what are you into right now?

days gone
planning bikepacking trips
phoebe bridgers
home making kimchi
orange wine

scampi fries

scampi fries are so good, always buy some if I see them when I'm back home

digital painting tutorial videos on youtube
Drambo
skateboarding
Avatar the Last Airbender

We watched all of Avatar in the last week of May and first of June, glorious times

we’re sad to be finished. considering comics and Legend of Korra

bicycle riding
dancing/undulating in place
Java
chilling out (always)

Cart Narcs
walking through alleys (instead of through sidewalks, like how a basic-style person would walk through)
Vines that make me forget that I'm a failure
english muffins (specifically Vons Signature Select® raisin muffins, only $1.99)
Megan Koester

HUM
robin scherbatsky, p.i.
oolong tea
spinoza
bandanas
french

if you like HUM may i just real quick use the internet to suggest that you might also like

the Chambermaids

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg__frmH48U

no

seltzer!!! recently I've had Polar pomegranate (eh, not bad), cranberry lime (so good!! my fav!!) and black cherry (on paper I should love this but I don't love Polar's version as much as other brands)
my new job
overhauling and reorganizing my apartment, finding permanent homes for piles of stuff that have been "temporarily staged" for, like, over a year
Underground Resistance
Numero Group's exotica and balaeric playlists, and really just Numero Group playlists in general
the new Haim and Jessie Ware albums and the new Guerilla Toss single

Oxo cooking utensils. First I got their hand powered whisk, then the grater, then the hand powered food processor. These are cooking accessories that bloody brilliant you want to fuck them!

The Modern Jazz Quartet's soundtrack to the Robert Wise late noir No Odds For Tommorow

love oxo!! I am a fan of their potato masher, locking tongs, whisks, ice cube trays w lids, pepper mill w crank, pizza cutter, silicone pastry brush, brush and dustpan, angled measuring cups, coctail strainer, and sink strainer. Not a fan of their bottle brush, the neck is too flimsy!!

Odds Against Tomorrow, i meant.

the Oxo hand-powered food processor is a work of genius, product design perfection, one of humanity's greatest achievements etc .. imo!

oh shit that looks dope!! oh also i forgot, their salad spinner is incredible for so many reasons

Oxo cooking utensils. First I got their hand powered whisk, then the grater, then the hand powered food processor. These are cooking accessories that bloody brilliant you want to fuck them!

PSA: do NOT actually fuck your food processor btw

thankfully you can only operate it with the lid firmly fastened shut!

I'm that addicted to it I'm overusing it really, have just processed the fuckery out of an onion that really could have done with getting sliced thinly for the cheese/potato bake I'm doing!

oh i forgot, i'm REALLY into tahini in desserts, so far I've made tahini blondies and tahini brownies

I had an Oxo angled measuring cup for a while, thought it was fine, then I managed to break the handle clean off at some point and I was like welp. Replaced it with Pyrex. Still a good idea, just too destructible.

anyway I am in to right now:

making tea soda (black tea syrup + seltzer)
my job (!?)
sitting on the patio

Word puzzles
Bicycling 15+ miles around the city with nowhere in particular to go and little plans as to my route
Slamming a Steel Reserve and writing for an hour in the early evening
France's "Do Den Haag Church"

The Modern Jazz Quartet's soundtrack to the Robert Wise late noir No Odds For Tommorow

― calzino, Wednesday, July 8, 2020 2:10 PM (six hours ago)

love this album! took me forever to track it down

Oxo cooking utensils. First I got their hand powered whisk, then the grater, then the hand powered food processor. These are cooking accessories that bloody brilliant you want to fuck them!

It's probably worth mentioning that one of Oxo's product designers also used to design sex toys.

