what are you into right now?

Cycling
John Cale
24 Carat Black
Choosing plants & fruits to upgrade my garden

Stevie, I do one of two or three routes, usually. The one I like best is my house (54 and Locust, more or less) through MillCreek and Mantua over to the Belmont Plateau via Belmont, Chamounix Drive down to the Strawb Mansion bridge, up into East Park past all the mansions, right at Coltrane's/the driving range, down to the museum...I used to take the river path back up through Penn and into west, but since there's that big detour still, I've been either going back via West River or giving myself an easier time and going back via Spring Garden. I also do the opposite ride, which is much hillier, but puts one out on the massive downhill near Parkside and the shopping center on 52nd...that downhill is one of my favorites in the city.

grace jones
my crushes, into them just too much these tbh
yerba mate
morning meditation
buttplugs, jockstraps, together or separate but better together
tank tops & 501s
shaved heads
kyoko koizumi
timmy thomas
80s-early 90s lovers rock

the poetry of JH Prynne, music for solo piano, microdosing on weed all day, seasonal eating (squash etc), the shorter days

I am super deep into getting all my junk out of my downstairs storage so that I can put my offsite storage junk into it and stop paying $200/mo.

not eating
sketching
a good cry now and then
non-12% imperial IPA, anything but that
le puzz
for a few dollars more

table what is your microdosing vessel of choice

marcos, I used to have a vape pen, but it broke and i have been trying to avoid spending money on a new one...so to my great shame, i've been buying these disposable live resin pens from Cresco.

It’s totally silly but lately I have been into making diy cover art/tray art for homemade vaporwave cd-r compilations

also microdosing teh weed 👍

would like a nice ham and egg breakfast

Marcos you’ve read the grace aubio I’m guessing? So good!!!!

i haven't! i need to now!

It’s totally silly but lately I have been into making diy cover art/tray art for homemade vaporwave cd-r compilations

i love this

the Iliad - reading Fagles translation and surprised by how much i am enjoying it seriously considering checking out the Alexander Pope poetic version, and the new Emily Wilson too ?

Matrix trilogy & attendant rabbitholes

Black Dahlia/Elizabeth Short (ongoing)- finally reading Piu Eatwell’s book “Black Dahlia Red Rose”, which makes a v impressive case for Leslie Dillon as the culprit

baking English scones- trying and failing to achieve something like my grandmother’s, but happily eating all the results

Matrix trilogy & attendant rabbitholes

yesssssssssss

the matrix trilogy is so fun. some of it is corny and bad but i tolerate a lot of corniness from wachowskis. i got super into sense8 last summer it was so goddamn good

Harriet the spy
Star battle Go
Relational psychotherapy

Can’t speak to its accuracy (whatever that means) but the Wilson translation is as good as it’s reputation, and the essays and notes are very readable too.

oh good to know, thx chuck

these fucking oatmeal-jam cereal bars my boyfriend baked the other night. possibly the best baked good i've ever had.
pad thai from the mom and pop place close to work
runs up semi-urban trails where i can find them
lifting weights in the morning
embracing "daddydom" iykwim
my cat's sass attacks, they used to annoy me but now i think they're hilarious
being a little too stoned and watching railcowgirl 4K CABVIEW Bergen to Oslo videos on youtube to relax
planning fundraiser dance parties
going to bed at 8:30 / waking up at 5:00 - wtf?
savoring the last few weeks before we get snow
dreaming about xmas in l.a.

railcowgirl 4K CABVIEW Bergen to Oslo

lol i had to look it up

playing bouzouki
walking
being married
gin and tonics
Richard Powers's novel The Overstory
arranging 80s synthpop for mandolin
weed gummies
getting into a hot tub with my wife
reading Richard Powers's novel The Overstory whilst in a hot tub
having weed gummies and getting into a hot tub
more walking
oatmeal squares
changing from AC to heat

^ damn brah, you got it

stoned hot tub life is aspirational

i want a hot tub and a sauna so bad

Let it be known that I never thought I was the sort of person who would (or could) have such a thing. Always associated them with scumbag porn directors with gold chains bouncing in their chest hair while they smoked a cigar and talked on a cell phone in a New Jersey accent.

But then the inflatable/portable ones became (relatively) accessible and, given COVID, started to seem like a possibly forgivable indulgence. Three hundred dollars, an extension cord, a garden hose, and a six-foot circle of space. Badabing.

Don’t disrespect the….

Maple syrup oat biscuits
not boozing
twin peaks (again)
being in a deep forest in the rain

Convalescence
No booze (7 weeks and counting)
Reading (no pattern, just reading)
Films (I've got so much catching up to do it's actually terrifying, in a good way, mostly)
Meditating once a week, looking at more frequently
Japanese ambient (not in a fetishistic way. Ok, maybe in a bit of a fetishistic way)
Cooking (18 months vegetarian + no dairy and why in the hell didn't I do this before?)

cooking
spaghetti westerns
getting back into comics, partly reading but also binging the Comic Books Are Burning In Hell podcast

My cheap secondhand Canon 5D Mk 1 and the golden light of autumn on trees and water

Alcohol free beers (seeing some improvements from the initial offerings in the market)

EastEnders - simultaneously balancing the plot lines of new and old episodes

Luna, check out the Athletic offerings. I like the Upside Dawn a lot.

Among gin alternatives, Ritual is superb.

being in a deep forest in the rain

hell yeah

i got really into houseplants this past year. stress-buying at various points throughout the pandemic. some have died but it's a goddamn jungle in some rooms

i have one named Robert. Robert Plant.

