how early? Like Man Parrish early or like Pierre Schaffer early?

kind of all over the place + probably not that early in the grand scheme of things but like more crude use of synthesizers for dance music > academic or minimalist pieces so like yeah man parrish juan atkins kraftwerk giorgio

plus like those metal dance comps

got any recs?

"Warm Leatherette" by The Normal
"Sharivari" by A Number of Names
"A Rainbow in Curved Air" by Terry Riley

The Warp 10+1: Influences comp spans 86-90 which might be kinda late but is still really awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R9Cki4ZrP0

if you don't have Manuel Gottsching's E2-E4 it is essential too

also Charanjit Singh's Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat is like whoa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0WBYOM4iZs

"Sharivari" by A Number of Names

If you've never heard this don't start listening to it, because you'll never want to stop.

green onions in things
cheers
bill orcutt
resenting
period life tables

making risotto
kacey musgraves
the bob stanley book on pop music
showering
the thread on here about caricatured 70s movie posters

Making risotto is something I think about and plan to do w some regularity but haven't actually done in yeeears

springcleaning, still at it getting there slowly
Breaking Bad just getting towards the end of the 5th series after starting at the beginning about a week and a half ago. Unfortunately my dvd recorder has managed to shut itself and refuse to open. It's set up to shut the drawer after 10 minutes but up to now I've managed to have a disc in or have it open somehow but it has been sticking for ages. Very frustrating so I'm not into it. Having to watch episodes on my computer now when I prefer watching things on tv.
Qawal's Indian food he had a gazebo set up yesterday to keep customers dry but it kept nearly lifting off in the wind. He does a lovely onion Bhaji and pretty much everything else is tasty. Curry was really zingy yesterday.
Manchild In the Promised Land by Claude Brown
Veep series 1, don't think it's as great as Iannucci's british stuff but has a lot of great moments.
Thinking about getting a bagless vacuum cleaner. Since I have to get bags mailorder for my current one.
Finally having a table that's large enough to work on so think I will finally set up the sewing machine I bought last year when I finally get this springcleaning finished.
Repetition for emphasis.
Rearranging material on my hard drives.
the endless, though interrupted, sunny weather. Which looks great from my window. Losing vitamin D from not further investigating it.

thx stevie

Let me know which of those you have heard and your reaction after hearing the other ones for the first time! I get v excited sharing early electronic music w/ ppl

Also this, which came out in ***1980*** (HOW!?!?!?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk3NG6tHJrc

thats my favourite ryuichi track

monoton / monotonprodukt 07 from 82 is the most astonishingly ahead-of-its-time 80s electronic lp, it sounds like something CoH was doing 20 years later

i've only heard warm leatherette & rainbow in curved air

pretty much all the ymo-related stuff is essential

have a hard time getting into that stuff, but i really like the song unit by logic system (some ymo side project)

clouds sent me that Logic System album many years ago and I stumbled across it maybe 6 months ago and was totally blown away. Essential.

has not happened yet but I think I might be getting into wearing all black

h2t

watch out once u go black u never go back

stevie, you should get into risotto! it's a really relaxing way to cook, imo

too much stirring ime

I was wearing all black at home yesterday on accident

xpost well, yeah, but if you know that going in, you just crack open a book or a bottle of wine or you have a friend over who you can chat to while you stir, it's totally not stressful if you just get into the zen of the repetitive stirring motion

i guess the the internet is kinda a limiting way of understanding people but i would def be surprised knowing stevie wasn't a risotto person. & yeah too much stirring is the point; obviously don't do it if you're in a rush, do it when you just wanna spend all evening in the kitchen while it gets dark outside, be half stirring, once in a while tending to some vegetable that's gonna get involved, listening to both sides of a tape, &c

it's def rainy day cooking

s/o my bacon/mushroom/pepper/goats cheese risotto, absolutely sensational stuff.

Bake that shit n00bs ffs

i've listened to a lot of shit in my dog-eared time and never once has 'riot in lagos' sounded less than inspirationally captivating and totally out on its own. without question one of the best records ever, or indeed evah

the thing about risotto is its chill autumnal reputation is somewhat overstated imo? like it's p attention-intensive and by the time you've tasted it enough to get the rice just à point you're already kinda sated b4 the platings-up. and yeah you can make it earlier but then there's an additional concern of reheating without recooking but still maintaining stirring consistency. shit's an undertaking man

wait bake what now

have had more bad risottos than good ones, i'd have to say, not by my own hand, i don't really eat cheese if i can avoid it.

been doing morning work-outs with kettlebell lately, and eating a proper breakfast as opposed to just a banana. i'm finding myself really buzzing by the time i get into work.

Good Friends, Good Wine, Good Stirring

I want to buy that on a cheap wooden decorative plaque from Kohl's

I have made it before but just not in a v long time. I will look into this at once.

"Riot in Lagos" kind of freaks me out bcz nothing from 1980 should sound like that