what are you into right now?

It's not really that difficult , a bit time consuming and potentially somewhat frustrating. So worth a shot. I started out learning how to sew by doing stuffed toys on a community centre course. I had done some machine sewing of patches in my teens and narrowing jeans legs.
Do wish I had done more practical stuff at the time. Would have been a nice thing to have for those years.
Still it's a nice thing to be able to do and you can start with something a lot less ambitious and work your way up. & ok it doesn't suite everyone but it is really useful to know how to do.

I'm just a bit frustrated that for various reasons I haven't got more to show for this year. I do hope teh more i do the better i get.
BUt I have a problem with clutter on the work table since it's the one large piece of furniture in teh place so gets covered too easily. & not bee feeling motivated this year. So now have several thing si meant to do earlier this year still waiting to be done.
Did get to attend a lot of webinars and listen to podcasts and things but could probably have done both if better organised.

this my favorite thread

i am into rn:

this moxie/parris set streaming live on NTS right now it is really good
this bomb-ass sativa i bought last week
my houseplants, they're taking over, you should see this philodendron selloum in particular. some are dying though too
my new job, wfh groove, financial stability. i miss going to a campus though sometimes
the sun, always
taking walks
SOPHIE "just like we never said goodbye" "is it cold in the water"
sly "just like a baby"
yoko "death of samantha"

It turns out I am willing to play drums for anybody in town.

Also those thinhs that are like juice boxes but with wine? are okay

I have a hammock and it is nice today

Tiny hats: they might be cool again someday

Roasted apples

Peruvian rotisserie chicken

Geology

hiking
playing guitar during lame work meetings
cashews
starting movies/shows and not finishing them and not feeling guilty about it
walking 2-3 miles every day
billiards
reconnecting with old friends
wearing t-shirts (never really been a t-shirt guy before)
shooting hoops with my kids
grapefruit

oh i sat in a hammock this weekend on a trip to MI, it was between two trees on this small hill so i felt truly suspended in the air

cashews are so good
grapefruits are so good

IK found an acoustic guitar in the bin enclosure. Wonder if it was a mistake still but nice find I think. hoping it doesn't spread woodworm to everything else at least

Making my own gnocchi. No idea it was so easy! Easier to get right than "normal" pasta (though of course when I made it for my sister in a recent visit, they didn't come out right for the first time)

starting movies/shows and not finishing them and not feeling guilty about it

^ hero behavior

let's please normalize not feeling guilt about what media we do or don't consume

I mean it's all a voluntary leisure activity anyway

for real there is little time to waste on bad art
the converse is that it is also okay to waste time on bad art

or inverse? idk what those mean. in any case idk really know what is good art or bad art anymore. good art can be bad and bad art can be good

I abandon most things before I finish them - books and games mostly, and on the rare occasion I start watching a show, those too. For some reason I make it a point to finish films though

Most things are too long

Tove Jansson's island cabin:

https://www.finnishdesignshop.com/design-stories/travel/on-klovharu-island-tove-janssons-spirit-and-handprint-live-on

let's please normalize not feeling guilt about what media we do or don't consume

I mean it's all a voluntary leisure activity anyway

― actually, it's "in which we're livin'." (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, November 10, 2021 11:33 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

theres only so much time in the day etc etc

Jens Larsen's jazz guitar videos

"Learn Jazz Make Music" - words to live by.

Charlotte Joko Beck
These local hickory-smoked pistachios, so good
Baking from a new Martha Stewart (lol) fruit dessert cookbook
Riding young off-track thoroughbred horses, sometimes falling off but not that much!
KCRW out of LA
Not trying so hard at things
Not caring so much about things
Flea eradication
Daily naps

xp those pictures of Tove Jansson's cabin are very cool, thanks for the link

her Summer Book covers time spent there as a child (assuming it's the same island)

((also assuming it's not purely fictional and has some kind of autobiographical content))

Most things are too long

― just staying (Karl Malone), Wednesday, November 10, 2021 6:57 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

QFT

The amount of books I start far exceeds the number I finish.

Right now my evening relaxation is playing Bloodborne and any time I die, I rage quit and watch five minutes of the film The Life And Death of Colonel Blimp, which is great but is interesting to digest in comic strip sized bites.

