what are you into right now?

oops

the Spyro series (finished 1, about to start 2)
Final Fantasy VII
Donkey Kong Country 2
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (it is HARD!!!)

I am about to start:
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Clock Tower (the OG Super Famicom one)

if anyone has recommendations for obscure/sleeper games for literally any console up to and including PS1 let me know

reading more in 2019, trying to finish 1 book a month

good list of games! i have never (or just very sparingly and i can't remember) played DKC2 despite the first one being one of my favourite games

early REM (pre-Green)
cooking something new for dinner every night - last night a not particularly exciting, but fairly satisfying attempt at mujadra
super mario world
iranian history
walking

man Super Mario World, I wonder what it would be like replaying that? It was one of the first games I ever got and I feel like despite not picking it up in 20 years I probably know every level inside and out

i hadn't played it for a similar amount of time and it was the first SNES game i ever played. my friend charles got a ton of money for his first communion (i got about a 1/4 the money he did :( ) and bought a SNES and a bunch of games. luckily charles was very bad at video games and he would usually let me play to get past levels.

ive really enjoyed replaying it and i love the way it looks but i don't think it's quite as good as super mario 3, which i replayed a year or so ago and has more interesting levels imo

hey stevie you might like echo night on ps1, it's a first person puzzle game developed by From Software (of later dark souls fame). its pretty fun and bizarre. i've never really heard it talked about, i think its relatively unknown. i'm only aware of it because the person who gave me my ps1 gave me this game with it

Donkey Kong Country was so good and looked better than anything else on a SNES, surely it couldn't have been any better. I've got a Red Dead Redemption 2 PS4 for my kid's birthday, and haven't had a good play on a games console since about 2001. If he doesn't like it - it won't go to waste.

I've got a raspberry pi set up this way and it rules. But Donkey Kong Country - which looked great 20 years ago on a 20" CRT TV - looks terrible on a 55" HD flatscreen. The best part are some references in the game to how AMAZING the graphics look and how every other (contemporary) game looks like shit in comparison. The super flat colors NES marios 1-3 and SNES super mario world hold up much better.

Gotta get Tropical Freeze on switch!

Glenfiddich 12

reading more in 2019, trying to finish 1 book a month

― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux))

god every time i try to read it's some unreadable doorstopper about mass slaughter and i keep telling myself "i should do more light reading" but i'm so shit at it

man 2666 is like 5 novellas, just read one of those at a time : )

ahhh, shit, you know i'd never even heard of sebald before? it's not helping :(

robert walser, that's the way to go, little stories about nervous fellows buying sausages

but arty, so you feel like you made a big accomplishment

oh, yes, that's the ticket i think! reminds me of richard brautigan.

walsers are really good indeed but almost too tiny to make u feel like you’re doing actual reading

walruses really good too if you're looking for some stuff to be into right now

walruses really good too if you're looking for some stuff to be into right now

― j.

i was in a store tuesday and they had a walrus penis bone for sale but it was pretty expensive and i don't know what i'd do with a penis bone that big

also the demo bonus tracks on the residents' "eskimo" reissue are honestly very good

i actually prefer miniatures, i get the refreshing feeling of doing light reading without having to plow through all those unimportant words

Thin Lizzy

xp uh what would you do with a smaller one

xp uh what would you do with a smaller one

― j.

i'm thinking!

i'm into these these tibetan buddhist tantric scores, which i came across here: https://blogthehum.com/2016/02/29/tibetan-buddhist-tantric-scores/

https://i.imgur.com/2sDhaMn.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/U4tWMpG.png

https://i.imgur.com/62tZAF2.png

Those are pretty.

I don't know what I'm into at the moment. I feel like I blew the last month not being into anything. I started a book on the history of Africa which is pretty good.

those are beautiful! xp

I've been scanning a ton of my mom's negatives:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/disbister/collections/72157677972626298/

mitochondria + endosymbiosis

xp

i really like the one from naomi's birthday, 1975, with the man holding a camera and the plaid-shirted woman looking on

https://www.flickr.com/photos/disbister/46770226772/in/album-72157688967159813/

Xpost woha

Me? Reading. Big time.

