what are you into right now?

"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

yeah but otoh one of the best things about it is it getting picked up on as an electro breakdance party record - the international crossover retrospectively enhances the telecoms-come-to-life vibe

i've been into wearing all-black lately too

I have been getting into ironing and/or starching my shirts

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

― Stevie D(eux), Monday, October 28, 2013 8:42 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i don't think i get manuel gottsching. feel like he is maybe kind of proto-minimal techno? like just using technology that doesn't allow him to create that space between the different elements? but idk, every track on e2-e4 has *exactly* the same beat + bassline and it's like a 2-second loop, kind of hard to listen to

-- fountain pens. I do not own any (yet), but have been researching.
-- the association between bullying and suicidal behaviors, but only because I have to (for skool)
-- Japanese and Taiwanese stationary stores to visit
-- cooking down everything in the fridge/pantry in a meaningful and tasty manner

oh and:

-- meaningful Baja stickers with which to adorn El Trucko. I never thought I'd put bumper stickers/decals on a vehicle, but somehow this feels right

I was given a Retro 1951 Tornado fountain pen a few years ago for christmas, seriously great pen imo
http://www.retro51.com/fwi_tor_fountain.html

the cap is counterweighted, so when you uncap & put it on the end of the pen while you're writing it weights it perfectly, writes like a dream

i used to have one of those! the brand, a rollerball i think, not the fountain. it was such a fine pen, so nice to hold, but the refills were a pain to match off-brand sizes to.

Fedoras, lily allen

Thanks VG and j.! I shall start a fountain pen/penmanship/assorted other handwriting stuff thread when I actually have some more coherent thoughts/experience with these things. In the meantime, I am working to correct a decades-long "claw-thumb/death grip" hold that third and fourth grade teachers tried very hard to correct. Sorry, Mr. Hardward and Ms. Triwertha. You were right :(

i tried to do that in grad school, so i could write a lot of cursive fast without my hand cramping, and for a while i did get into the habit of using a more relaxed grip, but i never got it to the point of not requiring concentration. now i'm thinking slower again anyway so it's no big whoop if i have to print several pages.

- flossing

flossing is awesome

- "I Blame Myself" by Sky Ferreira

robin thicke

http://www.2marketmedia.com/if-you-are-mad-at-robin-thicke-youre-racist/

Christmas crafting with felt
Filling up on lowering cholesterol foods aka...I don't really dig egg nog anymore
Puppy and how to handle a herding dog
Being Santa, making a list, planning for the big ho-ho
Purging my storage unit

-researching inexpensive garments for winter bicycle commuting (base layer that can be worn all day indoors, gloves, etc)

-trying to start reading again (next up is Jane Jacobs' "The Death and Life of Great American Cities")

-figuring out the best way to learn Java (online course, book, etc, idk halp)

Oh man does it have to be java? Is it your first PL? Find another thread for this somewhere and we can chat about it more maybe.

Nah I've dabbled in Java and C++ before so I kinda know what's up and I want something that will teach me the fundamentals of like what's going on under the hood