what are you into right now?

btw this is such a good thread

clouds otmfm marcos otmfm everyone keep it weird keep it posi 4ev

- carrying a 20 lb. pack on my daily walk to get in shape for hiking season
- the novels of Muriel Spark
- anticipating the NBA playoffs
- thinking of things to make my mother's 90th birthday special
- old photos

clouds that is awesome

I been dealing with some of that myself-- haven't arrived at any solutions!-- but I've been reading a lot of interesting stuff incl. this terrific Adam Phillips thing

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n05/adam-phillips/against-self-criticism

so far my solution has included wearing bright orange socks with maneki neko patterns, blasting acid techno at passersby on my bike w/ my new portable bluetooth speaker and cracking jokes and geeking out about anime w/ people who show even a slight interest, but ymmv

Making clothing still. Just finished a pair of Tartan jeans and turned them up so wore them out yesterday.
Not into how long it's taking to complete things, think I'm still cold/fluey. Also don't like not having something started. I have several things planned.
Watching tv shows as files from my memory stick. Wish I knew how to export from my horizon box too.
Reading the NYC cop memoir Blue Blood which is pretty good.
Also finally reading Cloud Atlas which I'm enjoying.
Various Cardinal Fuzz psych stuff.
The ability to take photos

Beyonce, Instagram, Iain M. Banks, instant coffee

still into resogun on ps4 (i'm 129th in the world on survival mode)

lots of jazz

still into hating french roast coffee (maria loves it for some reason)

john sandford crime books

into spotify for the first time (this might be a fad on my part but i love all the electronic stuff you can check out)

Tuscan bean soup. I used to think soup was boring but this is amazing.

belgian beer
spring classics
953 steel
pies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haYvrO5D_Yo

tetris

actually i should have said that my new favorite thing that i am into is playing resogun on the ps4 while listening to a grindcore or moombahton mix on the spotify on ps4. makes for the best game soundtrack.

whoa resogun is exactly my favourite kind of game

defender was my obsession when i was a kid. so, resogun is a no-brainer for me. and then i found out that the resogun people and the guy who created defender are working on a new game together and i exploded and died.

FUCKIN SUMMER YEA

DAM FUNK
steve arrington/slave
todd rundgren, just listened to "the spark of life" this morning
these dope sunglasses i got for free in a welcome bag when my family rented a beach house on the NC coast, the frames are white and the temples are teal and they say "LET THE FUN BEGIN" on the temples
homemade iced coffee
positive vibes, fuck these ilx beefs imo, we are better than that(?)

bowie young americans esp. "win" and "right" those songs are so good
miles "maiysha" always this has been going on for me since last summer
miguel "coffee"
the summer heat i love it

Fringe, which I've just watched through from Season 3 and gone back to the 1st series after watching the less good Season 5
moaning about flu, then missing the good weather that was around yesterday and today.
Babycord and tartan jeasn have a few pairs of each. About to make another pair of tartan jeans in Balckwatch and a babycord jeans jacket.
3 button long sleeve jersey tshirts.

Reading about 60s mens fashion, & a little into the 70s.

Sewing stuff, at least when my head stops spinning.
Waxed cotton shirts.
Psychedelic Sounds of the 13FE
Varioous Brazillian mid 70s folk psych

Reading about Irish traveller family scams or at least the book Scam.

putting off springcleaning, so into it that I've managed to procrastinate for months.

1/2 ice coffee + 1/2 chocolate milk
TCM's Summer of Darkness
walking in the cemetery
brief moments of respite from the crushing grief of a loved one
ice cream

1/2 ice coffee + 1/2 chocolate milk

you are a king dude

oh yeah done forgot Patricia Piccinini's sculpture
http://www.patriciapiccinini.net/155/17

marcos, can i tell you that i don't generally drink coffee at all but that combo has been a serious revelation for me? my girl has taken to brewing a pot in the morning and then leaving it in the fridge for mixing and this shit is what's up

Cambodian rock music from the 60s and 70s
documentaries about food
playing Ingress like all the time wherever I am, this game is just the coolest
Ethiopian coffee, so fruity and delish!

oh i dunno nothin

Ice coffee chocolate milk sounds heavenly!

o fuck ice coffee choc milk

it's pretty decent

is it just like iced mocha?

that is for fancy pants

this is some down home shit

national minorities - I will read/watch anything about a nation within a larger nation that seeks sovereignty right now. watched a doc on the 1995 Quebec referendum, read lots of Scottish pro-independence blogs, reading about catalunya's electoral pact of pro-independence parties ahead of the election there in September, reading the political philosopher will kymlicka on national minorities, multiculturalism, liberal theory of group rights etc.