Japanese ambient (not in a fetishistic way. Ok, maybe in a bit of a fetishistic way)

lol, i appreciate this

(we have a home art studio and i got it set up pretty cool)

can i get some details on this, i am about to set up one in a new place in 2 weeks

― typo hell 13: crypto in insidious, though (Karl Malone), Monday, October 18, 2021 9:25 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

talking mostly about vibes bc the studio itself is lacking in some fundamentals -- a sink, mostly -- and i have yet to set up some really cool equipment -- a family member's etching press! but once i do some organization we have some cool stuff. we have the press, a lot of artists' watercolors i've accumulated, a ton of nice cotton papers - arches watercolor stuff that i pick up whenever it's on sale, a lot of printmaking paper from the family member. i don't want to deal with the expense & hassle of putting in a whole bathroom up here, but i'd love to have just a utility sink. that would make it really great.

but the vibes are really nice i have to say. it's an old house and the attic is huge. i brought up a ton of plants, the 100-year old pine floors are in kinda rough shape and were never meant to be finished but they have a cool really dark stain and look great imo. i fuckin love attic spaces especially in old houses, i feel lucky. still doing the cheap midwestern city thing and i don't regret it

the vibe is the most important! i am going to miss my current studio, my first real one i've ever had. i only got to spend about 4 months with it, but now i'm moving and can't afford to have a separate studio, so it's back to the "apartment studio" situation again in 2 weeks for me.

i think i can make it work (i will make it work!) but my main practical concern is how to keep my dog away from my paints. she has a bad habit of licking paint (caught her twice before), for one thing, but also she sheds a bunch and it's so fucking annoying to be perpetually cleaning out dog hair out of wet paintings.

but i think, if i remember the floor plan of the new place correctly (wish i had more photos or a blueprint!), there isn't really a space where i can close the door or separate it from Bird (my dog). the "studio" is likely to be just in a big open room, what would normally maybe be a dining room area.

i'm having this nightmare vision of catching Bird with a thick slab of Cadmium Lemon across her face and tongue, then waking up the next morning to find a fresh batch of dog hair on every canvas in the room

btw i think i posted that to wrong thread karl but ah yes you saw it here lol

oh shiiit! *flagposts u*

;)

yea i've also done the apartment studio thing, it was really tough, for us it was kids not pets but really the same problem, they would get into the paint

still getting used to how ilx works it has been a while

oh no, it's good to stay at this level of how ilx works! we can teleport to different parts of ilx like we're dean stockwell in quantum leap. #onethread

new age vibes i feel that other threads presence right here right now

some more things I'm into:

The Expanse (we just started season 3)
trying out recipes for "working mom" dinners that take 30 minutes or less
squash of all kinds
this new oversized plaid flannel hoodie i got at an LL Bean outlet over the summer, it is very soft and warm
Patrick Shiroishi

“nightmare vision of catching bird” is a good sentence fragment

Or Dario Argento movie title.

Marcos asked me to post in here:

- Bloodborne the video game (my travails and hardships documented on the thread)

- a DJ guest mix of "ravey bangers) which I just finished for my friends' radio show

- speaking of ravey bangers, the new album by Chrissy called Physical Release is packed full of them

- trying to find ways to wear these keen Levi's burnt orange cords I bought on a whim without looking like a children's TV presenter or some sort of red-trizered Etonian prick

- as such I seem to have bought three identical but differently coloured overshirts which i will probably where over a grey turtleneck but this is all being worked out as the weather turns to shit

- the movie Saint Maud. It's a masterpiece

- nice rums and whiskies as the weather turns to shit

- the Blindboy podcast which has become a soothing lifeline over the last year of stress and lockdowns. His hot takes and Limerick lilt are enough to quell anxiety

- I'm also listening to Dune as an audiobook. It's good. Bit of a slog in places but good.

- getting back into running, which I couldn't do for a few months due to a torn calf muscle. Running in the city after dark is a lot harder than last year as it's much busier with cars and people. I choked on exahust fumes the other day. Must start getting up early and doing it then

- growing my hair long and embracing the natural wave and curl. I used to hairdry religiously cos I hated the way it curled up in weird places but after a proper styling from a hairdresser who knows his onions, I'm rather happy just letting it do its thing

*adds +20 commission bonus to marcos points*

i've played most of the from games, but haven't played demon's souls or bloodbourne. what do you think?

Listening to a vast amount of podcasts of different types. Various books, US politics, myth debunking, anti racism/decolonisation etc etc

hopefully getting back into sewing. Finally got a couple of zips back on jeans yesterday after months of nothing.
Got to trace a pattern and customise and cut a jacket or 2.

doing one major cook per week then reheating. Think this is a fusion of various things or me just bunging in a lot of veg, fungi and fruit into a mix.
Currently buying a load of reduced veg & fruit the day before teh major cook . Things just on the turn and not looking the best for display in a fruit & veg place that's a bit outof teh way. Also still buying a lot of Asian veg & fungi and sauces and stuff.

Watching mainly videofiles of foreign tv. Not watched a foreign film in a month or so. Need to watch some tarkovsky and Kurosawa I downloaded though.

Reading a load of antiracism books and hopefully having more turn up in local charity shops.

Finally getting a couple of teeth fixed. Came out of the major lockdown periods with them in a really not great state.

Macy Gray who had passed me by at the time but I just recently picked up her first best of and quite enjoying it
Vince Martin , Fred Neil's one time singing partner and I think they picked up some of teh same influences , jazz & country and stuff , been neglecting his If the Jasmine Don't Get You... the Bay Breeze Will for too long. BUt getting back into it.

TULCA Festival again , now back at teh traditional time of year. But seen most o fit now so not sure if it will keep me going for another 2 weeks. Still has some interesting stuff in.