(we have a LOT of Oxo stuff - faves are probably the salad spinner, the pineapple cutter, the coffee press cleaner, but all are indispensable)

Bicycling 15+ miles around the city with nowhere in particular to go and little plans as to my route

YES. This is so much fun. For years and years I lived in small areas (10,000 - 30,000 people) and now live in a small city with ~500k in the metro area and its so much fun to randomly end up in weird neighborhoods I didn’t know existed.

the munro show

the mr show show

Roland Barthes’ likes. pic.twitter.com/SprAlKvb6m

— Phuong Le (@phuonghhle) November 22, 2020

etc.

she good ones in there. chiefly related with flat pillows and bouvard et pécuchet

Did he say/write this in English or in French? I confess I don't know anything about Barthes's command of English.

"The mountains at seven in the morning leaving Salamanca" is lovely but invites my snarky inner copyeditor to ask "why were the mountains leaving Salamanca?"

Your snarky inner copyeditor is a useless bore.

Yes, and as a result I usually keep him gagged and bound

:-)

I’m really into Herman Munster at the moment, and the whole Munster family dynamic.

I bought the complete Munsters the other day! I Love Fred Gwynn.

killer7
Pikmin
various other GameCube/Wii games after dusting off my Wii after years of inactivity
Frederick Wiseman films, or the idea of them, as I want to watch more but haven't yet
60's Japanese crime/heist/yakuza films
Pre-Code Hollywood (yet again)
Steve "Silk" Hurley remixes
my Bonne Maman jams and honeys advent calendar
T4T LUV NRG/Eris Drew/Octo Octa, particularly their new Fabric mix

Which yakuza films?

Fred Gwuynn turning into a semi serious actor towards teh end seemed quite great.
MUnsters are pretty cool, did they start as Ersatz Addams family. or is there something else there.
Anyway got to see them at a point i find them quite iconic. & seeing the Standells on there was quite humourous.
Assume i must have first discovered tehm asa tv standard in NYC in the mid 70s.

I really enjoy Charles Addams cartoons too.

Horror masks leftover from Halloween seem all too fitting for Covid.
The leather jackets I picked up in a charity shop in town a couple of weeks ago.
Finally got a Schott even if its not the style I really wanted and doesn't have the top pocket that is normally a feature of this style.
IT looks quiite good though.

Catching up with a stack of tv shows i haven't kept up with currently watching through The Witcher, Catherine the Great, Utopia (2020), finished Trickster yesterday, Name of teh Rose tv show, Mrs America, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, PEN15 and a few others. just tried out Flight Attendant last night.

The long black cashmere and wool crombie styled coat I wear in winter.
Duck
spirits with Rubicon sparkling fruit sodas.
making some new clothing.
Trying to spend time wisely during lockdowns
Lockdowns
TULCA festival actually getting an airing, then finding out there is another festival goinng on . So got to see some art stuff.

Making clothing.

the play Here's What She Said to me

Which yakuza films?

― scampostiltskin (gyac), Thursday, December 17, 2020 9:38 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

so far:
YOUTH OF THE BEAST (1963)
TOKYO DRIFTER (1966)
BLACK LIZARD (1968)
BLACK LIZARD (1962)

Perhaps what our weary nation needs is a thorough Addams vs. Munster smackdown.

(Though to be fair, there should be a distinction made between the teevee shows and the movies. Really not fair to put anything up against the impeccable Julia/ Huston/ Ricci/Lloyd/ Cusack casting.)

I have been sooooo into this Korean pancake mix I impulse-bought at Hmart a few months ago https://www.saveur.com/korean-pancake-mix-buchimgaru/

Oh nice. I live around the corner from an H Mart, def picking that up tomorrow. Thx for the tip.

I made a green onion and red pepper one and a kimchi one this week

Documentaries about archeology

Staying home

Bouzouki

Roasted sweet potatoes with butter and salt, great for breakfast or snack
Arranging cheap/free flowers and greens in vases from the thrift store
Nice cappuccinos from nice coffee shops
All The Citrus esp. meyer lemons from the yard!
Ballet documentaries
Hanging out with my super cute pony

all the sedate pastimes of rigorously enforced cocooning:

daily walks
home cooking
sleeping late
reading books
too much ilx
dvd movies from "the talkies" era
holding the line on alcohol consumption (mostly)