resistant starch
lonesome Americana/alt-country
classical history audiobooks
secular eschatology

ccr

really into my new PA system right now, EV powered monitor speakers that run off of line input, so sweet

also

the collected works of James Tiptree, Jr.

making & drinking shrubs

grandbaby is visiting, she is awesome

Google Street View to explore obscure small towns in faraway countries

approve

riding my bike in beautiful wooded areas

Google Street View to explore obscure small towns in faraway countries

I've been doing this with random American/Canadian towns recently. Idaho Springs, Terre Haute, Stettler, Provo.

i'd guess that pplains has virtually explored most countries at this point

using google street view to do some virtual traveling is totally awesome

researching portland
stripping my life down to a carload
old movies
rockstar biographies

hitting that 2nd bottle of red
Eberhard Weber
FTL
Birdsong
Watching Whitethroats fluttering about on the wetland in my local park, knowing that they will hit the sub-Sahara by winter
Football Season Tickets
Long walks
Gardening

weed
saint pepsi
philly cheesesteaks
gettin sw0le
super smash bros
etc

i'd guess that pplains has virtually explored most countries at this point

I found this the other day on the border of India and Bhutan, and it is beautiful:

http://i.imgur.com/Fx90x4a.jpg

https://goo.gl/maps/Vj9Ar

An absurd, arbitrary border, which forces Bhutanese to use Indian roads to access parts of their country. Basically made by officers of the Raj in 1865, climbing the foothills just far enough to wipe their brows, and putting down cairns. The treaty is to the point:

Whereas in consequence of repeated aggressions of the Bhootan Government and of the refusal of that Government to afford satisfaction for those aggressions, and for their insulting treatment of the officers sent by His Excellency the Governor-General in Council for the purpose of procuring an amicable adjustment of differences existing between the two states, the British Government has been compelled to seize by an armed force the whole of the Doars and certain Hill Posts protecting the passes into Bhootan, and whereas the Bhootan Government has now expressed its regret for past misconduct and a desire for the establishment of friendly relations with the British Government, it is hereby agreed that the whole of the tract known as the Eighteen Doars, bordering on the districts of Rungpoor, Cooch Behar, and Assam, together with the Taloo of Ambaree Fallcottah and the Hill territory on the left bank of the Teesta up to such points as may be laid down by the British Commissioner appointed for the purpose is ceded by the Bhootan Government to the British Government forever.

dope googlemap photo

i am into riding my bike bcz it's making me happy

also into writing about riding my bike on a dorky blog lol

into reading abt bike gadgets & reminding myself i dont need them

Last exit Iron Path sounds great but shame there's no liner notes or incidentally date of initial release that I can find.
Blackfeather At tHe Mountains of Madness. Great early 70s psych/hard rock stuff which got an official remaster on the Aztec label after being delayed by the guitarist vetoing it for a while.
Cold Sun Dark Shadows the World i Sound reissue or actual official issue of something that was only an acetate at the time and had a semilegit release in the interim. Nice droney psychy stuff pretty prescient of postpunk stuff possibly thanks to VU uinfluence.

Wolf Hall finally about 2/3s of the way through it and it is really good writing.
Mr Robot, even if episode 5 had me seriously seeing the Tyler Durden likelihood.
Fringe gone back to season 1 when it was a creepy X files reworking with a hidden subplot. Interesting to watch after having seeen the later serieses. I think i only watched it once before.
Supernatural watching season 2 but somebody's bunged in a lot of Swedish subtitles to a couple of episodes which I could do without.

Not into
Rotten flu still having my headspinning.
Destroying my tv by trying to clean it, which leaves me thinking i could have doen this at any point over the last year and whatever.
Never being able to find warranties or receipts for things despite thinking that I keep them in a central place.
weather thinking its autumn not high summer, which is helping feed my cold. It's raining again right now so just as well I picked up the local paper before it became a soggy mess. Yesterday looked so promisisng too.

that picture is amazing. I rly fell in <3 w/ this Thai couple who watched the truck go by (if you go a step or two backward and forward they follow the truck w/ their gaze)

http://i.imgur.com/5ADNJ6v.jpg

https://goo.gl/maps/qfWxA

An absurd, arbitrary border...

Totally. I was looking down one of the Bhutanese roads that dips down below India and saw this:

http://i.imgur.com/yyUWWB8.png

It gets even more ridiculous in Phuentsholing.

http://i.imgur.com/NoSpYHE.jpg

From left to right: Bhutan, India.