The Professionals, on Prime, man I love this ridiculous cop show, particularly when Collins/Shaw add that 'school of drama' icing on the cake to scenes.

I think it used to be on tv on Sunday nights and even though I was an avid watcher of it in the early 80's I can barely remember much plotwise about it other than the *iconic* Bodie & Doyle running about with guns and duffing people up!

leeks
thomas hardy
this big oversized marloro classics turtleneck
padang food tigers

I am recalling the episodes as they unfold.

The only episode I ever remember with no help is the one where Doyle gets shot by an assassin, and the entire episode is him in hospital with only Bodie running about with guns and duffing people up.

yeah that rings a bell

i watched the entire run of the professionals a few years ago, itv4 would show them one a day and just loop them forever, probably still do, apart from one episode about racist gang(?), which they didn't show. favourite was the one with the sniper on the roof.

(filmed around here as well, bits of it, so you'd recognise the scenery from time to time)

Bob Dylan: 1970

Trying to get myself together.
Still watching bits of KLorean tv in the wake of squid game
Wishing I had better oragnisation cos i want to get right back into making clothing
NOt really into sense of fatigue hoping its transitory and teh wake of the booster shot.
Still making massive cook one day a week for the next week and making it some kind of fusion of European and Asian veg & fruit and a bit of meat. & a can of preferably LIDL coconut milk cos its the highest %age of coconut to other ingredient like almost pure.
the reappearance of some yoghurts I've been missing from Lidl though in smaller size pots . Hope tehy stick around cos I do like them
Reading a stack of anti racist/feminist etc writing that I should have years earlier, not sure why I'm only finding bell hooks now. But am finding that there is more of her on the Irish library system than I had thought.
buying way too many books for the storage space I have . & my budget and still having the idea that I will eventually get through them all.
Making bread about once a week. Still working on how to balance ingredients since some are substitutions.
Dreaming of tidying up

Have you ever looked into an e-reader?

I know they're not for everyone but in terms of space-saving they're a game changer

I think the availability of e-books from library apps is also pretty good (and many ways besides to get a lot of titles on the cheap or free)

leeks and thomas hardy

street tacos
playing the drums
my children
pop nonfiction
pinot grigio
Ritual gin alternative
NYT Spelling Bee

pencil and pen

Guineas West Indies bottles especially cos they're €2 a pop right now. 6% volunteers too. But I think the taste is even better than the draught stuff.

Autocorrect Guinness

new strain i'm vaping
Silas Marner
my new slippers
listening to old noise and freakout music from the early to mid 2000s

i am looking for slippers, can i ask what you got?

ILM singles recommendations, lotsa good shit in here
triple chocolate pannetone
demons souls on ps5
not having covid
that one fucking stitch in my arm finally falling out
non-medicated sleep
a movie now and then
iced green tea with honey
being surrounded by plenty while i heal

map, I got the LL Bean Wicked Good Slippers in the "venetian" style.

They're expensive but I read good things, and all my recent slippers have fallen apart after a single season. Beans makes me feel like I'm turning into a weird cliche, but oh well. Feeling warm and cozy is worth it.

Yakuza 0
My homebrew beer/ciders
Wife’s new law job
My cats
The morality of rejecting ambition at 26 (laziness or virtue?)
Chess
Making new friends

Xxp
Where do you rank demon’s souls in fromsofts catalogue? Don’t have a ps5 or a desire for one except for that game. might hassle ask a mate to borrow his for the weekend to run it through

Xp thanks!

iced green tea with honey

I could drink a gallon of the Honest Tea version of this a day.

that's the one!

Demons Souls is the OG; I played it through when it first came out. It's very good! It's maybe not the worst from the catalog but i don't know what I would put beneath it.

nyt crossword
jeopardy
tng
demon's souls (ps3)
charly garcia
cesar aira
soft tofu
green tea

tabletop wargames
graham crackers
granny smith apples
side two of archie shepp's "for losers" LP
georgian polyphonic singing
scratching my cat's armpits

xps English breakfast tea with rosewater is my thing rn

Recently discovered the greatness of ginger turmeric tea

Abbott Elementary
Cuphead
late Boredoms (Super Roots 6 and beyond)
Secret of Evermore
Rabbit in the Moon remixes
Kurosawa films
Calbee Jagarico snacks