i'm not really "into" it deeply, but just the whole theory of endosymbiosis is really interesting - a lifeform (like a mitochondrian) that becomes integrated within another lifeform (a cell), with its own set of DNA. it's fun to imagine a human being wholly subsumed into a different lifeform, into a new symbiotic relationship

reading more in 2019, trying to finish 1 book a month

― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux))

god every time i try to read it's some unreadable doorstopper about mass slaughter and i keep telling myself "i should do more light reading" but i'm so shit at it

― The Elvis of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism (rushomancy), Thursday, January 31, 2019 9:25 PM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so I have a chronic habit of buying books and just not reading them, and also my bookshelves are all full so I have like 7 or 8 stacks of books scattered around my apartment. a couple months ago I decided to go through them all and make a short list of stuff I was most excited about reading first, and wound up with like 25 books, so that's what I'm pulling from. So far I've read Charles Burns' "Black Hole" and now I'm 1/3 of the way through "The Great Gatsby". This is my full "short"list

https://i.imgur.com/eoy9lQQ.jpg

god, that's what i need to read more of, indie comics. they're so expensive though...

the only one of those i've read is transmetropolitan. i'd give it a thorough "ehhh".

I picked that up when I went through a cyberpunk craze a few years ago and bought any cheapish cyberpunk comics I could get my hands on. I think the only thing I actually made it through reading was Paul Pope's "100%" which was NOT cyberpunk and tbh was like on the better side of mediocre but not really excellent

Paul Pope is a libertarian dope, but Batman Year 100 might be my favorite comic ever

Peter Hammill

i read pope's batman alternate universe batman story where batman, in nazi germany, saves the life of ludwig von mises. it was very lol. that's libertarianism for you - the sort of person who, if they find themselves in nazi germany, immediately thinks "OH NO MUST PROTECT LUDWIG VON MISES", because that was the real horror of the nazis obviously

i read pope's batman alternate universe batman story where batman

starring batman

Transmetropolitan: pretty sure the husband read it. I should try comics on my kindle.

yess nath & stevie (the two stevies lol)! I came here to say reading, although that’s kind of always my answer to what are you into right now, but lately for the first time in a while I’m reading the way I used to viz busting out a book at every opportunity*, staying up at night to finish things &c. It’s a good feeling.

*including at lunch at work, something I never did before at this job as I like my coworkers and it feels slightly rude

tall glasses of water w a splash of cranberry juice (like super tart 100% cranberry juice, not juice cocktail)

that is cran-water

stevie I highly recommend getting the 100% cranberry juice CONCENTRATE (they have it at WF and in hippy groceries, also amazon of course), adding just a touch of simple syrup, and adding club soda to taste. It is like the opposite of your cran water but so good with the intense cranberriness, as opposed to that dumbed-down-with-apple-juice cocktail crap.

that is a great idea!!!!

also super super into watching Game of Thrones for the first time rn, I'm averaging like 2-3 episodes a night

yesssss

how far are you?

i'm abt 4 weeks in and I just finished S5E9

Mil Tec Desert Patrol boots. Sand coloured suede army type boots.
Gloves and a bag i got from the same source.

Keeping my fiongers firmly crossed that the 2 semi interrelated national disasters on either isde of the pond might find some positive resolution hopefully involving the main figures involved suffering in great pain.

Making shirts again. Really need to get onto other garments. Want to get some jackets and trousers done especially.

Listening to podcasts on Greek Myths, Irish History, Medieval travel, Roman & Greek history among other stuff.

Managing ti find a book I was looking for a copy of for years on the same day I discovered it was risiing in price online.Looked on the shelf in the local 2nd hand/remainder bookshop tonight and there wasa copy sitting there. Haven't looked in there for it for a while so wonder how long it was there. Just been reminded because its by a guy who does a podcast I've been listening to recently.

Getting involved in helping set up an event for Africa Day in late may

Greek pasta grains called Kritharaki which go well with my stirfry thing.

Jakemans cough sweets though do wish they had less wrapping.Hate the excess use of plastic.

new insoles
cran-cherry
leaf-eating
julien gracq
a late nosh
commuting
shitty tv
essayism
john wesley harding
the swollen river

op ivy
sock experimentation
guzzling simply apple
greens regimen
trackpad gestures
proper boots
stability
simenon
book of doublends jined
exhausting shitty tv so you are free from it

80s noir
kim's convenience
harissa
tahini
bob marley & the wailers
making hummus w my food processor
learning songs on guitar
springboard diving
john ashbery
charles simic
cum town
letterboxd
social media 'alts'